As I was glaring them one of the adventurers spoke to us.
"I see! You both are a huge help, really!"
"It'd be a bit too tough for just three, you see."
'Yeah, your team is a savior."
They were much more amicable than excepted.
Despite how roughly they look, these are actually pretty good guys!
That's what I was thinking when the rugged leader of the group asked me a question.
"We're a rank C party, can we ask what rank party you are?"
He said and looked at robbed Mizu. I don't know when, but she chose to wear a robe. I mean if she shows her real face, I think it will start a war. Her beauty was on different level, and I am sure everyone will do everything to obtain her.
"Of course, we are rank B party."
I showed my adventurer card as a proof and three adventurers realized that we are their senior.
"Ah! Senior, please guide us."
For the fuck's sake this is not Xianxia novel so don't call me senior.
"Also, we just registered yesterday."
I turned around as I listened Mizu speaking with a smug face.
(Author's Note: My dear readers please don't ask about these tiny details like how he saw her smug face. To put is simply she used robe to disguise but for our Main character these types of disguise are child play and she also didn't target him so he can see through disguise.)
After listening to Mizu, the three adventurers froze in place, wide-eyed, then started flooding me with questions.
"You both registered yesterday and are rank B already…could it be that you are the unreasonable guy everyone's talking about?"
"Whoa, the rumors were real!? But at least we know that this request will definitely go well!"
"Yeah, we're expecting great things from your team. What's your name again? …wait, we should introduce ourselves first. My name's Barnar, I'm a swordman. These two are Norkus, a swordman like me, and the spearman Oorde,"
I see, so the leader of the group is probably this rugged-looking guy, Barnar. The short guy is Norkus and the tall one is Oorde.
"My name is Akira, nice to meet you."
"I am Mizu."
After listening to her introduction all the three looked at her simultaneously. Oh! Boy they are annoying me.
Maybe after sensing tense atmosphere Barnar spoke to me.
"Yeah, same here…by the way, if I am correct then you are swordman and then your teammate would be magician right."
He said this after seeing the sword on my waist and empty-handed Mizu.
"You are partially correct, since not only I can use sword, but I have some magic spells and Mizu is bare-handed expert."
I said giving them some details as not to mess with us.
"Ok-k"
"Let's get ready to depart."
After that we prepared for departure and soon afterwards: the horse carriage travelled fast, as the town quickly became smaller and smaller. We boarded the two carriages.
After a little while Oorde looked toward Mizu, apparently, he couldn't contain himself anymore and asked her the question.
"Miss Mizu what is you relation with Sir Akira?"
After listening to her question Barnas and Norkus both looked at Mizu hoping for a answer.
"She is my wife. If you even think about her, I will make sure to send you to Yama."
After listening to me they flinched and decided not to annoy us.
After that Barnae asked few questions to lighten to mood between us.
"Quite bold of you to say that I am your wife."
"If you want to get harassed by them then go ahead and say that I was lying about our relation."
"Why sour?"
I looked her eye and grabbed her chin without actually putting any force.
Damn! She sure is soft, I can feel that even after disguising her skin texture didn't change.
"Mizu, the outside world is not simple. Even you are strong, you have to remain vigilant."
"Enemies will not always attack from front but always try to poke at your weak point."
After saying that I didn't bother to look at her.
As the time passes for few more like that, we took a small break and have lunch. Our lunch was packed by Inn Mistress and due to my Item box, it was still fresh.
Suddenly, my detect presence skill picked up something.
I check the map – a sub skill of Eye of Existence and found more than 20 presences on the path of the carriage.
Daas did say that bandits appear often around here right…
Barnar's party was rank C, so they might have had a hard time dealing with so many opponents.
I looked toward Mizu, and she also noticed the presence but was unable to understand their purpose was frowning deep. I doubt she will understand anything about bandits.
I decided to ignore her for a while and informed the merchant, the coachman and Barnar's group about the human presence ahead of us, so they would be alert.
After we proceeded some more, the human presence displayed on the map jumped out in the open.
"Stop the carriage, now!! Leave all your luggage and get lost. Or you're going to lose your lives too, savvy?"
The man in the lead of the group, probably the leader, barked an order.
Hmm… they really were bandits, after all.
We and Barnar's party quickly got off the carriage towards the bandits.
"Damn, there's 20 of them…"
Barner's tone betrayed his concern, but I replied calmly.
"There are actually more of them, 2 are hidden in the bushed and 2 more in the tall grass over there. The last one is hiding behind that tree."
Hearing me precisely spot his hidden comrades, who were impossible to see from our position, the leader of the bandit's couldn't help but express his surprise.
"H-how do you know!?"
"Huh! How about you guess how I knew their position!?"
I decided to sound mysterious because it will look. Heh! just kidding who will reveal theiur abilities to enemies.
After listening to me the leader snorted and the thieves in hiding came out too, visibly frustrated, and approached their leader.