Chapter 152

Chapter 152 Strongest Sage, Arrests

"Wha . . . Who are you?"

"Did we have this guy in the security?"

The city ruler was perplexed to see me who suddenly showed up .

Huh?

The reaction is not what I expected .

And I've gone all the trouble of coming here myself as a target of his attacks .

Don't tell me . . .

" . . . Don't tell me, you were sending assassins without even knowing my face?"

"Assassins? What are you–no wait, a brat wearing adventurer clothes with Disqualified Crest . . . Could it be, you're Mathias Hildesheimr!?"

. . . Seriously . He really didn't know how I look .

Yet he wanted to take me hostage huh .

"Yeah . You got that right . "

" . . . Where's the women?"

"Ruli and the others are in the back . Oy, everyone, come on out . "

The four showed up with Iris in the front .

I'm in the center of the room while the four are at the entrance .

Seeing that the city ruler sneers at us . . . and shouts out loud .

"Kuku . . . All members, surround him! . . . Fool! Straying away from the women on your own!"

With those words, hidden doors on the floors and ceilings opened and the city ruler's underlings came out of them .

. . . It's way too crude for an ambush .

At least try giving the signal without us noticing .

I threw out magic and fists at coming underlings while thinking that .

The attackers crumbled down without a sound .

Befitting of a bunch under this city ruler, their movements were also really crude .

The most difficult part was preventing myself from killing them by mistakes .

I'd like to squeeze info out of them after all .

"Soii!"

"GYAAAAAAAAA!"

. . . Well, such consideration seems to be irrelevant to Iris as an underling who was going to get pass her got blown off into the wall .

The city ruler was watching that in blank amazement .

Thus, his underlings were annihilated in under 30 seconds .

"Ho . . . How are you fighting! Weren't you a healer, the weak point of the party!"

Ruli and the others are looking at the roaring reddened city ruler with pitying looks .

They've ceased recognizing him as a threat anymore .

"He really believed that Mathi-kun is in charge of healing . . . "

"He'd have known that it was a mistake simply by looking at his equipment and stuff . . . . "

" . . . I mean, did we ever get hurt to need healing anyway?"

Now that you mention it . . . I don't think we ever did .

We should have some training to cope against injury to prevent inactions in case of emergency . . . but it's been getting postponed .

Well, putting that aside for now .

"Dogiel Melkia, you're under arrest . "

I took a rope out of Storage magic as I said that .

"Wha . . . Me, under arrest!? On what right!"

Don't tell me, he really didn't know .

Then why would they hunker down in this place .

I made an eye signal at Eiku while thinking that .

Eiku took out the document from the king and thrust it before the city ruler .

"Your apprehension has been ordered by His Majesty the king's decree . With my presence, the executive proxy, Mathias has been endowed with the right to arrest you . "

"Wha, it's fake! This must be a mistake–gah"

I shot magic at the screaming city ruler and tied him with the rope .

"Now then . . . Now we can leave it to you right?"

I asked Eiku .

"Yes . Mathias-sama could also execute him if you wished so, however . . . The kingdom administration would be grateful if I could bring him back alive . "

Well, I guess that's so .

Even this foolish city ruler might spit out some useful info with some tortures .

And he probably would get it easier if he died here .

However, I personally don't have any reason to let this guy die off so easily .

"I understand, I'll leave the rest to you . . . We've got something we ought to do ourselves after all . "

"Ought to do?"

"Yeah . . . . I've got an idea about how our raid here got leaked . "