「Why are brats in here!」
A loud voice echoes around the Guild.
That voice gathers the attention of the other people around.
「They are my company, is there a problem?」
「No… they are obediently behaving, right? I don’t think they are being a nuisance to you, but?」
「Just by being here, you say…… give me a break…」
This is the type of person who would pick up a fight no matter what I say. I’m certain my words won’t connect with him.
I wanted to sigh, but I forcibly suppressed it. The opponent seems to be the type that would get even more agitated by it.
Nevertheless, to think that there would actually be person who would pick a quarrel for no reason…… I thought this would happen only in novels.
「Oi! Don’t ignore me!」
「Aan!? Are you defying me right now?」
The opponent suddenly extends his hand in order to grab me by the collar without a thought.
Now then…… what to do……
While thinking so, the hand that was grabbing to seize me was suddenly repelled.
「Ah…」
When I let the voice, it was already too late.
The adventurer let’s out『Gu!』a suffering groan while his upper body bent. He then fell back right on his backside.
「Uwa! Stop, stop! Allen, Elena. Wait!」
I shout in panic.
The kicks that were going to land directly on his head just barely swept beside him.
He would definitely die if those ax kicks landed.
His upper body fall down with a thud and he stopped moving. He must have already fainted after suffering the hit to his abdomen.
A silence drifts in the Guild which was noisy just a minute ago.
Even if they are used to fighting, witnessing small children KO’ing a grown man must have been really surprising.
Well then…… what do I do now?
「Ou. Excuse me……… N? What?」
A person walks into the guild and looks around the frozen stiff guild dumbfoundedly.
「What, what? Did something happen?」
A familiar voice. If I’m not mistaken, it should be one of the west gate Knight-samas.
Thanks to him, the stopped time in the Guild started moving again.
First of all, I turn to the Guild staff behind the counter and timidly ask.
「Ah~…… Is there a punishment in a case like this?」
I can’t leave without asking that, right?
There was no punishment.
I’m glad…
The fallen adventurer was dragged to the guild’s sick bay by other adventures on the guild staff instructions, he started moving again normally after a while.
「This~ Takumi-san…」
「See…… the children……」
「He?」
Luna-san reservedly calls out to me. Prompted by those words, I turn around to look at Allen and Ellen…… they were crying.
There were shedding tears without a voice.
「Waa!? Why are you crying!?」
I rush up to the two children in panic and crouch to match their line of sight.
「Injuries… none, right? What’s wrong?」
「…… Don’t… leave us……」
They cling to me with a fragile voice.
Perhaps, is it because I raised my voice a little while ago? Are those two uneasy because of that?
They thought I was angry at them…
「I won’t leave you. It’s all right, okay?」
I embrace the crying children while repeating『It’s all right』『We are together』 in a gentle voice.
It took about ten minutes for those two to calm down.
「Here, you must be thirsty, right?」
Still sobbing a little, I hand the two a fruit juice.
They cried a lot, I must let them rehydrate properly.
「In the end, what has happened?」
Ah, Knight-sama, you are still here…
A captain of one of five Shirin’s divisions. The second most important person in the Shirin Knights. It seems he came today to talk to the Guild Master.
Status
【Race】Human
【Age】26
【Skills】
Horseback Riding Dismantling Commanding
Physical Attack Resistance
Count Ruven’s Second Son
Knight of the Flaming Sword
Un, he has the skills appropriate of a noble knight-sama.
【Etiquette】and【Dancing】is noble-ish.
…… Oops, he asked a question.
「They probably thought I would abandon them」
「I won’t do anything like that! Please don’t such something so disgraceful」
「No~ I didn’t perfectly grasp the understanding yet, I still don’t understand well~」
That’s the truth. I don’t know their circumstances before meeting me at that place.
「They are your children…… probably not, they are your sibling, aren’t they?」
「Haa?」
「Seriously?」
「Yeah. Wasn’t there recently a carriage attacked near the Gaya Forest or something? They were most likely slaves」
Weren’t they sold as slaves because they don’t have parents? Is what I think. After all, if they were in the orphanage, I wouldn’t meet them in a place like that.
「…… There certainly was. A Slave Trader from the Argo was attacked by monsters in the Gaya Forest while heading to this town」
Luna-san immediately recalls the information.
「Ah, as expected. They were probably made into a decoy」
「It doesn’t look like they were the ones to become the decoy in the end, though. In this case, how are these children going to be treated? There won’t be problems if I take them in, right? Fortunately, they don’t have any proof of being slaves」
「Ruven-sama, thank you very much」
I was worried about the interference from the merchant, but it doesn’t seem like there will be problems.
It seems like Ruven-sama will become the guarantee.
「Wald is all right. Apart from that――」
「Rather than that, Takumi-san! You went into the Gaya Forest!」
Luna-san interrupts Ruven-sama who said it’s okay to call him Wald-sama, and she bends forward over the counter.