Chapter 54 – Clearing the Slums (3)

I’m sorry!!!!

I woke up to the crowing of a rooster. She slipped the arm that supported Kara’s head away from her and put her pillow in place. Got up from bed

‘It’s a bit frowned upon.’

I woke up with stretching and came out of the room. Seris was seen sitting at her table with her mask on.

‘Mask?’

Why are you wearing a mask at home?

“Ceris?”

She called, but Seris didn’t move. She just stared blankly at the wall. Ignoring her sense of déjà vu, she approached her.

“Ceris?”

Then she turned to me.

“Yes?”

“Why are you wearing a mask?”

“A mask..? Oh, this…”

Cerys groped her own face. She then said in a voice that she wondered.

“Iknow, right. Why did I write this?”

“What?”

Ceris was about to take off her mask, but she stopped when she saw me, then put it back on. I didn’t understand the sequence.

“Ceris?”

“Yes?”

Seris looked at me with eyes asking why.

“What’s the matter?”

“Why? What are you talking about?”

“No, it’s already there. Why did you put it back on when you were going to take it off?”

“A mask..? Ah…”

Seris touched her mask again. With a moan of realization, she laughs awkwardly.

“I’m not sleeping at night. I couldn’t see her face…”

“Did you fall asleep?”

Somehow, he had done something crazy earlier, so he must have been in a drowsy state. I asked in a worried voice.

“Can you work today? If you can’t do it, it’s okay to take a break. I can go alone…”

“I’ll do it!”

Cerys suddenly jumped up from her chair, she shouted. That reckless attitude was a bit embarrassing. She waved her hand as if she realized that she had suddenly shouted.

“Ah… I’m sorry. And since I’m fine, let’s work together.”

“Are you really okay? You did something a little strange before.”

“…Yes? Ah, it was because I was in a bad mood because of that… Dream, dream.”

“Dream? What was your dream?”

“…That’s a secret. Anyway, I will work with you.”

Celis emphasized again and put on her quilted armor. She watched it for a while and then she started putting on her armor too.

* * *

Quite a few adventurers gathered in front of the guild. It is early morning, but there is no annoyance or annoyance on their faces. Even if you smile at the thought of earning money.

Even as I stood between them, I glanced at Seris. She stared blankly in front of her.

“Ceris?”

“Yes? Why are you calling me?”

“No…”

“Yes.”

Even so, when I call, he responds well. We had a good conversation on the way.

‘…I guess he’s just a little tired.’

I’d like to return it, but it’s impossible. I’ve already suggested Seris to take a break from work today, but the response was the same each time. She insisted that she would do it unconditionally.

Still, except for the mask work in the morning, I don’t think her condition is that bad considering that she always responds well and the conversation continues well.

‘I’m still a little anxious…’

I sighed and shook my head to erase the uneasiness. Our job today is to deal with the thugs who escaped. It will be much more comfortable than bumping into it on the spot.

While I was thinking about that, a woman from the guild came out. She was a woman who covered her face and body with a purple robe and even covered her face with a veil.

The moment she saw the woman, she knew it at once.

That he belonged to Agnes’ sisters.

She said the woman looked around us.

“My name is Melkir, and I stand before you as a representative of the ‘Sisters of Agnes.'”

All the eyes of her adventurers were on her. Then she continued, walking among her adventurers.

“As you all know, in each city there are parasites that eat away at the city. We’ve been ignoring those parasites. Because of the giant bear that protects the parasite.”

Her steps stopped.

“But these days, the parasites thought they were proud and started running amok. We were forced to ignore even that. Because of the bears protecting the parasites. As a result, the parasites have crossed the line.”

Anger crept into the woman’s voice. It was raw, uncapped.

“Not too long ago, my teacher and former priestess of ‘Sisters of Agnes’, Miss Helena, was silent. Of course, we were looking for Helena. After a long two weeks, I was able to find it.”

Her voice was more agitated than before.

“In the form of a cold corpse. And that too, in the depths of that disgusting sewer, in a rotten form!!”

The woman’s angry words continued. She appealed to adventurers.

They are trash who killed the helpless old man and dumped the body.

They are worms without even the basics of humanity.

I let her words go through one of her ears and wondered why she would say such a thing to us. If you think about it normally, there was no reason to say such a thing.

A story about a former priest who was murdered in a slum.

I ate it if it gnawed at my flesh, it’s not a story that would benefit me.

Even so, if I were to say that as a reason, I could only think of one.

‘Justification.’

They have their own cause to hit this ghetto, so don’t intervene.

That’s what I’m talking about to the Dark Society.

‘I wonder if that will work.’

Perhaps if the opponent was a noble, the target she was talking about was the Dark Society.

The Dark Society rumored to rule the underworld of the continent.

I don’t know if a pun like that will work on them.

“We, Agnes’s sisters, will thoroughly avenge that immoral act!”

The woman’s words are over.

The cheers of the adventurers resounded with him.

The woman triumphantly entered the guild.

As soon as her figure disappeared, the sound of Bolmen came out.

“Oh, you talk a lot. I thought I was going crazy and dying.”

“Still, you are the water lord who gives money. That’s about what…”

“No, what do we know about centipede circumstances? If you don’t want to talk about humanity, I’ll give you more money.”

I laughed out loud when I saw the grumbling adventurers.

Yeah, it’s not the time for me to worry about them.

I turned to Seris. It was still a blank gaze.

“Ceris?”

“Yes, Yoosung.”

The answer was still good. She held back a sigh.

After the client’s speech, the guild’s receptionists came out and gathered the groups they had previously shared. Seris and I followed the receptionist’s guidance and faced the crew.

Our group consisted of two males of bronze, one female of iron and two males. I greeted them lightly and walked to the designated sewer.

* * *

“Bo, boss!”

A skinny man burst open the door of Yulbert’s office and entered. Yul Bert, who was sitting arrogantly with his legs raised on his desk, frowned at him.

“What’s the fuss all morning?”

“Oh, that’s a big deal! Adventurers came in droves and began to turn the streets around!”

“What? What bullshit is that? Why are they touching us?”

“Really! The Hatchet Crew and the Shaved Scars have already been attacked! We are coming soon!”

Hearing Dex’s excited voice, Yulbert stood up from his seat. He opened the window

– Catch that bastard!

Closed

Feeling the cold sweat dripping down my face, I quickly started to pack something worthwhile.

‘Damn it, did that bastard Arnold finally do something?’

Arnold is the name of the adventurer’s guild leader and one of only seven sword masters on the continent.

Adventurers and Dark Society.

The head of each organization is a sword master, so even if there is a small conflict between the two organizations, he did not try to raise it. A fight between two organizations soon becomes a conflict between two sword masters.

A fight between sword masters.

It was like a disaster.

‘It’s clear that they’re very determined, seeing as they did this crazy thing. Are there any other sword masters involved?’

Yulbert did not know that Agnes’s sisters were involved in the affair. So, that thought was his limit.

“Damn it, the damage I suffered when I sent support to the masked gang a while ago hasn’t been repaired!!”

Just thinking about it makes my teeth ache. No matter how unlucky he was, he sent him away because he was his older brother, and he was defeated. Only half of the people sent barely returned alive.

He frowned and took care of it diligently. He ordered Dex.

“Hey! Call only those who fight well and bring them to me!”

“What do you plan to do now?”

“Somehow I have to run away!”

“Is there anywhere to run?”

“Okay! So bring it quickly!”

“Yes!”

Dex hurriedly left the office. Yulbert checked the escape route again.

‘After all, there is only sewage. The entrance must have been blocked…’

He wondered if something like this would happen someday, so he decided to use the secretly drilled path.

* * *

“Fuck… Fuck…”

“Ah, swear in moderation.”

“What the fuck! Guys outside will make money cutting the heads of beggars, but what am I doing? The beggarly sewer system smells horrible and I can’t even make money!”

“Didn’t you hear about that? The people assigned to the sewers said they would give you an extra 1 silver.”

“Somehow, today the sewage smells fragrant. Look, even though this stale water is close by, I’m fine…Guyueek…”

“Oh, really dirty…”

The grumbling adventurer sniffed the stale water up close and vomited. The adventurer next to him patted him on the back in disgust, while the other three giggled while watching them.

Me and Celis didn’t fit in there. We stood some distance from them.

“Ceris, how does it smell? Can you hold on?”

“Smell? Ah yes. It’s just okay. Do not worry.”

“Okay…”

I was scratching my head at the strange, incessant feeling of incongruity when I heard footsteps in the distance. Turned on ‘The Wolf’s Pact’.

-You’re going this way, right?

– Oh, that’s right.

-Damn it, why are those bastards called adventurers all of a sudden?

-I don’t know, what are you going to do now?

– Well, I have to get out of town for now. Let’s take a look later and come back.

From their conversation, it seemed that they were thugs trying to get out of the city. Focused on their footsteps

‘I think there are about seven of them.’

I approached the giggling adventurers.

“I hear thugs approaching.”

“Huh? Really?”

The adventurers stopped talking and listened. After a while, he frowned.

“What, I can’t hear anything. What do you hear?”

“Really. Please follow me.”

“It’s okay. How can I trust you…”

“Let’s go.”

“What?”

“Anything you do is better than dying here. I’m slowly getting sore and dying. Where did you hear it?”

The same rank stretched out and asked. I pointed with my hand where the sound had been heard.

“I heard it over there.”

“Okay, then let’s go.”

“I’m serious?”

The female adventurer had a troublesome attitude. But the other adventurers decided to move, so she had no choice but to follow.

“Anyway, just do nothing.”

The woman grumbled like that. And when I met the thugs I spoke of, my eyes widened.

“Uh…? Are you really there?”

The thugs who were talking loudly were also hardened when they saw us. They quickly regained their senses and started running on the same path they had walked.

“What are you doing? Won’t you catch me?”

I said to the adventurers who were in a daze.

“Uh? Oh yes I have to catch it run!!”

With a cry of equal rank we ran after the thugs. I cautioned Seris following behind me.

“Seris, the floor is slippery, so be careful!”

“Yes.”

The chase lasted a little longer. It was because it was not easy to run because of the floor. However, the distance between us and the thugs continued to narrow, and when it reached a certain distance, I threw a dagger.

“Ugh?!”

It landed on the shoulder of the guy running from the back. I grabbed him, drew my dagger, and cut his throat. Even while I stopped for a moment, the thugs and adventurers continued to run, and the distance between me and me grew farther.

Seris was not there.

“…Seris?”

I looked back with hope. I couldn’t see her where she should be.

“What the fuck.”

I ran back the way I had run so far.