Knock, knock.
“Excuse me, my lord. We’ve located their hideout. However, everyone who remained there managed to escape all the way to the highway, where they engaged the army’s soldiers in battle.”
The butler calmly delivered some astonishing news.
The marquis, however, remained completely composed, as though he had already anticipated how things would unfold.
“And what happened?”
“They were all defeated in an instant by a slime and three small children. There were no casualties or injuries. They have already been taken into custody and are being escorted away.”
Yeah. I had a feeling this was how it would turn out. Ao and Shiro’s squad were practically guaranteed to rush in before the soldiers could even get there. With Ao around, they probably wouldn’t do anything reckless, but still… the dark organization really had made a stupid move this time.
“They may have originally intended to target the military’s escort carriage if their attack on us failed. They’d also had their throats damaged somehow so that they wouldn’t be able to talk even if they were captured and interrogated. They certainly underestimated our strength, though.”
“No, no. The reports say those men were quite skilled. It’s simply that you lot are that strong.”
Ah?
The marquis is looking at Sue and me with a slightly exasperated expression.
But were those guys in black really that strong?
Hmm… I’d always thought I still had a long way to go, since Emilia-sama beat the ever-loving daylights out of me every time we trained.
“Shun-san, you may have forgotten, but Emilia-sama is one of the five strongest people in this entire country.”
Oh, right. Emilia-sama is an absolute monster. So being trained by someone like her had apparently made us stronger without us even realizing it. Even so, I really didn’t want to train with Emilia-sama anymore.
That brought our conversation with the marquis to an end. He said they would interrogate the captured members of the underground organization and report the results to the Royal Palace.
“““You took forever!”””
“Sorry, sorry. We got attacked over here, too.”
When we returned to the carriage, Shiro and the others, who had been waiting forever, immediately started complaining.
“Shiro, did those attackers do anything to you?”
“Nope. Nothing at all.”
“They were really weak.”
“It was boring.”
Apparently, the attackers had been taken down by Ao, Shiro, and the others before they even had a chance to do anything. None of the other soldiers were injured either, so it looked like we could get moving again right away.
Clip-clop, clip-clop.
“Ugh… I’ve had more than enough of getting attacked. I really hope nothing else happens.”
“It’s the dark organization we’re dealing with. We can’t afford to let our guard down yet. They’re the sort of people who could pull anything, and we have no idea what they’ll try next.”
Sue and I talked as we sat in the driver’s seat of the carriage. Those guys didn’t care how much trouble they caused other people as long as they accomplished their objective.
We’d already made it more than halfway to the Royal Capital.At this point, I just want us to arrive safely.
This is translated by Yume Neiji. Kindly read at yumeneijiworks.com
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