The Sub-Heroine’s Butler Is a Vicious Bastard

16. Imprint of the Flame (3)

The lively central street of Heirin.

After getting out of the ordeal in a month, I found a mercenary guild in the city center.

It was for a request to return to the north.

The guild was the largest building in the area, so there was no difficulty in finding it.

It was only in my hometown that I moved under the command of the Eral family…

Normally, it would be rare for a 15-year-old boy to come to the guild.

As I expected, as soon as I entered the guild, the noisy atmosphere inside the guild subsided.

When the mercenary guild, where most of the merchants do anything for money, becomes quiet, there are only two reasons.

A madly dangerous man came in,

Someone came in to make fun of me.

It’s too much for me to hang out with because I don’t have time for any reason.

It was me who hurriedly headed for the guide.

“Hello-“

“I need an escort request to the north. As soon as possible.”

“… yes?”

The lady makes a strange noise and blinks her eyes.

It didn’t take long for that to turn into a mischievous smile.

“I’m sorry, kid, but this is not a place to come to play.”

“That kid, aren’t you confused with the daycare center?”

“Ha ha ha!”

The receptionist’s admonishing attitude and the mercenaries’ ridicule.

It’s also a pretty low-key look.

Normally, he would at least respond with a smile, but…

I don’t have time right now.

ping-

“This, this?”

I flicked a coin from my bosom to the receptionist.

The coin caught in bewilderment was none other than one silver coin.

It wasn’t a lot of money, but it wasn’t small enough to be thrown like a tip to a receptionist.

“Stop the small talk and get to the point. Is there an escort mission to the north?”

“I can’t introduce you to a good quest with money. At least the evidence to guarantee your skills…”

“About a month ago, you must have received the bounty from the three thieves at the Foreign Trade Association. I would have submitted their heads as evidence.”

“yes? Certainly, the subjugation of the Three Musketeers has been completed… ”

“Didn’t you leave a letter? About the carriage escort who killed the three musketeers.”

As soon as I finished my words, the receptionist rummaged through the desk as if he had realized something.

Hurrying and quickly scanning the stack of papers, she held a piece of paper in her hand.

“…on the highway connecting the north and the east, the ‘Three Musketeers of Thieves’, who recently gained fame there, were subdued by Kate’s carriage escort ‘Schmitz’. He has the appearance of a teenager, neat blonde hair, and golden eyes… Huh.”

It was only then that he noticed, and the receptionist’s eyes became the size of fists.

In disbelief, I alternately looked at the paper and my face, but nothing changed.

“Eh, did you say it was a wagon escort request? I’ll find out right away, please wait a moment… !”

With a crackling sound, she ran somewhere like a bullet.

I began to hear the whispers of the adventurers watching her skit.

“The Three Musketeers of Thieves is led by the guy who carries the greatsword… ”

“Uh, he’s so powerful that several of the wagon escorts died. I remembered that the bounty was quite high… You caught a kid like that.”

The silence that filled the guild instantly turned into a buzz about me.

and.

As if he didn’t like that kind of buzz, a mercenary who was lonely drinking in a corner started a fight with me.

“Ha! It must have been a well-concocted situational drama. Am I wrong?”

“…”

“Looking at his appearance, he looks like a young boy from a high family, but with such a fine body, the Three Musketeers? Ha, don’t joke.”

It seems that I have become disrespectful.

Despite the disapproval of those around him, he is a man who strides forward in front of me.

“You hired a family attendant to cut the heads of thieves, and you’re trying to make a living out of this floor with that rumor.”

“…”

“Do you want to play adventurer? Or, what, do you want to be a prince on a white horse, ah?”

It must have been a strange misunderstanding.

I tried to get over it quietly, but the intensity of the quarrel was getting stronger and stronger.

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Judging from the sloppy but well-trained muscles and the longsword slung on his back.

It was a man who felt like he had eaten a knife as a mercenary.

“Hey, at least open your mouth. A young bastard’s baby… ”

“That’s a story I don’t want to hear from a mercenary who drinks and drinks without work.”

“…What is it?”

A guy who fell for the provocation to create self-defense.

Unable to hold back his anger, he stabbed his hand at my cheek.

It was definitely trained, and the movement was quite fast.

However-

‘… It’s always me who takes the lead.’

With the difference of a piece of paper, the man’s palm passes by.

As if he didn’t know how to avoid it, the man’s posture was greatly disturbed.

“… uh?”

“Did you attack first?”

He immediately stretched his fist toward the pit of the stomach.

The defenselessly open upper body allowed my fists too easily-

“Oh, heh… ”

The man’s waist curved like a hunchback with a terrible hand taste.

Because of that, his face came down to my waist.

match-!

I was in a perfect position, so I slapped him with full power.

Isn’t there a saying, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth?

The man who fell to the side seemed to have fainted as if he had passed out, showing only the whites of his eyes.

Since mercenaries are such a rough group, I tried to tolerate at least some jokes, but…

I’m going to be busy, but I’m going through this, so I’m starting to lose my temper a little bit.

I glared around to see if there was anyone else who would attack me, but everyone was engrossed in talking about something else.

As I waited with my arms crossed, the receptionist returned with eyebrows flying.

“sorry. There are no requests to go to the north right now.”

“What is that… ?”

“Recently, the pack of wolves seems to have expanded their influence, and they frequently appear in the Northeastern Forest. Merchants have completely stopped visiting, and all escort requests… ”

Is it because the blood rushed to his head during the battle?

In an unexpected situation, the accident stopped moving as if it had stopped.

‘I can’t even ask for a request that doesn’t exist.’

First of all, I organized my thoughts like that, and I was the one who left the guild that way.

“ha… What do you do with this?”

A situation where he overcame the ordeal of fire and even received an imprint.

There was no reason to stay in Heirin City.

More than anything, I wanted to go home and relieve Arlott’s pain as soon as possible.

However, it was not possible to walk all the way north from here.

I don’t know if I have an acquaintance, but the way to go north from this place where there are only strangers…

‘…Wait, acquaintance?’

Come to think of it, there was one acquaintance.

It must have been more like a relationship between a client and a mercenary than an acquaintance…

The owner of the wagon escorted when he came from the north to the east,

I forgot Kate.

It must have been a store located on the outskirts of the city.

I hurried out of the downtown area with a glimmer of hope.

* * *

‘North District Sanghui’ located on the outskirts of the city.

In a place that is more backward than expected, with shabby signboards and facilities-

Kate was on her stomach, holding my trouser leg.

“Huh… Schmitz… please help me… please hehe..”

“……..”

How the hell did this happen?

Where is the brave woman who made fun of me by calling me older sister?

Is there only a woman of misfortune left clinging to her younger brother and asking for help?

I squeezed my throbbing temple and asked Kate a question.

“… What the hell happened?”

“that is… Also, I don’t have money… Whoa… ”

don’t you have money?

It didn’t make any sense.

“What did you do with all the items you brought from the north… ?”

Kate was a merchant who made a living by selling northern specialties to the East and selling Eastern specialties to the North.

It’s only been a month since I came from the North to the East,

With that much, he would have made quite a profit by selling and selling goods brought from the north at high prices.

But why…

As I stared at Kate, her gaze slowly turned to the right.

It was an obvious avoidance of gaze.

The words that he couldn’t win against my hot gaze were even more spectacle.

“… Also, take a gamble… ”

“You mean gambling!?”

“Ugh…”

God, I never thought I was a gambling addict.

I thought she was just a nice woman.

I remembered the memories of my friends who had touched Coins or Toto and opened their hands, so I tried to leave the store without looking back.

“Wait a minute! I’m really someone who never gambled… But I met a strange slender man and lost all my property!”

… slicker?

I was about to leave the store immediately, but I was stopped by Kate’s one word.

‘Eastern’ and ‘Skinny’, and ‘waste of all property’

With these three words, there was a game event that was so obviously tied together.

* * *

“Hey, sister! Did you bring guests? Are you my brother?”

“… huh.”

“It’s cold! Play is just play.”

A slick man in a shabby back alley in the outskirts of Heirin City.

He was a man with a virtuous build, wearing a suspiciously red suit and a red fedora, and playing in a smoking pipe.

“Laugh heartily now. My little brother will get rid of it sooner or later… ”

“Ha, is that so? My sister, shall we take a look at your skills?”

A slender man with a relaxed smile and flamboyant hand movements.

Watching the red cups and dice roaring around the table, I calmly looked at him.

No, to be precise, I was trembling with joy.

‘… It’s really him.’

The appearance of the slender rock man in front of me resembled a game.

Among users, he was called ‘The Red Piggy Bank Man’, shortened to ‘The Red Piggy Bank Man’.

It was a ‘show me the money’ class cheat key that gave rain to players who lacked money.

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“…pocket?”

Without saying a word, I held out my pocket to the guy.

It was the bounty of the three thieves that Kate handed over to me.

Fortunately, it didn’t seem to be handed over to me.

It must have been ‘confused’ with the skill of the slicker, which is quite commendable.

“… My younger brother, must have been the young master of a rich family?”

The corners of the slicker’s mouth caught in his ears as he checked the inside of his pocket.

The smirking eyes glistened with desire.

I wish I could wipe the saliva from my mouth.

“Okay then, let’s begin~”

The slicker began to move the three cups very quickly and with flamboyant hand movements.

Inside, the dice move as if they are dancing, making you dizzy…

… No, actually, my mind went hazy.

‘Is it a start?’

One of his skills was ‘confusion’.

In particular, it is to hypnotize the opponent with the movement of the dice,

Through this, they clouded their judgment and extorted all of Kate’s property.

I didn’t hold on to my increasingly hazy mind.

Rather, I closed my eyes.

When I feel my mind getting more and more distant and I feel something magical power penetrating my body-

Blazing-

Flames began to flicker from the fox-shaped engraving on his chest.