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

67 – Cat Thieves (5)

“Hmm.”

Shlessi’s Drapener Guild Leader Drapener smiled while making a strange sound.

In front of her, the guild leader Tenevre, who had just arrived at the guild, was sitting and looking down at the car in front of him.

“The poison didn’t burn.”

Tenevre chuckled at Dreffener’s words.

“There is no assassin who says he was poisoned.”

“No matter what, I wouldn’t do something like that to her real sister. Rest assured.”

However, Tenèvre did not drink tea until the end.

Drepenner saw that and snorted.

“So, why did you come here so suddenly? It’s not because you missed me. Is it because you’re having trouble running the guild and you’re trying to get some advice?”

“What a setback.”

“I lost six guild members in only the third year of opening the guild. If that’s not a setback, what is?”

At those words, Tenevre adjusted his expression and asked calmly.

“Do you know?”

“It happened in my district, so wouldn’t it be weirder not knowing? My sister must have had a hard time sleeping.”

“There are only six people.”

“Isn’t six out of twenty people a lot? And they weren’t all bad swordsmen, they were all kids who could fly and crawl in their old days, right?”

Tenèvre closed his mouth and tried to reach for the teacup, but stopped.

“Are you trying to get revenge on those who killed the guild members?”

“Well, just to kill time.”

“Do you know what will happen if you personally like this? No, you are only a new guild leader for three years, so you are doing this without knowing?”

Retaliation for something that occurred during a request is strictly prohibited by law.

If we don’t, there will be large-scale stabbings between guilds every time.

Tenèvre also knows about it.

“But it doesn’t matter. If you live by keeping everything you’re told to keep, you won’t be able to make money.”

“Well, I guess that’s true.”

Dreffener chuckled and took a sip of tea.

“But how on earth are you going to retaliate? Bring all the kids and cause trouble?”

“The same way we always do.”

“Hmm, okay.”

Dreffener said no more and drank his tea in succession.

Dreffener, who drank half of the tea, quenched his appetite and said.

“Are you really going to retaliate? Retaliation won’t bring back dead kids. Why not just hire new ones at that time?”

“I told you. Just to kill time.”

“If I go there to kill time, I will only lose more kids.”

Tenevre’s eyes changed at Dreffener’s words.

“What does it mean?”

“What does it mean?”

“Are you saying the people who killed our kids weren’t ordinary people?”

“What exactly are the standards for ordinary people?”

In most cases, Drepenner’s speaking style did not give the answer the other party wanted, so Tenevre kept his mouth shut and rolled his head.

Just like that bitch said, they killed six trained assassins in one place.

And what was used to start the fire turned even the bones into ashes.

I knew they weren’t quite as many as I had guessed.

And judging by that bitch’s attitude, it looks like she knows details about them, which means that there are people in this Shlesi.

“How many other guilds are there in this city besides this one?”

Drapener laughed lowly at Tenevre’s question.

That was the end.

But Tenèvre was able to get an answer there.

It was committed by one of Shlessi’s guilds.

“Then let’s go. Have a hard time.”

When Tenevre got up from his seat after getting what he got, Drepener followed him.

“Go already?”

“Because I’m busy.”

“It’s been a while. Don’t you feel a little sad just leaving?”

As Dreffener let out a strange laugh, Tenevre made an extremely disgusted expression.

When Drepenner stretched out his hand and tried to caress Tenevre’s cheek, a dagger magically came out of Tenevre’s hand her.

“If you try to do that again, you’ll end up jumping rope with your guts.”

Then Drepener smiled and drew his hand.

“Ha, it’s bloody. There’s nothing I can do about it. Goodbye, sister. I’ll go there later to have fun. Oh, and.”

Drapener called out to Tenevre who was about to leave the door.

“Look for the devil’s head.”

“Devil’s head? That’s crazy.”

After Tenevre left the guild leader’s room, Drapener stood at the window and looked at Tenevre and the guild members leaving.

It’s a shame. I put a lot of sleeping pills in the car.

Anyway, if you hit that thing like that without any countermeasures, everyone would die.

Well, it doesn’t matter.

Dreffener called a guild member.

“There is a night walk. Get ready.”

“What is it about?”

“They will raid the Lucas Guild tonight. Only the guild leader will be rescued from there.”

“What will other people do?”

“Let him die.”

Dreffener licked his lips with a cruel smile.

Do you know that the reason you went out of your way to set up a guild in another city was to escape from me?

If you lose all your guild members and are left alone, you will naturally come under my wing.

What can I do alone when all I have is the skill to kill people?

Right, sister?

* * * * *

Tenevre, who left the Drapener Guild, realized that half of the guild members he had brought with him had not yet returned.

Half of them were sent to the Dremont Trading Company before coming here.

There, I planned to interrogate the boss’s employees and find out which guild or mercenary unit was mobilized for this incident.

Have we figured out anything yet?

In that case, I should leave them alone and move with the guild members I have now.

Tenevre, who was just getting on his horse, remembered Dreffener’s last words.

I told you to look for the devil’s head.

What on earth is this crazy bitch talking about?

After the Imperial Knight Commander killed the Great Devil, the demons disappeared.

Tenevre, who tried to dismiss it as a psychopath’s nonsense, soon changed his mind.

Dreffener may be sly and mysterious, but he occasionally says something straight.

Tenèvre was struck by the thought that the devil’s head just now was the straight horse.

Above all, Tenèvre knows the rumor that spread to Chantisy a few months ago.

There is a strange rumor that a demon hunter appeared in Shles and ripped off the heads of several demons.

When Tenèvre heard the rumor, he had to send someone to confirm its authenticity.

However, Tenèvre is one step below Drapener in that respect.

Although they were raised as assassins, his younger brother, Dreffener, pursued a career of dukedom and espionage, while Tenèvre pursued a career of pure assassination.

So Tenèvre dismissed it as just an exaggerated rumor.

After that, I kept hearing stories like that, but I didn’t pay much attention to them because they weren’t Chantisy’s business.

It continues like this.

Tenevre grabbed a passerby and asked.

With an extremely kind and innocent smile that doesn’t look like a former assassin.

“Hey, if I want to see the devil’s head here, where should I go?”

“Devil’s head? Are you by any chance an outsider?”

“Oh, yes. That’s right. I’m from far away in Messi.”

A passerby who realized that Tenevre was a stranger with no knowledge of the city’s geography kindly gave him directions to a place called Lucas Guild.

“If you go there, there’s a big catfish head on the building, and that’s the devil’s head.”

“Ah, yes. Thank you!”

Tenevre bowed and greeted me in a bright voice.

That is the guild that Drepenner was talking about.

Are you saying they killed six of our children?

Unlike other guilds, Tenevre Guild has a very close relationship among guild members.

This is because Tenevre attracted former assassins who had nowhere else to go and made a living.

Assassins usually receive back the karma they have done, so their words are not very good.

For those people, the Tenevre Guild is like a ray of light.

So they all get the same tattoo on their backs to show off their sense of belonging and solidarity.

Of course, everything he does while on active duty and now is dirty and despicable.

However, it was unavoidable for those who had learned only that.

To Tenevre, the guild members are like his own younger brothers.

Not a crazy incestuous homosexual bitch like Dreffener.

Six such guild members died.

Guilds don’t retaliate against each other for something that happens during a request?

Don’t be ridiculous. That only applies to those who follow the law.

Tenevre led the guild members to the place mentioned by the passerby earlier.

“Hey, guild leader! In front of you!”

One of his men stammered and pointed ahead.

Indeed, in front of me was a pale building with a huge head.

Is that the head of the horse that I heard rumors about?

It’s bigger than you can imagine?

You mean you pulled that thing out of the reservoir and decapitated it?

What kind of place is that guild?

It must be a place full of monster-like guild members who don’t look human.

“Guild leader… I don’t think it will be as easy as expected…”

“First, we go undercover and observe the situation.”

Tenevre hid in nearby buildings and walls with his guild members.

Let’s take a look. What a guild of crazy people.

After a while, someone walked over from there and opened the guild door.

A pretty blonde woman carrying a shopping cart full of ingredients.

It looks like he’s the office manager or a servant of the guild, so I’ll skip it.

After waiting a while longer, another woman appeared.

She was a woman with long dark purple hair and a very voluptuous body with a cute face.

The woman who walked by, humming her song, opened the guild door and entered.

“Guild leader! I’m here!”

Guild leader? So, does that mean the blonde woman who entered earlier is the guild leader?

Then is that woman a servant?

No matter how I look at it, I don’t look like a guild member of a guild with a demon hunter.

Let’s wait some more.

After a while, I saw a woman with gray hair and a somewhat gloomy expression heading toward the guild from the other side.

At first, Tenevre paid no attention to the woman.

He was too small and short to be considered a guild member, so he was thought to be just a passerby.

However, the woman successfully shattered those expectations and entered the guild.

What is it, really.

After that, I kept waiting until the sun set, but no one entered the guild anymore.

There were only three women who entered the guild.

All three are unarmed and do not look like combatants.

Then where on earth is a demon hunter?

Perhaps, since he is a demon hunter, he may be going on a long business trip to take on large-scale requests such as demons or monsters.

You can find out if you grab them and look at them.

First, let’s have dinner somewhere and then go in when night falls.

“Let’s come back after eating.”

After Tenevre left the alley with the guild members, Lucene and Leonard came home from work late and entered the guild.