The Villainess is a Millionaire Solver - Chapter 57

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Chapter 57

“I suppose I should?”

I answered.

“You said I’m qualified to trade this information, and the value of both pieces of information is equal. There’s no reason not to make the deal.”

“Good judgment, Young Lady.”

Ruellian went toward the stained glass that occupied the entire front space.

With his back to me, he manipulated something, and letters appeared on each piece of colored glass that formed the giant picture.

I opened my eyes wide.

‘It wasn’t just simple glass?’

All the lights in the glass windows went out at once. Then, after a moment, light came into one colored glass window in the lower left. Following that, several other glass windows began to shine separately.

Ruellian put his hand into the colored glass window that had lit up. The next moment, something like documents were drawn out.

‘Document transmission?’

I stared with my eyes wide open. That stained glass seemed to contain tremendously powerful and mysterious forces.

‘Do the contracted information guilds exchange documents through something like teleportation magic? Considering this is a world without electricity, it’s quite innovative.’

The fact that they completed a background investigation of the real culprit in just one night during the Sacred Tribunal must have been thanks to this kind of system.

How much magical power would be needed to set up something like this?

While I was thinking about various things out of curiosity, Ruellian quickly skimmed through the documents and sorted them. His technique was very practiced.

“Now, the results are in.”

He sat across from me with the documents divided into three bundles. Then he first picked up the first bundle.

“Eunice Gillian. 29 years old. From a bureaucratic family, completed very orthodox gifted education…”

Ruellian summarized Eunice’s growth process for me.

“After graduation, she received numerous letters of recommendation and was hired as an apprentice aide to the House of Rosen at age 19. Her abilities were recognized and she rose to the position of chief aide at 22, and has excellently assisted Duke Carnel for 7 years until now at age 29.”

The white card containing my first requested question, ‘Who is Eunice’s true identity?’ turned black and fell under the plate. The lightened plate rose slightly upward.

But there wasn’t much difference.

“As you can see, Eunice Gillian doesn’t have anything you could call a hidden identity. She’s very transparent. Boringly so.”

Ruellian said while picking up the second bundle of documents.

“But when I searched all the records of other information guilds, one interesting thing came up.”

That document had a black skull mark stamped on it. I asked.

“What does this mean?”

“It means it’s a record from the Dark Guild. That’s not their real name though. You could say it’s like a kind of errand service?”

Ruellian explained simply.

“It’s a place that handles all requests in utmost secrecy, so normally you shouldn’t be able to view this. I can do it because it’s me. External leaks are impossible, so understand that, and we’ll just look at it here between us and end it. Got it, Young Lady?”

“Got it.”

When I answered, he handed over the documents. First, a complicated name caught my eye.

“‘Member x3827z80k’?”

“That’s exactly Eunice Gillian. She started very diligently monitoring all the businesses the Young Lady does through the Dark Guild from three years ago.”

“Why?”

“I wouldn’t know. The guild master doesn’t know either.”

The business monitoring that started three years ago ended about a year ago. What could this mean? Recalling that Eunice had personally appeared at Queen Aunt’s interview venue, I could guess well enough.

“At first she was extremely careful using the Dark Guild, but seeing what I was doing, she felt there was no need for that. Since I didn’t even have the intelligence to notice, she probably judged that monitoring me personally would be sufficient.”

“This is the first time I’ve seen someone analyze themselves so objectively.”

Ruellian said in an admiring tone.

“Anyway, read it carefully. There’s quite interesting content included in those two years of records.”

I read through the documents, turning them over one by one. Then a certain name caught my eye.

【La Pavilia Restaurant】.

At that moment, a fragment of memory that had been deeply buried as a dark history in my mind suddenly surfaced.

‘Ah, this is…’

Like a flashback in a movie, various scenes flashed before my eyes.

As you know, Aristina had ruined every business until now. However, among them, there was one business that showed some promise.

‘Surprising?’

Well. How could a person always step in shit? Probabilistically, that would be difficult too. Statistically, there should be at least one instance of accidentally succeeding while trying to step in shit and missing.

This case was exactly that kind of case.

Aristina, being impulsive, spontaneously hired some beggar-looking chef from the street, and it turned out he was a genius buried in the mud.

As always, she carelessly entrusted the interior design without checking properly and got scammed, but that unfinished feeling created an exquisitely perfect atmosphere as if it were intentional.

Anyway, her luck strangely turned and business started going well.

…Am I finally having my first success?

It was when Aristina’s self-esteem, which had fallen to rock bottom, began to rise little by little.

“Aaaah! What is this!”

One day, a customer who visited the restaurant suddenly screamed and threw down their plate. Between the broken dish fragments, pasta strands covered in cream sauce were writhing wildly.

It was a long worm cut in half.

“Bleurgh!”

The customer vomited while clutching their stomach and rolling around, and chaos immediately broke out.

“Young Lady! How exactly did you manage the kitchen?”

“It’s unfair! What management did I do? I don’t do management!”

Aristina’s absurd statement was featured prominently in the newspapers.

When the victim said they would settle if they received a large amount of compensation, we gave them money, but then reporters rushed to the scene, causing an uproar about the Young Lady forcing a settlement to silence them.

While going through all this mess, Aristina’s restaurant, which had just been on an upward trend, failed spectacularly. Along with the label of being a stupid and careless villainess as expected.

‘But then…’

My gaze couldn’t leave the document on the table.

A copy of the Dark Guild’s document plastered with stamps saying ‘Internal Top Secret/Leakage Prohibited’. On it was clearly embedded the face of the customer who had eaten the worm and vomited that day.

Although it wasn’t the dressed-up appearance in a suit like that time, the facial features were exactly the same.

“So this customer was…”

“A shill connected by the guild.”

Ruellian tapped one of the request lists that the shill had carried out.

Member x3827z80k’s ‘La Pavilia Restaurant’ request: Success.

“Wow…”

I was so dumbfounded I couldn’t speak.

I vividly remember Eunice saying ‘The Young Lady probably just slipped up while trying to do well’ while restraining the furious Duke Carnel.

And it was something she directly orchestrated? My neck is throbbing, isn’t it?

“Now you finally have a somewhat human expression.”

Ruellian’s voice brought me back to reality.

Did I show too emotional a face?

I quickly hardened my expression. What kind of place is this?

“I’m human after all. However, in negotiating situations like earlier, I can become a beast anytime.”

“In my view, you’re not a beast but…”

“A wild animal? A monster?”

“Where did I see that? Ah, right. Laval Viscount’s Dog.”

What kind of fierce dog is that?

I quickly searched my memory.

The image of that dog immediately came to mind. A tiny puppy that would bark ‘Arrrr! Alalal!’ like the world was ending if anyone just touched it.

Of course it would have a different name in this world, but that was exactly…

‘…a Chihuahua?’

Crack.

I heard the sound of the fan handle I’d been gripping tightly since entering here starting to crack.

Do you even know what’s inside this fan?

“Anyway, that’s not what’s important.”

Ruellian skillfully changed the subject while picking up the third bundle of documents.

“The most interesting information discovered today is this. Just 3 days ago, ‘Member x3827z80k’ put in a request to the Dark Guild again after more than a year.”

“A request?”

“Yes. Saying they’re currently preparing something very important.”

“Themselves?”

“My feeling is that Eunice Gillian is receiving orders from someone.”

Ruellian said.

“Since this job absolutely has to succeed, they hired a decoy to distract the target during the preparation period.”

I looked down at the documents he handed me. There was a portrait of a woman with reddish-brown hair, green eyes, and a slightly crooked nose.

“Her specialties are pickpocketing and acting. The location of the request she received three days ago is the 【Imperial Department Store】 and the date is the day after tomorrow.”

“Aha…”

A strange sound escaped from my mouth.

Well, well, caught red-handed.

What are you going to do now, Eunice?

How did it happen that this foolish Young Lady caught you perfectly with the Empire’s best intelligence network?

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