The adventurers had destroyed the Demon Lord castle.
However, they had failed in capturing his highness Dantalian. They came out of the cave with angry steps. They were about to go home empty-handed.
I had hired a top-class assassin to kill them.
“Please kill them all.
“All of ’em?”
“Yes. Every last one.”
The adventurers knew that I was the person to have sold them the map. In a thousand to one chance, if information about me were to spread to somewhere else then that would have been troubling. I had to get rid of the witnesses thoroughly.
The first party, the second party, and the third party, they were all killed off by the assassin. If I were to confess something here, then it was that I aimed for perfection no matter what I did.
“……The fourth party is not coming out from the cave?”
At that time, I had received an unexpected report.
The assassin nodded.
“Yeah. I think they probably died.”
“His highness Dantalian does not have any more troops in his castle. There are no requisites for the adventurers to have lost their lives. Check again.”
“I already checked.”
The assassin let out an annoyed voice.
“Was it not a party of 10 adventurers? I looked through the entire cave and found 10 bodies. Although, it was hard to tell since their heads were cut off and their limbs were torn.”
“……That is strange.”
Did his highness Dantalian have a hidden card up his sleeve?
No matter how I looked, I had watched over the Demon Lord for a year. There shouldn’t be a secret that I wasn’t able to find out……
Was there a mistake? I missed something? ……Me?
I do not overestimate or underestimate people. I, myself, was included in this. Having a level-headed discerning eye was my talent, after all. I could judge whenever a person was sickening food waste in a shallow pile of filth.
It wasn’t a talent that was given to just anyone.
“How were the adventurers murdered?”
“I don’t know.”
“There’s a chance that there was an internal conflict.”
“I said I don’t know!”
The assassin glared at me.
The emotion contained in his eyes was scorn.
“Don’t talk to me thoughtlessly. The very fact that I’m talking with a half-breed hybrid is unpleasant! Damn it. I really did decline far…… to be accepting money from some peasant!”
The assassin spit towards the general direction of my foot.
It seems he was feeling ashamed for even breathing the same air as I was. Oh, I am very sorry.
Whenever a person spewed saliva in front of me, I would always wonder where all that bodily fluids were coming from. I could only hope that they weren’t pulling it right from their brains. Their already poor intelligence would only get worse.
“Hurry up and pay up the commission fee. 4 gold per head. That’s 32 gold, to be exact. I’ll tell you this now, but don’t go trying to cut the price now. It is ‘as promised’. As long as everything goes as promised, then everything will end without a problem.”
“Assassins put an emphasis on promises too, I see.”
“Hey, peasant. I’m not in the mood to joke or hook up with someone like you. Do I have to spit on your face and not the ground for you to understand that?”
“Look at my eyes.”
“Oi. You’re going to pay the price one day acting like that……”
“Look straight into my eyes.”
The assassin creased his brows.
He wasn’t able to lay a hand on me anyway because of our contract. He glared at me temperamentally.
I received his gaze and spoke clearly.
“Quietly. Look into my eyes.”
“……”
“Count all of my eyelashes one by one. Remember the color of my eyes. The texture of my pupil. Examine the patterns slowly.”
“……Is there any historical reason for this bullshit?”
“No, there is none.”
I took a small phial out from my coat.
It was a glass bottle filled with a transparent liquid.
“Except, there is a meaning for you.”
“What is that supposed to be?”
“It is poison, for you. Honorable Mr. Assassin.”
“……”
The assassin froze.