As if to confirm the truth, one of the men who was hanging from the tree screamed with rage.
“ACK!! Untie us right now! You bastards! You over there! Blue hair and black hair! I’m talking to you two! Do you think you guys will be fine after doing this?!”
“Huh? Looks like it’s true? But blue haired… Perhaps El?”
I gave a wry smile to Iale, who stared astonished. As if gaining courage by our reaction, the Vodka Captain glared at Hosane and raised his voice even louder.
“How will you take responsibility for this?! How could allies create discord amongst each other! The Guild won’t let this slide! Even if you’re a Gold Rank, you won’t be able to escape the consequences!”
“Hmm. Let’s wait. There must have been a circumstance. I don’t know about others, but Matthew wouldn’t do such a thing without a reason.”
“Circumstance? What damned circumstance? You still won’t be able to escape punishment from the Guild!”
But even as he was becoming increasingly boisterous, he immediately stiffened after Sherry’s following words.
“Haha, if we were to get punished for something like this, I wonder what the consequences will be for someone who assaulted a woman and a child in the middle of the night?”
“Huh? That. What do you mean by that? ”
“It’s as I said. Those three tried to violate me last night. They even used the Binding Spell so I couldn’t move and reinforced it with a Silence Spell so that no sound could pass. If it wasn’t for Matthew and El who was passing by chance, the one to be victimized would be me, do you understand?!”
Because she spoke with confidence and without hesitation, everyone including the Vodka Captain could only gape.
Hosane’s eyes were trembling violently. I could tell that he himself received an even greater shock than anyone here present.
“They are 3 Silver Ranked Mercenaries. Furthermore, one of them is a Magician. That’s why, even with Trom-Well’s strength, defeating them all would be difficult. So, I acted as bait to draw their attention and while they let down their guard, Matthew ambushed them. Seeing how they’re acting now, it doesn’t look like they have any sense of guilt so we hanged them up on the tree as punishment. We could logically consider this as self-defense.”
“Th.. That’s..”
“Of course its self-defense! But didn’t you go too easy on them? You should have stripped them of their clothes as well! Or you should have cut off what makes them a man and turned them into eunuchs!!”
The nearby men turned pale from Iale’s violent rambling.
The 3 thugs hanging from the tree instantly went pallid as well and sighed in relief that the one they had assaulted was not Iale. But they did not forget to shoot glares of hatred and loathing while screaming insults.
The moment the tables turned, the Captain of the Vodka Mercenaries no longer even had the guts to wipe his forehead of the cold sweat that was dribbling down and smiled awkwardly.
His form seemed pitiful, but none of the mercenaries were planning to let this slide.
Who would ignore the danger that one of their members suffered? While they angrily glared at the Vodka Mercenaries, Hosane’s gaze looked like he was itching to rip their throats out and was currently even more frightening than a savage beast.
When the Vodka Captain was pressed back by his murderous intent, Hosane’s voice resounded deeply in the air.
“Did you ask for an apology?”
Chapter 14
Start from the beginning
