Editing Dantalian no Shoka:Volume2 Chapter2 (section)

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The two men tied Huey and Dalian firmly to the pillar in the living room.

They seemed to be unwilling to quickly believe Huey’s words that “I don’t know where the book is”, then thinking since it was an important book, then they should be able to find it quickly. Anyway those two had left Huey and the others, starting to search the house.

“The security is too loose.”

Dalian who was tied beside Huey said with an accusing tone.

“It’s even more loose than the stomach of that middle aged man. Actually easily allowing those kind of brainless bandits in. How stupid do you plan to be, idiot!”

“It’s not like I was not on guard.”

Huey shrugged with a position that wasn’t too liberal.

“Their attire was too weird…… in fact it made me… unconsciously think that they were your acquaintances.”

The black clothed girl was pierced by this sentence, momentarily raising her eyebrow.

“What do you mean. You’re speaking as if I’m dressed weirdly?”

“Don’t you think that outfit is odd?”

Huey said with a surprised voice. Dalian immediately replied angrily:

“Being caught by that kind of side character is an embarrassment. Where is that broken gun that you carry around usually. Why don’t you quickly take it out and deal with them.”

Instead, Huey’s voice sounded very weak.

“Of course I would carry it around in their own house. And if they were really people sent by the store to deliver goods, I couldn’t really just take the gun and kill them.”

“That’s why I said you were too unaware, you voice-deaf idiot.”

“What does that have to do being voice deaf.”

Just as Huey was complaining helplessly, he saw the red haired man walking back from the deepest depths of the corridor. There was a light layer of dust on his face, and his expression was very disappointed.

“Bastard, what is it with this house. Why is it books, books and books everywhere! And some old books even have mold…”

The red haired man stared at Huey and the others and shouted, he even kicked at the books on the living room floor angrily, and the originally stacked books messily fell to the ground.

Dalian’s face twitched slightly when she saw this, then she used her jaw to point at a book on the floor:

“Hey, I haven’t finished reading that, bring it over.”

“Ah?”

The red haired man leaned forward, barking.

But Dalian’s voice was still comparably calm.

“If you place the book down like that without closing it, the pages will not be flat, the book itself will be damaged. You don’t even understand this? Orang-utan. It seems that even though they have a little intelligence, monkeys will be monkeys.”

“You, you damn brat…”

The man’s face flushed with anger in an instant. But although he was so angry that his fists trembled, but met with a girl who was unable to move, he seemed unable to make a move.

The red haired man stepped on the book and grinded the corner with his foot. The papers that were so viciously stepped on fell to the floor, causing Dalian to scream weakly.

This scream seemed to release the man’s anger, he no longer cared about that proud girl and turned to talk to his partner.

“Hey, what about you? Have you found any valuable books?”

The muscled fat man had returned a little breathlessly, he replied as he wiped off the sweat on his forehead:

“No… There are many books, but the book with that title can’t be found anywhere…”

The red haired man’s expression had turned frantic.

He didn’t seem to have expected that a desolate house like this would have so many books stored here. And they could already understand that there wasn’t anything valuable in this house.

Even so, their frantic expressions were not normal. It could be seen that this wasn’t the only threat like earlier, his finger had started to apply force on the trigger. And Huey only looked at him quietly, then—

“Ah!”

[[Image:Dantalian no Shoka-vol2-p83.jpg|thumb|“That’s my chocolate! How could you carelessly eat it?!”]]

Hearing the girl scream suddenly, the red haired man moved the gun away in surprise, then looked at the black clothed girl with an urgent expression.

“What, what is it?”

But the girl didn’t look at the red haired man. Dalian struggled forward furiously, glaring at his partner. That muscled fat man who was wearing a suit that did not match him, was sending a chocolate wrapped in silver paper to his mouth.

“That’s my chocolate! How could you carelessly eat it?!”

Dalian yelled in grievance, and the muscled fat man seemed to be shocked by her energy.

“That… because it was placed on the table.”

The girl gritted her teeth as she shouted:

“You only know how to eat things carelessly placed on the table, is that it. Is there a robber as greedy as you? I thought only a monkey came, but a pig came along, a fat pig! And where is the monster from the eastern river? Something like you deserves to accompany a monk to retrieve the scriptures from the West!”

“A river demon?”

The two robber stared dazedly at the reprimanding Dalian.

Huey looked at them helplessly, then—

“I remember now.”

The red haired man stared at the murmuring youth suspiciously.

“Eh?”

“The Glacks’ Merchant Association… I remember there was a store selling dirty things in the capital that went by this name.”

Huey’s tone was as if he were chatting casually. The two robbers did not reply, but their expressions were as if they had eaten coptis chinensis.

“I once heard my acquaintance who likes to gossip mention it. They even give robber and thieves information about rich people, then they purchase filthy items and charge commissions. If it’s someone like that, then it wouldn’t be strange for them to know about grandfather.”

The red haired man looked at Huey who was calmly stating it, sighing.

“Eh… You’re right. We are something like bodyguards in the association.”

“Bodyguards? Then why did you become robbers?”

“That’s simple, because the Association has collapsed.”

The red haired man curled his lip as if mocking himself.

“Collapsed?”

“The chairman of the Association was killed, because of a conflict with another organisation. Just relying on selling illegal items is completely dependent on information and relations. Coming to this stage was equal to being goners.”

As the man spoke, he laughed with a dry voice.

“If we stayed in the capital, Heavens knows we’d be done off like the chairman. But even if we hid, we would need enough money.”

“So you planned to take Grandfather’s book?”

The man acknowledged Huey’s question.

“This world always has book addicts, when they see valuable books they would uncaringly spend a large amount of money to buy it. Your grandfather was someone like that too?”

Huey laughed bitterly. And the man seemed to have remembered something, his whole expression twisting, 

“Something like gems and artefacts, can be controlled rapidly by the people we are going against through the selling channels, so although it is troublesome, we can only come to find books… and—”

He pointed the gun at Huey.

“Tell me honestly. Where is the book “Queen of the Night”?”

Huey shook his head.

“I don’t know.”

“It’s useless even if you pretend. The information network of the Association recorded it clearly, when your grandfather was living he did spend a large amount of money to buy that book.”

His words made Huey laugh.

“Information network? Who was the one who said earlier that the information from the Association was unreliable…”

At the moment when the mocking words were about to be completed.

“Ah!”

He was struck violently by the butt of the hand gun, letting out a short groan.

“Huey!”

Dalian screamed. Huey shook his head gently, blood trickled down to his jaw from his temple.

“I forgot to mention, kid… When we were the Association’s bodyguards, we killed many people. So we are being chased persistently by people.”

The red haired man laughed with a hoarse voice.

“So, it’s not a big deal to kill two more people. If you don’t want to die, tell us the location of the book. Regrettably, we don’t have much time left.”

“He’s saying that… Have you thought of anything, Dalian?”

Huey asked Dalian with a painfully squeezed out smile.

“There is no Phantom Book called “Queen of the Night”. To non-existent books, I am helpless too.”

Dalian announced with an emotionless face.

“So stubborn.”

The red haired man said heatedly, hitting the wall with the gun.

“Hmph, indeed, such an important book wouldn’t be carelessly placed in a place where these damn kids can take it. Hey, how long are you going to eat, search the house one more time!”

“Alright…”

The muscled fat man munched on the chocolate as his heavy body stood up slowly. Looking at the chocolate wrapper strewn carelessly, Dalian bowed her head in disappointment.

“You can check the east side of the house, there should be a few rooms at the backyard.”

“Backyard?”

Hearing the red haired man’s words, Dalian raised her head in an instant, it could be seen from her side profile that she was shaken. The red haired man had a victorious smile when he saw this, ordering his companion with a look in his eyes.

The muscled fat man nodded, then walked towards the garden with a large gait.

This couldn’t help but make Dalian panic, unheeding that she was tied to the pillar, the slender body thrashed as she shouted.

“St-stop right there! You can’t go there!”

Huey looked at the sudden panicked appearance of the black clothed girl in disbelief. There was only a neglected garden at the back of the villa, there was nowhere to hide a book.

And the red haired man who had been led around by the nose earlier enjoyed the panicked look of Dalian in satisfaction.

Then his expression tensed in an instant.

From the direction of the backyard, there was suddenly a piercing scream. It was the rough voice of a man, it was clearly a sound made by the other man, that is the muscled fat man.

“What, what is it?”

The red haired man moaned as he gripped his gun again.

Of course Huey didn’t know what had happened. Although it wasn’t cleared before, but the backyard shouldn’t have any dangerous places. He didn’t think it was done by Dalian, the lock in front of her chest was still tied tightly by that silver chain, the key to that seal had not unlocked it either. But…

“Ah… ah ah…”

Dalian bowed her head as if in despair, weak moans spilling from her mouth now and then.

The red haired man kicked the wall a few times in frustration.

“Bastards… Stay here and don’t move! If you dare to move, I’ll kill you!”

Leaving that, he left the room.

Only Dalian and Huey who were tied tightly were left in the living room.

The man’s screams couldn’t be heard anymore, but the feeling that something abnormal had happened did not disappear.

And Dalian looked at the moon outside the window with a sad expression.

“I already warned him, that damned animal that should be kicked!”

At some point in time it was already night time, the silver rays of the full moon suspended in the air illuminated the side profile of the girl.