Chapter 70: City on the shore (Part 7)
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As I was turning my head to look back, a fireball nearly hit me.
I protected myself with the White cat Hand and the fireball disappeared.
I saw three magicians with staves in their hands.
I fired air bullets into their faces. Thanks to the hit correction, all of them hit their targets.
The magicians fell, unable to protect themselves.
Using pitfalls and air bullets, I defeated all of the bandits.
As I looked around, I noticed I was the only one still standing.
Not even a minute had passed since the fight broke out.
"Nicole-chan, are you hurt anywhere!?"
Tomeia rushed over to where I was.
"Not really."
"You sure? I saw you getting hit by a magic attack though?"
"It’s nothing at only such a low level. More importantly, I am counting on you regarding the women."
The women, not understanding what just happened, lost their strength on the spot.
When the party went to help them, more men came out of the cave.
The man standing in the middle had a completely different atmosphere compared to the others.
"What is this mess!?"
Seeing the surroundings, the man howled.
"Did you guys do this?"
The man did not look at me, but at Blitz and the others.
"You are Blitz, aren’t you?"
The man noticed Blitz and said his name.
Did they know each other?
"You, Borg…"
"So, you came all the way here for some bandit subjugation?"
"Why are you here, you bastard?"
"That’s obvious. It’s a job, just a job."
"A job, you say?"
"Yeah, Attack all the people who travel down the road, rob the money, and take the women. A really simple job."
I asked Tomeia, who was near me, a question.
"Who is he?"
"He’s an adventurer we met at the town we were previously at. He is strong, but he is also violent, selfish, and thinks all of the women in his party belong to him. That’s why no one wanted to party with him, and he disappeared from the town after that. I didn’t expect to see him here, and that he would become a bandit."
"Oi, oi, I am no bandit. I am just doing my job as an adventurer. It’s an official job I received from the Commerce Guild’s Master."
"Commerce Guild?"
I had a strange feeling that something really incredible had just been said, but…
"Is it really okay for you to say that to us?"
Blitz stood in front of the man.
"That doesn’t really matter, does it? You bastards will die, and your girls will become mine after all."
"Bastard!"
"I wanted to fondle you for a long time now."
The man looked at Tomeia with dirty eyes.
The moment Blitz tried to draw his sword, the man named Borg was blown away.
That was because I punched him, of course.
It wasn’t my fault he had a face that looked really easy to punch, and he was just standing there, not even defending, and more than that, I was really pissed off. That was enough of a reason for me.
Since I wanted to finish him, I chased him, got on top of him, and continued punching him.
I didn’t punch him too hard of course, to make sure that he wouldn’t lose consciousness.
"You bastard!"
Mega Cat punch!!
"Get off of me!"
He was reaching for me with his arms, but…
Mega Cat punch!
"Stop it…"
There was no way I would stop punching these bastards.
His face began to change.
The hand that tried to stop me lost strength and fell to the floor.
"Ah, that was really great. I feel so refreshed now."
I got off of him.
When I looked around, Blitz, the remaining bandits who came out of the cave, and the women who were captured by the bandits were all looking at me.
"What happened?"
"Why are you even asking…"
"Did you also want to punch him? If you want to kill him, do it a bit later okay? He said something really interesting after all. I actually went easy on him, you know?"
"Went easy, you say…"
He said that the Guild Master of the Commerce Guild asked him to act as a bandit.
The adventurers who attacked me in the inn also told me that they were acting on his orders.
Was it possible that the Kraken also had something to do with this Guild Master?
"So, the bandits standing there, are you going to be captured nicely? Or do you want to be finished off like him?"
After hearing that, the bandits looked at Borg’s face. They shook their heads and threw down their weapons.
"Are any of your friends inside?"
"None. Just the captured women."
The bandits responded obediently.
We went to save the girls who were captured inside the cave and took back the money that the bandits had stored there.
We also found horses and carriages, which we would use well.
We tied up all of the bandits, threw them on a carriage, and headed back towards the the city.
"We weren’t able to do anything, huh."
"Yeah, and she defeated Borg so easily…"
Borg was conscious, but he was unable to move.
When he woke up, he was really noisy, so I made him do some bungee jumping without a cord.
I propelled him into the air using wind magic and let him eat dirt dozens of times.
I made an air cushion on the ground so that he wouldn’t die, of course.
Even when he lost consciousness, I would wake him up with water.
After doing it for a number of times;
"Please stop this! If you really have to do something, just kill me!"
He said something like that, but the ropeless bungee jumping continued, of course.
I wouldn’t do something like killing him just because he wanted to be freed from the pain. I would rather just crush any hope of escape.
In the end, he asked me to kill him so he could repent for his crimes, but that was not for me to decide.
That was for the women who were in the other carriage and the residents of the city to decide.
The carriages kept moving forward, and we joined up with Gumoris midway.
When we arrived at the city gate, the guards ran toward us.
"What is this, all of you?"
"We captured all of the bandits. We want to report this to the Adventurer’s Guild Master, is that okay?"
Blitz was talking as the representative.
"Is this true?"
They looked at the bandits who were on the carriage.
"I will make a report immediately!"
The guard ran off to the Adventurer’s Guild.
We helped the captured women out of the carriage.
They were all crying while hugging each other.
I could only imagine what had happened to them while they were captured by the bandits, but I didn’t find any words of comfort to share with them.
That wasn’t all. There should have been people who left the city with them.
Husbands, parents, and possibly children.
That’s why, I, who didn’t understand their pains, could only watch.
The captured girls thanked us over and over again.
It had been a long time since something made me remember that I was not in my world or the game one.
After some time passed, the Guild Master arrived.
"Nicole! You really subjugated them!?"
"These adventurers here helped me, after all."
"You say that, but we didn’t do anything."
"You tied up the bandits, took care of the women, and led the carriages, didn’t you?"
I couldn’t take care of the women and didn’t know how to lead a carriage.
I really had no idea what would have happened if I was there alone.
"And, the bandits you have captured, are they those bastards?"
Atora-san was looking at the bandits who were on the carriage.
"You guys are…"
"You know them?"
"Yes, they are adventurers from this city. They are the ones who went out as guards for the carriages and those who disappeared before I realized it. I thought that they fled because they feared the Kraken. I really didn’t think that they would turn out to be the bandits."
The former adventurers couldn’t look at the Guild Master’s eyes and instead faced the ground.
"Also, we heard a really interesting story from the bandits."
"Interesting story?"
I told her about the Commerce Guild’s Master.
"Hoo, that’s really an interesting story. I also found out a lot of things here while you were away."
An angry smile crept onto Atora-san’s face.
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