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Episode 32: Last Day of Auction

Auction day three.

Today, the last day, the auction will focus on magic tools and precious chemicals and herbs that have been excavated from the labyrinth.

Yesterday, let me use the room that Rio had secured just like yesterday.

"So yesterday's capture failed."

"... oh"

Not so busy. Rio keeps asking.

Yesterday, I was going straight to the inn because I didn't like to report the failure of something called [possession] after I let a skilled thief escape. Sylvia and I immediately joined us because we contacted her on the pronouncement.

"What if it's that time to deliver results?

"No problem. Thanks to all your efforts to gather information, we've made progress."

Rather than say Rio......, the Empire was questioning the two thieves captured during the party to gather information.

Identity of the two, information on the person behind them.

Yesterday, although the capture failed, the contact revealed that "we are using the inhabitants of the slums".

"I asked about the situation from a slum relationship."

"What's the result?

First, it turns out that the two thieves were brothers who originally lived in a slum in a city different from the Empire City.

The mother died as soon as her brother was born, her father was there, but her alcoholism had gotten worse since the time she lost her mother, and when she realized it, she had to live alone with her two brothers.

The two, who also had trouble with their daily lives, used their skills to work stealing.

My brother turns into a total stranger, and even if he gets chased, my brother helps him from across the wall. The stolen ones can only be captured because they are only seen after they have been transformed.

Continuing such a life, someone came in contact.

"Is he [possessed] skilled?"

The man's name is Greg.

A young man in his late teens who cut bright red hair, he also used his skills to talk to where he stole food that day.

Why don't you do something bigger anyway?

He taught me how to use my skills and train my magic.

When I realized it was the first man I could count on for the two of them whose fathers were gone. I was treating him like a real brother.

"Even the young man is suspicious."

He's the one who left the Shadow Warrior behind.

I'm not necessarily treating you like you really are when you're treating your brothers.

"No, it won't"

"Why?"

"Spend magic while you're using your skills. That's [possession] 'Cause it shouldn't change. My brothers were always with Greg."

"... you can't"

It may be possible to continue to use skills all day if they are out of standard like us, but there was no way the average person could have been so unscrupulous.

While I was dealing with my brothers, I was dealing with them in a body that didn't need to consume magic.

"Big things - they were designed to steal from noble opponents."

"Who was acting as a thief?

"Because they can better inform the public about their activities."

"Huh?"

Theft, I don't understand the need to let you know my name even though I'm committing a crime called theft.

"The nobles live as luxuriously as they do every day, even though they live to the fullest."

In fact the aristocracy has had a lot of difficulty as well.

I may be able to eat delicious food like every day, but I think I can't keep it until I have some extravagance because I work constantly for that amount of hard work.

"Greg told me you started robbing me."

"You were abetted."

"Repeated burglaries aimed at nobles are their revenge, and it seems to be their self-satisfaction to give them to the people like thieves."

I accidentally wanted to exhale.

It's a good nuisance to get caught up in a burglary case in their eight hits, though I don't know if it would be human distrust to say that we've lived with only our brothers supporting each other since we were truly minded.

There must have been a more honest way to live.

It is their sin not to realize it.

"Well, you've been able to get that information."

As far as I can tell, the brothers are open to Greg's proposed theft, etc.

They also seemed to teach me a lot about skills, how to use magic, and I felt like I admired them like my real brother.

So I didn't think I would mention Greg's presence even if he was tortured.

"Our party has information-gathering officers."

Sonia, who was drinking Silvia's brewed tea next to Rio, made a sign with her right hand and looked proud.

[Good-looking (Goodface)]

Skills that make people think they are close to each other by making contact and conversation with the subject.

The intimacy was such that it was easy for Sonia to find out about Greg in contact with him.

Don't use it on me.

I was already the person I saw, but I get scared, for example, that I feel intimate within my own ignorance.

"It's okay. It doesn't work when you guys are dealing with each other"

[Goodness (Good Face)] seems to be ineffective unless you're a weaker opponent than you are, enough to make you feel critical uncomfortable with someone a little stronger.

"Instead of having all sorts of useful skills, I have the lowest ability to fight in my family."

Nevertheless, being a Labyrinth family member makes almost everyone in the public weaker than Sonia and easier to get information from.

But [Goodness (Good Face)] doesn't work against us because we all have the lowest status, including my family, as she declared.

"If you have that handy skill, shouldn't you have just interrogated me?

"Try taking away the soldiers' work when the Emperor's sideroom does that. I get annoyed by the manipulations and the decisions that don't make much sense, and the old nobles say all sorts of disgusts."

So I only granted him a day's respite.

However, it seems that Sonia spoke with a variety of people to elicit important information in the extension of the public discourse as she saw how things were going because the interrogation did not yield a fragrant result yesterday.

"I sympathize with their predicament, but I can't have you bothering Rio"

Sonia was picked up by Rio and Mr. Cattleya where she was left alone, too.

I sympathize with their plight, but it's more important to be on Rio's side now.

"So, I guess you thought about how to catch Greg"

"Of course."

Explain the capture methods prepared.

Rio's cooperation was essential as a prerequisite in order to test this method.

"You've got a lot of monsters."

"Because you have the right to be free of demons in the labyrinth, you don't have the hands to not use them effectively."

"It's a matter of margin for magic. This one consumes a lot of magic because it's spreading the labyrinth all the way to the Empire to maintain the ties of the Empire."

So I can't easily summon you as a wheezer.

Thanks to the labyrinth of the entire Empire, various pieces of information are available, allowing the new Emperor's rule to proceed without problems, but the disadvantage also exists that it consumes only its magic for that matter.

Long and short.

There are things that each of us can do, things that we are good at.

"I hope it doesn't consume magic enough to give you the map data."

"Thanks"

What I need is not an auction venue and a map of the neighborhood I got yesterday.

It made me crave a map of the entire Empire.

"Now we have no problem getting away next time"

All you have to do is wait for the other one to move out.

Worst case scenario, I can think of not moving at all, but at that time, I will feel reassured that the auction was a successful success.

"By the way, what happened to the others?

"Except for Sylvia..."

Silvia was the only family member in the room.