"No, quite a few were kidnapped from villages near Backlund."
"Did you... ever see the people sent to Baelen again afterward?"
"No. I think most of them must have died long ago. Otherwise, Baelen wouldn't have needed a constant supply of new slaves."
Were they all dead?
In other words, beneath the surface of Backlund, this seemingly peaceful land of hope, kidnapping and human trafficking had been going on all along. Sure enough, this world was far darker than what I had seen.
Heh, am I overthinking things?
I'm just a visitor from another world. What does it have to do with me, however many people die?
The looks the girls in Capim Mansion's dungeon had given him suddenly surfaced before his eyes. Thinking of those people at the bottom who already struggled to get by, he scratched his head in irritation.
"Ah, I'm just investigating a missing maid case. I should find the answer, get paid, and call it a day. Better not give myself more worries."
With that thought, Klein made the tycoon whose hands were steeped in sin disappear completely. He then examined the two Beyonder Characteristics he had obtained and summarized the Magician's Acting Rules.
"Challenge the impossible... isn't that just asking to die?"
After finishing all this, Klein rubbed his temples and returned to the real world.
Almost the instant he opened his eyes, he felt his digestion of Magician surge forward by a huge margin. It felt as though he was on the verge of digesting it completely.
Klein was stunned.
"Why did my digestion progress so much faster than expected?"
Didn't I just show off a little in front of two High Sequence Beyonders from a distance?
Isn't this effect way too exaggerated?
He couldn't help recalling how Edward had performed sleight of