KonoSuba Chapter 83: Move separately and betting (Patreon)

“Although we know the guards were only doing it for the money, but to be slacking so much, I truly do not know what to think.”

After easily jumping over the wall to enter the mansion, Sato Hikaru sneakily looked at the shift guards not far away in the corner that was chatting and said to Chris who was beside him.

“If this is the guards’ standard, I felt the additional plans that I made were extras, I even think that we could empty the mansion without being found by them.”

“Although they are very unprofessional, we should still be careful, right?”

Chris quickly approached a room and after checking whether there was any magic alarm that she turned her head and spoke.

“Furthermore, for the guards outside the mansion to act like salted fish is normal, but the one inside the mansion would be experts who had earned the trust of their master, their professionalism are completely different.”

“Really? I truly doubt there exist people who could be trusted by Alderp.”

While speaking, Sato Hikaru had used the thief skill [enemy search] to confirm the situation outside the gate: “Ok, there is no one in the corridor, there is two people inside the room on the left, the one on the right is empty, let’s check the one on the right first.”

“No…We go to the left!”

Chris, who was responsible for checking the room for any secret corridor and secret room, rejected when she heard Sato Hikaru’s words and said: “I felt that something was wrong in that room, so it is better to directly go to the room on the left.”

“Feeling, is it?”

If it was any other person from his team who said that, Sato Hikaru would not have cared.

However, if Chris was the one saying this, it was obviously different.

After all, Chris’ position was a goddess of ‘luck’.

“Alright, then let’s go with yours.”

Sato Hikaru who immediately agreed, instead of saying that he trusted Chris’ ‘feeling’, it would be more accurate to say that he trusted Chris’ ‘luck’ to be able to bring them to the best direction.

“However, since it was your suggestion, then you should lead the way.”

“Ok, then properly maintain your stealth, we will immediately move out to the corridor.”

Chris also did not leave behind any trace, the two moved out from the room, and followed the corridor sneakily towards the left.

“Shh!”

Just as Chris sneaked up to outside the door where Sato Hikaru sensed there were people inside, she suddenly turned her head and gestured a silent sign, then she stuck her ears to the door to eavesdrop.

Sato Hikaru continued to use the sense of enemy skill while waiting to ensure that no one was moving towards this corridor.

“We have a target, let’s go directly to the kitchen.”

After a while, Chris suddenly signed Sato Hikaru to leave while also speaking quietly: “Just now, there were two maids chatting in the room, according to them, Alderp had just brought a new maid towards the bedroom on the second floor but before he went up, he specially asked the kitchen to prepare a meal and send it to his study room.

“Study room?”

Sato Hikaru understood after hearing it and sneered: “So, he had already brought a maid to sleep, can he still go to the study room and work afterwards? I don’t think Alderp is a very hardworking person.”

“That’s right, so there must be something wrong in the study room, we only need to follow the person sending the meal from the kitchen to the study room, afterwards, the task for tonight will be done.”

“I see, it is indeed a good method.”

After nodding his head to show his agreement to Chris’ words, the two started to look for the kitchen.

Compared to those rooms which function were unknown, as well as the unknown location of the study room, the kitchen which was a place where many servants moved about, along with smoke and oil that was used to cook meals, was much easier to be found. The two very quickly found the kitchen at the corner of the mansion.

Although it was already evening, there were still two cooks busy inside the kitchen. From time to time, there were also some servants who moved in and out of the kitchen.

“It seemed the meal that Alderp asked for was not done yet, it seemed that we needed to wait for some time.”

Sato Hikaru, who had managed to sneak into the corner of the kitchen, looked at the scene, thought for a while and said to Chris: “Since this is the case, then we should move separately, you should wait here, I will go and check other places for more clues.”

“Move separately?”

Hearing Sato Hikaru’s suggestion, Chris frowned: “Would it not be too risky?”

“No worry, you also know of my capability, even if something unexpected happened, I would not have any problem in escaping safely, or could it be…”

“Chris, you are not confident about yourself? Afraid to do something wrong? Then I could force myself to accompany and protect you.”

“I am Axel’s best thief and you say that I am not confident?”

Chris, who was originally still wanted to persuade, was suddenly stimulated when she heard whether she felt ‘unsafe’ and was immediately angered and stared back.

“Since you want to move separately, then let’s separate, I’m just afraid that after I had finished checking, someone would still be lost somewhere in the mansion, unable to find their way.”

“Oho? Do you want to bet with me?”

Seeing Chris, who was angered, due to being questioned about her professionalism, Sato Hikaru smiled evilly and said: “Let’s bet about tonight, whose harvest would be bigger, how about it?”