Chapter8. Gently scratch the inside. (5)
“This bastard is real!”
Dexter shouted, blood rising in his neck.
“Won’t you let go of that hand?!”
Dexter, so angry that his face turned red, ran towards him. A dagger filled with emotions was swung around recklessly.
“Oh my gosh, you have to be careful. Will your beloved Elise get hurt?”
While I was grinning and blocking him with Elice,
“Sigh!”
William snuggled into my side. His sword slashed my face at an angle that was difficult to block.
“You can’t avoid this!”
The moment Dexter confidently shouted,
Sreung!
A horrifying sound, as if it were gnawing at my ears, tore through the room.
Kang!
“?!”
William widened his eyes. Before I knew it, his sword was blocked by the blade of the sword I had taken out.
“What… wow!”
After hitting his face with a pommel, I kicked his shin as he stumbled back.
“Ugh!”
He knelt on the floor with a suppressed sound. Stumbling, he struck his sword hard.
“Ugh!”
Because William was dazed after being hit on the nose, he was unable to hold on for a moment and lost his grip on the sword.
Clink!
His sword rolled on the floor with a loud noise.
“……!”
William, who was holding his face, took his hand away. When he saw the sword on the floor, his face became fierce.
“omg……!”
Even as Elise was being held by me, she took a breath.
“William, the sword….”
I turned my body to the side and looked at the other subordinate.
“William…!”
Dexter’s eyes were wide open, as if he was also surprised. Then he seemed to notice my gaze and turned to look at me.
“dare……!”
“How dare you? Oh, is that really it?”
I shrugged my shoulders and tilted my head.
“Are you from a knight background? Why are knights so ashamed of losing their swords?”
“this……!”
Dexter showed his teeth again as if he was angry. His flaring nostrils clearly revealed that my words had hit the nail on the head.
‘Well. ‘I can’t use it.’
I can’t believe you’re reacting to such cheap provocation. I guess that guy needs some training.
“Everyone stop moving.”
I whispered softly and moved my right hand. The blade slowly approached Elice’s neck.
“-!”
Elise hurriedly lifted her neck upward. But since she was held in my hand, she didn’t have much room to move.
Of course, I didn’t really intend to cut her either.
“Lord Elice!”
Watching Dexter freeze in shock, I think this method was very effective.
“Did I tell you?”
I whispered into Elice’s ear.
“You have a foul mouth.”
“…….”
Elise didn’t respond.
I wasn’t sure if it was because my blade was aimed at her slender neck, or because I was enraged by my subordinate’s impertinent mouth.
After a while,
“…Please let me go.”
Elice said in a slightly quiet voice. I said, “Hmm,” in disbelief.
“Wouldn’t it be safer to hold on to your lifeline?”
“Even if you don’t take me hostage, you can easily subdue the three of us.”
That was an accurate point.
It’s just a little bit tricky to subdue them without getting hurt, but if you put your mind to it, taking down all three is no problem.
Even if you don’t use Requiem.
I will admit it. I was ‘playing’ with them.
“I know.”
I laughed and let go of Elice’s wrist that I was holding on to. And then he put the sword back into its scabbard.
“……ha.”
Elice took a step back, holding her wrist, which had turned red. I held out both empty palms to show that I had no intention of harming them.
“haha.”
Elise took a deep breath and wiped her forehead. It must have been very difficult for her to move around while holding both of her wrists, and her face looked pale.
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She looked around carefully.
William picks up the sword with a face full of shame, and even Dexter takes a stance while holding the dagger again.
Unlike the first time, their momentum was dampened. I was completely stunned by my overwhelming ability.
“you…….”
A variety of emotions flashed through Eliche’s eyes looking at me.
Suspicion, wariness, fear, curiosity.
The last one took up the largest part of them.
match!
“Now, pay attention.”
I bumped my palms together to get his attention. The three people who were looking at each other looked at me.
“Now you choose. Follow my suggestion or die here.”
A cold silence fell between the three. The two men looked at Elice at the same time as if they had made a promise.
“…….”
Elise lowered her eyes. Her blue eyes twinkled with conflict, but it didn’t last long.
“If you really want to take control of this guild, this method will be of no use.”
Elise stared at me with clear, blue eyes.
“If you want to kill, kill. I don’t want to be treated like that and fall under someone else.”
Her voice was quiet, but it contained sharp anger.
“Besides, would a human being who does not want to die really ask for information properly?”
Yes, that’s right.
I also had no intention of acquiring the Vendetta Guild this way.
‘If you do that, there’s a good chance you’ll get stabbed in the back.’
Elice, this woman is not the kind of person who will back down like this.
It was clear that he was going to put me in a corner by pretending to ask me for information. She had the ability, will, and reason to do so.
However, it is such a waste of time and heart for me to doubt her every time and try to figure out the truth of the information.
‘We can’t work together like that.’
Nevertheless, this warning was issued.
Clap clap clap… … .
The sound of my applause echoed in the quiet tavern.
“pass.”
Ellise’s expression shook at my unexpected words.
“……yes?”
“Ah, I took a test. I was wondering if you were the type of person who would tell everything to survive.”
I added with a chuckle.
“Looking at it, it doesn’t look like they’ll reveal any information even if they get caught. I’m relieved.”
“Well, this….”
Elice’s eyebrows twitched wildly. She even stumbled a little on the spot, probably because she was nervous.
“Lord Elice!”
“……are you okay.”
Dexter hurriedly approached, but Elice held on with her hands on the table next to her.
Oh my. I guess I’m being too mischievous.
It must be a bit disappointing that the story she told at the risk of death ends so simply.
However, it is also an ability to find out whether the other person really intends to kill oneself or not.
“Stop playing around.”
I spoke in a light tone and pulled down the robe I was wearing.
“……!”
For a moment, all eyes that had been focused on Elice turned to me. Even Eli Che, who was leaning on the table, raised her head.
“ah…….”
Elise let out a low exclamation.
Her gaze passed my blue hair, passed through my cool forehead and drawn eyebrows, and took in my sharp features.
The last place her eyes rested on was my blue-violet eyes, shining like jewels.
“you are…….”
Elise muttered softly as if she was sighing.
She seemed to know my identity right away. The only two men who hadn’t noticed yet were blinking like turtles.
“Why are you disappointed that it wasn’t Cain?”
Ellise’s face turned slightly red. Dexter, who was standing next to her, glanced at her and whispered to William.
“Who are you?”
Since all three of them were extremely silent, his whisper was eventually heard by everyone.
“-!”
Dexter’s face turned bright red. Elise glanced at him and sighed.
“In this empire, there are only two nobles with indigo hair.”
Elice muttered quietly and stared at me.
“Diego Ovest Kindreal. But considering his age, the person standing in front of me right now….”
I grinned as if agreeing with what Elice said.
“……This must be Lord Ovest’s only son, Abel Ovest Kindreal.”
“omg.”
Dexter’s eyes widened.
“If it’s Abel Kindreal, then that bastard from the west….”
Fortunately, his careless remarks were prevented from being revealed to the world by William covering his mouth.
The corners of my mouth became even more torn.
“That’s right, that bastard is me.”
“…….”
Dexter’s face turned to the ground.
He politely put his hands together and kept his mouth shut. It was an expression of intention not to say anything for the time being.
Elise hastily changed the topic.
“I didn’t know Abel was this talented.”
“Well, I’m a bit better at it. In many ways.”
“…….”
I clasped my arms behind my head.
“My offer still stands.”
“……I am,”
“Think carefully. My goal and your revenge have the same direction.”
The Sud family and the Barnes family have a close treaty relationship. In the end, Elice attacking the Barnes family was the same as turning the Sud family into enemies.
“You will be the one to handle the actual operation. Nothing much different from now. All you have to do is get my support.”
“…….”
Eliche’s hands on the table gained strength.
She was not the type of person who moves by intuition. Rather, she was a person who moved by calculating certain possibilities.
“……I have something to ask you.”
“try.”
“I would like to know why you need our guild. As you know, our guild is not large.”
Well, that’s right.
In fact, the current size of the Vendetta Guild was too insignificant to be compared to the Mare Guild.
‘If it hits like this, it’s sure to shatter like an egg hit by a rock.’
But I know.
What a persistent and fierce woman Eliche Barnes, the owner of the Vendetta Guild, is. How much those store clerks, who even now have a disapproving look on their faces, are loyal to her by sacrificing their lives.
Given the right opportunity and capital, their rooster-shaped logo could be secretly engraved all over the country.
‘It’s a fact that has already been proven in the original work.’
In fact, they had grown into a powerful guild comparable to the Mare Guild. And he almost brought down the Barnes family.
Of course, I received help from someone other than myself at that time.
“Well, let’s just say I believe in the Vendetta Guild’s potential.”
I can’t say that I saw a future where you would succeed in the original work.
“And, you rejected the Mare Guild’s offer to recruit in the past. If that’s the case, your skills have been sufficiently proven.”
“How could that be… no, more than that.”
Elice made a very perplexed face.
“I understand that the Kindreal family is busy managing the Ovest territory. In the meantime, I think they will not have enough hands to run the guild in the imperial capital.”
Although she spoke elegantly, this is what Eliche meant.
Isn’t your territory a bit poor?
“…….”
fantasy,
