Chapter 32 (2/2)
Ahー, mou! I can’t get through with words! It’s okay to counterattack right?! It’s legitimate self-defense!
「teyaa!」
Repelling the sword strike with my dagger, I gather up my ki and strike his defenseless solar plexus with a savate.
The man easily fainted.
「This guy! Oi, lets surround her!」
Looking at the man who fainted, the other men began to rouse up.
Four people began to spread out and surround me.
I take out my bokutou and prepare to fight back.
「Take this!」
The men at the front and back each began to attack.
「fu」
Stepping up and aiming at the man at the front, I swing my bokutou between his legs.
A somewhat unpleasant feeling transmitted through my bokutou, with this they’ve lost two people for their battle strength.
The other men stiffens up after seeing that.
「Uwa, how horrible…」
As the ones who suddenly attacked me, what are you saying?
With this chance, I face the man behind me and swing my bokutou.
Although the man tried to react, I strike his hands before he could grasp onto his sword.
Aiming at the area between his legs, I swing as I scoop up my bokutou.
The man immediately drew his feet back and sw.a.n.g his sword in order to defend.
Therefore I kick the ground with all my strength, using the momentum from the jump, I draw out my bokutou and take a swing aimed at his jaw.
Hit, and sink.3
The third person. Two people remaining.
The two remaining people started to attack mutually.
With the exchanges of each strike, I ward them off with my bokutou.
Mutually, yet cooperatively, their strikes are getting considerably severe.4
If I try to evade and counterattack the first person’s attack, the second person’s attack will come.
At times I cannot receive their attacks with my bokutou, although it’s hard, it’s still made from wood. It’s gradually being shaved off.
Because my bokutou won’t last at this rate, I’ll end it immediately.5
Infusing ki into my bokutou, I strike a single blow onto the stomach of the incoming sword, with his posture collapsed, I draw out mybokutou and take a swing aimed at his stomach.
With that, it’s the fourth person.
However, even with 4 men collapsed on the other side, the last person’s attack still came.
Although I instantly repelled it with my bokutou, the bokutou came to an end and broke.
When the fifth person saw that, he expressed a smile and a broad grin, the opponent can still swing his sword.6
With a fragment of my bokutou at hand, I aimed it at his face and threw it.
Kon!
The hit gave off a satisfying sound.
As he leaned back from the result from the impact, I elbowed his stomach. With his body slightly collapsing, I once again force my elbow into his solar plexus.
With this, the 5 people come to an end.
If they hadn’t been careless at the beginning and cooperated instead, I would’ve been in danger. Because of the three people that fainted from my surprise attacks, I was saved… Why would these people attack me?
For the time being, although I don’t understand the situation well, I decide to tie up these men with a rope. It would be troublesome if they woke up and attacked me again ne.
Because I had plans to descend down a steep slope, it’s a good thing I brought a large amount of rope.
I tie up the 5 men’s hands and feet, furthermore, I tie the ropes on their hands and feet together so that they won’t be able to get up.
It’s the so-called taiikuzuwari posture.
Finis.h.i.+ng tying up all the members, as I was thinking back on what happened, the first man that fainted recovered this consciousness. Since this is a good time, I’ll listen his story.
「Good morning.」
The man who recovered his consciousness looked at me after hearing my voice, his body trembled in alarm.
「You! How dare you do this!」7
While shouting, he tries to stand up, but his hands and feet are tied.
Without any change, he falls down sideways with a koten.
「s.h.i.+t, untie me!」
「Don’t want to. Aren’t you going to just attack me again once I untie you? Leaving that aside, I want to hear why you suddenly attacked me.」
「Haa? What’re you saying? Even though you received a commission from the guild to search for them. What’re the contents of the commission? Our capture? Or is it the search for the children? Don’t ya think it’s a little late now to ask me about it.」
Ha? What does he mean?
「The guild has put out a commission for the capture of you and your friends? And the search of the children, what do you mean by that?」
「What the h.e.l.l are you saying. The parents of the children we kidnapped put up a commission at the guild. You accepted it and came here in order to search. Ain’t that how it went.」
fumu?
「So you’re saying, you guys are a group of kidnappers that kidnapped children, so you attacked me because I came here?」
「That’s what I meant isn’t it. s.h.i.+t, even though we were planning to leave this place tomorrow, how unlucky.」
I see, I was mistaken as an adventurer that came here in order to search for the children, so they attacked me.
Ahh, come to think of it, the owner of the inn and also the receptionist onee-san have been saying「Recently, I’ve heard a number of children have been kidnapped so please be careful」or something like that.
So it means these people are criminals?
「I understand the story. And so, where are the kidnapped children?」
「Aa? The bas.e.m.e.nt. There’s five people together in there.」
「You’re awfully obedient ne?」
「I’ve already been caught. There’s no use hiding it right? Besides, you’ll discover it immediately if you investigate a little.」
Uーn…, now that I know, I can’t leave this as it is…
There’s no other way, the s.h.i.+p has already sailed.
I’ll rescue the children for the time being.
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