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Like this, the fight between Elizabeth and herself turned into a bizzare spectacle.

“Such difficult kids … ara? By the way, where is my beloved? I don’t see him anywhere”

“Ah? Now that you mention it, Ludmila’s not here, either. Where did she go?”

Casca and Lady looked around for s.h.i.+zuru who should’ve been right there.

But they couldn’t find him. They both tilted their heads.

“… ah, maybe, those two are getting it on somewhere?”

“Like that will happen! That person and Ludmila having those relations is impossible!”

“What do we know? Also, s.h.i.+zu is, like, bad, right? He makes you get used to it. Ludmila’s still a kid and she’s the type to melt if he turned around and seduced her— WHOA!?”

Casca’s remarkably vulgar way of talking had touched a nerve of Lady’s somehow.

She kicked Casca flying, the table also got kicked flying.

As she picked herself up, the corners of her eyes lifted up sharply like edged cutlery.

“Watch it b.i.t.c.h! Whaddya think you’re doing!?”

“How dare you slander my husband! Don’t ever say something like my beloved seducing someone!”

“What husband you pet! And also, when s.h.i.+zu’s target is a woman he calmly takes them to bed and kills them there too!”

“That’s … that’s just for the job! My beloved doesn’t do it because he wants to …!”

Despite saying that, Lady’s objection was a moment late, knowing s.h.i.+zuru’s modus operandi.

True enough, if his target were a female, he would at least try putting his moves on her in order to get her to lower her guard.

A soft, unthreatening figure.

He was beautiful, and with the various tricks Richelieu drilled into him, he had the highest success rate on his commissions despite not being very good at fighting.

“Sheesh, you’re fantasizing about men too much young lady. s.h.i.+zu is boss’s favorite, the only a.s.sa.s.sin she trains personally. He would do anything in order to kill, he could even calmly tell a lie. He’s not that kind of gentleman you know?”

“…? And what’s bad about that?”

“Ah? Ah—, I suppose it’s impossible to get a doggy to understand a human’s sensibilities. In fact, you’re like, what’s a sensibilities? Nyahahahahaha”

Casca seemed to have started getting drunk, she forgot the pain from being kicked and her anger and rolled on the floor laughing.

Of course, they were both pursuing a line of work that’s generally distant from things like sensibilities and virtue.

In fact, a morally upright person wouldn’t have worked as an a.s.sa.s.sin.

“Well, on that point, that Ludmila doesn’t look like she has the makings of an a.s.sa.s.sin. Skill aside, she doesn’t have the guts”

“— hmph. Isn’t it fine, something like that? It’s better to not have the knack to kill than to do”

Snorted Beth in reply, draining her gla.s.s.

Her tone sounded like a sneer pointed at herself.

“— is Ludmila-chan planning to quit after all …?”

“Ah, there’s a good chance of that. It’s not like I understand, but a job like today was something that would make a proper person sick in the stomach, right?”

“Well, it’s a welcoming party for that, right? To see if they can do it or they will get crushed by it”

Eliza, Lady, and Casca.

The three each exchanged words in turn and finally came to the same conclusion.

That at the current moment, Ludmila might be conveying her intent to leave Black Maria to s.h.i.+zuru.

“A-ah, then that’s just too bad for her, huh. If she told me instead of s.h.i.+zu, I would’ve ended it cleanly”

Draining the last of the contents of her mug, she downheartedly asked for another refill, as she vacantly stared at the ceiling lights.

“Seriously, she should’ve just told me. He always cries alone after killing a junior who’s leaving. I don’t want to see him like that”

Casca let out a mutter.

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