𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟖: 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧

The distance from Gaillia to Galangran is usually about seven days.

The towns along the way are well-equipped, making the journey relatively easy.

However, a part of the highway collapsed due to heavy rain nearly three months ago, and it has not yet been fully restored.

Therefore, we have to take a slight detour.

The problem is this detour.

It’s not a main road, so it’s not well-maintained, and there are no inns.

“In other words, we’ll be camping out tomorrow and the day after. Please make sure to keep the fire going and be ready for any emergencies.”

At my words, showing them the map, Asuka, Miliaria, and Meisha nodded seriously.

Camping is something adventurers are used to, but that doesn’t mean they want to do it actively.

If they can stay in a room with a roof, that’s the best.

So, the problem is the people other than these three.

The men are grinning, and Anita is looking down.

In other words, they seem to be planning to attack us during the camping on the detour without any inns, probably on the second day of camping.

They’re aiming for the moment when our concentration breaks.

Observing their behavior so far, it’s clear that they’re very experienced. They’re very kind and try to lower our guard, and their conversation skills are so good that the three girls are always laughing during meals.

Meisha and Miliaria are pretending to be deceived, but Asuka is completely open to them.

They’ve probably been committing similar crimes over the past one or two months.

Female adventurers have their pride, so they can’t report that they were r*ped by a merchant.

The punchline is that they’re laughed at for not being able to fight back, or for being weak.

That’s the world of adventurers.

Living by their skills, being weak is synonymous with being uncool.

If they’re drugged with paralyzing poison in their food, there’s no chance of resistance or retaliation.

I give Meisha a quick glance.

The next two or three days will be crucial, I signal.

A brilliant smile comes back.

If anyone is targeted first, it would be her. She has golden hair, blue eyes, a stunning beauty, and a voluptuous body.

On the other hand, Miliaria might not be appetizing unless you have a rather special sexual preference.

She’s very cute, though.

But she’s a bit weak in terms of sex appeal.

Asuka, as a sixteen-year-old girl, has an average figure, so she might be an easy target.

The fact that she trusts the merchants completely is also a problem.

Either way, the next few days will be crucial.

So, it’s the first day of camping.

“I didn’t expect them to move so quickly.”

Looking down at the men wrapped in ropes, I scratched my head.

I had prepared a foolproof plan with traps everywhere, but I didn’t get a chance to use it at all.

They had Anita cook for us, declaring with an unnecessarily refreshing smile that they would prepare dinner tonight, and attacked us thinking we were paralyzed.

Well, they had Anita put paralyzing poison in the food.

But of course, she was on our side.

We easily tied up the seven men who were deceived into thinking we were paralyzed and attacked us, and the case was solved. I apologize for the anticlimactic ending.

People who think about deceiving others don’t think they can be deceived.

“It’s the same with con artists. Do they think they’re the only ones who can deceive others?”

I crouched down and poked the leader’s head with the sheath of my sword.

“Don’t think you can get away with it just because you’re adventurers attacking merchants.”

He glares at me.

Even though he’s in a state like a caterpillar.

He’s got a lot of energy.

“We don’t think we’ll get away with it. We adventurers always take revenge. No matter how many years or decades it takes. If the person is dead, we’ll take it out on their descendants. We never forget our grudges, and we pass them down from generation to generation in our clans.”

I sang to him.

The unwritten rule of adventurers.

The reputation that revenge doesn’t produce anything but we always take revenge, guarantees the safety of adventurers to some extent.

“Don’t think that the female adventurers you guys have messed with will just keep quiet and cry themselves to sleep.”

Now that we know these guys are habitual offenders, the women who have kept silent thinking it was their own shame won’t stay quiet.

And if this becomes public, even the adventurer’s guild will have to take action.

After all, an adventurer affiliated with them has been victimized.

“And! I won’t forgive what you did to Anita either!”

The one standing with her hands on her hips is Asuka.

She was informed of the situation tonight, when it came time to pretend to be paralyzed. Perhaps due to a sense of alienation, she showed remarkable prowess when it came to capturing the men.

There’s no way a capable swordsman would lose to a weak merchant, and she alone caught four of them.

The other three were caught by me, Miliaria, and Meisha.

Well, it’s a story about men who can’t even beat a wizard or a monk. They’re the kind of guys who can only attack paralyzed women.

“You guys did terrible things to women in the same profession, I hope your master forgives you.”

I laugh lightly.

In contrast, the men’s faces, which had been getting worse, didn’t look much different from those of the dead.

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