The Shepherd and the Soldier wasted no time, riding the waterwheel-legged Big Dog at full speed.
The entire Fairy Tale World was not very large.
Though it had more than twenty duchies, each one's territory was actually quite limited.
At the Big Dog's speed, they only needed two or three days to reach the royal capital, and that was only because they had started rather far away from it.
Besides, there were many mountain roads and waterways along the route.
Otherwise, they could have gone much faster.
Yet faced with this situation, neither the Shepherd nor the Soldier felt particularly happy.
Because they had been intercepted.
More precisely, quite a few people everywhere were hunting them down.
"In this situation, we'll spend most of our time running for our lives. And as time passes, more and more people will come after us."
After defeating a Hero who charged at them, the two did not continue onward. Instead, they stopped to consider their options.
It was foreseeable that, as the news spread, the closer they got to the royal capital, the stronger the enemies they encountered would become.
That was unavoidable.
Although the two of them now possessed considerable strength, it was still impossible for them to compete against every Prince and Hero in the world.
Any one of those powerful people who wielded special abilities might be capable of taking them down.
Fortunately, although this world had things like status and morality, the stronger a person was, the higher their moral standards were bound to be.
Most of them would not involve themselves in such matters.
Thus, with the strength the two possessed, they could still handle things for now.
But this could not go on.
After briefly discussing it, the two decided to act separately.
The Soldier possessed the