Chapter 62: – Arrival at Mining Town Vesta (1/2)

We were waiting in front of a cave, which was the Twin Magicians’ hideout, for Shia to come back from calling Gomugo and the others.

To assure them that we did defeat the magicians, Shia brought with her ornaments belonging to them and a portion of the goods the merchants were dealing in.

We tied up the defeated magicians, blindfolded them, and put them to sleep.

Just in case, we separated the two and restrained them in different locations.

The woman we saved was tired and thus was sleeping with her head on Snow’s lap.

Even while she was lending her lap, Snow kept her ears listening in all directions.

Chrisse was watching out all around her, just like Snow.

I left the girls with the lookout and went collecting the Ogre fangs to exchange for rewards.

With a knife, I cut off the long canines at the root one ogre at a time.

There were also unrecoverable ones, having been smashed by an AK-47’s 7.62mm Russian Shot rounds.

Once I roughly finished, I went back to Snow and Chrisse.

The fangs were put in a leather bag that was hanging from my waist.

I joined the girls on the lookout.

“But we were able to kill them more easily than expected, huh?”

While keeping vigilant, I started some small talk.

I gave an impression of how we fought for real this time.

“Could it be that we’re, like, pretty strong ?”

“Yeah, I think we’re pretty strong, especially since Chrisse-chan’s sniper rifle is a menace to magicians.They can’t sense magic from it at all, and it has enough attack power to give an instant death from over a long distance. You’re almost at a certain-death level as a magician-killer.”

[Lute-oniichan and Snow-oneechan are strong, too.]

Chrisse wrote on the mini-blackboard, while she was embarrassed.

It’s true even now that as long as the number is reasonable, we can take most of the opponents down easily.

But personally, I wanted a little more firepower.

(When this quest is over, maybe I should make a squad-support weapon.)

While I was idly thinking, Shia returned with a horned horse in tow.

“Shia, thanks for the hard word. How’s Gomugo-san and everyone?”

“Thanks to the merchants cargo that young master told me to bring along, I was able to make them believe easily.”

“That’s good then. Are Gomugo-san and everyone coming to this open ground ?”

“Yes, they’ve come with me. They were extremely shocked when they heard the news of us defeating the Twin Magicians.”

Maybe Shia recalled the faces of those guys when they heard her report or something, because the corner of her mouth raised as she grinned to herself.

It looked like she had a lot of fun.

If I could have, I’d like to see it too.

“Understood. Well, then what are we even waiting for? Let’s go!”

We woke the woman up and had her walk with us.

I loaded the group of defeated magicians onto the horse’s back like luggage.

After I had Shia burn away the corpses of the ogres, we returned to the open ground where Gomugo-san was waiting.

The woman we rescued met with the merchant who informed us of the danger, then she bursted out crying.

Probably from the relief of seeing an acquaintance’s face.

Her clothes were dirty, so we gave her Snow’s, who has a similar physique.

We also gave her hot water and a towel to wipe herself, and we suggested to her to change her clothes inside of our wagon.

The merchant tried to reward us with money, but we declined.

We didn’t do it, because we wanted a reward or something.

Also, their cargo was still left in front of the cave, but we could only leave it by then.

That’s because we didn’t have the wagons and people to transport it.