I was transported from Lobotomy Corporation to another world.

Reed put Noelle down on the ground, and Noelle almost lost her balance as soon as she landed.

Noelle carefully stepped onto the ground and shook her body.

Reed looked out of the alley and, seeing no one was chasing them, said to Noelle behind him, "They're not coming."

Noelle looked at Reed in front of her and asked, "Reed is so fast... how did you do that?"

Reid shook his head, indicating he didn't want to answer. Noelle pouted and looked into the alley.

Upon seeing this, Noelle immediately took a few steps back. "So...so many rats! Ahhh!"

Reed turned his head and saw the group of large, red-eyed rats gnawing on something. They all ran away after hearing Noelle's shout.

Reed walked over to the strange pile of objects that the rats were gnawing on and looked at it for a while.

(A human corpse, bitten beyond recognition...)

Only when the two relaxed did they realize how incredibly foul the stench was! The various odors of corpses, mixed with the wet, sticky blood beneath their feet, seemed to have dissolved together.

Looking into the dark alley, one sees countless corpses piled up together.

Noelle, who was behind her, vomited immediately upon seeing this, her whole body trembling with her eyes closed in terror.

Reed stared at the scene, stunned. Although it looked nothing like the place, it felt so familiar…

The pitch-black alley was like a chaotic, power-out corridor, and the surrounding corpses were like dead colleagues.

The occasional screams and monster roars could be heard, but these sounds did not originate from this...

These congealed corpses reminded Reed of that towering, black mountain of corpses, the stench of which he could smell every time he fled.

Noelle was in extreme discomfort because she couldn't cover her nose with her hands. "Redner, get out of here! It stinks and is disgusting! What are you doing? Stop looking at those things!"

Without a word, Reed walked to the dissolved corpse, summoned his greatsword, and cleaved it in two.

After cutting the two fused corpses in half, Reed sheathed his knife.

He answered and walked out of the alley with Noelle...

Noelle didn't know why Reid was doing these things, nor did she know how to ask, so she could only keep all her confusion to herself.

Noelle looked at her rumbling stomach and started to throw a tantrum.

"I'm so tired! I don't want to walk anymore! I'm exhausted and hungry, when will this ever end!"

The two are currently hiding in a corner; although it smells terrible, it's much better than the alleyway they were in before.

The two of them had been up all morning and hadn't eaten anything yet. Noelle was never hungry, except now.

Noelle experienced a huge sense of disappointment and was already somewhat disheartened...

"Waaaaah! I want to eat! Waaaaah!"

Reed, standing next to Noelle, was getting a little annoyed by Noelle's noise.

He said, "Stop arguing."

"Waaaaah!! You're so unreliable! Waaaaah!!"

She cried even louder...

Reed covered his forehead with his hand and shook his head.

"You stay here, I'll go out and look..." Reed sighed all day, and was just about to leave when...

Noelle suddenly leaned closer from behind? (?????д?????? ?) "Waaah! No! No! I'm scared! I want to come along too!"

"You're so annoying..."

"Waaaah! How dare you say that about me!"

"If you cry again, I'll throw you away..."

( ′?︵?` ) "Don't cry..."

Noelle sniffed pitifully twice, then retaliated by wiping her tears and snot with Reed's coat.

Reid pointed at Noelle's face and said, "You'll be easily exposed if you go out like this."

"Besides, if you expect me to neither steal nor rob, I don't know how I'll find food."

Noelle calmed down slightly and began to think about the two questions.

A moment later, Noelle said, "As for my face, you can tear off part of my skirt to cover it up..."

"As for money... Oh right! That retail store we came to before! The owner got what he deserved; we can take the money from his store."

Reed raised the crucial question: "Didn't you say you wouldn't steal or rob?"

Noelle hesitated for a moment before saying, "The boss was deliberately trying to attack us! And you even punched him in the head; I saw the blood."

Reed continued, "I guess everyone else has already taken it all?"

Noelle shook her head and said, "Those people are all chasing us, and they don't know anything about the shop owner, so they don't know anything about it."

"Weren't those guys at the door all knocked unconscious by you? They shouldn't wake up anytime soon."

Reed thought about it and it seemed like a good idea; all he had to do was avoid densely packed crowds.

Noelle gave a warning: "Don't cut your skirt too short! Otherwise, I'll kill you without having any strange thoughts!"

Reed gave a nonchalant "oh," summoned his greatsword, and was about to begin slashing.

(?Д?) "Wait...wait a minute! Can't you use a small knife? This knife is so big! You'll cut me, won't you?!"

Reed shrugged and said, "I don't have a knife, I only have one weapon."

(?? ?) "Hmph! Then let's tear it apart with our hands!"

Reed sighed helplessly, sheathed his greatsword, and crouched down, clutching Noelle's skirt with both hands.

Noelle adjusted the range of Reed's pinch and said confidently, "Okay, tear it."

Upon hearing this, Reed forcefully tore off the dress that was just big enough to cover Noelle's face with both hands.

Reed's face was incredibly similar to Pinot Noelle's, and it fit perfectly.

Noelle seemed to notice Reed's gaze and gave a proud chuckle.

(｀?′) "Hmm, how about that! Pretty impressive, huh~"

Afterwards, Rhett covered her face below the nose with the dress; having learned from her previous experience, she was much more skilled this time.

After getting ready, the two came out and headed towards the store.

The two of them walked along the edges and corners, basically going wherever it was darkest.

Although it was a bit slow, we successfully arrived next to the store.

The picture also shows wanted posters pasted on buildings along the street, with Noelle's wanted posters making up the majority of them.

But there were still many people around the store, and it seemed that no one had noticed that the store owner was dead.

To minimize their exposure, the two could only enter after the number of people had decreased.

The two stood next to the shop, intending to wait a while and take a break.

Beside Reed were two strangers, seemingly exchanging words.

Reed listened carefully

"That's strange, why haven't we seen any fox people today?"

"Huh? What fox-people? Have some demi-humans entered the city? Should we pull off a heist and capture them?"

"Ah, didn't you know? I wasn't talking about demi-humans! How should I put it? It's a bit complicated."

"Oh? Okay then, go ahead and tell me."

"It was about a year ago, I think. A few people from the slums were heavily in debt! They couldn't pay it back, so they ran away from the slums in the middle of the night and set up a home in the deep mountains, planning to live there."

"I only happened to hear about it and didn't pay much attention at first, but later I heard from others that many people who were in debt or were outlaws had hidden in the deep mountains and forests."

"As more people ran away, they all gathered together and built their own den."

Is there any reason why this group calls them fox people?

"That's because they frequently rob people, do shady things, and not only that, they also lie."

"Simply put, they lure those people over, then drug them at the right moment, and kill them once they can't resist."

"They eat the human flesh after slaughtering people, and sell the valuables left over. I bought a nice little knife from them yesterday!"

"I see... the reason they're called fox people is because they're as cunning as foxes, right?"

What they talked about after that was unimportant. Reed turned his head and suddenly remembered the couple and the village...

Red sensed something was off as soon as he arrived in the village. The people living there seemed afraid of being found, saying things like, "Have we been discovered?"

Moreover, the couple acted rather strangely; as they chatted, the conversation drifted to their clothes and accessories, as if they were intentionally trying to learn more about them.

And that woman's smile looked exactly like a fake smile.

so……

That couple were fox spirits... cunning, deceitful, and adept at gaining trust...

And that so-called village wasn't a village at all; it was a fox den...

After being dragged back into the house by the couple, Reed didn't hear the conversation...

"Honey, stop acting! This guy seems to be genuinely unconscious."

"She's unconscious... well, let's finish her off and take all the valuables."

The man pulled out a small knife from the side and stabbed Reed in the heart.

But strangely, the knife couldn't pierce the strange coat; the man tried many times.

He even tried to untie the large knife, but to no avail. The clothes seemed to have a magical power; no matter how hard the man tried, he couldn't untie them.

"Damn it!" The man was angry, gripping the knife tightly, ready to stab at the exposed skin on Reed's face.

"Wait!" the woman called out urgently, and the man stopped what he was doing.

The two noticed that Reed's fingers had twitched unintentionally a couple of times.

The two men's guilty consciences immediately wavered, and the woman said, "If you stab him like that, you might wake him up!"

"What do we do? We can't get these things off him! And we can't kill him!"

"Then let's keep this guy around for now, let him see our sincerity, and then deliver the fatal blow when he lowers his guard or takes off his clothes!"

"If all else fails... we can poison his food. If we can't kill him, we can at least poison him."

"We'll deliver his meals normally for the first two days, and then we'll drug him once he's off guard..."

Back to the present, Reed chuckled twice.

That woman's talk of goodwill was all bullshit...