(EP.474)The Queen of the Country #4
taken from noblemt l
Gaiden – Queen of Wonderland #4
First, it starts with an investigation.
Having received a high-class bulletin board commission for dinner or renting a room, we decided to wander around the city of Marmar at night instead of sleeping.
Following Elgar’s suggestion, “Isn’t it better to ask the people on the street to catch the thief?” He also talked with people in pubs and back alleys.
Then I got some hints from a man who was famous for information.
“The flower of the night. A famous thief. No one knows its true identity. I don’t even know if I’m female or male, old or young. I don’t even know if it’s one or several.
“Okay, is there anything else I can know?”
“Another nickname is the Queen of the Night.”
At those words, Mirna narrowed her eyes.
“You said you didn’t know if it was a woman or a man. If it’s the queen of the night, you mean there’s a chance it’s a woman?”
“I don’t know either. Everyone calls me that, so that’s what I call myself.”
That’s right. Are you the queen of the night?
After hearing more rumors, I was able to collect a lot of stories that might not be of much help, such as being the de facto ruler who rules the back world, and that the guards are lukewarm about capture because of their close connection with the city council.
It was time for me to take a step back with regret. Elgar grabbed my arm and whispered in a small voice in my ear.
“According to my magical intuition, I think the informant hid some stories. I wonder if I’ll let you know if I pay more. Do you have any money hidden?”
I thought there was a possibility, so I looked in my pocket, but found nothing but dust.
“As Elgar-sama knows, there is none.”
Elgar clicks his tongue.
“Is the time for me to use magic? The magic of truth. It’s a magic that makes anyone who gets hit with this fist reveal what they’ve been hiding.”
Elgar clenched her fists. True magic, there are all sorts of weird magic. Of course, Elgar never used magic.
If we beat the intelligence officer, we too could be beaten up and go to jail by the rice cakes lurking nearby.
Then Mirna came out.
“Looks like it’s my turn. I have a high level of attractiveness. People with high attractiveness are more likely to hear hidden conversations or succeed in discussions.”
Mirna’s job, a dancer, had such a perk. That’s cool. Mirna went to the informant after coughing muh-huh.
“… … .”
“… … .”
Mirna makes eye contact with Information Sang. Let’s just stare at each other for a few seconds. The informant looked around and said to me.
“What did this lady eat wrong? Why are you doing this?”
Soon Mirna came back to us and said,
“… It seems that I failed to seduce you with my attractiveness level. It is very humiliating.”
Elgar was rather angry at Mirna, who clicked her tongue.
“Are you stupid? I should have talked or danced in front of it. Who goes beyond just staring at you like that?”
“Are you asking me to seduce an outsider so blatantly? That’s shameful! Draco’s virtuous wives are wary of even conversing with unmarried men!”
I was quite moved by Mirna’s chastity concept.
But Elgar wiped her face and said, “We’re playing a board game right now. What’s the use of a dancer who can’t be charmed?” he grumbled.
Those words were correct. Nevertheless, Mirna did not seem to have any intention of seducing other men. It wouldn’t make much sense to increase the attractiveness.
As a result, Elgar had to pull something shiny out of her pocket and place it in the informant’s hand. It’s about the size of a little fingernail… .
“This is gold dust! Heh heh.”
A man holding a placer and smiling contentedly.
“For me, this sparkle is better than the smile of any other beauty.”
He put gold dust in his pocket and spoke like an unlocked padlock.
“I don’t know who the flower of the night is or what kind of person it is. Little is known about what he will steal.”
* * *
“So, it’s midnight today. You mean the thieves will steal the nymphs from the Marmar Museum?”
At Elgar’s question, I opened the map and nodded.
An ancient mural painting of nymphs on display in a museum in the city of Marmar. That the king thief will be hunting for it tonight is a rumor spread secretly among the city guards.
I don’t know if it will really show up, but it was information that Elgar had bought with gold that could afford him a few days of plentiful meals and a place to sleep. Hopefully it’s real, we headed to the museum.
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“It’s locked tight. I don’t think it’s opening time.”
Of course, close to midnight, the museum’s doors are strictly closed. On the other hand, there were a lot of guards around and they were walking around.
– Gurru.
The growling of hounds with leash in the guard’s hand was quite a ferocious atmosphere.
Looking at the strict and solemn atmosphere, it seems certain that something is going to happen here today.
Mirna asks.
“How do I get in? Wouldn’t it be better to talk to the person in charge and go inside the museum?”
“I do.”
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No more money to poke at the guards. So we devised a trick and opted to sneak into the museum through what seemed to be relatively low security.
However, the security outside the museum was very thorough, so there were no gaps. Do thieves really get into this place?
It was when I was spinning around like that.
“You guys, you have been sneaking around the museum ever since. What the hell are you guys doing?”
Some guards approached us. Soon we were taken to something like their barracks, and more and more guards came in, probably because of the commotion along the way.
“You’re a magician and a dancer. It’s a strange combination. Are you a bunch of thieves who came to steal the nymphs tonight?”
I said without losing to the threat of hitting the table with a thud.
“We are here to catch the thief.”
“Be quiet, half-elf! you are the best! A half-elf knight, I’ve never heard of it!”
“… … .”
I guess I’ll look suspicious. I have nothing to say because the opposing position is understandable. It was a time when we had been arguing for a long time.
“What the hell are you doing? Why are you so noisy?”
Someone entered the tent. She was a woman with impressive purple hair and dressed like an explorer in khaki hot pants. It looks like something out of a pyramid exploration movie.
“There you are, Chief. These guys… .”
The moment when the guards bowed their heads towards the newly appeared woman and talked. As soon as she saw the woman called the enema, Elgar, who was sitting still, ran wildly.
“done! lived! stellar! it’s us! we!”
“we? no, what It’s Miss Elgar and Miss Mirna, right? There is Tae-oh too! How did this happen? What are you all doing?”
Stella’s eyes widened as if startled when she saw us. Elgar and Mirna had the same expression on their faces when they saw me. It was a familiar reaction.
Mirna shouts.
“Get rid of this right now!”
Paz.
Does such a thing as dramatic fate exist? We were able to meet Stella in an unexpected place and take advantage of our own.
Under the guards’ tent, Stella and the stories that had been happening in the past simply came and went, and after hearing all the stories, Stella gave out a long nose, “Ugh-.”, then nodded and said,
“I am an archaeologist. I thought it was a strange dream. I didn’t know everyone was going through something like that. I was working here as a museum director. You can get hints by reading old letters or something.”
“We—.”
─Nymph Biggie, gossip!
fine fine.
We told Stella that we had come to catch a thief who was targeting the museum, and that we needed money.
Then Stella claps her hands.
“Okay! Today a thief is coming to steal the nymphs. It is said that several exhibits have already been stolen from this museum. With you, I can catch you!”
With that feeling, we were able to join the guards guarding the museum.
profit.
When I opened the tightly closed door of the museum and went inside, the slabs and stone masks shining near the torch shone quite eeriely.
“That’s a nymph too.”
Where Stella’s fingertips pointed, there was a mural that looked like it had been painted a long time ago. It is a picture of two nymphs standing haphazardly. It looks like a picture Leonoi drew as a joke.
“It is a picture of two nymphs competing in an ancient martial art. It is a mural of great value as a historical document.”
“Ugh.”
Mirna was amazed when I frowned.
“It’s a really cool picture.”
what about that?
“I am not versed in art, but I can see that it is a very expensive painting. A thief is worth rice to steal.”
Even Elgar nodded in affirmation. The people of this world and my artistic sense are something… There seems to be a difference, but let’s just move on.
Anyway, this was the time when we were having a conversation.
Slurrr, Hwareuk.
A wind blew from somewhere and the burning torches began to go out one by one. Stella raises her head at him.
“Did I tell you to close all the windows? Where the hell did the wind come from?”
When Stella was in doubt, Elgar lowered her stance and pointed the broom in all directions.
It may be that he sensed something as a wizard. Me and Mirna lowered their posture, leaning their backs against each other, and looking in all directions.
Swish, swish-and a fire that goes out.
“Ugh!”
At the same time, the nearby guards make a strange noise and disappear as if being quickly dragged to somewhere. In the midst of the confusion, someone shouted.
-It is the flower of the night! A thief has appeared!
– Sound the alarm! Release the dogs!
Wee-aeeng- Between the loud sound of the trumpet and the people’s voices, I could find a shadow moving through the darkness.
“It’s over there!”
It was when I pointed my hand to a corner of the museum. Something popped out of the shadows and ran straight towards us. It was very fast.
You have to catch it, but it’s too fast to chase you. The torch is off, and the outfit is all black, so I can’t see anything!
“み!”
Thanks to this, we are only struggling with our arms in the air. When you think you can’t stop like this.
That very fast step is Kaching-! stops with a sound.
Elgar said excitedly.
“How are you? My trapping magic, bear trap! I bought it with a lot of money, that’s it!”
Bear traps aren’t magic, they’re tools… , that was not the point now. It must be important that the man in the black mask is wheezing as his ankle is caught in a bear trap.
It was a moment when I thought I caught it fresher than I thought. The thief took something like a strange tool from his waist and began to unscrew the screw of the bear trap.
Mirna shouted at the sight.
“You have to subdue it first! I’m trying to run away!”
We rushed in and beat up the thief.
─Nymph Biggie, beat everyone together!
Tuk-dak, puck, pak-!
“You stole my coin purse!? How hard I’ve been through because of you… ! This is the portion of the lobster! This is beef stew!”
“… Come on, wait. you-.”
Even the thief, who seemed a little resisted at first, was hit in the head by Elgar’s broom and then drooped and twitched and convulsed.
“… ꍱ.”
Seeing that, I spread my arms and shouted.
“We caught the thief… !”
Then, all the guards who were watching the scene raised their hands and sent out loud cheers and applause.
-You are our heroes!
-I believed it!
-Long live the half-fairy knight!
Earlier, I heard that the half-elf knight was suspicious. How can a person change their attitude so easily?
Of course it feels good.
Against the background of the applause, we moved our hands and tied the thief with a rope.
If you hand this guy over to Mayor Marmar, you’ll get gold coins as a reward. I’m excited to think about matching equipment with it.
That was then.
“Would you like to see what this guy is doing before handing it over to the guards?”
Elgar reached out towards the thief’s mask. When he finally pulled the black mask off, his flowing black hair, bloody lips, and his white face were quite familiar.
Everyone paused for a moment and remained silent for a few seconds.
The first to speak was the astonished Elgar.
“Hey, are you Ira? what is this? Was the identity of the thief Aira? What the hell is this!?”
Elgar couldn’t believe it at all. Maybe it was the same for me, Mirna, and Stella as well.
It was Aira that we pounded so hard! The nickname, Flower of the Night, was a little homage to Aira, who was called the Flower of Evil!
“you… .”
The Great Thief Ira seemed to be trying to say something, but she lost her mind. Mirna, who was watching this, poked Elgar’s side with her hand.
“It was too much to hit the head with a broom like that!”
“You stepped on it too! It’s for the seafood!”
“… I didn’t hit Archaeologists are not combat professionals.”
It was at that moment when the young girls went back and forth blaming each other.
D-ring, ding-, and a strange sound like a guitar playing from somewhere began to be heard. It was music that seemed to sound directly in my head, rather than someone playing nearby.
“Can you all hear this?”
It was when I asked everyone. A letter appeared in front of my eyes.
『Legend of the Fairy: In Search of the Emperor’s Treasure.』
“What’s this. Can you see me?”
“I see it too.”
“that’s interesting.”
The girls did not seem to understand the situation, but as an entertainment officer, I was able to grasp the situation quickly.
With all the characters in the story gathered in one place, the real game has finally begun.
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No.
After a lot of thought, it seems like no one has gathered… .
Dammit they heard the nickname Queen & Flower of the Night and they still haven’t thought that Aira may became a thief!?