bandits (5)
This is a nightmare.
It is a futile nightmare that will be shattered with the sound of crowing at dawn.
Even though I knew better than anyone that these words were meaningless escapism, I couldn’t stop repeating them to myself.
‘Why is this happening… !!’
I tried to ask myself a question in my mind, but there was no answer.
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Maybe it was just bad luck. Or maybe it was a mistake in itself to jump over the wall in the first place because it had collapsed.
If the barrier had not been crossed, would it have been possible to continue living in poverty even in poverty?
No, it won’t change anything if you come here and think like that. The devil that is chasing me now is not coming to give me enlightenment.
While I was running away from him for a while, I suddenly heard no footsteps, so when I turned around, the figure of the man who had been attached to me like a shadow until now disappeared.
There’s no way I’d have been ostracized, so maybe I was pathetic and thought I wasn’t worth dealing with?
Normally, in such a situation, I would have thought that the other party would have shown mercy, but considering the agony, there was no such possibility.
“Maybe, I bought it… ?”
As I looked up, muttering to myself like a crazy person, there was a blood-stained demon waiting for me there, as if covered in blood from the top of my head.
“Peekaboo!!”
“Aww!!”
I reflexively threw a fist at him, but my fist cut through the air without a pulse, as if swung at an intangible mist.
“ha… ?!”
When he reflexively punched his fist and came to his senses, it had disappeared as if he had not been there in the first place.
Did he see anything in vain out of fear?
‘You really let me go, but I might have seen such a futile thing because I was so afraid… .’
That convenient idea was shattered the next moment by someone tapping my shoulder.
… can’t look back
I didn’t even want to do that, but even if I tried to turn my head as if my body was paralyzed, my body wouldn’t follow me.
“No one there!!!”
In the end, my choice was to turn to someone for help, just like any human in danger.
Effortlessly ignoring the touch on my shoulder, I desperately shouted at someone who might still remain in this town.
But no matter how much I shouted, no one came to hear my voice.
Listening to the surroundings, the village was enveloped in a silence as dark and cold as the dark sky.
The town was quiet, as if no one was behind me but the demon.
“Everyone is dead. No, would it be appropriate to say that I killed them all?”
Thinking about it carefully, the guy grinned, saying that neither one was much different.
“Didn’t you get so caught up in running away that you didn’t notice? I’ve been chasing after you around town, and anyone I’ve come across has been cut down wherever I can.”
Hearing those words, I looked around and noticed that I had been running away earlier and didn’t notice, but this was the house where I first jumped out of the window.
The window from which he had jumped was still broken, and a dry eyeball was floating in the pool of blood on the floor.
Their eyes met, and while they paused for a moment, a girl in pure white armor came down with heavy footsteps from the side of the house.
“Ian, this is all over. When I hear them talk, I don’t think there are any other women in this town.”
“Then we can just finish this. But did you solve the magic?”
“Yes, I don’t have to hide anymore.”
The moment I heard that voice, I felt as if I had seen a ray of light in the endless darkness.
‘Didn’t that girl say she was the daughter of the Fongrind family?’
Unlike the unknown girl I had taken earlier, that woman was worthy of being a hostage.
He was looking at me funny now, and Young-ae was defenseless as to whether she thought that she would be attacked.
It was not as bad as the bad luck that came after bad luck, but I felt a little bit lucky.
Watching me, I flew towards Youngae like a hawk, the symbol of our tribe.
However, as if she was expecting the scene, Young-ae immediately reacted and swung her fist full of jealousy towards me.
“Ugh… !!”
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My fists are heavier than I thought.
He reacted immediately and received a fist, but it was a shock that would have broken his arm if he hadn’t used speculation.
It was quick enough to react immediately, and the strength was higher than expected, but it wasn’t particularly outstanding, but it was enough to make the surprise attack fail.
I pulled back the fist and pulled out the hammer that was fastened to my waist and asked Yeong-ae.
“… … You’re a noble girl, have you even trained?”
“It’s crazy, but… I had a teacher who could take care of me.”
“so so? And the word “kind” is missing.”
“Are you kind? joke too… .”
“I am not kind enough. Look now, to train Jessica, you put up with the desire to kill me right now and drove me here.”
“Did you drive it?”
So, the reason I didn’t kill him all this time was for this moment?
“The devil… !! What do you think human life is?!”
“… I don’t know about anyone else, but hearing from people like you makes me a little angry.”
Saying that, he slowly approached me without pulling out his sword.
It was like that before. Oddly enough, once the sword was pulled out, it didn’t keep swinging, but instead returned to the scabbard and cut the enemy in a bizarre way.
It looks like he wants to show off his skills, but seeing him do it to the weak, he couldn’t do it in front of those who were stronger than him, so his buoyancy grew.
“Looks like a stupid person… .”
“What, did you suddenly want to fight? But are you stupid?”
When he saw me getting up, he tilted his head and asked.
He seems like an abomination, so seeing him pretending not to know made him even more angry.
“Do you think you are going to die here?! I will definitely survive!! in this place… !! I can’t die for a stupid bastard like you!!”
“So what kind of bullshit is that… .”
Without waiting for him to finish speaking, I jumped high and slammed my right foot into his head.
The hawk flying in the sky was going to crush its head as if it was hunting an enemy with its sharp claws, but it didn’t even move after being hit with my attacks.
It wasn’t his head that was broken, but the earth around him. The ground began to crack as if the ground had absorbed all the shock it would receive.
“Wow, what… !!”
“Is a chieftain who doesn’t even know dragon veins… . Beyond the barrier, the level seems lower than I thought. if not… Are all those who hit it dead in that baby? Because nothing like that has happened here.”
“what are you saying… .”
“Now you don’t have to worry about it.”
The last time he said those words, he pulled out his sword, and the glowing red glow of the sunset that had just raised his head was reflected and his sword ripped through my body.
*****
“It was boring… .”
It was the first time I met the chief of a barbarian tribe, so I expected him to know that he had his own skills, but his skills were comparable to Jessica’s.
‘Is it not the man who climbed on top of his body, not by force?’
Or it may have been that the whole barbarian tribe was leveled down by killing all the strong ones by the hand.
All the good guys died at the hands of them, and only the young ones who should have been slaughtered survived, so even the chieftain, who was treated as a strong person in the novel, turned into a really badass.
‘When the main character crossed the barrier to save Yeongcho, even though he lost in the end, there were some guys who fought a good fight… .’
If you look at it this way, it’s probably not even born.
“Then Jessica, since I have nothing to do now, shall we go? Did the girls say it was all there?”
“Yes, it will be troublesome, but we will take you to the citadel and start again.”
“That’s fine, but the carriage seats… .”
Since the carriage is not that big, it would unintentionally stick to it.
If you spend a few days in the den of barbarians, it is safe to say that you have been pickled with semen, but if you get a smell on your carriage or clothes, it is a perfect situation for other people to misunderstand.
“The seat is too small, can’t we just tie it to the luggage compartment or the roof like we did to the thieves?”
That way, it was good that we didn’t smell the thick semen, and it was good that we could get rid of the smell of semen while flirting with them, so it was a win-win method for each other.
“What a stupid thing to say… . Don’t be silly, move or help. There are a few women who are examples of those savages trying to run away and have injured their legs.”
“ha… Where should I get a cart? .”
A brief regret lingered in my heart, wondering if I would have just pretended it was a mistake and blown away this whole house.
I remember seeing a cart near a stable while going around the village, so I was about to go find it.
Feeling someone’s gaze from behind the barrier, I stopped for a moment and looked towards the barrier.
“Why? Is there anything there?”
“Oh, there it is.”
Putting my hand on Nang-a’s hilt, I said to someone watching over here hiding behind the bushes.
“Come with me, before you look back.”