The assassin won't say a thing.
Next up is the right arm.
With a wet slash, I lop off his right arm, then pull an elixir from my magic bag and sprinkle it over the stump.
Even the assassin looked surprised, eyes going wide as saucers.
Watching his arm regenerate, I found myself admiring the process.
It sprouted back with this gooey, stretching sensation.
Okay then—one more!
"I'll talk, I'll talk, so please stop! Doing this with a smile on your face—are you some kind of demon?!"
By the time I'd cut off and regrown his right arm five times over, the man finally broke.
For the record, to keep him from dying, I'd already stanchioned the bleeding on his left leg's stump with a regular potion.
"I don't want to hear 'demon' from someone who tried to kill me. Now—who sent you?"
"It was a commission from the Rest Trading Company."
"What was the objective?"
"They said to kill the child with the golden left eye and seize the magic bag along with the elixir."
I was confirming his answers with my Divine Eye as he spoke, and it all checked out.
That was enough information.
With no further use for him, I lopped off his head and stuffed it into the magic bag—there was limited space left in there.
I'd picked up a few magic bags from the junk pile already.
The headless corpse I simply left where it lay.
This was close to the slum district.
Someone would probably strip anything valuable off the body and leave the rest.
I might as well head back to that dump of an inn and get some sleep.
Starting tomorrow, I'd figure out how to get my revenge on the trading company.
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"Welcome! Are you looking for something today?"
"Oh, no, I'm just browsing, so please don't worry about me. I'll call you if I need anything."
I had arrived at the Rest Trading Company's main branch.
Wearing a girl's outfit.
I'd reversed my own gender with Reverse for some reconnaissance.
I scoured the main branch from corner to corner.
The company sold everyday magical tools and potions as well.
They also supplied potions to the adventurer's guild.
Now then—I'd seen just about everything. Reverse!
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"The magic tool I bought from you doesn't work!"
"Give me my money back, or replace it with a working one!"
Several days later, a line had formed outside the Rest Trading Company. Not a queue of fans—a line of complaints.
"I even swapped in a new magic stone and it still won't work! It's defective! I can't cook with it! Replace this magic stove right now!"
"Our sincerest apologies, ma'am, but we're currently out of replacement stock…"
"Then give me my money back! I'll buy one somewhere else!"
"The thing is, we're also out of cash at the moment… We are truly sorry!"
"Unbelievable—you're running a store and you have neither products nor money? And you're still supposedly the top trading company on Momentum?"
The sales floor had descended into utter chaos. Those waiting in line behind the first wave of complainers were losing patience too, and before long they began looting the merchandise inside. The city guard was eventually called in to restore order.
Watching it all from a short distance away was a girl with a golden right eye—and not a single soul gave her a second thought.
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Well, that went rather nicely.
With my gender reversed via Reverse, I'd been observing the Rest Trading Company's reaction.
What I'd done a few days earlier was cast Reverse on every single product in the store in bulk, flipping them all into unusable states.
Any items that were already defective would have reverted to working condition, but that couldn't have been many.
On top of that, I'd also cast Reverse on the gold coins and large gold coins sitting in the company's vault.
The gold coins should have turned into silver coins, and the large gold coins into copper coins.
Imagine their shock when the currency stored in their vaults suddenly lost most of its value overnight.
Now then—time to pay the company director a little visit.
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Skills: Reverse, Divine Eye, Sword God
Thank you as always for reading!