The monitor in this wheelhouse displayed a map of the ship’s interior, where registered ones were displayed with black dots, unregistered ones with yellow dots, and unregistered ones that were judged to be hostile to the owner with with red dots. All of these are displayed in real time.
“There’s a yellow dot in the last room upstairs. Hmmm, if it was a thief, it should be a red dot now.”
Incidentally, there was one red dot very close to the yellow dot. The red one is definitely a remnant from those thieves.
“I’ll go and check it out then. Oh, right. Let me first set the ship to automatically return to the original place.”
After setting it to automatically move to the location where the tents were set up, I left the wheelhouse.
“This is the room. Mmmm, I think it was one of the rooms I made for sleeping in.”
When I opened the door and went inside, it was a room the size I remembered. However, for some reason, there is a cage-like structure set up in the inner side of the room.
“W-what the-, a baby!?”
The man outside the cage was surprised to see me. He is probably the last one from the group and was guarding this cage. Imprisoned in the cage was a beautiful girl. Her pointed ears protrude from the gap in her long blonde hair.
Apparently, an elf. I’ve seen half-elves a few times since I was reincarnated, but this may be the first time I’ve seen a pure-blooded elf.
『She was probably caught by them. Even in this day and age, it seems that beautiful elves can be sold at a high price.』
The elven girl—though her real age may be much older— also has a “Eh?” look as confusion strikes her seeing the appearance of a baby who suddenly walked in.
“W-what’s up with you?! Where did you come from? No, I mean, the alarm went off earlier…… d-don’t tell me the intruder is you, a baby?”
“Elf-oneechan, I’ll help you now.”
“Hey, don’t ignore me! Higuuoh-!”
I struck the side of the bandit with Lindwurm’s tip. The blown man remained motionless at the edge of the room.
“E, e, eh?”
I approached the cage where the confused elf is. I smashed the lock on the doorway with my magic and destroyed it.
“Okay, you can come out now.”
“Y-you…… who the hell are you?”
“Me? As you can see, I’m a cute little baby.”
“No. No matter how I think about it, there is no way there is baby like that!”
The elf girl came out of the cage while being wary.
“To be a little more specific, I’m an adventurer. My name is Reus. How about you Oneechan?”
“I-, I’m Ryuna. More than that, are you really an adventurer?!”
“Yes. But what’s the matter?”
“P-Please! Take me to the Adventurer’s Guild!”
“……?”
I asked her about the details. Apparently, she came out of the elven village alone to go to the Adventurer’s Guild in Vegaltia. However, on the way, she was unlucky enough to be caught by this group of thieves and it seems that she was imprisoned in a cage afterwards. If it went as they planned, they could have sold her to some illegal slave trader.
—Then I appeared.
“Right now, the elven village is in danger of disappearing. Well, our village doesn’t think very well of humans, and everyone is against my plan…… Unable to convince them, I decided to leave the village on my own initiative and ask the Adventurer’s Guild for help. I heard that the guild in the city of Vegaltia has many talented adventurers……”
“I see. Ah, I’m going to get down on the ground for a bit so just wait for a minute.”
The ship returned to where Fana and the others are. I descend to the ground with the goods stolen by the thieves.
“W-what the hell is that huge object!?”
“It’s also floating in the sky…..”
“N-no way…. could it be a new kind of monster!? The entire goods were taken away and now…… Woooo, just what a day is it today!?”
As I deactivated the stealth function, the merchant and his men were panicking when they spotted the ship floating in the night sky.
This is translated by Yume Neiji. Kindly read at yumeineijiworks.wordpress.com.
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