Chapter 95

One hour later after tgat…

I had arrived at the location the kidnapper specified.

As instructed, the money was in the bag I held.

This cash, earned from hunting down trolls and orcs, was something I always kept on me through a storage spell.

The kidnapper had broken into my house but couldn’t manage to steal the money so fast, so he resorted to taking my sister instead.

…In any case, I can’t risk provoking the kidnapper right now, for Miku’s sake.

For the moment, I was following his instructions quietly.

“Alright… the purple vending machine nearby… there it is…!”

The kidnapper’s instructions were to place the bag of money under a purple vending machine at the designated location.

He promised to release my sister once he confirmed the money.

However, I don’t intend to follow the instructions of the kidnapper to the letter.

There was no guarantee that my sister would be safe, even if I did everything he said.

Even if I handed over the money, the kidnapper might kill her to cover his tracks.

So I planned to use my abilities to rescue Miku myself.

“…”

I approached the designated vending machine slowly.

Holding the bag of money in my right hand, I had something else in my left hand.

“With this… I’ll locate where Miku is…”

In my left hand, I was holding one of Miku’s hair ties.

I activated the magic spell “Search,” which locates the owner through their belongings.

“Search.”

As I chanted, a white line appeared in the air, guiding me to my sister’s current location.

“So she’s there…”

A thin white thread-like line extended toward a room in a nearby Mansion.

So that’s where Miku—and likely the kidnapper—were located.

“As I thought… they stayed nearby.”

Just as I suspected.

The kidnapper had to be somewhere where he could keep an eye on the place he specified.

Now that I knew Miku and the kidnapper’s whereabouts, all I had to do was use my abilities to rescue her.

“Well then… hang in there just a little longer, Miku. Your Onii-chan’s coming to save you right away.”

I placed the bag of money under the vending machine.

Then, I looked up toward the room in the Mansion that “Search” had pointed out.

That is where, Miku… and the kidnapper… were.

“Clock Lock.”

I activated an ancient spell to stop time.

In an instant, the world froze, silence enveloping everything around me.

In this paused moment, I used a levitation spell to float up to the balcony of the apartment room where Miku was being held.

“Oraa!”

With a spinning kick, I shattered the balcony’s glass window.

Bariiii-iinn!!

Accompanying the piercing sound of destruction through the air, at that moment, the limit of my time-stop spell had reached, as the world resumed motion.

“Onii-chan!?”

“Uw-woaaahhh what the hell are you?!”

As I suddenly crashed through the window, Miku’s eyes widened in shock, while the kidnapper let out a yell of surprise.