Chapter 12.1 (1/2)

変質者との遭遇

TL : Cnine

ED/PF : akshaythedon

Guests are chatting inside the bar located in the outer city of Holy Republic Lenaria.

Judging by their appearances, they maybe people who belong to soldier battalion.

Or rather, they look like ruffians.

I’m listening attentively.

「Oi, did you hear, it seems the hero Reiji failed in demon king’s subjugation!」

「I heard about that, too. From what I know, isn’t he currently on the verge of dying from several grievous wounds」

「That strength. I never imagined that hero-sama will be defeated.  As I thought, the extermination of the demon king is too much for a mere human, right？ 」

「See, even the strongest hero isn’t a match against the demon king…」

「No, I heard that the one who beat the hero isn’t the demon king」

「WHAT！ ！ REALLY！ ！ 」

「Yeah, I heard that he was defeated by the dark king, the demon king’s underling」

「He~, this is the first time I heard that the demon king has such a powerful underling」

「Yeah, but that has caused a problem」

「Problem？」

「The demon king, for some reason, has never come out from Nargol until now. However, this person seems to be different 」

「WHAT！ ！ Are you saying that the dark knight will come to attack us？ 」

「I’m not sure for the time being. But, it seems that the demons became even more active after the hero was injured. There are some rumors saying that the dark knight has attacked various place by leading flocks of demons」

「It’s the dark knight after the hero… What an awful world…」

I’m not drinking liquor but just sitting on the nearby chair, listening to their conversation.

The rumor that have been mentioned are far from the truths.

I have no intention to attack at all. In the first place, Modes also has no intention of destroying the human race. Or so at least from what I heard from him.

I’m looking at the guests who are drinking their liquor.

The liquor present in their wooden mugs is liquor made from fermented wheat and is called ale.

It’s something like the beer in my world.

Though I have never drank beer or ale, I feel that ale may not be as delicious as beer.

Anyway, that’s because this world has no refrigerator.

For the ale to be not cold is just normal.

Nevertheless, I managed to hear a rumor about Reiji.

As expected, Reiji and co. have made their base in this city.

「Diehart-dono…」

I hear a voice from below the chair. There’s a rat below my chair.

Nut was collecting information in the Rena temple located right in the middle of Holy Republic Lenaria.

「Welcome back, Nut. Shall we go back to our base then？ 」

I’m going back toward Dozumi’s hut along with Nut.

Dozumi isn’t in this place anymore.

He already left this country.

No, it’s not just Dozumi.

It seems that the members of the soldier troop to which he belonged to is gone too.

It might be because they are afraid of Reiji’s retaliation.

「Diehart-sama. That’s the situation of the temple」

I’m hearing about the temple from Nut.

According to Nut, the temple jad been built by the dwarves.

It seems the dwarves are quite formidable in construction.

Naturally, the knights who monitor the temple are rigorously selected from the elites, so the security is also strict.

But, the problem is the magic alarms that are installed in various places in this temple which number more than the knight’s headcount.

This alarm device, made by the dwarves, is capable of seeing through half-hearted invisibility magic or other such methods at once.

That’s why I believe there’s a high possibility that Reiji and the rest are in this temple.

It’s hard to infiltrate into Rena temple due to how strengthened the line of defense is, so I was waiting for Nut to come back.