"I'm confiscating this for now."
What "this" is, I won't say.
I quickly closed the distance on Rine, who had waltzed right in, and used the Snatch Skill to steal her [Seduction] skill.
"Hey—what do you think you're doing?!"
"Just a little punishment. [Seduction] skill, is it? Sure, it makes the opposite sex like you more, but it also makes the same sex dislike you. See, not every skill is all sunshine and rainbows."
"W-why do you know about that... Only Father was supposed to know! Hmph, you fool, you're going to get yourself killed. The organization will hunt you down until you die."
Doesn't matter.
If they come, I'll just send them packing.
I'd already heard from the sub-master why Rine pulled something like this, so all that remained was the real punishment.
"
Memory Erasure
!"
"GYYYYYAAAARGH!!"
And despite her rather pretty appearance, Rine let out a filthy scream and writhed in agony.
Then, with a thud, Rine collapsed on the spot.
It was the shock response from having her memories related to the White King Tiger Wolf erased.
Once she wakes up, she can go to the guild and have everyone whisper behind her back endlessly for a reason she doesn't even remember. Good for her.
For that reason, this time I kept the Memory Erasure to a level that wouldn't leave her completely incapacitated—
Memory Erasure
I used it.
Also, I naturally added content to the sub-master's forced subordination orders to ensure she wouldn't breathe a word to anyone.
Maybe this will teach her to actually listen when people talk.
But I erased her memories including all that too, so she probably won't remember anyway.
I should add a command for the sub-master to lecture her about it later.
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"You're telling me you can't restore the memories of the one I left in charge of the Grim Trading Company?"
The boss of the dark guild "Diamond" asked again.
"I tried to see if Lord Dark Master could restore the stolen memories, but he said, 'I prefer being the one who takes. But it's infuriating that I can't reclaim what someone other than me took. ...No way. I can't read the residual magic power! Impossible! There shouldn't be anyone who uses dark magic at a higher level than me! There mustn't be anyone like that!' and then locked himself away."
"He's useless for a while. Why is it always the talented ones whose personalities are completely broken? Try being in my shoes for once. Well, I was the one who scouted him, so... What a pain. But still, unable to read the residual magic power... could it really be..."
"When the Momentum branch was destroyed, the residual magic power couldn't be read either, right?"
The subordinate who came to report also murmured, as if something had come back to him.
"That place was a branch, but it still had decent personnel on hand. It's hard to believe they were killed by purely physical means alone. Yet no residual magic power was found. If there had been even a trace, we could have cross-referenced with the Kingdom's information to identify the culprit."
"That buried basement too—
Anti-magic
didn't work, so we had to dig it up by hand."
"Absolutely incomprehensible. Could it be that the Kingdom has broken its
pact
with us and is sending attackers after us? No—if they did something like that, the royal family's dark history would come to light. Impossible. I just can't tell whether this is a coincidence or not."
The Diamond master, who found this subordinate easy to talk to—unusually unassuming for someone in their organization—and had been drawn into mulling things over with him, was forced to cut his thoughts short by the sound of hurried footsteps.
"My [Temptation] skill is gone, Father!"
How?
Yet the boss’s intuition vaguely told him that the damage the organization had suffered until now was connected to this daughter’s case.
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Skill: [Reverse] [Divine Eye] [Sword God] [Gentleman Thief] [Dark Magic] [Rock Iron Magic] [Holy Magic] [Space-Time Magic] [Scorching Magic] [Freezing Magic] [Magic Hand] [Temptation]
Rank: Bronze
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