I’ll Just Live As A Villain - Chapter 26

He is loathsome, but actually I was glad of Luke’s visit.1

‘I was thinking about making a request to the information guild but the boss showed up on his own!’

The information guild had branches all over the kingdom, but not in villages like Erell.
If I wanted to request for the information guild, I had to go to the nearest biggest city from here.

‘It will take a whole couple of days to get close with a wagon.’

Considering the location of Erell, which was isolated in a northern corner, it was not easy to get out.

‘So it is good to have the arrival of the information guild chief here.’

Who knew the day would come when I would be glad to see Catherine’s fish?

“I’m glad you’re here.”

“……what?”

Luke looked stunned at my friendly welcome.

“Shall we sit down and talk first?”

I offered him a seat and didn’t stop there.

Luke, who wandered for a moment with a puzzled look, soon sat down. I also took a seat opposite him.

“I hope your face would come back the way it was. If you keep looking like that, I’ll feel like I’m talking to Emma.”

The disguise was discovered anyway. Luke took off the mask without saying much, as he thought he no longer need to wear a stuffy mask.

Luke’s face, which was revealed, was unusually ordinary for a man who lived in a back alley.4

It was a look that no one would notice among the people mixed in the streets. His common brown hair and brown eyes played a part.

But sitting face to face like this and looking at his face, there was something strange about him.

‘I feel like I’m facing a deep, dark spring?’

The tip of my heart tickled with a strange fear at the discovery of the unknown.

While I was observing Luke, he was also alert.

“How did you know me?”

He asked me, more relaxed than he had been a moment ago.

I glanced up at Harry, who gave me a decisive hint and I looked up.

“It smells bad.”2

“Smell?”

“You don’t know? You smell so bad.”4

“That can’t be right.”

Luke raised his arm to check his body odor as if he could not believe it.

When I saw him with a serious face, I could not help but laugh.

The noise stopped Luke’s behavior.

“What? Was it a lie?”

“I’m not lying. It smells really bad!”

‘It’s not me, it was Harry.’4

But it was never a lie anyway.

But with one laugh, I lost all his trust.

“…it’s my fault to believe what Yvesria Oberon said.”

Luke leaned back in his chair with a dejected smile. For a moment, I thought he was quite resentful about what I said.

“My perfect disguise couldn’t have been caught by Yvesria Oberon. You just took a guess, didn’t you? You didn’t recognize me last night.”

“Did you meet me last night?”

“Look at this, you don’t even have a clue.”

If I were with Harry, he would still smell bad.

‘Then we met when Harry was away.’

Of course, except for El, who gave me a kind advice.

Then there was only one person left.

‘He got a big guts. No matter how close he is to Liddon, how can he think about disguising himself as the prince?’

If he impersonated a royal family member, he could face death penalty depending on the issue.

“Did you know how heavy a sin of royal impersonation is?”

“Ha. You say the same thing as El. What’s your relationship with him? I saw him yesterday, and he was totally crazy.”

Luke squints his eyes at me. It was an eye searching for something.

I proudly faced Luke’s gaze, having nothing to distance myself from.

“Why don’t you get an request if you have a time for that crap? I think it will be much more productive for each other. “

“Request?”

“I have a request to the Information Guild.”

Luke’s face sank at the request.

“I don’t want you to be my client.”

“I can give you as much as you want.”1

“Hmm, is that so?”

Luke snorted as if he were intrigued.

“Let’s see how far the wealth of the Oberon family was, like what the rumor says?”

Luke raised his hand and lifted three fingers.

“300,000 gold. I don’t accept anything less.”

How much is 300,000 gold?

I know the monetary unit of this world well, but it’s hard to say how much 300,000 gold is worth.

‘I’ve never calculated anything myself here.’

An ordinary noble young lady never paid for herself.

When I picked up the item and placed an order, the servants paid for the item.

‘I think a one ordinary dress was about 30 silver.’

Money grows in units of copper, silver, and gold, so if it’s a 300,000 gold, a 30 silver dress…1

‘ How many sets can I afford?’1

It wasn’t calculated properly.

‘Uh…I need a calculator. ‘

But one thing was clear.

‘300,000 gold is a huge sum.’

I could see why Luke looked so elated.

No matter how wealthy the Oberon family was, there was a limit to the amount of money I could afford.

Luke was confident that I would never pay the amount he demanded.

‘This is how you’re telling me that you won’t accept my request.’

But I had one weapon he didn’t know about.

“You’re setting the price without listening to the request?”

“I tend to measure prices by person, not by request. It’s fair for the rich to pay a lot and a less for the poor, right?”

“Really? If so, isn’t 300,000 gold too low?”

“What?”

“How ridiculous I am to you that I’m only going to pay 300,000 gold?”

I snorted and put an envelope in front of him.

It was a blank check I received from Liddon.6

“You’re going back to the capital soon, right? The Royal Central Bank will be able to exchange it for money.”

Luke’s face hardened after checking the contents.

“Do you know how much I’m going to write?”

“I don’t care how much you write down.”

‘The money is not on me anyway.’3

Luke’s face stiffened at my words with no hesitation.

“All right, let’s hear your request.”

“However, if it were a request to harm Catherine like last time, I would refuse no matter how much the pay was.”

“Don’t worry, it has nothing to do with her.”

Luke’s wary eyes slightly softened.

I didn’t miss that moment and led the conversation to the main point.

“Do you know where the dwarfs live?”

“….Dwarfs?”

The vigilance that remained in Luke’s eyes was completely destroyed.

“Why are you looking suddenly for Dwarfs?”

I smiled and reached out my hand at Luke’s question.

“300,000 gold if you’re curious.”10

“What?”

“Information is money. I give and sell information to rich people at a high price. “

Luke opened his mouth, when I said the same thing he said to me just a little while ago. His stupid figure made me snort and put my arms together.2

“Now you see how mean you were a little while ago?”

“This is how you want revenge?”

“I’m not that upset. I just meant to show how I felt.”

Erell’s situation was something that Luke would soon know if the rumor began to spread.

There was no need to try to hide such a problem.

I shrugged my shoulders and began to explain what had happened in Erell.

Luke was serious while listening to the long story. It is not Catherine’s fish Luke, but the information guild’s chief Luke, who is sitting in front of me.

The story of his greatest interest was of course the part where I tamed the Wyverns.

“How did you tame the Wyverns?”

I laughed and reached out my hand this time again.

“If you’re curious, one billion gold. This is not a joke.”

“Well, that’s definitely a valuable information.”

Luke backed away, too. He didn’t seem to expect my answer in the first place.

“I already have some information about the dwarfs.”

“You know where they live?”

“Knights and blacksmiths who want to make a great sword often searched the dwarfs. The information they have found will remain in the guild.”

Luke rose from his seat when he had finished talking.

“I will send the results in the letter. Don’t be too surprised because our side of Meimani will visit you soon.”

***
In a few days, as Luke said, an information guild member came to me secretly.

“This is a letter from the Mr. Eionmanni, miss. “

The guild member disguised as a kitchen maid, delivered the letter carefully.

‘Is the security of this mansion okay?’1

I don’t know if he infiltrated to deliver the letter or if he was employed here to collect information, but either way it was the same of telling me the laxity of security.

‘Well, with Lionel guarding the entrance, there’s no security in this mansion already.’21

I was convinced at the thought as the guild member added.

“He told that the price you paid would not be a waste.”

“Is that so?”

I paid a blank check.

In order not to waste the price, the exact address of the Dwarf village had to be written.

I checked the letter in the envelope. It was just one short page.

The money was not a waste.

***

There were several places where the dwarfs were known to live in villages.

But since the dwarfs were so inactive, they were more of a legend than an information.

The dwarf’s village most recent activities was confirmed, it was on the fog mountain in the northwest of the continent.

Erell was located at the edge of the northeastern continent, so it is the farthest neighborhood on the side.

Harry came up behind me, sitting on the sofa while brooding on the address.

“Angaesan Mountain. It’s an interesting place.”

He leaned back from behind and said, confirming the address on the paper.

Somehow, he seemed to know the fog mountain well.

“Have you ever been to Angaesan Mountain?”

Harry nodded as I expected.

“I went there when I was called out by the moron. There was a holy sword on the rock called Jupiter. He went to draw it.”

“I didn’t heard that the Zerrete’s founder was the master of the holy sword.”

“Yes. There was a sword there, but the moron couldn’t pull it. I guess that’s the holy sword. It’s not picked up by the moron.”

Harry shook his shoulders as he sold off his predecessor.

“Maybe it’s not yet been picked up. It was a famous tourist attraction when I was there. Whenever people goes to hiking, they pulled it out just in case.”

“Harry, have you tried?”

“Are you crazy? It’s called the Holy Sword. I’m a demon, what kind of anger would I get if I touch it?”

“Hmm. Will Harry lose if he fights the Holy Sword?”1

Harry, who shivered at my question, shook his head with a serious look as if he had done so.

“It can’t be. I can melt a trivial plastic sword with my flame.”

“Really? That idiot can’t pulled out the Holy sword, but he called Harry. Maybe the Holy Sword was a little more tougher. “1

“Contractor, how can you compare me to such an old fool?”1

Harry looked at me with a look of betrayal.

“I’m this handsome, tall, can turn into a dog, can smell well, and—“4

At this rate, he was prepared to tell all 100 reasons why he was better than the Holy Sword.6

What was needed at this time was a natural and quick turn of the conversation.

“But what kind of place is the Mountain Agaesan? The village of Dwarfs is there, so I think I’ll have to go. “

“Are you going there yourself?”

“Shouldn’t we? I don’t have anyone to trust to be sent there.”

The only people that could be called in Erell were the 5th Division knights.

There is no great man that can be entrusted with the important task of convincing the Dwarfs, who rejects humans.

“The Angaesan mountain is quite high. Can you climb up there?”

Harry looked down at me suspiciously.

Fine arms and legs with a white skin that looks like that has never been exposed in the sunlight.

My physical strength was not even strong enough to climb a hill properly, let alone a mountain.

“I don’t think I need to climb the mountain directly.”

“How will you find the village if you don’t climb the mountain directly?”

“We have a very good means of transportation.”

I pointed to the dazzling scales of Captain Wyvern, which lay like ornaments on the fireplace.

“We’ll ride the Wyvern to the summit. Wouldn’t it be easier to search the village of Dwarfs at the top?”2

***

‘If I tell the Baron, he’ll send a knight or hire mercenaries. It’s hard when a lot of people will come .’

But I had Harry.2

Rather, knights and mercenaries are a burden.

So I told Emma instead of telling the baron of my plans and seek for help.

Emma was in charge of watching me. If she was good enough, I could leave the house unnoticed.

‘It will take a week or longer at most.’

If I am going to ride the Wyverns, it was enough time.

“You must be careful, miss.”

Emma didn’t stop me from going alone. She seemed to think I would be fine because I had extraordinary powers.

‘I’m glad that I showed the fire back then.’

If I hadn’t shown her that power, it would have been hard to make Emma in my side like today.

“I put everything in this bag that I think you needed.”

Emma handed me over a large bag and told me the list of items inside.

“Just in case, I put a change of clothes, extra shoes and meat jerky. And…”1

It was such an enormous amount, how can all of that fit in there?

‘Isn’t it heavy?’

But the bag was light as a feather.

‘what?’