Chapter 122 – The Tail
Perhaps after cutting off the long hair that had covered her face so messy, the wind hitting her face felt especially cool.
The sky was a pale blue, and though I could see some dark clouds in the distance, it didn’t look like it would rain. At least that is today.
The party followed Seo-jun out of the inn and crossed a narrow bridge over a shallow river that runs through the small town of River Mill.
“Guess that one!”
“There! Baaro is over there, bastard!”
“Ayyy! I guess I’m not a kid without a mother and father! Can’t you match that too!”
“Gyralbyeoongsin! While looking for a map!”
On the riverside, I saw orphaned puppies scavenging small freshwater fish that have been eating filth since morning.
The words he exhales are vague, yet strangely attached. Since they were toddlers, they were criticized for being orphans without mothers and fathers, so their mouths became thick as well.
They were trying to hit fish – sniffing and throwing stones, or taking off their pants and diving into the water – and dangling little peppers in the net.
The floor was muddy and slippery, so they were soaked from their faces to their shaggy hair, covering them with moss and filth.
“Those filthy orphans… Noisy since morning…”
The old man, who had been chewing his cigarette while leaning on the bridge, spat out frothy saliva into the river through his black teeth.
The old man glanced at Seo-joon and his group passing by on the bridge, then licked his lips.
Seeing Lily’s sucking and butt-, and Monica’s outstretched limbs, he puts his hand in his pants and even kneads them.
The old man’s strength is good from morning -. The man said that if he had the strength to lift a spoon, he would erect his cock first.
But with the exception of that old man, most of the people walking down the street looked lethargic.
Most of them were peasants carrying agricultural implements, and there were also peddlers carrying bundles of luggage and leaving early.
“Let’s have a beer after work.”
“Sure.”
The faces of the peasants who lived day by day, without possessions, were truly spectacle.
With drooping shoulders and drooping eyes, like an ox pierced through the nose and yoke- I was lamenting my situation as I went to work in the field early in the morning.
In fact, the body stretches in the morning, whether in the countryside or in the city, everyone is similar.
At least the pickpockets and slobbers were too busy sleeping now. Perhaps it was only after the sun rose in the middle of the sky-, he would slowly raise his lazy body to rob someone else’s pocket.
Seo-jun and his party passed the bridge over the river and headed for the mercenary guild.
The front of the guild was also quiet.
Instead of mercenaries, there were only a few drunken drunks snoring and snarling. While sleeping, his pockets, boots, and clothes were all naked, and he was lying on his back in only his underwear, grinding his teeth.
“Woo-wook…”
Monica vomits when she sees her yellow underwear with her crotch protruding from a hard erection while sleeping. Lily frowned and looked away from her, as if she was in a bad mood.
Daughter and daughter-
Inside, idle mercenaries who had been drinking beer since morning were lying on the table and yawning.
Attention was drawn to Seo-joon and his party at once.
As most of them were with chili peppers, they glanced at Monica’s pretty face rather than Seojun and Ian – Lily’s big tits and body covered with a hood.
In Seo-jun’s eyes, who looked around, the red fox Marjorie and the fierce Hodor were nowhere to be seen. In other words, it was said that there were only dicks right now.
“Wow···. This is a mercenary guild…!”
Yesterday, Ian, who had been to the mercenary guild for the first time while touring the city with Monica, was surprised at so many people wearing weapons and involuntarily opened his mouth in admiration.
On one side of the wall, swords and shields were hung. There was also a faded portrait of a man who was called the Mercenary King.
Chris Beaumont, a man who belongs to the mercenary guild and says there is no one he does not respect.
Born as the illegitimate son of a baron, he jumped into the mercenary industry before completing his coming-of-age ceremony, and wrote numerous legends to the point of being talked about by storytellers and patrons.
In his old age, he took up the position of a teacher at the academy in the capital, but now he too has resigned and is wandering around the world. No one knew whether he was alive or dead.
Except for Seojun, who met him in the previous episode…
Seo-joon walked to the counter. Today, a pretty female employee with the same blonde hair as yesterday was sitting at the window.
There was a teacup on her table, and steam was rising as if she had just boiled the tea. Seo-joon rubbed his eyes and greeted the female employee who was handing over the documents.
“Hello.”
“Ah, hello…”
The female employee glanced at Seo-jun and greeted him face-to-face. Cracked lips from opening eyes that couldn’t hide fatigue. As the city was full of troubles, it seemed that the number of jobs had also increased.
She straightened her hunched back and tucked her sideburns over her ear as she rummaged through her things in her drawer.
She stealthily glanced at Seo-joon – looking at her -, she thought that this woman would come over if she did well.
Since it was a year he hadn’t eaten in the last episode, Seo-joon licked his lips and glanced at the chat window.
10 coins if you ask her to be your goddaughter, 10 coins if you blow your dick around, 10 coins if you ask her how it smells by shoving your cock into her nostrils… Star-by-star missions were pouring out, but there were no guys who actually supported marbles.
It was a bright apricot, a noisy empty cart. Are these bastards just going to run out of coins? It was just to make fun of Seo-jun, who was looking forward to it.
Seo-joon clicked his tongue and closed the chat window.
“Ha Seo-jun…? Right? Here, the mercenary plaque is complete. Seojun Ha, Ian, Lily, Monica. A person named Lily is an archer. Is that right?”
The female employee fumbled for something from her drawer and handed it to her.
It was a mercenary.
After confirming the name engraved on the plaque, Seo-jun nodded her head and held out wooden plaques the size of half the palm of her hand to Ian, Lily, and Monica, respectively.
A mercenary plaque with each person’s name engraved on it…
On the back, there was a drawing about what the disease was. In the case of Seojun, Ian, and Monica, it was a sword and shield, and in the case of Lily, it was a bow and arrow.
Ian, Lily, and Monica each held their own mercenary cards and looked around in wonder.
Then they looked at each other’s faces and smiled awkwardly. Something doesn’t feel real.
Wow, did we really become mercenaries…? And a questioning expression.
The wooden plaque was a mercenary plaque given to rookie mercenaries who had no records yet. If you complete even one proper request, the wooden plaque will change to a bronze plaque.
Most mercenaries die without even completing the first quest.
To that extent, it was said that the status of a mercenary was that dogs and cows could be used as support, and that the value of utility was low.
Seriously, whenever the nobles fought a land battle, they would put mercenaries on the front line.
The cheap mercenaries were used as arrow holders, and the enlisted soldiers had to fight last in the rear.
There were many cases where the knights did not even participate in the first place. How expensive are their ransoms-, can they be used for gambling?
“Shall I show you the list of requests…?”
The female employee asked, pointing to the large empire map behind her back and the numerous requests rolled up in the drawers underneath it.
Seo-joon, who had been contemplating with his eyelids down for a moment, shook his head saying, “No, it’s okay.”
“For now, I’m fine.”
In fact, wooden mercenaries are not treated as mercenaries.
So, most of the woodcutter mercenaries either joined a proper mercenary corps and did chores-or, in most cases, volunteered for the territory war and fought a maiden battle.
In the case of a guild escort request or a security request, let alone a wooden plaque, there were also cases where the copper mercenary was not accepted.
It was because everyone knew that mercenaries were people who might turn into robbers with swords if they were hungry. Even if they give more money, they hire people whose skills and trust have been verified.
In particular, the merchants who operated dozens of wagons or transported expensive items such as jewelry or weapons- used to sign exclusive contracts with proven mercenaries for several years.
That way, it would be less likely that thieves would run away just because they showed up, or get things stolen.
In the end, most of the requests that the female employee showed were things that Seo-joon and his party couldn’t take on.
Hani Seojun was thinking of accepting a request that was not mediated by the guild.
Of course, if you want to prove that you have completed the request to the guild later, you will have to pay a fee to the guild, but you won’t have to be dragged around like a dog to serve as an arrow receiver for the Battle of the Territory.
Well, in order to do that, you have to die- you have to sell your feet, but Seo-joon already knew the right place to work. Not too far away either…
The female employee expressed regret when Seo-jun was already about to leave, but she did not hold on to Seo-joon. Then it seems like he’s flirting for nothing, and above all, the two girls standing behind Seo-joon were staring at them with lights on.
It’s like looking at a woman who is trying to take away her lover…
Feeling bad for no reason, she told me to go if I had no more business to do, and sipped the teacup.
Seo-joon nodded to his party. Let’s go out-.
The moment he was about to leave the mercenary guild like that-, a pile of mercenaries rushed into the guild-.
The number is six-. The guys with shaggy beards looked more like thieves than mercenaries.
There were various sizes and specifications, from the uniform to the armor worn on the body. It looks like a roughly assortment of items looted from somewhere.
Since they rushed in and blocked the road for a while-, Seo-joon stood there and waited.
But one of them looked at Lily, and he was elastic.
“Hey, what’s wrong? The sucker is terribly ignoring the seed…! If you look closely, aren’t there four udders…?”
“Stop it, you motherfucker. Let’s not make a fuss in the guild.”
In fact, the man who stopped my colleagues had the most expressive eyes. His brown hair stretched out in all directions – he looked at Seo-jun and his party with a ravenous gaze, like a wildcat that had been starving for months.
Lily and Monica flinched and flinched, and Ian stood in front of the two women, covering his eyes.
But those eyes… It wasn’t a look that looked at me with disapproval at wearing a woman. It wasn’t that he was glaring at Seo-joon or Ian because they looked like parasitic brothers.
It was a searching eye. Examining the state of armament, physique, and fingertips of Seo-joon and his party-, the alert eyes-.
Seo-joon recognized their identities at once.
Whoever it was, they attached a tail to Seo-jun’s group.
Search, intimidation, or murder…
I don’t know exactly what their purpose is. It was clear that he was targeting Seo-joon after receiving a request from someone.
Seo-joon decided to clearly remember the face of the Seung-nyang-like author.
It was obvious that he would meet again soon.
“Let’s go.”
“…”
The companions only nodded their heads in response.
There was such a hideous air current flowing from them- these guys, who were so docile, were also very nervous.
I took those people and left the guild.
As the door slammed shut, I felt a tenacious gaze behind my back.
As soon as he came out, Ian couldn’t hide his anxious expression and whispered to Seo-joon.
“I, Seojun hyung… Those people are a bit strange…?”
“···I know.”
Even Seo-joon couldn’t give a definite answer.
I don’t know their purpose or what’s behind them.
Seo-jun knew about the huge flow that forms the main axis of the story in the novel – ‘destiny’. They didn’t change no matter how many times they went through the rounds.
Lily loves Ian, and Ian loves Lily.
A big disaster befalling the town -.
In the end, Ian’s leaving the village and moving to the city, and going on a journey to become a knight-.
Overcome countless crises and hardships, grow up, and eventually enter the academy-.
The intertwined relationships with other heroines there, and the intervention of the great evil forces-.
Corruption of the Central Church -. Due to the enthronement of a female emperor, troubles in various places due to the weakening of the imperial authority-.
And one day, the saintess receives a prophecy, summons Ian, holds a ceremony to launch a hero, and lowers her holy sword -.
After that, Ian crawled into Hell with her companions and killed nine demon lords – until finally confronting her demons -.
It was all the same.
As long as Seojun and Ian didn’t die in the middle, the story would have flowed that way. The teeth meshed again and again like a giant wheel, as if it had to be…
But everything else was different.
Except for ‘destiny’, which is the center of the story, all the side branches were different.
In fact, in previous episodes, tomato soup had never been served as a meal at the Rose Candle Inn. But today, didn’t the tomato soup come out?
According to the novel, breakfast today should have been chicken soup and broccoli, not tomato soup.
As another example, I heard that Hodor, the leader of the sledgehammer mercenary, appears in the novel as well, but in the previous episode, he died before Seo-joon and his party even reached Rivermill.
From what I heard, he bravely stormed into the den of thieves-the thief’s rusty blade cut his chest shallowly, and it was said that he died after suffering for several days. It was probably tetanus.
In this way…, The minor roles that do not belong to the great wheel of fate – which are no different from the components of the story – continued to change their direction.
It depends on the person’s feelings-, thoughts-, and behavior that day, and the twigs are twisted accordingly. It was different from what Seojun knew.
As a result, Seo-jun often met people he had never met before, and he was unable to meet people he had taken as colleagues in previous episodes.
They were like dust that was blown here and there by the beating of a butterfly’s wings.
Yes, just like those wildcats who appeared in front of Seo-joon and his party with their eyes wide open.
Hani, even Seo-joon couldn’t be sure. Who is behind it, or is it just their thoughts? What is their purpose…
In fact, there was only one thing Seojun could do. Hitting their feet first before they hit their feet.
When you dig someone’s grave, you must dig your own too.
