Tl: SpecterZe
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ED: Torianna
Chapter 28
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Sakura and Mio shout simultaneously.
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<I mean, isn’t there a chance that the village will be destroyed before we arrive?>>
<When I arrive, I won’t let those monsters step inside the village, at all.>>
I won’t let them set foot on even one rice paddy.
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Her way of talk is a little misleading, but her point is easy to comprehend.
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Yes, my motive went up due to Dora’s support.
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<But I won’t decide who will drive or who will fight.>>
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<We don’t have driver…>>
From what I see on
Well, I have to make sure, so I intend to let one of the villagers to drive it for an evacuation.
<Maria-san, I will leave Master in your care.>>
<Please leave it to me.>>
Maria is going to keep me company, as usual.
I mean, why is Maria worried? I have no memory of what is worrying Maria…
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<Well, just prepare for battle with the other companions.>>
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I cut telepathy contact.
I actually want to take everyone in order to earn more fighting experience, but it is hard to explain how could we take that many people in the carriage.
We have to go with just a few people this time because letting someone wait inside is troublesome since it is unpleasant, after all.
Besides, I can annihilate them quietly if I go alone.
After a twenty-minute carriage ride, we see another carriage in front of us.
It is probably a carriage that has escaped from the village.
[That carriage.
Please stop and listen!]
The man in driver’s seat shouts at us.
Although we are in hurry, it will be bad if we ignore them, so we have no choice but to stop.
Besides, he looks like a knight.
[Are you the rescue team that’s heading to the village in the path of the stampede?]
[Yeah, we are adventurers who have a carriage and so were asked to rescue the escaped villagers.]
[Wait! Does that mean the Adventurer’s Guild isn’t going to protect the village?]
That (temporary) knight was able to judge the situation instantly.
If they were going to protect the village, they would have to send more forces than this.
I heard a sorrowful cry from that carriage.
[Why! Why do those adventurers protect our village!?]
[A lot of people is still inside the village!]
I didn’t see them, but I can check them with
[The Adventurer’s Guild plans to make a defensive line between the village and Atarime Town.
They’re going to protect those who are able to escape.]
[I’m sorry.
This might sound cruel, but please pick up as many people from village as possible.]
[My intention is to reduce number of casualties.
In the worst case, only the driver would be left, and we’d return on foot.]
[That is really helpful.
Then again, you may return if it becomes too unreasonable.]
It is dangerous enough just to approach the village.
The people who are near the village are unlikely to escape in time.
That (temporary) knight also hints “as many as possible” to me, too.
[Sorry for stopping you.
Please don’t overdo it.]
[Yeah, you don’t need to hurry and make the horse completely exhausted.
The preparation from Guild will be finished soon.]
[Thanks for the advice.
However, this horse has to do its best for a while.
I will make another trip back after reaching defensive line.]
[I see… Then, let it drink this.]
I hand him several potions.
It is one and a half times more effective a high potion from Dora.
I have no problem with it because they can’t be sold, after all.
Since he is unusually honest, I have to help him a little.
[T-This is a high potion! Sorry, and thanks.
My name is Gilbert.
Let me thank you properly after this matter is over.]
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[Don’t worry.
This is just a whim of mine.]
After replying to Gilbert, that (temporary) knight, we left him and then head to the village with increasing speed.
That’s right.
We gave medication and used to strengthen our horse and make it works at its best.
Yep, we can strengthen the horse…
[Please! Could you head towards village again! There are still a lot of people remaining there!]
[All right.
I have to give priority to those people who walk slower and lag behind.]
Surprisingly, all the villagers we met didn’t tell us to take them and escape, at all.
The evacuation of this Japanese rice village has increased steadily.
We are heading to the village as we stated.
A cloud of dust is a way of telling how close the stampede is.
Well… Since there are a lot of monsters on the move, clouds of dust could be seen from a long distance.
I guess this stampede was detected by that method, too.
It should take about an hour hour for the monsters to leave forest and reach the village.
Making a round trip from the village to the town and back on horse takes about as long.
We are lucky because it was detected earlier.
And above all, we are here to deal with it, too…
From that cloud of dust, I think they are considerably closer the village than first thought.
It’ll be about ten minutes before they reach the village.
I discover the last of the villagers’ groups.
I say “last” because