find what i need (1)
the next morning.
The baron opened the door to the office and found papers with something written on them in his hand.
“Your Highness, I brought what you said here.”
“hmm.”
I nodded and accepted what the baron had given me. Indeed, the information I was looking for was correct.
But there was nothing to do but read and sleep. The papers, once quickly scanned, were soon thrown indifferently on the desk, and I, too, only responded in a calm voice.
“Where is he?”
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“… … guy? Oh, you mean George?”
In an instant, a deep gorge formed between the baron’s brows. It just seemed like a habit that comes out when thinking or thinking about something.
After a while, the baron smiled and said as if he had remembered.
“I heard that you got permission to go out around dawn and left the castle. It seems that they are moving to gather information as ordered by Your Highness.”
“… … Right.”
I laughed and pulled the corners of my mouth at the unexpected answer.
Knowing his personality, I naturally thought he would be late, but unexpectedly, he showed faithfulness to the order.
Well, it wasn’t that I couldn’t guess why.
‘Are you saying you’re going to continue acting until you find out my true intentions?’
Surprisingly, George hasn’t talked about his family since that day.
As for the cure he promised to make for his birth mother. And about the families you choose to bring with you.
As if saying that he would just be loyal is not a lie, he didn’t even say a word.
Of course, that is also an obvious story.
You can get out of here anytime you want.
This was no different from my intention to run away if I didn’t like it, even though I would be arrested and obey my will right now.
But I didn’t care.
No, I knew I wouldn’t be able to do that.
For him, the existence of his family was everything in his life that made him risk becoming a criminal despite his young age.
George Hegmes.
The one who knew the truth better than the guy himself was me.
“But I really like that calculating attitude.”
“yes? Are you talking to me?”
“It is nothing.”
At those incoherent words, the baron tilted his head momentarily.
Soon after, the baron, who seemed to subtly understand, asked again.
“… … Well, by the way, Your Highness, why did you suddenly ask me to get information from the Argon Knights?”
“Have you checked the contents?”
“yes? Oh yes. Isn’t it about an illegal auction taking place in the shadows? The time and place are not given, but… … .”
Intelligence that an illegal auction will be held targeting certain wealthy nobles.
In the documents the baron brought, items to be auctioned were listed.
The problem was that his eyes were shaking a lot as he pretended not to know.
Looking at the baron like that, I threw a sullen answer.
“It means everything is revealed.”
“… … .”
“Don’t worry. I won’t ask him to rob you or anything.”
“… … Phew.”
It was only after he finally gave such a definite answer that the baron’s expression relaxed.
It seemed that the earlier reveal of George’s criminal record and the fact that he had been looking for him for a while had acted as a great anxiety.
Of course, I really had no intention of having him steal the auction.
… … okay.
The thought of ‘letting him go’ robbed me.
“It is I, not George, who attends the auction.”
“Ahh!”
I knew it.
As expected, the baron let out something like a scream and blacked out.
Either that or not, I kept a smile on my lips as I recalled the contents of the spy.
‘I mean the night in a week.’
For me, who already knew the knowledge of the future, there was no problem even if the time and place were not written. That was the reason I accepted the documents and did not check them closely.
However, my attention was focused on one place.
To things of familiar form, hidden among the items of the splendid auction.
‘The ability to help my steps. The power to become my own.’
I had to find what I needed right now.
***
If the association meant a public institution or organization supported by the state, a guild was just a fence made by individuals.
Anyone could create a guild as long as they filed a report and paid taxes, and this was also stated in the kingdom’s laws that it was impossible to refuse to establish a guild, no matter what its purpose or size.
“… … That, but Your Highness, this, this place.”
One night in March, after overcoming the bitter winter of the north, it bloomed.
Baron Vidor, looking at the old building in front of him, made a stunned expression.
okay.
No matter how limitless the creation of a guild was, if the purpose was truly against the law, the words were different.
The royal family is trying to not take root somehow, and the illegally built guild is trying to hide in the shadows somehow.
For example, I can count the dark merchants who would sell their lives for others as well as their own for money.
Looking at the baron like that, I grinned.
“Yes, this is a secret auction house run by the black trade guild.”
“Oh, no!”
The baron closed his eyes tightly.
“Why did you come to a place like this among so many auctions… … .”
Just because Baron Vidor was easy-going and upright, it wasn’t that he was ignorant of the shadows. No, on the contrary, because of that, I could say that I knew the fear and harm better.
“I had a feeling of uneasiness from the moment he left the escort… … .”
“You must have hated cumbersome things, right? It’s good to be discouraged, but I don’t have time, so I’d like you to go in and do it.”
“You are too much!”
“What is that much?”
I shrugged and walked past the Baron.
Then she covered her silver hair, cold like northern snow, with a deep robe.
The baron noticed this and hurriedly followed back.
“By the way, Your Highness, is it really okay to move like this?”
“What do you mean?”
As I looked up and asked, the baron glanced at his surroundings.
“The black trade guild that hosted the auction cared about security enough to hide the location and timing. Then why not usually exchange invitations to prove your identity?”
“Usually it would be.”
“But doesn’t His Highness have something like that?”
Since the black trade guild was more exposed than any other shadowy organization, it was forced to be sensitive to security.
Didn’t the fact that the auction actually took place caught the intelligence of the Argon Knights? The baron’s worries were understandable.
however.
“Does not matter. I already have something that could be called an invitation.”
“yes?”
“Hey, brothers over there.”
“Hmm?”
That moment.
Some big man blocked my way into the auction house.
A body that could easily exceed 2 meters. And innumerable sword scars on the ragged muscles.
When I raised my eyes a little and looked at his face, the ferocious-looking guy grinned.
“Oh, it’s nothing. I’m just curious about something.”
He reached out and grabbed the baron’s shoulder as if checking something.
Then.
“jeon… … No, Bocchan. Instead of interest… … .”
closely-!
“100 million!”
In an instant, he violently wrapped his muscular arms around his shoulders and shook them.
A humorous and natural behavior, as if treating a close friend. However, the baron’s body began to stumble around like a reed swinging around.
“Hey, what is this!”
“The body of a middle-aged man who has never held a sword. The boy over there is holding a sword, but he seems to be still a kid. This is not a place for sandals like you to enter.”
“… … .”
“Even if you hide it with a robe, it’s useless. It means that the black trade guild has developed a sense of smell to prey on the subject of pretending to be truthful.”
He said that and tapped me on the bridge of the nose. Then, a deeper smile emerged.
The meaning of that coy action and threat was one.
“Are you here to participate in the auction? I’m running out of money, and I’m thinking of escorting you safely until the end of the business if you pay me just enough money to pay for a drink.”
“ransom?”
“I’m sorry to say that.”
For an instant, the baron’s face, feeling absurd, almost went blank.
Do you dare threaten the prince of a country with what appears to be a mercenary? To the first prince of the ‘Land of Knights’, who has a good reputation for swordsmanship?
But it didn’t take long for that embarrassment to turn to bewilderment. There really was no other way to express it.
Because I took something out of my robe and put it on my hand.
Swoop-
“Oh no, what the hell?”
… … A pocket watch that can be seen commonly anywhere.
okay.
If there was a problem, it was the fact that it was just a simple pocket watch, not money or armor for self-defense.
However, the moment the lid was opened, the atmosphere changed.
Ting-!
“… … !”
The eyes of the mercenary who followed my hand were wide open in astonishment.
Perhaps, he seemed even more surprised than the baron, who saw his superior’s sudden action right in front of his eyes.
It was not a matter of handing over a pocket watch for petty threats.
“This… … !”
“Once the business is over, don’t be soggy and get out of the way.”
“Everyone, who are you?!”
The voice that came out immediately was very polite.
Even so, he reached out his hand involuntarily and tried to remove the robe that covered my face.
That moment.
“Don’t touch me.”
The mercenary’s body stopped abruptly at the cold voice that seemed like frost.
Either I’ll kill you, or I’ll cut off your wrists. There was not a single word of such a bloody warning besides saying not to touch it.
However, the mercenary now felt more sure than any warning.
To the extent that his face was blushing from the fear he cast unconsciously.
“I’m sorry. Please go in.”
He backed away from me, backing away little by little, then began to run away from his seat, almost in a run.
It was an unsightly action to the extent that the body of a large body was laughable.
Kki-Ik-!
When the passage leading to the auction house finally opened, the baron, unable to close his jaw, asked.
“Just now… … .”
“It’s the invitation you mentioned.”
“yes?”
“Well, to be precise, it should be a right of passage.”
It was something that didn’t need to be explained.
However, since the baron’s expression looked serious when he asked such a question, I hinted at it with a blank smile on my face.
“If you came as a guest, it would be right to move according to custom.”
Before long, I passed the baron and walked slowly into the auction house.
***
A giant body over 2 meters stepped into the darkened room. It was the guard who greeted those who followed the auction.
However, it felt quite different from the time when I was acting as Hanryang, as far as the expression and appearance of lowering my posture in moderation.
“Bo, have you seen it?”
The general manager of the auction house, who was sitting inside, nodded.
He was watching the whole series of situations.
It was a ‘guard’ made for that purpose, and a ‘gound’ set up for that purpose.
Of course, the meaning of his suspicious behavior was not unknown.
“… … That pocket watch was clearly Asus’ right-of-way.”
It was a shadow hidden deep in the dark, but it was the guild that was revealed more than anyone else.
In addition, since all sorts of rare items were exhibited at this auction, it was inevitable that rumors spread and people who would muddy the water would come.
And the way to filter out such miscellaneous things was very simple.
Do you have the unique ‘right of passage’ granted by the guild or not?
If they ignored the blackmail and showed the pass, it meant that they were the customers of the dark merchants and the big players in the auction that would provide them with money.
Conversely, if they show even the slightest mixed reactions to this, they will lure them to another disguised place and control their access.
In that sense, the proof the man showed was clearly a proven right of passage.
However, the problem is that it belongs to Asus, which is already dead.
“Ha, but the other guy didn’t seem quite sure the right-of-way existed.”
“… … stupid guy If it were you, would you tell a subordinate or something about the existence of the right of passage?”
“I’m sorry.”
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Tsk.
The general manager clicked his tongue slightly and began to roll his head.
“Did you check his face?”
“Because it was night and I was wearing a robe… … .”
“Then, how many people are there who would know about the existence of Asus’ right-of-way?”
“… … As of now, there are none other than the aristocrats who used to hang out with Asus.”
“Chit! That doesn’t help at all.”
At least it would have been nice to be able to see his face.
who are the people who came I can’t even guess what the purpose is.
“Damn it, at a time like this… … .”
The general manager said nervously biting his nails.
“damn! For now, keep an eye on them until the auction is over. After that, I will meet them separately.”
“Ah, I see!”
“Let’s go out and see.”
“yes.”
When the giant’s guards went out like that, the general manager’s expression became even more miserable.
If it had been a regular visit, I wouldn’t have been so concerned. Even if it wasn’t as proud as it was, there wouldn’t have been anything stabbed.
But weren’t there more pitiful corners now than ever before?
“… … Surely they weren’t the ones who came from there?”
Anxiety began to sprout in the general manager’s chest.