Like the West Coast, the East Coast is a place of terrible tales at night and in the wild, albeit more prosperous. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

As mercenaries and adventurers, people who have traveled all year round can understand that although monsters do exist, they rarely provoke humans. Along with beasts like dragon lizards, most predators with a modicum of intelligence will understand the horror of humans, and learn from blood that these small, soft-skinned, clawless and fanged creatures will cause hordes of revenge if one of them is killed, and you will be miserable.

Since the expansion of human society, countless terrible beasts and monsters have perished under torches and swords, and the result is only extinction if they are too aggressive and too close to human beings. The few individuals who survived also carved this horror into their genes, so that their descendants knew how to avoid these cruel creatures and live a life away from humans.

This is also the reason why the category of mercenaries who specialize in dealing with non-human creatures is called "hunting mercenaries" rather than so-called "demon mercenaries" or "monster mercenaries" - humans are the only animals that will kill their own kind because of trivial things like quarrels, compared to these creatures that only hunt for survival.

In terms of their horror, these rare and rare creatures, far from the realm of human existence, are far from being comparable to ours - but it is precisely because of this rarity that they have become a hot topic of interest in the field of literature.

On the truly chaotic West Coast, the fierce beasts and bloodthirsty monsters that farmers who live on the edge of the forest are afraid to avoid, are extremely popular here. This phenomenon is unique only to the prosperous Padrossi Empire on the east coast.

In the final analysis, it can be summed up as "distance produces beauty" - it is precisely because of the prosperity and peace and security that those horrible murderous monsters are so far away from the realm of these people's lives, and people are not really threatened by these creatures, so they are interested in them and want to read the stories related to them.

The literary world of Padrosi used the terms "shocking beauty" and "frightened beauty" as the collective name for such paintings and novels, thanks to the printing and paper industries, which were far more developed than the West Coast, and the circulation of books with drawings was very large, and these novels and drawings involving monsters and monsters were also popular.

People watch and read the adventures of their protagonists in words and pictures, and are immersed in the thrill of being chased by terrifying creatures, but they don't really fall into that danger.

The thrill of goosebumps in the thrill of reading adventure novels in a safe environment is fascinating, and so that similar quirks have a large audience, both in folk oral tradition and in upper-class books.

There is a saying that the forest is big and there are all kinds of birds, and when one of these people in high society wants to have a real adventure because he has read too many adventure novels, to experience and witness those terrifying murderous monsters, this rather troublesome commission naturally falls on the head of a professional organization like the Mercenary Guild.

But what does this have to do with our Mr. Sage and Mira?

Well, that's because this task was "taken" by them.

The reason for the quotation marks is that they did not take it on their own initiative, but assigned it to their heads.

As we've said before, after entering the Blue Tier and registering with the local Mercenary Guild, the front desk staff will be given priority to people of higher rank when there is a task that suits their situation.

And why this task, which has been hanging on the board for two months, fell to Henry and Mira's heads, in the final analysis, it also lies in the peculiarity of the identity of the task publisher.

"An aristocratic lady who dreams of adventure. ”

"I hope that the mercenary who takes on the mission has good skills and is a cute woman. ”

Looking at the smile of the front desk lady Tanya, who was still full of affinity, Mira held her forehead and sighed, just wanting to find a place to sit alone and be quiet.

Female adventurers are scarce, and so are those who are prosperous, such as Parnira. And a white-haired girl like ours who is already a blue card at a young age is even more in a million, so when the two of them report locally and then document it, they naturally become the best candidates for this task that has been hanging on the board for too long.

If the quest is hung for too long and no one can complete it, it is a loss of reputation for the Mercenary Guild. Coupled with the fact that the publisher obviously has a certain identity, this trouble falls on the two of them.

It is difficult enough to escort an unarmed aristocratic lady from one place to another, and the trouble with this task at the moment lies in the fact that the client still actively "wants to take risks" - there is no need to elaborate on how troublesome this completion condition is, except for those young hairy young men who feel that they can rely on the drawbridge effect to spark love with others, most people with a little brains are afraid to avoid it.

-- But that's not all.

Since the eldest lady's family is a person with a normal IQ, they will definitely not allow her to carry out such an unprecedented risky behavior.

So after confirming that we had accepted the mission, our Mr. Sage and Mira had something else to do.

They want.

Kidnapping of the client.

Mira sighed more that day than she usually did in an entire month combined.

......

The moon was dark and windy, and except for a few taverns that were still brightly lit, the streets were left with only patrols wearing half-body armor and holding spears.

Henry and Mira walked towards the mansion that had been stepped on beforehand, wearing only light clothes and carrying knives.

In the subsequent contact, the client lady gave a detailed schematic diagram, and the detailed description of the structural blueprint of her mansion and the general location of the guards showed her delicate and calm way of thinking, but the ease of giving strangers such important information related to her own house made people feel a little naïve.

Born in high society and highly educated, but young and therefore judgments on some issues tend to be idealistic - although they have not met in person, they can imagine what this client is like. But then again, if it weren't for such an eldest lady, I'm afraid I wouldn't have made such a commission in the first place.

-- And.

When Henry and Mira actually arrived at the huge mansion next to the upper street of the business district, even if the sage did not explain it, Mira could easily tell why the other party was not worried that the drawings and the guard's note would be used by people with ulterior motives to harm them.

Because even if they have an "internal response", it is still difficult for them to sneak in.

The three-shift manor guards had few dead ends, and the patrols were twice as strong and dense as they were adjacent to a wide shopping street. If you want to gather a number of people to attack them, you will only be caught between the manor guard and the city patrol team, and the only ones who can really act are only a few who are streamlined, but with only half the number of people, they will "kidnap" their young lady under the noses of 5 groups of 15 people and more than 40 manor guards.

"No wonder the pay for this task is so high. Miladier didn't know how many times she sighed and then said this, and Henry, next to her, shrugged his shoulders and said nothing.

This mission was their first since they arrived on the East Coast, and it had been about a week since they were originally assigned. During this time, they obtained a lot of information through the intermediaries of the Mercenary Guild, and at the same time, they actually went to the vicinity of the manor to conduct on-site investigations. After figuring out all this, make an appointment with the client and make sufficient preparations, and then really enter the action.

But even if she had made sufficient preparations in advance, Mira was still very nervous when it came time to actually take action.

"Let's go. Henry whispered that the alley where the two of them were hiding was in the middle of two dessert shops at the end of the street. The Padrosi people only eat sweets during the day, so the dessert shop always closes early in the evening, so the two of them come here early in the evening to lurk and wait for nightfall.

The five patrol teams on the highway are in a T-shape, and three of them are responsible for patrolling the vast commercial area of the upper and lower streets, which is a long and extensive area, and it takes a lot of time to walk from one end to the other. The remaining two groups are the horizontal part of the T-shape, which leads from the main road to the aristocratic residential area here, and then goes straight to the central square and turns back the same way.

Although the area covered and the patrol interval were already considered high, if you look closely, you can still find a pattern, find a vacant window, and hurry up to run through the empty street.

The real trouble lies in the immobilized guards inside the manor, but the eldest lady has already helped to solve these problems beforehand.

She found some reason to make the guards on this side go inside from the balcony where they could see the wall, so that Henry and Mira, having escaped the security patrol, walked to the perimeter of the house in a grand manner.

"Rustle-" In the dead of night, the slightest sound could be heard far away, so the two of them were light-hearted. The sage crouched down with his palms crossed as a platform, and Mira stepped on his hands, using Heng's strength to prop up his body straight up.

The walls of the manor are only two and a half meters high, but they are protected by iron spearheads, and although they are not sharp, they are also quite sharp and piercing. The white-haired Roan girl climbed to the top of the fence with the help of the sage, but before she could climb over, she first spread a blanket on the fence that she had prepared and sewn together with a thick cowhide of leather armor to avoid being scratched by the spear tip.

"Whew-" Mira raised two fingers and waved them at Henry, then grabbed the guardrail and climbed over it.

And Henry, after he had climbed over it, took off the blanket and placed it in the corner of the manor, in order to avoid the attention of the patrols.

Despite their caution, the subtle chirping of insects in the garden around the fence was silenced by their movements. To be on the safe side, they paused in place for a moment to make sure no one noticed the anomaly before approaching softly.

They crouched in the shadows of the bushes.

"Da"

The client's room was on the second floor on this side, and as agreed, Henry picked up a small stone and threw it on the vacant balcony.

They waited for a while, and the glass door of the balcony crept open, and a girl with curly black hair and light pajamas walked out, her eyes lit up when she saw the two people below, and the expression of excitement and joy on her face could not be hidden, obviously she had been waiting for it for a long time.

"'Wait a minute, I'll be here,'" she said to the two of them, and then ran back to her room with bare feet, half-ringing, as some romance novel would describe, when a rope made of sheets tied together hung from the balcony.

"'I'm coming!'" said the black-curly-haired client, who had changed into a light outfit and carried a small leather bag that looked bulging, but Henry below frowned. Beside him, Mira held her forehead and sighed again, then waved her hand desperately.

"'Your rope!'" The white-haired Loan girl waved her hand vigorously to warn the other party, but because she and Henry were hiding in the shadows, the other could not see Mira's mouth clearly, and the young aristocratic lady only saw the wave of her hand. For a while, I thought that the white-haired girl was in the same mood as her, so she looked at Mira and showed a sweet smile, then grabbed the rope with both hands and kicked hard.

Thus, this "adventure", which had been planned in detail and had not attracted anyone's attention until this step, ended early with the sound of a layman's improvised rope breaking and a short but sharp "ah-".

"Smack-" Gray Shen raised slightly, and the curly-haired client, who was caught in the arms of a sage who rushed out with an arrow, blinked several times in a daze, her big eyes reflecting the bright moonlight, but she didn't have time to react from the situation at hand, because of this scream, there was a commotion on the other side.

"Hurry up. Henry let go of the still sluggish client, and Mira behind him came over and grabbed the other's arm and pulled him towards the wall.

"That, that—" The curly-haired aristocratic lady was still stunned, and though she had been planning for it for a long time and had been looking forward to it all night, she felt clumsy and at a loss when she actually acted.

"The patrol has about 7 minutes to get back, hurry!" the girl silently noted the approximate time in her mind, and she neatly laid the blanket back on the fence, and then squatted with her back against the wall and crossed her hands as a platform for stepping on, as Henry had done before.

"Good, good—" The noble lady reacted, her little boots stomping on Mira's hands, and then with the help of the white-haired maiden, she grabbed the railing of the fence upwards.

"Woo-help, help me!" But the client with weak hands desperately kicked the wall and could not succeed in climbing up, and the white-haired girl sighed again, then straightened up, supported the soles of the other's feet, and helped her climb up, while at the same time, from a corner of the mansion, a manor guard with a spear ran over with a torch.

"What-" "Bang-" Before he could finish his sentence, he saw a surge of air, and then his eyes were black and he fell to the ground.

"Whew-" Henn rolled back and forth on the dirt with his torch on his foot, extinguishing it, returning the surroundings to darkness, but more people had already run to this side.

He turned and ran back to the wall, and Mira had climbed up. The white-haired Luoan girl jumped down first, and the client who clung to the blanket until the sage also climbed up with a quick movement and jumped down, but her legs were still weak and did not dare to jump.

"Hurry up!" Mira urged, a cacophony behind her as the light of the torches turned the walls of the mansion golden. The black-haired client looked back for a moment, hesitated and swallowed, and then finally made up his mind - his eyes closed and he gave a small "ah" and jumped off.

"Smack-" Henry caught her again.

"Do you want to throw yourself to death, you have to watch the road. Mira whispered her, and Miss Client smiled a little embarrassedly. "Over there!" said one of the blankets, seen by the manor's guards, and there was no time to hesitate, and the three of them quickly ran in the direction of the quiet lower street.

"Whew...... Whew......"

The escape route had been planned for a long time, and it was enough to go straight down the street, where the terrain was more complicated, and the patrol would not go deeper.

Ironically, this is the kind of place where the nobles do not come and are usually warned not to approach, and the patrols always speed up their pace as they pass by, which is an excellent cover for them.

As they had come, Henry and Mira led their clients through the empty corners quickly. The beggars and homeless people who hid in the alleys of the lower streets did not disturb each other. After finally entering the brightly lit hotel area, the three of them slowed down their pace and walked slowly towards the hotel where they were staying.

"You, you really are, it's like the adventurer described in the book, so powerful!!" The white hands were clenched into fists, and the panting aristocratic lady's face was flushed with joy, and her excited look was overflowing.

"Be quiet and don't attract unwanted attention. Mira turned back to her, and the client nodded vigorously, but still looking energetic.

"What's your name, you haven't introduced yourself before. She opened her mouth and said, "The concubine's name is Margaret. ”

Despite the use of colloquial Lamanite, the young lady's rhetoric still revealed a strong sense of high society, so Mira hesitated for a moment before realizing that the other party was introducing herself.

"My name is Mira and this is my teacher Henry. ”

The white-haired girl held out her hand to the other.

"Please advise. ”

"Okay!"

And the other party replied with an enthusiastic smile.

――――

There are two flowers, one on each branch.

After the riot was over, dressed in slim clothes, with white hair combed into a big back, he looked like a butler at a glance, but in fact he was indeed a certain figure of a butler, looking at the traces of the surrounding scene, holding the letter left by Margaret in Juan Xiu's handwriting, looking up at the bright starry sky.

A long sigh.

"What a troublesome lady. ”