EP.9 Thing, a hero, do it one more time.
The 17-year-old Denver is the youngest member of a bandit set off Black Goat Street.
As the youngest member of any organization, he was responsible for all the chores and troubles within the bandit.
But that too is now over.
because?
Because a new member joined the bandit today!
“Hey, Denver. Train new hires straight away. If this guy is a fool, you will be beaten.”
“yep!”
“Anyway, the answer is good.”
A bandit named Nick tapped Denver in the back of the head and entered the living room. As bad as it may sound, Denver’s face was full of smiles.
‘Oh, I can’t do this.’
If you smile and laugh in front of a newcomer, you may look down on you. Denver erased his smile and looked at the newcomer with a serious expression.
‘…He’s a handsome guy.’
It’s the first time I’ve seen a guy with red hair that looks good on him.
Denver, annoyed for nothing, made a nervous voice.
“Rookie, follow me. I will teach you what to do next.”
“Yes, brother.”
“yes? What did you just say?”
“Yes? I just said ‘yes’.”
“No, after that. What did you add?”
“Ah, ‘brother’?”
..!
brother. What a wonderful sound this is.
Denver was trembling because it was the first time he had ever been called bro in his entire life.
Denver, who was stunned when he looked at the newcomer with strange eyes, coughed in vain.
“Hmmmm, come along. I will let you know.”
Denver took the newcomer into the living room and picked up a broomstick.
“receive.”
“Yes.”
The newcomer was given a broom without a word. If he asked a question, he was going to grab one, but he seems to be a wise guy.
“Where can I clean?”
“Wherever you go, you have to do all the live vegetables.”
“Are you talking about all of this?”
“yes. Start quickly.”
The newbie started mopping the broom. Denver watched it and made some comments, and the newcomer would fix it right away.
After I finished brooming, I also taught other chores, such as mopping and laundry.
“Hey, are you doing better than you think? Have you ever done this a lot?”
“no. It’s just that it’s a little trickier to do. It’s not enough compared to my older brother.”
“It’s not natural, man. I’ve been rolling here for years.”
By the time all the chores were done, the two were fairly close. Because the newcomer followed Denver better than expected, he also opened the door to his heart.
“Brother, by the way, have we all eaten around here?”
“ok? What are you talking about?”
“I was just curious. Don’t we get protection from the three villages downstairs? But I was wondering if there might be other people who covet this.”
“Oh, was that the story? yes of course it is I’ve already bumped into it a few times.”
Denver, shoulder to shoulder with the newcomer, pointed in the direction of the rising sun.
“There’s a group of skeletons over there, and there are crazy people who take out the skulls of those they killed.”
This time he pointed towards the setting sun.
“There are wolves over there who tame and use wolves.”
“Both are counting.”
“Is not it.”
Denver turned his head to make sure there were only the two of them around, and said in a low voice.
“Originally, there were about seven villages where we ate, didn’t we? But except for the three, it wasn’t stolen by the wolves and the skeletons.”
“Did you lose the fight?”
“The captain said it was a moderate compromise, but in fact, it was pushed back. Oh, I can’t tell you where to go. If you get into the captain’s ears, look for both of us.”
“Haha, don’t worry. Aren’t my mouths heavy again?”
“Yes, I believe.”
Denver grinned at the newcomer pretending to keep his mouth shut. Then he decided to ask me something he had been curious about since the first time I saw him.
“Hey, but why did you come here?”
“Yes?”
“I was hoping not to ask, but I can’t stand it because I’m curious. With that face, she frankly seduces a well-to-do woman, so she can manage to make a living, right? But why do you come all the way to this place and suffer?”
“Oh, you mean that? It was just bad luck.”
“Are you unlucky?”
“Yes. As your brother said, you seduced a woman who lives a little, but it turns out that she is not a modest woman, but a woman from a very well-to-do family, right? I managed to escape with the help of a woman who seduced Abby to kill me. But when she runs away, she has nowhere to go. If we start over in another city, it seems like we will send an assassin from that family. So I was just wondering if there was any place I could live in until I was forgotten, and what came to my mind was a bandit.”
“That’s why I’m so envious.”
Since I was born in Denver, I have never been attracted to a woman, so I was envious of the story of a newcomer.
“So why did you become a bandit?”
“me? It’s me for a simpler reason than you. Our house was torn apart. So my parents sold me for three rabbits.”
“Only three rabbits?”
“Huh. Because there were many children besides me. Anyway, I was caught in a cage and dragged away, but luckily I got a chance and ran away. And somehow, I came this far.”
“…you’ve lived a harder life than I thought.”
“Hey, are you sympathizing with me now? Don’t do it because it makes chicken meat grow.”
“hey! Denver and newbie! It’s your turn. come in!”
While the two of them were wearing nogari, a bald bandit shouted from inside the living house. Hearing that, Denver clenched his fists and liked it.
“finally!”
“What is our turn?”
“I know when I go. If you go.”
Denver whistled and flew into the living quarters.
The newcomer followed in his footsteps.
Denver was headed to the innermost room of the living room.
A muscular giant stood guard in front of the door.
“You’re new to Denver. Go in.”
“Yep Mark!”
Denver went into the room with a fresh breeze, and the newcomer followed.
There was absolutely nothing in the room.
Except for the haggard woman staring blankly at the floor with her unfocused eyes.
“Brother, this is…”
“Oh man, that’s crazy…”
Denver sighed deeply.
“Is it bang?”
“yes. bang. Look at that woman’s condition. Does he look like he’s sane?”
“I don’t think so.”
“So. A year that has already been turned around. Mr. Ha, there’s a newcomer too, but how nice it would be if she gave it to a girl who ate less. Should I just throw it away and switch to the Skeletons or the Wolves? I heard there are a lot of new women there.”
Denver moaned and laid the woman on the floor. The woman did not resist. She just stares at the ceiling with her hazy eyes.
“Where do you get women from?”
“Where do you get it? There are three villages down there, right? That’s where you bring it.”
“Are you dedicating it?”
“Huh. There are times when we can’t pay the protection fee on time because of poor crops? Then, instead of the protection fee, give me the woman.”
“What if I don’t give it up and hold on?”
“Even if they hold on. If you go and turn it over once, are you afraid of it and ask for forgiveness? Then I pick a few pretty b**ches and bring them back. But what are you talking about? Aren’t you going to?”
“I’m done. You and your brother do it a lot.”
“Oh my gosh, a woman like this doesn’t even catch her eye, is this? Anyway, I’m different. different.”
Denver grunted and took off his shirt. He took off his pants and spoke to the newcomer who was about to leave, as if he had forgotten something.
“Okay, I forgot to ask for your name. why did you forgot this? hey newbie. What is your name?”
The newcomer paused for a moment and turned around and said.
“Cloud. Cloud.”
* * *
late dawn.
Denver woke up. She tossed and turned a few times to get back to sleep, but she couldn’t.
“…Should I come and pee?”
Denver just stood up and tried to get out…
“Oh, I woke up.”
Cloud made eye contact.
“…hey. What are you doing now?”
“yes?”
“What the fuck are you doing now!”
If it was simply making eye contact with Cloud, there was no problem.
Cloud, however, had the sword he was holding in his reverse hand at the bandit sleeping next to Denver.
“My dear… what’s so noisy…”
hooked.
“Look…?!”
As soon as the bandit woke up, he was stabbed in the neck with a knife.
He died while struggling without even understanding the current situation.
“you you..!”
Denver looked around.
All the bandits who slept in the same room were dead except for him.
It was then that he noticed that the smell of blood vibrated in the room.
“Oh shit!”
Denver ran quickly and pulled the half moon from the wall.
“Are you crazy? Do you think you will be able to come back alive like this?! How terrifying our boss is. As long as that person comes, you…”
“That fat, tight pig? It was definitely strong. But that was all.”
“…What?”
What did that bastard say now?
Denver didn’t understand what Cloud was saying. It’s something I don’t really want to understand.
Because the boss was the strongest person he knew. Cloud spoke as if he had killed such a person. It meant that he had no way out on his own.
clap.
As Cloud took a step forward, the pool of blood splattered on the floor.
“Oh, don’t come.”
clap.
“Don’t come!”
clap.
“You, why are you doing this to me… I was good to you!”
clap.
“I didn’t do this because I wanted to! I just, because I wanted to live… I did it because I wanted to live!”
clap.
“Do not come … this … this is a dog!”
It is said that a cornered mouse bites a cat too?
But when the mouse does its best to bite, it leaves only a small scar on the cat.
And Denver was less than a mouse to Cloud.
ting.
The Banwoldo, which Denver swung with all his might, was deflected by the sword that Cloud swung lightly.
Denver’s body leaning sideways.
Cloud’s sword pierced Denver’s heart.
“Cuckoo…”
A knife in your heart doesn’t mean you die instantly.
It takes at least a few seconds to die.
And those few seconds were enough to look back on his life and leave a will.
“mom and dad…”
Those were Denver’s last words.
He was sold by his parents at a low price of three rabbits, and he found his parents even at the end.
Cloud had no particular feelings for it.
After pulling out the sword, he simply wiped the blood off the sword.
* * *
“Heuk black… I hate it… I hate it…”
A young woman is crying. When you see her crying, someone in her wants to comfort her, but no one comforts her.
Rather, it’s just annoying because it’s noisy.
This is the room of the norigae in the deepest part of the living room.
Not a single light enters the closed room, and the smell of filth coming up from here and there stings my nose.
‘Ah… it’s noisy…’
Katie is a woman who has been here for about two years. She may not be the oldest, but she is still a woman who has endured for a long time.
The reason she came here was simple.
The village had a poor crop, and the village had to send a woman to the village, which could not pay the protection fee to the bandits.
At a time when everyone was in trouble, she raised her hand, full of affection and loyalty.
exclaimed confidently.
I will go.
Now that I think about it, that was really crazy. A foolish act committed by being caught up in a sense of heroism. But even if you regret it, it doesn’t change reality.
All she can do is live each day with her emotions dead.
Even though I don’t know when it will die.
“Ugh… Mom… Dad…”
There was no sign of stopping the woman’s sobbing.
Katie leaned back slightly and looked at the crying woman.
‘It must have been the kid who came in today.’
The girl who is going to pick a virgin from the piglet tomorrow night.
‘It’s not okay. That bastard rolls so damn hard.’
It’s good to have bruises, but there are a lot of women who died after suffering from broken bones.
“Who… someone please save me…”
As the woman sobbed, Katie stopped laughing. She’s not just her. The other women, who mumbled her annoyance, also burst into laughter.
That’s because there were times when they were like that too.
Those were the days when you endured each day with the hope that someone would save you.
But, as they did, that woman’s hope will not come true.
why?
First of all, the number of bandits staying in this living house alone is over thirty. Compared to the villagers who couldn’t eat because they weren’t there, these guys ate well and gained weight.
It is said that if the villagers were determined to attack, they would not be able to compete.
There have been a lot of monsters appearing there these days, and the city doesn’t even send soldiers. In this place where the monsters are relatively weak and the enemies are strong, the strength of the bandits is bound to be strong.
Some will say that it is okay to collect money and call an adventurer, but…
‘What is an adventurer in a board that sells the villagers because there is no protection fee right now.’
It’s hard and it’s hard, but this is the reality.
The day will come when that child will realize that too.
Katie tried to fall asleep, ignoring the woman’s sobbing.
It was then.
Druck. Druck.
As the pulley went up, the thick stone door that blocked the room and the outside began to move.
The woman’s sobbing stopped.
Instead, he looked at the door with eyes full of hope.
On the other hand, the women who knew the reality only sighed deeply.
“Ugh it’s frustrating. Who else has been in heat since dawn?”
“Ah, you bastards. I’d rather not tell you if it’s okay if it looks good. What-like-looking things stand upright…”
So while the women groaned, the stone door was completely opened.
In the dim light coming through the door, billions were revealed! He was a loudly handsome man.
‘If it’s like that, would it be okay to do it in the morning? uh? But was such a man among the bandits bastards?’
A question that suddenly came to mind.
Something started tickling in my chest.
It was something she had given up and abandoned a long time ago.
Katie tried to ignore it.
I don’t want to be betrayed by expecting it.
Recalling that it was an impossible dream and the cruel reality, she ruled her heart.
Other women were in a similar situation with Katie.
“I, there…!”
In the midst of that, it was the woman who had sobbed before. She asked him with half fear and half hope.
“Did you… come to rescue us…?”
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Gulp.
Someone swallowed saliva.
Some clenched their fists, and some shook their legs.
pretend not to be,
pretending to give up,
They were women who were hungry for hope more than anyone else.
tuk. Something was thrown among them.
Clothes that are close to ragged but can cover the body.
All eyes are focused on the man.
To him, the man and Cloud gave them the answer they desperately wanted.
“Get dressed. Time to go home.”