Night of the Soulless Heathens – 67



#67. Assassin Salesman 4

“Hmm. He’s not a cute guy. But I appreciate your help. It’s not bad to have a servant. You can use him when you need to.”

“….”

“Ah Azadin. If you say that in front of me… I’ll be hurt.”

“you?”

“Ismail.”

“why?”

“Because I’m a kid.”

No you’re a kid too. Azadin wanted to say that but Medium who was talking excitedly spoke first.

“These days Ismail feels inferior to Azadin.”

‘Wouldn’t it be worse if you said that in front of the person involved?’

Azadin looked at Ismail’s expression and indeed the boy’s expression was distorted as if he had bitten a bug.

“But if you have something you’re good at and you make a fuss about it and if you accept it so coolly as if you can’t even talk back you’re bound to get hurt. If you provoke someone and they don’t show any signs of being hurt that’s even more embarrassing.”

When Midiam said that Ismail was genuinely hurt. In fact Midiam was mostly responsible for Ismail’s resentment of Azadin. Her opening up to Azadin and clinging too much to him was the root of his inferiority complex.

Ismail who was like a tongue in Midiam’s mouth as a servant did not get even a single bit of her attention. On the other hand Azadin won Midiam’s heart too easily.

But the person in question Medium only says that Ismail feels inferior… Does that mean he has no idea why he feels inferior?

“Hmm? Inferiority complex? To me? Why is that?”

“Maybe it’s because your strength is so outstanding? In fact we challenged you to a duel and lost.”

“To be exact you were alone. Well I don’t think there’s anything I should apologize for. Ismail I just said that you’re good at using foresight magic at your age. If there’s any misunderstanding feel free to apologize.”

Azadin sincerely apologized to Ismail. It seemed Ismail was burning inside. In the end both Midiam and Azadin were just playing the drums of Ismail.

“It’s okay.”

Although he was furious Ismail had no choice but to say so. He couldn’t say that he was jealous because Azadin and Midiam were so close even if his mouth was torn.

“Then I’ll stretch and rest. You guys should rest too.”

Azadin stretched and rested in the Blue Rose Room.

*********

Towards evening Seodong Beldon came to visit instead of the soldier.

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“Here are the documents you requested.”

Beldon brought a roughly marked map a hand-drawn map of the interior of the count’s castle and the positions of the servants’ night shifts.

“I don’t know how the troops are deployed but the Count spends his days in his office and his nights in the backyard with his lovers. I don’t know where he is in the backyard. The entrance to the backyard has been completely blocked off recently.”

The information about the castle was fairly accurate but the information about the annex to the castle was completely gone.

‘So we can say that something is happening in the sponsor’s annex.’

Azadin analyzed the information he had brought.

‘Is this information that Prince Kozel brought without telling his mother? Or is it really information that the Countess was involved in?’

Given Prince Kozel’s style and personality he is not a person who would be popular with the servants in the castle.

‘This is information that can only be obtained if the maids are involved. Should we assume that the Countess is involved?’

Thinking so Azadin decided to leave Seodong.

“I see that the Countess has made up her mind since you brought this. Then shouldn’t there be something I should give her?”

“Yes. The Countess asked for it. But what should I give it to you? Is there anything else you want besides information?”

“I mean the deposit.”

“Oh that’s what you mean. First this.”

Beldon held out a pouch. There were silver coins inside but the amount was not much. It was about the same as one gold coin.

“This was money meant to be given to those refugee thugs.”

“Yes. Because our budget is limited to that amount.”

“If the job has grown from a 50-gold coin request shouldn’t you give me a bit more in advance payment?”

“That’s a bit difficult.”

“Is it difficult?”

“Yes. The Countess has been spending a lot of money recently.”

The soldiers that Prince Cozel had were very well armed. Perhaps it came from the countess’s purse.

It must have been heartbreaking to spend so much money and then have your son return crippled without any gains. But Azadin still asked for the advance payment.

“Your Majesty you don’t come out of your house these days do you? This isn’t just a simple street raid. If you don’t pay a little bit of money down the road we won’t be able to get started.”

“But if you receive the advance payment we have no choice but to interfere so that we don’t lose money right? Our employers don’t want such a difficult deal. Our employers say that since you came to us we have to accept that much. If we were looking for an assassin of course we should pay the advance payment but since you proposed it first and interfered with the work we hired this advance payment is for now…”

“This is also a life-threatening situation so it would be difficult to accept this amount of money as a down payment.”

“Oh I understand. I will explain this to the master first.”

“Then please take care of it.”

Azadin allowed Beldon to leave. He hurriedly took off his blue rose crown. Negotiating with an assassin to reduce the price without giving him a deposit was a terrible thing that a mere civil servant Beldon would never want to do again.

“It’s ridiculous to try to manipulate an assassin without any advance payment. The Countess doesn’t seem to have such a meticulous personality. Baroness Nort seems to be a bit more capable.”

Azadin had a low opinion of Prince Cozel and his mother the Countess.

“If you give us a large down payment it will be difficult for you to manage us. For example even 5 gold coins at 1% is a lot of money right? Even if you take that you can’t go somewhere and complain that you tried to assassinate the count and got your deposit taken away right? I can understand being passive to some extent.”

The medium understood the other person’s position.

“If you provoke the opponent too much won’t they make the request seem like it never happened? Originally they were going to attack the Baroness Nort’s private residence but thanks to you Azadin you persuaded them and changed it to assassinating the Count. To be honest money wasn’t the important thing and since you did it to steal a copy of the New King’s Book anyway didn’t you achieve your primary goal just by getting information from them?”

The primary objective was achieved as he had obtained the castle map and servant duty information from the countess. However Azadin shook his head.

“No. There’s still something else to watch out for.”

“Huh? What is that….”

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“Derek and his group.”

That’s when Azadin said that.

“ah.”

A group of soldiers were affected by the foresight magic cast by Ismail. The knights and soldiers were seen forming a line and moving in an orderly manner towards a certain place. It was the mansion of Baroness Noord.

“Troops to Baroness Nort’s mansion!”

“As expected. It’s that guy Derek’s doing.”

Azadin was convinced that this incident was Derek’s doing.

“Isn’t that a bit of a leap in logic? Can you tell me why you think Derek did that?”

“Okay. First of all I insulted you but you backed down.”

“yes?”

The medium who was listening was embarrassed.

“Actually when I insulted them I planned to correct their bad habits on the spot. Considering Derek’s original personality it was a provocation that he could have easily pounced on. Especially Derek who just got his ankle fixed by Arael. Who wouldn’t want to use his strength when he’s back in shape after having to retire from his job as a messenger due to an injury?”

“Yeah that’s true. But is that all?”

“Arael tried to persuade me but Derek and his men couldn’t attack me with their own hands. Then isn’t it natural to think of a way out?”

“ah.”

Although he was a Medium who opposed Azadin he was convinced by his words.

Arael tries to persuade Azadin. Those who follow Arael are following her words but they do not want Azadin to be persuaded into joining their organization and take a place with them because they are blood relatives.

However since they are afraid of the consequences if it is revealed that they eliminated Azadin… they naturally think of a way to start a fight among themselves.

“So you think that Derek reported you to the Count and that’s why the soldiers are heading to Baroness Nort’s mansion to capture you? What are you going to do?”

“I cannot allow anyone to harm Baroness Nort who has become the guardian of the orphans I brought in.”

“Why on earth would a messenger do such a thing?”

Ismail asked curiously. From the perspective of the persecuted Aragats he could not understand Azadin taking care of the Hybris people who were persecuting them.

“Why? Because caring for the people of Hybris is the true duty of the Emperor’s messenger.”

“But that…..”

“Even if it’s not that it’s because it’s the right and beautiful thing to do. In my aesthetics.”

“Are you talking about aesthetics?”

“Yes. In that sense it can be said that it is my mission to protect Baroness Nort who became the guardian of the children. Well then shall we begin?”

Azadin took off his helmet and put on the falcon mask the symbol of a herald.

“Let’s go Medium Ismail!”

“yes!”

“Follow me with lots of arrows.”

Azadin said this and kicked the blue rose crown away and went out.

*********

Derek and his men relayed the following information to the Count:

The night before yesterday the apostles of Mejeri moved through the culvert and they had a copy of the Shinwangjinseo. The apostles of Mejeri attempted to obtain the power of the Shinwangjinseo by kidnapping people and sacrificing them and this can be confirmed by the testimonies of those who were captured as sacrifices and rescued.

In the meantime a man defeated Mejeri’s apostles and rescued the people and Baroness Nort invited him to her private residence.

If you just say this everything will naturally flow the way Derek wants.

As Derek had expected the Earl sent soldiers and knights to Baroness Norte’s private residence.

“What’s the matter sir?”

In front of the Baroness Nort’s residence young children were still cleaning in their servant uniforms. They were orphans who had been brought here by Azadin.

“Get out of the way kids.”

“Here is the private residence of Baroness Nort. She is also the Count’s lover.”

“Why don’t you know? I came here to investigate because there were reports of suspicious guys infiltrating here.”

They pushed the servant boy away and entered the mansion starting to investigate the surroundings.