## Chapter 343 – 343. The Plum Blossom Swordsman Reincarnated Into A Baron’S Family
It was in the afternoon.
The loan shark I beat up yesterday came back with a noble. The ugly noble, whose face was slick with grease, held his head high and asked me with a swagger,
“Where is the woman named Tielle?”
I knew the noble was coming.
This virtual world was created to show nobles what the lives of peasants were like. If they were just spending their time peacefully tilling the fields, it would be nothing more than a kind of vacation. So, it was inevitable that a noble would appear and act like a tyrant. Even though I hadn’t borrowed any money, the loan shark had come looking for me.
“…Tielle is my wife, sir. But what brings you here?”
I said, prostrating myself on the ground. The loan shark next to the noble grinned at me.
“Oh ho.”
The noble looked down at me. I was annoyed, but I had to endure it for the sake of my plan.
And around the noble, ten soldiers armed with spears and swords were escorting him.
“I heard that the woman named Tielle is exceptionally beautiful.”
From whom? It was obvious. It must have been from the loan sharks next to him.
“My wife, Tielle, is a peasant. How could a peasant be exceptionally beautiful? I don’t know where you heard that… but it’s all exaggerated and false rumors!”
“Whether it’s a false rumor or not is something I will confirm with my own two eyes. If she is truly beautiful enough to please my eyes, I will take her as my concubine. You will bring Tielle before me right now. That is an order.”
Of course, I didn’t move.
Sell my wife because I’m intimidated by a noble’s authority? Other peasants might, but I have no intention of handing my woman over to anyone else.
“Sir! Please, have mercy! Please! Don’t touch my wife!”
I knelt on the ground and bowed my head. And I quietly looked at my house behind me. I could feel a presence in the shabby house. Elain was probably hiding and watching the situation.
‘It’s important that I, a descendant of a great noble, bowed my head for Elain.’
Elain would feel both anger and pity. The more intense her emotions became, the higher the success rate of my plan would be.
“You’re a talkative peasant. Can’t you hear my order? Go and bring your wife to me.”
“Sir! Please! Have mercy!”
“You ignorant peasant! How many times do I have to say it for you to understand!”
Thwack!
The noble kicked me.
It was a light blow, but I fell backward with an exaggerated gesture. And then I knelt before the noble again.
“Just once…! Please, have mercy! If it’s money, I’ll pay it back somehow…!”
“This lowly bastard, still!”
Enraged that I didn’t obey his orders, the noble assaulted me. I skillfully avoided being hit in any vital areas.
“Haa… Haa… This is your last chance. Bring Tielle to me right now!”
“Sir! Please have mercy!”
“…This damn peasant. I’m done being lenient! You live in my territory, yet you disobey my orders and insult my authority. You will pay the price for that.”
Two soldiers grabbed my shoulders and arms, lifting me to my feet.
The noble glared at my face as if he wanted to chew it up and spit it out, then turned his head and pointed at one of the peasants who was watching, Panres.
“You there! Come here!”
“Yes, yes!”
Panres, startled, ran at full speed and prostrated himself on the ground.
“You seem to be a peasant living here, so you must know who Tielle is. Bring Tielle before me right now. That is an order.”
Panres’s eyes darted around. Panres and I had been friends since childhood. On the other hand, the noble was a stranger to Panres, though he held power.
“Surely you are not going to disobey my order as well.”
The soldiers took a step forward. Panres was startled and shouted,
“N-no, of course not! I’ll bring Tielle right away!”
It was a betrayal. No, I hadn’t trusted Panres from the beginning, so was it not a betrayal?
Over the past few days, I had realized that Panres was jealous of me. I was good at farming, and I also had a beautiful wife named Tielle.
Panres hesitated as he was about to head towards my house. It was because Elain, who was called Tielle, was walking towards them with a confident stride. The clothes she was wearing were those of a shabby peasant, but her posture and aura were those of a great noble.
“Lord Hotain Galgalmar. I am Tielle.”
“Oh, oh. Are you really a peasant? Your beauty and grace are no less than my wife’s!”
The noble was excited when he saw Elain’s face head-on.
“Mother…!”
Elain didn’t look at me, but stared straight at the noble.
“I will do as you wish, Lord Hotain. If you want me to be your concubine, I will be your concubine… so please, spare my husband, Told.”
“……Originally, I wanted to execute this man immediately and display his head in the square… but if you obey my wishes without complaint, it’s a different story. Come closer.”
“Yes.”
Elain stepped forward. Her eyes were filled with resignation and despair.
“Oh, oh…”
The noble reached out his hand towards Elain as if he were bewitched.
My patience had run out.
I pushed away the soldiers who were restraining my arms with force. I took the sword from the waist of the soldier who lost his balance and grabbed it in my hand.
“Aaaah!”
“Kkyaaaak!”
Without any hesitation, I slashed the sides and shoulders of the two soldiers and rushed towards the noble. The startled noble took a step back, instinctively creating distance between us.
“Stop him!”
“Protect Lord Hotain!”
The soldiers blocked my path. But they couldn’t stop me. I couldn’t use mana, but my physical abilities were the same as in the outside world. Moreover, my swordsmanship, the Yeongcheon Style, and the combat experience I had accumulated were not gone.
I easily dodged the soldiers’ attacks, passed them, and slit their throats.
Some of the soldiers were surprised by my skills and ran away, and my target, Hotain, fell on his butt as he stumbled backward.
“Do, do you know what you’ve done?!”
“Do you know what you’ve done?”
I wanted to kill him slowly, starting with his limbs, but I didn’t have the time. And Elain, who was shocked, was looking at me.
I raised the blood-soaked sword.
“S-spare me! I was wrong… *cough*!”
I plunged the sword into the noble’s heart. The noble trembled and then slumped. He was definitely dead.
I turned my gaze to the side. My eyes met Panres’s.
“Panres. I didn’t know you would betray me.”
“T-Told! No! Listen to me!”
I pulled the sword out of the noble’s heart.
“Hiiik!”
Panres, realizing there was no room for conversation, screamed and started to run away. I put strength into my hand and threw the sword at Panres. The sword pierced Panres’s neck exactly. The people who were watching from the surroundings scattered in panic. They must have thought I might kill them too.
I approached Elain, who was standing among the corpses with a dazed expression.
“Mother…”
“…Yujin. What have you done? You must know how big of a crime killing a noble is…”
In the outside world, if a commoner killed a noble, not only would that commoner not die peacefully, but their family wouldn’t either. Even their relatives could be annihilated, and in the worst case, the entire village could be massacred.
“How could you become that bastard’s concubine! How could you even think of that!”
“If I became his concubine, we could all have lived.”
“I’d rather die than live by selling my mother! And we are not people of this world! We have a world to return to! Surely, Mother… you haven’t given up on going back?!”
Elain sighed deeply.
I knew that I would either die in this world or automatically leave this world in four days, but Elain knew nothing about this world.
“There is no way to return. There is no mana in this world. In other words, there is no magic. How can we return if we can’t use magic?”
“If we look…! If we look, there must be a way!”
“Maybe. But Yujin, can you be sure that there is a way to return?”
“……That’s…”
“In the worst case, we will have to live in this world for the rest of our lives. In that case… wouldn’t it be better if I became a noble’s concubine?”
“Don’t say that!”
I shouted passionately and hugged Elain with both arms. Elain seemed surprised by my sudden action, but she didn’t push me away and stayed still.
I desperately held back my erection from the scent and touch of Elain.
“I don’t want to live comfortably at the cost of my mother’s sacrifice.”
“……It’s the same for me. Do you think I don’t know that you’re suffering because of me? I can’t even wear proper clothes, and I don’t know anything about farming. I don’t know how to cook peasant food, and I don’t know how to handle livestock. In this state, I’m just a burden. A mother who can’t support her son, but instead holds him back… I don’t want to be that kind of woman.”
“Mother!”
I pulled away from her slightly and grabbed her shoulders. And I looked into her eyes.
“I love you, Mother! It was because you were by my side that I was able to endure!”
She looked slightly surprised at my words, then nodded slightly.
“…Yes. I love you too. Even if we aren’t related by blood, you are my only son. What does blood matter?”
“That’s not it. Mother! I love you not as a son, but as a man!”
Elain’s reddish-brown eyes trembled.
“……You’re mistaken. In this world, you and I are the only ones who can rely on each other. And you are very excited right now. Calm down first. We have to think about what to do after killing the noble…”
“It’s not a mistake! I’ve been in love with you since I was in the original world! For years! I know it’s absurd! I know that everyone will criticize me if they find out! Because it’s an act that betrays the heavens!”
“It’s good that you know that. First, let’s calm down…”
“But in this world, there are no people to criticize us! No one knows about our relationship, and we are not related by blood at all! I love you! Mother! No, Elain!”
Perhaps she sensed the danger in my words. Elain was flustered and tried to get away from me.
“N-no! You are my son… *hic*!?”
I pulled Elain into my arms with force and kissed her. Lips rubbed against lips. Elain hit my arm and back with her clenched fist. The important thing here was that she could have hit my head, but she didn’t.
Elain’s resistance gradually decreased and then disappeared. I opened my eyes slightly and looked at Elain’s face, and she soon closed her eyes.
Elain had decided to accept me. If it hadn’t been for this special situation, if Elain hadn’t almost given up on returning to the original world, it would have been impossible.
‘Once you cross the line, it’s easy to cross it again even if you return to the original world.’
I licked and sucked on Elain’s lips. It was the preparation stage for inserting my tongue. Her lips trembled and parted slightly. I didn’t miss the gap and inserted my tongue. She seemed startled, but she responded to my tongue.
‘She’s a married woman, but she’s not very good at kissing. It seems like she hasn’t done it much with Ention. I can understand why.’
The relationship between Ention and Elain was a political marriage. And the woman Ention truly loved was his first wife. It wasn’t a typical marital relationship.
I slowly pulled my lips away. A silver thread stretched between our lips and then disappeared.
Elain, whose cheeks were flushed red, opened her eyes.
“……”
“……”
We quietly looked into each other’s eyes.
