Ophelias Occupation Situation (7) (Start of the paid part)
“Uh-hey! hey profit!”
The wounded Taylor hung Willane on the floor. He succeeded in approaching Willaine in the end by cutting and avoiding Beopjin’s magic with a linked attack with Clevius.
But the Ophelis tube is already a mess. Precious and expensive furniture and artworks were rolling down the floor, and the exterior walls with holes like a detached house are no longer in their original shape.
Tyley, who had stunned Willane and tied it up, took a deep breath, wiping the raindrops off her face.
The outer wall of the corridor on the 4th floor of the Ophelis Building had completely collapsed, revealing the outside, and rain was pouring in. The party was soaking wet and constantly wiping their faces.
“Wow, is the situation over now? Let’s wait for the staff to come.”
“No, Taylor. Even pretending to be unnatural.”
At Elvira’s words, Taylor made a bewildered face.
“What? What are you talking about?”
“You too were feeling uncomfortable, Taylor. No one has access to this Ophelis guardhouse. The general manager of this mansion, the maid Zhang, is the only one who can run so many legal circles at will without any obstacles in authority.”
“then…?”
“It’s not over yet. There is a dark curtain that made this work for Satan.”
However, although we have reached the end of the corridor on the 4th floor of the Ophelis Building, there are no more visible hostile beings.
Then, all that is left is the stairs to the 5th floor.
“The real culprit for this four months must be on the 5th floor. If we don’t catch that person before he escapes, the meaning of our suffering will be lost. After all, I have to finish my work completely and get a store from the bachelor.”
Elvira raised her arms and walked towards the stairs leading to the fifth floor. Clevius was screaming what kind of case is being solved now, and Ayla was at a loss for what to do.
“Elvira, according to what you said… that person called the Darkness is…”
“Yes, it must be Ellis, the maid who manages the Ophelis Hall. what are you holding on to? He must be on the 5th floor, so we have to catch him quickly and threaten to lift all of these protections.”
At Elvira’s pampering, Taylor took a deep breath, but she came all the way here and said, “I’m sorry.”
Clearly, there seems to be a dark curtain in this Ophelis building occupation. If you think about it at this point, it is clear that the maid, Elise, is the culprit.
*
There are no unfounded favors in the world, and no unfounded trust.
It was such a natural proposition for Lortel, that he never doubted it until he was mature.
He lived in a world of Sangdo, where if he was careless, he would be hit in the back of the head.
It is a Lortel who has never experienced family love, brotherhood, close friendship, or comradeship. For her, a relationship of trust is always a rationally designed structure based on thorough grounds.
Therefore, a relationship that trusts each other unconditionally is a flower that blooms on a cliff.
It exists, but it cannot be reached… It is a treasure that exists only in the imagination.
I can’t reach it, so I’m not obsessed with it. Because the feeling of obsession is born out of a near-missing lack.
The only realistic way she can do is to increase her kin.
People who break their values with money, sell their beliefs, and eventually become proof that unconditional trust and favors do not exist. That is very important to her.
There is a sense of being misaligned and twisted, but I don’t think that’s a bad thing.
However, there are times when that steel wick shakes.
Life is at the brink of a cliff, but there is a man who returned the three gold coins in his hand.
Although he joined Lortel’s plan for 20 gold coins, he was not interested in the amount in the first place.
The man’s principles of action are infinitely far from words such as currency exchange rate, profitability, economy, and rationality.
In fact, there are many such people. They are people who act emotionally and risk their lives for loyalty and affection. They are foolish rather than cold-hearted.
But Ed Roth-Taylor doesn’t seem like that. I am not a person who is swayed by emotions like Ziggs, or is just kind like Yenica. It’s not that he’s swayed by money, and when Lortel sees such a human being, the desire to bring him down as a fellow arises.
The smell of his fellow countrymen constantly stinging his nose is definitely a conviction that springs up from the inside of Lortel. The certainty that this man would be the same.
– ‘no.’
– ‘You are responsible for your choices, Lortel.’
But it was cool.
Surprisingly, rather than being frustrated or angry, he was sullen.
What is the cause of that bitterness? In fact, Lortel was already aware of it.
As I said one day, there are too many light sources in this Sylvania Academy. It was very different from the world of Sangdo where she lived.
When you walk in a flower garden full of the scent of flowers, you mistakenly think that your body is also smelling fragrant. No matter how hard he tries to remind him that he is a rat that walks in the gutter, his heart is broken in the end.
When I see people like Taylor and Ayla, Ziggs and Elka, feelings that I had been ignoring in the end rise. Jealousy and obsession
From noblemtl.com
Maybe one day I will be able to build a trusting relationship that is not based on grounds or interests. In fact, the cliff where the flowers were blooming might not have been that high and steep.
Let’s not have such vain dreams. I am a villain who will live in Sangdo until the day I die and will slap others in the back of the head. I swore so much and I swore again.
Seeing Ed and Yenika in the end, the longing that had been buried in them completely swelled up.
“Do not move. Sooner or later, Elte-sama will arrive at the Ophelis Hall.”
The result is a rapier aimed at the neck.
Ellis, the maid of the Ophelis Hall, is an elder employee who has been in Sylvania all her life. However, her health due to hard work and chronic illness constantly tormented her, and she asked the bachelor’s office to adjust her work countless times… but there were hardly any human beings with the experience to represent her.
The management of the Ophelis Hall, where all kinds of distinguished guests are gathered, must always be stable and unshakable. Elise’s life is a continuous self-sacrifice for the goal of system stability.
On the day of the behind-the-scenes transaction, facing Elise, who confided such a secret…
It was a mistake that would never have been made in the original world of Sangdo. We hadtily judged that we might be able to understand each other’s pain, and we exchanged a lot of sympathy with Elise when we visited Ed’s camp or school.
“…I didn’t know you would have eyes like that. I thought you were a bit colder… Well, that’s not what I’m talking about.”
What kind of expression is he making now? Lortel himself didn’t know well, so he didn’t bother to understand.
“Lady Lortel said she would take revenge on Elte, the golden king. But I’m sorry. To me, the two don’t look very different. Where in the world can there be a person who has no inner feelings?”
Then close your eyes and add.
“Me too, though.”
– Bang!
At that moment, the door of the 5th floor entrance swung open.
“I found it, maid chief Elise!”
“I’m holding you hostage! Be careful, Taylor!”
Taking advantage of Elise’s startled gaze toward the entrance, Lortel quickly rolled her body and out of range.
“Lortel! it’s okay?!”
Elvira screamed and asked how Lortel was.
are you okay. look there Here’s the guy who made it all happen. We need to subdue that woman quickly.
It would be the best way to immediately put all the sins on Alice and run away. But Lortel did not open her mouth.
“Lo, Lortel! What’s wrong with your face?”
What the hell is your face like? Lortel looked alternately at her classmates, who said incomprehensible words, and Elise, who stood still without a change in expression.
So, after holding his breath for a while, Lortel started running down to the first floor.
The golden king Elte is coming.
Elte’s overthrow plan is nearing completion. If you just create a cause, you’re almost done.
However, if Lortel, the focal point of all plans, is captured, it is all a mess.
Although Lortel’s core is hardened, her body is infinitely fragile. A little torture can make you confide in all the facts.
Even if the sky falls, there is a hole through which it will rise.
Fortunately, Elte made it to Sylvania.
Not sure which of his henchmen was attached to Lortel, he came to handle the matter himself.
If that’s the case, there’s just a way to get in touch with the Elte Sanghoe head office right now. On the side of the main store, there are quite a few executives attached to Lortel.
The plan for massively manipulating the ledger, diverting the property, maximizing the damage and passing the responsibility to Elte… has already been quite concrete. However, the scale is so vast that if Elte himself is in the main store, he will only be found out.
Elte plans to unconditionally defeat Lortel with this visit. Once you are away, you have to see the end, so the die is rolled.
There is Jeonseogu secretly hidden in Lortel’s own room on the first floor. All you need to do is send Jeon Seo-gu and find a hiding place somewhere in Aken Island.
Lortel clenched her teeth as she frantically ran down the stairs.
A longing that seems to be reached, as if it could be reached, drives people crazy. If I hadn’t touched my fingertips in the first place, I wouldn’t have been obsessed with it.
I can’t help it. No matter how cold-blooded you are, lack of affection is a poison that slowly corrodes people.
There is only a difference in the incubation period, and it is only now that he realizes that the collapse is only a moment.
This and that are all to blame for this romantic Sylvania Academy. If it hadn’t come from the world of cold-blooded Sangdo, the incubation period would have been much longer.
I’ve been through a lot of being betrayed and being hit in the head. It’s only now that my mind is broken so that it doesn’t fit in well, so my behavior doesn’t match.
Nevertheless, Lortel had no choice but to run with his teeth clenched.
Anyway, I have to run now. If Elte arrives at the main lobby on the first floor first, the way back to the room will be blocked.
*
– Bang!!
As Yenika’s magic exploded on the wall, the sound of its collapse resounded once.
“…?”
collapsing wall. If you look inside, there is a Ziggs who is training alone even in such an urgent situation.
He was looking at me with a puzzled face as the wall suddenly collapsed.
“Well, what is it? Sir Ed? Now this is…”
“Your outside situation is like this, but you didn’t come out of your room, what are you doing…? Did you not hear me?”
“Well… I’m not trying to act hastily. You won’t die just because the building collapses anyway.”
As Ziggs is born strong, he doesn’t feel a crisis as a crisis. He thought that the faculty and staff would handle it well, so he was just doing his own thing.
In fact, some students still haven’t left the room. Even if the building collapses, if the specifications are enough to be able to protect themselves, there is no need to be outside in the rain.
“By the way, Ed-senpai. I didn’t know you’d break the walls of my room like that. Isn’t it too cold to sleep?”
“You’re saying that because you don’t know the situation outside. After all, this building has to be repaired from scratch.”
“Is the situation that serious?”
Ziggs released his push-up position and stood up gently.
Who in the world would think this guy is a wizard…?
“Yenica-senpai was there too. It’s my first time saying goodbye properly. In the case of the Glaskan incident… it was a bad relationship.”
“Yeah… that… I’m sorry.”
Yenika looked down at the floor with a hesitant expression on her face. The incident is like a rebellion for Yenika, but that doesn’t make Jigs a great person to openly pretend to be ignorant.
What happened is what happened.
“You don’t have to be so discouraged, Yenika. The punishment is already over.”
“That’s right. Thanks, Ed.”
Seeing them exchange roughly those words, Ziggs sighed deeply, realizing that he had said something useless.
“I’m glad that you seem to be doing well after that. You two seem to get along well.”
“yes?”
“I have to keep an eye out. Isn’t Ed sunbaenim particularly distant from first-year students? Well, there are a lot of friends who will try to match you right away if you look a little shallow… I think it’s a natural thing to do as a senior.”
Ziggs bent his body to and fro, sat down on the bed, and finished stretching his legs.
“Still, seeing how he treats Yenika sunbaenim comfortably, it feels refreshing to see a new side of him. Are you a lover?”
“no! no! no! Not like that!”
At those words, Yenica trembled and waved her arms, then glanced at my face as if she thought she had denied it too intensely…
“Eh, Ed. Did you feel bad?”
“no. are you okay. It’s just that Ziggs’ question is rude.”
“Huh, is that so? I am sorry.”
After he politely apologized, Jiggs was sitting on the bed, and only then did his expression change seriously.
“So, there must be a reason why you came to me while breaking down the walls.”
“Let me ask you one thing. Don’t pay off the debt later.”
“I am not the one who owes the debt in the first place.”
Ziggs said so and smiled. It was said that there were still debts to be paid off.
Let’s talk about how I helped build huts and other minor manual labor whenever I had spare time.
“That’s just because I wanted to help.”
After that, I put on my coat.
“Looking at the atmosphere, it doesn’t seem like an easy task.”
*
According to the original story, Elise should have cooperated with Lortel until the end to finish the occupation of the Ophelis Hall.
As for why she was communicating with Elte, there is no way for me to know right away.
That is not to say that there are no answers at all.
The battle for the sage’s seal continues after the occupation of Ophelis Hall.
A bachelor and Sanghoe who play a tug of war with the research record of Aspect Magic left by the great sage Sylvania. In the gap, Lortel’s plan to overthrow Elte blossoms.
While Elte stays in Sylvania for a long time, the forces to overthrow him begin to gather at the headquarters of the Elte Chamber of Commerce.
The timing has never been as good as now.
Elte failed to monopolize grain sales from a large farm in the northwestern part of the Empire, and signed an exclusive distribution contract for cotton textiles with the Kolet Company of Theron Kingdom beyond the ocean, but failed again because the price plummeted.
No matter how knowledgeable and callous a merchant may be, if he spends many years playing on the business front, he will surely fail and lose money.
And if you’re unlucky, that kind of happening can happen three or four times. This leads to a decline in his position within the company, endangering even the position of Elte himself, who was leading the company with strict meritocracy.
How long have you been planning for this? So far I don’t know too well.
However, at this point, Lortel’s plan to overthrow Elte will already be close to completion. We have now come to a situation where we only have to create a cause, but Lortel, the center of the plan, has been trampled on by its tail.
He is a rortel who is sure in everything he does and is always rational. At what point did she make a mistake?
– Boom!
1st floor main hall.
The group of mercenaries who had been hired by the commercial city of Oldek, centered on Elte, who wore dazzling clothes, was ten people.
It was too small for a group that Elte had driven. I was sure there. Elte never wants to call this a big event.
“Are you students? Hurry and evacuate.”
I was the only one who stopped Taylor, but this time there are two more waitresses. Senior Yenika Palerover, 2nd year, and Ziggs Eiffelstein, 1st grade. Although he is a student, he is a promising youngster with skills that he will not regret even against active duty.
Yenika stood behind me and glanced around, and Ziggs stood leaning against a nearby pole.
“Isn’t it… Elte Keheln-sama, the owner of the Elte Chamber?”
I called for Elte with a witty voice. The colossus, standing in the center of the mercenaries, nodded and told them to get out of the way once more.
“Unbelievable! It is an honor to meet you. The colossus Elte-nim who commands the continent. I don’t know why such a precious person came to Sylvania in such a remote area…”
Golden Daughter Lortel.
Golden King Elte.
From noblemtl.com
Maid Jean Ellis.
In the end, it is these three who control the flow of the story.
Lortel, who overthrows Elte and seeks revenge for her childhood, to vacate the seat of the Hoi-joo.
Elte tries to stop Lortel’s plan and succeed in purchasing the Sage’s Seal.
Elise is riding the rope between the two of them.
In the end, the root cause of the twist in the story is Alice’s sudden action. The cause is still unknown, but there is no need to run up to the 5th floor in order to subdue the maid anyway.
The rest of the story is going well, because Taylor and the others will overpower the maid. It has been confirmed that the specifications are sufficient, and the party members are also reassuring.
If that’s the case, the part I have to take over is the Elte side.
“…we are keeping no one inside this building. Because of the risk of collapse, for safety reasons, no one can let them through until the staff arrives.”
“Did you receive any special instructions from your college?”
“no. We make our own decisions and act accordingly. Isn’t this an emergency? We, Sylvania, have a clear store system in this area.”
That’s just a good excuse However, the intention will also be read by Elte.
“…If a noble person like Elte-sama came, there must be a reason… Why don’t you talk to the academics first and receive treatment worthy of your status?”
After talking that far, I shut my mouth.
Elte never wants to escalate this situation.
Even the fact that the dark side of this case is Lortel should not be revealed.
No matter how close they are, Lortel is a member of the Elte Company and is Elte’s own adopted daughter.
If it is revealed that there was even a little bit of influence from the Elte Company behind this case… The Elte Company cannot escape responsibility for the cost of the restoration of the destroyed Ophelis Hall.
It’s like trying to put the enemy into a trap, and then you’re going to use the dump again. If there is one point that maid chief Elise did not catch, it would be this part.
From Elte’s point of view, just sending Lortel to hell doesn’t mean that everything will be all right.
Lortel must be dealt with by Elte’s own, not the bachelor’s.
Even so, Ellis, Sheney/Kelly, Willaine, and me, who know the truth about this case, have to convince them to keep their mouths shut. There’s a long way to go.
“You are on Lortel’s side.”
Without even sharing a few words, he notices that I have some insight.
“I’ll give you double the gold that he promised me right now. Get out of the way.”
There are no emotional fights, no shy compromises. Because time is running out, it calls for the maximum of conditions that the opponent thinks cannot be rejected.
“thank you. But I don’t have the gold coin I promised to receive, so what’s the use of doubles on it?”
“haha.”
Elte laughed briefly.
“You have no eyes for people. Do you think you’ll be treated like a special person just because you’re loyal to that child? Have you ever been deceived by the beautiful appearance of the child?”
At that, Ziggs smiled and said, “Oh,” and Yenica chuckled, looking at me and Elte alternately, but Elte herself doesn’t seem to care at all.
“The child was born of fox blood. When he sees someone’s back, he stabs the sword straight away. I, who has been raising my father since I was little, knows it better than anyone. In the end, I didn’t know that the blade was going to point even on me, who fed and put me to sleep.”
“Is that so?”
“He is a person who betrays even his adoptive father. Rather than defending your loyalty to gold coins that you may or may not be able to receive, take the clear profit right in front of you. That is the natural and reasonable thing to do.”
After saying that, look me in the eye again. The reason the mercenaries don’t break through by giving orders right away is probably because they don’t want to grow their jobs.
“Or do you have any other reason to trust him so much?”
“Do I have to bring up such a grand reason?”
“Yeah, it doesn’t make sense.”
There is no emotion that can be said to be so fond of Lortel.
However, there is no way to talk about the flow of love affairs. So, in the end, it’s just a ‘just’ reason.
There is no reason, I just believe.
Elte would bite her tongue at such absurd words and actions, but there is only one circumstance on this side. I can’t even ask for your understanding.
I quietly lowered my voice and said to Yenika and Ziggs.
“I will come and see the situation. In the meantime, take your time.”
With Jigs nodding his head and Yenica with a somewhat anxious face behind him, I quickly slammed the door of the main lobby and went inside.
From now on, we will find Lortel and deliver the situation…
“…”
There was no need to run around the Ophelis Hall to …
He was already looking at me from the opposite corner of the door, with his pupils dilated. Needless to say, it is the appearance of confirming all the outside situations that Elte was attacking in the lobby.
“…you couldn’t go out?”
“that….”
There is no foxy smile as usual. Lortel was about to say something, but her voice was not coming out, so she just nodded with difficulty.
The image that was full of leisure in any crisis situation is also gone. Perhaps he was taken aback by the fact that I had turned into a bloodbath to stop Taylor.
“It’s nice to have less time to explain the situation. Let’s go back to the back door and go out. Do you have the energy to run?”
The red rainwater mixed with blood runs down the back of the hand and tickles continuously. I quickly shook off my hands, and roughly swept up the bangs that had been scattered in the rain.
“Don’t fall behind and follow along.”
It seems to be related to the main character of the scenario more than necessary, but anyway, it’s a sudden situation right now. After breaking the flow of the story back to normal, it’s time to put the distance again.
If you’ve been involved up to here in the first place, you can’t go back.
I nodded and took Lortel to speed up my steps.