Legend

"This is... poison, it's also a substitute for smoke and sprinkling poison the moment it touches the air"

That was the voice of the tool shop owner under the umbrella of the Erema Chamber of Commerce.

Softly place the bottle you were looking at on your desk.

The guard at Daridora's side stared at the condition of such a tool shop so that he would not make strange moves.

It was raided during the day… and the laboratory was also raided, causing a double lapse.

That's why the third time I had heightened my nervousness if I didn't allow it.

"... you mean whoever used this poison was ready to self-destruct?

To Daridora's words, the tool shop owner shakes his neck to the side.

"No. I'm sorry, but I don't know a bit until the effect of the poison. I don't have that much expertise..."

"Really? But if you think about the person who tried to use this poison, it's probably a lethal poison."

Heard of a lethal poison, the tool shop owner pulls his cheeks and turns his gaze toward the bottle resting on his desk.

What happens if I drop this bottle now?

Because I was attacked by such horror.

... Most of all, you remember that fear because you don't know that this bottle didn't crack even when the man in white dropped it on the floor.

"Please keep it tightly sealed"

When Daridora orders, one of his men who was in the room hurries into the box where the bottle was prepared nearby and locks it securely.

When he sees how his men are doing, Daridora exhales once again.

"Absolutely, to be honest, you have a headache.... I don't know what to say to Mr. Lewbrand if the lab that was entrusting him with the study of Tyra's trees is like that. And Augusto will take this opportunity to stop studying Tyra's tree."

Even though we're working together now, Augusto doesn't mean we can work together as a perpetual hijacker in the future.

And under Augusto there was a substandard force called Ray, and the option of hostility did not exist from the beginning.

That's why it's hard to tell Lewbrand that we can't have the Tyra tree thing.

For Daridora, she was in a situation where she was completely unable to move.

(In the first place, why did you imitate that you were attacking Tyra's tree lab... to create a definitive crack between me and Augusto? Can I assume that whoever attacked the institute before that and whoever attacked me or Augusto are the same forces?

I have a lot of doubts, but it still doesn't change what needs to be done.

"Gather information. These are people who want to be hostile to me and Augusto. There must be traces of it somewhere. Otherwise, it's not very..."

When Daridora tells him so and again tries to give the order...... the door of the room is inadvertently opened without a knock and one man comes in out of breath.

"Dear Daridora, Renora's store has been raided!

"What the hell!?

An unexpected report leaks a surprise out of Daridora's mouth.

But soon I calm myself down and open my mouth.

"What's the damage?

"The store itself is safe... but Renora..."

If you look at the cloudiness of the words, it is clear that the store owner Renora is not safe.

Mixing frustration in his nervous expression, Daridora opens her mouth.

"Do you know anything about the Raiders?

"No, Renora says it was the first person she'd seen, too"

Knowing that Renora didn't die with that word, exhale just a little relief.

And I tried to say something, moments... the door to the room opened again, and one man came in.

"Dear Daridora!

"Now what!

Hasn't something been attacked again? I scream from that thought, but I realize that it was the man who ordered me to look into the body of the man who was lurking in the lab who came into the room.

Could this mansion have been raided as well?

Daridora turned her gaze to the man with that thought, but out of the man's mouth was a voice full of fear, although she saw something incomprehensible.

"Dear Daridora... I was looking into the body of that raider, and it turns out to be outrageous"

"It's outrageous, is it? Specifically?

"Um, honestly, I don't know how to describe this in words... I don't know, so could you come with me? Instead of me saying anything, just look directly at Daridora and you'll see."

Daridora frowned a little, but stood still, at the words of the man who said what he was likely to say only at first sight if Ray was on this occasion.

The man who came to report was also a trustworthy subordinate to Daridora, because of the decision that he would not do anything meaningless in this imminent situation.

"Okay, please show me around."

"Yes, this way"

"Dear Daridora, if you are from Renora's shop..."

A man calls out to Daridora, who stood up, with a report about a raid on Renora's store.

"Please provide emergency relief. If there are no enemies already, clean up the store and treat the employees, including Renora, and be on your perimeter so that no one can imitate it silly. Oh, don't forget to explain the situation to the nearby stores."

"Yes, I understand. Immediately."

"And... some of you will go with him."

Suddenly voiced, the escorts open their mouths to try to flirt with Daridora, surprised by the unexpected developments.

"But maybe this is what we're trying to disperse to target Daridora."

"Still. Besides, I'm staying here, and it's time for Narsus to be back here, even if it's not complete. So now..."

"... ok"

"You were listening, right? Go with your escort to Renola's."

When he nods at the instructions given quickly, the man leaves the room with his escort to move quickly.

Daridora, who dropped it off, leaves the room with his men, who were making him look into the man in white, and the escorts who were still in the room.

Heading there is a place with some research facilities among Daridora's stores.

This is where we usually do things like researching, developing, and analyzing products.

Of course it's not that much of a facility, so it's unsatisfactory for full-time researchers like Kutga, and as a result we have a dedicated laboratory outside the city of Gosh… Neither can that laboratory do anything about Kutga being killed.

(You keep having headache events.... at least I hope it's some good news...)

Daridora sighs and shakes her neck to the side as she walks down the hallway, but immediately raises her face as if she notices something.

(No, Augusto doesn't have to be hostile with Ray anyway... on the contrary, it would definitely be good news that we can only work together on this one)

I was gathering information about Ray, and I heard he was strong from the escorts.

And in the lab, we defeated the opponents who attacked us without suffering.

Given that area, it would undoubtedly be good news that we have a cooperative relationship without hostility with Ray.

(Besides, being able to see people with Ray's... deep red alias up close means being able to see things like their hobbies, their personalities up close. He'll still be big up ahead. In doing so, the value of the information I have would even exceed the Orihalcon)

I am thankful for Ray, but at the same time make him a seed for business.

That's not at all inconsistent for Daridora.

Because it was with such character that we were able to scale up the Erema Chamber of Commerce to have a high influence among the gosh.

As we continue down the aisle thinking about the future, we eventually arrive at the lab.

That's how Daridora and the escorts who went inside the lab saw the body of a man in white placed on a table like a table.

After seeing how Daridora was doing, you must have noticed that her gaze was pointed at the white coat. The man opens his mouth.

"It's about that white coat, but apparently it's not something that makes sense. Perhaps when this man broke into that lab... more specifically, he took it from someone when he ambushed Daridora."

Compared to when I jumped into Daridora's room earlier, I guess it's been some time, but I talk calmly.

Daridora exhales in relief at the look of such a man and his content.

It was clear to me that there was no traitor among the few that I had hired.

(No, it's possible that there were people who were circulating information)

Even if it's your own people, you can call them outsiders rather than Kutga's people.

So it wasn't surprising that there were people who were as informative as they were going to be without clear betrayal.

"In that area as far as white clothes are concerned...... more than that, this is what I want you to see. Please come this way. Honestly, it's not fun to look at."

"Oddly enough, you don't."

"Yeah. Honestly, this kind of technology… or should I say people? I don't know what to say, but still, I've never seen anything like it."

That said, it was where the head was among the bodies that the man took Daridora.

The green liquid the body was spitting out of his mouth has already been wiped.

Noticed it, Daridora opens her mouth curious.

"With that said, did you see what that green liquid was?

"Oh, is that it? You said it was Ray or something that made this body, right? As the man said, there was something in the back teeth that seemed to be poison for self-determination. Chewing hard seemed to start swallowing the liquid… probably drank it naturally and its liquid when it was strongly impacted"

To that word, Daridora still gives a convincing look that Ray was what he expected......

"It's fine after this corpse is investigated, so please also investigate the poison in the bottle this man had. I showed it to the tool shop owner who sells a lot of herbs, because I didn't know what kind of poison it was."

"Okay.... Well, here it is. May I, Master Daridora? I'm not saying don't be surprised, but don't be confused."

Said that way, Daridora gives a slight but grumpy look.

Daridora and I made the Eléma Chamber of Commerce the best of the Gosh over a number of training grounds.

I'm amazed at myself like that...... on the contrary, something confusing says otherwise.

But the man has also spent quite some time working for Daridora.

I had to say this nonetheless, which meant that that's all that I'm going to show now is what's outside of common sense.

Seeing as Daridora is ready, the man touches the face of the corpse... roughly touching the skin of his face causes his fingers to plunge into the forehead and the border of his hair.

... Yes, I put my fingers under my skin instead of stroking or touching my skin.

"Become!?

Naturally this also raises a dismaying voice from Daridora's mouth.

The skin on his face peels off, as if on paper.

Naturally what lies beneath its skin is the non-existent flesh of the skin, something that makes those who watch disgust.

"Ugh!"

It was Daridora who finally understood why the man was not confused, but at the same time calmed down, he turned his gaze to the guards around him.

"Do you understand why I do this?

"Right.... I don't really want to think about it."

One of the escorts opens his mouth while gently shifting his gaze away from the body where the skin on his face does not exist.

"Probably because of the disguise... If it's normal, I'm not saying that brown-skinned humans can't disguise themselves as white-skinned humans...... but it's pretty hard. But if you are free to skin your face..."

Even though I didn't have to say it until the end, I could understand it from Daridora.

In other words, you can paste someone else's skin or something on your face for disguise.

"... is there really someone who imitates that? In the first place, for what?

At the end of his gaze, a man of escort groaning disgustingly at the head of a human being without skin.

In response to such a man of escort, the Lord of this room flaunts his shoulders and opens his mouth.

"Without anyone knowing... then you can be someone else entirely. That's all about skin color, too. What kind of people do you need to imitate that?"

"... assassin..."

The answer was that I didn't even have to think about it.

In the first place, the bodies in front of Daridora and the escorts are the bodies of those who are believed to be assassins.

"The Third Force hired an assassin to target my life?

It was a whining Dalidra, but somehow I felt the answer was different.

It is also an inquiry as a merchant, and above all, it is various and unreasonable to imitate such as to involve Augusto in targeting himself.

"When that happens, a being with a grudge against both me and Augusto?... I don't think there's anyone like that."

Anyway, Daridora, who had no idea who resented Augusto, grumbled briefly.