bandits (3)
“I want… Is it okay for nobles to sell their honor at such a low price?”
“As I said before, it’s a family with no roots that was a baron until recently, so how about selling some?”
“ha… .”
Although she said something persuasive in her own way, Jessica only sighed as if she was pathetic.
Before heading to the bandit’s stronghold, I pulled the reins from Silence and Jessica’s horses to pull the carriage.
Silence and Jessica’s words are not just horses, they are horses that have learned to fight, so even if they encounter a thief on patrol, they will be able to defeat it easily.
Besides, when I was punished for betraying me in the past, I was taught how to deal with humans at the same time, so I was able to deal with thieves.
“Then, Horiya. We’ll be back, so just sleep. If you leave the car, Silence will take care of it, so leave it to me.”
“Um, you… .”
Hori answered with a hushed voice as if she had not woken up even though she had murdered five people outside.
One last time before leaving, I yelled and pointed at Silence and Jessica’s horses.
“And you guys don’t have sex or do that just because we’re going.”
“… … Do you have thorns in your mouth if you don’t say anything vulgar even for a moment? And our Catherine is not a mare, but a steed.”
“What? bull?”
No, so this guy was named after Catherine?
When I pointed out that point, Jessica gave her a name, whether it be a male or a mare, saying that the more elegant the name, the better.
“Can I give you a dignified name for a male horse?”
“That’s Okay. I can still vividly remember trying to change that kid’s name to a bizarre name like Baldomaru or whatever. Will you admit that I’m crazy?”
“okay? I’m sorry. But are you trying to sneak in in that outfit?”
No matter how early in the morning the day was not yet completely bright, the white full body armor was not suitable for infiltration.
“Don’t worry about that.”
Saying that, Jessica tapped her chest twice, and her armor, which was like white paper, began to turn black like the night sky.
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Maybe it was just a change of color, or a minute of mana was floating around the armor.
“I don’t think it’s just the color that has changed. What other side effects are there?”
“In this state, it has the effect of suppressing the noise from the armor as much as possible. It’s the perfect effect for sneaking or escaping.”
Saying that, Jessica jumped and jumped to prove the power of the armor.
As Jessica said, no matter how much she ran and ran, the sound was so low that it was hard to believe she was wearing metal armor.
But, from the impression I’ve had so far, Jessica Papa, who seems to value honor, buys her daughter armor suitable for such an escape.
It seems that the safety of her daughter is more important than honor. As if Jessica was guessing that fact, she was bragging about the performance of her armor as if a child was proud of the toy she had been given as a gift.
While looking at Jessica from behind, I pounded on her chest just like Jessica did, wondering if there are other abilities in her armor.
Then Jessica, who was jumping like a rabbit, was startled and fell from my side.
“Gee, where are you touching now?!”
“Wherever you touched, you touched the breastplate. It didn’t even come in direct contact with bare skin, so why are you so obese?”
Jessica just clenched her teeth as if she had nothing to say because she was simply touching the armor.
“I tried to press it to see if there was another ability, but it doesn’t seem to be there.”
Or it could be an ability that only activates when the wearer of the armor touches it, but looking at Jessica’s reaction, it didn’t seem like that.
“Then shall we go now?”
If it’s this street, even if it’s a little noisy, you won’t be noticed, but we slowly approached the village with as little noise as possible.
When I got close enough to be able to see the face of the thief guarding the entrance to the village, I could see that the village was surrounded by a sharp barrier.
Behind the fence surrounding the village, there was a small watchtower at regular intervals. At least one or two people were watching as there was a torch lit above.
“… … I think the security is tight.”
“Yeah, it looks more under control than I expected.”
However, if you ask if it is difficult to enter because the security is strict, it is not so.
Blocking the path was just a sharp, unenchanted piece of wood, and the soldiers guarding it were just thieves and barbarian warriors.
There was no need to even go to the barrier that Gintokan had broken by himself, and it was shabby compared to the counties’ fortress.
“It doesn’t matter if I just go and play punk… .”
I don’t know how strong the chief is, but if it’s enough to recognize my skills, I might be scared and run away.
I want to get things done as quickly and quietly as possible. Even for that, infiltration was essential.
“Jessica, let’s go back.”
“sideways… Are you going over the barrier? It doesn’t matter, but there’s a watchtower like that… .”
There was a field of reeds around, but it was not enough to reach near the barrier, so there was no place to hide.
If you try to cross the barriers leisurely, you will be caught by the unlucky and watchers.
“It’s risky, but you have to take it anyway.”
We went to the reed field with Jessica, silencing the sound of footsteps, and bent our legs as we measured the distance to the watchtower in the distance.
“for a moment… !! What are you going to do?”
“… … You can see it.”
I gathered the speculation on my knees and exploded it at once, and with a great wind, I jumped right up to the watchtower.
“what… . uh… ?”
Then, the confused faces of the two thieves who were monitoring the ground from the watchtower caught my eye.
At first, he blinked when he saw the flying me, but soon realized the situation and his face was colored with astonishment.
“… !!”
They hurriedly reached for the horns that were tied to their waists, but sooner than that, my daughter-in-law decapitated them both.
Touk, their heads fell to the floor without a single word or scream.
They dealt with the two and hurriedly looked around, but there was no sign of any other watchtowers or ground.
After checking the safety around me, I picked up the torch hanging from the watchtower and signaled to Jessica, who was still hiding in the reeds.
Jessica, who received the signal, hesitated for a moment, then came out of the reed field and ran to the barrier at high speed so as not to be caught by the other watchtowers.
“Ah!”
Jessica ran right in front of the barrier and jumped over the barrier like a rabbit.
After confirming that Jessica had crossed over, I went downstairs and lowered my body, roughly hiding the thief’s neck that had fallen on the floor through the bushes.
“Successful.”
“ha… It’s all good, damn it, what if I yelled, what would I do to be so reckless… .”
“It’s okay because it worked out.”
Actually, it was half a gamble.
If the thief had shouted rather than reached for the horn, we would have known we had infiltrated there.
“Did the chief say he lives in the biggest house in town?”
I hid Jessica in the bushes and went up to the watchtower again, lowering my posture and looking around the village.
The village was patrolled by bandits periodically, so the light of a torch was illuminating the road.
As I looked around this abandoned village while figuring out the route of the patrol, I stopped for a moment when I saw the eerie decorations in the center of the village.
The ornament, made of human bodies rather than stone or clay, was a crude figure barely recognizable as a hawk.
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Made with human legs on the legs and human hands on the wings, the head of the grotesque ornament was strewn with a head full of fancy helmets that looked like those of a knight.
‘… … I can’t show this to Jessica.’
Even I, who is accustomed to blood, paused for a moment, but it’s obvious how Jessica will react if she sees it.
‘It must have been made to set an example for the bandits who surrendered, but that’s a bit harsh.’
Aside from being cruel, the smell wouldn’t be a joke if I left it like that, but if it were me, I wouldn’t be able to sleep near decorations like that.
Thinking that it would be the same for any barbarian, I looked away from those eerie decorations and saw a large house on a hill at the edge of the village.
“found.”
As soon as I got down from the watchtower, I approached Jessica, who was hiding in the bushes.
“I found a house that the chieftain seems to live in.”
“Really? Then let’s go quickly, because we may not have much time.”
As Jessica said, I didn’t know when the watchtower’s shift would come, so I didn’t have much time to spare.
The hill where the chieftain’s house was located was on the other side of the village, so it was quite a distance, but thanks to the patrol route from the watchtower, there was no difficulty in getting to the hill.
“Are you strangely used to sneaking?”
“It’s the strongest swordsmanship suitable for assassination of foot swordsmanship, so it wouldn’t be strange if I was used to stealth, who dealt with it.”
“okay… I guess it is.”
Jessica’s tired mother-like tone was a bit harsh, but it seemed they understood it anyway.
Arriving near the hill, we finally reached the point where the chieftain’s house was right in front of us.
Jessica, who had been observing the situation by hiding behind the goods the bandits had looted, said while stroking the hammer tied to her waist.
“Now what? The door must be locked… .”
Not only Jessica, but I was also good at infiltrating, but I wasn’t particularly a thief, so I didn’t have the skills to open doors.
However, even without the skill to open the door, he could easily behead the chieftain who was sleeping comfortably in that house.
“Leave it to me, I’ll be there for a while.”
Leaving Jessica behind, I stood in front of the door and looked at the signs inside the mansion.
It was clear that what the thieves said was not a lie, there were many signs inside.
Since it is said that they are dragging and committing a few half-faced women, the other sign you feel inside must be the victim.
I shouted at the mansion, raising my voice more than usual out of disgust for the chieftain I did not know yet.
“You bastard chieftain!! I, Ian Ba Tou, who uses the world’s strongest swordsmanship, has come to punish you!!”
“?!?!?”
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My voice spread throughout the quiet town. Jessica jumped out from behind the material at some point and said with a bewildered expression.
“Hey, what are you doing right now?! Why did you raise your voice when you came to assassinate? ?!”
“Because… You came here to assassinate, so you gave the enemy a name before assassination.”
I couldn’t understand why Jessica was so perplexed.
Wasn’t it common sense to shout out the name of the assassination target and reveal their identity before assassination?