Chapter 21

Chapter 21

Chapter 21. We secretly packed our luggage and climbed over the wall.

Since opening the castle gate required telling the Count, we abandoned the carriage.

Treon held onto me and cried for a long time. 10 years.

When he first suffered violence, Treon was just a boy in his mid-teens.‘...

That trash guy, I should have beaten him more.’ If it was the previous life, it would be news article material.

I tightly held Treon's hand.

He seemed not to notice, but his hand trembled severely.

He said lowly with swollen eyes.

“...

I have to find a new trading partner. Since we abandoned the carriage, the method to return too.”

“It's fine. No need to find.”

“Then we might really end up sitting on the street?”

He smiled small.

“I have something thought of so it's okay.”

“The pressure the Matek Count house will apply also has to be thought in advance...”

“Just make them so busy they don't even think of us.”

“But...”

“Just trust me. Did you think I would cause trouble without any preparation?”

“...”

Treon chose silence.

This guy.

“But Madam. Where are we going now?”

Butcher asked belatedly.

“To meet an information merchant.”

“Yes? Madam, you also know the method to find such kids?”

“I heard by chance.”

Originally the goals of finding the Matek Count territory were two.

One is grasping the relationship between Treon and the Matek Count.

Another is meeting an information merchant.

I didn't know we would meet like this, but this time using the information merchant, we have to take revenge on the Matek Count house too.

Fortunately there's also good information our cute Blackie informed.

We walked the dark alley for a long time.

“Madam. Are we going properly?”

Butcher asked.

“Umm. Probably...?”

I also only saw the description in the book, never went directly.

“...

It seems we've been circling only the same place since a while ago.”

Treon also looked at me with suspicious eyes.

“Really? Somehow that flower shop I seem to have seen earlier too. I thought it looked the same because it's just a flower shop.”

“Madam. Where is the shop you're looking for?”

“A bar with a whale drawn on the signboard...”

“If it's that shop, isn't it right in front?”

“What?”

I stopped my steps and lifted my head.

Really?

The signboard with a whale playing in the sea was right in front.

Whether the business hours had passed, the bar's lights were off.

The bar has business hours, but the information merchant has no business hours.

I didn't hesitate and knocked on the door bang bang.

“Are you sleeping?”

There was no answer.

I knocked on the door hard again.

The sound of thumping footsteps was heard, then soon the door opened roughly.

Fortunately thanks to Butcher pulling me back, I didn't hit my forehead on the door.

A man with hair sticking out here and there as if just woken from sleep and a rough impression shouted.

“Do you know what time it is now! Business ended long ago!”

Instead of apologizing to the man, I recited the code seen in the original.

“Won't you give me a cup of tea?”

“What are you saying? This is a place that sells liquor, not a place that sells tea?”

“Liquor and tea are the same in the end in the point of making people drunk. I request black tea with hot ice put in.”

When I blurted out even the second code, the man noticed that I was a customer who came to trade information.

He scratched his head hard with an attitude more softened than before and said.

“There are also customers who make such strange orders. Our shop doesn't accept such orders.”

“Put ten spoons of salt in the flower tea.”

When I said even the last code, the man let out a deep sigh and stepped aside.

“...

I didn't know a customer would come at this time. Come inside.”

The man took us to a small room inside the bar.

And after seating me at the table, he brought tea only for mine and his.

When I held the teacup, warm warmth was transmitted.

Anew today felt long.

It was also sleepy far past the time to sleep.

The man drank a sip of tea and asked.

“So why did you suddenly come here?”

“I came because I want to sell information.”

“At this time? It seems quite an urgent matter?”

“If urgent, it would be urgent. I'll speak directly. No intention of dividing and eating the Matek Count house?”

“Hoo?”

Curiosity gathered in the man's eyes.

“You caught information that can properly send the Matek Count house?”

“Yeah. So I hope the information merchant side connects with a decent noble.”

I said it like this, but I knew who the noble the information merchant would connect was.

Summerhild ducal house.

Unlike the collapsed Valfruga, a dignified ducal family that still exerts momentum on the continent, and one of the biggest customers of the Matek Count house.

In the original, the female lead learns through the sub-male lead that the family operating the information merchant is the Summerhild ducal house.‘I have no intention of revealing that fact.’ The reason for speaking roundabout hoping to connect a noble was also that.

If directly requesting the Summerhild Duke, rather the Summerhild Duke might feel suspicious this way.‘Anyway all information is reported first to the Summerhild Duke. Tearing and eating the Matek Count house would have considerable benefit. Above all, if the Matek Count also deceived the material of the swords supplied to the Summerhild Duke, there's no way the Duke would leave the Count alone.’ The man asked with curious eyes.

“You seem to have found out something very fun. What is it?”

“The Matek Count house is playing tricks with the material of making swords.”

“Haha. A little miss is saying dangerous words. This isn't a place that sells false information. If lying.”

The man instantly changed his voice threateningly.

“You might have to repay with your life. The Matek Count has a personality of definitely repaying grudges.”

He continued the words gently as if teaching a child.

“The swords distributed by the Matek Count house each receive strict management. I haven't heard the news that the weight of the swords distributed by the Count house changed. If it was so, the nobles purchasing would have noticed first.”

“If it's not a lie?”

“Are you planning to even put forward the status of Valfruga?”

That the man knew my status wasn't surprising.

Rather if he didn't know, I would have been disappointed in their information collection ability.

The man lightly tapped the table once.

“Bring evidence. Evidence that I can believe the miss's words are real.”

“Evidence...”

Do I have to show controlling a spirit beast?

But it's a pity to reveal the ability here.

I don't know what confusion will appear due to this matter.

The reason most people who control spirit beasts end up relying in the arms of power holders is because there are that many people aiming for people who control spirit beasts.

If I reveal that I control a spirit beast, I'll receive checks from various nobles, and Valfruga will become a mess with various people flocking.

“If you say it's a lie even now, I can cover it once as a young miss's whim. I'm not a pervert who likes seeing such a cute miss die either.”

The man already seemed to be convinced inside that I lied.

Then what should I do?

Without even showing Blackie, how should I prove that my words are fact?

While waiting for my answer, the man picked one sugar cube and put it in his cup.

Plop.

When the sugar cube entered, the water in the teacup rippled and the water level rose.

Realization struck down like lightning.

Eureka!

There was that method!

I smiled confidently.

“I can prove it.”

“How?”

“However there's something needed to prove. You can obtain that level, right?”* * *Despite the late dawn, the man obtained all the materials I requested.

One new sword bought from the Matek Count house.

One sword made only with hard iron bought from elsewhere.

Hard iron of the same weight as the sword.

A scale.

And three tanks half filled with water.

“I obtained everything the miss wants. So? What are you thinking of doing?”

I had Butcher place the hard iron on one side of the scale, and place the sword bought from the Matek Count house on the other side.

The scale moved this way and that for a moment then soon exactly matched horizontally.

“Butcher. Take down the hard iron and place the other sword.”

The weight of the two swords and the hard iron was the same.

“I said. The weight of the swords shipped from the Matek Count house is the same. There's no change.”

The man crossed his arms, stood crookedly and looked at me.

“It's just that they mixed other ores instead of hard iron and matched the weight. Butcher, put the hard iron in the water.”

Butcher, even with a face of not knowing the reason, submerged the hard iron in the tank as I ordered.

The water in the tank rippled and the water level rose.

“Why is this?”

“Just watch. Butcher, try putting the sword bought from the Matek Count house in the tank.”

Butcher submerged the sword in another tank.

Seeing the height of the water, I smiled.

The experiment was a success.

“What are you trying to do now? Do you think this becomes evidence?”

I pointed to the tank and said.

“See? The height of the water is different.”

“What?”

The man approached the tank.

“When submerging the hard iron and when submerging the sword, the height that rises is different. When submerging the hard iron, the water rose higher.”

“That's just because it's a sword. Since the shape is different, the overflowing water being different is natural, right?”

That's why I requested the sword bought from elsewhere.

“Is that really so? Butcher. Try putting the sword bought from elsewhere in the water.”

When the sword submerged in the water, the surface of the water rippled.

And soon became calm like the first time.

“...!”

The man's eyes widened greatly.

The height of the risen water was the same as the water with the hard iron put in.

Fortunately the place selling that sword didn't seem to lie about the material.

“...

What on earth is this. It doesn't make sense. The height of the water differing according to the material. How does the miss know such a thing?”

I learned it in elementary school experiment time.

I smiled triumphantly.

“If you can't believe, you can experiment with other swords.”

“No, I believe. However... It's the first time I knew that it can be found out with such a method.”

The man still unable to hide the surprise, groped the tank.

“Even looking like this I was confident in the eyes of seeing people... Seeing the miss, it makes me rethink my insight.”

“Then now can you introduce a noble who will eat the Matek Count house together?”

At my question, the man nodded as if possessed.* * *We who had nowhere to go immediately occupied a room attached to the bar.

It would take a few days for a person from the Summerhild ducal house to come.

Butcher who was organizing the bedding of the room I would stay in asked.

“But Madam. How did you know that method earlier?”

“I saw it in a book.”

It's not wrong words.

Because I saw it in the textbook before possession.

“If such content comes out, it would be an extremely difficult book, amazing!”

“It's not that difficult.”

“What are you saying! If it wasn't Madam, we all would have had to sit on the street! It's fortunate that Madam is here! Then did you notice from when you went to the craftsmen's village during the day?”

“Something like that...”

Speaking, this answer seemed a little suspicious.

I sneakily watched Treon's mood, but reading Treon's expression was still hard.

Treon who was quietly looking at me said.

“...

Thank you.”

Huh?

“If it wasn't Madam, I also... the family also don't know how it would have become.”

Treon honestly expressed thanks.

I was a bit surprised because I never thought he would acknowledge me.

“No, what... From now on just work that hard.”

At my words, Treon smiled for the first time and answered.

“Yes.”

The face was a mess, but the quietly smiling face was good to see.

And the next day, I who woke up after sleeping a sigh welcomed an unexpected big shot.