The Guild Master of Demon Hunters that the Empire is Obsessed With

64 – Cat Thieves (2)

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

Lucene, who made eye contact with me, asked.

“No, it’s nothing. But what are those earrings?”

“Aha, this?”

Lucene exaggeratedly pushed back her hair below her ears and showed off her earrings.

“You’re a guild member. If you walk around shabby, you’re tarnishing the guild’s sign?”

“Oh my, that’s right.”

As soon as I got one gold coin, I used it all up.

I’ll have to tell Leana later to be careful of that spending habit.

“But why is our wizard angry all day today?”

Lucene looked at Ornette, who was sitting across from her at the round table, and smiled.

As expected, Ornette was glaring at Lucene with an expression as if she were about to use some fatal magic.

“Huh? You’ve been making those scary eyes since noon and chomping at your dinner.”

Uneaten food remains on the plate in front of Ornette.

Although she isn’t the type of person to eat like Celestine, she eats it all the way to the end, leaving behind food.

“Maybe the request I changed in the morning hasn’t been resolved yet? Because the manager and I left?”

Ornette jumped up from her chair at Lucene’s sly smile

I got up so hard that the chair fell backwards.

“Hi?!”

Celestine, who had been quietly reaching for a fork in the tre du melon, flinched in surprise.

“Huh? Eat this and go. It’s very expensive and delicious.”

Lucene pointed at the melon, but Ornet gave me a hard look, not at Lucene, and then turned toward her steps.

Everyone looked blankly at Ornette, who was stomping up the stairs with the hem of her blue robe fluttering.

“It looks like Ornette was really hurt by the change in request.”

Lucene intervened in Leana’s words.

“No, no. In my opinion, that is not the cause.”

“Then?”

“Even though you took on other requests, you only took issue with the one you decided to go with with the office manager, right? Then what would you do? It’s the office manager.”

Lucene pointed at me with her fork.

“I was excited since yesterday because I was going with the secretary, but suddenly a warrior came from somewhere and suddenly took it away, so I felt like I was screwed.”

“Hmm, is that so?”

Leana tilted her head as if she wasn’t sure and took a bite of one of her melons and held it out to me.

“I wouldn’t know if Celestine did it, but Ornette isn’t.”

“Hey, these people are really dull. You can tell right away. Hey Leonard. You remember earlier, right?”

“What?”

“What about earlier? Ugh, we eat a lot of purple stones. My sister is the one who stings them.”

Lucene stopped talking and pushed her bowl of melons towards Celestine.

Celestine, who was watching, smiled happily and quickly grabbed two melons.

There are three fork blades, one on each side.

The technology is very good.

“You ran into a wizard when you left the trade company earlier.”

“Why is that?”

“Isn’t the wizard angry because I hugged you?”

“Kekkeek!!”

Celestine started coughing violently while eating the melon.

“Hmm.”

Lucene narrowed her eyes and looked at Celestine with a wry smile.

“I understand, I understand. Hehe.”

Lucene pointed at Celestine with a fork while saying ‘that and that’.

“Why is it so complicated when there are only four people in the guild?”

The moment I heard those words, I suddenly felt like my heart sank.

That guy is really quick-witted… ?

Isn’t it true that you’ve already realized that I made a mistake for 7,000 coins?

No, there is a high possibility that you don’t know that yet.

When you first met, didn’t you think it was a human head and hit it with a hammer?

Still, the constellation I’ve been looking for is right in front of me, but it’s so quiet?

I’m sure you don’t know.

Still, I really need to be careful.

I never thought I could be so perceptive.

“Director… This is really delicious… Try it quickly…”

Celestine, who was eating a melon, quietly whispered to me.

This is because Ornette suddenly left the room and the atmosphere became cold.

The tredu melon was definitely delicious.

It’s the first time since I’ve eaten something that was served when I went somewhere to make a request.

I don’t know if the client is doing well.

He was a nobleman who owned a fief on the outskirts of the empire, and for an imperial nobleman, he was a very kind person.

“Eat a lot. I’ll buy it again later when I make money.”

Lucene said patronizingly to Celestine.

That’s why you lose all 7,000 coins and end up living in a wandering tent.

After finishing the melon, Celestine decided to wash her dishes.

Lucene made a strange excuse that he was so strong that he could break her bowl and went down to this floor.

I called Leana to the guild leader’s room.

“Would you like me to show you the operation log and request status?”

“No, that’s okay. Do you know what this is?”

I took out something wrapped in cloth on the desk.

“What is this?”

“Don’t be surprised, just look.”

He unfolded the cloth and showed Leana some of the back skin that had been removed from the corpse.

Leah I looked down at her, surprisingly not surprised.

“It’s a tattoo, right?”

“The people I killed outside the city today had this engraved on their backs. I took it off just in case you noticed.”

“Really?”

Leana, who was not surprised to see human skin, widened her eyes and looked at me.

“Please explain in detail, that.”

I told Leana about her request for Patrick today from beginning to end.

Leana’s expression her her her changed moment by moment as she listened to her her story her her her.

“So, you ended up killing them all and giving their heads to Mr. Patrick?”

“They asked us to do that. I think it was probably to make sure we carried out the request properly.”

“I guess so… “

Leana trailed off and looked down at her tattoo again.

“This is the sign of the Tenevre guild in Chantisy.”

“A guild mark? So you’re saying that the ones who attacked us today were from another guild?”

“Other than that, nothing else comes to mind.”

“What exactly are they doing?”

“The guys who do this. It’s a guild formed by former assassins, but it’s new. Maybe it’s been around for three years? It’s quite infamous for doing a lot of things that go back and forth between illegal and legal. But the success rate of requests is also high, so it’s secretly kept. There are a lot of people looking for it.”

Are you saying that he was not an active assassin but an official guild member?

So, that means they also took someone’s request and targeted Patrick or his boss’s employees.

Patrick, this guy has a lot of things on his tail.

Well, if I’m sure of Patrick’s identity, then this would be normal.

So, they’re not setting up all kinds of murder traps in the office.

“Wouldn’t they possibly retaliate against us?”

“You said they decapitated the bodies and burned them all, right? Still, burn marks would remain, so they would know that their children were harmed.”

Leana thought for a moment, stroking her hair, then shrugged her shoulders.

“I don’t think we know who did it. But since Lucene is said to have devastated the area, there is a possibility that we can trace it back.”

“That will be difficult. No one will be able to connect Lucene with traces of that technology.”

“Why?”

I glanced at the guild leader’s door and motioned for Leana to come closer.

When Leana pulled up her chair, I gently grabbed her ear and whispered lowly.

“The hammer that Lucene carries. That’s the only one on the continent. No one knows what it is or what powers it has.”

“Is that so? Is it expensive?”

As expected, Leana. You get an estimate right away.

“Even money can’t buy it.”

“But how do you know, Manager?”

“It’s because I’m a demon hunter. “I have miscellaneous knowledge here and there.”

Leana nodded her head as if my explanation was reasonable enough.

“Then it will be like this. In Tenèvre, we confirm that the guild members who requested the request are dead and their bodies burned, but we cannot find out anything more. There is a possibility that Mr. Patrick may have attached bodyguards through another guild, but we will keep our mouths shut without knowing. If there is, it’s over. Of course, there may be witnesses who saw the manager and Lucene leaving the city in a carriage at the time of the incident.”

“Eyewitness?”

“There are three guilds in the city, and two guild members from one of them went out of town in Dremont Trading Company’s carriage.”

“Seup, that’s right. If you are determined and dig into it, you can become specific to some extent. Is there a possibility of retirement?”

“Originally, it is an unwritten rule that guilds do not retaliate when there is a conflict with each other over a request. They clashed because they were trying to make a living from each other. However, with Tenevre, it is a different story.”

“Because they are walking a tightrope between illegality and legality?”

“And just by looking at the identical tattoos, you can tell that there is a significant sense of belonging to the guild.”

“What this means is that there is a high possibility of retaliation.”

“That’s right.”

“Is there any connection with the Drapener kids in our city?”

The Drapener Guild is a small guild in our city and is a type of thieves guild.

The thief and the assassin are similar to each other, so there must be some connection.

“Well, I don’t know much about that.”

“Okay…”

It’s difficult.

If the other party is a swordsman, there is no problem.

Even if a hundred people come, if Lucene is sent out, everything will be resolved.

But they are assassins.

No one knows when and how he will sneak into the guild and quietly assassinate.

If this is the case, it would be better to just place a spell on the guild building.

“I have to go see Ornette.”

“Ornette? Are you okay? He looks like he’s not in a good mood.”

“To lighten your mood.”

As I left the guild leader’s room, I ran into Celestine, who had just finished washing the dishes and was coming out of the kitchen.

“Whew, I’m done. Huh? Where are you going?”

“To Ornette.”

“Huh? Didn’t you just go there for no reason and get hit by some kind of magic and become younger?”

“What? Haha. Really, what should I do?”

Then Celestine suddenly cupped her cheeks with her hands and laughed.

“Then feed it to me and I’ll give it to you…” ” .”

You’re crazy.

I passed Celestine, who was muttering something to herself, and went up to this floor.

A pleasant hum came from Lucene’s door.

He seems to be in a great mood after squandering a gold coin.

Oh, what a pathetic thing.

I continued walking and stood in front of Ornette’s room in the innermost area.

“Ornette. Let’s talk.”

* * * * *

Annoying, annoying, annoying, annoying.

Ornette huffed, stuffing cotton inside the dry pillowcase.

It’s annoying, really!

During the day, I ate with the giant woman, and in the evening, I got into a fight with the pig healer in the bathroom.

As if that wasn’t enough, I praised the giant woman for finding new earrings in her ears.

I can’t tell if he’s the guild manager or a playboy.

Can you trust and rely on a person like that?

The reason I’m irritated now is not because of the manager’s behavior, but because my trust in the guild has collapsed.

It’s because of that!

“Ornette. Let’s talk.”

At that time, the office manager knocked on the door outside.