Chapter 121 (1/2)

「Ugh, what happened to me?」

Whoosh, a gust of wind shook my body and I woke up. I put my hands over my face, and tried to wake my body up.

I looked around the inside of my wagon.

「This is…oh yeah! The drug!」

Thinking back about what had happened, I tried to get out of the wagon, but the things I wanted weren’t there any longer.

「Ah, ah! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Those bastaaaaaards!」

Gone, gone, gone!

The wagons with my things, gone!

I looked around, and the only thing remaining was the wagon I had slept in, and the horses connected to the wagon.

「Damn, damn, damn,damn,damn,damn,damn,!!! Aghghhh!! Damn all this crap happening to me nowwwww!!」

No idea about what happened, or how, or what was happening now, no ability to know what’s going on, but one thing I knew, that all my money had been taken.

Not one penny left.

That horrific phrase clung to the back of my mind.

「Agahh! Ah! No, noooo!!」

And the darkness outside permeating everything.

What time is it? It felt like I took a road deeper and deeper into the thick blackness by mistake.

「Uhhh…what is this? Why? Why did this happen to me?」

Even after trying to shake it off over and over, the darkness remained, almost laughing at me, and then…

「No, I’m okay. I…can still make it from here!」

Grip, I squeezed the bag that was around my neck.

This may have been the reason that I lived.

That sweet flowery smell. Someone used a magical poison, and tried to take my life.

And also, the money in this bag is enough to easily start a new company I can make money from.

Just relax, just think about getting to the imperial city alive.

「Phew, huff, for me to have to drive the wagon myself…」

I got my senses back after breathing deeply, and hurried onto the driver’s seat.

I didn’t have any experience as a driver, but it didn’t seem like it took a lot of knowledge. Maybe I should have jumped on a horse instead of riding a cart, but that seemed more dangerous than riding this wagon.

「Let’s go you horses!」

「『『Winnnnyyy!?』』」

I let my instincts take over as I hit the horses harder than I should have and the horses ran off again.

I rode down the path with the rumbling sound of the wagon and a feeling like I had escaped.

I looked around me as I rode, and I could see the moon shine here and there.

「Tch, I was thinking of getting farther from the town before I rested, but now I should run until I get to the next boarding town.」

There was no question if I could keep pushing these horses and this wagon too.

Because I had slept, and the anger that consumed me, I had no feeling of drowsiness whatsoever.

I did have a warm feeling of being drunk from that drug, as I whipped the horses again.

Just then.

「『『Kweeeeehhhh!』』」

「What? A group of magic monsters?」

The horses cried right before a bunch of monsters jumped onto the road.

They had the special water-colored, transparent body.

「『『Heeeheeeeeen!』』」

「S…slime! Why here?」

The horses stopped moving, and the wagon stopped as well.

However, I didn’t have time to answer the question I asked.

「『Buhheeeeen? Heen!』」「『Heheeeen?!』」

「Stop, wait, dammit!」

Without being able to do a thing, the group of slimes attacked the horses.

With the horses still connected to the wagon they couldn’t move and their bodies were quickly surrounded by the slime’s bodies.

Fwussshhhhh, the sound of melting meat and smoke.

I went to jump off the driver’s seat and ran off into the woods.

Slimes were different from magic beasts like garms, goblins, and orcs.

They had no sense of a full stomach.

After they consumed all the horses from the wagon, they would come after me.

Anyway, I should get away as far as I can for now.

However, bad luck just seemed to have come for me in waves.

「『Gyupiraaah!』」

「Another slime?!」

I thought that this was the end of the line, and I now ran straight away from the new slime.

「Eek, eek, damn, damn! Dammit all!」

Frustration, anger, confusion, misgivings, trouble, irritation.

All of these emotions welled up in me as I screamed while running through the constantly rustling trees and shrubs within the forest.

「Ah, ang…ah, I’m, I’m, the Grond…trading company’s…head, why the…」

How long did I run anyway?

I hid myself behind a tree until the monsters approached again and then took off once I heard them coming.

Doing that over and over, I was now chased deep into the forest.

Because of my lack of exercise, I couldn’t catch my breath, and my legs were aching.