After joining the Shadow Garden organization, nothing really changed with my life.
The only difference now was that I had a new token that represented my status and that Shaka was going to follow me back to my territory along with his men.
Since I had become their group's squad leader, they would now serve under me in my territory.
This wasn't something that I was against since all of Shaka's men and Shaka himself were skilled operatives. They would definitely help improve the defenses of our territory, so there was no reason to not accept them.
The only thing that I had a problem with was…
"Big Purple!"
That was how Shaka had introduced me to the men and that was the name that had stuck since it had been officially set as my codename.
As for meeting them, they accepted me right away.
According to them, they had seen my courage when I faced Rock head on and they had been impressed by that, which was why they had accepted me as their new squad leader so quickly.
So with this, they all agreed to come to my territory and serve as the spy force.
But before that, we still had to wait another few days before heading off.
Haley had gotten better and she had wanted to leave on the third day, but her employees and I didn't let her go.
So in the end, we waited the full week before heading off.
The trip itself was also very boring since there was nothing that happened on the way.
With how many guards there were for this caravan, only a fool bandit would attack it in the first place. Especially with how well armed these guards were, showing that they could only be the guards of nobles.
No one was willing to mess with nobles just for a little bit of benefit.
During the time that they were traveling, there was an interesting question that had been asked by Jessica.
Since the fight with the Crow Gang, she had been acting strange around Zwein.
It wasn't just the way that she looked at him, but also the questions that she asked him.
Finally, I couldn't take it anymore and asked, "What do you want?"
Jessica was surprised when she heard me ask this, but she just as quickly asked, "Can I use that strange purple sword again?"
When she asked me this, I couldn't help revealing a strange look as I asked, "Why do you want it?"
She immediately replied, "That's a magic weapon, who wouldn't want to be able to use a magic weapon! That is something that I could never even come close to affording even if I saved all the money that I made in my entire life! Just once more is enough for me!"
I couldn't help revealing a bitter smile when I heard her say this.
But in the end, I didn't give it to her since…I knew that she wouldn't be able to control it.
Even if she grabbed my feet and begged for the chance, I still firmly rejected her request.
That was because the strange purple sword was just too dangerous.
Its real name was The Penetrator, a famous meme dildo bat from a certain video game series in my past life.
But in this life, it was a very dangerous weapon in my eyes because I could see the stats that it had.
As the name suggested, this dildo bat had the ability to penetrate through an enemy's defenses, or the defenses of whatever it hit regardless of if it was an enemy or not.
As for the penetration amount…it was 99%!
This was an amount that was terrifying because it basically meant that as long as one was strong enough, there was nothing in this world that could resist their attacks. Even if they weren't strong, they could still destroy the defenses of most trained professionals if they landed a blow.
After all, a 99% decrease in defense was enough to destroy most people's defenses.
If she wasn't careful while swinging this sword around…there would be destruction all around them.
This would without a doubt affect their caravan since large holes appearing and trees falling would cause delays.
So I firmly rejected this.
As for the only way to repel the attacks of The Penetrator, it was to have absolute defense which was even rarer than 99% penetration or they had to have defense strong enough to resist a 99% decrease.
Both of these scenarios were rare, so I firmly believed that with this weapon, I could be considered almost invincible in this world.
That is if I was good enough to use it.
In my hands, it was unwieldy and hard to swing. If it wasn't for Rock being overconfident and falling into my trap in the end, I definitely wouldn't have hit him.
The rest of this journey was spent listening to Jessica beg for a turn with the strange purple sword and learning more about Haley and her company.
I had actually learned quite a bit about them, especially about the mistakes that Haley made.
To my surprise, I found that the employees really liked teasing Haley. So they told me about all her embarrassing stories with just a bit of prodding.
But this was clearly a good workplace since the boss could blend so naturally with her employees. I really felt even more respect for Haley.
Shaka and the rest of his group were coming later.
The original plan was to have them come with us, but since they decided to relocate to the town, they would come later. They had things that they needed to wrap up in the city before relocating over to my town.
I didn't mind this since I had faith in Shaka and left him with a letter that he could show the guards when he arrived at my town.
When we arrived in the town, we were greeted by people who came to see the commotion.
When they saw that it was me bringing in food and supplies, they all broke out in cheers and started celebrating.
It was clear that these people had developed a trust in me…one that I didn't understand.
But still, it made me happy seeing them like this.
It made me feel that everything I had done in the city was worth it.