It seemed that it was not just one or two times a wizard belonging to the Weil family had cleaned up this area.
Left alone, the blue-haired man stared at me with an indescribable expression.
“Hey, it’s okay…”
Before I could finish speaking, he quickly got up, pushed me, and ran into the street.
‘Far from saying thank you, you pushed and ran away…!?’
“That shameless bastard…!”
As I turned around and prepared to go after him, Hanu hurriedly grabbed my sleeve.
“Lady Lia. I understand you’re upset, but calm down…!”
Hanu seemed to not want to make matters worse.
Caught by Hanu, I panted for a while, then took a deep breath and steadied my mind.
“Hah… Yes, he is guilty of stealing, so maybe he was scared.”
I was thirsty; not only did I walk in the sun for a long time, but I also wasted my stamina.
“You have suffered in many ways, Sir Hanu. I’ll buy you a special cold drink.”
I fumbled for the money bag hanging from my waist.
What.
‘…Why is there nothing?’
My face turned white, then red with anger.
“Sir Hanu. You have to catch that bastard.”
When I, who seemed calm, suddenly decided to get the blue-haired guy again, Hanu asked back, flustered.
“…What?”
“He dares steal my money?”
That money wasn’t just money, it was my dad’s precious emergency fund.
My eyes were turned upside down.
‘Everyone has a plausible plan. Until you get hit.’
I raised my magic wand and whispered to Hanu.
“Hanu, can I blow this place up?”
“…Yes, what? Can you?!”
“There are a lot of criminals here. Wouldn’t someone deserve to die?”
“Please reconsider!”
At Hanu’s face, which seemed to be about to cry at any second, I pressed down the fierce rage that was about to burst out.
…I guess I shouldn’t use magic.
Instead, I smiled and pointed my index finger in the direction the blue-haired thief had fled.
“Then shouldn’t you go, Sir Hanu? Get him now.”
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Hanu, who was worried for a moment about me being left alone, looked at my magic wand and quickly ran off.
Then, as if to prove what an excellent knight he was, he brought the blue-haired thief shortly after.
“Let me go!”
Caught by Hanu and forced to kneel, the blue-haired man glared at me viciously.
Could there be anything better than this without conscience?
“Why are you looking at me like that? It’s me who should be angry.”
I searched the blue-haired man and found the money bag he had stolen.
I opened and checked the inside, and fortunately it contained the exact amount.
Nice, Hanu caught him well, before he stashed it away.
“It’s like looking at an enemy. Why are you like that? Hmm?”
‘If you have a mouth, speak.’
But no matter how long I waited, he remained silent. He seemed unwilling to open his mouth.
Rather, the eyes looking at me only grew sharper.
If I was Suradel, would he have been consistent with that attitude?
He was probably not bending his pride because I appeared weak and easy.
The corners of my lips curled gracefully.
“Okay. I’ll wait for you, tell me whenever you want to?”
It was the first launch of the long-awaited magic wand strike.
“Ah! Stop, stop!”
I, who was having a good time with the wand in my hands, paused for a second at the scream of the blue-haired thief.
“Do you feel a little remorseful now? Now, say something.”
“…….”
But he only gazed at me with a huff, still not opening his mouth.
I twirled the magic wand, preparing for another threshing.
To be honest, the feeling of hitting was better than I thought, to the point it was regrettable to stop.
‘Good, it’s good.’
As I swung down, he hurriedly opened his mouth.
“M-Mama!”
……?
I glared at him, not hiding the absurdity I felt.
“Why are you looking for your mother here? Are you a mama’s boy?”
Rather than looking for his mother, shouldn’t he apologize or make an excuse?
I brushed my hair roughly as if this was giving me a headache.
“Ha, I’ve never seen a guy like that in all my 50s.”
Then, Hanu glanced at me and asked.
“With all due respect, isn’t Lady Lia less than half of that age?”
What sort of half was he on?
I replied with an annoyed expression, wondering if I should explain this separately.
“Months.”
“…Aha.”
Hanu widened his eyes as if he had realized something.
On the other hand, I was about to feel bad because it looked like he understood something else.
…Like why I was causing accidents all over the place.
As our conversation ended, the blue-haired guy shut his eyes tightly and let his head drop.
The words that came out of his mouth were more shocking than I thought.
“If I don’t bring in money, I’ll be kicked off the island I’m living on.”
“…What? Being kicked out of the island for not making money?”
I frowned, examining his expression.
It was to determine whether it was a lie made up to gain sympathy and get released, or whether it was really unavoidable.
“I can’t stop stealing. That’s what Mama granted me, and I have to make money somehow to meet my quota.”
“What is that…”
Then, again, the bluehead thief was glaring at me ferociously.
“If you understand, let me go! What do you know about the life of a demibeast like me! That kind of money isn’t even a lot for you!”
Nonsensical sophistry was pouring out of his mouth.
“Why fill the quota with other people’s money? You trash! If you really need to give money, you should earn it like a dog!”
His hands and legs were fine!
“Even if I worked like a dog, it would be a pittance that doesn’t not meet the quota. In the first place, there is no job or anything around here unless it’s in the Weil territory, but I cannot enter the Weil territory…!”
Huh.
He spat out the words quickly as if he was possessed by anger, but then stopped and blinked at Hanu and I.
‘Why are you like that?’
I glanced at Hanu, asking for an explanation, and he stared down at the thief with somewhat solemn eyes.
“As expected, you are an illegal entry.”
“Illegal entry?”
“There are only two types of people who are banned from entering the Weil territory. A bad criminal or…”
After a brief pause, Hanu’s voice dropped lower.
“…a shark demibeast.”
A shark demibeast.
It was a demibeast species which Bella said several times to be careful of, and an enemy of the killer whale demibeasts.
‘So. This blue dude in front of me is either a bad criminal or a shark demibeast.’
Hanu squinted at the blue hair.
“Come to think of it, all shark demibeasts have blue hair.”
Actually, it was not rare to see demibeasts with blue hair in the Weil territory.
Thus, just because he had blue hair didn’t necessarily mean he must be a shark demibeast…
But there was a sufficient reason to be suspicious, since he was said to be an illegal entry.
I clicked my tongue.
“Weil territory is a scarier place than I thought. It’s infested with criminals.”
“Didn’t I ask you not to enter this street in the first place?”
“But to say that this place is a particularly hotbed of crime… I witnessed a thief yesterday too. And wasn’t Sir Hanu overcharged by the owner of the skewer stall?”
“…Did Iprus tell you?”
“No, it’s a gut feeling.”
Hanu’s face started to heat up like a ripe peach.
I made a pitiful face and pretended to whimper.
“Why, why does this keep happening to a good penguin who is only trying to help others… As expected, is my weak appearance the problem?”
“I think it’s because you’re going around and poking at places where there might be trouble…”
I nodded gently at Hanu, who was speaking very well today. Then, I aimed my magic wand at him.
“That’s right, Sir Hanu.”
A fair word.
“That… I apologize.”
“You have nothing to apologize for. You are jealous because I only petted that bluehead with the wand, right?”
Then, another voice interrupted the conversation between us.
“Peng… uin?”
Oops.
It was only then that Hanu and I, who had fallen into our own world, realized that there was a spectator. Slowly, we turned our heads to where the voice came from.
With shock coloring his face, blue-haired thief was looking right at my hair.
His eyes widened in disbelief.
Fixing my gaze on the blue-haired man, I stabbed Hanu’s side with my elbow.
“Do you think he heard it, Sir Hanu?”
“Yes. From his facial expression to his words, it’s certain that he heard it.”
“Hmm. He found out that I am a penguin.”
“…So what are you going to do?”
“Let’s take care of him.”
The dead don’t speak.
I raised my magic wand with a grim expression.
Suddenly, having become contemplative, Hanu grabbed the magic wand with the momentum to snatch it away.
“Lady Lia, it’s illegal to commit crimes in Weil…!”
…Isn’t it obvious that criminal activity is illegal?
