Vol 4 Chapter 63 (1/2)

Automaton

“Lyle, the Burden… I’ll be taking your Porter”

The well-kept adventurer said that, before issuing orders to his comrades

“Prepare yourselves The moment out of battle where they’re out of breath is our chance Aim for the automaton first”

Smoke continued to pour out, and my body wouldn’t move as I wanted it

(So mixed in with the explosions…)

The Second spoke

『Hurry and vent the room!』

I dropped one of ic, but the arrows ai forth new smoke

The well-kept adventurer looked at the beat up Poyopoyo

Her clothing was torn, and so A blood-like liquid flowed from places where her metal insides were visible

“Poyopoyo… you bastards!”

While I was thrown into a rage, the Fifth spoke

『Calic to vent the place as soon as possible And start negotiations Buy sos… it does seeotiations』

Hearing the Fifth’s opinion, I saw theat me

While continuing to sustain da their attacks

“Autoht forth and revived by one of the city of scholar’s seven great Selling it would net quite a bit, but if that proves impossible, destroy it It’ll still fetch a pretty penny, even when broken”

I clenchedever so slightly

The Third issued out some orders

『If you leave it to your emotions here, it’ll just result in more death Look at Porter』

I shi+fted nal to say they were alright

Aria was trying to rush out, but Miranda-san held her back

The Sixth spoke

『Porter… no, they aren’t focusing on any of your other party members at the moment, but they do have arrows ready for them Move with caution』

The Seventh spoke

『Lyle, you’ve cleared the task Use your Skills Pretend to toss away all your arotiations』

With attacks continuing to rain down on her, Poyopoyo was using her arms to protect herself, and she couldn’t move

I tossed asideweapons to attract the adventurer’s attention

“… Halt fire”

On his order, the attacks came to an end, and Poyopoyo collapsed The other adventurers came closer, and kicked her out of the way

“Can’t move anymore?”

“Tsk, just how much trouble do you think you’ve cost us?”

“How much can we earn for it in this broken state?”

Their conversations irritated lare at the well-kept adventurer

Approaching along with those that seele slip of paper

The Third Generation spoke

『Act as if you can barely move Have you confirmed their numbers?』

I looked at the paper, and took it up in rin

It was a written form to sell off the ownershi+p of Porter A monetary sum was also indicated

“… What’s theof this?”

“It’s just as you can see I’ic I learned from that bastard Daiven me quite a hint Porter… nice name, ain’t it?”

His subordinates tossed a pen in my direction

“Then you should have just brought that up from the start!”

As I said that, the Fourth spoke

『… These guys never had any intention of putting out in with They likely aireement with favorable conditions on their side』

I hadn’t thought of Porter being targeted

I was sure it would be Noveotten stuck on that notion

“I was sure there would be more coht you’d done well after having that receptionist driven out, but… the world doesn’t turn so smoothly”

By the width of that grin, it was probably the guild receptionist offering him support

As I reet fired, the Seventh spoke

『H… but it’s our policy to give back what’s been given to us several times over And that man doesn’t seem to realize it』

Having lived their lives as feudal lords, all of the ancestors more or less had that part to their characters

I looked towards the kicked Poyopoyo

“… I was sure you’d be targeting my other comrades”

Saying that, I took the pen, and confirmed it in my mind

(There’s still a response co froer…)

I activated my Skills

With the Second’s 【All】, I got a sense of the boss’s room

With the Third’s 【Mind】, I passively motivated him to talk

“Woh with Porter, I can get all the wohest ranks of courtesans, or cos in front of a large enough sum Looks like you didn’t take that into account, did you now, Burden?”

The Fourth spoke

『You’re the fool here You think I never noticed that? If you pile up achievements, and prove your worth, the possibilities expand even further, you amateur!』

I used the Fifth’s Skill to fully grasp the terrain, and the Sixth’s to check for enemies

They were all fully exposing their hostility

The Sixth spoke

『… They all seeedy』

If I face defeat, then all is lost

I once again reaffirmed the fact that that was the sort of world I lived in

(After taking Porter, and killing me, then next is… I see)

The entity scarier than any h true experience have I begun to grasp that fact

They used tools, followed us with a Skill, and waited for the perfect opportunity to assault

We ary of theht of me as naïve

In a sense, that e they put on me

(But… I won’t forgive you lot)

The adventurer laughed as he watched me pretend to tremble from paralysis

Turning my eyes to Poyopoyo, I spoke

“You’ll leave ht?”

“Yeah, I promise they’ll be treated with care”

The Third spoke

『He never said anything about sparing the the docu out your party, to say he received Porter by proper contract on the outside』

How sickening…

Is that how I should call this feeling?

(If I were the First, then ould I do?)

Leave it to brute force Re his recklessness, I smiled

Seeing ue

“Sorry to bother you while you’re rejoicing over there, but things’ll get bad if you don’t hurry up The lot I hired are a tad bit short tempered, you see”

I gave an act of signing the page I continued to look at Porter, when the sign that the preparations were ready finally came

The Fifth spoke

『How naïve How half-baked That’s why Lyle’s been saved, though…』

The Fourth spoke

『Lyle sure is lucky Also, he has Poyopoyo… an autoes to a minimum』

The Third spoke

『Hey, that statement’ll hurt the boy Well, if it’s that Poyopoyo, then…』

I had a word or tanted to get in to these ancestors, but I withheld them, and raised my head

And intentionallya smile, I said…

“You guys are underesti me way too much…”

“Hah? What are you…”

I used the Skills

The Second’s to give allow my allies the use ofinto the face of the delicate featured man before me

And while I was sprawling in the air, I tossed er at the subordinates by his side

At the saathered around Poyopoyo, and Miranda-san threw her own knives

Noveic

“Storm!”

Wind began to act up, and the flying arrow started spiraling off course Smoke still circulated around the aria, but Nove their faces

With the Fourth’s Speed, and the First’s to raise allconcealer around the room’s entranceway

“Box”

From the Box I summoned in midair, I took out one of the spare sabres I had stored into it quite a while ago

Separate from the adventurers in the roo over the situation

With atabs on the room’s events

The Second spoke

『The ones in the passage are the more troublesome of the two』

Within the roo suppressed by the rest of my party’s actions

Before leaving the area, I took a last look at Poyopoyo

(If she had only told me sooner… no, this is my responsibility My mistake)

And drawing another of e armed in both hands

Perhapd froroup was already in a battle for my attack

“Three icians…”

While I muttered that, an arrow came at me before I could reach them

Perhaps they were able to see through this darkness, as it accurately came at me

The Second spoke up

『Those are soless』

Where will they come from, where will they aim?

I could understand it all, even with my eyes closed

It’s the first I’ve ht, they all have extraordinary performance

(But that’s so I could say about the enemy as well)

But it didn’t seem that they all had vision, as when I rushed towards theicians

“Lights!”

“What’s wrong? Why won’t you ht!?”

I cut at theblow, but I went on to aies, and the archer who could aim at me in the dark

“Oy, respond, dammit!”

“What are the enemy’s numbers!? There’s no way there’s only one!”

“Oy, oy!”

The darkness finally doing its work, once I took down the h it, the enemies fell around me one after another

I would cut at their arms, and use kicks to take away their consciousness, before et

After the amount of alarmed voices dropped, there were also some that kept silent, and tried to conceal themselves

I didn’t let them escape, and I rendered the a sKill? Was so that infore assistance

(I don’t have a need to land the finishi+ng blow on any of them)

They couldn’t move, and I destroyed their weapons, or made them unusable

The Second spoke

『Lyle, you sure are soft』

He calledmy clear enemies

But I also get the feeling he was a little happy

And when I disarle one of ht the area

“Hey”

“Hiii!?”

The last one earing a robe, and he seee When I looked around the area age carriers

They didn’t havewhile protecting those carrying their goods

He said they were hired, so they were definitely adventurers skilled at their trades I kicked a round to the side

It was to threaten the frightened man before me

“… You lot stalked our party, and initiated an attack There’s no way you don’t know aout that, right?”

“N-no, we don’t know anything The reas nice, so…”

I whispered

“Mind…”

After going through a moment of chaos, the influence took effect, and he started talking fluently

“… There were a nu you all 『The Burden』 wasthat would , we could do whatever anted to the…”

“Yeah, that’s enough What about the guild?”

“With the guild, we found the guy you had driven out a while ago, so through hi soician we picked up’s Skill, we operated surveillance, and gathered all the inforuys as we could, but… I wonder e couldn’t win”

Collecting inforuild as well

Just how did that receptionist dig up information on us anyways…

The Seventh spoke

『Huild! Lyle, let’s tie this guy up, and have him bear witness』

The Second spoke

『You’ve sure done it, have you, Aruuild… world’s apart from Dalien, or so I can’t say Perhaps that Hawkins was just extraordinary』

By the way our receptionist treated us while ere in Dalien, the difference in quality of guilds varied way too much

“… Looks like Novem and the others’ finished up as well”

I kicked the baggage carrier in the head to send his e behind, and returned to the boss room

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… A Lyle headed for the passage out of the rooic to block the arrows

Wind started building, and the s her body numb, so she directed the airfloards the room’s exit

While covering the area around her mouth with a cloth, she watched Aria and Miranda leap out

“Move those filthy feet of yours!!”

Aria was infuriated as she brought down the shaft of her shortspears on the adventurers playing around by kicking Poyopoyo

Her resolve hadn’t reached the level of trying to kill them

Miranda was the same

But her reasons were a little different

“Rather than olem? Oh, my poor heart”

Herat all

The adventurer that lost one of his eyes to her thrown knife remained steadfast with his weapon ready

“I guess you didn’t co”

But saying that, Miranda cut at both of his wrists, before planting her elbow into his skull

Shannon wasa racket inside Porter

“What is this!? What is theof this!?”

Clara was assisting Noveet as much of the smoke out as possible

An adventurer holding a bow fired off an arrow at Novem

But the wind shi+fted, and without hitting her, it fell onto a co

“That one was aimed to kill How unfortunate”

Saying that, Noveic, and started off towards Poyopoyo

The adventurer that shot the arroas knocked off his feet by Aria, and rendered unconscious

Having seen, that, Miranda narrowed her eyes, before proceeding to tie them all up Or so she h the man’s wrist

Novem interjected

“Miranda-san I’ll be healing them up later, so put them in a line”

For a moment, Miranda sent her a sharp clare

“… Yes, I understand More importantly, how is Poyopoyo?”

Noveirl that had become a shi+eld to protect her

All parts of her besides her head were beat up, and a red liquid was scattered around the area