Volume 5 - CH 5

Chapter 5 – A Newcomer in Tulle Slave Firm

“Oi Mouthless, come here!”

A boy who has a blue bruise on his left cheek nodded and sprinted to the man. He then bowed his head to the person who yelled at him.

“Keh, wait there! Oi you guys, gather here for a moment. I will introduce a new face to you.”

Hearing the shout, all the men scattered in the warehouse gathered. Some of them dressed like a merchant with thin shirts and trousers and vests, while the others dressed in thick outfits that were hard to tear like a laborer.

“Dent-san, is he the new face?”

“Ou, that’s right. This guy is from the firm that we’re going to work together with. It seems since he can’t speak, he is called Mouthless. Haa, really, I can’t laugh at that.”

“If I’m not wrong, the firm that we’re going to work together with is Tamara’s Remio Firm, right? Will it be fine? You even gave him a bruise on his cheek.”

“Because he didn’t reply no matter how much I called, I hit him. But then I realized this guy couldn’t speak. Wahahaha”

“… I guess we just have to teach this guy how to do things?”

“Ou, that’s right. Apparently, he can read, write, and listen to others pretty well. Let him start from doing chores in the warehouse.”

“Understood.”

When the men looked at the newcomer, the boy called Mouthless bowed his head many times. Although the bruise on his cheek looks painful, without that, the boy had black hair and a plain face without noticeable characteristics.

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“Don’t forget, Eto-kun, please do not overdo it.”

Sidrake had given Eto the same warning several times.

“I know. I’m in charge of collecting information, right? I’ll do my best.”

Eto replied with confidence.

“Will it really be fine? If a part of the royal capital is torn down, I can’t imagine how much we have to pay to compensate for that…”

“At that time, I’ll leave it to the guild.”

“Eto-san!”

“Hahaha, just kidding.”

Next to Sidrake who sighed deeply, Eto casted Silent on himself. Then, he checked whether he could use his support magic even in that state.

Although Eto indeed could use magic without chanting, it is still difficult for him to cast magic without chanting the name of the magic as the keyword. This is because he has been practicing repeatedly so that by just chanting that keyword, his magic power would move to activate the said magic.

However, when he is affected by Silent, even though his brain recognizes when he chanted the keyword in his mind, the voice is not actually heard by those around him. In other words, he would be able to activate his magic without saying anything.

“Still, how could you even notice something like that? I’ve never heard of someone who could activate his magic under the effect of Silent debuff before.”

“I guess it’s the influence of Puke-sama. Trying various kinds of magic actually has become a habit of mine. Although buffs such as Haste will make the target’s body emit light immediately after being activated, since there are no such effects for debuffs, I can use it anytime.”

Eto, who had released Silent, said.

Since Hero Ronaldo forbade him from using support magic, Eto has tried various ways to use his magic. That was because he wanted to get out of his status as a chore guy of the party as soon as possible and use his support magic to contribute to the party.

Though that wish didn’t come true until the end, the experiment he did at that time seems to be useful now. Precisely because of this ability, he was able to convince Trie and Sidrake to let him infiltrate the slave firm.

“That’s the disguise, huh.”

Tamara entered the room and looked at Eto, who wore the attire of a servant of a firm, from top to bottom.

“Un. That’s fine.”

Looks like Eto’s disguise got a passing mark from him.

“It doesn’t look weird at all. You really look like a young man working at our firm.”

“I don’t know if I should feel happy hearing that…”

“No, well, Eto-sama is usually a modest person, after all… hahaha…”

Eto never thought that the day his plain face and impression would become useful would come.

At any rate, with the introduction of Tamara, the arrangement for Eto to sneak into the Tulle Slave Firm is finished. All he had to do now is to use magic in silence to find the evidence of their crime.

Eto wasn’t satisfied with just waiting for the knights and the guild to finish their investigation. It wasn’t his intention to borrow Sorano’s words, but just like Sorano, he also thought that the way they kidnapped anyone they wanted and killed anyone who got in their way made them less than a beast. That’s why he is fully prepared to crush the Tulle Firm had they been found to be one of the collaborators.

And perhaps knowing what Eto thought, Sidrake was suspiciously staring at Eto’s face. However, in front of that gaze, Eto just pretends to check the comfort of unfamiliar clothing with a composed expression.

“Well then, shall we go?”

Tamara said to Eto, who silently nodded, after checking his disguise.