KonoSuba Chapter 81: Sneaking plan? (Patreon)

“Hey, Sato, are we really going to do this?”

“Of course, we are already here, could it be that you want to turn back?”

“But…”

Looking at the huge manor as well as the fully armed guards within it that did not seem to be good to offend, Aqua could not help but want to beat the drum of retreat.

“But that is a noble’s mansion, if we were found, we could really be sentenced to death!”

“You…”

Speechlessly looking at Aqua, Sato Hikaru released a long sigh: “Did you forget? You are Aqua, the Goddess of Water, for you to actually fear the power of a small noble, what are you thinking of?”

“Eh?”

Aqua seemed to have recalled her own identity, and said with a face full of surprise: “Right, I am a goddess!”

This brat is hopeless!

No longer paying attention to Aqua, this goddess who had just reacted and started to become idiotically happy, Sato Hikaru looked at the mansion in front of him, and drew a simple drawing below his feet, then looked at the surrounding environment again before starting to think of their plan of action.

That’s right, right now Sato Hikaru and his team were outside the mansion of the lord of Axel.

Originally, Sato thought this matter was not that urgent.

He was nothing more than a clown, who if not due to the support of the demon behind him, could be easily crushed to death.

Furthermore, yesterday he had worked hard to subjugate the multi-headed water snake, then played too crazily. That’s why Sato Hikaru truly wanted to go back to the inn and rest.

After properly recharging the batteries, he came to investigate the following night.

But after Megumin and Aqua, who came back after acting cool, were told of this matter, Megumin immediately rejected Sato Hikaru’s suggestion.

This was how it went…

‘Sato, tomorrow, your identity during the interrogation would have truly become suspect!’

‘You should take this opportunity to investigate him when the other party had yet to know that you have subjugated the multi-headed water snake, and was not prepared. Otherwise, there might be some unknown changes!”

These kinds of words, completely ignoring Sato Hikaru’s ‘what interrogation, it was a helper in investigation!’ and ‘so what if he had prepared or not, if not possible, we could just break in forcefully then kill everyone who saw it, then no one would have seen us coming!” and other rebuttals.

Forcefully persuaded Chris and the rest, and in the end pulled Sato Hikaru along for a night run to this place to feed the mosquito.

“Tsk, that’s why I said that we should move tomorrow, just nice that we could use the next day to collect some information, at least we should have investigated the layout of the mansion clearly, right?”

After drawing out everything that Sato Hikaru could observe, he shook his head frustratedly as he looked at the many rooms that were marked with ‘?’ mark.

“According to the observation from the outside, this mansion had at least twenty something rooms, excluding the underground cellar and prison as well as secret rooms.

“Right now, we are not even clear about the function of each room, to recklessly intrude, not to mention looking for clues, it could be considered not bad for us not to get lost.”

“Then, should we go back?”

Hearing Sato Hikaru’s words, Megumin was obviously looking very reluctant: “We have already come here, then could it be that we are going to leave without trying?”

“That is not the case”

Looking at the reluctant Megumin, Sato Hikaru sighed and continued to point at the drawing and said: “Although there are three teams of guards patrolling the yard, it is still very easy to get in the mansion since it is so big.”

“The main thing is the layout, number of people, patrol path within the mansion and all of these were unknown. So our movements must be very careful, my suggestion is for all of you to support us from outside, both me and Chris, who have learned stealth skills, will go inside.”

“Hey…”

Hearing Sato Hikaru’s words, Aqua was immediately unhappy: “Just waiting outside is very boring, furthermore this place is full of mosquitoes, do you want us to just feed the mosquitoes here?”

“That’s why I said from the beginning that you should not come!”

“But everyone else has come here, if I am the only one not coming, it feels like I was being abandoned.”

…

“…Never mind, I’ll just instruct your action plan outside here.”

Sighing, Sato Hikaru immediately turned towards Darkness and said: “Darkness, you and Megumin should go to this slope and look towards the mansion, if there was additional movement, immediately use explosion magic to destroy the surrounding wall on this side!”

“Are we going to break through from here?”

Looking at the place pointed by Sato Hikaru, Darkness nodded her head and said: “Indeed, if we come out from here, it is immediately the forest, as long as we hide in the forest, considering the current darkness, it is basically impossible to find us.”

“No, this place is just a feint, there should be dogs in this kind of mansion, although the darkness could affect human’s sight, but dogs could still depend on their nose for tracking, so, after Megumin had released the magic, immediately brought her away from this place.”

…

“Uh…”

Ignoring Darkness who was in an awkward situation due to guessing incorrectly, Sato Hikaru immediately looked at Yunyun after he finished speaking.

“Yunyun, you and Aqua should go to the other side where the lake is and wait on its other banks. Both of you only need to create a water fog using magic after Megumin had released her explosion magic then use wind system magic to blow the fog towards the mansion then leave this place.”

“I see.”

Darkness once again nodded her head: “Is it to swim through from the water, using it to wash away body’s odor to avoid the hunting dogs tracking? It is indeed a good method.”

“No, this place is also a feint, although the flowing water would wash away the smell, but that place is an open space, there is no place to hide, if we truly escape from this area, we will be quickly caught. This is only to let those who feel they are clever get some people to come to this side, and pull away the people from inside the mansion.”

“Guh…”

Darkness, who had her guess refuted twice in a row, bit her lips, looked at Sato Hikaru shamefully and angrily: “Then how are you going to retreat!”

“Retreat?”

Looking at Darkness, Sato Hikaru said with a strange expression: “Why do we want to retreat?”