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　It would have been nice to have a good guess at the culprit, but it would have been a problem if I was wrong.

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　Besides, there was no guarantee that the culprit was a lone gunman.

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　He asks Robin for an offer from the Thieves' Guild. The report came back that the guild of thieves was clean.

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　Robin says that the Thieves' Guild had no motive in the first place.

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The Thieves' Guild also has a mail system, but it is not as important as the Adventurers' Guild or the Merchants' Guild, and it is for internal communication, not to be replaced by an official mail system.

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　The guilds are not as important as the Adventurers' Guild or the Merchants' Guild.

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　It seems that they are hoping for the expansion of the public postal system even sooner than the Adventurers' Guild.

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　Furthermore, Miki, the suspect, is a typical Houraian who hates assassination attempts the most. Robin, with whom I spent all morning in the bar, assures me that this man has a good eye for people.

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　This man's eye for character is more trustworthy than that of a top criminal investigator. So we eliminate Miki as a suspect.

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　I also trust the master of the Thieves' Guild. It sounds strange to trust the head of the guild of thieves, but the guild of thieves in this city was famous for its strict prohibition of "no killing, no killing, no killing.

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The guild's motto was "Don't kill, don't rape, don't rob more than necessary," and its head, the guild master, was known as a righteous bandit with an old-fashioned temperament. Although they had not met yet, he seemed to be a trustworthy man like Miki.

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　This would narrow down the list of culprits to Lukaku.

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　All of the evidence that Robin had brought back to us since then confirmed Lukaku's guilt. The most important information was that he had discovered that he had been enemies with the nobleman who had stolen the horse.

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　Lukaku must have been emboldened by the fact that I had not taken strong-arm tactics during the interview. He dumped the carcass of the second horse at another post office. As a horse lover, I was pissed off.　

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　Lukaku got even more aggressive. He must have thought I wouldn't touch him. He even starts planning my assassination.

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　I can't let this go any further.

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　If I left him alone, Eve and the others might go berserk and burn down the merchants' guild, so I asked Lukaku to write a letter of resignation.

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　I call Robin and ask him for a favor.

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"Robin, you're the best archer in England, aren't you?"

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"Some people are."

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"You're modest, there's no one else in the world like you."

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　I ask, impressed by Robin's modesty.

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"Lukaku's villa in the suburbs has a huge garden. The aristocrat next door is very generous. He'd be happy to let you stay a week."

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　Jeanne beside me is stumped by my roundabout way of expressing myself.

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　Robin, on the contrary, seems to understand what I am saying. She is very perceptive.

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　I continue without paying attention to Jeanne.

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"The period during which the nobleman is renting the house and the period during which Lukaku is staying coincide. And the big tree in the nobleman's garden, an elm tree, is in full view of Lukaku's house.

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　I pause for a moment and then say the important thing.

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"The distance from the elm tree to the sun terrace in Lukaku's garden is about 300 meters. The best archer in England can shoot a stag between the eyes from 300 meters away. You see what I mean?"

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　Robin nodded as I said this, but Jeanne remained staring blankly.

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　Lukaku's villa.

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　Lukaku, the head of the merchants' guild, was in a good mood.

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　He was happy that he had been able to harass the evil king Ashtaroth, the ruler of the city, whom he did not like, but more than that he was amused by the fact that the evil king was helpless.

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　It is said that the Demon King Ashtaroth is the king of intrigue, the king of the two sides of the same coin, but in fact, he is just a coward.

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　He is a coward who cannot do anything without a cause or evidence.

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　This makes it easy and worth taking advantage of him.

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　I was going to jump into his pocket and take away all his vested interests.

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I thought, "...... No, I'll just assassinate him and take control of this city.

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　I was also thinking " No, let's just assassinate him and take control of this city.

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　The city of Ashtaroth has developed and will continue to develop. If I became the ruler of this city, I would be able to hold a feast of revelry every day.

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　Besides, the daughter of the demon tribe called Eve, who was standing beside the Demon King, will be his own.

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　Her beauty can be likened to the most precious jewel. I would love to have her for myself.

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　Lukaku's cheeks relaxed in delusion.

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　Her flabby cheeks hung down like a bulldog.

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　Although he has zero attraction to women, Lukaku has about a dozen mistresses in his villa.

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　All of them were bought with money, but this one, Yves, was going to use power and violence to overthrow him.

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"Any woman who looks at me like I'm filth, I'll make her eat filth.

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　Lukaku's s*xual arousal was heightened by the thought of his beautiful daughter with a chain around her neck, eating less than a pig like a dog, and he asked the butler beside him to arrange for a woman.

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　Not the one he has brought with him, but a new one from the demon tribe.

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"I want a girl with a short cut. I want a strong girl.

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　The butler gladly responds to such an order. There is no "no" in answering to the Lord.

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　Bowing his head graciously, Lukaku leaves the place and decides to drink until the woman arrives.

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　He mixes a strong spirit, which even the king of the dwarves loves, with water and ice. It is very hot. It burns his stomach, but it is pleasant.

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"The best drink, the best woman, what could be happier in my life?

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　As Lukaku lowered his glass, an arrow flew toward the glass.

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　The glass he was holding shatters into pieces.

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　Shards of glass and ice are scattered around the area.

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　Lukaku looks around in panic, but there is no sign of anyone around.

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　There is an elm tree in the garden of the nobleman's house next door, but it is impossible to shoot from that distance.

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　This is a safe villa, that's why I bought it. It is well guarded. How could they have shot arrows into it?

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　As Lukaku was sweating coldly, the elm tree glowed. Robin had gone to the trouble of reflecting his hand mirror in the sun to make his presence known.

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"What?　You mean to tell me that you sent an arrow this far from that distance?"

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　Lukaku notices that there is a sentence on the arrow.

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　Lukaku removes the sentence and reads it.

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　The sentence reads.

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"This time it's just a warning. You will not be killed. But if you do not submit your resignation to the Merchant's Guild and leave the city of Ashtaroth within a week, this time it will be an arrow in your forehead, not in your glass.

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　Lukács reads the words and is absolutely mortified.

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"No, no way, that assassin shot through the glass from that distance. ......"

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　What a monster!

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　As he blurts out this unintentionally, a guard notices something is wrong and comes over to him.

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　The guard was a different kind of guard.

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"Where's Mifune?

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　Yes. Mifune is all we need. With that divine swordsmith... assassins are nothing to be afraid of.

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　I asked for Mifune's whereabouts with a desperate desire, but the guard only said unsympathetically, "Master Mifune is in the city now.

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"Mifune-sama left this morning. He is too afraid to stay in this town anymore. He says he has met a samurai who is even more skilled than he is.

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　It was Hijikata Toshizo, who had challenged Mifune to a match like a street slasher, and had sliced his sword in half, but Lukaku did not know about this.

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　Lukaku, however, has come to the point of resignation when he realizes that Mifune has also abandoned him.

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"......That's the man they call the god of intrigue. After all, I was just dancing in the palm of that man's hand. I can no longer stay in this town. I'm going to get rid of my property and retire to the countryside.

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　Lukaku decided to give up, resigned as head of the merchants' guild, finished disposing of his property within a week, and returned to his home in the mountains, as he had declared.

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　Lukaku never set foot in Ashtaroth's sphere of influence again.

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　The case of the horse murder ended in this way, and when the case was solved, Jeanne came to me in great joy.

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"The Demon King is amazing!　He's a genius!"

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　Apparently, she finally understood the meaning of our conversation the other day.

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"The Demon Lord didn't dare to kill Lukaku.

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"Well, even though he's a scoundrel, he can't bear to kill him.

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But it's amazing. To come up with a plan like that.

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The best is the one who does it. Robin has the best bow in the world.

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That's really true. I'm thinking of learning to bow from Robin.

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You're going to change from swordsman to archer?

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I can't go on being a swordsman. I want to adopt the bow as a secondary weapon.

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Well, a bow for a saint is quite a nice idea. You can learn it from Robin next time.

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But first, I need the Demon King to teach me the basics of how to use it.

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Me?

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I'm embarrassed to learn how to hold a bow from Robin who is a master archer. I want to learn the basics and then I'll take you under my wing."

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Well, I don't mind.

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　And then he teaches me how to hold a bow for a few hours.

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　I was a poor aristocrat in a previous life, so I hunted birds and beasts myself. Not as a hobby, but for survival.

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　So I knew how to handle a simple bow.

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　I taught it to Jeanne, but she came for a week to learn the bow. But she did not improve very much.

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　A genius with a sword is a poor student with a bow, I guess.

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　One day, when I lamented to Eve in her office, she said to me in a funny way.

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"Master, it's a woman's trick."

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"Her tricks?"

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"Yes. Jeanne is deliberately not improving so that she can have an excuse to see Master every day. And the training of the bow is taught in close proximity. Wouldn't he press his chest or buttocks against you?"

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"............"

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　As I lightly recollect, it was indeed true.

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　I told her that Jeanne's beginner's course on bows was over, and left the rest to Robin.

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　After all, Jeanne did not train with the bow after that. It seems that she decided to fight with only a sword. It was just as Eve had guessed.

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　She may be the wisest one in this demon king's army. I asked her to pour me a cup of tea to share her wisdom.

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