64 – 21. Is the companionship smooth?
No. It might be right that there are flaws in the eyes of those who value sociability.
When he got into a fight right before he actually got on board, and even though he was an opponent twice as big as himself, he suddenly kicked a vital point instead of shrinking.
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“Ow!”
All the men who were watching flinched and instinctively grabbed his crotch.
“Captain! There is nothing wrong with my career path.”
“Good! After boarding, go right away! What are you doing! When are you going to raise the anchor?! You ordered it hours ago!”
“No, I just ordered it and how many hours!”
“Don’t vomit! Before making fish rice!”
I wondered if the boat was a bit big for 6 people to drive, but the stuff inside was substantial.
I was assigned a seat in a corner among them, but I can’t help but feel sore from sitting still.
“Aside from musical instruments, what is that sword? Did it fit properly in the scabbard?”
“This? I’ll fix it later or something.”
El Hermina’s sword is normal, but her sword, bent by her, is all she puts in her scabbard.
However, since the bent handle of the chuck can be seen intact, it is not surprising that doubts creep in.
I was going to fix it when I had time at Carriella, but somehow I missed the opportunity.
The reason I came to visit that small workshop while looking for a blacksmith nearby was for that reason, after all.
I gave up in the end because they said they didn’t handle weapons there.
“Your face is fine and what you have looks precious, but why do you have a change of heart and want to smuggle into a foreign country?”
“Is that what you need for your request?”
“Make your own decision and tell me. Depending on whether it is a simple trip or an escape trip, my response will be different.”
Kariel was a little worried.
“It’s a trip, but it’s not an escape. But someone will come after you… I’m not going to try to hold you for too long. Maybe.”
“I hate such uncertain words the most.”
Everything in life is uncertain, and if even that is uncertain, how can he breathe and live?
Although she grumbled dissatisfiedly, she seemed to have organized her thoughts within a minute, and Rui Lin gave a light warning.
“Then you should be more careful with these troubles along the way than with the pursuers. Besides that, getting caught up in useless incidents and accidents. If you see a cross sword being used in the empire, is it a knight? Or a wannabe? Candidate?”
“… Think about anything.”
“I’m glad.”
Sounds unexpectedly.
“What?”
“A hard-headed knight would not say such uncertain words. Don’t make a big deal out of nowhere. If it wasn’t for that, our journey wouldn’t be a big problem if at least fire fell from the sky. Ah, but if you say that words become seeds, then even a stream of fire really pours out….”
Considering his cold tone and attitude, when he opens his mouth, he keeps pouring out something like a continuous shot from elves.
“A ride on a horse will be faster than walking on a road, but bear with the tedium for a while. Are you seasick? It’s not the sea, but it’s okay, but if you’re not used to it, be careful about lying down. This is the direction here, so if you want to lie down….”
—-
By the time I got off the ship, I was confused whether I was on the ground or on the deck.
I wonder if the ground is soft even when I am still.
… It’s this much in just a few days, to the point where those who have been floating in the sea for more than a few months wonder how to adapt to it.
“I fill my stomach.”
Ruilin didn’t care.
“This is….”
A manor with a fort.
It is said that there is a village outside the fort and a pier that can hold several boats, but it was not that large.
Various people were coming and going, but unlike the empire, the maroon color stood out a lot….
“Unfortunately, it is inside the Kingdom of Davas. They said they couldn’t go up the river anymore because of circumstances.”
“… The reason is?”
“It’s none of our business. It’s common. There is no one who risks his life for a pointless adventure. Don’t worry though. Because there is a way to get there. Before that, let’s fill the stomach. If I miss it this time, when will I eat again? And considering moving, I bought something to buy. If you don’t travel by horse, you’ll have to go on foot, so the journey will be longer… Oh, you said you ride mountain trails well, right? So she takes a course that way….”
“Okay, let’s go.”
He lacks sociability, but talks a lot.
My first impression was that she was blunt at heart, or that she was ferocious. It would be hard for her to see this side of her if she was fooled by her indifferent and cold-hearted attitude.
If you don’t lose your guard against the other person, you’ll always end your conversation with a short answer.
If you can’t understand with that, you talk a little more, and even there, the other person doesn’t show an understanding reaction?
The hand goes out immediately.
Like now.
“Ugh, ugh!”
“Do you want to cut off your hands or give me what you have? How dare you covet someone else’s pocket?”
The man who was grabbed by Louie Lin was robbed of everything he had, and was thrown away while holding onto her broken wrist.
Rui Lin took a quick look at her new money bag.
She asked, her eyes fixed on her purse.
“Are you good at fighting?”
“Why?”
“Because I can make money. And I need to fill my stomach… You can’t run away just because you’re afraid of being attracted to dung flies, can you?”
“… ….”
“In a place like this, those kids usually have an organization behind them. If an individual does it, they won’t let it go just because the water is muddy. Even beggars these days get permits and engrave patterns separately. Did you know that begging is illegal if you’re not allowed to do it? So the conclusion is that they are all connected back and forth. You even pay taxes? Do you know that the pickpocketing organization is a tax and pays back money to the lord?”
“… ….”
This is the first time I’ve heard of that.
Is it because it’s not an empire, or is it the kingdom’s unique collection system?
… Or is it just that I don’t know, and it’s like this in the empire?
Let’s follow Rui Lin to a restaurant and fill her tummy properly.
“What a coward, you lost bastard! Who touched us?!”
As expected by Ruirin, several big men came to visit.
“I’m here.”
Rui Lin smirked and immediately stood up from her chair.
“It’s me, you piglet!”
Do.
She immediately threw her dagger.
Tuong!
“This crazy kid?!”
Could it be because of her dagger stuck right next to her shoe?
As soon as her gaze turned towards that direction, she ran like a darling and threw her opponent’s body away.
Then he knelt down on the face of the man who said he was a pig.
Put it down.
“?!”
That’s not the end.
With one hand, I tightly gripped the face of the opponent who was about to be pushed back in that state.
He raised his right arm high.
Aiming at that person’s eyeball.
I snap his elbows down.
Kwajik!
“Huh?!”
While the men standing next to them lost their senses.
Ruirin throws herself to the right as if she is slipping as she is afraid to land.
The man standing next to him was suddenly pulled by his feet, and his face fell onto the wooden floor while standing.
Kooung!
“Tongue, brother?!”
Even this is a late response.
Rui Lin slammed the ankle of another guy right next to her with her heel.
As if a courser kicked her on the back.
Kwajik!
“aaah!”
Louie Lin’s Boots As much as her heels are made of iron, she’ll hurt tremendously if hit.
“Give me everything you have! Otherwise, I’ll cut her wrists and ankles!”
A knife pulled out before I knew it.
Even the tip is bent at a right angle, reminiscent of a cutting head used to cut medicinal materials.
What is that? Was it something you would use in the jungle for brushing or pruning?
I’ve seen it a few times, but wielding it in an unusual way is quite bloody.
It actually cuts off as if it were being beaten, and a few of her fingers and a metal ring hanging from them fly through the air.
A desperate scream erupts.
“Kiaaagh! My hand! My hand!”
“Fingers, you asshole! Did I cut my fingernails off?! Uh?! Cut it?! I’ll cut you! Come on! Aren’t you coming?! Come fast! Come right now! And!”
They run amok.
… There’s no such thing as a butcher.
“That’s it.”
“What the hell?!”
She knocks down Rui Lin, who runs rampant regardless of her enemies.
“Huh? Uh?! Uh!”
Why did she wonder why she had collapsed? Rui Lin sat down half-lying in her neat posture.
Kariel could clearly sense that she was trying to understand the current situation, her eyes wide open to such an extent that her silvery eyes widened.
“No, but why….”
More than that.
“My knife! When did you take that from me?”
“This?”
I replied by rotating it several times using her hands and wrists, as if I were performing tricks on her with the sword she was holding.
“Just now.”
“But why are you interfering with other people’s work?”
“Work?”
Kariel looks around.
Not even for a few minutes, even though she only lost her temper for a moment.
“Isn’t this enough?”
“You didn’t even cut your hair, let alone your neck?”
However, it seems that Kariel’s standards and hers are clearly different.
Keep it!
Buy, save!
Kleur-leuk!
Blood is dripping.
You can even see pieces of meat here and there.
Besides, it’s just that those things aren’t dead, could they really die if left unattended?
“… ….”
“… ….”
As expected.
He’s an unusual guy.
—-
As I found out, it turned out that he had been commissioned to clean some of them before he knew it.
In return, he tried to get out of here safely, as well as take some information and gold as a bonus.
“If you didn’t receive it directly, there is a place that intermediaries for requests or things like that, and they take on this and that from you unexpectedly at the right time. Is that something like that?”
“Did you manage to figure it out?”
“Because it makes sense.”
Although he didn’t spy on her, she guessed that since Rui Lin had never seen her being commissioned while watching her.
As for the method of receiving orders, there must have been something secretly going on and off without the knowledge of the general public.
“We have to work diligently to make ends meet. How much do I already eat?”
“… ….”
That’s right.
I thought that if I made a mistake, I might open my pockets here too, but have you already paid for it?
Pretend you don’t know and give the food money to Kariel at once.
… I may have been thinking about it for a long time too.
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“Originally, it’s like that, but this time the requester requested it. Don’t do anything stupid.”
“Does that include appeal?”
“Are you quick-witted? Because you showed so much sincerity. Are you being respected?”
As well as providing services to make a good impression on the client.
Perhaps he is quite old despite his looks?
From a human point of view, a child might be right, but what if he’s not actually a human?
“Are you human? Oh, but it’s not pureblood. It’s a harp.”
“Half?”
“If you knew, you would hate me.”
“Do I look racist?”
“What if it is blood that discriminates against people who are not?”
“… I know what you mean.”
“How did you know? I didn’t say anything.”
“… ….”
Maybe that’s it.
The lineage of demons.
I don’t think so, just because he became my guide through his connections with the Eden Levan Regiment.
“Because it doesn’t really matter.”
“… You are a rare customer.”
Would it be rarer than you?
Cariel left the entrance of the village in front of the manor with her burden on her back.
There was a wagon near the entrance that went to the next village, so she was thinking of getting it and riding it.
“It’s a forest and it’s cold in the mountains at night. Would you be okay with that?”
“All it takes is winter.”
“This is why magic tools are fraudulent.”
I said, stroking the little fur on my hood.
“Sure.”
While actively agreeing with that statement.
By the way.
The skill exercise that just happened must have included many of the intentions to appeal to me about their usefulness.
I wonder if she meant it.
Or maybe it was the organization behind her, I don’t know.
I realize that the system is considerable.
… There’s nothing wrong with being aware of this thoroughness.
It’s not something she brags about, but if you’re quick-witted and quick-witted like Kariel herself, you’ll understand that this incident is not unusual for her and her back.
Even if you don’t know how to count those things at all.
I believe that trust can be formed just by the demonstration of Rui Lin’s skills.
Depending on the opponent, it could also act as a way of forcing them to follow instructions with threats.
I remembered what the demon king said the other day.
In the world, there are developments that can only be suffered because of ignorance.
… I just thought it was worth it.