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I pretended not to be interested and asked in a dry tone.

“What do you use an assassin for?”

“Stealth and infiltration skills are very valuable. You can use it to infiltrate enemy territory and extract information.”

“Hmm. Is that all?”

“Ah, I’m quite a high-quality human resource, so I’m confident in scouting and tracking. I also learned firsthand from the Night Eagle and my father who passed away was a hunter. I was born with it.”

“It’s still a bit vague.”

“……I tried not to cover this, but I can’t help it. My stepfather had me rolling in the back alleys, and by the time I got into the Night Eagle, I’d mastered scams, gambling, and pickpocketing. I was already an ace in the area by the time I was twelve.”

“What happened to the dignity of an assassin?”

“Since I’m not getting a job as an assassin, I think I can forget about it for a while.”

I liked that flexible way of thinking more than anything else.

“Well, that’s definitely a desirable skill.”

“……Eli.”

<Ellet.>

A stern voice called out to me from both sides. By then, Ash’s gaze turned to Thesilid.

“Come to think of it, I also saw this older brother’s face during the parade. He seems to be sticking close to you, Sister.”

“……”

Paladins and Assassins are not the best combination for socializing.

Furthermore, in Thesilid’s previous episode, Ash was hired to assassinate and targeted his life.

For that reason, he hadn’t wanted anything to do with Ash…but…….

“I’m the owner of the Holy Sword, Thesilid Argent……sir.”

He politely introduced himself using honorifics because of ‘The Commandments of the Seven Holy Virtues and the Seven Deadly Sins.’

“Nice to meet you, Brother Thesilid, I’m Ash Night. Looking forward to working with you……”

“I will let you know the results of the interview tomorrow.”

“I didn’t pass?”

“I have to discuss it with the vice-captain.”

“If it’s the vice-captain, then, you mean Brother Thesilid?”

“Yes.”

“Hmm.”

Ash seemed to predict his chances of passing by looking at Thesilid’s contemplation. He probably realized that his score was not that high.

I pulled a ten-gold coin from my arms and flicked it with my thumb.

Ash grabbed it as if clasping his palms together.

“For meals.”

It’s an interview fee.

“I will pay you back, Sister.”

“There’s no need. Rather, we have business here, so you should go now.”

“Yes.”

Ash turned around and left the townhouse without hesitation.

After confirming that his presence had completely moved away, I tapped Thesilid’s arm with my elbow.

“Come on, we have things to do.”

“Okay.”

Thesilid and I didn’t go inside the townhouse building, instead, we headed deep into the backyard.

It was dark at night, so we walked with the light of a lantern.

When we were following the tunnel made of rose vines. Agnes asked.

<By the way, didn’t you decide to entrust all the construction of the church to your grandfather? Do we really need to come to see the place?>

“I plan to shorten the construction period by using the existing building as much as possible.”

This construction is actually on the remodeling level.

“I’ll have to check which ones I’ll leave behind and which ones I’ll destroy.”

<I see.>

“……Is a lie, in fact, this visit has an important purpose!”

<Hey!>

I was laughing after teasing Agnes when I heard the sound of dry coughing next to me. When I turned my head, Thesilid was pressing the corners of his mouth with his hand.

<So what is the real purpose?>

“It’s a dungeon.”

<Dungeon?>

“Yes. There’s a dungeon with mermaids here.”

<What? Is that why you bought this townhouse…?>

“That’s right. I plan to hide the dungeon in a land under my name and monopolize the output.”

<Wow, you are really……>

[‘The World-building God’ applauds your cleverness.]

“Really smart, isn’t it?”

<Yes, indeed my disciple.>

At the end of the tunnel of roses, a marble fountain of reasonable size appeared in front of us.

The stone statue resembled a beautiful maiden tilting a jar in her arms.

It was easy to guess that when the fountain is active, it would take the form of water pouring from that jar.

“The entrance to the dungeon is inside that jar.”

<The location of the jar is high, so it must have been hard to notice.>

Thesilid and I entered the fountain without hesitation.

Then, one by one, we leaped towards the jar.

Suwook.

I felt like I was being sucked in, and my vision blurred and widened right after

[<System> You have entered the S-level dungeon ‘Sea of the Great Flood’.]

Rumble. Quaang.

Under the sky filled with thunderstorms, a vast sea spread out.

The surface beneath our feet roiled with waves. Currently, I and Thesilid were using a broken wooden plank as a raft.

Floating around were all kinds of broken ships and their wreckage. This was the graveyard of shipwrecks.

I took two raincoats from my inventory, gave one to Thesilid, and wore the other.

“Now, shall we pick a boat?”

My eyes slowly scanned the surroundings.

The ships reflected in my field of vision included shabby rafts, small boats, a pirate ship, and a cruise ship.

Some of them didn’t look like they belonged on the sea at all.

As I intently scanned around, Thesilid implied a question.

“Do you have a boat in mind?”

“Excuse me, regressor. Let’s not be sneaky among colleagues.”

“What do you mean by sneaky?”

“That’s what you get for asking a question you know the answer to.”

Thesilid averted his gaze with a slightly dispirited expression as if he had been scolded and mumbled.

“……Does that mean you know what I know and what I don’t know?”

I can’t believe you’re collecting information about me even in the midst of this.

I paddled the raft with wooden planks to move it.

While thunder and lightning rumbled in the sky, the rain was light and the wind was calm. Thankfully, the sea was quite cooperative.

We parked the plank raft next to a crescent-shaped gondola and crossed over to it

<Huh, two people boating? It’s romantic.>

“It’s not like that. It’s because this is a boat with a buff that makes it impossible to tip over.”

<Ah, it’s the same boat you used to catch Undead Ciel.>

“Yes.”

I set up the gondola as if I were camping.

Around the middle of the ship, a pole was erected and a tent was pitched to block the rain. On the inside, several luminous stones were attached to secure illumination.

It felt like a fairly cozy space had been completed.

“Terry, it’s done. Get inside……”

Right then.

Plop!

Suddenly, something heavy fell from the sky and crashed into the sea next to the gondola.

Startled, I stuck my head out of the tent and asked.

“What fell?”

“I think it’s a person.”

Immediately after answering, Thesilid quickly began to undress.

‘Oh my god!’

[‘The Scales that Judges the Soul’ covers her mouth with her hands and opens her eyes wide.]

Suddenly, I looked back at my own condition.

A posture with a 100% synchro rate. In fact, I had a bad thought for a split second that I might have been a follower of Libra rather than World God.

In the meantime, Thesilid, who took off his uniform outerwear and top, jumped into the water, showing off an artistic half-naked body.

[‘The Scales that Judges the Soul’ is sad that she can’t see his iliac bones.]

[‘The World-building God’ urges Libra to keep her manners.]

After a while, what Thesilid retrieved from the water……

“Puha! Brother, thank you.”

“Ash?”

Ash, who had been sent back, was now on the gondola, washed up by seawater. I waited until he vomited all the water before interrogating him.

“Ash, did you follow us again?”

“I swear, absolutely not.”

“Then?”

“I was passing by a waterway and got caught up in a dungeon sink. But I never thought I’d see you in here again, I can feel our destiny, Sister.”

“Ha…… ”

Yes, there is no law that says that Dungeon Sinks must happen at close range.

Waterways and fountains are connected, so there’s a link.

Anyway, water-related dungeons are a problem due to their high fluidity.

Regardless, it was a bizarre and frustrating situation.

To think that a third party barged into the dungeon I was secretly trying to monopolize.

It is not possible to pretend that there are no resources to take from this dungeon and send them out to the exit gate in moderation.

In this dungeon, it is almost impossible for humans to access the exit gate until its completely subjugated.

Exit gates tend to spawn no more than a few tens of meters from the ground. But now, all the land here is deeply submerged in water.

To return the water level back to normal, we have to catch the boss, so there’s no choice but to subdue it, and in the process, there’s no choice but to discover the existence of mermaids living here.

I narrowed my eyes and looked at Ash.

“I can’t just kill you to keep your mouth shut.”

“Haha, sister you are a jokester.”

“Does this sound like a joke?”

“No.”

It was good that he answered quickly, but Ash had to add nonsense.

“As expected, I can feel the fate that has continued from the slime dungeon.”

“What is that?”

“Somehow, I was destined to be your first victim.”

“Ah, is that so?”

“Yes. It is quite meaningful to think that Sister, who has never killed someone, is getting her hands dirty for the first time because of me.”

“……”

“……Sister?”

As I didn’t answer, two pairs of puzzled glances pierced my cheeks from both sides. It wasn’t good for me to stay silent for long in this situation.

“Terry, I guess we’ll have to collect and take him back with us.”

I was considering recruiting him anyway.

At this point, if I just make him on the same side and keep him next to me, keeping secrets will be more safe.

“……”

Thesilid bit his lips.

Ugh, seems like he really hates it.

After a while he objected, citing reasonable reasons.

“The Paladins of The Chosen One is hardly a place for a mercenary, not to mention an assassin who has little to zero faith.”

“Starting today, I will repent and become a lamb of God, Sister, Brother.”

Tring!

[<System> Converted an atheist into a believer].

[<System> Due to the increase in the divinity of the ‘World Building God’, the effects of ‘Favourite’ and ‘Privilege’ are slightly increased.]

“……So he says.”(Ellet)

“Do you believe that?”(Terry)

“Yes.”(Ellet)

“……”(Terry)

The system has proven it.

Thesilid sighed and stepped back.

“Very well, if you say so.”

“Thank you, Brother!”

That’s how Ash joined my knights.