I Shall Survive Using Potions!

After all, you arrive at a trader's store without anyone finding you.

On the second floor, in Kyou-chan's room, a strategy meeting.

All disguises have been removed. Otherwise, it'll be hard to talk about.

It seems that there is also a room upstairs for me and Reiko to stay. That's why you can always come without notice... "

Well, you must be bored and lonely.

Once this is done, we can arrange for everyone to live together again.

...... So, the operation meeting immediately.

Drinks and sweets are arranged on a table, out of an item box.

"So you can trust me?" "That confession..." It's unlikely that you're planning on rubbing sins against your former employer or that you have a different real client... "

And then Rayko got to the point quickly.

Ah, that's okay.

However, Kyou-chan said something about Rayko's concerns.

"I heard it again from the guildmaster, but also the cuffs..." The old man who asked for an interrogation said, "The young torturers (they) think that they can be slapped with the whip or bamboo, but if you get old and lose your strength, then your body will not be maintained in this way. Torture isn't about hurting your body, it's about hurting your heart. It's not the bones, it's the heart that breaks. '

So it's easy for a veteran torturer to know if the other person's heart is broken or if what they're saying is a lie. "

Even though I said "torture" first and "interrogation" again, Kyou-chan usually called "torture" afterwards.

... well, it's Kyou-chan...

Well then, is it okay to make a decision about the store and its master?

Yeah. Of course, I've got the back.

Kyou-chan explains that to Rayko's confirmation.

Probably got some hard evidence with a bug or something.

"Of course, I don't think I can submit it to the Guard or the Lord..."

After all, if you don't confirm that it's completely black, you can't let it out.

So, what kind of 'karma' do you think is good?

"Ughh..."

Let's all squeeze our heads together.

... Of course, "karma" means that it happens due to God, Buddha, and karma, but in this case, it means that we will accompany them with a little force (...).

"A clear crime division is the break-in of a woman's room, home search and theft.

Threats to employees may not be a crime. I'm a hired manager and an orphan clerk, so I can't even admit that this kind of world is power-harassing. "As a very ordinary thing..."

... this won't be much of a punishment, will it? "A hundred blows is a lot..." And no damage to the boss.

That is not enough for our "KKR" job. It's not very convincing.

Besides, this isn't a job we were asked to do, it's a fight we were sold to. then..... "

"" I buy a sold quarrel. Please hoist the value in the auction! "

Following Kyou-chan's words, Reiko continued.... and me, too.

"" That's us, [KKR]!! ""

"" Ahhhhhhh!! ""

It hurts.

Too much dark history, the three of us squatting with our heads in our arms.

Only junior high school students or up to the first year of high school are allowed to do so.

I used to do that when I was a college student... "

No, I was helping people, so it's not that bad. Rather, some of the good deeds were excessively defensive... but it was difficult for the female students.

But now, looking back objectively at what we said and did at the time... "

"" Ahhhhhhh!! ""

"... so, it's the [karma] method..."

Don't suddenly become my face!!

Reiko's Yarrow... "



Guildmaster, are you there?

Yes, yes, please wait a moment!

Kyouko (Sarayet), who had a face for the Kogyo Guild, asked, and one of the staff hurried up to the second floor.

And when I come back soon...

"Please, come this way."

As long as I was in the room, the guildmaster had no choice but to "not see Kyoko who came to visit me".

"Hey, thank you for coming..."

A little behaving suspiciously, Guildmaster.

But that didn't matter to Kyoko.

What happened to the former store manager?

"Yes... even though I was referred to a shop full of young women by the guild, betraying the trust of the guild and the trust of the employer and committing criminal acts is not a felony as a criminal case, but as a merchant and against the guild, it is a felony that cannot be tolerated.

Therefore, we have decided to remove him from the Guild of Commerce and Industry. "

"Eh......"

Sweet.

In addition to being too sweet, what happened to the criminal punishment? "Throwing it at the Guard..."

That's how Kyoko pushed in...

"No, this is a very severe punishment for a crime that does not involve violence or embezzlement of large sums of money..."

The city is not that big, so it is a commercial and artisanal guild, so if we are removed from the city, we will be removed from both the domestic commercial and artisanal guilds. If each of the other guilds were independent, I'd just have to remove them from the commercial guilds...

And those who have been removed from commercial and artisan guilds can no longer work in the industry.

No, no matter where the person works, the guild will not interfere with it, and working is not a problem in itself, but... if the person (that person) is involved in the removal of the person (s) from the job or transaction, etc., the guild will not provide any assistance, support, or cooperation.

In other words, if you are involved in an accident, incident, crime, etc., you will not provide any assistance to the store that hired the person. Even if the person being removed is irrelevant to the matter. It's just that I was cleaning the carriage owners, or just cleaning up at the end of the shop where the deal was made...

... well, you're hiring merchant scum, so I guess that's what it is. Even if he betrayed me, he deserved it, so maybe he didn't guide him.

Now, do you think there's a guy who wants to hire a strangler? ”

…………

"The world of commerce is also quite narrow." In this country, even if you change your name, you will soon find out.

So, where it has nothing to do with business or craftsmanship... you'll have to work hard or go far abroad... "

"If it's a working mouth, there are restaurants, agriculture, and so on..."

"The restaurant is also affiliated with the Commerce and Industry Guild. There's no farming without land, and there's no farmer who hires amateur middle-aged men who don't have a body.

A hungry middle-aged man who has lived in a world of commerce. Unless you change your mind and work hard, it will be quite hard to live in other industries..... "

Apparently, for someone who had only a career as a merchant, it seemed like a pretty severe punishment.

"...... Isn't there anything you want to say to the Guard?"

Kyoko pointed out that the guildmaster shook his head to the side.

“The only charges are breaking into a woman's room, which is known to be absent, searching, and embezzling some of the goods. It does not constitute a severe penalty.

On the other hand, we also conducted... a bit of a harsh interrogation.

... so, well...... "

Kyoko somehow figured it out.

Probably, something far exceeded the penalty that would have been inflicted if it had been pushed out to the Guard...

I guess the guild also has a face.

Punish your own fault with your own fault. The Guard will understand.

And although it is likely to be acquiesced in, the guild side does not dare to teach it to the guards.

What about the mastermind store?

"... the confession of the culprit alone..." If I had to, I might get a sideways spear from the royal capital...

I want you to be convinced by the appeal that the guild will not forgive anyone who goes to the trader's shop for punishing the executioner..... "

Apparently, he didn't want to sell his quarrels to the big shops in the capital.

Even though it is a commercial guild, it is only a weak branch that has finally survived the merger with the artisan guild in a small town in the province, so it will not be impossible.

So Kyoko nodded.

And the guildmaster gave a heartfelt expression of relief.

After that, Kyoko asked the guildmaster for all the information about the former store manager's real employer (...).

If it is said that it is for self-defense in the future, there is no refusal in the guild master who is responsible.

And in Kyoko's words, there was no lie.

I was convinced that the guild would not deal with the mastermind.

You can also use the information you learn from your guildmaster to defend yourself.

However, Kyoko's motto was, "Attacks are the greatest defense".

... and after the guild branch with a smile, it was Kyoko...