348th episode
Retney and the finger brothers who were completely deceived by Jae-ho's lies.
"Laughing! Somehow I thought this curse didn't work!"
At the cry, Jae-ho got another hint.
"It must be a devil-related curse.’
According to that, the Hwanggo gambling house has some kind of relationship with the devil.
For some reason, I felt things getting bigger again.
" Earl Taylor! How can the kingdom of Lassel and the kingdom of Lunga be attracted to the devil, even if they are not on good terms?! Are you a human being?! You scumbag!"
"What?! You talk too much! It has nothing to do with me!"
"What are you talking about when you called me friendly just now?! You didn't even use the nickname 'Angler'!"
"You crazy! It's not like that! Why are you talking to me like that?"
"Calm down, Taylor!"
Jae-ho designated Taylor, who was overexcited.
"Did you say Retney?"
"Uh..."
Rhettney, terrified at the thought of facing the devil.
This was the level of perception that ordinary people had to the devil.
Especially when a knife is stolen.
"I used to try to get only the information I wanted and leave here, but it's hard for me. Now that I know who I am, I'm going to have to kill all of you."
While watching, Taylor thought that nonsense couldn't work.
'If it's a concept that hides your identity, you shouldn't even use the name Angler from the start.’
To flop.
But for Retney and the Finger brothers, they couldn't afford such a cool idea.
Their eyes were already shaking with fear of death.
"Sir, save me! Please! You mean the information? Welcome! I'm also the supreme informant of the Lunga Kingdom. Tue, Golden hawk! Haven't you heard of it?"
“?”
The scene of catching a rat while walking backward.
Jae-ho bounced once.
"No, right now you're just thinking about getting through this crisis. As soon as I go out, aren't you guys trying to accuse me of being a demon to the Lunga kingdom?"
"He, he's not! I will never do that! I promise you with my name, the owner of the golden hawk! Ask me if you have any information you want!!”
"Huh?"
I thought I caught a rat, but it was a cow.
"Kh, khm. So you're saying that both the Huango gambling house and the golden hawk belong to you?"
"Well, it is."
It was an unexpected fact.
'Good for you.'
It would be much easier to extract information from someone in fear.
"Then I'll give you a chance. Your disposition will depend on how faithfully you answer."
"No, of course! But we need some time to look for information in the library....... why don't you go up and talk comfortably...…?”
"That's a trick."
"What?! Oh, no! Absolutely not!! Please believe me!!”
Rhettney, lying on his stomach, defiling his high-end clothes, forgetting his dignity.
Jae-ho slowly decided that it was time to warm up the atmosphere.
"Okay, let's have a go at it."
"Go... thank you!!”
Seeing Rhettney crying and thrilled, Jae-ho suddenly thought that this was not bad either.
I think we can just pretend to be evil against a decent NPC.’
The old man, hiding behind the log, read Jae-ho's thoughts, grabbed him by the back of his neck, and Jing Jing helped him, as if he understood.
* * *
They got out of the basement and arrived at the top-floor Rhettney's office.
With all the fancy decorations, it was the office of a nobleman.
"Hey, have a seat here!"
Rhettney, who bestowed the top prize, was restless and looked at his senses.
"Isn't that... that... armor uncomfortable?"
It was none other than Jae-ho's giant body that worried that the sofa's cushion would die.
He looked taller than usual in armor, so it was natural for him to be anxious.
"Amazing. Worried about wealth in the midst of it.”
"Huck?!!"
"This armor is stuffy for me, too. But will you be able to remain sober even when you see my face?"
"Oh... no! I made a slip of the tongue!"
boom boom boom
When Jae-ho sat down and heard something piercing and tearing, Rhettney's chest was torn together.
"Okay, now we can have a conversation. Lettney. Surely you are the boss of the golden hawk, aren't you?
"Of course! Ask me anything!"
"Hmm......."
The first thing I'm curious about is the first purpose.
"Where have the nobles of the Rassel Kingdom gone?"
"What? Is Mr. Angler looking for them, too?”
Retney's gaze briefly turned to Dessie, who was still lying unconscious on the other side.
'Damn it! So you didn't aim for me in the first place?!’
When she cut her throat while shaking alone, Retney swallowed her tears.
"But if you don't mind, why are you looking for them......... Oh, to save Angler's time, except for unnecessary information!"
"They owe me. I came to get that debt this time, but he ran away.”
Jae-ho explained plausiblely with a proper lie.
"Oh... ...I see. I can't believe I owe you one. I don't want to imagine. Oh, of course this is a compliment! By the way, I'm sure Dessie was also commissioned by Angler, too. I understand. Mr. Angler has turned the gambling table of the Rasel Kingdom upside down, so it must have been burdensome for Mr. Dessie. Oh, that was a compliment, too."
Then Rhettny, scared like this, will understand and move on.
'Game XX, you're eating raw.
And that's what Taylor thought again when she stepped forward and got all sorts of rough looks.
Rhettney mumbles to himself and rationalizes it.
And finally, the information Jae-ho wanted came out.
"The nobles who have fled the kingdom of Raselle... We're headed for the ruined brown bear country."
“…….”
With Jae-ho's silence, Rhettney's cold sweat grew.
"Why, why?"
asked Rhettney carefully.
"Well, Taylor, what do you think?”
"Well... honestly, I think it's too raw."
“?”
"Huh?"
"No, thanks."
Jae-ho turned to Retney again.
"Because what you just said sounds so ridiculous. What's the status of the place where the brown bear soup used to be? Why? You're gonna send me there to kill me? You don't think he knows because he's evil?”
"Huh? No! They really headed there! It is true that right after the Alsia Great terror attacks in the past, it was a ruin that no one could live in, but not now! There are people living there!"
"What? People can live?"
"Yes, we actually control it directly at the Royal Wizard of Lunga, and use the dragon's mana, which has polluted the area."
It was ridiculous.
Kino, who went to the scene with him at the time, predicted that ordinary life could not be lived, and that it would soon become a land of monsters.
The place where it was so serious that even the kino, who is believed to be of the same class as the Magician, shook his head has gotten better.
No wonder it was hard for Jae-ho to believe.
'If the Royal Wizard of Lunga had an excellent NPC of the level of the Magician, it would be a possibility.'
Jaeho asked Retney about the part.
"I don't know much about magic, but I heard one thing. Not long ago, only MooMoo got a big realization and achieved tremendous growth...….”
"Mu-mu-man.
"I'm the president of the Royal Magical Society of Lunga. He was the elder of the white pagoda in the past, who had a rumor that he was dismissed for unknown reasons, and that he had a slightly twisted desire to explore. It was also Moo-moo-man who led the nobility this time."
"Are you really going in and out of there?"
"I'm sure!"
"Don't you know what you're doing in there?”
"I'm not sure about that. Ordinary people like us can't even go there in the first place. There was a warning from the sorcerer's meeting...….”
"It would have been impossible for an ordinary person to stand still in a cellar earlier."
"Well, that's... ....”
A curse that neutralizes high-level players as well as elves.
"Since the curse is related to Mana, is it related to the ruins of the brown bear kingdom?"
"Didn't you just wonder about the nobility? If you ask me for information about that...….”
"You said you'd do everything you asked."
“…….”
Rhettny, who feels threatened by life and has spouted it, can't say anything else.
But the answer to the question now was so grave that it was possible to weigh his own life.
If you answer, you might survive right away, but you'll end up dead.
"How can it be a secret piece of information?"
"This is..."
"Think about it. Do you want to shut up and keep your life and death secret?"
Those who have more are bound to be sensitive to death.
Of course the latter is the choice between dying now or later, but Rhettney understood the truth that it is the same to die in the end.
"Okay. Then how about this?"
When Retney didn't open his mouth even though he did this, Jae-ho decided to change his approach slightly.
"I don't know why you can't tell, but I'll protect you from the danger."
I don't know what makes him nervous, but I spitted out and looked at him to help me first.
"What? But...….”
"Uh! I'm an angler! I'm the best matchmaker in the world, and I never lose in the game."
"But didn't you lose to Alsia the Great?”
"Well, that's because he's a fraud. I was caught up in an ugly plot of human beings. Besides, you've been beaten up by the elves, so you can't hold out, can you?”
"Yes, but...….”
At the end of the day, Tina came out to see Rhettny still struggling without saying anything.
"Fire punch!"
Bang!
A wall with a hole in a light magic fist.
Retney eventually closed his eyes and opened his mouth.
"That's right! As Angler said... The underground prison has something to do with the devil."
"As expected..."
"And the details have not been confirmed, but the golden hawks are speculating that only MooMoo had some sort of deal with the devil."
"Hmm? The dean of the Royal Magical Society?"
"Yes. What happened was...….”
Rhettney began to explain with a bang.
"I don't know if it's MooMoo's dogma or if it's related to the royal family. But it's true that only MooMoo came to see me."
MooMuman, who came to visit Retney, offered to make a deal.
Sharing all the information coming into the golden hawk in the future and asking not to spy on the ruins of the old brown bear kingdom.
Instead, what they offered as a reward is a special power.
"What power?"
"Isn't there that prison underground before? That's it. We've put some magic into our debtor's prison using some weird stuff."
"...difficult?"
"Hey, what a mist! The rest of us, except for you, almost went down!"
Taylor cut in with a fit of rage.
"Oh, the effect is great, but it's practically useless. You have to lock it in there to make it work."
"Well, there's actually one more."
That's why Retney and the Finger brothers were able to stay there.
"We were blessed by an unidentified wizard who came with Moomuman. Only later did I realize it was a curse of the devil."
"What's the effect?"
"The remnants of the disease disappear, gain some strength, and do not work the curse of the prison."
In fact, I didn't want to reveal this story because I was robbed by Jae-ho's party even though I was strong.
It was a little embarrassing.
"Health and strength......... that's a sweet offer that only demons can make."
Of course, from the NPC's point of view, nothing was as tempting as being guaranteed health.
However, it was hard to understand that Retney accepted the suspicious request.
"It was a deal, actually a threat. Just like now. ...Huh?"
"Lightning fist!"
Bang!
Tina once again made a hole in the wall.
"I'm sorry! Come to think of it, I had a knife in my neck! It was too much to compare then!"
Retney had to cover up the truth again, swallowing her tears.
'You bastards! They didn't make it as ignorant as you guys!’
Such words could never be uttered.