BXBX NOVEL Chapter 12 Secret Maneuvers
Now then, as I have come back from school and finished various tasks, I can now log in to the game. A few days have passed since then, and I wanted to continue playing it as it was unbearable to withstand the urge for a couple of days.
Rena: 「Good morning, I will go out for a bit.」
Inn Owner: 「Y-yes…」
I greeted the inn owner but, she only looked at me and become frightened. Though, she gave a reply more or less…
You see, I was refused once when I tried to stay here on the first day. Hence I only removed her two fingers but, seems like she’s completely scared of me now…
This is my task from now on, yes?
Now then, by the time I get out of the inn I need to activate my stealth skill in full power as I’m more or less a person who is on the wanted list.
I would like to take a stroll around the town for today as this is for the purpose of securing an escape route if things happened and also for 『playing』 as well.
Looking back at the town once again, it looks to be an Eastern Europe-like town from the early modern times. Would it be better if I imagine it as someplace like Warsaw or Bucharest? The lord’s manor looks like a Russian-type one as far as I could see but, for what reason?
I walked while looking at the exotic townscape.
I also have my followers to be on guard while my stealth skill is fully activated.
According to my observation, the town has no liveliness like the first day and the residents are looking gloomy. And above all, the guards are in a more awful looking…
It’s still regarded as normal to see two guards in a group patrolling the town but, seems like they must be in a four-people group now. In addition to that, the frequency of patrolling is higher than beforeーーーThere’s no doubt that this is my fault.
I’m planning to go to the back alley to avoid the people’s eyes.
I had given up on the first day, but as expected, it’s better to remember the directions and record them on the map. There’s no harm on doing that at least.
After entering the back alley, there’s no dazzling feeling on the surface and the atmosphere is completely outlawish, which is very exciting, yes!
When I was walking and looking around restlesslyーーー
Outlaw A: 「Oooh, missy, are you lost?」
Outlaw B: 「Do you want us uncles giving you the directions?」
Outlaw C: 「We’re nice people~!」
――――I got entangled with a group of three hoodlums; fatty, giant, and chibi. This is awful. The atmosphere from the back alley had enlivened me and made me neglect my stealth and presence detection. I have reflected…
Fatty: 「Hey, say something.」
Giant: 「Is she scared?」
Chibi: 「Are you scared of us uncles?ーーー」
Well, as the timing’s just right, I will change today’s schedule.
I decapitated the fatty and cut the legs of the remaining two so that they cannot escape from me.
Giant & Chibi: 「「Ah?」」
I then stepped on the Chibi-san’s head and grabbed Giant-san’s jaw and slammed it against the wall.
Giant: 「GYAAAAAAAAA!」
Now that he can understand his situation, he immediately cried out in pain. Chibi-san’s head is being trampled down currently, hence he’s struggling to hear what the other is saying.
Rena: 「You’re a little noisy.」
With an idiotic *Gakya* sound, I dislocated Giant-san’s jaw and returned it back again along side a *Gakon* sound.
Giant: 「~~~~~~~!!」
I start my interrogation after it has become a little quiet.
Rena: 「I have something to ask of you.」
Giant: 「I-I understand! I will do anything! So please help me!」
Rena: 「That’s wonderful, now then, did anything change recently around here?」
Giant: 「………A-A few days ago, it seems that a big incident had occurred, and the unemployed people overflowed to the ghetto and the security turned bad everywhere!」
Rena: 「I see.」
It seems like due to the influence of my act, the First Town was flooded with unemployed people and the security had gotten worse not only on the surface but also on the underground society.
Rena: 「Is there anything else?」
Giant: 「…The rising organization, Yagan Family has begun to expand their power by gathering outsiders and starting to force an expansion to the Moonlight Family, who are controlling the area here, and it seems like they are out in retaliation, hence the conflict between them is rising.」
I see, the underground society also has its own serious problem, yes~? Well, that doesn’t matter for me.
Rena: 「Now then, my final request. Please take me to this Moonlight Family.」
Giant: 「…!! Wait! I can’t do that! I will be killed if I guide someone like you!」
Rena: 「…I see, that’s a shame.」
I don’t need this thing anymore as it doesn’t seem to want to guide me there. I grabbed its jaw, fixed it and continuously poured oil into its mouth.
Giant: 「~~!!! Gabhh!?!」
I let it eat the torch and set it on fire, it has turned into a perfect human bonfire, yes! It also has a high artistic point as the fire is also burning from the eyes. As expected of Giant-san.
Rena: 「Well, Chibi-san, would you prefer to be killed here or later?」
I say so while putting my feet away from his head.
Chibi: 「I-I UNDEESTHAND!! I WEILL GUIYDE YOU SO PWEASE~~」
Uwaah, being in tears while having a runny nose, that’s dirty. I rubbed my shoe on the ground and wiped it away.
As promised, I hooked Chibi-san’s nape to a pole and moved him as it is.
Rena: 「Which way is it?」
Chibi: 「DAT WHEY!」
Could you stop with your crying? You can’t guide the way if you can’t see. Though I can’t slaughter him right now, would it be okay to cut off only his nose?
Junior: 「Aniki! It’s the lot from Yagan Family again! This time, it’s magic drugs!」
Aniki: 「Again!? How many times has it been now!?」
Fuck! Just my luck! I got a report from my subordinate in a tavern where I’m drinking right now which is a cover for our hideout.
Although I was recently promoted to a leader who are controlling this area, a big incident had occurred on the surface on the second day of my promotion and the number of people in the underground society increased in one go….
It’s good if it was only that but, that Yagan bastard who absorbed the other people and expanding his authority, has been trying to pick a fight with us! Even though I was excommunicated and being quiet!
Aniki: 「So, how’s the damage?」
Junior: 「Some people have been crippled and there are more than a dozen of people in the group who are seriously injured as well, you see…」
So there is less damage when it comes to magic drugs, huh?…or rather, the thing that’s more problematic isーーー
Junior: 「More than that, there’s a chance that the lord’s investigation will extend to this side.」
Aniki: 「……I know.」
Sheesh, doing it one after another… Even though the magic drug has been banned by the Continental Treaty as it had destroyed a once big kingdom before, won’t it also be dangerous for us if they pulled out such a thing.
Aniki: 「Don’t let them escape this time, I will also tell the higher-ranked to give the permission to kill that Yagan bastardーーー」
Rena: 「－－－－Good eveningー? Could I bother you for a second?」
Aniki: 「－－－－Who is it?」
*Bang!*
There was a loud door opening noise.
Geez, who was it? Who called a woman in this crucial time? This is not a brothel, you know? I tried to complaint while turning around—
Junior: 「!! Big bro! Loran is…!!」
There stood a beautiful woman however, I also caught a bizzare glimpse of her hand which is currently grabbing the nape of Loran who had lost all of his limbs, a sewed nose, and had both of his eyes pierced.
I can’t see the figure of Dan and Nosley who were with me but……… my expectation for this is slim.
Aniki: 「You, are you Yagan’s people?」
Rena: 「? You’re wrong, though?」
What? I was certain that they have finally come here to raid us, is it not that though?
Aniki: 「Then, are you the lord’s underling? Or maybe another family’s spy?」
Rena: 「Both are wrong, though?……」
Aniki: 「Then whose family did you come from and what do you want here!?!」
Fuck! Calm down, me. I know that I’m upset because my subordinates got done in but, let’s calm down… If you think it normally, a woman who can kill three adults alone is abnormal so look closely at her attitude. I could see everyone who’s in this place from a gap…we had already thought that far so I will signal my subordinates with my eyes. Each of them replied with a nod.
Rena: 「You see, I have some business with Moonlight Family? or something’s boss?」
Aniki: 「Then you’re in luck, I’m the boss of this place.」
Rena: 「Is that so? I can not see you as someone like that, yes…」
This place boss is me, I’m not lying. It should be okay if I used it for gathering information.
Aniki: 「Yeah, that’s right. Follow me, I will hear your talk inside.」
Rena: 「……Well, that’s fine.」
An honest to a fault woman came in without understanding her current situationーーーStupid, it is already the end for you by the time you came to the center of the bar. After giving her tortures and knowing her background, I will sell her to a brothel later.
When I turned my back to the woman and advance to a certain extent, I gave a signal so that only my subordinates know.
Subordinate A: 「Die!」
Subordinate B: 「Prepare yourself!」
Subordinate C: 「This is our grudge!」
My subordinates, who has been waiting around, finally began to attack the said woman simultaneously.
Aniki: 「If your luck is bad, so does your head. it’s bad for you to follow someone that honestlyーーー」
―――I said so while turning around and saw the heads of my three men flew and the arms of five men removed. In addition, the throats of three men were cut by a weapon and two men were thrown out of the bar.
Aniki: 「－－－－really, just my luck.」
Credits to: McMuffin
TL Notes:
Our situation on discord right now.