After safely entering the Adventurer's Guild, I first looked around the room.
Most of the time, I put things that are really bad if they are found out, or things that I want to hide, out of sight from the human eye.
Since I'm in the attic now, there's a chance that it could be here.
The area is full of broomsticks and other junk with broken handles that are no longer useful, but that's exactly what makes it worth looking for.
Gram says he's left no information hidden, and it might be easier to find it than you think.

When you want to find something hidden, the sight of a cat comes in handy.
Even in a small space, as long as you can get your head through it, you can get in, and since your sense of smell is well-developed, you can at least sniff it out.
Of course, by transforming into a slime, you can pass through any small opening, but that is the last resort.
A huge amount of magical power is required for even a single transformation, and the slime I remember seeing and remember is often of bizarre colors, so if someone were to come in, they would be noticed at a glance.
I haven't seen the black slime that Leah-dono was talking about, so I can't 'transform' it.
By the way, it's a dog with a keen sense of smell, but they don't want to "transform" because they are physiologically unacceptable.
So I took a sniff of the dusty attic in my usual, familiar manner.


'...... This place looks like it hasn't been used in a while. Trouble is, it doesn't smell human at all.'


It hasn't even been cleaned and the dust is thickly piled up.
It's safe to assume it's not here.

As I was lowering a ladder to the bottom of the building, a corner of the ground suddenly opened up.
I was startled and quickly hid in the shadows.
Probably where the ladder down to the floor below was located, which is what I was looking for.
A human came up from below, muttering something to himself.


''d*mn it, why do I have to come to this dusty place? It's no wonder that you have no intention of hiding your injustice from your subordinates. I don't know what the king was thinking, making a guy like that the guildmaster. ...... Well, it can't be helped with that incompetent king.


As the night went on, trying to catch my breath and not let that complaint go unheard, the human fortunately came near the desk where I was hiding.


'Really, it would be better for the world if both the king and Gram were dead.


I heard that the Lords met with King Igtham today, but what kind of a king is this king who has been called this by his own people?
I'm sure it's a derogatory term used relatively routinely in terms of the tone of the incompetent king.


"...... Why do you keep these documents? It's like making yourself vulnerable.


I guess he's an honest man for complaining about being blunt and complaining, but he's honest enough to do what he's told.
But right now, I'm grateful for that.
Because if what this man is saying is true, then it may contain the information that the Lord-dono wants.

Fortunately, the man walked down the ladder and out of the room without noticing me hiding below.


'That's the easiest I've had in a while!'


Crowe's information was accurate.
Gram had bought a pharmacist woman as a slave and had her make an enhancement potion for him.
The pharmacist woman's name was Amaryllis Cluster.
She was the winner of the contest held in Mali a few years ago.
I was skeptical when I heard about it, but I didn't think that human trafficking was really going on in the Beastman territory.
In Miss Amelia's case, it was organ trafficking, but was she also in the slave trade?
Besides, if the people knew that the royal family was biting them, the credibility of the royal family would be ruined.


I'm sure you'll be able to find your way back to the Lord's side. I can finally return to the Lord's side.


It's been a long time since we've seen each other, as we've only talked to each other in 'reminder' from Mari.
I folded and sucked on the document that detailed Gram's misdeeds.
I walked out through the skylight, just as I had come in.
I didn't remember being there that long, but the sky was beginning to lighten faintly.
In the morning, the Lord Lord will probably be awake, so I have to ask him about the inn he's staying at in the 'reminder'.
And before that, let's meet up with Lattisnail-sama.




''Oh! Good work~


On the outskirts of town, if you went to the high ground where you could see the whole town, sure enough, Latisnail-sama was there.
For a long time, the place where Latisnail-sama hid was usually high up, and I remembered that the Demon King had muttered, 'Fools and smoke like high places.
I'm not sure what that means, but it was probably a foolish phrase, since Latisnail-sama had puffed out his cheeks when he heard it.


'Did it work?'

Yes, sir. It says exactly how Gram bought human slaves to make the Enhancer Potion, and how he sent the Enhancer Potion to the humans.


Lady Lathisnail's eyes widened a little as she showed him the paper she had been holding in her mouth.


'Where did you put that?'

'Yes, on the desk in the attic with the skylight that Master Lattice Nail threw me at,'


One moment her wisteria eyes narrowed a bit, and the next she was smiling as usual.


'I see.'

'Yes. Thank you to LatticeNail for your help. I even made you lie to me: ......'


When I said that and bowed my head, Lady Lattisnail made a puzzled face.


"I didn't lie to you. You know I don't like to lie, right?

"So, but when the soldiers found out, they went to ......


Lady Lathisnail laughs at my words and nods her head.


'It's true that I'm a traveller, it's true that I'm new to this town, and it's true that I lost my popularity before I could get a place to stay? It's true that I was planning to camp out and I didn't understand where I was. I was just following you, so how could I know where we are? See, I'm not lying, am I?

'But you threw it on the roof of the Adventurer's Guild!


I thought he knew what he was doing because he threw it all the way around to the back.


''Well, coincidences are amazing! The place I happened to throw you was the adventurer's guild I was aiming for, and the documents I was looking for just happened to be in the attic that I happened to enter because it was unlocked.


I stepped back, that spinning smile on his face was creepy.
Seeing this, Latisnail-sama's smile gets deeper and deeper.


'You don't have to pull back so much. You've experienced a coincidence that may or may not happen once in your life, so you should be pleased. ...... Now you can tell your lord and report back, and I had a very interesting experience. It's all settled.


Really, I don't understand this person.
Unlike the Lord's Lord, who has a firm belief that he wants to go home, I can't feel the emotions of what he wants to do or what he lives to do from this person.
It's scary.
I genuinely felt that.