Chapter 157: Fate of the assailants (1/2)

Chapter 157: Fate of the assailants

Translator: Tseirp

Since then, we could not find the slave merchant no matter how hard we searched.

Although there were many with serious injuries among the former slaves who received the attack from that slave merchant, miraculously, there were no casualties.

I had no choice but to drink MP potions and heal the former slaves until the point where they would not pass away.

“Nevertheless, I did not expect the ones who were slashed by Shisho and Lionel to still be alive.”

At that time, I saw them heroically slice them so I thought that they had been killed for sure but I was amazed when I found out that every one of them was still alive.

“Luciel, look at them closely. These guys are not all slaves right? The attackers were actually a coalition of slaves, bandits, adventurers and some country’s private soldiers. We tried to deceive the enemy to extract information.”

“Information huh … Shisho. Even so, don’t you think you went a bit too far?”

Shisho laughed.

Just as I was about to ask if he didn’t understand what I meant, Lionel also grinned and answered for Shisho.

“Luciel-sama, even if it’s Whirlwind, it’s impossible to completely defend against that number of combined attacks. Though he would not suffer any injuries if he stood at that front during his prime …”

“He probably totally hasn’t noticed but there’s no need to lie to Luciel. Both this guy and I intentionally made it look like we were injured.”

“???”

Question marks lined up within my head.

“Ha~. Just by showing cuts on a single layer of thin skin to make an advantageous situation for the enemy, he will usually get drunk on himself and willfully become talkative right?”

“That’s right. By showing like we were injured, we finally got the mastermind to appear just when Luciel-sama arrived.”

Shisho spat out a huge sigh as he taught me the strategy of pretending to struggle like in a difficult fight.

Furthermore, Lionel explained to me the situation at that time but there were points where I was unconvinced.

However, was everything Lionel said just now a lie? I considered if that was Lionel’s own way of accurately discerning Shisho’s condition.

When I thought about that, I felt that perhaps Shisho’s combat intuition might have dulled.

… Shisho spends most of his time in the Adventurer’s Guild’s training ground.

Was that not meant to cultivate combat intuition? It is often the case in my previous life, as the years go by, what could be done in the past can no longer be done.

I don’t know the Shisho of the past but compared to his adventuring time where he fought with burning life force, it’s possible enough that the sense that is not reflected in skill and status may be dulled for the Shisho who continuously stays inside the Adventurer’s Guild.

The highest numeric value for status exist but it does not mean that a person will consistently remain in the state of having the highest stats.

Is Shisho not still in the condition of test running if he can regain his actual combat intuition?

I reached that conclusion.

“Shisho, has your combat sense and combat intuition returned? Didn’t Shisho intentionally allow a thin layer of skin of yours to be cut for the sake of cultivating them?”

Like in combat training? I posed that question.

” … Just a bit. These guys’ individual abilities are so-so but they were able to cooperate to an abnormal extent so I’ve returned to having combat power equal to current A-rank adventurers. Well, even though their quality was poor maybe because it’s a coalition, regardless of their scattered attack timing, they launched the worst kind of attacks where they attacked even their own companions so it was fun.”

Shisho said as if to shake off the anxious expression on my face as he gave his report on his analysis of the opponents and the situation.

I realized it was rather foolish to worry about this battle maniac.

“I don’t know how strong an A-rank adventurer is but if it was me, I would have died multiple times.”

“If you’d die from something of that extent, you’ll really die during training.”

Ah, I dug my own grave … those eyes were eyes that told me he’ll half-kill me if I disappoint him.

My knees trembled at the sight of those eyes that I have not seen in a long while.

I’ll change the topic.

Since I might die if the topic continues …

“Ev, even so, you did a good job not killing them despite having to fend off that number of attacks.”

“In the beginning, I thought that it couldn’t be helped if I killed them but the ones apart from the slaves who had no choice but to fight were weak. If it’s just to hold out against those people, Luciel should also be able to do it.”

“Really?”

It seems like Shisho acknowledged my growth.

“Since I trained you so much, you won’t lose consciousness just from pain right? Also, if you can use healing magic as well, it shouldn’t be a problem if you only need to stall for time.”

Well, he didn’t say that I would be able to fight them though.

I wonder if I have grown as a warrior?

“Luciel-sama, that’s Whirlwind’s way of hiding his embarrassment. This time, your excellent judgment of the situation and healing magic saved everyone including me. If you were slightly later, we would have no choice but to kill them.”

“Well, that’s true. Since the slaves were tied down by a curse. There should definitely be ones among them who were forcibly turned into slaves. That’s why it was a great help when you dispelled them from slavery.”

… Even though I’ve been thinking about this and that since just now, I was still convinced that these 2 are in another dimension.

They probably thought of disabling the enemies without killing them even under those circumstances.

If they unleashed their full strength, it would have ended without my intervention.

Well, thinking about it calmly, that’s only natural.

But then, I was curious as to why these 2 did not capture the slave merchant.

” … But, I’m curious about that slave merchant.”

“Luciel, I’ll tell you beforehand, the one we saw was a fake.”

“Ha?”

“I threw a stone at him when I saw a chance but it passed through him.”

There’s probably a reason why they didn’t tell me that.

If that’s the case, I’ll ask about another question I had.

” … We were targeted because I purchased the sisters but even so, didn’t he take action too soon?”

“You’re right. For him to invest this amount of combat force that can be said to be abnormal just to capture the sisters. His aim might possibly be Blange instead.”

“What do you mean?”