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There are five wagons on a certain road.

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Their cargo could not be seen as they were covered by a hood.

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But to the bandits, they looked like sitting ducks.

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Each carriage is guarded by five guards, and the heavy security system suggests that the cargo is worth a fortune.

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Twenty-five guards, a number that would normally make people shy away, but this bandit group has a total of 53 people.

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They’ re outnumbered.

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Moreover, the opponents are defending the carriages and merchants while fighting.

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The head of the bandit group grinned at the reports of the watchers,

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“Hey, boys, it’s time to work!”

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He shouted.

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The road came to a curve in the forest just before the Marquis’s estate.

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It was a convenient place to hide, and the curve made it difficult to see what was ahead.

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And it began with a single arrow piercing the carriage.

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“Enemy attack!”

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A shout comes from the leading carriage.

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An adventurer-like escort, with sword drawn in hand, probes the area, while a man armed with a bow and arrow gazes into the distance, trying to ascertain the appearance of the enemy.

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Arrows flew one after another, and the escort’s arrows flew in the direction of the bandits.

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The bandits scream in pain, and, perhaps to inspire themselves, they shout out and charge towards the escort with their axes.

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The guards also desperately wield their swords and fall to the ground, one by one.

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It was the bandits, the guards, and the people falling without distinction.

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The head of the bandits decided that it would be best to bring all of them together here and finish the job early, so he ran out, shouting loudly to frighten his opponent.

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When the difference in numbers is about to be doubled, the carriages’ cover is rolled up and new guards come out one after another.

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“Huh! What?”

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Not being able to grasp what’s going on, the head swings his sword around instead of telling them what to do, but the fact that the number of guards increased by 10 at once brought confusion to the battle.

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“So you’re going to disguise yourself as a trading company, hide two men each in a wagon, deploy lots of guards, make them think you’re transporting high-value goods, and wait for them to attack you?”

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“Yeah, if there’s too many of us, they might not attack us, right? If we make it look like there are only half as many of them as there are of us, they’ll swoop down on us. If we get out of here soon, they might retreat, so we’ll have to wait for the carriages to leave until they do.

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Most of these bandits are just farmers and adventurers who can’t feed themselves anymore, right? Their arms won’t be great, so let’s just hold out somehow, and when they’re almost out, we’ll fight back and destroy them.”

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The number of bandits gradually dwindled and his head was filled with two words: retreat.

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It was then that he felt a strange chill and turned around.

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A boorish man with swaying black hair, his mouth twisted into a crooked smile as he brandished a one-handed sword.

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It was the last thing Kashira had seen.

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