Chapter 48 – The Kidnapped Knight
“Hero!! Look at this~ I found a good quest!”
“What is it?”
“The pay is high! It’s a fantastic quest that isn’t too dangerous!!!”
I was waiting at the guild to do the quest again starting today.
Karen said that as a supporter, she had to do all of this herself. She looked at the quest board carefully and was busy looking for quests with low risk and high rewards.
Because of her short stature, it was difficult to see the object up high, so she lifted her heel and groaned, trying to check somehow.
She came with a quest, her eyes sparkling as if her efforts had paid off.
He wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hand and looked at us with his chest puffed out as if he had done everything he had to do.
“So what quest is it?”
“Let’s take a look!”
Karen showed us her quest to read, and we each slowly read the quest from the top.
—–Please help me make the potion~!—–
A very, very beautiful witch is entrusting a special request to adventurers.
I need to make a potion, so please come to my workshop and help me with the necessary work of potion making as a helper… No, as an assistant.
As a reward, once the potion is completed, we will create the potion you want. And some money?
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Well… The risk of the quest isn’t particularly high, and the reward isn’t that much, but it had a lot of merit in being able to make the potion you wanted.
For example, invisible potions that are hard to find or stimulants that create strong excitement are included in potions and potions, so if you ask, they will make them for you.
Money is not an issue; being able to obtain rare potions is a huge advantage.
“It’s a potion, so I think it’s very good.”
“Me too! I agree!!! Haa… Haa… If only this.”
“Great, I’m also very satisfied with this quest.”
When I saw that Shio was strangely red and his breathing was getting rougher, I felt like he was going to make a potion related to me.
Erina also seemed to be thinking of making something not related to magic,
Emil and Aya each seemed to have their own potion to make, so everyone seemed to agree.
Hehe… There is no such thing as a quest that escapes the eyes of my demons.”
“Is that so… As an elf of the great forest, I am also learning a lesson.”
“Tsk tsk…”
“Kkeukkkk…”
“Just do that for both of you.”
I pressed the two people’s heads hard with my hands to prevent them from making a fuss.
Since Karen joined our party, she has been receiving two bottles of Erina’s heavy water every day, and it seems like her condition has gotten worse.
After this, she became afraid that they would both start yelling and doing strange things.
No, these two might really do it,
“Then, I will take care of all the important luggage, so please take care of only your underwear and personal items!!!”
“As expected, it’s comfortable because I have supporters.”
“Thank you, Karen, for your hard work,”
“Karen, please always cook delicious food,”
Before we knew it, everyone was accepting Karen as her new colleague.
I always got irritated and chased Karen away when she made jokes, but I knew it was just a joke, so I never got furious.
Not only me, but everyone has become friends with Karen… That’s incredible friendliness.
When I think about it, I think life has become a lot easier than when Karen wasn’t around.
After training hard in the morning, making breakfast was quite a tiring task.
Karen always wakes up early in the morning to clean and cook, so eating comfortably and taking a nap during the day was a truly happy daily life.
Karen does all the laundry, but I wash my underwear and men’s clothes by hand.
Because I don’t want to mix in and arouse suspicion.
Of course, Karen said she could leave everything to me, but I felt more comfortable washing my own underwear, so I said I would wash it myself.
“I’m here!!! We’ve packed all the food, water, tents, and other necessities, so let’s go! “I even got a carriage!”
“You’ve already done that?”
“Yes!! Because that’s my job♥”
“I see…”
“Then I will drive.”
“No! “I will do that too!!!”
“Then, don’t you have too much work?”
“I’m just doing my job as a supporter!”
Although I feel very comfortable now thanks to Karen, I felt like I was just a tool rather than a supporter.
I felt sorry because I worked so passionately that I thought it would be hard if I got hurt while working like that.
She convinced Erina that she would drive the carriage herself, but she dissuaded Erina, saying she wanted to do everything she could as a supporter.
When Erina earnestly declared that she would drive her carriage, she had no choice but to sit in the back seat with us and go with us.
The seating arrangement was similar to usual: Shio, I, and Erina sat in that order, and on the other side, two people who didn’t yet know my identity were sitting facing each other.
“Haaam… Ugh!”
“Rine. “Are you going to sleep?”
“Ah, maybe it’s because I slept a little late last night, so I’m feeling sleepy.”
I slept late yesterday.
Every time I tried to sleep, Shio and Erina kept getting stuck, and I couldn’t sleep because I had no choice but to keep moving my body to satisfy them.
Thanks to what happened last night, I started to feel sleepy in the carriage and my eyes began to close.
Even if I tried to wake her by pinching her thighs or pressing my hands against her eyes, I couldn’t overcome the rush of sleep.
“Then, will you lend me your thighs, so you can take a nap?”
“Thank you.”
“No, on the contrary, I am grateful.”
“Ugh… My thighs are empty too! Lee Negong.”
“Erina, I told you first, so there’s nothing I can do.”
“Ugh…”
Before lying down, I looked at Shio’s thighs. Even though it was a denominational outfit, it was a place where men and women were switched, so the level of exposure was acceptable. The clothes were short enough to cover only the buttocks like a miniskirt, and were even small enough to stick to the body, showing off the body. Since it was exposed as is, it seems that in the previous world, Shio would have attracted a lot of attention even if she just walked around the city wearing this outfit.
Underneath her skirt, there were thighs that looked as white and soft as jade, and going down underneath them, there were something like high knee socks that covered her legs.
The knee socks that went up above the knees, probably to cover up the thighs, were putting pressure on the legs, and the soft-looking skin above the knee socks was sticking out a little.
She looked quite soft, so I thought I wanted to touch her, but she was soon falling asleep, so rather than touch her, I slowly bent down and placed my head on her.
As I lay down on Shio’s legs, I looked straight ahead, and Emil and Aya were looking at Shio with strange expressions, and Shio stroked my head with his hands as I lay there, or used his fingers to remove the slightly disheveled hair that was trying to sting my eyes, while I looked at him. It made it possible for me to rest comfortably.
I was just about to fall asleep on her warm, sweet-smelling lap.
“Uh? Uh?! Emil!!! Strange people are chasing me outside!”
“What is that!”
Suddenly, we heard a voice screaming and urgently calling for Emil, and we looked outside the carriage to assess the situation.
When I looked outside, I saw suspicious people wearing black cloaks chasing us on horseback. They weren’t aiming their bows at us, as if they had no intention of killing us.
I thought about getting down and fighting right away, but since I could see the number of pursuers coming this way increasing, I didn’t think it would be a good idea to get down now.
Since the place where the carriage was now was in the forest, the situation was quite disadvantageous compared to the pursuers who only rode horses.
No matter how much I tried to speed up, I was quickly chased down, and if I tried to speed up even more, I could accidentally hit a tree, so it was a difficult situation.
“What is the purpose?”
“Line Leihart…”
“Line what?”
“I came to pick her up.”
You came to get me?
However, when my family said they would take me away, they would have contacted me first through a letter or phone call, but it seemed like they were not even from my family.
If so, it must be a third party’s intervention. Who is it?
I’ve always been careful not to do anything that would cause resentment to others, so I didn’t do anything stupid to make enemies, but I didn’t even know who had requested it.
“Why Line!”
“Our employer told us to come pick you up.”
“Do you think we’ll just let it go?”
“I will never pass it up!”
“I’ll blow your heads off!”
The faces of the hooded pursuers were not visible, but when the party member said that he would not hand me over, his face suddenly became darker, and many pursuers gradually came from the forest and began to surround us.
“Karen! Run at maximum speed! Me and Aya will keep it in check!!!”
“I understand!”
It was the moment when Aya and Erina tried to keep them in check with their bows and magic.
“Now is the time!”
“”Yes!””
Whisk!
The window that suddenly flew out stuck in the wheel of the carriage, preventing the wheel from rolling, but instead acting as a brake, causing the carriage to tilt in an instant, making it impossible to drive.
Naturally, the horses driving the carriage became panicked and started running wild, and the horses could no longer be controlled.
Squeak!
Bang.
When the carriage hit a tree, everyone inside was briefly levitated and then quickly fell to the ground.
I was thrown out of the carriage and fell to the ground, so my pursuers easily picked me up and started taking me right before I lost consciousness with my head bleeding.
Who on earth are you trying to take me to?
