The Great Cleric: Volume 10 by Broccoli Lion

Author:Broccoli Lion [LION, BROCCOLI]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2022-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

10 — An Inside Job

After the match, we moved to the mess hall, where we ate, drank, and had an all-round good time. Before the festivities, Ketty and Kefin went to fetch Dhoran and the others who had gone to arrange for lodgings, and all throughout, I received fervent requests to continue distracting Brod, as well as offers to spar (on condition that I heal everyone afterwards). Of course, our resident Substance X researcher, Gulgar, didn’t waste the opportunity to throw out the idea that the loser would have to try one of his homemade “recipes.” Meanwhile, as was apparently tradition, discussion about yet another nickname for myself began, but Galba and Brod called for me before I could listen in.

Lionel, Ketty, Kefin, Lydia, Nadia, and I relocated to the guildmaster’s office, where there was a large table with a map spread across it. For whatever reason, the place was splattered with blood, which I cleaned with Purification after a quick complaint.

“Sorry to drag you away from the fun,” Brod said.

“I already got to eat, so it’s no problem,” I answered.

“Then I’ll get right to it. Ever since Galba caught wind of the rumors about you, we’ve been doing everything we can to figure out the truth. I’ll let him explain the rest.”

“In the interest of time, I’ll keep this to the facts,” Galba began.

“Please do,” I said.

“Rumors that you’d received divine retribution began to spread ten days after you left Merratoni, by my measure.”

“Seems awfully fast.”

“Exactly. And they originated from Grandol.”

“Grandol? But how?” I hadn’t expected Church HQ to be the source of it all, but Grandol at least had been low on my list of possibilities.

“Surprised?” Galba asked. “Remember back in Yenice when you had those criminals turned into slaves?”

“Yeah?” I replied. That didn’t exactly narrow things down, but the most well-mannered of them were working for me now, and the conditions for their freedom were lenient. It was likely most of them had been freed already. The particularly remorseless criminals had been sent to...Grandol.

“Seems like a noble in Blanche bought a bunch of them up. Someone who probably didn’t take too kindly to you working your way up the ladder in Yenice so quickly, and he wanted dirt.”

I looked down at the table. “Blanche?”

“He already had feelers out in Grandol for different reasons, but then word spread that you were in the neighborhood.”

Different reasons, huh? I didn’t like where this was going. I glanced at the sisters—they wore stern expressions. One of the reincarnated, Vlad, came to mind.

“This noble...he was after the sisters, I assume.”

“That’s right,” Galba confirmed. “Earl Blade von Kamiya is his name.”

I could sense the girls’ tension rising.

“So what did he do? Order the slaves to spy on me?” I asked.

“So I’m led to believe. But I struggle to imagine any beastman capable of avoiding Brod’s scouting ability, meaning you had to have only been watched while in town. Not in any labyrinths.”

“I see. But what did we do that tipped them off? Surely there was nothing strange about us going back to Shurule.

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