Chapter 257 – 2. White Watch (3)
The dog hole, which had been passed by even once, was followed closely around, and surveillance began to attach to what the hell it was doing.
Among the dog holes hidden here and there, there were those that had never been heard yet but had already been discovered.
It’s been 4 days since I’ve been hiding like this, avoiding tracking.
For the girl and the boy, these four days felt like four years.
The girl and the girl began to become extremely impoverished in an extremely dire situation where they could not lower their guard, could not sleep properly, and could not even use the toilet comfortably while always being very nervous.
No matter how much a rat’s life is, he still maintained his own ‘minimum’ dignity, but now even that has already collapsed for a long time.
Compared to the environment where I could use only water to my heart’s content, I was thirsty and hungry more quickly than usual, probably because I was always in extreme tension.
His younger brother understands the current situation, so even when the stomach growls, he spares no words.
Normally, the dog hole would have been used cleanly, but the inside of the dog hole was already dirty with filth, but the brother and sister could not easily get out of the dog hole.
If we go out this time, this dog hole will be the last.
I couldn’t understand what the hell they were tracking, but that was it until now.
After using the same dog hole twice and almost getting caught, the boys and girls had no choice but to be extremely careful.
The boy peered out through the old mossy wooden planks and gestured to the boy.
The number of dog holes left was now small, but now was the time to leave this dog hole.
Really for what reason?
She’s never stolen anything from a noble, and she’s never picked up anything that looked valuable.
As much as she knows the life of a rat, she knows her place well, and she never tried to do anything beyond her means.
A girl never crossed the line, having seen many times what happens to her when a gypsy rat does something beyond her means.
Even when she saw Baek Kyung’s jade, she thought that if she had it, she would be able to live for the rest of her life, but she did not covet it.
Because it was something that was more than enough for her.
She squeaked and lifted the wooden plank, the girl quickly checked to make sure there were no people around, then took the hand of the boy following her and ran down her foggy street.
Amidst the muffled footsteps echoing softly, the boy whispered softly.
“Sister… What are you going to do now?”
“…”
No matter how much she thought about it, there was absolutely no way for the girl to overcome her current situation.
But only one. She had something to gamble on.
“I’ll make a choice for you”
“To me?”
The girl sighed for a moment and then opened her mouth, swallowing her dry saliva.
“I’m thinking of going into Baekkyung.”
“On the white watch?”
“Yes. I’m not sure, but looking at the situation flowing in this city, it seems like they’re trying to do something wrong with the white whale, but they can’t touch it, perhaps because the white whale’s power is stronger than I thought.”
Since it is such a great ship, if you recklessly break into the ship without permission, you might be decapitated and cut off.
But now in this village, they have the power to protect them. The only place that was considered unrelated to those who were now chasing them was the White Watch.
It may be an excessive guess, but the aunts in Gibang probably noticed their existence.
So don’t wander around recklessly. He must have told me to hide for at least three months.
But, let alone three months, they were caught before even a month had passed.
“The problem is that those who board such a great ship are sure to say that we have dirty the ship and cut our throats if we get on it. Even the officials seemed to be at a loss.”
Even if it was just rumors, Baek Kyung was clearly conflicting with this place.
Regardless of whether one was right or wrong, the proof was that the white whale was still floating on the river like that.
Above all, the officials did not deny the rumors. It’s even more so that I don’t even affirm it.
If it was really false, they would have cracked down on rumors.
“Who, sister…”
“Anyway, it might be better to be decapitated and cut off at once. I don’t know why those guys who want to catch us are trying to catch us, but if they get caught, I don’t think anything good will happen.”
Exhausted
Every day is hard and the life of a tired rat with no future is exhausted. As if even that was not enough, I was tired of this world trying to take away even this last remaining body.
So, the girl gambled away without thinking deeply.
A strategy that is too tight and lax in many areas to be as it should be.
Unexpectedly, they might throw us to those who were chasing them in the White Watch, and maybe use them as experimental subjects for strange magic.
Considering the huge ominous feeling felt in the White Watch, it might be right not to choose the option of going to the White Watch.
But in the end, the girl asked her brother, leaving her white whale as her choice.
Whether to gamble with great risk or not.
In fact, the girl had already made her choice, but was willing to make another choice based on her brother’s choice.
Even if she died, she intended to be with the boy.
“…I trust my sister. There must be a reason because it was the choice she made.”
“…Sorry, and thank you”
Grabbing her sister’s hand even tighter, the girl ran without hesitation toward the pier in front of her in the artificial waterway where the white whale was moored.
And now it was about the time that the white whale was slowly visible in the distance.
Fuhuaaak -!!
“Wow?!”
“Ugh?”
A strong wind blew, and for an instant the fog lifted from her.
And in the meantime, the mast of the white whale soaring high into the sky was visible above the buildings, and it was surrounded high by a wall of fog that seemed to have been cut by a knife blade due to the tremendous wind pressure.
No.
Could it be that you really cut through the fog with your sword? Then, could it be that it was wind pressure caused by swinging a sword?
Kwaaang -!! Koo Hung!!
Creak!! Creak!!
“Kyaaaaa!!”
“Oops!”
A merciless shock shook the surroundings as if the fierce wind from a moment ago had become a breeze.
Even though it was very brief, the girl who lost her mind and collapsed said, ‘Heh, heh…’ ‘ She hurriedly came to her senses and staggered to her feet, her throbbing middle arm on the ground as if she had been beaten all over with her sledgehammer.
What the hell is going on?
At that moment, the girl flashed and felt like she knew something.
The reason she felt that she shouldn’t go to Baekkyung.
It wasn’t because the white whale itself was dangerous, it was because of this incident.
The girl immediately realized.
You have to stay away from the white watch.
She hurriedly looked around her and the girl saw her brother lying down a short distance away, still unconscious of her.
“Hey, wake up! Wake up! We have to get out of here!”
“Uh, uh… Who… Me?”
“Do you come to your senses? We have to run away! If we stay here, we’ll get into a fight and die!”
While the boy’s memories of what had happened were confused, the expression on his sister’s face put all his thoughts and judgments aside.
Stagger. The two girls and boys began to fall apart from the white watch with their sluggish bodies, and a loud explosion rang out from behind them.
Kaaang -!!
Whoops -!!
Wedge! Wedge liquid!!
The fog was cut into pieces as if cut with a knife, and the gap in the fog opened wide due to the huge wind pressure that was being cut, and it gradually began to be pushed out of the surroundings.
The girl was frightened by that stunning sight, and urged her legs more and more as she whipped the still body.
What the heck is that ridiculous sight?
A pitch-black line was drawn in the air without a sound.
Black is so pure that the word “Black” Is not enough.
In this world, something collided with the pure black that seemed to deny the very existence of light, and the girl felt something.
“Get down!!”
A girl and a boy hurriedly pulled the boy’s hand and fell face down on the floor.
And then, a shockwave rang out with a tremendous roar.
Kwaaang -!! Koo Hung!!
Was it due to preparation this time?
Or maybe it was because the distance was a little bit farther away. Both the boy and the girl coughed and coughed at the tremendous shock that shook their noses, but they were able to stumble and get up right away.
“Let’s hurry… We have to go further. If we get a few more shocks like this, we might really die…”
“Yes”
How far away After leaving the well-maintained canal and reaching the outskirts of the village, the girl and boy sighed and sat down on the ground.
“Would it be okay if we got out of here?”
“I don’t know… But I don’t feel like it’s dangerous anymore, so it probably is.”
And at that moment, both the girl and the boy flinched greatly at the appearance of black lines cutting through the air in succession.
Goong!! Kuk-gung! Kwwung!!
The heavy vibrations of the air reached this point, and the boy and girl flinched and trembled at the pressure.
Will the villagers be okay?
What the hell is going on in the middle of the capital?
Of course, even if this is the metropolitan area, even in such a capital, it is the outskirts of the outskirts, but the capital was still the capital.
But such a clash in the middle of such a capital?
“Sister… What the hell is that black thing?”
It was said that those who excelled in martial arts could cut down mountains and split the sea, but the girl thought such stories were bluffing until now.
Even strong people who said they were doing their best were kicked to death by a single horse. When the opponent is a wolf or a tiger, the story is very different.
Unless we assemble a group and use powerful weapons, we cannot defeat even a beast in the middle of the day. How can we cut down mountains and split the sea?
But it seemed that such a story was not very far-fetched.
I don’t know about the mountains and seas, but the fog certainly cut, split, and blew away. Just something thought to be the aftermath of a military clash brought him and his younger brother back to life.
The girl who saw the shock wave thumping like that didn’t know when she ran away for a while, but she felt that she was avoiding the trajectory that would destroy the city even with that black light that embroidered the air and that something that collided with that black light. Came in
No. Are dodging
I don’t know if there is any damage from running away, but if something with such tremendous power hits the city, there’s no way the city would still look like that.
The girl let out a small sigh of relief.
Fighting without damaging the city doesn’t mean you’re trying to harm people on either side at least.
If even one person with such tremendous power was hostile to humans, there would really be no answer.
But what is really going on?
Sit down on the ground with a body that looks like it’s about to break and thump the air! Thud! The girl, who was watching the terrifying war resounding, suddenly felt a creepy and terrifying feeling at that moment.
With a quick swish, she turned her head to see a group of people there, breathing heavily and bleeding from the corners of her mouth.
If you knew them well, they knew them well.
Isn’t that natural? How can we forget those who have been driving girls and boys into a corner so far?
“Hee-euk… Hee-euk… Huh? What is it? I finally caught this damn thing.”
That’s what they said, but they didn’t look too good either.
The panting breath that came up to just below the chin and the blood flowing around their mouths in no way indicated that their condition was not good.
However, it was the first time for siblings to see them up close like this, so they were very nervous and held each other’s hands tightly.
The brother and sister, who exchanged glances with each other only by rolling their eyes, started running without saying anything.
Where you might have to go I just started running recklessly.
My body is still a mess, but at least I rested more than they did.
However, the boy and the girl were pushed beyond that limit.
In a state where they couldn’t eat, drink, or sleep properly, their young bodies were exposed to large shockwaves several times. Fear began to rise to the top of my head.
Tadadadak!
“Heh! Heo!”
“Whoops! Whoops!”
“Fuck! Can’t stand there?! Heo-eok!”
“This… Goddamn… Ugh!”
Gradually, my head started spinning.
There have been too many triggers of a sense of being strangely tired lately.
Although she was stronger than her brother, the senses triggered by the crisis of her life, which had recently had successive sons, regardless of her own will, took away her stamina so much that now her feet are more and more weaker than her brother’s. It felt like it was slowing down every minute.
Instead of dragging her brother, her brother was dragging herself.
“Heo-euk! Heo-euk!”
“Whoops! Whoops!”
Her brother was just desperate.
With all her strength in her small arms, she was desperately leading the body of a girl taller than herself.
Sister, don’t give up! Looking at herself with her longing eyes, the girl gritted her teeth and forced her legs to stop moving, staggering to make her step more somehow. However, in the end, it was different from her limit.
Kwaak-!!
“Kyahak!”
The fluttering hair of the girl was clutched in the hands of the pursuer.
The boy who was dragging the girl with a tight grip as if he would never let go of the girl’s hand also came to a halt as the girl grabbed her hair and forcibly stopped.
“Whoops! Whoops! Whoops! Whoops… Damn it… Whoops…”
Breathing frantically, he raised her hand as if he were about to slap her girl on the cheek, but then quickly lowered her hand.
The girl couldn’t understand him. Why?
In her panic, the girl hurriedly turned to her brother, even as she gasped for breath.
Unlike herself, her brother, who had been caught facing the ground, was breathing heavily and crying in fear.
Squeezing and still gasping for breath, they held on to themselves and put their arms behind their backs, tying our limbs tightly enough to make our wrists hurt.
While they were tying her and her sister’s limbs together, the girl asked them what she was most curious about so far.
“What the hell… Why did you catch us?”
“I know you’re going to be punished.
“Huh… Older sister…”
After those words, the two of us, put in a sack with a gag on our mouths, were taken to an unknown place.
* * * * * *
“Evil!”
“Aww!”
The boy and girl, who had spilled out of the sack with a bang, looked around, trembling with anxiety at the sight of the dark surroundings.
Then, hearing the sound of wood rubbing, I looked in that direction and saw a place blocked by a grate made of solid wood in front of a small and short cave.
Empty! And closed door.
And seeing that the lock was locked firmly, the girl and the girl came to think that it was really over.
The girl, who was locked in a simple prison somewhere, saw a person guarding the door.
“Why…? Why are there no values like us…”
“Giggle… It’s stupid. It’s only natural that it’s because no one is looking for it.”
At the guard’s words, the boy and girl were silent.
Even so, it was odd.
“Are you saying that just for that reason you pursued a worthless gutter rat so tenaciously?”
“Huh… He probably didn’t get any education, but he’s smarter than I thought.”
The jailer seemed to be having fun, tok tok. He patted his feet and looked at us.
“Yeah, but that’s unusual. I heard that Garnets are like dogs.”
“Dog…?”
“Yes. A dog. A dog that does not know how to betray, is honest and faithful, and even when beaten, whines and flirts with its master.”
The girl couldn’t understand what the guard was saying, but even in the meantime, she kept two keywords from the words the guard said deep in her head.
‘Garnet’ and ‘dog’
“I was completely surprised. I never thought that such a precious jewel would roll around in the mud and no one would have picked it up. Really, we would have known if it wasn’t for a drunkard who happened to brag about in a tavern. Say something”
Jewels…
“If it’s red, it’s either ruby or garnet. I honestly wish it was ruby, but garnet isn’t bad either. But unfortunately, peridot isn’t what we want.”
At that, the girl flinched and quickly and instinctively covered her brother’s face.
I couldn’t understand what Peridot was talking about, but I could understand that it meant her sister.
Both of us are jewels. Among them, if she is a garnet, the new gem called peridot can only be a word that naturally refers to her younger sister.
“It’s so unique. Usually Garnet is for men. Peridot is for women. You’re the opposite. Perhaps that’s why in the West, girls with Peridot eyes are educated as saints from an early age?”
The girl quietly opened her mouth as she looked at the guard who was teaching her many things without realizing it while she was spinning her words around.
“What do you want”
“Hmm… Have you realized that far already? They say that ordinary garnets are stupid, but you are really eccentric.”
Of course, Garnett isn’t really an idiot.
I just don’t know that she’s messing with her hair and playing tricks on her.
Garnet, who trusts someone easily and doesn’t know how to doubt and betray once he trusts them, was the perfect character to be taken advantage of.
“Everyone who has a jewel eye has a unique talent. Some say they are blessed by God, some say they are chosen by the heavens, and there are many words, but no one knows the truth. There is one person who has been chosen by God.”
Did you say 12 warriors?
Garnet of Holy Sword.(1)
Amethyst of Seongsoon (Shield).(2)
Growth (Stand) of Aquamarine.(3)
Diamonds from Sex Chu (Warhammer).(4)
Emerald of the Holy Rod (Wand).(5)
Pearl of Sacrament (Wire).(6)
Sacred Spear Ruby.(7)
And, although it can’t be said for sure, the holy woman’s peridot is a ring. (8)
Sapphire in the Castle Hall (Mace). (9)
Opal of tone (chloe).(10)
Topaz of the Father (Axe). (11)
The turquoise of the Holy Artillery (flag). (12)
“Anyway, Garnet doesn’t know about treachery. But how can I win his allegiance?”
“…”
“It’s a Peradotra that’s useless to us, but it’s a jewel that’s a gem of its own. It can be used somewhere. For example, as an assistant to help Garnet grow. Or…”
“Hostage…”
The guard laughed at the girl’s words.
“You really don’t look like a garnet. Are you a ruby?
“If I were Ruby… Then what would happen?”
“It’s even better. If you do well and get the Holy Spear, it’s even better. Ruby’s Hero is very rare and it is said that there is no Holy Spear right now.”
The boy couldn’t follow even half of the conversation at the sight of the trembling girl standing in front of her younger brother, but he knew one thing.
That she herself became something like shackles holding her sister’s legs.
“We can’t destroy our precious Garnet. Or maybe even Ruby.”
“What are you thinking of doing?”
“So it’s better to decide quickly. Peradot is said to have a lot of toughness, but it’s not immortal.”
“Nu-sister!!”
At that, the girl immediately understood what the jailer was saying.
Give your allegiance Otherwise, your brother will be tortured.
The younger brother, who was frightened and trembled, shook her head wildly after shaking her head for a while.
“Oh, no sister! Don’t mortgage your life to those guys!”
“That, what does that mean?”
“I don’t know anything, and I’m not as wise as my sister, so I couldn’t understand half of what she was saying, but at least I could understand that we’re worthy enough to be named gems, not rats.”
The girl flinched at her brother’s words.
“Never, in a normal place, they wouldn’t have caught us like this. I’m sure you don’t know me, but if you’re my sister, you’ll be able to get into a good place on good terms. I don’t want to be a shackle holding her ankle…”
“…”
According to her brother, the girl could neither do this nor that.
For the first time, her brother insisted so strongly on her will that she could ignore it.
However, she could not stand by and watch her sister’s safety be endangered.
But then the girl desperately tried to roll her head.
Why?
Why did the jailer tell me all this?
Isn’t something strange?
“Time… Not much time, right?”
The jailer flinched momentarily.
It was a very subtle movement, but the girl didn’t miss it.
“I explained something in a lengthy manner, but in order to narrow down the options, I over-explained too much information to confuse some of them. Information that is related to this case, but far from the core.”
“What are you…”
For the first time, the jailer looked at her girl with a look of bewilderment.
“You’re not like Garnet… What are you?”
“What are you asking the rat?”
Creepy…
The jailer gritted his teeth.
“Ah, yes. If you’re not Garnet, there won’t be anything difficult.”
Click, squeak…
The jailer entered the prison and slapped the girl on the cheek with the back of his hand, pushed her aside, and grabbed her sister.
“If it’s not Garnet anyway, the only way to control it is by forcibly enslaving it with a magic restraint.
Garnet’s value comes from its loyal loyalty.
However, if it wasn’t for Garnet, there was no reason to look favorably on it.
“Ugh, uh! Ah?”
Looking at the frightened boy, the jailer smiled bitterly. The guard grabbed the boy by the ankles and gave him all his strength.
Wooddeuk -!!
“!!… Ah, ah ah ah ah ah!!!!!”
“!!”
