Manowa

Episode 116: Watch Out for Stalkers

A girl named Minaka Rydow, whom the wind sounds met on Wombard's market, comes from Japan, the eastern country. And among its japaneses, she was also the daughter of a martial family called the Rydow family, an upper class.

This is a fact that he knows, but Minaka was originally a townsman's child. However, he was adopted by the Rydow family when he bought his swordsmanship talent, which he had demonstrated since he was a young child.

From that background, there is a strong obsessive notion that Minaka should always be strong. Minaka also feels that her parents raised herself with love, but she really thinks she should be when she thinks of her existential value. Sometimes it seals old memories to break up the relationship before she was adopted, and it may also be something she feels strongly that strength is her identity that she has to stop.

And Minaka was currently on a martial arts training journey while crossing the continent. Even women who are martial arts must be strong. Japanese and I talk about that all the way through. It's because Minaka was ordered on a martial arts training journey when he crossed 15. And I'm not allowed to go back until I'm a hatchet. That was the sign of the Rydow family.

Since then, Minaka has traveled alone.

And on such a solo journey, I stumbled upon a black dagger that seemed like the Devil's Sword. At this point Minaka was unaware, but the sword possessed the devil, the horny devil who conducts the lust.

I don't even want to remember Minaka again about her situation after that. Soon he was scattered for the first time, and he was not just no longer his biological daughter, he kept being held by the devil at night and devoured his pleasure. I blush to my ears with shame when I think about those days. What was wrong with me then? I can't keep myself if I don't think so.

But it was also saved by the power of a woman named Louise. Now the devil is no longer possessed and in the middle of self-drilling within the exotic Great Martial Arts Club.

Yes, it was supposed to be.

(What is it? those guys)

Minaka was being pursued now. Not yet unduly close, but surely multiple, just confirmable, four humans were following.

Each person's strength appears to be equal to or greater than Minaka's as far as Minaka is concerned. Especially from an old man with a knife down his waist and a man with silver armor, he feels a powerful sign similar to an old soldier named Jinlai who was at the same party as Louise and the wind noise.

Even for the other two, they were clearly emitting signs of strength, and they cooperated well when they followed this one, and Minaka kept walking, driven by fear, when it was definitely over when they were surrounded.

(Will it be okay if I go back to the inn? But if they find out where they are, they might just walk right in.)

I'm not sure I can win if I can be captured. Minaka thinks desperately in her rushing head. What can I do to avoid being surrounded like this?

But she didn't realize another person was approaching Minaka, who was walking early with that in mind.

Multiple running footsteps echo through the alley.

"Hey, he's gone."

After a target the men suddenly entered an unpopular alley, they went inside the alley, but when they came in, there was no one beyond them.

"Have you been noticed and run away?

Yes, the man speaks, but there is no indication that he has rushed from the scene to his full strength.

"I don't think so. I don't know what you're doing, but apparently you got away with it."

That's what the man in silver armor said and laughed.

"A big man let four of us get away with one daughter. It's not funny."

The man in silver armor replies "I'm sorry" to one of the men's words.

"But why run away?

Another man speaks that way. Originally they weren't trying to catch Minaka. But when we met, we didn't seem to know who we were, so we were chasing them to explore the situation. And the old man who was watching that interaction said, "Weren't they still paid?," he says.

You think the demon hunters did it?

One of the men looked at the old man and asked him that regrettably. "It will be possible," the old man says.

"Chip, have you lost your share again?"

"You haven't decided yet, either."

That was the utterance of a man with silver armor wrapped around his gashy body.

"Well, sure. I may have taken it off myself, or maybe the connection is still weak. Either way, I can't help arguing here."

The man with silver armor also snorts at the words of the old man.

"Unlike the people who are fighting for darkness with that skill."

"Sure. Don't we dare make contact and stab the nail?"

That's what the other two say.

"Sort of good. There will be no more time until a match table has been decided. Do you want to dissolve here for a second?"

The men nodded at the old man's words, then did not utter a word, slightly off tempo and separately left the scene.

(Running away or darkness?

The wind noise was hidden with Minaka on the alley where the men were talking, using 'Walk on Wall' and 'Invisible' at the wall upstairs. Invisible is a skill that reduces the perception around you. If you are in a blind spot, it will be effective and less likely to be noticed.

And when he confirms the men have left, the wind sounds are beside him. Ask Minaka.

"Mr. Minaka, do you have any idea?

To that question Minaka shakes her neck sideways. They were people I don't remember at all.

"I don't... he said he was a demon hunter, so I thought you meant that relationship?

Minaka answers with surprise the skill of sticking to this wind sound wall and the skill of erasing signs. The wind sounds and Minaka's response were predictable, and he said, "Sounds like it," and nodded as he did. It should be noted that unlike the Invisible, which works together in contact, the wall walk only applies to wind noise, so Minaka was peeking down with her feet in the groove between the walls, supported by wind noise.

"I hear someone possessed by the devil is being killed, and I said something that might have something to do with it."

I saw the wind noise with Minaka's surprised face at the words of the wind noise.

"Is the demon possession being killed? No way, to those people?

The wind sounds to Minaka's question, "Come on?" I returned it. I don't know anything more about the wind than Brick told me.

"I don't know if it was those guys who killed him. But as far as I can tell, it looks like Mr. Minaka was suspected."

"I didn't do it. That's not true."

Minaka says, "Well, tell them." But Minaka just doesn't have enough nerve to chase him down and ask questions now.

"Then is that a demon hunter now? But you said something weird about your share."

(If you're a demon hunter in the first place, aren't you supposed to say 'demon hunters')

The wind sounds a scratch in my head at my words.

"I don't know what kind of people they are, but at least I think their arms will stand. Especially that silver armored man and old man."

"Yeah. I felt something similar to Mr. Jinlai, and you seem like a scary person"

That's the sound of the wind, but in the meantime, I'm going back to the inn to deliver Minaka. And with a sword that I would give back to Jinlai, who was in the inn, about Minaka. Now I started heading to the Adventurer Guild's office to meet Louise.

◎ City Commercial District of Lizarect

"I see you again. Lady."

That was the wind noise on its way to the guild. When I was walking down the street, there was that old man next to the wind noise.

The wind sounds suddenly giggled back at the voices spoken to him, but he returns his words to the old man in the guise of calm.

"Hmm. I think I've never seen him before."

In the middle of a crowd. I thought they wouldn't do much, but the wind's 'intuition' complains of danger at the signs emanating from the old man. To be honest, I even felt like attacking him as soon as possible. I can still deal with it now. That's what the 'intuition' of the wind sounds told me. And analyze the current situation in a hurry.

(There was a smell. But I didn't notice. Close to Invisible, a skill that inhibits perception?

Some skills, such as high-ranking scouts, have such skills.

"No, no. The arrangement that helped that long-haired lady like earlier was brilliant. If it wasn't for me, you wouldn't have noticed."

"Was that you who found out?

Apparently, the old man in front of him had noticed something about the wind noise from the beginning.

"But you missed me earlier, didn't you?

The wind sounds as he walks carefully. It just seems like an old man and grandson are walking from what I saw a little bit.

(Help... no one can come)

Unfortunately, Jinlai is in the inn with Minaka and so are the rest of us. It would be nice if Louise could witness the wind noise by chance, but that would also be unlikely.

"If they find out, it could have been a battle. I don't want a futile battle here, all the more so in my hometown. Yubihama (Yui Hama) Feng Sound (Kazana) Kun"

That was an unintentional word.

"How do you know that?

The wind noise surprised me this time round my eyes. But the old man tells the answer with a calm face.

"My unique skill is" Ninjamaster, "and my derived skill," Exploring Information, "I can see the status of my opponent."

The sound of the wind also strikes me from the words to the identity of the old man in front of me.

"Could it be someone from 'Player'?

An old man nodded at the words of the wind.

"Two years ago, this world dropped me. I have managed to survive to this day. I knew the players existed, but this is the first time they've actually been with you."

The words of an old man who spoke so seemed to miss something.

"Uh, I think that would have been nice. I wonder why you came into contact with me now that you were after Mr. Minaka."

I ask in a stiff tone the wind noise that I am not happy to have met the very same player.

"Oh, take that path to the right. I need you to stay away from the guild."

But the old man did not answer the words of the wind, but merely gave instructions.

"Rikai"

The wind sounds follow the words of the old man, walking his way. What was ahead was an unpopular warehouse district. It is a short distance from where Hippo Marunou II (tentative) was located. So the wind noise was prompted by the old man, who sat on the stairs in front of the entrance to the warehouse.

"So, what's it like?"

"Well, there's nothing else to talk about. Now it's a little hard for you to get in touch with that Louise Cancer and talk about us."

"Hmm, what happens when I break through here and let Mr. Louise know?

"The worst case scenario is the devil's men moving together, possibly moving to Battle Royale all over the city."

The wind sounds frowning.

"If you don't let us know anything, if today's qualifying round is over, and if we decide on a match table for the main race, we'll have no problem. We'll get things done in us and we won't be bothered around either. So I'm going to ask you to stay here until the announcement of the winning match."

"I don't mind."

I understand the wind sounds in 'intuition' that there are no lies in that word. If the most 'ninjamaster' skills are true, he may have the skills to disguise intelligence information.

"So, is Grandpa a demon?

If I realize I can't move, I'm not willing to move as a wind noise or force. At least I was able to confirm that I didn't feel hostile. The wind sounds changed my approach to get as much information as I could.