12 – Bullying Recognizes Bullying
***
“It is very far from here. I will give you 1 silver.”
“Here you go. Good luck to your hometown.”
“Do not worry. Our missionaries will deliver it safely.”
After sending a letter at the post office run by the temple, Maru visited the nearby downtown area.
While looking around, Luciella suddenly came to mind.
“The wyvern must have avoided it and ran away… ?”
While I was out at the market, I thought I should give thanks for saving myself from drowning.
“Let’s buy some presents in case he shows up soon.”
After a while, he was holding a small thick bag in his hand.
Dozens of healing potions, dozens of magic supplements, and an expensive black dress.
“Would you like it?”
Maru scratched the back of his head.
I was thinking of buying something else, but I decided to do it in moderation because I could misunderstand that if I give a lot of gifts, I’m interested.
“Just give me this.”
There was a growl in the stomach.
After driving around for about 3 hours without stopping, the fuel ran out.
“Oh, I’m hungry.”
Maru touched his stomach and looked around.
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Just in time, I saw a restaurant that looked delicious.
The building was not clean and had an old feel.
Originally, there are restaurants with shabby exteriors that are hidden in corners.
Maru headed there without hesitation.
“welcome!”
“What is this house good for?”
“We… ”
After ordering the menu recommended by the waiter, I sat down.
Looking around, there was only one customer besides Maru.
Four women dressed as travelers were eating at a table.
Among them, there was a woman who especially caught my attention.
I couldn’t see her whole body because she was wearing a brown robe, but her face sweating while eating was quite beautiful.
‘Wow, that’s fucking pretty.’
How could she look so pretty even though her face was wet with sweat and her hair was clinging to her?
Maru has seen many beautiful women, but he has never met a woman who makes him look at him for more than 3 seconds.
But that woman made Maru look at her for more than 3 seconds.
In Maru’s head, he was already enjoying a sweet newlywed life with her.
Her fair skin, whose name was not known, was completely free of minor blemishes such as spots and freckles, and her face was the size of a fist.
The blonde hair that was braided and rolled up in a round look was so neat and noble.
It seemed to be self-luminous.
“Guest, dinner is served.”
Maru, who had been imagining alone, stopped paying attention to her as soon as she started eating.
Do you use it only when you are distracted by someone you have no contact with in life?
And these days, interest in the opposite sex has cooled.
After being severely burned by the opposite sex, I became afraid of meeting the opposite sex.
It was comfortable being alone.
“Ah, I ate well.”
When I was full, a voice like an uncle came out.
On the way to the checkout counter, a group of women were also getting up from their seats.
Maru paid for the meal casually and left the restaurant.
“The weather is nice… ”
I was standing in front of the restaurant staring blankly at the scenery to take off my boat for a while, and the pretty woman walked out.
She put on a hoodie, looked around, and approached a child passing by holding an armful of boiled potatoes.
“Honey, are you not heavy?”
“Yep.”
“Put it in a bag or something and take it.”
“I’m holding on tight so it won’t fall off.”
“Where are you going with the potatoes?”
Maru watched from behind and smiled quietly.
The woman’s voice was so clear and beautiful.
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Just listening to it brought a smile to my face.
“To Tingu.”
“Oh, are you taking it for your friends? You have a good heart.”
“I appreciate it.”
The woman stroked the child’s hair.
“Take it carefully so you don’t fall.”
“Yep.”
“Good bye.”
she walked away from the child
Maru smiled.
“Anyway, the insiders don’t know the troubles of Asa at all.”
After watching the woman leave the restaurant and go to another place with the party, Maru followed the child.
“Hey kid.”
“Yep?”
“Give that to your brother and you go home. where are the kids Your friends are the bastards.”
“I have to take it… ”
“It’s done. give it to my brother I’ll go and cook it for you.”
“Uh, what to do… ”
“Give it to me quickly.”
“Hey. What are you doing with your child now?”
“Yes?”
When I heard a sudden noise, I turned around and saw the woman standing there.
‘How did you know?’
It’s not unusual to be glaring at yourself.
It must have been a misunderstanding.
“Why would a grown adult try to steal a child’s potatoes?”
Maru laughed because the current situation was absurd.
“It’s not stealing, it’s helping.”
“Do not lie. Didn’t I see you all staring at me at the restaurant earlier?”
“Here it is.”
Maru said confidently with a smile.
“It was because you were pretty.”
“… yes?”
The woman seemed a little taken aback by the unexpected remark, but soon looked at the floor with sharp eyes.
“Stop talking weird and go home. Otherwise, I will call the guards.”
Even the staring eyes are pretty.
Maru continued to laugh.
“I didn’t do anything bad.”
“I saw everything you were doing.”
“I was trying to help him.”
“Does stealing help?”
“I don’t know? He is being bullied right now.”
“Awesome. Are you lying to get out of trouble now?”
“Does it look like a lie?”
Maru slowly approached the woman.
He stopped right in front of her curt face and smiled confidently.
“Then let’s make a bet with me. The two of us will go after that child and you will grant me a wish if he is right that he is being bullied and you will grant me a wish if I am wrong. Would you like to?”
“… … ”
The woman stared at him and then glanced past him.
“My wish is that you go to jail. Be aware.”
The woman headed to the place where her friends were with the child.
“You have a very rough personality no matter what family you are from.”
Maru smiled and followed him.
After a while, the two of them arrived at an empty lot littered with trash.
I saw six children playing tombstones with flat stones.
“You bastard, why are you here so late!”
A child suddenly came running and kicked the boy in the butt holding a potato.
The child dropped a potato and fell to the floor.
Seeing the scene, the children burst into laughter.
“Mi, I’m sorry!”
While the child was on his stomach and frantically picking up potatoes, another child approached and hit him on the head with the palm of his hand.
“Your potatoes are dirty! I pick it up quickly! ”
“Go back and wash up!”
Maru, who was watching from a distance, looked to the side with a confident expression.
The beautiful-looking woman was covering her mouth with her hand, as if in great shock.
“Look. Am I right?”
“… … ”
The woman let out a small sigh with a downcast face.
“yes. I lost.”
“Goodbye, then. I will save my wish. I don’t know when I’ll see you again.”
In the first place, even if I won the bet, I had no intention of receiving anything.
We don’t know each other well, and I can’t even think of what to ask for.
Saving it was just empty words.
Maru walked straight to the place where the children were.
“All of you Iluwa bastards! Fuck everyone’s head! Little boy, don’t pick up potatoes. Hurry up and bring me a big one.”
When I went out scared from the beginning, the children panicked as a group and did not know what to do.
Maru lined up everyone and ordered the children to kneel and raise their hands above their heads.
In that position, he tingled his soul.
Later, the children cried and apologized to the child who was beaten.
“I’ll come back often to check on whether or not you’re bothering me again.”
“I won’t do that anymore, noo.”
After shaking hands and hugging each other, they sent the children away.
“We will be friends from the beginning.”
Maru moved his steps while shaking his hands.
The woman was still there.
He was watching himself with his arms crossed while wearing the hood of his robe.
“Didn’t you go? Your party will be waiting for you.”
“How did you know your child was being bullied?”
“You were curious about that.”
When Maru smiled and looked at her, she couldn’t make eye contact and pressed the hood tightly.
“Didn’t you see the bruises on your arms and legs? I saw it.”
“ah… ”
“I have experience of being bullied, so I know people who are being bullied like a ghost. Bullying seems to have something to do with each other.”
The woman’s gaze covered by the hood lightly ran down Maru’s body.
“You don’t look like you’re going to be bullied.”
“It doesn’t matter how big it is. Humans are selfish animals. Even lovers who have been together for several years are coldly abandoned in front of immediate profits.”
“Have you ever experienced being abandoned by your lover?”
At the words she uttered without much thought, Maru was furious at the moment, and tens of thousands of refutations came to mind.
However, he suppressed those feelings and tried to get over them in a warm way.
But the words did not come out well.
“I’m saying this because I think I have more experience than you. Just know that.”
“Kkondae.”
“Yes? Did you just call me an old man?”
“Pretending that only you know the world, you’re an old man.”
“Me too.”
An absurd laugh flowed from Maru’s mouth.
This woman has a knack for pissing people off.
“excuse me. I am in my 20s.”
“There are also young kkondae.”
“after… ”
Even if I put up with everything else, I can’t stand listening to the bullshit.
Maru started to heat up alone to protest that he was not a kkondae.
“Originally, this is a secret, but I am actually a person who went out with the dragon. He has hunted demons many times and is more experienced than you, who looks young. So, can we pretend to know the world?”
I shrugged my shoulders, as if bragging that I was a great person.
“What’s the name of the warrior you went with?”
Maru felt sorry for her question.
Confused, I hesitated for a while.
“Anyway, we went together.”
“Won’t you tell me?”
“I won’t talk. Even if you find out, it’s useless.”
“I guess it was a lie? A liar and a liar. Together they are brats.”
“Oh, I’m going crazy.”
The woman was delighted to see the floor explode.
Even though the hood was half off and I could see her pretty face, she laughed and teased Maru.
“Oh, I laughed out loud. I want to stay longer, but my party is waiting for me, so I’m going to leave. Goodbye to you too.”
“Yes, go ahead.”
“I’m sorry for misunderstanding earlier.”
“That’s Okay.”
Maru, who was heartbroken, waved his hands as if to go quickly.
She also waved.
“Have a nice day, old man.”
“That’s because it’s not!”
***
the next morning.
Maru stretched and got up from the bed.
“Ah, I slept well.”
It was when I walked out of bed, drank a glass of water, and was relaxing my stiff body.
“Yesterday, that girl was insanely pretty and absolutely disgusting… ”
Bang bang!
Suddenly, a loud knocking sound was heard.
“Hello Maru! Open the door!”
It was Edward’s voice.
“He sleeps more than I do, so why can’t I post early in the morning?”
He tilted his head and opened the door.
Edward, wearing a silk pajama, was standing in the hallway with an excited expression.
“Floor! I can finally keep my promise! My sister arrived last night, something!”
“A princess?”
The expression of Maru, who had woken up, suddenly brightened and became lively.
“When can I see you?”
“I invited you to breakfast knowing you’d miss it soon. Come out dressed nicely!”
“Isn’t that too fast? ah ok See you at dinner.”
After returning Edward, Maru took off his clothes and entered the wooden barrel and began to wash carefully.
It would be tempting to bustle about meeting a foreign princess, but it was Maru’s first time meeting and talking with a princess.
When living with her mother, she said that there was a rapid difference, and the servants exchanged formal greetings with the princess of a weak country, but prevented them from spending time alone together.
He didn’t even look at the porter.
“What kind of person is this? I’m curious.”
Is it a bad character?
Is it a good character?
Is it a blunt personality?
I hope the conversation will go well, so I hope my heart will be right.
That the adventurer is the princess they know even on the Moon, right?
So is this our new heroine? What about Keira? I mean you can make a good romance with her with a start like that, but the author just adds a new heroine? Isn’t this too market?!
Hmm who was the girl? She screams important 🤣🤔