"How come Black Wolf and the others still haven't come back since yesterday?"
"Who knows? Maybe they found some fat sheep and snuck off to Rigette to have fun?"
Torchlight licked across the speaking man's face. A deep scar ran through the corner of his eye, lending his disdainful expression a trace of viciousness.
The tall, round-faced man beside him comically widened his eyes, hurriedly batting away the torch thrust in front of his face before saying solemnly,
"No way, right? Boss Spotted Leopard has repeatedly forbidden anyone from using roadblock robberies as an excuse to sneak back to Rigette. They can't be that stupid, can they? Could something have happened?"
Scarface clicked his tongue and switched the torch to his other hand.
"Black Wolf and Gray Rat are both Intermediate Swordsmen in the North God Style. Earth Scorpion may be a little weaker, but could they really get robbed while robbing people? Use your brain, will you? You're tall, but is your brain all in your lower half?"
His voice lowered as he spoke, and he pointed his thumb toward the darkness behind him.
"Otherwise, why would Boss Spotted Leopard's face look so awful? It's been months. Everyone's sick of robbing travelers. We've found a few fat sheep, sure, but we haven't even seen a feather of the real target."
"Who doesn't know that kid with the thousand-coin bounty has long since left the Asura Kingdom? It's only because Boss Spotted Leopard can't bring himself to lose face after bragging to the leaders of the other bandit gangs about how our hideout covers the north-south route and our intelligence network is airtight. What a joke!"
The round-faced man hurriedly covered his mouth.
"Keep it down! Are you trying to get yourself killed? Is that something you can just say?"