Chapter 140 – Vs. Pretty Girl Mask
“A pretty girl mask or something sent a notice?”
“Uh. It was stuck in the gate.”
Of course, the topic of dinner tonight was the beautiful girl mask.
That’s because the mask of a beautiful girl, who had only thought of it as a story from a distant country, suddenly appeared in front of her as a reality.
I took out the notice I saw on my way home and showed it to Ozma.
Paper card with a black butterfly on a white background with a fine finish.
Honestly, just looking at this, I could guess that the pretty girl mask was a fairly wealthy person.
This is because it was too high-quality paper to be used simply for one-time use and throw away.
I’ve been thinking about it ever since I was throwing money away from rich people as cash, but the identity of the beautiful girl mask was most likely the upper class of Oz.
Even when I saw it in real life, my hair was pretty fine.
“I’ll be looking for you soon, it’s not even written when Lani will come.”
“Isn’t it literally coming soon? Today is Monday, so it should be within this week.”
Dorothea giggled as she sipped the Mackers 38 Year Old I bought her.
“Is there any chance that it’s someone’s joke?”
When Vanessa said that, Camilla, who was next to her, shook her head.
“To say that, the timing is quite odd. Just in time, Kaldrash-nim started a special audit from today.”
I said while peeling the hard-boiled egg.
“But you don’t even know where you’re going.”
“Isn’t that the Government General? There’s something robbed in our house.”
To put it bluntly, there are quite a few treasures that cannot be converted into money, but such items are quickly discovered once they are released on the market.
“There is one of two possibilities. Either you are aiming for the safe of the Government-General’s office, or you are really thinking of robbing our house.”
When I received the notice, I couldn’t shake off my doubts.
Because you never know when or where it will come.
Maybe it was a psychological warfare aimed at this.
“If they come to rob my house, isn’t that a good thing?
“It’s not like that.”
It is a fortress built by two great mage class mages with great effort.
Even a 7th rank magician like me wouldn’t be able to break through it easily, but there was no way a mere petty thief could break through the numerous barriers and infiltrate it.
“Then why are you so embarrassed?”
I feel like I’m missing something.
And in this case, the odds of really missing something were high.
I thought about it again just in case, but I still couldn’t come up with anything sharp.
“I think I’ve met a beautiful girl mask before.”
“What? Where?”
“One of the newspaper reporters who came to the Government General’s office has a similar look to that person.”
Her characteristic honey blonde blonde hair seemed familiar, and her eyes were the same auburn color.
“Wow – so you were a newspaper reporter during the day and a thief at night?”
“I’m not sure, but if it were real, would it?”
“So what’s the name of that reporter you said?”
“Wait for a sec…”
I focused and began to traverse my memory.
A blonde woman with auburn eyes and round glasses.
“Linda Kent, I said Linda Kent.”
“I’ll have to ask them to find out tomorrow. It wouldn’t be easier to find if I worked as a newspaper reporter.”
The number of newspapers in Oz was not very large.
It wasn’t specifically to control information, but it happened because newspapers that intentionally showed only one side of information to make provocative reports or spread fake news were ruthlessly destroyed.
“The name is probably a pseudonym anyway, and there’s a high probability that he’s a freelancer who doesn’t belong anywhere. Unless he’s an idiot, he won’t spill his information.”
“Still, can you find out if that woman named Linda Kent has anything to do with the beautiful girl mask?”
“That’s right.”
If I used my position as a newspaper reporter, it would have been much easier to acquire information.
Anyway, thanks to the solution to the uncomfortable feeling of having a thorn stuck in my neck, my heart felt lighter.
After devouring the whole peeled boiled egg in just two bites, I wiped my mouth with my thumb and said,
“Then I’ll wake up first. I’ve got some work to do today.”
“Yes. Good job.”
“Good night, sir.”
“Rest comfortably today. It shouldn’t have been hard walking around all day.”
“Sleep well.”
After hearing a word from everyone, I entered my room on the second floor and took out the stencil that I had found in the Marquis’ secret safe from the drawer of my desk.
Everyone said go to sleep, but I don’t think it would be possible to stay up all night to decipher this.
“Well, it’ll work out somehow.”
I decided to decipher the letters written on the stencil.
***
In general, there are three languages spoken in the western continent.
Continental common language, ancient elven language, and sacred script.
Usually, if there are many countries, the language system is different depending on the culture, but the common language of the continent basically has the same root because it is a simplified version of the sacred script that spread through the scriptures.
This may be because the cults of the three goddesses share the same myth.
Basically, all religions on the continent are unified with the belief of the three goddesses.
In the case of the elves living beyond the great forest, they were the only ones who treated the common language of the continent as a foreign language, perhaps because of their closed culture, long history, and the sense of a chosen people who considered only themselves special.
Well, that’s none of my business, and what I’m going to do now is the most important thing in deciphering the ciphertext.
First of all, it was to find the regularity of what characters the password originally was.
In general, sacred letters consist of a total of 26 words.
And the common language of the continent, from which the divine alphabet is the origin, consists of a total of 24 words due to the death of two less commonly used letters.
It is a phonetic alphabet that produces various pronunciations by combining given words.
There were a total of 25 pictures of the ciphertext used in the stencil, presumably by name.
Based on this, you can find out which picture is replaced with which letter.
This is a huge labor, but fortunately I had a clue.
The fact that this trinket came out was the mansion of the Marquis of Cologne.
In other words, there must be at least one name of the Marquis of Cologne or one of the royalist figures related to him, but knowing that, it wasn’t too difficult to find a certain rule.
Because every phonetic language has a pattern.
It was a time when I was immersed in ciphertext interpretation, not knowing how much time had passed.
──False!
I instantly jumped up from my chair at the powerful flow of magic that I felt outside the mansion.
“What!”
Of the 468 types of protection magic that were used to repel intruders, 173 types of magic were shorted in an instant.
It’s an unusual situation indeed.
And as if I wasn’t the only one who felt this, I heard a crackling sound from outside.
Jump!
“Kaldrash! Did you just feel it?! The mansion’s protective magic!”
She stopped shouting all hastily and shut her mouth.
That would be the case, because I could see a blue water barrier instead of the dark night sky beyond the wide open window.
“You got it.”
To be honest, I was caught off guard because of the cute name of the beautiful girl mask.
However, looking at the magic he is currently using, the opponent is at least a 6th tier, a water mage like the dead Baron Bettendorf.
The fire mage, Dorothea, was a completely superlative opponent.
In fact, with this alone, questions remain about how I, as a 7th-level mage, broke the barrier, but that wasn’t what was important right now.
Even while they were talking like this, the protective magic spread around the mansion was rapidly decreasing, and it was true that the beautiful girl mask that created all of this was a tremendous genius on the Dorothea level.
I hurriedly put the Orihalcon gauntlet on my hand and said.
“Dorotea, wake up all the sleeping children. Just in case.”
“Okay.”
“I’ll be dealing with that pretty girl mask or something.”
Dorothea tried to say something to me with a complicated look on her face, but I jumped from the second story window without looking back.
To be honest, it’s not like there weren’t any guys who came to assassinate Ozma, the governor, or me, his right-hand man.
However, before they could even see our faces, they were incapacitated by hundreds of protective spells, and finally disappeared as the dew of the executioner.
If you think about it, the guy who attacked just now was obviously of a different level.
When I got down to the garden, the figure of a beautiful girl mask attacking the barrier came into view from the outside.
Still wearing a butterfly mask in a head-to-toe black outfit, her honey blonde hair blowing in the wind.
It seems that hair color is in vogue these days.
The hair of Countess Glorious, the host of the party she attended the other day, was that color too.
I decided to use my special skill, wind magic, to say hello to the mask of a beautiful girl who is obsessed with dispelling magic.
“Shinji Storm.”
Originally, a lion is the law to do everything in its power even when it catches a rabbit.
