Yorii Tsugikuni Must Do Something Chapter 27

This way, he could get an opportunity for a promotion.

"Alright, see you all on the workday."

"Oh, right, Yorii, you should take this first."

Sayo said goodbye to everyone at the street corner.

She thought for a moment, then took out a money pouch and stuffed it into Yorii Tsugikuni's hand.

She naturally knew that they had just arrived in the Imperial Capital and didn't have much money on them.

Yorii Tsugikuni also needed money to go to the bookstore.

"Thank you."

Yorii Tsugikuni didn't refuse. He nodded to Sayo and bid her farewell.

The sun in the west plopped down behind the mountains, splashing a patch of red haze across the azure sky.

The next day at noon.

On a street within the Imperial Capital.

Yorii Tsugikuni was walking slowly down the street.

He had already visited over a dozen bookstores that morning.

'This is the most comprehensive map available, yet it doesn't show even a trace of my hometown.'

Holding the map he had just bought not long ago.

Yorii Tsugikuni felt a bit disappointed.

He had carefully examined the map over and over, but he couldn't find any clues about his hometown.

A thought slowly emerged in his mind.

'Could this be an unfamiliar world?'

Yorii Tsugikuni shook his head, feeling a bit lost.

He found everything before him difficult to accept, so after the thought surfaced in his mind.

He felt it was too absurd.

However, everything he had experienced during this time undeniably proved that this absurd thought might actually be the truth.

'There must be another way.'

'I will definitely find my hometown.'

Walking forward, Yorii Tsugikuni quickly dispelled the confusion in his eyes.

He, who was usually unfazed by anything, felt a strange sense of panic at this moment.

"Creak..."

Yorii Tsugikuni pushed open the door of another bookstore.

He began to look for books.

"Excuse me, do you have any maps or similar books?"

A young man with green hair was sitting in the bookstore, reading a book with his head down. He hadn't even looked up when Yorii Tsugikuni entered.

Only when Yorii Tsugikuni asked did he reply indifferently, "The last row, the bottom ones."

Hearing the young man's words, Yorii Tsugikuni walked towards the last row.

At this moment, the bookstore door rang again.

"It's time to go."

"See you at the usual spot."

Yorii Tsugikuni's hand, reaching for the map, paused slightly. He heard a familiar voice.

Just as he was starting to feel confused, the person who had entered the bookstore had already left and disappeared.

"How much?"

"One gold coin."

Arriving at the counter, Yorii Tsugikuni inquired about the price.

The young man looked up at him and quickly gave the quote.

Although it was a brief moment, Yorii Tsugikuni noticed a flash of hostility in the young man's eyes the instant he looked at him.

'Is it someone from Night Raid?'

Yorii Tsugikuni paid and left. He had no enemies in the Imperial Capital.

The only ones who could harbor hostility towards him were those from Night Raid, whom he had encountered before.

Glancing back at the bookstore, he could roughly confirm that this bookstore in front of him was very likely one of Night Raid's hideouts or something similar.

'Judging from the conversation just now.'

'They seem to have some new action.'

Chapter 42: Problems with the Guard, Encounter in the Flower District

Yorii Tsugikuni didn't press the issue further. He quickly left, holding the map.

He had no interest in getting involved with Night Raid.

Currently, his greatest desire was still to find the location of his hometown as soon as possible.

"Looks like I wasted another gold coin."

Opening the map he had just bought, Yorii Tsugikuni examined it carefully.

He shook his head in disappointment.

This map, like the previous ones, had no familiar place names marked on it.

The only improvement was that this map looked a bit more professional.

'Could my hometown exist in the places not marked on this map?'

Yorii Tsugikuni looked at the area marked as the sea on the map and began to ponder what kind of world lay on the other side of the ocean.

However, he soon had a new problem.

Crossing the sea wouldn't be easy.

It required not only a large ship but also a crew.

Putting this thought aside, Yorii Tsugikuni continued walking forward.

He decided that if he couldn't find any news, he would cross the ocean to see for himself.

And so, Yorii Tsugikuni spent another afternoon searching.

Naturally, the result was not satisfactory.

Still no results.

"Master, over here."

As Yorii Tsugikuni reached a street corner, he saw Sayo and Tatsumi waving at him from a distance.

They were both carrying some books.

"How was your day?"

Yorii Tsugikuni asked as the two ran towards him.

Unlike him, who was out browsing bookstores, they had gone out with Sayo early in the morning to conduct their patrols.

"We didn't find much today, but we've narrowed down the search area further."

"Sister Sayo asked us to bring these books to you."

Sayo held up the books in her hands and smiled at Yorii Tsugikuni.

"You two go back first."

"I'm going to check ahead a bit more, and I'll be back after I'm done."

After greeting them, Yorii Tsugikuni continued walking forward.

He decided that on his way back that night, he would also look for any signs of demons.

"Then, Master, don't be too late."

Sayo watched Yorii Tsugikuni's retreating back with some concern.

She added as a reminder.

"Okay."

Yorii Tsugikuni turned and nodded at Sayo.

After visiting the remaining few bookstores, Yorii Tsugikuni walked out of a bookstore.

It was completely dark outside.

"When I get paid, I'm going up there to have some fun too."

"Who isn't? Our captain is great; we don't even have to spend our own money."

Yorii Tsugikuni emerged from an alleyway and entered a street lined with red lanterns.

Two guardsmen squatting on the ground, smoking something that looked like a rolled-up paper, caught his attention.

From their conversation, he gathered a lot of information.

'Is this place also called the Flower District?'

Looking at the flashing sign at the street entrance, and the scantily clad women smiling and posing on either side of the street in the distance, Yorii Tsugikuni remembered that there were places called Flower Districts in his hometown too.

He also knew what the people here were doing.

'It seems there are significant problems within the guard force as well.'

The captain of the guard, Yorii Tsugikuni knew who it was naturally. When he first joined the guard, he had met the captain of the guard, Oka.

However, after joining the guard, because he was often paired with Sayo to complete missions, his contact with Oka became very infrequent.

The guard captain named Oka had an excellent reputation within the guard.

Yorii Tsugikuni had heard Sayo praise him more than once.

But judging by the current situation, the captain was clearly not entirely the kind of person who criminals feared like a demon, as his reputation suggested.

He had other, unknown sides to him as well.

Yorii Tsugikuni shook his head and didn't linger.

He had no interest in exploring Oka's peculiar preferences.

Joining the guard in the first place had only been a temporary stop.

"Bang!"

The moment Yorii Tsugikuni turned around, a huge sound erupted behind him.

A tall, burly man clad in armor was sent flying backward from a second-floor room, crashing heavily onto the street.

Yorii Tsugikuni turned around and recognized the man as Oka at a glance.

At this moment, Oka was clutching his neck, which had been cut open and was bleeding profusely, looking with resentment towards the second floor.

Yorii Tsugikuni immediately went to Oka's side.

And just then, from a nearby alley, a heavy and rapid set of footsteps appeared.

Merely from the sound of those heavy footsteps, one could tell.

The one arriving was undoubtedly an extremely robust individual.