CH 88

“Trouble comes wherever you go.”

Translated by Dawn

“Trouble comes wherever you go.”

I was visiting the dungeon alone, fed up with the Gyrmzak and the others. I understood that I should stop the fight between those guys on the spot, but I knew that a situation like that would get even more complicated if a third party entered the situation, so I knew that if I messed with it badly, the situation would get even worse.

In a previous life, I had been asked to do a similar job by a similar company, and furthermore, since the two companies were rivals, our company, which was in a neutral position, had to settle the matter by deciding which company would take the job.

Naturally, it was obvious that choosing either company would crack the relationship later on, so it was extremely troublesome to choose either job poorly.

In the end, we had to make a compromise by assigning the work equally to each company.

The situation, in that case, was similar, and although it would have been enough to take one side or the other’s side, it was clear from the outset that the relationship between the two parties would become increasingly difficult, so I decided to adopt an attitude of nonchalance.

“Huh, I never thought I’d be troubled by these relationships even after I was reincarnated…….”

In this life, I was reincarnated as the heir to a noble family, and I was unhappy with my circumstances, so I forced my younger brother to take on that role, but what I hated more than anything was the ties between nobles, the so-called human relationships. Even so, I never expected that such relationships would follow me even after I became a free man.

I came to the 13th level, thinking about such things that a 12-year-old child would never think about. My current location was the safety zone in the first half of the 13th level, and this time, I would start my attack from the continuation of the safety zone.

I found out new information about the fields after the 10th level, and it seemed that after the 10th level, multiple fields were used. Specifically, there was a grassland field at the beginning, which changed to a cave in the middle and finally to a boss room.

The difficulty level was dramatically increased by the spreading out of several fields, as the attackers had to cope with each environment. In addition, the ranks of the monsters that appeared had also increased, so you could not be too careful.

“Hmm? This reaction is… a person?”

In the midst of all this, there was a reaction to the Scouting skill. From the unusual reaction, I could tell that it was a person, but the details were unknown. The number of human responses had been decreasing since the tenth level, but there were still a few here and there, so it was not so much that it was unusual, but the situation was a little strange.

I tried to get closer without being noticed while invoking the stealth skill to check, and something happened that made me think, “Oh no, not this again.”

“H-hey, let go of me! Where do you think you’re taking me!”

“Shut up! You’re not going to get any help at this level anyway, so just shut up and stay quiet!”

There was a bandit-like man with a bad look and a woman being forcibly carried away by the man. The situation seemed to be that the man was trying to forcibly take the woman away, but one must not be too hasty here.

It might be possible that the woman had done something wrong and the man had kidnapped her to atone for her crime. You know what they say, right? Don’t judge people by their appearances…….

(I’ll have to check this one all the way through.)

I did not know at this time how she was abducted. That was why I needed to know the details. If the woman was at fault and not the man who took her, I would be the one to blame.

Well, I could try to kill them all and pretend it never happened, but I didn’t want to commit such an injustice if I could. That was why I had to make sure I knew who was the bad guy or the bad girl.

I could go on and on with a list of excuses, but in short, the fact that I didn’t want to take responsibility for wrongly calling the other party a bad person was what drove me to do what I am doing now. No false accusations, never.

After following the man for a while, I arrived at a small cave. There seemed to be a guard at the entrance of the cave, so nobody could enter, but it didn’t make much sense to me.

Then, I approached the guard in stealth, put magic power in my fingertips, and used it.

“[Stun finger].”

“Guhaa.”

I used one of my lightning magics on my opponent and stunned the man on guard. I thought he wouldn’t move for a while, but then I noticed something was wrong.

“Ah, he’s dead.”

Apparently, the lightning was unlucky enough to put too much strain on his heart, causing him to suffer a heart attack and never returned home. …Well, it couldn’t be helped, it was an accident.

In such cases, Japanese who had never killed a person may become distraught or mentally ill, but as for me, I was a person who never felt any such emotion.

When cockroaches appeared in one’s room, the final action one would take was to exterminate the cockroaches that had entered one’s territory. And when the extermination was completed, they would not feel any guilt about it. Do you know why? Because it has nothing to do with you.

In the same way, I would like to ask for an explanation as to why there was any hesitation in exterminating the vermin known as bandits.

The bandit basically committed several crimes, and if you would like examples, such as [murder], [theft], [robbery], [assault], [inflicting injury], [threat], [intimidation], [intimidation], [ rape ], [fraud], and so on. There were crimes that they committed besides these, and they were great sinners to the extent that it could not be justified even if they were expressed as a villain to say the truth.

In terms of Japanese law, when a person committed the crime of “robbery-homicide,” there was only one of two possible punishments: life imprisonment or the death penalty.

Killing a person for the purpose of robbery would be a mortal sin, not only in Japan but also in the world, and would never be tolerated. There was no need to show mercy to a person who had committed such a serious crime.

Rather, the person who overlooked the bandit, although not charged with a crime, was not looked upon very favorably, because overlooking the bandit would have resulted in the next victim.

“Your family has been killed by the hands of bandits you overlooked. How are you going to take responsibility for that?” I can only think of one thing I would say: “I don’t know.”

Therefore, it was common knowledge in this world that if you saw a bandit, you should take them down if possible. This was precisely the reason why bandits were nothing more than pests that were spreading throughout the world.

After storing the dead guard in Storage to destroy evidence, I went straight into the cave. By the way, it seemed that the corpse was not included in the living creature category, since Storage could hold anything but living creatures.

After proceeding along the path for a while, I arrived at a place with a certain amount of space. There, more than a dozen bandits were surrounding the woman who had just been brought in, shouting abuse at her.

“You bastard, how dare you to steal our luggage! I hope you’re ready for this. Aah!!!”

“…..”

The woman, perhaps understanding what she had done, did not contradict the words of the man who showed leadership. The other men were also voicing their condemnation of the woman, but the atmosphere changed drastically when they heard the voice of the man in the leadership position.

“Now, you tried to steal something that belonged to a bandit. Do you know what we’re going to do to you?”

“S-stop! I have a sickly little brother……”

“What? That’s none of our business. Now, be our plaything.”

As the man said that, his cronies ripped off the woman’s clothes, exposing her skin. Oh, this is quite……no, but now what’s going on?

Now I was wondering if I should help her or not. Even though it was the bandit’s luggage, it didn’t change the fact that she had stolen it. If that was the case, then I could think that she might be atoning for her crime by being made to pay for it by the bandits.

Earlier, the woman said that she had a younger brother, but that could also be a lie to get out of this situation. If so, there would be no extenuating circumstances and no reason to help her at all. However, if she was telling the truth, and she really did have a younger brother, then there was a possibility that the act of stealing was a spur-of-the-moment crime committed when she ran out of money.

(Damn, why is this so subtle? More like, go kidnap a woman who hasn’t done anything wrong, you bandit!)

In the end, I was swearing at the bandits who had kidnapped her, but there was no one to blame for that. No one.

I had been thinking about this in my head, but I felt that she was in imminent danger, so I went into the circle of bandits to get some information.

“Who the hell are you? Where the hell did you come from!?”

“I’m sorry, but I’ve heard the whole story. But there are a few things I can’t figure out, so I came out to check. So, Onee-san, I have a few questions for you. Answer them honestly.”

“Eh? Huh?”

Apparently, she was confused by my sudden appearance and didn’t understand the situation. I explained the situation to her, cutting off words in a way that she could understand.

“Can, you, answer, my question, honestly?”

“Huh? Y-yes?”

“Okay, question number 1: Did you really steal those bandits’ luggage?”

“…..”

She answered my question with silence. But that would mean that the question was right. In other words, her silence indicated that the answer was yes. Okay, it was confirmed that she stole the baggage from the bandits. Now for the next question.

“Question #2: You said earlier that you have a younger brother, but is that really—”

“Hey, kid. What are you doing talking to that woman without permission—”

“Hiii—”

One of the bandits interrupted me with a question, so I just took off his head with my hand sword. The woman screamed at the sight, but I didn’t care and continued with my question.

“Pardon me. Let’s continue with the question. Is it true that Onee-san has a younger brother? Or is it a lie?”

“Y-yes, i-it’s true!!”

“Is it really true? If it’s not true……”

As I said this, I turned my gaze to her immediately after looking at the body of the man I had just beheaded and squinted my eyes as my hands formed the shape of swords. With that, she sensed what was going to be done to her and frantically shouted, “It’s truee!!”, she screamed. Well, either way, there’s something I have to do first.

I would confirm the truth of her words later, but for now, I would make a callous declaration to the bandits in front of me, in order to deal with them.

“So, bandits. I’m sorry, but you have to die.”

“Don’t screw with me, you little shit. You fucking kid!!”

“[Warm Wall]. Onee-san, don’t ever get out of that thing. So, gentlemen, goodbye……[Ice Mist].”

After wrapping a warm wall around her, the entire surrounding area was quickly transformed into a silvery-white world. And the next moment, there were the bandits who were immobilized and stuck in ice.