138 – Horse Mistake
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A porter trudging along against the background of the setting sun hiding over the horizon.
“Huh…”
Like the owner who made the sound of pain, his body was also screaming.
‘At that time, I could not have thought that the upper body, which had not been trimmed, would be tightened like this….’
The promise to pick me up was overshadowed, but I ended up leaving work with Sonia.
“Sorry… It’s just because of me…”
Sonia apologizes with her hands neatly together.
It just felt strange to see it again.
‘Is this the fiery filial daughter Sonia I know?’
To think he was so calm with his rugged personality.
“You…”
Feeling uncomfortable, I stopped walking and pushed his face closer.
“Wait a minute! Here?!”
Embarrassed, she looked around and muttered, “There aren’t many people here,” She muttered.
Eyebrows trembling little by little, and cherry-like lips that greeted them as if in anticipation.
I opened my mouth after staring at that face.
“You’re not the Sonia I know, are you?”
Flinch.
Her eyebrows fluctuated in an instant.
“As expected, it was a doppelganger…! Where did you hide our Sonia! Tell me quickly…!”
“Hey.”
Awkward.
She grabs my collar and stretches out her arms to lift her up.
Her feet are floating, and the thrilling height difference of about one head has now doubled.
“Now, it’s a joke, it’s a joke…! Surrender! Hangbo-jak!”
I hit her tab with her urgent hand and she finally put it down.
I’m sure the Sonia I know.
“Heo-euk…! Heo-euk…”
She caught her breath for a moment when she heard a displeased voice.
“For some reason, it was on your side.”
She may have expected it, but she also felt regret.
“Hey.”
“That, please do that one more time…
Is that so? What is that?
“Doppelganger…?”
“…Not that.”
I was taken aback by her cool expression on her momentary return, but she said with her back blushing.
“Ooh, that’s what we called Sonia…”
Sonia covered her face with her hands as if she was ashamed to even think of herself.
Are you saying that he still has girlish sensibilities?
“My Sonia?”
Woe.
She goes over her face and heats up to her ears.
Oh my god.
I guessed that it was a rare opportunity like a sparrow cannot pass by a mill, and I raised the corner of her mouth.
“My Sonia, are you shy right now? Why? Why is my Sonia like this?”
“This… Profit…!”
She stared at me fiercely and shook me, but she didn’t tell me to stop.
This is kind of funny.
She was teasing her for a while, then suddenly she grabbed my hand.
Are you too lazy?
Although she regretted not being able to control her line, she prepared for the punishment to come.
-Trumbling.
Sonia holding my hand and heading somewhere.
“Wait a minute, it’s not this side of your house…”
“I know. Just follow me in silence.”
“Where the hell are you dragging me…”
“I’m going to buy some groceries before I go.”
Chang?
***
“Hmm…”
Sonia was examining the two pieces of meat.
“This please.”
“The driver also has a good eye for meat. Here, I put some more, so come next time.”
“Thank you.”
Unexpectedly, the intestines look sharp.
I was quite surprised by her unusual appearance, and her eyes turned to mine, as if she had noticed my gaze.
“…Why are you staring at me like that?”
“Just a little unexpected.”
“What?”
“I thought I was just going to live a moderately rough life. But I thought I’d check it out pretty carefully.”
Then Sonia narrowed her eyes and glared at me.
“What do you see me as…”
“When it’s time to eat, I think I’ll ask Linda for a meal… You know it’s a joke, right?”
She looked at her arm receding and she changed her words hurriedly.
“I know how to cook, too, right?”
“Really?”
“That’s because my mom always told me to take bridal lessons and stir-fried them…”
She talked with a tired expression, but gradually changed to a smile.
“But these days, I feel like I’ve done well, don’t I?”
“….”
I can guess why.
“You have to eat evenly. I’m going to buy vegetables next time. Follow me.”
Tup.
Now she naturally takes her hand.
She thought as he held her hand and dragged her around.
Is this okay?
Is this kind of attitude really helping her?
But she didn’t come to a conclusion until she finished shopping.
“I bought onions, I bought meat, butter and… I bought everything. Let’s go now.”
-Tak.
Ah.
Unbeknownst to me, I cut off her hand.
“….”
“….”
She was silent for a moment, then opened her mouth in a bright voice.
“I’m sorry. I must have been too excited. I won’t hold your hand, so let’s go.”
She talks as if nothing is wrong.
But that’s just squeezing out her bright voice, what’s inside.
Gasp.
“Come with me.”
I pulled her hand and she resisted.
“Wait!”
There was anxiety in the voice he shouted urgently.
“Can I not go…?”
Flickering lips and a broken expression.
It seems there is a misunderstanding.
For example, a clear refusal.
“…It’s not like that.”
“That’s right… No matter how you think about it, this is…”
It’s hard.
She reassured her by putting her pod in her hand.
“I’m going to buy something. Why are you doing that?”
Meow.
Her gaze is only fixed on her hand.
Looks like you can’t hear me.
As soon as I put her arms around her, she followed me obediently.
She looked back for a moment and saw that her ears were rosy red.
***
– KANG! Kang!
With the hot heat, a loud sound hit my ears.
“Why are you here!”
Sonia, who was covering her ears with her hands, shouted at me.
I’m not particularly angry, and if you don’t say that, you won’t hear it right next to you.
She took her to her smithy.
“The door was broken!”
At the time the warrior party arrested me, she broke the door and entered, so her house is currently in a state where the door is not locked.
I don’t know right now, but if I leave it as it is, it will cause trouble, so I stopped by to buy repair materials.
I shouted at the man who could be the source of the noise.
“Hey!”
– KANG! Kang!
“Hey there!”
“Huh?”
The man who was eager to hit the iron with his back turned belatedly looked back to see if he had heard my voice.
“You…!”
A man who looked at me and made a surprised expression.
“You were then…”
And that was no different than me.
A blacksmith slave I met at the thieves’ hideout.
Because it was that man.
He took off his thick gloves and wiped his hands on the blacksmith’s apron before coming to me and holding his hand.
“Porter!”
His surprised expression soon turned into emotion.
“Thank you so much for saving me that day…!”
The empire is very small. I never thought I’d meet you in a place like this
“No. By the way, we all meet in places like this.”
“Originally, I worked in the capital city. I was caught while on a business trip to the south, so stop… I was worried because you didn’t see me after you told me where the carriage was.”
In the middle of meeting an unexpected relationship and having a conversation. I felt something poked at me from the side.
“Do you know someone?”
Sonia asking me.
“This way…”
“Oh hey…”
“Your wife was a driver. Somehow, she couldn’t pass us by.”
“Wow, wife…!”
“That’s not it, we…”
A man who puts on an expression as if he realized something immediately after I denied it.
“Oh, I didn’t notice this. I’m sorry.”
Yes. If you go somewhere and talk about that, it’ll be a big deal….
“I didn’t know that they were newlyweds, not just a married couple. The difference between the two is stark, but I made a mistake. hahahaha.”
“….”
“Newlyweds….”
Sonia muttered something with her face dyed red like a furnace.
When will his face color return?
“Rather than that, I’m here to buy some doorknobs. Do you have any with latches?”
“A doorknob? Wait a minute. Where did I put it…”
After searching for a long time on the shelf in the back, the man returned with a dark lump of metal in his hand.
“This is the only thing I’ve made right now… I could make a new one, is that okay?”
I accepted the doorknob that the man held out and turned around.
It must have been made of cast iron, so it was very strong, and the build quality was good, so it seems that the blacksmith is quite skilled.
“I’ll just do this. And I’ll need some plywood and some nails…”
“Of course I have to take care of it.”
He went to where he had just been working and returned with two sheets of plywood and a handful of nails.
You don’t have to worry about quality. Because there’s nothing better than what you’ve been using for your work.
“I will drill a hole for the plywood according to the doorknob.”
“Then that’s fine with me.”
As expected, people should live by doing good deeds.
Because I live kindly, I receive all these services.
Sonia asked as the man took the doorknob and the plywood to the workshop.
“You saved me? What do you mean by that?”
Is this time to tell you about my brilliant achievements?
“I’ve been caught by thieves before. He was one of the people I rescued while escaping, and I thought he was cool… Huh?”
I looked back at the gaze I felt while talking.
“Have you been captured by thieves…?”
Sonia asked with a serious face.
What is it? What did i do wrong?
“That’s it…”
Gasp.
“Why did you get caught! There are party members next to you! But why…!”
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“Wait, calm down! So what happened…”
“Take it easy and sleep! Why do you, a porter, do such a dangerous thing!”
“….”
“I want to go too.”
“What…?”
“I’m kind of nervous. I’ll have to follow him, I can’t.”
No, I’m going to get off at this station, so follow me.
“It’s done. Take it as it is…”
“Hey there.”
“Yes?”
Sonia speaks to the man who has returned.
“Isn’t it dangerous or something when you’re captured by those bandits?”
-Gulp.
A man who intuitively sensed something unusual from the changed atmosphere and tone.
She shook her head vigorously from behind Sonia at such a man without her knowledge.
“That, it can’t be! That’s what it is. Actually, what happened…”
A glance.
As his eyes turned to me, he said with a mouthful of words.
“This, hostages! They weren’t taken, they were infiltrated under the pretext of taking hostages…! Everything went as planned!”
“But why did he take the hostage?
“I-I don’t know? That’s me too…”
“Hmm…”
Gulp.
As the two men swallowed nervously, her mouth opened.
“Then I’m glad.”
“Haa…”
“Whew…”
At the same time, the two men let out a sigh of relief.
I wanted to hurry up and pay the bill and leave this seat.
“Let’s quickly pay the bill and go. He’s still working, but we can’t interrupt him. How much is all of it?”
“You’re a lifesaver, but what about the money?”
“Because he’s going to use it. If you carelessly accept something like this, just accept it because it’s a bribe.”
“This is won. I can’t help it. One silver coin, please.”
“Wait a minute, the money is mine…”
“Okay. I’ll pay.”
“Why did you…”
“You said you were going to feed me?”
“Huh? Uh uh… I did…”
“Then put it away.”
I pushed her away and took out her coin purse from her thalia and picked up her silver coin and handed it to her man.
Chuck.
She turned and raised her thumb towards him who handed over the crisis.
Chuck.
He gave me the thumbs up too.
After the two men show trust between men by punching each other.
“Huh?”
A man whose eyes widened at the sight of a gold coin stacked under a silver coin.
“This is true. Next time you come, we’ll treat you well.”
This time, in reverse, it was a return for saving himself.