Chapter 254 – 254. The Core of the Past (2)
A lot of things have really changed in the Orpah I’ve seen in the past two years.
Her youthful appearance from Aether has disappeared and her height has grown a little, but now she has the appearance of a fully grown man.
But while many things have changed, there are also things that have not changed at all.
The arrogant attitude of looking down on others, and the sense of superiority that always stands above others, basically underlying the sense of eliteness, did not disappear, but seemed to have been strangely distorted and deepened.
Erin read part of Billard’s inner feelings and frowned at her.
‘… Upset.’
The hostility sent to oneself as arrogance pierces the sky.
Moreover, the eyes that scan her whole body and float the light of lust.
All of them were disgusting feelings that brought Erin’s mood down to low pressure.
[… Have you still lost her mind?]
‘Is it Miho?’
Erin wondered inwardly at the muttering voice of the gumiho, but the gumiho did not answer.
At the time when Erin was kidnapped to an abandoned warehouse under Ashton’s guidance and almost raped, the nine-tailed fox took over the girl’s body and manifested the power of a divine beast by alternating with Erin’s gradually weakening consciousness. .
That too, right in front of Villard Orba’s eyes.
The ability of the nine-tailed fox, which absorbed all the magic and vitality that existed in Ashton’s body and made it almost a mummified state, is a strange power that cannot be explained as a magical phenomenon.
It is said that it was an ability developed by a gumiho, but the attitude of ignoring Errin without feeling a sense of incongruity even after seeing the ability manifested in Erin’s body right in front of her eyes is a way of thinking that the gumiho cannot understand.
[Am I stupid or I don’t think…]
‘What are you talking about. Why?’
At that time, Erin, who had lost her mind, did not remember what had happened between the nine-tailed fox and Villa de Orba.
[No, nothing.]
‘…’
She didn’t like the attitude of the gumiho, who kept silent after saying only things that bothered her, so her Erin urged her in her frustration, but the gumiho didn’t answer at all.
“Ha…”
He let out a small sigh and turned his gaze back to Villard.
The appearance of the armor with the seal of the Kingdom of Pernias on the left chest is the armor of the Krasir Royal Guards, which I have seen many times before.
In addition, even the appearance of those wearing luxurious robes and armor that look like wizards.
Looking at the situation, she realized that she had sent troops in response to the call for reinforcements from Marshal Mo Graf, who had gone over to the side of the Pernias family.
They also realize that the reason why the adventurers’ wagon procession decided to camp here is because they arrived first and found the kingdom troops resting here.
As she speculated that the decision might have been made, thinking that it was the right decision to move together rather than separately, Erin raised another question.
She said, ‘I heard that Krasir was an order of knights protecting the royal family… Why are they on a subjugation expedition?’
Knowing that Artia was in charge of this subjugation mission, she doubted that Erin was Krasir, not Artia.
“My lady, do you know each other?”
“It is, but…”
To the question of Jess, a former swindler adventurer who followed Erin, wondering what was going on, Erin answered with a puzzled expression.
“When I asked what he was doing after he was kicked out of Aether, he was working as an adventurer.”
“I was kicked out…”
In a way, that’s not wrong.
Erin, who refused her formal title given by Queen Diane and became a commoner, did not satisfy one of the most basic conditions for attending Aether, ‘noble family’, so she naturally became a member of Aether. Because I also lost the qualification to attend.
However, Erin chose to kick away the authority to attend that school and turn to the path of a commoner, not being kicked out.
“That’s how things went at school.”
In any case, it was irrelevant information, but when she heard her distorted story like this, she laughed out loud.
“What is funny?”
Erin, who was more relaxed than she thought, was noticeably different from her past self, when she was a student and shrunk in the eyes of others.
“No, nothing…”
Erin replied slowly and slowly scanned the faces of her fellow knights in Villard who were staring this way.
And in the center of the knights, she found a female wizard who had been persecuted on her knees until just before her, and stopped her gaze.
She was too familiar with the woman’s face.
“… Marva?”
“Oh… !”
Recognizing her own form, Marva hurriedly turned her head away from Erin’s gaze.
“Hmm? Ah!”
Villard, who had been thinking about the reason for Marva’s behavior of avoiding Erin’s gaze, soon realized the reason and gave a fishy smile.
She soon returned to her seat and with great effort turned her head and grabbed Marva by the hair, who was avoiding Erin’s gaze, and pulled her up by force.
“Ah!”
“Come to think of it, wasn’t it this year that bullied you the most in Aether?”
While giggling and forcing Marva’s eyes to meet Erin’s, she tramples on her self-esteem, and at the same time, she watches Erin’s reaction.
Erin tried to maintain a calm expression on her face, but she couldn’t control how her hand, which was holding the bowl of soup she had been rationed, naturally began to gain strength.
“This year. It was sold as seed to our count’s family. And that, too, with the hands of my father.”
“…”
Villard proudly explained how Marva was sold as a squire to the count’s family without erasing a fishy smile.
Marva’s father, Viscount Berman, who was revealed to have conspired to siphon off the kingdom’s budget with Renion Hersharle, Erin’s father, due to Ashton’s scheme, paid an amount several times the embezzled amount to the royal family as a fine. It started when the family lineage was in a very dangerous situation when it came to a situation where it had to be paid.
To make matters worse, it is said that Marva got Viscount Berman’s wrath when he was wrongly involved in a drug case called Mana Stream, which was spread by a remnant of the empire, the Black Wizard.
After that, Viscount Berman asked for help from Count Orba and received a large amount of financial aid under the condition that he sell his daughter to his family as a seed.
“Wow…”
Jis, who was quietly listening to the conversation from the side, looked at the Villard group with a tired expression saying, “What kind of family is that?”
“Isn’t it really a spectacle? How does it feel to see the girl who ignored you so badly? Are you refreshed?”
Marva, who had been dragged around by her hair by Villard, no longer saw the arrogance of her arrogance that had plagued him in her past, and who had been thoroughly pushing herself by mentioning the difference in her social status.
The equipment she was wearing was in very good condition, but the sagging cheeks as if she hadn’t eaten properly and the dark circles encroaching under her eyes showed how exhausted her mind was.
Inside Marva, who was shedding tears with her eyes tightly closed, her unbearable feelings of shame and humiliation were conveyed intact, but Erin did not show any reaction.
“… I have no idea.”
“What?”
Perhaps because the answer was so unexpected, Villard asked again with his eyes wide open.
“I don’t think anything of it. What did he sell to your family? Why should I feel joy?”
The downfall of her classmate in her past, deeply involved in her own life and her trauma, curiously gave Erin no inspiration.
The current downfall of Marva, which was created by her self-employment, left no room for her sympathy.
Was her own growth the cause of her way of thinking, or was there another cause, she didn’t know.
But she was sure it wouldn’t be an emotional breakdown.
Of course, Erin felt that the current situation was very pitiful.
A sight in which a large number of people are not ashamed of doing wrong actions that trample on a person’s dignity and character using the wealth and power of their families, but are feeling joy through those actions.
Erin spoke her honest feelings about the scene.
“It’s low.”
“What?”
“… What?”
Erin didn’t even care about the reaction of Billard and her knights, who were furious with twitching eyebrows.
She turns around and steps toward her own tent.
“Ah, lady!”
Her jis hurriedly followed Erin, but her word that her Erin put in her mouth had a great ripple effect on Villard and her knights.
“Hey… Stop.”
In a small, muttering voice, Villard calls out to her Erin, but the voice does not reach her Erin.
“Stop!”
When her erin didn’t budge despite her loud cry, Villard pointed at her erin with her glance at the mage under his command.
The court mage, who understood the meaning of Billard’s wink, picked up the staff she had left beside her and began to concoct a spell.
[Single-digit sub-magic]
[Gust Wind]
“… !”
Erin, noticing the presence of magical power injected into one place and realizing that she was trying to manifest her magic through her spell, hurriedly turned her body.
She twisted her body sideways and pulled her feet out of her magic’s range, but Erin’s hand, which she couldn’t get out of, was caught in the gust of wind and knocked the bowl of soup she was holding onto the floor.
“Ah… !”
The gust of wind that hit Erinn was just a low-level magic that had no power, but it was clear that it was a bad prank by Billard and the others with malicious intent.
Erin put on a devastated expression as she watched the soup spilled on her floor.
“Rice… My rice…”
“This! What to do with this! I dropped my valuable dinner!?”
“This, this…”
Jess put on a puzzled expression and hurriedly looked at Erin.
In the battle to take place in the Mograf Territory, the Kingdom’s Knights and Court Magicians were an important force, and they were all nobles by birth.
No matter how talented an adventurer is, as a mere commoner, if he gets angry and commits an act because of one-sided malicious pranks and insults, it is Erin, the adventurer, who is at a disadvantage.
“Come here right now, get down on your knees and apologize for what you said earlier!”
Erin’s clenched fists began to tremble little by little as Villard’s high-pitched shouts of triumphantly pierced Erin’s ears.
“If a pretty looking girl promises to fawn on us tonight, we’ll prepare a luxurious meal that can’t compare to that soup!”
“…”
“Ah, lady. My soup is all right, so it’s better to eat this and get out of the seat for now…”
He wasn’t sure if appeasing the girl with something to eat would ease the girl’s anger, but for now, Jiss decided that the first priority was to calm Erin and evacuate her from the spot.
He didn’t even understand halfway through why he had to do this, but he also had a sly thought that this would serve as an additional point when apologizing to Eun-hyeon, who would be introduced later.
“… Mister.”
“Ok?”
“Hyeoni… No, my master. Didn’t you say you wanted to meet me?”
“Yeah, but… ?”
“Please testify later.”
“What testimony…”
“From now on, Sibi walked from that side first.”
After saying that, Erin turned her body and moved her steps back toward Villad’s group.
“No way…”
Jis, realizing what Erin was thinking, hardened her face.
“They say they don’t even touch dogs when they eat… My rice…”
Perhaps it was because she had been curled up in the carriage all day from morning, Erin, who was stressed out due to her fatigue and hunger, glared at the Villards who played vicious pranks on her and said to them, Approached.
As she walked, she thought and she thought of how to express the irritation that welled up in her heart.
She began to have a lot of urges to swear, if possible, in the harshest words she could express.
“Miss! If you cause trouble with the knights of the kingdom… !”
Without even hearing Jis’s warning, Erin moved.
Concentrating her strength in her legs, Erin’s body vanished in an instant as she kicked the floor with all her might and leaped toward Villard.
[Juhyeonseong Polar Plain]
[Gungsin Tanyeong (弓身彈影)]
Erin’s high-speed movement, which appeared in front of Villard with her single leap, made Jess, the adventurers who were watching the situation, and the knights and wizards of the kingdom all look shocked.
“What… !?”
What was most disconcerting at her momentary appearance in front of her was Villard, who had been taunting Erin all along with her triumphant expression on her face.
“This… !”
When the girl twists her waist and pulls her tightly clenched fists behind her, making a blank expression, unable to react.
“You’re not even a dog!”
Fuck!
“Cheuk!”
Erin’s right hook, enraged, hit Villard’s left face squarely, causing his head to bend strongly to the right at the impact.
With a short scream, three teeth protruded from Villard’s mouth and flew through the air.
