Chapter 407 – 14. Every Relationship Has an Ending.

[About corruption within the Mercenary Guild in Cardon, the capital of the Empire]

“This… “

“It will be the next thing to do. Read slowly and talk.”

Fluttering, the dense writing welcomes me as soon as I turn the first page. Her eyes were blurred for a moment, but Oberon, who took out a folder of the same thickness, licked her index finger with the tip of her tongue and slowly began to turn over the documents.

“Right now, corruption is breaking out in the mercenary guild within the empire, and the mercenary guild is an independent group under the solemn order of His Majesty the Emperor… It’s a relationship that can’t be separated from the empire as much as the nobles who are fighting the territory, the massive monster subjugation, and the escort of the upper tier.”

“Okay.”

Mercenary guilds with branches throughout the empire recruit mercenaries, classify them, and receive requests from each kingdom, empire, and requesters to hang on the bulletin board, or the guild leader itself is given the right to grant the request.

That’s why the guild leader was able to introduce outstanding mercenaries to aristocrats with whom he had a relationship, or to stab a mercenary of gold or platinum rank that did not fit the level of the request, or to take them out and screw them.

If those guys commit corruption all over the empire, it wasn’t a simple thing.

In Oberon’s situation, it would be more terrible than having tumors growing from head to toe one by one.

“Whoa, it’s like the festering wound has burst. Although an independent organization… The problem was that it was too loose. Even idiots who give money and valuables to nobles with whom they have connections, aim for titles, and push mercenaries who do not know anything to death in order to fulfill requests given by nobles. Since those guys occupy the executive positions and are in charge of the branch offices in each city, these four months have taken place.”

“Isn’t it a problem that can be stopped by sending the intelligence department to search every spot where corruption has occurred?”

“If there was an agent worthy of you, it would be enough, but… Starting from one of the five mercenary guilds in the capital, unknown transport requests start to appear in the empire, and we have to deal with them perfectly.”

“A transport horse?”

“Isn’t it similar?”

“You mean Wedgetooth Port?”

Oberon nodded without saying a word. He scratched his head and asked me to turn over the dozen pages. Fuuk, I leaned into a chair, and I quietly flipped through the papers and arrived at the page Oberon said.

“At the time when the wagons transported by the mercenaries were seized and searched, we found some classifications similar to the types of weapons Arsil sent in the report. We traded in such a way, but the weapons on the wagon we searched this time were also of that type.”

“Looks like the guy who did business with Regina.”

“Yes, Regina received weapons from the Slave Liberation Corps and the Mercenary Guild… Hmm, I handed it over to the cultist group I defined.”

“You mean pagan?”

“It’s hard to explain to you because I can’t get the right direction… An enemy of the Empire, taking steps that seem to wish for the overthrow of the Empire. Waiting for the right time while praising an unknown name saying that the devil will return… They’re little rats who don’t even know where they’re hiding in their nests.”

“The pagans who need weapons, the Slave Liberation Corps that raid all over the empire and have surplus weapons that they don’t need, and the mercenary guild that mediates between the two and transports goods throughout the empire. Is this the flow?”

“That’s right, they didn’t stop there and reached out to other kingdoms by using the sea, but now that Regina is gone, the trade using the sea has disappeared altogether. Because of her Devon-based Regina, the passage down her is completely under her control.”

“… Is Regina plundering there too?”

“I don’t touch the ships of the Empire and allies, and whether it’s a good feeling or because I’ve traded, I heard that they pick out only smuggling pirates or black market merchants and plunder them, escorting ships in their spare time.”

She was a woman with a clear work-life balance, and although Oberon had heard of the recent situation, I was relieved that Regina was doing well, and I read the documents fluttering flutteringly.

“Coming back to the main topic, as a result of combining the ledgers Arsil found, the whistleblower, and the testimony of the mercenaries caught while requesting transportation, we succeeded in deducing the suspect. The opportunity to step on it may disappear completely.”

“If you only obtain the ledgers and data of the guild leader who continuously traded with those two groups, can you catch the two rabbits, the cultist group and the slave liberation group?”

“Yes, so the plan I came up with is an infiltration, a guild with you as a mercenary… Since it is the southern square, we will unify it as the southern branch. After infiltrating the southern branch and gaining the trust of the guild leader, he secures the ledger and data, and then captures both Lel and the guild leader at once while trading with Lel. When that is over, a large-scale purge of the heretics will be implemented.”

“I can’t seem to get any rest.”

“It’s a chance to get rid of the scum that eats up the empire at once. If I miss this opportunity, I will be branded as an incompetent prince and rot in the borders of the empire.”

“That will never happen.”

“Huh, thank you for saying that.”

Being infiltrated, spy missions are tense. There is also a fear that I might get caught wrongly and get hit… If the boss of the drug dealer recommends that the drug be faster, shouldn’t we take the drug? I had a strange idea.

“Those who receive the green wages of the empire are holding hands extending from the shadows of the empire and filling their pockets, and those who should draw their swords and step forward line up in front of them, serving as servants and amassing vain wealth. Now is the opportunity to eradicate such people, we must not miss it.”

Tak, Oberon sighed as he put down the spread papers on the desk. He said, closing his eyes as if his eyes were tired, and caressing his eyelids with his thumbs.

“Open the last page.”

– Flutter, Flutter, Flutter

Oberon rubbed his eyes lightly, closed and opened them, and then began to explain the suspect.

“I heard that the guild leader in charge of the southern branch was the leader of a fairly famous mercenary group. The former guild leader who appointed him before passed away, and there is no information about him.”

“Is that so.”

As a mercenary leader… Come to think of it, the moment I heard the imperial capital, a name passed by. I sent a letter to Erilda about her marriage and said that I was given an important position in the imperial capital.

“I heard that the guild leader and the sub guild leader are a couple… Since the couple took over the southern branch, the performance has been excellent and the satisfaction level of the clients has skyrocketed. However, after that, the transport request that started from the south prevailed, and later, they even added transport to the subjugation request, and gave money to the mercenaries who were dissatisfied, and they said they shut their mouths.”

“They are an unscrupulous couple.”

Lightly, his fingers stopped, and Oberon’s hand, which was turning the page with him, also stopped. The two of us hardened our faces as we looked at the same page, and Oberon sighed and continued talking in a disapproving voice.

“It may be dissatisfying to infiltrate under these people, but for now, being a person they can trust is the most important thing to help them get the ledgers and data. All necessary equipment and support funds are provided, and when you leave this room, you are immediately connected to the capital… ”

“You said earlier that the guild leader was from a fairly famous mercenary group… Aren’t they the Red Hawk Mercenaries?”

“Hmm? Oh, come to think of it, the whistleblower mentioned that name, but how did you?”

“Ha… “

Suddenly, the outstretched index finger touched the man’s face and then slowly slipped.

As befits a married couple, the two portraits were placed side by side. A red-haired woman with snake-like eyes stood next to the bandit-like man.

The name written under the portrait, the name of her man, she had never heard of, so she did not remember, but the three letters under the portrait of the woman were clearly fixed in her mind.

[Remia]

Every time the pieces Oberon recited were slowly put together, she felt like she couldn’t believe it, but she was the woman who separated Erilda and me like a snake.

I never thought Remia, a woman who was crazy about tying up men and eating them, would welcome me.

At her confused mind, I let out a heavy sigh and, Tup, covered her pile of thick paper and looked at Oberon.

“Now that I see it, I see other emotions than caring about the mission. Do you know them?”

Oberon, who asks about the relationship between the two with a sharp tip, worried about whether to hide it for a moment, but decided to embrace Oberon anyway.

No what the fuck

It was a little bit embarrassing to use this expression against a man, but I decided to become Oberon’s person anyway, so I decided to obediently tell Oberon everything.