[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-isekai-nonbiri-nouka":3,"chapter-isekai-nonbiri-nouka-isekai-nonbiri-nouka-chapter-567":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Isekai Nonbiri Nouka",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1395172,1848,"Chapter 567 – Footprint of the Bandits","isekai-nonbiri-nouka-chapter-567",567,"\u003Cp>Shit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shit shit shit shit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How did this happen?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My name is Astra.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’m the leader of a famous bandit group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-0-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ll say it honestly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’m currently being threatened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By an unidentified opponent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you’re going to ask me why.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All I can say is it’s because of my mismanagement of my subordinates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They seem to have done something and steal from a certain adventurer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s a normal thing to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, if you want someone to take responsibility, go to my subordinates and not to me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What do you want me to do?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You want me to correct my men’s mistake?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If we’re going to do it in our own way, I’ll just kick them out and we’re done…..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s not….what you want.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-0-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Subordinates….I’m so angry at you so I’ll just call you idiots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These idiots seem to have sold the stolen things from the adventurers to a merchant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s a normal thing to do. We’re going to sell it to a merchant at a certain price but the merchant should not disclose that we’re the ones who sold it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the unidentified opponent wants us to steal it back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Troublesome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In addition, the merchant who they sold it to will sell it in an auction in a certain city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The unidentified opponent ordered us to chase the merchant to recover the stolen thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s difficult but we have no choice but to do it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If we don’t do it, we might just become a corpse in this place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The strength of the unidentified opponent is overwhelming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Believe this or not, the unidentified opponent annihilated my over one hundred subordinates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, if you want to recover what was stolen, shouldn’t you hold back a little bit?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By chance, is the unidentified opponent a muscle head?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This makes things more dangerous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let’s do our best.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Our target is only a merchant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We can take care of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ehto…..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There are about….only 30 of us who can still move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I left half of them to treat the others who couldn’t move and started to act.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-0-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The target merchant is heading to the place where the auction will be held but since he’s still trading on the way, we can’t predict his route.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the number of my subordinates has decreased, it is also impossible to say choose randomly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But we know where the auction will be held.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We just need to go there ahead of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s just a little far away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The travel expenses will be no joke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If our money runs out, we just need to do our usual banditry. But of course, I want to minimize our actions since we’re outside our territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If we do poorly, we will turn the bandits of that area into our enemies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If that happens, we’ll live a fugitive life and we can’t even sleep properly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That would be a problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And so, we cut down our spending and even find temporary jobs while traveling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a long journey that lasted two months.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When we arrived in the city, I was a little tearful feeling a strange sense of accomplishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, our aim is not to arrive at the place where the auction will be held but to retrieve an item from a certain merchant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First of all, negotiation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it is useless, we can only steal it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If we do it grandly, we will offend the bandits of this place. However, we will only rob a merchant that lives in our territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They might be able to accept it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyway, we waited for the merchant to arrive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The auction is more than a month away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We decided to look for a day job to earn our stay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-0-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When we got used to the city, we got acquainted with laborers while doing our preliminary inspection of the auction venue and thinking about how we’re going to steal it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But a shocking news came in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The auction will be held in another city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the preparations we’ve don’t so far have been wasted and my vision even darkened….but I regained my calm immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you’re working as a bandit, it is normal for targets to act unexpectedly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I shouldn’t panic. Calm down and deal with it. I should be able to come up with something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After listening to the detailed story, the new auction venue is Village Five.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s just a day away from Shashaato City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s nearby so there shouldn’t be any problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, there’s also a change in the auction schedule.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The event will be held next week.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s too short.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, if we move now, we might be able to do something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I thought the auction is still far ahead so I still have to work on my job for some time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if I’m a bandit, I still keep my promises.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let’s be honest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s because we don’t have money so we can’t move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn it! Who made the food at Marla so delicious!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Me and my men can’t stop eating!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We can’t even save money!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let’s continue eating!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today is our last day at Marla!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-0-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We managed to arrive at Village Five on the day of the auction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The screening to enter the city is unexpectedly strict.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not just our obvious weapons, even our hidden weapons were found and confiscated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What’s going on?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maa, I don’t really care because I don’t need hidden weapons this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rather than that, the auction venue….\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is very obvious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thank goodness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, we can’t approach it carelessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First of all, information gathering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ramen street?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maa, eating is important.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was surprised to see noble ladies on a seat nearby but I concentrated on eating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have to use chopsticks after all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this is no problem for us who were trained at Marla.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You have to eat there using chopsticks too unless you’re eating curry which you have to eat with a spoon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A noble lady is teaching the other noble ladies how to use chopsticks….don’t overdo it. You can try eating it using a fork.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I enjoyed ramen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s delicious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-0-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I would like to convince myself that it was already too late even before we came here and not because we took our time eating ramen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We managed to contact our target merchant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is no longer possible to recover the target item by using negotiations……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s because the merchant already sent the item to the auction so it is no longer with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If we managed to get that item by bidding, there shouldn’t be a problem in getting it back but if it falls into another rich person’s hand, it will be impossible to get it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It can’t be helped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I threatened the merchant and instructed him to buy the thing back by using his own money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The merchant knew me so he nodded obediently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What a relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-0-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that’s not possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the seller can bid on the item, there’s a possibility of the seller raising prices.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So basically, it is prohibited for sellers to bid on their own items.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But there’s a way out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only the seller is prohibited to bid on the item.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of that, the merchant asked his merchant acquaintance to bid for the item up to the price of a gold coin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, if the bidder got the item and wasn’t able to pay it on time, the credibility of that bidder will fall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the auction, someone bids for an incredible amount which is something we can’t compete against.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeah.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It can’t be helped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We don’t want to do this but we have no choice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The guys guarding the auction are patrolling the venue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We set up a camp at a place where the venue is visible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We’ll attack at once, rob, and escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wanted to eat ramen again but….it can’t be helped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I can’t turn that unidentified opponent into an enemy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ll do my best.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And, merchant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What kind of guy outbid you?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tell me what he looks like and his clothes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if you tell his name, I won’t be able to recognize him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s a group with a girl riding on a man’s shoulder?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is he carrying her like that all the time?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everytime they move?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What a good father and daughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maa, good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ll try not to kill them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, forgive me for injuring you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We waited a little and found the group with a girl riding a man’s shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There are a lot of them but….half of them are women.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s good to go.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My subordinates also signaled that there won’t be a problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alright, let’s go!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I came forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And we were attacked by the residents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Excuse me?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We got caught.\u003C\u002Fp>",1469,"2026-06-05T23:08:31.360Z",1,"novelbin.me","66579709e6121360b889fb5cfbc5f51617ef3b56492184a9dc04768741627e18","isekai-nonbiri-nouka-chapter-568","isekai-nonbiri-nouka-chapter-566",1036,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fisekai-nonbiri-nouka-cover.jpg"]