As soon as my magic touched it, the old wooden door shattered with a crackling sound.

“Aww!”

Unluckily, one of the guys behind the door fell down with his head hit by the largest piece of debris, and I quickly looked around the room, ignoring it.

For what used to be an abandoned building, the interior is quite neatly organized.

And obviously, I could hear only one or two people breathing at the doorway, but when I opened the door and went in, there were about a dozen people gathered.

I could be sure that they were all people who gave off a bad impression on me.

“You punk!”

At the same time as I appeared, the man closest to the door drew his sword and charged me.

Before the sword could even reach my body, a second burst of magic hit his chin, and his corpse, with the top of his neck missing, rolled on the floor.

momentary silence. And strangely looking into my eyes.

As soon as he saw the attack he had just seen, he must have judged that it would be a little too much to deal with simply by force.

In addition, there was a high possibility that he was a noble somewhere, even if he could not use magic, so he might be hesitating.

There was no way an ordinary viscount or count or higher would appear in such a shabby place without his own guard.

Although they were kidnappers, they seemed to be trying to make the best decision until the end, as if they weren’t stupid.

That’s why I brought out the last proposal to the guys who are secretly watching.

“If you drop your weapons right now and surrender, I will end it with humanitarian measures as much as possible.”

Of course, the humane measure was to be tied up with a rope and dragged away by the imperial guards, but he did not explain.

The moment when several people were about to put down their swords to see if my suggestion had worked.

“Don’t let go of the sword!”

A large man opened his mouth first and urged the guys who were acting halfway.

Are you saying you want to see blood?

“Who are you?”

The man who seemed to be the captain asked me about my identity with a cautious look.

“Where is Seneran Winte?”

Of course, I had no obligation to answer, so I just spit out my business to him.

“Seneran, ah, is the guest who came looking for that nasty bitch.”

“I asked where you were.”

“Seeing that you came here, did the Wintemire Company choose to negotiate? For that kind of thing, the delegation’s actions are quite radical.”

“… … .”

“Wait, no. Obviously, the trading place was not here, but in a building outside the ecliptic… .”

With the sound of a blade of wind brushing against it, his head fell from above his body.

Because you already have all the information you need.

I was able to figure out through his mouth that they confessed that they had already kidnapped Seneran and even tortured him, and even the situation that Seneran was in this place.

Leaving him alive would only cause more trouble, so I just took care of it before boosting the morale of the others.

The expression of the members of the organization where the captain’s head fell suddenly became contemplative.

“Lee, kill this f*ck!”

“aaa!!”

Longswords, daggers, each of them stood up with their own weapons and rushed at me at once.

There was only one thing I could do for them, since they did not heed my last life-saving warning.

“Cheak!”

“Aww!”

Bringing death to them personally with my broadsword and magic.

At the time they kidnapped Seneran and sent a blackmail letter with their nails pulled out, their sins were already irreversible.

In addition to that, the feeling of incongruity that I felt as soon as I entered this abandoned building made me lose even the slightest bit of mercy.

As if something dragged on the floor, the floor was especially worn in a certain path from the entrance.

His beard and hair are neatly trimmed, which is unusual for his personality of bringing out a dagger with insults.

Even though it is obviously an abandoned building, the interior is cleaned as if it has been used for a long time.

And even the systematic actions of the guys who hid their presence and held their breath until just before I entered.

That alone convinced me. These children are not only Seneran, but they are the ones who have been living like this since the beginning.

It was an enclosed space, like an abandoned building, so I couldn’t see inside, so the only light came from the door I broke through.

In other words, it meant that I had to deal with the guys who were rushing at me in the middle of the darkness with my body exposed to the light alone.

I’m used to the darkness, but I didn’t like the fact that it made a battlefield that was advantageous to them, so I used brightness magic once to brighten the dark room for a moment.

“Ouch! Whoa, eyes!”

“aaagh!!”

Even though they were familiar with the darkness itself, the guys who didn’t expect the light that suddenly rushed into it momentarily closed their eyes with painful moans.

It wasn’t too difficult to take the lives of those who were temporarily blinded.

After a brief battle of about 10 minutes, the sound of sword blades clashing changed to the smell of iron powder that filled the room.

“… ha.”

No matter how criminals they are, killing people is always uncomfortable.

It would be much more comfortable to slash monsters or demons.

Of course, it wasn’t that he hadn’t been able to cut humans in his previous life, but there were still things he couldn’t get used to.

“Ugh, uh… .”

“Be quite.”

After severing the tendon of the guy with the smallest sword size and tying it up, he completely subdued it.

I needed a hostage to figure out who was behind it.

While trying to find the door to the other floor to rescue Seneran, he belatedly discovered that something was missing.

“… … uh?”

That one of the dozen corpses is not visible.

If it was simply the disappearance of one of the gang members, I might not have noticed.

Unfortunately, the body that disappeared was not that of an ordinary gang member.

The leader of the guys who were quite tall and big enough to be called giants.

Apparently, the corpse of the guy who had been killed by separating the head and body had already disappeared from the first floor of the building.

Knowing best what it meant, I had to hurry down the stairs to the basement.

Because the one whose life is most in danger right now is none other than Seneran Wintail.

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Unlike the ground, where the light is intentionally blocked, the basement felt a little brighter.

I hurriedly moved down the stairs illuminated by soft lighting, and as soon as I went down to the basement of the building, a fairly large space greeted me.

There was also a gloomy aura that seemed to permeate the entire room, so I remained vigilant.

After going down all the stairs, the reality of the vaguely wide space was also clearly revealed, and I was able to immediately face the brown-haired woman sitting in the center of the space.

“Mr Seneran!”

After confirming that the color of her hair matched perfectly with the picture she had received from Johnny, she immediately called her name and ran to it.

She slowly lifted her head with a troubled expression and barely met my face once.

“… … ah.”

With a single exclamation, he seemed to be relieved by something.

I don’t know why, but it was an expression I remembered seeing somewhere.

Even though he must have never met her in a previous life.

Seneran’s ten toenails were not intact, and the bruises on her swollen cheeks and limbs gave a vague idea of her pain.

“I am Conrad Perdalos. Don’t worry, I’m the one who came to the rescue at Johnny Winte’s request.”

“It’s okay, I know… .”

“Yeah?”

“That, more than… . careful… .”

Before she could finish her words, a shadow came out of the darkness and turned into a blade and charged at her.

Brilliant. The dark attack that rushed at me with a sound broke the celestial shield I was wrapped around, and as if this much was nothing, it took shape again and charged me and Seneran.

I held a broadsword in my left arm and applied acceleration magic to return the flying blade several times.

In the meantime, the moment when dozens of dark blades aim at us in the darkness that gradually thickens toward me and her.

After the chanting, my ‘glow’ lit up the dark basement with a bright light.

Pass s s s s s s s! The dark blade, which was about to fly toward us with a sound, hurriedly retracted the stem of the dark magic into the darkness as soon as it touched my light magic.

The light magic that spread around my staff slowly lit up all but one corner of the basement.

It is simply a spell that illuminates a wide terrain with light for a long time, but it is unable to cope with anything.

As expected, it seemed that the guy related to the Dark Church was involved.

“… You are lucky.”

As soon as I heard a voice from the darkened corner, my last light magic, Radiant Strike, was directed toward him.

It was after he leisurely escaped toward the back door of the basement, which was already covered by darkness.

“… damn it.”

All of the light magic that could be used today had already been consumed, and there was a risk of being counterattacked if you recklessly chased him in a situation where you didn’t know how strong he was.

And there were urgent things that had to be done first.

After hurriedly freeing Seneran from the restraints tied to the chair, he held her in his arms, seemingly unable to stand up.

Once he had saved her, all he had to do this time was over.

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“Mister Conrad! it’s okay?!”

“Brother!”

The first to greet me after coming up from the basement of the mansion were Saint Claire and Delphina.

Although it was a short time, of course it wasn’t that it didn’t make them worry.

I nodded in agreement and hurriedly showed Saint Clare the patient in her arms.

“Please look out for Miss Sener rather than me, Saint Claire.”

“Ah, okay.”

“Delphina, you are looking after Miss Sener for a while. I have some work left to do.”

“Yes, brother.”

When I led Seneran, who had passed out in my arms, to Delphina’s arms, and dragged out the witness who had been tied up in an abandoned building.

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Johnny’s convoy returned to the scene just in time.

“sister!!!”

As soon as he got off the wagon, he slightly blocked Johnny, who was running toward the fallen Seneran. Right now, Seneran’s emergency treatment is more important than a touching reunion.

“Life is safe. However, it seems impossible to say whether or not there will be aftereffects of torture. But since Saint Clare is here, it seems like all physical damage can be healed.”

“thank you… . Regards, Prince Conrad… .”

“The organization was cleared, but the person who appeared to be the ringleader escaped through the back door of the basement. I’m sorry I couldn’t track Miss Seneran on my back, but I missed it.”

“No, just saving my sister is enough.”

“It is a little too early to be relieved. It might not be over yet.”

I briefly explained what I had to do next to Johnny, who kept bowing his head and thanked me.