Living as an Unemployed in Another World

37 – 2. The Path of the Dagger (18)

18.

The Heretic Questioner frowned. The waitress who had brought him food looked at him, but ended up crying and running away to the kitchen.

Short-cut hair, dry and strong body, pale complexion, and clothes covering the whole body. It is clear that it is unusual in many ways, even the glasses that ordinary people cannot easily wear. Even after bringing a meal, he doesn’t touch the tableware at all, so even if I ask him if there’s something he doesn’t like, he doesn’t answer when he comes back. It is not unreasonable to mistakenly think that he is a critic from a food society. That would not be a customer that a single employee could handle.

“… ….”

There is no problem with food. No, compared to the less seasoned healthy food distributed in the cathedral, the meal served in Was nothing short of heavenly. But today, those delicacies just couldn’t get down my throat. He then put strength into his hand holding the fork and slapped the middle of the fish meat like an axe! Took

“Large bastard.”

From afar, he heard the hiccups of the waitress who had brought him his meal. He muttered quietly. Yes, it’s an action that can’t be done without a really big liver. Even a petty thief will never snoop around a house once it has been turned. But why does the guy called the legendary great sword go back to the mansion he’s already stolen and get caught? I can’t understand the intention at all.

A thief that could never be captured even in the capital in the first place. It was not because the investigator was competent that he was able to identify the victim…… It’s just a montage of the silhouettes of the heretics they faced. I thought of him as a confident thief who had no intention of hiding, but had no intention of being captured on purpose, but I never dreamed that this would happen.

──When was the execution? That thief

──The trial comes first, what kind of execution? Won’t you do it soon?

──Ah, even if you don’t see it, it’s unconditionally the death penalty. What is the trial? It’s because I want to see the neck of the guy who hung it.

──The liver is also big. Do you dare to rob the lord’s house?

──In the first place, this isn’t the first time, you said you were caught stealing again? How easygoing the nobility must have been.

The Heretic Inquisitor sat in the center of the hall and focused his ears on the stories around him. Really, if you are here, you can hear a lot of information just by sitting still. The iron rule of an investigation is to always keep your ears open. When he heard the unpleasant news, he crumbled the fish meat he had taken with a fork.

The thief broke into the count’s mansion again on his own feet, succeeded last time, but was caught this time. That’s all. With the exception of edicts from the royal family, everything that happens in the territory is entirely entrusted to the count, so from now on, it will be difficult for anyone to get their hands on the disposition of the bandits.

If at least he or the church knight had contributed to catching the thief, there might have been room for intervening in the interrogation process, but this time he was caught voluntarily, so there was no reason or room to intervene.

‘Damn it, we should’ve caught that thief first to get evidence against the count.’

If the ‘miracle’ used by a cathedral knight is mainly focused on force, the ‘miracle’ he uses is useful for investigation and interrogation, befitting his position. If I could keep the kneeling thief in front of me, I would have been able to obtain evidence about the count and information about all sorts of heresies in just an hour or so.

Puffpuk! He continued tearing the fish apart with a fork. Leaving only his blue hair, the fish was literally shapeless and turned into grated food. Of course, I have no intention of giving up here and going back. Wasn’t the original mission from the church to catch the thief and return to the capital? At least, as long as that position was communicated in advance to that side, even the count would not be able to avoid trouble if he cut his throat in one fell swoop.

If you’re alive, you can do anything. The problem was how to confront the bandits directly, but this was no longer a matter for the sole judge. Instead of just exchanging information using telephony as before, we need to come together, put our heads together, and devise a countermeasure somehow. At least there shouldn’t be anything going back without performance.

Okay, first of all, let’s get back to you after we’ve eaten. He raised his fork with that thought in mind, then suddenly felt a gaze on him and raised his head.

A mysterious red-haired woman with color in her curved eyes is staring at herself with her mouth twisted. He unknowingly shrank and mumbled.

“What, what is it?”

“Excuse me, sir, where are you from?”

What? The Heretic Questioner immediately grabbed the fork. Could it be that there were still people planted by the Count? He turned the table over and prepared to leave her inn, when he noticed that her gaze was falling on his plate, and suddenly looked down.

“If our staff made a mistake, I would like them to tell me instead of taking their anger out on the food… ….”

Looking at the food that was so crushed that it was no longer recognizable as fish and the plate that had been hit with a fork and cracked, the Heretic Questioner couldn’t help but say something. Eventually, after paying the balance with tears in his eyes, he left the familiar inn as if he were being kicked out.

When I heard that a thief had been caught robbing the count’s mansion, I didn’t even step out of my room. I didn’t even cut firewood, I stood in the kitchen, and I was just wrapped up in a blanket for two days.

Surprisingly, no one criticized me for being more lazy than usual. Mr. Cooper and Mr. Angela, who only knew that my condition was somehow strange, probably thought that I had just caught a cold at the turn of the season, and they only came to see my condition with bitter-tasting herbs and did not say anything to me. I was only asked not to worry and to take good care of myself. Thank you very much.

Adventurers who are close to me sometimes jokingly ask what’s going on when they leave the room, but I don’t even have the energy to answer. Still, it was fortunate that I didn’t cling to it persistently, asking why it was dead.

The one who knocked on my door the most was Celine. Normally, if I didn’t come out of my room until the sun rose, I would have been nagging or getting angry, but I don’t know what the Cooper couple had told me, they came to my room almost every two hours from morning to night to see if I had taken the medicine. Or brought meals. Even though he came so often, he didn’t say anything and just looked at the situation and went back. It didn’t go well with his usual appearance, so it was both funny and embarrassing. And thank you very much.

Smart. Is this Celine again? Normally, I would secretly open my door and look inside, or kick the door open and stride in, but lately I didn’t know what was going on——I’m sure I’m in a tomboyant state——Anyway, I didn’t forget to knock. Even if I didn’t answer, he kept that formality.

“Jin, have dinner.”

“… ….”

I didn’t answer. The smell that stimulated my empty stomach stung my nose, and I heard the sound of the floor creaking, but I cowardly covered myself with a blanket and didn’t respond to the favor. Celine then put her tray on her table as usual, and she turned around and left her room…… Instead of the sound of a door closing, my bed mattress tilted to one side. She was sitting quietly astride Celine with her butt on the edge of her bed.

“… ….”

“… ….”

We exchanged a moment of silence. No one was the first to open their mouth. Soon, a small weight was placed on my side. Celine leaned over and placed her upper body on top of mine.

“Jin.”

“…… Huh.”

I couldn’t bear to ignore her this time, so I struggled to squeeze her voice out. Even drinking water is usually skipped, so a cracked voice leaks out.

“Aren’t you going to tell me what’s going on?”

“…… “

I can’t speak. There’s no way I can say The story related to heresy is a secret shared between me and the cathedral knight. No, even if there was no such promise, it would not be a good story for the inn family to know. As I shut my mouth, Celine put more of her weight on me as if she was complaining.

“Until you tell me, I will be here.”

“…… Who sees the hall?”

“Nice to know you. I told you to scoop it into a bowl and eat it.”

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Now you too are becoming a weekly thief. It’s a great work ethic. I swallowed my nonsensical self-talk and groaned. And there was another moment of silence.

“You know, do you remember when you first came here?”

“I remember.”

“Yeah, it was like this back then too. How old was I then, thirteen or fourteen? A man who didn’t seem to be an adventurer suddenly burst into the inn, grabbed a purse as if he had been pickpocketed, and asked how much it was per night.”

“… ….”

“I was given a room, and for the first day I didn’t eat, didn’t wash, and didn’t come out of the room at all, to the point of going to check if my dad and mom were dead. And when I opened it, I found myself curled up on the bed and asleep.”

This is the first time I’ve heard of it. Staying at this inn was mere coincidence. There were plenty of inns nearby. Well, if you look at all the ruins now, you can say that you managed to pick a good property even in that situation…… There was no will of mine. It’s fate. Just fate.

“I forgot, but I remembered now. You are the same now as then.”

“… ….”

“A while ago…… There was a time when I left the inn for two days without saying anything.”

Why are you talking about that now? I was nervous for no reason, so I swallowed my saliva, wondering if Celine had heard unnecessary things about Gerald’s party. However, Celine brought her story out in a calm tone.

“Do you know how worried I was at that time?”

“Celine——.”

“Just like that! Why, because a child who doesn’t go out all day disappears for two days without saying a word, where did the wolf bite him…… Anyway, do you know what kind of face you were when you returned to the inn like that?”

“How was it?”

“You looked relieved, really. As if everything worked out, you were laughing just fine. And after that, business went well again at our inn, and everything went back to normal.”

“… ….”

I kept my silence, and Celine didn’t bother asking me there, saying, ‘Did you do something?’ She just said this in an earnest voice, as if begging me.

“I know that you always live with worries that I don’t know about. I don’t know where or what I did or what kind of life I lived before coming to our inn. In fact, I still don’t know much about you.”

“… ….”

“But…… Still, we are one family. To be honest, I hate to see you suffer like this with worries I don’t know about. I want you to wake up quickly.”

“…… Celine.”

“Yes, Jin.”

“What should I do?”

I was curious. I sincerely asked. I didn’t tell you anything, just asked the question. And Celine, as if she had waited, slapped me on the back with her palm covered with the blanket.

“Somehow!”

“… ….”

“Come on. Not too long I’m going to die because I’m busy these days.”

I bit my lip. It was never like I thought something was going to happen. It’s not that I don’t want my voice heard. Just, just…… It was because I had no face seeing Celine, who said that and walked away from me.

As soon as she left her room, another presence was felt at her door. At the end of Celine’s moaning, the heavy crunching footsteps settle in the room. I finally pulled off the blanket that was wrapped around me. Ah, it’s a surprise, it’s a visual that I still can’t get used to even after watching it for the first time in a while. The cathedral knight, still clad in full armor, sat down on the chair across from my bed and silently thrust a piece of paper at me, who had a disfigured face.

【A colleague will come here from the East Side today.】

“Yes.”

【…… What would you like to do?]

He was the only 20 cathedral knights in the kingdom. What a funny sight. Without answering, I picked up the wooden dagger model that I had left on the table in silence.

After returning safely from the dungeon, I made up my mind. Never, no matter what happens in the future, I will never go first. The only thing that’s important to me is this inn, and everything else doesn’t matter. As long as she can live her life calmly and simply without getting caught by the witch, that’s enough.

But can you really be satisfied with that? Is it really the best choice to sit down in this one-room room, try to ignore all the illusions that flicker in front of you, and just survive on your own?

Mira broke into the mansion on purpose and was caught. And that happened after the knights stormed the inn. Was it because he thought people would get hurt if he was here? Or is it because he is tired of living the life of a fugitive any longer?

Celine said, she did something. She told me to quickly resolve whatever it was and go back to normal.

“… ….”

I thought while fiddling around with the dagger model. I still don’t know what is right.

After all, is it right to let a woman who commits a crime get what she deserves, or is it right for her to stand in his way when everyone else throws stones at her and try to get her truth out. Otherwise…… Ignore everything about her, clean up everything that stands in her way like her thieves, steal her and run away.

You have to choose either way. Because only I can decide which way I’m going. So…… I looked over the helmet and finally opened my mouth.

“I will bring it back.”

I have to let her decide the path she takes as well.

I will make it.