Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival [WN] - Chapter 30.3
Once, when another maid dropped something, she instantly braced herself to protect Elena, and I began to think that Aria might be the “battle maid” of the dark side that I had heard so much about.
As for Clara, it seemed that she was right about Aria, but before I could confirm her reaction, Clara distanced herself from me, as if she had been traumatized by the color of Aria’s hair.
If that’s the case, so be it. Currently, I felt that being with Aria was more stimulating and revitalizing than being with Clara.
So, for the first time in a while, I felt like going shopping on my own. But I was caught off guard.
Elena, who had become a member of the Royalist faction, was still the hope of the aristocratic faction, and at the same time, as long as she was alive, she was nothing but an obstacle to the aristocratic family, which wanted to establish a new symbol to unite the aristocratic faction.
The killer, perhaps, drugged her, which instantly took away her physical freedom, and the maid of honor who was with her collapsed and stopped moving. The culprit was the clerk, who was supposed to take her measurements. A woman carried Elena, who had lost her freedom, through a hole in the floor where a piece of furniture had been moved out of the way, and easily took her outside.
Where did she get the information about Elena’s stopping place? She must not have hired a servant from the aristocracy, but that maid she had seen on the way to be taken away must have betrayed her.
Glaring at the maid whose face she would never forget and whose eyes met hers, Elena attempted to neutralize the poison by generating a magical element of light from the magic stone in her heart and filling her entire body.
“Oh, you can move already? You are indeed very talented.”
“You’re not going to kill me?”
Elena was able to neutralize some of the poison, but her body was still immobile; she could use Light Magic up to level 2 at her age, but even then, if she didn’t know what the poison was, even [Treatment] couldn’t completely remove it.
If they knew she could move even a little, it’d be troublesome, so it’s better to gather information than to keep quiet.
“I don’t kill at the client’s request. If it was a request to kill in the first place, I wouldn’t have accepted it, even through the guild.”
The surprisingly talkative lady clerk smiled with her bright red lips and even winked at me. No killing. If you’re someone who worked through a guild, you’re either an adventurer or…
“…Thief?”
“That’s right. We are neither scouts who have become tame dogs that wag their tails to their countries and lords, nor barbaric assassins who can only kill, but proud Thief who have mastered their skills to the level of an art.”
The Thieves’ Guild was commissioned by one of the nobles. Unlike the scout for adventurers who fought demons or the assassin, who has mastered the art of man-to-man combat, Thief, a thief who has mastered breaking and entering and stealing, would be perfect for the kidnapping mission.
“It’s fun to talk to a smart, pretty girl, but you’ll have to be quiet until we leave town. I’m going to give you some extra poison now, but you can’t go wild, okay? Otherwise, I will make it hurt so bad.”
“…Kuh.”
From the way the Thief was acting, it wouldn’t do any good to go berserk. However, even if she were to fall into the hands of some nobleman, she would probably be forced to sign something, have some information extracted from her, and then be dealt with.
My tongue was slightly numb, and I did not know if magic would be activated. I couldn’t do anything, but still Elena glared at the female bandit, and just before her hand touched Elena’s, the woman who looked so happy to see her hand touched Elena’s, blurted, “Kan!”
*Kan!
“”Huh!””
A knife slips between the two of them and plunges into the carriage.
Elena and the female bandit’s eyes turned in the direction from which they flew in unison, and Elena’s azure eyes caught the reflection of a peach-blonde girl in a black maid’s outfit.
“…Aria!!”