The Babysitter Wants to Stop Dying

Chapter 39: A Sensible Person Among the Unsensible

Was it because Marvas was gone?

The sky was breathtakingly clear. The twinkling of the moon and stars above the dark blue sky could be felt with my whole body.

“Well then. It's time for judgment.”

I, who had been momentarily intoxicated by the night sky, couldn't believe the sight before me as soon as I arrived at the village.

The villagers, beaten to a bloody pulp and tied up in a row. Phillip, naturally deploying his shield to block me and Delphi. And Romero, lightly warming up and standing in front of the people.

This, don't tell me……!

I leaped out of the shield and stood in front of Romero.

“Wait a minute! Are you going to kill them all?”

“Well, of course?”

A sense of unease washed over me at her, who was smiling brightly and adjusting her suit.

“Weren't we trying to catch the devil? Even if these people have committed a serious crime, there's no need to kill them all!”

……Although it seems those two over there are already dead.

“Whaat? Arsen, are you serious?”

Romero, who had replied like that, tilted her head to the side at a strange angle and looked at me. As if she couldn't understand, she blinked her eyes for a moment, and then,

“Ahahahaha!”

She suddenly burst out laughing with a look of disbelief.

Phillip and Delphi also looked at me, but the usually talkative Phillip didn't open his mouth. As if he didn't want to do anything that would get him on Romero's bad side right now.

And they themselves looked as if they wanted the people in front of them to be executed.

What followed was,

“What on earth are you talking about, good friend.”

A voice that sounded like it was gently chiding.

Romero wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and shook her head as if she couldn't be helped. Then she flashed her eyes and murmured.

“They offered a sacrifice to a devil. A living sacrifice at that! All who worship devils must be annihilated. Because that's my job.”

A voice tinged with laughter could not have sounded so menacing.

But this was still not right. Of course, I agreed with killing the bad guys.

But I saw it.

What I had seen mixed in with my vision while dodging the attacks of the corpses was definitely Taka Village after today.

“The devil you revered was killed by those travelers! The devil is gone now!”

“Either leave, or quietly help with the village work. I won't kick you out for old times' sake.”

“I told you we should just kick them out!”

“Please, just let us stay in the village……”

“I-I was wrong. I'm begging you like this, please!”

The villagers, confronting each other with plows and rusty swords, which I had seen in a blurry scene.

Since one side had only four people, I hadn't connected them to the guys I saw on the mountain, even with the old man and Emma. But seeing the two dead men over there, the numbers matched perfectly.

In other words, most of this village were not worshippers.

Other than the people who threw us into the pit, the rest were people who had been forced into silence out of fear of Marvas.

It was more fitting to say that the worshippers, including Emma and the old man, had threatened the villagers with the devil on their side.

'How do I persuade them? I can't just say, I actually see the future randomly.'

My mouth was itching, but I reaffirmed my plan to only play the role of an immortal until I had perfectly mastered my ability. I didn't particularly welcome an increase in my workload in the group.

'Ha, this is driving me crazy.'

Right. To be honest, the rest are bystanders.

Bystanding is also a sin.

Didn't it mean that they just watched, knowing about the deaths of the innocent travelers who had died so far?

But I know that the common sense of Astava is different from my own, but this is not right. Just because they were bystanders, they're going to kill them all?

Well, it's too decisive to just kill them as soon as they're judged to be Devil worshippers without even listening to them. Come to think of it, didn't Camila Ingram also have a public rumor of being a Devil worshipper, but didn't she grovel before that person?

From my perspective, having learned the situation, I couldn't just stand by and watch.

I looked at Phillip and Delphi with a face that said, 'What are you doing, not stopping her?', but the two of them didn't seem to have any intention of intervening.

As if they had no way of stopping Romero, who had already lost her senses, they just shrugged their shoulders.

“Wait a minute. Just wait a minute, Ms. Romero.”

“Move aside, Arsen. I like good friends, but I don't particularly like people who go against justice.”

What's wrong with her? Why did she suddenly become a crazy psycho?

Justice?

In the comics and novels I've read, nine out of ten people who look for that are villains. At the very least, there's no sane person among those who prattle on about justice.

“Now. Hurry up and move. Don't worry, I'll be the one to carry out the execution.”

Romero's red eyes glinted in the moonlight as she strode towards me.

She's supposed to be the strongest, did she trade all her intelligence for physical strength?

How can a person be so extreme?

Think. What kind of words would this person listen to at once?

It was then.

“Uung-.”

The baby carrier was pulled. Lottie squirmed, perhaps to readjust his position.

'Ah!'

This is it.

“Lottie is!”

“Hm?”

“Lottie is watching, isn't he!”

“……Uung?”

Romero, who was raising her hand, flinched.

***

“Anyway, the Professor's eye for people is scary. Arsen, I'm seeing you in a new light.”

“I know, right. To use his nephew as an excuse there. Wow, I never would have thought of that.”

“Come to think of it, if he killed innocent people, that wouldn't be right, would it?”

“Excuse me? Since when did you think about such things, sunbae…… Ah! Seriously! It hurts! Stop hitting me!”

At Delphi and Phillip's praise, which wasn't really praise, I just raised the corners of my mouth without a word.

Using Lottie was very effective. At the words that Lottie was watching, Romero's red eyes, which had been gleaming like a madwoman's, suddenly subsided. She also lowered her raised hand.

After fidgeting for a moment, she looked back and forth between the villagers who were crying and begging for their lives and Lottie, and then she scrunched up her face as if she had encountered a serious problem.

And then, after a long, long deliberation, she said.

“……Let's hear what the people have to say.”

No, in the first place, how could she not even think of listening to their stories once?

Anyway, this culture of Rankers' summary judgments. I still didn't understand it, but at least a brake was put on the absurd situation.

The people who were awake trembled and rambled on, even about things they weren't asked, but they all gave pretty much the same answer.

That besides those six, there were no devil worshippers. They said they were threatened with being offered as a sacrifice to the devil if they didn't cooperate.

Romero didn't seem to believe them much, but in the end, she decided not to kill them.

From my perspective, it didn't seem like she believed in the innocence of the others, but rather that she was just burdened by the thought of killing a lot of people next to her nephew, but what could I say? Since it was a decision made after a sort of interrogation, I just kept my mouth shut.

Stopping the massacre is enough, right?

What does the reason matter?

“If you get involved with devils again, or if you ever mention us to anyone else in the future, I'll make you just like those two over there. Do you all understand? Emma, do you understand?”

As Romero, who had given up on the execution, straightened her suit jacket, Phillip glared and growled, and Emma nodded her head so hard it looked like it would fall off.

Her creepily smiling face was gone, and she looked like she had been through a war for months, unable to even make eye contact.

After Phillip's threat, which I wondered if it would be effective, was over, the Knights instantly struck the necks of the conscious people.

“This way, they won't know which direction we went.”

“……They're not dead, are they?”

“People are surprisingly tough.”

Delphi replied as I covered Lottie's eyes and asked.

They were definitely crazy people.

No, is this a crazy world?

***

Looking only at the results, the visit to Taka Village itself wasn't actually bad. At any rate, didn't the three of them stop thinking of me as just Lottie's babysitter?

However…….

“The Vice-Captain said you dodged the undead's attacks like this. With a 'hunch' like that, isn't that practically a superhuman ability? To be able to dodge while holding a child!”

The fact that I had overcome the crisis by copying Lottie's premonition ability had caused an unexpected ripple effect.

“……I told you I have a good hunch.”

But it wasn't that I didn't welcome it.

The attention was a bit burdensome, but, well…… thanks to it, I felt like I had gained a small foothold in the group, where I had felt like I was just tagging along.

After packing our things at Emma's house and getting ready, we stood in the yard. The sky was already starting to turn blue, signaling the coming of dawn.

“Shall we get going.”

Romero, who had stretched, let out a long yawn and started to walk. The direction was the same as when we had entered the village last night.

“Wait a minute.”

I stopped the Knights, who were naturally heading towards the place where the cargo wagon and the driver were. The three of them looked at me with quizzical eyes.

“Don't the Knights want to stand out as little as possible?”

……Although we've already made such a flashy mess.

I let out a small groan as I looked at the people of Taka Village, all tied up and unconscious. They had hit their necks so hard that not a single one of them had opened their eyes yet.

If I hadn't seen the future, it was a state where I might have thought that the Knights had lied to me about not killing them and had broken their necks.

In the first place, I don't even know if they're following that meaningless rule of hiding their identities as much as possible. It's a miracle they haven't been properly revealed to the public until now…….

Ah. They must have killed everyone so far, so it didn't matter.

Most of the people who reported sightings of the Knights were not related to crime. They had been rescued in an emergency or had seen the battle from afar.

The ones they fought against were villains from the start, so there was no way they could have survived.

“I guess so? But why?”

Romero tilted her head as if I were asking the obvious. Her cruel side from when she was beating Marvas to a pulp was nowhere to be seen, and her gentle face was staring at me blankly.

“Then shouldn't we give up on the cargo wagon? If the driver finds out later that Taka Village became like this, it'll be obvious that we did it.”

“Since we spared these guys, isn't it obvious that they'll talk about us? They might not know we're the Knights, but they'll probably blab about our descriptions.”

Delphi shrugged her shoulders as she kicked the unconscious bald man.

“Even if they wake up, they probably won't report it to the sheriff for a while. It seems they've made a lot of symbols of Marvas's followers all over the village, and if they get caught, it's a capital offense for all of them, isn't it?”

“Hmm. Is that so? Well, it's not a big deal even if we get caught, so Arsen, don't worry too much.”

No, then why did you even talk about hiding your identities? They were a group of people with no principles.

“I said let's go!”

Just as I was feeling dumbfounded by Phillip's words, Romero, who had already started off alone, shouted.

“She has no patience. I wonder when our Vice-Captain will grow up.”

With Phillip's grumbling, everyone started to walk. And so, as we left the village entrance we had come in through, we said goodbye to Taka Village.

'Anyway, it was the perfect choice.'

As I went down the slope, I was once again satisfied with having saved the lives of the villagers.

In fact, from the Knights' perspective, it could have been felt as an interference forced by a newbie. They had their own ways, after all.

I stepped in because it was so extreme that I couldn't just stand by and watch.

But it was an excellent choice. Preventing the massacre of Taka Village was a very meaningful action.

[Achievement - Salvation of Innocent Lives!]

[You have saved the lives of many who would have tragically disappeared!]

[You were not swayed by the humiliation you suffered or the situation before you.]

[Proving your qualification to save the world!]

[A new clue will be acquired!]

<4th Clue>

Be wary of the Association President. He does not possess an ordinary sense of justice.

Clue Accumulation Rate 4/5

The fourth clue.

I finally got it.