“How should I repay this favor… … .”
“If you need an ignoramus like me, call me anytime. I will help you once without pay.”
“Thanks to you, I live.”
Those who ask for a handshake after wiping their hands dirty with dirt, sweat, blood, etc., on clothes that are similarly soiled.
Not all of them, but smiling at the people who gave their names or wooden plaques and said they would pay off the debt of their lives, they repaired the wagons that were still in good shape and began to pick up the wounded.
It was a raid made by adding ogres and goblins, so the horse had already been slaughtered a long time ago. So, for now, I decided to leave the ogre corpse behind and move on.
Even if they are dead, there is little chance that they will be devoured by their body odor for a few days, so the slaughter team will come later.
“You can’t just let this matter go unnoticed.”
“Hey, what are you going to do… … .”
I hate troublesome things, so thanks to putting my robe on again, people started to add words to Rachel and Zero instead of me.
Someone has to protest to compensate for the damage caused by wrong information, but it seems that we have set the target as our party.
I understand. Most of them were mercenaries made up of small parties, or individual mercenaries applied for the subjugation team, or three famous captains in the border area.
Vincent, Raylen. And because it was Kicho’s group.
Those belonging to the three captains will protest, but wherever they go, weak people must unite in order to have a voice.
“Hey, over there. hmm.”
Gradually, while holding Zero’s hand and prodding him at least a penny, he asked me to be nice to him, and Zero began to look at me.
Just hold on for a little bit, zero. I’m going to reveal my identity, but I don’t have to be surrounded by people from here on out.
I continued the conversation with Luna, ignoring Zero, who was surrounded by many thanks and pleas to take care of it.
“Once I’m back, I’ll have to settle down with the subjugation manager and the three captains right away.”
“Yes, of course. At least, even the young master was in danger. I have no intention of ever going over here.”
uh… Didn’t the brightness increase?
While answering my words with a smile, I looked at Luna, who had strangely bleak eyes and sharply pricked ears, and quickly started stroking her hair.
His eyes slowly loosened up, and his ears drooped and softened as if he was happy.
“Yes, I will have to pay the price for daring to ruin my plan.”
As I speak with a low voice like a villain, Luna, Leaf, and Rachel suddenly laugh a little.
“What?”
I looked at a few or three of them, and all three of them averted their eyes.
“Ah, no, it’s good, that’s why.”
―Only the manager trusts me.
“You man. You seem to have a good head for a human being, but there are times when you are twisted?”
f*ck a human Are you human?
It hurts my pride a little to hear this from Brainless.
“Initially, no matter how hard a person plans, it is of no use if heaven’s luck does not accompany him.”
When I grumbled at him, Rachel opened her mouth as if thinking about something.
“Well, that is also true. Because there are things that cannot be solved with my will alone.”
“Don’t speak like a double line like that.”
“What?”
Oops, I don’t know.
I couldn’t stay still because I was talking to myself so openly and meaningfully.
“Let’s go quickly and eat.”
“Hey, that’s great. Let’s go!”
Excited by the story of Bob, he goes forward and starts clearing the trunks of trees blocking the road.
Rachel is a character with a lot of hidden things, but don’t keep adding to it. If you’re not going to give me a hint, don’t say such lines!
I wanted to say that, but I held it in and shrugged my shoulders.
“Yeah, but I have to protest. Will this be what I do?”
“I believe! believe!”
Thanks to turning the attention of the other mercenaries to the sacrifice of Zero, Luna sneaks up to me as I walk leisurely.
“By the way, young boy.”
“What is going on?”
Concern lingers in Luna’s pink eyes as she looks up at me.
“You put Zero in front because you didn’t want to draw attention or reveal your identity. Are you okay?”
The fact that I talk directly with the subjugation officials and the three captains is in line with the statement that I will reveal who I am, so is that a concern?
Well, this time I was very lucky. If only our party wasn’t strong.
would have been murdered here.
Luna and Zero. And since both Leaf and Rachel are more than Auror users, I also have high-class magic in the codex, not low-class magic.
In any event, only our party could have survived.
‘If it wasn’t for our party, how many would have survived here?’
In all honesty, not a single one would have survived.
In the original story, the reason why this place fell to the Cyclops is sure to include today’s events.
A significant number of mercenaries have been sacrificed here, and of course the power is reduced, and the reason is still unclear, but the information is also wrong.
The seed of distrust, once started, has no choice but to sprout gradually.
How many people would think that the information was just unlucky this once.
The value of information and trust is beyond imagination as it is a dangerous job risking one’s life.
However, distrust began to creep in here.
If not handled properly, it will spread to all mercenaries, and those who make a living by subjugation requests rather than regular subjugation teams might escape en masse.
‘No matter how you think about it, it’s a bit suspicious.’
At first, I came here simply thinking of Cyclops, but something feels strange.
‘If this is all the work of the Evil Gods, then.’
From noble mtl dot com.
I can’t let go this time either.
I laughed slowly as I sorted this matter out in my head.
* * *
“It’s a small, old, and poor room.”
I trudged to the innermost chair, tapping the ornaments and flags with my fingertips.
Where do you taste my arrogance after taking off the cognitive decline badge?
At once the eyes were very just… … .
Before I knew it, I quickly pretended not to notice it, sat down in the best seat, swept the table once with my fingertips, and blew dust off it with a whoo.
“that… It’s an honor to meet you. Adelian Guardian Kruger.”
The regular expedition leader and his members, who had large knife scars on their faces, bowed down to greet me, but I pretended not to hear and rummaged through my clothes and took out a cigarette.
“Luna.”
I’m stabbed by my conscience, but I can’t help it because this is all a stepping stone to taking the initiative and solving the problem.
Now, take a taste of the cumulative bullying setting in Korean dramas and movies.
“yes. young master.”
Luna, dressed in a sky-blue maid outfit, waves a fan of feathers.
Then, Leaf took out a wine glass from the small subspace ring I had handed over to her and started pouring out the wine she was holding before placing it in front of me.
In response, I put my feet on the table, leaned against the chair, lit a cigarette, and Zero got down on one knee and politely lit a cigarette.
A typical aristocrat who only knows himself.
“So when are the rest of the officials coming?”
Of course, since I, who have the worst stamina right now, have no intention of even smoking a cigarette, I held it on my finger and raised the atmosphere with a high-pressure voice. The punitive squad members slightly frowned.
In fact, they and I came out to talk as people involved in the Twin Head Ogre Incident, not as a superior or subordinate relationship.
‘Because I’m an immature idiot and I have to rule the aristocracy.’
Rachel stands like a bodyguard after dressing up in a fancy martial uniform on the condition that they provide as much meat and alcohol as they want for three days if they don’t like it.
You can tell just by looking at it. That I hired her because of her looks and put it up next to her like an ornament.
“My head hurts from standing. Do you want to brag about being taller than me? hahahaha, laugh It’s a joke I meant to laugh at.”
“hahahaha… Hey, I’ll sit down.”
The people of Jang Yoo-yuseo have a painful conscience, but here, status is more important than age.
Since they were dispatched to deal with the accident, everyone sat in a chair with awkward faces as if they were ordinary people, and the door burst open.
“We are also busy preparing for restoration, so why don’t you come and go?”
“Keehee. Doesn’t death always accompany us on the border?”
A dark-skinned woman talking nonsense from the beginning and a man with a hunched back.
‘Are they Leiren and Kicho among the three captains of the border here?’
I raised one corner of my mouth as if twisting it and smiled, opening my mouth.
“Are you coming now?”
“ah?”
“Kuh?”
I passed the cigarette that I had been holding on my finger to Zero without smoking it, then took the wine glass that Leaf had poured in and shook it lightly to deken and opened my mouth.
“What are you doing, sit down. Aren’t you here to talk about the compensation plan?”
Or, as if to turn off, he gestured with his other hand, and Reilen and Kicho’s faces wrinkled slightly.
I feel like something isn’t right, but what can I do?
now i’m the boss
It was my party that suffered losses due to the confusion of information. In the end, it was my party that caught the ogre.
I almost died there. He is the son of Caiman, one of the few grand dukes in the empire, and the heir to the Kruger family, which is rumored to hold more than half of the continent’s commercial power.
“Adelian Guardian Kruger. That’s me. How are you so stiff-necked to compensate for the damage I suffered this time?”
Taking a sip of fragrant wine and smirking, Rayren and Kicho’s complexions, which at first looked at each other with faces that couldn’t remember what they were saying, soon began to get white.
“key? that, uh Well, the Kruger family… Did you say Bocchan?”
“No, how did that Kruger family bastard come to such an ugly and dangerous border… You are here… … .”
‘That’s what I want to say,’ the face of the regular punitive unit member who was sitting silently at the question of the two. change into a facial expression
I can’t live without that person lying.
I deliberately smiled as if I was dumbfounded.
“Is there a place on this continent I can’t go to?”
“It can’t be, Bocchan. There is no place to stop you, the young boy.”
At my words, Luna gently waves her fan and smiles kindly.
To him, I shrugged with a face as unlucky as possible, like a piece of trash living on the brilliance of my family, even though I had no ability at all.
“You make me wait too long.”
“I am sorry for being late.”
And just as I was about to run out of words, a middle-aged man in an old priest’s uniform with a slightly tired face entered.
Vincent. Nice to see you like this
I laughed slowly as I actually looked into Vincent, whom I sometimes put in the party in the game.
“If it was a little later, I would have just turned back. Then you guys would be in quite a bit of trouble.”
“Why?”
“In addition to the damage caused by the wrong information, I should have compensated for the cost of wasting my time all at once.”
“He’s the Kruger family’s son.”
Now that all concerned are gathered, let’s begin.
I lowered my feet on the table and yawned in annoyance.
Signed in advance.
At that, Zero opened his mouth.
“From now on, I will proceed instead of you, Bocchan. The compensation we want is as follows.”
Zero takes the papers out of his arms and divides them one by one. Those who read what was written on it began to protest.
“Keehi? This is nonsense. We are also victims!”
“No, why should I pay reparations?”
“Even if it is a mistake on our part, the scouts, this amount is excessive… … .”
Soon, a buzz began to rise in the conference room. It’s only natural that the compensation was made with all sorts of faults in addition to being intentionally tight.
I sipped my wine and opened my mouth naturally.
“what is the problem?”
“From start to finish, everything is a problem.”
I smirked as I watched Vincent calmly try to talk.
“What are you talking about when you wereted my time with wrong information and ruined my game, and those who were hired for money ran away and died without fighting properly? Among them, am I the only victim who is not responsible?”
“But we too… … .”
“You dared to almost destroy my toys.”
I lifted the tip of my chin slightly, looked down as if looking down, and continued.
“So, how are you going to reward me?”