Reincarnated as a chicken

The parents No.2

"What are you looking at, Tori?"

Marcus asked then his eyes scanned the room. Luckily since I was wearing a mask, he shouldn't have been able to identify where I was looking. That is what I thought till he pulled out the Uno reverse card on me and pointed in the direction Nukeme's eyes were still fixed.

'Nothing. Go back to your damned ice cream.'

"But I'm done with it! Besides, you seemed to be staring-"

'Shut up.'

Maybe it was time I ditched this group. I grabbed Nukeme by the neck and was about to run out the door, with my speed they wouldn't be able to catch-up, but then the duo appeared before me. A man who seemed to be in his mid-thirties with dark brown hair and a pencil mustache, wearing a white tunic with black edges and a black sash tied around his waist with a white pants and brown sandals. He was quite skinny and his complexion, a bit pale. The woman to his side wore the same thing, except with a hat on her head, but unlike her counterpart, she possessed black hair and she looked to be more of life. Her face was beautiful without a doubt and it reminded me of someone.

"E-Excuse me... Are you people, adventurers?"

The man asked, stammering his words out. All of them looked at him then at each other.

"Yep. We're a C rank party, not named yet. You got a request or something?"

Marcus answered.

"U-Um... no. Y-Yes... wait... No."

This guy was shaken by something. He was stammering too much if he had a request for adventurers. Well, from my knowledge, adventurers weren't so respected to demand such a reaction. Let alone C rank adventurers.

"Well... out with it. We haven't got all day."

The elf bluntly said and the others let out nervous laughs. It would seem that they were already accustomed to her bullish nature.

"This is a missing person's report."

The woman to his side said, her voice like honey. Then she looked at me.

"Sorry, but there are no other capable looking adventurers around, which is why we approached you."

I couldn't argue with her. Because this was a bloody ice cream stand. A few tables set up around on the side-walks with no more than five other people eating ice cream. Not a single person here was even an adventurer, so it was already highly suspicious of them to come say this to us here, and not in a guild.

"Who...?"

I asked.

"My name is Touka and this is my husband, Ignis. We are looking for our daughter, Ulva."

First of all, after using [Analyst], these guys had no names and second of all, why would Ulva's parents who sold her come to the city looking for her? The slavers had already kidnapped her so there was no problem for them. Anyway I looked at this, these two were too suspicious.

'Did the slavers send them? But then that would mean they figured out I was in the city. Then again, going on a blood sucking spree like some crazy vampire the night before probably wasn't so smart. Then does that mean they know I've come for Ulva and sent these things here? But how would they know it was me specifically? Wait... then did these guys do something to Yokino? That could possibly explain her disappearance. Hmmm, the best thing to do right now would probably be to run out of here and back into the forest. A simple tactical retreat till I come up with a good plan.'

DING!

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'What? Lemme see.'