The Best Assassin, Incarnated into a Different World’s Aristocrat
Episode XIV: Assassin's Sister
Return home thinking about the new store and its eye-catching products.
In Murteau they use rentals used by middle-class families. Because it was a suburb, there was a large garden for the price.
I can't remove the fact that the three of us live and have a wide garden to train.
When I opened the door, I heard footsteps for both of us.
"Welcome home, Master Ilg"
"You're back, Brother Ilg"
One is a servant tart who came with us from the territory of Towahade. The other one is Marha, an intelligent girl who looks about my age.
It is smooth and characterized by lustrous blue hair.
In Murteau, these three live their lives together.
Just because you're back at home, you won't be called in Lug's name, and you won't solve Ill's disguise or tone it back.
I have a lot of visitors at work, and I don't know where I'll be bored if I'm caught off guard.
"I'm sorry you're late. My father gave me a new job.... I can leave one store to you. Do something completely different than previous stores, not in the direction of increasing the number of existing stores. Whatever you do is free, it's hard, that's why your chest jumps."
"That's Master Ill. I still can't believe I've been here six months and I'm entrusted with such a big job."
"My brother's nose is high even for me. I'll be proud of you at the store tomorrow."
"No, will you shut up until it starts in earnest? It's still a secret case."
Two people snort at my words.
Marha calls him his brother, but he didn't have a hidden son in his father.
This is the child I saved in this land.
... I have always believed that there is a team when carrying out an assassination and she is a candidate for it.
Assassination teams can be given magic as a minimum condition.
Normally, children with magic can only be born to each other, but are born mutatively in a proportion of about one in 10,000 people.
Murteu had many times more population and a higher official figure of being found magical than Towaharde.
With that prospect around, I could find Marha.
The orphanage she was in operated for subsidies from the city, raising her in a poor environment to such an extent that she would not die, and sometimes even abuse her.
Taking over Marha was easy.
Marha herself wanted to get out of such a hellhole, and the head of the orphanage was looking for gold, so if Marha gave him twice the subsidy paid from the city by the time he grew up, we got a quick conversation together.
I'm too young to pick up an orphan with twelve, but working for the Barroll Chamber of Commerce, and Barroll's guarantee of my stature makes me eligible, and this is how the three of us are starting to live together.
"I'll keep your jacket. Dear Ilg."
I'll take care of it.
Tart takes good care of me.
Since I've been here, Tart has really helped me. I have a tart, so I can focus on what needs to be done.... and I wouldn't put it in my mouth but I was mentally helped.
My heart has grown since I became a Lug, and feelings that weren't in my previous life are sprouting.
It also produced weakness. Lonely, mindful, anxious. Sometimes I think about that. But if you had a tart, that kind of emotion would blow up.
Having a family is good.
"Brother Ilg, I made dinner with Tart today."
"That's exciting. Because Marha's food is delicious."
"Yeah, you can look forward to it. Because it's self-confidence."
I picked up Marha four months ago.
She was debilitated because she continued to suffer abuse, and she was in human distrust... which is why it was easy to do.
At the end of the day, we're looking for someone who's as believable as that kind of person.
I use the brainwashing I learned as an assassin to dive into her heart and plant my love and loyalty to me.
This is how I came to admire him with my brother.
"Is it doing well in the store?
"Absolutely. You can't put mud on Brother Ilg's face."
He recovered from his debilitation, and after his mental reassurance, he conducted his education for a while, and began working at the Valor Chamber of Commerce at my cone by noon.
Marha was the daughter of a merchant and was highly educated, and smart, until her parents were killed by night thieves.
Unfortunately, there is a lack of combat sense and ineligibility as an executive force.
But he'll be able to count on information gathering, material procurement, and backward support, and he can work out enough to protect himself.
"If you're a Merchant, you're going to be a right-hand man."
"I'll show you that. Ilg, if your brother wants it."
And it is also one of the fabric stones that makes you work at the Barroll Chamber of Commerce.
After I leave this city, I'm going to ask Marha to stay in Murteau.
I will take over the information network that I will create in this land from Ilg Barroll's work, and I will ask her to gather and send me the information and supplies I need.
The best way to do this is to get them to work at the Barroll Chamber of Commerce.
Learn the basics and you'll pull through as my secretary. The brand we're launching now will also be left to her in the future.
Let's not rush it, let's nurture it carefully.
He brings soup, meat dishes and bread while Marha plays a nose song.
When the three of us started eating, Marha was staring at my face.
I guess I want to hear your thoughts soon. Bring the soup to your mouth.
"Marha, the bacon steak and the soup are delicious. Did you use fat for soup when you baked bacon?
"You got it very well. It's very good bacon, so I want to eat it deliciously, even fat."
"I have been entrusted by Master Ilg to look after Marha, but on the contrary I am going to lose confidence because I am often taught. But you can't lose. Especially the food! Eat the pumpkin pie I baked, too!
Me and Marha laugh when we see the tart burning our sense of confrontation.
I'm glad Tart has friends his age.
In the case of tarts, they have excellent reflex nerves and motor vision, and are well suited to the actual work force in the way the body is used. On the contrary, I'm not good at thinking about difficult things and because of my horizons, I'm not suitable for backward support.
Funny how the roles are beautifully divided with Marha for the rear unit.
When we do the assassination, it will be in the form of me and Tart executing it and Marha supporting it.
Having a chat, the meal goes on happily.
"So, what kind of store is Brother Ilg going to build?
I have the answer, but I'll sort it out in my head again.
I have two conditions I need.
One thing, making money. This is an absolute condition. This business cannot fail.
Two, that it is a commodity in demand for the noble counterpart. If you're going to use it for assassination, which is your main business, it's easier to do so.
That's the only way to satisfy that condition.
"I'm going to build a shop that will please women. I also want to put away sweet treats that mainly use cosmetics and work well for preservation. Nevertheless, if you do it extensively from the beginning, the sale will be blurred, so I'll specialize in cosmetics at first."
It is women who are more willing to buy than men.
Nobility makes that trend even stronger.
Noble ladies and ladies are greedy for beauty and sweetness, and cosmetics and delicious treats will be good to eat.
... Plus, they love special treatment. If one of the leading representatives of cosmetic brands in this country had prepared special cosmetics and treats just for you and asked you to visit them yourself, you would be happy to invite them to the mansion without thinking about the risks.
Just kill the target on the spot and he'll be suspicious, but whatever robust mansion or castle it is, I'll be able to sneak in at any time, once I can get inside and see its internal structure, the arrangement of its junctions, and the security system.
"Ah, the cosmetics and sweets are lovely!
"I think it's good. Recently, the economy is good and I think there is a lot of demand for cosmetics. But even cosmetics stores are common in Murteau. You need something with overwhelming strengths?... something to be beautiful and not adventurous. I would buy something from a famous brand unless I had a special reason."
Seems like a good take for both of the girls.
Have Tart and Marha use the prototype when they are ready.
Nevertheless, Marha is sharp. Nothing is more difficult to enter than a cosmetic brand. The brand is more important than the quality.
"I've been thinking about that too. Actually, I have an idea that I was going to sell in one day without this story. … it has an overwhelming appeal"
"Still, that's a secret. I'll be looking forward to it."
"When it's better to tell me, let me use it too!
A busy dinner is not a bad idea.
Reminds me of where I was in Towaharde. Though I do assassination operations, the family of Towaharde was warm. And this table is just as warm.
... Now is the time to have a lively, fun meal like this, but in the beginning Marha was blocked, frightened and hard.
I have it now because I've gotten through those days.
At the end of the meal, the knock sounded, so I tell him to come in.
"Sorry I'm late at night. I'm here today."
That's what showed up to be Barroll's son, Beruid.
He's Irg's belly brother, three years older.
He had cancer, an incurable disease, but the treatment is over.
There is no more inevitability to come here. Still visit almost every day at a set time.
There was a confectionery fold in his hand and a big man in the back of the escort.
Tart and Marha, I'm happy with the souvenir itself because we both like sweets like girls, but his visit makes me feel complicated.
"Dear Beruid, it's just the right time, I was just about to give you a class"
The purpose of this brother is to be present in the classes he is doing for Tart and Marha.
Assassination requires extensive knowledge and skill.
Pharmacy, Science, Physics, Psychology. Law to economics.
These were mandatory and taught to both of us little by little.
He was terribly interested in seeing his classes as he went to this house for treatment.
"What are you telling me today?
"This is a continuation of yesterday's physics."
"I'm looking forward to that. I especially like physics. A phenomenon that I took for granted close to me, I can understand why."
"That's the flavor of physics."
"Oh, with that said, congratulations. I heard you could leave the new store to me. That's a job at the Barroll Chamber of Commerce left to the most capable young man. If you succeed, you are certain to become an executive in the future. Call me if you need help. We will do everything we can to support you."
I think he's a strange person.
Barroll is the only one who knows the secrets of Towahade, and Beruid thinks of me as a concubine.
Usually, when a well-made brother shows up and his father treasures him, he becomes jealous, or takes his successor's seat, he hurries, something repulsive, but strangely nostalgic.
The other person can't just be evil to the other person.
Well, it's not like Tart and Marha are going to take a lot of work. I just can't show it until after class training, but I don't mind to the extent that it makes me listen to the class.
Besides, I don't hate him... he's worth using.
He is a brilliant merchant and Lord of the future Balor Chamber of Commerce. It's worth paying the cost, but staying close.
"Well, let's start today's class"
Hand out handmade text to the three of you.
Growing someone up like this is quite fun.
Students are all enthusiastic and also tempered as a teaching side.
Continue discussing cosmetics and their eye-catching products to be handled in the new store while giving classes.
If I could make that one, it would change the way this world makes up.
Not in this world, something that was normal in my world to do.
Yes, if you don't even do it the wrong way, it becomes normal for every woman in this world to use it when wearing makeup.
In that case, the profits to be generated will be astronomical, and there will be no one who does not know the name of Ilg Balor. That's all I was trying to make.