Chapter 236 – Dark Society

After returning from the thieves’ guild, Maria and I immediately started training.

She doesn’t have the slightest idea that Maria will lose. However, there is a possibility that the unexpected may happen.

“Then, master. I look forward to.”

“Okay. Don’t lose your strength for fear of hurting me. Do it with all your heart.”

“Yes. Then.”

It was the moment Maria’s head went down and up. The tip of her wooden spear aimed at and stabbed me in the chest.

It’s a blunt spear blade, but you have to think of it as the sharp spear blade of a real spear.

She blocked the blade with the knuckle in her right hand. Maria’s eyebrows furrowed slightly.

‘Did I think I would avoid it?’

If I wanted to make it like that, I should have been a little sharper.

Maria followed up.
She pulled her right arm and tried to hit her side of the head with the tip of her spear. It wasn’t her spear blade, so she blocked it with her right arm.

Shall we slowly dig into it?

It was time to take a step forward.

Maria hit her floor with the tip of her spear and she used that force to jump on top of her.

With her body turned over, she moved her spear. The three-step thrust of the rapid was like lightning.

‘I can’t spill this.’

What I hold in my hand right now is not a dagger, but a knuckle. Since it was not a weapon she was accustomed to, it would be difficult to let go of her conversion attack.

Jumped back and dodged.

Maria has been clinging to it right after landing. The knuckles and the spear blades collided. After repeating the falling and attaching a few more times, we finished the sparring.

“Master, here is water.”

“Thank you.”

I drank water from the canteen Maria gave me. I drank half of it and handed it back to Maria, who was looking at her canteen with wavering eyes.

“Maria?”

“I will drink.”

Before I could say anything, she put her mouth to her canteen and started drinking her water.
Why does her face turn red when she drinks water?
It’s amazing.

“Maria.”

“Yes yes?”

“When you finish drinking, let’s train again.”

“Okay, Master. Ready.”

Maria sat up again.

“Before that, let’s go a little harder this time. Can you become an apostle?”

At the time when Maria was a saint of the cult, she became an apostle of the cult god, and she alone had trampled on several paladins.

Of course, even if I became an apostle now, I wouldn’t be as strong as I was back then.

However, it is much stronger than before using it.

“Can be. How far do you draw it?”

“Only to the extent that the appearance does not change. I did it?”

“Yes, I did.”

She could feel the energy emanating from her changed.
He became a proper apostle.

“Okay, then let’s go right away.”

Maria and I immediately resumed sparring.
So we sparred for three days.

* * *

The location of the sparring was the gymnasium of the thieves’ guild.

Maria and Harold, wearing rabbit masks, were facing each other in the center of the large gymnasium.

Yooseong, Roxy, and Michelle stood in the corner of the gymnasium.

“Are you ready, miss?”

“There is no reason to call you a lady. Just call me by name.”

“…They look exactly like my lover.”

Maria frowned.

“What nonsense are you talking about? I have no one to call my lover.”

“Hmm? What, wasn’t Han Yuseong your man?”

“What?!”

Maria was perplexed.
In her mind she was not sure whether to be angry at Harold for insulting her master, or to be glad that the man seemed misleadingly close to her master.

“Aren’t you going to fight?”

“…I will.”

After thinking about it, Maria decided to rage. I’m happy because I can do it later. She now had to stamp Harold to fuel her anger.

Whatever her master wants.

The sparring began with the signal that the dagger thrown by Meteor fell on the floor.

It was Harold who moved first.
Although he has little, he knows how to use mana. Exploding mana to increase the speed of the regime was his main skill.

It was a story about surpassing Maria in terms of instantaneous speed right after the start of the sparring.

Harold’s regime was blocked by Maria with a spear.

“Kuh…”

It was heavier than expected.
Her body pushed back slightly, and Harold didn’t miss the chance. Several regimes have targeted Maria.

Ride on!

Maria’s backsliding increased.
Her stance is also unstable, but she did not give a single effective hit.

As the battle continued, impatience grew in Harold’s heart. Loopholes began to appear in the tightly packed series of government attacks.

Maria exploits that loophole.

She managed to distance herself from Harold.

‘Damn it… Let’s get it right. Don’t be impatient.’

Harold, a long-time war mercenary, was adept at pacifying his emotions. During the brief confrontation, Harold was able to get his mind right.

And while he took her heart, little by little Mary transformed her body into an apostle.

‘I’ll go back to the beginning. If I keep pushing, I’ll be able to make a gap.’

It was the moment Harold was about to inhale and exhale.

Whoo!

Maria’s throat pierced Harold’s uvula. Harold hurriedly turned his head and barely escaped.

‘Is the speed different from before?’

Harold was taken aback by Maria’s sudden change in speed.

‘You know how to use mana?’

It was a reasonable guess for Harold, who was unaware of Mary’s apostleship.

And whether or not that guess is correct is not particularly important in the present situation.

The important points are:

All of Harold’s hidden cards are cracked.
Maria is not vigilant.
Maria is superior in both her physical abilities and skills.

As a result of all these facts combined, Harold was defeated by Maria, who became an apostle, in just 5 moves.

Afterwards, Maria became an instructor of the thieves’ guild that everyone recognized.

Roxy thought inwardly about what to gift Yuseong’s lovers to earn points.

* * *

“Do you really have to come today?”

“They say that it’s better to pluck ox horns with sweet seaweed. Oh, do you think your girlfriends will like this?”

Roxy asked while holding a silver earring in the shape of a moon pattern.

“It’s not really silver, and I’d say I really like gold-plated earrings.”

“No. This is real silver.”

The proprietor of a jewelry store with a serious face.

“Uh… Is that so?”

“Yes. What kind of lunatic gilds trinkets? If you play around like that, your wrist will fly off~”

The jewelry store owner shook his head and said. No, since I’m a street shop, of course I thought it was plating.

“If it’s real silver, it’ll be a sign of your own sexuality.”

“…Is this pretty expensive?”

“We have a lot of money.”

You got a lot of gold from the elven ruins. In addition to that, along with the armor worn by the ancient elves and the items they used in their lives.
To be honest, money is more than enough now.

“…It can’t be helped. I have no choice but to buy it as a display of sexuality.”

“Are you really going to buy it? You don’t have much money either.”

“I have enough money to buy presents.”

“That would be it, of course. Wouldn’t it be better to cherish it?”

“Then you want me to go empty-handed? I’m going to get permission from your lovers to be your new lover?”

“…Buy something reasonably practical. A pretty mask.”

“Right, does your lover wear a mask? Then I’d like to wear a mask. If possible, a sturdy one.”

We walked towards the mask shop.

“So, must I go to join the Dark Society right now?”

Before coming to the market to buy gifts, Roxy asked me to accompany her on her way to join the Dark Society.

I was curious about what the Dark Society was like, so even if I said I didn’t like it, I planned to go with it. It wasn’t bad that they asked me to go there first.

But isn’t it too early to go now?

“The Thieves Guild hasn’t even been restored yet.”

“So we have to go further. You know what physiology is like in this world. If you look down on it, you will become a hogu. Even if the inside is empty, the outside must pretend to be strong. Oh, how about this mask?”

“Emptiness can be hidden only when it is somewhat empty. Masks are fine.”

“Are you okay. Thanks to your quick work, once we get someone, the business will go back to normal. I’ll speak on behalf of the thieves’ guild. Thank you. Then you can buy a mask with this?”

After that, I bought a few more presents.

We headed for my house with a bag of presents in hand.

When I got home, I asked Roxy to wait at the front door for a minute. I went inside and put the mask on Seris.

You’ll find out someday, but it doesn’t have to be now.

“Come in.”

“…Huh.”

Roxy looked nervous, unlike her usual cold and sharp boss.

Well, in this situation, I think the country would be nervous too.

‘It’s an abnormal situation in the first place.’

I went inside the house with Roxy.

Seris, Kara, Maria, and Ariel gathered in the living room. They looked at Roxy standing next to me and were puzzled.

Either way, Roxy stepped in front of her and handed out gifts to them.

“This is a fox mask made of 100-year-old wood. Will this be stronger than the mask you used before?”

“Yes? Ah… Yes thank you.”

“It was nothing.”

The four of them tilted their heads while receiving the gift.

“Hey, Yoosung..? Who is this person..?”

“…He will introduce himself.”

All four eyes were fixed on Roxy.
Roxy remained silent for a moment, then crossed her arms and spoke the words she had prepared.
It was a calm tone.
He’s great too. How can you keep your composure in this situation?
A bloody laugh came out.

“…Mr. Yooseong?”

I raised my head at the sound calling me. Four narrow eyes were looking at me.
There was not a single positive looking eye.

…Beginning with me?

Isn’t he