Chapter 101: Night Crystal (4)
Imagine this. A suspicious duo appears at the site of the old castle every night. One of them is a peerless beauty and the other one has superhuman physical strength. You split up with them every night when returning after finishing the job and never meet them during the daytime. You’ve met them in ‘Dessend’ only once, at an unusual bar that doesn’t serve garlic at night.
It’s strange for me to say this but, Mister Lazar and his group must have something wrong with them as mercenaries. How can they act together with such an extremely suspicious duo and not even feel suspicious. At the very least, if I was in their position, I’d have immediately cut off the relationship or reported to the employer. In the first place, they still haven’t withdrawn despite being attacked by the undead they couldn’t handle numerous times. I’m so speechless from their stupidity, I can’t even sigh.
But, I quite like Mister Lazar and the others, the mercenary group, who are neither useless nor helpful. I can sympathize a lot with their compromising attitude that everything is fine as long as they’re benefitting from it and as long as it’s not hurting anybody. Looks like Mister Lazar’s group is getting a cash bonus according to the number of undead that appear. I gave them all my rights to claim that amount in place of keeping us secret. It’s pretty nice when interests align. It’s ideal if we’re fighting together temporarily.
But it looks like I’ll need to make another move soon. There are too many things we don’t know, I can only check things one by one. If things start to seem dangerous, we just have to hurry up and run away.
After finishing today’s work, Senri and I were sharing information at the inn in ‘Dessend’. “I think that ‘Dessend’ is hiding something.”
“… I agree.”
To start with, regardless of whether this matter concerns the undead or not, it’s kind of strange that they didn’t contact the Order of Death Knights. The Mirage Demon King was an enemy of the Order of Death Knights, defeated a long time ago. It wouldn’t be strange to contact them after undead started to appear again and the Order of Death Knights wouldn’t ask for the reward so it’s not a money-related problem either.
I nodded strongly, while making my line of sight crawl on Senri’s white skin that was highly exposed to her shoulders, satisfied at us having the same opinion
As I put my arms around her delicate back, Senri doesn’t resist the movements of my hands and changes the direction of her body. The softness and warmth of her flesh, the hardness of her bones that I sometimes touch, her shiny hair and of course the blood flowing through her body, everything is first-rate.