Amid the towering skyscrapers of the steel city lay dark, labyrinthine alleys like spiderwebs.
Rein dragged the "deadweight," who wore nothing but a black cloak, and darted into a narrow alley. After countless turns, they finally emerged onto the main street far from the magic shop and blended into the bustling crowd.
Rein did not dare linger in the First District. He boarded an intercity rail train and went straight to the Third District, more than ten kilometers away.
He had originally decided that if this barbarian girl showed even the slightest sign of struggling or resisting along the way, he would let go without hesitation and abandon her!
Yet unexpectedly, ever since entering the magic goods store, this unruly girl, as energetic as a pantheress, had stopped causing trouble. Even when Rein stripped off her clothes to dispel the magic, she did not resist at all, merely enduring it with a humiliated expression.
Even without the ropes restraining her, the barbarian girl did not choose to run. She obediently let Rein pull her from place to place.
She knew very well that if she fled alone in the "City of Demons" without understanding the language, the only outcome would be getting caught.
But she also knew that she absolutely could not be captured by those invaders who had stolen her people's sacred relic!
And so, the two crossed two major districts before finally stopping.
After observing carefully several times and confirming that no one was following them, Rein quietly entered a hunter hotel called The Bearded Man Inn.
It was a lavishly furnished inn, with a single room costing three thousand liso a night.
However, Rein was not someone like a certain Countess who cared about comfort. He did not actually have such refined requirements for accommodations.
Still, the