Night.
Shirou walked alone on the streets of Zant Port. He spent a lot of time convincing Eris to let him act alone, but he finally got Eris to agree to his request.
Right now, he had an eye patch on his right eye to hide his Clairvoyance. He carried the Sword of Assured Victory and the Avalon sheath wrapped in cloth on his back. He had the Fake Magic Sword Wind Break hanging on his waist, and he brought the Emerald Bow and Ruijerd's spear that Laws had given him a long time ago.
After making all the preparations, he embarked on this trip.
When Giles issued the request, he gave him a clear address, but did not specify a specific time, only saying that it would be anytime after sunset.
This meant that Shirou could move at any time he chose.
Of course, Shirou's actions should be as quick as possible.
After all, Ruijerd was now pretending to be a slave to complete the plan and had been caught by the smugglers. Shirou also wanted to save the other slaves caught by the smugglers. So, he had to act as quickly as possible to save everyone.
After preparing, Shirou soon arrived at a corner of the port and found a row of wooden warehouses standing side by side.
Shirou followed the order and entered the building with the number three warehouse written on it. He saw a man inside silently sweeping.
Shirou recalled what Giles had told him and said quietly, "Steve, is the treasure by the sea doing well?"
This strange sentence was a password, used by smugglers to make contact.
The man looked over suspiciously after hearing this, and said, "Boy, what's the matter?"
Shirou knew that the other person was wary of him. So, he slowly said, "My superior asked me to come here to pick up the goods."
"I see, come with me."
Hearing Shirou's words, the man from the smuggling organization seemed to accept it. He led Shirou silently into the interior of the warehouse.
Shirou patiently followed the member of the smuggling gang and entered the interior of the port warehouse. He found a hidden passage.
The two walked into the passage, which led to a damp cave.
They walked for about an hour in the cave.
After walking out of the cave, the two came to an environment that looked like a forest.
They walked a short distance further, and a large building appeared, hidden among the trees.
The exterior did not look like a warehouse, but more like a rich person's villa.
There was no doubt that this was where the slave traders kept their slaves.
"I think you should know, don't leak anything about this place. If you dare to say anything..."
"I know."
Shirou silently nodded.
However, although he was very cooperative on the surface, he was actually considering how to destroy this criminal den.
Putting aside Giles' request, the smuggling business these people were doing was illegal in itself.
Most importantly, they even committed the terrible act of human trafficking and slave trading.
This was something that Shirou could not allow no matter what.
Shirou could not stand by and watch such evil things happen in front of him. His heart of justice had not wavered at all.
"Knock, knock, knock, knock"
The slave trader didn't know what Shirou was thinking and knocked on the door in a special order.
After a while, a white-haired man wearing a butler's uniform appeared.
The butler man glanced at Shirou and said briefly, "Come in."
After entering the building, Shirou took a quick look at the environment inside, but before he could look for too long, he was stopped and questioned by the white-haired butler.
The other person was very strict and went over the story with Shirou several times.
If Giles hadn't provided a perfect response, there would definitely have been a flaw.
"I know the situation. Go take away your slave. Keeping that thing is too scary."
The slave traders clearly already knew that Ruijerd was a Superd. They must have checked the goods.
Right now, he showed his fear of the Superd without hesitation. He took out a string of keys from his pocket and handed them to the man who brought Shirou.
"In room 202."
"Okay."
After completing the process, Shirou was finally able to see Ruijerd.
The other person was locked in the deepest part of the house. It was clear that he was being treated very badly. The room was full of traps and guards.
Having been imprisoned for a whole week, Ruijerd's shaved head had even started to grow green hair.
"Don't open the handcuffs here, because if the Superd goes crazy, there's no way to deal with it."
The smuggler looked at Ruijerd with a fearful expression, clearly having a very serious psychological shadow of the Superd.
Shirou didn't pay too much attention to this and went straight to Ruijerd's side.
Ruijerd had already noticed his arrival and said decisively, "Shirou, get your ear closer."
"What's wrong?"
"There are children captured here, seven in total."
"This..."
"Most of them are beast folk children. It seems they were forcibly kidnapped from the great forest by these slave traders. You can hear their cries here."
"..."
Hearing Ruijerd's words, Shirou's expression couldn't help but become serious.
He realized that this incident was indeed not simple.
This group of smugglers was not only doing smuggling business, but was also involved in the even worse human trafficking, even directly abducting people.
Neither Shirou nor Ruijerd would allow such evil things to happen before their eyes.
"Giles didn't tell us clearly who we needed to save. It seems we should be able to save everyone who is being held here."
"Yeah, let's do that."
Ruijerd agreed with Shirou's idea.
The two looked at each other tacitly. Then, Shirou untied Ruijerd's restraints and handed him the spear from his bag.
"Be careful, there are a lot of guards here."
"I know better than you. I won't let any of the bastards who kidnapped children go!"
Ruijerd finished speaking in a calm voice, and suddenly his body emitted an extremely terrifying killing intent.
Shirou did not stop him from doing this, but allowed him to take action, not intending to act first.
After all, when it came to killing people, Shirou was more or less not as skilled and adapted as the battle-hardened Superd.
Although he didn't care about killing or not, and had already left a lot of blood debts on his hands, Shirou still had a long way to go to be able to kill people casually and without any burden, like Servant Emiya and Ruijerd.
However, Shirou was also surprised, because he felt that Ruijerd's anger was more exaggerated than he had imagined.
The other person was usually a very good-tempered person. Even if he encountered a group of child kidnappers and traffickers, he wouldn't become so angry.
Shirou couldn't understand the situation at once and could only watch Ruijerd act.
The other person's strength as a quasi-emperor was still quite terrifying. The moment he broke free, he directly grabbed the smuggler who had brought Shirou here.
"You, how can you unlock the handcuffs?!"
The smuggler looked at Shirou angrily, in disbelief.
"Ruijerd, do it."
Shirou completely ignored the other person and gave Ruijerd an order.
Ruijerd didn't have any extra reaction either. He directly pierced the smuggler's throat with his spear, silently completing this execution, and then rushed to the stairs, still without making any noise.
In a situation where no one could react at all, Ruijerd began his ruthless slaughter.
Shirou originally wanted to go over to help, but he found that Ruijerd, who was full of anger, didn't need his help at all. He could only turn around to save the people locked up in other places.
"Waaaaaah!"
"It's... it's the Superd! The handcuffs have been opened!"
"It's a demon! Ahhh! A demon has appeared!"
Ignoring the various screams coming from afar, Shirou came to the deeper part of the mansion and saw several boys and girls with uneasy expressions in a dimly lit room.
Each of them had different ears, beast ears or elf ears. There were four girls and three boys, most of them under ten years old.
Each child was completely naked, with their hands cuffed behind their backs and their bodies curled up in a ball.
The young girls were stripped naked and handcuffed.
Most of the children looked like they had been crying, and some of them had bruises on their faces.
Perhaps to prevent the children from crying, each child's mouth was taped shut.
Having never imagined that there would be such a tragic scene, Shirou finally understood where Ruijerd's anger came from and realized that these smugglers could die ten thousand times and it still wouldn't be enough.
Shirou quickly forced open the door and unlocked the handcuffs for the children who had fallen to the ground, and removed all kinds of restraints.
"T... that... are you...?"
Although it was in the language of the beast folk, Shirou was completely able to understand it for some special reason that he himself didn't know.
He replied with words of comfort, "Don't be afraid, I'm here to save you. Don't worry, I'll send you home."
"This..."
The boys and girls looked at each other, their eyes full of unease and suspicion.
Shirou knew that he couldn't gain their trust immediately. So, he took out Avalon.
The magic stones inside this sheath had originally been completely used up by Eris. Right now, there was only a little bit of magic power left, and Shirou simply used it all up.
Under the warm light, the injuries on the bodies of several beast folk children were immediately relieved.
"Thank you... Waaah... for saving us..."
A girl with dog ears thanked him while shyly covering her body.
Shirou felt the children's shame. After thinking about it, he simply used Projection Magic to project a few cloaks and put them on them.
"Is this magic?"
"You could say so."
Shirou didn't explain Projection Magic too much, but after letting the children all break free, he asked them if there was anyone else being held here.
In response, a cat-eared beast folk girl suddenly excitedly said, "We have to save the Holy Beast, meow!"
"Meow? Holy Beast?"
Putting aside her strange catchphrase, Shirou realized that there was another important person being held here. That might be the person Giles wanted him to rescue.
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