The Peaceful Life Of A Maid Who Hides Her Power And Enjoys It - Chapter 228

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Part 2, Episode 26

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It’s been two days since we arrived in Brishuir and took some rest.

The hotel bell rings incessantly.

“Please evacuate, dear guests! This is an emergency situation. Please evacuate outside the hotel immediately!”

The source of the sound is the corridor beyond the door.

From the way the bell’s ringing grows louder and softer repeatedly, it seems someone is running around directly carrying the bell.

[Salmon papillote.]

“Right, it’s a bit noisy. But it’s perfect for instilling alertness.”

I put Ash, who was busy preening his feathers, on my shoulder, and as soon as I stuffed the blue cat who had fallen fast asleep again today into my bag, someone knocked on the door with enough force to break it down.

Bang, bang!

“Wake up, Master! We need to get out of the hotel right now! There’s been a terrorist attack on the lower floors, hurry!”

I did hear some suspicious explosive sounds.

While I was pondering how to get out with Deshang—whether to jump from the window or break through head-on—the bell rang just in time. The hotel’s response was truly swift.

As I stepped out the door, Deshang, with a greatly relieved expression, stamped his feet and ran ahead.

“It seems terrorist attacks occurred simultaneously in three locations within Brishuir. We need to go out and help with the evacuation!”

Deshang is righteous indeed.

“Do terrorist attacks happen often in the city?”

“Terrorism? Maybe in the Republic, but absolutely not in Pen Rota! It’s probably because of the guild general conference that’s been going on since this morning. It must be a sign of resistance!”

So who exactly is resisting?

Deshang looked extremely urgent in both body and mind. Perhaps because of that, I didn’t have the will to hold onto such a person and interrogate him like a child.

“This way please! You must evacuate quickly and calmly through the stairs following our guidance!”

Following the hotel staff’s advice, I descended the stairs quickly and calmly while quietly listening to the voices around me.

‘Rien… followers… Did those so-called Followers of Rien cause the terrorism?’

To think that perverted corpse-lover has followers. Indeed, if you’re going to be crazy, you should be properly crazy. Crazy people would follow a crazy person.

Halfway down the stairs, black smoke thick enough to obscure vision rose up.

“Everyone, don’t panic and run! Don’t try to get ahead, go down with your hands on each other’s backs! Good, that’s a good pace right now!”

Thanks to Deshang taking charge of organizing things himself, I was able to break a glass window and send Ash flying out the window first.

Then at some point.

“Don’t move!”

“Pl-please spare me.”

“Everyone get against the wall right now! Get against the wall and put your hands up toward the ceiling. Hurry!”

After the threatening bombardment was heard, the people standing on the stairs began to stick to the wall one by one with screams.

“M-mommy…”

“It’s okay, child. Nothing will happen. Come here. Hide between mommy and the wall.”

The hotel staff calmly reassured the people.

When I carefully looked down the stairs, armed intruders were standing guard at the corridor entrance about two floors below.

“From now on, if you move even one step, women, children, elderly—no exceptions—you die. Don’t make a sound and shut your mouths!”

“Sob, sob…”

Those who had been following from the upper stairs turned back to the corridor with frightened faces.

Can’t be helped.

It’s time for the god of the Southern Continent to step in.

Just as I made up my mind.

A muscular giant flew from beside me and fell to the corridor entrance two floors below with a bang.

“Die!”

This was Deshang’s fighting spell, not the terrorist’s.

“Destruction!”

This too.

“Haha! Despair!”

This too.

The quick-witted hotel staff didn’t miss the opportunity and began evacuating people.

I slipped out from among the people flowing out like an ebb tide and followed Deshang. The corridor was already a battlefield.

‘There’s no room for me to intervene.’

As I scratched my belly and watched, I felt my conscience pricking me. But to raise my fists…

“No! Must absolutely protect Master! Don’t let a single drop of blood touch you!”

Deshang’s defense was this thorough.

Yes, so thorough that he would raise his arm to defend against flying sword blades. It’s not ordinary clothing. It seems he came quite thoroughly prepared for emergency situations.

“Master! These guys seem to have started something without proper protective magical tools! They can strap bombs to their bodies and charge recklessly, so please avoid…”

Then.

“Ri Arsenio Bahllatana A Rien!”

It was a foreign language.

Through the hazy smoke, I saw an old man dressed in black.

His briefly visible eyes were obviously insane. The old man with round metal spheres attached to his chest and abdomen shouted toward the air.

“The god of calamity will take me to the garden of the universe!”

It was unrestrained running. It seemed the situation Deshang had warned about was about to unfold.

“No! Master!”

Leaving behind the cry soaked in despair. I stood as if nailed to the floor and waited for the old man.

Whether those spheres were truly explosives.

If they were explosives, whether I should stop him rather than kill him.

If it was a time bomb, whether I should drag him to the window and throw him outside.

Just as I was pondering repeatedly to find the best answer.

“It seems a lot has happened while I was taking a brief rest, Daisy.”

Whooom-

A blue, opaque barrier created in mid-air enveloped the old man.

“Wh-what is this!”

The panicked old man struggled to break free, but his aged, thin frame was of no help.

The blue barrier quickly covered the old man’s entire body and then compressed and crumpled him. The old man was gradually compressed into a smaller sphere…

“Ri, Arseni, o…”

Leaving only a voice soaked in despair, he completely disappeared.

Plop.

In the middle of the now quiet corridor, a blue cat sitting on its bottom licked its soft pink paw pad while making a purring sound.

“Unfortunately, I missed the fun scenes.”

“Lu!”

Crash-

A huge explosion from outside shook the hotel very briefly. I instinctively realized.

‘He moved that terrorist to the sky.’

Hmm. Indeed, gently capturing him and throwing him out the window would have been the right answer.

I approached Lu and lifted his soft body while examining him with worried eyes.

“What exactly is wrong with your body? Do you know how worried I’ve been since yesterday when you’ve been sleeping without moving?”

Lu obediently entrusted his warm cat armpit to me and answered.

“If I had to drag out a problematic body, I wouldn’t have followed you out, Daisy. If I had to nitpick, it’s just a bit of accumulated fatigue.”

“Fatigue? What’s that about. Did you go mountain climbing in Aragard for six months while I was asleep?”

“You, who would die from climbing up and down for a month, mentioned a whole six months. I was being generous.”

No matter how seriously he answered, in cat form he was just adorable.

‘From the way he’s beating around the bush, he doesn’t want to talk about it.’

I’ll ask again later, I suppose.

When I put Lu down on the floor. My body had changed to that of a woman, not Andert.

This ridiculous familiarity.

It was my original body.

“Why did you change my appearance on your own again?”

“Because this city seems to be in turmoil.”

When I looked at him with eyes that said ‘what does that have to do with anything,’ his glass-like golden eyes turned into a sharp triangular shape.

“Andert Pager always has to be everyone’s hero, doesn’t he? Such a troublesome and inefficient name.”

As if jealous of that ‘everyone,’ his expression became noticeably more fierce than before, making me sigh.

Hero, my foot. He doesn’t seem to realize that up until now, it was at best on the level of Deshang’s filial piety tourism.

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