Chapter 87: A Pair of Grunts.

Chapter 87: A Pair of Grunts.

We went back to town after a day of beachside leisure. Since we’d yet to find a place to spend the night, we began looking for one right away.

And as for Fran’s sand castle? Yeah, I didn’t really have any choice other than leaving it there. I mean, I wanted to demolish it, but then Fran started staring at me with a pair of tear-filled eyes, so I couldn’t bring myself to actually do it. That said, we at least filled up the hole Urushi dug out — with magic, of course.

We ended up spending more time at the beach than I was expecting; the sun was already far past its halfway point. Given the time, I decided to give up on trying to find a place on Dharz’ main street, so I had Fran venture into the city’s alleyways in order for us to check out some of the cheaper inns.

And that was when it happened.

(Master.)

『I know.』

We were being tailed.

Specifically, two men were following us around.

『They don’t seem all that great at concealing themselves, so they’re probably not that strong.』

(Fight?)

『Let’s head somewhere without any people first.』

「Nn.」

『Urushi, stand by in Fran’s shadow, alright?』

(Woof.)

Fran turned the corner and conveniently ran into a dead end. Sure enough, the two men showed themselves soon after.

「You lost, little lady?」

「We can help you around town if you want.」

The way they called out to us made it seemed like they were accustomed to saying those exact lines. I guess their strategy was to first corner the person before making them lower their guards by speaking in a kind manner.

「No thanks.」

「Aw, come on, don’t be like that.」

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General Information

Name: Eric

Age: 34

Race: Blue Cat

Job: Merchant

State: Normal

Status Level: 17/50

HP: 78

MP: 40

STR: 37

VIT: 33

AGI: 52

INT: 29

MGC: 21

DEX: 42

Skills

Transportation of Goods: Lv 2

Commerce: Lv 2

Pickpocket: Lv 4

Short Sword Arts: Lv 3

Detainment: Lv 2

Night Vision

Equipment

Crude Iron Short Sword

Deerskin Chestplate

Deerskin Shinguards

Earrings of Silence

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General Information

Name: FaregoFôllôw new stories at novelhall.com

Age: 38

Race: Blue CAt

Job: Warrior

State: Normal

Status Level: 22/50

HP: 168

MP: 136

STR: 49

VIT: 50

AGI: 68

INT: 44

MGC: 39

DEX: 61

Skills

Assassination: Lv 2

The two men immediately fell silent upon exposure to Fran’s complete and utter lack of mercy. They were obviously terrified.

「Are you illegal slave merchants?」

「What are you talking about gurl? We don’t even know what that thing yous saying is.」

「We merchants gurl, good hearted ones.」

Yeah no. The principle of falsehood immediately revealed his words to be lies.

『Fran, I’m a hundred percent sure that they’re lying. They’re definitely a part of the business.』

「Are the slaves somewhere in the city?」

「I already told you that we don’t know sheet gurl! Chill!」

『That’s a lie too.』

「Nn. Are there more of you?」

「Come on! We don’t know nuttin! We swear!」

『Another one.』

「Might not torture... if you talk.」

「Come on! How many times have we told you that we don’t know nuttin!? Man, what’s the matter with you!」

「Yea gurl, he right. 」

「Urushi.」

「Growl!」

「Hey gurl! Daz not cool! Come on, cut a brotha some slack!」

「This wolf likes human flesh. Livers from live prey. Favourite.」

「Growl growl!」

Urushi slobbered all over one of the men whilst letting a low growl. It was as if he was declaring that he was about to enjoy a meal. The two men immediately paled in response.

「Spill it. Unless want to be eaten alive.」

「Man, come on, I was just saying that I don’t kno- Arghhhh!!」

Fran drove me into the back of the warrior’s hand, and slowly began grinding me deeper though his muscles.

「Argghghghghghgh!」

「Hey man, you alright?! This stupid b*tch ain’t - Argh!」

「Learning disability?」

Fran kicked the merchant’s face yet again, this time, completely pulverizing his nose in the process.

「Greater Heal」

「Huh?」

「Shiet? Ain’t dat some super high tier ass healing magic?」

Fran pulled me out of the warrior’s hand and healed him. The wound I made instantly disappeared, and was once again filled by flesh and bone. And as she did, a slight glimmer of hope appeared on the blue cats’ faces.

They determined that the girl wasn’t actually going to kill them, that there was no way a mere child would intentionally commit murder. They hoped that there would be some sort of convenient and logical reason that would allow them to keep their lives.

But Fran’s words completely crushed all their overly optimistic expectations.

「Lucky. Not the type to die easily. Now can use Fire Arrow.」

「Ughh!! Arghhhhhh!!!!!!!!」

「Greater Heal.」

The warrior’s carbonized hand was once again healed back up to its normal state.

「Won’t let you escape. Not with an easy death.」

「Arggg!」

「Hiiii!」

Screams of despair escaped the men’s mouths. There was nothing they could do to get away from Fran. They weren’t even permitted to die so long as she continued to heal them. All that awaited them was a life of eternal torture.

「Listen here gurl, we gotchu a deal! We got lots of gold stored away, ya know!」

「Don’t need.」

「Alrihgt, alright! What if we gave you-」

「Stupid? Want information.」

「Gurl, we said we ain’t got an- arggggg!」

Fran kicked the merchant for a third time and broke every single last one of his front teeth.

「Skill. Can see through lies.」

The two realized that they had no other choice but to talk, and so, they soon began to answer Fran’s questions in an honest a manner as they could.

Our suspicions were spot on. Dharz was home to one of the blue cat tribe’s underground slave markets. Slaves captured from all over the Kingdom of Kranzel would be gathered here before they were shipped off to the Kingdom of Reidos. Apparently, their base of operations used to be Barbra, but the country caught on and crushed it.

Thinking about it, I’m pretty sure that was exactly what happened to Fran. She was probably abducted from some foreign country before being sent to Barbra for processing. The country probably caught on right about when she arrived there, and thus, they decided to move her to another base somewhere else in Kranzel. We probably met whilst she was being shipped over to Dharz.

The Kingdom of Reidos buys slaves for quite the price, so the merchants had been using Dharz as a point of transportation and processing for 10 odd years now.

And so, after learning all that, we asked them the hideout’s location, the number of slave traders, and the number of slaves.

「Hey, we’ve told you everything now, so you can let us run free, right gurl? You gunna help us, right?」

「We’ll change! We swears it !」

I heard their pleas, but ignored them. Immediately after obtaining all the information we needed, I cut their necks right off their heads with a single blade of magical wind.

They’d probably tell their organisation about Fran if we let them go, and I didn’t exactly feel like it was a good idea to have some sort of underground organisation after us. And I mean, they were the kind of people that kidnapped and sold children, so the world was probably better off without them anyways.

I put their bodies in my dimensional storage for the time being. Now that I think about it, the insides of my dimensional storage have really started to get all messy and chaotic lately...

「Nn. Thanks Master.」

『Don’t sweat it.』

「What now?」

『Well, that depends. What do you want to do?』

「Spring cleaning.」

Yeeaap, I figured she’d say that. I originally wanted to have her wait somewhere while I made a doppelganger and raided the place with Urushi, but I already used it earlier when we were playing around by the seaside. Much to my announce, I actually couldn’t use Doppelganger Synthesis again till the day after tomorrow.

『You should probably at least wait till night time.』

「Nn.」

『How about we go find somewhere to stay first.』

It took us quite some time, but we were eventually able to find ourselves a room at cheap inn. There, we waited until it was time to begin our assault.