What Do You Mean There Are Other Transmigrators In My Harem Fantasy?

Alright… So they’ve set the place on fire… And they’re also waiting outside with a bunch of people in case we try to escape…

If we stay here, we’ll get burned to death. If we try to leave we’ll also get killed.

Seems like we’re stuck between a rock and a hard place huh…

The travellers I just freed were all standing outside the cage looking at the smoke that was pouring in through the window with concern.

“Are we going to just get burned alive here?” One of them asked.

Another turned to me, “Hey! You’re going to rescue us right? We’re going to get out of here alive, right?”

Well… Truth be told, both Katsuki and I should be able to get out of here by ourselves without dying but… To ensure the safety of these people while escaping might be a little difficult…

Since I already accepted the request to save them, I should just do my best to keep them alive I guess.

But now the problem of how I was supposed to do that when faced with this situation is staring right back at me.

Do I just get them to hide here while I go out and deal with the bandits outside?

Actually, that sounds like a good idea…

I turned to the travellers who were now huddled around outside the cage looking fearfully around them.

“Hey… I’m going out to deal with the bandits first. Stay here until the coast is clear, ok?”

That seemed to have made some of them panic as they quickly rushed towards me.

I think they might have tried to grab me but Katsuki appeared in the way before they could reach me so they just stopped short of her.

“You’re just running away, aren’t you?!”

“You’re going to leave us here to be burned alive?”

“Wait! There must be a lot of bandits outside right?! Give me a weapon, I’ll fight alongside you!”

I raised my hand to silence them, “I’m not running away, otherwise I wouldn’t have bothered to save you from the cage. I’ll make sure to put out the fire before it gets too big. There’s no need to, I can handle this myself.”

Without waiting for them to respond, I dropped Bob who was still on my shoulder the entire time on the ground before turning to Katsuki.

“Help me take care of them, ok?”

She bowed her head, “Of course Mistress. Have a safe trip.”

She said it like I was just heading out on a shopping trip or something…

Alright… Let’s do this.

First I go over to the door, cover myself with [Shadow Wall] call up Zwei, then everything is set~

The door opened a crack and I could see that Katsuki was right about there being a horde of bandits waiting outside.

Now I understand when that other guy told the bandit to go inform the others, he was telling him to call them to prepare an ambush for me. He never intended for me to leave here alive it seems.

Hmph… I was expecting an ambush already so you can’t say I got tricked, ok?

Right then, there were several thuds as a hail of arrows embedded themselves on to the doors of the warehouse, the bandits clearly having seen the door move and decided to attack.

I held my ground and waited but a second salvo never came.

I then took that opportunity to shout out, “You agreed to let us out of here didn’t you?!”

There was laughter coming from the crowd of bandits before one of them shouted back, “The agreement was to let you free them! If you want safe passage, we’ve got to make another agreement!”

Wait… Don’t tell me they arranged all this so that they can try and extort me?

Considering that they are bandits… That’s actually possible…

Ugh… This is so annoying.

“What do you want then?” I shouted over the crackle of the flames.

“Come out first before we talk!”

“Won’t you guys just shoot me with arrows the moment I step outside?!”

“Ha! Only if you do anything stupid! Come on now, it’s not like you have a choice, right?” Another bandit shouted, prompting laughter to ring out from the other side of the door.

They’re definitely going to shoot me the moment I step out…

I reconsidered what I should do before another voice came from behind the door, “You have my word that we won’t shoot you with arrows if you come out and negotiate. But you have to come out alone!”

The laughter instantly quietened down and the only sound I could hear was the fire still burning outside the building.

The fact that the laughter from the bandits was instantly silenced meant that whoever said that must have some kind of authority right?

Fuck it, let’s just see how things go.

The door opened wider and my boots clacked against the ground to step out into the space in front of the warehouse.

Almost immediately, the bandits became rowdy again.

“Woooo~ She’s a beauty!”

“She has a mask on, how can you even tell?”

“Who cares! Look at those tits and ass!”

“The maid uni–“

“Quiet!”

Once again, the crowd went silent and the person who shouted stepped forward, revealing themselves to be a large male Mahun wearing fur armour and wielding a giant double bladed axe that he was resting on his shoulder.

He lifted his chin at me, “So you’re the one who managed to sneak through this entire camp without anyone noticing huh?”

I nodded at him, “What’s it to you?”

“Hmph… Guess we have to ramp up security more…”

“So what are the conditions for me to leave here with those people you captured safely?”

“Hmph… You think you can really ask that question right now?”

“If you can give us safe passage out of here then there wouldn’t need to be a fight.”

He dug his ear with a finger before sneering at me, “Oh what? You actually believed that? You’re more dumb than I thought.”

Before I could react, he swung his axe down and lightning shot out from the axe, striking me in the chest and blowing me back.

“Ha! Just die in regret bitch!”

Ahhhh… It huuurrts… Ahhhh… I’m dyingggg… Call an ambulance, call an ambulance…

But not for me!

‘I’ stood up again, the hole in the chest where the lightning had struck rapidly closing up.

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Then the body changed and the person who was standing there revealed themselves to be Zwei.

The bandits were still surprised by the sudden change before I stepped out from behind the door and closed it behind me to ensure no one inside would be able to see what was about to happen out here.

“I didn’t really want to do this and I even gave you all a chance, but I guess that’s too–“

Arrows were loosed and the projectiles flew towards me at blinding speeds, all of them aiming to kill.

The sound of arrows thudding could be heard and I let out a slight frown.

“That’s rude… I was still talking, you know?” I commented, peeking out from behind Zweis who had moved right in front of me to conjure a light shield to protect me.

Fine then, since all of you are going to be rude assholes, then you can’t complain about what I’m about to do next…

I clapped my hands together and all the Shadow Guards that I had been dropping off around the camp while that guy led me here jumped out of their hiding places to surround the bandits.

Several of them who had been hiding nearby immediately doused the flames with their Hydromancy, completely putting out the fire that was burning the building.

Yep, I already said I suspected an ambush, right? So when the guy was leading me here, I had been secretly getting my Shadow Guards to leave my shadow and hide around the fort, waiting for me to spring this trap on them.

In fact, the Bob inside the warehouse behind me isn’t even the real Bob since I thought he might try to take him hostage and force me to surrender or something.

That’s why I had swapped him out with Eins using Somatomancy to transform into him so I had been carrying Eins on my shoulder the entire time.

The real Bob is still somewhere in the vicinity of that large house where I found him, his person being guarded by a few of my Shadow Guards so there was no chance he could be used against me.

Hey, I still need him to teach me Kalomancy too ok?

And now… Since these people know that I have this ability to call up Shadow Guards… I’m afraid I won’t be letting any of you leave here alive to tell anyone~

So how about all of you do me a favour and just die, hmm?

I raised my hand and all of my Shadow Guards tensed up.

“Kill them all.”

We charged in.