Chapter 312 – 74. Up to a Hundred. (2)
Vermantia is far away.
It was very, very far.
I was having a hard time, so I pushed my brother to go home several times.
Whenever that happened, my older brother laughed and said, not angry like his parents.
“Good. Then, only hyung will go see the flying boat. You go home.”
“No! See you too! A flying boat!”
“Then can’t I use it like that? Right?”
“Huh. I won’t use it. I want to see a flying boat in the sky!”
“Yes, nice, Tom.”
We arrived in a big city.
But my brother and I continued to starve.
No one helped us.
We begged.
We barely ate a piece of bread to soothe our sore stomachs.
“No way! Get out of here, you bastards.”
My older brother would sometimes get kicked by adults.
But my brother woke up without crying.
And I laughed haha while brushing his body.
“It’s hard to go see the flying boat, Tom! I’m fine.”
But at night I saw my brother crying quietly.
So I also quietly cried.
I couldn’t figure out why we had to suffer like this.
I didn’t even know why I had to meet Mr. Cranjo of Vermantia.
Uncle John didn’t even know why he hadn’t come yet.
However, I continued to follow in my brother’s footsteps.
There were times when it was too hard to look at.
Every time he did that, he smiled and hugged me.
“Tom. A ship in the sky… , By all means, let’s go see it. Understand?”
And we’re finally out of the East.
In fact, it is said that it is out of the East, but I have no way of knowing whether it is the East or the Central.
There is no line drawn on the land saying, This is my land, this is your land.
Land here, land there.
It’s all the same land.
But there is the East, and here is the Middle.
How do adults know that so well?
Will I be able to know the eastern land and the central land when I grow up?
The kind-hearted mercenary guys took us to the big city again.
The old men called this place the Iron Fortress.
“Where are you guys going?”
“It’s Vermantia!”
“Vermandois?”
“Ah yes!”
“Why are you there?”
I was excited and tried to answer, but my brother hit my side with his elbow.
Only then did I shut up in surprise.
“It seems difficult to say. … What should I do, my lord?”
“What? We are here The rest should be taken care of by them. Are we babysitters?”
So my brother and I were left in Karlstadt, the Iron Fortress.
But we couldn’t stop there.
It is because I have to go see Mr. Granjona Allen of Vermandois.
The older brother grabbed passers-by and asked where Vermandois was.
“It is far away. Can’t walk Get in the carriage.”
So we went to the place where the carriages headed for Vermandois were gathered.
But it took a lot of money to get there.
We had no money. Even if you brought all the money you had hidden in the house, it wasn’t enough.
But grown-ups paid well for that big money too.
As an adult, I think you can easily pay that much money.
I wanted to become an adult quickly.
But first of all, I was very hungry.
The mercenary men gave us some food, but we ate it all in one day.
There were many children like us in Karlstadt.
Adults also pointed at me and my older brother and called them beggars.
When they got closer, they would punch and kick them.
I cried because it hurt so much.
Then my older brother ran and yelled at me asking why he was hitting me, and I was beaten.
I was so sad that I cried profusely.
I cried not to hit my brother.
“We have a house too. We’re from the East. We are not beggars. We are not orphans.”
But I was hungry.
I was very hungry.
My older brother and I mingled among the children.
He ran to someone and held out his hand to ask for something to eat.
The good-hearted men sometimes handed out something to eat.
Me and my brother barely filled our stomachs with it.
“Hyung, a flying boat… , Doesn’t exist? When are we going?”
“Just wait a little bit. Trust me brother Sorry. My brother must have been mistaken for a moment. I’ll find you again soon!”
My older brother ran around every day.
Sometimes he came back covered in bruises.
But he didn’t cry. I cry every day, but hyung didn’t cry until the end.
I was passing by a bakery and was so hungry that I stole a loaf of bread.
But the store owner jumped out and grabbed me.
“You bastard bastard!”
And he hit me hard.
I begged that I was wrong.
But the owner, the uncle, trampled on me.
After a while, my brother appeared and hugged me.
“Don’t hit me! Don’t hit my brother!”
My brother and I have been beaten for a while.
An old man told me to do that.
Only then did the kicking stop.
We cried a lot.
I cried because I was sick and sad.
I cried aloud in anger.
“We are going to Danju Granzo and Danju Allen!”
Then the grown-ups laughed.
“He’s like you guys, why is he meeting you bastards?”
Ah.
I was shocked.
Danju Granzo and Danju Allen are very great people, and they said that lowly things like us can’t meet.
“Uncle John, Uncle John, told me to visit Danju Granzo and Danju Allen!”
“Tsk tsk, assholes.”
The grown-ups spat and left saying it wasn’t worth listening to anymore.
I cried and asked my older brother if he could no longer see the flying boat.
“No! I can see it! Don’t worry! Trust me bro! Trust me!”
I wept bitterly.
I wanted to trust him, but now it’s hard to trust him.
There were no flying boats.
It seemed like I wouldn’t be able to see Danju Granzo or Danju Allen.
Uncle John, who said he would count a million and catch them, didn’t come either.
There were no parents, no sister Sarah.
I wanted to go home.
Now I just wanted to go home.
It was hungry, cold, and exhausting.
I wanted to go to the fields behind my house, dig up shoots, go to the ditches and catch crayfish.
I also wanted to play war games with my friends.
I wanted to become a knight with the coolest branches.
“Let’s go home. Brother, let’s just go home now…”
My older brother kept teasing me.
But I kept crying.
“I’m sorry, Tom. I’m sorry bro trust me brother trust my brother Tom. Sorry. Sorry.”
My brother cried
I cried to my brother not to cry.
We hugged each other and cried.
We cried and collapsed from exhaustion.
In a cold and dirty alleyway, my brother and I lay hugging each other.
“Brother.”
“Huh.”
“A ship that flies in the sky… , Can you really see it?”
“… Yes.”
“… When?”
“I can see you soon. Soon. I promise you, Tom. Really.”
“Huh… , Promise.”
I decided to trust my brother.
I promised to trust you until the end.
Just then, people screamed.
– It’s a flying ship!
– It’s a floating ship!
Ah.
We woke up.
And I looked up at the sky.
Really.
Really.
Really!
It was a flying ship.
There are ships that really fly.
My brother and I are watching it.
I forgot that I was hungry or that I was sick.
“Tongue!”
“Tom!”
We ran to where the flying boat was flying.
Amain.
Very hard
With all one’s might.
People all ran to it.
My brother was right.
What Uncle John said was true!
There really were flying ships!
I became the happiest person in the world.
Now I can tell my parents and my sister Sarah that flying boats really do exist.
I can say Uncle John’s story is true.
“Uncle John was right! It really is!”
The flying ship circled the city once and came down to the ground.
Wow
We approached to take a closer look at it, but it was already surrounded by adults.
My brother and I tried to squeeze in, but only adults were allowed to enter.
I tried to see it from high, but I couldn’t get to high.
If you look down from the garden behind our house, you can see everything!
“These beggars!”
My older brother and I kept trying to get in, but the adults kicked us.
But we didn’t feel any pain either.
It was just more pity that I couldn’t see the flying ship closer.
But, suddenly, the front opened brightly.
The road ahead of me and my older brother opened up.
We were able to get a closer look at the sunken ship on the ground.
What a great look!
That nice boat!
At that moment, my older brother got me up and tried to fall to the side.
“Let’s get up. Let’s go aside. The High One is coming.”
I quickly got up and fell to the side with my brother.
Right then.
Someone came running to us.
My brother begged me to apologize.
She was a very, very pretty sister.
My sister named me and my older brother.
“You guys… , Louie, Tom, right?”
I nodded vigorously.
How could this pretty older sister know my brother’s and my brother’s names!
The older sister hugged us.
“Welcome. It held up well. Well done guys. Good job. Really, good job.”
My sister’s embrace was warm.
I smiled brightly because the arms were so warm.
But my brother cried.
“It’s hard, I’m hungry, and ah… !”
The older brother wept bitterly in his sister’s arms.
My sister kissed me and my brother on the head.
“Let’s go. Let’s go now. Let’s go to Vermandois.”
Vermandois!
Just then, a handsome older brother approached.
The older brother squatted in front of us.
“Can I serve our heroes?”
We were led by the hands of our brother and sister to a flying boat.
We boarded a flying boat!
“Brother! It’s a flying ship! We rode here!”
My brother cried.
I don’t know why I cry on this happy day.
The ship took off into the sky!
I was so excited that I screamed.
Uncle John, Mom and Dad, and Sarah, how surprised they would be to know this!
“Tongue! We are flying through the sky!”
There are ships that fly.
I rode it.
I am the happiest child in the world.
