Pardon the Abduction, Holy Knight - It's an Emergency - Chapter 3.15

The memory of that day when they kidnapped Adriel was strange. As if there was a hole, the middle was empty…

“I never seduced him! This man approached me first, saying he fell for me!”

Wit blinked his large eyes slowly.

And quickly understood.

Right. Master is pretty. It’s natural to like pretty Master. Kekeke.

Pretty Master. Wit’s woman. And….

Bad Adriel!

With that thought, Wit was instantly consumed by jealousy.

He knew that Rosemary liked Adriel.

Wasn’t that why Rosemary accepted Wit’s contract in the first place?

But at some point, Rosemary had cut off her interest in Adriel as if she had pruned her emotions.

So Wit had been relieved.

But recently, Master’s gaze towards Adriel had become strange.

Wit hated that so much.

“I did nothing wrong! I’m telling you I did nothing wro… Kyaaak!”

Whoosh-!

Suddenly, the woman’s hair caught fire as she was claiming her innocence.

The same flames were blazing in Wit’s eyes as he watched.

“Bad Adriel! Bad Adriel!”

The bad human trying to take away Wit’s one and only Master!

At the thought that even at this moment, Adriel might be alone with Rosemary, Wit hurriedly left the store.

***

A peaceful afternoon.

We were on our way back after buying nails with Wit because the guild sign kept falling off.

The weather’s nice.

I was walking absentmindedly, enjoying the warm sunlight.

“Aaagh! Don’t come near me!”

Huh?

It was when we were getting close to home.

A scream rang out from somewhere.

“Just now, what was that sound….”

“Master, the sound came from inside the house. Kekekeke.”

“…!”

I ran to the house in a hurry.

It clearly wasn’t Adriel’s voice, so it meant another intruder had come in.

How on earth?!

Did someone force the door open from outside? And even break through Wit’s magic?

“Huff, huff.”

However, when I rushed over to check, the door was still intact and closed.

Just as I was puzzled, another voice came from inside.

“You, what are you? Why are you doing this to me!”

The intruder was talking to someone.

That’s why it was creepy.

Someone found out that Adriel was here.

I approached the window, clenching my trembling hands.

“The window….”

It’s open.

I clearly remember locking it before leaving, though.

Thinking that, I peered inside.

“Huh?”

What’s that?

The man lying face down on the floor was that male customer from before.

The problem was the person standing in front of him.

Wearing a silver mask that he had somehow found again, and holding the stick that should have been safely stored under my bed like a sword….

Adriel.

Why is that man standing like that?

“I, I came to hold you accountable.”

“……”

“Because the owner here didn’t help me, I lost everything! Emily, my wife, my daughter, and my, my precious thing too!”

This is ridiculous.

How is that my fault?

I was about to let out a bitter laugh when…

“You talk too much.”

“Wh-what?”

“Why blame an innocent person for your own incompetence?”

“Wh-who’s incompetent? Who are you, saying such things! Are you an employee here? If you’re an employee, you should act like…”

“Not an employee.”

“What? Then what, what are you! Are you the guild owner’s hidden lover or something? Is that it?”

They say people only see what they want to see.

Not family or siblings, but suddenly a hidden lover?

I laughed in disbelief, and naturally thought Adriel would be disgusted by the man’s words too.

“What, your silence means I’m right?”

But for some reason, Adriel was quiet.

“Ha, this is ridiculous. The owner here is so hypocritical!”

Just….

“Saying they won’t accept customers who cheat, but the owner themselves… Aagh! Do-don’t hit me!”

He was just menacingly holding the wooden stick to the man’s neck.

The ordinary stick looked like a well-sharpened sword in Adriel’s hand.

That unsightly man probably felt the same as me, which is why he’s trembling like that.

“I don’t like it.”

Adriel coldly said to the man who was crouching down.

The man who had been trembling in fear still had some pitiful pride left, as he didn’t lower his voice.

“Wh-what… don’t you like? That I insulted the owner…? Or that I called you a hidden lover…?”

Well, probably the latter, right?

Adriel isn’t the type to care if someone insults me.

As if confirming my thoughts, Adriel quietly raised the stick.

“Aaagh! Then I, husband…!”

The man screamed, covering his head.

“Husband, yes, you’re the owner’s husband, right? I misunderstood! So please, just don’t hit me!”

Sigh. That’s not the issue here.

I shook my head and tightened my robe. Then I knocked on the window frame.

“Excuse me?”

The man’s head whipped towards me.

“You…!”

On the other hand, Adriel froze in place, not even looking at me.

“Where on earth have you been until now!”

I looked at Adriel, who was standing still, for a moment before speaking to the man.

“What does it matter where I’ve been? We didn’t have an appointment today, did we?”

“That’s…!”

The man trailed off, unable to find the words.

I looked at him pathetically before tapping the window frame with my palm.

“If you understand, would you please leave now? Otherwise, I’ll sue you for disrupting business and trespassing.”

“Su… sue?”

The man who had been lying on the floor as if collapsed suddenly stood up in excitement.

“Don’t be ridiculous! The one who should sue is not you, but me… Yes, me, the victim!”

“Who’s the victim here?”

“Me! I’m the victim!”

Victim my foot.

I raised the corner of my mouth cynically towards the man who was pointing his finger.

“All you can do is blame others.”

“Wh-what?”

“Well, if you knew that all of this was your own doing, you wouldn’t be in this state.”

“Hey, I can hear you!”

I clapped my hands once with a bright smile.

“Oh my. That’s good. I meant for you to hear it.”

“Wha… wha, what…?”

The man stupidly opened and closed his mouth.

This is tiring.

I need to hang the fallen sign again and organize the groceries I bought.

It’s a waste of time to be arguing like this.

“How is this someone else’s fault? If you had helped me properly in the first place, I could have met Emily without my wife finding out!”

“Enough.”

I cut off the man’s words as he started spouting nonsense again.

“If you come here one more time….”

“If I come…?”

As I lowered my voice pretending to be serious, the man swallowed nervously with a tense face.

I checked on Wit, who had flown to the kitchen without the man noticing, and smiled slightly.

“There’s a way to physically deal with you.”

“What…?”

Grrrr-.

“What’s that sound… Uh, uwaah!”

Wit, transformed into a large dog, walked towards the man with bulging eyes.

The man exclaimed and rushed to lean out the window, but I pushed his face with my palm to prevent him from coming out.

“What are you doing? Move, I said move!”

“You’d better not ignore what I said.”

“Move!”

This much warning should be enough to keep him from coming back, right?

I slightly moved to the side as the man wanted.

With this, the man leaned forward and tumbled onto the lawn with a thud.