Chapter 146 – 8. Perisha, the Proud Lady of a Suspicious Baron

Pushed away by Perisha, I hurried out of the mansion with quick steps. It wasn’t until a few minutes after I headed out to the outskirts, ignoring the greetings from the workers who were moving at a fast pace, that I arrived at the warehouse where two guards were firmly guarding the entrance.

“Welcome.”

“Deacon Bindel is inside.”

As soon as they found me, the two guards, who greeted me and informed me of Bindel’s location, began to take a sincere-looking posture with their hunched backs and their legs together. Swallowing a bitter smile at the obvious ulterior motive, I nodded lightly at them with a friendly smile and entered the warehouse.

As soon as I entered the stale warehouse with the sound of rusty hinges, I saw Bindel muttering something to himself, frowning arrogantly, clutching something in his hand.

“What are you doing?”

“Suck!”

When I approached Bindel with light steps and put my hand on his shoulder and asked him a question, the frightened Bindel jumped up like a puppy whose tail was trampled on, and dropped everything he was holding in his hand and documents under his armpit to the floor.

“Ah…!”

“I will pick it up.”

First of all, I picked up the first document that caught my eye and turned it around as it was and handed it to Bindel. After memorizing Man, I handed it to Bindel.

“Thank you.”

Did I stare at you a little bit? Bindel, who seemed shy, grabbed the document and looked me up and down, then returned with an expressionless face and greeted me with a nod. Thinking of letting go of his slightly hardened face, I smiled while making a light joke.

“You’re very surprised, aren’t you guilty of something?”

“Haha, there was no sign of presence, so I was very surprised. It’s just cool.”

The words flowed in a tone of just surprise, but somehow the thorns hidden in the words scratched past me. However, since we were collaborating at the request of the baron, we couldn’t blame him for one-sided suspicions, so we decided to move on.

Took-

As I was walking, something bumped into my foot and I rolled lightly. Bindel, who was standing side by side, was startled and hurriedly bent over and reached for something I had kicked, but the lightly rolled object was closer to me than Bindel, so I reached out first to pick up the object, pretending to be kind.

“Oh…”

Was it carved from solid wood? I glanced lightly at the wooden ring engraved with smooth curves and unknown patterns, and put the ring on Bindel’s palm as he reached out with a smile as bright as possible.

“It is a beautiful ring.”

“Haa… It’s a difficult thing to find out…”

Rather than saying that it was difficult, I erased the option of a stolen item that came to my mind at the calm voice and pondered the identity of the ring for a while. It’s a ring that rolls on the palm of my hand while I’m working and has a story that’s enough to immerse myself in contemplation… Feeling the trivial evidence coming together, I put my hand on Bindel’s shoulder with a sinister smile.

“Looking at what you’re saying, it looks like you’re giving a present to a woman.”

Bindel let out another deep sigh at my tone, scratched his head, and began to speak in a slightly subdued voice.

“…Yes, it’s a ring I carved myself, I was going to ask the craftsman to make it like this.”

“Hey, I don’t know who it is, but I’m sure you’ll like it very much. Any woman would be moved to tears with a ring full of such sincerity.”

“Is it really so?”

I rubbed my chin with my index finger and rolled my head at Bindel’s gloomy expression with a self-deprecating voice. From Perisha’s side, it seemed clear that she loved Bindel, but with the current reaction, it wasn’t easy to believe that Bindel felt the same way. Who knows if he has another woman in his heart with such a sad face?

“Who are you going to gift it to?”

“Haha, it’s a little embarrassing to even say that.”

It was an attempt to draw a line lightly and take a step out of the conversation, but I reached out and invaded the line Bindel had drawn and asked with a smile.

“Are you going to give it to Lady Perisha?”

“Haha… Me?”

“I heard that you two grew up together since childhood… I asked just in case.”

“The lady is the rightful heir of writer Whistle Nam and her eldest daughter, so would a mere butler seek the position of his spouse?”

Does Bindel know that every word he spits is planted with thorns? After savoring the words soaked in feelings of inadequacy and depression, I lightly tapped Bindel on the shoulder and told him a story he might want to hear.

“I have a lot of worries.”

“Yes, what… Yes?”

Bindel, who reflexively responded to my answer, rolled his tongue as if he was dumbfounded, pondered over what he was trying to say to me, and then uttered the same question. I said it one more time with a deep smile on his confused yet displeased face.

“I have a lot of worries.”

“Haha, no matter how much you are a guest, I think it’s a bit rude.”

Bindel was paying attention to me by using words that weren’t overbearing as much as possible, but I didn’t intend to take his attention lightly.

“Anyway, Mr. Bindel doesn’t seem to know anything about a woman’s heart.”

Even the formal title of “Nim” Was too frustrating for a man, so he was naturally downgraded from “Nim” To “Ssi”, But Bindel approached me with his eyebrows furrowed as if he didn’t care about that title, looked up at me and asked in a strong tone.

“Then, does Cassano say such things to me because he is so good?”

“At least I’ll be better than you if I properly say what I’ve put inside.”

“Ha, don’t you think that’s too rude?”

I shrugged his shoulders at Bindel, who shot at me with naked hatred, and I answered with a smooth tongue.

“Since my woman is your guest, wouldn’t it be nice if I could help out a bit?”

“What are you saying, Cassano-sama?”

I patted Bindel on the shoulder, who was snoring at the word “Household help,” And focused my attention on it.

“If you dig up the fact that you are hiding your feelings for Lady Perisha and make her confess with your mouth, she will be my wife.”

Haha…”

Sigh-Bindel let out a soulless laugh at my shameless answer, raised her hand, washed her face several times, rubbed her face, and then slightly pushed her slightly reddened face towards me and asked in an angry voice.

“Even if Cassano-sama is right, how can I whisper love to you?”

“Are there any problems?”

“It is said that he is the butler of Baron Whistle, but he is a commoner who has just become a butler. Would I love you?”

Although Bindel spoke out her story calmly, the moment the accent of commoner lingered on the tip of her tongue, I felt the anger and sadness laid bare in the conversation. Shaking my head slightly, I conveyed what Perishia and Bindel would most like to hear as an apology for the actions that hurt Bindel so far.

“What does that matter? Grown adults love each other, and it doesn’t matter.”

“That’s a really bad story, something an ignorant idiot would want to believe.”

Bindel sneered with a cold smile, but his eyes didn’t lie. The wavering eyes wandered for a while, then found their place and began to stare right through me.

“Well, that sounds good to hear.”

“Isn’t it rather refreshing?”

“Ha, that can’t be. Now that this story is over, let’s see it today.”

“You’ve become a little more comfortable with your words.”

Bindel snorted briefly at my question, took off the mask of kindness he had worn so far, and fired at me with a cold tone.

“Do you want to be treated like that after provoking me all this time?”

“Is there anyone who doesn’t like being treated well?”

“Are you there?”

With Bindel’s cold reply, the two of us burst into laughter without saying who said first. Satisfied with the feeling of scratching my pride while examining each other’s intentions, I tilted my chin lightly and made a gesture to report to Bindel.

“After…”

With a sigh, Bindel began to hand over the document that had been dropped earlier. He quickly turned over the document and pointed out each item, explaining how many items were in total and for what purpose they were used.

“There were 10 boxes of Moonlight Stone, but we left 4 boxes with the craftsmen. Besides that, three bundles of beast bones for carving or leather for carpets…”

As I read through the list of items Sierra had brought, I realized that the items Bindel was talking about were the items that had been marked in the document earlier, and compared the number of items I used with the number of items Sierra had brought with me for the first time.

“Hmm, I finished checking the items before coming. I’ll finish organizing my stuff once more and I’ll change with the security, so go in first.”

“No, I’m sorry to go back like this, so I’ll help you. I check the items on the right shelf.”

Having passed Bindel’s order to celebrate, I pointed to the shelf where the moonstone and leather were piled up and immediately moved on. At my stride, Bindel’s face stiffened for a moment, but he soon relaxed his eyebrows and shrugged his shoulders as he spoke to me.

“Then I’ll check the items on the other shelf, so tell me when you’re done.”

“All right.”

After answering, Bindel and I turned around to face the shelf, but Bindel watched me until the end. Is it because they are wary of me that I might tamper with an item or is it because they are doing something suspicious? I calmed my rising doubts and reached for the shelf.

– Click

I opened the wooden box that contained the previously tied leather. Ignoring the thick smell of leather, I held on to the string and counted how many sheets were woven together, then counted the number of wooden boxes on the shelf.

“One two…”

The first bundle of leather Sierra brought was 10 bundles, and the box on the shelf now was 7 boxes. As Bindel said, it seems that only 3 bundles were used, so after rearranging the leather, I pulled a wooden box that looked a little bigger than the leather box and opened the lid.

“Oh…”

The moonlight stones filled with the smell of minerals that lingered around the tip of my nose met the lights in the warehouse and began to glow. Admiring the moonlight-like shine, I felt the weight of the box lighter than I thought, and wondered if this is why nobles process it in various ways.

“Hmm…”

After picking them up and examining them one by one, I was about to dig through the pile of moonlight stones with my hands, but suddenly I felt someone approaching me at high speed from behind, so I put down the moonlight stones and turned around.

“You’re not going to take it, are you?”

Bindel approached with a smile as if he had already checked the items and asked if he was taking them to me. What would I do if I took it? I snorted at the absurd question, put the lid on the box again, and counted the number of wooden boxes on display.

“What would you do if I took it?”

A total of six boxes of the same size, I opened the lid just in case, but only the moonlight stones piled up with momentum to touch the lid showed off their beautiful luster.

“It all fits. Is Bindel-nim like that too?”

“Yes, no problem.”

Chuck- A smiley Bindel held out the document, so I received it. I saw that there were no marks on the items I had marked earlier, and I noticed that he wrote it on a new piece of paper and gave it to me, so I looked at him with strange eyes.

“…? Please report it to the baron as it is. I will be guarding the warehouse until the night guards arrive.”

Seeing Bindel roll his eyes at my eyes, I buried my doubts for a while, greeted him, and left the warehouse.

“Then suffer.”

“Yeah, thank you for your help.”

Sensing that my gratitude for a moment was gratitude for various things, I shrugged my shoulders and headed for the mansion as I felt Bindel’s gaze watching me until the end.

**

The old door slammed shut and a dusty wind blew through the warehouse, flapping the hem of Bindel’s trousers. Bindel, who touched his head with his sweaty palms in the instant silence that came to him, spit out the words he had accumulated in his underwear.

“A low-level mercenary…”

Bindel, who comfortably let out the anger he had suppressed whenever he heard the trivial chatter of a pathetic mercenary, gnashed his teeth as he touched his throbbing hair and glared at the door Cassano had just left with angry eyes.

“Whoa…”

Recognizing that he had said too many needlessly in the casual conversation, Bindel carefully managed the aftermath of his emotions and kept his footsteps as low as possible as he crept toward the firmly closed door.

-Care… Grow…

-Huh…

As soon as he put his ear close to the door, he heard dejected snoring and breathing, and Bindel realized that the guards had been sleeping against the wall. It was Bindel himself who gave Baron Whistle’s butler the order of the guards to guard the warehouse, but he didn’t expect that the guards who came when he was in charge of arranging the warehouse would do such a good job, so he snorted in joy and slowly removed his ear from the door.

“The bastards who shouted loudly that they would do well…”

After hearing that the baron was putting his heart and soul into guarding the warehouse, he came to him and begged to put him in the guard’s order, but it was pitiful that all he was doing was sleeping against the wall.

Trash who has no desire to develop and no effort to solve the situation. Bindel, who repeated his promise not to become like that, counted the moonlight boxes on the shelf with his fingertips, touching them with sunken eyes. .

“Ah, this is it.”

The moment his fingertip touched the fifth box, a slightly different weight caught on the tip of his finger and hovered. Immediately opening the lid of the box, Bindel dug his hand through the heaps of moon ore, managed to grab the pedestal he had put in, and pulled it out of the box.

“Whoa…”

Blowing away the scent of minerals that spread all over the place, Bindel put the moonlight stone on the pedestal on the shelf for a while and looked at the pile of miscellaneous iron under the pedestal with a frown on his face as he lifted the box and quietly set it down on the floor.

“I have a good feeling about the mercenary theme.”

In the middle of stealing the moonlight, Cassano came in and put the moonlight on the scrap iron. Even thinking about it again, Bindel, who was taken aback by his reckless behavior, lifted the moonlight stone on the pedestal and scattered it on the floor as if someone had stolen it and dropped it, and kept the miscellaneous iron box on the shelf where other boxes were displayed.

Before leaving the warehouse, Bindel kicked the moonlight stone with his toe to make it look more natural, and put his ear to the door and window once more to see who was nearby.

-Gagging, keuh… Uhh…

Seeing that the pitiful snoring was still audible, the guards seemed to be still sleeping and there was no sign of anyone at the window, so Bindel quietly took a sack out of his bosom and opened the box hidden at the bottom of the shelf.

– Rattle

As soon as he opened it, Bindel, who slightly wrinkled his nose at the raging light and the smell of minerals, unfolded the folded sack and slowly stroked the outside of the bag. The moment the light from the magic circle that spread quietly at Bindel’s touch was turned on, the space inside the bag was distorted, and Bindel started pouring moon ore from his box into the bag.

Satisfied with the effectiveness of the space pockets he bought with the money he had siphoned off one by one from the past, Bindel emptied a box of moonlight stones, carefully laid the empty boxes next to the moonstone stones scattered on the floor, put the pedestal into the sack, and quietly straightened his back.

-Duduk Dduk

Due to his nervousness, his whole body was full of strength, and Bindel, who relieved his stiff body, carried the slightly heavy sack on his shoulder and slowly moved forward, sweeping the floor with his toes.

Sensing the feeling of being caught on his chin-toes, Bindel immediately groped for the floor, grabbed his hook strongly, pulled it with all his might, and immediately exhaled the breath he had been holding back.

-Hey hey…

Due to neglect, the rusty secret door made an unpleasant noise in the warehouse where the cold silence had subsided, but Bindel didn’t care and opened the door enough to enter, threw himself inside, and pulled the string tied to the handle inside, slowly and quietly. Closed the secret door.

Kung- The moment the door closed and silence spread, only traces of the thief’s escape remained in the warehouse guarded by the lazy guards.