Chapter 477: First, With the Older Brothers in Front of the House

I thought Captain Alun would go ahead and advance, but he tells me to go first. Thinking whatever happens happens, I walk briskly, and the three older brothers who were chatting in front of the house stand up, stand in front of me, and block the road.

The older brothers, whether they’re happy to get involved with me, or thinking that a just-right mark has come while they have time to spare, stick to me tenaciously.

"What’s wrong, boy? I don’t have any business with a kid like you. If you don’t want to have a scary experience, go home quickly. Your mom is waiting, hahaha."

"No mistake, ahahaha."

For some reason it’s a hit. I think Captain Alun is visible behind, but it seems unrelated to the older brothers.

"What the hell did you come to do, young master?"

I’m completely being looked down on. But, drawing a sword and cutting in this situation, isn’t that something a decent human doesn’t do? I suddenly thought. Attacking an empty-handed opponent with a slash, no matter what, as a person how is that? I thought, and decided to provoke from this side, have them attack first, and there counterattack fair and square. That’s the royal road of light novels, right?

"I came to return last night’s debt."

"Haa?"

"Eh, now that you say it, this guy is last night’s one, kyahahaha!"

"That’s right, the one who ran! Isn’t that the coward! Ahahaha!"

"What, show us how you’ll return the debt!"

It was a huge hit. I’m being provoked more and more. I think I’m enduring well even myself. The spit being showered on me is disgusting beyond words!

Here first I stop drawing the sword and punch. Deliberately a weak punch that anyone could dodge. A punch unleashed by a delicate beautiful boy. A punch as expected from the appearance.

With a pechi! sound, my fist was grabbed by the older brother.

"Ahahaha! He says he’ll return the debt with this!"

"Kyahahaha!"

It’s extremely a hit. I punch toward the bone of the arm grabbing my fist. This time at a speed that can’t be captured by the eye.

Guki!

A good sound was made.

"Gya!? It hurts——!"

Suddenly, the older brother presses his wrist and rolls. This is not a simulation.

"You, what are you doing?"

Ignoring the older brothers who rush to the hurting older brother, I head toward the door of the house,

"What the hell are you! Stop! What are you doing as you please!"

An older brother grabs my shoulder. I grab that wrist and throw him over my shoulder. He falls on the cobblestones making a good sound.

Gatsu!!

He falls properly from the back, and this also makes a good sound.

The remaining older brother loses his temper as planned.

"This guy! Don’t look down on me!"

He shouts and comes grabbing, so I dodge that and hook his leg, and as planned he rolled on the ground.

"Damn! Looking down on me!"

He finally draws a sword from behind his body. But is it okay to cut and kill a guy with such a feeble skill? I end up showing a Buddha’s heart. If it was a timing where I was cornered with this, I would cut without thinking.

With that I hit with the pommel of the sword.

"Gu!?"

He fell. Strange, even though we were supposed to annihilate. These older brothers are, for better or worse, protecting the front entrance, right? Is it okay for them to be this weak? If these are said to be the strong side, I feel sorry for the boss of this house. If not that, I end up pitying the bad eyes of a boss who can only hire something like this.

"What are you doing!!"

Scary-looking older brothers come out from inside the house opening the door. Holding swords in their hands, they aren’t. These guys have no sense of crisis! Having no choice, I hit the ones who come out one after another with the pommel. The older brother punks roll at my feet.

I turn around and look at Captain Alun,

"Why do these guys come out without properly holding weapons?"

I let slip, and,

"That is because Marie-sama is a child and doesn’t look strong, right? No matter how you look, I think one fist is enough."

He gave a convincing answer.

"At this rate, I’ll end up knocking all these guys out and it’ll be over. Is that okay?"

"Normally it is that kind of thing."

I also receive a convincing answer for this. In other words, when I said annihilation at the time of the meeting, weren’t the ones who attended all laughing in their stomachs?

"Besides, guys like these don’t seriously fight on a daily basis."

"Haa? Then what do they do at the time of conflict?"

"Dead people don’t come out. If dead people come out, they buy resentment and it becomes a serious matter. It becomes fighting to the end staking the survival of the organization. Well, there are also cases of dying unintentionally though."

"Negligent homicide?"

"What is that. Anyway, punks also have families."

He says something quite demoralizing. Even while we are talking, there are guys who attack. I casually hit them with the pommel. I think the time has come to understand that bare hands won’t be enough soon.

I enter the house. As expected because they’re making money, the inside of the house is bright! The moment I entered, a slash came from the right side. It’s already the standard slash attack. Because I anticipated it I easily dodge. That punk lost the target of me, so he staggered and came out in front of Captain Alun. Captain Alun punches him flying with a fist. That guy flew and hit the wall and fell. What to do, it seems like it’ll end without killing anyone, no, is that normally good?

After that I also enter further and further inside, but no particularly strong guys came out. In the dead-end room in the back were the boss and Nguyen, but both were trembling. When I look with "Appraisal," the boss didn’t have an Empire branch attached. Was this not an inn for Empire spies? I put both of them under rope without cutting them together. Looking at Nguyen, I end up sympathizing with Department Head Garcia who was using a guy like this as a pawn. A guy like this as a spy doesn’t seem very useful at all. But if it’s a rural town like this, maybe something like this is fine.

Even though the Empire spy nest in the Royal Capital was amazing, when it becomes the countryside it becomes like this? It became a night where a slightly lonely feeling and a pure feeling that I didn’t kill people today intersect.

After that, I thought we would go to that three sisters’ place again, but Dee and Bill are not in a state for that. They say they will raise targets from the list of spies that Department Head Garcia vomited and send them to the Royal Capital. For the time being they will cross-check with Dee’s "Appraisal," and it is thorough.