-- Eric''s side --


    Now what do we do with this thing...


    I attacked the assassin-looking man from behind, knocked him into a coma, and made him unable to move with his arms extremely close to the ground.


    ''''~~!


    Don''t move and I''ll break you if you move an inch.


    I can''t see her face because of her cloak, but she looks like a man in terms of her build.


    No matter how you look at it, it''s not Elena-san.


    The assassination was also a primitive bow attack, as if he knew that magic and the like would be distracting.


    Even if the bow was small enough to fit in your pocket and hit something other than your head or heart, it wouldn''t kill you.


    That might mean that this man has the skill to aim at a person''s heart or head even from a few hundred meters away.


    But, well, it doesn''t matter if he didn''t let me shoot him.


    For now, I''ll tie his hands behind his back and tie his feet too.


    I''ll use a gag to prevent him from making a sound.


    This guy was the only assassin who went out to the place I was guarding, but what about the rest of the place?


    This was the only place where I felt something like a kill, though, so I''m probably okay with it.


    I dragged this assassin to drag this assassin and bring this guy to the meeting place.


    When I got there, they were all already there.


    "Good job, Eric. Is that the guy you were after in that moment?


    ''Yeah, yeah. Was everything okay with Tina?


    ''Yeah, it was fine. Everyone else seemed to be OK, too.


    Yulina-san and Nina nodded at Tina''s words.


    We were on a mission to protect His Majesty Leo and Christo in the shadows when they came to this city, based on the information we got when we came to this city.


    It seems that the information was solid and we were able to capture the assassin.


    Now, all we have to do now is interrogate this guy..........who will do it.


    Tina and Yulina-san won''t be able to do it.


    I don''t think they''ve ever done that before, and I don''t want to put them both through that.


    Nina is from an underground town, so there''s a good chance she can do it, even though she may not have done it before.


    But still, she''s a woman, so she wouldn''t want to do it.


    So I''m the only option.


    Well, I''ve done it a few times in my past life, and that''s fine.


    Anyway, let''s go a little deeper.


    It''s still close to the main street of the city, so if we start interrogating here, our voices will be heard outside.


    I don''t have much of a desire to go there, but I need to get to the nearest underground mall.


    The guy I''m capturing is starting to get better, and he''s starting to ramp up, moaning and moaning.


    To silence him, I slam my sword into his throat.


    Just enough to make him suffer for a moment, unable to breathe for a moment without breaking a bone.


    ''''Gah........!


    Be quiet. I don''t have to kill you.


    .....


    I whisper in that guy''s ear and threaten him so that the other three can''t hear me.


    I''ll hold my sword to his throat as I did earlier, releasing the killing intent.


    It''s important to tell them that I mean it when I threaten them in this kind of situation.


    -- You tried to kill my best friend, you''re ready to die, right?


    This feeling I have is not threatening or anything.


    I recently learned of the path that leads to the underground mall, so I go in there, trying to avoid being seen by others.


    I guess it''s more accurate to say that I was taught rather than learned.


    Even though it''s an underground town, it''s still shallow, not the deepest part.


    The place where Nina and Elena-san were born and raised seems to have been close to the deepest part.


    It''s shallow here, and the sun barely reaches it.


    The place we''re heading to is like a hole in the ground, and it''s said to be where one person bunked.


    It''s a single-story place, and after knocking on the door, which is about to come loose, we enter.


    It is a woman living alone, but the door is not locked at all.


    The woman said that even if she did, the door would be broken down and she could repel the intruder without any damage.


    The woman has already greeted us with a smile, as if she remembered a knock on the door she had come to several times before.


    ''Welcome, Eric-kun. Shall we fight again today?


    Get out of my way, Helu. I''ll see you later.


    It was Helu, a female fist fighter I had met at a previous party.


    After the event, I still couldn''t escape from Heru, so I had to fight her.


    I tried to refuse to fight him because there was no place to fight, but he forced me to come here.


    As expected, I couldn''t fight in earnest, so I fought with a wooden sword, and I won the result.


    I asked to be allowed to use this place because I was told that if I won, I would do whatever they said.


    This is the territory that Helu won by driving out the other guys, so no one will come here unless someone new comes to challenge him.


    And since Helu is so strong, new challengers don''t often show up either.


    There have been no challengers at all lately, so Helu apparently took part in that event in his spare time.


    Instead of using this place, they are supposed to fight every time.


    ''''Helu, would you like to fight me this time?　I haven''t had much combat training since I''ve been here, my body''s been slowing down.


    ''It''s okay, Yulina-chan. You''re a strong girl, too, Yulina.


    It looks like Yulina is going to fight for me this time.


    Thank goodness, because I have things to do now.


    ''Tina, you can be the judge of the two fights. If those two get serious about fighting, the damage around them will be too much.


    Yeah, okay.


    They left the flat to fight, and Tina followed them.


    ''Eric, I''ll go along. I''m used to this kind of thing.


    Okay, thank you.


    Nina said this with a prepared look in her eyes, even though it was a little dark, as if she remembered something from when she was little.


    As I thanked her, I lifted the man by the neck in my right hand and threw him against the wall.


    It looks like I hit my back hard and my breath seems to have escaped from my gagged mouth.


    ''Well, I''m going to start interrogating you now but the sooner you answer what I asked you, the less pain you''ll feel. Think carefully before you speak.


    The man who targeted my best friend looked up at me with frightened eyes, but I looked down at him with no particular emotion.