“Stop laughing and prepare to withdraw. Is the number of people correct? Are there any missing children? Look, look twice.”
Ariete turned her head, counted her fingers, and nodded.
“Nothing wrong.”
“Um, good! Then let’s go home!”
“Oh! Let’s go home!”
Krank, who was counting the number of people on the carriage, let out a huge sigh.
“Forty-five, that number is correct. thank god.”
However, there were also those who did not match the numbers. Vita, pale-faced, came running.
“excuse me! Are there any people left here?”
“huh? Are you not enough?”
“yes! One person is missing!”
The faces of everyone who was listening hardened.
Crank started his wagon first.
“I want to stay too!”
“We need a leader.”
“Aren’t there automatons? Enough of them… … !”
Looking at Ariete, who opened her eyes wide, Crank pointed at the automatons sitting on the driver’s seat.
“I’m talking about it now, but people who have worked with Carrot usually expect the same flexible thinking ability from other automatons, but are greatly disappointed. Ariete, those guys still need a final decision maker. you have to lead The safety of 45 rests on your shoulders.”
“V! V!”
Carrot smiled and made a V with two fingers. Ariete, who looked down at Carrot with a surprising face, eventually jumped onto the driver’s seat.
“I get it! I will drop off people first and then come back to pick them up!”
“hmm.”
Crank turned his head.
“Charles stay.”
“yes.”
Carrot, who was watching, exclaimed.
“The rest go-! great job! don’t worry! I’ll find you! This is an annual event!”
Even Carrot’s bright cheering could not dilute the gloomy mood of the people. People with sad eyes leave behind people with anxious eyes. We were just thankful that something like that hadn’t happened on our side.
Crank turned and walked towards Vita.
“How many of you are there? Do you know when it disappeared?”
“Uh, uh. Everyone is going to find them now… … !”
Vita was perplexed. Crank nodded and looked at the people in the carriage ahead of him.
“How many people came? Who is missing?”
“Ten people, the missing person is a child named Ronchi. She is a young girl.”
“Has anyone seen you at lunchtime?”
A woman raised her hand.
“You were with me! Oh, me, and Ronch. He, he’s a bit… … .”
“You seem curious.”
At Crank’s words, everyone nodded with bitter expressions.
“If you put it badly, you get into trouble.”
“are you okay! don’t worry! We’ll help you find it! It’s not hard to find people. They say automatons can smell well.”
People’s faces seemed a little relieved. Crank left Vita and Charles there and started walking to the nearby woods where he had last seen them.
Crank opened his mouth while looking at the forest. Carrot, who was beside him, raised his head.
“Carrot.”
“huh?”
“It is not good to lie.”
“Did I not lie? Is it true that you can smell it? Finding people with that is another thing.”
Crank looked down at Carrot with puzzled eyes.
“Come on! Let’s find it and hit it in the ass!”
The two started running.
* * *
Meanwhile… … .
The Ronchi everyone is looking for is a girl with bobbed hair, blue eyes and a freckled face. She went deep into the forest to pick pine mushrooms and found something that was beyond her standards.
“Oak! oh my god! Oak! It’s a woman too!”
“Kyaaa!!”
A screaming orc woman got caught in the snare, smelled a human, turned her head and bared her teeth.
“Oooh-! It doesn’t hurt. I’ll free you. I heard orcs talk a little bit. how is it?”
The orc woman shed tears in pain and screamed meaningless threats. Ronchi looked around, wondering if there was something missing, and poured out the contents and found an overturned basket.
“and! Even Orcs know the taste of matsutake mushrooms! No, wait, that’s not what came first. Wait a minute, I’ll take it off. Stay still.”
“Kyaaagh!!”
As the human woman approached, the frightened orc woman screamed and stepped back. The leg was broken and bent in a grotesque way. The snare on that leg was by no means crude. It was a steel tooth trap made for trapping large monsters.
It seemed that the leg was not cut off because the pieces of wood stuck together held it together.
“Wow, I can’t solve this? I need to call someone.”
“Ughhhhh… … ! Big!”
Ronchi turned his head at the orc woman’s sobs. The crouching Lonch looked at the orc woman and asked.
“Does it hurt a lot?”
“Ugh… … .”
An orc woman and a human woman faced each other. The goal of the deep conflict that the two races have accumulated has not exerted any buff here and now.
“Is it because I am stupid? Are you just pitiful?”
“That’s because you’ve never been. You psychopath.”
A handsome man with a sharp voice and a ponytail, who is rumored to be good-looking and rumored to form a fan club, appeared holding his longsword out of the way, breathing heavily.
Boris understood the situation when he saw the orc woman and the snare in front of him.
After making a quick decision, he grabbed Ronch’s hand with a rough hand.
“let’s go. Everyone wait.”
“Uh, what?! What about that woman?”
“who? Here, you are the only woman.”
Oh my goodness.
When Ronchi turned his head around his cheeks with a slightly flushed face, Boris, full of spirits, wanted to let go.
Around that time, G.O and Kobe also arrived with their breaths up to their necks.
“Huh! omg! I found it?!”
“Let’s go.”
“What if you disappear without a word! You found it!”
Ronchi stung at Kobe’s voice.
“Cow, I want to pick some pine trees. uh, but! What about that orc woman?! I’m hurt!”
Climbing up the hillside mound, Geo and Kobe’s faces turned earthy. An orc woman whose leg was caught in a snare was crawling on the floor.
He had seen orcs a few times, but he had never seen that orc woman. Like most women, the orc woman’s pelvis and breasts were greatly developed, but if I had to put it that way, it was similar to a dwarf woman. Dwarf women hate being compared to orc women, but… … .
Geo, with a hard face, turned his back.
“There is no need for us to step out. let’s go.”
Seeing that, Boris pulled Ronchi’s hand, but Ronchi was a stubborn woman.
“No! I can’t just let it die! Oak! female! Say! female!”
Boris thought that the freckled girl’s behavior would make him laugh.
“Hey, isn’t that what you must do like Vita?”
Geo and Kobe frowned at the same time.
“Don’t ignore Vita too much. I can tell the difference between an enemy and an ally.”
Kobe, the biggest of the group, stepped out. He grabbed the launcher and lifted it off his shoulder.
“Ouch! You should ask your mother!”
“Ugh! Ask what! No goosebumps! let’s go!”
The humans patted each other and began to take the woman with them down. Then they heard voices grabbing their legs.
“Help me… … .”
Ronchi, who was on Kobie’s shoulder, raised his head at the sound. And he met eyes with an orc woman asking for help. It was a desperate look.
“Help me!”
puck!
“Eww?!”
Ronchi swung his knee and slashed Kobe in the chest. Thanks to that, the two of them lost their balance and began to roll down the slope.
Ronch, his knees a little bare and his clothes stained with dirt, gallantly clambered back up the slope and inspected the iron-tooth trap that was biting the orc woman’s leg. The orc woman just stayed still.
“Don’t you think it’s a trap?”
“That’s right, orcs eat people.”
“About that, ask later! I think I will regret it 50 years from now if I just leave this woman behind!”
Seeing Lonchi whimpering while clenching his steel teeth, Geo let out a huge sigh and rolled up his arms.
“Just open it and let’s go.”
“hey! Even if people like it, it’s oily!”
Gio laughs.
“It’s because I’m curious about how I will think about today’s work in 50 years.”
“Ugh-! I do not know!”
In the meantime, with a hissing sound, Kobe trudged up while wiping his nosebleeds.
“Where is this girl! You’re bleeding! Ah-oh! It hurts my heart!”
“Help me!”
“hey! you! What, what? Geo? What are you doing?!”
“That’s right. The name of the party should be Paramedic Volunteer Corps. damn.”
Boris made a bitter sound, wary of his surroundings. Kobe, unable to see the skinny whimpers, stepped in too.
After a while… … .
Crank, who had followed their trail, saw an orc woman who had fallen after stepping on a trap and a novice adventurer trying to open the trap.
Carrot rubbed her eyes and said.
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“crank. my eyes are weird I just see something strange Is this fantasy?”
“don’t worry. Because I see the same thing.”
Boris, who greeted them, just shrugged his shoulders and shook his head. Still, Crank didn’t get angry.
“Get out of the way.”
“What! Uncle Crank!”
Crank pulled out the tool he had brought to make the bow from his tactical pocket, pulled the trap release pin, and called out to Carrot.
“Carrot, open your teeth. And you guys pull your legs out in that gap.”
“Yap!”
Carrot opened it at once, and Crank spoke quickly.
“hurry-!”
Geo lifted the orc woman’s broken leg. It wasn’t cut, but it was barely attached. The orc woman screamed desperately.
The crank let out a short sigh as he pulled out his leg and quickly raised the switch on the exposed trap.
Then Boris spoke in a trembling voice.
“Oh, an orc. Orcs are coming.”
Geo, Kobe, and Ronchi got up from their seats and looked around terrified. Red eyes appeared on the hillside along with black shadows. It seems to be gradually coming down, and the soil and stones are rolling down.
Carrot laughed hahahaha.
“You wouldn’t believe me if we said we helped, right? Because I’m an enemy! Enmity!”
“… … If you attack first, counterattack. don’t look at me.”
“Yeah! Hee hee hee! Are you confident! Orcs! Let’s make oak meat stew for dinner tonight! What are you doing, bastards! Get ready to fight! Protect the client!”
Ronchi was perplexed.
“Ooh, we saved you?! You saved me… … !”
Carrot turned to her and pointed a thumb at the snarling orcs in the distance.
“Ah, did you expect something in return for helping? At least grace will remember you.”
The automaton smiled cruelly and turned its head.
“Would you feel the flavor of an orange if you added a drop of orange juice to your beef stew? Now they see us as scoundrels for touching their girls. Ideals and reality always appear far apart. Kekeke!”
The energetic Carrot quickly shouted.
“Have you tried it once?! I’ll take the lead! The swordsman is behind me! Bowmen take cover!”
Chii profit… … !
Suddenly, white smoke rose, and the orc woman stood up with a surprised face. The leg was attached in an instant.
Krank was squatting, holding a bottle of healing potion and giving a thumbs up.
The orc woman looked up and spread her arms. And in a terribly difficult voice, he pointed to the human adventurers, the traps on the floor, and the spilled baskets, and chattered for a long time in an incomprehensible orc language.
“What’s the deal?”
“Well, that’s a very interesting situation. Let’s watch some more. But don’t let your guard down.”
Crank said while saving the rest of the healing potion after using half of it. Apart from the nervous novice adventurers, Carrot crossed his arms and just smiled with his axe eyes open.
In the meantime, Ronchi stepped forward quickly, picked up a basket that had fallen to the floor, and picked up the spilled items. Then, after giving it to the orc woman, he took out a matsutake mushroom inside and started munching on it.
“oh! delicious!”
Gio and even Carrot doubted Ronchi’s mental state. The orc woman also made a puzzled expression.
Crank, who had been watching the situation with his arms crossed, suddenly stepped forward, reached into the basket, took out a matsutake mushroom, lifted the helmet, put it in his mouth, and began to chew. Then, he slightly pushed the orc woman’s back forward. Instead, he backed away.
“Let’s step back slowly so as not to provoke.”
With an expression telling them to jump on it, everyone started backing away with the remaining Carrot last. When they got a fair distance, the orcs came down and looked around the orc woman and glared at the human adventurers who went down there.
A voice rose from below.
“I am Launch!”
“shut up! a little!”
“Launch ronchi ronchi! Roo-on-chii!”