Episode 102
Episode 45. Fishing (2)
Varys came to his senses in agony as if his entire face would be torn off.
As soon as I opened my eyes, I jumped up and felt dizzy. His eyesight was shaking and blood was still flowing from his swollen mouth.
He did not die thanks to the hard body of the Sodmaster, which was incomparable to that of ordinary people. But it was better to die.
‘Keugh! What does this mean!’
If you show this to the people who work at Hwangseong, it will cause an uproar.
To think that the royal family guard was beaten up in a mountain behind the imperial castle and left in a state of disrepair.
The Empress will immediately summon the Knights of the Royal Guard to investigate the incident.
Varis came down the back mountain first.
It was fortunate that the sentry duty was eliminated today. Because no one would be able to see Varys wearing golden armor as a knight of the Imperial Guard riding the drainage pipe.
All sorts of filth, including food and excrement, clung to Varys’ body.
I will definitely find them and kill them. My teeth were so broken that I couldn’t clench them.
‘Tooth fairy •… son of a bitch!’
It was a voice I heard in the middle of my mind.
– Who is the tooth fairy?
Varys wasn’t sure if it was Yuma’s voice or if it was just a man’s voice he had heard for the first time.
It was strange.
If kidnapping Zishka had been the goal, it would have been better to kill himself.
However, they kidnapped the princess and left, giving only violence and humiliation as if they were trying to fool her.
What do you mean? My mind was confused and dizzy.
Varys rode the drainage pipe and moved to Winslting’s outbuilding. I had to tell Winslting about the current situation right away. The filth seeped into the wound and the poison rose.
But on the way, someone was standing.
“Who is there!?”
It was an old janitor who was repairing a drainage pipe.
Without hesitation, Varys thrust the sword into his stomach and threw the corpse into the sewage gushing from below.
No one would care about the death of this old commoner. Moreover, handling the wastewater of the imperial castle was a labor imposed instead of imprisonment for commoners who had sinned.
Varys continued moving, leaving behind the body of the caretaker washed away by the sewage.
After running through the drainage pipe for about an hour, he was able to come up to an artificial pond far away from the outbuilding.
After roughly washing his body and armor there, he was able to meet Winslting without much suspicion from the gatekeepers.
The gatekeepers simply clicked their tongues, joking among themselves about the terrible smell as Varys entered.
“Varis, how did you end up like that?”
said Winslting, ordering the servants to prepare the bath water and call the doctor.
As soon as he saw Barris take off his helmet, he knew something was wrong.
“I was attacked by unknown assailants in the mountain behind the imperial castle. Archduke Zishka lower rank has been kidnapped.”
“What what? Who the hell would do that?”
“I couldn’t see his face because he was wearing a camouflage suit. It was two guys.”
“Are you saying that someone as talented as you got hit without even using a hand?”
“Indeed, I’m sorry…”
“Ha, no. It can’t be helped because it’s a variable that no one expected. My eldest daughter is caught up in horseback riding until the very end. Is there anyone who can guess?”
“Yuma… I think it might be that commoner. Because he knows Joachim’s business. We have to catch him first.”
“First, treat your wounds and wash your body. I have to do something before my wife finds out about this. A measure that will keep us safe.”
Zishka knows too much. Not only the body was captured, but the new plan written by Bar Reese also fell into the hands of the assailants.
It was terrifying to imagine what they would do with Zishka’s recruits and plans. Winslting’s and Hayes’ names are missing, but Barris’ handwriting remains.
Of course, the emperor will set up a special investigation team to find out what happened to Varys, and in the process, it will be revealed that he had frequent meetings with Winslting and Hayes.
In that case, Wonstelting and Hayes could not avoid a strong pressure investigation even if there were no charges.
It was because there was a problem with the imperial princess before the treason written in the plan.
I didn’t know if I could somehow finish the situation by catching Baris and executing only Barris.
However, this is Hwangseong.
It was a place where people who turned on the light in their eyes and grabbed and released the ropes of power were the most infested in the world. It is unknown what other variables may arise in the investigation process.
Winsting immediately called Hayes. Heize, who heard of the situation, sighed and touched his forehead.
“Sir Hayes, release the garrison immediately and secure Yuma’s recruits.
Get people you trust to track Zishka’s whereabouts as well. We have to do
something… something before she finds out .”
“All right. But that commoner is now difficult to capture without any reason.”
“If he is the culprit, there must be some evidence. For whatever reason, bring it and bring it!”
Meanwhile, Yuma and Duran were busy fishing with Zishka on the wagon.
In addition to the fat fish in Bile Lake in autumn, saltwater fish were often caught.
“Oh disciple. Look at this. It’s a month chuck.”
A large vail carp, about half the size of Duran’s forearm, was dangling from the fishing line. It had been a long time since both of them had been fishing.
In particular, Duran, a great aristocrat of the Empire, had little to do with fishing since he was born. Only once in a while on the battlefield, when fish were pulled, they caught and ate them.
Even then, it was rare to catch fish in the normal way using a fishing rod.
It was Duran’s style to steal a spear from a passing soldier and stab a fish with the great sense of a superman.
“Haha, won’t the meat spoil if you do that? It’s better to catch it as cleanly as possible and eat it raw or grilled.”
“It’s all the same once you get into the stomach, right?”
For him, a superman, fishing rods were an inefficient means in many ways. In the case of a small pond, there was also a way to stun the entire fish by blowing an aura wave to make it float.
Normal fishing, which he had been doing for a long time, was giving him an unfamiliar pleasure.
In Lake Bile, only the two of them were enjoying fishing.
There weren’t that many fishermen in the capital. Rather than fishing like this, it was because it was more profitable to buy fish imported from all over the world and sell them in the market.
“Is this worth doing sometimes?
“It has a strange taste. It’s the feeling you get when a fish touches a hook with its snout, and it’s the taste of adjusting the force so that the stem doesn’t break or the thread breaks… It’s fun.”
“Most ordinary people, including commoners like me, receive a lot of comfort from these small pleasures.
There must be many things I can tell you about fishing.”
Even Duran Jacques of the world could not be more skilled at fishing than Yuma, who spent his childhood in the fishing village of Ferrol.
Yuma taught the master the basics of fishing and various expedients, and piled the caught fish in the wagon.
It was originally a wagon filled with meat in advance. No one in the world would think that the back of this full fish would contain a cloth sack containing the first princess of the empire.
Left-!
Yuma lifted the fishing rod that had been bitten. A fish a little smaller than a fist was caught.
“Hmm, it’s small.”
“Such a young fish is like this…
Yuma carefully removed the hook so as not to tear the fish’s snout.
“The needle is pulled out and released again so as not to get hurt. If you are young, you have the right to live longer.”
Fondant.
Yuma neatly removed the needle from the fish’s snout and threw it back into the water. The fish twisted and bounced for a moment, then ran away.
“That’s right. I don’t tend to stop soldiers from doing what they do to the women of defeated countries on the battlefield, but those who harm children will always be severely punished.”
This time, Duran raised the fishing rod.
It was a ‘red gill’ classified as a vicious species that destroys the ecosystem.
Redgill was a fish that was bred by the eggs buried in the body of an orc or troll that had escaped from a demon cave and spread to the human world.
“What is this nasty-looking fish? It is big.”
Red Gill had red spots on its black body like a grotesque pattern, and its teeth were very sharp.
“Red Gill is a meat that is very enemy to the people of the fishing village.
It’s a fish from the demon realm. They eat young fish or the eggs of other fish. It also pollutes the water quality.”
“Does it taste good?”
“It’s because it’s a demonic fish. I can’t eat it because it’s poisonous. Well, people like Master and I won’t get sick if we eat. Redgill sometimes bites and kills children playing at the water’s edge. Give it to me.”
Duran frowned and grabbed the fishing line and passed the red road to Duran.
“This guy rips out the needle like this.”
Tuduk!
When Yuma pulled the needle, Red Gill’s snout was ripped off. Redgill struggled in Yuma’s grip, bleeding black.
“Can you bleed black blood? This is proof that he is a fish from the Demon World.”
Yuma threw Redgill, who struggled with his muzzle ripped off, far into the lake.
“Why are you letting that bastard go?”
“If you tear off the snout and release it, the other Redgills who smell the blood of their own people will gather there. To devour blood-thirsty people. Then, a group of mountain falcons out hunting snatch the ones that are good for eating.”
“There is not a single fish in the world of Heo that is not damn good. The mountain falcons’ hunting has its subtle corners.”
“And the snout left on the needle can be used as bait.
If you’re lucky, you might even catch a dragon turtle. Just like how we assaulted and released Barris now.”
“So Winsting and Haze are dragon turtles.”
“Yes. Do you know? Dragon turtle is a food that nobles eat on special occasions.”
“My family buys and eats when they are bored. what and how much do you do?”
“It’s because I’m going to Zach. After catching one dragon turtle, fishermen can take a month off.
It’s a jackpot next to whales.”
Around that time, a knight on horseback and several guards were running towards Yuma and Duran from afar.
“You are here.”
“As you said, they are really coming. I mean it’s amazing How could you even expect that?”
“This is an estimate anyone can make. After an emergency, the first person Winslting and his gang want to tease is a dangerous commoner like me.”
The two stopped talking and looked in the direction of the garrison.
Heize’s instructions were that if he found Yuma, he would force her to bring her first. It was because he presented the cause of receiving additional statements about the last gateway terrorism.
But the garrison couldn’t do that. It was because, of all things, the person fishing with Yuma with a calm face was Duran Jacques.
“What’s going on?”
“It is an honor to meet you, Lord Duran!”
The garrison knight got off his horse and got down on one knee. Then all the garrison officers and knights dismounted and followed suit.
The garrison had a premonition as soon as they saw the two in person. That it was wrong to take him away, and that it would be their afternoon routine to be crushed by Heize.
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