Chapter 14 (1/2)

Chapter 14 - No way I'd stay with a guy going on about love hotels

”Actually, wait a second! Aren't town guards supposed to protect public order!?”

”Yes, and?”

The troop leader answered Tomochika with the same confidence as before

Blonde hair, blue eyes and sharp facial features; certainly not japanese, but fluent in the language nonetheless

”So you sahat happened! We were about to get kidnapped, why didn't you interfere!?”

”That would be what you call a sreat cause It sees! We were investigating a criet the nobles connected to it”

”So you wanted to track where ould be sold off to?”

Yogiri made sure to speak in a polite tone There was no reason to needlessly resist, after all

”Exactly! Even if we had captured the with We'd know, because we've repeated that mistake over and over already!”

”Takatoo-kun This world really does lack decent people”

He could only agree, although he was thinking the woman wasinvestigation results, bragging about them even, couldn't be normal

”Well, then it's a sha May we leave now?”

Yogiri played innocent

It would have been easy to kill theovernh this situation then that would be for the best

”That's precisely it! Based on what it looked like they all began dying on the spot, indeed Mostyou two, the ones that saw it all fros”

”Aren't you worried ittoo close in that case would be dangerous, wouldn't it?”

Yogiri wasn't a fan of unnecessarily digging too deep into things, but he thought it strange and asked her about it

”Of course, the possibility that you two are responsible for this is certainly there You are the ones that were about to be abducted, after all However! We possess the celestial protection of saints! The gifts of japanese, those bestowed to thees, do not work on us! How do you like that! I can tell by your look you didn't know that, did you? Hht up with youuu?”

She se candidates into a corner

Since the source of the candidates' gifts were the sages it would only ifts bestowed by them There was ifts, which would indeed raise a need for the protectors of public order to have ies with powers given by theiri started to feel like he could understand the general gist of things

Sages su a new sage froes then summon new candidates themselves, and the cycle repeats There most likely existed a hierarchy where those of lower rank could iher rank

”Er, no No anxiety here Not like we have gifts in the first place”

”What!? Oi, George! analyze theifts I don't see any traces ofdone anything is loould say”

The ht answered He, too, spoke natural japanese

”How can this be!?”

She flared up at Yogiri, asn't particularly distraught

”No point in asking me, I have no clue either”

”Then why did you lie! Doesn't that justquestioned for an explanation on the situation Sorry, but we don't knohat happened here ourselves Even if we had told you the people around us started collapsing and dying out of nowhere, wouldn't that have been difficult to believe?”

”daet to work! We have to exauardswo to the back of the blind alley

”Sorry about that, you two A surprise interrogation like that must have been unpleasant But trust me, the commander's not a bad person She just has a, well, really bad case of tunnel vision”

The ized to the has been cleared up This is a question purely out of curiosity, but you were planning on letting us be kidnapped, right?”

”It pains me to address it so bluntly, but yes, we concluded that you wouldn't be killed i to carry out our investigation”