Became the Butler of the Second Heroine of the Harem

87 – Finding People (2)

I got out of the alley and walked around the alleys of Tenebris, following the youngest, the youngest, named Dros. The group of rice cake sticks with him must have made quite a name for themselves here. There were many eyes on us, but they couldn’t approach us easily and only licked our lips.

I approached him, who looked as if his shoulders were swollen, and asked.

“You’re not lying like the beggars earlier, are you? When I asked you, you swallowed silence, but then you answered after seeing one person injured. It’s a bit suspicious.”

Surprised by his question, Dros waved his hand at his face.

“Oh, no! I was puzzled that the person you two were looking for was that kid, and besides, there were a lot of people looking for him lately, so I couldn’t open my mouth easily! I didn’t mean to deceive you at all!”

I could feel the sincerity in his fear-filled voice. The people he mentioned were probably Scorpio family investigators. Just as he was about to do so, Shear asked him.

“He said he talked a lot with him? May I know how he’s doing?”

“I don’t know how we ended up in a place like this, but I could see them running errands diligently. They even delivered letters to us from time to time. Honestly, aren’t we afraid of our appearance?”

Shear and I casually nodded in agreement. With a beard and a knife on his face, he looked like a bandit. Dros smiled as if our reaction had eased the tension and went on.

“But he didn’t care, and he kindly delivered us a letter. Even after that, we ran into each other on the street from time to time, and each time we talked a lot about his older sister. I don’t know how proud he is when he says he always longs for her and misses her. .”

Shear pours out the tears she’s been holding back as soon as Dros finishes her words. He might have resented him, but instead of resentment, he seemed to be filled with emotion at the fact that he was longing for him along with longing.

She took off her glasses and wiped her tears. Dros, who was watching her, looked at me and carefully pointed at her, and she nodded her head. He then looked at her with her surprised eyes and said.

“I also had an older sister.”

Suddenly bringing up the past, Shear and I calmed down and began to listen in silence.

“Even though he grew up here, he never lost his smile. Because of his chronic illness, he left for the stars when I was young. But every time he talked about it, I thought of my older sister, and my heart was full.”

Maybe it overlapped with my past self. With tears in his bright eyes, he smiled as he punched his chest with his fist.

“For that guy who misses her family, I’ll do anything to help!”

“Thank you, Dros.”

Unlike her, who wiped her tears and thanked her, I looked at her with sad eyes.

‘Did such a person steal other people’s money?’

The place where Dros guided us to arrived was a shabby two-story shack that looked a little big for one person to live in. I knocked on the collapsing door, hoping that his testimony was correct that he had often seen Salo enter this place after work.

“Are you there?”

The only thing that returned to the question was quiet silence. The moment I tried to grab the handle to open the door to the ominous rising in the silence, the door burst open.

“Who are you?”

“First look with black hair!”

“Be quiet, idiot! Stay still behind me.”

A boy holding on to the open door and asking with wary eyes, and a girl admiring my hair from behind. Even though they were both dressed in scruffy clothes, I didn’t stink from beggars who hadn’t washed in weeks.

The wavy hair and soft skin that could be stroked caught my eye. She said, leaning slightly down to meet the two of them at eye level.

“My name is Sirius. I’m the butler of the Taurus family. I’m looking for someone named Shalor, and I’m here because I’m staying here. Don’t you live here?”

When she asked kindly, raising the corners of her mouth just like the business smiles of the coachmen, the girl behind her answered.

“Are you acquainted with Sualo?”

“I don’t know, but the person over there is that person’s older sister. He wants to find Shalor, so I’m helping him.”

She points to Shear and says she. The two of them stare at her face. Perhaps they were trying to find similarities, the two looked at each other with wary and curious eyes and nodded their heads.

“Sallo hyung, the person who always gave me work came and went out with me. Inside…”

An ominous feeling passed through her head.

“Did you go with this person?”

I stopped talking and showed the side of the picture with Scorpio, the executive of the Dark Star that the Scorpio family is watching. When I asked, the boy stared at the picture and opened his mouth.

“That’s right. He asked me to call him Deformer. He shares food with us and always gives hyung something to do.”

Why aren’t ominous premonitions always wrong? Following the boy’s answer, I could hear the girl’s answer as well.

“Comes by about once a week. My kids love it!”

“Children?”

“Yes! That man brings us many children who have no parents and are living together. Sallo oppa is the eldest, so he takes good care of him. I don’t know.”

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I swallowed my saliva as I glanced over this shabby shack.

After listening to the story, the lost children gathered together and did not see only a shabby and ordinary shack.

It was a nest where parasites collected eggs that were good for eating.

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We told the two people inside the shack that we would look for it, and after we walked away, we showed the picture of the executive to Shear and Dros and explained that it was a serious situation.

“A frequent visitor to that shack is the person the Scorpios of the Twelve Pillars, the Ears and Eyes of the Empire, are keeping an eye on. As I told Shear, he was the one who contacted his brother.”

“He’s a person I’ve seen once while walking down the street from time to time, but why do they say he’s keeping an eye on him? He’s a seemingly ordinary person.”

“He’s a person from the Dark Star. The Scorpio family is watching over that place, so you should know. The face drawn in the picture right now is just one of many faces.”

“Uh, Dark Star…!”

Frightened, he turned his back on me and took a running pose as if he were running away. He, of course, before he could even take a step, he was caught by me.

“Didn’t I say that I will help you until the end? How can a person say two things with one mouth?”

“Uhhhhh!”

As I grabbed his shoulders and gave him strength, a small scream escaped from his mouth. Unlike the previous time when he grabbed and shook his collarbone, he held it weakly, so this should be enough.

Seeing no sign of running away, I let go of his shoulder and started thinking about the priority of work. It was unavoidable because things turned out to be bigger than expected.

Of course, the most important thing is to find Swallow. Next, if you can catch that executive, catch him, and if you can’t, organize the information and provide it to Shaula.

Then, the Scorpio family will initiate the information, and it will be reported to the imperial family for a thorough investigation. If that happens, they won’t become puppets of the Dark Star.

If you can’t catch it, if you find it through the investigation of the Scorpio family and the Imperial Palace, you will be put in a well-equipped orphanage.

“Let’s start by finding the younger brother. We have to go with that officer and get him back here before we cross the line any further. Mr. Dros can do what we can’t do here.”

“No, just leave it to me!”

Unlike the spirited voice, the only thing he can do is ask people if they have seen the picture of the executive and Salro.

“Is this all right?”

“Unlike us strangers here, aren’t you quite well-known? I think it’s easier for other people to give an answer to someone they know than to answer a question from someone they don’t know.”

After handing over the painting, I followed him around again. Every time I asked the people on the roadside of Tenebris whether his face had sold well, he answered kindly. Even if you didn’t know his face, who wouldn’t answer when he saw that hideous face?

The place where we arrived at the end of the Tenebris area was in front of an ordinary wooden house where traffic lines overlapped with other areas. Just in case there’s something a little odd about it.

“I can’t see anything through the window. Are there blackout curtains drawn?”

Unlike the windows of other buildings that tried to let in sunlight, it was tightly closed, and even dark curtains were drawn, so it was impossible to see inside.

“I’ve been asking people around, but they said they haven’t seen them come out since they went in. They said it’s been almost an hour since they entered.”

I couldn’t even imagine what I would be doing for an hour. Seeing her restless eyes made me feel impatient too. I wondered if he might be murdered at this time.

“Are you there?”

I knocked on the door the same way I did at the shack and looked for people. Soon after, the door opens with a squeaking noise accompanied by the steady sound of footsteps on the floor.

“Who are you?”

The person in the picture, a person with the pseudonym Deformer, appeared. Even though he had grayish brown hair and wore black horn-rimmed glasses, the person with a middle-aged face full of fine wrinkles looking at him with grim eyes was indeed an ordinary person that you would see anywhere in the capital.

Anyway, I didn’t expect it to come out right away like this. He said, showing a picture of Sallo to him, who was glaring at me with a disturbed expression.

“I’m looking for the person in the picture here. It’s called Surlo, and I heard that he went into the house with you.”

“…Are you from the security guard?”

The eyes that opened up were telling me that they were very wary of me.

“Do we look like peace officers? They’re just people running around looking for this guy.”

“There’s no one like that. Maybe you’re looking at it wrong.”

He raised his glasses and tried to close the door, talking nervously. It didn’t close because I held on to the door.

“That’s rude. Sir. How would you explain this?”

As I unfolded the paper to reveal his face drawn in the painting, his face contorted in an instant and he glared at the painting and my face with murderous eyes.

“When and where was it painted?’

It was a growl, but it seemed to be smiling.

“I don’t know because I received it. But why are you so free to live? As if you would kill someone right away.”

As soon as he finished speaking, he kicked the door with his foot and knocked him down ferociously. When I went inside, I was greeted by a dark place with no light coming in because of the blackout curtains. I winked at Shear and Dros and told them to come inside, while being wary of the deformers.

In the dark house, only his silhouette was barely recognizable. When the two entered, he saw them already awake and made a sarcastic remark.

“As expected, the executives of the Dark Star are different. Others are embarrassed even if you give them a loophole.”

“Don’t treat me the same as those guys.”

A deformer slowly walks forward with a rough voice. I’ll stop him, so I order two people to search the house, and they go straight inside.

As I stood guard in front of them entering the house, he was revealed by the light coming through the open door as he walked slowly.

A completely different look from the middle-aged man from before. A pitch-black butler’s suit and shoes shining black in the sunlight. A monocle in his right eye and gray hair.

A very familiar face with a benevolent smile.

“…The butler…?”

The head of my family was standing in front of me.