017 – A thief must be good at hide and seek # 1

017 – A thief must be good at hide and seek #1

Naru, who had been drawing various pictures with crayons for a while, fell asleep around 10pm.

It’s quite cute to see him sleep soundly.

“You look tired.”

Because Naru had a lot going on today.

I can’t help but fall asleep quickly because I’m tired.

“Hey, Brigitte. Let’s talk while Naru is asleep.”

I called Brigitte to ask about future plans.

But as I was feeling puzzled because there was no answer, I saw Brigitte asleep on the table.

“Hey. Are you sleeping?”

Cheek-.

Even if I tugged on Brigitte’s ears or pinched her cheeks, she didn’t want to get up.

these few days

Brigitte was also confused about Naru’s admission, and after hard work and research, that tension must have been relieved.

Maybe that’s why I slept well.

Dreureung-.

snoring too

I must have been really, really tired.

Normally, when I tell Brigitte that you snore, Brigitte raises her head by saying, “I snore, don’t lie,” but Brigitte was also someone who snored like this when she was really tired.

“Hey. If you go to bed, go to bed and sleep.”

Cheek-.

Even if I shook my shoulders, Brigitte never got up.

There’s no way he wakes up once he falls asleep like this.

“No matter how much Brigitte shakes it, it doesn’t wake up… ?”

“… … .”

“Are you really sleeping? It won’t happen no matter what I do?”

“… … .”

“hehehe, I ran out of beer. I have to drink it all myself.”

I gladly opened the refrigerator.

When I was buying crayons earlier, I bought ice and a bucket of beer from a beer store.

As long as Brigitte is asleep, this is all mine.

“What are you doing?”

“Ai-san, I’m surprised.”

I was really surprised to see a black woman standing in front of me when I closed the door of the hextech refrigerator. What kind of person just shows up without a sign?

“What is it, Garot?”

she was garot

Garot dressed in black clothes.

Did you come because you thought I’d drink all this delicious draft beer by myself?

want to share?

Indeed, it feels good.

Excellent demon hunters have such a good sense.

“I can’t help it. I’ll give you half.”

“good night. Just in time, I was thirsty.”

Gulp, gulp-.

Garrot drank about 1 liter of beer poured into a wooden glass with ice in it without stopping.

I wonder where all that alcohol goes.

is it the chest?

Other than that, there’s nothing to pinpoint.

Shuk-.

Garrot wiped the white foam from his mouth with the back of his hand and sat down on the sofa. Then he looked around and asked.

“They said it was an entrance exam today. Did you pass?”

“Somehow. What are you doing to investigate this city? Did you find any traces of the imp? Things like meters being turned into yards.”

I heard demon hunters don’t miss the smallest clue.

So while I was slightly looking forward to it, Garot shook his head.

“no. Didn’t find it. It is certain that the presence of imps is faintly felt in this Phrygia. But he’s a guy who doesn’t show his tail easily. It’s a careful imp. It should be at least ‘Chief Imp’.”

Chief Imp.

It’s something of a friendly expression.

It doesn’t feel very dangerous.

Shuk-.

Then Garot put his hand between his breasts.

Molkan, Molkan-.

Moving around was the real top chest.

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Just as I was wide-eyed wondering what the heck I was trying to do, he took out something and put it on the table.

“Instead, I found these markers in small towns outside the central city. I thought it was a strange sign, so I drew it for now. Do you know anything?”

It was a square piece of paper.

There was a mark drawn with two daggers crossed and an X.

“… … .”

“You seem to know something.”

Garot examined my complexion.

You read the information by looking at my eyes.

Indeed, he was a level 40, platinum level demon hunter.

How long has it been since you read my expression?

It’s like the fact that I secretly entered this house while rummaging through the refrigerator earlier.

Garot’s skills were ‘real’.

Hon Mono.

You can’t be fooled by someone like that.

I asked the truth.

“Has this sign been written on the door of the house or the pillar next to the door?”

“Yeah, you know that. I wrote it because I thought it was a sign related to the devil, but there was no symbol of devil worship that I had seen. What is this? From the looks of it, you seem to know.”

“this. It is the symbol of the thieves.”

An X made by crossing two daggers.

It was the mark of the bastards who once made the world go wild.

“What is it, Garot?”

Then someone woke up rubbing their sleepy eyes.

It was Brigitte.

I thought I was asleep, but it seems that the sound of our conversation woke me up.

“What were you two talking about?”

Brigitte looked at me and Garrot with a frown as if she was still sleepy. Then, when he sees the paper on the table and the sign written on it, he is slightly taken aback.

“This mark, isn’t it the mark of the Alubaba bandits?”

Also.

Brigitte recognized the mark at once, probably because she knew a lot.

Alubaba Bandits.

A group of thieves organized by illegal adventurers, deserter soldiers, and all sorts of villains in a lucrative story.

Human trafficking, robbery, murder, whatever it was that made money.

Garot said.

“These days, they said that this mark is often found at crime scenes in Frisia. But the thieves of Alubaba? Were they not destroyed?”

Brigitte took it.

“I also heard that on the surface I was annihilated by the Ordor Kingdom army. Why are their marks here in Phrygia?”

It was a look that everyone couldn’t understand.

Are you looking for answers from me?

I’m the only thief expert here.

Shuk-.

I spread two fingers.

“I think there are two types of thieves. First, a thief who thoroughly hides his crimes and erases his existence. The second is a thief who seeks to increase his prestige by spreading his misdeeds far and wide.”

Arubaba’s thieves were definitely the latter.

In the first place, they were the ones who tried to steal the world by using Moto’s notoriety.

It’s their style to go out of their way to leave a mark at a crime scene where even getting rid of the traces isn’t enough.

According to Garot, both this mark and the method of the crime are the same as those of the Arubaba Bandit, which is said to have been destroyed a year ago.

A simple impersonator?

Like many impersonators of me, Judas, there was a chance that the owner of this mark was the infamous Arubaba impersonator.

However, the nape of his neck twitched strangely.

I don’t feel good.

Should I go out and find out for myself?

Tomorrow is the weekend, so I have free time, so I have no choice but to move.

* * *

Weekend.

For normal fathers, it is usually a time to relax at home after working all week.

However, if there were young children, it was safe to say that the weekend was a time when fathers had to play with them.

“Naru! boring!”

“Naruya, since I’m working for a while, let’s play while drawing. You gave me crayons.”

“I finished painting! There are no more papers left!”

“already?”

“I’m asking you to play… !”

Naru tugged at my pants.

It looks boring.

On a sunny spring Sunday, it was no wonder that the kids didn’t have a sore moth after spending hours at home without a game console or cellphone.

The problem is that I was researching a lot of information about the Arubava bandits in Brigitte’s lab.

With Naru struggling like this, I couldn’t concentrate.

can’t you do it

It’s been a while since I’ve had to shake my head.

flash-.

It was then that lightning struck my head.

A good idea came to my mind.

“Naruya, shall we play hide-and-seek with Dad then?”

“hide and seek! Naru likes to play hide and seek!”

“Then Naru closes her eyes and counts to 100. I’ll hide first, so count to 100, then open your eyes and find me. Understand?”

“Yes! Then close your eyes! One, two-, three-.”

Naru started counting.

Counting numbers with a clear voice is quite clever.

“Fifty-six, seventy, seventy-five, eighty-nine-“

… No, isn’t it a bit strange to count?

Because Naru resembles me, it seems that she is very weak in scientific sensibility.

The number of 100 is approaching.

I couldn’t help but hold my breath.

“Huh.”

Biggie Barbara—.

─「Killing Presence」.

Hold your breath and kill the presence as much as possible.

Then, as the surrounding objects and my body are almost assimilated, the presence disappears.

That’s what ‘Killing Presence’ is all about.

For reference, the acquisition rank is B.

Like ‘Heart Steal’, it was a high-level skill.

“Ninety-one, one hundred! I counted all the naru-baek! Find it now!”

With a whimper, Naru raised her hand.

Then I look at where I stand.

“Huh?”

Naru tilted her head.

Could it be that you noticed my ‘presence killing’?

It’s a skill that’s hard to notice unless you have a great sense of humor like Garrot or ‘seeing’ magic like Brigitte?

“Huh… .”

When I was slightly nervous, Naru passed right where I was standing.

Then he started rummaging through Brigitte’s office.

Shuk-.

Naru opens Brigitte’s closet.

“Is Daddy here?”

Of course I wasn’t there.

As if not giving up, Naru opened Brigitte’s closet again.

Opening the drawer revealed neatly arranged underwear.

“Dad, are you here?”

Naru rummaged through Brigitte’s underwear.

I don’t know why I thought it would be there.

It would have been nice to hide there.

“here? no here! It wasn’t. Dad is telling me to show myself to this Naru soon… !”

It’s cute.

I eagerly read the material while Naru eagerly searched for me.

「Destroy the Arubaba bandits!」

“The great achievement of the subjugation operation in the Kingdom of Ordor—”

“No trace of the devil was found…”

“The investigative agency of the Kingdom of Ordor focuses on contact with cultists… .”

The information was no different from what I already knew.

The same goes for scrapped newspapers.

“Where is Dad! I can’t find it, squirrel!”

Then Naru shouted.

Tears welled up on her face, and she felt like she was going to burst into tears any minute.

can’t do it

I let out the breath I had been holding in and appeared in front of Naru.

“I’m here.”

“Dad!”

Warak-.

Naru embraces me.

“I thought my dad abandoned me! Back in the day, my dad asked me to play hide-and-seek, so I left and went out to eat something delicious… ! Then I ate all of Naru’s strawberry cake… !”

“… … .”

did i really do that

When Naru is a little flustered, he smiles.

“By the way, Dad hides very well! It’s like a royal thief! Teach Naru how to hide! A thief must be able to get past the guards!”

Your intention to inform me is impure.

But it was right.

Learning to hide your presence can be useful in many ways.

Shall we tell Naru about this?

“Hold your breath and imagine that your body has become a soft cloth. transparent wrapping cloth. Then you can.”

“Huh… .”

Naru tilted her head as if she couldn’t understand.

“Huh-! How is it, Dad, do you see Naru?”

“It looks good.”

“Huh, difficult!”

No matter how much Naru is my daughter, even if she inherited a lot of my talents, it would be impossible to acquire B rank skills all at once.

It was a natural story.

said Naru.

“I can’t help it. Anyway, now Dad finds Naru! Naru hide!”

“Yes, yes. Come on, one, two-”

I eagerly turned the pages and counted to 100.

ten from one.

from ten to one hundred.

I also had the opportunity to deliberately count slowly.

“hundred.”

By the time I reached 100 seconds, I was finally able to read all the material.

And now I have a rough idea of what’s going on.

“Then, let’s look for Naru now.”

Shuk-.

A chest of drawers for children to hide in.

under the sofa.

look for them all

Because it’s obvious what the kids think.

“… … ?”

Where are you?

no?

“Naruya, are you here?”

I opened the refrigerator.

But there was no Naruto.

drooling-.

I also look through Brigitte’s underwear drawer.

I looked for it in particular, but couldn’t find it.

“Is the only thing you found out about Brigitte’s breast size? That’s a D cup. For some reason, he seems to have grown a little more than before, but at the moment, this information is meaningless.”

After searching everywhere like that, all that was left was the big ‘bag’ that Garot had been carrying.

It was like a suitcase for travel.

It’s as big as a lot of luggage.

And it looked generous enough to hide one six-year-old boy.

I wondered what was inside, but Garot said, “Don’t touch it,” and acted as if he was trying to hide it, so I couldn’t find out what was inside.

however.

There was only one place left now.

Maybe Naru felt the longing for ‘mother’ from Garot and hid in the bag.

Opening other people’s luggage is bad, but I am a thief.

They specialize in stealing and spying on other people’s things.

“Naruya, are you here?”

click-.

That was when I opened the bag.

Palak-.

Something tumbled out of the bag and fell to the floor.

“Picture?”

It was an old picture.

This is a very old photo, and the quality was not good, probably because it was taken with an old and old magic engineering camera.

However, the woman standing in the picture was so beautiful that even the old picture quality couldn’t hide it.

Age is around 20 years old.

She looked like a great princess in her dress.

The ‘princess power’ I evaluated was at least B+ to A grade.

This is enough to live on for the rest of my life.

“What.”

It was a picture that did not suit Garrot, a cool-headed demon hunter.

Is it a picture of the client or target?

“wait… . I saw somewhere that resembled this face… .”

sereung-.

Then something cold touched the nape of my neck.

maybe it’s a knife

“Give me time to make excuses.”

“Garrot. There is a reason for this.”

“Are you talking about something pale and sticky? Did you do that to my luggage?”

“… no.”

I don’t know why the story is like that.

Demon hunters are also insane.

I explained everything well.

Then Garot takes the blade from my neck.

“Never touch my things again. There are a lot of dangerous things.”

“Yes, I thought Naru was in there and opened it. There was no selfishness. Don’t worry, I haven’t stolen anything.”

Well, you’d have to believe me if I said I didn’t steal anything.

Then Garot said.

“As for Naru, I was heading towards the park earlier. He was playing with his peers.”

“really?”

when did you go out?

I had no idea.

Did you use Presence Kill?

pat-.

Soon Garot took the picture in my hand.

Then, it was tucked well between the breasts suppressed by the black tank top.

It seemed to be storing something very precious.

I asked.

“What is that picture?”

Of course, Garot did not answer my question.

She is a woman who is quieter than you think.

It’s different from Naruna and Brigitte who like to talk about this and that.

It was time to think like that.

smart-.

Someone knocked on the door.

“No show.”

– I am Cecily von Ragdoll. I brought something to deliver to Ms. Naru who couldn’t take the practical test, so hurry up and open the door!

It was a troublesome voice.

Come to think of it, wasn’t there a girl who whimpered like a cat in cold water in the classroom where the kids fought yesterday?

Gi profit-.

When I opened the door, I saw a girl wearing a straw hat and a white dress.

“Cecily.”

“You have memorized my name, Judas the Bendit! I’ve come this far on purpose, so I’m grateful! Where is Miss Naru? I have to hand over the gym uniform and sneakers I got from the practical test?”

Cecily turned her head around.

To enter the den of thieves alone.

It was when I thought that she was a girl who looked really good to kidnap.

Squeak-.

Cecily took off her straw hat.

Something between the white porcelain-like neck and the shoulder straps of the dress caught my attention beyond the blonde hair that was dripping with luster.

“… Fuck this!”

“under? A sudden curse word! After all, he was a vulgar villain as rumored!”

Even though I had a child, I couldn’t help but spit out abusive language.

I couldn’t quite keep my sanity!

After all, there were clear clover spots between Cecily’s white porcelain nape and shoulders!