Chapter 59: "Commotion"

Chapter 59: "Commotion"

Heidi and I left town and hopped over to Savage, who was waiting for us nearby.

"Savage was really waiting for us outside."

I didn't answer Heidi's question, but pulled her hand and put her on the back, kicked Savage lightly in the stomach, and let him run.

"How long will it take us to reach Tirani?"

Heidi asks, and I unfold the map in my mind.

I think about it for a minute.

"......5, maybe four days if we hurry."

Savage looks at me as if to say, "What?"

I see... you don't need five days, do you?

"Four days."

"That fast?"

Savage has been sending me some bitter thoughts, but I don't care. Run.

But still, it's nice and easy to get around on Savage.

I don't have to drive, it runs on its own, so I can enjoy the scenery without worrying about my surroundings.

Heidi, who is holding onto me with her hands around my waist, agrees with me, looking at the scenery with sparkling eyes.

There is a large forest between Tirani and Delord, which seems to be the border between the two.

Once we pass through the forest, we will be in Tirani.

The forest is dangerous, with goblins, lupus, scrofa, and other beasts, but... well, it's not a problem.

I don't care what you call them, but goblins are really everywhere.

Maybe it's because they increase easily due to the nature of their race, but it's too much trouble to get tangled up with them every single time.

Well, now, thanks to Savage, it's not even a hassle anymore because I can just bounce off them at random.

In fact, the passage through the forest is over just sitting there.

Savage slips through the trees, leaps over the occasional goblin, and glides through the traps set by the goblins. Occasionally, he even showed the grace to pick up a dead body he had kicked to death and run while gnawing on it.

Heidi looked at him questioningly, but it was probably just a minor problem.

As planned, on the third day we passed through the forest and entered Tirani, and on the fourth day the city of Bayser, where slave sales are thriving, came into view.

Tirani territory.

A neighboring territory to the west of Delord.

It is a terrible place where the majority of the population is slaves, and almost all the people living there are slaves or their owners.

Originally, it was a coal mining town where high quality ore and coal could be extracted, but as the labor force was provided by slaves, a slave market was established and it came to be called a slave market.

The economy has developed by running on slaves.

It may be normal in this world, but it is an extraordinary place when you think about it in terms of Japanese common sense.

However, there seems to be a demand for slaves, and there is no end to the number of people who come to this town to buy slaves.CHeCk for new stories at novelhall.com my point of view, there is honestly not much to see at all, so I would never have turned my back on it if Fatima hadn't told me to. In fact, if nothing else, I would have headed to Nordia, the opposite direction.

Let's just do the shopping and go next.

It's about time I could see it from a distance.

--General.

Suddenly, a voice echoes in my head.

Peggy.

--What's going on?

I was told you were ahead of me, so I guess you've arrived by now.

Is that your report?

--I just arrived at Bayser, but something's wrong.

What do you mean?

--Be specific.

--There's fire in the streets, and it looks like there's fighting all over the place.

What?

Slaves revolting? No, I don't think so.

Deny the thought myself.

It's got that collar on it. If they kill their master, their heads will be blown off.

Well, there's a way to disarm it, but...

--Okay. I'm sorry, but you're going to have to gather some information. We're almost there, so we'll meet up with you there. I'll ask you to report back to me then.

--Aye.

I cut off communication and told Savage to be on the lookout.

Savage gave a single whimper and said he understood.

"What is that...?"

I heard Heidi behind me muttering.

Ah, I see it.

That's the Bayser.

"That's what I heard at the guild."

Peggy quickly answered my question.

Then why is the sound of battle echoing through the city?

Let's just go see what's at hand for now.

We all headed for the place where the battle was taking place.

When we arrived at the scene...what are they doing?

For some reason, a group of people who appeared to be adventurers were fighting.

"Hey! Stop!"

"I can't! Do something!"

Some of them are wielding swords, while the rest are keeping their distance while holding their weapons.

It looks like they are struggling to attack.

That alone gave me an idea of the situation.

For some reason, it seems that some of them are being controlled only by their bodies, and they are being forced to fight each other with their friends.

Those who are not being controlled seem to be having a hard time.

"It looks like they are being manipulated."

And the fact that they're still in their right mind is a bad thing.

"What are we going to do? Do we go in and help them?"

"Leave them alone. We'll go for the monster."

I decided to ignore the people fighting and move on... but where's the monster?

"The last, or rather first, sighting was at an auction house, so why don't we go there?"

Oh, Peggy, you're so handy.

I've got some information about this place in my memory, so I think I'll be able to figure out where it is.

We headed straight for the auction house, the center of the city.

On the way there, I saw a lot of decapitated corpses lying around.

Ah, slaves whose owners had died.... What a sorry lot.

And then there's Savage. Don't pick up the head of a corpse and put it in your mouth. If Heidi sees you, you'll be in trouble.

Heidi, on the other hand, was on guard, her forehead sweating from the tension.

Peggy, by contrast, did not seem to be preparing herself, and was walking normally.

And then there's Savage. You can chew them up without making a sound, but you have to stop eating them.

"Help me... please..."

"My body's moving on its own."

"Do something."

As I was walking along, adventurers who were being manipulated came out of nowhere.

They were asking for help, asking for something to be done.

"General?"

"I don't feel the need to help them at all."

"Well, I guess so. Shall we?"

"Hey, hey, hey!?"

Ignoring Heidi's attempts to stop me, I pull out my sword and slash the man closest to me in two.

Next to me, Peggy is beating her enemies to death one by one.

The gauntlet was apparently quite powerful, and the man who was hit in the face had his eyeballs blown out with a single blow, while the man who was hit in the stomach had his organs crushed with his thin skin armor, causing him to vomit blood.

Savage is also eating up all over the place.

I check the body of the man I cut in two. Hmmm. He's completely dead and not moving at all.

It seems that it can't manipulate the corpse.

...Oops. Did it end while I was checking the corpse?

I looked around and saw that Peggy and Savage had cleaned up all the rest.

Too soon. Savage is gobbling up the corpses.

"You shouldn't have killed any of them..."

"No, it's impossible."

Heidi was about to say something, but I knew what she was going to say, so I cut her off.

"We can't do anything as long as we don't know how to help them. Or are you going to let them kill you because you care about them?"

"We'll try to neutralize them without killing them..."

"Even if one of us dies as a result?"

"......"

"You need to make up your mind. If you can't, you might as well get out of town."

What about me? With a look, she asked, and I then walked onward.

"I'm sorry. I'm going."

With that, she starts to walk along with me. Peggy follows behind me, shrugging her shoulders.

I wonder what will come out of this.