Chapter 727 – #156_The Fugitive (2)
#727
One.
Lydia’s office.
“What the fuck, are you an asshole?”
Shouts mixed with growling vocalizations resonate because they are full of sincerity.
Money laundering expert Landa Sylphid was in charge of overall accounting for the Solidus Merchant Merchant, and was being treated fairly favorably.
This is because the laundering of original funds becomes more important as the scale of capital grows.
Landa was the best expert in the field, and the Solidus guild was the largest single guild in Hexsennacht, so the bond between the two was also pretty tight.
In other words, while there was a superior-subordinate relationship in business, it was a relationship that seemed fair in private settings.
But now.
Landa stiffened like an opossum in front of her expletive Lydia.
“Why are you bragging about it? Huh? Can you tell me?”
The air around her shudders as Lydia loses her temper and slams the table on her.
She was always nice and friendly, a stark contrast to when she treated Landa like her friend.
“Wait, I wasn’t bragging, it was just…. Only for a few….”
“Then why are you saying that! You fucking asshole!”
“Hey… !”
She is aware that she is being insulted.
But she was proud and couldn’t afford to take care of anything.
The 23rd tier witch lost her cool and scattered the golden magic reflected light, which was too fierce for 19th tier Landa to face.
“Ha….”
Lydia picked up the strong whiskey on her table and poured it into her mouth with her gurgling.
I threw the empty bottle against the wall with all my might, as if that didn’t relieve my anger.
– Clink!
Landa couldn’t avoid the ricocheting fragments of the bottle, and her eyes welled up as she held her upright immobility like a private in her discipline.
Lydia waved her hand, suppressing her desire to turn this stupid bitch into gold coins.
“Okay, turn it off. Look out Waiting for my call.”
Strictly speaking, Landa and Lydia are in a collaborative relationship of equals, not a relationship between a boss and her subordinates.
However, Landa bowed her head and ran out of her office as if she had waited for Lydia’s words and actions, which were nothing short of violent.
“Me, me, me, asshole bitch.”
Lydia, who gritted her teeth and followed her back with her eyes, leaned her back on the backrest.
After the Great Council, she secretly planned to form a tracking team.
Later, the plan to blame Rinne for Rosie’s disappearance was also established under the premise that Shin Si-woo was in his possession.
The moment her Rinne’s deviation is revealed, she will become a prey for the Hexen Nacht joint, and then the safety of Siu, who is entrusting her identity to her, will be destroyed.
Thus, Lydia concealed the fact that Linnaeus had raided her studio.
Her injured secretary was also handed over to her trusty healing witch and asked to keep her secret.
However, Landa, whom Rinne attacked in the first place, ruined the whole plan.
“I will just search…” .”
Randa, who was unnecessarily strong and woke up after only two days, came to the top of Solidus to report her, and as many as three witches exposed Rinne’s crimes.
He even went so far as to say that Rinne had inquired about the event schedule of the Solidus Merchant Merchant and Lydia’s schedule.
Landa, halfway giving away all the information that would have saved her life, must be belatedly trying to prove her friendship with Lydia.
Half of it, she must be vengeful towards Linnaeus for making her suffer.
But as a result of her rash mouthing, Linnaeus’ criminal activities reached the ears of hardliners.
He also gave a clue that there was some kind of connection between Linnaeus and Lydia.
Naturally, Hexsenacht went on high alert, and hardliners who seized a good opportunity were also included.
They are also looking for Shin Siu to trigger a war with Gehenna.
Now that this has happened, Lydia has no choice but to go to the front.
Also, after twists and turns, even if she gets Shin Si-woo, it will be difficult for her to monopolize Hola-dang like before.
The worst of the worst results came from just one person’s cubic tablet….
I can’t get enough of it without getting angry.
“You look troubled.”
-With my daughter
At that time, along with the clear sound of the bell, the voice of an uninvited guest was suddenly heard.
After biting her lip once, Lydia turned her chair around and sat down, changing her expression as if she had reversed her mask.
“Psyche Tea Garden, I didn’t hear that you were visiting.”
There is a witch who sat leisurely across the window sill as she had been there from the beginning.
Golden bobbed hair curly like a sheep.
Light green eyes that look languid and sleepy.
A unique wand with a bell like a shepherd’s staff.
She should not be fooled by her appearance, which at first glance seems like a harmless girl.
This witch is the former leader of Qliphort and a traitor.
She is an Aries witch who is in charge of one axis of the moderate faction, excluding the current Solidus upper tier.
In addition to her, she was also someone I didn’t want to meet at this time.
Even as Lydia, it was impossible for her to see through all the plans of an old monster who had lived for over a thousand years.
“Since when have you been here?”
“Just now. I came to see what was going on because you were shouting.”
Psyche jumped down from the window sill and stood on her cane, yawning uncharacteristically for the situation.
Although Lydia was offended by her sudden visit, the reason why she did not rush her out was simple.
It is said that the Solidus Merchant started to prosper after the establishment of Hexsenacht, but both the quantity and quality of forces were insufficient to confront the new Qliphoth head-on.
It is common for the forces that are not united as one to lose their right to speak to the opposing forces.
Therefore, the anti-war arch witches demanded the qualifications of outside directors instead of presenting the solidus corps as a signboard of the moderate faction.
The Archwitch, who is not the Solidus Merchant, can intervene in the actions of the entire moderate faction or major issues through the board of directors, so it is advantageous.
As for Lydia, it is advantageous because she can ostensibly take on the role of representative of the moderate faction and increase her power.
In the midst of these political interests, her former witch, Psyche, is also proudly wearing a gold badge.
“Be careful.”
Even if they have the same purpose, it is an ideal theory to believe that a relationship made of calculations will go smoothly like a wheel rolling.
Just as a bloody conflict over interests was taking place within Qliphort, the board of directors of the upper ranks of Solidus was also far from harmonious as an arena for power struggles.
“What are you saying to be careful about?”
“I’m keeping an eye on Psyche Tea Garden like a vigilant shepherd dog. I know what you are thinking.”
Having said that, Psyche held out her palm to Lydia.
“But, as always, if you show a little sincerity, she will prove our friendship by keeping her mouth shut.”
It means to pay a bribe.
Lydia sighed and rummaged through the box she kept in her drawer.
Inside, chocolates wrapped in gold foil are stacked neatly.
At first glance, it looks like simple chocolate, but it is not.
Of course, the finest ingredients are used, such as chocolate from Belgium, vanilla beans from Tahiti, Blue Mountain coffee from Jamaica, and hazelnuts from Piedmont.
It is a product reproduced after finding the recipe of Darmond, which received a royal warrant and made a name for itself as the best chocolate company in the UK, but went bankrupt due to the Great Depression and the Great Fire.
Tailored bribes and lobbying were also a big impetus for Lydia to keep winning.
In the case of Psyche, it was this chocolate.
Psyche peels off one of the three chocolates and puts it right into her mouth.
“As expected, Deermond’s chocolate is the best. Other companies’ products don’t taste like this.”
“Are you going to keep this a secret again?”
“You did me a favor. It must be my duty to reciprocate.”
“…….”
“Now I know nothing. I forgot everything. But if I remember something, I’ll come over again.”
Of course, in exchange for Psyche’s acquiescence and support, chocolate belongs to a very, very cheap price.
But what is it to say that you are over 1,000 years old and that you like the chocolate that is given to you a couple of times a month….
I’m not even sure if that’s fake or sincere.
“I don’t like old bitches like this.”
Lydia trembled and prepared for what was to come.
Perhaps a great assembly will be convened soon.
Before that, it would be important to coordinate differences with the board of directors.
Lydia picked up the phone to calm the situation, which was further complicated by an idiot.
2.
Freedom Witch, Zlata Justizia, was in a good mood.
No, she was in a good mood.
That is, until he picked up an extra that was fluttering in every alley for some reason.
“Wow. It’s a big deal.”
Rinne paid a mountain of gold coins for taking care of the two witches.
Zlata only thought it was to have a good time with the male witch.
In fact, hadn’t she given a lot of gold coins to a man not too long ago to learn how to cook well?
But maybe we should have been suspicious since Zlata’s three years’ worth of entertainment was given to her for one night’s babysitting.
The identity of the extra was a wanted order for the ‘Sword Witch’.
Pictures, magic patterns, and bounties are printed along with Rinne’s crimes.
In a word, Zlata was very terribly entangled with Linnaeus, who caused the first bloodshed in Hexsenacht.
“It’s a big deal.”
Zlata, who entered the country without much awareness because she had a romance in the city of witches like Gehenna, was from an outcast, not a public figure.
She’s not a witch who’s so bold that she doesn’t mind holding a huge bomb.
Zlata went back and forth from place to place and she was repeating just the words ‘It’s a big deal’ over 50 times.
It’s obvious why Rinne entrusted her witch slave to Zlata before she had an accident.
She didn’t say anything, but it must have meant that she was going to make this apothecary shop her hiding place.
“Should I braid it now?”
At first glance, this is a reasonable option.
Even now, he pretends to be a victim who knows nothing and informs about Rinne’s location.
Maybe you will get extenuating circumstances.
“No, I’m fucked too. This life is doomed.”
However, even in this world, where humanism is relatively important, cash collection plans for voice phishing and drug trafficking plans are regarded as accomplices and punished regardless of circumstances.
Zlata, who doesn’t even have a good belly, said, ‘I didn’t know! It’s real! I just took it for a while because it was a good way to make money!
It is reasonable to hang even accomplices in the public square in order to set the precepts once broken.
Since Rinna knew that in the first place, it must have been that she violently made her a co-conspirator.
“Fuck…. Lord…. Why did you put me through such an ordeal….”
While struggling with internal conflicts, the door of the herbal medicine store opened.
Zlata, who thought that the house was being searched without fail, raised her hand while weeping.
“I really didn’t know anythinghehe… !”
But what actually appeared were three witches I had never seen before, and a woman who seemed to be an apprentice witch.
And Rinne and Siu.
In order to hide in this small workshop, they have created a very large family.
In the midst of this, Zlata, who was about to spit out her curse words at Rinne, who was sitting on her boyfriend’s back, as if she was salting, hesitated.
“Hey you crazy bitch! What the hell did I do wrong! Teach me to cook….”
Rinne Ya was originally white, but now it goes beyond white, and her complexion reminds me of the paleness of her corpse.
Besides, her lips, which had lost their color, were on the verge of being cut off, and she was out of breath.
“Is Yebin inside? Please call me right away.”
