Chapter 106
Chapter 106
The guard station of East End is on the east side of town, and you can see the sea from the window . The ocean view makes great scenery, but outside the window is a cliff, so if you try to escape out the window you’ll fall 20 meters downwards and be swallowed up by the raging waves .
We were interviewed one at a time, and imprisoned until an investigator from the capital came . Originally it would have been fine to stay at an inn under supervision, but someone just had to make a mess while being interviewed so everyone was put in jail, and that’s the current situation .
“Who was it! The one who hit a guard! Why are you guys so damn violent!”
I lectured them inside the jail . I’d cleaned the inside of the jail with CleanUp, and everyone sat on the ground . Our luggage was confiscated, so we don’t even have the item bags .
“It couldn’t be helped, right? That young guard was mocking me-! Well, I wasn’t the one who hit someone, though . ” (Ayl)
“That’s right . That unproductive conversation was a waste of time . You just want to hit him . It wasn’t me, though . ” (Velsa)
Ayl and Velsa crossed their arms, hiding their fists as they said so .
“Certainly, if I was stared at with such displeasing eyes, my hand would also lash out . ” (Merumo)
“That’s true . I know he’s a guard with a noble’s background, but having a bad attitude is something else . It’s definitely not me, though . ”
Merumo and Seth thrust their hands in their pockets as they spoke .
All members are guilty . I saw it with Search Skill, so there’s no doubt . Since the guards all developed bad status conditions and didn’t move midway through the interviews . By the way, I’m also guilty . He made fun of the coverall, so I iron clawed him a bit and threw him at a wall .
“From now on, do it like I did so you won’t get found out . ”
Everyone glared at me, sighing .
“What do we do?”
Ayl asked .
“I think someone from the Adventurer’s Guild or the Merchant’s Guild will probably come . And we probably can’t move out from this city until the investigator comes anyway . ”
“Then you intend to stay here the entire time?”
At Velsa’s words, I looked at the interior of the cell . Even though I used CleanUp to clean it up, the ground is dirt and the walls are stone . It’s certainly not very comfortable .
“Then, won’t it be fine if we made it comfortable?”
“Make it comfortable… they took the item bag too . ”
“Then first is retaking the item bag, huh? Merumo, is there a bug monster nearby that you can tame?”
“I’ll give it a try!”
Merumo tamed a poisonspider, a poisonous spider monster, that had made its nest on the ceiling . She had the tamed poisonspider call for its comrades and headed towards the guards’ room above the jail . The guards raised a scream, and in the time that they left the room, I drew an earth magic circle on the ceiling, poured magic power in to open up a hole, took Ayl and my item bags, returned to the jail, and sealed the hole .
I gave the poisonspider that had done a good job some fish meat from the fish we had gotten last night .
With the item bags in hand, it’s already our game .
Spreading furs out on the floor, I made a place to sleep . With her sword, Ayl made a rectangular hole on the wall, and the entrance/exit was complete . I camouflaged the hole with the cloths with the Blacks House and Floura House emblems on them .
Ayl handed Velsa a wallet and backpack from her item bag .
“Want me to buy something?”
“Vegetables and a pot? We pulled an all-nighter last night, so let’s eat a little and then go to sleep . ”
“OK!”
So saying, Velsa took out some kind of seed and a pink bottle from the backpack . Velsa dug up just a little dirt from the floor, put the seed in, and sprinkled just a little of the pink fluid on it . When she did so the seed germinated and suddenly matured, stretching a vine with thorns like a rose out of the exit . Velsa gave it a pull to check its strength and then climbed out on vine . It seems that Velsa has quickly found a use for that growth agent .
I drew the IH magic circle in the dead center of the cell, and the preparations are done .
“It’s kind of dreary . ”
“Want to decorate with something?”
Ayl’s suggestion was to stab the wall with a knife and decorate by hanging a fieldboar skull .
“It’s become a room with bad taste, na . ”
“What about Velsa’s flowers?”
“I wonder if we have any . Aren’t they left behind on the ship? Ah, I have a some . ”
There was some of the white monster repelling flowers inside the item bag, so I arranged them in the eye sockets . With this, it’s become quite fancy-looking . Furthermore, I made simply magic stone lights by combining magic stone and wooden planks . With this we’ll be fine even at night .
Feeling a weird gaze I turned to look, and the person in solitary opposite us was looking over through the crack in the door . The solitary cell is sealed with a sturdy wood door, so I can only see his eyes .
“Hey there . ”
“You guys, what are you doing?”
He muttered . Seems like it’s a man .
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“Ah, we thought to make it more comfortable . ”
“I, I see . ”
“What are you guilty of?”
I tried asking .
“I’m a mercenary . Do you know about Berserker?”
So he’s a berserker kind of a guy .
“I’ve had the Skill called Berserker since I was born . I used that Skill in the middle of training, injured my comrades, and now I’m in here . ”
“That’s quite an ordeal . ”
“Not really . I’ll be let out after being in here for 2 or 3 days . ”
The berserker said it like it was the usual thing .
Velsa returned and we put cut up vegetables and white fish meat in the pot and stewed it .
We also toasted the dried herringfish . It smelled quite good . The man in solitary also said, “Smells good . ”
I put the vegetable and white fish soup in bowls and placed the dried fish on top . Bending the bars with all my might, I shared it with the man in solitary .
“Waa! Thank you! Thank you! … So good! So good!”
The berserker raised a voice of delight .
I returned to the cell and once again exerted my strength and straightened out the bars .
“Huh? Is it a little warped?”
“Un, it needs to be a little more … right, like that . ”
Receiving Velsa’s instructions, I try to make it like it didn’t happen . Even so, when I stepped back and took a look it’s warped . Well, whatever .
“You guys, what are you doing!?”
The guard who came to check on us screamed as everyone picked at the hotpot . It’s the first guard we met, the one about the same age as me .
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“What? We’re having a meal . ”
“Wh! Wh,what do I do about this!?”
“Want some? There’s already only one helping left . ”
I put all the contents of the pot into a bowl and presented it to the guard .
“Oo-, this is quite good … that’s not the issue here!”
He’s quick to follow the mood .
“Good grief, just what are all of you?”
“Like I said, we’re in the cleaning and extermination trade . ”
“That appears to be true . Right now the Merchant’s Guild and Adventurer’s Guild Masters came to the guard station to tell us to let all of you out . ”
“Then will we be released?”
“That’s impossible . The one who was murdered is an aristocrat . Furthermore, he’s the Prince’s household tutor . If we release you, then it will be our heads that go flying . ”
For real? That would be bad . We’ll try to limit ourselves from going outside as much as possible .
“I see . ”
“Honestly, I don’t think you guys are the criminals . To the point that I want you to lend a hand to help resolve this . ”
“As long as we get paid, we’ll cooperate . ”
“Officially, I still can’t trust you that much . But personally, I give my thanks for sending my subordinates with the aristocratic origins flying . Those guys have been slacking recently . ”
There seems to be all sorts of guards .
“So how long should we stay in here?”
“The investigator from the capital will come tomorrow or the day after . And then it will be out of my control . After that, I don’t know . ”
“Can I ask something?”
“What is it?”
“Why do you think we’re not the criminals?”
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“Every single one of you have the ability to defeat a guard with a single blow . I don’t know where you pulled it out from in this situation, but the fact is that you’re eating hotpot . There’s the warped bars and the smell of dried herringfish wafting from solitary . I assume that you lot can escape from jail if you wanted to . But then, why don’t you? Either you’re waiting for something or you’re being conscientious towards the guards; I wonder which it is . In the first place, someone waiting for something to happen coming in without carrying a docking permit is strange . And I’ve never heard of criminals who are concerned about the guards . I think those are enough reasons to believe so . ”
I see, that makes sense .
“Oi! Captain Fluden!”
A middle-aged guard came down and called the guard we were speaking with . So his name is Fluden . And he’s even the captain; he’s high ranking .
The middle-aged guard whispered something to Fluden, and Fluden froze .
“Is something the matter?”
I asked .
“Where were you guys 7 days ago?”
“If it’s 7 days ago, then it was the city of Floura . ”
“Floura!? That should be on the western border of the continent . Where’s your evidence?”
“You’ll be able to confirm our stay there if you contact the Merchant’s Guild and Adventurer’s Guild, I think . ”
“I see . Then you have an alibi . ”
“Did something happen?”
“7 days ago the Prince was kidnapped . ”
“Captain!”
The middle-aged guard scolds Fluden .
“It’s fine . These people aren’t involved . ”
“What’s this about the Prince being kidnapped?”
“The household tutor noble is the one who kidnapped the Prince . In other words, it’s that corpse you found . It seems there was demand for a ransom . ”
“So that corpse’s identity is a kidnapper … was he killed from a falling out among cohorts?”
“I don’t know . But the Prince’s whereabouts are unknown right now . ”
Good grief, it’s become something even more troublesome .