Chapter 78 Appraisal Result
Part 1
Unlike usual, the road facing ãMagiz Tailã is very crowded.
Knights Order who are in charge of maintaining the security in the Imperial Capital are here, they are supervising the people who have gathered in the street.
It seems there was a robbery at ãMagiz Tailã.
At dawn, Eva gave me that information when I was thinking about future prospects in the Clan Master Room.
It was last night. The criminal is a âRed (Criminal)â party who steals specific items on request⦠âShadow Linksâ. There are times when they do the same thing in Shrines. They are Hunters scum who became a band of thieves.
Occasionally there are some Hunters who will give up on capturing Shrines and use the power they gained by absorbing Mana Material to commit crimes. They are the one who think that it is more efficient to assault people than to fight against Phantoms and monsters as you always have to risk your life.
If a dangerous ãFormerã Hunter Party is found doing illegal action, then the Explorer Association will consider them as âRed (Criminal)â Party and put a bounty on them.
What is different from Sytry whose Level was reduce to a minus by her penalty is that Sytry is in a Party with good Hunters while the other are only composed of criminal.
There are many Hunters who devote themselves to fighting monsters and Phantoms, this is causing them to have a weak sense of ethics. They donât have any hesitation in ãKillingã or ãStealingã. As they have the skills of a Hunter, Red Parties are fearful enemies to Hunters and law-abiding citizen.
According to Eva measures against them seems to be a headache for small business that canât always hire guards. To repel a Red Party, you have to spend a lot of money and hire Hunters stronger than them and there are times when even that doesnât work.
âI thought that would happen one day but⦠It looks like idiots was caught right away.â
Sytry makes an exasperate voice but I donât have the time to worry about that. If I saw myself in the mirror, I would probably be all pale.
All I did was just finding a Relic I wanted a little bit, asks my fellow Hunters companion to lend me some money so I could buy it before the Auction.
But as the days go by, things got bigger and in the end the Relic store that took care of me for a long time has become a casualty.
I can swear that I never anticipate this to escalate so quickly. There may have been some mishap but even if I am Level 8, I am just a Hunter.
It wasnât some Relic filled with history or historical events. How can I imagine that the situation would go like this?
I was holding down my sore stomach whereas Sytry was calm.
âImpossible, even if it was during the night, to try and break into a Relic store. To think that there was still an organization who survived and has enough influence in this city to do that⦠I was careless. If I had properly looked it up, I could have chosen to go a different path.â
â⦠Well, it canât be helped.â
What is fortunate during this misfortune is that it had only ended on a robbery attempt.
On the scene, knights were packed and the citizen were isolated but my privileges as a High-Level Hunter allow us to pass through.
It was like a battlefield in front of ãMagiz Tailã.
The road was heavily cracked and the metal fence surrounding the store was completely blown away. The signboard fell to the ground and countless bullet holes and blood stains can be seen in the house on the opposite side.
The old-fashioned door was broken in half and there was a burning smell all around.
You can hear someone bark from the back of the store which is missing a front door.
âI have a job to do here! If I need to be careful of one or two robbers, I wonât make it in time for the Auction! Damn, every single one of them is being led by the nose from the kidâs words⦠Guards? Donât need! We have a bouncer here! An excellent bouncer! Understand! I want more help to clean up the store than guards!â
You can hear from his voice that he is completely in a bad mood. Will he forgive me if I apologize?
I should have at least brought Tino with me.
Aaah, donât wanna. I donât want to enter.
I stealthy looked around, take a deep breath and stepped into the half-broken store.
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â! Oh, kid! You really burn it well!â
âHow to say it⦠I am really sorry for the inconvenienceâ¦â
I shrink when Martis-san sees my face and starts to yell with an Hannya face.
The inside of the store was as bad as it was on the outside. Perhaps there was a battle inside because there are collapsed shelves and the counter was cut in half. Still for having not even one Relics display case to be broken. I can say they did a great job.
Apparently, aside from the damage in the store, there doesnât seem to be any injury. Inside the store, there is always the same man fully armed with Relics standing as a security guard. As always he is a ruthless man but today, he looks like he is in a good mood.
A Relic store that deals with expensive items need a higher security level than ordinary stores. Especially, ãMagiz Tailã which is located in a remote area where the Knight Order doesnât patrol much. Unlike its appearance, there is an iron wall guarding.
It has been more than a decade since ãMagiz Tailãopened in the Empire and it seems that the store has never been robbed.
âCâmon, if you want to rob come during daytime! In the daytimeee! Thanks to them, I donât have enough sleep!â
Says Martis-san irritatingly. There were big dark circles under his eyes.
As expected of Martis-san, even with this turmoil happening with the Auction right around the corner, it seems that he is as energetic as he usually is when talking to me.
However, no matter what he says, I am glad that he is safe. In the unlikely event that Martis-san dies because of the robbery, it would have been a living nightmare.
When I was feeling relieved inside, Martis-san confirms my surrounding left and right.
âOi, Cry! What happen to Jou-chan!? If you plan to come visit me, take Jou-chan with you! Rather you arenât needed! You are in the way when I am working!â
â¦â¦ Looks like I didnât need to bother coming here.
With a nervous look, a knight was looking and checking at the traces inside the store. In a small voice, he says while looking around the place âThe criminal has already been arrested so it should be fine.â. It seems that this Jii-san has trouble him a lot.
âInstead, I brought Sytry-chan. With this, please give me a breakâ¦â
âDonât kid with me, it doesnât replace her at all! Hmm? Sytry, I hope that last night wasnât your doing, right!?â
This Jii-san is energetic. He seems to be more fit to be Hunter than me.
To the terrible thing he says, Sytryâs eyebrow exaggeratedly curve and talk back.
âHow could Iâ¦!? ⦠Cry-san has stopped me and if by any chance, any billion chance, I was the one who sent them⦠I would have carefully picked more people.â
âThen it is fine! If you are free, help me clean up, I have to get back into business! My employee doesnât have a brain and can only stand guard.â
The security guard who is standing in a range where he can hear Martis-sanâs rant doesnât look dissatisfied at all. He is standing upright and looking straight ahead. Is he a scarecrow? n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
Sytry begins to clean up without showing any unwillingness. I sat at the broken counter and check the store once again and say.
TL notes:
Thx for reading!
So, the culprit who send the thieves is probably not Sytry. As she would have carefully laid a perfect plan like in GTA V XD
I wonder if Cry can be as good as the guard who fight with Relic, they didnât tell us if he had ever absorbed Mana Material. If he didnât it means that Cry really suck because even regular human can beat Hunter if they have a lot of Relics XD
This is an extra part thanks to a generous donation on my Ko-Fi page! Tomorrow and Friday will be regular chapter release and you will have another extra part on Saturday. (I just realize that it is a loooot of work so better start now, wish me luck!)
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Hannya: Hannya is a vengeful demon. An Hannya face means that the person faces look like a demon.