< Chapter 56 - The Thief #2 >
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“No, fuck. No, fuck!”
Pink bomb?
Pink octane?
“Are you kidding me?”
“No, that’s what I mean. Like I said, we need to catch Belkian, right? To do that, the name Pink Bomb the Phantom Thief needs to become famous, right? So that Belkian can be known wherever he is?”
That was right.
It was a pretty plausible story.
But Cordelia was not stupid.
“No! Why was it pink in the first place…!”
“Shh! I’ll wake you up, sister-in-law!”
As Uther quickly covered his mouth with his hand, Cordelia, who had been whimpering, quickly used her message magic.
[Hey! What the hell, do you think I’m an idiot? Why did you write the name Pink Bomb in the letter you left for Belkian in the first place? Huh?]
[Didn’t you say you were going to use it then? Pink Bomb?]
[Of course I thought it was a joke!]
[Hey, I don’t lie]
[Oh, shit. Are you going to keep getting on my nerves on purpose? Who doesn’t lie? Our family’s con artist Yuder?]
[But it’s still our home.]
[If you can’t explain properly, you’ll be someone else’s housekeeper from today onwards! Got it?!]
[Okay, I’ll explain.]
[What, you’re really explaining it?]
Cordelia asked, blinking.
Surely there is some good reason for using such a strange name as Pink Bomb?
[Oh, I can explain.]
[What, what is it?]
[Pink Bomb is a special name to Belkian. It’s the name of the main character in Belkian’s favorite novel.]
Cordelia frowned at Uther’s words, but couldn’t say anything right away.
It was a story I had never heard before, but it was because it came from Yuder’s own mouth.
‘Is there some kind of hidden setting?’
Cordelia tilted her head and asked again.
[So that’s why it’s called Pink Bomb?]
[Because it has to remain strongly in Belkian’s mind and arouse his curiosity.]
[Euuum······.]
As expected, it was a fairly plausible story.
Pink Bomb, the Phantom Thief.
It was certainly a name that would stick in anyone’s mind no matter who heard it. But if you like novels with protagonists with such names, you’ll come all the way to the royal capital just out of curiosity.
[Oh my, this is annoying. Who the hell is this? The person who named the main character Pink Bomb!]
[Calm down, calm down. It’s like a yellow storm or a pink bomb, right?]
[It’s different?! It’s really, really completely different?!]
[Yes, it’s different. It’s very different. It’s definitely different. It’s very different.]
As Uther spoke to her child, Cordelia immediately tried to kick Uther’s shin, but it was too much. Uther reflexively created a golden whirlwind.
[Fuck, this is so fucking annoying.]
Are you avoiding it again? Even using technology?
[No, because it hurts if you get hit.]
[Bad guy, ugly guy, bad guy, fucking guy.]
[Hmm… It’s been a while since I’ve heard this, so it feels kind of good… Is this some kind of industry award?]
[What is that crazy guy talking about? Huh.]
Cordelia was so angry that she felt like crying without realizing it.
Uther squatted down to be on Cordelia’s eye level as she slumped down, exhausted.
[Anyway, Cordelia, you don’t have to worry so much. You’ll be fine.]
[Woo-ssi, hey. Do you know who’s worried about doing something wrong? It can’t be done. I won’t do it. You do it. You do it, Pink Bomb.]
[Ugh… well… if you hate it that much, then there’s nothing I can do.]
[Huh? Really? Are you really going to do it?]
[Well… the clothes don’t quite fit, but I guess I can get them altered.]
[Wait a minute, what are you talking about? Your clothes don’t fit. Should I wear this?]
[You should wear it. Even if that outfit looks like that, it’s a restoration of the original Log Master outfit, right?]
At Uther’s words, Cordelia closed her eyes for a moment and imagined.
Yuder is pictured wearing a tight black leather outfit and a pink miniskirt, with rabbit ears and a tail.
[Fuck, shit… I’ll just do it. I’ll do it.]
I didn’t think I could bear to look at that sight.
But aren’t you still fiancé?
No, even if he’s not my fiance, if I see him doing that, I might really start to dislike him. That was a bit difficult.
It was when Cordelia groaned as the thoughts that came to her mind without her knowing it were coming.
Yuder smiled brightly, not knowing whether he knew Cordelia’s intentions or not.
[Thank you, you are the only one.]
[Huh, if you say that, nothing will come out of it?]
When Cordelia, who had been excited reflexively, tried to stand up again, Uther naturally reached out and helped her up.
[Okay, I’ll give in a hundred times and give you the Pink Bomb Phantom Thief.]
[Thank you, Princess. I will make dynamite with all my heart and soul.]
[Anyway.]
He’s saying that he’s going to make a hole to escape through somehow. Like a snake.
[And Cordelia, don’t worry too much. The image of ‘Returned Rogue Master’ is so strong that you’ll rarely be called Pink Bomb anyway.]
[Is that so?]
[Oh, that’ll be it. You’re none other than the Log Master, right?]
[Hmm.]
This was also a pretty plausible story.
In fact, Scarlett also had several nicknames, but in the end she was always called Rogue Master.
[Anyway, we don’t have much time. We have to hurry and get things done.]
[I know that, but are you going to turn it in today? A preview?]
[That’s right, this card is the notice.]
Cordelia accepted the card that Uder had handed her and looked at it in the moonlight.
Two days later, on the day of the full moon, I will take the tears of the green god.
– Log Master Pink Bomb
The white card had a single line of text written in very neat handwriting, and a pink lip mark at the end.
[Whose lips are these? No way?]
[Ahem, that’s just a sample… Let’s put a kiss mark on our princess for the real thing.]
As Uther blushed slightly and coughed, Cordelia nodded with a laugh.
[Still, I want this. It’s proof that even our Yuder is a person who knows shame.]
Cordelia laughed and carefully placed the cards away before looking at the new cards that Uther had handed her.
[Three chapters?]
[I’ll send one to the evil tycoon who will be the victim, and the other two to the black moon and the blue moon.]
[If it’s Blue Moon, then that’s it? It’s the largest guild among the guilds that don’t cooperate with Black Moon.]
[That’s right, our goal is to reveal the name of the Log Master.]
The National Foundation Day was a month away, so I had to build up a reputation that would allow me to move the guilds within three weeks at the most.
[The preview is released today, and it will be released two days later.]
[But who is the person who is going to get hair this time?]
[One of the financial support measures of the Hogukgong is the evil rich man. If you’re going to rob them anyway, it’s better to rob the Hogukgong people.]
[The Green God’s Tears… are these jewels?]
[Oh, it’s a jewel that can grant you the protection of a god. Since you’re going to steal it anyway, you might as well steal something useful. It’s also a hot topic.]
It was all true.
Instead of continuing her rambling, Cordelia went over to the vanity and applied lipstick to her lips.
[Give me the cards]
[here.]
[Why four chapters? I heard the notice is distributed to three places.]
[I wanted to keep one as a souvenir.]
[joy.]
Cordelia, who let out a cheer for some reason, kissed all four of them before handing them over to Uther.
[So are you going to turn it around now?]
[Oh, I’ll go and get back, so just rest. You don’t know the area very well yet, do you?]
[Okay, I’ll get some rest, so go.]
[Yes, Princess. I’ll see you tomorrow morning.]
After greeting her elegantly in a theatrical manner, Uther threw himself out the window like the wind, and Cordelia looked at herself reflected in the dressing table mirror once again.
A thief wearing a black butterfly mask with perked rabbit ears.
‘It’s cute.’
Cordelia, who was wagging her rabbit tail again, struck a pose while she was at it, and even said her lines.
“I, in the name of justice, will not forgive you?”
I was embarrassed. I was so embarrassed. Even though I muttered very quietly, I felt like I was going to die from embarrassment.
But at the same time, I feel a bit of joy.
A joy that is difficult to describe.
But that only lasted a moment.
Because I felt like there were eyes on me from behind.
“Uh… I left something behind.”
Uther, who smiled as naturally as possible, picked up something that had fallen on the floor without saying anything and quickly threw himself out the window, leaving Cordelia alone to squat down with her face covered with both hands.
It didn’t move for a long time.
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Two nights later.
The mansion of the Viscount Venus, known as the so-called villainous rich man.
Even though it was the middle of the night, there were a lot of people gathered around her house, where she specialized in loan sharking.
About a third were royal guards, and the remaining two-thirds were onlookers.
“Is it real? Did it really appear?”
“It’s true!”
“Look! It’s going to explode again!”
Quagga River!
The window shattered with a loud noise, and pink smoke billowed out.
And inside the mansion.
Beyond the door detonated by pink dynamite.
“Where the hell do you think this is!”
Cordelia narrowed her eyes at the rebuke from the Countess Venus, a lady in black combat attire.
Count Venus, holding a dagger in his hand, and four mercenaries who look like they’ve eaten a meal of knives.
But the problem of all was the Vault of Venus, a huge, solid, bank-vault-like structure.
“Ha! Do you understand now? It’s no exaggeration to say that the entire room is a safe! Even if you were a true Log Master, you wouldn’t be able to open the safe!”
That made sense.
It was a safe that I could trust.
It seemed like it would take a considerable amount of time to open it the right way.
“Of course, you wouldn’t even be able to try to open it in the first place!”
The four mercenaries that Count Venus himself accompanied were no ordinary men.
They were cruel and powerful warriors who earned the nickname ‘Four Swords’ from the underworld of the royal capital, of all places.
“Catch him!”
At the shout of Count Venus, four mercenaries moved almost simultaneously.
And Cordelia also moved. She threw the dynamite with both hands and used ignition magic to cause the explosion.
Quagga River!
A type of smoke bomb that is loud but has a weak explosive power, but fills the room with pink smoke!
“I can’t see it!”
“Cough! Ugh!”
When the field of vision is obstructed, people are forced to stop for a moment.
Cordelia ran towards the vault door while the mercenaries swallowed smoke and groaned.
“crazy?”
Countess Venus, who barely opened her eyes, cursed at the sight of Cordelia slamming her body against the door.
I thought she was a pretty skilled thief, but was she just a crazy bitch?
But it wasn’t.
Just before the collision.
No, the moment Cordelia and Moon collide!
‘Fairy’s Steps!’
The space of the fairies and reality overlapped. Cordelia, who had become translucent for a moment, passed through the vault wall.
“wow.”
Cordelia, who had passed through the vault wall, stroked the ring she had received from Paul Fairy Queen with a small exclamation of admiration.
Fairy Step was originally intended for evasion, but is it really necessary to use it only for evasion? It should be applied in various ways.
‘Once more.’
Thanks to repeated level-ups, my abilities have improved and I can now use Fairy Steps twice a day.
Since I used it once to come in, it was perfect to use it once to go out.
‘Here it is.’
Tears of the Green God.
A beautiful jewel that glows on its own in the dark.
Cordelia, who had been looking at the jewel with a face of rapture, which was as large as two fingers put together, shook her head and came to her senses. Now was not the time to be admiring the jewel.
‘Take the jewels and leave the card.’
Cordelia made a series of movements and threw herself towards the outer wall.
Tsuhwa-
Once again, the fairy’s footsteps.
I jumped over the outer wall, so it was empty outside, but it was okay.
‘Angelization!’
Cordelia spread her wings of light and flew up to the roof of the mansion, and another cheer erupted from the onlookers.
“It’s real! It’s real!”
“They say the Log Master walks on the sky, and it really is!”
Because if I spread my angel wings, I could fly freely through the air.
When Cordelia climbed onto the roof, the onlookers and even the guards of Count Venus all looked at the same place.
That gaze.
Everyone’s gaze focused on one thing.
‘Oh, what should I do? I think I’m going to get addicted.’
What is this strange yet pleasant feeling?
Cordelia, who smiled without realizing it, took out the Green God’s Tears and showed them to the onlookers instead of saying anything, and at that moment, the onlookers burst out in cheers once again.
“It’s real! It’s real!”
“These are the tears of the green god!”
Of course, these were people who had never properly seen the Green God’s Tears, but it was still a large green jewel.
“What are you doing! Grab it! No! Shoot it!”
“To the roof!”
The guards responded to Countess Venus’s shouts by moving quickly, and some of them even went so far as to shoot Cordelia with their crossbows.
But at that moment, a sudden black wind swept away all the arrows fired at Cordelia.
It was the wind that was created by Yuder’s kick while he was hiding in the square.
[hurry!]
[okay!]
Cordelia, who communicated with message magic, took out a new large jewel after putting in the Green God’s Tears.
Moon Crystal.
The last secret of the Log Master!
“Thank you, Selene, for allowing me to become a righteous thief.”
Cordelia smiled brightly and said, then bowed gracefully like a magician paying homage to the audience and raised the moon crystal high.
“In the name of Selene.”
The goddess of the moon is watching.
It was the moment when Cordelia injected magic into the Moon Crystal.
A strong moonlight came down from the sky and illuminated Cordelia. Thanks to the moonlight that was like a spotlight, Cordelia’s already impressive appearance was even more engraved in everyone’s eyes.
Black leather clothes that fully reveal her bright pink hair and pretty body. Cute rabbit ears and tail.
And a few seconds passed.
The moonlight, which had been like a spotlight, gradually grew thinner and disappeared, and so did Cordelia.
Gone with the moonlight.
“Log Master!”
“Ohhh!”
This was the power of the Moon Crystal, the final secret of the Log Master.
‘You can space jump three times a day, anywhere where there is moonlight.’
Simple yet powerful effect.
The reason why the Log Master has never been caught in the act despite all his numerous thefts.
“How is it? Do you think it turned out well?”
“It’s the best, it’s the best. It’s so great.”
Adelia’s mansion, 2nd floor.
Thanks to Adelia, who was exhausted from her hard work, sleeping soundly, Uder and Cordelia, who had slipped out without being caught, burst into muffled laughter as they faced each other.
“This is so pretty.”
Tears of the Green God.
There was a legend that it was a jewel created from the tears of a beautiful and kind goddess, and strangely enough, if you possessed it, you would be granted the protection of a warrior.
‘It’s a great item that a true warrior can possess, as it will increase all abilities simply by having it.’
It is not an absolute increase, but a percentage increase.
“Ha, this is exciting. It’s more fun than I thought.”
“You’re not excited about throwing bombs around like that?”
“That too.”
Hehehe, Cordelia laughed, took off her mask, and untied her hair that had been tied up.
The process of pink hair suddenly turning back to red was incredibly beautiful and mysterious.
“What are you looking at like that?”
“Because it’s so pretty.”
“What, what are you talking about?”
Cordelia, taken aback by Uther’s direct compliment, spoke flusteredly.
“Anyway, by tomorrow the rumor will have spread throughout the entire capital, right?”
“The Log Master is back. The Log Master is back.”
“Hehehe, this is exciting.”
Cordelia smiled brightly and closed her eyes for a moment to imagine.
A beautiful and strong log master.
A mysterious thief of justice.
‘Actually, it’s a bit funny that a thief talks about justice.’
Well, what’s the big deal?
Cordelia opened her eyes again and looked forward to tomorrow with a cheerful face.
And the next morning.
“Hey! What is this! What is this!”
“Hmm… was it because the hair was pink that was the problem? Or was it because the color of dynamite was pink…?”
“Oh my, this is annoying!”
As expected, the front page of the newspaper I bought on the street in the morning had an article about the Log Master.
As expected by Uder and Cordelia, they succeeded in announcing the return of the Log Master to the entire capital.
But there was one minor problem.
The phantom thief Pink Bomb appears.
Phantom Thief Pink Bomb, is she really a Rogue Master?
The Pink Bomb Thief, a splendid debut.
No matter where you look, that name is mentioned far more often than Log Master.
‘Well, as planned.’
To be honest, if Pink Bomb and Log Master were written next to each other, the former would inevitably stand out.
‘Belkhian will soon know too.’
The name of the phantom thief Pink Bomb.
Uther smiled brightly, and Cordelia, for the first time in a long while, threw a tantrum and threw out some curses, but apart from that, she continued to diligently cut the articles with scissors.
And again two nights later.
Uther and Cordelia initiated the next move.
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