"Damn it!"

A man like a leader swayed his weapon and jumped at me.

The object is a thick sword, and the body of the person is gently swinging together.

Leviathan sustained injuries from a simultaneous attack, but minor injuries at a level that does not interfere with movement.

Kozato ─

Okay, Leviathan.

Stop Leviathan from trembling and hold him back as a sword.

Accept the Man's Slash in Leviathan.

The sound of the sword rang and sparks splashed.

The man suddenly saw a dastardly sword that appeared from nowhere.

After the man ate his teeth, once he pushed me with the competition, he shook his big sword and slashed me.

"Uuuuuuuuuu! I can't help it!!"

With so much momentum that it's about to cause a whirlwind of airflow, you'll slash it many times.

I'll take it from Leviathan and parry it.

The man was not one side of the slash.

Sometimes I put a big sword on the ground and woke up the sand, or I flew the blood to blind my eyes.

"... I see, good boss"

─!

A man bewildered and astonished by my words.

"Stop it, Leviathan. Just stop it."

Sincerely.

Leviathan trembles with his sword.

It was the same as before, but a far thinner water pillar - a water needle - was flown at once.

I stopped all the bandits trying to escape while the man was drawing my attention.

"Did you see it...?"

A man who stops attacking, looks at me standing still, and turns his face.

"Unnaturally, it was too much and too much."

"Ku"

"Where were you giving instructions?"

I asked a man.

In fact, I didn't realize at first that a man was attacking to distract me.

I've never seen a bandit decide to retreat so quickly.

I didn't give you any instructions.

Huh?

It's a life-threatening species. It always says, "Run when you can't."

"I see. That's what my men think."

"I'm not one of your men, brothers."

Hmm.

I nodded small.

It seems like an incomprehensible relationship to the rest of us.

"Why didn't you take a woman hostage?"

I'll ask you more.

Payle and Ivy trembled little by little, but stared at the man while telling him to rest assured with a gesture to hold his hand.

"That's not the difference in power you can handle."

Hmm, the situation is quick to determine.

I tried the man again.

What I'm doing is what I'm doing, and I don't know how to meet.

The man in front of you is definitely a man of talent.

I'm ordering Payle to turn his head and cross his shoulders.

Payle, give me your potion.

Huh?

"Fix it from where it hurts."

"Ha, yes!"

Payle was confused for a moment, but still took the potion out of the luggage on my orders, the Lord.

Recently developed potions, even valuable items for strategic supplies.

Unlike the Riviathan water, it is made ready to use and carried in kind.

Payle took it out.

And like senpai, I asked Ivy to help me.

Ivy didn't know what was going on, but he still helped Paille.

"Ke, the injury healed in an instant...!?"

Ivy was astonished to see the potion for the first time.

"This was made by your husband."

Did you make it?

"Wow, that's amazing, 'cause it'll heal any injuries."

"No... but it's true... Wow....."

Ivy loses his words to the power of the potion.

Ivy wasn't the only one who was surprised.

Many of the thieves who experienced the instant healing of their injuries in the potion were shocked and did not know what had happened.

On the other hand, the man who was looking at the "whole" from the pulled position was surprisingly able to grasp the situation.

Such a man has looked at me halfway with surprise and vigilance.

"Why help?"

Because it's not a threat.

What?

"You decided in an instant that you couldn't beat me.If they heal everyone, they won't be attacked. "

……

"Besides, people are treasures. There's no point in letting them die nauseously."

"We're getting rid of him."

"There is no death penalty for expulsion. Imperial law doesn't even impose life sentences, no matter how heavy they are."

The number of cases has overlapped, sometimes hundreds of years of imprisonment - but it is still not the same stage as life imprisonment or the death penalty (,,,,).

"Even if it is."

The man asks me with vigilance.

"I have no reason to go out of my way to fix it. What do you want?"

Let me talk to you.

What?

"My subordinates- oh, my brothers.If you heal your wounds, you'll listen to me. "

"... what do you want to know? Weather?Or is it near Oasis? "

"Hahaha, I see, the weather is worth talking about here."

I laughed joyfully.

Because I felt that "weather" was not a light word from a man.

Indeed, in this desert, the weather in this harsh environment can be unimaginable in terms of the level of information that divides life and death in some cases.

I understood that if you were going to give it to me (………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

"Well, first of all, why are you doing this?"

"I can't eat anything else."

Hmm.

"I don't want the original business. It's not that much."

I nodded small.

It is said that there are two of humanity's oldest occupations.

Men are mercenaries, women are prostitutes.

Both can eventually be done by one body.

In that sense, banditry and expulsion are not necessarily "unnecessary business" that can be done by one person.

Didn't you think about becoming a mercenary?

"I'm not used to mercenaries.Well, I can't find a proper armed employer.If you're lucky enough to find it, you can throw it away. "

"Ah... is that so?"

I nodded and was convinced.

Though there was no such idea, the employing side would normally look at armaments and equipment as a combat force.

In that sense, if you try to do it properly, the mercenary is "original".

If you want to get rid of it, just a minimal weapon... I see.

"Is that all you want to hear?"

The man said angrily.

I just don't want to talk about the past when I got dressed up for banditry and exorcism.

Well, I guess so.

It is unlikely that it will fall into this kind of business if it is not a difficult past.

Not to mention a man of such talent.

"No, there's another one."

Listen to me now.

"Are you willing to stop banditry?"

Ha!

The man smiled with his nose.

"If you can stop it, please stop it."

"Listen carefully to the questions. Don't you feel like quitting banditry (...,...)?"

"... if I could stop it, I'd already stop it."

The man toned down.

Even though it was the same word, it had a different meaning.

At first, it had the meaning of meaning and insult, but the second time, I felt like the release of the shavings...

"Are you going to join the army?"

"I can't let you in... only the decent one."

"If there's an introduction, it's not."

What?

……

The man stared at me.

I also silently stared back at the man and got an answer.

"You... what the hell..."

"I don't care.I'm listening to you. "

The man's attitude has softened considerably compared to earlier.

I saw the "brothers" around.

Those healed by the potion had the same confusing color as the man.

The man turned to me.

"But we're already tagged and arranged to do this."

"That's not a big deal.Tell me honestly, how many people have I killed? "

"I didn't kill more than ten people..."

"All of this group?"

"Ahh....."

"Then it's easy to talk.That's 30 years in jail or three years in the army. "

Under imperial law, military service sentences often amount to one-tenth of a prison sentence, although sentencing depends.

There are several reasons.

First of all, the Empire is a "country of warriors", always fighting neighboring small nations, and we need to replenish our soldiers.

And there is the idea that if you are a soldier in a service sentence and you can survive for years, you should serve as a soldier or general, not as a prisoner.

In the first place, soldiers die instantly with "consumables", so the length of the service sentence is not as meaningful.

I was in both the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Ministry of Justice, and I understand that very well.

If you serve in the army, you'll be legally admitted to the army.

"I'm not sure that's gonna happen."

"That's why I introduced you."

─!

The man blushed.

And you keep staring at me.

"Who are you...?"

"Let's just say you're in the right position to send you to the army."

"... can you really do it?"

"Don't be fooled, brother! They're trying to trick us!"

"Yes, yes! I'm going to trick you and lock you in jail!"

My men shouted to the wobbling man.

Hearing that, the man sighed without strength.

"Why should a man who can wipe us out here do such a thing?"

"Ugh...."

"Well, that's...."

Everyone was silent about the man's allegations.

The man looked at me again.

"Are you sure...?"

"Paille"

Yes!

Payle took out paper and pens and a small board from inside the luggage.

He stood in front of me with a board and an instant desk.

I'll take a pen and write down the sentences on paper.

"Mark."

"Yes"

Payle gave me the mark again, I took it, and I stamped it at the end of the paper - next to the signature.

I'll read the script again at the end, and then give it to the gentle man.

"Take this to the deputy or to the state secretary, and I won't make it worse."

"... you"

"I paved the way, and it's up to you to do your best."

"... thank you, thank you."

The man lowered his head deeply and took care of the letter I gave him.



After the men left, Payle asked.

Good, Master, let me go like that.

"It's a de facto surrender. It'll be fine."

"But you're going into the army, right?If the army had done the same..... "

I know what Payle is trying to say.

Because the military also has the image of looting.

"No problem."

"Is that okay?"

"Yes, even if the people kill people for banditry, they will be imprisoned, but looting without permission is military law and the death penalty is the minimum."

I see!

Ah.

Military law punishes more than ordinary law to protect military discipline.

Of course, it's not just punishment, you have to add the candy "I'll admit the looting for days if I drop it somewhere" when you leave the army, but you don't have to tell Payle right now.

"I just paved the way.It's up to you. "

"Really... that's my husband.The shape is different, but it's the same as mine. "

I see.

Payle took over and protected it as a house.

The men took over as a nation and protected it.

The shape is slightly different, but essentially the same.

I was just a little happy that Paille, who understood that, was also a smart woman.



Ivy was at war.

I had no idea what Noah had done.

Why treat and release bandits without punishing them, or offer good offices at the end of the story?

I couldn't understand it.

Humans fear what they do not understand.

Ivy was still afraid to understand Noah, but at that stage.

……

At the same time, I was more concerned about Noah than before.