After the Guild staff left, I immediately turned to Katuski.

"Do we have people here that we can get information about this group from?"

"I can get into contact with them today, Mistress. Shall I call for them right now?"

"Oh, you mean to call them here? I suppose that would speed things up. Can you do that?"

She nodded, "Please give me a moment."

Her figure then disappeared and I assume that she had gone out to look for the maids of the Nilm Family that were stationed in this town in particular.

I wondered what they might even be doing here since this was just a small town within the Elhiria Republic and there shouldn't be anything important within this town to warrant placing someone to survey this area…

Then again, I suppose it's thanks to this that we are even able to call them for information right now so that's a win win.

Just as I was thinking about returning back to the bedroom to wake the rest of the girls up, Katsuki suddenly reappeared in the exact same place she had disappeared from.

She immediately bowed her head, "Mistress, I have brought them. Should I call them in?"

Eh?! That was fast! I didn't even have time to get out of my seat, you know?!

Well, since they're already here, I see no reason not to let them come in.

I nodded at her and she turned towards the door, "Come in."

The door opened without a sound and a Trasif wearing a maid uniform stepped in.

I'm going to be honest, my first reaction was to check with [Screened] to make sure that she was a female Trasif and not just a really feminine male Trasif instead.

Thankfully, this one was female so I didn't need to worry about that and just admit right now that she's actually quite attractive.

The Trasif bowed her head, "Young Mistress, it is an honour for me to finally meet you and for me to be in your presence. Before anything… May I be allowed to speak freely for just a moment?"

Hmm? That's an odd request but I see no problem with it so I nodded at her to go ahead.

All of a sudden, the Trasif maid's demeanour changed and she rushed up to squeal at me.

"Ahhhhh!! Young Mistress!! You're so beautiful!! So pretty!! Your hair, your eyes, ahhh!! Even your hands! Your feet! Your boobs!! They're all so beautiful!!! If you would allow me to, please let me please you in bed some time~ I will do my best to make sure you have a good time!!"

…

That is… Certainly a really drastic change from the composed looking maid that had entered through the doorway earlier…

Are all Trasifs like this? Or is there some other reason why the Trasifs that approached me all have the same reactions to me?

The Trasif maid then made a lewd grabbing motion in front of my chest, "Young Mistress~ Can I indulge in them for just a moment? Ahhhh… Your boobs look so soft!! I want to just sink inside them!"

I didn't need to do anything because Katsuki was right behind her and immediately chopped her hand on top of the maid's head, snapping her out of it.

"You forget your place, sister," Katsuki admonished her.

"Ugh… I apologise… But it just can't be helped since it's the Young Mistress… And it's my first time meeting her face to face…" The other maid whined, stepping back to stand at a respectable distance away from me.

"Be that as it may," Katsuki continued, retracting her hand. "You still need to control yourself, especially in front of Mistress."

Wow… It's rare to see Katsuki being the one scolding her fellow maid sisters so this was a quite refreshing sight for me.

Deciding to change the topic, I turned to the Trasif maid in question and gestured towards the bounty posters that had been left on the table.

"Do you have any information about this group of illegal slavers? We got tasked with hunting them down since they intend to attack this town but we don't know where they are and when they are planning to assault this town…"

The Trasif straightened herself, returning back to the serious expression she had been showing me when she first stepped into the room.

"That is correct, Young Mistress. They intend to assault this town exactly three days from now while they prepare the supplies and equipment they needed for such a raid."

"So… You know where they are?"

"Of course, Young Mistress. Would you like me to guide you to them?"

"That would certainly be helpful… But there's one thing I'm curious about… I heard that the enchantment of the Tree of Life will prevent people who intend to harm the Trasifs from finding the towns and cities that have these saplings planted and cared for… Yet these illegal slavers are able to find them through the guidance of Trasif slaves which should not have worked as the enchantment also stops Trasifs being forced to guide others to these places against their will? Is there something going on?"

She nodded, "There is, Mistress. And I fully believe that the moment you show up in front of them, those Trasif slaves of theirs would instantly stop helping these illegal slavers anymore."

I tilted my head, "Well… That's to be expected since we will be there to save them to begin with? So the moment they know they will be saved, they will stop doing their bidding?"

The Trasif maid turned to Katsuki and raised an eyebrow, only for my Inugami maid to shake her head slightly at her like the both of them had just exchanged some kind of secret conversation.

What was that about?

I didn't get to ask them before the Trasif maid turned back to me, "You will understand once you see them, Young Mistress. I am ready to leave when you are."

"How far away are they? Will it take several days to reach them?"

She shook her head, "If we are to walk directly towards their hideout, it would take us about two hours to get to them."

I sucked in a breath, "Wait… Are you telling me that they are already so close to the town? That they could just come and attack this town in two hours if they wanted to and no one even realises that they are already there?"

"We know that they are there, Young Mistress," The Trasif maid gestured to herself.

"I meant aside from anyone related to us or the Nilm Family."

"Then yes, Young Mistress. No one else inside this town even knows about them. And they have already been camping there for about a week."

"I'm surprised they haven't already attacked this town yet…"

"That's because they are still breaking in the new Trasif slaves, Young Mistress. They usually only raid the next place once their newest batch of captives have been broken in. They would then use those new captives in the next raid and capture even more of them to be broken in as illegal slaves."

I frowned, "This sounds like they are building an army of sorts… Are they not capturing Trasifs as illegal slaves to sell them?"

"They do sell some of them but they keep most of them to supplement their own forces. As you have seen in front of you, the bounty posters all belong to the executives of this slaver group and the people they command are mostly made up of Trasif slaves. And just for your information, Young Mistress, the actual leader of the group isn't the one with the highest bounty amongst these posters."

"Eh? Did the Guild mistake someone else as the leader instead?"

"Not at all, Young Mistress. It's simply because the Guild doesn't even know who it is and thus, never was able to assign a bounty to them."

"Huh… So who is it?"

"They aren't important, Young Mistress, if that was what you were wondering. They are simply the leader of this illegal slaver group and they are not even a Trasif."

Ah… Yeah… I was actually wondering if the leader might perhaps be some Trasif occupying an important position within this town or another and helping these illegal slavers capture their own people for profits.

Guess I don't need to be worried about some complicated plot involving the leadership of this country when dealing with this group.

"Is there anyone or anything that I should take note about them?" I asked.

She shook her head, "Since Young Mistress is not a Trasif, you do not need to worry about them. Just treat them like they are regular bandits."

"About that… I also heard that Trasifs are basically not able to fight them… Why is it?"

"That has to do with their leader, Young Mistress."

"What? Do they have some kind of special magic skill or something?"

"You could say that… But it only affects Trasifs~"

"And… What does it do?"

She scratched her cheek as though in embarrassment, "It's… Umm… A little embarrassing to explain… So maybe you can see it for yourself instead? Don't worry, Young Mistress! You will be completely safe!"

Err… Ok? If you say so?

Well, nothing we've never done before, so let's all go hunt some illegal slavers!

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