CH 59

I want to go home as soon as possible, but…what a hassle. Just as I was about to go outside to finish before the kids woke up, there was a loud noise and the carriage shook.

“Hurry up and get out of there! I’m not a patient one!”

Immediately thereafter, filthy cries and vulgar laughter echoed. These guys are in a borrowed carriage…!

Fortunately, the horse was not startled and stood quietly. It’s a horse that is normally taken to the “War Maidens” A Rank requests, so it has a lot of guts.

“Eh…”

“What?”

“Hush.”

And now the children have woken up. I try to talk to the frightened children to calm them down and realize something.

Lulueco, who is clinging to Mia, is acting strangely. Her eyes are wide open and she is mumbling something in a small voice.

“Aa…aa…no, no…help me mom and dad…”

When I met Mia’s eyes, Lulueco tried to tell me why she was so frightened, so I shook my head and stopped her.

It is probably the same reason why Lulueco became an orphan. And that is not a conversation that Lulueco should be allowed to ask in this state..

I bend down in front of the children and look at them.

“Don’t worry, it’s just a dream. So sleep a little longer. Next time you wake up, the bad dream will be over.”

The children, who have begun to fall asleep due to magic, are covered once again with blankets. I can’t let them see what’s coming next.

Okay, time to kill them.

I drew my sword and got out of the carriage.

―――――

“Hey, what are you going to do? They’re so freaked out, they won’t come out. That’s because you threatened them.”

“Ah? I don’t know. I told him so nicely. He’s a fucking coward.”

It’s a pretty nice carriage, so we can expect to get a good haul today. And there are no escorts. There might be some people in the wagon, but there might be two or three at the most. The bandits surrounding the carriage were in a good mood, talking about whatever they wanted, imagining what they would do after the work was done.

“Don’t make me have to go through all this trouble.”

But since there was too little response, one of the bandits approached the carriage and reached into the back of the cart.

However, the next moment, a hand came out of the cart and grabbed the bandit’s head.

“Huh? What…”

The bandit makes a dumb noise, not realizing what just happened. Then, Gray comes out from the back of the truck, holding the head of the bandit.

When the bandits saw this, they froze, forgetting to yell. They didn’t expect that the person who came out of the wagon was a colleague of theirs. Moreover, judging from the atmosphere, he was probably a higher-ranked opponent than they were.

(Still, this area is our territory, and this guy who stepped into it is evil…)

When the leader of the bandits thought of this, the body of the bandit whose head was being held by Gray fell to the ground. Gray then threw the head he was holding onto to the leader of the bandits.

“How dare you frighten the children.”

Saying that, he raises his right foot and steps down hard on the ground. Then a wall made of earth appears around the carriage.

“Hey! Let’s kill this guy…”

“You’re the ones who will die.”

With an evil grin, Gray kicked the ground and swung his sword at the bandits.

From then on, it was hell.

Every time Gray swings his sword, the heads of the bandits fly off, and the bandits swing their weapons without questioning that they will hit their allies, but they are either evaded or have their weapons dropped with their arms.

The leader of the bandits fled as soon as the battle began. They are not the kind of people who would risk their lives for their friends. They always care only about themselves.

“Hey… hey…”

If I had known there was such a monster, I wouldn’t have messed around with that carriage… but I’ll think about it later.

“I won’t let you go.”

The leader of the bandits falls to the ground, bent over at the sound of a voice coming from behind him.

“You people are the reason why there are more children like Lulueco. You’ve taken so much from others, haven’t you? Then it’s your turn, right?”

The sound of footsteps slowly approached.

―――――

Lulueco wakes up in a rattling carriage.

She wonders where she is… and tries to get up, but she can’t move because Mia, who is asleep, is holding her close.

When she managed to move her head and looked at the driver’s stand, her eyes met with Gray who was just looking back.

“…You’re awake. We’re almost there, so you can still sleep. I’ll wake you up when we get there.”

Lulueco nods and closes her eyes.

I feel like I had a very scary dream, but I wonder what kind of dream it was…she thought.