Bannou “Murazukuri” Cheat de Otegaru Slow Life ~Mura desu ga Nani ka?~

er saying so, the boss snorted and then walked toward the village, his favorite battleaxe in hand.

Standing at over two meters, the boss was quite a giant of a man.
An ordinary human would have trouble just lifting his axe, but he wielded it so effortlessly with a single hand.

Of course, we followed the boss as he walked.

We left some members behind to watch over the other refugees we caught, so we only had about 40 members with us.
Even so, this much was already overkill for a village like this.

Before long, we reached the gate of the village.

As precaution, we moved without any lit torches, relying only on the light provided by the moon and the stars.
Now that we were here at the entrance though, we lit our torches all at once.

“Gang! Follow me! Oraaaaaaaaaaaa!”

Leading the charge was the boss himself.

He slammed himself into the gate and it was blown away.
Granted, it was only a wooden structure, but to do so much with a single attack was awe-inspiring nonetheless.

““Oooooooooooohhh!!!””

Following the boss, we all rushed in as well.

I couldn’t help but notice something strange at that time though: I suddenly didn’t feel the ground beneath my feet anymore.

“““…eh?”””

For a moment, I felt like I was floating.

In the next though, my body began to fall.
I as well as the others panicked, of course.

Did we fall into a pit!?

However, instead of falling onto some spikes, we only fell onto some water.

“Buhaa!? Shit, they placed a moat behind the wall!?”

I swallowed some of the water due to the suddenness of it all, but I made it to the surface without any other issue.

But for me to even have to swim up meant that the moat was quite deep.
Most moats were only about as deep as the height of the average man.

And then, one by one, lights illuminated the other side of the moat, revealing the figures of several people.

The people of this village not only knew we were coming, but also prepared against us?

“Don’t make light of us! We can swim our way–!?”

Before the boss could even finish, I felt the temperature of the water drop to the point that I shivered.

“T-the water, it, it froze–”