Episode 4 Episode
3. Assault on a driver (1)
When Mero and Haka entered the fish shop shoulder to shoulder, Keiji expressed his displeasure.
“Haha Kage. Bring me some snacks and drinks here. The store is busy!
When you’re done, sit down and eat with me.”
Cage was beaten by Marlon and his face was swollen. Haka cleared his throat and sat down.
“This fish shop is also very old…. In the past, I often hung out with the village girls here. I won’t even be able to look at it anymore.”
Drinking the first beer, Mero again began to tell tales of heroism and bravado.
Haka, who had come to match Mero’s mood anyway, was meant to make an appropriate match.
‘Consistency is the best in the empire.
Don’t call me a knight like this.’
Hakka choked on beer and laughed. Of course, I didn’t know that Cage had spit in the beer.
“The beer is very cold and delicious.
I’m sorry about Cage’s son. I will pay for the treatment.”
Cage did not answer and silently grilled the fish.
“Hey, what are you doing, Keiji? That’s why you couldn’t get out of this village. haha hot! Isn’t it?”
As if having fun, Mero gulped down the beer without stopping.
As Maria brought out the finished fish, Mero looked her up and down curiously.
“What is your name?”
“This is Maria.”
“Huh… Keiji, did you have a daughter?”
“She is an employee, not a daughter.”
“That’s right.”
Mero looked at Maria openly, as if watching a strange and pretty animal.
If the gaze had any physical force, it would pierce her.
Embarrassed, Maria tried to return to her place, but Mero grabbed her by the wrist.
“Even among villagers, there are often children like this. You look very pretty.”
Hakka, who suddenly lost his taste for alcohol, scratched his head. Mero licked his lips and stroked the back of Maria’s hand.
“Sit here.”
“sorry. I have a backlog of things to do.”
“What to do? Why is the store so empty? hey!
Is the store so busy that Keiji can’t even sit here?”
“He has to go to the market now.”
bang!
Mero hit the table.
“Keiji, are you in a position to speak casually with me? You’ve been annoying me since before. Do you still see me as the Mero who played with you as a child?”
“No no…
Cage, who blushed in an instant, lowered his head.
Maria was very nervous and trembling. She was only a year older than Yuma and Marlon. Like Yuma, she was also a war orphan.
“Sit down and pour yourself a drink. Cage will go to the mayor.”
Taking out a silver coin from her bosom, Mero said. One silver coin was Maria’s wages for a week. Terrified, Maria looked only at Haka, as if begging for help.
Haka fixed her eyes on the grilled fish on the table with a stiff expression.
Forcing Maria to sit down and Mero giggling, Keiji glared at Haka.
It was for this reason that he hated Ha Ka to the point of cursing, even in front of Malone’s ears.
A few years ago, when Keiji’s wife was beaten by a nobleman for having bad eyesight, Keiji went to Haka to ask for help.
-Since you lived as a soldier, there must be nobles who know! Speak to me please!
– I’m sorry, Cage. I guess I can’t help
Haka couldn’t help it. In a situation where he couldn’t even protect his own wife, there was no way he could protect someone else’s wife.
He was once a well-known swordsman, but the reason he turned down many knight offers and chose the life of a villager was because he was tired.
However, it was out of his expectation that he would see such a dirty sight even in a fishing village at the edge of the empire.
“ha ha ha! It tastes like alcohol.”
Mero naturally put her arm around Maria’s waist.
“Don’t do this!”
“What am I saying?”
Haka just wanted this terrible time to pass quickly. I even thought that Mero, no matter how trashy he was, would never take a seventeen-year-old girl to bed.
“What are your parents doing?”
“He also passed away. In the last war.”
“Huh… A war orphan. Look at just one kid like this. Is there anything you would like to have?”
“No, knight.”
“no. there must be something Tell me, why don’t you go pick out with me tonight.”
It was Haka’s mistake to think that the seventeen war orphans would not be taken to the bed.
Mero has been coveting the girl since he was knighted. Some window villages in Hale, the capital, went so far as to prepare a young woman for Mero.
Maria continued to signal Haka for help with her eyes.
“Kyaaak!”
Maria screamed as Mero tried to put her hand on her hip.
“I’m going to go deaf. Why?
You should be used to it.”
Mero was well aware of the reality of war orphaned girls. Compared to boys, girls were much more exposed to bullying and assault.
He never passed by those girls, even on the battlefield.
“That’s true. Does this mean you know how to raise the ransom?”
Mero took out another silver coin and started groping Maria again. Maria bit her lip and didn’t even look at the silver coin.
“Sir Mero, it is still broad daylight. I am afraid that no one will see it.”
Haka tried to pick out the words he had chosen, but to no avail.
“It’s no big deal that a warrior enjoys women’s colors. It’s okay, it’s okay.”
Maria looked like she was about to burst into tears. Haka let out a small sigh with a dark expression on his face.
It was not even a matter of beating the Mero. With a haka, even a bamboo fishing rod built on one side of the fish shop could easily subdue the fully armed Mero.
No, I didn’t even need a fishing rod. Even with bare-handed fighting, it didn’t seem like it would take 5 minutes to make a gruel.
But Haka couldn’t do anything. If he harmed Mero at will, his family, as well as the lives of Cage and Maria, would be in danger.
“Hehe, Cage must have a reason for taking you. Who uses war orphans as employees in the world these days? I didn’t see him like that, but he’s very unscrupulous. What are you doing?
Come on, go to the market or shop. Come slowly, after the business is over. Today, let me pay the charter.”
“Yes…
Cage left the store, wiping his swollen face down. The wooden door of the fish shop creaked.
“You too, stop… huh?”
As soon as the wooden door creaked shut, I heard it open again.
“mister!”
It was Yuma and Marlon who came to the fish shop with smiling faces to take out the haka.
“It’s those little kids.”
Mero cleared his throat.
As soon as Yuma saw the strange scenery inside the fish shop, he grasped the situation.
Mero’s contempt for sexual orientation was a regular snack for noble wives at imperial parties.
Although infinitely incompetent, Mero, who constantly rises and falls in people’s cubicles, was a very great person in some ways.
“Why did you come?”
Haka asked in a cold voice. It was because of Malone’s personality, there was no way I could pass by this even after seeing this.
Sure enough, Marlon was already glaring at Mero as if he were going to kill him.
“Father, did you stay still after seeing this?”
“Your son must have misunderstood something.”
Embarrassed Mero said with a smile. Haka frowned and touched his forehead.
“Did my father just stay there? While that son of a bitch does that to Maria.”
“Heh goon. I thought you had good spirits, but is it just that you don’t have a good temper? I think you should educate your children.”
Yuma began to think about how to overcome this situation.
Returning to 40 years ago, there were no nobles, knights, wizards, or Empress Hela Rose to ask for help.
‘No matter how much Mero is an idiot, he is an official knight. If you mess with an article, you will be executed. It’s interesting from the start.’
Maria finally couldn’t hold it back and started to cry.
Before a drop of freshly flowing tear could even fall to the floor, Marlon wrapped himself in a sword aura and prepared to attack.
“No Marlon!”
“Your uncle is right. Malone put down the sword. I’ll fix it.”
Yuma rushed at Mero in an instant without listening to Marlon’s answer.
At the same time, Haka shouted and tried to stop Yuma using taijutsu.
Haka intended to hit Yuma on the chin with the blade of his hand to knock him out. However, after avoiding Haka’s bare-handed attack, Yuma held out his wooden sword to stab Mero in the neck.
“Cuck!”
Mero managed to duck his head to avoid the blow, but the right side of his neck felt sore as if he had a cramp. If it wasn’t for the plate armor, it would have the power to pierce the throat.
Haka swung his fist to stop it again, but Yuma put a sword aura on his wooden sword and parried the attack with the handle.
Haka let out a low moan and reflexively backed away.
Marlon, whose eyes were turned, also joined in and tried to take down Mero, but Haka blocked it.
“Are you just watching this? Is your father still a soldier?”
Yuma targeted the right arm of Mero, who collapsed with the chair, and struck with a wooden sword.
If it was a wooden sword with a thick sword aura around it, it was enough to cut the plate armor for the decoration.
“Aaaagh!”
Mero screamed and struggled. Because of the alcohol and the weight of the full plate armor, Mero couldn’t even pretend to dodge.
Kang!
“Ahhh! my arms! my arms!”
Thinking that her right arm had been cut off, Mero closed her eyes and made a pig-picking sound.
However, Yuma erased the sword aura right before the wooden sword touched the armor.
It would have been nice to kill him, but cutting off his arm now made it too difficult to make a hole through it.
“Mary, go out right now and visit the young Lord. Tell the lord the details of how you were molested by the knight Mero. will help
Even if you’re scared, hold on tight and go! Do you know the way to the castle of the lord?”
Maria nodded, wiping her tears with her fist.
The fishing village of Ferrol belonged to the estate of Baron Louis.
Baron Louis was a person who spent his whole life as a pro-pleasant faction, but was imprisoned after losing a political battle seven years later.
Yuma decided that Baron Louis would help Maria.
However, the assault on the knights was a different story. It was only possible with at least an elder-level background.
It was an attempted murder, not a simple assault.
Blasphemy Knight Assault Murder Attempted.
It was already quite tiring to make a hole through which to escape.
“Haka protect me somehow!
I will reward you greatly without asking you for guilt! Or you should quit now and ask for my forgiveness! I will unconditionally recommend you as my assistant! Don’t you want to be a knight?”
Mero shouted while Yuma took the sword aura and thought for a moment.
“Shut up a little bit. Because of this, you will never be promoted for the rest of your life.”
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