Chapter 135

The thieves’ morning was slow.

Like the prejudice people often have, it was largely because of the lack of urgency in maintaining a livelihood due to the existence of sponsors rather than playing and drinking all night to fit the life of debauched outlaws.

A decent village where you can enjoy moderately and an excellent source of information that helps you make stable plundering possible. And even a lofty profit. Occasionally, in accordance with the sponsor’s conditions, he had to go on an expedition a little farther and kidnap people, but compared to the comfort he could enjoy normally, he could tolerate that much.

“Ahhhh. I can’t wake up with this.”

“Aren’t you sleepy because you’re cold?”

“Oh Mr. Is that so?”

The same was true of the thieves who served as guards and guards at the hideout.

When there is no work, the number of people playing increases and they become lazy, so it has become a daily routine to set up four or five sentries. And even though the sun was moving toward mid-heaven, they couldn’t easily get out of their drowsiness and drowsiness because of the recent big sweat. Eventually, one thief could not stand it and took out a pipe, and the other thief wrinkled his nose and said.

“Hey. Open it up later. When the captain sees it, he starts a game.”

“Captain, I fell asleep after drinking a binge yesterday. You won’t wake up until after lunch?”

“Really? Then I’ll straighten it too.”

“Damn it. I didn’t bring it on purpose. Does anyone have cigarettes?”

The forest was dense, but their base was a place made by properly remodeling the remains of a fortress in the past. It is safe to say that there are no elements that could spread into a forest fire, and the area around the base is extremely clean.

However, their captain, who had a bad memory of a fire as a child, was extremely wary of burning cigarettes while on duty or anywhere and hated them pathologically.

“Anyway, even our captain can’t dry it. Looking at its appearance, it looks like it’s going to take a bath over a bonfire.”

“Hahaha. Who said no?”

“What was it recently? They said that death descends when five beacon fires rise, or that they were told by a fortune teller that they never allow more than five bonfires to be lit.”

“No, how can such a ghost-like person believe in superstition so well? Then, will the cigarette we smoke now be struck with a beacon and death will come soon?”

“It’s fucking funny, really.”

It wasn’t that they were dissatisfied with their captain. It is never easy to be angry with a person who played a key role in rallying or blowing away the bandits in the surrounding area.

Still, when I was certain that I would never wake up, I was able to deviate from smoking anywhere. About ten minutes had passed before he came to his senses with the help of a cigarette while chatting so loudly.

“Huh? Hey. What’s coming?”

Two strangers began approaching from the other side of the entrance where they were guarding. The tall man and woman who seemed to be walking towards their place as if it was natural, and even the man who looked like a man was waving his hands vigorously, so the five thieves could not help but put their heads together and fall into agony.

“Have you heard of someone coming?”

“I didn’t hear.”

“The captain isn’t the kind of person who would forget something like this...?”

He was a man who came all this way because he was careful and careful. Even if they are often excessive and tend to believe in superstitions, their captain, who is so serious that he could be alone in the army rather than in a band of bandits, was not a person to forget about the presence of a visitor and binge on drinks.

If it was usual, as soon as I thought about it, I would have threatened the unidentified outsiders...

“Hey, look at the cigarette smoke. Are you going to catch a raccoon?”

“I told you. If you’re confident, it works surprisingly well.”

I smiled and whispered to Asilie, who was muttering as if she was dumbfounded.

As soon as I looked at the lair of thieves, the size of which seemed to be over thirty, the decision I made worked perfectly.

Even in the modern army, ‘Oh, it’s a battalion commander.’ It’s me, I’m fooled by fraudulent blackmail, and in the yard where idiots often break through the guardhouse, what’s different about thieves? You don’t have to struggle to get into the yard where you can even check the outline with documents and commit fraud.

Asilie and I calmly looked around and grasped the locations and actions of the thieves we could see.

“Is your equipment pretty good?”

“Yes, yes. To complete the quest, we always keep our equipment in top condition.”

The guide thief considered me a complete slave hunter and began to appeal to me for their sincerity. Those words were not just empty words, they were definitely large for a thief, and they were caught even with unreasonable discipline.

On the way to the boss, there are 20 people who caught my eye easily, but I feel like there are more places where my eyes can’t reach their hiding places that look like they’ve remodeled ruins.

“Didn’t you say there were 20 of you? Why do you think there are more kids?”

“Yes? We always maintain 30 people...”

“Yes? I must have read it wrong. I’m a bit weak in numbers.”

“Ahh. It can be. I sometimes miscalculate a penny or two when I buy something in town.”

Heo hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee a world where he can secretly go to town and buy things.

The guy who had no way of knowing my thoughts seemed to laugh happily with me, probably thinking it was a laugh that sprang from a consensus. Continuing his search under the guise of a conversation, he stopped in front of a two-story building that barely maintained the shape of a tower.

“The captain is up there. He doesn’t like us being present when we talk about work, so I’ll leave.”

“You must be busy. Thank you. See you later.”

As I was waving and smiling at the guy who was returning to stand guard after bowing his head, Asilier looked at me with a subtle expression and said,

“Really, how can you be so sly?”

“Smiley? It’s a civilized warrior’s resourcefulness.”

“Even that point is sly.”

Asilie shook her head, but as there was nothing more to see in the yard so easily, I climbed the tower excitedly and reached the second floor. I pulled out my longsword and kicked the only wooden door with all my might.

-bang!

“Ughhh?! What, what? What is it?”

“it’s me!”

The wooden door, which was not in very good condition, was shattered, and the guy, startled by the sound of firewood oxidizing, jumped out of bed and looked around with eyes that were not yet awake. His gaze immediately turned to me, but he only made a dumbfounded expression, probably not only sleeping but also not waking up.

“What? Who are you?”

“death!”

I swung my longsword as hard as I could towards his neck.