Suddenly, Heiggel’s execution took place.
Heiggel was the strongest backer for the villains.
*Ring* *GONG* ♪
“Pack up your belongings at once!”
Berringo, a hired mercenary.
He was in the midst of a battle with soldiers who had come to capture him.
He was buying time for his employer to escape.
Even with the danger pay, he was a conscientious man who accepted escort requests?
“Shoot your arrows!”
“Take this!”
Fwissh, fwissh, fwissh!
“Sound Barrier!”
Reeeeee~~n Gaaaaaaaooooooon!!!
The bell-shaped full-face armor swayed left and right.
The rain of arrows, intended to turn him into a pricked hedgehog, was…
The bell’s sound repelled and destroyed them.
“Damn it!”
“Shoot your magic quickly!”
“Care for an apple? ♪ It’s a poisoned apple, mind you, yo ♪”
He threw the apples he was selling.
Treating food with such disrespect.
***
Thanks to the merchant guild that hired Berringo, Wire and his group were able to safely leave the Royal Capital.
“Did you find out why Heiggel was killed?”
Wire asked the captain of the mercenary group Hounds.
“Y-Yes. I investigated.”
He actually knew, but he needed the merchant Wire to find a safe location for them later on.
The captain did not speak of the inconvenient parts.
Together with the Wire Trading Company, they headed for the port town in the east. The other members were fleeing into the sea to shake off their pursuers. A fight for ships was bound to occur.
“What in the… world.”
The side effect of the half-demon ritual was demonization. If that was the case, he couldn’t bring his branch members with him.
Wire, fearing the risk of his companions suddenly demonizing and losing their minds to attack, used Hounds to eliminate them during a break.
“M-Merchant Guild Master, UGGAAAHHH!”
“Eek! Don’t kill meeeeee!”
The half-demon soldiers were stronger than normal humans.
Although they were terrified, if they were careless, they would be beaten.
The elite of Hounds systematically killed them one by one.
The merchants who worked under Wire began to distance themselves, fearing they might be killed too.
They hid the fact that they had undergone the half-demon ritual.
Those who hadn’t also followed suit.
An argument broke out between those who had and those who hadn’t during a short break.
Gyaaaaaa!!! You! You’re lying!
Wire and Hounds.
Realizing that they were wasting time and that their location would be discovered by their pursuers, they left the others behind and set off for the port town.
***
The destination, the port town, was a place where corpses lay exposed in the streets and floated in the sea.
“Tch, Wire’s here too.”
Merchant Marcel.
He arrived at the port town with the mercenary group Mad Hand, and was in the process of clearing out the area to monopolize the ships.
He held the ship’s crew’s families hostage, excluding the crew members themselves.
Now, they were just one step away from sailing out onto the open sea, or so it should have been.
“Kill them! We know the terrain. Make the sailors raise the anchors.”
“Roger that.”
The leader of Mad Hand replied with a “Roger that.”
“What! We’re not the last ones, are we!?”
Wire, having confirmed that there were still ships at the port, ordered the captain to investigate.
“Mad Hand, huh? Heh, they’re not a bad opponent at all! ♪ Come on, you guys, tear them to shreds! ♪ We outnumber them! ♪”
“Ooooooooh! Woof!”
Mad Hand vs. Hounds
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□ – Mercenary Group Hounds
■ – Mercenary Group Mad Hand
The two mercenary groups clashed on the great street.
Hounds, unable to utilize their numerical superiority, dispersed into the narrow paths, ambushing from the flanks.
Then, Mad Hand, who had been lurking on the rooftops, leaped down and launched an assault.
“Gwaaaah!”
“Shaaa!”
The port town became an even greater hell, with more corpses and the stench of blood filling the air.
“Are the ships ready to depart yet!?”
“There are ships, right!?”
Marcel confirmed the departure preparations.
Upon hearing his voice, Wire realized there were still ships and urged Hounds on.
Merchant Poppo.
Mercenary Group Trantran.
A golden tiger face roared on a black background.
“…How are the ships?”
“Yes, it seems we can depart soon. ♪”
“Poppo poppo, that’s good. ♪ Then, shall we depart ahead of them? ♪”
Poppo and his group aimed for the spoils of victory.
Unnoticed by the other two, they infiltrated the port town.
Their stealth abilities were formidable.
Trantran’s weapons.
Rings, bracelets, and a belt.
When imbued with magic power, they took the shape of their respective circles. Magical cannonballs were fired.
The belt could only be fired by angling the body to form a “person.”
The magical cannonballs from the rings and bracelets had the power to blow people away.
From a distance of within five meters, they exhibited lethal power capable of killing.
Poppo and his group stealthily approached the fleet in the harbor and attacked ships that could accommodate everyone.
“Ngg?! ”
“What, Gaa?!”
The watchmen had their throats slit one after another, and those who noticed the unusual situation were blown away by magical cannonballs.
“Don’t kill the sailors… or the boatmen. ♪”
“What about their families? ♪”
“Leave a few alive. They might be useful for something. We’re not good at cooking, you see. ♪”
“Haha, it’s men’s cooking, after all. ♪”
To Poppo’s joke, the captain grinned and followed his instructions.
“Departing! Hurry—!!!”
Hearing the panicked voices of Marcel and the others, they realized they couldn’t escape and hurried.
Hounds, too, realizing they couldn’t escape, felt the urgency. Their coordination faltered for a moment.
Mad Hand did not miss this opportunity.
However, the rear was in disarray due to the ships departing, and they were heading towards the port.
Unable to fully capitalize on the opportune moment, they failed to eliminate most of their enemies.
“Don’t retreat! Charge!”
“Finish dealing with those guys! Get on the ships—!”
Wire and Poppo.
The battlefield shifted to the port.
Those abandoned by Rayos.
They boarded their ships through an exchange of wounds and set sail for the open sea.
“We somehow made it… safely… safely… Those guys… We’ll kill them next time we meet.”
The three merchants stared at the two fleets while searching for an island with enough greenery to live on.
