EP1. It all started (8)
Early in the morning Shaun woke up.
I wonder if today woke up earlier than yesterday. Looking outside, it was early morning, the sun hadn’t risen yet.
Sean could feel the tiredness still in his body after going through so many things yesterday, but he was fine.
Today is the first hunting day!
Sean couldn’t get any more sleep because of the anticipation and eventually decided to go outside.
It was still early in the morning and Luke must have been sleeping, but he just thought he was going for a walk. So Sean left the house.
Is it because it is still early in the morning? Like yesterday, there was no one on the street.
Shaun decided to go to Luke’s house after walking around town.
Then Shawn spotted someone standing at the entrance to the village.
He was the first old man I had ever seen.
The first time Shawn saw him, he felt he was different.
He is not simply a stranger to seeing for the first time.
The old man had an upright posture uncharacteristically for an old man, and I could feel his strong muscles even through his clothes.
Also, the clothes worn by the elderly are not flashy, but they are neat and luxurious, and are not worn at all.
And his hair and beard were neatly trimmed as if they had been professionally maintained.
Most of all, he wore a sword at his waist.
Seeing how gorgeous the scabbard was, I was convinced that it must be a very expensive sword.
As he looked at the sword, he remembered Luke’s brother’s sword last night.
The difference between the cheap sword wrapped in cloth and the sword that was supposed to be in a fancy sheath made Sean guess that the identity of the old man was not ordinary.
Shawn thinks the old man must be a nobleman.
But no matter how much I think about it, I can’t understand why the nobles came to this town.
After looking at the old man for a while, the old man also noticed the boy who was looking at him.
The old man said as he approached Sean, who was looking at him.
“Nice to meet you, boy.”
Ugh. It was the first time Shawn saw anyone calling himself a boy. Besides, the way he spoke felt awkward.
‘Do all nobles talk like that?’ Anyway, if the old man is a noble, he should be polite.
Otherwise, you could get in trouble for being arrogant about common people.
“Hello. Be well.”
At that, the old man seemed surprised for a moment, then smiled lowly and said.
“Heh heh, even though he is still young, he is a boy who knows manners well. But you don’t have to. I am not a noble.”
‘Huh? I thought he was a nobleman.’
Perhaps he noticed the boy’s question, the old man continued.
“I was a knight protecting the kingdom. Even though I am retired now.”
Oh my God, a knight! If it is a knight, isn’t it a being that appears as a regular in heroic stories!
With those words, the old man instantly changed from an aristocrat with a strange tone to a handsome and dignified old knight.
‘Aren’t knights nobles anyway?’
Sean wanted to ask the old man about it, but he said it wasn’t him, so he said it wouldn’t matter.
“Then what can I say? Knight?”
“As I said earlier, I am no longer a knight. They say my name is Wilhelm. Feel free to call me Mr. Bill.”
From noble mtl dot com.
As expected, it was a knight, so the name was completely different from the name Sean had heard.
“Uh, but Bill is a bit different… I just like the driver…”
“You don’t have to treat me with such respect. Still, if you’re comfortable calling it that, I can’t say anything more about it. What is the boy’s name?”
“Oh, I’m Shawn. Please feel free to call me.”
“Hmm, then I’ll call you Sean-kun.”
After finishing the title arrangement, Sean asked Wilhelm what he was curious about.
“By the way, what did the driver come to this village for?”
“Hmm, to put it simply, since the knight is also retired, he wants to spend the rest of his life in a quiet and peaceful village rather than a city.
“Aha, so are you staying in our village now?”
“I’m still looking around, so I’m going to look around and decide on other villages. Of course, apart from that, I think this town is pretty good.”
When Sean heard that, he thought of someone. The person Shawn remembered was a priest.
The priest who lives in the only place of worship in the village was a person who settled in the village after traveling from place to place to help people in the city.
I thought for a moment that I might be acquainted with the driver, but it was a little too much to ask such a question to a driver I was seeing for the first time.
And since he doesn’t even know what city the driver is from, it’s much more likely not.
Sean noticed that the sun was rising.
“Ah, I think I should go soon. Driver, I have an appointment.”
“Ah, I guess I held on too much time. I said it was Shawn. I hope to see you again.”
“Yes, me too. Knight!”
Saying that, Sean turned and ran to Luke’s house.
And Wilhelm continued to look at Sean like that for a while.
“I don’t think staying in this town would be bad.”
***
Sean and Luke are going through the woods together.
On the way to the forest, Shaun glanced at the place where he had talked with Wilhelm, but he had already left.
‘Will the knight survive in our village? I hope so.’
“Originally, when you practice hunting for the first time, it is right to do it in the back mountain. My father did the same when he taught me. But when you say you’re bored in the mountains behind you, and I understand your feelings to some extent, so it’s like this… Sean, are you listening to me?”
“・・・・Huh? Oh, then. Of course! …Uh, but what did he say?”
“Shaun. You always have to be focused when hunting. We haven’t started hunting yet, but let’s concentrate and focus from now on.”
“···Yes, sorry. Brother.”
Looking at the dejected Sean, Luke felt sorry for himself and changed the topic.
“No, what were you thinking anyway?”
“Ah, that’s when I ran into the driver on the way home in the morning!”
“···What? Article?”
A knight, Luke wondered if Sean might have mistaken a strange person for a knight.
However, when Shawn explained the knight’s appearance and even the conversation, Luke had no choice but to admit that the knight had come to town.
Kisara… When Luke heard about the knight, a thought crossed his mind.
‘Can’t you learn about the sword?’
That’s also true, because a knight is the best swordsman in the world, so if he could learn it, Luke would take one step closer to his dream.
Of course, Luke intends to leave after talking to Joe in a week, but if he can learn swordsmanship from the knight at all, it’s okay for him to start the adventure a little later.
It will be a great stepping stone to becoming a great adventurer, which is your dream.
Of course, from Sean’s words, it doesn’t seem like he’s decided to stay in town yet, so Luke decided not to get excited.
“Hyung, you know.”
“Huh?”
“Couldn’t it be that the knight and Riel noona are acquainted?”
“···· Huh?, Like that, like that…? Is that so?”
“Of course, since there are not just one or two cities, it is much more likely that it is not. Still, in case you don’t know is not it?”
Luke couldn’t help but be taken aback by Sean’s words. It was because of the person Sean suddenly mentioned.
The person Sean conveniently calls Riel’s sister was a priestess named Rielcia.
However, in Luke’s opinion, Rielsia did not suit the job of being a priest.
The long, wavy, silvery-white hair was like the Milky Way, and the enchanting purple eyes seemed to fall out.
And even the tear points that add charm and a voluptuous body that is not at all like a priest!
From Luke’s point of view, Rielsia thought that a nobleman of a noble lineage or royalty would be more suitable than a priest.
No, maybe she’s actually a goddess coming down from the ground and pretending to be a human?
Yes. Luke liked Lielcia.
However, in Luke’s opinion, it was an unavoidable fate. In this little town she has such a beautiful woman and there is no man she will not like.
Even with that appearance, she was pretty even in her personality!
He knew that she liked her children, but when he happened to see her hugging Sean, Luke felt jealous of Sean.
But this will probably not come true. The reason why Luke was so shy that he couldn’t properly talk to her was because, being her second child, Lee Elsia was her priest, so she couldn’t marry her.
A love that can’t come true in the end!
When the thought reached that point, Luke became extremely depressed.
“…Sean, let’s go hunting soon.”
“Huh? Uh, okay…”
Sean suddenly blamed himself for Luke’s displeasure, thinking it was because he hadn’t heard him before.
Unlike in the beginning, the two of them walked in the woods for a while in a rather weak mood.
In this way, the two passed through the outside of the forest and arrived at a large lake that bordered the inside of the forest.
“Wow! Big!”
“hahahaha, is this your first time going to the lake?”
“Yes! Adults always tell us to only play outside the forest.”
“I can’t help it. From the lake beyond the forest, you may encounter dangerous animals.”
Luke’s words reminded Shawn of his memories of the mountain yesterday, and he asked a question anxiously.
“Are you okay now?”
“My father always sets traps at the entrance to the forest, so most of those animals don’t come all the way to the lake. But never enter the forest. From there, there are a lot of really dangerous guys.”
“Yeah, okay. I won’t go into the depths of the forest!”
“Okay. Shall we go into the cabin now?”
Looking at where Luke pointed, there was a small cabin by the shore of a large lake.
It felt like going to a secret hideout, and Sean was excited.
The inside of the cabin was tidy, similar to Luke’s house. Instead, it was more full than at home, and it felt like a house where people lived.
As if they lived in the hut even when they were not hunting, there were various furniture and daily items necessary for life.
“Usually here, I prepare for hunting, tend the prey, or rest after hunting. My father spends much more time here than at home. In fact, you can assume that you live here.”
Luke continued to Sean, who was admiring the cabin following Luke’s explanation.
“But today, I came not to play, but to hunt. Just grab your tools and let’s go.”
Luke took several hunting tools from the cabin and showed them to Shawn.
“Now, these are hunting tools. You know almost everything Bows, hunting knives, traps, and this is the first time you’ve seen this? This is the flute used to call animals.”
Some of the objects Luke slowly showed were things Shawn knew, and some things he had never seen before.
“But today I won’t be using the ones here. It’s hard to learn how to use it in one day, and today we’re going to learn how to track animals,”
“Trace?”
“Yes. Because if you want to hunt animals, you must first find out where they are.”
Until now, the hunting Sean had imagined was just a scene of catching animals by shooting coolly with a bow, but actual hunting was different from that.
“And Shawn, this is the weapon you will be using on your hunt today.”
‘Weapons! I finally have my own weapon!’
Shawn’s excitement soon turned into disappointment after seeing what Luke had shown him.
“Eh? This? Are these weapons?”
“hahahaha, listen to it.”
Shaun took what Luke gave him. He took a closer look at it, but the thought only grew that this was not a weapon.
The only thing Luke handed over as a weapon was a long string and a leather strap in the middle.
No matter how much he tried to hold it, stretch it, and swing it, Sean couldn’t imagine whether he would be able to catch an animal with this.
Are you secretly going behind the animal and strangling it with it? I could only imagine the nonsense of saying that.
Luke smiled slightly when he saw Sean like that. Even though Sean is smart compared to his peers, he still has that childish side to him. Because I thought
“That’s a weapon called a sling. Put the stone in a leather bag, spin it around, and throw it away.”
Throwing stones? After imagining it for a moment, Shaun soon realized what kind of weapon it was.
“It probably counts far more than you think, so you should never do it to people. Got it?”
“Yeah, okay. I’ll be careful!”
“Now then, shall we start hunting?”
So the two left the cabin and entered the forest again.
“The first thing I will catch today is a rabbit. Didn’t I teach you how to track animals? The easiest way to track an animal is to memorize where it might be.”
“Huh? Isn’t that just too obvious?”
“Shaun, hunting is a lot harder than you think. Sometimes me and her father search the woods all day, but there are many days when I can’t even see the tails of her animals. By the simplest, I mean the easiest and best way.”
“mmm… I understand what you mean.”
“As expected, Sean is smart. Now, there’s a rabbit hole I know, so let’s go down there.”
Following Luke’s guidance, the two came to a nearby rabbit hole.
Shaun looked around for a while, noticed something, and whispered to Luke.
“Oh! Brother, over there!”
“Yes. There’s a rabbit over there Prepare the sling I gave you earlier. But it’s not resting, it’s running around, so you have to wait until the rabbit definitely stops.”
“No. I think I can somehow.”
Luke seemed to laugh at Sean’s confident words. He himself had a similar experience as his father when he was a child. Of course, Luke at that time failed.
‘Well, going through a failure right now wouldn’t be a bad thing. I’ll use that as a lesson and grow more.’
“Yes. Guess you.”
“Okay. Goes?”
Sean carefully loaded the stone into the sling so the rabbit wouldn’t notice it, and slowly began to spin it.
I focused my attention on the rabbit as much as possible, took a deep breath, and then stopped breathing.
He stretched out his arm as hard as he could!
The rabbit was hit in the head by a stone thrown with a cool blow sound, and died without even screaming.
“Wow! Did you see bro? I did it!”
Oh my God, I didn’t just stand still, I hit and caught a rabbit that was wandering around at once.
That way, there was a possibility that not only Luke when he was young, but even Luke now couldn’t catch him at once if he made a mistake.
Luke had to admit that Shawn had a knack for hunting.
“Did you see it? Brother?”
“hahahaha, yes, that’s really great, isn’t it? At this rate, you will soon become a better hunter than me.”
“Of course not! I have the body to become the best hunter in the world!”
“hahahaha, then let’s go somewhere else and catch one more time. How is it. Are you the best hunter in the world?”
“Ahem, I see! Don’t let that happen!”
Shaun and Luke finished the hunt by catching a few more rabbits that day.