The Otherworld Conquest Method of a Reincarnated Porter Chapter 46 Part 2
「Two young women are being attacked by three men. They don’t seem to have been raped yet. Now, what to do? Have you prepared yourselves to fight?」
「Yes, I’ll fight. But Marin, you wait here. I don’t want to let you kill people, after all.」
「What are you talking about, big brother? I’m an adventurer too, you know? There will be times when we’re faced with something like this, too, right? So I can’t afford to keep on running away.」
「B, but…」
「Alto. It’s just as Marin says. There might be times when Marin herself gets attacked, you know? If you want to live as an adventurer, you can’t treat her like a child forever. If you are worried about Marin, you can just carry yourself well and save her, right?」
「I, I get it. But, Marin. Don’t do anything reckless, okay?」
「Yeah, I know. Big brother.」
「Alright, I’ll tell you briefly. Three men are attacking two women. One of them is on the lookout, while the other two are trying to rape the women. There, I’ll take care of the lookout. Alto, Marin, I’ll leave the other two to you. I don’t care if you kill them or let them live. Just be sure to at least wound them enough that they can no longer fight, okay? Think of it that you need to at least cut off a limb or two. That’s all. Follow me.」
We draw our swords and head to the room, holding our breath. The two men just happen to be taking off their trousers. Just like when I killed Zuma. It can be said to be the perfect timing.
I weave the magical energy in my body and activate body enhancement. The man on the lookout is so preoccupied with the women that he is not doing his work as a lookout.
Instant Step! Holding my sword in the overhead stance, I close my distance with the opponent with all my might.
「Huh? Huh?」
The lookout man, who makes a silly voice, doesn’t even try to draw his sword in spite of me closing my distance with him. Paying no mind to it, I cut off the man’s left arm.
「Ugaaaaah, my arm, my arm, you bastard, what the heck….」
Let’s let him live for now. I try to cut off his right arm too, but it doesn’t turn out well. I kick him down and cut off his left leg.
「Gyaaaaah, who the heck are you?」
「Shut up. Next time you talk without permission, I’ll kill you.」
「Hii!」
Behind him, I can see Alto slashing at the man. Making it there one step behind, Marin is swinging her sword at the other man. Hindered by their trousers, which have pulled down, the two men seem unable to fight properly. I guess I can leave that side to them.
I deprive the man I have defeated of his weapon and bag of goods. There are lower-grade red and green potions as well as some coins.
Having lost his limbs, I wonder if my threat to kill him if he talks is effective. The man is docile and shows no sign of resistance.
「Alto, Marin, how’s it on your side?」
When I move toward them, I find that the two rapists have been stabbed repeatedly, and blood is splattered all over the area. Looking closely, I see that the wounds are numerous but not deep. Maybe the rapists have strong defense, or perhaps the two hesitated as they attacked them, probably both.
「Alto, Marin. First of all, retrieve their weapons. If they are adventurers, they probably have potions. Take their belongings, too.」
When I appraise the three, I see that their level ranges from 13 to 16. It is highly likely that Alto and Marin would not have been able to defeat them in a head-on fight. However, even now, they still have their trousers down, so all they can do is take one-sided attacks. Alto thrusts his sword into the two rapists you-know-where. Ugeeh, just looking at it makes my balls shrink in chills.
「Well then, Marin, I’ll leave the nursing of the girls to you. Alto, we’re going to tie their hands and feet with their shoelaces. Don’t let your guard down, okay? They might fight back.」
The rapists resist so violently that we don’t manage to tie them up. But they still have his pants half down and no weapon. After giving them a number of stabs with our swords, they finally quiet down. I guess I should buy some rope for just such an occasion. Besides, I can use the rope for a lot of things, after all.
It seems that the rape has ended as nothing but a failed attempt, so I guess we should talk to the women.
「Now then, if you’ve calmed down, can you tell us what happened?」
「Ugh, sob, yes. The four of us are childhood friends and are from the same village. Coming to Magt, we received our jobs and started as adventurers, but since we had no money and didn’t know how to fight monsters, we were at a loss… that was when these people called out to us, ugh, since they said they would become our mentors, we trusted them, and then, sob…」
「I see. Claiming to become their mentors, you approach rookie adventurers, lure them to the depth of the labyrinth, kill the men and rape the women, huh. That’s the very picture of scum. Hey, you guys. Do you have any excuses? How can you be so heartless?」
「Well, you know, driven by a sudden impulse….」
「T, that’s right. Originally, we didn’t mean to do this. I swear.」
「…..」
The man whose limbs I cut off seems to have lost even the will to speak. Now then, I wonder how I should settle this. As expected, I guess the best option would be to have these men turn into these girls’ experience points.
Having tidied up their clothes, the two women seem to have calmed down a little. They are shedding tears when they see their dead friends. Maybe they were lovers.
「I know you’ve just gone through an awful experience, but what are you going to do now? Do you have the resolve to live as adventurers? If you do, we will teach you how to fight and earn money. Alto and Marin here are the same age as you, so if you need any advice, feel free to ask them.」
「Uu, yes. We have nowhere else to go, so please take care of us.」
「Sob, me too.」
I take out two iron swords from my storage.
「Alright, use these swords and settle this matter with your own hands. Killing these guys will also allow you to raise your level, after all.」
The two women silently pick up the swords and approach the rapists. They grit their teeth and hold up the swords with both hands. They have looks of rage on their faces.
「Hii, wait a sec. I’m sorry, I’m really sorry, so….」
「I’ll pay you. Please, spare me.」
「…..」
Lending a deaf ear to the men’s pleas for their lives, the two women let out cries as they swing their swords down again and again. As the two seem not accustomed to wielding swords, the wounds are not fatal, but they must have lost too much blood. The rapists stop moving before long.
I appraise the two women again. Their levels seem to have risen.
Noma, Age 14, level 6
Job: Spearman
Skill: Spearmanship 1
Mamua, Age 14, Level 5
Job: Porter
Skill: Storage 1, Automatic recovery 1
A spearman and a porter, huh. If we put them together with Alto and Marin, they would make a fairly well-balanced party. Alto and Marin’s levels have also risen by one.
「Well then, let’s head for the exit of the labyrinth. Do you two have a place to go?」
「… No, we don’t. We don’t even have enough money to stay at a cheap hotel, so sleeping outdoors is the only….」
「Then come to our house. It’s a small room costing two large silver coins a month, but if it’s just to sleep in, we should be able to manage somehow. You don’t mind it either, right, Marin?」
「No, I don’t mind.」
What a hunk. Noma and Mamua’s faces light up. Not only has he saved their lives, he is even offering them a place to stay, so for their current selves, Alto must be just like a messiah.
But still, although Alto himself did it without any ulterior motives, he went and invited two girls of the same age to his room so casually. What an enviable guy. Well, his little sister Marin is also there, so I doubt anything will happen between them, though.
「I’ll give you the money we took from these guys. There’s about three large silver coins in total, which should be enough to cover your living expenses for the time being. I’m something like Alto and Marin’s mentor. What do you say about joining us from tomorrow onward, too? I think it’s not a bad idea if the four of you form a party together at some point.」
「Three large silver coins and even a mentor….」
「If that’s true, then by all means, I’d love to ask it of you, but….」
As expected, they have just gone through an awful experience with mentors, so I guess they don’t have it in them to trust me. However, I don’t think there are any other options available to these two.
「It’s okay. You can trust Sei-san. He is also our lifesaver, after all.」
「That’s right. Come with us. The more the merrier, after all.」
In the end, as the two agree to my proposal, we decide to explore the labyrinth together. Everyone must be tired, so let’s take a day off tomorrow, shall we?
「U, umm. About our friends’ corpses….」
「Ah, they’ll be absorbed into the labyrinth after a while. If you’re an adventurer who dies in the labyrinth, isn’t it fine to have such an end? Or if for some reason you want to mourn for them on the above ground, I don’t mind carrying them out there, but what are you going to do?」
「I see, that means they won’t just rot away like that, right? In that case, it’s fine. Since we’re pretty much people who came out of the countryside to reduce the mouths our families had to feed, we have neither a home to go back to nor a grave to mourn for.」
Noma and Mamua offer a brief silent prayer in front of the dead bodies. They seem to have come to terms and gotten over the death of their friends and are no longer shedding tears.
After that, while doing things like self-introduction, we spend about an hour returning to the above ground. Let’s leave the follow up to Alto and Marin.
「You must be tired today. Let’s stop exploring tomorrow and work on our skills, shall we? We’ll take the morning off and meet at the south gate at 1:00 PM. Is that alright with you? Alto will work on swordsmanship, Noma on spearmanship. For Marin, it’s magic and body strengthening. As for Mamua, let’s try to train in each and every one of them. We don’t know what kind of aptitude you have, after all.」
「「「Yes.」」」
「Yeah, I won’t lose to anyone in swordsmanship.」
I part ways with the four of them and head for the inn. It was a disastrous day for Noma and Mamua, but we managed to complete Alto’s party. Let’s train hard and challenge the stratum lord, shall we?
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