civilwarnovels Chapter 1033 The Last Routine 212
Chapter 1033 The Last Routine 212
Chapter 1033 The Last Routine 212
In search of their last companion, Kobayashi and the others traveled to the neighboring town.
“I’ve met up with Youyou and Lady Alice. After that, as long as I find Chris, I can return to my original world…” Darkness looked around, searching for the obvious silver-haired thief girl, but she was nowhere to be found.
“I can’t see anyone like that.” Aqua said, equally puzzled and troubled. “We’ve been looking for so long and haven’t found anyone. Is he hiding somewhere? Logically speaking, silver hair should be very noticeable, but everyone here has black or brown hair.”
"Have you forgotten your blue hair and Darkness and Alice's blonde hair?" Kobayashi rolled her eyes in annoyance, and said, "Hiding isn't like you've done anything wrong. But then again, if Chris, a thief, really hides, it'll be hard to find her in a while... Sigh, I'm hungry, I can't think of anything."
After enjoying the moonlight on the mountain, they rushed off to find Chris, having barely eaten anything all night.
"Brother..." Alice looked at him with heartache, then saw the shops in the distance and said, "That's right! How about we hold a tactical meeting at that shop? Eating some sweets will help relieve fatigue!"
"Oh, that's a great idea! Let's do it!" Huihui quickly agreed. She was starving and ran to the shop, saying, "Excuse me, could I have some dumplings... Strange?"
"All the shops are closed." Youyou looked at the tightly shut shop doors, then glanced around anxiously and said, "Besides, it feels like there are very few people in the city. The whole town seems so deserted..."
The group looked around, puzzled. The streets were deserted, with few pedestrians and few shops open. A man who looked like a traveling merchant noticed them and said, "You too, it's dangerous in a place like this. This town is teeming with thieves now."
"Thief!?" The familiar address surprised and bewildered Kobayashi. Perhaps it was the thief girl they were looking for?
Beneath his expectant expression, the traveling merchant said with a headache, "It seems to be some kind of silver-haired, very capable female leader, leading thieves. If you don't want to get involved in trouble, you'd better run away quickly."
"This is truly a disaster." Mikami Hibiki nodded, realizing he couldn't stand idly by in this situation, and declared righteously, "If I could, I would eliminate those thieves—"
"Wait, wait, wait, wait! We must find Chris now. There's no time to waste on unnecessary things, so... um???" Kobayashi suddenly realized something was wrong. That traveling merchant from earlier, didn't he mention the silver-haired, resourceful female leader? Could it be Chris? If that's the case, as long as we make contact with the thieves, we might get clues about Chris!
While he was pondering, the traveling merchant, upon hearing that they were going to hunt down bandits, immediately exclaimed happily, "Oh! If we can eliminate the bandits, the rewards will be plentiful!"
"We will definitely take back the peace of this town!" Kobayashi said righteously.
Mikage Hibiki stared at him wide-eyed, “Kobayashi!?”
Huihui retorted in an equally irritated tone, "Were you tempted by the reward just now?"
"I wasn't tempted," Kobayashi would of course deny.
"What's going on, Kobayashi!?" Mikami Hibiki didn't believe him and quickly questioned, "Didn't you just oppose eliminating the thieves? Why did you agree now?"
“I said, didn’t you all hear what this uncle just said about the ‘silver-haired, very capable female leader’?”
"...Is that Chris!?"
Darkness clearly realized something.
"Ah, ah." Kobayashi nodded in agreement, saying happily, "If we eliminate the thieves here, the chances of finding Chris are very high."
"And you can also get a reward, killing two birds with one stone, right, Kobayashi?" Aqua said with a smile, clearly tempted by the reward.
"Hmm..." Of course, Kobayashi didn't deny it, but looked at her with an approving look. As expected, Aqua understands me very well.
"Hoo..." Mikage Hibiki sighed. Seeing that Aqua had also agreed, he had no choice but to pretend to be reserved and said, "Let's put the reward aside for now. Now that you've decided, I have a good plan to lure out the thief!"
Good plan...?
Although Kobayashi and the others had some doubts, since Mikage Hibiki said it so confidently, they decided to believe him this once. And then—
"Ah! How relaxing." Aqua stretched lazily, yawned, and said, "Being able to drink bubble wine in such a quiet place is just blissful..."
"I...I mean, Huihui." Youyou nervously held up the wreath in her hand and said, "I tried to make a flower crown with those flowers over there...If you don't mind, this—"
"What's wrong?" Huihui looked at the gorgeous flower crown that Youyou was holding with a displeased expression, and said with a sneer, "Making a flower crown, are you showing off your dexterity?! Fine, I accept this competition!"
"That's not how it is...!" Youyou was on the verge of tears.
Indeed, Kobayashi and the others were having a leisurely picnic outside the town, enjoying the hard-won peace and quiet with their guard down, showing no signs of looking for Chris.
Meanwhile, Yūken Kyouya was completely bewildered, and he couldn't help but say, "W-why...!? Why aren't the thieves coming!?"
"This is completely unacceptable! How can this be a good battle plan?" Kobayashi rolled his eyes in annoyance, pointing to the two large boxes beside him. "Displaying these things so openly is suspicious, isn't it? Isn't this just telling the thieves to hurry up and steal it? Even an idiot would realize it's a trap!"
"My plan has only just begun, the thieves will definitely come!" said Mikami Hibiki, unwilling to face reality. Although it was unclear where his confidence came from, his stubbornness was a headache.
"Ahhh!!" Suddenly, Aqua screamed in panic, "Everyone, something terrible has happened!!"
"Have the thieves finally arrived?!"
"We've finished all the bubble wine we brought...!"
Aqua's sorrowful words made Mitsuki Hibiki feel incredibly awkward, and Kobayashi couldn't help but yell at her, "Don't make any confusing noises, you useless, good-for-nothing goddess!"
Unexpectedly, Mitsurugi Hibiki stood in front of Aqua, pretending to draw his sword at Kobayashi while shouting, "You despicable Kobayashi...! You actually called the goddess a useless, worthless goddess! Unforgivable!! I'll settle this today!"
"What an overly enthusiastic guy." Kobayashi, not to be outdone, placed his hand on the hilt of his longsword at his waist, assuming a drawing-slash stance, and said provocatively, "What, want your sword stolen again?"
"What a joke!!"
With a furious shout, the two of them struck a pose in the open space. Because they were wary of thieves, no fight broke out. However, this behavior was very much like the Crimson Demon Clan suffering from chuunibyou (middle school syndrome).
Seeing the two of them, Huihui couldn't help but say, "Lately I've been thinking a lot... those two, they're actually quite close, aren't they?"
"Hehe, don't say that." Darkness said with a smile, indirectly acknowledging what Megumin had said.
at the same time.
the other side--
A thief shouted at the silver-haired girl, "Here's today's spoils! Look... Boss!"
"Let me see...?" Chris looked at the large amount of gold and silver jewelry behind the thieves and said with great satisfaction, "Hey, not bad, isn't that a good haul? Well done, everyone!"
"Th-thank you! This is nothing for you, boss!" the thief said excitedly. He was like the boss's most loyal subordinate, willing to do anything for Chris!
"I already said it!" Chris said somewhat reluctantly, even resistantly. "Don't always say it's for me. This treasure is for the poor. Go distribute it in the towns tomorrow!"
She said this with a smile, giving the thieves a thumbs-up, and the thieves returned the most sincere smiles.
"Speaking of which..." Chris asked with some concern when she saw them like this, "Did you follow the rules I told you today? Only steal from merchants who hoard goods, never steal from the poor, understand?"
"Of course!! What a wonderful boss...!!" Upon hearing Chris's words, the thief immediately knelt before her, tears streaming down his face, and shouted, "For you, boss, I'd give my life!!"
"Haha, I appreciate your kind gesture," Chris said with a charming smile, then, as if remembering something, asked, "Speaking of which, have you gathered any intelligence over there?"
"No, not yet..." the thief said somewhat awkwardly, but seeing Chris's slightly disappointed expression, he quickly added, "But, there's other interesting information...!" He leaned close to Chris's ear and whispered something, and Chris raised her eyebrows after listening.
"Hmm, I see, this is really interesting," Chris said with interest, then called out to the group of thieves, "Alright, let's go check it out tomorrow!"
"Yes! For the boss!!" xN
The thieves were very enthusiastic, but their enthusiasm made Chris a little embarrassed.
the next day.
Kobayashi and the others returned to the outskirts of town, searching for information on Chris. However, Mitsurugi Hibiki kept grumbling, as if defending himself, saying, "I...I know! Yesterday, it must have been the way that box was placed! If it had been placed more conspicuously...!"
“I said, it’s a fake sword.” Kobayashi was utterly disappointed in him, and advised dismissively, “It’s about time we abandoned this plan; we need to devise a better one—”
"I will never give up! And I am Mitsurugi!!" Mitsurugi Hibiki shouted angrily, seemingly trying to cover up his mistake.
But to everyone's surprise, while Kobayashi and the others were arguing, a thief suddenly jumped out from the bushes nearby. Dressed in all black, wearing a black scarf, bald with scars, he looked no different from any other thief.
The thief, holding a short sword, chuckled and said, "Hehehe... transporting such a large sum of money here, this is a big shot."
"See that, Kobayashi!" Mitsurugi Hibiki pointed at the thief and yelled at Kobayashi, "The thief is here safely! My plan works perfectly!!"
"They've arrived...?"
The thief looked at the two of them with some confusion, not knowing why they would say that, and one of them (Miken Hibiki) was overjoyed when he saw him, as if he was looking forward to him coming to steal it.
Kobayashi was incredulous, rubbing his chin as he said, "I never thought thieves would actually be lured by such a simple plan. Are these thieves alright...?" It was worrying that they had actually returned to care about the thieves.
"Stop talking nonsense!" The thief glared at them, furious. He was trying to rob them properly, but they were being so perfunctory and lazy. He brandished his short sword at them and said, "If you behave yourselves, we won't kill you!"
"Thieves!" Mitsurugi Hibiki stepped forward and proclaimed, "Taste the righteous blade of Mitsurugi Hibiki!"
"You really think I'll just listen to you?!" The thief, enraged, glared at the few who dared to resist and shouted at the thieves who had surrounded them, "Men, kill these guys before the boss arrives!"
But how could mere thieves possibly defeat Kobayashi and his highly skilled adventurers? They were quickly and easily defeated and brought to the ground.
"This is the end!"
“Ahhhh————”
"Don't worry, it was hit with the back of a knife."
With a hum that exuded the air of a master, Yu Jianxiangye's purpose was to find clues about Chris, so how could he possibly kill someone intentionally?
"Alright, bind them." Kobayashi used his skill to tie the thieves up tightly. "Now they can't escape."
"No, as expected of my brother!" Alice praised happily after seeing the thieves subdued. "One by one, you've tied up all the thieves!"
"Although it seems like he only benefited from the Demon Sword's influence," Huihui couldn't help but say, but she wasn't wrong. Kobayashi didn't make a move, not because he didn't want to, but because he was too lazy to.
"Alright, next step is—"
"Wait a minute!!"
Just as Kobayashi was about to interrogate them, a familiar voice suddenly came from the forest. However, before Kobayashi and the others could say anything, the bound bandit leaders had obvious joy on their faces.
"This...this voice is...the boss!?" He said, both happy and apologetic, "I'm sorry! These guys can use strange magic..."
"Haha, you're quite capable." Chris stepped forward. "But now that I've done this, I have to settle things—wait, Kobayashi!? And everyone else...!?"
They finally met.
(End of this chapter)