I'll tell you how I had to find where the nanny was.
After I ca to the orphanage and I had rembered the fate of the orphanage, I imdiately searched for the nanny's whereabouts using the Hear of Everything skill.
The first thought that entered my brain was to take all the money that she took away.
But I couldn't leave right away because it would look suspicious in Jeanne's eyes. I just marked the direction she was headed and waited for things to calm down. Only after I took the children to the inn did I go to et her.
Since I had marked the direction she was headed, I didn't lose track of her.
Using my body-strengthening skill, I ran and managed to reach a round tal door on a deserted street with no other people in sight. The round iron door was an entrance to the culvert which was she chose to escape.
I first slashed and destroyed the barrier blocking the tal door. Then I waited for her arrival. When she banged on the tal door to escape, I smiled as I held the tal door open so that she couldn't open it.
And that's how I found her.
Inside a culvert illuminated only by the dim light from a few holes in the ceiling, I stood while engrossed tossing gold coin up and down.
The light of the gold coin managed to illuminate the darkness of the culvert.
"Let count. One, two, three... looks quite a lot."
In my hand was a chest box.
I had to open and count the gold coin inside the chest box.
I took this chest box from the nanny's hand.
While playing with the gold coins, I watched the nanny who was lying on the floor unable to do anything.
Of course, she didn't hand over the chest box without putting up a fight. She had insisted on keeping the chest box in her arms earlier, but I slapped and kicked her without any guilt.
Perhaps because she had sensed the gulf in power between us and knew that her struggle was futile, she stopped trying to claw and bite .
She ended up just biting her lip on the floor.
"G-GIVE IT BACK TO !!!"
Holding the cheek that I had slapped, she scread loudly.
Even though she knew her body was unable to fight , her mouth was still able to yell at .
She was like a wife who had just been divorced by her husband.
It's sad to see a middle-aged woman in that state. But that's only if it's an ordinary middle-aged woman. Since she was a disgusting middle-aged woman, I didn't pity her at all.
Reap what you have sown, maybe those are the right words for her.
Ignoring her, I closed the chest box and threw the chest box into the Inventory.
Before I opened the Inventory, I kicked her until her head entered the water flowing in the culvert. She managed to prevent her entire body from entering the dirty water. Only her head splashed into the water.
Blurp!
"Kargh!"
She imdiately lifted her head up. Her hair and entire face were wet with water filled with dirt. As she wanted to take a breath of fresh air, she quickly covered her nose.
"Blergh!"
She vomited. The contents of her stomach poured out.
When she stopped vomiting, there was sothing strange in the dirty water flow in the culvert.
A water bubble slowly ford above the dirty water stream. One by one, the bubbles ford and burst. It seed like there was a creature breathing from inside the water, which caused the creature's breath to co out of the water and form bubbles.
And sure enough, not long after, sothing appeared and caused the water full of filth to rise like a waterfall.
It was a monster.
A monster suddenly appeared from the water full of dirt.
Did it appear because of the nanny's vomit?
The monster had the shape of a mouse. But, it was the sa size as a human. The black fur that covered the monster's body blended in perfectly with the dark color of the culvert. The monster's eyes were bright red, highlighting and the nanny.
The mont the nanny saw the monster, she released the hand that was holding her nose. She took a deep breath and ignored the pungent odor she slled.
Surprisingly, she no longer vomited. Her body shuffled backward slowly. She dragged her butt to move away from the rat monster as quickly as possible.
If I didn't move, she would be eaten by the rat monster.
The monster's sharp teeth were ready to eat her.
The rat monster put its feet on the floor and tried to get out of the dirty water.
'Should I let the nanny get eaten by the rat monster?'
No, I can't allow that.
I must leave the nanny to Jeanne.
Looking at Jeanne's perspective in the current tiline, she doesn't know that she had been betrayed by the nanny.
That was why I wanted the main heroine to learn what the word naive was. Jeanne had to realize that she had been betrayed by the nanny. So that she can grow up without easily trusting soone.
That way, the possibility of her being instigated by Jullian soday could be reduced. It was just a precaution in case the scenario I didn't want happened.
My choice of movent was to approach the nanny, grab her by the collar, and throw her away.
As I threw her, she rolled around on the floor like a snowball. But she made it to safety, so she should be thanking .
'How can I defeat that monster?'
With the current situation, I couldn't pull out the Svangur Sword from the Inventory. There were the nanny's eyes glared at .
Fortunately, I managed to find another way to defeat the rat monster. In my hand, there was still one gold coin. This was the gold coin that I used to play around with earlier.
Using the one gold coin, I shot the rat monster in the head by shooting the gold coin using my thumb and forefinger.
[Amplification skill - Activated.]
[Strengthening Skill - Activated.]
Of course, I didn't forget to use my skill.
As a result, although this was just my feeling, the speed of my coin shot can be as fast as a bullet.
Syuuu-
Thwack!
The coin that I had fired successfully pierced through the rat monster's head from end to end. The gold coin that I had fired stopped only after penetrating the culvert wall.
In the blink of an eye, a small hole was ford in the rat monster's head. Just that small hole was proof that my attack had successfully hit its target.
My attention shifted in an instant. From initially looking at the rat monster, it shifted to the gold coin I threw.
'It would be a pity to leave that gold coin stuck in the wall of the culvert.'
I jumped up and picked up the gold coin. Then I grasped the gold coin tightly.
'Before heading back to the inn, it looks like I'll have to buy a new robe.'
My attention ca back to the rat monster.
The rat monster, which tried to get out of the dirty water stream, limped back into the dirty water stream. It didn't even have ti to put up a fight.
He beca a corpse without even realizing it.
Floating on the water, her body flowed with the dirty water in the culvert.
Before the rat monster's body disappeared from my sight, I could see a stitch in the monster's skin. More precisely on the hand.
'If I'm not mistaken...'
The stitches were the sa as those on the corpses of the children in the cave found by Nya Nu, the kidnapped children.
I frowned when I saw that. A coincidence? No, it wasn't. The two things must be related.
In the novel Demon Lord and Hero of Light, the kidnapping of children would stop after Jullian attacks the slavery headquarters in the city of Burgenfield.
Thus, everyone assud that the slave traders were the masterminds of the kidnapping of children.
When they connected the slavery case and the child kidnapping case, automatically people's admiration for Jullian grew.
Initially, I also thought that the mastermind behind the kidnapping case was the slave traders in Burgenfield city.
The slave traders that I an are not only Pavlova but all the slave traders in Burgenfield city. Including their big boss.
But I imdiately changed my deduction when I found the bodies of the children in the previous cave.
When I was thinking about it, why would slave traders kill children and leave a stitch mark on the children's bodies?
Step! step! step!
My thoughts were interrupted by the nanny's footsteps trying to escape. I was forced to stop thinking and imdiately catch the nanny.
I ca from behind her and caught hold of her by the shoulder. I grabbed her shoulder so she couldn't run away.
With her shoulder that I hold, she thrashed.
"LET GO OF !"
"You must et with Jeanne first. She will determine your punishnt. Just pray you will be forgiven."
Instantly, her face turned pale blue. When her pale face was mixed with the dirty water on her face, she beca a woman that no man would look at.
It was ti to bring her to Jeanne's presence. I wonder what Jeanne was doing now. I an, was she already conscious?
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