After leaving the bar, Aldis spent the morning looking around daily necessities shops. Minimal items are taken out of Tria, but the amount is limited. Renovation At the moment, everything is for the time being, so we don't intend to buy a large number of items, but we will use tableware and towels appropriately.
Most important is food. If you hunt in the forest, you can get meat. However, Aldis knows from the rules of thumb that meat alone cannot keep his tone. For this reason, they decide to consume a certain amount of fruits and vegetables, but the type of food available in the forest is limited.
Next to the ingredients are seasonings such as salt. Speaking of Aldis only, the taste of food is not so important. There is no problem if you don't die from eating, and you won't complain unless you get nauseated and return everything in your belly. But twins and Nere will be different. There is no better way to eat.
Aldis then returned to the inn after walking around the store and staring at what he had bought and returned. The time was already around noon. After a busy lunch hour, Cesare is not visible in the deserted bar.
(Is it caught on a hook?)
After confirming that, Aldis left his luggage with his luggage. When asked by the bar tavern, "Where are you going?" Aldis briefly answered that he was heading for the empire, then walked slowly to the south gate with his luggage.
Leisurely walk around the city, looking out to the stalls here and there, and exit the royal capital from the south gate. Aldis, who walked southeast, was stopped shortly after the gatekeeper disappeared.
"I'm waiting a little, my brother there"
(Whether you came)
Looking back without any fuss, there were five mercenary figures.
Standing in the middle is an axe who seems to have called out. The two who firm their sides also have an ax in their hands. All three are heavy equipment as if they were going to battle. Behind them are two men in robes. It looks like a magician, but you won't know unless you fight. Aldis and Nere are also only visible to magicians.
"Is it a difference?"
"No, I'm your brother. Well, what is it? Don't say bad things, can you catch me calmly?"
"At least I don't remember why I was caught."
"Even if you don't have an older brother, there's a guy you want to catch, right?"
A man suggests the existence of the client.
The question is who was asked, but there's no straightforward answer when asked. Moreover, it is clear from the beginning that fighting cannot be avoided by asking questions.
(And then--)
Aldis casts spells instead of replying.
Say, "Let's go to Mahoroba after passing ---"
(Should I catch it live and listen?)
Fog of sleep "!"
"Now! Fast!"
The mercenaries who had no time to prepare themselves for sudden things were wrapped in silvery fog shining slightly.
It is a stupid story, such as opposing a person who can use magic at a distance. Of course they are not amateurs either. The fact that his companion has the appearance of a magician suggests that Aldis intended to maintain a distance that could be dealt with using magic.
But Aldis casts much faster than the mercenaries would have expected. Chanting is an inevitable step for a normal sorcerer, but for Aldis who can use magic without casting, it is just a decoration, such as chanting-a fake to fool unchanting.
It was already too late for the hurried mercenaries to attack Aldis. The magic of sleep with the magic of Aldis immediately reaps the consciousness of all mercenaries. Surgery With the magic of Aldis who played Norris and said it was "out of standard," he would not resist any mercenaries there.
After finishing the magic of sleep, Aldis began to pull out tough ropes out of his luggage for the rest of the mercenaries, who couldn't see the flapping and crumbled mercenaries.
"If you escape like yesterday, you'll have to work twice."
After tying all five with a rope and raising a monkey gag, only the leader-like man is dragged into a nearby bush.
Aldis removed the man's gag and forcibly woken up by hitting his cheek. The man woke up for a moment, but began to roar immediately after realizing that he was bound.
"What is it? What is ... where is it here? Hey! What did you do?"
Standing in front, Aldis smiles cold.
"Whatever I did ... I ended up sleeping magically. Don't you remember?"
The man panicked and looked around, saying he was impatient.
"Everybody ... What happened to other friends?"
"Did you stab first?"
Aldis dismissed her with a cool face. Of course it is a lie.
Aldis does not tolerate anyone who has been aiming for life. But these men were originally not killed. No matter how much of the sparks it falls, Aldis has some discretion to deal with.
"I'm going to kill me too?"
The face of a man who seems to understand the situation finally turned pale. Since Aldis can't read the heart, the man will only feel that his life is at stake.
"Would you help me during this period?"
Says Aldis is gone.
"That!"
"I was so weak. Did you just start out as a mercenary?"
Aldis tells him to provoke a man who blocks his words in regret.
"That's it! Let me tell you!"
Apparently, a man is a type of person who speaks more than he thinks. This might work, Aldis laughed in his heart.
"It's all about power, even though you don't know how much you sold."
"Now ...!? It was sold !? What is it?"
Aldis laughed with his nose at the glance.
"Don't you notice it yet? Congratulations. I've just been asked. I'll let you get fake information and attack me, so I'll turn you back."
"Fake ... information?"
With a mockery look, Aldis hits the man.
"That's right, you're being lured out of fake information. You're going to deceive me, but you're the one who was trapped. You "
"I'm ...?! Who?"
If you come this far, you are one step away.
"I don't know yet. Remember who told you to hit me. It's a simple story."
"... I see ... Cesare bastard!"
It took.
"Don't you finally understand it?"
Speaking so, Aldis is nervous about the expected name appearing.
"Damn! That bastard!"
A man curses Cesare in the form of anger. After listening to the man's swearing, Aldis smiled with a bad smile.
"Well, don't get angry because I'll tell Cesare properly."
"What do I say! The bastard is me ..., hey! You can't die even if you die!"
A man screams with his regret bleeding throughout his body.
Aldis reveals there.
"Okay, you don't have to worry about it. All I said was a lie."
“…………?”
I didn't know what he was saying, and the man looked up at Aldis with a stern look.
"Lies ... I guess Cesare's bastard sold me?"
"Yeah. I'm a request from Cesare, Cesare taught you false information, and Cesare sold you. All your lies are still alive."
"..."
With a half-open mouth and a face like a pigeon eating a bean gun, the man exclaims.
Tsu "Oh, I'm gonna give me moxibustion from Cesare. I'm going back to the royal capital, but you're a little more relaxed here. Oh, yeah. This is a substitute for annoying charges. What?
In a word, Aldis strips off the man's helmet. He carried his luggage back and started walking towards the royal capital, leaving the man and his friends behind.
"Well, hey .... cho ... wait, wait!"
Only a voice calling out to the man tied to the rope, Aldis, echoed around.
Aldis pays the entry tax again from the south gate to step into the royal capital. Continue to the red-light district and enter the inn you just left a few hours ago.
The inn only has a few seats, except for the clerks who are preparing for the bustle. One such customer was Cesare, sitting at the counter with a glass of fruit water in one hand.
When walking to the counter without suppressing the footsteps, Cesare notices something unusual, turns around, and looks hard at Aldis's face.
Aldis throws the helmet that the mercenary man wore into the pallor of Cesare, showing an eerie smile.
"It's a guy you knew you were wearing. It looks like you're left behind, can you give me back?"
Departure: "Oh, oh ... what, here?
Cesare begins to squeeze his voice.
"I was going to do that, but when I left the Imperial City, a bad stray dog was entangled soon.
Aldis describes the attacking mercenaries as stray dogs. Although stray dogs don't wear helmets, Cesare can't afford to notice the whims of such words.
"That's right ... that was a disaster ..."
"Well, it's not a big deal, it's just a hassle. I was attacked by gorotsuki on the backstreet yesterday, but it doesn't matter.
"Sure, with the true ability-"
The moment Cesare started talking about trying to survive, whether he had finally recovered from a sudden shock.
Aldis shuffled away and whispered to Cesare's ear with a voice that lacked emotion.
"But I can only laugh and forgive the second time. I don't think there is a third time."
Warning not to allow next.
"Oh, uh, uh, yes ..."
Cesare barely replied, whispering. Like a frog staring at a snake, he pats the shoulders of Cesare, who is stiffened by fear, and Aldis leaves the bar.
Although there were some troubles, I was able to achieve my original purpose.
Aldis looks up at the avenue sky. The sun is leaning considerably, but there is still time until dusk. Considering the time to buy food and travel time, you will be able to return by night.
Thinking peacefully about what to buy as a souvenir for the twins, Aldis headed to the streets lined with shops.