Chapter 2 – 1. Elavi Bibina (2)
The most important commercial city in the western region of the Kingdom of Osiris.
Knight Commander Elavi Bibina, who oversaw the entire military system in the area.
She was born in an almost abandoned branch of the Elavi family, a fallen family.
“The world is the problem, the world!”
My father always drinks and blames the world.
My mother ran away and wasn’t around since I was an adult.
“This is how the family fulfills its orders…”
The lament of the head deacon who has served the family since the great-grandfather.
“I only feel sorry for Bibina.”
“That’s right.”
The sympathetic gaze of the maids.
Vivi I wanted to run away from her damn house.
So she ran away at the age of 15 and entered the Royal Knights School of Osiris.
Knight School was not a bad choice because it protected students from various obstacles, including family pressure, regardless of their status.
The only obstacle was tuition.
Although it was not a very large amount of money, it was a difficult amount for Bibi and me, who had no support from her family.
The only answer was a scholarship.
So Bibina maintained her top grades with the sole thought that she didn’t want to go back.
Although she was at a disadvantage as a knight due to her feminine body, she made up for it by honing her flexibility-emphasizing swordsmanship, ice magic, strategy, and combat sense.
‘Quiet poisonous disease’
Bibina’s nickname used by people at school.
The reason was that although she spoke little and had a gentle personality, she was so venomous that she stuck her tongue out when it came to knight work.
‘A dragon born in a stream.’
‘Hope for the reconstruction of the Elavi family.’
‘The first talented person to emerge from the Kingdom of Osiris’
Bibina was given more and more nicknames.
Among them, there were almost no negative nicknames.
There were people who spread bad rumors or started fights, but they soon disappeared.
Bibi Na’s easy-going and kind personality was not one to make enemies, and she was too talented to be an enemy. She and her friends next to her were people who could get into big trouble if they messed with them incorrectly.
The problem is that the public’s perception and Bibina’s own sense of self are different.
At first, she didn’t want to go home because she didn’t get her scholarship.
After a while, she liked the praise from her colleagues, seniors, juniors, and professors.
In the end, it was up to her to rebuild her family and meet the expectations of those around her.
For those reasons, Bibi had no choice but to give up her love of lying around in her room and daydreaming about various things.
It was difficult.
Responsibility can be a driving force that moves people, but it cannot be a medicine to eliminate pain.
‘It’s really hard, and I’m dying.’
One night in the summer of sixth grade, the final year at the Royal Knights School.
Tears flowed from Bibina’s eyes as she tried to sleep after her hard training.
‘Now don’t burden me with your family’s fate. ‘You can buy alcohol with the donations you receive from me.’
‘What kind of talent is responsible for the future of the kingdom? I feel like I’m going to die because it’s so hard for me to figure out what to do.’
The negative thoughts that I had been suppressing over and over again dominated my mind.
Tears flowed all night.
And the next day.
Bibina devoted herself to training as if nothing had happened. Squeezing and squeezing.
There was only one reason for that.
One day, I can let go of all responsibilities.
I didn’t know when it would come, and I hadn’t decided specifically what to do, but Bibina held on, waiting for the day she had pictured countless times in her head.
She doesn’t care that her body is becoming sluggish and will eat and drink indiscriminately.
She will throw away her clunky combat uniform and dress up in pretty clothes.
She will lie in bed and roll around all day.
And next to me, there is a man who likes me very much.
Not the aristocratic ladies who treat you with a disgusting look and a grumpy tone of voice.
Not even the scraggly muscles that change as soon as they are looked down on by her laughable eyes.
I lie in bed all day with a man who smiles softly and kindly, listens to what I say, and hugs me, telling me I’m pretty even when I try to be clumsy in his cuteness.
Every time I think about those days, the corners of Bibi’s mouth twitch to her ears.
So Bibina could not rely on anything.
If she leans into alcohol, she will become addicted and spend every day like a drunkard.
If you lean on a man, even if he knows that he approached you for extremely political reasons, he will take out everything, including your liver and gallbladder.
It was obvious that if I fell into laziness, I would end up like a sloth who couldn’t get out of bed.
He knew very well that if he depended on something now, he would become completely addicted to it and would never be able to get back up again.
So Bibina did not depend on anything and lived as a workaholic.
Thanks to this, she was able to graduate from knight school and become a full-time knight in less than two years, which would have taken 7 to 10 years.
And it was her first time taking part in the eradication of a large band of thieves as a knight leader.
There, Bibina rescues a man who was being held captive by a band of thieves.
The man’s name is Perry.
It is said that she was kidnapped by a band of thieves and worked as a potion-making slave. Afterward, she worked as an instructor to women in the classroom.
Some of the knights who heard the story laughed and said, ‘I’m so fucking jealous!’
But the moment they actually saw his face, everyone closed their mouths.
Among the knights, there were many relatively rough people, but none of them had so much humanity that they would flirt with someone who was extremely exhausted, both physically and mentally.
Perry was taken care of by Vivina.
It was in accordance with the custom that during joint operations between several knights, the responsibility for prisoners was handled by the youngest knight commander and his knights.
She felt pity for the man and gave him the best place to sleep and eat.
She also conducted the investigation and interrogation herself.
The man answered all of her questions honestly, as if he was hungry for conversation and was grateful to Bibi for taking such good care of him.
While wandering the forest, he was captured by a gang of thieves and used as a slave to make potions.
They said they were good on the job and were put into making medicine.
Then, he was caught while trying to escape, beaten to the brink of death, and then thrown into the teaching assistant’s room, saying he was dry.
It was unavoidable given the situation, but if it were considered a crime to rape a woman in the teaching assistant’s room, he would pay the penalty.
Looking at him like that, Bibina thought of one thing.
I feel like I want to throw everything away right away, but since I am a knight, I have at least a sense of duty.
However, that sense of duty will wither as one goes on the path to success, rises in rank, and suffers from various situations.
If that’s the case, I’d rather still have a sense of duty now.
Wouldn’t it be better to give it to this man who has enough value?
Bibina said that decision.
“… If you don’t have anywhere to go and know how to make potions, how about working as an apothecary in my knighthood? Since it is not an official organization, we cannot provide even half of the money that pharmacists make… But… I will provide as much as possible, even if it is with my own money…”
From then on, it was all smooth sailing.
At the time, Bibi had no idea that if this man were her second child, she would become a sad business partner.
And a few years later, she fell to rock bottom, never in her dreams did she think there would be a man who would pick her up.
* * * *
Inside the room.
Bibina is crying.
I have hardened.
My mind was filled with only the fortune-teller’s fortune-telling that came to mind in passing.
‘It is destined to become a nest of wounded birds. If you refuse to receive it, all the birds will die.’
I don’t believe in fortune-telling.
But Bibina’s current condition made me believe in that superstition.
‘People must be saved.’
After trying to calm her mind, I moved to sit next to her.
Then Bibi clung to me and begged as if she were sobbing.
“I-I’ll do well… So, please… Just let me stay next to you…”
“Captain. Calm down. Please.”
“Peri… Peri… I’m better, including you… Don’t throw me away… Ugh…”
Bibina finally burst into tears.
I was in no condition to be told to calm down.
I immediately hugged Vivina and comforted her.
“It’s okay, Captain. I’m not going anywhere. So first, calm down. Yes?”
“Huh… Hah…”
Vivina trying to stop her crying somehow.
However, it seemed as if it was not easy to stop crying once it started, and he continued to cry. To the point where I was worried that something might go wrong.
All I could do was pat his head and back and wait.
Bibina would give me a soft smile when I told a silly joke while working together.
And now Vivina is sobbing in my arms.
Her heart ached to see her benefactor’s appearance change in just over a month.
How long has it been like that?
Vivi I finally stopped her crying.
I slowly dropped her and looked at her face.
Her delicate and elegant features were all wet with her tears and snot.
“Have you calmed down?”
“… I-I’m sorry…”
“What is it?”
“Ooh, I cried…”
“Are you okay. “You can cry.”
While comforting her, I rubbed Vivina’s face with my hands.
Bibina accepted my touch without any resistance.
“First, take a shower and take a nap. Then let’s talk about what to do next.”
“… Perry. I’m better… I’ll really do anything… So, please… Take it away from me…”
Vivina looks anxious again.
Did the offer to talk later sound like a euphemistic refusal? Or does she want to hurry up and get a confirmation?
Whatever it was, he spoke clearly to reassure Vivina, who clearly misunderstood.
“You’re so excited, so I’m telling you to take a breather and then come to your senses and speak.”
“Chu, think it through… Ma, I said it…”
“She says any woman who says she will do anything for a man is sane. “What are you going to do if I have a bad mind?”
“Gwae, it’s okay…!! Well, I’ll do anything…!!”
“… You know what I did when I was captured by the bandits. But is that sound still coming out?”
The leader of the bandits I was enslaved to was a crazy bastard who got aroused by seeing people being sexually destroyed.
The target did not discriminate between men and women.
She put men and women drunk on narcotic drugs in pairs or groups in a bar-locked training room, and enjoyed expensive drinks while watching what was happening inside them.
The only thing the men and women who went into that hell said was fortune and drug shock.
In the case of women, there were cases where they were sold into sexual slavery, but the end would have been similar.
And I survived it. Luckily.
All the despair and anger I felt while I was there was transformed into sexual desire and poured out on the pickled women who were thrown into the teaching room.
I am that kind of guy.
No matter what the situation was or whether I had no choice, it doesn’t change the fact that I did that.
Bibina, who rescued me, does not know this fact.
It’s still like that.
I keep thinking that in one part of my head.
Even if she spews out the desires she had forbidden out of guilt after being rescued from a group of thieves, the current Bibina would hold it all in and cling desperately…
‘Fuck.’
I stopped thinking.
How can a person have a dirty delusion when the benefactor of his life is leaning on him? It’s a bastard.
At least after Vivina recovers sufficiently.
Not now. Never.
With that determination in mind, I spoke.
“Anyway. Don’t say that. I’m furious.”
“… But… Lord, I have nothing to give you…”
“… What should I give you?”
“… I have to repay you with something… But there’s nothing left…”
“You got the money.”
“… Well, that’s… Unreasonable…”
“So you’re giving me your body? “If I receive that, won’t I just be trash?”
Bibina shakes her head at my question.
To that, I answered firmly.
“That’s right.”
“…”
Bibina couldn’t answer and became sullen.
I continued her words while gently stroking Viviana’s hair.
“You don’t have to think about it that complicated. No matter what choice you make, I will never abandon you. When you were taken away in the first place, you said, ‘I’m sorry I didn’t accept your feelings.’ “Don’t you already know how I feel?”
“… Well, so… I’m sorry…”
“Please say thank you. If I keep crying, it’s hard for me too. “Am I furious?”
“… Thank you… Wow…”
“No.”
I thought to myself as I continued stroking Vivina’s obedient head.
What if Vivina had the personality of a clever fox?
If he deliberately tried to induce sympathy and begged me, or if he showed even the slightest intention to extort more money from me.
Then you wouldn’t have been so careful.
You may have been told to do whatever you want.
But I know best, having worked with Bibina for several years, that she is not that type of person.
As a commander, he is a genius and has no aptitude for profit and loss calculations such as power struggles.
People are too gentle and honest to do something like that.
I liked her because she was that kind of person, I worked hard under her, and I considered her my lifelong benefactor.
So for now, let’s put away the shallow and dirty thoughts that keep coming to us.
Let her be the pillar she can lean on.
If you don’t, you will definitely feel guilty later.
