No, bro, since you weren’t misled, what’s the deal with all the shouting and yelling earlier? It seemed like you were desperately fighting for something as if your wife got stolen or something.
This really puzzles Violet.
Ahem, first of all, it needs to be clarified that Miss Priestess here isn’t gossiping, she just thinks it’s necessary to understand more detailed information.
“So, this Bryce you just chopped down, is he the guy you mentioned before, the one who almost got you killed? How did you guys meet? Tell me all about it.”
Bringing up the matter, Mr. Side-Swept Bangs’s face revealed unabashed disgust and sighs. He glanced at Violet, who was brimming with interest, then looked at the flames rising in the distance, and sighed deeply.
“After we parted ways with you guys...”
Firstly, as planned, Mr. Side-Swept Bangs and Eileen went together to the special location mentioned by the latter, leaving behind an inconspicuous contact symbol.
After that, they temporarily returned to the underground stone house connected to Eileen’s home, exchanging various experiences that occurred after their separation, expressing their longing for each other, and waiting for the contact person to show up upon seeing the signal.
However, not long after, they heard a loud roar coming from the black market. When they hurried out to check, they found the southern district in chaos.
At that time, Mr. Side-Swept Bangs and Eileen had different opinions on what to do next. Mr. Side-Swept Bangs was not very confident in leaving the two unarmed girls, Violet and her friend, walking around in the chaotic black market like that, and wanted to go out to find them. But Eileen believed that since it was an envoy from the queen, she must have relied on something coming here alone, and Violet’s magical items left behind were still intact, so there was no need to worry too much.
After several arguments, Eileen finally said that if Mr. Side-Swept Bangs was really worried, he didn’t have to stay to protect her, and he could go out alone to search, while she would stay here to continue waiting for the contact person.
Because of his trust in Eileen, Mr. Side-Swept Bangs didn’t think too much about it at the time, just felt that this approach was indeed feasible, so after giving some instructions, he went out directly.
Now thinking about it, he feels that Eileen’s expression at the time seemed a bit strange, maybe she was deliberately distracting him.
“Wait a minute, something’s not right... This doesn’t make sense no matter how you look at it...”
“Hmm? What is it?”
Mr. Side-Swept Bangs looked slightly puzzled as he directed his gaze towards the black-haired girl who suddenly interrupted him with a strange expression.
“Uh, it’s nothing, forget it, you continue...”
“Okay.”
After parting ways with Eileen, Mr. Side-Swept Bangs came alone to the site of the incident, near the building that had been cut off. However, by the time he arrived, the area had already been sealed off by unidentified forces, prohibiting anyone from approaching.
Although they did not wear any marks representing their identity, as a former member of the Ghost Thief Group, Mr. Side-Swept Bangs quickly recognized these guys as members of that organization through some clues.
He was alone and didn’t dare to confront so many people, and he hadn’t found any trace of the two girls, Violet and her friend. After some thought, he decided to temporarily leave the scene before attracting attention, and planned to return to the stone house to discuss further with Eileen.
However, to his surprise, when Mr. Side-Swept Bangs returned to the original location, Eileen was nowhere to be found.
Naturally, he was extremely anxious, but Eileen’s sudden disappearance left no trace behind, and Mr. Side-Swept Bangs didn’t possess any of the magical abilities Violet had, so he had no way to search.
Just as Mr. Side-Swept Bangs was about to return to Eileen’s house on the surface to try searching, suddenly someone from above intruded into the stone house.
Mr. Side-Swept Bangs was startled, but he chose not to act because he recognized four out of the five people in this group.
Or rather, they were familiar to him, but he wasn’t to them.
The Demon Suppression City, and even the entire Human United Kingdom, was renowned for the legendary adventurer team – the 【Reaper’s Scythe】. This team had been idols admired by Mr. Side-Swept Bangs throughout his career.
Although it was said that only one member of the team had truly reached the legendary level, the assessment of the Adventurer’s Guild was absolutely fair. In the context of team battles, the 【Reaper’s Scythe】 could be considered to have four legendary-level combatants. At least, that was the conclusion given by the guild.
Therefore, in a sense, this legendary team could be said to be on par with the three great legends of the capital city. Almost everyone in the Demon Suppression City knew them.
Mr. Side-Swept Bangs had extreme trust in these predecessors of the 【Reaper’s Scythe】, and quickly proved his identity as an adventurer and member of the “Black Knights Mercenary Group,” confessing that he had come here to investigate the activities of the poaching group, without directly mentioning Violet’s presence.
After gaining their trust, he learned an astonishing piece of information from the captain of the 【Reaper’s Scythe】.
In fact, the 【Reaper’s Scythe】 had already received a transmission from headquarters, accepting assistance in investigating the situation in the Demon Suppression City from the current Queen Lilya’s special envoy, and had begun to handle the commission to resolve the current chaos in the northern territories.
They pretended to be seriously injured in the accidental explosion, actually went underground, completed the rendezvous with the envoy who came a long way from the queen, and continued to collect intelligence in secret.
Regarding the recent continuous suppression by the Tulls family, which controls the Demon Suppression City, the guild’s high-level deliberately allowed it, ostensibly acquiescing to it, but in fact, relying on the royal decree brought by the envoy and the assistance of headquarters, they had secretly gathered a considerable force.
Although most adventurers were not aware of the specific details, the core strength of the guild had mostly chosen to stay in the Demon Suppression City recently, which was also the result of deliberate guidance by the high-level.
Recently, the intelligence had been basically collected, and taking advantage of the gap when the first and second branches of the Tulls family’s main lineage were out of the city, the envoy and the 【Reaper’s Scythe】 seized the opportunity to lead their troops into the underground black market with thunderous force, aiming to eradicate the poaching group entrenched deep in the city, liberate the magical creatures enslaved there, and alleviate the increasingly intense border conflicts.
It was also in the hands of the young girl, the envoy, besides the four members of the 【Reaper’s Scythe】, that Mr. Side-Swept Bangs saw the decree personally stamped by the queen, confirming her identity to be genuine beyond doubt.
“What?! Lilya actually sent someone... Ahem, well, what I mean is, everything is indeed going according to plan! Haha, hahaha...”
“Wait, did I just hear you directly address Her Majesty by name...?”
Glancing at the somewhat guilty-looking envoy, Mr. Side-Swept Bangs didn’t question too much. After all, the document Violet showed him was indeed prepared by a certain queen herself.
Considering that the priestess actually seemed to hold a higher position, Mr. Side-Swept Bangs had previously speculated whether Violet was actually the leader of the operation, and her side might be more important, with the outside being just a feint attack... or something like that.
“Ahem... Anyway, what happened next?”
“After that, I followed the envoy and joined up with the main forces coming in from various channels. I told the senior members of the 【Reaper’s Scythe】 about the mysterious disappearance of Eileen, hoping to use their methods to try and help find her. But they actually told me, based on the intelligence they gathered, that Eileen was one of the masterminds behind this conflict, the current leader of the Ghost Thief Group!”
Mr. Side-Swept Bangs seemed a bit excited, but quickly became despondent again.
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“I naturally didn’t believe it at first, even though I saw a lot of incredible evidence, I firmly believed that there must be a misunderstanding, after all, Eileen is such a kind girl... But Eileen has disappeared, I couldn’t find you guys, so I had no choice but to join the leaders who had just received the news and were summoned by the royal decree to participate in the attack on the underground black market together.”
“The battle progressed smoothly. I don’t know if the envoy and the other three major underworld forces reached some agreement, but with such a grand attack, there was surprisingly no reaction from the black market on the east, west, and north sides. Gradually, everyone spread out and began to wipe out the scattered poaching groups. And it was there...”
“I saw Eileen again.”