「I'll be the boss.」
I declared thus.
Like the most ambitious snake in the world.
And Oliver's response...
"Ah, yes, be the boss. Whatever."
Was lighter than expected.
Though I feel like I lost sohow, he's letting be the boss.
Then the two had a serious conversation.
Rae who wanted to create a new guild.
And Oliver, the returned vice guild master. Stay connected through My Virtual Library Empire
"I don't plan to use the na Poison Path Guild."
"Right, that's for the best."
"But I'll inherit its spirit."
Seems she hasn't even nad the guild yet.
As boss, I bestowed a na.
「Let's call it Snake Path Guild.」
Honestly, Poison Path Guild is a bit, no, quite a tacky na.
If we na it Snake Path Guild, I could say that line when gathering the kids.
"Snake Path Guild..."
This ti Oliver couldn't just say 'Ah, well, whatever.'
His face twisted - doesn't he like it?
"No."
Rae cut in firmly.
Shouldn't have returned that gold bar.
"But well, I had thought of a similar na."
What!
"The symbol of Poison Path Guild was a snake after all."
I learned a shocking fact.
To think such an excellent guild was destroyed.
It must have been a great loss not just for the sewers, but the entire empire.
"Using the Hiral character aning snake... Sa Path Guild."
Still think Snake Path Guild sounds better.
"I'm thinking of Sa Path Guild."
It doesn't seem like a terrible na either.
And so the guild master would be forr Under Circle head Rae.
And Oliver a temporary guild mber.
I would be Sa Path Guild's Supre Elder.
That structure was established.
For reference, Obern was nothing.
"Please wait a mont. I'll get the information you requested about the underground auction house."
She rose from her seat saying this.
Then called people to clean up the ambushers' corpses and left. Quite the capable woman.
For a while, just the three of us - Oliver, , and Obern - remained.
'Oliver, seems you have quite a colorful past.'
'Yes...'
Oliver was a man with many secrets.
I don't know how he ended up as a hunter in the great forest of a distant kingdom, in the borderlands at that.
'Explain everything to the Supre Elder.'
'Supre... what?'
Oliver made a troubled expression, then sighed deeply.
Even a man of steel has monts when his heart softens.
Especially when facing a painful past, which seed to be the case for Oliver now.
He explained his past.
"Before, I was vice guild master of a guild called Poison Path."
Even then, Mud House and Two Rings ruled the sewers as the two major rogue guilds, he said.
Oliver and his guild grew at an incredibly fast pace.
Finally, when Poison Path Guild's na was ntioned right after Mud House and Two Rings in the lower district, and as the two guilds were about to beco three guilds.
Disaster struck.
Perhaps the existing powers of the sewers didn't want a new guild to flourish.
Moreover, since Poison Path Guild's ultimate goal was to reach the surface.
The rulers of the fish tank wouldn't welco fish trying to leave.
It started with Oban VanKloss's terrorism.
Absurdly, Oliver's wife was caught in that explosion and died.
"Bad luck. That's the only way to describe it."
Though the death was empty and aningless, its aftermath wasn't short and clear.
Oliver, the vice guild master and problem solver of Poison Path Guild, beca a broken man.
And the entire sewers were turned upside down.
"The empire lost Oban VanKloss. But soone had to bear the empire's wrath."
They needed soone to hang and burn to appease the empire's anger.
Naturally, sparks flew to the lower district and sewers.
"The guild masters of Heaven dicine Party, Mud House, and Two Rings made a decision."
'What decision?'
"To offer us as living sacrifices."
When the imperial capital's guard corps was turning the lower district and sewers inside out.
Poison Path Guild was hunted by their fellow sewer dwellers.
Dozens, hundreds died then.
The guild house burned, and many children died too.
The survivors were bound and sent to the guard corps for execution.
"I ran away. Leaving behind many who survived."
'I see...'
I felt a bit sorry for such an Oliver, and could understand Rae's feelings.
'No wonder she resents you.'
"Rae...?"
Obern beside us nodded.
"He is indeed a traitor."
'Yes, honestly it would be understandable if she pretended to get information but set fire to our room instead.'
"Haha..."
We were silent for a mont.
'Surely not...'
"..."
"...Ah."
Just as we felt sothing ominous and stood up simultaneously.
Click-
The door opened and Rae returned with a stack of docunts.
"Why is everyone standing?"
"Ah, no..."
Oliver and I played innocent.
"Just looking around the room."
"Stop doing unnecessary things and sit down."
She started laying out the docunts.
Only then did I notice Rae was sowhat excited.
Fortunately, it seed she hadn't planned to burn us to death.
"There's an opportunity. Closer than expected."
Skimming through the docunts she brought, they contained complex accounting ledgers and records of goods movent.
"And it's probably an opportunity that won't co again."
"Ssasak!"
I urged her to get to the point.
The new sect master respected the Supre Elder's opinion.
"The items leaked from the vice president, they don't seem to have been sold yet."
'Oh!'
"Look here, there's a list of people suspected to be from the imperial bank."
No matter how secretly and quietly you try to sell items. Records remain in ledgers like this.
"Recently received items are like this. Just small things."
'It probably wasn't a small item.'
"Yes. There's just one big item. It has no value listed and has been pending for over a month."
An item ca in but isn't being sold.
There could be several reasons, but what if it's not that they won't sell, but that they can't sell?
"There are two possibilities. Either the item's value is so high they need to gather people who can afford it. Or the item is extrely dangerous or illegal so they need to find a buyer secretly."
And Rae added, 'Or it could be both.'
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