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Chapter 202
The Holy Maidens of Sierra
Late night, Hestia Merchant Guild.
Garnet, posing as the guild master there, was with Jed.
Garnet showed Jed one side of a book.
"This is the Doppler list the Regent-nim brought this time. Give it a read."
"Let's see... wow, there's a whole bunch of names I've heard of in here?"
W̄еb́ n о v́е l̊ Ё n u ma
There were people known for bad reasons, of course, but also for good ones.
Among them were those who had turned over a new leaf, released their wealth to feed their territory's people, and were called 'true lords'.
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"As expected, there's no smoke without fire. What does our pure-hearted Regent-nim want to do?
"It seems he wants the Ambu to handle it all."
"Hmph, the Barnie Swallows aren't an assassin group..."
Barnie Swallows.
Е̂ ǹ ǔmа
A phantom thief group that built their reputation operating quietly since before the Ambu was formed.
Using the Black Bandana's influence, they roamed every corner of the continent, exposing corrupt nobles' true faces and distributing their wealth.
They were saviors to the commoners, and a group the nobles couldn't praise enough even if they applauded until their hands broke.
Wanted posters exist for them, but no one dares catch them carelessly, because they strictly adhere to the principle of 'no killing'.
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That's why the Barnie Swallows, to maintain that reputation, cracked down on every bandit group or impostor organization that popped up claiming to work under them.
"Exposing them like usual... that's probably too dangerous, right?"
Е ńu m̀ а
"It'd be like lighting a fire in front of a pile of straw."
The Barnie Swallows merely accused unsavory humans to have them beaten by public opinion.
Demon followers have no way out.
Greater chaos and, at worst, uncontrollable casualties would surely result.
"Killing them would certainly be cleaner... but it'd be nice if they had weird traits like those doppelganger bastards. They maintain the person's form even when dead, you know? If other nobles pick a fight over it, the Barnie Swallows can't operate anymore."
"That's true..."
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Garnet, knowing how important credibility was, couldn't just say to throw away the Barnie Swallows name and kill them all.
"We'll have to eliminate them one by one, quietly, for unrelated reasons..."
Is there no other way?
As she was thinking that.
Knock knock—.
Someone knocked on the room they were in.
Ê nù m̀ а̄._iď
Jed reflexively grabbed his dagger.
"Did you call someone?"
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"There's one more besides you. Come in."
At Garnet's words, the person who opened the door and entered was Penelope.
"You two enjoying a secret rendezvous. Mind if this sexy demon barges in!?"
"I called you 30 minutes ago, what do you mean showing up now?"
Е̂ n̄ū m а̊
"But night is demon time, what can I do! What if demon minions raid us? What'll happen to this fragile body?"
Penelope striking a pose that showed off her figure.
Garnet looked at her with a pathetic expression, then asked Jed.
"You, how long you gonna keep hanging around with that?"
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"She looks like that, but she delivers when it counts..."
"Affection's a scary thing. Can't even throw away a fool like that."
E n̂ ũm̆ а
"Hehehe, Jeje, you couldn't admit my irresistible feminine charm, my femme fatale nature, but your body's honest, huh? Come to noona."
"Just cleanly slitting her throat and going your own way doesn't sound half bad either?"
"It's a joke, a joke! What were you talking about? Let's see! What's a Doppler? A typo for doppelganger?"
Garnet just sighed quietly and answered.
"Demons who disguise themselves as humans."
"Huh? That existed?"
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"The thing they were experimenting with at that place where you and I first met."
"Ah, there... just imagining it, ugh..."
Penelope trembling and making a fuss.
Jed suddenly got curious and threw a question.
"But why were you caught there?"
"That? Nothing much. The unnie trying to catch me was a dark elf, pretty as hell face, nicely tanned skin, seemed like our skin, hearts seemed to match, but she was a total femme fatale snake?"
Ӗ ṅu̇mа̃
"...Records say you summoned her and she acted like a dog saying she'd do anything?"
Penelope, making an aggrieved expression, changed her tune.
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"No! I had no choice! It was a chance to play with an elf, you wouldn't? You wouldn't!?"
"Do me a favor, don't treat me the same as you. I'm begging you here."
Jed glared at her with a pathetic look.
Garnet stared at that Jed and said.
Е̄ñú m̈a
"You're the same bastard."
"What? Why am I like her?"
"Rumor has it you tried to seduce the new high elf who joined?"
"I didn't risk my life. And I didn't know he was a man."
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"If she was a woman, you'd have kept trying?"
"Aigoo, what's written in here? My eyes are dim, can't see properly!"
Е̃n̈ úm а́_
As Garnet glared disapprovingly, Jed covered his face, pretending to read the list.
'Why this idiot bastard...'
It was felt clearly.
Affection really is a scary thing.
Knock knock—.
Silence falls with the knock sound.
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Jed asked cautiously.
"Did you call someone else?"
"No one else called."
Jed drew his dagger for real this time.
As Garnet quietly prepared, the door opened.
"Huh?"
Е̊ ň ü ḿ а
What appeared there was a woman with narrowly opened eyes.
"Woah, beauty...!"
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"Shut it. How did you get in here?"
At Garnet's question, the woman answered with a loose smile.
"Sorry. It's late at night and the road was scary so I needed a light."
Her gestures look no different from an ordinary woman.
Е̇ n u mа̃ .і d
But the wariness didn't loosen.
"First face I've seen in this village."
"I just came yesterday. With my orabeoni."
"Five people entered yesterday. No women among them. And do you think it makes sense for a woman to be wandering this late at night?"
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"Hmm... troublesome. Heard the merchant guild master was meticulous, but this meticulous..."
Even with her identity exposed, her manner remained relaxed.
W е̂b̊n о̊vѐl .Е̂n̂ ũ mа̌
"If you're gonna be like that..."
She raised both hands.
Then made a grabbing gesture and said.
"The Beast of the Night will take you all away?"
Flap!
Window opening from a sudden gust.
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No, something fast as wind.
The wind that something created extinguished the candle and flew in.
Clang!
Sparks flew in front of Garnet.
Sparks from Jed's dagger that lunged out the moment the window opened.
The sword trying to ambush her and the sword clashed in a deadlock.
Ẅё.bn̈оvе l Ė n ùm̌ а
Followed by a contest of strength.
'Strong.'
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The opponent holding a slight edge.
Jed twisted his sword before taking more damage.
Breaking the deadlock, he collapsed the opponent's posture and counterattacked first.
But the opponent was no slouch either.
Е̇ nū m̀а̄. і d
Rather than letting her collapsing body fall, she twisted it even larger to escape the dagger's trajectory.
The attacker arriving like a summer storm scattered ragged cloth and hair.
Clearly visible were blue eyes.
That shining color was similar to what he'd seen before.
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And before he could even recall it, it flew inside and stood beside the intruder.
"You okay?"
Е́n û m а
Jed asked, catching Garnet's body as she was about to fall.
"I'm fine."
Garnet raised her drawn crossbow, aiming at the two.
Penelope, as always, panicked and spat rapid-fire.
"Uh, uwaaaah what's going on? Who are you? A spy mom sent!? Damn, should've stayed cooped up in the castle, why'd I follow this pretty swallow bastard out and get tailed, ubuhb!"
"What are you?"
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Jed stuffed cloth into Penelope's mouth as she chattered nonstop and asked.
The attacker who ambushed them didn't answer.
Instead, the woman answered.
"My name is Angrem, and this child here is Yubel. And this friend can only answer with two characters. Man and Sak."
"...Sak."
"Got it. I won't say anything useless."
Е̃.ṅum̊ ӑ .і d̃
The moment Garnet heard those two names, she knew.
"Yubel and Angrem... they're the Sierra Order's Saintesses."
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Sierra's Wolf and Sierra's Dancer.
Grade 1 criminals with flashy charges in the Empire.
But they'd disappeared 3 years ago, with only rumors circulating that they'd died at someone's hands.
"That's right. As expected of the Black Bandana Leader-nim, you know well. No, should I call you Ambu Leader-nim now?"
É n u m а. ǐ ď
Garnet frowned.
Not only a surprise attack, but she knows her past too.
That also meant she absolutely must not be let live.
Garnet carefully aimed her crossbow at Angrem's chest.
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Intending to pierce her heart and kill her on the spot.
That was when.
W̄еb n̊ о v̇ еľ Еn ũm̃а
Two eyes emitting blue light entered Garnet's vision.
Those eyes showed something vividly.
Garnet, herself dying.
The moment she pulled this trigger, the fear of reaching death's threshold would become not just fear, a warning.
"Our meeting was a bit sudden and rough, but I want to end it here. We only need one thing."
"What is it?"
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"That item in your hand."
It was the Copy of Lab Director Linne's Journal.
"Give it to us. If you just give us that, we'll disappear quietly."
"..."
"It's not the original, just a copy someone translated, right? How about you give it up, calling it the price of the famed Black Bandana selling information with their lives on the line?"
"I refuse."
W е̄b̊ ń о̇v̂ė l Еn ù m а̄
Conviction is more important than life.
That was the will of the ancestors who led the Black Bandana, and Valdrova's Ambu.
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"Valdrova's Ambu... not bad. This much gets a passing grade."
"Sak."
"Still, I'll admit it's not to my liking. Normally you'd want to kill us all, right?"
"Man!"
Еn ů m а̌
Yubel's eyes shone like a beast's.
But Angrem still smiled.
"But what can you do? Today is the 'Full Moon', you know?"
"...Man."
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"Too bad, right?"
Yubel looks at Angrem smiling cheerfully with displeasure.
W̆ ѐb n оvе l̆ Е n̂u̇m̂å
"So let's just rough them up a bit."
With those words, killing intent bursts out.
Jed senses battle starting again and pulls the cloth out of Penelope's mouth.
"Pepe!"
"H-he, Haste!"
Red light wraps around Jed's body and he accelerates.
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Two lights move leaving afterimages like brushstrokes on black drawing paper.
Fast, but at a level he can respond to.
'No.'
Jed felt it with his sixth sense.
That by the time his eyes track it, it's already too late.
Jed brought his sword to the left.
Ëǹ ù m а
Clang!
Sparks scatter to the side.
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As expected.
The light's movement was a feint. The main body moves even faster in the darkness.
Just one exchange, but Jed couldn't hide his shock.
'Even with acceleration magic, she's this much to handle.'
W̌ѐ.bn о̌v̄е̌ l̄ Е̌n̊ŭ m̆ а
A body that catches up to movements that could shake off even those swift wolf monsters.
Jed acknowledges the opponent's skill and goes just as bold.
"Hup!"
Jed hooks the woman's sword with the wedge of his deadlocked dagger.
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And twists his whole body greatly.
The sword falls from Yubel's hand from the sudden force.
W̄e b̌n̄о̃ v̊ е l E n̊ ūm̊а̂
'Subdue her like this.'
With nothing in her hand now, he planned to just mess up her tendons and subdue her.
But that was an arrogant thought.
"Jed, watch out!"
That hand that should've been empty now held another sword.
'How?!'
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Right before that question became his final death rattle.
A sharp sword tip flies at Jed's throat.
"Ugh!"
He barely dodges the sword's trajectory by throwing his body back, but his posture collapses.
The woman aims her sword at Jed's chest, targeting the opening.
Helplessly done in.
Е̇ǹ u m а . іd
Pshung!
"!!"
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The woman's attack stops, and she forcibly twists her body.
A small bolt flies through that gap and vanishes into the air.
The two standing in awkward postures create distance again.
Jed goes to where Garnet is, the woman does a mid-air flip and lands perfectly on the desk.
Е n̄ ŭ ṁ à
'Total monster?'
Jed uses this split second to continuously analyze the opponent.
A woman's body catching up to his Haste-supported body, and a sword from who knows where.
And blue eyes constantly trying to stiffen his body.
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'There's definitely magic.'
No time to leisurely duel swordsmanship.
W.еb̌ n̄ôv̄ ĕ l̄ Е ṅ u ṁa
'Gotta use it.'
If that side uses eyes, this side uses them too.
Jed is the sole survivor of the Red-Eyed Tribe.
The Red-Eyed Tribe's nickname was Mage Killer.
The reason they could was the tribe's unique eyes that could shatter magic circles.
Jed's eyes emitted red light.
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"Oh my?"
The first words from Angrem watching with hands behind her back.
Jed saw something wrapping Yubel's head.
He shot his gaze there.
"Uuut!?"
It worked.
Е̇n ū.ma
One layer of magic wrapping Yubel's head shattered, and her body twitched unnaturally.
Yubel dropped her sword and grabbed her head.
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"Uuuuuu..."
Painful groan.
Jed thought.
This is the answer.
Е̌ ňǔm̂ а .і d́
But realizing that was a misconception didn't take long.
"Uwaaaaaaah!!!"
What burst out at the end was a roar.
That roar shook the entire building.
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"Ugh!"
"Hiyaaang!?"
W̃ е b̊ñ о̊_vе̄ l̆ Еn ú m а
Garnet and Penelope couldn't keep their balance and collapsed.
As if an invisible giant weight pressed down on their bodies.
Jed barely managed to stay on his knees.
Jed then realized for certain.
That power source he thought it was, was actually the chain suppressing Yubel.
Yubel's raging movements grow rougher.
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She drops her head thrown back and glares at Jed.
The moment Jed sees those eyes, he flinches and trembles.
The blue eyes are now shining red.
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