Smith， a Black Company in Another World 158

Chapter 158 – Ep.158 Smith, a Black Company in Another World

Guard’s office.

“Well, I’m the captain… ?”
“If you open your mouth one more time, I will throw you out the window.”

Lina, who was banging her head on the floor, clamped her mouth shut at her boss’s chilling warning.

‘It’s not just me… ‘Fuck you guys.’

Lina recalled the faces of each and every one of her subordinates who had made fun of her and her superior, and she kept promising herself that as soon as she got out of here, she would be caught and kicked.

Knock. Knock. Knock.

Cernax, who had been checking yesterday’s report log, raised his head toward the door.

―Lord Kernax? Is it okay if I come in for a moment?

It was the voice of Administrator Millia.

“Please come in.”
“Excuse me~”

Millia opened the door and she came inside. Then she found Lina with her head in her corner and blinked her eyes for a moment.

Kernax, who was watching this, sighed inwardly and said.

“Reena. “To return to work.”
“Yep!!”

Before her superior could change his mind, Lina got up like the wind and saluted her with a straight stance, then bowed at right angles to the magistrate for saving her from this crisis and left her seat, expressing her gratitude. Ran away quickly.

“Is this important?”
“Half and half?”

Cernax looked at her slightly, tilting her head slightly, then stood up from her seat.

“I was grateful yesterday.”
“Haha, what are you doing with something like that?”

Millia and Kernax sat on the sofa facing each other.

As Cernax sat down, Mylia smiled softly and asked vaguely.

“Do you think Mr. Smith is so good at working at night?”
“Cough, call—!!”
“Are you okay?”
“It’s okay, lol… It’s okay…”

Cernax swallowed her saliva as she looked at Milia, who was smiling slightly mischievously.

“That… “A little conversation that isn’t related to work.”
“Oh my, I did some work for Lord Kernax yesterday?”
“Well, that’s definitely something I’m thankful for, but… Still, it’s a bit hard to answer such personal things… “It’s difficult.”

Mylia said with her eyes full of interest as she looked at Cernax, who was already red from the bottom of her neck.

“What are you trying to hide? “I think I know the answer just by looking at Sir Kernax’s failure to come to work yesterday.”
“Okay…”

Cernax covered his face with both hands and sighed.

“Actually, I also have personal curiosity. “The matriarch was interested so I asked.”
“Count… From?”

Cernax, who had been lowering her head, raised his head with a subtle expression.

Millia looked at Kernax and nodded her head.

“You know my relationship with Ardella, right?”
“Ah…”

Only then did Kernax understand why Ardel, the head of the family, had such interest.

“You’ve already given permission to date, but… “They say that the better is the better.”
“…”

Kernax’s expression hardened little by little at her words.

I never dreamed that Ardelle, the head of the family, would not only have allowed Smith and Ardella, who were not commoners, let alone nobles, to date, but were from the outskirts, and even hoped for a child between them.

‘Me too…’

Without realizing it, she placed her hand on her lower stomach.

“Lord Cernax?”
“… Ah. Yes. Sorry. Think about something else for a second…”
“No. Are you okay.”

Millia looked at her face with a stiff expression and decided that it would be better to get straight to the point.

“Hmm. “So, should Saddam finish this off and have a public conversation?”
“Yes. “I think that would be better.”

Cernax adjusted her posture and sat down.

Millia also erased her smile from her face.

“First of all, it’s about my return. Two days ago, I received news that the Belfern Territory War had ended. Ardella will lead the knights and visit here within 15 days at the latest. “I plan to return following the procession at that time.”
“Is that so.”

I have already been managing the city on my own for several years.

Nothing changes even if the administrator returns. Nevertheless, Kernax felt some regret over her leaving.

Because I received a certain amount of education, I did not have much difficulty handling administrative tasks, but since my job is primarily an engineer, there are bound to be some shortcomings.

’15 days… You may leave sooner than that, so it would be a good idea to learn as much as you can before then.’

Kernax felt she needed to work overtime for a few days.

“And…”

As Millia was about to speak, she looked around for a moment, then she got up, closed the window behind her desk, and returned to her seat.

“I don’t think I have ears to hear, but it’s a bit of a habit.”
“No. There is no harm in being too cautious.”
“That’s right. “It may be a little annoying and tiring.”

Millia smiled slightly and nodded her head.

On the other hand, Cernax, with her more serious face, slightly lowered her body and brought it closer to Millia.

She said, wiping away her laughter and bowing slightly like Cernax.

“The atmosphere at the border is unusual… “That’s what the matriarch said.”
“If you say it’s not that unusual… ?”
“They said that the monsters that used to come every day have barely been showing up for the past two weeks.”
“… That.”

When Cernax raised her head, her face rigid, Millia turned to face her and gave a small nod of her head.

“It looks like a male king was born.”
“Also…”

A monster that is more faithful to its instincts than its reason.

Among them, they act with species propagation as their top priority.

The reason they keep leaving their habitat and invading human territory is to drag humans or other males of other races to their habitat in order to reproduce.

Even among monsters, males are very rare individuals, so they are always protected and cherished by the group.

Therefore, monsters never cooperate with other individuals or share their habitat to protect the males in their group.

However, in very, very rare cases, all these rules are broken and various monsters share a habitat and cooperate. This is when a male with unparalleled virility is born.

These outstanding males, who sow seeds regardless of their species for the purpose of reproduction and further reproduction, continuously move in search of non-pregnant females, and the herd naturally follows the male and gradually coalesces.

If you only listen to this point, you might think that it is a good thing that the number of monsters escaping their habitat is decreasing, but this is only a temporary phenomenon.

Monsters who instinctively want to receive the seed of the strongest male ignore even the males of their own group and turn to the male king.

The problem is that there are dozens, hundreds, or thousands of such monsters.

No matter how exquisite it is, since there is only one cock, there can only be one pussy that can be penetrated at once.

A situation where thousands of monsters naturally have to wait for their turn.

However, these guys, who are more faithful to their instincts than reason, are not very patient.

In the end, he chooses to kill other guys to take his turn. However, this male king does not want the number of females he must impregnate to decrease.

However, this male king, who is much more rational than a typical monster, knows that he cannot stop him anyway, so he lures the females who cling to him in the other direction.

I will impregnate the one who brings me a new female first.

The stronger the female, the better.

New female.

All of the monsters that have their habitats in the area have already gathered under the Southern King. So where can we find new females?

A being beyond its habitat.

It’s human.

Monsters with a clear goal in mind attack humans with their eyes turned like that.

That is the monster wave.

“The exact details may need to be returned by the investigation team, but maybe… There is consensus that there is a very high probability that a male king was born.”
“If the birth of the Southern King is confirmed…”
“If confirmed, it would be a very difficult situation.”

The inaction of the head of the family, Ardel, is so powerful that it can be counted among the few on the continent. In addition, she and the knights under her are also evaluated as being far superior to the Royal Guard.

The border fortress guarded by such people was not a place that a mere monster could dare to cross, and both Millia and Kernax knew this fact very well.

However, the number of monster waves that flock to them is so great that even these girls are in trouble.

Moreover, rather than kidnapping males, these guys’ main goal is to capture stronger females and present them to the male king, and they attack with a level of tenacity that is incomparable to before.

The extent of their tenacity is that, just as it is said that women who fall in love with men, regardless of race, have nothing to see, these guys also risk their lives by rushing at the soldiers and knights and somehow dragging them before the southern king. They attack without sparing their bodies.

“I think it would be better to notify the surrounding territories in advance.”
“Yes. Yes. In the first place, that would be the right decision. If possible, he would be hanging out at the royal court… Huh. “I would like to receive help from the soldiers, but it may be difficult because I do not have enough time.”
“So, first of all, to the surrounding territory…”

Cernax was about to speak, but was silenced by Milia’s actions, shaking her head.

“The head of the family doesn’t want it. Recently, I heard from the temple that the cult has started to become more active again, and I also received information from various intelligence groups that the elves broke their oath and left the forest.”
“… Are you trying to block the risk of coming in from outside?”
“No. Is that possible? All you have to do is find those things later and nip them in the bud.”

Kernax felt that Millia’s gently smiling smile was strangely creepy.

“This is where the real point begins. “The reason the head of the family doesn’t try to bring in people from outside is because they don’t want to expose Mr. Smith to the outside world as much as possible.”
“… Smith, you mean?”

Millia nodded her head.

“Do you know who is currently the most talked about topic among nobles?”
“… I do not know.”
“It is Lord Cernax. “It’s you and Mr. Smith.”

The fief battle between Viscount Baselan and Baron Bastia.

Among the many eyes watching this, there were also titled nobles and agents dispatched from nearby fiefdoms. And there was a scene that was deeply embedded in their minds that day.

That’s what Cernax and his soldiers looked like as they defeated Baron Bastia’s soldiers through a rain of hundreds of arrows.

They also praised Kernax as a knight under Count Philoria, saying he was a very brave and skilled knight, and at the same time, they were very curious about why he was able to survive without being hit by hundreds of arrows.

And they receive information from Baron Bastia that Kernax and his soldiers are wearing armor made of a very special material.

Fortunately, those who wanted to find out the source of the information by upsetting Count Filoria had not yet come forward, but if an unexpected opportunity arose and they had the opportunity to enter the county, it was clear that they would definitely release people to find out the source of the rumor. .

“… But Mr. Administrator. Smith plans to officially sell ‘Night Fairy’ under his own name in the near future.”
“I know. I heard you promised to meet with the head of the Black Ship branch in Bazelan?”
“… Is that so?”
“Uh… “Did you know?”
“Yes.”
“Ah…”

The heavy atmosphere became slightly, very slightly heavier.

“Hmm. Anyway. “The person the head of the family is wary of is none other than the royal family.”
“Royal household… Is it?”
“Yes. Do you think that the royal family, who want to weaken the power of the nobles to the extent of encouraging them to fight against each other, will allow it to fall into the hands of other nobles even after receiving information about the items made by Mr. Smith?”
“Ah…”

It was here that Kernax recognized for the first time that the existence of the royal family could pose a threat to Smith.

Milia cleared her throat slightly as she looked at Kernax, who had a blank expression on his face.

Then he glanced at her and said,

“What… There is a reason for that too. In fact, there was another main reason why she decided not to receive outside support.”
“… ? Is there something else?”

Millia said, lightly dabbing her parched lips with her saliva as she looked at Cernax, who was blinking her eyes with a serious look on her face, waiting for her own answer.

“The head of the family… “I want you to bring Mr. Smith to the border fort.”
“… Yes?”
“The reason is that night fairies are produced there and provided to soldiers and knights, and if any are damaged, new ones can be quickly supplied… With.”

Millia said softly, ‘Ai…’ She muttered under her breath and then revealed the final reason for becoming the head of the house to Cernax with a very embarrassed expression.

“The matriarch wants Mr. Smith to make something very special for him. Wear it and stand alone in the hands of the King of the South… You’re going to cut off her head…”

Said Cernax, looking at Milia with her cold eyes.

“That is… “Was that the real reason?”
“… Yes.”

The two looked at each other for a moment and then sighed softly.

Ardel gets tired of everything easily and always says things are annoying.

But there was only one thing she enjoyed, and that was her cutting.

Kernax, who had served as an apprentice under Ardel a long time ago, also knew this fact very well. That’s why he looked at Milia and saw her sigh.

At that moment, the two people were sighing for a moment and trying to get their feelings back on each other.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

-Captain!!

Lina, who had just left her office as if running away, knocked on her door with her urgent voice.

“Come in.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the door to the office burst open and Lina came in with her face turning white.

Kernax and Millia, who looked at Lina’s face, sensed that something big had happened.

“What’s going on?”
“Bu, fire!! There was a fire. “House, Jiji’s house is on fire!!”
“… Reena.”

Kernax grew slightly angry.

In the middle of an important conversation, I thought it was urgent, but I couldn’t believe they were making such a fuss about a fire at home.

Of course, it is a very heartbreaking thing, but for Kernax, who strictly distinguishes between public and private life, it is a sufficient reason for punishment –

“The boss’s house is on fire…” “Uh, uh, boss?!”

Lina couldn’t finish her sentence.

Because the superior who was supposed to be reporting to her jumped out the window.

“That… The fire… It’s all turned off… Damn!!”

Although there was no basis for this, she had a feeling that if she continued like this, she would be beaten up by her returning boss, so she hurriedly went back the way she came.

Milia, who was suddenly alone, sat blankly for a moment and then took out her communication device from her arms.

The purpose was to confirm the details of the situation in case there was a fire at Kernax’s house, as Smith’s safety might have been in trouble.

She activated the communication device in her hand.

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“…”

The communication port was not connected for a long time.

She took another communication sphere from her arms and activated it.

The second communication port was connected before the signal rang twice.

-Yes. Administrator.

Millia ordered towards her communication port with a stern look on her face.

“Stop everything and find Sir Beneo immediately.”

-All right.

The connection was immediately cut off and Millia stood up, furrowing her brows and putting her communication device in her arms.

A fire broke out at Kernax’s house.

Disconnected communication with Beneo, who had been assigned as an escort to protect Smith’s safety.

Millia went straight to the window from which Kernax had jumped.

She then spoke to the soldiers training below.

“Lock down the city right now. “Keep no one in and no one out.”

Although Millia was embarrassed, she saluted herself and chewed her lips as she looked at the soldiers rushing by.

‘Fuck… ‘I’m going to be so broken by the head of the family.’

She turned her body around, roughly ruffling her hair.

The destination was the temple of the fertility god.