Wow! Even though they’re disguised as soldiers, this is too absurd.
Well, it is fine either way, isn’t it? Act as knights and extort money and goods under the pretense of a tax. It might go smoothly. If that fails, you can take it by force. It is better, especially for thieves, to get money and goods without a fight.
Those soldiers are completely armed. They might just come and rob us directly with those weapon.
I say.
I use telepathy. I want to see what is going to happen next.
[I will use a different road then.] says Maria.
[No, you can’t. You already entered this road. You have to pay the tax, even if you want to go back.] says the thief.
As expected.
I say.
[Understood. Then I will pay half of our property.] says Maria.
[Yeah, We are ordered to take young girl as tax too. I will take half of the women.] – Thief
As they speak, they look at Sera with indecent eyes. So…? Does it turn out like this? Well, let’s end this farce. I won’t let anyone to put their hands on my companions. But this situation is a little interesting. Let’s see how it is going to go.
I say.
commands Maria.
says Sera.
says Mio.
As I give a signal, Maria jumps out and attacks the thief in front of us, drawing her sword and beheading that thief without hesitation, at all.
The rest of the thieves are surprised by that turn of events. Maria clears the way and moves to the right side while Sera moves to the left side. Three people on the left side were killed by single sword sweep from Sera. Two on the right were killed by the sword and dagger in each of Maria’s hands. As for the two people who approach our carriage from the rear, Mio just puts arrows through their throats.
Everything happened in five seconds. Those thieves didn’t even have time to pull their weapons out. Totally wiped out.
The rest of the thieves were also killed before they could take out their weapons. Those soldier-like thieves also were sniped down by Mio, too.
[It is completely fine, after all.]
[It isn’t different from monsters, at all.]
[I think I could do it naturally if we repeated this for two or three more times.]
Those are their impressions after the battle. It looks promising.
[Now, how should we deal with those corpses. I could put them in , but that many corpses inside is really bad.]
Putting corpses in is okay, but it became too many before I noticed. And I also have monster’s corpses, too…
Oh! I have an idea.
[First, store them with .]
[Are you going to store them, after all?]
It hasn’t ended yet.
[Next, dig a hole with .]
[A hole? Why?]
Since we can’t dig a hole in the middle of the road, we dig it off the side of the road.
[Remove all items with .]
[I think I understand what you are going to do now…]
Clothes are unnecessary. Only metal is worth collecting.
[Next, put those corpses in the hole.]
[Even if you say it cutely, this is looking really cruel.]
There are fifteen corpses here.
[Burn the corpses!]
It burns really well.
[Cover the hole with soil.]
[You stripped them of any valuable completely, burned them and buried them.]
[Yeah. And it was done without even touching those corpse once.]
I have no hobby of collecting the corpse. I have no intention of reviving those thieves with when I obtain that skill.
Why? Aren’t I going to make a slave army? Well, they are still a living army, after all. Hey, it’s about my appearance.
[Come to think of it… You are going to exterminate the rest of them in their hideout, but what are you going to do with the repurchase?]
Come to think of it… Sakura is the only person who participated in thieves’ extermination.
I know the location of their hideout from . can show me anything.
We might have an unnecessary problem this time because we are adventurers now. We can’t use “We aren’t adventurers.” as an excuse like before.
It will cause more trouble during the trip, so I want to refrain from any repurchases.