Mob №135: “No, I’m fine. I’m too scared to pick a fight with nobles.”
Almost simultaneously with the stuck-on woman and her group abandoning their will to resist, the police arrived and immediately took them all away.
Everyone at the scene was questioned, but that too ended quickly.
The reason was probably that the entire sequence of events was perfectly recorded on the surveillance cameras, with audio.
When the police questioning ended, I immediately received my payment from Old Man Roans.
I’m tired, but honestly, I don’t want to get involved with annoying people at the guild.
So after leaving the guild, I planned to go straight home, but on the way, I found those annoying people—the noble mercenaries who were friendly with the stuck-on woman.
I came out of the guild to avoid getting involved with them, but to run into them outside is really bad luck.
But fortunately, they haven’t noticed me.
Because they’re deep in conversation with a suspicious hooded figure.
I can’t hear the content of their conversation, but they seem extremely excited and delighted.
If those guys are happy about something, I can somewhat guess it’s probably not a good thing, so it’s best not to get involved.
Just as I was about to leave, a different person from the one they were talking to—but seemingly a companion judging by their hood—spoke to me.
“Excuse me, could I have a moment? You came out of the mercenary guild a little while ago, didn’t you? There’s no point in denying it. I was watching.”
Height is about 160cm, and from the voice, it’s a woman.
“So, what do you want with me?”
“You’re… from an imperial colony, aren’t you?”
On a colony planet, not the imperial capital, asking “Are you a colonist?” is like asking “Are you a student?” on school grounds.
“If you’re a colonist, haven’t you been treated unfairly even within the Empire? Especially by nobles?”
That’s not just colonists—all commoners except nobles are treated that way.
“There’s a way to legally get back at those nobles… would you like to hear about it?”
As the woman took a step forward with a sultry voice:
“No, I’m fine. I’m too scared to pick a fight with nobles.”
I gave my refusal line and left the scene at a quick pace.
Fortunately, she didn’t follow, so I was relieved for now.
Honestly, there’s no way I’d go along with such a suspicious offer.
Even if the approach to the noble mercenaries was different, she probably used a similar story to reel in those guys.
For now, I should at least report via communication mail to Old Man Roans that there was a suspicious solicitation.
After that, I changed from going home and headed to the black market shopping district.
After purchasing about six [Golden Bliss Manifested by Grinding the Life from the Bottom of the Earth] at that meat shop, I headed to Patterson Dispensary where Gonzales was.
“Sup.”
“Yo… How was the border?”
“The other side was normal, but there were some troublesome people on our side…”
“What’s that about? Well, glad you’re safe anyway.”
Though his manner was the same as usual, it seems he was worried about me in his own way.
For now, we toasted to my safe return with carbonated drinks and ate the [Golden Bliss Manifested by Grinding the Life from the Bottom of the Earth] = croquettes.
“By the way, I got a weird solicitation in town…”
When I tried to talk about the earlier solicitation as small talk:
“That one, huh. They’ve apparently been hanging around various mercenary guild areas lately. There was a request to investigate them a little while ago.”
Gonzales became serious and tapped the counter with his finger.
This means it’s information that requires payment.
“What were the results?”
So I placed payment on the counter.
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“It’s solicitation by anti-Emperor faction people. To noble mercenaries it’s like ‘Won’t you overthrow the current Emperor and show the proper way of nobility?’ To commoners and colonists like us it’s ‘Won’t you legally get revenge on nobles?’ That’s the content of their solicitation. Well, actually it’s the Anti-Imperial Civilian Liberation Organization pulling the strings behind the scenes while pretending to be the anti-Emperor faction. From their methods, it’s either the [Absorption Faction] or the [Annihilation Faction].”
It was mostly what I expected, but yeah, as I thought.
I was right to ignore it.
By the way, this Anti-Imperial Civilian Liberation Organization currently has four factions:
[Independence Faction]… Main objective is to make colonized countries independent and diminish the Empire’s power. The Empire itself remains.
[Absorption Faction]… Main objective is to make colonized countries independent, dismantle the Empire, and have surrounding countries absorb the territory. The Empire disappears.
[Democratic Faction]… Main objective is to abolish the Emperor and nobles and switch to parliamentary politics. The Empire disappears.
[Annihilation Faction]… Main objective is to massacre nobles who don’t side with the people. Intimidating even to nobles who do side with the people. Not interested in the Empire’s survival.
That’s what they’re like, apparently.
Except for the [Annihilation Faction] who just hate nobles, the other three preach their lofty theories, but you can’t trust any of the three unconditionally.
You can see they’re after future profits.
When that happens, the [Annihilation Faction] seems the most pure, which is strange.
After that, we kept talking about our impressions of playing the [Steel Shaft Series] remake collection and the additional elements until a customer with a prescription came.
The day after the stuck-on woman was arrested and I had game discussions with Gonzales.
The guild reception desk, which was deserted yesterday, was overflowing with many staff members.
I went to Old Man Roans’ place as usual and asked about the current situation.
“The replacement people came?”
“Yeah, this morning. Most are excellent, but… as expected, there are defective products mixed in.”
In the direction Old Man Roans pointed, there was a young male staff member holding a female mercenary’s hand:
“So you’ll take this request, right? When you’re done, don’t forget the souvenir♪”
He was spouting lines like a host.
That alone didn’t seem problematic, but:
“That guy, during the initial greeting, said something like ‘I’m super excellent so I only handle girls.'”
That’s certainly nothing but a defective product…
“Why was he hired?”
“He probably wore a mask until he passed. Apparently they investigate that kind of thing these days, but he slipped through.”
If he can do that much, in a sense he might be a truly amazingly excellent person.
“Well, isn’t it fine as long as he doesn’t commit fraud?”
“I hope so…”
Well, if I just avoid him, there shouldn’t be any problems, right?
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