Hush Now, Saintess! - Chapter 99
Chapter 99
Translator: Yonnee
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“Ha, how could I forget this? If it’s discovered, I’ll be in huge trouble.”
He muttered, scratching his head.
A white piece of paper fluttered in his hand.
After glancing around, he looked briefly at a lit building.
“I’ll be back before anyone knows. Let’s hurry.”
The man headed toward the stables.
Hildeon and Hestin exchanged glances simultaneously.
And in silence, they nodded.
It meant they should follow him.
The two quickly went to where their horses were tied.
Meanwhile, the sound of horseshoes echoed nearby.
“He must have left. He seems quite far already. Is it alright?”
“It’s fine. As long as we can hear it, that’s enough.”
“Ah, right.”
The crown prince, blessed with exceptional lineage.
Hildeon’s physical abilities and senses far surpassed those of ordinary men.
If he could hear it, chasing the suspect was not a difficult task.
“Really, like a dog.”
“……?”
“It was a metaphor. Why are you looking like that? I meant it as a compliment that you have good hearing, sir.”
At Hildeon’s gaze, Hestin blinked in response.
“Any problem…?”
“Out of all the metaphors…”
“It’s warm and nice, isn’t it?”
Warm and nice? What.
It was supposed to be a form of revenge for making him do dangerous tasks in the middle of the night.
Yet, knowing this, he had no choice but to go along with it.
Even if his actions seemed contrary, there was no one Hildeon trusted and relied on more than Hestin, especially since it was indeed a dangerous task.
“…Let’s go.”
“Yes.”
The two rode their horses hard for quite some time.
After hours of riding, the horses stopped.
“A cornfield?”
For being near the capital, it was quite a large cornfield.
Such a place for a cornfield.
After dismounting, the two looked around.
Apart from the cornfield, there wasn’t much else to catch the eye.
“Then, this is the only destination.”
“Looking at it, these corn plants seem odd.”
“Ah.”
Hestin nodded in agreement.
Indeed, as Hildeon had noted, the corn stalks and leaves were unusually large.
In contrast, the corn cobs were pitifully inadequate…
“It seems the purpose of this field isn’t for harvesting corn. It’s more like a fence meant to hide something.”
Then, somewhere in this cornfield, the place they were looking for must be hidden.
“It’s no wonder they can’t find it with such an investigation.”
Criminals always have a knack for hiding things in strange ways.
Hestin, clucking his tongue, asked Hildeon.
“You’re going to say we should go in, right?”
“Of course.”
As expected.
“Then, make sure to pay the hazard pay. It looks extremely dangerous and suspicious.”
“I’ll double it. Are we good now?”
“That’s thrilling.”
Hestin, who had answered, pointed to a place he had observed earlier.
“It’s faint, but there is a path there.”
The ground seemed heavily trodden, more compacted than the rest.
The two followed the path into the cornfield.
But it didn’t take long before they realized this was a trap.
The compacted path split into several branches.
Some paths even looped back to where they started.
“Absolutely… a maze.”
Hestin wiped the sweat from his forehead and muttered.
“Cutting through the corn… should be the last resort.”
Hestin was right.
Cutting through the corn should be the furthest thing they’d do right now.
‘If they notice something suspicious and run away, it’ll be a disaster.’
They couldn’t waste this hard-earned opportunity.
If they were this thorough, they surely had a backup plan prepared.
Then it happened.
They heard the presence of someone other than themselves.
“This is…”
“Shh.”
The sound came from behind them.
The rustling of the grass approached without hesitation.
One set of footsteps.
No, two.
‘Is one an animal?’
Hildeon focused all his senses and listened intently.
He needed to determine the direction of the sound.
However, in the densely packed cornfield, the sound scattered everywhere.
It was hard to pinpoint the direction.
‘Damn it.’
Hildeon’s eyes grew colder as his hand rested on the hilt of his sword.
Given the situation, he was ready to strike as soon as he saw anything.
Meanwhile, the rustling grew closer.
Hestin also prepared himself.
Ready to run away at any moment.
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