In the dining room, Badak and Tilda’s party were engaged in a fierce battle. The perpetrator of the baby abduction case was the old director of the orphanage. However, it is a false appearance, and it seems that he is a wanted mass murderer. He called himself Brett, but that’s probably just a pseudonym.
It also seemed that he brainwashed the children on the orphanage and taught them murder techniques. In particular, he taught them the technique of manipulating a thread coated with magical power. Even children as young as five years old could use it normally. It would require advanced skills that would be difficult even for adults.
“Damn ….…”
Despite the numerical advantage, the B-rank adventurers are struggling. Meanwhile, I sneaked into the facility ahead of time, then I crawled on the ground till I reached the feet of the old director.
“Awa-wa”
“Hn? Hey, you can’t come out of the room without permission. It’s still time for you babies to take a nap.”
I found out earlier that there were quite a few small children under the age of five in this orphanage. They were put to bed in another room because they couldn’t fight yet. He may have thought that I woke up and came over.
“……Eh? Was there such a child in the house……? Rather, was there one crawling at such a young a—”
“Not only can I crawl but I can also stand up you know.”
I stood up on the spot.
“~~~~!? B-b-baby… the baby spoke!?”
Not minding the astonished old director, I spoke to Badak and the others.
“Looks like oniichan and the others are having a hard time. Leave this ojiichan to me.”
“P-please do! As you can see, we have our hands full with these children, uh! If worst comes to worst, I don’t mind if you kill him!”
“That’s in worst case, right? The best option is to catch him alive if we can. I’ll do that then.”
He seems to be a wanted mass murderer and I’m sure there’s a lot more to it than just this one. He would probably be sentenced to death anyway, but it would be better to keep him alive and catch him first so as to make him confess his past crimes.
“You mean, just you, a baby would capture me?”
“That’s right.”
“Wha—!?”
I kicked the ground and jumped up, somersaulting and delivering a kick to the old director’s face.
“~~~~!?”
The old director is blown away and he slammed into the wall.
“What’s with that move…… are really a baby!?”
Although he was caught by surprise, it doesn’t seem to be working. His face remains unscathed.
“Heh-, I see. At the last minute, you bundled the thread together to turn it into a shield. And when you hit the wall, you used the thread as a cushion to absorb the impact. You’re pretty dexterous huh.”
“…..Just by looking at it, a baby…… saw through my ‘magic thread’!?”
The old director, whose face was distorted, stretched out a thread. It became like a hard needle, trying to penetrate my body.
“Oop!”
“You dodged that!? Then, I wonder if you can dodge this!”
Like a series of spear attacks, threads were fired at me one after another. However, my physical abilities were strengthened by magic so I easily dodged them while repeatedly jumping sideways.
“How can such a small body move so much…!? Who the hell are you!?”
“I’m just a baby.”
“There’s no way there is such a baby like you!”
That’s when it happened. Multiple threads were wrapped around my legs.
“Fuhahahaha! Looks like you didn’t notice the thread approaching from under the floor!”
Apparently, he was secretly manipulating a thread from under the floor.
“Now you can’t move even a little—”
“Can’t move?”
“—What!?”
Just like the other day, I used my own magic to nullify the opponent’s magic that covered the thread. Without magic, it’s just a thread so it’s easy to get it off my feet.
“What the hell happened!? Why did my thread suddenly ……?”
“Ah? Don’t you understand? I used my magic to offset ojiichan’s magic.”
“I-I can’t believe you can do something like that… Huh!? The current phenomenon… I see, you were the same baby that I failed to abduct the other day…!? No way, that time too…”
“Yes, that’s my work too.”
The old director stepped back, stunned.
“Im-impossible…… It shouldn’t be like that…… My “magic thread” has never been broken…… It should be a flawless technique!”
“Isn’t it just because you’ve been lucky enough that you haven’t met someone who can break it?”
“Uh-…… S-Shut up!”
Perhaps it was his full strength, as a thread stretched out from the old director’s whole body and rushed towards me all at once. However, the moment they hit my body, they become soft and lose their power one after another.
“By the way…… I can also manipulate them back you know? Look, like this.”
This is translated by Yume Neiji. Kindly read at yumeineijiworks.wordpress.com.
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