Scum-lesse Oblige, I Have Been Reincarnated as a Scum Villain in an 18+ Game World, and I Absolutely Want to Grasp the Mob Life with the Power of My Knowledge of the Original Story - Chapter 18

Where Did You Get Information?

“Hey.”

I call out to a certain person tied up to a tree after a short walk from Seig.

Since he is not waking up, I pick up a sword and poke him lightly with the handle.

“…!!!”

He wakes up.

“What the…! You’re the one from earlier…! What the hell are you doing!?”

The man immediately lashes out at me upon waking up, he is clearly very angry.

To be honest, I feel a bit sorry for what I did to him earlier.

“Sorry about earlier.”

“Y-You…! You attacked me on the street at night out of nowhere, just saying ‘sorry’ won’t cut it!”

What he said indeed makes sense.

—because I knocked him unconscious with a single blow from behind, tied him with a rope, and left him alone.

He is ‘Thief A’.

The thief who supposed to come to Rag Village when the other thieves are causing a havoc in Haven Village, and have a fight with Seig-kun.

“…more importantly, just who the hell are you?”

It has been a little while since he woke up, and it seems like his eyes is starting to adjust to the darkness.

Thief A becomes wary of me.

“I didn’t let my guard down, but yet you managed to ambush me so effortlessly. A grey mask…you don’t see that very often. Also, that outfit…a noble’s masquerade costume? I didn’t think there is anything like that around here.”

“Is that so?”

Wait a minute…

A noble’s masquerade party.

That sounds like quite a compliment.

On top of that, he also complimented my grey mask.

Well, I just found a mask lying around the mansion storage room and decided to paint it grey, but still, it makes me happy to receive such compliments.

Anyway, leaving that aside.

I extend my hand and introduce myself.

“My name is Genesis.”

With that, I casually introduce myself with a fake name that I probably won’t use again for the rest of my life.

“Not then, how do I get to your hideout from here?”

This is where things get a bit complicated.

The path from Haven Village to Rag Village is straightforward.

So, if I wait for Seig-kun at the path, we would definitely meet, and indeed, we met.

It was simple, very straightforward.

This is fine for meeting Sieg-kun who came from Rag Village.

However, on the other hand, what about Iris?

Iris is kidnapped in Haven Village and is taken to the enemy’s hideout.

There is a problem here.

I don’t know the location of the enemy’s hideout.

All I can remember is that it’s somewhere near Haven Village.

In the story, the knights rely on their numbers for an extensive search for Iris. Then, the knight captain, Rain, discovers the hideout and lead a rescue operation for Iris.

Unfortunately, Genesis, who just started my journey today, will have to search for the enemy’s hideout on my own.

So, my plan is to first visit Seig and then ask thief A later about the enemy’s hideout location.

“So, where is it?”

I ask thief A who is tied onto a tree in front of me.

However—

“…hey, we’re just regular thieves, you know?”

Thief A opened his mouth with a sly grin and said so.

“What do you mean by our ‘hideout’? You’re talking as If we’ve been planning something all along.”

It seems like he has to intention of telling me anything.

“So, you really won’t tell me about your hideout, will you?”

“Idiot. Of course not.”

Thief A says so as he chuckles.

“I always thought you’re a weird guy, buy hey, mask guy. You’re on our side too, right?”

“Our side?”

I asked, wondering what he means.

“Don’t play dumb, brother. Your demeanour, that mask, and the fact that you want to know our hideout’s location…with all the things you told me, it’s simple. You know something about our plan. So, what’s your purpose? Where did you get that information?”

“Purpose?”

I remain silent because I believe that honestly telling him my intention to wreak a havoc during this event and then gradually fade away from the story will never be understood.

However, it seems like he senses something from my demeanour.

“You can’t say that, can you? You don’t need to, I understand. Your source of information is through the dark channels. That means you’re just like me—a man behind the scenes. We’re in a completely different world from the rest of them.”

The man laughs confidently.

He seems to believe that I’m truly one of them.

Then…

“…y-yeah.”

If you ask me how I learned about this plan, I can only say that it’s from a game…

“…w-well, I won’t call it a ‘dark channel’.”

“Is that so?”

He laughs.

“If you know that much about it, then it should be simple—you’re one of us. However, it seems like you still have no idea about the terrors and horrors of our guild ‘Bright Night Helle Nacht’.”

As I thought, ‘Bright Night Helle Nacht’ is involved.

I’m well aware of that guild.

‘Bright Night Helle Nacht’

That is the name of a huge dark guild that will rule over Lyon region in the future more than a decade from now.

(Author Note: Because the MC knows about the plan, he is treated as ‘one of us’ by the people in the dark guild.)