The Sub-Heroine’s Butler Is a Vicious Bastard

69. auction house (1)

“Sherald, I’m very disappointed.”

“… Ugh.”

A dark night with the lights flickering.

Somewhere in the narrow back alley of the academy, Cherald and someone in a robe were conversing.

“I heard that he had made quite a name for himself in the mercenary industry, so I was looking forward to it… ”

The voice of the person wearing the robe was distorted by the perception-damping magic,

It was possible to guess that the other person was a woman by the thin, high voice and the body line revealed in the robe.

“I’m sorry. Hehe… If you give me the ‘powder’, I will scold you with words this time.”

said Sherald, whose face had sunk to the point that his cheekbones had been exposed in the past few days.

He bent down pitifully and smiled kindly.

The more he did, the more his haggard face was revealed.

“Do you want this?”

“Yes! Ji, I will work really hard… So please… ”

His gaze was not fixed on the woman in the robe, but on the pocket in her hand.

“You know what you have to do with the final exam, right?”

“Of course… Hehe.”

“Otherwise, this will be the last time.”

When the woman in the robe handed over the pouch, Cherald hurriedly checked it.

Soon, his face was terribly contorted.

“This… Wasn’t it less than last time?”

“It’s something you get at the auction house, but the auction house hasn’t opened yet this year.”

“However… ”

“If I succeed this time, I will give you twice what I gave you now.”

“Twice!”

Sherald looked at the powder in the bag again.

Although the overall amount has decreased compared to before, if it is twice the current amount…

“Uh hee hee, thank you! thank you!”

“Please be quiet and stop disappearing.”

Sherald hurriedly ran down the back alley, holding his pocket tightly in his arms as if it were precious.

The woman in the robe watched him silently.

“I will have to throw it away soon.”

After chewing and spitting out the words, she also disappeared into the darkness.

Everyone has left, and in the back alley where silence has come…

There was still an ‘uninvited guest’ they didn’t expect at all.

“Deal, field, discovery.”

The roof of the building adjacent to the back alley.

A woman wearing black tights was seated there.

The golden bangs that half covered her eyes were exposed by the moonlight.

The assassin of the Waltz family… It was Ailee, a follower of Schmitz.

The woman in the robe appeared to have her voice and face blocked from being exposed with recognition-deterring magic.

In order to detect him, Ailee tried to identify the face of the robe woman by using magic on her pupils…

She couldn’t make out her face due to the distance, but Ailee could see the long ears of the woman wearing the robe.

‘Long ears, elves, tailing… ‘

If you follow the woman in the robe who is presumed to be an elf, you will be able to get more information.

However, Ailee just stares at the place where the woman in the robe has disappeared from the roof of the back alley.

It wasn’t just that she was sucking her finger for no reason.

‘Approach, danger.’

I’m wearing a robe, I don’t know who it is

Ailee felt that the woman in the robe was a person with much higher skills than herself.

He could have been caught if he said he was blindly following, and on the contrary, he could have been caught and leaked information.

‘… A dwarf.’

Ailee fiddled with the part of her left ear, where only traces remained.

How dare you engage in behind-the-scenes work to harm your brother and the lady he serves.

It’s like an elf.

Ailee’s eyes were full of murderous intent, and her fists trembled with anger.

‘Older brother, for the sake of it, for the sake of it.’

The Waltz family saved them from their terrible orphan life.

and… Schmitz’s brother, who guided me in his wanderings and embraced me with love.

Anger at the elves was important, of course, but it couldn’t go wrong with what Oravani asked for.

“Come home, letter.”

Ailee quickly jumped over the rooftops of the buildings.

In order to pass on the valuable information obtained after closely following Sherald to my brother.

She made her way home quickly, running through the darkness.

* * *

“Ugh, it’s saksin… ”

Staggeringly arrived at the academy dormitory.

I immediately threw away my bag and dived onto the bed.

My whole body was tingling and I couldn’t put any strength into it.

“Crazy professor.”

A few days have passed since I had a special private lesson with Professor Ryan.

There was never a day when the muscle pain didn’t go away from the very spartan way of rolling every day.

He even called me on the weekends…

At this rate, I wonder if I’m watching more than Arlot or Koyono.

“ha… Well?”

Looking at the sunlight coming through the window

I found a strange note stuck to the window.

It was black paper with a crow pattern on it, a pattern used by the Waltz family to which I belonged.

Did you already get a reply?

I hurriedly checked the letter and moved my eyes quickly.

The contents of the letter were simpler than expected.

[Sherald, Elf, Trade]

[Unidentified powder, handed over]

[Powder, auction house, related.]

[Final Exam, Danger, Sherald]

[Elf, tailing, failure.]

[Skill, better than me, one step higher.]

[Special matters, later, report.]

[I love you, always, Ailee.]

… What is this?

Did a passphrase come into my family without my knowledge?

I brushed my crazy hair and looked at the contents of the letter slowly.

The word ‘Ailee’ in the last sentence caught my eye.

“I can’t believe Ailee sent me a letter… No, did you take on this job?”

Strange way of speaking, straight bangs that cover the eyes, straight short hair that looks like it was measured with a ruler, expressionless expression that doesn’t move at all, etc.

Ailee was one of the most eccentric children among the ‘Waltz Family’, a group of strange people.

Still, he wasn’t a bad kid, and he followed me very well and loved me a lot.

‘Ailee took on this job… I hope you don’t overdo it… ‘

Thinking about it made Ailee’s head throb for no reason.

Although he is an expressionless child, I wonder if he has no emotions.

With regards to elves, they were especially famous for not having any vultures.

First of all, write a letter to the family later and ask if you can take Ailee out.

Now he needed to analyze the letter Ailee had sent him.

A three-line summary of Ailee’s letter, written like a modern poem, was as follows.

[Sherald and the elves are making a deal based on an unknown powder.]

[The unidentified powder is presumed to have been obtained from the auction house.]

[I tried to track down the elf, but I backed off because I was in danger of being caught because of my good skills.]

First of all, I roughly guessed that Sherald was making a deal with the elves, so let’s move on,

I’m not sure what this ‘unknown powder’ is.

Even thinking about it, the concept of powder like this had never come out as an item.

‘It came out of the auction house, so I guess I can check it then.’

It looks like they are buying powder from the auction house and making a deal.

Coincidentally, there weren’t many left at the auction house, so it was something to check on the way.

One thing that bothers me is the part that Ailee gave up on following.

‘Ailee must be a top-tier talent in the academy.’

Unlike me, who was raised to be Arlott’s companion and exclusive butler, Ailee was only raised to be an assassin.

From a young age, he went through intense training at the level of child abuse and was reborn as an assassin in name and reality.

That skill should be ridiculously high up to at least the intermediate level.

To the extent that Ailee was reluctant to follow me… Maybe I should be a little nervous.

‘Is this enough for now?’

It wasn’t long since I sent it, but the letter arrived, so I wondered if the person behind it had already been revealed…

Also, the time was too short for that.

Ailee probably was considerate of me and wrote a letter and sent it right away as soon as she got the information.

‘Because he’s a good kid after all.’

In the Waltz family, where there are few people my age, Ailee was a younger girl than me.

Hearing that he had a sad childhood made me feel even more sympathetic.

As a result, I felt like a daughter and cared for her a lot.

If we meet later, I’ll buy you some rice.

With that thought in mind, I folded up Ailee’s information and put it in the drawer, thinking about the day I would go to the auction house.

* * *

The clean and friendly capital of the empire.

A complex of back alleys were located around the road where many carriages passed.

I was walking in the back alley where the gap between the rich and the poor was clearly revealed.

‘It’s about here.’

They’re all crumbling shacks, so you should know where they are.

Passing between bums drunk on drugs or alcohol

Finally, we were able to reach the entrance of the auction house.

“hello.”

“Little boy, if you don’t want to search, get out.”

Among the shacks, I found a place guarded by a rice cake stand.

The thugs who frown when I approach.

Well, this is for sure.

“The imperial spiders are very hardworking.”

“… What about the tiger’s teeth?”

“It will be compared to a hawk’s claw, is that right?”

“Come in.”

The gatekeeper, who looked like a thug a moment ago, bent over.

I thought it was long, but luckily the password seems to be correct.

Upon entering the shack with the guidance of the gatekeeper, there was a fairly large underground cavity inside.

How can there be such a huge space under the shacks?

There was a structure like the Colosseum in the basement.

“You can go to number 52, sir.”

“thank you.”

The gatekeeper handed me a mask resembling a crow plague doctor and guided me to seat 52.

Wearing a mask, I went to my seat and found a suitable table, buttons, and microphone.

Did you press this button to raise?

‘Where are the goblins?’

Everyone wears a mask, but the mask doesn’t cover their ears.

As I was quietly examining the faces, a spotlight shone in the center of the Colosseum.

“ladies and gentlemen! hello.”

It was the appearance of an emcee wearing a suit wearing a funny rabbit mask.

And his appearance was a milestone announcing the beginning of the auction.

Well, you’ll know the details later, so let’s take a closer look for now.

‘Because the money isn’t that much.’

I did get a good deal of money from a sucker in Heirin City.

Saving, sharing, dictating, and re-writing resulted in a significant reduction in the amount of money.

If you think about the market price of the auction house, you should be able to buy one or two main items.

“Now, let’s start the auction in earnest!”

The auction was more boring than I thought.

Maybe it’s because it’s the largest auction house in the empire, so everyone should say that the barrel is really big.

As far as I know, seeing really low-value items raised hard and burnt out made me want to buy something.

Is it because it is still in the early stages of the auction?

While I was looking around the auction house with my chin resting on my chin like that.

An abnormality appeared in the auction house, which was in progress.

“The starting price will be 50 gold coins. Let the auction begin.”

“300 gold coins.”

“300 gold coins! 300 gold coins came out. Anyone want to raise?”

A thin voice echoed through the auction house, and silence fell in the auction house for a moment.

The auction item is the corpse of an A-rank monster.

The eccentricity of asking 6 times the starting price from the start was the first to come out of the auction house.

and…

‘That ear is an elf.’

It was hard to see because he was wearing a deer mask with antlers, but at first glance, his ears were quite long.

Ailee said they were looking for strange items at the auction house.

I wonder what the unidentified powder has to do with the monster’s corpse…

“500 gold coins.”

“I got 500 gold coins! Hey, the starting price was definitely 30 gold coins, which is amazing.”

Their plans must be ruined first.