Episode 8.5
"Dear , truly an incredible way of enjoying food. Though I am not surprised considering you've just got back from a dungeon. And to think you would run into young master and his group on the sa day by chance, I'm not sure whether to call it bad or good luck."
In a private room of a restaurant Chaney invited him to, Lecan is wholeheartedly enjoying his al and booze. Food really taste best after a dungeon. All the more when it's food from a high-class restaurant like this, truly makes him feel alive.
"Now then. Now that it's co to this, I have to explain the situation to Lecan-san."
"I'm good with not knowing."
"When lord-sama welcod his spouse to this town, that spouse brought along with her, her cousin, knight Midosco Avanklein to this town. This person had an awfully spendthrift personality, and despite not being that able, held a strong craving for authority. He obtained all kinds of rights from many positions, and even plotted to make his eldest son, Aria-sama, to take up the position of the lord of Vouka Town."
"More of this booze."
"Yes."
Heeding Lecan's demand, Chaney called a waiter to make additional orders and continued his talk. His subordinates are not with him in this room today. At first, it seed like he was being considerate to Lecan, but apparently that was not all there is to it.
"There are two people cooperating with Midosco-sama. The first one is the present master of a major rchant house, Zack of Zaikaz Company. And the other one is the second son of Golbul town lord, Henjitt Douga."
After finishing another piece of fried boned chicken, Lecan threw away the leftover bone, and drank up a cup of booze filled to the brim.
"Once Zaikaz Company set up a branch in this town, they gradually built reputations over the years, crushed their rivals through ans of slightly questionable moralities, and perated into the core of this town. Eventually, the present master Zack himself ca to this town and unfortunately took away my company's position as the lord's purveyor."
"Another plate of this deep-fried boned chicken."
Chaney continued on after ordering more.
"In the anti, town lord-sama had been gradually gathering evidence from those who couldn't stomach Midosco-sama's ways of doings things and those whom he betrayed, waiting for a chance to convict him."
"I'd like so vegetable. Get sothing green."
Chaney resud his talk after ordering so more.
"Midosco-sama proclaid himself as the one in charge of this town military force, he persistently demanded the lord to increase the number of personnel for both knights and soldiers. However the lord flatly refused him, saying that four knights were enough and they wouldn't have the budget for more than sixty soldiers, neither do they have a need to."
"There's only four knights?"
Lecan asked while gulping down booze.
"Yes. Town lord-sama, his eldest son, Midosco-sama and his eldest son, the four of them."
"There were two knight-looking guys behind that lord's eldest son though."
"Those were only their equipnt. You need His Majesty the king's sanction to be formally recognized as a knight."
"I see."
"Since Midosco-sama was getting too relentless in his demand, the lord made a request to Shira-sama to purchase five magic tools that could shoot out flas from a magic engineer renowned in the capital, Yaclubend-sama."
Now that he ntioned it. One of those five is inside Lecan's right now.
"A mage capable of shooting out powerful fire magic is said to equal ten knights. In other words, as it was practically an additional force of 50 knights, Midosco-sama had no choice but to stop clamoring. Yet, he then went to make up so reasons and demanded to safeguard those magic tools himself. The lord entrusted two of the five magic tools to Midosco-sama."
"Another cup of booze please."
"Now then, the other day, lord-sama's daughter Sushana-sama had fallen ill. They gathered all dical experts in the town, but none could pinpoint the cause of her illness. At his wit's end, lord-sama begged Shira-sama to make a house call. Shira-sama said that her illness was born from a curse, she wouldn't make a complete recovery from ordinary dicine."
When a curse makes you ill, curing the illness will only delay its recurrence for later. You won't recover fully unless you dispel the curse.
"At that point, Midosco-sama and Zack Zaikaz made a bold offer full of confident. That they would surely get their hand on a dicine that could cure the young lady were they tasked for it. Of course, that was in exchange for an outrageous compensation."
"Was Midosco aware that it was a curse?"
"I wonder? It was known only as an illness however. The fact that it was a curse was kept secret even to the madam. At any rate, as I was aware of the situation, I made a suggestion. That I would procure the dicine."
"Hou?"
"To tell you the truth, about a decade ago, a was found in a small dungeon at a certain small village. It was a miraculous dicine the village chief's son frantically looked for in order to cure his mother's sickness. However, the son couldn't make it in ti before the passing of his mother, he left the village out of sadness and died in another dungeon. The village chief secretly kept the Cure with him without ever telling anybody else."
"But you knew, Chaney."
"I saved that village from a crisis by chance you see. They offered the as thanks. I refused at the ti. Since it wouldn't be a fair trade. For the matter this ti, I prepared as much money as I could possibly collect and offered to buy the . I went with as few escort as possible along with a coachman as to not draw attentions, but it ended up biting in the back instead."
So that was the situation with escort recruit back then.
"I brought the dicine on the day the young lady was barely holding to her life according to Shira-sama. As for the rest, Lecan-san is familiar yourself. Ah right. The day after I delivered the cure to the lord's mansion, Henjitt Douga-sama suddenly ca visiting. Saying, ."
"You said Midosco and Henjitt Douga were accomplices."
"Yes."
"Then did Henjitt co because Midosco and Zack asked him to."
"I suspected as much myself, however I'm not exactly sure."
"What's in it for Henjitt?"
"Henjitt-sama has been in love with Susyana-sama for quite so ti."
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