Are you the ones who are raiding and hunting people in the villages around here?


　I asked the man in front of me, with my cloak deep in my eyes.


'What are you?　When did he show up?


　A man who noticed my presence when he was approached, gave me a questioning look.

　The man's physiognomy is poor, and the men at the back, who are resting on a stump in a break in the forest, also have the appearance of not being adventurers.


'I'm sorry, but I'd appreciate it if you could answer my questions. Are you the ones who are raiding the villages around here and hunting people down?

'What?　You're such a creepy-looking bastard with your cloak on, aren't you?　I don't have to answer to you, okay?　Now get the hell out of here.


　The man with his hand on his sword gives me an intimidating look and urges me to leave.


　It looks like these guys, after all.

　It was hard to judge them when I found them from above in Dimol.

　They also have a wagon with them that could carry people, and their physiognomy and atmosphere are pretty bad.

　Now it just depends on what we hear from Cinzia, who is checking out that wagon.


　We spent the night in the village of Devon, and spent several days going around to several surrounding villages to search for the group of people hunters.

　Today, they finally found a group of suspicious-looking people resting in the forest and are now trying to confirm that they are indeed man-hunters.


'Hey, are you listening to me?　Walk away if you don't want to get hurt!


　The man pokes me and pushes me back, probably to keep me away from the guys sitting on the stump at the back, resting on the stump.

　Just then I see Cinzia flying out of the wagon and whirling around in place.


　Bingo.

　The villagers said there aren't many adventurers around here either.


I'm sorry, but it seems you're the people I'm looking for. I'm sorry, but we're going to have to take you in.


　As I said this, the man's face tightened quickly and he drew his sword.


'If you'd just walked away without saying a word, you wouldn't have died. Curse your own stupidity.


　As the man said this, he quickly decapitated my head with the sword in his hand.

　The thing that was my head that was blown off was rolling on the ground.


　He's rather good with the sword, isn't he?

　I'm not going to be able to get my head cut off easily.


　I looked at my own head as it rolled away and saw how good my opponent was.


''Oops!　What the hell!　I'm in the dirt--buh-uh!


　When my head flew off, I caught the man by surprise as my body crumbled into a clump of dirt, and I ate my body from behind, knocking him out.


　Surprisingly, the golem seems to be useful for scouting.

　As long as we can hide our bodies, we can share our voices, hearing and sight.


　I let the man be carried by my newly made golem and sent to Noelia and the others waiting in the back, and then I approach the guys sitting on the stump and resting.


　They seem to be caught off guard by the fact that they're standing guard.

　This would put them to sleep and subdue them all at once with the magic of sleep.


　The guys taking a break seemed to be drinking and floating around with their drinks, laughing lowly.


''No, seriously, we can make some money on this job. If we deliver those guys to the mine, we'll have enough money to live on for a few months of fun.

'The people in the village could have made a lot of money if they'd just kept their mouths shut and cooperated.

They crossed us and that's how we've been able to make our money. We owe them a debt of gratitude.

But don't they send them into the mine?

Yeah, there's a lot of crystal being mined. Apart from that, some of the guys are being taken somewhere else, but I hear they're not going in that direction anymore. I hear there's a problem.


　In the midst of the boozy banter, I could hear the leader sitting in the center of the room starting to talk about where the villagers we'd caught so far were going.


　I'm guessing the mine and another place where they could make more money that the villagers who had gone to the mine had testified about.

　They're not sending them there now.

　I guess we'll have to talk to the people who occupy the mine to find out.


Well, it's none of our business. They just tell us to go get people.

Yeah, that's right. But still, the vigilantes didn't want us to do their dirty work for them, even though they were asked to do so by the Kingsguard.

Is this request coming from the Kingsguard?　I heard that the vigilantes were asked to do this by the miners.

That's what it's all about, technically. The occupants of the mine get their money from the Kingsguard. So the miners are an agent of the Kingsguard.

'Seriously?　Speaking of the Near Guard, I'm sure Gile-sama, who became Lord of Invahannes two years ago, is supposed to be the head of the Order. At least the miners have been over there for longer, I think.

Stop prying. You'll end up dead. We just do the dirty work and get paid for it, don't we?


　The leader of the group said just that, and then showed a gesture to the still young beastly man to close his mouth.


　Is the Knights of the Kingsguard getting involved .......

　Will the miners and Giles be long-time friends .......

　Or has the Kingsguard been involved with them, or has the Kingsguard been involved with them?


　Remembering the man, a great nobleman, looking at Alfine with a smirk on his face, he couldn't help but think that he was someone who would be able to pull off something this big.


　But I could confirm that there was a hint of the Invahannes' Kingsguard being involved.

　It was going to be a search for Abyss Walker, but it might have drawn a terrible case.

　But we can't just leave them alone, can we?


　After gathering a certain amount of information, I decided to cast a spell on the people who were still drinking and boisterous.


It's a sleep-inducing cloud that appears around me. Sleep Cloud!


　As a thin cloud spread around the guys who were sitting on the stump resting, the sleepy and unconscious fell to the ground in a flurry of activity.

　Later, as I finished capturing the fallen people, Noelia and the others arrived and succeeded in rescuing the villagers who had been trapped in the wagon.