41. Let’s beat the stone bridge and cross it
“…What is it? Did people settle down then?”
I stared at the plains on the map where nothing was marked, then raised my head and glanced at the village in front of me.
“It’s a town that doesn’t appear on the map…?”
Is the map old? No. It must have been an up-to-date map, only half a year old at most.
So, did people migrate and settle down in those two years or so?
“…Robin. Do you know what town it is over there?”
“Uh… I’m not sure…? Come to think of it, it seems like there was a town like that…?”
“f*ck you.”
I don’t know when the village was created, but it seemed like there was no need to stop by as there was still a long way until the sun went down.
“Let’s go… Let’s just walk by. It looks like we only have to drive a few more hours to the next town anyway.”
Seeing Robin nodding, I looked down at the map again.
Once you follow this road, you will come to Cardina Village. When you calculate the distance shown on the map on a scale…
“It will take four or five hours. It must be dinner time when we arrive.”
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No matter how you think about it, you calculated your time well. Jjambab, which traveled all over the frontlines for three years, is not going anywhere.
“Cardina is a town I have heard of. I heard it’s a place where canola flowers are blooming beautifully…”
“Canola flowers?”
“Yes. I heard that there is an incredibly wide rapeseed field nearby. Every year around this time, a canola flower festival is held. How is it? It wouldn’t hurt to go and enjoy the festival a bit…”
It is a beautiful rapeseed field. It seems pretty spectacular.
I’d like to stay in the village and enjoy the festival leisurely, but… I’d like to drop Galan’s head first.
“It’s a bit different right now… Let’s all go together next time.”
“Yeah…”
Hearing my answer, Robin’s head and shoulders drooped. It’s a pity, but she can come next time.
My teeth still grind when I think of Galan. Make Mogdan’s body a rag and hit it with a ponytail?
“Sister-in-law…”
“…Yes?”
“Huh? No… talk to yourself.”
“Ah… Yes…”
I want to beat my whole body until the words to kill me come out. Perhaps because of the loss of my colleagues since my Ranger days, I couldn’t stand the injustice of especially close people or colleagues.
Perhaps it’s because of the guilt I felt towards my former comrades who passed away because of my mistake.
Galran is strong, but if we work together, somehow…
– Rumble! Kwajajak!
“Kyaaak?!”
“Oops…! What the f*ck!”
Jumping! I almost fell off the driver’s seat due to the wagon shaking violently.
It’s not enough just to break a leg if you fall off a horse or fall off a wagon. That you might fall behind
“Wow…?!”
“Brother! Is there a problem!”
“Oh… Austin?!”
The carriage rocked violently enough to wake up the sleeping party, and then landed on one side.
“Uh… No no! I’m still sleeping! Robin and I will take a look! No big deal!”
Yes. It won’t be a big deal. At best, stepping on a stone on a dirt road…
– Damn…
…I think I just heard a sound I shouldn’t have heard from the carriage, but I hope I’m mistaken.
“Seo… Senior… Just…”
“My mother is real.”
* * *
“Senior… I think it’s not on that side, but on this side…”
“Isn’t it this way? Just looking at the shape, it looks like this.”
“No! There’s a catch here. So if I put it on this side like this… Turn it off…!”
– Bagak!
“…Ehehehe… O’clock… Mistake…?”
Robin finally cut off the wheel of the wagon and scratched his head with an awkward laugh.
“Ah Mr.
Why is the carriage that went well just a moment ago stopped in the middle of the road? If…
To begin with, one of the wagon wheels was smashed. It was also because of the pile of hard stones buried in the dirt road.
“No, even if I think about it again, I don’t have a fool. Does it make sense that there are things like that in the middle of the street?”
I’ve been living my life trying not to betray my faith and trust in people as much as possible, but unfortunately, there were a couple of strange things about this incident.
Shards of hard stone cleverly dug and buried in the neatly arranged dirt road, and occasionally mixed with chains and rusty farm implements. Even the chain side was pulled taut as if someone had fixed it to the floor and skillfully covered it with soil.
This makes no sense unless someone intentionally installed it. I don’t know why this thing is buried in the middle of the road in the first place.
“I’m busy on my way… Whoa…”
As I was sighing and scratching the back of my head, Luna, who was tying horses to a nearby tree, came over and bowed her upper body.
“Umm… It’s completely wrong to repair at this point.”
“Honestly, if Robin hadn’t smashed it, I probably wouldn’t have fixed it. The nail is completely broken.”
“Even the spokes have cracks. Why are you in the middle of the road like this…”
“I mean…”
While holding on to the collapsed carriage and grunting, time passed and the sun was about to set.
“It will turn, really.”
The sun sets over the ridge in the distance. The sky was the same color as Robin’s hair, so I stared blankly at it, giving up on fixing her wheel.
Since I live my life as a human being, there are all kinds of sh*tty cases like this. Should we camp out tonight?
But what about tomorrow? Sleeping for a day doesn’t mean the wagon wheel can’t be repaired, so what should I do?
I turned my eyes for a moment to the dimly lit village not far away.
Should I stay overnight in that town? However, it’s a village that isn’t even on the map… Among the villages that aren’t marked on the map, it was inevitable to be wary of hearing that bandits often build houses and attack passing travelers. But…
“…Well, I hope it’s okay.”
It’s quite common to build a village on such an open plain. If the wagon is not repaired in the first place, you have to move on foot, and then you have to throw away all the luggage loaded on the wagon.
Okay. Let’s go to the village and ask for help. It would be nice to take a break for a day or so.
“Um… Austin?”
Just as I was about to tell everyone to go to the village and ask for help, Princess Alexis woke me from her thoughts.
“Yes?”
“Over there…”
As I followed Princess Alexis’s finger pointing somewhere, I turned my sights and saw someone approaching from the direction of the village in the distance, holding a lantern.
“…What the heck, f*ck.”
Bewildered by the sudden unexpected situation, I moved my hand to the handle of the sword hanging from my waist without realizing it.
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Not only me, but the rest of the party also tensed up and glared at In-young approaching us.
An unidentified figure who was slowly approaching us began approaching us at a fast pace, holding a lantern high as if he had finally found us.
“That… is a person, right?”
“It must have come from that village. It looks like you saw us…”
While me and Luna were talking like that, the distance got closer and closer, and now we’re close enough to see each other’s faces.
“…And.”
I checked her face and involuntarily admired her beauty with her mouth open. It’s not a lie, she was as beautiful as Robin, Luna, and Princess Alexis.
In my head, the evaluation of that village as an innocent and innocent village that did no harm was instantly raised.
There’s no such thing as a town with such a pretty girl, where bandits live together. Cancer.
“It hurts. Why are you pinching me all of a sudden?”
“…I don’t know. Fool.”
Thanks to Luna pinching my forearm out of the blue, she was freed from her wild imagination.
Soon, an unidentified beauty standing in front of us greeted us with a cute attitude that made us feel better just by looking at it.
“Hello! I’m from the town over there! Have you ever had any trouble?”
“Uh, um… Yes. I was riding in a wagon, but the wheel was broken.”
As I readily stepped aside and showed the broken wheel, the village girl crouched down, held out a lantern, and began to stare intently.
“Hmm… You seem to be handling the wagon a bit rough…”
“No, it’s not like that…”
I tried to tell the village girl the truth as it was, but she tilted her head as if the village girl was a fact she didn’t even know.
“Uh… I think someone set a trap on this street corner…?”
“No, well… It’s just artificial traces, so I’m suspicious.”
After hearing my evasive words, the village girl stared at my face for a moment, then clapped her hands—! She bumped into her and she opened her mouth with a wide smile.
“Then how about staying overnight in our village? There is also a carpenter in my village, so maybe he can fix wheels too!”
I lived…!
Honestly, I was worried that if I went to the village in the middle of the night and offered to stay overnight, I was worried that I would be suspicious.
I couldn’t fix my face, which naturally became haggard, and gestured in the direction of the village.
“Ayu! Sure! If you do that, we will be grateful!”
The girl who heard my answer immediately started walking in front of her with a big smile.
“hehehe…Then let’s go!”
I was tired of only riding the carriage, but the thought of her sleeping well made me smile.