Then, in the middle of the night, when everything had gone completely quiet—
Poke poke.
Poke poke.
“Hn? Ao? Did something happen?”
Suddenly, Ao poked me in the cheek to wake me up. For a second, I thought Horn was crying in her sleep. Then, Ao pointed towards the door with one of her tentacles.
Multiple footsteps echoed from the hallway. Looks like the uninvited guests have arrived.
As I sat up, Ao is also in the middle of waking up Sue.
“Ao, sorry, but can you go to the soldiers?”
When I asked Ao, who had finished waking Sue, she gave a wiggle of her tentacles full of determination and went outside.
Ao is really amazing—she opened the window by herself and slipped right out.
“Hey, hey. Someone’s here, wake up.”
“Mmm… mmm…”
Shiro managed to wake up somehow, but Fran and Horn wouldn’t budge no matter what Sue did.
Looks like these two are out until morning. That’s what I was thinking—when something else happened in the hallway.
Click click click…. clack.
Oh no, they’re using a key to unlock the door.
Someone lent these guys the master key.
Bang, bang.
“Damn it, the door won’t open.”
“Is something blocking it?”
“Don’t make too much noise—they’ll wake up.”
“Relax. Thanks to the sleeping drugs, they’ll be out till morning.”
Thankfully I put the desk in front of the door. From the conversation, it’s clear now—these guys are the bandits. They even know about the sleeping drugs, so they’re definitely connected to that shady guy at the front desk.
“Muu… so noisy…”
Because of the bandits making noise, Fran and Horn groggily sat up. Being forcefully woken up, both of them looked seriously grumpy.
Clang, bang.
Meanwhile, the bandits were forcing the door open and pushing the desk we had set up out of the way with brute strength. Eventually, the door opened just wide enough for one person to slip through.
“I can’t believe they barricaded it. Oh? And they’re awake too.”
“As expected of adventurers. You guys are on high alert huh.”
“Still, you got kids with you. You don’t want any trouble, right?”
“If you quietly hand over all your money, this doesn’t have to get too painful.”
Four bandits in total barged into the room. They were surprised seeing that we are awake, but when they saw the children—Fran and Horn—they assumed we wouldn’t put up much of a fight.
And then, they looked at Sue and said something incredibly stupid.
“Whoa, that chick’s pretty hot. Her boob is a shame though.”
“Yeah, I prefer ‘em a bit more stacked.”
“Says the guy who’s always going on about big boobs.”
“Come on, all men love big boobs. Flat-chest lovers are a rare breed.”
Uh-oh.
Normally, Sue doesn’t care too much about her figure—but them saying all that to her face, of course she’s going to be furious.
The bandits hadn’t noticed it yet but there’s an overwhelming fury radiating from Sue.
In other words—these guys will end up all bark and no bite.
This is translated by Yume Neiji. Kindly read at yumeineijiworks.wordpress.com.
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