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“Hey you bastards!!!”
The coachman started swearing, and later realized his mistake.
The coachman was in a position to serve the owner in the wagon, so he was not in a position to spit out abusive language that would make the whole place resonate.
As the coachman looked at the people in the carriage and said sorry over and over again, the carriage door burst open.
“…”
A man with sharp momentum got off the carriage and stared at Yohana.
If a wagon is overturned, people can be seriously injured, so what happened just before was close to an obvious threat.
Yohanaya had never been wrong in her sense of distance, so she had kept her ‘sufficient’ distance, but in the eyes of others, it wasn’t at all.
The man strode towards Johana.
Johanna felt the opponent’s momentum and thought about how to deal with it, but fortunately Hamus and Victor moved forward one step faster.
The man frowned and yelled at Hamus.
However, when Hamus revealed his identity, he turned back to the carriage with a surprised face.
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Not long after, the owner of the carriage appeared after receiving the man’s report.
‘The author is Clemens…’
Rey looked at the owner of the carriage and narrowed her eyes.
Clemens looked a little over thirty years old, and had a staff in his hand.
I thought it was some kind of fashion, but the way he was standing was slightly tilted, giving it a breathtaking feeling.
“Nice to meet you, Sir Hamus. Nice to meet you here.”
Clemens, who faced Hamus, greeted him first with a smile.
Since Hamus was an official knight of Count Osiris, of course, he had no small influence within the territory of Count Osiris.
From Clemens’s point of view, he was a bad opponent.
Things turned out not too different from what Ray had expected.
A series of conflicts roughly ended with Hamus arbitrating, Johanna apologizing, and Clemens accepting the apology.
“Where are you going?”
To Clemens’ question, Hamus answered Rei and Johanna while looking back.
“I was accompanying the guests because they said they wanted to see the harbor side.”
“It went well. If it’s okay with you, I’ll go with you. I was on my way to the port.”
Clemens proposed to Hamus with a friendly-looking face like a merchant.
Rey gently raised one corner of her mouth toward Hamus.
Seeing Rey’s triumphant expression on his face, Hamus sighed and accepted Clemens’s offer.
After hearing the conversation between the two of them, Rei approached Johanna.
Johanna was still standing still by the children, as if something was catching on.
The children were still short of breath, perhaps not able to calm their startled hearts.
Ray looked at the poorly dressed children in turn, warning them.
“Don’t mess around on the wagon road.”
“Sin, I’m sorry…”
After talking a few more words, Ray flicked a few coins at the children with his finger.
The children couldn’t catch the coin at once, and rushed after the coin as it rolled on the ground.
“Let’s go, Yohana. You did a good job saving the children, but in the future, when avoiding wagons, please allow a little more distance.”
“…are you just going?”
“This is not the Earl of Phillips.”
“…”
Yohana quickly agreed and passed Rei with a slightly puffy face. It looked like everything had not been resolved yet.
Ray picked up the coins and looked at the children for a moment as they walked away.
It was difficult to find such children in the Earl of Phillips.
Jimmy’s orphanage was still actively running, and even with parents, if the family was in need, they could get some support.
Also, orphans or not, if they were judged to have outstanding talent, they were given the opportunity to receive a teaching appropriate to their talents. Of course, it demanded consistent performance.
Such a system was barely able to run in the Earl of Phillips, where the territory to be managed was small, because high-ranking knights were running around without pay.
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Nevertheless, the budget allotted to welfare was not large enough, and the Earl of Phillips often expressed difficulties.
In the long run, Earl Phillips could have secured a large number of high-skilled workers, but he couldn’t be sure that these bastards wouldn’t flee to other estates in favor of them.
In this situation, it was impossible to take an orphan to another person’s estate.
I don’t know if it was a very flashy look, but well.
His reaction when he was almost hit by a wagon, his reflexes when he threw a coin, and the gun he showed during conversation didn’t look very good.
‘No normal. Rare is also ambiguous.’
Even if it was a little more advanced than Karen, I would force her to take her, but it was not as easy as I thought.
‘Was the probability up season until the real Luna was chosen…’
Rey grunted and got into the carriage.
The carriage was quite spacious, so even though it suddenly took 4 more people, the seat was not very cramped.
Yohana, whose shoulders were touching Rei, grunted and stuck herself in the corner.
After a brief self-introduction to relieve the awkward atmosphere, a light conversation followed.
“If you stop by the port, you’ll find a lot of good stuff. Is there anything you’re looking for?”
At Clemens’ question, Hamus’ gaze turned to Johana.
Yohana took the dagger with a humble face and showed off her feeble swordsmanship.
When the young-looking girl showed off her sword, Clemens was purely admiring.
“That’s great.”
“The time has come for this child to put on the armor, so I decided to stop by the harbor to look at the good stuff and improve my eyesight.”
Clemens’s eyes lit up as Hamus spoke of the excuse Rey had just devised.
Although it was a pity that the power of the family Yohana was serving, if she already had such skills, she would be quite famous in the future.
It was clear that the topic of being a female knight would be added, so it would be worthwhile to make friends on this occasion.
Clemens was more active in the conversation. Clemens made his speech pleasant, so everyone laughed.
There seemed to be a friendly atmosphere until they reached the port.
However, Ray, who had been silent on his own, spoke a sensitive story too lightly.
“Clemens, does your right arm look uncomfortable?”
Hamus and Victor looked at Rey at the same time.
If he had a sense close to that of a knight, he could easily recognize that there was something wrong with Clemens’ body.
However, as a courtesy, he kept his mouth shut, and Ray continued speaking without hesitation.
“Your right leg also looks uncomfortable. Have you had an accident recently?”
The man who was acting as Clemens’ escort showed off his momentum.
However, Clemens, who immediately stopped the man, answered the question with a smile haha.
“There is a spirit that I made a contract with. One of the conditions I entered into the contract was the ‘restriction’ of a part of the body.”
“Oh, I’m sorry.”
In the case of a rather vicious spirit, there are cases where such conditions are imposed just to see how others are suffering.
Instead of demanding conditions such as inducing mana exhaustion or disturbing the control of body parts, it lends strong power to the spirits.
“It seems like it would be very inconvenient, but haven’t you thought about rewriting the contract?”
“It’s a contract I didn’t know about when I was young, so it’s hard to rewrite it, and I don’t really have any complaints about the contract itself. I’m getting a lot of help from the spirits.”
Fight!
A spirit in the form of a small lizard appeared and blew out cold air.
The temperature of the carriage, which was a little hot, quickly dropped.
As Clemens flicked his finger lightly, the contract engraving on the spirit’s body appeared and disappeared for a moment.
When Yohana saw the ice spirit for the first time, she burst into tears, and Hamus and Victor also looked at the spirit as if in a strange way.
Rey nodded and leaned back on the chair.
Due to the power that had been activated for a while, blood was about to pour out of his eyes.
Yohana looked at Rei with her collar on her eyes with a strange look.
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The wagon arrived near the port.
Even near the port, a number of upper floors made stalls and placed people there, but the level was completely different from the market I had seen before.
Even the furniture arranged by the upper floors for the guests was a luxury item that was difficult to obtain.
With the help of Clemens, Johanna was able to see the armor made by artisans.
Rey boldly followed Clemens.
Although the equipment in this place is said to be of high quality, in fact, it was mostly lacking compared to the items I saw at the conference in the past.
Ray watched Yohana, who had been fluttering for a while, and opened her mouth.
“Can I take a look at the jewelry?”
“Oh, you’re tall? I’ve got some nice stuff. Come with me.”
As Rey followed Clemens, of course, Hamus, Victor and Johanna also followed.
But Ray lightly waved his hand.
“I will go alone.”
Hamus, Victor, and Yohana each reacted differently, but in any case, they followed Rey’s words and stopped in place.
Clemens looked at him strangely.
In the eyes of the merchants, the relationship between them was clearly felt.
The knights of Count Osiris and the talented Squires of Count Phillips also put themselves below Rey.
What’s more, they didn’t feel bad about lowering themselves than Rey at all.
Clemens, out of curiosity, bit the escort of the East Sea for a while and then guided Rey to the warehouse alone.
“Have you heard of precious gems that are only mined in the Rubyha Kingdom?”
“You mean Aquanix?”
“Yes, yes. Blue crystals are very beautiful gems. It’s hard to find proper accessories using aquanics even in the Empire.”
Saying so, Clemens opened a few boxes.
Rey opened her mouth as she looked at the jewel-encrusted necklace that gave off a blue glow.
“It wasn’t because of the spirit.”
“…yes?”
A thin wrinkle wrinkled Clemens’s forehead at the sound.
“What are you talking about…”
“The physical disability, it was not due to the contract with the spirit.”
Rey analyzed the ice spirit’s contract engraving, which was revealed in a fleeting moment, with the help of power and Aptel.
I couldn’t fully interpret it, but at least it was confirmed that there were no restrictions on the body.
“It seems unlikely that the owner of the upper-class who deals with such expensive things could not have received treatment because he did not have money.”
Rey muttered as she moved her gaze to the blue shiny hairpin.
“Then you’ve either been injured recently, or… you have a congenital disability.”
The air became sharp.
The Ice Spirit appeared and spewed out cold air, but Rey didn’t care.
“If you dare to use the spirit’s excuse instead, it must be the latter.”
This hairpin is so beautiful.
Rey turned to face Clemens with those kind words.
“Maybe a hereditary disease… Do you have a family history?”
“…you are very rude.”
Clemens couldn’t control his expression anymore.
The extremity of his right arm, which was not moving well due to muscle atrophy, trembled.
“What the hell are we going to do with this?”
“Clemens, in the past… Those suffering from incurable diseases by divine powers were regarded as divinely punished and oppressed. People threw stones and the church did not hesitate to execute them at the stake.”
The divine power to restore the body based on the information engraved on the genetic material, of course, does not respond to hereditary diseases.
It was really absurd to burn this to death because he was punished.
“I think it was a very savage thing. The families that had suffered from genetic diseases for generations were almost wiped out. If I had been the son of such a family, I would have cursed God and the world.”
“…what do you want to say?”
“Oh, so…”
Ray chuckled.
“I wanted to tell you that I hate religion.”
Religion embraced things that were not real in some worlds.
In a certain world, what was real was supported by religion.
However, although the object he was adored was real, he was not omnipotent enough to solve all problems, so the world was crueler to some.
The eyes of Rey and Clemens, who had fallen heavily, stared at each other .
