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Chapter 13: The pride of a knight\n \n \nI bury the deceased respectfully.\n \nActually, I should give the body to his family.
Unfortunately, I can't find them.\n \nI have been away from the outside world for 300 years,
so I have no way to find them.\n \nAfter praying, I walk around the empty, burned-out
area.\n \nThere is no sign of movement around me.\n \nNo doubt the bandits here had been wiped out.\n \nI got the "Dragon Raging Fire" skill from a
Crimson Dragon. It is a super high-temperature flame that can reduce human
bones to ashes.\n \nThe power was so great the nearby forest was wiped out
too.\n \n"I did a bad thing to living things in this
forest......"\n \nWhile reflecting on my actions, I turn my head toward
the mountain where Fletty and the others are sleeping.\n \nIf possible, I don't want to leave any traces for Fletty
and the others that there were bandits here.\n \nOther than the bandits, I am the only one who knows
that Fletty and the others were chased.\n \nIf the bandits' corpses were left in the bushes, it
would lead to unnecessary speculation.\n \nThey would probably assume that someone had
accidentally killed them, but the possibility of me being suspected is not
zero.\n \nA child...... who wipes out a bunch of bandits.\n \nI'm scared just thinking about what Fletty and the
others would think if they found out about this.\n \nI don't want to see these kind people's paranoid eyes
looking at me.\n \nI have to keep what I did a secret ...\n \nSo, I eliminated the whole forest together with those
bandits.\n \n"Now..."\n \nThis is not the only thing I have to do.\n \nFletty and the others who went down to the bottom of
the mountain only have one mission.\n \nThey must retrieve the family treasure. In other
words, they must raid the bandits' hideout again.\n \nEven though their numbers were reduced, Fletty is
still at a disadvantage.\n \nThere were about 30 people here.\n \nTo be able to send that many people out to chase after
their enemy, their numbers must be quite a lot.\n \nUnless the leader is very smart, I assume that as many
or more bandits are in their hideout.\n \nThe first thing I do is use my presence detection
skill.\n \nIt seems that there is nothing that looks like a
hideout within my search range.\n \n"If that's the case......"\n \nI'm going to use my nose.\n \nI'm confident in my smelling sense.\n \nThe whole area smelled of burning, but there was a
strong scent of human body odor heading south along the road.\n \nIf I look closely, I can see some new footprints.\n \nThere are several other scents, but this scent is
still fresh.\n \nConsidering the number of footprints, I'm pretty sure
these belonged to the bandits.\n \nRelying on the scent and footprints, I decided to
search for the bandits' hideout.\n \n \n \n10 minutes later, .......\n \nI arrive at the bandits' hideout.\n \nThere is a small hill near the road, and there is a
cave on the steep slope. The cave is big enough for a person to pass through.\n \nTwo guards are standing at the entrance.\n \nBoth of them look sleepy. They must not be used to
working at night.\n \nI guess they are just hurriedly placed on night duty
right after Fletty's team attacked.\n \nI use my Skill again.\n \nStructure analysis.\n \nIt's a skill I got from a big bat called Meijibaton.\n \nBats are everyday food in the Tristan family's
territory, to the point where edible bats are sold in the market.\n \nActually, I don't like it. That's why I cooked it
slightly sweeter, and it was quite delicious.\n \nThe meat part is not that much, so I don't eat it
eagerly, but this skill is quite useful.\n \nJust by concentrating, I can grasp the invisible
structure of the cave.\n \n"It's quite complicated."\n \nIt is a natural cave that has been modified by human
hands.\n \nIt looks like a maze, but it's actually a straight
path. It's not that difficult to get to the Bandits Leader's room in the back.\n \nI took out some fragrant wood from my magic bag.\n \nI rolled it towards the hideout entrance.\n \n"What is this?"\n \nOf course, the two guards noticed it, but .......\n \n"Hanya...."\n \n"Funya....."\n \nThey immediately fell asleep with their nose holes
puffed up.\n \nI come out of the bushes where I had been observing
and pick up the fragrant wood on the ground.\n \nThis is the branch of a Sleeping Forest.\n \nIt is a magical tree that puts people and even demons
to sleep simply by being near them and grows by absorbing their magical power.\n \nThe frightening thing about this tree is that the
scent that puts people to sleep is almost tasteless and odorless.\n \nAs you can see, it has an incredible effect on putting
people to sleep, and even giant monsters can fall asleep instantly.\n \nHowever, in my case, my resistance to the
"sleep" abnormal condition is high, so any hypnotic effect from the
outside will not work on me.\n \nNow, I throw the branch of Sleeping Forest into the
hideout.\n \nAfter waiting for a while, the bandits' snoring
sounded louder than ever.\n \n"That went well."\n \nI made my way into their hideout easily.\n \nMost of the remaining bandits in the hideout are sound
asleep. It's nighttime now, so I guess it's only natural that they're asleep.\n \nIt would be easy to defeat them one by one like this.\n \nAfter that, I can slowly search for the family
treasure that Fletty and the others are looking for.\n \nHowever, my goal is neither the destruction of the
bandits nor the retrieval of the family treasure.\n \nIt's simply to observe the enemy.\n \nIf I defeat the bandits and bring back the family
treasure, Fletty and the others will probably be happy (but in that case,
they'll know that I'm not an ordinary child).\n \nBut that would hurt Fletty, who has a strong sense of responsibility.\n \nThe family treasure that he was supposed to retrieve
had been retrieved by a child.\n \nAs a former member of a military family, I can
understand Fletty's mentality.\n \nA knight who is loyal to his master would want to
retrieve it by his own strength.\n \nIt's also bad for Fletty's reputation.\n \n"A family treasure was stolen from them and then
rescued by a child?..."\n \nThere is also a possibility that retrieving the family
treasure may be nothing more than meddling.\n \nFletty and his team are the only ones who must destroy
this hideout and take back the family treasure.\n \nHowever, judging from the number of people, they would
die in vain.\n \nThat is why I came.\n \nTo save those kind people...\n \nI arrived at the back of the hideout.\n \nIn the end, I couldn't find anything that looked like
a family treasure.\n \nI just realized that I should have asked what the
family treasure is.\n \n"Who, who's there...?"\n \nI suddenly heard a voice.\n \nImpressive.\n \nSomeone who can resist the Sleeping Forest's scent is
among these bandits.\n \nAt the back of the hideout, I see a man holding his
head and staring at me.\n \n"A kid......?\n \nHe looks at me with his sanpaku eyes (eyes with visible white between the iris and the
lower eyelid).\n \nHe is holding a bright red sword.\n \nNo doubt, this man is their leader.\n
