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Just another Isekai Lover~
Chapter 362: last and final
“Damn it! What the hell is that dragon? Best we get the hell out of here!”
A small man was descending the stairs to the basement of Viscount Bowmen’s mansion, while cursing.
I’m getting a good reputation in the assassination guild, but I don’t know why I’m not being followed.**
The small man was Tauro’s former father, Sauk.
Sauk’s complaining never stopped.
“I’ve been useful to the Assassination Guild so far. Let’s take what we can get and get out of here. Once I’m on the run, I won’t get caught. Hee-hee-hee.”
Apparently, the reason Sauk was wandering around the basement was because he was looking for the treasure room.
“I think they’ve all gone upstairs. I don’t want to get caught in the middle of all these guys here, all of them like to die.”
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Sauk blurted out, and came to the front of the treasure room.
“…… here? Yeah? Is it open?”
Sauk noticed that the door to the treasure room was slightly ajar.
“all right! you are so careless to leave the door open. You can’t complain even if someone steals it. Hee-hee-hee.”*
Sauk put his hand on the door and opened it with all his might.
Then, standing there was the man who had met Sauk when he delivered the confidential documents requested by the executives to this mansion when he fled from the royal capital.
He must be the head of the assassination guild.
“Hm? —I remember, you said your name is Sauk…? —Did you intend to become a firebrand thief? I valued you because you have a rare skill, but with such a lowly heart, you would be a hindrance to the fulfillment of our great aspirations.”
After saying that, the leader draws his sword.
“Hiccup!”
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When Sauk realized that his life was in danger, he turned to flee, using his skill “Fugue”.
“I won’t let you get away!”
The leader slashed at the area where Sauk had disappeared with a dazzling sword move.
“Gyah!”
Blood splashed from the space.
And the next moment, Sauk appeared with a deep cut on his back.
“Hmm. After all, the skill ‘fugue’ doesn’t mean that the figure itself just disappear and it’s gone.”
The leader looked down at the breathless Sauk crawling on the ground and readied his sword.
“…H-help me…! All I need is my life…”
Sauk begs for his life.
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“You must be held accountable for your actions. This is the price you pay for trying to steal.”
The leader said coldly and thrust his sword into Sauk.
Ouch!
Sauk let out a short, small scream and took his last breath.
Thus ended his life as a fugitive.
To Tauro, Sauk was a lousy father, but he was still a good man until he lost his wife.
He was a reasonable man in the village, enough to marry his wife, who was the most beautiful woman in the village!
However, after Tauro’s birth, his wife became ill, and when she finally died, the despair of his wife’s loss drove him to anger, and he turned his anger toward Tauro.
Salk began to believe that Tauro was the one who had taken his wife’s life.
He had lost the will to work, became a drunkard, and became the worst kind of man, forcing the young Tauro to work in the fields by himself.
Sauk’s life may have reached its climax when Tauro was born.
From then on, he was chased by debts, abandoned his son, and spent his life on the run.
If Salk ever had any major achievements in his life that were beneficial to others, it was his great contribution to the eradication of the Assassination Guild, but he never knew it until the end of his life.
Viscount Bomen, the head of the assassination guild and a nobleman of the kingdom, packed his backpack with a magic storage compartment with important confidential documents and valuables, and was trying to escape using a secret underground passage.
“…If this happens, I’ll have no choice but to defect to the northern empire and try to make a fresh start.”
With that said, Viscount Bomen solidified his resolve and opened the door leading to the underground passage.
The passageway to escape was blocked by a rock wall.
“What!? W-what’s this?!”
He hit the rock wall that had replaced the passageway there.
“Oh, that’s ridiculous ……!”
Viscount Bomen is aghast.
That’s right, the dragon race had detected the hidden passage on the ground and blocked it all with earth magic.
There was no longer any way to escape from this feudal lord’s mansion.
“So-so much for… then, there’s only one thing to do…!”
Viscount Bomen returned the confidential documents from his backpack with magic storage to the treasure room and set it on fire without hesitation.
“…With this, we have fulfilled our duty of confidentiality with our clients. The only thing left to see is how many people on the ground we can bring with us…”
As Viscount Bomen was muttering to himself, he felt a presence behind him.
“Who is it?”
When I turned around, there was a child standing there.
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No, behind him stood a man carrying a large sword and four beautiful men and women.
“Are you Viscount Bomen, head of the assassination guild and lord of this land?”
“…… who are you, boy?”
“Hello, it’s my first time to meeting you. My name is Tauro. I was your target at one time.”
Tauro gives a slight nod.
“……! You are the boy who turned the tables on the skilled members of the assassination guild, and who has tarnished our self-respect. —Huh. We make it a point not to kill needlessly outside the contract, but we should have made an exception and done whatever it took to kill you when you were reported to us. ……”
“I’m glad it didn’t come to that.”
At his feet laid Sauk’s body, but Tauro did not acknowledge it.
I had a general idea of what had happened from the fact that he died right here.
“…So, what’s I look like? If you want my head, I won’t give it for free, you know?”*
“I wish I could say that, but it looks like the evidence has already been lost, so I’m afraid you’re going to have to be held as a live witness at all costs.”
As Tauro said this, Ankh and the others behind him braced themselves.
“Hahahaha! You think I’m going to let you arrest me quietly? You guys are joining me!”
Viscount Bomen declared, and pulled out a large magic stone from his pocket.
It’s the assassination guild’s specialty: taking people on the way by magic.
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However, the magic stone shows no sign of activating.
“W-what!? Why isn’t it activating!?”
“Unfortunately, I’ve seen that spell many times already, so I came prepared with my own countermeasure.”
Tauro replied and took out a box-shaped magical tool with a magic stone attached to it from his pocket.
“This magic stone has been processed in a certain way. It is designed to inhibit the activation of magic within a certain range.”
When Tauro told him the secret, Viscount Bomen fell to his knees.
“Damn it!”
Ankh and the others restrain Viscount Bomen, who accepts his defeat.
“…… phew. It can only be inhibited for a certain amount of time, so I was in trouble if he had resisted relentlessly and tried to activate it again and again…….”
At Tauro’s words, Ragune and the others replied,
「「「「「 Eh? 」」」」」
And then he froze.
TL Note :
Firebrand thief-looter, thief at the scene of a fire.