Having managed to solve the villagers' misunderstandings, we had been offered Eugene's house as an overnight accommodation as village chief.
"I'm so sorry. They mistakenly thought Lord Flick and his men were hunters. There are few merchants and adventurers in this totally lonely land. That's when the carriage arrived, so I thought we were hunting."
"It is indeed a place where people are likely to come... And I thought you said mine workers."
The village of Devon is another remote village on the border, as it is about three days down by a regular speed carriage to the south from Imbahanes.
The streets were once maintained thanks to the presence of a beautiful crystal digging Rahaman mine with few scratches, but during the Great Raid, we hear that every avis walker standing inside was blown up and abandoned.
"When it comes to that mine, it's the Rahaman mine, right? I hear over there at the Adventurer's Guild in Inverhanes that it's already abandoned?
"No, that's..."
When asked about the Rahaman mine, Eugene's face suddenly began to cloud.
"It's a Rahaman mine that was blown up and abandoned about a decade ago, but it looks like someone was getting in there and starting to rebuild it... When we realized it, it was like a strong fortress."
"Is it a fortress? I haven't heard that from the Adventurer Guild..."
The information I got from Guildmaster Gidion in Inverhanes says it's an abandoned mine.
What's going on?
They're grabbing Gase's intel?
As I was baffled by the new information brought to me by Eugene, I went on to say the words so that he could supplement it when I saw this look on his face.
"You're right about the Adventurer Alliance. In other words, the entrance to the old mine is still crumbling, but from there into the back of the mountain the perimeter of the newly dug new pit is fortified."
"New Pit!?
"Yeah, so as soon as I'm late to discover the eagles, too. You found it about five years ago. But at the beginning of the discovery, we were friends selling food and stuff to the people who lived there. Besides, as miners, the young men of the villages around here were also going to make money."
"Are you making money? Didn't they hunt people?
"Yes, the people who live in the mines have the currency of the kingdom, and from the people who don't have a place to work, they were thankful."
It clouded Eugene's cloudy face even more, and he looked at this one so hard to say.
"Something went wrong."
"Well, yes. It's hard to say, Lord Flick, because you're going to tease me, but if it's Lord Flick, there's nothing else I can tell you."
"Swear to the sword, I will not say anything else about this"
When I put Deale in front of Eugene, I vowed not to say anything else about what he was going to say.
"Thank you. Washi and the others refused to work in the mine because of one case after another of missing young people from the village who were going to the mine for a run. More than a dozen people in this village alone and nearly two hundred people in other villages have not returned from the mine."
I had no information that they were sending out 200 missing persons...
I really wonder what's going on in the Rahaman mine.
"You think nearly 200 people might be missing?
"Yeah, of course some people are back in the village safely...... There are many who disappear. He said that the people who disappeared from the mines said," Wouldn't you like to do a more profitable job? "
"More earnable work? Does that mean it's not a mine job?
"I don't know that either. Because whoever got on that story is not coming home."
Should I hire people from the surrounding villages who work in the mines to see them doing another job?
"When did more people stop coming back?
"The sudden increase in the number of non-returnees has been in recent months or so, so I have been discussing it with the surrounding villages since then and forbidding the villagers from earning money into the mines..."
A few months ago......
About Eugene, the miners settled in a dozen years ago and have been interacting for about five years.
Are you saying that something has happened and your attitude has changed in the last few months?
Nevertheless, where is the financial power coming from to rebuild and fortify the mine on its own?
Crystals are quite expensive minerals, but I also feel like the amount of money I throw for that doesn't subside.
"Who are these people?
"Come on, I don't even know that. When they ask people who go to the mines to make money, they seem to use harsh language, which hardly responds to public discourse."
You mean the mysterious group is in possession?
I feel like I hit an arrow tip, a hell of a thing, trying to find out the footprint of Abyss Walker.
"You think those guys started hunting people this time?
"Yeah, the mine guys hired the Vigilante Collapse guys in Inverhanes to start hunting people. It's been happening so many times lately that if you don't send your husband to the village, you'll be forced to take him around, depending on the fact that he mistook the hunters for Lord Flick."
"Is the vigilante collapse hunting people?
"Yes, he said the villagers who were damaged used to be in the vigilante, and some of the people hunting were wearing vigilante uniforms... Beast hunting while belonging to a flourishing vigilante!
Eugene was fisting the floor when he cursed a vigilante who was hunting for a man with a distraction from his face to hatred.
You mean the Adventurer Alliance didn't grasp this situation?
Gidion also said he was under pressure from deputies to keep the Abyss Walker thing on the agenda at the general meeting.
This is a situation where you can smell something.
"Dear Flick...... I don't think it's easy to gather information here."
Noelia, who was listening, seemed to perceive the seriousness of the situation, squeezing her expression and looking at this one.
But you can't just leave me like this.
I'd like to look into the Abyss Walker thing, but when I hear about the village situation, I'd like to help you.
Wouldn't it be a good idea to try and catch the people hunting and gather some more information?
"In the meantime, why don't we grab that guy hunters and gather some information? Then it won't be too late to go to the Rahaman mine."
"Huh!? You think Master Flick will catch the people hunters?
"Oh, Lord Eugene, you'd better have some noisy people disappear from around the village, too, wouldn't you? Catch him. If this one pulls the information, you can send him as a criminal to the Adventurer Guild in the City of Inverhanes. Noelia, I'm sorry, but it would help if you wrote me a letter I entrust to Gidion."
"Huh? Oh, yes. I understand - do you want to catch me!?
"We're each other when we're in trouble. Lord Eugene and the villagers are in trouble, and we need a lot of information about the Rahaman mine."
"As it were, well, yes -"
Once I stopped going to the Rahaman mine, I decided to catch the hunters who were attacking villages around here.