The woman from the Fifty Bells bowed slightly nervously, and Kagura’s severe expression from earlier vanished giving entry to a bright smile, and then looked at the couple behind her.
「Sorry for the late introduction, I’m Gates, the chief of the Warrior’s Union here.」
「I’m Debora, chief of the Spellcaster’s Union. We wanted to thank you personally for taking care of Chira Clauzen.」
The couple stood up and introduced themselves, they were the chiefs of the local Unions. At closer inspection, they were clearly wearing higher class clothing, and their gazes were sharp, showing they were no common folk. The woman from the Fifty Bells was not only nervous because of Kagura’s presence, but also because of those two.
「Please, there’s no need to thank for that. I only did that because I wanted to do it. I feel like I should be thanking you instead, for listening to our request and allowing us to use your facilities.」
Kagura faced the two and said, 「Thank you very much.」 anwhile Mira had grabbed a nearby chair, throwing herself on it and simply watching comfortably.
With their introductions complete, they began exchanging information. But first, Kagura asked if the Union workers could leave, then told the chiefs, 「I’m truly sorry, but I have to make sure of sothing,」 explaining about her hypnosis skill and that she wanted to make sure they were not part of Chira Clauzen. The two did not seem uncomfortable about that at all, instead praising the skill. Still, they looked saddened when Kagura refused to teach them how to use it.
With that out of the way, they could finally converse openly. Kagura provided the Unions with the location of all of Chira Clauzen’s bases, as well as the story behind Sentopolly as a country. All information she had already verified.
「I can’t believe it… the entire country was theirs.」
「I guess we have a lot of work ahead of us then.」
What shocked them the most was finding out that Chira Clauzen had created the country of Sentopolly itself.
Chira Clauzen was very thorough when concealing information. They only hired people who knew nothing about Chira Clauzen when building the city. Even if so suspicion were to grow, the people at the top they had instilled had a pristine track record. It was almost impossible to trace anything back to Chira Clauzen.
That was why the two, who had lived in Sentopolly for a long ti, were shocked hearing that revelation. It was the country they called ho after all.
「Err, I can’t say I’ve fully processed that yet, but I understand. We’ll take care of keeping public order here. You can count with full support from the Union.」
「I’ll brief the Unions in other countries as well. This entire situation is of deep importance to us, so I’m sure everyone will offer to help.」
「Thank you very much, that’ll help greatly.」
「We’re just helping each other.」
Chira Clauzen was burrowed into the backbone of the entire country. Once they began removing their influence, it was hard to calculate just how much of an effect that would create inside and even outside the country. Kagura was fully aware of that, and knew the Fifty Bells could not take care of such an undertaking on their own. That was why this short exchange would be a great help soon enough.
There was a second, slightly less obvious reason why Kagura was telling them that. Naly, the bounties the Unions had placed on Chira Clauzen.
The number of Chira Clauzen they had caught were enormous, so the total bounty fetched by them would also be a hefty sum. But rather than taking all that money, Kagura chose to request their help.
Kagura’s worries would be alleviated, the Union would not have to worry about losing most of their budget, making it available to deal with this situation that neither side could ignore.
That benefitted both sides.
Now it was ti for the Unions to share so information as well. They had all the testimonies from the captured remnants, as well as the organizations and firms they were involved with, and the nas of any nobles related to them as well.
「We were only able to have such a reliable source recently. Writing out all of this in just a few hours was back breaking work.」
Gates smiled tiredly as he offered all the docunts. All the Unions’ workers had been hard at work compiling all of that since the mont the announcent of Chira Clauzen’s defeat was made. Kagura’s n needed to focus on hunting down the remains of Chira Clauzen, so they asked the Unions to help with docunting everything instead. In exchange, they offered to let the Unions take part of the credit for capturing Chira Clauzen’s mbers, even though it was mainly done by the Fifty Bells.
「Thank you for your hard work, dealing with Chira has always required a lot of swiftness. Let read through it a bit.」
Kagura accepted the docunts with a bright smile before she began leafing through the papers.
Their roots spread throughout the continent, and their contacts included people close to royalty in so places. There were details of extrely secretive connections, close to state secrets, ntioning even underground deals between major characters of various countries.
Usually the Unions would feel hesitant to even touch such information, but they were dealing with Chira Clauzen and punishing their cris. Cris that violated so of the Three Gods’ Countries most essential laws. Disclosing such information could sully the reputation of so people, but that was a far better outco than facing the wrath of the Three Gods’ Countries by keeping it secret. The cris committed by everyone involved were far too terrible. Refusing to share the information would be a rather stupid choice.
On top of that, Alispharius’ international affairs minister had recognized the Fifty Bells as a lawful actor in capturing Chira Clauzen, so they had no reason to withhold information from them.
「This is incredible. I’m sure we’ll be able to capture a large portion of the remaining mbers with this.」
Having skimd through the docunts, Kagura asserted with a confident smile. Hearing that, Gates and Debora let out relieved sighs and relaxed their shoulders.
「I’ll go store these docunts, you can go ho ahead Grandpa.」
The mont they left the Union, Kagura said that, and without waiting for Mira’s answer, she switched places with a shikigami in the Fifty Bells’ headquarters. Instead, the Yatagarasu shikigami that Kagura had nad Yatakomachi, which looked like a small crow now, landed on Mira’s head like it was the most natural thing to do.
「Speeding through life like always…」
Mira sighed as she said that as she began walking through the street, the street lamps started to turn on as the sun disappeared below the horizon. Then she stopped, trying to rember exactly where the Pri Minister’s residence was.
Everyone involved with Chira Clauzen’s defeat was not only invited for lunch, but also a large dinner party to celebrate. Mira had been part of the announcent as well, so she was invited too, she just needed to rember where to go.
Mira quickly began looking through her map, then climbed on Pegasus with exaggerated movents and took off onto the afternoon sky.
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