My Villains Chapter 538
68. Traveling to the Royal Road (11)
Empty.
A heavy knocking sound that seemed to come from far away. I rubbed my heavy eyelids while narrowing my brows.
“Oh, it’s cold.”
I tried to get up under the thick cotton blanket, but the cold air pushed my body back into place.
The cold air wakes up the senses first, and the hazy mind becomes clear as well.
“Oooh.”
The bundle that was held on the chest as if clinging to it is also staring at its unfocused eyes. Perhaps because of the cold that seeped into the blanket, he wriggled and clung closer to me.
The warm body temperature, the subtle fruity scent, and the soft texture of the skin fill your arms. With a habitual play of hands, I ran a long sweep down his back along his spine to his hips. I can feel the thin but elastic muscles tightening slightly.
When the body full of blood reacted immediately to the subtle pleasure, Mogchi noticed this and laughed hehehe with a face that was not awake from sleep.
“it’s warm.”
“I’m dying of cold.”
I pressed my lips together and moderately pushed the guy who was sticking to me even more persistently. Now I see that the coal stove at my feet has long since gone cold.
empty.
“Lord. Did you cough?”
A whisper came through the thick wooden door. It was so small that I couldn’t hear it if I wasn’t careful, but thanks to my hearing, which became sharper by the day, I was able to recognize it as Cole’s voice.
“wait. leave now.”
The clumps held tight to my chest like a lazy sloth. And when I jumped up for a moment, I quickly hid under the covers, perhaps surprised by the cold air that touched my bare skin.
When I looked at it while putting on my pants, even the embers of the bronze stove had faded. It seems that the fire went out quickly because they used low-quality peat.
He picked up an earthenware bowl beside him, poured some coal chips into the stove, and took an ignition tool from a wooden box on the table. The horseshoe-shaped bush and the flint collided, and a series of sparks flew, and the unraveled rope caught fire. First, the candles are lit and then the kindling is poured into the stove, but the cold pieces of coal seldom hold fire.
“Sir-”
Even though I have acquired a superhuman body, a body that cannot be compared to even most monsters, there are still things I cannot avoid. Thirst, hunger, and cold.
Strictly speaking, thirst and hunger were more severe than before. The amount of water and food consumed increased enormously in return for gaining strength, physical strength, and durability that were dozens of times greater than that of ordinary humans.
Of course, in terms of fuel economy, it can be said that it boasts an excellent level of economy, but seeing myself eating 20 kilos of meat a day only made me feel guilty.
In this context, suffering from the cold is a bit better. The resistance to cold that dwells in a strong body made it feel refreshing even if you swim in an icy lake in the middle of winter.
But that is only when the mind is ready to some degree. Immediately after waking up, if an unexpected chill penetrates under the chin, no matter how much I do, my shoulders will shrink and my teeth will chatter.
“Your child is annoying.”
I used a few handfuls of gumbul, but the stove hardly caught fire.
It is the moment when you miss the boiler that warms the whole room with just a turn of the dial.
As I recall the Earth’s science and technology, I turned my eyes towards the bed without even realizing it. Isn’t there magic instead of advanced science and technology in this world?
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A pile of round blankets occupied a corner of the wide bed. Inside it, Ellen, who is curled up like a baby kangaroo, can instantly warm up the room with just one word.
…a done. There is no need to scrape it and make it a boil.
What if you wake up to turn on the stove and find a bunch of people like you, naked and only wrapped in a blanket? It’s obvious that you’ll be tired in the morning.
Of course, raids by gangsters have always happened over the past two years. It was once or twice that the person I had slept with had penetrated the room with a level of stealth and enjoyed a thrilling game around the time of falling asleep.
However, the post-processing was not always perfect, so the tail was stepped on several times. I’ve even been caught doing it a few times.
Atalantea laughed incredulously and then went back to sleep or naturally joined the play, and in the case of Tiloria, it was over after a few sword strikes. I’ve never been caught by Heila in the first place.
Ellen’s reaction, on the other hand, was so severe that the building almost collapsed as she fired fireballs into the room and beyond. After that, it seems that it took more than a week to calm down the guy’s anger.
After thinking about other things and continuing to hit the bush, the stove finally caught fire. However, to put that effort to shame, the body that had fully awakened had already adapted to the cold air that permeated the cabin.
“What’s going on since dawn?”
tadak.
As I carefully opened the door and looked out, Cole, Steedman, and several other subordinates nodded and bowed. When I waved my hand roughly in return, Steedman whispered with a mocking laugh.
“My lord, it’s the puppet dawn. It’s time to eat soon.”
” already?”
As he said, the soft morning sun was beating down on the corridor visible through the cracks in the door. Considering it wasn’t even mid-February yet, it wasn’t that early.
“I would like to report on the mission given yesterday and confirm the policy. I was going to wait until he coughed, but he ordered me to finish the city work within today.” “
So, how did the work go?”
Cole and Steedman’s mission was to close the harbor and gates, gather troops, and weed out the impure elements in the city.
Seeing that the night had been peaceful, I was just thinking that it would have ended without a big deal, but I came here to make a report.
“As your lord commanded, we used the authority of the enemy to take control of the troops and closed the gates and ports. There were many people who were not compliant, but there was no organized resistance, probably because all the leaders, whether nude or gellan, were confined to the lord’s castle.”
“Did you catch all the thugs and soldiers?”
“I got most of them.”
” mostly?”
“There are about twenty-four people who lost their lives while resisting sporadically. Also, despite the blockade of the port, there were many people who tried to escape from the anchorage. We chased and caught most of them, but lost a few by jumping into the sea.”
“I can’t help it that much… Seriously, what am I doing to run away like that?”
The military forces stationed in Proshafen—the City Guard, the Gate Guard, and the Harbor Guard—were temporarily disbanded during the Blade Bay War, but were resurrected by Atalanta.
In other words, it means that the members, whether they are Gellans or Nudes, are the ones with whom my name is familiar. It is not clear whether the points that appeal to them are the specialty accumulated in the war with only the blade, the title of ‘Hunapi’, or the authority of the neighboring great lord.
Thanks to that, the nearly 2,000-strong city garrison willingly obeyed the orders of the knights who borrowed my authority.
I don’t know how the misunderstanding spread, but there were quite a few soldiers who cheered as if I was sitting on the lord’s throne.
The Gellans thought that if it wasn’t for the Nudans, whoever the ruler would be better than now. The Nudins were in the position that it was a problem for me, who was Atalanta’s mate, to rule the city for a while.
“…What kind of bullshit is that? Before you spread rumors, say you’ll never do that. I’ll get caught up in nothing.”
“yes. I will convey the will of the lord to the commanders and guards. And there have been requests from some merchants to open the ports and gates once all the catchable ones have been caught.”
“If anyone hears the damn thing, they’ll think it was sealed off for about a month. Please wait one more day.”
In the midst of the situation, there were also unexpected helpers, none other than Proshafen’s harbor garrison captain Gottrop and Count Ines’ staff Fogan.
“Oh right. Were there gothrops and fogans? Where are you now?”
“I thought you might find it, so I brought it here.”
Gotthrop was originally a sergeant in the Proshafen Harbor Guards, and was taken prisoner during the War of Bladesman. And by chance, he became the representative or commander of the surrendered soldiers and helped me until the end of the war.
After the war, despite my persuasion, he insisted on returning to Proshafen, and eventually, thanks to Atalanta’s favor, he was given the important position of captain of Proshafen’s harbor defense.
A Fogan is a vassal of the Milgrester family, and is the one who oversees the family bases and trading posts established in Proshafen and Eisbowald under the orders of Count Ines.
There are 200 enlisted soldiers in the two cities who are rightly held as they exercise influence by receiving various preferential treatment. Even so, the city has been in chaos lately and I’ve been in a hurry to keep only my base. So he said that as soon as I gave the order through my subordinates, he led the privates and cooperated with the blockade of the city.
“It’s been a while.”
Gottrop and Fogan, who had been guided by the guardsmen as if they had suffered a bit from running around with the soldiers the night before, were clearly exhausted.
“Oh, maybe it’s good. Have you become more ugly?”
“…heh. Nari is still the same.”
“Is that so?”
When I reached out through the crack in the door and asked for a handshake, Gothrop gave me a stunned look at me wearing only one pair of trousers while holding hands.
“To think that even after he ascended to the rank of the prince, he had no formality. The vassals must be quite troublesome.”
“why? Are you glad you ran away?”
“A little bit.”
Cole and Steedman gave cold glances, ‘Are you kidding me?’, but Gothrop didn’t care. They said that the two were knights, but Gotrop was also a person with a high status. It was the attitude that I was the only one he had to pay attention to.
I burst out laughing at his imposing attitude and shook Fogan’s hand.
“You said my kids were indebted to you last night?”
“I don’t care if you’re in debt. If my mighty power was helpful to you, it would be a pleasure for not only me but also the entire Milgrester family.”
“Thank you for saying that. I had another favor to ask of you.”
“yes? For a while ,
he nodded his head slightly as if he remembered the letter I delivered some time ago.
“I can guess what the request is. Could it possibly involve Sir Bran?”
“How did you… oh, did you say Sir Bran came on Milgrester’s liner?”
“Yes, sir. I even went to the pier to meet them.”
Fogan glanced over at my men and gothrops who had gathered around him, then lowered his head.
“The urgent thing right now seems to be a matter of the city, so I, an outsider, will step back, sir. See you again in the evening.” After receiving my permission, the Fogans
went downstairs, and the remaining Gottrops hesitated, as if they had something to say.
It didn’t look like he came to say hello or say hello. Leaning my shoulder against the door frame, I silently looked down at him and tilted my head.
“Why? If you have something to say, say it.”
“I think it’s…
“what’s that?”
“I heard that the city council is being formed in the lord castle.” “City Council?” When I looked back at Cole with a questionable look, he came up to me and whispered in my ear.
“Didn’t you order the Nudan elders and Gellan influential people to review the way of governing? It seems that they have taken a strand towards forming a city council.”
“okay?”
In fact, the organization of the Nouveau community that occupied the lord’s castle in the first place was no different from a council centered on the elders. There is nothing strange about creating a council with the Gellans included.
“But why?”
“I have heard of those entering as representatives of the Gelans. Imon is the head of the Huck family who has ruled this region for a long time. All of them are wild beasts that are no different from nudes.”
I could guess what Gotthrop wanted before he even finished speaking.
“You want to be a member of the City Council?”
“yes? uh me.”
“no’?”
“that is. As you know, I am a military officer who has served in Proshafen for nearly ten years. I don’t have much, but I risked my life several times for this province and city, and even for a short time, I put my body under your Excellency-”
“Ai-san, your words are getting longer again. You want to join the City Council, right?”
As he moved his lips silently, I frowned and annoyed.
“Just answer yes or no.”
“Yes yes. you’re right. I have to be a member of the City Council.”
“Yes, I understand. I’m going to sleep better, so go away.”
“yes?”
I nodded at Steedman.
“Follow him to the lord castle. If you tell Fritz that bastard, he will sort things out on his own.”
Realizing that he had just won a seat on the city council in Proshafen, Gotthrop opened his mouth slightly.
