Chapter 206 – Elf Repays the Favor
Originally, I was planning to contact the Elven Wood information dealer Heald had connected me to tomorrow morning, but it seemed that I would have to change my plan.
It was because the intention to kill me was clear, regardless of whoever had the authority to command the assassination attempt in broad daylight.
If I was wasting my time, I could have unilaterally suffered losses and went back.
After telling everyone to go back to their rooms since the meeting was over, I was sitting on my bed and making plans when someone knocked on the door.
Smart!
“Guest, I brought hot water. What should I do?”
It was the voice of an inn employee.
“Leave it in front of me, please.”
“Yes.”
Took!
When I heard the innkeeper’s footsteps leaving, I realized something was wrong as I went to get the hot water.
This is because providing hot water at an inn is a paid service, so it is a rule not to provide hot water unless ordered separately.
I don’t know if it was yesterday, but today I haven’t ordered yet, so I felt suspicious there, so I immediately used detection magic.
“…Crazy.”
As a result, I found a group of soldiers outside the door waiting for me to open the door.
‘I never thought he would act this fast.’
By this point, I knew enough that Mayer Griffith was going to kill me without hesitation.
I don’t know what part of me made me feel that I was an opponent that must be eliminated, but I can’t just sit back and be patient.
Instead of opening the door right away, I made a hole in the wall with my magic.
“What…”
Dorothea and the others in the next room looked at me with a startled expression, and when I gestured to be quiet by placing my index finger to my mouth, they pursed their lips and nodded.
I explained the situation in a low voice so as not to be heard outside.
“There are soldiers waiting in front of my door right now. Probably your side is the same. We have to escape now, so pack your things quickly.”
“Bastards. Where did you learn these manners?”
Then Master, who seemed to have just changed into pajamas to go to bed, muttered curse words with a rare expression of displeasure.
This is because Master is sensitive about sleep time, although he doesn’t know anything else.
If you don’t sleep 8 hours a day, you won’t get tired?
Anyway, the soldiers were camped right in front of us, and since we couldn’t wait indefinitely, the party quickly started packing up.
In the meantime, as I still had no sign of leaving the room, the soldiers urged me, and I heard another knock on the door and the voice of the staff member.
“Guest? Are you sleeping by any chance?”
“Ah! Yes! Hold on! I’m leaving soon!”
There was no more time.
When I glanced over the hole in the wall, Dorothea, who had just put on her coat, nodded and gave the OK signal.
Great. You mean it’s over?
I took a deep breath and took a few steps back.
Then, with a whirlwind skull wrapped around his body, he rushed toward the door.
“Did you believe that? Zet kick!”
Bang!!
As soon as my toes touched, the top and bottom were separated and flew away with a roar.
In the aftermath, the security forces soldiers fell to the first floor shouting “Oh! My cat!”
After stinging like a bee and landing like a butterfly, I shook my hand at the other guests on the second floor who opened the door and came out, perhaps surprised by the sudden uproar.
“It’s okay, so take care of things.”
Of course, I didn’t go back because of that.
“Kyaaaaah
Screams from the first floor.
Since this was an expected development of events, I immediately took out reagent No. 3 from my waistband.
Seeing that, Dorothea, who had just come out of the room, asked.
“What are you going to do with it?!”
“We need to buy time to escape.”
Fire in the Hole!
Like throwing a grenade, he throws a glass bottle with a bottle cap on the first floor over the railing.
Then, at the same time as the glass bottle was broken, white smoke billowed out.
It was a homemade smoke grenade I made with alchemy.
In the meantime, the Demon Soldiers, who seemed to have heard the commotion, came out of the room one by one and asked what was going on.
Of course, my answer to that was simple.
“I’ll see you all alive!”
Clink!
Then break the window and escape.
It was impossible to take care of the soldiers in the current situation, so it was an unavoidable choice.
Then, one by one, the party jumped out of the window I broke.
In the meantime, the smoke that started on the first floor came out of the door and the surrounding area was fogged up like fog.
“I made it, but it works really well.”
“Now is the time to admire it!”
Dorothea, who was next to her, shouted as if she was dumbfounded, but there is a saying that the faster you are in a hurry, the slower you go.
What’s more, this is the home ground of the enemies.
Since there was not the slightest geographical advantage, I had to move even more carefully.
Instead of moving our bodies right away, we hurriedly hid ourselves in a nearby stable, realizing that the security forces in the outer castle had already completed a round encirclement around the inn.
I thought it would be dozens of people at most, but to put in this many people.
It seems that the assassins were very upset that they had failed.
Before long, an elf man who seemed to be of the highest rank among the security guards surrounding the inn came forward and spoke through megaphone magic.
“Ah, ah, I dare to tell Patrasche, a criminal who is on the run after committing a serious crime called murder within Elven Wood. If you surrender even now, I will spare your life.”
“Fuck you.”
Dorothea murmured.
“Certainly, that’s what it says.”
There is a certain level of shamelessness in trying to immerse an assassin in the first place, and then using that to apply the charge of murder.
“Hey, disciple. Can I wipe it all away?”
Master, whose restful sleep was disturbed, showed the momentum that he would slaughter all of them if I allowed him to, but I had no intention of making things bigger here.
Honestly, what do the lower guys know? They think they’re here to catch criminals because they ordered it from above.
“If things get bigger here, the remaining Demon Soldiers will have a hard time.”
All we have to do is kill them all and run away, but what will happen to those who remain or are caught?
It would be better if we just quietly disappeared.
“Still, it’s good that we decided on a meeting place in advance. It was so sudden that I couldn’t explain it properly.”
‘Let’s all live and see!’, Shouted out at the end, was the code for that.
“Anyway, while they cackle, we run first. They’ll think we’re still inside the building.”
“…Yes, I will bear with you just this once.”
Perhaps because she understood the seriousness of the situation, she decided to let the angry Master pass over, so now all that was left was to escape safely.
After sticking my head out the door and confirming that no one was passing by, I used the camouflage magic I had previously used to infiltrate the mansion of the Marshal of Hamburg.
It was a magic that used the refractive index of light to hide the appearance, so it was a magic that was perfect for when you had to act stealthily like this.
We made our way out of the stable, squinting at the soldiers who were about to break into the building.
Untidy surroundings.
It was night, but it seemed like it would be difficult to get out easily because there were so many passersby coming and going, perhaps because it was near an entertainment district.
It was necessary to be careful about our actions because our appearance became transparent, and those people also did not recognize us.
“Let’s go.”
I stood in the front and muttered quietly, and the others nodded and started moving.
It was a time when a total of five people, starting with Dorothea, Camilla, Sophia, Master, and Heeld, moved around.
Ping!
With the sound of something being caught on one’s feet, a thud! A loud sound echoed in all directions.
“What!”
It is a warning magic that adventurers usually use when sleeping outdoors.
Are you using it this way?
“It’s in the back! There was a noise from the back!”
Hearing the sound, the soldiers of the security forces began to rush in.
“Kuh! I was caught off guard!”
Thanks to an unexpected trap, we discovered our location and started running with our teeth gritting.
“Headquarters! The culprit is on the run in the direction of Third Avenue!”
Security guards chasing us with crystal balls that seem to act as walkie-talkies.
Unlike Nidabellir, which was no different from a labyrinth, Elven Wood’s structure was simple, so it didn’t seem easy to remove the tail attached to the back.
“Eat this!”
Aaaaang!
In the midst of running, Dorothea threw a fireball behind her, causing a splendid explosion.
“Hey! Don’t kill me!”
“The flames don’t hurt if you get hit gently!”
“You’re funny!”
Even though they quarrel with each other, they do not stop running.
Fortunately, everyone except Camilla was a bodybuilder, so there was no such thing as running out of breath or collapsing while running.
Looking at what she was doing on the bed, Camilla seemed to be in good physical shape.
It was a time when I was running around the alleyway for a long time avoiding the pursuit of the security forces.
“Hey! This way!”
We turned our heads to the familiar voice.
A silver-haired elf sticking his head out through the iron gate, barely large enough for one person to pass through, was beckoning toward us.
The identity was Margaret, a former phantom thief who was a half-elf who had parted ways with us just two days ago.
