Chapter 73 – 072 Street Road
Rumbling.
Under the scorching sunlight, the wagon shakes regularly as it travels along the dry, bumpy road.
Susa, guiding the Que to keep the wagon from shaking if possible, glanced at the Hwan-in, who had lost his voice after leaving Leheel.
‘You’ve been speechless since watching the evening show at Lehill’s inn……. Mmm. Did he get homesick?’
It was Susa who thought it was worth it.
Due to a teleportation accident, he fell into a level 6 forest labyrinth. After two months of barely getting out with the women he happened to save, he experienced waves of monsters, and when he escaped the village to avoid the waves, this time he was attacked by a group of monsters at night.
It is only natural that people will think of their hometown as they will not be alone in their hardships.
Of course, this is Susa’s mistake.
The reason why Hwanin couldn’t speak was because of the spirit’s voice that was giggling as if talking to him just before the night raid last night.
It wasn’t certain, but Hwanin concluded in his heart that it was the voice of a spirit.
Because of thatheheld a pearl-colored stone and talked to the spirit several times, concentrating until the night passed and the sun rose above his head in order to hear the voice of the spirit once again…….
‘He doesn’t answer.’
There were no results.
It wasn’t even that there was no spirit. Even now, if you call the spirits you see on the way of the carriage, they will come and hover around you.
But no matter how much he talked to him, he didn’t raise his voice like last night.
‘Does he have to fill all the soul beads with spirits to talk to him?’
I thought as I looked at the 24 bright lower-middle-class soul beads on my left arm.
One of the many hypotheses, 24 lower-mid-level soul beads, was lost in thought, thinking of a method that was not implemented because it was too wasteful to throw away, but Susa cautiously called him.
=Me, Hwanin?=
“Yes.”
Not particularly heartbroken or downcast, Susa asked with a lighter heart, wondering if she had misunderstood at the usual voice.
=Aren’t you going out soon? It’s lunchtime now, so why don’t you eat your lunch properly? I also wanted to clean up the stinky demon corpses in the luggage compartment.=
Hwanin, who saw emergency provisions flying in the sky, nodded his head.
“I’ll ask the emergency food to look around.”
=Yep. Please.=
Hwanin, who called in emergency food with a whistle, took a wide look around, gave the order to come, and sent it flying again.
The flight altitude of emergency food seemed to be 300m as the limit when there was no rising air current, but this time, there is a wind path going up, and it becomes as small as a point in an instant.
After a while, the emergency food that came down after it was time to drink a cup of tea entered between Hwanin’s legs while crying, as if no human or animal could be seen.
Haha. Emergency food really likes Hwanin.=
At Susa’s words, which gave the emergency food a glance, Hwanin replied with a small smile.
“There doesn’t seem to be any animals or people within 10km around the river, so it’s okay to take a break.”
=Okay. Dinte, go ahead and tell Ctachinan.=
=Yes.=
Before departing last night, Hwanin took some insects he had caught in the bush and fed them to his beak.
Quet.
The emergency rations he had just received and chewed to a crisp made a short cry as if he was happy.
I announced that I would go after a rest, but the other four cars, except for the ivory carriage escorted by Ctachinan, did not stop, but rather speeded up and quickly moved away.
=That’s the privileged class.=
Susa, who snuck under his nose, stopped the wagon while muttering sarcastically.
Since Hwanin wasn’t interested in the first place, he didn’t even look at him, and as soon as the carriage stopped, he started to mend his black spear.
He carefully checks the blade to make sure there are no scratches and wipes off the remaining blood on the blade, so Susa and the porters pour the corpse of the beast from the luggage compartment onto the ground and dismantle it with quick hands.
= Come on, I don’t have time, so I’m going fast. Let’s just take leather and teeth and horns.=
=What about meat and organs?=
= I can’t eat. And at this temperature, everything will go bad, so there’s no time to deal with it, so just dig it up and bury it. Dinte, take Hughes and Dascon to dig some ground. Saiji and Elles are working with me.=
=Yes.=
=Yes.=
Hwanin finished cleaning his spear watching Susa and his party move around busily, and started eating emergency food and playing tug.
I wave a short wooden stick up and down for an emergency food that likes to ask for birds or to compete with each other.
While pretending to be weak, he pulls it and shakes it from side to side, so it seems to be just as fun.
“Bring it.”
Quet!
As he threw a wooden stick and said, the emergency rations rushed toward the stick.
Their identity as a bird is questioned as they run without flying, but at the end of their growth, they say they fly and run and do everything, so just watch them.
Then, Hwanin asked without looking back at the presence he felt behind him.
“What is going on?”
= No…… There…….=
Hwanin, who looked back at Isilite, who hesitated and didn’t speak properly, looked at the confusion on her shoulder and said,
“What is attached to you is unchanging. I’ll look at you properly where there are no people, so wait.”
= Yes…….=
That’s not the only reason I came.
Isilite hesitated for a moment, but she couldn’t get her words out in the end, and she trudged back to where Brillit was.
To ask her how she was yesterday, she couldn’t help but say that she was more active than he was.
I have to get the master’s approval somehow…… How can she get it?
She seems to think that the only thing she’s better than her master is power. What can she do with this power?
I grunt and think about it, but all I can think of is offering up her body like a prostitute. But hasn’t that already been rejected?
As she couldn’t think of her way, she repeatedly deepened her troubles, but Susa’s sarcasm reached her ears.
=If you’re stupid, you should be naive.
=…… Are you talking to me?=
= Oops, did you hear? I hope your ears are also bright.=
=…… !=
It was as Isilite, overcome with a sense of sarcasm, was about to scream her demon. Susa quickly interrupted her and gave a cold chuckle.
= If you feel bad, scream and run wild as you please. If that’s the case, what you wish for will never come true. No, it’s good if the spirit master doesn’t throw it away just because he’s tired.=
=…… How do you know what I want =
=How can I work as a peddler without knowing that much?=
It was Isilite who really didn’t want to laugh at Susa, but his words were so meaningful, and she naturally pictured the situation of being abandoned by her master (scheduled) in her mind, so she held it in.
Seeing Isilite like that, Susa, who frowned at her, let go of the demon corpse she was holding and waved her tanning knife and said,
= Do you have anything to eat from the spirit master, aren’t you snooping? If it’s that way, then it’s likely that they’re salivating because they covet the spirit master’s skills. It’s to the point that even our Brillit spies on the Spirit Master several times an hour.
Brillit, who had been watching her grooming her beast, sneakily turned her head. Susa laughed at that appearance and continued.
=Well, you must be someone who can purify even a mixture~ You have a personality, so if you stick to it, you don’t think you’ll be forced to throw it away~ Your fighting ability is amazing, so if you become a disciple after making a big hit, you’ll be disappointed~.=
=…… !=
Isilite’s heart sank at Susa’s words as she murmured in a slow rhythm.
What is it, my thoughts were so easy to understand? Then, by any chance, did the owner notice?
Susa, smirking, looked at Isilite, who was obviously agitated, with a pitiful look.
Just as Isilite hated Susa for being sarcastic and ridiculing her, she didn’t like Isilite’s way of clinging to her Hwanin.
In her susa’s eyes, Isilite was nothing more than a dung fly to her fine food.
Who likes pests that spoil great food?
Susa knew that her phantom had already decided to reap the stupid woman in front of her. If left as it is, it is clear that it will cause great trouble to Hwanin.
She sarcastically ridiculed Isilite because she didn’t like her, but she couldn’t let it go either.
Susa let out a huge sigh as if listening to her agitated Isilite.
=What are you to the spirit master?=
=…… Prospective maid?=
= She must be a slave, not a maid. I guess I was conscious though. I also thought he was still a popular thief boss, what?=
She said she was a maid, but it was Isilite who was reeling again at Susa’s behavior, which kept sarcastic from saying she was a slave, but she suppressed her anger and growled.
=Don’t be sarcastic, say what you have to say!=
She growled in a low voice, not wanting her own tantrums to be overheard, but Susa only snorted at her.
= If she has the awareness of being a slave, she should act as a slave. Why is she still behaving wildly? Huh? Are you proud? I don’t like taking orders from others, what?=
= My, what did I do…….=
=During the raid yesterday, what did you do when Ctachinan-nim came and asked if you would cooperate?=
=…… ? You said you would help?=
Seeing Isilite tilt her head, Susa let out a deep sigh, thinking that she was indeed a bitch like a bull.
The method of inducing the opponent to realize what they did wrong is effective for education, but the former thief in front of her has a very clean brain, so she can’t understand it if she says it subtly.
=Do you remember how Brillitt next to you acted at that time?=
= That’s right…… The spearhead asked for your permission. Can I go.=
= I don’t have enough memory. That’s right, Brillit was an escort belonging to me, so she asked me for permission first. But you?=
= Uh…….=
= Aren’t you going to be a slave to the spirit master soon? Why judge yourself and move yourself? Ah, was it because you thought you were a free citizen because you hadn’t signed a unilateral esoteric contract yet?=
=…….=
=I have the awareness that I am a slave, but I want to act on my own will. I will serve, but I want to get what I want. It’s very arbitrary. If it were me, I would never have reaped a woman like you, even if she was a professional.
= That’s me too…….=
Susa slightly raised the tip of her eyebrows at Isilite’s sullen face.
I thought she’d definitely have a small temper, but I never thought she’d admit it this way.
‘It’s not a very bad bath.’
Even though he would have a strong resentment towards himself who continues to be sarcastic, he has an aspect of honestly admitting the truth, and since he is a professional, his strength and stamina are excellent, so if he is well educated, he will be useful to some extent.
Susa gathered some knowledge in her head and spoke to Isilite.
=If you really intend to belong to the Spirit Master, then as a relative slave, as a maid, I can tell you about your mindset and course of action. Because I have experience working there. Then the spirit master won’t throw you away saying you’re useless.=
=Really? …… What do you want from me?=
=Oh, do you even know how to think of such a thing?=
=There’s no way a merchant like you could do kindness for nothing in return. I’m a bit simple and ignorant, but I know that much. So I became a thief…….=
You became a thief because of a merchant like yourself? Su-sa, who wondered if there was a story behind her, scratched the hair under her chin and opened her mouth in a casual tone.
= As you know, Mr. Spirit is a really great person. If you look at his potential, he’s more amazing than anyone I’ve ever seen. He has a good personality, but he has a determined side, and he has powerful skills, but he doesn’t brag about it and is humble. A great person to be networked with somehow, a person to become great. =
=…….=
=Did you ask me what you want? I am doing this because I believe that correcting your temper and changing your behavior is helpful to the Spirit Master, and that it will further strengthen the bond with the Spirit Master. Do you understand?=
= Roughly. So you’re moving, hoping for the rice cake dumplings that will fall on the owner. What’s the difference between me?=
Susa opened her mouth in amazement.
A thousand dollars soars in Susa’s heart at the act of dividing such an elegant and noble process of networking into such a relationship of material gain.
= So, a hard-headed warrior! I want to see how to simplify everything and only see it at my own eye level! If the money was so good, the city’s shops would continue to prosper. Why would you be peddling!
As Susa showed her resentment, tapping the bone with the tanning knife she was holding, Isilite sulked, ‘Did I say something wrong?’
Susa, who was heartbroken by that expression, screamed again.
= Wrong! Wrong! I don’t understand! How can you see both of them the same?! See, man cannot live alone! Why?! As a matter of fact…… !=
Hwanin, who was playing with emergency food, looked back at Susa’s old castle.
What’s going on, she’s having Isilite sitting in front of her and giving her one-long speech, and seeing Isilite tilting her head in a puzzled way, her effect doesn’t seem to be much.
It didn’t seem like anything to worry about, so Hwanin kept thinking about last night’s spirit while playing with emergency food.
=Hello.=
Ctachinan approached from an ivory carriage that had been parked neither far nor near.
A way to show her respect by slightly bending her waist. I captured the unique feeling of having brought troublesome things through my social experience.
If you think about it normally, it’s not a problem, but the warrior in front of you is a noble family that can be called the nobility of this world, and a warrior who protects his immediate family.
As Susa said, there is a reason why a person who must have a strong sense of privilege bowed first.
“What are you doing?”
Her extremely businesslike answer made Ktachinan feel an unexpected sense of familiarity.
‘This is the typical nonchalance of the ruling class. …… Come to think of it.’
Even when he first spoke to the merchant, this man ignored himself. In addition, the merchant showed special respect for this man.
It was dark last night, so I couldn’t tell the difference, but when I looked closely, the leather clothes were very sophisticated in design.
Even the spear, which is a weapon, boasts that the blade shining in ink is not an ordinary luxury item…….
‘His skills were also amazing.’
Suddenly, Ctachinan’s gaze turned to the bird the man was playing with.
‘… A larva of the green Que?’
Upon receiving the man’s question about what happened, Ctachinan, who guessed the man’s identity in a very short time, spoke in a more polite manner.
=I came to say thank you for last night. If I hadn’t stopped the swarm of xenomorphs that came in the rear, it would have done harm to the person I serve. I would like to thank you.=
“I just did what I had to do. Don’t worry about it.”
In speaking of the duty of the noble, Ctachinan was convinced. This man must be from a noble family somewhere or belong to the ruling class.
Such a dignified way of speaking cannot be used by city-runners or uneducated free people.
‘Were you a privileged class in martial arts training? I almost created a grudge against the Awick family.’
Ctachinan was fascinated by the man’s excellent skills and thought of recommending a member of the Awick family. Even though he wasn’t a professional, his skills were at the level of a family martial arts teacher.
Although he is a member of the family for such a privileged class, he almost made a big mistake by trying to recommend a family member.
=To show respect to those who do the duties of a noble person. Please accept this =
“…… ?”
A noble man, what are you talking about?
Hwanin realized that Ctachinan was misunderstanding something, but he didn’t point it out and received something like a token from Ctachinan.
=It is the mark of the Awick family. When you visit the city of Laria, be sure to knock on Awick’s door. The lord…… Well…….=
“I am Hwanin.”
=Yes, the family lord will welcome Hwanin with great grandeur.=
“…….”
You’re going to get a big welcome just because you fought alongside a group of heterogeneous species?
Hwanin did not understand, but he could understand why he was doing this in the small voice of Ktachinan.
=Actually, Young master 2, the owner of the carriage, is still young. Much more than you think…….=
Wouldn’t it be young enough to be wrapped in swaddling clothes? To the extent that a problem would arise if the wagon was allowed to attack even once.
Ctachinan, who expressed his gratitude again, went back after repeating the request two or three times, and immediately after he returned, the carriage started as if it had nothing to do with it anymore.
“…….”
Hwanin looked at the token in the form of a complicated checkered pattern made up of money, knots, and alcohol, like a soother attached to a garment, and stuffed it into his bag.
I have a strong hunch that only troublesome things will happen if I go there.
He will never have to visit Arwick himself. He was a Hwanin who thought so and put the token in his bag and forgot about it.
