The "Master swordsman” who was reincarnated, wants to live freely - Chapter 97

Translator: Paul | Editor: Nebosuke

I left the crime scene to the knights that had arrived late, while I listened to Iris’ story.

Her swimsuit was torn in her chest area, so I gave her my coat for the time being.

— The moment I arrived the battle had already finished.

The body of the Swordsman Gang member was decapitated, by a single strike.

Whatever had happened her became vaguer by the minute.

Just a while back I had found the body of the fortune teller that Lastille had left behind, and now I find Lastille herself dead, after her fight with Iris.

But Iris didn’t kill Lastille – I knew that before I arrived someone else had decapitated her.

“… It seemed as if she came from above.. and killed her with a single strike”

Iris said as she went over what happened.

Lastille was killed by a girl in a kimono. She showed herself in front of Iris but disappeared as soon as I arrived on the scene it seems.

“She killed the Swordsman Gang member with one strike… I see. I don’t really know the extent of this person’s power, but they’re a Swordsman Gang member. To kill someone like that requires a trained hand.

“..Yes. I tried to stop her too, but she took a stance as if to say, “It will be a duel to the death”

“Then it was the right choice not to dabble into these affairs. Even with the Swordsman Gang, you should be careful”

“…Uhm, Mr. Schweiss. Did you know that the Swordsman Gang member was in this town?”

Iris asked, with a rather troubled look on her face.

Just now I had told Alia not to inform Iris about this ordeal. But the fact that Iris has personally fought with a Swordsman Gang member was completely unforeseen.

The Swordsman Gang shouldn’t be after Iris either, and their attempt to lure me in by keeping Iris hostage seems to have failed too.

“That’s right, I did. I just had to hide that fact until now. It was my duty to deal with the Swordsman Gang member in this town. But now it seems that that duty has been met with an abrupt end”

“…Is that so…”

Iris’ answer to my explanation seemed rather fickle.

Almost as if she’s trying to hide something from me as well.

“Iris, back to the girl in the Kimono. Was her name Ruino Tomura?”

“! You know Ruino then?!”

Iris asked full of surprise. The girl, Ruino, has given Iris her name it seems.

She appeared before Iris and dealt with the Swordsman Gang … 

Ruino is also the person that appeared at the Belbasta Fort and put the Swordsman Gang member Roel Kresta into his grave.

“To say I don’t would be a lie, but it’s not like I know anything particularly interesting either. This is the truth. However, this girl, Ruino, is also killing Swordsman Gang members elsewhere”

“She’s killing… Mr. Schweiss, it might be a little bit hard to talk about this now but…”

Iris was clearly checking her surroundings for a moment.

It seemed like it was something the knights around us shouldn’t be hearing, so I moved next to Iris.

With a low voice, I spoke to Iris.

“What is it?”

“Ruino told me she had “helped the Knight’s order”. But this isn’t something you’re aware of, are you?”

“…The Knights order?”

This was new information to me. I’ve had plenty of information about Ruino from Remyl before, but what Iris is telling me now is a first.

Ruino suddenly shows up at this town near the beach, and kills a Swordsman Gang member — If she was actually going after the Swordsman Gang it wouldn’t be that strange, but…

The real issue lies in how she knew the Swordsman Gang member was going to be here.

“– Perhaps you should hear more about that from me instead”

“!”

Iris stood up to see whose voice it was. Soon her expression colored surprised.

I too was a tad bit surprised to see her here.

“Ein… What are you doing here?”

“It has been a while, Lady Reinfell. We’ll first prepare some clothing for you, so please wait a moment”

“Thank you very much. But, what is it that you want to talk about..?”

“It’s about Ruino. It first seemed as if you didn’t have much information… But that seems to have changed somehow”

“Ooh. Alta, ever since our talk much has changed indeed – As of right now Ruino Tomura is now working together with me and my knights of the Black Wolves Knight order”

“So number two… must mean the amount of Swordsman Gang members then… Ruino actually spoke the truth then..”

Iris seemed a bit troubled as she murmured these words. Was there something else weighing on her mind? — Whatever the case, we’re still talking about Ruino for now.

“And by working together you mean that you came here as well Captain? To take care of the Swordsman Gang member Lastille? If that were the case it’d be quite strange to also have me be deployed here”

“I also need to clarify about that, but… I too have something to ask of you. Alta, do you really not know Ruino Tomura? The talk we had before is still on my mind. Do you really have no clue as to who she is?”

Remyl asked, as her eyes became more focussed.

It seems like my doing of before has raised some questions. Before I just answered immediately to the situation, but that seems to instill some worry into Remyl as of now.

It’s nothing big… It’s just someone I know from my previous life… But there is no real need to tell her that now.

“I have some idea as to who that might be, but that’s about it. There really is no way that I know here, so she might even be someone else than I have in mind”

“…Is that so… Well, I can’t really rely on just that this time round. Within our current situation, I’d like you to talk. There are as of now four Swordsman Gang members left. One of them came directly into the Kingdom”

“! Into the Kingdom…?!”

Iris was surprised by what Remyl had said. 

They were supposed to be scattered about in various places, but one of them actually set foot inside the Kingdom.

Still, this information told me quite a lot already.

The Swordsman Gang member did not enter the Kingdom alone, it was together with Ruino.

And then she managed to bind herself to Remyl, and create a cooperation pact.

That would at least explain as to why both Remyl and Ruino came here.

To lure out a Swordsman Gang member into the Kingdom… What Iris was murmuring just before must be what Ruino had told her in regards to the number of members she had killed.

— But this doesn’t change anything. The member that set foot into the Kingdom wasn’t killed by Ruino, and there is still one more member hiding about in this town.