108 – That Girl’s Sweet Trade 7

“Uhhhhh”

Ken hurriedly shook off the temptation and entered the alleyway.

Looking at her appearance, Mino, who had been forcibly brought here, spoke in a slightly dissatisfied voice.

“Sister… why did you run away from there? It’s definitely a good story for us. In the end, the work the leader is preparing is also for money.”

“Kuh.. that.. so! Are you saying you will abandon your colleagues for money? No matter how much money you give, you can’t betray your family!”

Although he usually looks timid and indecisive, Mino’s words surprisingly know how to pinpoint the situation.

Regarding this, Ken partly raised his voice and shouted at his younger brother.

She, too, knew very well that it would be much better for them than to engage in something so risky.

In fact, as Ken himself ran away to reject it with his heart shaken greatly, it is realistically worth considering.

However, Ken had no choice but to refuse it.

It was because he had a strong belief that he could not make a good choice alone, abandoning his family-like colleagues with whom he had shared joys and sorrows.

At that time, looking at Ken like that, Mino spoke in a voice that contained both timidity and frustration.

“That… why do you think that is a betrayal? Mmm.. Of course, you may feel that way at first glance, but… According to that statement, it means that anyone who uses magic will be hired… no?”

“… to?”

Mino brings up a story she hadn’t thought of before.

In response, Ken made a blank expression for a moment, and Mino also made a blank expression while looking at her older sister.

“You can’t… have you not thought of that?… earlier, you could just ask that kid if all the other co-workers would accept it…”

“ah… ugh… aaa!!!!”

At his brother’s words, Ken started to scream at his foolishness for perceiving the situation too clearly, while thinking of the word betrayal without even knowing it.

“Ahhh I really am!! what the hell did you just do? If you really did that, you would have escaped this crappy situation all at once! what a fool! I’m such a fool!! aaa!!”

The fact that he blew a chance like gold with his feet like that made Ken feel like he wanted to roll on the floor right away, and hurriedly went back to the place where he met the girl, but…

Unfortunately, the girl had already left and disappeared.

In response, Ken rolled on the floor and screamed at the momentary mistake, and Mino had no idea how to stop her sister from doing so, so she had no choice but to hesitate and stand by her side.

*

‘Fortunately… it seems like nothing happened…’

After talking a few words with Yuria, the twins disappeared from sight as if they were running away.

Looking at them, Ophelia felt a little doubt and relief, and withdrew her magic, and the other guards also took a similar stand.

‘Maybe I overreacted?… No, but there’s a chance that it would be better to keep this type of escort system going forward.’

A level of security that can take most of the action if something happens without disturbing the escort target.

Of course, if the opponent had been Bahamut, Ophelia would have stepped forward and closely guarded her. After all, doing so with children is a burden on both sides, and it will be difficult to focus on safety, so for now, we have come to the conclusion that this is the best way.

“Then we will move on.”

“Yes. All right.”

Watching the two slowly leave, Ophelia and the guards started to move again.

*

A shabby back alley in Milan.

There, the members of the Predator gathered in one place and started talking about what had happened so far.

“What have you been doing?”

“Sorry, as expected, collecting information isn’t our specialty…”

“Above all, there are too many people. In a situation where there are a lot of members of the upper ranks, it is impossible to distinguish who is an executive and who is not.”

“Ummm..”

Mergon and Nemea look embarrassed.

In response, a dark shadow began to fall on the face of Echid, the leader of the Predator.

The Beden Merchant, which is said to be conducting trade here in Milan.

According to what we obtained, that great saint was also for an important transaction entangled with the Holy Knights of Rome, and if so, it was highly likely that executive-level figures from within the Beden Merchant Army were also participating.

In response, the Predator somehow moved to figure out their identities, but they weren’t particularly high-ranking officials and their outfits weren’t unusual, and as everyone was wearing similar uniforms and talking about stories they couldn’t tell, there was no way to tell them apart. There was no

“I can’t do it… Now that it’s like this, I have no choice but to move on to Plan B…”

“Is that also the case…”

It was a situation where the target could not be specified, but it was not that there was no way.

It may be a bit cumbersome, but in some ways it is a means to achieve the goal more reliably.

That’s when they were making their decision…

Suddenly, in Echid’s eyes, the figures of his young colleagues leaning against the wall with dazed expressions caught his eye.

“… But… why am I like that? It’s been like that ever since I came in.”

“I don’t know. Even when I asked a question, he didn’t answer well and kept doing that?”

“Ken, Mino, why are you doing this? Say something.”

“… sorry… ”

“Don’t ask anything.. just let it be like this..”

In response to Mergon’s question, the two of them are in a state of confusion and only shed answers that their souls have escaped.

In this incomprehensible situation, they concluded that they had no choice but to wait for them to recover their spirits as soon as possible.

“Well… anyway, I have to work on it. Mergon, Nemea, you guys, just in case, keep tracking the Upper Beden. I will go to the destination and prepare as soon as the twins’ spirits are settled.”

“okay.”

“Then see you there.”

The two of them leave the room without leaving those words behind

Looking at them, Echid let out a small sigh, hiding the anxiety that was about to appear on his face as much as possible.

‘I have to succeed.. for sure.. even if it means one person dies.. for sure.. for the other guys..’

*

A procession of wagons going south after finishing their trade in Milan.

Watching the procession loaded with shiny weapons from a distance…

Two people.

Mergon and Nemea started to move slowly so as not to be seen as much as possible.

“As expected, it’s the Beden Merchant. To be able to trade that many items at once. It’s embarrassing.”

“Certainly it looks like that in Mergon’s eyes, right? No matter how hard he fell and became an assassin, he’s still a former merchant who can’t abandon the arrangement of the Colossus.”

“..Haa.. Come to think of it, it was started to raise seed money, but somehow it ended up like this..”

Mergon starts to sigh at the bitter past that suddenly comes to mind.

Watching her like this, Nemea said with a characteristic light smile on her lips.

“hehehe, isn’t that what life is all about? Finding your aptitude through chance. Even though I was not a merchant, I still managed to rise to the position of being the best on this floor.”

“Yeah.. And now I’m doing this because I’m ruined again, right? At this point, I’m at a level where I doubt that being ruined isn’t my major.”

“Ah…ahahahahaha…”

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Nemea struggled to smile as she saw her colleague talking about a situation that was difficult to view more positively than this.

“Well.. that.. but for now, if this thing goes well, you will be able to breathe. If you do, you can receive seed money from the leader and start anew.”

“… hahahaha.. you.. now you think i can really do something like that? It’s impossible, because there are three children in the house who need to be looked after.”

In response to her friend’s words of consolation, Mergon spoke with a regretful expression, and Nemea also smiled lightly, recognizing the meaning contained in it.

“Now then, shall we go soon? I have to keep watching to see if they go to the wrong place or not.”

“As a bonus, let’s try to figure out the power.”

With those words, Mergon’s mouth began to form a cool smile that was different from before.