Annan, who was the last to return to the camp, was in the spotlight.

Annan ignored them - he didn't find anything anyway. Putting Lily down and letting it go back to the tent on its own, he went to the tavern, where he picked up a glass of juice and sat in the corner, ready to listen to the braggings of the gold diggers.

"Champion, I'll go back first." Flas ran out of the tavern, presumably to tell the camp leader.

Annan didn't care either, because the diggers came.

They began to show off their harvest in Solren Go, some of which were quite legendary, such as jewels hidden in a pit, treasure maps that the nezumi couldn't read and dropped, women's pajamas full of closets—

Usually in places where the rat people are rampant, there will be no food or anything that looks like weapons left, and the rat people will eventually form a rat tide with a mess in their hands.

The ladies also solicited business in their clothes in the not-so-warm tavern, followed one gold digger after another, and then returned a few minutes later.

With an obscene aura, he threw a wink at Annan. It's just that the boy wasn't interested in them, otherwise they would have paid for it.

In the evening, when Annan was about to return to the tent, the blonde woman came to the tavern and sat down in front of Annan.

"Haven't you left yet?" Annan looked at the blonde woman's old aristocratic attire and praised, "It does look like a vampire......

"You like vampires a lot?" She held her chin.

"Just curious about what a real vampire looks like."

Wood doesn't count. The only difference between him and humans is that humans eat everything, he only drinks blood.

"If you like, I can also suck some blood part-time......" The blonde woman's other hand reached out to Annan.

"Slut!"

"Mean woman!"

"Deserve to be burned at the stake!"

The peeking girls in the tavern let out a low curse, but Annan, who was worried about them, stood up, avoided the woman of unknown origin, said goodbye to the guests in the tavern, and returned to the tent.

"When are we going to act?" Farias asked.

The earl on the other side of the hill was about to wait.

"Let's put it tomorrow."

After staring at it for two days, the leader should have lost interest.

"Where the forest is thick, where the stream is raging, where the song is loud," said Farias, "Where the forest is thick, where the stream is raging, where the song is loud. ”

"What is this?"

"Three puzzles to unlock the three keys needed to unlock the legacy."

“…… You know I'm not a mage, right? ”

"It takes three keys to open the legacy, and three puzzles correspond to three keys." Farias said in a way that a normal person could understand.

"How do I solve the puzzle?"

"It's in the museum."

"What if the key is picked up by the nezumi?"

"The key is kept in a very private place."

"So the inheritance can't be opened when the key is gone?"

"Hmmm......"

"Let's hope the nezumi won't stick the key in the mace."

Annan was not interested in asking how the Count of Ulmit had learned of these secrets...... He's just an executor, and he just wants to get his share.

On the third day, there were significantly fewer rats than on the first day, and the rats were lured away by the bait in the morning. Annan followed the gold diggers into the city.

The peeps hidden in the shadows disappeared, and in their place Frass followed Annan directly.

Annan let Frass follow, because he couldn't figure out the meaning of the puzzle himself.

Walking through the looted empty museum, his gaze swept across the empty halls, and Annan wondered how to find the keys if the puzzle was about the collections.

Or do the keys have nothing to do with the collections......

Annan strolled through the cloister that Fermi had scavenged, and Frass next to him expressed sadness.

"You're a Violet?"

"No, I'm a Montabull Rock Man......"

"Then why are you so sad?"

"Damn nezumi...... They have robbed all of humanity's treasures. ”

Annan did not have such feelings. More than museums, city lords' mansions, manors, etc., those burned and collapsed houses and nameless wreckage caused him more sadness.

"Do you know the Mad Dog Grand Duke?" Annan walked into the lounge on the second floor of the museum.

"Mad Dog......?"

"It's Archduke Gilles."

"Your title is very apt...... That's a bastard. Frass gritted her teeth.

Annan then learned of the deeds of the "mad dog grand duke" who had been robbed of his territory by himself – including, but not limited to, issuing draconian edicts, imposing unbearable taxes, forcibly conscripting residents into battle, and plundering the property of nobles and merchants – the only place where Annan agreed.

"Those nobles didn't do anything?"

"Both the Mage Guild and the Principality Guard listen to that mad dog."

In the manner of this mad dog archduke...... Maybe he'll continue to trouble Gem City.

Annan, who was walking out, suddenly kicked something, lowered his head, and a key was hidden in the dust.

Annan picked up the bronze spoon coated with musical notes: "Fermi, you and Frass continue to search, I'm going to rest for a while." ”

"I'm with you." Frass said immediately.

Ann looked at him, and her expression gradually became indifferent: "Are you spying on me?" ”

"Of course not! I was just...... I want to protect you. Frass explained in a panic.

"You're not my servant yet, so you don't have to follow me all the time." Annan waved his hand and told the frightened Frass and Fermi to go somewhere else, and then handed the key to the wordless Farias: "Don't tell me this is one of the three keys. ”

"Yes...... It is the key to singing. ”

"Where is this?" At this time, Annan was still thinking that maybe he was turned out by the rat man and brought here.

"The Lady Curator's bedroom."

"How do you know?"

"There is a map at the entrance to the museum."

Annan searched the room again and found a dark compartment on the wall where the mural should have been hung.

This is where the keys are placed

Bedchamber...... Bed...... Song......

Annan suddenly felt that he had guessed the answer to the mystery full of evil taste......

"Where's the changing room and bathroom?"

Annan followed Farias to the adjacent changing room, where there was also nothing left - the clothes in the closet were snatched by the marauders or worn by the nezumi.

The changing room did not have a secret compartment for the bedroom, and Annan asked, "Are there any other changing rooms?" ”

"The maids' changing rooms."

"Take me there."

From the second floor to the first floor, I happened to see Frass who was being punished by Fermi for cleaning up the garbage heap.

Leaving the guy who was actually the leader of the camp to continue, Annan went to the changing room and found the second key: the dense forest.

"How do you know?" Farias exclaimed.

Annan had no choice but to tell him that it was "a warlock's intuition".

The museum has three bathrooms: those belonging to the guests, those belonging to the servants, and those belonging to the curator and the curator's wife. It's just that none of the three bathrooms have the same dark compartment.

Finally, the third key was found in the maid's compartment.

(End of chapter)