Volume 7 Chapter 8: The Journey to the Holy Capital

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Author: 夜州 (Yashu)

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“Thank you for having me.”

“Bishop-sama, please take care on the way there.”

The temple knights and the adventurers who were escorting the bishop were waiting in front of the church early in the morning. Bishop Harnam said goodbye to the priest whose church he had stayed at, then got in his carriage.

Cain would be following behind this time, so he closed the carriage’s door.

With the temple knights leading the way and the adventurers surrounding the carriage the bishop was in, they slowly departed from the city.

They were aiming to get to the holy capital in three days, camping outside along the way. There were some small villages on the way, but they would only be procuring food there and then passing through.

They would be going past mountains and forests on the way, so that there was a possibility of being attacked had been relayed to the other adventurers beforehand.

“Cain-dono, I heard in the church that apparently there have been many bandits around lately, and that carriages are often attacked.”

“Yes, I heard about that in the bar of the inn we stayed at, so I told everyone about it this morning. I am using search magic, so we will be able to deal with it if an attack comes our way.”

Bishop Harnam seemed worried, but Cain didn’t think there would be any problems. He trusted Claude and the others, after all.

Actually, the bodyguards of the other bishops and priests were mostly C-Rank or D-Rank. With them attached to the temple knights, who were capable of carrying out battle, it became strongly implied that they were only accompanying them to help set up camp and take care of miscellaneous affairs. Marinefordism had permeated to other countries too, so even bandits usually refrained from going to the trouble of attacking people related to the church.

But since all the bishops despatched to the other countries would be gathering all at once, bringing with them a huge amount of money, they were likely to be attacked.

They left their first campsite without any problems. There were a large amount of materials in Cain and co’s Item Box and Magic Bags. Milly and Nina, who had been Cain’s tutors when he was little, had the Magic Bags of course.

As for Claude and Lina, Cain had also made them Magic Bags and handed them over to them during the way back from the Republic of Ilstin.

Saying they couldn’t very well receive them for free, Cain ended up taking the market price as a fee.

In truth, the Magic Bags Cain had made had capacities many times larger than those of the ones on the market, making them National-Treasure-Rank, but there was no way they would be able to pay that much.

Lina had been extremely thankful, while Claude had just received his Magic Bag while laughing, making Lina hit him on the head.

When the carriage entered the mountainous region, Cain used Search, beginning the surveillance of their surroundings.

Visibility became poor as they entered the wooded foothills with their many trees growing close to one another, and obstacles on the road also became more numerous. Anyone could see that it was the perfect place to carry out an attack. Outside the carriage, Claude and the others seemed to understand this as well, so they dropped the carriage’s speed, moving along slowly.

(There they are… Two of them, maybe they’re scouts….)

Feeling signs of the party being watched from the depths of the forest and the attack it might lead to, Cain spoke to the coachman, and the carriage stopped. Bishop Harnam found this strange, but he guessed the situation based on Cain’s serious face and stayed silent.

“There might be bandits’ scouts around. Their signs are gone now, but there were two. I’ll go talk to Claude-san.”

“All right… I’ll just do as you say.”

When Cain got out of the carriage, the expression of Claude, who had found the stopping of the carriage strange, stiffened. He had also likely guessed based on Cain’s expression.

“…Are they coming?”

“Yeah, probably. It was only scouts, but… They might be coming next.”

“Alright, let’s get ready. I’ll be running along next to the carriage, so just stick your face out the window and tell me once we’re about to be attacked.”

“Got it. Then, we’ll be going slowly.”

Claude gave instructions for a short break to happen, and the adventurers gathered around.

“What’s up? Shouldn’t we be taking a break later…?”

“Yeah, I talked with Cain and we’re gonna take a short break.”

“Cain… that kid? Do we really have to listen to what that kid says?”

Another adventurer who didn’t know Cain’s true power asked the question, but Claude just nodded, indicating yes.

“I know you, Claude-san, since you’re famous, but I’ve never heard of that kid before. Is he really that capable of a guy?”

“You don’t know him…? He’s famous in Drintor, and I’m sure there were rumours about him in the royal capital too for a while… Have you ever heard of the Silver Devil?”

“!? …I have. A silver-haired devil who destroyed the adventurers’ guild, made even the guild master cower on the floor, and made anyone who opposed him unable to do so again… Don’t tell me… that that’s Cain!?”

“I also heard about that. Even nobles opened up a path for him. His enemies all went missing, he must’ve incinerated them all somewhere.”

With Cain’s absence helping the embellishment of the rumours, the adventurers gossiped amongst themselves.

Claude almost burst out laughing, but somehow keeping his laughter under control, he nodded along.

“That’s right. That’s why he’s riding in the bishop’s carriage. He’s a devil, so if you oppose him… well… Ow”

Lina hit Claude’s head with her staff due to threatening the others.

“Don’t believe such rumours. And Claude, what are you doing egging them on!”

“But I mean… But rumours aren’t all lies either, are they? He really did destroy the adventurers’ guild in Drintor.”

“That might be so, but…”

“What, really…”

The adventurers gulped, then looked at Claude with serious faces.

“Well, that said, try not to get entangled with him just because you think he’s just a kid, okay? Also, we might be attacked in a bit. Apparently Cain found their scouts. Ow!”

Claude looked up with watery eyes at being hit on the head with a staff by Lina again.

“Isn’t that the most important thing right now!!”

Claude was hit many more times by Lina’s staff, the vein in Lina’s temple about to burst.

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