Chapter 52: Fishing (1/2)

The next morning, everyone gathered for breakfast stared at the 『Red Oath』.

Bart + Maevis + Mile + Rena + Pauline

“What are you doing, what is it …?” (Brett)

Brett, the leader of 『Flame Wolf』somehow get heavy breath. Others are similar.

Only the client and Bart, the leader of the『Dragon Breath』remain calm, it seems they have known.

And what they saw …

Miles and Rena are wearing Ekland School’s uniform

And Pauline also wore Ekland school’s PE clothes.

It was a plan of Rena for thieves fishing.

While Mile was still in school, she was in school uniform all the time except when she was in bed. And when the uniform become small, she has traded it with larger one a number of times. The last one she trade is a little larger and it was the only one would fit Rena’s body.

And Maevis-san was aware. Although she was pretending like she don’t want to but Rena actually pretty happy. (T.N: something like “I’m the one who propose this so It can’t be help, I’m only wear it because I don’t want only Mile become the bait alone”)

And only Pauline was unfortunate.

While she is still a child but a certain part of her body is really big. She can’t fit with any of Mile’s uniforms, she can only wear PE clothes, the only one that can expand.

Even so, Pauline who was wearing it was …, it was a bit too lumpy here and there …

“Fu, fue ~e~e~e…” (Pauline)

It’s the only good clothes that Mile has, that can make them a bait to lure bandits.

Rena’s cheek is a little red and Pauline’s face is really red as she’s embarrassed. And Maevis is wry looking at them. Mile is just smiling happy.

After the meal, everyone clean and prepare to depart. Each member of the『Red Oath』 is sitting respectively on each carriage. (to lure bandits)

“Thank you for your consideration” (Mile)

The old man, who is the owner of the leading carriage smiled as he at Mile, he responded with laughter.

“Oh, don’t worry and thank you for the meat yesterday” (Merchant)

And while they are travel, Mile was learning how to manipulate the horse-drawn carriage and talking various story with the old man.

“No no, I was retiring long time ago. I knew Amuros is suffer a lot from bandits and I also heard that a group of my friends are gathering carriages to help Amuros. It is a dangerous road, I thought it would be better if for an old man like me die than the young merchant.

They are also thinking the same with me, 4 out of 6 retired old friends of mine.

Also, my daughter and her husband are doing business with Amuros. If they get attacked by the bandits, it will be serious.

I thought that I had lived long enough and I have no regret in life. And finally, we can do something worthwhile in the last days of our old lifes. The goddess is also doing something stylish. Fu ha ha ha!” (Merchant)

“A ha ha…” (Mile)

Mile thought while she wry reply to the old merchant.

(Sorry, but I will not let you or anyone to die here, please look for another place to die)

There were several reasons why Maevis, Pauline, and Mile became interested in this request. Of course there is something about Rena, but it did not change everyone’s mind just for that reason.

First, the reason why request fee was cheap for danger level.

This is because the budget was limited as a whole merchant group aren’t travel for the profit purpose. And many goods with low profit margins were loaded, they only carry the most necessary items to Amuros where merchants have stopped.

No matter how we look at them, they can’t do things like that as merchants, business that risked their life with no profit from the beginning.

Next, it is a question of whether to take escort for the purpose of killing thieves.

The merchants’s purpose to take escort hunters are “to kill the thieves”, not to protect the merchants or goods. This request is deemed to recuit “an escort but also a request for subjugation”.

Of course, we are still not sure whether thieves will attack or not. If that happen the merchants will trade with Amuros like normal, and thieves aren’t working every day. Also, we don’t even know the thieves have already moved to another country. In the end, the probability of being attacked is slightly higher than the ordinary escort request. It was completely depend on luck. Regarding that point, the three people have their own thoughts, and they decided to accept the request.

Regarding “Cute clothes strategy”, Maevis who is vanguard and a swordsman so she can’t fight in a skirt with no armor protection, it also take a lof time to wear armor, excluded the fact that Mile’s clothes can’t be worn.

Rena and Pauline are also wearing because they are magician, it isn’t take long to wear their robe over the uniform. Especially Mile, her body is sturdy than even armore.

Rena has no right to deny because she is the one who propose this strategy.

And Pauline was unable to escape, she became a companion for the other two with full power. And it was a catastrophe that there was only exercise clothes that she is able to wear.

Maevis was pretending like other hunters by herself.

So in the early moring of second day, Rena, Pauline and Mile are clothes that Mile provide.

The reason why they didn’t wear it from the first day is the thieves will not come out near the kingdom capital. But of course the main reason is that Mile don’t want anyone in the Kingdom suspect her to be a Ekland student.

As they practiced fast wearing protective gear many times beforehand, and it was okay if they didn’t receive a surprise attack. Well, originally the magician doesn’t have melee battle and the leather or robe armor can’t block attacks from swords and spears anyway.

While Mile is talking with the merchants, there’s a response to the search magic that was secretly developed.

(Well, this is … Orc, six of them)

Mile jumped from the coach to the top of the horse-drawn carriage and signaled to the rear carriage with a hand signal.

The following carriage slowly stopped, Mile, after confirmed it, jump off to the Carriage and ran forward.

(… there!)

Mile hide behind big trees and looked at the situation.

As expected, 6 orcs. If we keep traveling as we are, we will encounter them soon. There is no choice but to fight here.

As Mile thought so, she take out the sling shot from the item box, grasp it on the left hand and take out the iron balls just like pachinko ball with her right hand fingers.

(I wonder why the iron balls I ask nano-machine making is same with the Iron balls use in Pachinko game … maybe because of my past life memory have some affect on my command to nano-machine or something)

Well, there’s no use thinking about something like that. I put an iron ball in a sling shot, aka: 『pachinko bullet shooter』.

The reason I’m not using pebble this time is because orc have quite thick skin and meat, unlike small animals. I’m worried that pebbles will be crumbled and dispersed in the meat because the meat was thick. No one want to eat meat with sand on them, and we don’t have a decent dentist. I wonder if healing magic will restore teeth? Or after the old ones are missing and the new ones will grow? In any case, Mile doesn’t want to try it.

No, maybe a stone can be chewed? Digestive, absorption and become nutrition …