Matan’s Shooter

Chapter 99

A day of game time has passed. As soon as Leeha connected, he headed to Madame Chu’s house. 

Knock, knock, knock.

He knocked at the door with a deep breath. After a while, a woman in a familiar outfit appeared.

“Oh my, a few days ago. The errand boy?”

Looking at the woman’s surprised expression, Leeha looked through his bag.

“Sorry for deceiving you, Madame Ju. My name is Ha Leeha, a musketeer that brought the lunchbox on Madame Lou’s request.”

[Holy Grill Capital Branch Opening]

Description: Deliver the lunchbox and a letter to Madam Ju in Aelstock, the capital of Fibiel Kingdom, within a month(9 days).

“I knew this would happen.”

“Come again?”

“Haha…… interesting. You really are… interesting.”

Madam Ju smiled as he checked the lunchbox Leeha had given her.

“I am… interesting?”

What is she talking about?

Leeha, who had expected some of the reactions Madame Ju might show, was rather surprised.

‘That is……. What happened?’ 

He did not get the reaction he expected at all.

“Aren’t you coming in?”

“Ah, yes. I will go in.”

He entered Madame Ju’s house. What was going on?

“Coffee? Alcohol? Tea?”

“Oh… Even when I have delivered the lunchbox, you didn’t offer anything?” 

One could not proceed with the quest without taking the initiative on the conversation.

Leeha wanted to take that initiative by taking a risk!

“Haha, do you want anything else? For example…… information?”

That attempt was shattered in one sentence.

“What…… do you mean?”

“Pretending to be clueless. After all, didn’t you deliver the lunchbox because you knew what Lou and I were going to do? So, didn’t you come here thinking about what additional rewards you would get-?”

“It’s a bit embarrassing to say it out loud…… should it be like that?”

“Haha. No. But it’s not like you came here without knowing”

“Well, I don’t know what you mean. Haha.”

Leeha leaned against the chair.

Was she really an NPC?

It was as if Madame Ju completely read Leeha’s thoughts and intentions.

“There’s no way you don’t know. Unni said that no one would bring the lunchbox without knowing.”

“Yes? Madame Lou?”

“Yes. Because Lou unni already knew that most people wouldn’t bring the lunchbox. If someone brought the lunchbox…… it would be one of two types of people.”

“What kind of people are those?”

“A complete idiot with no greed or…”

Gulp, Madame Ju took a sip of coffee.

She moved slowly, and Madame Ju’s outfit had a thin slip, but Leeha did not see any weapon……. Leeha felt a strange eerie feeling.

“Someone who knows our plan and wants to use it. Interesting, right? People who do things half-heartedly wouldn’t come this far.”

“I see.”

Opportunity makes the thief.

A quest that could only be completed by a person who was stupid enough not to feel greed when looking at the lunchbox with great value, or a person that would pursue profits beyond that greed.

‘There was no suck thing as “bringing the lunchbox in good faith”‘.

It was an answer that only judges people based on profit and loss, but it was not a bad thing.

‘But…… this feeling…… what is this chilling sensation? Right now, Leeha was in the residential area in the middle of the capital.

However, every time he saw Madame Ju smile, it felt like he was being thrown into a battlefield filled with blood.

“And she added one more thing.”

“What?”

Leeha’s body gradually tensed up. It was by no means a favorable atmosphere. Was there something wrong? Madam Ju didn’t answer.

When he noticed that her hand was raised, Leeha reacted before he could think.

“Whoever brought the lunchbox-!”

As soon as Madame Ju snapped her fingers, Leeha moved.

“Kill them.”

Clang-!

A flying object smashed the window and crashed into the wall.

“Oh? You avoided it?”

“What are you doing! Madame!”

However, he received no answer. However, the door opened roughly, and people in black came in.

“Damn it!”

Leeha quickly turned his gun and fired his musket at the black-clothed man that ran towards him.

Baaang—-!

“Everyone, don’t move!”

A fortune among misfortune! Leeha’s musket was loaded before entering the Royal Palace.

With a loud bang, the intruder in black clothes fell down.

‘Delicate Hand Movement!’

Leeha reloaded as soon as he finished firing, but the men in black clothes and masks showed no signs of stopping

‘There are four intruders, I can’t fight inside the house. There are three intruders left.

Reloading took a lot of time, additionally, they were too close.

Leeha ground his teeth. If this continues….

“The Sacred Knights will come after hearing the gunshots! People around must have heard the gunshots as well! If you were to continue, the Sacred Knights will take you away!”

Flicker, the movements of the black-clothed men stopped.

Would it work? However, after a few seconds, the black-clothed men moved again.

But those few seconds mattered.

Because Leeha finished reloading at that time.

However, three of them are coming. Will he be able to shoot all of them?

‘No.’

Leeha turned his gun without hesitation.

The black-clothed men were not important. There was only one thing Leeha needed to do in order to survive here.

“Get those bastards to leave right now, Madame Ju. If you don’t want to get a hole in your head, and it doesn’t matter whether you’re a man or a woman.”

Shudder.

Leeha aimed his musket at Madame Ju’s head.

“You know that’s too harsh for a woman, right?”

“Don’t be ridiculous, send them away, quickly I take that lunchbox back too. And the Sacred Knights-”

“Right. Will come. But didn’t you think that the Sacred Knights would have been bribed?”

“Huh?”

“Those who work in the capital always have countermeasures. However…… the decision to take back the lunchbox was quite novel. The quick response was good.”

What is this? What is she saying? Leeha looked around.

What else is she hiding? What did she believe in to be so confident?

“If it was my sister, she would have given you a perfect score, but your weakness was exposed in melee fights… Well, should I say that it’s good enough? First of all, I will give you a passing grade Ha Leeha-ssi. 89 points? Haha.”

Snap-!

When Madame Ju snapped her finger, the black-clothed men disappeared like smoke.

“What are you doing?”

Is it like stealth? Looking back at it, it was weird. The one that Leeha shot did not have any corpses. Summons?

“Did you not expect the test? Should I deduct 5 points?”

Was this all a test? Was she testing Leeha right now?

“Don’t move!”

Even when Leeha pushed the musket in, Madame Ju took a sip of coffee without any hesitation.

“The test is over, Ha Leeha-ssi. Please seat back.”

Madame Ju’s voice was calm.

She had an attitude like a person who believes she had everything under control.

Was it really the end? Could he just say yes and shake hands with Madame Ju? With the master of the new Intelligence Guild?

‘No…… he could not. Now I know a little more about Middle Earth.’

Leeha understood it.

What kind of NPCs are Madame Lu and Ju. Test…… right, if they are going to be the heads of the Intelligence Guild, they should be this much

However, after one attack, what would be the next?

Leeha’s head was clear.

“Don’t fuck with me. Who said it was over?”

Leeha pulled the trigger.

When a click was heard, Madame Ju’s actions finally stopped.

“What are you doing? I told you the test is over, right?”

“Bullshit. It was a test for you, but it was life-threatening to me. Did you think that you would convince me with the word ‘test’, after you did such a thing?”

“R-right, but the one I summoned doesn’t really do any damage-”

“Shut up. Did you think I would believe what you are saying now? How did you bribe the Sacred Knights? Did you think that if you paid a bribe they would just let it slide?”

Leeha growled lowly.

For the first time, Madam Ju’s voice began to waver.

“And one more thing. Did you think that you are the only one with connections? I am also acquainted with the Sacred Knights. I will take this lunchbox and you directly to the Sacred Knights. I’ll report it and make sure it’s thoroughly investigated.”

Leeha remembered Syndergaard.

He believed in him no matter what happened in the Royal Palace.

He even called him a comrade and close friend.  After completing the Hijuit-Ka Quest, intimacy has risen sharply, so Leeha was sure that Syndergaard would believe him.

“H-Hold on!”

“Do you have anything to say?”

Leeha pressed the musket on Madame Ju’s head.

“It really was just a simple test. The two types of humans we talked about earlier! Isn’t this the only way to determine what kind of person the one who brought the lunchbox is?”

“Put your hands behind your head. If you make one wrong move, I will blow your head off.”

Leeha took three steps back and aimed at Madame Ju.

Leeha used the suppression method used by Browless to him.

“D-don’t shoot! It really was a test! It was to see how you cope in a crisis, whether you were an 

idiot or a person with brains that we could cooperate! Of course, even if you failed the test, your life would have been safe-”

“Shh. Is that all you have to say? You tested me to check if I was fit to cooperate with you. Then how should I test you?”

“Y-yes?”

“If you’re really are “information” people, tell me something that I am curious about. If it’s a vague answer, I’ll just pull the trigger.”

The voice of someone who has the initiative should always be calm. Like Leeha now.

Madame Ju remained silent for a moment and raised her arms.

“Hmm……. I haven’t gotten all the information about you yet, but I heard from Lou unni. And the level of equipment you use…… If you want information about something, your priority would be to know where you could improve your skills in a short amount of time, right?.

‘As expected… NPCs like Madame Ju have the ability to understand the users’ characters. They have a much higher authority than normal NPCs.’

In the case of the weapon shop owner, he recommended weapons after looking at  Leeha’s level and stats.

If so, what about the NPC that would lead the Intelligence Guild? No matter how bad she was, she should be able to understand users much better than the store owners.

“Okay, so? Is there such a place?” 

“The place where people with ability similar to Leeha-ssi is in ‘Las Canyon’.” Also known as the Goblin’s Gorge. It is a place where outlanders go for subjugation because dozens or even hundreds of goblins live in villages under that canyon.”

“Okay, so?”

“So?”

“I already know that.” 

It was information that Leeha already knew. A place where users at approximately level 50 to 65 go hunting. Goblins after kobold.

However, Leeha was not asking for a simple hunting ground.