Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival-Chapter 226.4

Compared to the other security measures, the study only had traps. If it

only deadly traps, there would be less to need to deploy personnel, but that would make it difficult to use daily.

Did I miss something? If so, it would be the most heavily guarded place.

“…The basement?”

I went down to the first floor again and looked for the entrance to the basement. The garden was where the most guards were, but if it was because they were not allowing the assassin’s guild, which is an outsider, to enter the mansion, the entrance must have been inside the mansion.

I didn’t notice it the first time I walked around, but I thought there was a basement, so I looked around and found an unnatural shelf under the stairs leading to the second floor, and found a hidden door to the basement through a gap there.

The shelf itself was designed to open like a door, but I didn’t open the lock and used {Shadow Walker} again to slip through the door. I thought there probably would be, but there were no deadly traps. Of course. There was no way they would use a dangerous trap in a place used by an important person in this company.

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At the same time, I thought that if there were important documents inside, there couldn’t be any mechanisms that could damage them.

It was dark inside, but with just a small amount of Magic light, it was easy to read the text.

There was only a simple table and a simple shelf in the room, and there were documents filled with numbers, but I didn’t have an opportunity to examine them in detail. Still, I put everything into {Shadow Storage} while skimming through them, wondering if there was anything I could use.

Most of it was the balance of income and expenditure related to business. Even with a brief look, I could see that they were purchasing them from neighboring countries at incredibly low prices.

But so far, it’s just a normal income statement. It’s full of strangeness, but it’s not evidence of a crime.

“…?”

As I put away all the documents on the shelf, I noticed that part of the shelf was moving.

Using the same mechanism twice… I guess they doubted that a spy would take all the documents. But when I gently moved it, I heard an alarm-like sound in the distance.

Is this a trap? Maybe it’s a mechanism that sounds like an alarm if a certain procedure is not followed. I was wary of deadly traps, but simple ones like this are difficult to deal with.

“…”

I opened the shelf as it was and read the documents inside.

As expected, there were no orders from Solhoss Kingdom. However, I found one unfinished activity report addressed to a certain person, perhaps handwritten by the chairman himself, and within it was a description of the slaves that could be sent within the current term.

There were probably still some parts that needed to be written. If I had sneaked in a few days later, it might have been sent.

“Don’t move!”

At that moment, the door slammed open and several men with their weapons drawn came out.

As I turned around while putting the report away in {Shadow Storage}, the men who seemed to be rank 4 adventurers relaxed slightly when they saw that I was alone.

“Are you a Cleydale spy? You managed to get in this far. But since you’ve come this far, don’t think you’ll come back alive.”

“Unfortunately, the chairman is here at this time. Today, the surrounding veterans are here as security, so I’ll have him tell me what organization you’re from.”

At that moment, I spread my cloak in front of the man. The rank 4 men quickly dodged, but my dagger pierced the forehead of the first man through his cloak.

No matter how much I do, I can’t do anything without evidence.

Even if I had evidence, if I left it to Duke Helton, the village’s debt would not disappear.

…But I finally had a reason to do it.

Amidst the torn cloak and bloodstained air, I pointed my black dagger at the shocked men.

“There’s no reason to be reserved anymore.”