Madman in a Fantasy World

112. redemption thief

“Luke. Is that a good thing?”

“Mole? Lou.”

“But why do you keep trying to bid?”

“By Bored.”

I needed it, and I came to see if there was something good. An auction is boring to just watch. It wasn’t fun at all to just watch others call for money to buy things. So, out of boredom, I raised my bid. It’s not like I’m going to buy it anyway, so if someone else is going to buy it, fuck it.

“Do you know that if you put all your bets together, it’s over 1,000 gold coins to bet because you’re bored…?”

1000 gold coins. Considering that we can play and eat for several years with the few tens of gold coins we have earned, we can understand how much money it is without explaining it. Of course, even if we had collected everything we had earned without spending a single penny, we would not have collected even half of it. He walked away with such a large amount of money out of boredom.

“What do you know?”

“It’s a shame because you were lucky, what would you do if you won the bid…”

“If you run away, that’s it.”

Do you know what a no show is? You don’t know, because there is no such word in this world. Seeing that they don’t hand over the winning bids right away, it seems to be a way of exchanging them all at once after the auction is over. If you win the bid, no show is enough.

“And there’s nothing to be won.”

“How can you be so confident?”

“Rice, you only lived in the sun, so you don’t know much. You thought it was people who raised bids until now, right?”

“Then what is it? Are you saying there are demons or demons?”

“It’s not like that. There’s a spy.”

The place where all the dirty things happen is the shade. By the way, I know from the novel that there is a spy planted in the auction house to raise the bid. In fact, if you were in the shadows, you should have expected it even if you didn’t know it. It’s because that’s where the dark is originally.

I had no idea at what point the spy would stop bidding, but it was just pure luck. It was me, because I had the mindset of winning the bid. Then, when the bid was successful, as I just said, it would be a no-show.

“With the ingenuity of someone like you, Richie, who has lived in the sun all his life, you can’t imagine what’s in the dark.”

It’s not for nothing that people call it yin and yang. No matter what kind of evil you think of, the place where there is more than that is the place called the dark place. Like peeling an onion, something keeps coming out no matter how many times you peel it. Besides, the deeper you dig, the worse it gets. There must be some crazy person out there who wants to kill people and turn them into chimeras.

“It’s strangely believable because you wear that mask and say that…”

“What about my mask? It’s the symbol of a real man.”

Honestly, if you’ve seen that anime, you can put up with a horse mask, but you can’t stand a wild boar mask.

“So, did you find anything worth buying?”

“No. There’s nothing to buy here today.”

“Then why did you come…?”

“Of course I came to look for something.”

“I just said there’s nothing to buy.”

“Yeah. There’s nothing to buy.”

Because I’m not going to live.

“I’m going to steal it.”

In response to my answer, the three asked at the same time.

“uh···?”

“Yes···?”

“yes···?”

***

that evening.

Of course, there is also a dinner at the auction house. 24 hours don’t exist in this world. That’s why we waited for dinner in the dorm and came out of the dorm again after midnight. The reason is, as I said in the morning, to steal some things.

By the way, Yui left it at the dorm. Stealing requires stealth. But Yui, who is sluggish, couldn’t help, so I told her to stay at the dorm, and she liked it. So, what are hikikomori?

I left the hostel and followed the same route I had memorized in the morning. Of course, the guide is Luna. Because I forgot all about it. On the way to the auction house, Luna asked a curious question.

“That… Luke. Do you remember the last time you caught a pickpocket?”

“I don’t know. How do you remember such extras?”

“…then he said that stealing was bad and broke all his fingers so that he would never steal again.”

no, you don’t know Who remembers being a pickpocket in the first place? Is there nothing to memorize?

“So why is that?”

“Didn’t you do that to me then? Stealing is wrong.”

“That’s right. Stealing is wrong.”

“But isn’t what you’re trying to do now stealing…?”

What I’m about to do is steal, and that’s wrong. Luna must be saying that.

But.

“Luna. Do you know what the opposite of justice is?”

“Yes? Isn’t it evil?”

“no.”

People often think of evil as the opposite of justice. But that’s one of those misconceptions. It’s being reinterpreted these days, but the opposite of justice.

“Another definition.”

In my previous life, I had jobs as a lawyer and a prosecutor. For some, a lawyer is justice, and for others, a prosecutor is justice. So, do you think lawyers and prosecutors are evil to each other? not. They must be people who work with each other’s own justice. If there’s a reason why I should be stealing, it’s not evil, but another justice.

“…isn’t it just putting a reason to justify what you’re doing?”

“Actually, that’s what I think too.”

That’s all. My thoughts are no different from Luna’s.

“But Luna. Did you forget? I’m not a hero.”

In fact, I don’t even have to come up with a good reason. why? Because villains can commit evil deeds for no reason. If someone just commits it and says, ‘How could you do such a heinous thing…!’, ‘Because he’s a villain.’ If you say one word, everything will be understood.

Because no one wants to understand the villain’s way of thinking in the first place. Trying to understand the way a villain thinks means that person is trying to be a villain.

“… I must have forgotten for a moment.”

“I wish I could have remembered it by now.”

While we were chatting about that, we arrived at the building before we knew it. Just like we did in the morning, we went downstairs, pushed the bookshelf, walked through the underground waterway, passed the barrier, and arrived at the changing room. I don’t need to change clothes this time, but the reason I stopped in the locker room is because I have something to hand over.

“Okay, take it.”

“What is this? A bracelet?”

“Invisibility magic tool.”

“Is that the one you used in Survival before?”

“You know?”

“Someone only beat Arthur persistently, and he couldn’t have known that.”

That’s not to say that he was beaten. Just kidding kidding. If it was a real hit, the toilet would be dead by now.

“But don’t you have to return it after this?”

“Of course I sneaked in.”

“·······.”

In the midst of that chaos, would you go around just to retrieve a cheap magic tool? Of course I forgot, so I took advantage of it and put it in my inventory. When I remembered later, I must have already quit my professorship.

“Rather than that, Luna, didn’t you say you could hide behind a barrier the other day?”

After the mirror event last time, I did a synthesis of information. What skills did Yui and Luna learn? Yui said that she annihilated the queen’s personality and made the power her own. And Luna seemed to say that she was in complete hiding within the barrier. So, isn’t it better to just wear a barrier than to wear this bracelet?

“If you use a barrier, everything inside will be dark and you will find out.”

“Let’s make some good ones.”

why did you make it so vague

“…that was for the best.”

“Then I can’t help it.”

When I put on my bracelet, Luna also wore it. Richie seemed a bit taken aback by our sudden disappearance, but soon sensed our presence and put on the bracelet.

“This is how it feels…”

“If you get too close, they’ll get caught, so just be careful with that.”

“If you get close, you’ll get caught, so why didn’t Arthur notice when he was beaten so badly?”

“Why? It’s because I’m stupid.”

People shouldn’t be so emotional. I don’t know because I’m angry and giggling at what I can tell with just a little concentration because it’s right in front of my nose.

“Rather than that, let’s go slowly.”

“Ah, yes.”

“Yes.”

When I opened the locker room door and went down the spiral staircase, this time there was no guard standing at the entrance to receive tickets, as it was in the morning, but rather armed guards walking around the entrance holding torches.

If you get close, you might get caught, so you sneakily dodge and enter the auction house. The inside of the auction house was also patrolled by guards, but they also spread the distance and walked around the inside of the auction house. What we are looking for is a storage room for items that will go up for auction and items that have not been auctioned off. There is no internal map, so I wandered around for a while.

“Even just avoiding the target accurately is a talent in a way.”

“I can’t usually find my way like this…?”

To be honest, I have an excuse this time too. Shouldn’t there be at least a thick iron door in the storage room? The doors inside the auction house all looked exactly the same, so it was impossible to tell which room was which without looking at them all.

If this is a kind of camouflage, then it must be camouflage. If it’s a thick iron door, it’s no different than promoting that there’s a valuable item here, so it’s the same as the other rooms, so you’re lost. I think it might be some kind of strategy. If you’re lucky, you’ll find it all at once, but this time I just wasn’t so lucky.

“It’s done. Let’s quickly brush up and leave. I’m sleepy.”

The moment I opened the door because I wanted to finish it quickly and go to sleep.

“Who-who?!”

“Oh my god?”

There was a person inside, so I unknowingly cursed out. No, now that I think about it, it doesn’t make much sense that there is no guard in such an important place. There were four guards in total, but since no one could be seen through the cracks in the open door, the guards pulled out their weapons and stood guard against the keys.

“Luke. What should we do?”

“Don’t panic at times like this.”

kill

“All right.”

It’s better to kill them all because you can clearly see the future where you don’t kill them and then wake up and scream. Luna is exceptionally adaptable. After I kill a few people while going around, when I order to kill people, he acts without hesitation. If it were other people, they would not like it or feel guilty, but it’s not like that, so it’s convenient to take them around.

“Big… Big!”

“Kuk, kuk heck…!”

As Luna moved, a solid line formed around the necks of the four guards in an instant, and they spewed blood fountains and groaned as if it was difficult to breathe, and then died. I put the corpses aside and began to examine the objects in the room one by one.

If there’s one problem, it’s that all the stuff here is unknown. So, how do we know the truth here? I found out how to do it by touching this and that.

◈ Item Information

Name: bast face

Grade: A

Description: An artifact of unknown origin. If you put it on your face, you can completely change it into someone else’s face. The voice changes, but the body does not, so be careful when using it. It can only transform into a target the user knows about.

“Aww fuck surprise.”

“Why is that?”

“Nothing.”

In the information window that suddenly popped up, I realized that the mask-like object I was holding was an artifact. Why is it that when I look at the information window of other novels, I hear the sound, saying ‘Tee-ring!’, but my status window suddenly pops up in front of me with only a blue window without any sound rumors? I think this is all a ruse by the writers, but really, as long as we meet later, they won’t let go.

Anyway, since I’ve checked how to check whether it’s genuine or fake, I’ve put the bast face that seems to be useful in many ways in my inventory. And now all you have to do is find what you need.

‘Tsk. I wondered why the security was so lax, but they were all fakes.’

At first, I wondered why there were only four guards in the storage room. I thought it was because the owner of the auction house was stupid. Now that I see it, there are only things that are not worth protecting, so it’s no different than leaving them to steal. So far, while touching this and that, there is no information window popping up other than the bast face. I was looking for a target object while throwing junk like that.

◈ Item Information

Name: Anilo Fuego

Rating: A+

Description: An artifact of unknown origin. Increases the wearer’s fire attribute magic power.

“found.”

“I found it?”

“uh.”

I found the artifact that was my purpose. Just a red ring with no distinctive features or special markings. This is an artifact that is presented to Riche among the heroines. As described, it’s perfect for the heroine Richie, who uses fire magic. Naturally, I put the ring on Richie’s finger.

“Uh, uh…?”

Then, Richie blushed. It’s not that I don’t know what the reaction is, but since this is a fantasy novel, I can’t help it. In fantasy novels, the gift to the heroine is unconditionally in the form of a ring. It takes effect only when worn on the ring finger unconditionally, or put it on a chain and make it into a necklace. Then, the heroine blushes for being mistaken alone. It’s all an obvious and cliché, but what can I do when it looks like that.

‘Ehh…’

Leaving Leechee, who was stroking the ring with care, behind her, headed toward Luna, who hadn’t spoken since before. Did you find anything good?

“Did you find anything good?”

“Oh, Luke.”

There was something like a green iron on Luna’s hand, looking over her shoulder, but even when I listened to it, the information window didn’t appear. I don’t know if it doesn’t show up because it’s a material or because it’s not good, so I’ll have to put this in there and ask the uncle later.

I’ll take care of everything soon. Just as we were about to say let’s go back, a loud noise came from the door we had entered.

“It’s an intruder!!!”

A guard standing at the entrance noticed us and informed us. We won’t be able to see it, but the reason we can conclude that it’s an intruder is simple. Guards lying in the corner. And from the security guard’s point of view, things floating in the air. Of course, you can’t help but think of it as an intruder.

“Did we not lock the door?”

“There was no lock in this room.”

“Aha.”

When the guard shouted, in less than a minute, the guards piled up outside the door. Looking at them, I thought I couldn’t run away gracefully.

“Ah. Rest assured. A livelihood thief… no, a salvation thief.”