Someday Will I Be The Greatest Alchemist? Chapter 77

The morning after, we joined up with Tom-san and departed for Volton.

We were making smooth progress towards Volton since our departure from Quilbas. Proceeding the same, our carriage being pulled by Tsubaki is in front, monsters and there were seldom any attacks from monsters and thieves. Why I say seldom is because the occasional monster that doesn't understand understand the difference in power attacks. Well, Kaede instakills them though.

「Hey hey Master, can I go hunt thieves?」

When we were camping that day, Kaede came and said that.

「Will you be okay?」
「Yup, no presence that looks strong.」
「…………If there's someone held captive, call me.」
「Kay, got it!」

Saying so, Kaede blended into the darkness and vanished.

「If one has Kaede-chan's stealth skill and that overcoat's effect, they'll be the greatest assassin, wouldn't they.」
「True, if it's Kaede, then she can approach soundlessly and kill instantly, but it's a little worrying.」
「Irumsama, an Arachne is a high ranking monster. Thieves will be no match for her even if they form groups.」

While I was talking to Sophia about my worrying for Kaede, Tom-san asserted that there was absolutely no problem.

Gasa, gasa. rustle

After some time passed, Kaede returned.

「Purification!」

I cleaned the blood soaked Kaede using purifying magic.

「I'm back Master! No one was caught! So I got rid of everyone.」
「I see, good work. So, how many people?」
「Let's see~, I think 15 people.」
「Irumsama, those thieves, they're most likely the thieves that wandered in from Triaria Kingdom. I believe their numbers were around that.」

It seems that the thieves that Kaede had dispatched matched the thieves from the information.

「Tom-san, it would be best to clean it up, wouldn't it?」
「Yes. Collecting the guild cards of the thieves, and disposing their bodies is a necessity.」
「Kaede, can you lead me to the thieves' hideout?」
「Yup! I have some threads that remained so I'll know soon!」

The next morning, I along with Kaede and Tom-san headed for the thieves' hideout. Sophia and the others are guarding the merchant unit and on standby.

「This way!」

The place Kaede led us to is a cave that looked like a bear come out of it which had a door forcefully attached on it.
There were two thieves on guard duty at the entrance of the cave that had their heads severed.
Inside the cave were corpses with no heads and corpses whose chests were pierced with claws. Tom-san and I collected their guild cards and stripped them of their armors.

「Did they just arrive? There's not much treasure here, huh.」
「It can't be helped.」

I used Earth magic to dig a hole, threw the corpses in, and filled the hole back up.

「We will calculate the thieves' possessions and armor and process them one we return to Volton, then payment will be made to Irumsama at the Papeck Company.」
「I understand.」

The post-processing of thieves put us a little behind schedule, but we arrived at Volton before the sun went down.
We submitted the proof of request completion at the Adventurers Guild. Everyone's rank was promoted publicly.

Chapter end