Chapter 78 – Are You a Hypocrite?
The sky, which had been dyed black, soon drained and became an indigo color paler than indigo.
The darkness lifts little by little and the surroundings become brighter. Early in the morning, when colors can be distinguished to some extent without a separate light source.
Perhaps tired from walking all night, Natalya yawned cutely.
I could see her thick, red tongue, which tasted like sucking, and I put my finger in her tongue and touched it.
“Huaam. Oops? Jjook.”
Natalya reflexively sucked on her finger in her mouth, even as she put on a puzzled expression.
Her pressure makes the blood in her fingers rush to the tips, tickling.
Natalia licked the tips of her fingers with her tongue and pulled them out.
“Um, jjook… Paha, Mr. Hanseong?”
“Oh sorry. It’s so cute that I don’t know.”
“Oooh.”
Natalia bowed her head. She looked at the eastern gate of Arpagon, which was closed tightly with a smile as she was so cute.
“It hasn’t been opened yet.”
At my self-talk, Natalya pulled her pocket watch from her bosom.
“I think it will open in just 30 minutes.”
“Can we just sit and wait like that?”
The old man pointed to the people sitting in their tents near the wall.
“I need to find an empty seat and get some rest.”
As she walked to find an empty spot, she thought about the trail she had found in the woods.
The guy who was released because he thought he was going to die escaped alive with someone’s help.
It’s difficult if he’s alive.
The Black Moon guys don’t know that we know the location of the hideout.
That’s why we can take advantage of their carelessness and ambush them.
But if he is alive, the story is different. When he reports to the Black Moons, they know we know the location of the hideout.
The success rate of ambush decreases.
It is dangerous to lose the advantage of attacking first without knowing the number or identity of the enemy.
“I should have just killed him.”
I did the same thing that the villains get caught off guard in the old movies.
It’s unfortunate, but what has already happened can’t be helped. You should think of another good way.
“Keep…”
My head doesn’t roll due to fatigue from walking all morning.
Let’s rest for a while and then think about it.
While walking along the wall, I found an empty spot where I spread out my tent like a mat and lay down.
As I lay down feeling the body temperature of Natalya and Roin hugged by my sides, I felt a throbbing feeling in my lower body below the waist, and I felt a strange pleasure that could not be described in words as if it melted away with fatigue.
Despite the feel of the solid ground beyond the tent and the dazzling light of the bright sky, by the time her eyelids began to close, the noise coming from the gate forced her to stand up with difficulty.
Natalya took her pocket watch from her bosom and said in a voice full of exhaustion.
“It’s about time to open the door. We go in too.”
“Huh.”
As I was tidying up the tent I had spread on the floor and going to the line in front of the door, the old man stopped.
“Um… Uh? Sungah Han. Excuse me.”
“What?”
The old man’s finger pointed to a group of merchants who were preparing to pack up in the wagon and enter the castle.
I see the figure of a man lying in the corner of the group. Beneath the man’s back is a stretcher for transporting patients that seems to be made of twigs and grass.
His arms and legs were wrapped in white bandages.
It’s the kid who ran away!
“Found.”
This fucker! No matter how much you try to save me Did you really run away alive?
I come closer and see that she is sleeping, her face grimace in pain.
“They say that it is the rule of the world that when a person commits a crime, he is punished. I will punish you from now on, so accept it sweetly.”
Alright, let’s punish this ugly, mean bastard. The contents of the punishment are to go to the underworld and meet with King Yeomra!
As I approached with a skeleton to finish him off, I heard a woman’s voice that I had heard before.
“You are… When was the top escort before?”
The hair that was bright enough to be black and dark enough to be brown, the robe that covered the body line and the tip of the longsword sticking out underneath it, and the round shield on the arm.
She is a female mercenary with a rather reticent feeling that we saw when escorting the upper ranks.
“Um, so what’s your name?”
“Fade.”
“Oh, right.”
“What are you doing here?”
It seemed to be wary of the skeletons accompanying them. Merchants who were organizing their luggage are also looking at us, wondering what is going on.
“Is that man with you?”
I pointed the tip of her finger at her slaver and Fade tilted her head and looked at me.
“I ran into her on the way, but she was on the verge of dying, so I treated her injuries and brought her back.”
“⋯⋯.”
I sat there doing nothing. I have to kill that bastard. What do we do. Can I be honest?
My eyes were still on the slaver, so Fade slipped up her shield and took a wary pose, and she covered my gaze toward the slaver with her body.
“Are you the ones who made it like this?”
“⋯⋯.”
How will we do it. To say or not
Anyway, that bastard is a vicious criminal bastard who used to work as a slave trader. If you tell the truth and ask for it to be handed over, I will hand it over.
“Yes. I made it that way. I left you in the woods to suffer and die, but you saved me?”
“Why did you do such a terrible thing…? His hands and feet were all severed, and he was in a terrible state.”
“The man is a slave trader. Because he attacked our group, he killed them all.”
“⋯⋯.”
At my words, Fade glanced back at her man. She then looked at me again.
“What do you want?”
“Will you hand over the man? The man is a member of an organization called the Black Moon. If you spare him, we’ll pass on information about us to the organization. If that happens, we will be in danger, so we must kill the man so that he cannot open his mouth.”
“If not…?”
“Huh?”
What kind of bullshit is this
“What dog, keuheum. What are you talking about?”
“How can I believe you? It could be that they are just trying to rob and kill an innocent person, right?”
Have you had a crazy year? Do you doubt me now?
“Why do I do that?”
“Are you asking me to believe you after killing Dixon’s gang so viciously during the mercenary escort?”
“⋯⋯.”
In order to kill Dixon’s gang, who were only injured but were still alive, he persuaded the merchant, dragged them into the deep forest, killed them, and stole their cash.
If you think about what you did back then, you’ll look evil.
But they just flirted with my woman first and then plotted to kill me.
I just paid it back in advance before I got hit!!
I’m actually a serious debtor who paid them off before borrowing money from them. Where in the world is there a good and sincere person like me!
You can’t believe me!!
How can I convince this bitch?
No, no persuasion is necessary. The only one blocking it is this year alone.
On the other hand, if we include the skeleton, there are eight of us.
How are you going to block a total of sixteen hands with two hands?
“I never lied. Even if he blocks it, I will kill him. Get out of the way.”
“No! No way! Back off! I will shout and call the guards!”
“⋯⋯.”
Although this world is a world that tolerates private sanctions, strictly speaking, murder is a felony punishable by death.
No matter how rotten the guards are, they won’t leave us alone if a murder happens right in front of them.
The moment you kill the slave trader, if Fade screams and calls the guards, we’re caught red-handed.
It reminded me of the execution scene where I was hanging in the plaza and dying spilling blood and intestines.
Oh, that’s a bit…
I frowned and glared at Fade.
Even if the child of a slave trader wakes up and regains consciousness, if he insists that he never did anything like a slave trader, there is no evidence, so there is no way to catch him.
Before entering the city, you must convince this sweet potato bitch to kill the slave trader.
Fade glanced at me, then raised her shield more and began to increase her alertness.
Oh, are you pissed off? What does that slave trader have to do with you in the first place?
“Aren’t you cheating with a slave trader too?”
“What, what are you talking about!”
Fade crumpled her face in displeasure at my words.
“If you are not a fellow slave trader, come out. You say you’re going to kill a criminal, so why stop it?”
“Do you have any proof that this man is a slave trader?!”
Ugh, are you talking shorter again?
“You attacked us? Isn’t that enough? Why are you stopping me because I am a victim and I will seek revenge?”
“I can’t just trust one side and let the person in front of me die! What do you think of human life!”
Is it a crazy year?
“Did someone who thought human life so precious keep his mouth shut the last time he killed the Dixon gang?”
“That, that’s…”
Bitch like a fucking hypocrite. You did well
