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Scheduled release chapter.\n
We were followed? I really didnāt notice it but looks like Captain Jullius knew. Hmm, my intuition seems to weaken drastically. Itās inevitable now that I had different bodyā¦\n\nāDuhā¦ but Iām really sleepy. How about we enter seperately?ā\n\nBefore Captain Jullius could answered, Clauen beat him to answer. āIf you guys have no place to sleep, then letās just come over to my place! Thereāre many unoccupied rooms in my place.ā\n\nHe left the alley first with exhausted face.\n\nThe place we visited by following Clauen was a vast residence in western style with many people passing by. The western-styled house was connected with other smaller buildings that has one to two-story with three-story tall as the highest buildings. They were connected by many long corridors with a lot of turns like a complicated maze. This buildings construction must be the biggest among others and was one of a kind to be built inside the Capital city which has the highest land price. In short, this grand residence already had high value just by appraised its land price. If this residence is really his house, then that brat Clauenā¦ is filthy rich.\n\nOther than people passing by, thereāre also many horse-carriages for transporting goods come and go through the big gate. Judging from the buildingsā construction, looks like this place wasnāt just a living place, could this place be a merchant guild? Iāve heard before about the existence of the Western merchant association in the Capital. Itās said that that merchant association donated a large sum of money to the church.\n\nāClauen, are you a merchant?ā\n\nClauen who was walking in the front while pulling the rein, turned his head around when he heard my question.\n\nāIām not but Iāve some connections here.ā\n\nCould he be the insider here? The insider at the merchant association is a member of Special Task Squad?! This fact is pretty interesting. Honestly, except for the Captain who was directly appointed by His Majesty the Emperor, other members of Special Task Squad didnāt have good reputation in public. For the commoners, the Special Task Squad was just seen as a squad with exceptional abilities. Meanwhile for the nobles, the Special Task Squad was an eyesore because itās consisted of a bunch of low-borns and criminals. And on top of that, the current Captain has unclear origin.\n
That being said, someone from the merchant guild who had a good reputation would have his reputation damaged by joining the Special Task Squad. Unless if he had thoughts to be a hero for commoners or something along the lines. Anyway, as long as youāre capable enough, becoming a member of Special Task Squad indeed was one of the easiest way to obtain a low-rank noble.\n\nBut still, it would be better to live a wealthy life but not forgetting to share for those in needs.\n\nA low-rank noble is no different to any other non-noble honorable position without getting any income from fiefs. It could be obtained just by give in a large sum of money to the Palace. Iām getting more and more curious about his true motives for joining the Special Task Squad. Butā¦ thatās not something I could ask.\n\n(T/N: backthen most nobles owned some fiefs and the got their income from collecting taxes, rents, etc. But thereāre some who didnāt have any fiefs. Google it for more info)\n\nAs we went deeper into the residence after handed over the horse to a servant, thereās less people passing by. At the same time, the path weāre taking is getting more twisted and there could be seen some guards on several places. As soon as we entered a two-story building, thereāre some maids who were swiftly coming towards us.\n\nāYouāve returned, Sir?ā\n\nāPrepare two baths and bedrooms.ā\n\nāYes, Sir.ā\n\nClauen looked like heās already used to give orders to those maids. Seems like heās not a normal āinsiderā. The maids quickly dispersed to do their jobs and left behind a maid in front of us. The maid lead us the way while smiling widely like a blooming flower.\n\nāThe bedroom is over here. The bath should be ready soon. Should we also prepare some food?ā\n\nāAre you hungry?ā\n\nClauen turned around and asked us, to be exact, he was asking Captain Jullius.\n\nCaptain Jullius shoke his head a bit in refusal. I also need sleep more than food.\n\nAs we arrived in front of row of bedrooms, the maid from before appeared. She said, āThe bath is ready.ā\n\nThatās pretty quick.\n\nāYou should take a bath first.ā\n\nCaptain Jullius tilted his head when he heard Clauen words.\n\nāBut, at the headquarters Iāā\n\nāYou will sleep better after taking a bath in hot water!ā\n\nCaptain Jullius mumbled softly about not wanting to take a bath and will just washed his face, but Clauen forcely pushed him inside the bathroom. Being clean is indeed necessary, but isnāt this too exaggerated? Does this guy have an obsession towards cleanliness?\n\nāNow, Miss Epheriaā¦ā\n\nāHuh?ā\n\nAs soon as Captain Jullius left for a bath, his red eyes that looked similar to those white rabbits, fiercely glared at me. Perhaps because of his red eyes, I felt like he was looking down on me.\n\nāHow about we chat a little?ā\n\nāAlright?ā\n\nHe couldnāt possibly wanted to apologize for his behavior yesterday, could he? Or, perhaps thereās a message from assistant Ortzen? When we entered a bedroom, Clauen closed the door until it made a loud noise. Thenā¦\n\nāActually, what do you want by getting closer to Captain?ā\n\nHe said the words I used to hear in the past. Sighā¦ it had been a long time since the last time I heard of it. I glared sharply at the brat who said something similar to those men whose girls they admired, taken a liking to me. In the past, those men would just back off after I politely told them, āIām a woman, you dumbass!āā¦ but itās not possible in current situation, right? Right now my appearance is clearly a woman.\n\nāDidnāt assistant Ortzen tell you anything?ā\n\nāI heard youāre the one who asked to be engaged to Captain!ā\n\nāThatās right, but itās just a fake engagement. So you need to calm down.ā\n\nBesidesā¦\n\nāAnd even if we got engaged for real, thatās none of your business.ā\n\nTwo adults man and woman falling in love with each other by their own will. Why do many unrelated people try to intervene in this matter?\n\nThereās a deep frown on Clauenās forehead after he heard my words.\n\nāAlthough you could use holy power, but what could be trusted from a lady of Epheriaās household?ā\n
āThey didnāt trust me as much as you think, so you donāt have to be worried! Assistant Ortzen indeed asked me to be his spy, but on the other hand he didnāt give me any useful information.ā\n\nIf he really trust me, he would have already told me the identity of the other spy inside the Countās mansion and had us worked together. Well, it would be strange if he trust me easily when we didnāt know of each other before. I have already given my honest explanations but that brat Clauen still had dissatisfaction written all over his face.\n\nāIām not worried about Ortzen. That person is capable enough to save himself when he was being locked up inside a burning house even though his arms and legs were tied. What Iām concerned about is Captain!ā\n\nHmm, turns out assistant Ortzen was quite impressive. He could do something Iām not capable ofā¦ wait, maybe my old self could do it. As long as the fire werenāt big, I would be able to resist and moved my body while crawling with tied arms and legsā¦\n\nāā¦, are you listening?ā\n\nāOf course.ā\n\nThe silly brat suspiciously looked at me, then continued talking.\n\nāIn fact, Captain is a simple-minded person.ā\n\nā¦ he clearly talking about Captain Jullius, but I donāt know why I feel like heās talking about me. Is it because he keep mention the word āCaptainā?\n\nāIf not for his fierce looks, he would surely got scammed for countless times.ā\n\nIād never got scammed. Really.\n\nāThereāre many cockroaches approached him to take advantage of him.ā\n\nNo worries. The assistant will do his jobs to repel those cockroaches.\n\nāThereās once a bad guy who had an evil plan towards the Emperor and he approached Captain at the beginning.ā\n\nHmm, there were many people who wished to meet the High Priest.\n\nāI couldnāt help but worried about Captain when he suddenly said he was engaged to a weird woman!ā\n\nāIāve said it repeatedly that this engagement is fake. And if we were to be engaged for real, then so what? Thereās nothing wrong with me to be Captain Julliusā fiancee.ā\n\nYou are being too rude to Silla here.\n\nāBased on the current situation, Captain is the one who suffered a loss!ā\n\n
(T/N: soā¦. for anyone who got confused with the exchange in the last banter between Silla and Clauen, when Clauen said something, Silla always answered it in her minds.)