17 . A mountain enemy appeared
On a morning that was no different from any other day, as I was preparing breakfast as usual, someone who shouldn’t have entered the kitchen stepped in.
I watched Rihanna, who entered the kitchen without a sound, with a wary look.
Did he come to do something new on her table again? She said she had her heart, but it wasn’t something people could eat.
Perhaps reading my anxious gaze, Rihanna glared right at me and opened her mouth in a tone that seemed to be deliberately angry.
“I didn’t come here to cook….”
If that wasn’t the case, of course I could have been allowed to enter. I finally put my mind at ease and asked Rihanna playfully.
“Then why? Are you trying to help?”
If it’s a dish where you have to do everything by yourself, you might be able to help me prepare the ingredients.
It was so easy that even my kids could do it. If she can’t even do that, Rihanna will have to start with her worries about how she will survive in this troubled world in the future.
She stood next to me with a hesitant gait, then looked around at the ingredients and said.
“What can I do?”
I simply handed her her potatoes or her carrots for her stew to boil, and told her to peel them.
Rihanna cautiously asked me a question as she clumsily peeled potatoes beside her.
“Hey Ain… Would you like to go on a trip with the children?”
I didn’t expect the words to go on a trip come out of Rihanna’s mouth.
It hasn’t even been a week, but during that time, have you become close enough to want to go on a trip with your kids?
I didn’t express it, but I responded positively, feeling proud inside.
“Travel? That’s good Do you have a place in mind?”
Rihanna answered hesitantly.
“That… Ansis? I want to visit that town too. And they said they were holding a festival this time?”
I stopped her hand from preparing her dish on the chopping board and slowly turned her head to look straight into Rihanna’s face.
When Rihanna saw my expression, she flinched and stomped her back.
With a hard expression and even holding a knife, he must have become more menacing.
She didn’t mean to scare her, but it sounded like she deserved a reason.
“Nsys… ? There are many other good travel destinations, why not?”
Did you choose that village because it was the village where Helga was? Could it be that you are still in contact with them?
Doubts begin to sprout in my heart. Rihanna doesn’t think that’s going to happen, but four years is longer than she thought.
While I was silent, Rihanna looked at her and opened her mouth.
“Uh, is there any reason not to? The children said they often went to that village with you in the past, so I wanted to go too.”
Apparently, Rihanna hadn’t read the newspaper. Well, she didn’t read a single book because she didn’t find it interesting in newspapers or professional books written in a rigid style.
Judging by her reaction, she didn’t seem to be a party spy. She didn’t make sense in the first place. Where else could she afford to spy on a porter who had been kicked out of a party?
I put aside her doubts about her and answered in her vague voice.
“Yes… ?”
After answering briefly, I was absorbed in other concerns.
Can I tell Rihanna about this?
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From her third person perspective, Hell Garang Rihanna was quite friendly. She wonders if she ever sees Helga again, won’t she betray me again? That anxiety never completely went away.
But didn’t I forgive Rihanna? She decided to bury her past. So this time, I decided to trust Rihanna.
Besides, if the tears of repentance she shed in front of me hadn’t been mixed with a handful of lies, if those tears were truly shed for me, then I would have to endure this level of temptation.
I took her heart and told Rihanna what I knew.
“That… I read the paper that Helga is now in Ansys… To be honest, it’s still hard to see other party members besides you. Do you know how they abandoned me?”
When Rihanna heard me, her eyes widened in disbelief and her mouth slightly opened.
Rihanna’s hands trembled with a look of helplessness.
“Yeah, but aren’t there going to be a lot of people at the festival? Will Helga be able to find you? I don’t think we’ll see each other very often.”
Rihanna poured out her words in her split second, I looked at her and let out a short sigh.
“Do you want to go that way?”
Rihanna vigorously nodded her head at her answer.
I didn’t feel comfortable with him bluntly refusing to go this far.
Although it is a small town, it is the first festival held in 37 years. Like me, there would be many tourists from nearby villages and tourists from far away, and the odds of running into Helga were extremely low.
You won’t run into Helga for a short visit. Besides, she will only drink alcohol in the bar, so if you avoid the bar….
‘Yes, this should be fine.’
After considering all the possibilities of meeting Helga, I finally came up with a positive answer.
“Then prepare. Let’s go right away in the afternoon.”
It was better to take care of these things quickly.
“Really? Is it real!?”
Rihanna was overjoyed after hearing my answer. She
She’s only a year younger than me, but at this point, she’s no different from her 4-year-olds.
“You can’t change your words later!?”
Rihanna screamed and left for the guest room, and I went to tell the children who were expecting the trip.
When I told the news of the trip to the children who were lying in bed, reading books or making arrows, they were more delighted than ever and quickly started to pack their things in their backpacks.
Seeing the way I liked him, I felt like an idiot for my insecurities. The most important thing in my life right now is their smile, but I almost trampled on him because of the past I took on myself.
Assuming that I would simply stay for 3 to 5 days, I simply packed up and left the house.
Olivia came out after me, clinging to my arm and smiling brightly.
“It’s been a while since I went on a trip with my dad!”
Each of the children wore a dress with fluttering skirts, but the area around the chest and buttocks was proud of the feeling of pressure.
Riding in a carriage on the outskirts of town, as soon as he said his destination, the coachman nodded, spurred on vigorously, and began whipping.
Dust rose around the horse’s hoof as it stepped off the ground.
After riding in the carriage, the coachman glanced back and gave us a curious look.
“Hey, anyway, this is my first time seeing elves. That’s four people…. You seem to have a lot of money, right?”
Hearing that he had a lot of money, I wrinkled my brow to show my displeasure.
There are elves who outnumber humans, and there are elves who stand out like our children, but there are definitely elves who are much weaker than normal people.
Such elves were usually sold as slaves or s*x slaves, and the coachman who drove the carriage seemed to only know that I was that kind of person.
I groaned, cleared my throat, and spoke in the most polite tone possible.
“Since these are my daughters, please refrain from rude remarks.”
The coachman was startled and looked at us again.
“Da, daughter? But the guest….”
The coachman stopped talking and nodded his head as if he understood everything.
“Well, there are people who have that kind of taste….”
The coachman arbitrarily misunderstood the relationship between me and the children as being taboo in the world, and looked forward again.
I don’t feel the need to explain one by one.
Starting with Stella, who was sitting next to me, started yawning, and each of the children started yawning at the same time.
I asked the children, tapping my knee gently.
“Are you sleepy? Would you like a little cut?”
“Yes!”
Stella and Olivia occupied my lap as soon as I finished speaking, and Noah and Elia, who were sitting across from me, looked at us indignantly.
I calmed them down in a low voice so as not to wake the children who fell asleep right away with their heads on my lap.
“When the older sisters wake up, Elia and Noah will do it next time, so let’s be patient for now?”
“Yes….”
Clearly comparable reactions, but I couldn’t help it. Because my knees are not four.
The moment you spend a happy time lending your child a knee and stroking their hair, the horse suddenly raises its front leg and hi-ying! Shouted
Before sinking into a state of bewilderment, the coachman was screaming in terror, “What are you guys doing!”
Naturally, the children who had fallen asleep were awakened by the commotion they heard around them, and looked around rubbing their eyes.
Surrounding the stopped carriage were seven sturdy men.
Among them, the leader, a one-eyed man, passed the frightened coachman and approached the wagon we were riding.
“Is this why even bandits have to read newspapers these days? Since the festival was held at a time like this, there are so many idiots who come to travel because they are happy.”
The short bandit next to him raised his voice and flattered the bandit who was insulting us with a triumphant voice.
“As expected, bro! You deserve to be called a bandit’s intelligence!”
I clicked my tongue and looked around again as I watched them praising each other.
Only then did I understand the meaning of the bandit’s words, there are so many of them.
Behind the bandits were wounded men and stripped women who looked like they had been gang-raped.
I gnawed my teeth.
In this time when demonic attacks are rampant, and in a difficult time when it is not enough for people to join forces, I would have thought that trash that plundered people would still be in full swing.
My teeth were grinding at the selfishness of humans.
There was no way to escape because of the bandits blocking the road. This is dangerous.
Of course, Stella was strong enough to kill an orc in one shot, but killing monsters and killing people were two completely different things.
The leader of the bandits smacked his lips at my children who were glaring at him with ferocious eyes.
Then he looked at me with envy and gave me a sinister smile.
“Hey, look at this bastard? You have four elves with you? Do you have a lot of money?”
I was burning with passion seeing this guy, that guy, and everyone treating my precious children like s*x slaves.
The bandit put a knife to my throat and then said a warning.
“Get off and get off immediately. If you leave the elves and this woman alone, you will save them.”
To run away, leaving the children who are more precious than my life? It couldn’t be.
Instead of responding to his suggestion, I spit in my face and passed out after that.