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Episode 17: Simultaneous Picking

If it's the night the sun falls, there are stalls all over the city aimed at people who have finished their work. In winter, soups and simmers will be the focus of warming your cold body.

There was also one stall a short distance from the city centre.

The stall sold a variety of vegetables operated by a couple in their thirties that were simmered with special seasonings.

There came a young woman running in.

"Welcome... what is it, you?"

A woman running a stall was frightened when she realized it was a young woman who rushed in.

I thought you said not to come here.

The couple told some of their acquaintances not to come to the stall.

It's a precaution to fear that their identity will be known by their coming.

That's not what I'm talking about.

A young woman tells the couple as she lurks her voice in a hurry.

"... what happened?

The oligarchy man's shopkeeper thought that was all there was to it.

"Actually, I had some errands and I tried to get in touch with Adela's guy, but I haven't been able to catch him at all for an hour"

"What?"

Adela, the couple also knew about the person.

They are intelligence agents from other countries lurking in Alistair.

I was visiting to find out with the shock fact that only four adventurers had turned the war upside down in the war that broke out earlier in the spring.

The investigation revealed that little information was available about the person in question, but that the adventurers active on the border had adventurers who were not as strong as the target.

So, it was their intelligence mission to investigate again.

"I tried to get in touch with them about other guys that I could check right away, but I can't find them except one"

One of the people found was spending his normal time visiting the house where he was based.

But I can't find anything else about my peers.

"Apparently, they decided to pick us all together."

"Stupid."

We knew the couple didn't have a lot of Alistair's espionage skills either.

Previously, because it was a border, it was not a place that other countries would care about. It's hard just to get here from abroad. It was not the subject of an investigation because it was not of military importance either.

Even if intelligence agents are currently visiting from more than one country, they have not revealed their presence until now.

The couple was insulting somewhere. No, everyone who was undercover as well as the couple was an insult.

"I'm going to leave Alistair soon."

"... are you insane?

"The city's defense capabilities are certainly low. But there's something in this city you shouldn't have your hands on. Isn't that why all the intelligence agents in the empire escaped?

Intelligence began infiltrating in the wake of the war between the Empire and the Kingdom that took place earlier in the spring.

But at one point, an imperial intelligence agent disappeared on the border.

Intelligence agents who were equally lurking had their necks tilted. I was curious to find out why, but I couldn't find an answer like that.

Still, I'm pretty sure there was' something '.

The young woman's inquiry had told herself that 'something' was imminent.

"What are you going to do with your lover?

The young woman was gathering information while spending time in the setting that she came from a rural village looking for work as she lurked into the city. I knew one of the officials in the process and was asked to provide information as a lover.

We seemed to get along really well from the street general.

"I'm sorry, but I'm only seeing him at work."

The young woman was also planning to go back to the country by cutting off her relationship with the man if she was told to return from the country after gathering information.

For women, lovers are only those who make it easier to gather information.

"Right."

But from the general's point of view, it was discovered that the woman meant it against the man in the official.

Still, after hanging the assignment and the man on the balance, the young woman chose the assignment.

"I didn't come here only to report that I was leaving. What are you going to do with the dames?

"Right..."

If the identity of all is really known and simultaneous picking is taking place, the couple is also in danger.

They were also intelligence agents gathering information from drunk guests while pretending to run a small stall again.

"The least we can do for our intelligence agents is to be informed about our identity."

There's nothing to prove. I can escape being pursued.

But if you leave even conclusive evidence, you won't be able to get away with it.

Of course, in lurking, I have discarded my identity cards in my country, etc., and I am not allowed to communicate regularly with my country here.

I try not to find any evidence.

Does the fact that simultaneous picking is still taking place mean that other peers have made some kind of mistake and done harm to themselves, or have we grasped some kind of evidence that we will also miss?

"There's really been a simultaneous picking going on."

"I'm out of touch with at least a few people"

That's just an hour's talk, too.

"You."

"Oh."

My husband answers my wife's query.

Nevertheless, it is only a pattern between being told to pretend to be a couple so as not to be suspicious in lurking. Of course, he was doing what was necessary to look like a couple, and he was showing it to people he knew.

"We're going to run away, too."

"Right."

"Thanks for letting me know."

"I never thought I'd be able to thank you enough."

For a young woman, the general was like a master.

How can I get used to the city as I lurk into the city, the art of escort when I'm attacked by outlaws because of how I gather information. Using a woman as a weapon made it easier to gather information, but she was attacked from time to time by people who knew nothing.

Even the relatively secure Alistair used to be heard several times by a drunk while exploring the city at night in the beginning. The most formally trained men had been stunned, even though the target was a woman, the drunk could not have fought him.

Under such circumstances, the young woman had told the general of the crisis even though she had to flee immediately.

Remove the apron the couple also wore and remove the minimum equipment such as gold and knives needed for the journey that was in the bottom of the stall.

Suddenly, I was ready when I had to leave.

"This city was easy to live in."

There are many adventurers due to the fact that the labyrinth is nearby, as well as powerful demons on the periphery.

Though it tends to be insecure when confident adventurers gather in their power, the city has never had a tragic incident by adventurers that was relatively calm as to whether the knights and soldiers of the lord were working hard for us.

Besides, there was nothing like a couple getting attacked while running a street in the city at night.

"It's a shame to leave."

"I'm glad you said so, as someone who lives in the same city."

The couple looks back in momentum.

The young woman was also inclined to the one who spoke.

A voice I've never heard for the three of you. But I knew him as the most important person to gather information.

"" The Ethereal Sword "-!"

"I don't like those two names... come on"

Iris puts his hand on the couple's shoulders in a casual motion.

The couple didn't notice at all until they put their hands on their shoulders.

"Huh...?

The next moment, the couple and Illis disappeared.