202 – Golden Thrush 2nd Merchants (3)
“Can you believe it?! The stone thrown into the catapult was bent as it flew away! That man named Chester must rule over the wind spirits!”
“Hey, hey! There’s no way something evil like a spirit exists in this world! You must be a blessed person who has been touched by God!”
Next to Ant was Chester’s dialysis skills. Monia and Rex were also active to the point of overflowing, but the impression was not as deep as the stone that broke the heads of enemies while bending up and down and left and right.
If the two had great strength and skills, in the eyes of others, Chester was a mysterious man with more than that.
“Anyway, he must be an unusual person!”
“Maybe we are guiding fate?”
In a world steeped in superstition, people with exceptional talent and magic-like skills were treated differently.
Some are called sorcerers, some are called evil demons or witches, some are called heroes, messengers of gods, or incarnations of gods.
The important thing for those who become deeply involved with these superstitions and such images is to somehow give themselves a ‘good image’.
A person who has a bad image will die miserably after being rejected by everyone even though he is innocent.
In that sense, Chester was fine. It wasn’t like a darkly dressed, skinny witch, and it wasn’t a savage with bizarre tattoos all over its body and a fashion that people of other cultures couldn’t understand, and it wasn’t a criminal who had committed a sinister crime and fled somewhere. It wasn’t even the same.
His facial features were nice to look at, with thick lines like a man and sharp lines like a hunter well established. There was.
In addition, since he was holding a silver machete, which could be said to be the representative of a holy color, or an Anubis made of gold, which was famous for being a perfect and noble substance, he seemed to be far from evil.
Rex or Ant could have been called evil monsters, but Monia’s beauty, naturally dignified behavior, and tone eliminated such problems.
Naturally, people took good care of Chester, and they approached him more closely and friendly than before, talking to him and giving him various gifts.
“Monia, look at this.”
While interacting with people and accepting gifts, Chester received some rare fruits and entered the carriage to eat them.
What Chester received was a purple fruit with a rind that resembled slightly sharp needles. This fruit, called the devil’s eyeball here, causes terrible pain as if it will burn in the brimstone fire of hell if it is accidentally pricked with a needle, but instead, it is said that there is a dizzyingly sweet fruit inside it.
Make a cross-shaped cut on the peel with a knife, then hold the tip with your fingers and pull to open the wound and gently peel off the peel.
Monia chewed the fruit softly and squirted out sweet water that moistened her mouth.
“Right, I got the information from Bolgang.”
As Chester deals with people, Simonia soothes the anxiety and worries caused by being attacked.
The outfits of the enemies were too good to be a mere raid by bandits.
Bolgang also thought of that, ordered an escort to capture two or three enemies alive, interrogate them, and find out the identity of the culprit who led the raid.
“It is said that the 3rd peddler led the raid.”
“Why?”
“It looks like Sangdanju will get a fatal disease and a new Sangdanju will be selected, but Bolgang is the husband of Sangsanju’s younger sister, so it’s the most likely, so I think he tried to kill him before he can be officially selected as Sangsanju.”
“Indeed. It’s a common thing.”
“Isn’t it?”
For Chester and Monia, who have lived in an aristocratic world where children kill their parents out of jealousy, and parents kill their children out of suspicion, it was no surprise that they would try to kill a person just because they might end up like this. .
“Right, Bolgang commissioned us?”
“Request?”
“I think Urgo heard that we were doing mercenary work.”
“I see. What is the request?”
“I want you to kill the third peddler. He’ll give us the horse for an advance payment, and we’ll give you more money when you kill him and bring back the evidence.”
“Speak. Not bad. You need a horse to travel far. Monia, can you ride a horse?”
“…… I can walk, but I can’t run…….”
“Then let’s take this opportunity to get married.”
* * *
When Chester came to his carriage, Bolgang, who was eating his meal, greeted him warmly.
Chester tried to come with Monia, but Monia stayed in her carriage, saying she would rather eat fruit than that. By now she should be messing around with fruit.
“Hey! As expected, he is the hero Urgo-san introduced! Your skills are truly amazing! Thank you, Mr. Chester, we would all be dead!”
Bolgang said that and handed over his money bag.
“This is a small amount, but it is a reward for saving us.”
Chester nodded and opened his purse to see what was inside.
A few crumpled silver coins and a shiny gold coin.
I don’t know how valuable gold coins can be on this continent, but Chester guessed that hiding a gold coin inside a silver coin was his intention to accept his request, so he took his pocket without saying anything.
“Then shall we go into the quest?”
When Chester started talking about the request right away, Bolgang smiled broadly and opened the map. It was a map depicting the movement route of the 3rd Merchant Corps.
“It’s nice that the story is fast! I’m sure you’ve heard about it, but what I’d like to ask of you is the 3rd peddling leader… So, the death of an off child.”
“By the way, couldn’t it be that the assailants were lying? You can lie that the 1st peddler ordered it, but the 3rd did it.”
“Oh, that’s not it.”
“Why?”
Bolgang shrugged his shoulders with a face that didn’t matter.
“The first peddling leader is my wife. I figured it out because they lied that the 1st peddler ordered it.”
“Ah….”
Although his wife sees that he can stab as much as his husband, etc., Chester passed on the idea that he only needed to complete his request and receive the request.
The truth was not that important.
“There will be an error of a few days, but the off guy is probably wandering around here.”
As Bolgang said, he raised his quill and lightly marked a specific section on the map.
“This is where we are right now. After going down from this mountain and going across the forest, you will find a road. If you follow that road all the way east, you will find it.”
Chester quickly memorized the map while listening to the explanation. On the other hand, when Bolgang saw Chester, who knew how to read a map and listened to directions, he passed without saying anything, and thought that he was also a fairly well-educated person.
I don’t know why such a person would work as a mercenary, but just as Chester only needed to complete the request and receive the money regardless of the truth, Bolgang also had no intention of knowing Chester’s situation deeply.
He would have cared after being introduced to Urgo when he was thinking of taking Chester into his arms, but not now.
‘I’m the type of person who gets sick after eating.’
People have bowls.
Sometimes, there are times when a person with a smaller bowl recklessly tries to swallow a person with a larger bowl than himself.
Usually you will fail, but if you are really lucky and succeed in swallowing a huge bowl, at that moment the small bowl will break and the road to downfall begins. That was how he embraced a huge vessel he could not handle, a person with an extraordinary destiny.
Urgo was a simple blood of a hero, so Bolgang didn’t worry too much. It’s Bolgang’s own vessel, anyway, if it’s a vessel from the Golden Thrush’s guild, it can easily hold Urgo.
However, it was quite a burden to embrace Chester, who showed many mysterious aspects. Even food that looks fine on the outside cannot be known if the inside is bad unless you open it. Bolgang didn’t want to get sick.
“Then, let’s leave immediately in the morning. I’ll pay for it, so can you properly prepare for the trip?”
When Chester, who even listened to Op’s impression, said that, Bolgang was taken aback.
“Well, why don’t you stay with me at least until we go down the mountain?”
“No. I feel comfortable handling everything right away. Are you ready to say anything to us?”
“Oh, yes! I prepared with strong guys. Please follow me.”
Chester, guided by Bolgang and introduced to two of the reserve horses, examined the condition of the horses. His eyes were clear, his fur was shiny, and his gestures were strong, which was a healthy and good word.
He was young, and he hadn’t worked as a peddler for a long time, so he was strong with no damage anywhere. In addition, the docile-looking thing seemed to follow people well.
“Right, right. They are good guys.”
“These bastards are betraying?!”
On the other hand, Bolgang was born with the lineage of a famous horse and bought it at a high price, but when the guys who didn’t listen to him fawned over Chester, his cheeks shook with a sense of betrayal.
“… ….”
“… ….”
“Would you pay a little more for the request?”
“Hey, hehehe! Ah yes. Great.”
On the other hand, the horses were glaring at Bolgang, trembling with a sense of betrayal.
Why are you selling us to these monsters!
The horses could feel.
That Chester was an absolute predator far stronger than they were, and at the same time, they didn’t value themselves so much that they would kill them.
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The two clever beasts meekly bowed their heads to Chester.
And after a while, the two men and women got on their horses and left the peddlers and started to run along the road in the mountains.