CH 125

Aeris was in a bad mood for a while, but her mood improved when Tauro said he would buy her lunch.

He asked the craftsmen for a good place to eat, and decided to go to a diner in a back street.

“Tauro, wouldn’t it be faster to go this way?”

Aeris pointed to a narrow alley and pulled Tauro by the arm into it.

“Aeris, let’s not go over there, it doesn’t look good!”

Tauro rushed to stop Aeris, but it was too late.

Two men suddenly came out of the shadows and blocked their way.

Two suspicious men who had been standing in the street, talking to each other, appeared behind them and blocked the way.

“Sorry about this, ladies. This is a place where kids sometimes go missing when they pass by.”

This man was kind enough to declare themselves kidnappers.

Tauro quickly drew his small sword and readied it.

Aeris also silently cast magic power onto her wand, causing light like a cutting edge to dwell at the tip, where the magic stone was attached.

“Oh? I’ve never seen a cane like that before. That’s going to sell well.”

The man who seemed to be the leader of the kidnappers did not panic when Tauro and Aeris held up their weapons.

He must think they were just children.

Tauro secretly casts a dark spirit magic.

“…Hiyaa!”

The man who was standing behind them slashed at his fellow man who was standing next to him.

The man who was caught off guard was slashed decisively and fell screaming with a deep cut on his shoulder.

The delirious man walked past Tauro and Aeris and slashed at the leader.

The leader was upset, but he immediately leapt up and slashed the delirious man’s sword away, then cut him down unceremoniously.

“Damn it! What the hell did you do, you little brat!”

While the kidnappers were bewildered, Tauro used a mind-disrupting magic on the man who was standing with the leader, but the man held back and shook it off.

“Brother! This kid is using dark magic!”

The man with the leader was resistant to dark magic and showed signs of knowledge.

“Let’s kill the kid and just take the little girl!”

The leader decided to do so and slashed at Tauro.

The attack was sharp, and Tauro could tell that he was quite skilled.

The other man approached to grab Aeris, but Aeris swung her wand at him.

The man thought he had dodged the wand with plenty of time to spare, but he misjudged the distance between the glowing parts.

It was a shallow cut, but it sliced through his chest and stomach and drew blood.

“Gyaaaah!”

The leader of the kidnappers clicked his tongue as he heard the screams of his comrades being beaten behind his back.

“You’re lucky, kid. I’ll let you off the hook this time.”

With that, he ran to the street and into the crowd, blending in so quickly that he disappeared.

“….Whew. That was close.”

Tauro was relieved.

He realized after they crossed swords that he was at a disadvantage if he continued.

“Tauro, are you okay?”

Aeris turned around and walked up to Tauro.

“Yes, Aeris, go get the patrolling soldiers!”

Tauro then threw a potion on the injured kidnapper and tied him up with a rope as he healed him.

By the time the guards rushed there, both men’s wounds were healed and they survived, but the man who had been cut down by the leader of the kidnappers had died.

Tauro and Aeris were taken with the kidnappers to a cell for questioning, but Aeris was not happy about this.

“We were just going to have lunch! It’s already past noon!”

The guards were tantalized by the girl.

“Don’t be so angry, we’ve got work to do too, so give us a break.”

“Just listen to us briefly today and we’ll do the rest tomorrow, please…”

She looked at her companion, Tauro, and asked him to do something about it.

Tauro felt bad about this, so he pulled out a sandwich from the “magic storage” and suggested Aeris eat it in the staff room. She was furious.

In the end, I had to go to the staff room and explain what had happened, but in the meantime, Aeris’s mood did not improve, even after eating the sandwich.

“Come back tomorrow, okay? There has been an increase in the number of reports of disappearances lately, which has become a problem, but when it comes to kidnapping, there’s a big possibility that a criminal organization is involved, so it’s important for us to have you as witnesses.”

The man who seemed to be in charge of the guards explained this to Tauro and told him to apologize to his girlfriend as well, then they were released.