Mushoku Tensei: That One forgotten Mob

Chapter 3 E3 Chapter 34
: Holy Millis Kingdom

[Claude POV]

As we entered the capital, I could already feel the atmosphere.

"Hey, Claude, What are you doing? "

Rudeus called me, and I just ignored him. Knowing the 3rd Claude Memory situation, I already knew he would somehow or another be fighting with Paul.

There are several things that I want to change while we are on our journey.

However, I can’t.

Somehow or another, the story will be focused on the main timeline.

There’s some path already there, so I need to follow it. There will be some change, but not so much.

I don’t know what Rudy is obnoxious about, so I grab his mouth and glare at him.

"What?" I said, irritated.

"Wibe arrived at the ibb already!"

Oh, we’ve arrived at the inn already. I need to focus more on my surroundings and stop minding Geese.

He’s not a threat right now, and he’d be a source of information about where Zenith will be. Eris and Ruijerd entered the room as I let Rudy go, while Geese suddenly said

"You two are close."

"Well, he’s my childhood friend, after all. There’s no way I will be far from him. "

"Not many of the childhood ties can last, you know? Even my party members lived their own lives after the party disbanded. " Geese expressed his sadness.

"Well, that’s what life is. Partings will be another kind of bond by themselves. As long as you still maintain a good relationship with each other, you can still meet and greet new people along the way. Won’t that be more amusing? "

"Hahaha, I sometimes doubt you were a child, like Rudeus and Eris."

Geese suddenly said

"Want to try being sent to a dungeon for 7 months and survive there?" I said teasingly.

"Hah, no thanks. Surely, I will die on the first night. "

He’s someone nice.

I know that, but someone like him is easily used by the bad guys...

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[Somar POV]

The Holy Milis Kingdom.

I am Somar.

Out of the 3, I am the most normal.

I should be your average mob if I am in a story.

Well, leaving that aside,

After we bullied Sylphy and counterattacked by Rudeus, we were back to our home. But, my mother used that timing to get close to Paul and blame him for Rudeus's fault. The fact that my mom injured me the most is the fact I can’t deny.

Leaving aside Claude's after-effect, it was until Paul was found cheating with his maid that my mother stopped her lingering affection for Paul and started to get closer to my father.

Even though he is from the countryside, my father adores my mother.

He’d do anything for her and often neglect me.

After the incident, I thought he spent more time with me.

His affection for my mother didn’t stop, but he restrained himself. My father didn’t want to make my mother feel neglected, but his disappointment stopped him from doting on her.

Thus, leaving her alone and spending more time with me became his way of forgetting that disappointment.

Later, when Claude suddenly became the youngest village guardian, I felt my own lack.

Then, I learned more about my father's job as the village carpenter.

Several months later, in the name of training. Claude started to bully the kids in the village, including me.

"Run! Claude is here! "

While ordering the children older and younger than me, I said

We all ran from his training.

His training is too spartan.

He told us to run around the village several times.

Then, we swing our wooden sword with our life depending on it.

When we returned, our parents just smiled at us and then treated us while whispering about the danger of those slave traders.

Damn it, what did he do to our parents?

The coalition of Buena Village children was then created.

We created this group to defy Claude’s tyranny.

Using all we can, we gather information.

I, as the leader, learn about espionage every day. Of course, we learned about it together.

It took us months of grueling training from Claude until we could act according to our purpose.

"Delta, what’s the current target location?"

"He’s currently supervising the road’s construction. He’s been diligently doing his daily schedule. Delta, over "

"Alpha confirmed. Go and hide now. "

"Delta confirmed."

Thanks to Claude's training, we can act like a weasel.

We’re able to detect him within the surrounding 30 meters.

Using that, we always hid before he found us.

"Teta, here… HELP!!!"

Kuh... Teta is dead.

"Alpha to all, run for your life! Claude has got Teta! "

Of course, we do not always succeed...

As we learn, it is the same with Claude.

The only time we’ve got a break is when he goes to Roa with Mike.

Even so, every day we learn new things.

We study the book. Claude wrote zealously about espionage and hiding from a threat.

Well, it’s kind of weird for him to suddenly drop a book he wrote himself.

Then, this book was the perfect thing for us to deal with him.

In addition, he’d drop another diary about our weak points, where he could find us and where they could be improved.

If I think about it more, it was definitely his plan.

His damn mind is too insidious...

To think that he prepared us for this occasion...

That day, the light engulfed us.

I was suddenly teleported to a place I didn’t know.

Then, while wandering around the place, I can see more people gathering in my surroundings. It seems that I’m being teleported to the middle of a town.

Using my experience from dealing with Claude in the village

The first thing I did was put more information together.

This place is a town where crime is a daily occurrence.

A criminal town in the Holy Kingdom of Millis.

I can see my subordinates being held in the slave market. There are also other crying children.

As expected from my subordinate, he looked so calm.

Using our code, we converse with each other.

It seems code name Beta has succeeded in infiltrating the slavers' hideout and gathering more information about what happened.

Using the weak point we’ve found on the slave market, we succeed in wreaking havoc in the criminal city.

It took us a while, but we’ve safely rescued everyone that was getting caught by the smuggler. We can also see several beast-race people. They said that they were kidnapped from the great forest by the smugglers.

Leaving that aside, it took us 3 months to wreak havoc throughout the criminal city. At that time, we also learn the Beast God’s language.

Information is knowledge.

Knowledge is power.

Know thy foe and thyself.You can win every battle.

It was the word we read in Claude’s book.

Using that as our guidepost, we continue to learn and become better every day.

It took us another month to create an information guild within the criminal city and save more people within the criminal city.

As the day passed, almost every kid from Buena Village was there.

Even now, we still gather information and save more people.

Thus, by creating larger information networks while slowly controlling the criminal city from the shadows...

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[Edited 06/29/2022]