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I neutralized the adventurer seated next to me, then picked up Austin who was seated opposite me in a flash and threw him out of the carriage before making my own escape.
The inside of the carriage was too cramped to fight in.
Ellen shattered the nose of one of them then escaped from the carriage as well.
The carriage had come to a complete stop.
Even the coachman was in on it.
“You brats are quite perceptive, aren’t you?”
Three adventurers who were still unharmed crawled out of the carriage, wearing wary expressions.
Two of them had already been taken down before anyone from their party could make a move.
“How did you guys know?” one of them asked as he drew his sword.
Ellen drew her sword in response. “I’ve heard that most adventurers are no different from thieves.”
Adventurers…
They lived in places where the law didn’t reach.
Ellen must have heard a lot about the reality of such adventurers from Ragan Artorius.
It wasn’t that there were brigands among the adventurers.
It was that, at any time, an adventurer could become a brigand.
“Rather than taking risks, there are many adventurers who prefer to rob well-equipped novice adventurers.”
Ellen and I were armed with equipment that looked brand new and expensive at a glance. On top of that, we appeared young.
They could have always been brigands, or perhaps they hadn’t been when they’d first met us.
But, having seen us, they had no choice but to become brigands.
Ellen seemed to have known they would act this way. This wasn’t a fairy-tale space filled with the romance and mystery of adventures.
It was a land teeming with adventurers who adventured not for the thrill of it, but for money—a land of profiteers.
Being an adventurer was a profession where one risked their life for money.
If there was a way to make money that was less dangerous and almost guaranteed, there was no reason not to choose it.
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