The Peaceful Life Of A Maid Who Hides Her Power And Enjoys It - Chapter 10

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Chapter 10

Aha.

I turned my head toward the pub’s entrance and asked.

“Is that so?”

It was a direction where no one was standing.

Right after doubt filled the bartender’s eyes, the quiet door was pushed open and a figure who hadn’t been there before appeared.

The one who entered silently like a shadow was dressed in a long robe from head to toe.

“What is 【Buried Let】?”

He was the one living a new life as a butler, the Assassin Butler.

I guessed that the robe he wore seemed to be made by personally modifying unused blackout curtains.

Considering his professional expertise, it was quite a plausible guess.

The Assassin Butler kindly answered my question.

“It’s an information guild that grew rapidly around the time of the Mage War. They’re big, dangerous, and cruel enough to use any means for their purposes.”

His unwavering voice contained not a trace of falsehood. I nodded.

This was the role I had hoped for and demanded from him.

Before rushing to the pub, I had gone to find the Assassin Butler.

True to his former assassin nature, he immediately noticed my presence and came straight out the back door to ask what I needed.

“Today isn’t our promised day, so what’s the matter?”

“You said you were seeking a way to survive.”

“And?”

“Let’s seek it together.”

At my concise yet aggressive persuasion, the Assassin Butler showed a suspicious expression.

“Why should I do that?”

“Because I need to find something too, just like you.”

“So what exactly?”

“A way to survive.”

To gain cooperation, you must show your cards first.

I explained to him that ‘I need to gather information to find necessary items’ and briefly outlined my future plans.

He who had been expressionless began to show interest at the word ‘information.’

It was natural.

For him, being pursued by an Assassin’s Guild, having Midwintry in the palm of his hand was important to shake off the professionals’ pursuit.

Starting with the Merchant’s Union that dominated this area and gradually taking control of the city would benefit both of us.

“Not a bad proposal. …Fine. However, regarding the Merchant’s Union you mentioned, it would be better to modify the plan a bit.”

“How?”

“From what I hear, for neighborhood thugs, their expansion speed and systematic organization are unnecessarily well-established. In such cases, there’s usually a backer behind them. If we move carelessly, we might get caught instead.”

The Assassin Butler requested that we investigate the Merchant’s Union’s backing before moving. It was a judgment that depending on what kind of background they had, it might be wiser not to touch them.

However, my thoughts were a bit different.

The reason was simple.

If the current Merchant’s Union continued to be maintained, the Potato Selling Old Man would have to disappear from the alley.

‘It was good that I promised to let him withdraw if the backing was serious.’

But who would have thought a major guild would actually be connected.

“【Buried Let】? I’m hearing this for the first time.”

“It’s an assassination guild. It’s understandable that ordinary people wouldn’t know.”

“Ordinary people?”

I see. So I’m an ordinary person now.

The Assassin Butler, even after saying it himself, seemed to think something was terribly wrong and slightly furrowed his brow.

“Though there are exceptions. 【Buried Let】 has established itself throughout the 13 former Magic Alliance countries centered on the Pen Rota Empire. The guild master’s face, let alone name, is unknown, and they don’t do anything that would leave traces.”

The Assassin Butler who was explaining looked at the bartender with suspicious eyes.

“But there’s no way they’d join hands with such crude guys?”

At those words, the bartender frantically rummaged through the inside of a cabinet drawer. Soon, a golden round coin popped out from inside the drawer.

“No! W-we are indeed a union under 【Buried Let】’s protection! Here, look at this guild coin.”

A guild coin is, so to speak, a certificate proving cooperation and affiliation with a specific guild.

The Assassin Butler, who had been examining the coin’s form thoroughly, nodded with a serious face.

“It’s real.”

“That’s right! You’re all making a mistake. From the looks of it, this man knows very well how scary 【Buried Let】 is…”

I snatched the guild coin from the increasingly triumphant bartender.

“Real? Then this is mine from now on.”

The bartender gritted his teeth.

“You have no fear, or you’re out of your mind! Didn’t you hear what I said? If the fact that we were attacked reaches 【Buried Let】’s ears…”

“That’s only if you move your tongues carelessly.”

I warned him while tapping the bartender’s lips with the guild coin.

“Be smart, bartender. Don’t you know the saying ‘cousins are far but neighbors are close’? You don’t? Then how about ‘the law is far but fists are close’? 【Buried Let】’s law is far, but my fist as your neighbor is close. Keep in mind that your lives depend on my mood.”

The inside of the pub became quiet as if cold water had been poured over it.

Meanwhile, the Assassin Butler, who had been thinking hard, opened his lips with his characteristic serious expression.

“If the opponent is 【Buried Let】, it’s too dangerous. The rumor that they pay back double when wronged isn’t an exaggeration. Information guilds basically expand through trust and money. Even a small and shabby place like this is still a branch, so it would be beneficial not to touch it.”

It seemed he was planning to withdraw from today’s affair. Considering the opponent was a major assassination guild, it was an understandable attitude.

“More dangerous than your master?”

But I needed the Assassin Butler.

As they say, those who have tasted meat eat it well, and he was perfect as the person to lead the new Merchant’s Union.

Information and assassination were inseparably related from the start.

The tasks that assassins performed next to or equally with assassination missions were theft and information gathering.

“The two are different. The master is an individual, but 【Buried Let】, though formless, is no different from a small nation.”

“It’s fine if we don’t get caught. We just need to move without them knowing.”

I threw him a small glass bottle I took out from inside my pocket.

“This is…”

“【Merciful Bite】 that I took from you. The most dangerous pill in the world that sends you to your grave with just one.”

“I didn’t know you were keeping it.”

“It’s hard to obtain. I can’t just throw it away carelessly. Of course, the most precious thing is.”

I said while lightly touching my earlobe.

“Your oath-binding magical tool.”

The Assassin Butler still had the oath-binding magical tool that he had failed to use on me. Using that item, I could forcibly seal these people’s mouths.

The Assassin Butler’s expression became even more serious as he grasped my intention.

Meanwhile, I made eye contact with each of the Merchant’s Union executives one by one.

“Kill anyone who gets in the way with 【Merciful Bite】. If you really can’t trust them, you can just kill them all. 【Buried Let】 might notice as these thieves wish. But even if they notice, what more can they clean up besides the corpses of dead people?”

Go ahead and report to your superiors. But if you report, you’ll die too.

Without a trace, in one blow.

Whether he understood my intention immediately, the bartender’s complexion, who had been revived by 【Buried Let】’s protection, rapidly darkened.

“…I didn’t know you could talk that long.”

“I found out for the first time today too.”

I leisurely waited for the Assassin Butler’s decision. Fortunately, his deliberation wasn’t long.

“Understood. From now on, I’ll take charge of this side. But I have a condition.”

“Tell me.”

“This side will move according to my methods. I’ll only accept your interference within limits I can accept. Do you agree?”

Even better. It means less troublesome work for me.

I threw 【Buried Let】’s guild coin to him as my answer.

“Let’s proceed with the first mission to commemorate the formation of the new Merchant’s Union.”

“Mission? …You mean the item you said you needed.”

I nodded and answered.

“I need to find Dian Ket’s legacy that’s said to be hidden in Midwintry.”

“…If it’s Dian Ket’s legacy that’s passed down as an urban legend, do you mean the eyeball?”

“That’s right.”

In that moment, the Assassin Butler’s eyes changed. If I wasn’t mistaken, he wore an expression caught in brief anguish.

Thinking he might know something, I approached closer and whispered softly.

“Why?”

He quietly stared at the floor for a moment, then soon met my eyes and answered.

“It might be simple coincidence, but if my guess is correct, it seems you’re also searching for that item, Master.”

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