The Banished Former Hero Lives as He Pleases: Volume 4 [Parts 1 to 10] by Shin Kouduki

Author:Shin Kouduki
Language: eng
Format: epub

“I’m sure that knight will be right behind us before long,” said Riese. “Maybe we should let her handle it?”

“I’d agree with you if this were just about the explosion,” Allen replied. “In that case, I doubt she’d even remember us.”

“Worried about something?”

“Well, the direction the sound came from.”

“The direction?” Riese’s eyes grew wide. “Wait, you mean...”

Allen affirmed her suspicions with a sigh. Riese looked toward what had been their intended destination: the inn where Noel and Mylène were waiting.

“Let’s hope I’m fretting over nothing. I don’t even know for sure that the sound did come from over there.”

“We really can’t afford to wait for that knight,” said Riese.

“Nope.”

The only reason he hadn’t immediately rushed off when he’d heard the explosion was so that he could gauge how the knight was going to respond. If the inn was being attacked, the Black Wolf Knights were almost certainly responsible. Had they done it because they were on to Allen’s party or for some other reason? In the end, though, the knight’s response hadn’t given away much.

“If they have attacked the inn, that knight heading over there could only mean bad things for us,” he noted.

“We’d better get there first, then.”

“That’s the plan,”

“Hm? What do you—” Before she could finish the question, Riese got her answer from the muffled voice behind her.

“You two! Wait!”

Allen shrugged. “I guess she followed us.”

“Sorry for slowing you down so much,” said Riese.

“Hey, it’s not like you can help it.”

Had he been alone, he could have already been at the inn, but he couldn’t abandon Riese. Carrying her had been an option, but he wanted to keep his hands free in case he ended up running headlong into a situation where he needed them. He’d assessed all the options and chosen this one, so there was no need for her to feel responsible.

“Besides, it doesn’t look like she can move too fast in that armor. I bet we’ll get there faster than she can follow us.”

The knight yelled as she chased them. “You two! Wait! I said stop!”

“She’s telling us to stop, though,” said Riese.

“Maybe she means someone else. How can we know who she’s talking about? Maybe we just happened to be going for a run together.”

“Now you’ve gone beyond disingenuous into plain lying.”

“Lying to who? I haven’t said anything to her. And nobody can say it isn’t perfectly conceivable anyway.”

Riese looked at him in disbelief. It was true that the people around them were running in the opposite direction, away from the explosion. Allen saw shock and fear on the faces of those he ran past—a sign that he was indeed heading toward the Black Wolf Knights.

They drew close to the inn. It laid at the end of a long main street...or at least, it used to. Allen had already confirmed that his intuition was correct before he even turned onto the street. Controlling his urge to rush headfirst into whatever awaited him, he looked at the place where the inn used to be.

“Huh? Hey, you showed up earlier’n I expected.

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