In the dungeons of Liberty Village, the woman was held captive.

　The woman captured by the Lilpop guards in the small frontier city of Pickus had not yet awakened, and her consciousness was still refraining in her brain from the memories of the battle of the other day.

◇ ◇ ◇.
　It had already been more than ten years since Batcombe hired her as a mercenary.
　She had been wielding and fighting with a great sword, and now she was one of the three heroes of Batcombe, a hero of the great sword, and one of the three heroes of Batcombe.

　Her oldest partner, the Shield Stronger, had enlisted in Batcombe with her, and was also a comrade in arms who had fought with her all along.
　The combination of the great sword hero and the shield strongman had reaped and defeated any large number of enemies, and had defeated any strongman.

　The two assistants, the archer and the magician, were not always the same person.
　This was because two of them, the hero of the great sword and the strong man of the shield, were too strong to force the other two to be needed.
　Even so, these two were still following them, mainly because of the plunder.
　After the heroes of the great sword and the strongest of the shields attacked, they are responsible for rooting out the gold-eyed objects and the armaments and stuffing them into the magic box.
　Although both of them were actually skilled in bow and magic, this party had little opportunity to show off their prowess.

　Incidentally, in Batcombe, those appointed as heroes and strongmen are forbidden to give their names, and will always be referred to as heroes and strongmen.

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　It's been a few days since we set up a blatant provocation in the small frontier city of Gehmose.
　Although the enemy forces can be understood to be trembling with fear, as expected, it is impossible to cheat later on by using it as 'appreciation for the partner of the exercise', so the story that the top brass is planning this and that has been heard.

　However, the three heroes were all bored with this situation of just mischievous confrontation.

　The only reason why the heroes and strongmen belong to Batcombe is because they can fight.
　It's a good idea to have a good time with them.
　Most importantly, if they returned home victorious, they would be greeted with jubilation by the city folk of Batcombe and receive letters of thanks and rewards from their lords.
　The heroes were all satisfied with their treatment.

''........I've had enough of this.

　The Hero of the Great Sword was on his way to the frontier small city of Pix with his party.
　He hadn't taken any prior formalities, thinking that it would be fine to report back to the commander after the fact.
　They may complain a little, but I had a feeling that if I took the loot as a souvenir, they would agree to it after the fact, as usual.
　Besides, if we attacked with a small group of people, we were riding with four mounted men through the woods, thinking that if we attacked with a small number of people, we would get lost during the exercise and just say that we seemed to have the wrong guy.

　It wasn't long before we reached the walls of the small frontier city of Picks.

　The walls here are made of wood and there are watchtowers here and there.
"Girl, let's rampage through the streets as soon as possible.
　At the words of the strongman of the great shield, the hero of the great sword gave a small nod.
　At the hero's signal, the bow strongman shot his bow at the figure in the watchtower, and the figure fell down with a small groan.
The great sword hero of Batcombe has come to the exercise. Let's go!
　Although somewhat forceful, the four of them, who didn't care much as it was always the case, took the Great Sword Hero's voice as a signal to come forward in unison.

　The Great Sword Hero's party attacked, and for a small hour.
　The battle situation was one-sided.

　The party of four great sword heroes were attacking one-sidedly, not dealing with the hundred or more pixie garrison at all.
　The great shield strongman used a shield raid (shield bash) to knock the enemies together, and the great sword heroes cut into them as they ducked. Since the goal is not to kill, he uses the great sword as a sideways nudge to knock down his opponent instead of the blade.
''What's the matter, what's the matter?　I'm not even sweating over here yet!
　The strongest of the shields waved his shield while laughing.
　
''Today's enemy doesn't have much of a good weapon.......too bad.
　The magic strongman and the bow strongman were mumbling as they retrieved their armor from the fallen enemy soldiers. Again, the two of them had hardly participated in the battle since it began, and were diligently working on recovering weapons from the fallen soldiers.

........It wasn't crunchy at all, but well, it was a good way to pass the time.

　The Great Sword Hero, who had finished knocking down the opponent he was facing, turned to his horse with a slightly sluggish look on his face.

''Battlefield confirmed, enemy shadow 4. All of them are likely to be enemy scouts due to their weakness.
　Suddenly, a woman's voice rang out on that battlefield.
　The heroes of the Great Sword who turned their gaze to its source.
　There, a woman who looked like a petite little girl was looking at the great sword heroes while holding an unfamiliar weapon in her hand.

　The hero of the great sword stopped walking back to his horse and turned to the woman.
'Oh, is that a magic gun?　You don't see those weapons very often.
　While looking at the weapon the woman is holding, the great shield strongman says.
''Well, you won't be able to penetrate my shield if you launch your magic power as a bullet, though.
　With that said, he held his shield up and moved forward at once.
　From the looks of it, the opponent didn't look so strong, but being treated as 'inertia weakness' made the big shield strongman angry.
　Suddenly, a shield raid (shield bash)
　With this, everyone in the party of great sword heroes were sure that the childlike woman would be flying in the air.

　However
Hm, it has a bit of offensive power, but it's only a scout. There's no need to send out the magic armoured infantry.
　Such a woman made a small taut gesture towards the strong man of the great shield who was rushing in.
　The next moment. The next moment, the body of the strongman's shield was blown right off to the side and plunged into a nearby tree trunk.
　Up until now, no matter how powerful the attack was, the Great Shield Strong Man did not let go of his shield, but there was no shield left in his hand.
　But that didn't mean he let go of his shield.
　When he was blown away by the woman, the shield in his hand had been completely shattered and there was not a trace of it left.

　Although they didn't know what had happened, they instinctively decided that they had to attack, and the strongest of the archers and the strongest of the magicians were ready to attack.
''It is late, sir.''
　The woman fired what appeared to be a magic gun in her hand at the two men.
　Immediately, the magical strongman deployed a defensive wall, but the bullets ejected from that weapon crushed that defensive wall without a trace and blew the two of them apart.

''Ki........you.......''
　In just a few seconds, the great sword hero smiled wryly, even though his three companions were rendered unable to fight.

........I didn't expect to meet such a formidable opponent.

　That, the desire to fight dominated the body of the great sword hero.
''Now!''
　He held the large sword at the top of the big stage and leapt at once.
　Above the woman's head, with one motion.
''Hm.''

　-Gasp!

　The woman stopped the blow by grabbing it with one right hand.
"That's the offensive power of a scout. But it's too big a swing, too much force, too much power...what kind of combat training have you received?
　The woman sighed and looked at the great sword hero with a sigh and furrowed brow.



　To the astonished and trembling hero of the great sword
A single scout's strike would be too great.
　As she said this, the woman twisted the great sword she was holding in her right hand.
　With the recoil, the hero of the great sword fell right to the side and slumped to the ground.


That's why I'm not a scout...

　This was where the Great Sword Hero's consciousness was broken.

　Then.
　After being escorted back to Liberty Village, the hero of the great sword woke up to find that the person who had defeated him was Lil Pop.
''Is that woman the Knight Commander of this village or the Captain of the Guard?
　At those words, the guard-like dog people (dog people) standing in front of the prison
Ah, she's a guard trainee. She's a new recruit who just got assigned the other day.
　She replied.

　This one word was more than enough to break her heart, the hero of the great sword.