Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival [WN] - Chapter 34.1
A New Job that was Forced On Me
“Aria, I have a new assignment for you.”
“…”
Elena had returned to the capital and the “job” that Viro brought for me was already over, but when I was called by Senior Butler, I was somehow assigned a new job.
[Senior Butler] [Race: Human ??]
[Magic Power: 185/190] [Strength: 332/350]
[Total Combat Power: 1216 (With Physical Enhancements: 1550)]
As seen from the first impression, he was someone strong. Perhaps his scouting skills were high, and perhaps he noticed I had [appraised] him, and his gaze narrowed slightly as he looked at me.
“As for you, Her Highness, the Princess has instructed us to set you free. But now that you know about us, we can’t just let you go. Therefore, you will be placed in the position of [collaborator] as an adventurer, just like Viro.”
“…Okay.”
I was a little dissatisfied with this arbitrary decision. But if I refused, this man would not leave me standing, even if it meant the princess would have him executed.
However, I thought I’d made connections with clients while still being a free adventurer, it was not that bad. The problem was… there would be more aristocratic entanglements.
Still, I’d decided to stand up to the nobles instead of running away from them.
So, I was not picky with the jobs to gain the strength to stand alone.
“What is your request for me?”
“Your mission is to infiltrate a noble family as a maid and solve their current problems. It will take about a month. It’s not a significant assignment. This is a mission for me to see if you can be trusted, as Sera says, and if you fail, it won’t be much of a problem for the country, since only one noble family’s daughter will die.”
“…”
One young lady of a noble family would die, but it’s not a problem….
“Understood… boss?”
“I am not the boss of the organization. If you’re trustworthy, you will have a chance to meet them. Call me Grave.”
“Okay, Grave-san, where is this place?”
I was not interested in the boss because I didn’t want to belong to the organization, but talking to Grave was fine because, unlike Sera, he didn’t bother with etiquette, but the pressure was too strong and exhausting for me during this conversation.
I would not get too deep into the affairs of the nobility, but if it’s my job, I would not cut corners. And I was a little more motivated by this request when I heard about the place of the assignment.
Barony of Ceres, north of here, near the border. It was the place where the witchcraft master, whom the woman had studied under, was located.
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The problem in Baron Ceres was a monster that had begun appearing in the town where the baron lived six months earlier.
This monster was not a monster of any kind. It seemed to be obsessed with the Baron’s daughter and came to her room every night.
The soldiers, however, were unable to catch it, and in the morning, they found a bloody handprint in the young lady’s room.
The handprint gradually got closer and closer to the young lady, and changing rooms and placing several maids in the same room had no effect, plus the young lady was said to be very frightened from all these occurrences.
…Was it really human?
The baron, fearing strange rumors about his daughter before her marriage, could not make a request to ordinary knights or adventurers, and the baron, in his distress, asked for help in secret from the Count of Dandol on the frontier, who was his parcel parent, and in turn, it was forced upon me.
The request was to [solve the problem], but they thought that’s what they had to do even if the problem was not solved. They said that Sera and Grave’s organizations had different jobs and jurisdictions to begin with, but I had not yet been told what their organizations were in the first place.
Now that Elena had returned to the capital, the servants and collaborators gathered here were all getting ready to leave.
I, however, was to leave immediately without helping them.