I Was Afraid of Slaves and Abandoned Them 148

Chapter 148 – 148 Touching a Pregnant Woman Crossed the Line

Mimi giggles at Yuha and Lia grimaces.

And Arserine, who is fiddling with the hem of Yuha’s dress.

While the beastmen looked at them in amazement, Lily looked at Lia and Mimi with envious eyes.

‘I want to lick Master’s lips too…’

If she hadn’t been digging through her brain with mana and extracting information, she would have jumped out and got a spot.

“Grrrrup”

Perhaps reflecting the urgency, the amount of mana that interferes with the brain was gradually increased even when the cat Suin bites crab foam from his mouth.

Infancy, coming of age, human persecution, marriage, exploitation of labour.

Those things flowed into Lily’s head, but they didn’t interest her.

What she wondered was why did they attack them and why did she have no choice but to attack.

That was all.

Lily was appreciating the twists and turns of life that are hard to see without tears, with the feeling of watching the life of an ant who is ruthlessly revealed to a passerby and dies.

‘…This?’

Lily, who had finally reached the memory of her that she wanted, found one annoying part besides the purpose of her beastmen.

What she saw were young beasts being taken somewhere and beasts who looked like females.

Suin, a female cat with a slightly bloated stomach, holds the hand of the cat in front of her and sheds tears.

And a family that is brutally murdered as an example.

In the center of it was a full-term prisoner wearing rabbit ears.

“For a moment.”
“…Gagging.”

Suin the cat collapses like a doll with a thread cut when Lily takes her hands off her head.

It was because her brain was overloaded and her bodily functions were driven to the brink of cessation.

“You. Let me ask you one thing.”

The eyes of her hostility and fear glared at Lily.

It was only natural to see her comrades tortured right in front of her eyes.

Among them, the most powerful-looking tiger beastman came forward and stuck out her teeth.

“If you intend to insult us, just kill them.”

Perhaps because of seeing how the cat suffered, it was expressing his will that he would not be treated lightly even if he died at the time of his death.

However, as their determination was overshadowed, Lily had no intention of killing them.

“Are all of you, your family, held hostage?”

Seeing the expression on her face asking how she knew that, Lily sighed lightly.

“That’s mainly for females, including children and pregnant women?”

Children, pregnant women, females.

The faces of the prisoners who heard those words were crumpled mercilessly.

In particular, the prisoners who reacted to the word ‘pregnant woman’ were not strange even if they shed bloody tears right away.

“Did you say pregnant women are being held hostage?”
“Is that crossing the line!”
“… Taking a child hostage and persecuting their parents.”

When Lia and Mimi, who were making Yuha’s face drool, reacted, Lily added her words.

“As an example, I also saw a scene where a pregnant woman and her family were murdered.”

Lily, Lia, and Mimi are fantasizing about pregnancy because their master’s baby is coming soon.

To them, a pregnant woman was a kind of sanctuary.

“Wow… I don’t know what kind of bastards they are, but they’re really good assholes, aren’t they?”

I don’t know if it’s a person who forms a clear hostile relationship, but to touch a child who hasn’t even been born yet.

It was an unforgivable act that transcended history, era, and race.

“…”

Prisoners with puzzled expressions in the rapidly changing atmosphere.

Sensing that the situation was going strangely, the tiger beastman suddenly felt his heart beating very fast.

The power to neutralize even a thousand people attacking in droves with just a few gestures.

It was because the hope that the power might be wielded for them was beginning to be vaguely visible.

Although he was carrying out a ridiculous order to deliberately commit suicide for the safety of the hostages, it was hard to believe that the hostages’ lives were truly safe.

It was all the more so because he knew how the Eastern Tribal Alliance guys usually think and treat prisoners.

Dump.

The worry was short and the action was quick.

“Please help.”

As the tiger beastman got down on his knees and hit his head on the floor, some quick-witted beastmen began to fall on the ground following him.

“You can take our lives here and go.”

One by one, as they began to bow their heads, the other beastmen riding on them quickly began to fall to the ground.

They were willing to give up their lives like moths to a fire for the sake of their families anyway.

I would do anything to save my family.

“Please save my family.”

All of the Suin, except for the cat Suin, who fainted, were laying down with their heads facing Yuha.

Yu-ha, who had been staring at them, slowly walked towards them.

“I don’t know if I can get it or not.”

The prisoners, who had been listening to Yu-ha’s footsteps with bated breath, gently closed their eyes at his next words.

“Because we specialize in killing. So where are those bastards now?”

Yuha vowed to slay the Four Heavenly Kings, Nabal, and those who touch children and pregnant women.

***

Originally, no matter how detailed the story was, they couldn’t forgive us for attacking us.

But the fact that he didn’t try to kill us, he tried to kill us.

And, above all, it was decided to pardon the crime especially in that the family, especially the child and the pregnant woman, are being held hostage.

“To treat pregnant women like that. I really can’t believe it!”
“For treating the second most sacred being like that, you must kill them all.”
“Are you offended? Are you going to tear them all to shreds!”

My kids seemed to have the same opinion.

Well… I guessed what he was thinking.

Sooner or later, they too would become pregnant, so they must have empathized differently than usual.

Considering his actions in the past, where he could not find any mercy, he could have been seen as naeuronambul.

But rather good!

Originally, in order to enjoy life properly, Naero Nambul must be installed in your head!

Now we are lurking near the structure where the hostages are being held, guided by some prisoners.

It was decided to put it on hold for a while as the existing method of beating and destroying could cause problems with the safety of the hostages.

If there was a situation in which me or my children could be in danger, I would be a hostage, I would be nabal, and I would go crazy, but that is not the situation yet, so I decided to be as careful as possible.

“Is he there?”

When he pointed to the huge oriental-style castle where the lord might be staying, the tiger beastman and the red mountain nodded silently.

“I saw hostages being taken there two days ago. According to colleagues who were not involved in the operation, they did not see the hostages being transferred.”

Thousands of hostages were said to have been taken, so if you haven’t seen them, there’s a good chance they’re still there.

“Lily.”
“Yes. Master.”

At my call, Lily stuck her hand into the ground and started pouring bloody mana into the ground.

About 1 minute had passed.

“There is no sign of a body being buried in this area.”

It’s probably because it’s Lily’s words, which are sensitive to unclean energy such as death.

“Are you sure?”

The face of Haru, the cat Suin, who fainted due to Lily’s magic earlier, brightened.

Was it said that her pregnant wife was being held.

I hope it’s not too bad if possible.

As a reward, I should listen to the advice of seniors who had children first.

“Once we’ve killed all the bugs that were watching us, we won’t touch the hostages right away.”

Some watchers who were watching us in the meadow where we encountered the beastmen earlier ordered Mimi to turn them all into pieces of meat.

Thanks to that, there was a high possibility that I still didn’t know how the situation was going.

But now that we don’t know how the other party’s intelligence is organized, we need to attack as quickly and stealthily as possible before the enemy knows that we didn’t kill the beastmen.

“Assassinate the enemies, let Lily and Mimi do it. Leah is far from her stealth, and I need someone to protect me, so she’ll stick with me on the hostage rescue side.”
“Yes. Master.”
“Yes. Master.”
“Yes. Zuin.”

Lily, who uses magic, and Mimi, who uses her bare hands as a means of attack, are better suited for the role of assassin than Lia, who wields a great sword.

“Arserine also joins the hostage rescue team and hides us with magic.”
“All right.”

The rescue team consisted of 10 beastmen, including me, Leah, Arselin, Jeoksan and Haru.

Carrying around too many people risked getting caught, so this was just right.

“Let’s move as stealthily as possible. If we make too much noise, the lives of the hostages may be in danger.”

Since the operation had already started, it was good that there were zero casualties.

If it can’t be helped, I’ll throw it away boldly, but let’s hope that doesn’t happen.

“But… Are you really going to be okay with just the two of you?”

Haru chewed on her lips and carefully asked me a question in a worried voice.

You already know that our children are strong, but you must be worried because stealth assassination is another story.

The other prisoners were also silently looking at us with trembling eyes, as if they were thinking the same thing.

Seeing that, I said the magic word that these guys could absolutely reassure.

“By the way, our Lily’s real name is Lilith.”

The effect was clear.