Chapter 71 – Foir (7)

“Why did you come here?”

Alice and I moved to the house of the head of the association. Alice was glaring at the Guildmaster with a firm expression, and I was looking through the Guildmaster’s certificate hanging on the wall of the Guildmaster’s office and the documents currently spread out on the table. Most of the documents were delivery contracts.

The head of the union waved his hand as I stared at the papers.

“You shouldn’t look at it that way. Because it’s a trade agreement. So, Miss Alice. What did you come for?”

Alice looked around once more. Since it was early, people were busy moving around every ranch. The ranch where Lorena works could be seen at a glance through the window of the head of the union. Alice said as she looked through the window at Lorena eagerly carrying bales of straw.

“Somehow, it seems that the strands are being pulled in the direction that Jack is the culprit.”

“…Okay. As expected, I shouldn’t have accepted it from the beginning…”

The head of the union secretly started to gossip about Jack. He didn’t show it on his face, but he seemed very happy that Jack was going to be caught. Alice tilted her head and nodded to her Guildmaster.

“All the evidence from the materials you provided points to Jack as the culprit, and Jack’s own testimony was also not good. In this situation, I think it is nonsense to point to another person as the culprit.”

“This is a very wise statement. So, how about grabbing a stick and threshing it right now? Usually, in a village like this, they solve the criminals on their own.”

The head of the union smiled and nodded. In the corner of the room, a large wooden club called Shiny Shiny was standing at an angle. The pleasure of being able to beat Jack out seemed to outweigh the anger of losing the livestock.

“However, there are many things that take many things to punish right now.”

Alice calmed the union leader’s excitement. The head of the union, who was about to run out, frowned at Alice’s added ‘but’ expression. He asked as he sorted through the papers on his desk.

“If there is a catch, what is it?”

“This is Lorena.”

Alice pointed to Lorena, who was running hard outside her window. Funnily enough, Lorena could be observed at work by the Guildmaster simply by turning her head right away. The head of the union looked at Lorena and then at Alice. He asked.

“Lorena, is something wrong?”

“If Jack were to be punished, he would of course have to pay for the livestock he had stolen so far, so how would Lorena support her now by herself? She couldn’t help but feel sorry for her to see such an innocent and good boy fall into such an abyss.”

Alice did a really good job. She sobbed, wiping away her tears, which perfectly replicated the impressionable fledgling lawyer. The head of the union burst out laughing at her.

“Heh heh heh! Don’t worry about that part! I am! We’re going to take her Lorena and raise her like her daughter. You’ve had a hard time meeting an ugly father, so I’ll take good care of you.”

“…You are kind.”

Alice lowered her head as she said that. It must be because I can’t manage my facial expressions. I also had to turn my head away and hide my sneer. The head of the association said.

“Isn’t the word ‘people in the countryside good’ used in times like these? Heh heh heh! How I loved our Lorena! Don’t worry, you can go straight to Ithaca. In Ithaca, if you make and send the documents that Jack is the culprit! I will take care of it myself.”

The voice of the union leader couldn’t be more reliable. He nodded vigorously and parted ways with a big smile. As soon as she left the door of the co-op’s house, Alice’s face, which had been used to expressing businesslike expressions with a stiff face, was distorted.

“Beast cub.”

The reason we deduced the union leader as the culprit was simple. He was the person who claimed the union dues, was the most powerful person in the village, and was the person who knew most about all the ranches. The head of the union was an old man with a kind smile, but his stocky physique and eyes glistening with desire could not be fooled.

“How was it?”

“That bastard is right.”

And crucially, the head of the union was using the seal he had used in the contract with the imp to handle his own affairs.

“…Are you a fucking asshole? When you sign a contract with the devil, do you use your official seal?”

“Isn’t that a habit? The contract situation was a bit urgent.”

Alice also shook her head and looked at the head of the union again. Then, lowering her voice, she asked me.

“By the way, Dad. What do you do now? How can you accuse me of being the culprit? There is no evidence.”

As she said, there were demonic and demonic evidence that he was the head of the union, but there was no physical evidence to report him to the guards.

“You can just report it to the temple. I put my stamp on that bastard’s contract, but if you take it with you, the temple will take care of it.”

Of course, that didn’t mean there wasn’t a way to get rid of the union leader. Anyway, the head of the union made a contract with the devil with his dojang, and the evidence remained in the hideout. We just threw the contract at the temple and that was it. I said to Alice.

“I’ll get it tonight and put it in your room. Take it tomorrow morning and go to the temple and tell me. Someone left a piece of paper like this in front of the house, but I don’t know what the writing is, and I brought it because I felt a bit offended.”

“Would that work? Maybe there aren’t any devil’s things in the house.”

“Uh huh, the real devil is here? I just need to sprinkle some margi on it.”

Alice heard me and nodded her head as if she finally understood. Wouldn’t it be okay if there was no evidence? The contract was just an excuse for a search.

“Are you going to manipulate it?”

“It is not manipulation. A beggar to help with the search. So, didn’t that bastard make a contract with the imp?”

“Yes.”

Alice nodded her head and smiled. She was my daughter after all. We had a lot of similarities, befitting a close father-daughter relationship. I walked home laughing. After looking at the head of the union’s house, which was moving away, I raised my middle finger while he was busy working.

*****

The next morning. Knights wearing armor and priests with hard expressions appeared in front of the house of the Guildmaster, who was about to start the day in a good mood. The head of the union opened the door with a yawn and greeted the priest with an expression of incomprehension.

He had been exhausted from fatigue a little while ago, but the moment he saw the priest, he acted like a person who had run away from sleep.

“What, what is it?”

The priests and knights did not respond to the question of the union leader. The big knights grabbed the head of the union, and the people including the priest began to search the inside of the room. The head of the union shouted in an urgent voice.

“Oh no, what the hell are you doing! You have to explain!”

The priest shouted to the union leader.

“Shut up! Union president! I got a contract with an imp with your seal on it! You dirty devil worshiper! Did the demons do that because they didn’t know what people were like!”

The union leader’s face turned white. He cried out in a voice close to wailing, sweating coldly with a face paler than that of a corpse.

“Oh, what a misunderstanding! Well, well, you must have misunderstood something! I didn’t do that!”

“No?”

The priest gritted his teeth and looked around, then emitted divine power with his palm. A white light formed a circle and enveloped the entire house. The head of the union looked around with a face full of fear, and the priest who was standing with his eyes closed raised both hands and shouted.

“Found!”

The priest suddenly moved to the backyard of the union leader’s house. The expression of the head of the union looking at the priest was colored with doubt. Because he hadn’t hidden anything in his backyard. However, the priest was digging down the ground with a confident expression. The priest, who strengthened his body with his divine power and dug into the ground in an instant, lifted something as if pulling potatoes from the floor.

A mound of earth fell, and it was a mound of earth, and gradually appeared in the form of bones.

“Are you going to say that you are not guilty after seeing this!”

What he held in his hand was the skull of a cow. A skull covered in dirt was held in the hands of the priest. The head of the union could not feel it, but the priest could feel the imp’s magical energy subtly in the cow’s skull.

It boasted an unpleasant texture, as if the imp had melted into its skull.

“What, what is it? What the hell! I never hid anything like that! I swear to God! I never hid anything!”

The head of the union shook his head and shouted.

“It’s a false name! Someone did this to frame me!”

A knight who had entered the room appeared holding a thick paper book and a contract.

“Sir! I found a demon summon scroll and a contract in his room!”

“Ahhh… !”

The union leader, who had made his best excuses, knelt down on his knees. The priest said while looking at the union leader whose legs were weak.

“We’ll hear more about it in the basement of the temple. It’s appalling that a filthy devil worshiper like you has been fooling us all this time.”

“Ahhh… !”

The union leader was dragged along like rags. I placed a rocking chair on top of the hill where the head of the coop’s house looked small, and I was enjoying the scenery of nature with Alice. Alice held out a glass of fruit juice to me.

I said, clinking glasses with her.

“Long live justice.”