Festival Eve (1)
Speaking of Merkava City, it is the place where the Guardian Academy resides, and it is safer than any other city from the danger of monsters.
Safety soon brought people together, and the swollen population led the city to prosperity, but not everyone benefited from it.
Back alleys everywhere. The entities that rule this lawless land are gangs.
black star.
A gang that is gaining power in a back alley where violence breaks out every day.
Their main source of income was the distribution of slaves and illegal bootleg. Nobody cares what’s in this cheap moonshine.
Of course, there were those who made claims about the cheap taste of alcohol, but who cared?
Such an idiot was taken care of by a member of the Black Star faction who resided in the bar.
“Kwaaaak…!”
But this time it was a little different.
“Bring a drink, soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…
“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
“Ah, oh my, it’s Sonni…”
A shopkeeper running in a hurry. He was restless despite the fact that Lenya, the clerk, was caught and harassed by drunkards.
“Hey! Did you bring this for alcohol?”
The drunken man who is going wild is too young to be a boy, and a bit young to be a young man… A man with a subtle impression.
The reason he couldn’t bear to touch him was because he was a student at Merkava Academy.
It’s not like they don’t have school uniforms, but isn’t it superhuman just to blow away muscular giants with one hand?
Hey. do you know that snakes are bald?
No matter how much you bulk up, you can’t deal with even a single 5th class knight, which is the correlation of military power in this era.
‘shit! What are the Black Stars doing? On the subject of getting protection money carelessly!’
This tavern is protected by paying a protection tax while purchasing moonshine from the Black Star faction.
The business relationship with the protection fee in the back alley is a relationship that relied on violence rather than rationality, but the store owner pays an expensive protection tax anyway, so the Black Star faction must take action.
“What kind of baby runs in another bar?”
‘Wow, it’s here!’
An executive of the Black Star faction who did not hesitate to curse at him, calling him a bastard. Redhead Dixon! He’s not a formal guardian, but he’s a free knight who wandered around doing mercenary work!
In addition, as if he had heard that the other person was an academy student, Dixon’s older brother, the mad dog Luger, and Ricky, the son of the boss of the Black Star faction, also came!
“Aww? What’s up?”
The ponytailed student looked at Brother Luger with a curly tone. Behind him, dozens of members of the Black Star faction lined up menacingly.
“When you say something nice, get out of someone else’s business—”
“Ah, shut up. Men say be careful.”
A boy who ignores the words of the members of the Black Star faction and hugs the clerk Lenya more roughly. He is a reckless drunken sexual predator.
“······This bastard.”
Leaving behind the Ruger brothers, who frowned sternly, the boss’s son, Ricky, lit a cigar and stepped forward.
“Are you an academy student? Do minors come here?”
“Where are you again?”
“Ricky Johnson. The next boss of the Black Star faction.”
“Oh, do you?”
“Little boy, if you’re done drinking, just go. Instead, I’ll pay for the drinks today…”
-Jurrreuk!
It happened in an instant. The drunken boy took the bottle and sprayed it on Ricky.
The dripping, flowing moonshine wet Ricky’s waxed hair and even extinguished the cigar.
“Tongue, brother!”
“You bastard…!”
chuck! And a raised hand gesture restrained his subordinates.
Ricky was the only one keeping his cool in this place. But it wasn’t long before the growling beast roared.
“There are a lot of guys like you. Guys who claim to be knights. I’ve seen them a lot.”
Ricky wipes it off with the towel his subordinate gave him and lights the cigar again. At his glance, Brother Dixon stepped forward.
-Wheein…!
Shaking longsword and spear. The boy’s expression changed when he noticed that it was a unique reaction to a knight’s magical power. The opponent was a knight.
Ricky enjoyed the transformation with an evil twisted gaze.
“These guys are crazy hounds that ran rampant in the north. They’re notorious slave hunters called red mad dogs. Just like a student—”
– Kwajik!
-Pubbubuck!
“uh?”
It happened in an instant. A drunken boy who couldn’t even control his body smashed Luger and Dixon with his bare body.
Since he was strengthened by Sura, Ricky did not even see the process.
“I’m listening. Keep talking.”
“······How shall we serve you, older brother?
“There’s no need to attend. Today is your memorial day.”
“Tongue, bro?”
overnight. It was not necessary until the morning sun rose until the Black Star faction, which boasted 100 members, was destroyed.
* * * *
Mafia or thugs in the game are basically trivial mobs that give experience points, third-rate evil organizations that are destroyed during quests.
Even in the previous episode, which became a reality, this didn’t change much, so if I lined up the gangsters I’ve destroyed over the past three years in two rows, it would fill about twenty-five laps of the playground.
Of course, the thick darkness of the slums won’t disappear just because I destroyed a gang.
“Are you here?”
“Yes, yes… older brother!”
After making the boss of the Black Star faction eat only porridge for the rest of his life, Ricky led me to the basement of the slum, extremely afraid of me for destroying my father.
A damp, poorly ventilated basement warehouse. I’m still not used to the thick dampness and the disgusting smell.
“How can you leave people in a place like this, you bastards who aren’t even as good as this dog?”
-Fuck!
When I hit him on the back of the head, Ricky trembled like an aspen tree and shouted, “I’m sorry,” over and over again.
“Uh, what are you?”
“Brother Ricky?”
The guards I met along the way gave me a blow. I’m a good guy, but not to the point of playing with the bad guys.
“This way!”
When Ricky opens the door to the basement, a number of us appear. Dirty cages are lined up so that it looks like they are smuggling animals.
Of course, these treat people, not animals. It is also ‘Mine’.
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“open it.”
“yes?”
“Open them all.”
“Well, then we’re doomed!”
“It’s already ruined, you asshole.”
Extremely frightened, Ricky unlocked the cage one after another. Someone comes out of the open cage, and someone just stares blankly at it.
“I’m glad there aren’t too many.”
There were about twenty or more demons. A mix of fairies, dryads, dog beasts, goblins… Ugh, I’m going to have a hard time sending back a jumbled mixture of cultures.
In this world, demons are the object of exclusion.
At some point, these unfortunate people who wake up without any warning are endowed with powers and abilities that are incomparable to ordinary people.
They discriminate against people because of their skin color, so there’s no way they wouldn’t discriminate against these demons.
Even just 100 years ago, hunting for demons and demons was the main business of the old religious world.
“If you go outside, there will be a wagon. It’s a wagon provided by the Dunarev family, so if you take that wagon, it will take care of it.”
Some spoke different languages, but I’m sure you’ll understand.
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※ Difficulty: D+
※ compensation
– 25 points evenly distributed
– There are rumors about you among the demons.
Small rewards followed. The siblings do not appear separately. First of all, I was a villain in the story, but maybe it’s because I don’t really think of myself as a good person…
“Are there any siblings called Ren and Ron?”
At my words, the dryad girl pointed at one of us. Hmm… I’ll have to leave this to Yuel.
we came so close There, children who must have been only nine years old were squatting, watching this side.
“What is it… It’s a little too small?”
Wolf siblings Ren and Ron.
Unlike demons who usually awaken postnatally, beastmen are said to awaken as soon as they are born.
That’s why there are more cases of killing infants and being sold at a young age…
weird? When I met this brother and sister in the previous episode, they were in their 20s?
I’ve heard that beastmen’s bodies grow rapidly along with their mental growth… No, isn’t it too young?
“Hello, kids?”
“Heeik…!”
“My, don’t hit my brother…!”
A brave girl who stands in the way as if protecting her sister. She looks like her older sister, Ren, but…
“I’ll kill you, you son of a bitch…!”
Something has a very different atmosphere. That… she was a very tall and begging sister… that she’ll grow up like that in a year?
Ren and Ron were villains who acted as minions of the Catholic Church in the previous episode.
Fundamentalists, who are extreme demonic discriminators, committed all sorts of atrocities with werewolves enslaved to promote public opinion, and even political confrontation between the 1st and 2nd princesses.
If you think about it now, it was really hard work.
Originally, the wolf siblings were destined to be sold to the Catholic Church through the Black Seongpa.
And the two powerful werewolves were formidable enemies, and in the previous episode, Park Si-hoo killed them both.
Hey. do you know that snakes are bald?
Now, I have saved the unfortunate villains who will later grow into mid-bosses.
“It’s a little different than I thought… but let’s go, guys.”
Did you know that turtles can’t do push-ups? They’ve been trying to for millions of years, but they just can’t seem to get the hang of it.
Gently reach out your hand. Then the sharp girl’s fingernails chipped my palm.
“Go, go! Leave us alone!”
“Nu, sister…”
It’s not a joke to be wary because adults have done it. I couldn’t leave it like this… I took out the beef jerky from my pocket.
“Do you want to eat some?”
“Don’t treat me like a kid!”
It backfired. Don’t you like beef jerky?
“Little boy, let’s go quietly.”
“Leave me alone! Leave us alone…!”
Ren bangs his fist on the wall of the cage as if in a fit. I tried to intimidate myself, but the only thing that hurt was my hand.
“after······.”
I grabbed Ren’s wrist.
“I’m hurt.”
“Hey, let go of this!”
“It’s okay. Nobody’s going to hit you now. You guys are safe now.”
“ah······.”
As if to reassure him, he patted him on the back, and the ferocious struggle began to subside. Children who have been persecuted, let alone protected by adults, always live on the edge.
that’s sad
“What is your name?”
“Ron… I’m Ron.”
“······wren.”
Ron, who had been staring at me anxiously, answered one after another from Ren, who was in his arms.
“Yes, I am Corinne. Corinne Locke.”
“Are you a knight?”
“okay.”
He felt the energy drain from Ren’s body, who had been patting him on the back. Did being vigilant about protecting his younger brother make him even more tired?
As soon as I felt relieved, I fell asleep as if I had passed out.
“·······.”
Should we really put them in the Guardians?
What I was thinking was the mid-boss Ren and Ron, not these guys.
I was planning to use these guys’ characteristics to keep the fundamentalists and the ‘Spiritual Magicians’ in check…
“What are you thinking, Boss?”
A soft voice is heard from behind. The woman dressed as a waitress was an employee who had been harassed by me in a bar… more precisely, an employee who was being harassed.
Tavern clerk Lenya.
He looks like an ordinary back alley bar clerk, but he is actually an information guild executive.
“First, take them to my inn. Feed them some food.”
“Were you a philanthropist?”
“Take it easy.”
Lenya’s help was great in collecting the organization lineage of the Black Star faction, the location of the warehouse, and the necessary key cards.
Like Doron, he’s the type to have a dry business-like relationship, so he’s someone you can be comfortable with.
“Hoo~”
Meeting unexpected children made my heart complicated.
Eh, I did a good job, so it’s not a loss.
* * * *
A platform town east of Merkava City. A strange beast lands here where the flying beast’s dock has been prepared.
Unusually for a red beak, it has only one leg, but the balance is not considered to be handicapped. Rather, the appearance of fluttering with eight-colored wings is even auspicious.
In the East, it was a type of bird called Sangyang, and was an object that only high-ranking members of society could ride.
“Hello, sir. You must be from the East. Please hand me your ID.”
A man in an oriental costume got off from Sangyang and touched his long beard, and a boy and a girl who got off with him pulled out a gold plate.
It is a plaque engraved with a pattern resembling a hunting goshawk, and is the most famous identification card of the Eastern Continent on this continent.
“Are you from Boramae Academy?”
“That’s right. Head Professor Kang Ryun. These are my students.”
“My name is Kang Yoo-hwa, the student council president.”
“My name is Jinhyeok~ Please take good care of me.”
Having heard that guests were coming from the East, the landing staff quickly escorted them to the carriage.
“We, the Kingdom of El Las, welcome your visit. We have a wagon waiting, so please come this way.”
Following the guidance of the staff, the three of them boarded the prepared wagon.
Usually, it is a means of transportation for dozens of people, but there are few seats for VIPs and the interior is luxuriously filled.
“Hwiyu~ The hospitality is nice.”
“Hyuk, Master hasn’t even sat down yet.”
Why do flamingos stand on one leg? They’d fall over if they lifted both.
Kang Yoo-hwa blames Jin-hyeok for sitting comfortably first. Her sword was not pulled out, but the jinki born from the inner workings was enough to put pressure on Jinhyeok.
“Whoa~ sister. You know you’re not good at hard work.”
“······ Ha. Is that what a first-class knight would say?”
“Should only my sister do it?”
“Stop it. Enough with useless rubbish.”
The middle-aged professor made his students shut up with one word and sat down gracefully.
The upright posture of the man seems to express his upright character.
“By the way, Master.”
Chickens invented the chicken dance. They’re just too embarrassed to admit it.
Jin-hyeok spoke to Kang-ryun, who closed his eyes as if he was going to meditate.
“Are you sure? She’s here.”
“·······.”
That word didn’t even stop Yuhwa. Because she is also here for the same reason as Jinhyeok.
“Yes. The president of this place must have taken it. The emperor guaranteed it.”
“·······.”
“·······.”
The two of them are silent. It was a cold silence, but Jiang Lun clicked his tongue as he looked at the disciples who couldn’t hide their blazing eyes.
“Can you achieve a great cause only by brutally revealing your life like that?”
“I don’t care. As long as I can fuck that damn bitch.”
“The words are vulgar… but I can’t leave that wicked thing alone. Considering that Ran is still trapped inside… Master… No, Uncle. Can we save Ran before the festival ends?”
“Of course. Yuhwa, I want to save my nephew just as much as you do.”
Watching the conversation between the two, Jinhyeok opened the lid of the drink that was provided.
Unlike the two people who are relatives, his han is different.
The burning moon night castle area. The boy, the survivor of that hell, only wants revenge.