Chapter 408: Exposed……


    Blue seas, white clouds hovering in the blue skies, I rxed on the beach chair and sipped on a tropical drink.


    「(H~mm, this is the best. …………if those suspicious people weren’t here.)


    We were entangled with an insane noble just as we arrived at this city. Although he ran away because it just so happened that we met Queen Fraal, after we had checked into this luxury hotel, those guys had begun inquiring about us.


    「(Listen, listen, Master, is it okay even if we don’t beat them up?)」


    「(Don’t worry. They probably wouldn’t attack us while we’re in this city.)」


    Kaede, who was the first to notice the presence of spies, came to be about it, but I told her that I n to leave them be.


    「(They’re roughly 10 people, aren’t they? They alternate in shifts throughout the day. So stupid……)」


    「(It’s definitely that idiotic noble,)」


    Sophia and Maria were also bitter about it.


    Our party all had skills like Presence Detection, Enemy Search, and Magic Perception. That’s why the spies that the Samandourian noble could not hide from people like us.


    「(They will definitely attack close to the border.)」


    「(Let’s beat them back nya)」


    Unlike Akane who was troubled, Lulu-chan seemed delighted for some reason.


    Previously, after having been attacked by a Dark Guild, we talked about how to respond to spies and assassins. This made us reexamine our equipment, but it really got us to polish our skills to protect ourselves from attackers and assassins. Of course, we don’t forget to conceal our presences. We didn’t like to show off being strong at a nce, nor do we like coercing others. That’s why, the spies wouldn’t ever know that we were high ranking adventurers just by looking at us.


    As a result, our Enemy Search, Presence Detection, and Magic Perception skills were so polished that even master spies would find it difficult to approach us without being noticed.


    「(We’ll return in a few days. but those guys need to experience a little bit of hurt.)」


    「(Indeed. That noble who said to hand Sophia over needs to be punished.)」


    Even Akane, who noticed that I was actually very mad during the exchange at the main street the other day, said that if they actually doe, we should thoroughly roast them.


    Unlike me looks far different from my original self, Akane who came here still with the appearance of a Japanese high schooler couldn’t adapt herself to this world where the weight of a life was so light, but she’s been steeped in themon sense of this world. Her reluctance to take lives was no different in this world. However, if she hesitates, she would not be able to protect herself or her loved ones.


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    The target being monitored was rxing in the luxury hotel’s private beach. Three shifts surveilled their room at night.


    「Is it really necessary to monitor a normalmoner like that to this extent?」


    「Hey now, don’t say that. I think I’ll be fine knowing that those people are leaving this town, but this is a job.」


    The spies monitored Takumi’s party in two-man cells. 5 teams with 10 members in three shifts.


    Aside from the spies, subordinates of the Dark Guild also snuck in.


    The hitmen of the dark guild were instructed to kill only Takumi, the only man in the party, if given the chance.


    「……I’m getting a bad feeling.」


    「Oi oi, what’s this, are you intimidated by one brat?」


    「……don’t you get it? My instinct are ring at me since the moment we targeted that brat.」


    There were all types of assassins that existed. There are those who always acted alone. There were those that teamed up. Even assassins who work alone also receive help from support members on jobs.


    This time, their dark guild received a job request from their patron, a high noble from Samandour.


    The details of the job was to assassinate a silver haired brat.


    Apart from the assassins, there was a unit to secure that brat’s carriage, Dragon Horse, and the women he has along with him. And so, the assassin’s assignment was to murder one young man.


    「In any case, it’s impossible inside that hotel.」


    「Yeah, doing it in the hotel that the ruler of the Demon Continent is staying in would be suicide.」


    It would also be hard to aim for the target ying around on the private beach. The guards around the Queen are always vignt.


    「Spare me the Mazoku’s soldiers. It would be impossible to do our job with monsters like that keeping watch.」


    「I agree. I don’t want fight those crazies who live in monster nests.」


    Many of Samandour Kingdom’s spies and the Dark Guild’s assassins have been to uros. And they returned with their self-confidence in fighting smashed to pieces.


    「In that case, we’ll strike at the border just like we first nned.」


    「Yeah, they’ll get the Dragon Horse and the women, and we aim for the brat.」


    The two assassins nodded to the other and switched shifts, and the person who left went to their organization’s hideout to instruct them to add distraction personel.


    It was nearly time for one of the Dark Guild operating extensively in Samandour Kingdom to be driven to the brink of destruction……


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