As for the object of her observation, it was Ryuu, who was having lunch with the boy after finishing the hard work at noon.
"[Gale]... is almost a completely different person from before, nya~"
Amidst the teasing of the silver-haired girl, [Gale] accepted the boy's head-patting reward, her hands covering her face, but even without looking, one could imagine the blissful expression on the elf girl's face.
The boy gently ruffled Ryuu's hair, and whether he sensed Chloe's gaze or not, his pale golden eyes looked up.
Chloe, who had pulled down her hood to cover her eyes, flipped away like a wildcat. She passed over several rooftops and silently jumped into a dark alley.
"Has she found her place, nya?", Chloe twitched her cat ears that protruded from her hood, muttering to herself in the deserted alley.
She pulled out [Gale]'s wanted poster from her bosom. This realistic portrait of an adventurer was not issued by the guild but was mainly commissioned by adventurers and merchants.
Because [Gale] had made many enemies by killing widely, she was listed as a bounty target.
Chloe was hired by merchants to be the assassin responsible for dealing with [Gale].
Chloe Rollo, a legendary assassin widely known in the underground world of Orario, bearing the title of [Black Cat].
She was born into a criminal familia led by an evil goddess. During her childhood, her only companion was her "partner"—a sister who silently protected her. However, this sister was actually her mother, who sacrificed herself in a mission to protect Chloe.
After learning the truth, Chloe parted ways with her original familia. After completing the last task assigned by the goddess, she completely left the dark organization.
After leaving the familia, Chloe still made a living as an assassin, the only means of survival she had learned since childhood.
However, as time passed, she gradually grew tired of this precarious life. Every mission was a walk on the edge of a knife, and every successful assassination left her with an increasingly strong sense of emptiness.
"Ah~ I really want to live an elegant life served by a handsome boy, nya~ Just let him stroke my belly button and tail, enjoying the paradise that makes one blush and heart race, nya~"
Chloe Rollo, sixteen years old.
"Maybe it's time to retire, nya~"
The young catgirl frivolously muttered to herself, "Moreover, I don't want to do this job anymore, nya~"
"[Gale] is a fellow enthusiast who likes handsome boys, so I don't want to kill her, nya~"
Chloe said capriciously.
"But then again, to be favored by such a handsome boy, isn't [Gale] a bit too lucky—", Such thoughts made her envy gradually grow, eventually turning into an uncontrollable fire of jealousy.
"Decided, I'll teach [Gale] a lesson tonight, and then, I'll retire, nya~"
'Leave the labyrinth city, find a distant country, and spend the rest of my life in debauchery.'
The catgirl fantasized about a beautiful future.
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[Chloe Rollo]
[Lv.4]
Strength: F301
Endurance: G279
Dexterity: B751
Agility: B776
Magic: E455
—: Development Abilities :—
[Abnormal Resistance]G[Alchemy]H[Escape]I
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Night fell.
Because they had to attend an important banquet, Mia and Syr left the tavern, and as soon as the dwarf owner left, Anya and others cheered "Yahoo~", throwing their aprons over their heads.
The staff, who were always treated like beasts of burden, were overjoyed by the unexpected temporary break.
A group of people took advantage of Mia's absence to hold a small banquet in the separate dining room, eating and drinking to their heart's content.
"Shirou, come drink with us, nya~"
"Anya, don't corrupt Shirou!"
The tavern was in an uproar, and at the same time, a human female bounty hunter and a cat-person assassin left their respective residences.
Lunoire & Chloe: "After tonight, I'll wash my hands of this!"
———
The bright moonlight shone through the window into the room, casting a soft veil over Emiya's face, covering his eyes.
He hadn't drunk today, but for some reason, he was sleeping unusually deeply, surrounded by a sweet scent that lured him into a deeper sleep.
BOOM—
A loud noise intruded into his dream, the bed beneath him and the ground constantly shaking, the scenes in the dream gradually falling apart.
Emiya struggled to open his eyes, but soon, due to strong drowsiness, his heavy eyelids drooped again.
And what he heard in his dream seemed to be a call from a distant place, reforming in his dream.
[Luminous Wind]
Emiya suddenly opened his eyes.
"—This is, Ryuu's magic."
In the next instant, he had already jumped out of bed.
At this moment, the lingering sleepiness had been thrown to the back of his mind, Emiya frowned, the faint fragrance in the air made him feel somewhat uncomfortable.
"This smell... is 'sleeping essence'?"
"Enemy attack."
Emiya made the judgment immediately, and at the same time, his thought was, 'How dare someone attack here?'
[Hostess of Fertility] is not an ordinary tavern, the number of high-level adventurers here even exceeds most familias in Orario.
"Are they overconfident, or just ignorant?"
Emiya raised his hands, "Projection, begin (Trace On)."
A longbow and arrows appeared out of thin air, Emiya, holding the weapon, didn't go through the door but flipped out of the room through the window. He stepped on the window sill, leaped up, and lightly jumped onto the roof of the separate building.
Then, he saw a shocking scene.
Centered on the backyard of the [Hostess of Fertility] tavern, the space surrounded by buildings was damaged everywhere, the surrounding houses were full of cracks, and a lot of smoke was billowing out.
As if it had been hit by a high-powered magic sword, or suffered the annihilation magic of a high-level adventurer.
The smell of burnt wood filled the air, stimulating Emiya's nose and spirit.
In his sight, four girls, each from a different direction, "crawled" out.
Anya, who was slammed into the wall by the impact, leaving a cat-person-shaped dent, Ryuu, who crashed into the living room, Lunoire, who was blown into the warehouse, and Chloe, who rolled on the ground for more than a dozen rounds.
An elf, a human, two cat-people, four Lv.4 second-tier adventurers of different races, were now truly angry.
"Damn it... you actually pulled this on me? Are you planning to perish together...?"
"Stupid Ryuu!! I came specifically to save you, what are you doing, nya—"
"Are you trying to kill us, nya?"
"Leaving Anya aside, Black Cat, you were originally here to assassinate me, right."
[Black Fist] and [Black Cat], two renowned bounty hunter and assassin, had infiltrated the tavern not long ago, [Black Cat] released the high-level [Sleeping Essence] she personally concocted, except for Anya and Ryuu who had the development ability [Abnormal Resistance], everyone else in the tavern was affected, only Emiya had just woken up.
And the melee between the four Lv.4 second-tier adventurers had not yet been decided.
"Ha, great! I'm really fired up now. It's because I occasionally encounter idiots like you that I can't let go of this job," Lunoire punched her right palm, showing a ferocious smile.
Even though she knew her reaction wasn't cautious enough, Lunoire's straightforward nature couldn't help but make Ryuu smile.
And at this moment—
"Hahaha! Sure enough, it's a fight where both sides are hurt!"
A voice clearly from a fourth party, besides Ryuu and the hidden Emiya, appeared in the courtyard.
Lunoire frowned, Ryuu looked around and found that the surroundings were filled with countless thugs, each holding various weapons like swords and sticks.
"Bruno Trading Company...? What's going on? It was agreed that [Gale] would be handled by me alone, right?", Lunoire shot a sharp look at the human man leading these thugs.
Next to the man stood a dwarf with a lecherous smile.
"That dwarf... is the client who commissioned me to carry out the assassination, nya~", Chloe narrowed her eyes. Ryuu and the others also vaguely sensed the situation.
"So that's it... you weren't just targeting [Gale], but also us..."
"That's right. [Black Fist] and [Black Cat], you are also in our way," The human merchant—a cadre of the Bruno Trading Company, admitted with a smile.
"First, let you fight with [Gale], and after you are both hurt, we'll clean you all up together... that's the real purpose of this commission."
The reason why the two targeted [Gale] at the same time was also deliberately arranged by them.
The two members of the trading company, who had colluded in private, provided the same information to lure Lunoire and Chloe, making them choose the same day to take action against Ryuu.
"The Evilus has collapsed. All thanks to you, Ryuu Lion. This city... Orario will be reborn because of you," As many had anticipated, the merchant cadre also spoke of the same future and continued to boast, "As for the reborn, brand new Orario, it will be managed by our trading company. At that time, vagrant mercenaries and outlaws like you without familias will be a headache if you continue to exist."
The trading company cadre became carried away with his grand talk.
"Moreover, how can we leave alive those who know about our relationship with the Evilus. Brothers, TAKE ACTION!", The man stretched out his hand and ordered the strong men beside him.
The thugs licked their lips greedily at the pitiful, injured girls and began to close the encirclement.
However—
"How boring."
"Third-rate tricks and below, nya~"
"If you want to deal with us, at least send ten times the number, your understanding of adventurers' strength can only be described as tragic..."
The girls helplessly sighed.
"Ryuu, can we just beat them all up?"
"Probably, no problem—", The sound of an arrow cutting through the air interrupted the girls' conversation.
"Ah, ah, ah, my knee, who is it!"
The human merchant, the cadre of the Bruno Trading Company, was already holding his knee and fell to the ground.
A dark shadow leaped down from the high building, black boots fiercely stepping on the human merchant's face, pressing the man's wail into the floor.
"So, it's you who destroyed the tavern (home)."
Emiya lifted his right foot and then fiercely stomped down, burying the human man's head into the ground.
Ryuu: ...
At this point, the fact that she was the one who blew up the tavern seemed impossible to say.
The dwarf next to the human merchant panicked and shouted:
"D-do you think you can get away with doing this to us...? The one backing our Bruno Trading Company is..."
"Shut up."
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