Chapter 12 – Change of Job -1-
Quiet village.
What sets this place apart from other villages is that there are many donkeys.
“You crazy bastard! How many times have I said it’s a male donkey!”
An old man with half his face full of white beard yelled at the village boy.
“Yeah, but you never know! Maybe a better variety will come out….”
When the old man, angry at the young man’s bold reply, took the form of trying to hit him with a poker, the startled young man ran away.
“What a good breed, whoa. That, too, is bloodline.”
A mule, a breed that was improved by mating a male donkey and a female horse from an early age with the know-how of his parents.
But that stupid bastard crossed a male horse he was preparing to sell to the city with a female donkey.
Thanks to this, the old man knew for the first time that a horse’s huge cock could fit into a donkey.
“A rotten bastard. It wasn’t enough that I went first, so I left that thing behind.”
Now, the son who left first left behind himself, who had lived a lot longer than the days he lived, and left behind the burden of grandchildren.
“Ugh… Waist.”
My body wasn’t what it used to be.
Someone came to the old man who was grunting and trying to feed him.
“Hello. By any chance, do you need a hand?”
* * *
After getting out of the forest, I confirmed that smoke was rising from this small dot-like village, and I continued to walk.
Fortunately, after arriving in this ordinary village, I looked for work here and there to fill my hungry stomach, and the villagers told me to go to the village chief.
When I came here, I saw an old man holding his waist and grimacing.
“Hello. By any chance, do you need a hand?”
A blunt answer.
“Nush?”
Is this the village chief?
An old man with a white beard opened his eyes.
“Ah, I am a mercenary. I came here for personal business. I was going to spend a few days in this village, but I had nothing to do, so I came here to help with chores.”
Of course, I wanted to go back to Tallard as soon as possible, but when I asked earlier, it took a whole day by car to reach Tallard from here.
As I don’t have a single penny in my pocket, I have to earn carriage pay and take care of lodging in the meantime.
By the way, what if an exotic-looking stranger in a town like this asks for help saying that everything was stolen by bandits?
‘Even if it’s like me, I’ll never help.’
Because this world wasn’t so kind.
Even though he didn’t have a sword in his arms right now, he had to be more confident.
“A chore? Hmm….”
Because I wandered through the forest, I didn’t look like a horse, but it gave me the feeling of a raw mercenary.
However, contrary to expectations, the old man’s reaction was lukewarm.
‘Do you have anything to do?’
Then you have to make it work.
“As I saw earlier, most of the people in this village raised donkeys, not farming.”
At my words, the old man shook his head.
“Mostly mules. There are only a few donkeys.”
What’s different?
Except for the sometimes visible words, they all look similar, so I’m not sure.
“Okay. Mule. Do you know exactly how many mules and donkeys you have, Chief?”
When the old man nodded and tried to answer, he interrupted and interrupted.
“Of course you know. But, then what do you do?”
“What?”
“If one disappears or dies in the middle of the night, the number will decrease by one. You must be counting them again.”
As if to say something obvious, the old man’s brow furrowed.
“But what if I guard mules and donkeys at night? It’s only very occasionally that the chief counts these guys. That is when the mule is born.”
“Ugh. If that’s the case, the grandson is already….”
The village chief, speechless, fell into thought for a moment.
Judging by the wrinkles on his face, it was clear that the grandson was playing around.
“A couple of leftover loaves of bread are enough for food, and a manger is enough for a place to sleep. Five dinars per day.”
Even a low-level mercenary could receive at least 10 dinars per day.
That’s crazy.
Even so, the old man seemed to be worried.
‘It can’t be helped.’
I took a boxing stance I had seen on the internet before.
And.
Shook!
Shush!
‘City. Fuck you.’
He said, starting the shadow boxing with the illusion of Giles created in front of his eyes.
“I am a fighter. It’s called Stone Fist in Tallard. Ah, it’s not because I’m stone grade.”
The grade of the mercenary plaque is the stone grade next to the lung grade.
Being a fighter is a bitch, but at least I didn’t cheat.
Because falsifying a mercenary’s rank is a felony.
“Oh, oh!”
However, to the old man, thanks to my vague words, it must have looked like a stone.
My awkward boxing stance would have been immediately recognized by fighters if they saw me, but to the old man, it must have seemed like an outlier.
“I beg you! Even though it’s not like that, the lack of energy of mules these days is because it seems that evil spirits appear.”
What?
‘Fuck, a demon?’
I lived without being afraid of ghosts that couldn’t exist, but there really were ghosts in this world.
I’ve done somersaults while peeing at camp before because of a goblin that suddenly appeared.
“Okay. It’s okay, it’s okay. Even a demon hurts when you hit it.”
Due to the survival instinct that overcame fear, the old man shook hands with an excited expression like a child when he showed a determined look in his eyes.
* * *
Dawn when the sound of tsunami spreads.
The old man’s words must have been groundless, but fortunately the demon did not appear.
“Sweet, salty.”
Boredly watching the donkey foals, he chewed on the bread and apples the old man had given him before going to bed, then drank water from a jar.
My body was extremely tired from accumulated fatigue, but I was fine so far.
When the day dawns, go straight to the old man, finish a brief report, and pass out.
Than that.
“Eternal youth….”
Am I really not getting old?
There was no detailed explanation, so there was no way to check.
I decided to simply think that immortality was missing from immortality.
“If it was immortal, Mr. Munchkin is confirmed.”
It was very sad.
What do you do when you’re not old?
If you get hit with a knife by a madman, you’ll go round and round.
Thru-
Looking up at the sky while listening to the sound of insects, it was tasteful in its own way.
Compared to the time I was looking at it a few days ago while I was trapped in the woods, maybe it was because I was in a more relaxed situation, so I fell into sentimentality.
“Come to think of it, can’t this be a village full of donkeys?”
The town written on the paper that Ben handed over saying he wanted to bring his mother.
“Climb. It’s not a donkey, it’s a mule.”
I didn’t ask the residents in detail because I couldn’t afford it, but it seems to be the same village.
I hadn’t even heard of a village that specialized in raising donkeys.
‘They said it was a witch’s house.’
Of course, Ben’s mother cannot be a witch, but she must be called that for a reason.
She’ll just keep quiet and ask when she leaves later.
Even if this area is right anyway, I don’t even know the location of the forest village where Ben lives.
That’s why you can’t take Ben’s mother there, who has a complicated family history.
Sseuseuk.
“Uh?”
At that time, a chuckle was heard from a little far away.
A sound that moves very stealthily, hidden in the sound of the tsunami.
‘Ah, a demon?’
Fuck.
His hands started to tremble.
After looking around the floor, I picked up the iron stick I had seen before and crawled on it.
‘Please, fuck!’
Will you run away?
You can’t risk your life for just five dinars.
Hidden in the long grass growing in the quiet plain, he waited.
It was quiet for a long time, so I started to think about other things.
‘By the way, are demons also monsters?’
The demon I met before couldn’t properly identify it for fear, but it screamed in a female tone.
As proof of that, I can say that female demons exist.
‘I wonder if I can touch it.’
I don’t think I can touch it because it’s a spirit body, but I don’t know.
What if it could be touched and it was a female demon?
Gulp.
‘Fuck, I can’t stand it.’
It’s not rape, it’s exorcism.
Because I am the man who can free the ghosts of virgin demons.
Once it gets stuck, it is possible to attain Buddhahood while playing ahegao.
I was waiting for so many thoughts.
Hee hee-
A donkey’s cry was heard.
It was faint because of the distance, but it didn’t sound like a painful cry.
‘What do we do?’
I thought about it while listening to it.
Even if I ran away, it would be better to at least check what was going on.
‘When something like a dick pops out, it bounces right away.’
I began to crawl across the ground, slowly gliding like a predator.
5 minutes like that.
Hee hee hee-
“… Be still, sleep…….”
‘Woman?’
A woman’s voice seemed to be trying to calm the donkey.
Except for the female voice, there is no pretending to be popular.
That donkey is the private property of the village chief.
And as far as I know, the village chief has no family except one grandchild.
That’s what that woman is trying to do now.
‘Illegal.’
It reminded me of being stuck in the woods for days and not following the morning routine, so I couldn’t turn a blind eye to the woman’s transgression.
I sneaked up and watched and saw a woman with a bony arm caressing a donkey in bewilderment.
I checked the opponent who looked like a bitch at first glance, picked up an iron stick, jumped out like thunder and shouted.
“You bitch—!”
“Kyaaaaa!”
A woman wearing a robe knocked her on the butt.
