33. Spying (1)
“I want to be safe now that I have come this far.”
A senior disciple said.
He had been in charge of the senior disciple since Joseph, so in a sudden situation, he showed more age than others.
For example, in the current situation.
“here····. A secret safe house?”
“Yes, Lord . . . This place was built by Joseph, and you will be safe here.”
Oliver looked around.
This building, in the middle of an ordinary family house, seemed to be getting along well, as it had been regularly maintained.
“This is a place prepared by the owner in case of an unexpected attack or a paladin. No one knows except us.”
Oliver nodded and said yes, then asked Marie and Peter if everyone had followed suit.
Marie answered.
“One, two, three····. yes! Everyone has followed here.”
“All of this has followed.”
After hearing Marie and Peter’s report, they each got a room, unpacked, and ordered them to rest.
To be honest, it was my first time in an emergency like this, so I didn’t really know what to do.
At best, there was nothing he could do other than pack up as quickly as possible according to the pharmacist’s advice and prepare according to the advice of his senior disciple.
What the hell is a firefly?
“It’s a paladin.”
“Yes?”
“It’s a paladin. A knight of God made by the Parterans.”
Oliver tilted his head.
Patherism, God . . . I’ve heard of it.
It’s something the overseers would say from time to time, every time you see children like Oliver, you’re going to hell without God’s blessing.
He knew the situation was quite urgent, but Oliver was curious nonetheless.
“What is Paterism, what is a paladin, and what is a god? Specifically?”
Embarrassment bloomed on the senior disciple’s face. It was like seeing a child asking what the sun was and what the water was.
“uh····. that is····. So····.”
He doesn’t even know how to properly explain it.
Oliver, who understood the situation, said it was okay and ordered him to rest.
“master?”
When the senior apprentice was over and Oliver was about to take a break, Marie quietly approached.
“Yes? number of animals. What’s going on?”
“Are you okay with this?”
“What?”
“That, that…. As the pharmacist said, did you not have enough money and books to run away in a hurry?”
That was true. [The firefly has arrived. As soon as the message arrived, saying, “Get away everyone quickly,” Oliver ordered that he pack a minimum of luggage and run away.
I didn’t know what the details were, but the pharmacist didn’t just let me go, so I relied on my judgment and sense.
The first thing that came to mind was emotions. Of course, the money I’ve earned lately thanks to that. I didn’t even get the book right.
Well, I read almost all the books, and I had enough money for this, but Marie didn’t seem to be.
“If you leave it like this, you will definitely lose your money and books, so why not go and get it now…? The manufacturing room was also destroyed, so it would be difficult for a while…”
At Marie’s suggestion, Oliver shook his head.
“Well···. no. Money is important, but you only have one life, right?”
“Yes, I will go.”
Oliver tilted his head.
“Are you Marie? Why?”
“·····. I want to help the owner.”
“Yes?”
“To the master…. I want to help. Obviously, if it goes like this, the damage will be huge. It costs a lot of money to set up a manufacturing room. If it continues like this, will it interfere with your master’s progress?”
“·········?”
Oliver looked at Marie, unable to understand what he meant.
action? what?
Oliver remembered what he had done.
After he had murdered Joseph, he came back and somehow took over as the owner for a while, reading books, making pilgarets, and teaching him black magic.
With luck, the job is easy.
Oliver only did his job to read the book. There was no action or meaning here.
I don’t know what Marie was thinking of saying this, but Oliver realized that there was quite a difference between his and Marie’s thoughts.
Perhaps it has something to do with the feelings of obsession and adoration she exudes now?
“Well·····. it’s okay.”
“Ha, but.”
“It’s really okay. it’ll work out somehow Would you rather go with someone else and check where the secret passage is? Just in case you don’t know.”
At Oliver’s words, Marie answered with her head bowed.
“Oh, I see.”
“Yes, thank you.”
After Marie left, Oliver thought to himself. To be honest, Marie’s words weren’t so wrong.
I got enough money, but by Oliver standards.
Even Oliver knew that it was a small amount compared to the whole.
It was also painful to lose books there. I used to read almost all of it, but that didn’t mean the book disappeared.
Aren’t books the knowledge that can be stored forever?
It was profane.
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Nevertheless, Oliver decided not to care.I don’t know what kind of existence the firefly (Paladin) is, but in the words of the people around me, the notes from the pharmacist, and Joseph’s records, it seemed like a kind of natural enemy that was very different from the warlock.
Oliver was just waiting for the predator to disappear.
················································································. However, at the same time, I was curious. What kind of existence makes a warlock a natural enemy?
Do you not know? Could it be a starting point to tell you about the beautiful light that Oliver saw?
Then two conflicting things collided inside Oliver.
One was the survival desire to remain dead in order to survive,
The other was curiosity to satisfy the desire for knowledge.
Both have a big influence on Oliver.
When the two impulses collide, a silent war broke out inside Oliver, when someone approached him.
“master···?”
“. What is it?”
A little war broke out in his head, and Oliver answered later than usual.
Perhaps he misunderstood that he was upset, the disciple who spoke to him was even more frightened.
“Oh, I’m sorry. But, I think I really have to tell you.”
“no. Please feel free to speak. What?”
“···. Dominique, the owner of the Dominique family, has arrived.”
***
I thought it was a nonsensical statement, but it was true.
Dominique, the owner of the Dominic family, who plays a major role in Wineham along with Joseph and Anthony, was surprisingly in the basement of the safe house Joseph had prepared.
He was confronting Marie and the others in the basement with only four of his disciples.
It didn’t look like they were fighting a fight based on their mood or emotional state.
In fact, when Oliver went down, he greeted me warmly.
“Hey, you’re not dead, you’re alive. okay.”
“Yes, how are you?”
Oliver said as if he had met a neighbor.
Marie and the rest, who were nervous, quickly found stability at Oliver’s appearance, who beckoned them to release their guard.
“I think you came here with something to say… Is that correct?”
“Oh, I knew it.”
“Before that, can I ask you a question?”
“yes?”
“May I ask how you found this place?”
At Oliver’s question, Dominique gave an absurd look.
“Are you curious about that in this situation?”
“Well····. Yes.”
“·····. hahaha what’s good It’s not that great. Originally, safe houses had one basement or one tunnel. If you leave, you can run away. As a result, there are many cases where they are connected to each other. So we were just chasing sewers and tunnels in reverse.”
“Oh, I see. Did you use black magic?”
“·····. okay. ‘Sensive Nose’. Our specialty is disease-based black magic. It dramatically improves the sense of smell. So that we can chase people away from the smelly sewers.”
Oliver put that information into his head.
Although it has been neglected to explore black magic due to relatively recent interest, it cannot be denied that black magic is also interesting.
“Awesome.”
Perhaps not pleased with Oliver’s pure admiration, Dominique made an impression.
The rough impression became even more rough, but nevertheless, he didn’t get as angry as before.
Instead, his emotions wriggled more cunningly and secretly than before.
“Can I tell you about my business now?”
“ah! of course. Feel free to speak.”
Dominique looked at Oliver for a moment before opening his mouth.
“I don’t know if you know, but Anthony was hit.”
“If it’s Anthony, what about the Anthony Family?”
“Okay, is there anything else besides that Anthony in this situation? The paladin or something went straight to that place, so I couldn’t avoid it. I’m pretty sure I’ve heard of the disciples who ran away.”
“Well·····. okay.”
Oliver, who was not particularly impressed, responded this way.
Dominique’s emotions flashed with anger as if he didn’t like it.
“You react as if it were someone else’s business! After Anthony, it’s us.”
“Isn’t it okay to hide well?”
“no. Most paladins are tenacious. After all, God is the hunting dog of a nobleman, so what do I need to say?”
“Oh, I see····. Do you know anything about the Paladin?”
“What?”
“Can you teach me something you know? I know very little.”
bang—!
Dominique slammed the wall with his eyes wide open to the point of bloodstaining.
It was so strong that a small incontinence formed on the wall, and the building shook slightly, and dust accumulated on the ceiling crumbled.
“Are you kidding me now?”
“ah····. sorry. I’m really curious.”
At Oliver’s answer, Dominique glared at him even more with a frown.
“········.”
“········.”
After a moment of silence, Dominique spoke again.
“Anyway, the paladins are all venomous bastards, so they won’t leave easily. I even got Anthony. So you never know when this shit might end.”
“then?”
“Let’s hit first.”
“But the pharmacist tells you to hide because he will take care of it-”
“-Are we the old man’s minions?! In the first place, we are human beings who cannot be called pharmacists or pharmacists.”
Half right, half wrong.
It was true that the pharmacist made a lot of money thanks to the Warlock, but at the same time, the Warlock was able to obtain the ingredients without any difficulty and easily convert the product into cash.
In addition to that, he also took care of the minor cleaning of the guitar.
But since it wasn’t a question to be questioned, Oliver asked the question without knowing it.
“then···. Are you going to fight?”
“okay! Why should we be afraid of such an asshole in the first place?!”
“But the warlock and the compatibility are the worst…”
“Still, if we work together, we can win. All the disciples from Anthony’s side came to me, so the actual power is the same. If you join the Oliver family… what?”
Dominique asked, looking at Oliver quietly raising his hand.
Oliver answered calmly.
“Oh, I have a few things to tell you. First of all, our organization is not the Oliver family, but the Joseph family.”
“·····. What?”
“I didn’t change my name. First of all, it is an organization established by the master, and I have only been in charge of it for a while.”
“What kind of dog…”
“And secondly, I have no intention of fighting.”
“What else is that…!”
“You are a dangerous enemy, do you really need to fight?”
“Is your ear canal blocked?! You said you’d chase us to the end?!”
“Then, can’t we just run away again? Don’t risk-“
“-Cowardly bastard!”
Dominique said so and spat in Oliver’s face.
Oliver didn’t show the slightest bit of movement, even though he had been stabbed in the face.
At best, how much saliva?
“What····. If this is a coward, then I guess I am a coward. In any case, I don’t know why I’d be in danger.”
Dominique fixed his posture. He was ready to jump right in.
“Then what? While we fight and defeat the paladin, are you guys going to watch a good game and eat some rice cakes?”
“No, I don’t mean to, but I’m grateful…. If so, I will repay you in another way-”
“-Kill this motherfucker right now…!”
Dominic, who was approaching him unable to contain his anger, stopped. It was the shadow tentacles that grabbed him by the ankles.
“ah···. I’m not sure, but are you going to fight me now?”
Oliver said politely, showing his palms as if calming the other person.
His demeanor was extremely polite, but the shadow tentacles around Dominic’s ankles were as strong as a thousand-year-old old tree.
All of a sudden, in line with the attitude of the masters, each disciple took a fighting stance, but the tension grew.
Oliver asked again.
“Can you please understand?”
“. Everything goes back.”
“Yes?”
“Everything goes back! I have to fight the paladin soon, but I don’t have time to play with these cowards.”
At those words, the Dominic family members reluctantly loosened their guard, and the Joseph family members also relaxed their posture.
Oliver freed the shadow tentacles holding Dominique’s ankles.
“·······. Once the paladin side is resolved, it’s your turn next. Look forward to it.”
“Thank you for your understanding. I will greet you in a different way.”
Dominique looked at Oliver as he greeted him with a disgusted expression, then returned through the secret passage he had come from.
The untimely visit was over, and all the disciples in the basement were breathing hard.
“It’s all good. I knew something else was going to happen.”
“I know····.”
“I’m glad I didn’t have any problems.”
“Prepare to move again.”
A voice that intervenes softly. It was Oliver’s voice.
“Yes?”
“I feel bad. It might be dangerous to stay here, so pack your bags again and get ready to run.”
“········.”
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No one said anything He just looked at Oliver with a blank expression on his face. Then Marie first came to her senses and opened her mouth.“What are you all doing?! The master told me to move! Doesn’t everyone take their ass off?!”
Then everyone moved.
Peter came over and asked.
“Then, where…?”
“I do not know? Are there any other safe houses?”
The senior disciple nodded at Oliver’s question.
“Yes, there are two or three more. It’s out of control and far from here.”
“It’s good. Please take some people there.”
“Yes?”
“Oh, I have somewhere else to go.”
“Where?”
Marie interjected with surprised eyes.
“I’m going to follow the Dominique family.”
“Yes?”
“They say they’re going to fight with the genitals, but I want to see what kind of people they are.”
Marie made an awkward expression. But for Oliver, this was a revolutionary idea.
Observing the paladin who is secretly hiding and fighting the Dominic family.
It was the best compromise that minimized the risk and satisfies curiosity.
However, Marie didn’t seem to think so for some reason.
“Ha, but it’s too risky.”
“it’s okay. ‘Cause I’m sure I can breathe well Everyone, take shelter in a safe place.”
Marie’s emotions quickly fluctuated. Confusion, fear, worry, etc. Negative emotions.
It was on the same level as a person fighting a battle or a person on the verge of death. why?
“I will only bring a few test tubes, so you can take the rest with you. Where is the examiner…”
– q.
Something grabbed Oliver’s hem. it was marie
“mind····. lee?”
“Then we will follow. at least me It is too dangerous to be alone.”
Oliver looked at the hem Marie was holding.
Surprisingly, her emotions shone more intensely than ever before, and they were transmitted through her fingertips to Oliver’s body.
interesting reaction.
I don’t know why, but I wanted to check it out if I had the time.
But now there was something more important.
“it’s okay. number of animals.”
“That, but…”
“I feel more comfortable being alone. I have to move quickly, and I need to be secretive.”
After that, Marie put her hand away.
“·····. He, then, me, are you saying that we are getting in the way?”
Marie’s emotions fluctuate and fluctuate like mud. More negative emotions shone than before.
Disappointment, disappointment, despair, fear, self-hatred.
A muddy feeling of unknown origin swelled up.
Oliver looked into Marie’s eyes and said.
“What·····. I can still see it… Everyone, please evacuate carefully.”
So Oliver left.