CH 238

Tauro and the others were tied up on the spot and taken to a nearby building in the ruins of an ancient castle.

“What were you doing here? If you don’t talk, I’m going to kill you right here, one by one.”

A man whose face was covered with a cloth, who seemed to be the person in charge of the place, interrogated Tauro and the others.

“Wait a minute. We’re only here because we were asked to scout this area.”

“Reconnaissance ……?”

“Yes, sir. Yes, we are here to scout to see if you are here.”

Tauro answered meaningfully.

“You little ……! What else do you know? No, it’s not good to make him talk here. Take them all to the prison in the basement for the time being. We will interrogate them there.”

As soon as the man in charge said this, his men, dressed in black, pulled Tauro and the others away and took them inside the low walls that was built in the ruins of the old castle.

The walls of the old castle had been demolished, but a new wall had been built on the remaining foundation that seemed to blend in with the forest.

The interior was overgrown with trees, and if not for the walls, it would not look much different from the forest.

For the members of the assassin’s guild, was it perhaps easier to be safe if there were trees blocking their view?

It seems that the buried cellar has been dug up and is now being used.

Tauro and the others were put in a prison cell on the second basement floor.

“Hey, Salk, we’ve got work to do! Your job as a waste of time and money is to watch over these prisoners until we can interrogate them. Just don’t let them escape, okay?”

From the dimly lit depths of the basement, a man came trotting up at the call.

“ a war prisoner? That’s very unusual in such a remote forest!”

The man who answered and was projected in the candlelight was Tauro’s former father, Salk Satou.

“Isn’t one of them a beauty! Hehehe! If only this  girl was a bit older ……. huh?”

Salk was checking each of the faces in the dim light, holding the lantern light close to each face, when he recognized the face of the third child.

No, it was not only familiar, it was Tauro, the very son who had caused his downfall.

“Hey! This kid is the very one who turned me into a criminal, mister!”

Salk curses, not happy to be reunited with his own son.

Of course, even though Tauro cut ties with his father, he is still his ex-father by blood, but it’s certainly not a happy reunion, and Salk isn’t the only one who wants to curse.

“…… You deserved it. You dropped so low, got yourself wanted, and now you’re acting with these kind of people.”

Tauro sighs in disgust.

Aeris and his team didn’t know how to react to the man who seemed to know Tauro.

“I don’t care what you have to say, just keep him in jail until we’re ready to interrogate him.”

“Ha! Yes, sir!”

Soon after, Salk unlocked the cell and pushed Tauro and the others into the rough and dirty room.

“The tables have turned, Tauro! I don’t know what you’re doing here, but this is one of the assassin guild’s strongholds. You ain’t getting out of here alive!”

Salk triumphantly began to tell his story.

“Do you know what I’ve been through because of you? I became a bandit, then I escaped from subjugation there, wandered around, then I moved to a big city and became a servant of a kidnapping gang, and was chased out of there too, and then the assassin guild picked up my skills because they were so valuable. It’s been hard work all the way here!”

He yells at Tauro as he hit the bars with a stick.

“You had it coming. You brought this on yourself.”

Tauro coldly dismissed him with a look that said he didn’t even want to deal with him.

“Tauro, I know you guys are acquaintances, but who is this scum-looking man?”

Aeris asked Tauro without any hint of ostentation.

“…… my ex-father.”

Tauro said the words he did not want to say.

“”Eh!?”””

Aeris and the others were all surprised at the same time.

They had heard that he existed, but they had never expected to meet him here.

And, just as they had heard, he’s a scumbag.

“Tauro is in a tough spot. I’m not sure how I feel about this kind of scumbag …… man as a parent.”

Ragune looks back with disdain at Salk, who looks at her with a disgusted look.

“….. the leader must have been a success story as unlikely as goblins giving birth to gryphons,…….’

Ankh sympathized with Tauro while looking at the man in front of him with cold eyes.

“True. I’m glad Tauro doesn’t look like his father. I bet he looks like his mother.”

Aeris breathed a sigh of relief.

“Shut up, you two! I can hurt you guys all I want until the interrogation! …… that’s right, I can do what I want with that beautiful woman over there. ……”

Salk threatened by pounding the iron bars with the stick in his hand, but he smiled at the ghastly idea.

「「「Shit……」」」」」

This was the moment when everyone’s thoughts came out of their mouths as they saw the man literally in front of them.

He unlocks the jail and salk comes in.

He beats ankh that was in front of him with a stick and drives him to the back.

It seems that he really intends to lay his hands on Ragune.

“I have no use for this man!”

“Damn!”

Even though Ankh was being beaten with a stick, he leaned forward in front of Ragune.

“Stop it, you piece of shit!”

Aeris said clearly.

‘”Such a piece of scum, in a place like this. ……! Damn, Kill me!”

Ragune slanders salk with her usual line.

“Shut up! You guys stay out of this! …… huh?”

He continues to hit Ankh with a stick and was about to hit Tauro as well.

Tauro, who was in front of him disappeared for a moment, only the rope that tied him remained, and in the next moment, he appeared next to Salk, holding the swinging stick, having used “Spatial Transfer”.

“For now, just go to sleep.”

Tauro twisted the stick in Salk’s hand and took it away, striking him on the head.

“Gyaa!”

Salk let out a short scream and fainted.