Chapter 217: Incidents Always Happen
Chapter 217: Incidents Always Happen
The fact that something always happens wherever I go is, I think, the reason I am the protagonist. Some people would call it being a troublemaker.That does not matter. I said to Captain Jobson,
"What are you going to do? How will you move?"
I asked, thinking it was more about how Jobson and the others would move than how I would move. He answered with something completely off the mark:
"We will have to move the village guard."
Yet when I thought about it he was right. From the perspective of the village guard, Captain Jobson was a guest, so against external enemies the village guard had to take the lead and move.
"Right. Then what will you do?"
"I will send someone to contact them."
Yes, that comes first.
"I see. Please do. Is there anything I can do?"
I said it out of goodwill. Lily had also changed clothes. Both of us were full of motivation.
"No. Having a guest participate in battle, sending him into such a dangerous situation — that is impossible! Still less is it possible to have the state guest Prince Robin appear on a battlefield."
He declared it flatly. What a lonely thing to be told. Lonely, and cold...
Captain Jobson, who noticed none of my passionate feelings, left me and Lily behind and dashed out of the room.... The junior soldier who ought to have been standing by in front of the room was also gone. The soldiers inside the lodging had been woken, and the disturbance gradually grew larger. Even though there were not that many escort soldiers, because they made a racket everyone had woken up, hadn’t they!? I think it had been a good chance to catch the bandits in one net.
"Lily, since I’m wide awake now, shall we go watch the big capture?"
Lily sighed and said,
"Yes. At this rate it looks as if the bandits will escape. They do not seem very used to dealing with bandits. The fact that they are unused to such things is proof that this village has been peaceful and safe, yet even so..."
The two of us, while being appalled at the response of Captain Jobson and those below him, went outside and climbed onto the roof. Because the lodging was two stories it was not as high as the official residences in the capital. From the roof we searched for where the bandits had gone and discovered they were lurking in a dark corner in the shadow of a house. Apparently, because Captain Jobson and those below him had moved so ostentatiously, the bandits were on alert. What is the strength of the village guard? I do not know how many bandits there are, yet because they came to the village knowing there was a guard, they must have calculated that they could win even if they fought the guard.