Chapter 47

Four adventurers are currently standing in front of us. I carefully looked at their appearance. One swordsman, one tank, one magician and one thief-like class. All of them use cheap equipment that seems to be the basic equipment.

'Is it their reason for accepting the Viscount request?'

I try to guess their motif while looking at their greedy expression. Some of them even seem to look at my mother's appearance with a lustful gaze. It makes me lose my compassion for them and I feel disgusted because of their rude behaviour. But I need to endure it. At least until we reach the border.

It was nothing at all. I have spent my time to endure to the unreasonable things in that hell-like place. So it doesn't matter if I need to endure a bit more. I am only able to hope that they won't do something that is even crazier than the people in that psychopathic mansion.

"Hello, we are the adventurers who accept your request. Can I know about your destination?" The swordsman said while wearing a fake smile on his face.

Maybe because of the (false) information they received from Viscount Ruach... Well, I was the one who caused it to become fake information. No, to be precise it was my acting that fool them and make them believe that I am a useless person. It was to make my plan able to work smoothly.

'Let's observe them until we reach the border.'

I decided to see what they are trying to do before making any decision about what I will do to them. But right now, I still need to act like a foolish innocent child.

"Wow! This is my first time meeting with the real adventurers. All of you look strong. Are you a top-grade adventurer? I feel that we will be able to reach the Southern n border quickly and safely with your help." I said with a (fake) admiring tone.

Of course, they won't be able to realize my acting. I am really glad that I have a perfect poker face that is extremely hard to read. Only the people who spent a lot of time with me and those who observed my expression carefully that able to see through the truth.

From what I heard from Brother Winslow and Sister Ancelina, my face become expressionless when I was in stressful situations or when my anger reached its peak. While my face might cause some misunderstanding, but it also becomes my reliable tool for acting. So I never hate to have this almost expressionless face.

"Hahaha, of course, we are top-grade adventurers that decided to help you. We saw you and accidentally hear about your reason. We feel sorry for both of you so we decide to help you to reach the border." The tank laughed with his loud voice and told us some fake reason.

"Why do you want to go to the South?" The thief asked with a curious tone.

My guess is they were talking and making some fake story to make us lower our defence against them. I realized their thought because I could see them clearly from their expressions. The greedy and lustful gazes are still remaining in their eyes. The mage was the worse because he had been directing his killing intent to both of us.

"This is a secret but my mother and I want to go to the South because I have read in the book before that there are people with animal ears or tails in the South. I want to see it and if it was possible, I want to try to pet it. I was never able to touch any animals before. I think they must be really cute and fluffy." I act like a curious foolish child and they seem to look at me as an idiotic child.

"Hahaha, you really have a good imagination. Do you know that the beast race is a dangerous creature?" The swordsman said while looking down at me.

"Eh!!! They were dangerous! Why do the books never write about it?" I said with a surprised tone.

They were laughing at my foolishness. But I didn't care about it and continued.

"Oh right, I want to ask you all to help us reach our destination as quickly as possible. Should we rent carriages or horses? Can you please rent it for us? I will pay you twice the price when we arrive at our destination." I innocently said and make them smile suspiciously.

They might be thinking about how much money they will receive later after they kill us. But as the people in this territory will avoid me and my mother, it will be better if I use this greedy adventurer to my benefit. I will use their money and make sure to suck them dry. I will decide what to do to them after I reached the border. I am really curious about what they want to do.

"Why didn't you rent it yourself?" The tank asked.

"I didn't know why but they won't even let us talk with them. How could I do that? Don't you know or heard about it before?" I ask with a curious tone.

"Oh right, I forgot about it. Alright, please wait for a moment. I will be back after I get it done." The swordsman said and quickly go back to the town to rent a carriage.

After waiting for a while, the swordsman returns with the cheapest carriage. At least I am still able to use it as a temporary shelter if there is rain. Then our journey to the border began.

Because the carriage is not a good one it was shaking so much. I am glad that I don't have any motion sickness or I might be already feeling sick because of it. Because of the time we spend assembling and renting the carriage, we could only arrive at the nearby village at night.

Because of the discrimination against my mother and me, we told the adventurer that we will stay in the carriage tonight and we need to resume our journey tomorrow morning. I told them to be arriving early in the morning and that they need to buy some food. As I keep telling them that I will pay them twice after we arrived at the border.

As they leave us, I think I hear them talking about some of them being glad about being able to leave from staying around both of us. I think some of them are a person that discriminated against other races like most people in the East did.

When they leave, I took some food for our dinner from my spatial ring. I enjoy it with my mother and after we finished our dinner, I put the thrash into my spatial ring and took a blanket from it.

"Now, my dear daughter, Renne. What are you planning? Did you try to scam them?" My mother asks with a smile on her face but for some reason, I feel frightened by her smile.

"M-Mom, I don't want to scam or harm them but I accidentally hear them that they want to harm us or maybe kill us when we arrive at the border." I answer her with the conclusion that I made.

"Are you sure that you are hearing them said something like that?" My mother's smiles become scarier and make my body start to tremble.

"M-Mom, I can't tell you about the truth right now but please believe me that they really are trying to do something bad to us. They might be the adventurers that are being hired by Viscount Ruach to kill us. I said it because I know what he is thinking right now." I give her some explanation.

"Is there something bad that makes you unable to tell your mother? You know that I will always be your ally but if you do something bad, I will definitely try my best to stop you. I only hope that you won't do anything that might make you regret it later." My mother said with a serious face.

"Haaa, you know that I will never do something like that. But I also think about the possibility of if they were trying to harm us... I just want to protect you so we can live peacefully together. I won't do anything to them if they didn't do anything when we arrive safely at the border." I said.

"You said that, but do you have the money to pay for them later? You have promised to pay twice of their expense. Do you know how much you have to pay them?" My mother asked with a worried tone.

"I know about it but I also know they will trying to harm us later. If that really happens, I won't be polite to them and I will make them pay for it." I said with a determined tone.

"But you also need to remember that you need to make sure that you won't put yourself in danger. Me, your mom will always feel worried about you, my dear daughter. If you do something dangerous later, I will definitely be angry at you and keep nagging you until you stop doing such dangerous things again later." My mother warns me.

"Don't worry about it, I will not put myself in any dangerous situations. Please believe in me and my plan. I will make sure that everything will be safe." I told her with a serious tone.

Both of us spend our night together peacefully in the carriage.