The Grim Reaper, shrouded in darkness, swears fealty to a lazy, greedy saint

Chapter 44 The Hired Man

　It was noon the next day.

　I, Noah-sama, and, incidentally, Auger were walking around the area to show them around the mansion.

　Steer is secretly having a look at the memories of everyone in the Gift family.

"Mr Auger, this is..." (Noah)

"Hm, I see. This is..." (Auger)

　While Noah-sama and the others were talking, I was thinking.

　I had the feeling that someone was watching us.

　The scout of the Gift family that Noah-sama mentioned, the outlaw who is watching Noah-sama.

　I absolutely need to kill him, but I can't see him.

(Is he using water-based invisibility magic to make himself invisible? No, that would be tripped by my bio-sensing. Does this mean that the surveillance has not started yet and the gaze I feel is just my imagination? No, Noah-sama is intentionally giving priority to walking in a place with a good view, so Noah-sama feels it too. (Which means---)

　I look around to see where he is, but he is nowhere to be found.

　I look for traces of them while trying not to move away from Noah-sama and the others.

"......... hmm?" (Kuro)

　I looked carefully and found something strange.

(Water droplets? And in a weird shape, why wouldn't it fall down at that angle?)

　I found a fingertip-sized drop of water on a nearby pillar.

　I looked around and saw it everywhere.

　This shape. A strange oval shape.

　A lens?

　In other words.

"Noah-sama, something has come up. I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to ask to step aside for a moment." (Kuro)

"Yes, I understand." (Noah)

　I followed the droplets of water.

　In other words, the scouts were watching Noah with a lens created by water.

　They probably installed it last night.

　Using the light reflection of the water at an exquisite angle, he has turned his own eyes themselves into a machine that reflects the images much like a surveillance camera.

　But since only the bare minimum was installed so as not to be unnatural, it seems there was no room to set up a dummy.

　In other words, if we could predict and follow the direction of the next lens from the angle of this droplet of water, we would reach the scouts.

I run through the mansion and eventually get outside.

　I followed the lenses here and there: on the pillars, on the walls, in the corners of the floor, on the trees.

　Then, on one of the myriad of trees, I detected a bio-sign.

"I found you." (Kuro)

　Seven years have passed since I became Noah-sama's follower.

　I have been working hard to protect her.

　Not only magic. I've been training my physical abilities to a level unimaginable in my previous life, and I've even taken advantage of the fact that I'm surrounded by a forest to try my hand at parkour.

　Now it has paid off.

"It's an auspicious attitude not to run away." (Kuro)

".................."(Spy)