TENKEN 405 (1158 words)

 Kalk

After getting Eliante's help in the guild, we pretend to be sightseeing and looked at places around the Adventurer's Guild. First of all, I thought about looking on nearby place

But this aristocrat district was a favorite place where noble tends to gather. And we stand out too much. So, we are going to sneak around at night. We have night vision skill so darkness wouldn't be a problem.

『Stone statue, bronze statue. Banner in a painting. engraving on a relief. There's a lot of possibilities』

「Nn」

『Urushi, if you can smells something related to Gallus, please tell us. It was the smell that sticking to yesterday's scabbard, remember that? 』

「woof woof!」

All that's left is to search by foot.

However, even after we kept walking since morning, we can't find what we were looking for. In the first place, in this vast royal capital, relying only on a sentence of a scorpion lion that we don't even know its shape is impossible.

『If it like this, it's going to take a long time』

(Ask someone who seems to know?)

『Even if we asked Eliante, she doesn't seems to know right』

(How about Kalk?)

Kalk. We certainly had an acquaintance other than Eliante. No, he's not really an acquaintance, we only have met once after all. He has a face of a thug, and it seems he's familiar with the back alley of the royal capital.

But i can't trust him, he too  seems scared of Fran, and probably would help if asked. However, he can also pretend to help us while leaking our information elsewhere.

I don't know how Gallus put the scabbard up for auction. In some cases, it's possible that Marquis Ashtner already knows that we won the scabbard.

That alone is still suspicious. But what if Fran, who won the scabbard, finds what she looking for? The ciphered message of a mansion with a war maiden glared at by a scorpion lion and the one who own such a mansion. It certainly will lead us to Gallus.

If that happens, it will become trouble some. It will be clear that the Marquis are our enemy.

But, Kalk's information network is certainly attractive. So i made up a plan.

『Well, I’ll just make a strong Doppelganger and make contact』

Without asking Fran, I make up my doppelganger to be a dubious looking man in plain clothing.

『Yosh, isn't it looks good enough』

It's so-so in terms of its ability. Although far from reaching Fran, he can at least use swordsmanship and have an average status of about 200. His ability is on par with mid-level adventurer. With Urushi's nose, it will be easy to find Kalk.

Urushi then hides in the shadow of my doppelganger, and Fran followed him while erasing her presence. I was also able to talk to Fran while moving my doppelganger with split thinking.

(woof woof)

『This way』

We followed Urushi's instructions and passed through back alley. And then we arrived at a bar with a tattered appearance that it's doubtful whether it is open for business. If i haven't sensed the presence of person inside it, i would have thought it was an abandoned building.

I push open the swing door, with just a little push the hinges started to make a creaking noise, and then i steps into the bar. Their gaze turned at me all at once with their unscrupulous gaze as if they were appraising me.

And then their expression immediately changed into a mockery. Because what i look like now is a middle-aged man with a dull face dressed in plain clothes. and i doesn't seems to ever trained and is unlikely to have special skill such as magic. These are enough conditions to be looked down.

Well, it seems the person I’m looking for has a rather keen eye on me. I approached the table where Kalk sits while slips through the men trying to trip me with their feet.

「Yo, are you Kalk-san?」

「Tsk, what do you want me to do」

Kalk frowns upon seeing me. But he doesn't try to escape

「Don’t be so cold to me. Someone told me that you can help me」

「.....where did you came from. stop your unnecessary pretense」

There is no one else with me, but he seems to be thinking various thing.

「Oi, don't do anything」

Kalk's words weren't for me, it was for his subordinate behind me that thought i was a nuisance and trying to get rid of me. Considering his man strength, he knows his man isn't enough to beat me.

His man was surprised when he understood the meaning of his word. After all, he thinks he is stronger than me. However, he seemed to be well educated as his subordinate and did not complain. The reason is he know Kalk's eye are highly reliable.

「Lets use the back room, come.」

「No, here is fine.――Silence」

「So you are a magician」

Kalk's face becomes even more bitter. Probably because my doubtfulness has increased. His man was surprised at the sudden disappearance of Kalk's voice. But when Kalk's restrained him, he promptly sat back on his chair.

「With this they won't hear our voice」

「So what do you want me to do?」

It seems that he will at least listens quietly. Good

「There is a place I’m looking for. It's a mansion with a war maiden glared at by a scorpion lion. Do you know? 」

「Is it a cipher or something? I would like to meet someone who can understand it already by only that」

「That's true, so please look for it. Also, secretly」

「Oioi…」

「This is a deposit. If you find it, I’ll give you three times of this」

「Hou」

I casually put 50.000 Goldes in front of Kalk. The color of his eyes changed in front of the large amount of money.

「What's the deadline?」

「Tomorrow night, I’ll come here again」

「That's, will be tough」

「That's why it's this amount」

「....Don't expect too much from me」

「I expect much from you, see you later」

「O-oi....」

I grinned at Kalk while erasing doppelganger Infront of him. He seen his client disappear like a smoke dispersing into thin air giving an eerie feel.

『Yoshi, with this i managed to get Kalk's help. Hopefully, we'll get information tomorrow night』

「Nn」

『That being said, we'll continue to search on our own』

「I know」

「woof!」

 

Author note:

I received a review!

Moreover, he is from Korea.

The charm of cat ears has nothing to do with borders.

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