Chapter 21 (2/2)
Someone at Beth’s level could probably do it.
Simply put, the person who did this had skills at least on par with her.
“The probability isn’t low, but I can’t say for sure. At any rate, we were saved some trouble. Death is the same no matter who did it, so let’s just be thankful this job ended without any trouble on our part.”
“… you sure it’s okay?”
“Policy is to refund half the retainer’s fee in case of the target dying from accident or by a third party after the job is commissioned. There’s no problem in particular.”
There’s a precedent of this happening in the past and caused a small problem.
Nowadays, it’s stipulated in the contract doc.u.ment.
That said, there’s not many people gutsy enough to loudly complain to an a.s.sa.s.sin.
“So the payment will be reduced a little, sorry.”
“I don’t really care. I didn’t join because I wanted money. I’m not Casca, I’m not going to be stingy.”
“That so? But well, it’ll be awkward to return the money to the client after all, so let’s put it to pay for the friend’s treatment.”
Even though s.h.i.+zuru said so, the toxin of the yellow moongra.s.s contained a tinge of yellow magic.
White magic had bad affinity with it. In the face of the brighter lightning, the efficacy of healing magic dropped by half.
Normal Healers couldn’t do anything against it, so the fact that s.h.i.+zuru was able to extricate yellow moongra.s.s poison shows that he was high leveled as a healing magic user to the point that it could be projected that he might be able to use high level healing magic in the near future.
Returning to the main topic:
“… But we have to think in case something like this repeats itself.”
“I suppose. What’ll Casca say, losing half the retainer’s fees?”
“Well, that wasn’t what I … but yeah, there’s also that too.”
Smiling wryly to Ludmila, s.h.i.+zuru said, “Let’s go back for now.”
It’s not good to have long conversations in front of a corpse. It’ll bring trouble if anyone saw, and the smell of blood and rotting flesh will get into clothes and hair.
They then turned back
Strangely, s.h.i.+zuru thought for some reason that they were going to see something similar soon.
Call it an expectation, or maybe a presentiment, he felt a slight omen of trouble coming near
— s.h.i.+zuru’s bad hunch more or less came true.
Several times after that, about one in every three or four jobs, the target had been killed in advance.
As the money inevitably decreased, sure enough, Casca began to complain.
However, the important thing wasn’t that, but the unidentified street killer who probably offed their targets, AKA Chopper.
It didn’t matter whether it was chance or on purpose.
But the fact that they were loitering around the place they worked was a disadvantage they couldn’t ignore.
The decrease in retainer’s fees were also a disadvantage.
If this goes on, a lot of things will be getting harder to do.
With the indiscriminate killer causing an uproar around, there is a fear of being found out and lumped together by the garrison patrols.
No, at this point, the garrison would be the preferable option.
The presence of the guardian knights appearing here and there in the East Ward like Rosa said was the biggest problem.
He had investigated the new patrol route patterns and neurotically paid careful attention in order to not suddenly b.u.mp into one of them.
Nevertheless, it would all be for nothing if they were linked to the street killer’s actions.
Even s.h.i.+zuru who was normally unperturbed and relaxed might go a little crazy if that were to happen.
Therefore, he had to do something, both about the guardian knights loitering the place and also the street killer
They might need to lay low until the situation in the East Ward cooled down, but for Black Maria, this was the time to make their name.
s.h.i.+zuru received direct instructions from Richelieu to not refuse requests as much as possible.
So he might need to ask Richelieu for instructions after all.
For s.h.i.+zuru, who was at loss as to how to settle the situation, that was the answer that ended up calming him down.
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