The Peaceful Life Of A Maid Who Hides Her Power And Enjoys It - Chapter 270

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Part 2, Chapter 68

“Yeah.”

Though I just made it up.

Jin looked surprised yet greatly tense.

“Indeed, there are still many realms in this world that I don’t know about. I must train even harder. Just to properly learn that swordsmanship… Ah, what should I call it?”

“The maid is the cleaning leader.”

Jin’s eyes instantly lost their light.

She turned around as if nothing had happened and headed toward the supply managers.

“Is anyone injured?”

“Ah, yes. Fortunately, none of us…”

Did she not hear? I’ll have to tell her again later.

Around that time, new people came rushing from the camp.

“What on earth happened!”

The Sword Master leader stepped forward and briefly explained what had transpired. The female investigator from Yeonwang’s party looked shocked as she examined the fallen corpses.

“Such a thing… Still, it’s fortunate that they were safely purified. Is there anyone who needs treatment?”

Just as the Sword Master was about to answer that there wasn’t.

Someone slowly raised their hand.

A right face covered in blood-soaked red. A greatly exhausted, haggard countenance. A shoulder where bloodstains were gradually spreading.

“It hurts so much.”

The startled female investigator rushed to Lu.

“Good heavens! Luna! Your head and shoulder… How did you end up in such a state? Are you alright? Let me carry you on my back! Fortunately, we have a healing mage in our party.”

“Thank you…”

The female investigator carried Lu on her back while glaring fiercely at the Sword Master.

“Sword Master, what is this… Luna is the purification agent manager that Banahal sent us in trust! How could you let her end up like this?”

“…”

Jin and the other Team 2 members looked greatly flustered.

Naturally so. The woman who had been perfectly fine just moments ago was now bleeding profusely, so they must be wondering what kind of incident had occurred.

However, the Sword Master was different.

His blue eyes were directed precisely at me, not at the female investigator or Lu. With an emotion asking what kind of scheme this was.

Yes… I know…

Ah, that day from four years ago comes to mind.

The night when the hunting festival ended and the ball began.

That night when Raphael, who was my first partner, fell for Lu’s tricks and had to leave the ballroom…

“This mage threw me as bait for a trap.”

Lu’s finger pointed precisely at Jewelry.

Jewelry was startled and jumped in place.

“What? Threw you as bait? You’re using misleading language! It was all mutually agreed upon! Right? Everyone remembers, don’t you?”

The supply managers timidly nodded and glanced at me. They all seemed greatly impressed by “the maid is the cleaning leader.”

But it’s not me they should be watching. Unless it’s Lu, who was carried on the female investigator’s back and was fumbling for something.

He produced a thick book.

【Volume 2: About How I, a Country Bumpkin, Was Actually Royalty from a Neighboring Country】

“It’s a secret I’ve been hiding for the team’s morale, but…”

Then he smiled slyly and warned.

“I’m of Astrosia royal blood. So Jewelry? If we safely exit the Wall of Fire, wait for my contact. I’ll have to forcibly escort you for the crime of attempting to assassinate Astrosia royalty.”

Lu, now you’re even becoming royalty.

Jewelry stopped breathing and couldn’t say anything.

* * *

After the camping ended.

Team 2 was divided into two factions.

The faction that worshipped “the maid is the cleaning leader” and the faction that didn’t… of course that wasn’t it.

It was the existing Jewelry lackey faction that followed Jewelry, and the Luna lackey faction that betrayed her and attached themselves to Luna, the hidden royalty of Astrosia.

After the Killing Field incident, Jewelry drew an even more explicit line between her lackeys and the Luna lackeys.

“Well, what’s important is that we all survive. Literally surviving and getting out. Hehe. So don’t worry, brothers. I’m a mage who saves people!”

On the other hand, Lu was.

“…”

During every break time, he would diligently read 【Volume 2: About How I, a Country Bumpkin, Was Actually Royalty from a Neighboring Country】.

An unchangingly calm person, but always ready to stab someone in the back.

Perhaps because of that image?

The team members who heard about the Killing Field incident seemed to be trying not to upset Lu.

After the rumor spread that he was ‘a crazy bastard who even self-harmed to screw over Jewelry who bullied him,’ most showed frightened expressions whenever they interacted with him.

Of course, not everyone was scared.

“Are you alright? If your wounds open during travel, don’t feel burdened and come find Yeonwang’s party. Our healing mage is always worried about you too, Luna.”

Especially the female investigator from Yeonwang’s party showed great interest in Lu, and considering Lu’s fraudulent status, I thought it might be somewhat calculated behavior.

Jewelry also seemed to be using her head.

Perhaps recognizing that a formidable competitor had emerged in Team 2, she appeared to be struggling to attract more allies. Surprisingly, she even began showing courtesy to women, not just men!

‘Lu isn’t the type to just take things lying down. But he’s not usually the type to actively fight back either.’

When I lightly expressed my doubt, Lu answered like this.

“Don’t forget that four gods are gathered in this small land inside the Wall of Fire, Daisy. It’s almost the first time so many have gathered in a space that isn’t a spiritual world like Pantheon.”

At that, I thought of Black Mask who would be leading Team 3.

Though I’ve been consistently paying attention to him, he showed no suspicious aspects, and was a man who had never approached me or Lu.

“Especially since we don’t know what schemes Spolia might be plotting, it would be better to quickly deal with anyone who could interfere with you from within.”

In other words, if Jewelry crossed the line, she could meet her end at any time.

‘Spolia.’

What kind of bastard is he that every rumor about him is so uniformly sinister? This faint curiosity didn’t last long.

“Arrived at the first checkpoint! After spending tonight here, we’ll split up by teams tomorrow morning and move to our final destinations!”

It was our arrival at the first checkpoint after four days.

* * *

The Sword Master looked around at the three teams busy preparing for camp.

After reaching the first checkpoint, the tension that had gradually loosened during the long journey returning to its place was a phenomenon experienced every time.

In the first year of entering the Wall of Fire, there were many voices of concern that survival rates would also decrease when teams split up, but such opinions had long since disappeared.

In the first place, according to the agreement to ‘provide purification agents to the citizens of the republic,’ all team members were essentially guaranteed survival until reaching their final destination.

Then for what reason does the Contaninos Republic separate each team’s movement routes?

There is no official answer from Legion to such questions. They could only vaguely speculate that it was ‘to increase survival possibilities even slightly.’

But this was the fourth year since the Wall of Fire entry plan continued. The world had noticed that there was some reason behind this stubbornness that Legion would never give up.

Yes… just like today, when the Sword Master would receive a classified mission through Black Mask.

Blue eyes glinting in the darkness whispered to him.

“This is a message from Spolia, Sword Master. Kill Andert Pager.”

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