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The Otherworld Conquest Method of a Reincarnated Porter Chapter 154 Part 2

Phew, it’s over. However, I can’t afford to take my sweet time. A trip is not over until you get home, after all. I put all the bags of gold coins stored in the safe into my storage. I don’t know how much there is, but at any rate, for now, I need to hurry.

「Hmm, this is… Ooh?!」

When I look into a small bag placed at the back of the safe, I find potions inside. High-grade red and green potions. There are also many mid-grade ones. And then, gold… nah, yellow potions that heal abnormal conditions. There are no gold potions, but I got my hands on high-grade red potions that can even repair missing body parts, which is godsend.

This Bartalis guy, even though he had this much money, he didn’t have any gold potions. As expected, gold potions are monopolized by a few high-ranking nobles, and it may be impossible to get one no matter how much money you have.

I put the bag into my storage and search through Bartalis’ corpse. I find a bunch of keys and, probably for emergency use, mid-grade red and green potions. And also a ring of poor taste. It has a centipede design, so it might have been from the labyrinth. Sure enough, I can’t appraise it, so it’s without a doubt a magic tool. And then, the necklace with the design of a golem, or a stone puppet in this world, and the bracelet with the design of a sickle weasel also seem to be magical tools. Let’s take them.

「Now then, I guess it’s time to go home, but first…」

I take out the corpses of the yakuzas that I’ve put into my storage, leave them in the safe, and lock it up. When the knights barge into this place, they’ll probably make all sorts of guesses on their own.

And then, the door to another room that hasn’t been opened yet. What should I do? There might still be treasure in there. I can’t take my sweet time, but I don’t think his subordinates will barge into their boss’s secret room, so I decide to take a look there.

The door isn’t as sturdy as the one to the safe, and it opens with just a single key. I open it slowly… ugh, it stinks. The smell of excrement wafts through the air. Not good, I have a bad feeling about this. However, I can’t go back at this point.

「Ah, damn it, so that’s the case.」

In the room beyond the opened door, there is a bed in the center, and a woman chained to it.

Her face has been beaten badly, and it seems that she has been forced to defecate on the bed. She’s in a miserable state, but is she still alive?

「Hey, are you okay…」

Green hair and long ears. She must be the elf that guy talked about earlier. Damn it.

「I want to go home… go home… mommy’s stew…」

「Hey.」

「…..」

No good. When I appraise her, she dies. I want to at least remove the chains, but I can’t. They are sturdy chains made of black iron.

What to do, should I bury her somewhere? Nah, it’d probably be better to leave it to the Knight order. I heard that there are no diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of Estorias and the Elven nation, but I don’t know the actual situation. It would be troublesome if it became an international issue. I feel sorry for her, but I’m going to leave it here.

And then, damn it, there’s yet another door further in. I want to go home right this instant, but that won’t do. I don’t intend to pretend to be a hero of justice, but if there’s a life I can save, I want to save it. That’s because it’s unclear when the Knights will raid this place.

「Phew, thank goodness.」

I cautiously go to the next room, but there’s no one there. There is a row of stuff that looks like nothing but torture devices, which makes me feel sick. And then, a door further inside. When I open it nervously, I find a beastfolk girl with both wrists tied with rope in there. She seems to be safe.

I can’t help but let out a relieved sigh. That’s because she’s unharmed, and although they’re yakuza, I’ve killed a lot of people. I wanted some reason to justify myself. Yes, by saving her life, I want to convince myself that it’s a good thing that I staged this murder and robbery drama, even if only a little.

「Hey, are you okay? I’ve come to save you.」

「…..」

With tears welling up in her eyes, the beastfolk girl trembles and appears to be unable to speak from fear. She trembles like crazy and ends up wetting herself. When I appraise her, I find that she is only eight years old. What a hobby that Bartalis bastard has.

「I’ve come to save you. Are you with me? I’m going to remove the rope, okay?」

「…..」

As the girl’s body stiffens and trembles with fear, I cut the rope with a kunai. With this, we’re good to go.

「Hey, can you walk? Where’s your house?」

「…..」

It seems that not only has she become weak in the knees from fear, she can’t speak either. She flaps her mouth open and closed, but no sound comes out. It can’t be helped, I guess I’ll carry her on my back. I clean the areas that got wet with water magic, and then dry it with evaporate.

「I’ll take you home. Your mother must be waiting for you.」

「…..」

The beastfolk girl nods her head, and when I show her my back, she doesn’t resist and gets onto my back. Now then, the trip isn’t over until you get home. With this girl on my back, would that be possible?

It may be a blessing in disguise that this girl can’t make a sound. In her current state, I don’t think she’ll let out a loud cry.

We leave the room and head to the first room, the conference room.

「Hey, there are a lot of corpses in this room. Close your eyes.」

「…..」

As usual, there’s no reply. I can’t afford to pay her much attention.

Opening the door, we pass through the room that is in a splatter state with the corpses of the executives. On the way, the girl clings tightly to my back. Good graciousness, even though I told her not to look. Well, I guess when someone tells you not to look, it makes you want to take a look instead.

I slowly open the iron door and look around the hallway for any signs of people. I concentrate on my presence detection skill, but it seems there is no one there. Great, judging from this situation, it seems that the disastrous scene on the third floor has not been found out yet. That’s right, I need to leave the bunch of keys behind so that the knight order will be able to easily open the iron door when they raid this place. I casually toss the bunch of keys aside and go down the stairs. Not good, there’s a presence downstairs. What to do?

「Damn it, who am I, Raskolnikov?」

After the murder and robbery, we go down the stairs.

What to do? No, I ought to act in a confident manner here. The people on the second floor don’t know what happened on the third floor. It’s better not to be afraid.

We go down the stairs and go to the second floor. I can hear voices of people talking in the guard room, but there is no sign of panic. As I head towards the stairs to the first floor, the door to the guard room suddenly opens. Crap.

「Ah, hello.」

It seems to be a new recruit. Probably mistaking me for someone of a higher position, the man greets me humbly.

「Yeah.」

I greet him arrogantly and walk confidently towards the ground level. Everything is going to be okay, right? Will he find it curious as to why I’m carrying a little girl on my back? No, well, whatever. Let’s go home at once.

I walk down the stairs towards the ground level while erasing my presence. I can sense the presence of a number of people around the outer stairs. What to do, I can’t afford to waste time. I go down to the ground level in one go.

「Hey, do you know where the guards went?」

I thought my heart would stop when one of them suddenly called out to me. These guys, including the yakuza who asks me such a question, have no faintest idea what is going on. I can make any excuse I want.

「Yeah, they went somewhere with one of the executives.」

「Huh? What do you mean? Besides, who are you? And what’s with that girl?」

「Ah, this girl is, you get it, right? Well, she’s the boss’ woman. As for me, I’m someone engaging in that the kind of business.」

「I, I see.」

He doesn’t pursue the matter that persistently. I wonder if Bartalis’s sexual preferences are well known. At any rate, carrying the girl on my back, I manage to disappear into the darkness of the night.

「I guess we’re good here. So, which direction do we head in from here?」

Asking the girl, who is unable to speak, to point in the right direction with her finger, I decide to take her home. And then, it seems we have finally arrived. A corner of a rundown tenement house in the slum. After I let the girl down, she heads to the house at incredible speed, and as I’m wondering how she will get in, she climbs along the wall to the roof and goes into the house through a gap in the window.

With this, we’re done here. Just as I’m about to go home, the voice of a woman, who’s probably her mother, echoes through the air.

「Child! You had me worried there. Where have you been wandering around until so late at night?!」

As she says this, *smack* I hear the sound of someone getting slapped on the cheek. Ah, mother, she’s been through awful experiences up until now…

「Uwaaaaaah, it was so scary── Mom ──」

Oh, it seems that the shock earlier, or rather, going home and seeing her family has freed her from the stress and allowed her to speak. As for the punishment, well, I guess that’s just what home-education of beastfolks in the slum is like. At least, she isn’t beaten with a stick, so it’s still on the better side. I saved her life, so there is nothing more I can do for her. I erase my presence and run towards Michelle’s house.

「Sei-san, thank goodness.」

「Michelle, you’re awake?」

When I get home, Michelle is awake. She looks very haggard, and I want to reassure her, but I don’t know how much I should tell her.

「Yes, somehow, I just couldn’t sleep. Sei-san, where have you been…」

「Ah, well, about that…」

「Sei-san.」

「Yeah, I went to settle the things with Cody. My apologies, I don’t think doing something like this will earn me forgiveness for getting Cody killed, but….」

「Sei-san, please don’t blame yourself. Not only have you truly taken good care of us, Cody lived his life to the fullest. No matter how hard you try to live, there’s no guarantee that it will always end well. After meeting you, both Cody and I had a very fun life, so…」

「Michelle…」

She must have recalled Cordis again, Michelle shows a sad look on her face, so I hug and comfort her as morning comes.