CH 41

Duke, Please Repent! chapter 41

10. The Duke and the Dark House (3)

Serpence's setting was very appropriate.

He blocked those who came to me to solicit me in advance.

He picked up drunk passers-by and threw them with one hand.

Among the dogs, there was a person who was carrying an escort knight from another country, and they were also hung next to the other owner.

Occasionally, there were guys who saw our suspicious outfits with their faces hidden and made bets with each other and rushed to take our hoods off.

Serpence seems difficult to deal with, so it was of course me who was the main target.

With just a gesture of pulling my wrist, he avoided their touch and kicked it lightly.

'What the hell is this doing'.'

When he arrived in front of the building with a sign with a picture of a scorpion on it, Serpens stopped walking.

No one else wanted to attack us.

this moment right now.

The best outlaw on this lawless street was Serpens.

Seeing him like this, who the hell would see him as a master who escorted his servants to places like this... .

Master, aren't you showing too much force? What will you do if you get caught...

Yeah? You haven't even pulled out your weapon yet.

Subjects who did not bring a sword in the first place

He's good at saying things like that.

I was going to a dangerous place, but because I was bare-handed, I thought there was such a thing as an arms restriction agreement like the advisory council.

'But I didn't know it would just be unnecessary!'

As proof of that, don't other people, men and women alike, wear weapons that can be used for self-defense around their waists?

The only people who were bare-handed here were me and Serpence.

"Those who attack are not even a pharmacist. They are just pyramids that do not even recognize the level of the enemy, and they can be said to be real.

The guy wasn't there. only this much

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Are you a pharmacist? There were people who looked like knights... .

How strong do you have to be to become a normal soldier within the criteria of Serpence?

"Now let me in."

Serpens grabbed my weak wrist and dragged me into the building that looked like a tavern.

Building a building under the basement was amazing.

Welcome, it was quite noisy from the beginning.

caused... .

The shop owner said in a gloomy voice that he uttered lines that looked like he would immediately enter a declaration ceremony against a clumsy novice villain.

However, since Serpence was not the first time, he lightly ignored those words and took out a platinum-colored plaque from his pocket and showed it.

"Hot-, it is !"

Whether the tavern master who checked the hand was surprised or not, Serpens dragged me past him.

Enter the warehouse inside the checkout counter, remove the carpet and go down the hidden stairs underneath.

went down

I wondered if this was okay, but I heard the sound of forcing guests out as if they were used to it, so it looks fine.

From here on, the trap is set up. Don't touch the wall and step on it, ummm...

It's dark, can't you see things like your feet?

" it seemed so."

As soon as those words were finished, my body floated.

I've been this way to a man all my life

I never thought that the day I would embrace you would come... .''

'Please correct me as I heard it. I thought you didn't like it being put on your shoulder, but did you like that as well?

" let's just go like this."

What I heard anyway, my pride was hurt, but my body felt more comfortable this way.

'Is this the end of all of Serland's Big 3 rides... ?'

In that state, Serpens increased his stride length and shortened it, and sometimes bowed his head or jumped until he reached the middle of the long passage.

Perhaps the door at the end of the passage was fake, and when I pushed the left wall with my shoulder, the wall turned round and round to reveal a hidden room.

Oh, the secret revolving door!!

A rotating bookshelf, a secret door that cannot be distinguished from a wall, etc... .

Someday, when I have my own house, I'm sure I'll find my romance that I've always wanted to install in a place like this!

Do you like this...?

At my cheers, Serpens lowered me to the floor and asked tremblingly.

Isn't that cool!!

"Is there something similar in the room you're using now?"

" Yes?"

Bewildered at the first hearing, he asked again, but he kept his mouth shut.

Instead of explaining kindly, he sat down at the desk in the room and began to sort through the papers on it.

Wait, what did you just say? Yes? Where and how is it hidden?!

I'll tell you later, be quiet...

Shut up?

What is such a vulgar expression. No, it's okay.

You're offended by just saying shut up... .

You seem to be living a very noble language life.

I looked around looking for a place to sit, thinking that I should be careful not to stain an innocent child.

But the chair is where Serpens sits

It seemed like it was all, so he just sat down in the corner of the desk.

'By the way, what kind of papers are these?'

I picked up something out of curiosity, but I couldn't even read the signs that I had never seen before.

It seems to be the password used only here.

At that time, the wall we passed through once again rotated and the master of the tavern entered.

'If I look through the papers

Do you want to look weird?'

I couldn't read anything anyway, so I quietly put the documents down in their original place.

"Someone who usually sneaked in without anyone being noticed, today, for some reason, 丁

The question is probably whether you brought your companions to the point of making a fuss.

Serpens didn't even look at him, he was silent.

"I was just curious, so I followed."

The man seemed to be sulking, so he answered instead.

"Who are you?"

Oh, just don't worry about me.

It's a very caring look.

In fact, he seemed to know what had happened while he was here, so it was worth wondering.

'Do you think so, I'm curious too?'

Serpense sees the papers here

Seeing what's there .

I don't think he's an ordinary tavern master. Maybe he's the boss of a dark district?

I swallowed a sigh as if I had touched a sore spot.

Did Serpence even take away what this guy was originally managing?

"Have you already completed the dark district registration?"

Originally, it was managed by three different factions, so not all of them, but one area still remains.

When I turned my gaze to Serpens and asked a question, an answer came back immediately.

That said, the master of the tavern here was the head of one of the factions, and based on his power, it seems to be devouring other factions.

"Isn't it enough to subdue all three chiefs from the beginning?"

One side is too rotten, and the other side is close to a gathering of independent forces...

If that's the case, I can understand.

As he nodded his head in agreement, the tavern master gave a grim expression.

was looking towards me.

"Why do you see it that way?"

"That , darling what kind of relationship do you two have?"

"For now, we are holding the concept of a master and a servant."

He pointed to Serpens and me in turn and answered.

At those words, the man swallowed his saliva and nodded hard, saying that he understood enough.

Looking at that state, it seemed that I had not completely understood it, but that is the true concept of today.

So there was no need to fix it right away.

What should I call you? I can't keep calling you the tavern master or the barge boss.

Ah, it's just a Scorpion...

Onepoop! Oh, I'm sorry. It's too dark, so stop...

Come to think of it, the sign was also a scorpion picture, right?

I was thinking about the correlation between the scorpion and the tavern, but I think it was derived from the nickname he used in the dark.

"Then what do you call the master?"

He did not refer to himself as 'He' among us...

I'm not the one who shouldn't say anything... .

Rather than that, I was surprised that the nickname of the dark house was made by myself, it was so much like middle school.

"Besides is there anything you need?"

Shouldn't it be called Fly instead of Scorpion?

To the extent that I was worried about it, he rubbed the palms of his hands and asked me.

I thought he had a rough face, but seeing him smiling and rubbing his hands makes him look like an ordinary man next door... .

But it's just that he's better than other factions, isn't the author supposed to be a villain too?

Anyway, looking at that attitude, I think I misunderstood that I was receiving a report from Serpense and I.

It seems that the false setting worked quite well.

'If this happens, he' will serve

What the hell am I going to call myself?'

I was a little curious.

I'll have to ask the next time I come.

A proper chair... is there anything to pass the time with your boredom?

At first I thought it was just sorting papers, but Serpens picked up a pen and started editing or rewriting the papers.

I don't know exactly what you're trying to do, but it seemed like it would take quite a while.

I'll prepare it right away!

Scorpion swiftly pushed the revolving door and went out.

Perhaps it was because he was the one who ruled 1/3 of the dark district, so his actions were very quick.

He seemed to understand why Serpens called those who were attacking from the outside as pawns.

"What skill level is that person who just left?"

If it's the front, it's unreasonable, but if it's an assassination, Count Pgnuto will do enough to get rid of it.

Even if I say that, I can't figure it out because I don't know the skills of Count Pgnuto in the first place.

do.

But if you think about the bursting tailcoats you saw at the banquet, and the fact that Count Pgnuto rose to the ranks of great aristocrats with pure force.

He must be one of the most talented people in the empire.

"Why is such a great person so sullen?"

It's one of the ways to survive on this street.

Should that be understood as saying that Serpence killed all the rebels? ?

There was nothing good to ask, so I just chose to keep my mouth shut.

After a while, the Scorpion went in and out of the revolving door a few times, and all of a sudden, not only the chairs but also the chessboard were set on the table.

And he was hanging a dartboard on one side of the wall.

'Throwing darts will only make you laugh, but what about chess alone?'

As I alternated between the chessboard and the scorpion, he went out again and took another chair and sat down in front of me.

Brain games like this consume a lot of time when playing with talented people or fighting for numbers.

I only knew the brief rules, and there was no strategy, so the game moved quickly.

Scorpion had a longer time to reconsider than me.

But even as the cuts continued, the victory came back to me in the end.

Is this really a hospitality game?'

Still the taste of shouting a checkmate

It was so cool, and there was nothing to change, so I continued to move the chess pieces.

- Rumble-!

Suddenly, Scorpion jumped up and the chair he was sitting on fell backwards.

Huh! What the hell is that , no, why ?!

Seeing that restless appearance, I looked back in the direction he was looking, wondering what was going on.

There, Serpens was putting a pile of papers in a bucket or something and igniting it.

Sort and revise documents, create new ones for some, and cleanly incinerate old ones.

It is a moment of great manipulation and destruction of evidence.

Serpence turned around only after confirming that the papers had completely turned to ashes and went out because there was no more to burn.

Then let's go to the next place.

I handed the document with the instructions to Scorpion, and Serpens turned to me.

said.

Is this just a sidekick, is the future going to go my way?