Episode 180
Rimer climbed to the top of the spire in the center of the city and looked down over the whole of Porban.
“It’s annoying, but it can’t be helped.”
According to the mayor, the disappearance situation was more serious than expected. It was not the time to let the members work and play in the gambling hall.
‘Oh, I’m sure. It’s a matter of whether it’s leukemia or not.’
Looking at what he was doing, it was similar to the White Blood Church of Oma. However, there are so many crazy people in the world that it was dangerous to decide on one side.
‘Whoever it is, you have to catch it before you run away.’
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Now that I’ve confirmed that Sieghart and Balkar have arrived, they won’t move like they used to. There’s a good chance they’ll run away, so we had to find them before that.
“Whew… .”
Limer closed her eyes. The blue wind circling around him untwisted like a skein and began to float all over Porban. It was an art that harmonized with the spirit of wind and Aurors.
The sensations that were limited to the surroundings rose like a clock and covered one of the city’s defenses to the end.
It was difficult to feel the details, and the aurors and mental power were severely consumed, but the extent of the location of the disturbance was able to be grasped.
‘Berren only wanders around fixed places. Marta is ignoring instructions and moving on her own, and Runan is sleeping right now? Isn’t it?’
He blinked his closed eyes as he was looking at what the Kwangpung members were doing one by one.
“Laon?”
Raon, whom he trusted the most, was in an unimaginable place.
“Why are you there!”
I work too!
* * *
As a tourist city, Porban had a variety of gambling places.
When asked to name the best gambling place, everyone will have a different opinion, but if they wanted to win the most money, everyone shouted with one mouth: ‘Go to Orc’s Desire’.
Orc’s desire is special in two ways: it is the oldest in Porban and has the highest magnification.
In other words, if you go there, you either come out as a poor man or you come out rich.
Of course, most of them hit the jackpot, and very few hit the jackpot, but today very few of them are happening.
“Wow!”
“I got it again! You won three more!”
“How do you not lose one?”
“It’s not always about winning. Whenever my opponent’s hand is high, I just dodge like a ghost!”
“I’m crazy. Luck is no joke.”
“You have to do it once or twice. That’s skill. skill! A real gambler!”
Genuine gamblers, who were only interested in their own game, flocked to the corner table, their faces were stained red, and they were cheering.
“I’m really envious. That’s the level of a jackpot that pops up once a month… .”
“Kyaa, I’ll buy a house even if I fall for it like this.”
“Money is money, so you pay for everything else. The plate is growing no joke. What little dude has such a big distribution?”
At the center of the poker table they paid attention to, was Raon, who was dressed as a tourist, in uniform, and chips piled up like a hill in front of him.
“I didn’t know he could gamble so well.”
Jatis swallowed dry saliva, counting the chips piled up in front of Raon.
“It’s nothing. Before, I went to the Cameloon underground casino and robbed it.”
“really?”
“yes. That sleazy princess. no! Princess Jaina was also robbed there, so she’s been angry ever since.”
As soon as Dorian told him to give it a go, he hastily slapped himself in the mouth.
“As I said, there is nothing our constant master cannot do. It’s like a ghost.”
“Wow… .”
Zatis didn’t even hear that Dorian had called Jaina a savage, and looked at Raon blankly. Unknowingly, admiration exploded at the fact that he had such a talent as well as his strength and wisdom.
However, contrary to the thoughts of Dorian and gamblers, Raon was not very talented at poker. There is only one reason why he keeps winning money. It was thanks to the demon king of mad anger over food.
– That old man’s full house. This plate is dead.
Lass, visible only to Raon, was playing in the air, reading the opponent’s hand at the gambling table, so even though he wanted to lose, he couldn’t lose.
‘It’s just a little bit different.’
Raon clicked his tongue briefly and threw the hand away.
“die.”
“Ugh!”
“Okay… .”
As soon as he said he was going to die, the old man sitting on the right and the blue-haired beauty sitting on the left let out a thin moan.
If you look at the reactions so far, these two and the dealer in front of them were all experts at the gambling hall, but even if the three of them worked together, they could not win, so their faces were as pale as a blank sheet.
– Be sure to remember Three of the most famous dishes here in a set of 5 ice cream balls.
‘of course.’
Leon nodded his head. It was so cheap that it was enough to bring out laughter as a price for beating the Demon King of Wrath.
‘I keep my promises.’
– Gee y’all! No matter what you said you did, you never got it right! You couldn’t eat whole pork when you made that sword!
‘It’s a natural disaster… .’
– It was a natural disaster that you could prevent! If you break your promise again this time, I will never grant you your request again.
‘Okay. I’ll keep it for sure.’
He tapped his shoulder as if to comfort Lars. It would be difficult if the readily available labor force disappeared.
“Okay then, let’s start the next game.”
Cold sweat dripped down the dealer’s forehead. Since the previous edition, the daily sales of the gambling house came and went, so he seemed to be dying.
– I will go.
As soon as the dealer threw out the cards and finished the exchange, Lars moved as if waiting.
– A girl is a full house, an old man is a plush.
‘This is the time to run.’
Raon looked at the card with a blank expression. Four cards of the same number. It was four cards.
“All-in.”
I shoved every hill-level chip on the table.
“I put it all back in!”
“Great… .”
“it’s crazy. You are crazy!”
“Did a rotiple come out?”
Gambling onlookers drooled in anticipation of how the plate would play out.
“Do, lord. Even stopping here… .”
“Not yet.”
Leon shook his head.
“We didn’t come here to gamble.”
“ah! right!”
Dorian raised his eyes. I think I was so immersed in poker until now that I thought I was here to gamble.
“Whoa, I’m going to catch my breath for a moment.”
“What on earth did you eat so that the distribution was so large? My heart is pounding and I can’t stand it.”
The dealer let out an exclamation, and the woman sitting next to her crossed her legs and smiled bitterly. attention-grabbing. That meant hitting the job.
“From the north.”
Raon pretended to be looking at the two of them, and sensed that he looked at the old man on the right. His hand gently swept down the card, and at the moment he heard an alien sound, he stretched out his arm.
“Stop moving. Are you going to change it?”
He grabbed the old man’s wrist and smiled coldly.
“What, what! Let go!”
“How long did you think you could write such a frivolous number? Do I look like Bingdari hot pants?”
“Hey, there’s evidence… Aww!”
As Raon twisted his wrist, cards of the same shape as those on the board poured out of the old man’s sleeve.
“The evidence is here.”
Five of the cards on the floor that were swapped a while ago are placed on top. Turning over, as Lars said, a flush came out.
“Flush is a good pack. But how about this?”
The old man flipped the swapping tile over. Five cards with the same pattern and consecutive numbers. It was a straight flush.
“Did you know?”
“That, that… .”
“You can’t know. You are the one who made the tile like this.”
When he gave the dealer a bloody glance, he flinched and stepped back.
“Straight flush! You turned a flush into a straight!”
“Is that bastard Tazza? I was sucked by him every time!”
“The dealer and Tazza are together? Fuck! Orc’s desires use Tazza!”
“It was all a scam!”
When the gamblers shouted evil, all games in the casino stopped, the tables turned over, and a commotion began.
– Destruction, riot, fury! Feel so good!
Lars giggled, saying that he had not seen the human form in a long time.
-Is this what you wanted?
‘no.’
Raon shook her head and sat quietly as if enjoying the commotion.
“Guest.”
I turned my head to the voice I heard from behind. A neat-looking young man with his hair neatly brushed was smiling.
“My name is Kent, the ruler who controls the desires of the orcs. I heard there was a problem with the game. I’m really sorry.”
He bowed his head politely, as if everything was wrong.
“Are you pretending not to know after doing everything?”
Raon snorted and waved his hand.
“Because it is. bring some money You know I have to pay you three times that chip, right?”
“of course. However, since the amount is an amount, it seems like it should be given from above. Could you please follow me for a moment?”
“Aren’t you going to be silly?”
“What would you do with so many eyes?”
“great.”
He nodded and followed the manager upstairs. Dorian and Zatis followed him blankly.
“Sorry for causing a fuss. Instead, I’ll give every guest here 50 silver chips!”
A staff member of the gambling house who came with the manager placed a silver chip on the table saying he would sprinkle chips.
Gamblers who had been rioting until a little while ago ran as if possessed and grabbed the chips.
Raon watched the scene for a moment and then entered the manager’s room. It was a large office, but there was not much furniture, and large men were attached to the wall like stone statues.
shudder!
As Dorian and Zartis entered the office, a large man standing behind them locked the door.
“Whew… .”
The manager turned his back. A little while ago, the gentle smile was gone, and the evil spirit glared at him with cold eyes.
“You bastard. where did you send it Is it the Valley of the Elves? Giant footprints! Or is it a newly opened cat’s jelly?”
“The names of the gambling houses are so childish. Cat jelly.”
Raon smirked as he recited the names of the gambling houses the manager had spoken to.
“Did you fool around knowing that this place is protected by the Thieves Guild? Do you want to go after both mice and birds? hem?”
As the manager beckoned, the giants who were standing like a folding screen moved. He clenched his fists as if threateningly and turned his shoulders.
“You don’t care about people out there?”
“I sprayed feed on those pigs. They’re gamblers, so they won’t care whether you survive as a corpse or not.”
“I’m so glad. They are trash without any problem.”
Raon smiled faintly.
“Crazy!”
“Anyway, does this mean you belong to the Thieves’ Guild? Then you’ve come to the right place.”
“It was your ancestral rites that you came to the right place! What are you doing! Kill those bastards!”
When the manager pointed his finger, the hunks kicked the ground and started running.
“If you don’t need words, it’s me.”
Raon reached out to Dorian.
“The stick. A little bit small.”
* * *
“So you mean there are a lot of missing people among you?”
“Yes! That’s right! Yes, it was quite a lot.”
The manager nodded his head coldly without even wiping the dripping twin nosebleeds. Beside him, bloody bodies were scattered like fallen leaves.
“What is the situation at the time of disappearance?”
Raon asked as he hit the ground with a club dipped in blood.
“Ugh, that’s… .”
The manager swallowed dry saliva as he saw the club, which had been lightly struck down, burrowed into the stone floor.
“Oh, honestly, I don’t know. Even if we are walking together on the street, they disappear really suddenly. You never know who, when, or how. but… .”
“but?”
“There have been some testimonies that whenever people around me disappear, I feel goosebumps.”
“I feel goosebumps… .”
Raon frowned. It didn’t even affect me, but if it gave me goosebumps, it was obvious that I had a bad energy like Magi, Yogi, or Blood.
“It’s not just tourists and passers-by that disappear. In many cases, an entire family disappeared overnight. It’s so natural… .”
“Natural?”
“Yes. There have been a few instances where people just disappeared, with no signs of ripped out doors or windows, no signs of rebellion.”
The manager shook his shoulders, whether it was because he was beaten or because he was afraid of disappearing.
“I didn’t say that at City Hall.”
“Would the people who only reveal the money be interested in their disappearance? No matter how many times we talked, he didn’t listen.”
He murmured that even if he posted a report, it would be cut off before reaching the mayor. Apparently, there was someone involved in human trafficking at City Hall.
‘Otherwise, the disappearance would not have spread on this scale.”
I requested support from Sieghard only after three months of this disappearance, so the response is rather slow. It seems that someone at City Hall kept interfering in the middle.
In a way, it’s normal. Because there was no place other than the city hall to get information and hide it.
“Where is the Thieves Guild?”
“In the west of the city, there is a dharma called green frost.”
“Treat?”
This is a tea house that sells traditional sweets and tea. It was a really out of place with the Thieves Guild.
“What is your password?”
“that… .”
The manager hesitated and spoke up.
“You can ask for the red tea between the blue tea and the red tea.”
“That means seeing blood. It’s not quite right yet.”
“Hey! It really is! That’s the password.”
Raon grabbed the club and tried to stand up, but the manager shook his hand violently and hit his head.
“Well, to be honest, you wouldn’t even need a password. We will find out as soon as we go.”
“Hmm… .”
That’s right. Due to the nature of the Thieves Guild, which has excellent intelligence, he will either attack first or bow his head when he realizes that he has ruined the gambling house in many ways.
“i get it.”
Raon wiped the blood off the club and returned it to Dorian.
“Oh, blood again!”
Dorian frowned, wiped the remaining blood and put it in his stomach pocket.
“Wow… .”
Jartis sighed, wondering if he still couldn’t get used to it.
“Go, are you going?”
“Go. Get what you get before that.”
Raon lifted his four fingers together.
“Give me the gold coins. Three times the chip.”
“Ah oh… .”
The manager’s expression, who had a glimmer of hope, turned pale.
* * *
Raon took Dorian and Zatis to the gambling house and headed west to the Thieves’ Guild.
“Hey, you were trying to find the Thieves Guild.”
Zatis came over, scratching the ball.
“Because those at the bottom know better than those at the top.”
Leon nodded his head. Disappearance cases happen more often to the common people, and even to the lower classes living in these back alleys, than the nobles, who tend to have separate escorts.
The Thieves Guild may know information that the city hall does not know.
“Will the Thieves Guild accept a quest?”
Dorian pointed to the orc’s desires and gave a trembling expression.
“I paid the gold coins too, and the manager and the guard were made of porridge, but maybe it’s coming from the sword… .”
“If you don’t want the Thieves Guild to be like that, you should get a quest. I haven’t cheated on anything.”
There’s nothing wrong with this thing. Even in gambling, the one who used the trick and the one who attacked first was over there.
– You have no conscience! Didn’t the main king move?
‘You can only see me. It’s not a scam, it’s my ability.’
– Okay.
‘Don’t be angry, be patient. Ice cream is waiting for you.’
– Ouch! You are really… .
Raon shrugged his shoulders, pushing Lars with a frown.
“You are moving very cool this time.”
“Because it’s urgent.”
As expected, the culprit in this case is one of the Omas, the Leukemia Church. It’s hard in a normal way to stop those crazy people. Everything I could do had to be done quickly.
“The effort to reduce the number of missing persons! I was impressed!”
Jatis suddenly clasped her hands and her eyes lit up.
“Even if Raon gets insulted, he’s doing his best to solve this problem!”
“It’s not like that. I just want to catch him before he runs away… .”
“Until humility! You are truly a model for a knight! I will learn a lot in the future!”
He bowed his head so deeply that it was burdensome to say that he admired it.
“Uh, what… .”
It was time to think about what Raon would respond.
Aaah!
A woman’s tearing scream was heard from the alley next door. After figuring out the location with a sense of urgency, he went over the wall to the place where the sound was heard.
“Ouch!”
Three strong men in robes were putting a gagged girl in a cloth bag. The child shook his leg as if to save his life.
“Damn it!”
“Hurry up!”
Long-haired Jang Han, who was the closest among the three men, came running with a dagger.
wow!
After lightly dodging the stabbing dagger, Raon struck the long-haired man’s temple. Despite the slight blow, the man fainted and fell to the floor.
‘These guys are not.’
Rather than being an Auror, he’s the level of a local gangster who only trained his body a bit. There was no way these guys were behind this disappearance.
“Those children!”
“You kidnapped me in broad daylight like this!”
Dorian and Zartis, who followed later, ran and knocked the two men out of their minds.
“Are you okay?”
Dorian took the girl out of the cloth.
She was a girl who exuded a mysterious beauty in harmony with her red hair as bright as a blazing flame, her skin as white as frost, and her dazzling golden eyes.
“Oh, thank you.”
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Not only his looks, but his voice was also full of charm. It was a voice that touched my heart like the morning dew moistening the leaves.
“Oh, no.”
“Oh, no… .”
Dorian and Zatis shook their heads, as if possessed by something.
“You saved me in the first place.”
The girl approached this way and raised her head. The golden eyes drew attention.
“I, thank you very much.”
With each step the girl took, her face seemed to be enlarged, and her heart was pounding.
The feeling of wanting to hug and comfort the child immediately surged.
‘Is this my idea?’
absolutely not
He had been living as an assassin, and he could not have thought of doing it from above before grasping the situation.
wow.
When I thought it was strange, there was a slight vibration behind my back. soul sword. The magic sword, which only reacted when it felt the enemy, began to sob.
‘Leukemia!’
Raon instinctively operated the Ring of Fire.
oh oh oh
The six rings resonated and I woke up as if I was covered in cold water.
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Now I can see the girl’s face properly. It was still a beautiful thing, but it was a strange face with an unpleasant feeling as if it had been put together.
‘Whoa… .’
Without showing that he had come to his senses, he followed Dorian and Jatis, and his eyes were clouded.
He was more confident than anyone in managing his facial expressions without revealing his insides.
“I lived thanks to you.”
The eyes of the girl approaching right in front of her twinkle even more. A strange scent that he had never been able to smell before tickled his nostrils.
Chewy!
He tried to get his head dazed once more, but the spinning ring of fire erased the mess.
“Oh, no.”
Raon shook her head, pronouncing it slurred as if she had completely fallen for the girl’s fascination.
“I was so scared.”
The girl came one step closer. He reached out his hand as if asking for a hug from a distance he could reach.
“ah… .”
She spread her arms out as she intended. The vibration of the Requiem Sword became stronger. He opened his mouth wide, pretending not to know.
“thanks.”
As she bent down to give her a hug, the girl’s eyes sank to the point of chilling.
“For dying for me.”
She pierced her heart with her bright white hands.
Whoops!
It was so fast and powerful that it could not be avoided if not prepared, but the preparations were already over.
Just before her capital reached her left chest, she drew her Requiem Sword.
Chee hee!
As if waiting, a bright yellow yogi spewed fire from the red blade that was gently pulled out.
Aaah
The moment the white and yellow energy was twisted into a spiral, a forearm sprinkling white blood soared.
“Ahhh!”
The girl grabbed the severed arm and let out a scream like a monster. Thick blood, like white paint, was dripping from his forearm.
“It was also a leukemia.”
“Boo, you must have fallen into witchcraft, but how… .”
Raon smiled coldly as he wiped the dirty blood from the Requiem Sword.
“well.”