The Eminence in Shadow: Master of Garden: Main Quest Ch.26: Taker And Taken
2The Popping Pill Bandit.
Iris Midgar never showed up to the banks in the Light or Web Novels,
From the Web Novel:
Did they have too much free time and fell asleep. Well, I overdid it and no one could reach this place after all.
[Fufufu…….]
I showed my white teeth with a smile and walk with a light footstep to the front of the vault.
[Are…….?]
Why is the vault door unlocked………..?
Moreover, it doesn’t seem like it was opened using a key but forced opened.
[N, no way, don’t tell me………]
My security should have been perfect.
I haven’t let even one rat pass through Lawless City.
My legs are shaking.
My hand also shaking.
My body overflowing with cold sweat.
[i, i, i, ii, it, it will surely be fine…..]
Then I opened the half-open vault door.
The inside was…………empty.
That golden mountains has disappeared without a trace.
[It. it’s a lie……]
The power escaped my knees and I crumbled on the spot.
[How, Why…………..]
My gold coins………….
[Ha, ha-haha, it’s a dream….. no, a bad dream….I am going to become [A POWER IN THE SHADOW]…….]
I used my shaking hand to fold my all-backed hair and stand up.
It will be fine, It has to be.
Yukime may have brought it out for some reason.
And if someone has robbed us, it would take sometimes to transport all that gold. Unless they are very skilled then they shouldn’t have gone far.
I walk out of the vault with my shaking knees.
When I felt two presences approaching, I feign to be calm.
[——John-sama!!]
Two sexy beauties are calling my name.
They were Yukime’s aides, Natsu and Kana.
I asked the two who are behaving unusually.
[What happened?]
Something did happen right? there must have been something, Why you ask? because the vault have been swept clean.
Yukime-sama——Yukime-sama was captured by Gettan!
[What…..did you say…..?
Yukime was…….Gettan………I see!
Everything start to be connected in my head and I laugh out loud.
[John-sama……?]
[I see, so it was like that……]
The skeptical Natsu and Kana saw what inside the opened vault behind me.
[Th, This is—–!]
[D, don’t tell me, he———!! but it was too fast…..]
The two’s eyes were wide opened due to astonishment.
[Do you know where he is?]
[Y, Yes…..!]
[Then there’s no problem. I will retrieve everything immediately.]
Then I pass through the two people, the exploding magic power shake the atmosphere.
[S, so much magic power !?]
[Is, is this John Smith’s true power?]
Moreover I manipulate the steel wire and cut the air causing the Shushushushu sound and draw a beautiful line of light.
[Gettan…. you have made me angry……!]
Now, let’s begin the retaliation——.
He punched him again.
[—–The thing you want to say.]
[……….You are, truly strong.]
Gettan stare at John Smith with a face filled with various emotions.
Anger, Hate, Envy and Regret……..
[If I was as strong as you, maybe something might have change……. I was weak…….]
The complex emotions made his voice heavy.
[I have been running away from my weakness, the result is as you can see…….. I wonder what I was doing. The thing I want to protect was not this kind prid, I…..I couldn’t accept my own weakness.]
Then Gettan laughed.
[You’re strong…….you didn’t fought for yourself and was able to fight for the thing you loved, ………. If it’s you….I can entrust…….]
Gettan’s voice is already losing its strength. He used his trembling finger and pointed at Yukime.
[Yuki(snow)……I entrusted to you……..]
[………..Understood.]
John Smith grabbed that trembling finger.
[Your feeling, I have certainly received it.]
[Thank….yo………..]
Then, Gettan’s breath stopped.
[Gettan………….]
Yukime buried her face in John Smith’s face. The tears stained his suit.
[I …….I…..]
[It’s over. The hatred is certainly there but you understood each other in the end……]
Saying so, He pat Yukime’s back with a hand filled with magic power.
[I healed your scar, let’s look forward to the future.]
He said with a small voice.
[He said that he buried it under the snow over there right…………..]