“Damn! It haven’t get rid of the intruders yet!?”
In the ship’s wheelhouse, the leader shouted. The alarm keeps sounding, and the monitor in front of him shows a red dot indicating an intruder. The red dot barely stopped, heading straight for the wheelhouse. It’s as if the other party know where they are, and the other party did not even stray to the side path at all.
“Does this mean he is not bothered by all those traps and golems at all……?”
It was by chance that he, from a group of thieves discovered this flying ship. The caravan they were aiming for at that time was a trap to catch them, and the guards were actually a group of adventurers in disguise. He immediately tried to escape, but his companions were killed one after another.
Meanwhile, deep in the forest, where he managed to escape, he came across this mysterious airship. The forest was full of dense vegetation. He wondered why it was there at such a place, and thinking deeply, he thought there may have been a river or sea nearby in the past.
However, strangely, it hardly seemed to have weathered. On the contrary, it could be moved. Then he soon understood why there was a ship on such land. Incredibly enough, the ship could fly in the sky. It must have been made during the period of ancient civilization when magic technology was said to be much more advanced than it is now. In fact, observing more carefully, there were traces of such things in various parts of the forest.
Since then, he regrouped with the other surviving members and they have been able to accomplish their jobs with ease. After all, it is an airship that can completely disappear and can approach a target from the sky. It even has a function that allows them to pull up objects on the ground while flying, so it is strange that this will fail. Of course, he doesn’t have to worry about being spotted by adventurers or knights.
Just when he was triumphantly proud that it was their reign, this intruder was here.
“……A-almost here!”
They are just a small but elite group of thieves. Aside from the leader, there are only two more thieves in this wheelhouse.
——To be precise, they are not exactly the elite of the group, but rather the fact that the number of people have been greatly reduced due to being captured or killed by adventurers in the past. They didn’t want to increase their number because they wanted to monopolize this great ship with just a few of them.
“But there’s one last trap here. I’m sure that person would never be able to avoid it at first sight!”
Considering he’s the leader of a group of thieves, he’s quite the coward and shouts to himself. Immediately afterwards, the wheelhouse door was slammed open.
At the same time, a female adventurer jumped in—
“Eh? Aaaaaaaaaahhhh!”
The hole opened up at the perfect time, and a woman fell into it, screaming. This was a terrifying trap, as she would be thrown overboard and slammed into the ground.
“Ha, hahaha! Too bad! Now that you know about the existence of this ship, we have no choice but to let you die! Rather, you should rejoice that you can die a painless death! Hahahahaha!”
There was no way that the other party could hear him anymore, but the leader still shouted triumphantly.
“Don’t worry, Lill won’t die just like that.”
Then he heard a mysterious voice right after saying so. He was shocked realizing that the woman just now was not the only intruder, but what he saw was,
“A b-baby……?”
The figure in front of him was a baby who looked only a few months old at most.
“W-wait a minute, did this baby just speak……? No, no, it shouldn’t be. But there’s no one else here….…”
“It was me though?”
“He just spoke after all, -Aaaaaaahhhh!”
The leader was so surprised that he nearly fainted.
“Hey, I may look like this but I’m an adventurer you know.”
“H-how could there be an adventurer like that!”
“Even if you say so, it’s for real. There’s no use being so surprised. And more than that, an intruder is supposed to be marked with a red dot, but mine wasn’t, right?”
“Eh?.….W-Why is that?”
The man is even more puzzled. In fact, as the baby said, for some reason there was only one red dot that indicated an intruder. That’s why he thought there was only that female adventurer who already fell off the ship.
“Because I built this ship. It’s only natural that I know how it works.”
“…… Huh?”
This is translated by Yume Neiji. Kindly read at yumeineijiworks.wordpress.com.
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