Chapter 16

Underneath the greedy spider’s hideout that looked like an ordinary house, there was a wastefully wide underground passage.

I searched for the room where the boss was, slashed those who stood in my way, and slashed those who ran away and those who hid.

On the way there was a self-proclaimed former B- level adventurer who was not even as good as Ganzas, who had been a C+ until recently.

On the contrary, I was surprised because he gave me a strong sense of strength.

Occasionally, an assassin-style guy with a spider web mask on his robe would attack from the shadows. Those guys were stronger than the self-proclaimed B- class.

…I wonder what the educational stance of this organization is.

“Ah… you?!”

“Huh?”

On the way out of the room, I ran into the skinhead who had mistaken me for a colleague at the time.

The arm must have been healed with magic or a potion, so it moves normally.

“Hi…hii”

I kick the skinhead who tries to escape when he sees the dead bodies of his friends lying in the bloody hallway.

“Don’t run away. Tell me where your boss is.”

In the end, the skinhead lied and tried to trap me, so I cut off his head halfway through.

…Maybe I really could have fed one of them to the harpies. For later studies.

I managed to find the boss’s room on my own and went inside to find a narrow-eyed, stocky man with a tattoo of a spider web on his face sitting in an expensive-looking chair looking at me.

I wonder if the pattern on that mask was his tattoo…

“…Did you really come on board all by yourself?”

“That’s right”

The man in front of me heard my reply and let out a short sigh.

“I see, so it’s just as reported. …What are you to those kids in the hut?”

It’s a given.

“I’m the father of those kids. Even though I warned you, you didn’t just turn assassins at me, but you persistently targeted those kids.”

The man looks startled for a moment.

“Dad…? …Haha, that’s good. You’re crazy.”

“Well, don’t worry. I don’t have much time, so let’s get this over with. Go down into the ground to the people you’ve tormented until now in the other world. I’ll at least send you off.”

“…Hold on.”

“Oh?”

I told you I don’t have time for this.

“Do you even know those kids? Those kids…”

It is said that the Greedy Spider was a reasonably large organization in the city of Bastok. Many of its members were martial fighters, and they repeatedly held skirmishes with the city guards, which caused the guards some difficulty.

The greedy spider was destroyed in just one night, and it seems that all the members who were in the hideout at that time, including the boss, were killed. Beheaded.

Right now, it seems that the rumors are all over the town.

I asked the innkeeper’s father about it all later.

This would seem to indicate that other organizations would emerge in place of the greedy spiders, but there are no signs of that at the moment.

It seems that everyone is afraid to stand out and be noticed by the greedy spider exterminator, so it’s peaceful.

…about the children?

I don’t know. I took his head off before he could say anything.

It’s not that I don’t want to know, or that I’m not interested. It’s just that if we live together from now on, I’ll find out sooner or later.

I plan to become their family, but even family members have secrets.

I don’t want to find out their secrets without their consent.

Besides

Whatever the circumstances those kids are facing, I’m going to be on their side.

“Daddy’s cooking! Oto-san? Are you sleeping?”

“Papa, it’s morning.”

Yut-yut-yut, petti-petti, petti-petti, muni-muni.

“Uuu…”

I came back before the kids woke up, and when I lay down to pretend to be asleep, I really fell asleep.

Nina and Stella play a prank on me to wake me up.

Ariamel is..

“Look, you two, Gray-san is tired, so why don’t you let him sleep a little longer?”

Ariamel’s thoughtfulness touches me…

I’ll do my best to get up, I thought.

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