Chapter 172 – Chapter 5: Another Revenge – 1
“Oh my, congratulations!”
The women who had sent her husband to work surrounded Tia and congratulated her. She must have gotten married in front of everyone and finally revealed that she was pregnant.
The women said many things. How to take care of your body, foods that are good for morning sickness, how to deal with your husband, etc. It was valuable advice that came from experience, so Tia listened carefully.
“She will definitely be a good mother.”
“Okay then. Tia is good at everything!”
“Ahaha…”
The guy blushed as if he was embarrassed.
Although it was late news, everyone seemed to be vaguely aware of it.
Usually, it takes about three or four months after the wedding for the stomach to become full. I couldn’t help but think that it was too early, as it hadn’t even been a month yet.
Rodia stood up from her seat with a happy look on her face.
“Oh my, since you told us such auspicious news first, we should treat you something! “Mrs. Modales, come here.”
And she was about to go out to take out the meat that she and Tia had been boiling all morning.
Suddenly, something appeared in the eyes of the two people.
It was a very long procession. On the horizon beyond the east gate, crowded carriages and people were coming this way, lined up like ants crawling on tree branches.
Since large merchants frequently come and go in Gordburg, such a procession was not surprising, but this time it was not of that scale.
Perhaps… Donation table.
Yes, it was very similar to a tribute stand.
Tia asked.
“That’s all… What is it?”
“Huh? Ah, it was time to come around this time of year. This is a delegation that comes every spring. To commemorate the end of winter, people from all over bring all kinds of goods here to sell and buy. It’s no different from a festival.”
“A festival? Wow-.”
“Huh. The market is going to be noisy again. Hohoho-. I guess that’s what happens when you see valuable items. Tia, if you have time, go with her husband. You haven’t gone on your honeymoon yet, right? “Have a good time at the market.”
To the villagers, the procession was good news. When a delegation arrives, it is a tradition to go to the market with her family in the evening and have fun.
Tia followed suit and smiled.
“Is that so?”
* * *
Posao, who was working in the warehouse, also received orders that were different from usual.
“Mr. Modales. A lot of items will be arriving today, so please open everything. Delegates will come from various regions. Please check carefully and only accept it from the contracted location.”
“Oh, I understand.”
Normally, I don’t have any work to do, so I just sit in a chair all day, but today I had a lot of work to do.
Posao helplessly moved his bloated body and opened all the doors to the warehouse.
Before long, really huge carriages started rolling in.
He was busy greeting people. He guided the goods to be unloaded somewhere in the warehouse and received a down payment. The warehouse manager didn’t really wonder why it was suddenly so crowded. All he wanted to do was finish work quickly and go home to hug his young wife.
While I was working so frantically. Finally, the last carriage came in.
Posao read the place names written in the ledger to check if the wagon and goods matched.
I just wanted to do a quick check.
But at that moment, a familiar place name caught my eye.
[Taildon]
The guy suddenly felt a chill go up his head.
There were three armed soldiers sitting in the carriage that came from Taildon.
Posao hid his embarrassment as much as possible and slowly guided the carriage. And he pointed to the corner of the warehouse.
“You can get off here.”
Soldiers unload goods and empty the carriage.
I was concerned that he came from ‘Taildon’, but fortunately no one recognized him. Posao wiped his sweat with his handkerchief and was about to turn around.
Suddenly, a soldier looked in the direction of Posao and briefly shouted.
“Huh?”
Then he took off the helmet that was on his head.
“Posao?!”
“… Yes, yes?”
Posao, whose name was suddenly called, also turned to look at the soldier.
A surprised expression was seen. No, I wasn’t surprised.
It would be more accurate to say that he was scared.
Because…
Because that person was ‘Uncle Marvin’.
I don’t know why Marvin became Taildon’s soldier and why she came all the way here.
Her sturdy physique and hard face were unmistakably Marvin.
“It’s me, it’s me! Marvin!”
“Ah. Ma, Marvin…”
“What are you? Why are you in Gordburg?”
Marvin, who at first walked in happily, gradually turned into a suspicious voice.
That was a strange thing. All the people of Brisden were taken to Taildon, but Posao was not taken, and even his whereabouts were unknown.
It turns out that she lives as a warehouse manager in Gordburg.
To someone who doesn’t know her footsteps, it would seem like she suddenly fell from the sky.
Another soldier asked.
“Do you know someone?”
“Okay. He was a guy who ran a general store near the foot of the mountain. Never thought he would be here. What happened?”
“Well, that…” .”
Uncle Marvin’s voice was almost like an interrogation. Embarrassed, Posao hesitated to answer and looked around as if asking for help.
However, the only people in this large warehouse were Posao and three Taildon soldiers.
What can I say?
The reason he came to Gordburg in the first place was because of Tia, and the reason he was able to overcome this crisis was because of Tia.
But even if he had Tia all to himself and took her as his wife, he could never become wise and brave like Tia.
I was just busy making ridiculous and stupid excuses in front of Marvin.
“Now, to do business, come to Goldbulk, come-.”
“Sale? Wasn’t business what you hated the most? He didn’t do anything.”
“No, I mean – from now on…”
Of course, Uncle Marvin didn’t believe it.
Unlike the Gordburg people, he could not deceive Uncle Marvin, who knew Posao’s true identity.
This subtlety was something only Brisden could notice.
Something caught Marvin’s eyes as he looked Posao up and down.
“What is this? “When did you get married?”
What Marvin pointed to was a ring on his thick ring finger.
It was a silver ring that Tia had given to her after her wedding, saying it was a token of her marriage. Posao cherished the ring very much and showed it off to everyone around him every day.
But he couldn’t boast now.
Posao hurriedly covered the ring with his left hand.
“Oh, that’s…”
“You? Marriage?”
“Decoration. Now, it’s decoration. Because it’s pretty…”
“Decoration?”
A time when there was breathtaking tension.
Sabak. Sabak.
I heard someone walking towards the warehouse.
“… !”
Posaodo, Marvindo.
The sound of those footsteps, lighter than a rabbit’s hopping, was so familiar that I turned around at the same time.
Beyond the thin wall. Through the dust blowing as the carriages come and go.
I see a girl walking with red hair fluttering.
It was as if time had frozen.
If I weren’t looking at this vivid memory, I would have thought the illusion had stopped.
Tia, who knew nothing, came into her storeroom holding a large loaf of bread in her arms. She then shouted in an excited voice to sing Posao.
“Honey! “I’m here!”
When she still didn’t answer, she snooped around and looked around the warehouse.
“Are you done yet? Then together…”
Tia’s chattering mouth stopped.
And she froze and raised her eyes.
There was a person standing there who should never be encountered.
“Tia… ?”
What was Tia thinking at that moment?
“Ah…”
She thought the winter snow storm would end, and she would be happy forever.
Now she thought that she had forgotten everything about the past and that only carefree days were left.
However, the future that Tia worked so hard to build was completely destroyed by this one worst encounter.
As if the god of fate was laughing. Like cursing you that you will never be happy.
The ghosts of the past crawled out of the shadows and tied Tia’s ankles.
Just like the cruel things God did to me.
Isn’t this also a punishment given to Tia, who abandoned me and chose a different path?
Pussyuk-.
The bag of bread in her arms fell to her floor.
Even in that terrible situation, he made a decision and acted immediately.
The lantern that had been turned on to illuminate the dark, deep warehouse was immediately snatched away and thrown into a pile of boxes.
Clang!
“Ugh?!”
The oil spread and a fire ignited in an instant.
At the same time that Marvin and her soldiers were taken aback by the sudden action, Tia screamed loudly.
“Fire!”
The rumor that a ‘fire’ broke out in a warehouse was a disaster in Gordburg.
Since it was as if huge material damage had occurred in the lord’s land, people passing by on the roadside immediately began rushing into the warehouse.
“Shit! Get out of the way!”
Marvin barely escaped the fire, but she was unable to get out of the warehouse as it was so full of people and bystanders trying to put out the fire that she was trapped.
She turned her head to find Po Sao and Tia. However, the two people had already escaped through the crowd and were running away.
Marvin understood everything from the brief encounter.
“Those…”
You can guess how they are perceived from the derogatory term ‘those’.
At least the fact that Posao and Tia destroyed the entire town of Brisden together, ran away, got married, and survived was a huge anger to Marvin.
Tia was even named a murderer in Taledon for killing me.
Marvin clenched her fist.
“They burned down all the warehouses in our village… Now are you trying to burn me alive too? This damn bitch… !”
She whispered darkly with her bloodshot eyes.
“Ritz… Watch from the sky. I will avenge you.”
