Labyrinth City Mesugaki Pawn Shop

12. Witch (1)

“Empty box, nothing, Einheri, are you f*cked?”

Yeah, I think it’s f*cked up.

It is said that when people are too shocked, they cannot say anything.

And when he gets into trouble he just lets go of his hand.

Yerica, who was still on the floor, closed her box again before she could see.

“Nothing happened.”

“Yes…? What? What?”

Yerica expressed her doubts and Floren made a meaningful expression.

“Einheri, not good, cheating.”

“…It doesn’t matter if you don’t make it a problem.”

“However, a problem, if raised, becomes a problem? A strange accident.”

If she didn’t see like Jerica, she couldn’t help but be dragged by Floren since she looked inside.

“No, what are you talking about just the two of you!”

Ye Rika rushed in, but she couldn’t tell, her box was already closed.

“But understand, Einheri’s circumstances, then this, silence debt?”

“…Would you like some money?”

“Elf debt, money, no need, anything else, demand.”

Floren shook her head as if she didn’t need money.

“Future demand, contact required, preservation of evidence.”

Floren approached me cautiously and held out her hand to her face. Then she put her index finger on my forehead and pressed it hard.

What the hell did you do?

She touched her forehead with her index finger, but she didn’t notice anything. It’s just something… It smells like a little bit of fresh grass.

“Einheri, elf, debt, memory, must, debt collection.”

If anyone sees it, they will know that they took hundreds of millions of dollars.

I should have opened it secretly when I was alone. Why did I open it as if possessed by a ghost?

From Floren, the elf who looks at her strangely, to Yerica, who is shining her eyes as if she is trying to catch something.

There was absolutely nothing going on.

She let out a sigh and tried to move on, but Yerica stood in her way with her arms outstretched. It was a very excited face.

“I, I have debt too!”

“Yes?”

“To make such a mess… Toppling me and then just going away! This is impossible!”

No, I don’t think I’ve ever had that.

“So I, I owe you too!”

Someone said that. You shouldn’t try to understand the mindset of madmen.

The best thing a normal person can do is to just be swept away and surrender oneself as if being swept away.

“Haa… What can I do…”

“The place I asked about earlier! I will guide you! That’s how you pay off your debt!”

Behavior as if the creditor and the debtor were switched.

Isn’t that usually the role I have to be in charge of guiding?

But now I’m too lazy to refute something.

“Ah, yes… I guess so.”

It’s as good as it gets.

“Kelson! Can I go?”

Yerica turned around and shouted at the middle-aged man who was still laying her body on the floor. Then he answered in a weak voice.

“Yes, go… Go away…”

Is that person also caught up in something?

“Anyway, today I have to report a false informant to the guild and go catch him… Ah,”

The man called Kelson looked up at Yerica and Floren as if he remembered something.

”Aren’t you leaving the party by any chance?”

“Huh? It’s just a short visit!”

“Okay, that’s it. Don’t just make an accident, don’t bother reporting to the guild. There is no schedule this week, so come back on your own and see you next week.”

“Who is that…?”

“Huh? It’s our party.”

No, the party leader is so irresponsible!

Shouldn’t you actively stop your party members from following others like this!

But Kelson lay back on the floor as if he didn’t care anymore and shook her hand as if to say good-bye.

“Let’s go, let’s go, into the labyrinth city~”

All I could do was sigh as I watched Yerica go ahead without even knowing how I felt.

“Can I follow you too?”

“…Yes, come.”

Looking into Floren’s eyes, it was expected that she would follow anyway, so she had better say yes.

At least, it won’t cause any resentment.

…And because one or two people are there.

She was lost in many thoughts as she slowly moved her steps along the road she had already been on.

Why? What caused this to happen? After all, is that the cause, the monkey hand? If not…

“By the way, what is inside the box?”

Floren, who was next to her, asked carefully so that Yerica, who was moving ahead, could not hear.

“Wall wood, box, main role, seal, curse, contained, perhaps dangerous?”

“Um… If it’s dangerous, should I say it’s dangerous…”

She remembered the last time.

Legarete shedding tears of blood and the monkey hand holding her neck were extremely dangerous even to a complete stranger.

“That… It was a severed monkey hand. I don’t know what it’s used for.”

“Monkey, hand, severed?”

“A monkey hand?”

She must have approached at some point, Yerica was pushing her face in front of her nose. When did you come?

“That’s something out of a fairy tale.”

An unexpected answer came out of Yerica’s mouth.

“A long time ago, there was a monkey hand with the magical power to make wishes come true, and everyone who made a wish on that hand lived happily ever after.”

It’s a fairy tale, but it was too shocking to actually see it.

It was as if it contained all the evil curses in this world, and it was even alive.

“However, the Mage Tower knows the truth about that fairy tale. It’s kind of a back story.”

“Truth?”

“Collecting and understanding various myths and legends is the purpose of the Magic Tower. Since the concept of magic itself is about realizing imagination into reality, it is a kind of destiny to find and explore its roots.”

“Then, what is another story that is handed down in the Mage Tower?”

At that, Yerica stood to her left and crossed her right hand.

“The cow…Hand… That I couldn’t catch earlier! If you catch me, I’ll tell you.”

Her face turned pink just like her hair color, and her quivering eyes. No, that’s what’s difficult.

She moved her box to her right hand and held Yerica’s hand with her left.

Originally, I shouldn’t have acted like this, but… Let’s think of it as the price of information.

“hehehe… Warm… Soft and soft.”

She grabbed my hand tightly as if she wouldn’t let go of it, and Yerica was moving it around with a relaxed look that put her nervousness from a while ago to shame.

She had a strange feeling, as if she had become children’s clay. With a look of satisfaction on her face, Yerica continued her story.

“Well, the basic outline is not that different from fairy tales. Monkey hand that grants wishes. However, a little more content from the front or back has been added. A long time ago, when fairies still existed-“

It was a story that went back a very long time ago.

“It is said to be a ghost created by a seeker who has mastered everything in this world after pursuing the truth. Opinions are divided as to why it is a monkey hand. Some speculate that it might not be the monkey’s, but the Seeker’s own hand. Like the remains of saints kept in the church.”

The remains of a saint, to be identified with something like that… Rather, it was something close to a disaster.

“Whether it belonged to a seeker or a monkey, the power itself possessed by the demon was real, so many people coveted and used it. There were people who used it with good intentions, but there were also people who wished for bad wishes, so the power of the monkey hand gradually deteriorated – and, voila, a cursed chanting device that was unique in the world was born. It’s a story.”

“…Do you believe that such a dangerous object exists in the Mage Tower?”

“Not believe it or not, it is an object that actually exists.”

“Huh?”

Really? Did it have that kind of power?

“It’s not like you have to keep it confidential… But don’t go around talking about it.”

When she said that, as if zipping her mouth tightly, Yerica continued her words.

“It hasn’t been officially announced, but I found a monkey’s hand a long time ago while exploring ancient ruins in the Magic Tower. Because of that, there was a commotion in the tower at one time, but it soon calmed down.”

“Why?”

“Because the witch intervened.”

Is it the same for one side or the other side for the high-ranking person to intercept it when something is achieved…!

“Ah, of course, it wasn’t that things were taken by force or something like that. It was an academic inquiry and a measure to prevent unnecessary damage. If I left it between the members of the expedition, something must have happened.”

I wonder if I could have endured the fact that a wish-fulfilling object was within reach if I stretched out my hand. Because you don’t know what will happen if someone has a bad heart and makes a wrong wish.

“The witch took the monkey’s hand, but she didn’t use it privately. It’s an oath made by her own name. However, it was warned of its danger and sealed and stored in the basement of the Mage Tower. This is not like a magic lamp that makes wishes come true, but it’s actually more like an equivalent exchange, and they said that if you get one thing, you will definitely lose the other thing.”

“Then after that…”

”Well, come to think of it, nothing really came out after that. As if it had disappeared.”

Ominous thoughts filling my head

Please, I begged him not to.

“Ho, could you tell me what the name of the witch is?”

I hope this disappeared in the box is just an object that resembles the shape.

I earnestly hoped that what I thought was time turned back was just my misunderstanding.

“Are you Jan Estoria?”

“Ah.”

That means that what was in the box before is real.

No, Yan, what the hell is our boss thinking!

With the authority of a witch, she steals the ball from her subordinates, silences rumors, and in the end

‘Oh, that? Abandoned?’

Lie and set up a ginpai, and eventually trade illegally?

The late art embezzleer you only see on the news is actually our president…?

Even embezzlement is an art at this level.

“Is Einheri genuine?”

Floren carefully whispered in my ear and poked my right arm with narrow eyes.

I couldn’t say anything except her mouth shut and grunts, her saliva. But even with that alone, Floren nodded her head as if she noticed.

“Um, Einheri, you’re f*cked.”

…That said, there’s no need to reveal the corpse from the side and even shoot to confirm.

“Einheri, the box, how do you explain it? Recipient, angry, soared”

“…That’s right.”

For now, I was going back to normal, but I couldn’t figure out what to do.

hahahaha, I actually delivered it before, but suddenly went back to the past and only the contents inside disappeared?

…..

Wouldn’t they try to carve an ax mark on my head instead of a signature on the receipt?

It’s been a while, but given the personality of Mr. William White, there seemed to be no such thing, but there was another pawnshop over there who was trying to carve a mark on my head.

In this case, it should be called the marks of a holy sword, not the marks of an axe.

An employee on the first day who once more ginpai the goods of an embezzler…!

He is a legend in many ways.

“By the way, Mr. Einheri, is this really the address you are going to? 902 Moyken St. 946.”

“Yes, any problem?”

“Hmm, then maybe you should wait a little bit… Basically, you might have to schedule three or four hours. The waiting line is already this far.”

Something was strange. A waiting line?

I thought there were a little too many people around. Obviously it hadn’t been like that before.

“Gee, don’t cut in line, Miso!”

“Don’t push! Don’t push!”

Looking to the side, I saw people lined up in front of the wall. And at the end of it was the mansion of Mr. William White, whom I knew.

What is…?

Obviously, there were only two guards before, and there was no line like this at all.

“Today, the line is getting pushed back. There seem to be a lot of people.”

“Is it usually this crowded?”

“It seems a little more crowded today… But I think you can go in today.”

Why did such a quiet mansion become so crowded?

“Because that’s also where the Witch Lives, so we should consider it fortunate to have such a long queue.”

“Witch..?”

I stopped walking.

”Yes, Witch.”

I couldn’t believe the words that came out of Yerica’s mouth soon after.

“Legarete White Witch I’ve been waiting for this long is natural, isn’t it?”

The future I knew has changed.