When he said that to Falhart while thinking that it was pointless even if he said that since he didn’t try to stop Mary-san when she stuck her head into this, Falhart was pondering something with a serious expression on his face.
「Yashiro-kun, that Sister……Bernadette, was it? She doesn’t know about the threat letter that was delivered to Vodan-shi, correct?」
「Nn? Yeah. I came to know about the threat letter after parting with Bernadette.」
Come to think of it, I wonder why Bernadette had such a sulky and rotten attitude……Uumu, it’s a mystery.
But, is this where I should just apologize for the time being? There is the possibility that I did something to make her angry……
It’s annoying to apologize even though I don’t remember doing anything bad but, it’s awkward if she stays in a bad mood.
「Yashiro-kun. ……This is just a thought but, she may have found the kidnappers.」
As I was worrying about how I should apologize to Bernadette, Falhart went and said that.
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「Oi oi, what the heck is this.」
「……It certainly is awful.」
Port city, Be Io. Coming to the main street that stretched out in a straight line from the harbor to the town, we stopped at a section that had become a heap of rubble.
As for why we came to the main street in the first place, Falhart said in the middle of when Falhart and Mary-san coming to see me, they bumped in to Bernadette on this main street.
However, it would have been fine if they had just bumped into each other. It seems that Bernadette looked desperate as she chased after something.
By some chance, she might have happened to be present at the scene of a kidnapping. That being said, when I had them tell me the direction Bernadette ran off to, we came to the actual place but……
「This isn’t just two or three buildings. It looks like they were blown up all together.」
We were looking a bit away from the curious onlookers that gathered for the incident but, it was a miserable state that made one wonder if it took a bombing or something.
Probably being people of the town, several Demi-humans were doing rubble removal work.
「Hey, excuse me! What in the world happened?」
I called out to a man of the Dog Tribe that was nearby. When I did, the man said 「That’s what I want to know! By the time I noticed, the flames had risen!」 with agitation in his voice.
When the man that looked agitated tried to take a closer look, the crowd of curious onlookers advanced forward. I exchanged looks with Falhart. Saying 「What do you think?」.
「Eight or nine times out of ten, there’s probably no mistake it was a magician. Several high ranking magicians at that……」
To Falhart who exchanged looks with me to say 「Let’s hear your opinion.」, I replied with a nod.
「I’m of the same opinion. It’s just, the question is why did they fight in the middle of town……」
「I believe that it’s likely related to the current case of the kidnapping uproar. ……Wouldn’t that make it the kidnapper that Bernadette-kun was chasing?」
「In that case……does that mean that Bernadette fought them?」
I once again looked at the heap of rubble. If she were dragged into the building, then there’s no mistake that she would have died.
Thinking that, I forcibly pushed aside the crowd of people and ran towards the heap of rubble.
「You’re kidding……This is all a joke, right!?」
Kicking and flinging away rubble that looked like it would take a large amount of people just to lift, I started to dig with an absurd fear while wishing that.
And then, I unexpectedly quickly found that.
「These are……Bernadette’s, Magic Guns……」
What appeared from underneath the rubble was the two handguns that Bernadette habitually used. That showed without a doubt that Bernadette fought here and was “proof of her defeat”.