237 235 Where's Garth?

Inn room in front of the guild.

"Then open the letter."

"Mmm."

'Oh, don't open it to such billies. We need to make it cleaner.'

When Fran breaks the billy and opens the seal, a bi-fold piece of paper emerges from inside.

When I opened it, it was a letter with Garth's signature on it. I guess I wrote it in a hurry, the letters aren't very pretty.

In the first part, I was ordered to take a request from a grand aristocrat, and I couldn't help but say no. Because of the confidentiality request, it says that we were unable to contact each other.

I can't get in touch now, or reveal where I exactly am. However, by the time this letter is read, I will be in the King's Capital. If you can, I want you to come to Wangdu to match the auction.

There will be a variety of weapons available for the arms auction, so you'll love it. And I'm going to make a new sheath, so I'd love you to take that, too. I look forward to coming to Wang Du.

That was the content.

Wang Du. Well, I was gonna go anyway, and you don't mind there.

"Sounds like you're not in Barbora anymore."

"Mm-hmm. More reason to go to Wang Du"

"Right."

And the next day. We were on our way to the Adventurer Guild to exchange information with Legs. I have some idea where Grandpa Garth is, but I might have some other information.

"Wait?

"No, I just got here too. He's got some information, too, right?

I hope that doesn't come with the information in the letter.

"I'm renting a room upstairs, let's move"

"Okay."

You mean you can't let people hear you? Then you're going to be able to expect it there. In the private room of the Adventurer Guild, facing Legs.

"Silence"

"Oh, that's Princess Black Thunder. Wind magic is top notch."

Keep the sound shut off with silence so you don't have to worry. Now you don't have to worry about being listened to.

"Well, it's Lord Garth's whereabouts... I didn't know exactly"

"Mm, I can't help it."

Because even we don't know. What Legs then told me was that we both knew, at the request of the state, that he had left the town in secrecy.

"You seem to know this far. But how about this information? First of all, is Lord Garth supposed to have received a request from the state?

"Mmm."

"It is the person of the Marquis Ashtoner family who has been in contact with Lord Garth to make that request. I did not know if the Marquis were receiving life from the country or if it was a request led by the Marquis itself...... I think the Marquis Ashtoner family is likely to be the client"

"Ashtoner? I've heard it somewhere"

Sergio's parents are Marquis Ashtoner.

(Grand aristocrat looking for divine sword?

"That's right."

Naturally, the Marquis people should also be acting secretly to make a request confidentially, but the information network of the informants didn't seem to deceive them. It appears that he is an official of the Ashtoner Marquis, based on information that he is entering and leaving the family crested trinkets of the Marquis he is wearing and the separate residence of the Ashtoner Marquis in Barbora.

In fact, since the outbreak of the Evil Man by Linford, there has been increased vigilance against suspicious humans coming from outside the city, and the Marquis minister who was acting in Kosovo seemed rather evil conspicuous.

"Not sure, but on the day Lord Garth's footsteps disappear, a carriage departing from a separate residence of the Marquis Ashtoner family is leaving Barbora"

"Were you in that carriage?

"It's as likely as it sounds."

Speaking of the Marquis Ashtoner family, Serdio's parents died by the curse of God. The nobleman who ordered my son to look for the divine sword took Garth... Marquis Ashtoner doesn't have a very good image, does he?

"Is Garth safe?

"I think you're fine there, huh? That's why I'm expecting that arm. I'd rather be welcomed."

Is that right? Whether you're in a bad mood or injured, the efficiency of your job will be diminished. It's not necessarily like brainwashing or losing your blacksmith knowledge or losing your blacksmith arm.

To give Garth a full job, it's a minimum condition to be satisfied with five bodies. Even if I blackmail you for some reason, I don't know if I'll listen to you.

"More importantly, Lord Garth has earned the title of Blacksmith Emeritus of the Kingdom of Kranzel. That is a title given only to persons recognized by the King. If you impersonally imitate that person, you could be questioned for treason against the country."

"Is there any chance you can seal your mouth?

"No. Even if you seal your mouth, if the footsteps of someone like Lord Garth are interrupted for a long time, the country begins to look for them with its main hips. Even if we did a full cover-up, we don't know if we can hide it. If we could, we'd lose everything, right? No fool would risk that."

Still, when you say aristocracy, that's the kind of image you're going to be fine with doing too stupid.

"More importantly, Lord Garth's arm, said to be closest to a divine blacksmith, is more precious than 10,000 gold. You won't be guilty of the fool you lose."

Well, maybe Legs is right. Besides, I thought we were forced to take him by our own imagination, but for the minute I read the letter, he just forced me to ask for it, and it didn't feel like I was going to force him.

I'm purposefully telling you to come at auction time, and I guess if you go to King's Capital by then, you'll hear from me. Conversely, I can't move because I don't even know where I am that far.

"Later, I have a little information about the Marquis Ashtoner family"

"Like what?"

"Hi, I hear your subordinate has made some kind of case. I don't know the details, but I'm talking about a country visit to Marquis Ashtoner's apartment in this town soon."

I guess he still got some suspicion from the country about Sergio. What does that have to do with anything?

Too little information, I'm not sure.

"And then... they sent their knights to the plains of the Demon Wolf. Well, before they got there, they destroyed it in the depleted woods, and only a few of them fled back."

"The Devil Wolf Plains? The forest of depletion? Why?"

"I just couldn't find out that far. Besides, he hired an adventurer afterwards to re-search the Devil Wolf's Plains."

You mean you're pretty obsessed. But it's a demonic realm with a confirmed Rank B Warcraft? I don't think I can find an adventurer to ask for it.

"After all, it was the lower adventurers who received the request, so they didn't achieve much."

Apparently, he didn't want to take care of this request either, and he didn't give the Marquis his name too much, nor did he make it a nomination request or anything like that.

"That's all the information. I'm sorry I couldn't get a big story together."

"It was valuable information"

I was sure Garth was safe. And I also found out that the Marquis Ashtoner family had something to do with it. This would be a very large piece of information.

We paid 30,000 gold as promised and broke up with Legs.

"After all, you didn't know where Grandpa Garth was."

"Mmm..."

"Well, if you go to King's Capital to match the auction, you'll hear from me, and we'll wait that far."

"Okay."

Next, a request from Gumd.