v7c245 - The Slave Trader and the Palading ...... Once Again
“You guys! What are you doing!”
“B-Big brother!”
“Aah!? What the hell are you!?”
I came back to the house I was at earlier, but …… it was a different man than the one who was trying to kidnap the girl again.
“I’ll ask you this just in case, but you’re a slave trader, aren’t you?”
“If so, what? You don’t look familiar, so I’ll tell you, behind my back is …… Bugoh!”
Seriously. How many slave traders are there in this town?
I thought that Ryuho had freed the slave traders I caught earlier, but I didn’t realize that other guys had come.
For the time being, I saved the little girl…
“Father!”
Tsuki’s voice rang out, and an arrow grazed my left arm.
Immediately after that, people came out from all around, including behind the wagon and inside the house.
“Fuhahahaha! That arrow is coated with a powerful poison. Now you can’t move a finger anymore …… Guha!”
“I can’t believe he can move even though he was hit by a sniper’s arrow …… He’s a grappler, but he’s got poison resistance skills!”
“Father! There’s a bowman on the roof over there! I will go and ……”
I stopped Tsuki as she is about to run out, picks up a decent-sized stone, and throws it at the man on the roof.
“Wah!”
“Huh!? You think you can reach that distance by throwing a stone …… What!? Sniper! Ugh!”
Unlike the first time, they were able to coordinate somewhat, but they used a lot of status abnormalities like poison and paralysis, which didn’t work on me as a paladin, and in the end, almost everyone ended up with the same end result.
But there was one person I left untouched.
“W-Why!? My dancing doesn’t work!? Don’t tell me you’re a philanderer!?”
“…… Uh, your job is a dancer who dances to charm or weaken opponents, right? I’m sorry, but I’m immune to that kind of skill.”
“N-No way! That’s not fair!”
“And as you can see from your friends, it’s best not to fight me in close combat. With your thin body, you will die in the worst-case scenario, you know? I’m not threatening you, I’m serious.”
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Seeing her friends unconscious on the ground like a heap of corpses, the dancer woman let go of the dagger from her waist and fell to the ground.
When Tsuki kicked it far away, I asked Mami to take the girl we saved inside the house.
“Now then …… I have a question for you. If you could answer me honestly, it would save me a lot of trouble.”
“W-What is it?”
“The man who just collapsed over there …… he said I was a grappler. Why did he call me that even though I have a sword at my waist?”
“I, I think …… it’s because you don’t draw your sword.”
“But the man called me a grappler when I beat up an unarmed slave trader and a man with a sword. I haven’t even fought him yet, and he’s calling me a grappler when I’m holding a sword?”
“I-I don’t know. Even if you ask me that ……”
“Just a few minutes ago, a guy we beat here just like you did called me a grappler. Didn’t you guys hear some information from them?”
At my words, the dancer looked away for a moment…
“…… I-I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
She was obviously shaken.
She was obviously lying, but I couldn’t bring myself to torture the woman, who was probably younger than me.
The only thing I can think of is that Ryuho let them go, as I thought the first time, or that one of their friends saw what happened and told them.
Or maybe there are people in the vigilante group who are connected to these guys, if not Ryuho himself …… something like that.
It would not be surprising if there were people connected to them, since the vigilante group is not the organization I had initially imagined, and does not necessarily operate in a just manner.
But as I was thinking about that…
“Father. Let me take care of this person. Leave this kind of thing to me, a Shinobi.”
“I will help you, too-pon! I can’t let a person who does bad things go unchecked-pon!”
Tsuki and Mami, who came out of the house and said they are going to torture the dancer lady, but …… Tsuki aside, aren’t you having too much fun, Mami!?