Episode 40
“Why is Abigail here?”
The woman who disturbed my eyes with a white dress and waggled her tail was the one.
It was the nanny who took care of me from childhood.
She smiled and shrugged.
I feel a tremendous sense of shame.
I thought she was just a beautiful lady walking around the city, but to think she was a nanny.
‘It’s a status I used occasionally.’
Looking at it now, her transformation is quite familiar.
I was just a little surprised because I didn’t expect that Abigail would appear in the Marquis of Pennant.
Wasn’t the nanny traveling all over the continent to carry out some mission I gave her?
Slightly hardening my expression, I turned my eyes and quickly scanned the surroundings.
But the daily life of the peaceful upper-class streets was just passing by.
“I’ve checked thoroughly, but there’s no tracking. Who cares about a nanny who’s gone out?”
“Well, it’s not unusual for a nanny to visit. But you need to be careful. Let’s get out of here.”
“Yeah.”
When she casually crossed her arms, I smiled and guided her to a secluded spot in the city.
It’s like playing Han Liang who succeeded in swaying the opposite sex.
As Abigail was also a member of the family, access to the safe house of the Assassins was not controlled.
But I couldn’t go to a place full of eyes and ears everywhere and tell the story of the survivors of Riverrun.
We immediately left the city and moved to the cottage district to the east of the Marquis of Pennant.
‘There’s no place as safe as here.’
The assassination squad should have already figured out what I was looking for to buy a house.
It was natural to take a woman to visit the villa district and show her a house to buy in the future.
Moreover, it was a noisy place due to the excavation of the tomb, so there was no leakage of conversation.
“It’s been a while. How have you been lately?”
“I was busy. Someone kept asking me to look into this and that.”
“I’m sorry. I only made you suffer.”
“Still, it’s a lot more comfortable than when I was working as an agent. There’s no supervision or pressure, so I can play and work.”
“Hey! I think we should reduce the activity fee for this?”
“Oh, why?”
“I’m kidding. Anyway, what’s going on? You’re coming without contact.”
The greetings asking about the current situation passed in an instant.
The fact that the nanny made the trip herself must have been because something went awry.
I naturally raised my nerves to my surroundings and asked a question.
Then Abigail spread the fan over her mouth and whispered the information.
“It’s about the last investment. I’m here to tell you something urgently.”
“Survivors? Surely not a big deal.”
“Yes. The whereabouts of one of the two is unknown, and the rest are captured by the Railton Knights and are currently being transported.”
Railton was the name of a family of marques in the northern part of the Empire.
The location was not too far, so it was a good situation.
Because it was enough distance to go during the break.
Of course, in the Marquis of Pennant, you have to set up a dummy and act in disguise.
“Fortunately, I have time. This time, the break is a little longer.”
“You’ll probably have to hurry.”
“why?”
“The elite were dispatched from Felton and Everfield. It seems that the Marquess of Railton is weighing the ransom.”
The Empire had no major involvement in Riverrun’s downfall.
I just watched the activities of the beast families.
Maybe that’s why, when I got hold of the survivors of Riverrun, I started thinking about selling them.
“Could there be armed conflict between them?”
“Perhaps they will try to compromise with money in an appropriate line. Although the paths are different, the two families have the same purpose.”
“Do you think the guy caught this time is a pretty important person? As long as the elite are dispatched.”
“It’s not known, but it’s very likely. This is just my guess.”
“If you’ve held a high position in Riverrun, there’s a good chance you know the location of the Legacy.”
“Perhaps.”
Abigail knew I was going after the survivors to find the hidden wealth of Riverrun.
Because within the Landsvalger family, I was just a direct descendant of a nerd with no background.
If it’s the heritage of a thousand-year-old family, it must be enough to create a background that doesn’t exist.
She followed me without question.
“Thank you for coming all the way here.”
“It’s such an urgent matter, I couldn’t use the traditional method of contact.”
“I guess so. But, what about the other one?”
“The most recent activity was Troven, but he has completely disappeared.”
“It must have been because I heard the news.”
“I think so too.”
“I get it for now. Stop your activities for the time being and do something else.”
“Dummy?”
“It’s also quick-witted.”
“hehehe. There’s time for an informant. This is the basics.”
“It’s only been a few years since I was hired.”
“You were also active personally. Who am I doing this for?”
“Oops! I almost missed out on the greatest career ever.”
Abigail is in her mid-thirties, and she hasn’t been active in the Filial Filial Family for very long.
Hyomaengbu was the intelligence agency of the Assassins, which encompassed the intelligence teams of the Disclett Guild and each branch.
If you choose an informant rather than an assassin, you will be a member of this filial piety club.
Come to think of it, there wasn’t much of an age difference between her and her nanny.
Since I spent all of my childhood as my nanny, it was actually a child raising a child.
“I’ll ask you a favor.”
“I’ll disguise myself again. Don’t worry. I’ll leave a clear trace of the boy.”
“Thank you. Then.”
I was about to leave with a light pat on the shoulder, but Abigail suddenly grabbed my wrist.
Looking at her sad eyes, for some reason, it felt like my heart was moving.
He was one of the few on my side in the rugged life of an assassin family.
She nodded as if she was okay, but the nanny didn’t let go of her hand.
“young master?”
“I’ll be back safely, so don’t worry too much.”
“It’s not like that.”
“Eh?”
“Please give me the activity fee before you go. Why don’t you send money these days?”
“…”
Abigail’s words made me look like I had been hit in the head with a hammer.
When he tried to buy a house with his soul, he forgot the activity money he was supposed to send to her.
Somehow, more gathered than I thought.
“I’ll give.”
I was able to get out of the clutches of my nanny only after paying all of my overdue activity expenses.
“You came here for urgent information, right?”
“of course.”
“Looks like he’s here to get money.”
“It can’t be. It must be because of my mood. I’m going to be late. Go quickly.”
“yes.”
As if I was being pushed back, I left the villa district and muttered with a helpless expression.
“To be robbed of 5,000 Gerudo… This is a nightmare.”
It was originally supposed to be money, but it felt like I lost money when it came out all at once.
The money he had to earn now reached 25,000 Gerld, but right now it was not the time to worry about the right to sell.
After leaving Abigail with the back job, I moved straight to the Marquess of Railton.
This was the jurisdiction of the northern branch of the continent.
However, the region of the branch is meaningful only near the base.
‘If the boundaries are ambiguous like this, it becomes difficult to pay much attention.’
Unsurprisingly, the dynamics of the Landswalger Railten branch were quite quiet.
If news had spread that the survivors of Riverrun had been captured, there would have been some movement.
‘We have to save Felton and Everfield before they come… … . There’s no inside information at all, so it’s frustrating.’
I loathed reading the lengthy information appendices of the directives.
It was because it was faster and more certain to check it myself than to put the clumsy four legs in my head.
But now, even fragmentary intelligence was desperately needed.
Of course, he had no intention of reading the directive in detail in the future.
“Then I’ll have to put my head on the ground, what.”
After going through 10 years of hardship, I was also thoroughly trained as an informant, and I was confident in disguise.
Even the giant information guild, Vaillant, couldn’t see me disguised as Keros.
The reason is because of this technology.
Duduk. Dudeuk!
When the aura was operated according to the set pattern, the shape of the bones began to change dramatically.
It was a seven-fold talisman that Landsvalger agents must learn.
Up to seven physical characteristics can be changed, making it possible to produce dramatic changes.
For example, transforming into a person whose bones are completely bent.
As the number of deformed parts increases, the burden is greater, so usually only one or two changes were made.
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Just doing that will completely change your impression.
Of course, it was not a skill that anyone could master.
I immediately disguised myself as an old man with a hunched back.
Since the right person to use as an informant was a hunchback, he had no choice but to bear the burden.
“Huh?”
He gasped in vain as I burst out.
How surprised he must have been to find someone who looked just like him.
But the hunchback couldn’t scream.
The dangling blade of the sword touched his neck and emitted an eerie light.
“Let’s finish it as quickly as possible. Prolonging the pain will only increase the pain.”
After a while, the hunchback, who escaped from the shack that was all falling down, moved his steps somewhere.
He was always cleaning the barracks, shining with eyes like rotten fish.
But today the atmosphere was quite different.
The old man’s eyes, which raised his head slightly, were full of bleak energy.