The Villainess is a Millionaire Solver - Chapter 152

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Chapter 152

I looked at the letter with great nervousness, but the contents were surprisingly simple.

You can dispose of or manage the items here as you see fit, sister. I should have properly handed things over, but circumstances prevented me from doing so. If there are any problems, please come to the labor camp where I’m working.

-Sion-

That was all there was to it.

“What does it say?”

“Here.”

Benjamin took the letter from me, read it, and made a strange expression.

We looked at each other for a moment. Benjamin said,

“There’s no reason we can’t go.”

“Right. Let’s go.”

I replied.

Just in case, I looked around at the other treasures, but indeed there was no treasure as powerful and convenient as those black leather gloves.

After showing Sion’s letter to the guild employees, I left the Argos Trading Company Office with Benjamin, taking the gloves with us.

The labor camp where the Holy Order makes prisoners work was said to be in a remote location, not easily visible from the outside.

Visitors had to enter separately through the back gate.

Perhaps because it was festival season and there were quite a few visitation requests, the priest managing this place let us through without much comment.

“Please come this way.”

Following the guiding priest, I looked around.

The corridor was decorated with dragon horn replicas and wreaths symbolizing the Founding Festival. It seemed they were trying to create a festive atmosphere.

Between them, I could see portraits of saints with kind faces.

I had expected the labor camp to be brutal and terrifying, but it didn’t seem to be entirely like that.

I asked the priest,

“How is Sion doing?”

“He’s a model prisoner. He’s diligent and skilled with his hands, so he takes on other people’s work too. Ah, there he is.”

The priest pointed to one side of the workshop.

This seemed to be a woodworking area, as the sound of hammering was loud.

Amidst dust and sawdust flying everywhere, I could see Sion in gray clothes, diligently hammering nails.

It looked like he was making wooden arches for the festival.

When the priest approached and spoke to him, Sion turned his head to look this way.

His expression changed when he spotted me. It was a complex face, but seemed to show joy on one hand.

“Let’s go to the visitation room.”

Another priest approached and said.

We were given 30 minutes of visitation time.

As we sat down, Benjamin first looked Sion over with eyes full of wariness.

I could feel the hamster-like bravery of not letting anyone cause even the slightest harm to his precious source of income.

“No need to be wary.”

Sion said to Benjamin.

“I even drank poison to gain sister’s trust, so there’s no way I’d harm sister with my own hands, right?”

He turned his gaze to look at me.

“I was curious when you would visit the Argos Trading Company Office and see my letter, sister. I never expected you to move during the festival. I thought you’d be too busy meeting His Highness the Crown Prince, His Highness the Second Prince, Your Highness, Serene Hyperion, and so on…”

“I’m busy with work too.”

Cutting off Sion’s words roughly, I took out the gloves and placed them on the small table between us.

“I want to learn more about this item, but since you’re already imprinted as the owner, I can’t even touch it.”

“Ah, I’ll release it right away.”

Sion reached out and picked up the gloves.

“You chose well. Originally, this was leather clothing worn by a goblin king. It contained the energy of the war god that the tribe worshipped, giving tremendous strength. We defeated him and obtained this item, but we couldn’t wear the tiny goblin’s clothes, right? So we made it into gloves. How about it? It was a good idea, wasn’t it?”

Saying this, he pressed firmly on the round jeweled ornament at the wrist part of the gloves.

The black leather gloves began to glow softly.

But after a moment, the light disappeared and the jewel on the wrist turned blue.

Sion put down the gloves.

“It seems you can usually use it about 4 or 5 times. When this jewel turns red, it means the magic power is depleted. Then you need to recharge the magic power through magic stones or a mage.”

While kindly explaining how to use it, he slid the gloves back over.

Benjamin glanced at Sion and opened his mouth.

“I have something I’m curious about…”

“What are you curious about?”

“Even though you had such a powerful treasure, why didn’t you use it? The situation might have changed…”

He was asking why he had just kept the treasure stored away without using it, ending up in this state.

For such a cautious attitude, his words were quite sharp.

“That’s something you could easily understand with just a little thought.”

Sion answered without showing any displeasure.

“As I just said, this is an item that operates on magic power used by mages. I already chose black magic and went down the opposite path, so naturally I can’t use it. The only things I can use are cursed items that operate through black magic.”

Now that I heard it, that made sense. It had been a pretty but useless thing for Sion, not me.

“But you still imprinted it so no one else could use it?”

“Yes. I thought if I couldn’t use it, then others shouldn’t be able to either. But sister is fine.”

Sion looked at me. His single eye gleamed with a strange light as it stared intently this way.

“I’m really happy that I can help in this way. I can prove that I’m not completely without value.”

“…”

“Even though I treated you so roughly, sister, in the end it was you who saved me from the crisis of going to the execution block. Just like when we were children. As atonement, I said I would live only as long as you permit and help you. You don’t need to forgive me, just leave me be.”

Sion spoke in an earnest tone.

Perhaps because he was wearing shabby prisoner clothes and covered in dust all over his body, unlike in the past, it didn’t sound like complete empty words or lies.

I was lost in thought for a moment, looking at his completely changed appearance…

“Thirty minutes are up.”

A priest came to announce the end of the visitation. I spoke quickly.

“Then I’ll test the function of this glove and the other treasures you’ve imprinted, then sell them at a good price or give them to father. How do you do the imprinting and release?”

“It’s simple. Place both thumbs on the jewel and say your name in your mind to imprint. To release, the owner does the same thing, saying their name to release it. Use it well then.”

Sion answered like that and stood up from his seat.

He bowed politely toward me, then withdrew under the priest’s guidance.

We two also stood up from our seats.

Benjamin said with surprise as we came outside,

“He was unexpectedly very cooperative?”

“Right.”

Had he really changed his mind and decided to live a life that would help me?

‘Maybe I’ll know for sure if I watch a little longer…’

I looked down at the black gloves in my hand.

“Everything Sion just said is true, right?”

“We’ll have to test it once to be sure.”

After leaving the labor camp and coming back out to the street, Benjamin looked around.

Everyone was enjoying the festival.

The atmosphere was excited, different from the brilliant nighttime festival with lanterns.

Dragon-shaped paper kites and balloons were floating in the sky, and fathers carrying young children on their shoulders were strutting all over the streets.

“Ice cream! Ice cream here!”

Hearing the merchant’s voice suddenly made me thirsty. We each put a hard fruit-flavored ice cream in our mouths.

Benjamin said as he weaved through the people in the busy street,

“There should be an arm wrestling contest somewhere around here. We can test it there.”

Recalling the meteor mark on the Argos Trading Company wall, I opened my eyes wide.

“Won’t I end up breaking someone’s arm?”

“Of course you’ll have to control it properly.”

“I don’t know how to do ‘properly.'”

“That’s why I’m going to do it. Don’t worry, Master.”

Benjamin received the gloves and put them on after imprinting them as Sion had instructed.

We continued moving forward through the bustling crowd.

At some point, we heard the sound of bells ringing ding-dong-ding throughout the area.

People were gathered in a noisy crowd. Beyond them, we could see a sign with a muscular arm drawn on it.

“That’s the place.”

“Let’s go.”

We headed in that direction.

That’s when it happened.

Suddenly, screams erupted from behind us, followed by a commotion. Someone shouted loudly.

“It’s the thief! The phantom thief has appeared!”

What?

We both turned around at the same time. I shouted in bewilderment.

“A phantom thief in broad daylight?”

“It’s real!”

Someone ran past, pointing in one direction.

There was a person nimbly running across the rooftops of the marketplace.

A jet-black cloak fluttering in the wind. A black mask clearly visible even from a distance. At first glance, it did resemble that famous thief.

But from my perspective, being able to see divine power, his cloak wasn’t made of divine power. It was just a crude imitation.

I stared at that person with wide eyes.

‘It’s a fake thief!’

Could it be the mysterious figure? Had he walked right into the tiger’s den?

My heart raced.

“Benjamin! Let’s catch that guy!”

“How?”

Having heard the news, the security forces were already running over with their bows.

But the fake thief was too fast. At this rate, he would escape the encirclement.

‘In that case…’

Something caught my eye.

It was a giant wooden panel shaped like the World Tree, set up in the square for the upcoming play.

Both in size and position, it looked perfect for blocking the path of the fake thief who was escaping by jumping across rooftops.

“Benjamin! Block his escape route with that!”

“Understood!”

Benjamin quickly ran over.

Putting on the gloves imbued with the Goblin War God’s power, he lifted from below, and the giant World Tree-shaped wooden panel was hoisted up with a flash.

“Oh! Look at that!”

While everyone watched in amazement.

Benjamin held it up and waddled forward to block the fake thief’s path.

Suddenly faced with an obstacle, the fake thief tried to leap and dodge it.

But…

“Huh?”

Benjamin suddenly fumbled and ended up slamming that giant wooden panel straight down toward the fake thief.

It was tremendous strength.

I was horrified.

“I thought you said you could control it well?”

The fake thief was struck by the wooden panel and fell down below. He crashed into the boxes stacked underneath and fell on top of them.

‘At least 10 weeks of treatment?’

Anyway, we did manage to catch him.

In cases like this, there’s one thing you should do first instead of acting confused.

“Everyone stand back!”

I pushed through the people, ran over, and immediately ripped off the fake thief’s mask.

“Huh?”

Upon seeing that person’s face revealed from the pile of dust, screams of surprise erupted from all around.

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