Chapter 95

MILE CHAPTER 95: GOOD EVENING FROM THE DARKNESS

「… Let’s go」(Mile)

「Oh!」(Rena + Pauline + Maevis)

In the darkness, the「Red Oath」start moving out .

Their aim is infiltrate the tent where prisoner is .

Mile have sufficiently accustomed her eyes to the darkness, but many of the beastkin have night vision as well as their good hearing and smell abilities .

Can we hide without cardboard for camouflage . (T . N: Metal Gear Solid refer)

But we can’t afford to do that . So we have to do our best with what we have .

Three girls nervously think so .

… Yes,「three girls」are nervous .

The other one is …

(Actually from when we begin to chase those beastkins, I already cast barrier to block all particles of smell and air vibrations so that they won’t leak . They will not notice us, unless we are standing right before their eyes…) (Mile’s inner thought)

Mile isn’t nervous at all .

「The suspicious one is the hut in front of us .

There are more people compared to other huts .

Besides, the reaction seems to be more human than other beastkins …」(Mile)

Actually I can understand more in detail, but it’s too much to explain if I say that .

This would be sufficient .

「Let’s go…」(Rena)

Rena nods to Mile and gives signal . Everyone nods and going smoothly between the trees .

「… Get down!」(Maevis)

Maevis instructed with gesture in a small voice and lies down .

If they don’t get down, the beastkin who patrol nearby may see them .

Because they were a bit late to lie down Maevis thought that they were spotted for but, but the beastman didn’t notice anything .

And when she is looking at the back of that beastkin, there’s something like wings …

「Bird race Beastkin …」(Maevis)

「Oh, bird!」(Rena)

Rena sighs a relief with Maevis’s word .

「Bird-san patrols around at night …」(Mile)

Mile isn’t convinced but she doesn’t complain .

Anyway, the security is weak . The girls are thankful for that .

Well, with beastkin line of thought .

It’s un-think-able for ordinary human to move in the forest at night . Let alone infiltrate the camp of beastkins that are superior in vision, smell and hearing . It’s impossible to find this place before the sun went down .

And the female hunter party that fought with them already run away . They would run straight to the human village at the outer edge of the forest …

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The 「Red Oath」finally reached the targeted hut .

Like the other four, this hut was poorly made that it’s impossible to think that it was built with「an attempt to build a camp」 .

It seems like they simply cut the obstructing tree that was growing in the place where they were excavating and made them with whatever they got .

That’s why there was a little gap between the wall part and the roof of the hut .

No, maybe they did it on purpose to『get lighting and air』

Anyway, that gap was a very convenient for Mile to look inside the hut and use magic .

Mile crawled up the wall, peeked inside through the gap . After confirming the situation inside she casts magic .

「… Sleeping medicine fog, wrapping those beastkin…」(Mile)

And the two guard beastkin fell asleep on the spot .

Mile did not realize, but it’s only her who can get an outstanding effect with such appropriate spell .

For other people,『It will not have effect unless they can send their thought wave with exactly imaging in their head』

But Mile has an authority level of 5 for nanomachines . Even if it’s not a thought wave but an 『 instruction 』, it would still be effective .

Therefore, nano-machines will work just by saying appropriate things lightly .

In any case, Mile’s instructions are 『Orders』for nano-machines .

What Mile doing is simply 「I’m speaking what I thought」…

The entrance of this hut is facing the other hut so the girls can’t simply walk in .

They can’t afford to risk, so everyone, following after Mile, climbed the wall and get into the hut through the gap .

「… U~u!」(Pauline)

Even though they heard Pauline’s groan, Rena and Mile neglected it with expressionless face .

Perhaps a certain part of her body got stuck because they are too big . A certain part in her body …

Despite being able to get into the room smoothly, Rena and Mile feel very unpleasant .

「…Who?」(???)

To save oil and candle, the beastkins use firewood indoors . When hearing the woman voice, Mile looks at the corner of the hut that was slightly illuminated by the flame .

That corner was divided like a prison with a solid wooden grid . There are a dozen people captured in it .

「Dorobo… (どろぼ…) No, we are hunters who received the search request」(Mile)

「Why are young girls like you receiving such un-reason-able requests …?」(Hunter)

Middle-aged hunter-like man who heard Mile’s reply muttered so because he can’t retort with loud voice .

Others are staring at the guard beastkin that won’t wake up with a strange face because it’s unreasonable .

There’s no magic that can manipulate drug system in this world .

There were 18 people captured in the hut . 16 males and 2 females . One of them looks as young as Red Oath girls .

The survey team in request have six escort hunters, two scholars, one guild staff .

Well, the men around 40 years old doesn’t feel like a scholar at all .

There’s only one man about twenty years old and a young woman with good appearance, which seem like someone who grew up in good environment .

They must be the scholar and his assistant .

They are not wearing any armor but clothes easy to move .

Lastly, a lively girl in her mid-teens .

Although she’s wearing leather clothes, it focuses on mobility more than protection .

Perhaps this girl is the daughter of the guild master .

Others seem to be escort hunters and ordinary hunters who happen to be caught . They seem like a male-only party that don’t include women when receiving a dangerous request .

「… How much time did we have?」(Rena)

「Well, it’s okay, they replaced watchmen just now, probably no one will come until dawn」(Lady)

The assistant lady answers Rena’s question immediately . As expected of the assistant of a scholar, she works fast .

「I need to ask just in case, are you the guild’s investigator party ?」(Mile)

Mile needs to confirm .

If the answer is 「No, everyone is just ordinary hunters」 . It will be a big problem for 「Red oath」 .

「Ah, yes, there are six escorts, a scholars, an assistant and the daughter of a guild master . 9 people, fortunately we’re all safe .

After that, there are 2 hunter parties got caught, 9 people more, and totally 18 people got caught here」(Lady)

After hearing the lady reported that everyone in the investigation team was safe, 「Red oath」girls felt relieve .

To be honest, the girls are worrying that the probability of survival is really low . Now they can finish their request without having a bad feeling .

Ecological environment was out of order, prey decreased, If they meet hungry monsters and get attacked, it was not amusing at all .

We can say that they were fortunate to be captured by the beastkins .

In fact, the number of missing parties isn’t only two . So they are either killed while resisting the beastkins or were attacked by strong monsters .

「Well, we’ll escape for the time being, as for the story, we will listen slowly after getting away」(Rena)

「roger that!」(Mile + Rena + Pauline)

Everyone in the 「Red Oath」instantly responds to Rena’s instructions, but the captive hunters are like…

「You say to run away …

But the other party is the beastkins .

Their vision, nose, hearing are good .

They also have stronger physical strength, faster movement than us .

I do not think we can run away .

However, if only you that they still don’t know about, they won’t give chase .

Please, tell this information to the guild and the lord! And we have large scale force…」(Hunter)

「I refuse」(Rena)

「Huh?」(Hunter)

The leader of the escort party have a dumb face when Rena cuts off his request halfway .

「If we can’t take you home with us, the amount of reward will go down!」(Rena)

Yeah yeah, next to Rena, Pauline also nods .