After that, the bandit group came before Palio-kun, but the hostages have already been secured.

　While there is still smoke, Manya strikes a surprise. She shoots the lead bowman twice in a row (double tap) with P229. The opponent quickly guards with his arm, but his dominant arm is bruised and his bow is damaged, rendering it unusable. The only remaining threat is the lumberjack, and the only remaining bandit is a former farmer.

　Furthermore, Manya quickly switched to her Saiga-12, which is completely seamless.

"Who are you people?　A mercenary?　Army?　I won't let you get away with it!

　A hunter barks as he can no longer use his bow.
　I'm not giving up....
　Because we're a small group, right?

　Well, this one looks like one man, a woman and a kid...

He's a demon exterminator, and he's exterminating brigands. We've got his family in custody.　Why don't you just lay down your weapons and surrender?　So I'll be able to enjoy the ride and your family will be safe, huh?

　A lumberjack in metal-reinforced leather armor ignored the suggestion and headed towards him. Quickly, Manya reacted to it and slammed the cork slug of her Saiger 12 into the woodcutter. His opponent was a large man, but he was blown up and fell as if he had been hit by a car.

　The lumberjack was in leather armor and Manya's shots were at close range. I was worried that he might be killed by a cork bullet, but I was relieved to see that he was unconscious. This guy was apparently using qigong to strengthen his body.

　Well, it was quiet for now. However, he still showed no signs of surrendering, and if he didn't, he would be arrested for a more serious crime. So you're going to give me one last chance to convince him to surrender and I'm going to turn to threats to get him to surrender.

'Ho, the brigands choose to resist?　You're almost surrounded by your own people, but you're a fool to resist and kill your family, but you're a wretch. Last I heard!　Will you surrender?

　The other party is armed, cork bullets could subdue them, but they might not cause any casualties. But unfortunately, the bandits came at a distance with no response.

　It can't be helped, I didn't want to do it, but let the hostage be scared....

The hostage will make up for the extra work you have to do. I can't wait to see this girl. She's got such a delicious body!　I'm going to die anyway, I'm going to play with it until it breaks. Whoa!　The kid over here is wailing in a good voice...

　The girls cry out for help. It pains me to think of how terrified they must be.

'I surrender!　Don't do anything horrible!

　You can finally stop acting... If you love your family, you shouldn't have been a bandit in the first place!　Well, I'm glad you broke for your family in the end, but....

　But then the friendly fire got in the way of my team's performance. Including the Palio team, who arrived in the middle of the performance.

　Midia and Manya are aiming at me from a distance. Palio and Tena are staring at me with contemptuous expressions from a distance. The three assistants have their weapons at the ready, surrounding me from three sides, ready to not even arrest me.

　Were they all tricked?
　You're too pure!

　It's more like a protection from me than an arrest of bandits.... I'm treated badly; the three of them hit me with a shield and rolled me to the ground and held me down.

　After that, Yukikaze tried to take over my body and rampage me, and the three of them didn't listen to me very well, so it was very difficult to clear up the misunderstanding.......　

'I'm sorry for the misunderstanding!　But you're the exterminator of the Alps!　I was impressed by the brilliant incapacitation. I didn't know there was such a method of persuasion.......Ryota-san's performance was so good that I was totally fooled. Hahahaha.

　I'm trying desperately to lift it, but....

　By that expression, you're saying you thought he was a complete bastard, right?　Isn't there a little reason for that?　Or maybe it's an act?　Didn't you ever think about that?　And I'm sure you've already figured out it was a misunderstanding.　Why do you think he's hiding Tena behind his back?

　I'm a slob and I'm treated like this.
　There's something wrong with the world...

　Also, Midia got a little creative and claimed that she believed it all along. It was the three helpers who were between me and Midia who were targeting me. He stated that he was looking for an opportunity to help me.

　Furthermore, he blames the three helpers who hit him and doesn't forget to turn the tables on them himself. Hmm. Midia has grown up.

　Manya is also quick to take advantage.

'Ah, I promised to protect my husband's back so I'm not sure there aren't still bandits lurking around.......'

　His eyes are swimming and he's totally going for me, not behind me, right?　Hmmm. Manya is too bad at getting away with it. I don't think she's out of the realm of a rookie yet.

　The captured bandits were briefed on Aigis' policy by Palio-kun. The explanation was brilliant, and apparently the captured refugees were hopeful. As expected of a son of a high ranking person, he's been brought up well. In addition, the three helpers had to buy the food for the whole week.

　But I was still frightened by the refugee girl, so I returned home depressed. I managed to hand them over to the authorities before I lost my mental strength.

'Oh, all's well that ends well. We were able to capture him without any casualties, and that's a great job!　Hey, hey, Thena?

...................

　It's okay...... your uncle is used to getting dirty and being hated is part of the job description.

　So I'm fine with it...

　Seeing me in such a gloomy state, Palio-kun was so cautious that I thought he was going to get a hole in his stomach.

''Ryota-san, you were able to capture those former refugee bandits without killing a single one of them. It's not something an ordinary person can do. I didn't even expect you to try to save them, knowing that you would be the villain. We apologize for our imprudence.

　It's such a pleasure to be understood... I'm used to playing the role of a dirtbag. But on Earth, as a project leader (actually, it's just a management position in name only), I've never been able to get people to understand how hard it is to be a project leader.

No, I'm just glad it's rare that there's someone who understands. So don't worry about it. So don't worry about it, there's someone who understands, and that's all that matters.

　Come to think of it, no one ever tried to do anything dirty when they were a part of the company. And yet, they didn't take it for granted because it was their job. Or I've only ever been thought of as a horrible, bad person.

　But there aren't many jobs like that in this world. I'm impressed you can understand it.

'My father also did his job, even if he was sometimes resented..............................I don't say I understand, I just know. More than that, I was surprised that Ryota-san, the exterminator, could do it without hesitation.

　You know my father's business?　That seems like a pretty high-ranking position in this world... maybe he's the son of someone more important than expected?


I have some urgent news for the Bureau.

　While we were having this conversation, we received information from the officials.

　It seems that a half-hearted mercenary has messed with the Dark Kobold that was scheduled to be exterminated and has moved to a cage in the den.

''How dare you!　It's going to be a tedious, protracted battle... I wanted to get rid of it while Ryota-san was here.

　Palio-kun is in trouble. In the end, we postponed it due to the reconnaissance and rethinking of the strategy. It was decided to decide on the date to carry out the extermination based on the situation.

　The siege will be troublesome, but is it really that troublesome?　I thought dark kobolds were weaker than goblins?


A certain place in Japan

Poor Ryota, he tried his best to give a convincing performance to prevent anyone from getting hurt...
Prowler? Wasn't it just now that I was getting ready to ... prepare for my punishment? .....