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I made some cuts on his arms and legs to scare him a little.
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To be honest, I don't really need those record books. I already read them before I gave them to you guys.
Also, I know where it is. I made sure it was hidden pretty well before I left it in the captain's care.
That is why I thought it was weird for a simple spy soldier to know its location when you and the captain were the only ones who had access to that storage. Don't you think so too?
What I need you to do is write a letter with that blood of yours and write down everything those nobles told you, along with the location of the logs. If you dare lie in that letter, I'll slowly cut your fingers off.
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"I... I'll do it! "I'll do it!" Oliver said while he stuttered.
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I let him down and let him write the things I told him. After taking a look at it, he really does what I said.
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"I'm done. Please spare me!" Oliver asked.
I stared at him and walked to the door, and as he was about to thank me, I raised my hand and decapitated him; separating his head from all of his limbs. like tying a person's limbs to five horses, and it got separated slowly and painfully.
I took the letter and sent it to the imperial palace with the signature of the current captain of the patrol guards. I sent it from Oliver's place to avoid tracking.
I went home afterwards.
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Thinking about my next plan, I decided to investigate the nobles behind rotten skulls and Oliver.
I read it before at Rotten Skulls Base. There were two Count families and a Marquis family.
It is nothing new, I guess. I also obtained something interesting at the rotten skull base.
a silver badge with a honeycomb mark. It looks simple and not conspicuous. But the letter with it says it is not a simple badge.
It was a badge for an organization called The Hive. That name sounds pretty familiar to me, since I quite like sweets. The shop has a bee on its logo, and they sell sweets in their cafe. But to think they have another face... it's interesting.
The hive is an information company where you buy and sell information depending on the rank of your badge and the importance of the information that you have. Silver is already pretty good. I hope I can buy some useful ones.
I went to sleep after contemplating for a while.
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After working in the morning, I went to take a break.
I went to a clothing shop and bought a robe with a hood that could hide my face. I went to The Hive afterwards.
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I showed my badge to the cashier, and then she led me into a room.
It was an empty room with a door on the other end.
"Please enter, dear customer," she said.
I entered the room and sat on a chair.
The room looks dark. There's only a table and a person in front of me, and only candlelight to brighten up the place. If you're a normal person, you could barely see a thing.
"Please show me your badge, dear customer," the mysterious person said.
"First of all, I would like to sell you some information. "I wonder how much you could pay for it," I said.
"Could you tell me what it was about so I can determine how much it's worth?" he asked.
"It is about the annihilation of the rotten skulls." "I know the person who did that to them," I replied.
He flinched as if he were surprised. It looks like they didn't have any information regarding that.
"Is this reliable?" he said.
"Of course, because I am the person who did that," I said.
"Where is your proof?" he asked.
I showed The Hive's silver badge that I got from the rotten skulls, together with the letter I got from it.
"Is this enough proof?" "For sure, you know your own things and the people you gave them to, right?" I answered.
He paused and said, "Please wait for a moment; I'll have to call someone higher than me." "This is within the scope of a gold badge; I only handle silver badges."
I put my silver threads around him and made him unable to move, then asked, "Are you sure that is the only thing you planned to do?"
He panicked a bit and said, "I swear in the name of The Hive, I'll just call a gold-badge dealer to assess the information the dear customer gave." "If you don't trust me, you can put a leash on me until I come back."
"Alright, you can go," I said as I freed him, but I left a thread on his neck.
He sighed in relief.
A few minutes later, he came back with another person.
"I am a gold officer, dear customer." "The silver officer was relieved of this deal as it was out of his authority," said the person who just came.
"I was told of the information the dear customer gave. It was related to some high-ranking nobles; it falls under my custody, and since the rotten skulls issue has no information at all or whatsoever, that is why our dear customer's information is quite valuable. So may I ask what you want in exchange for this information, dear customer?" he added while I removed the thread from the previous guy's neck.
I want all the information regarding all the nobles related to rotten skulls. I already know most of it, so don't think you can trick me.
"Of course, dear customer, but before that, may I ask if those threads are the ones the dear customer used to kill those rotten skull people?" he asked
"It is," I replied.
He left for a bit and came back with a stack of papers and said, "These are all the details we have regarding the nobles related to rotten skulls."
"Alright. "How much is this?" I said.
"There's no need for you to pay, dear customer." The information you gave is enough to pay for this. Also, please accept this gold badge. "We would like to do another business with you," he said.
"You may come to us if dear customer ever needs something" he added.
I left afterwards. Making sure no one was tracking me, I went around the whole city before going back to work.