Disappearance (2)

I should have realized they might become targets once the two of them started going around alone, but I had been far too careless.

Cecilia has practically no ability in direct combat, and although Ruril is fairly strong, fighting without her main weapon, her bow, would undoubtedly be difficult.

This alone wasn't enough to know for certain what had happened, but when they still hadn't returned to the inn by this hour, I instinctively realized that something had probably happened.

More importantly…

As I said earlier, this was the city of adventurers—and the largest city as well.

In the game, if you let a heroine keep going around alone, she would eventually be abducted and disappear…

Of course, as long as you rescued her in time, her affection would actually increase, so quite a few people took advantage of this.

It might seem too cruel, but it was a game, after all. If there was an easy way to raise affection, why would anyone refuse to use it?

That was why I was worried.

There was a high chance that they had been caught by those people operating in the shadows of this city...