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

I didn’t understand how it led to Blange.

“He had eyes fraught with madness … those are eyes from a person who was robbed of people or something important to him by an unreasonable power. Because Grandol is a country where the Adventurer’s Guild operates in, even though it looks uncivilized but an adventurer’s rank is everything. If something evil is done, a high ranker from the guild headquarters will mobilize to fix the problem so even if it’s a grudge towards a single person, he won’t think of destroying the world. … If it reached that point, his opponent should either be an organization, nobility or a country. It’s because those sisters were born in Blange. Although we won’t know the actual truth without catching him.”

This person really puts the pieces together quickly.

If it’s an organization … won’t it be fine if we ask the attackers who these 2 thought they seem to be a country’s private soldiers?

“Even so, why Blange?”

“Intuition. However, without knowing who the sisters know, why they were so persistently attacked and if I am to elaborate further, looking at the private soldiers there, it might be violence that can escalate to an international issue.”

Even though the combat just ended, he did well to deduce that from such scarce information.

This reasoning ability might be this person’s greatness.

However, one thing that I was curious about arose.

” … If that deduction is true, won’t that slave merchant hold quite a serious grudge against me?”

“Didn’t he already declare that?”

He certainly did specifically name me and declared that he will destroy my dream.

To want to crush the wonderful dream of having a peaceful life …

” … Well, what’s done is done. Leaving that aside, regarding these people’s treatment, what should we do with them?”

“If they were regular bandits, more than half will be killed as an example. Since it would take time to interrogate them. Well, this time it can’t be helped so we should probably transport them to the Adventurer’s Guild headquarters in Grandol and request for the professionals to handle it.”

While half will fall into despair, I was too scared to ask Shisho about which professionals he was referring to.

It took us 3 hours to return from the journey we took an hour to traverse previously. We plan to call a slave merchant at the Adventurer’s Guild headquarters, drop off all the slaves, and leave it up to the Adventurer’s Guild headquarters to interrogate them.

“Shisho, is it really all right to entrust this to the Adventurer’s Guild?”

“Yeah. I don’t really care at all if the guild headquarters think that Meratoni’s guildmaster is incompetent. The information we are looking for would probably come up if we just do an investigation. As a result, I would be able to earn a favor as well.”

This person is a genius in thinking ahead.

“Is it regarding the matter you were investigating yesterday?”

“Yeah. Since the ones who will get into trouble if this incident comes to light are the management in charge of requests and adventurers as you can immediately tell that it is a result of negligence.”

“As expected of Shisho. Okay. What should I do?”

“Let me see … it’s fine if you don’t do anything. Maybe just make sure these people don’t escape?”

“Okay. I don’t mind doing that … no, thank you. I’ll also give instructions to Lionel and the others to cut them down if they escape.”

“I see. Then, wait here for a bit.”

Shisho said as he entered the Adventurer’s Guild.

That person’s greatness was his ability to reliably determine the important points.

Nevertheless, it’s great that Instructor Broad looks like he is somewhat having fun.

“It seems like I am always being spoilt by Shisho … Lionel, what do you think would have appeared if that slave merchant’s summon succeeded?”

He’s the same level as Shisho so he probably understood something too.

“If it’s such a huge magic circle, it might be a large monster or if we’re unlucky, a demon might appear.”

” … There were also demons at the village we stopped at before reaching Meratoni but what is your opinion on that?”

I was surprised nonetheless when I heard him say demon.

A person who can employ such a being would be monstrous.

I thought that the demons in that village were only affiliated with the Empire but maybe I was wrong?

“This time would have been different. This time, it would have been a summon subjected to subordination to the slave merchant who made the magic circle. It would clearly be a demon of different status compared to the ones we fought with.”

“Now that I think about it, the Empire is close to the demon’s territory but have there been wars?”

“Yeah. There were frequent conflicts up until about 20 years ago.”

” … That’s the period when there were changes to the Emperor, Prime minister and influential nobles right?”

“I’m surprised you know about that. After the death of the previous Emperor, the representatives were replaced altogether. Well, it was unrelated to me who worked as a general at that time though.”

” … Just since when did you become a general?”

“Since I was 20. So nostalgic.”

He was even younger than I am currently … thinking about it that way, I could tell just how excellent Lionel was.

When I was able to verify that Lionel is not an ordinary person, Shisho came over with a couple robust men and told the attackers to enter the Adventurer’s Guild and took them along with them.

“Luciel, the attackers will be turned to slaves. Their sale returns will all be credited to your account.”

“Is that all right? It would be fine if Shisho accepted it instead. Since I had you accompany me in Grandol …”

“Then, for the sake of appeasing everyone when we return to Meratoni, help me treat everyone to alcohol.”

“All right. Oh right, if the rookie adventurers who Cathy and Kefin captured didn’t realize they were working for evil and were deceived, please release them. Since they should be able to start over.”

During the journey back to Grandol, there were some among the rookie adventurers who cried towards the prospect of becoming slaves.

Seeing that, I decided to release them if they really didn’t know anything about the incident this time.

Even if their luck was bad, holding the feeling of being saved, they should be able to work hard to crawl up from the bottom.

I believed in that.

” … So naive. However, without such leniency, it might give birth to men like that slave merchant. All right. I’ll put in a word for them. Well then, the time now is not here nor there so what should we do?”

“We can camp out as well so let’s proceed on. Instead of getting caught in a trap again, I think we should move forward to polish ourselves even if only slightly.”

“Hou, well said. As expected of my disciple. Then let’s get ready to depart.”

“Yes.”

Thus, we entrusted the attackers to the Adventurer’s Guild and we departed for the ant labyrinth for the sake of polishing ourselves.

Author’s note:

Thank you for reading.