When he realized, Halagree was desperate for his powerlessness, his impudence.

I had already lost sight of the bandits and of Akdork and Affair.

Looking up at the sky, the yang had already begun to lean heavily to the west and the lake had completely changed to a sea color.

If I do, my head will crack. It takes too long to pass out. Considered in conjunction with the head injury, he was sniffed some kind of medication even after he fell, or he was subjected to magic - perhaps the former. They didn't have the appearance of a magical user, but I could tell from the conversation that there was a user of the trap.

If that is the case, you are also likely to be somewhat familiar with pharmacy.

Stand up and remember. I said look at the tree in the front. And Halagrai turns to the front with the lake behind her back, as she was told, but on one of the trees you can see from there, parchment paper with a knife pierced and fixed.

Halagrai hurried to the front of the tree with her feet, and pulled out the knife, glancing through the paper.

Its contents are so-called letters of intimidation.

Besides, it's for ransom. According to this, three days later, he came alone to Halagree with a ransom to the caves of the Stonewall Mountains, further southwest of here, and he also noted that the hostages would be exchanged at that time.

The ransom amount is 5 million jerry. It also said what would happen to the two of you if you couldn't prepare them - if you didn't want to see the knight in the back of this, you could imagine.

Halagrai gripped the paper hard enough to pull a thousand cuts, but as she changed into the clothes left behind anyway, she searched for the knight she had brought to the escort.

And the knight could not find it in so long.

But I expected it from what was on the paper - it was a sight too terrible.

With regard to Malagar, who boasted the Knights' best stature and was dressed in heavy armor, his helmet was first removed, on which his face had been cut to bits and his ears and nose had been cut off, and both eyes had been cut out.

The worst part is that you can see from the bleeding that seeps out of your armor that you have been shaken considerably. Malagar also has muscles, and they must have passed the blade through a gap in their armor and chopped it up, but for that matter they are not allowed to die easily.

It was scattered in that state, it was decided, and it was engraved to the point where it was impossible to discern its face at the end.

Even for Don, the likelihood is still only described as spectacular. Perhaps they cut off his legs first, tied his remaining arms with rope and hung them between the tree and the tree, and then used the blood coming out of his chopped leg to paint a target on his body.

I guess the only reason I lived long enough to cut off both legs was because some of them were still familiar with the drugs. Either way, the targeted don had countless arrows piercing his torso.

That's how it was painful, and I'm breathless with my anguished expression on it. Apparently, the forehead set the highest score, but that was used by Todome.

Finally, it would be a lease - but it had been miserable in another way when it came to her.

The armor is stripped, the underwear is torn to bits and half naked, and it is easy to imagine if you look at the smell and circumstances left behind, such as what she was done.

Besides, they seemed to have hanged her in torture after just doing it, and I could imagine what had been done from limbs scattered around her and horse footprints.

Around the remains of the rope as well, I guess I tied my hands and legs with the rope and let the horse pull them.

And at the end of the day, it seemed to end with a top from the neck.

That is such a tragic sight - Halagray also lost her word for a while.

"Reese, Don, Malagar... it's my fault, of, sorry, sorry -"

I dropped my knees, shook my arms down on the ground over and over again, and cried.

But how much I mourned doesn't change the outcome.

Rather, the problem is now, they wrote it down to see what these knights looked like and judge them.

I mean, it's easy to imagine what would happen if you didn't pay the ransom, and if you didn't keep your promise to come alone.

"... your provision will be firm later. Anyway, we have to hurry..."

Halagrai manages to arouse the spirit and return to the lake. Most of the luggage and horses had been taken, but still only one was left behind.

Drive it back to the castle in a hurry and explain the situation to the key figures left in the castle.

After acknowledging my own faults, of course.

"... I didn't expect this to happen only in the absence of Sir Luphall -"

"And shouldn't we honestly pay the ransom for now?

"Wait, there's a chance he'll come back for sure just because he paid?

"That's why you can't abandon me. However, I will not give this amount to the boulder without the Lord's permission. I haven't seen Lord Haragrai around here in a while."

The surrounding reaction to Halagree's demise was cold, though I had expected it. Until the Affair relationship was revealed, of course, three knights of the Knights were also lost after Misumisu Akdork was taken hostage, passed out unexpectedly from side to side, and Affair was taken away.

"... Malagar, Don, and Reese were excellent knights. I didn't know that was going to happen. It was because I believed in you who was once Yingjie Taru that I made you take charge of this time, but I lost Misumi's men. What are you going to do with this responsibility?

The head of the Knights of Luphall asks, staring at the halagree.

But there's no way I can give a clear answer to that. I can only apologize to Halagree.

"Fair enough, Captain. I know how you feel, but right now, in the absence of the lord, I can't help but say that. More than that, it's a future response."

"Let's just run the early horses. I still can't go without asking for Uncle Borderline's will."

"Hmm! Rather, you missed that amount of banditry, ransom, etc. No need to do it! Our Knights will come and take everyone's neck!

proclaim as the captain breathes. I can feel how sorry I am for losing my men, my nose is rough, and I can feel the will to forgive the bandits...

"... for Christ's sake, I'm sure it's my fault this time, but it's a bunch of incompetents who have everything together."

It was the halibut that emitted it. Everyone's gaze gathered at the way he said he was going to shake while doing all this.

"You! You know whose fault this is!

"I can't forgive you anymore! Can I cut you off before the bandits!

Especially since the two seem to be as short tempered as they are in this, but I don't mind the halagray.

"Go ahead and do whatever you want. But don't forget. Now it's no different that I'm near the Lup Hall Border Uncle."

Huh!? and everyone goes out of line. By how thick was the skin on the face, I made my eyes look uniform like I saw something incredible.

"Let me say on top of that, are you all really willing to rescue your wife and your son?

"How disrespectful! That's why we're having a discussion like this!

"It just doesn't make any sense where we kept wasting our discussions on the dark clouds. Are you an idiot? The deadline is set in the first place. We don't really have time to talk in places like this."

Gummy, the men from number three to number five in this realm tried to bite his teeth.

"Besides, if you've heard from me earlier, there's nothing I can do about it. Running a fast horse? Can't even calculate in this castle. Is a guy walking around waving a big hand? You won't be able to get there in three days just how fast you ran from here to Wangdu. Besides, the Lup Hall Border Uncle is in the middle of a meeting. Wouldn't be in a decent position to talk."

The man who suggested running the early horse shut up to Halagree's opinion.

"Besides, the captain was offered to lead the Knights and take their necks, but that's the pinnacle of stupidity. Really, are the knights here even made of muscle by their brains?

"Hey, what the heck!

He slammed his desk, stood up, and the knights around him stopped the captain who was still going to jump.

"It's also troublesome that there's just a lot of blood. The Stonewall Mountains they designated in the first place are, as their name suggests, mountains with many rocky mountains joining together like walls. The path to their designated cave is blocked by the wall and the path is narrow, it doesn't make sense to go to any number of places like this. On top of that, this place has a lot of blind spots to go from here, and vice versa, it's easy to reach from the opponent. If you take knights and soldiers everywhere you go, they'll get away with it before you get to the designated location. Of course your wife and son will never come back."

Halagray daring to slap haters. But it's true that he was upset with these guys' conversations. Even if they keep talking about no progress, it's not like they know what the Affair is up to now.

"You! I guess it's one of those good ideas to say that much!

And the captain screams. Halagray laughed inside as she rode.

"Of course. It's not a big deal in the first place, such as a proposal. They're right, we should head to a place I've designated for ransom."

what? Some chilling air fills the spot.

"What a fool! If you do that, isn't that what thieves think?

"Exactly. It won't necessarily mean the hostages will return safely because they took the ransom."

One objection after another is bumped, but you take it with a firm look.

"They've gone out of their way to show that I have hostages, and they've even demanded a ransom. Naturally, you'd know if you weren't as stupid as the deal wouldn't be closed unless you exchanged for a hostage. There's no point in taking this ransom if we don't make sure the hostages are safe."

"Yes, no, but even if you're safe on the spot, you won't know what you're doing as soon as you've got the money!

"Exactly. Besides, don't you have the strength to fight?"

Tell Halagray with the eyes the captain shoots. It is true that even in this case, there is just not enough force for Halagree.

"Sure, you're right, but in three days it's possible to have the tools in place to get through the scene. Even if you don't have the strength to fight directly, I'll cover you with this brain for that matter."

Halagree that I unequivocally affirm. Even the words that make you feel confident are confusing.

"But what are you going to do with the ransom at heart? You're not going to use your position as a sidekick and put your hands on the money in the vault while you're doing all this?

"I'm not worried about that. I'm not going to get any money in the realm. I will personally be responsible for the 50 million in ransom."

To that word, the number three guy leaked, ho.

"I mean, when you do it all at your own risk, that's fine, right?

"You can take that for granted."

That's all I heard, the captain and the others in charge discussed it - and I said it.

"Okay. It is true that this case could put the lives of the two hostages at risk even if it moves poorly. So I'll leave all of that to you. But only at your own risk. Whatever the consequences, tell the lord you did it on your own."

"… I understand"

This, in other words, is just an escape of responsibility. I guess that's what everyone but Halagree thinks is desperate, to be honest, such as rescuing hostages.

Then it's never a bad story to be able to bring responsibility to one Halagree.

And naturally I understood that as a halibut. But now, not if anyone is responsible, but when it comes to being kidnapped in the first place, there is no excuse for the fact that there is total bad harassment.

That is why, at the very least, the rescue of hostages must succeed in anything.

It's not for me, it's for my beloved Affair.

Halagrai prepared the horse he rode when he first came to the castle, and drove to the town where he set up his house in a great hurry.

The horse is given magic medicine and forced to run day and night without rest. Surely this will crush your beloved horse, but now is not the time to say four or five.

Then he came to town and went to the Chamber of Commerce himself, called the man in charge of real estate and offered to sell the land and the house.

Of course I'm in a hurry, so I want the money ready as soon as possible. Furthermore, he also sold the items he had once given as rewards when he raised the medal, and also sold the armor and spears he had cherished as memories of the knight.

The medals were also made of pure gold, and everything else around me that was likely to be gold was sold off.

I wanted instant gold, so I was bought and beaten down for a long time, but I still managed to have 50 million jerry available to go with the amount of storage I had in the bank.

Get all the tools you can use when you need extra money. Of course it stands out in the bulky stuff, so it's enough to slice it into your clothes and make it sneak.

And riding a horse, arguably the only remaining property. That said, this horse will be used and crushed just like the horse to go.

I don't have time to go back to the castle, so I flew my horse straight to their designated mountain range. Relies on magic pills this time, and keeps running day and night.

Naturally, I haven't slept with halibut. But I can't let that make me sound weak. The lives of the woman you love and their children are at stake.

We were able to reach the Stonewall Mountains as planned and on the appointed day. The horse also ran out of breath near the entrance to the mountain range because it had left him quite impotent, and Halagray labored the struggle and offered silent prayers.

But I don't have time to bury it and raise it. Left to say it was daunting up to this point, climbing the mountain.

As expected, it was an obstructive rocky mountain with no path that could be described as a path. Left and right would also be inhibited by the absolute wall, which would be very impossible, for example, to travel on horses.

And if you look up at the same time, you can see that fellow bandit-like beast man overlooking you.

Even now, just the only way I could climb down to the cave that meets them, and if all the faces besides Halagray, that is, even the Crusaders, as that Knights leader said, were coming together, I would not have been talking about finding them right away and the safe place of the hostages.

And if you look closely, there's a net trap with tons of rocks all over it. I could also scatter baristas created using Marutai.

So Halagree dares to put up a bag with a ransom and appeal to the target. At that time, don't forget to bring the pine lights prepared just in case.

If you're going to do something, no questions asked, it's a sign of willingness to burn the money. If the ransom was intended, this would have been an effect, and they would never have planted anything more.

Continuing to climb the rugged rocky mountain path, Halagree finally reaches the cave of purpose. It seems pretty spacious inside, so bringing a pine light won't even make it so easy to breathe.

Keep going, a slightly sweet smell pokes your nostrils. Does it smell like flowers? I haven't slept at all since I left the castle, so my five senses may be quite sharp.

Keep walking in the horizontal hole. It gets dim enough to go in the back, but the hikarigoke has been on the wall since the middle of the day, and some visibility has been ensured with the lights of the pine lights.

Since the road was the main road in the first place, there was no need to worry about getting lost, and the horizontal hole showed wide spread some way ahead, and a little cavity could be made around.

And in the back you could see a longitudinal rock that blocked your sight and a round rock that was just fine to sit on, and on the round rock sat the head of that wolf's ear and tail-bearing bandit.

Around it is also the figure of a fellow beast man.

"Nice to meet you. And as promised, I'm impressed that you're coming alone."

"... the hostages will be safe, won't they?

With a cheek cane on his standing knee, and a grin on his head that seemed to be bottomless, Halagree questioned his two cheapness.

"- Dude, am I mistaken about something? I'll tell you what, we're in charge. You better make sure you get the ransom before the hostages do."

That word alone doesn't tell me if Affair and Akdork are safe.

But surely the situation is that Halagree doesn't have a choice. In the meantime, in an effort to convince them, open the cover of the prepared bag, cleverly unlock it while holding the pine light and show them what's in it.

The bandits cheered on the surprisingly packed leather currency. Further, the halagree returns the currency in the back so that it can be seen and confirmed by the hand.

"As you can see, all the currency is real. As I was told, I have five million Jerry minutes."

"... Hey, you, check it out"

"Heh."

I wasn't lying about what Halagree was saying, but the other guy doesn't seem to pull out, and he tries to get inside.

"Wait! Before we do that, the hostages are free! If you don't at least bring it to my side, you can't give it to me for confirmation."

"... ah? Do you understand that? The position is..."

"What, you can burn all this money on this occasion?

Say it. Halagree brought the prepared pine light fire closer to the bag.

Then, my head chips and tongues.

"Hey, give me that one."

"Heh!"

And when his head commanded, one of his companions walked to the back.

"... they're calling the hostages."

"You don't have a choice, there's been a little mistake."

It was a halagree that glanced at his head in a grumpy manner, but frowned upon the disturbing words returned shortly thereafter.

"Wait a minute, it's a mistake, and, hey, what..."

Halagray tries to ask, but as soon as she does, she puts her hand on her forehead, her legs flutter, and she kneels on the ground.

"Apparently, it's finally working"

"Ki, you, what?

"Nah, I just left a little special pollen in the cave. I wouldn't have seen it in my eyes because it's pretty fine."

Pollen? I repeat, and at the same time I remember the sweet smell I smelled by the time I got here.

"That's a little special pollen. It's just a sweet scent for us beasts, but somehow it causes so much glare that we can't stand as human opponents. Well, that doesn't mean you're gonna pass out completely, so you can hear your mouth, right? You won't be able to move properly."

Head that distorts the mouth. And my buddy, the Beast Man, takes the bag a little from Halagray's hand to the front of his head.

"Oh, you guys, from the start, weren't you willing to make a decent deal?

"Whoa, don't get me wrong, okay? We are still clean and right bandits [beast hunters], we keep our promises. I just told you there was a little bit of a mistake.

"Head, there was definitely 50 million Jerry."

"Oh, well. Then I'll hand over the hostages as promised, one at a time."

"Hey, what?

Halagray looked up at her head with a look like she couldn't figure it out, even as she meditated on one eye.

Apparently, you're willing to free the hostages, but if you were going to do that from the start, did you need to purposefully seal the halagree move? And I guess you're wondering.

"There you go, lady first"

Then, saying so, my buddy puts a bag of cloth in front of Halagree with Dossa, Dossa, Dossa, Dossa. That was six bags in all.

I didn't understand what that meant for a while, but...

"Well, that's touching, I'd love to!

Although the beasts bark somewhere delightful, untie them, and make them check their contents with halibut.

"... Huh? Ha? Ugh, wow!!"

The scream stuck in the cave. That is, of course, a halagree scream, and the bandits unwittingly block their ears.

"That's weird. We have better ears than you guys, so don't make a scene. You have a lot of voice in this state."

My head states as if I was frightened. In front of those eyes, the halibut cried and kept ringing their throats. The object placed in front of him - the head, the torso, the arms, the legs, the split parts thereof - screamed and opened his eyes and cried.

"Ki, you guys! Why did you kill the hostages? Why?

Then he raises his face and stares up at his head and raises his voice. Then his head shrugged his neck without showing any particular bad looks.

"Dude, that's why you're telling me. It was an accident."

"- Accident, you say?

"Oh, yeah, it's an accident. No, we're bored until the ransom arrives. She's a good woman in the corner, even though she's standing. I've been meaning to entertain you."

Hearing the story, Halagray bit her lips with regret. The seeping blood drips down to the ground.

"So anyway, I thought I'd try our specialty medicine to make sure this woman enjoys it. If it works, it's a dish that could be used for back-trading, and I just wanted an experiment. So, the first time or two uses were good. This woman was messed up, too, and she really wanted to see it, didn't she? I don't even care about you anymore, my real husband, blowing all the liquid out of my body."

My head continues to talk with a lousy laugh. Halagree's eyes were congested, blood vessels floated, and even nosebleeds were nil.

"But - you said it was a little too much, or suddenly you blew out bubbles on your third pill. Stay down. Yes. Goodbye. Apparently she didn't have a heart, the medicine was too strong ~ but no, no, no, no, no, no, no."

"With that in mind, you enjoyed your head a lot, too."

"Am I? Well, that's right. If they showed me that, I'd do the same. Well, that's why this woman screwed up so much, so you're in trouble to bring it back, too, right? That's why I left him alone with kindness."

"Bullshit, don't be ridiculous. - Uh-huh! You guys, still, still, still, ahhhhhhhhh!

Another roar. To look so miserable, to the brutal truth, the way words don't come out the way you think.

"Come on, I'll tell you what, we'd rather you thanked us for that. What?

"Or do you say thank you? Take a look at this and say thank you to me?

"Oh yeah. Anyway, when I came here with this absurdity, when I tried to use the pills, I went wild, and I said, 'I have a baby in my stomach, so stop it!' See you. I know you thought the drug was gonna kill the kid, but this is your kid, right? That's not what happened, is it? You were going to give birth to that woman even though she was an unforgivable friend, right?

To that story, something collapses raggedly in the halibut.

"Yeah? Oh, come on, man, you're out of response."

"Ha, maybe you meant this idiot, that woman?

"What? Is that true? I think I've done something wrong."

"I don't think so much about you."

Haha the laughter sounds much better. Halagree had no idea what the hell was so funny.

"Fair enough. Bring another one later. Hey, you, don't worry. The other one was alive."

A head that spits out meaningful lines. And a fellow beast man came this time in charge of Akdork, and let him roll before the halibut.

"... what is this?

Halagray raises her voice in surprise as to how she finally regains a little sanity.

To his eyes like that, he does look like a five-body satisfied Akdork.

But the light is lost from its eyes, and Pickle doesn't even try to move from earlier.

"As you can see, he's a hostage kid. You're still alive, aren't you? It's just, you know, she's dead, and we're out of hand, right? Then if these guys are about these kids, it doesn't matter if they're guys or women (...) No problem. Besides, you do look adorable when you look closely. That's why they let me play."

"It's not fair if you're a parent or a child, so use your medicine!

"Look, we're egalitarians. Because it's basic, it's kind."

My head makes a guessy statement laughing, followed by my buddies laughing at the crazy thing on my head.

It is a halagree that keeps looking at the unbelievable in its appearance.

"That's why I didn't screw up like that abuzz. The spirit is completely broken. At all, if you're a mother and a mother, you're a child. I don't want to use it."

At the end of the day he mouthed it to throw it away, and his head lifted a bag with a ransom.

"Whatever it is, I've returned the hostages. I'll tell you what, I didn't guarantee it until the state. The kid over there might as well have died, but you're gonna have to do the right thing with the rest of the garbage."

Abandoning that, they try to get to the back of the cave. There may have been something like a hidden passage around the sounds of rock slippage.

"- Why..."

"Am I?"

My head reacts and looks back at the blushing and murmuring halagree words.

"From the verses of your words, I can feel the admiration of the Empire. I mean, you guys moved this way from the Marvel Empire, would you be displaced? And yet why! That's it! The kingdom! My Barr kingdom saved and protected you! We even offer you a place to live so you can live without difficulty! Even the immediate cost of living would have been paid! That's all I owe you! Why try to return it with a vendetta!

Barking, in tears, suing.

But what reached his ear like that was the mocking laughter of the bandits.

"At all, the kingdoms are full of congratulations."

"Oh, not at all. But I do appreciate it. All peace-loving mankind. The kingdom of egalitarians generously welcomes whoever their opponents are. Like us, the Empire, the bandits."

Halagray opened her eyes. What do you mean? and its black eyes shake with a pull.

"Didn't you hear that? We were bandits from the beginning. It's just that empires are originally tough on beasts like us, and honestly, the difference between rich and poor is too intense to work with. That's when I heard that the kingdom of Bahr is not only tolerant of the displaced, but it also guarantees life to the subordinates of the exiled empire."

"So in the head maneuver, he tried to defect by pretending to be an animal being persecuted by the Empire."

"Then this worked out perfectly, and the morons of the kingdom didn't doubt it."

"Ha, that's the thing. Thanks to that, we were blessed with money after moving to this country, where it was easy for us to work. He also offered me a home to live in and made it a lot easier until I was ready for work here."

"And because the war is over and you're at peace, it's easy to do your job, easy to do"

"Totally different kingdoms for us - thank goodness for the sweet little stupid king!

And laugh out with Guerra Guerra again. Halagray just repeated, stunned and such, stupid, stupid.

"If you're going to resent me, you're going to resent me in a country that accepts people like us, not us. Then let's do it this time, and it won't happen again, but live with the masters. Poor clown who put a woman to bed."

And - the bandits of the beasts left the scene, but Halagray kept crushing like a bump and a rumor from it, not returning to the castle, but just falling into self-immolation in a cave.

In the end, what they found was two days after the Knights, who had boiled their cause for not returning to Halagree, set in motion.

"Hey, what the hell!

"Ugh, could this be the body of Master Affair?

"We have kids over here! Oh, my God, it's debilitating! We need to help you now!

"Damn it, you halagree! What the hell is this all about! Halagray! Explain it!

The captain grabbed and lifted Halagray's chest, yelling and scattering, but it hadn't reached his ear - he just kept repeating it with his unfocused eyes and such a fine voice that it couldn't reach anyone.

- I'm just helpless, I'm sorry, Affair...