After I ate my meal and returned to my room to have a short rest, there was this thought that stuck in my head and didnt want to leave no matter how hard I tried to divert my attention away from it.
Whether its my death or the death of a common Bandit or even an ordinary citizen or members of the nobility, this world is the one where death is incredibly cheap and easy to come across. And whether I like it or not, I have to live in such a world now. This is one thing that is similar to my old world: if someone is standing in your way, all you have to do to ruin that someones life it to make him a criminal in the eyes of the public, and that would be enough for his reputation to be destroyed. As much as I want to say that its nice to see that some things do not change even in different worlds, this is one thing that I would have gladly got ridden of.
And speaking of criminals, it would seem that I have no other option but to go deeper into the slum area if I want to find where the Bandits are hiding. What was that old saying again? You wont catch the tigers cub if you wont enter its den or something like that? Or was it actually You wont get a fetus unless you stick it in the hole?
Anyway, after leaving the inn I made my way to the slums, but instead of only lurking around its edges this time I actually went inside, making my way to the north along the slums main road. Along the way, I saw that one of the street corners was especially bright and lively. It was a building like any other, about one story high with the entrance and the windows facing the road, but that was most definitely a brothel. How can I be so sure of that? Well for starters, the woman standing in front of the building had only the bare minimum of clothing covering her body, and the other similarly dressed women were peeking from the windows on the first floor, seductively beckoning any men who were passing by to come inside. I have to admit, it all looked very inviting, totally different than it was during the daytime, and if I wasnt warned about the dangers of such establishments before, maybe I would have allowed myself to be swallowed up by that atmosphere and my adolescent desires as well
No! I didnt come here to visit brothels! I am on a much more important mission! I wont be entering, but maybe, just maybe I could look at them girls some more oh man this is exciting. Just from looking at them practically flashing all the goods out in the open like that my heart is racing like crazy
The person I detected was a lone 26 years old Villager woman. It looked like she was some distance away from me, but in this darkness I couldnt tell exactly how far it really was. But that is not important right now. The biggest question tha has to be answered right now is: what the hell is she doing alone in such a place at such an odd hour?
I tried to follow her while making as little noise as possible, but after a few steps I had to duck behind one of the nearby houses walls because the corner of the building on the other side of the street has suddenly became very bright. Looks like someone who was carrying a torch was coming in the direction of the woman.
There were three men in total. And their designation Bandits! All three of them are labeled as Bandits! That is the first time I have actually found Bandits ever since Ive come to this town a few days ago. But their levels are quite low. All of them had a single digits. Out of all the Bandits who attacked the village, only two of them had decent prizes for their heads: the Bandit Leader and the guy who looked like his second-in-command, in other words, the only Bandits who had their levels consisting of two digits. By the looks of it, if the Bandit does not have a level consisting of at least two digits, so Lv.10 at minimum, the prize for slaying him will be so laughably miniscule that hunting them almost seems like a waste of ones time.
The three Bandits began to move apart from one another, but close enough to each other to stay withing the light of their torches and jump at the potential prey should the need arose. Man, I already feel sorry for whoever is going to stumble upon them. I was seriously contemplating if I should just get the fuck out of there by using Warp when I heard someone scream. Alerted, the three Bandits turned their heads sharply and headed for the screams source. But who could have been
Oh no. Oh fuck. Oh fuck no.