Episode 56
“Oh hey. Huuuu. You.”
“hmm?”
“Cough. Huh. On the topic of slavery. Huh. Don’t show off.”
“what?”
“No matter how much Confucius cares about it, hehe. Slaves should know the subject. Huuuu.”
The large man started arguing with Viktor with a face that looked like he was going to lose his breath at any moment.
Victor, who was looking at the large man with a puzzled expression, soon turned his head towards Kai.
As soon as Kai sighed and nodded.
Whoops!
Viktor’s fist got stuck in the big man’s stomach.
“…Ahh. Off.”
The huge figure that was instantly folded in half could barely moan.
“Shut up you stinking lump. If you don’t, next time I’ll bend over backwards.”
A low voice echoed clearly around the surroundings.
And the moment Viktor turned his head and looked at the surroundings, Logan burst out laughing at the sight of the trainees all turning their gazes elsewhere.
This one short incident made me confident.
The second reason for bringing Viktor is…
‘It’ll be fine.’
Now that Logan has begun to increase his family’s power in earnest.
Victor was the most certain player to control that power.
“Eat as much as you want. It doesn’t matter if it interferes with the next training.”
After the grueling training, a generous amount of food was prepared before my eyes.
There was no high-quality gourmet food, but there was an abundance of basic bread and soup.
“Wow!”
“The best!”
“There’s meat in the soup!”
For the trainees, most of whom came from poor backgrounds, it was a meal no different from a sumptuous meal.
They were amazed at even the small amount of meat contained in the large soup.
The trainees began mindlessly eating the mountain of bread and soup they had piled on the wooden utensils provided to them.
The stress accumulated from the first training disappeared at this moment.
There it is.
“eat a lot.”
Nod.
The moment when a small blue-haired girl who looked to be about ten years old walked around among the servants distributing meals and exuded deadly cuteness.
“Ugh. Are you an angel?”
“Cute ears!”
“Look at those eyes! They’re amazingly pretty.”
Many of the trainees felt a warm breeze blowing through their tired hearts and reassured themselves that they had done well to become soldiers.
Of course, the child’s actual age was older than ten, but he looked like a child and was very cute.
“Your ears are cute. I want to bite them.”
“I want to stab your cheeks.”
“I want to give you a kiss.”
Some of them expressed their affection a little too much, but boom!
“Look away. Before I dig it up.”
I couldn’t even think of taking action against the bloody threats of the boy with the same blue hair and red-blue odd-eyes.
The soldiers’ training seemed to be going so smoothly.
* * * Training continued to check the trainees’ miasma and test their tenacity.
The simple ritual training of lining up rows and rows continued for a whopping twelve hours and became more grueling training than anything else.
The simple but grueling training became an extreme test of endurance and tormented the soldiers.
However, due to the current circumstances of McLane, the majority of those who applied to become soldiers grew up in families that had difficulty making a living.
To them, this was a place they could never give up simply because it provided warm places to sleep and enough food.
Therefore, there were few people who failed training.
“Is it difficult?”
“no!”
“If it’s hard, you can give up. Go home and get a good rest.”
“no!”
“I like my posture. Then, two laps again!”
“….”
“I’m not answering!”
“yes!”
The trainees’ eyes are filled with venom even though the training is full of loud noises.
Even the weak guys who stumbled as if they were about to collapse gritted their teeth and completed the training.
Basic physical training went very smoothly.
“It seems that the basic physical strength of the trainees has now been strengthened.”
“already?”
“I feed him well, sleep well, and like you said, I take care of his hygiene, including showering every day. It’s only natural that he improves quickly when he receives such luxurious training.”
Logan nodded at Kai’s satisfactory report.
“Are there no troublemakers?”
“I’m slowly getting used to the training, so if there’s a guy like that, he’ll come out.”
“Okay. It would be okay if at least one person came out at this point.”
“You mean by example?”
“Yes. That will make it easier in the future.”
“Yes, of course.”
The two people who came up with the extreme training laughed together.
As Logan and Kai hoped, there were some troublemakers among the trainees.
But the direction was a little different from what they expected.
* * * Among the commonly used expressions, there is a saying that there is no concept.
It is used as an idiom to indicate that a person lacks the minimum basic knowledge, but in reality, there were not many people who did not even have basic concepts.
However, because the concept differs from person to person and from place to place, it often happens that people who are normal in one place cause problems in other areas or environments.
However, there was also a small number of truly clueless people who thoughtlessly committed what the majority of people considered ‘sin’.
Ordinary people expressed such people with derogatory terms such as crazy, evil, or perverted trash.
That was the case for Cowell, who came from a village close to the Southern Mountains near McLane Castle.
Cowell’s biggest problem was that he was a pervert who was sexually aroused by young girls. The reason he applied to be recruited as a trainee was because he was about to be kicked out of the village due to his perversion.
To that guy, Victoria, who only looked like she was about ten years old, was not a girl, but just a ‘woman’.
Moreover, neither his father nor the village elders who had beaten him to death were here.
“You’re a little kid, right?”
“‘Female’ baby.”
“Crazy! Don’t you know that that kid is my monster brother?”
“If everything goes well, it’s good for both of us. And if we say he’s a monster, what can that skinny guy do? Can’t he see how big I am?”
“You’re so crazy…”
Cowell laughed off his friend’s words and put into action what he had been thinking about for weeks.
“Who are you?”
“Why don’t you go over there with your brother and do something nice?”
The moment a large giant blocked the road and made strange noises, Victoria instinctively flinched.
But soon, I tried to come out stronger, remembering my experience that these guys are the ones who come out stronger when they get scared.
“Huh? What are you talking about? Suddenly?”
“It’s no big deal. Let’s be friends who take care of each other’s various things.”
“…There’s no need. My brother is enough to take care of me.”
“Ah. Viktor? You know. But wouldn’t it be nice to have another brother?”
“I don’t want to. I just need my brother! Please get out of my way!”
I was a little scared, but there was no hesitation in the clear voice.
That strong attitude ignited a fire in the heart of the pervert who thought he was confessing his pure and innocent feelings.
“What…”
“Get out of the way, mister!”
Victoria’s subsequent shout cut off the pervert’s reason.
“Mister?! This!”
Sigh.
“evil!”
“I’m sorry. I should have listened to you.”
Cowell slaps a child and talks nonsense.
He approached her with a truly apologetic expression on his face, but he was already a terror to Victoria.
“I hate poetry!”
A frightened Victoria sat down and retreated.
It was a sight that would naturally make a normal person feel pity and pity.
gulp.
To a pervert who had lost his sense of reason, it was just an appearance that aroused him.
“That’s right. Just be quiet like that. That’s right…”
Squeak.
At that time, I heard the sound of the child’s clothes being torn.
It was a moment when the pervert’s eyes, which were very excited, turned red and looked even more dangerous.
“A baby like this dog!”
Whoops!
“Gagging!”
The strong impact accompanied by a loud shout blew Cowell’s huge size away.
Before Cowell, who was thrown to the floor, could come to his senses, the merciless beating continued.
“Die! You bastard!”
Wow! Bah! Crack.
“How dare my brother! How dare you!”
“Turn it off. Stop it….”
Cowell instantly became covered in blood and begged with foam at the mouth.
But that didn’t stop Victor’s anger.
“Damn it! Just leave!”
By the time the anger in his red and blue eyes had barely calmed down, Cowell’s body had been damaged to the point where he could no longer be considered human.
* * *
“what?!”
When Logan first heard the news about Victor, he was very surprised.
I was worried that the noble slayer’s side had finally come out.
But when I heard the reason, it wasn’t something I couldn’t understand.
“Use. What about Victoria? Are you okay?”
“Yes. I was a little surprised, but my health is fine.”
“What about Victor?”
“First of all, I put him in prison…”
“Well… I didn’t want this problem.”
Vector also smiled awkwardly at those words.
“Cowell’s crime is certain, but Victor killed the guy. Above all, the problem is that Cowell is a citizen and Victor is a slave based on his current status. According to custom…” ”
No. That’s not a problem.”
“yes?”
“Well, I guess it turned out well in the end. Let’s go see him first.”
Vector followed Logan’s laughter with a puzzled expression.
* * * The dungeon of Tethron Castle.
The deepest place among them. There was Victor with his hands and feet shackled in a place where only serious criminals were imprisoned.
Sigh.
I must have heard the noise of the door opening, and I saw Viktor looking this way through the dim torchlight.
Jump and jump.
The eyes, which had been burning more than a torch, gradually wavered as Logan slowly approached, and turned to the ground the moment he stood right in front of him.
“…I’m sorry, Logan.”
“Do you regret it?”
“Absolutely not! Absolutely not.”
“Then why are you saying sorry?”
Victor, who paused for a moment at those words, slowly continued speaking.
“I killed Logan’s soldier carelessly. I apologize for that.”
“Really? Well, that’s not wrong either. I think it’s right that you regret it.”
“Absolutely not! He brought Lia…”
“Why did he bother to bring your younger sister here?”
“yes?”
“Don’t you see? Your stubbornness almost ruined your brother.”
“…!”
“It’s not a good idea to blindly protect someone by moving around.”
“B but…!”
Logan looked straight into the eyes of Viktor, who suddenly raised his head as if he could not admit it.
“There are many ways to care for people, but blindly keeping them aside and trying to protect them is only the worst. That’s not affection, that’s just obsession.
” “But if I had always been by your side, Victoria wouldn’t have had to deal with that bastard!” ”
So you’re going to be with Victoria 24 hours a day? Even when training? Even when going to war?”
“That…”
“Unexpected dangers can occur anywhere. Ah, I think it would be somewhat predictable in a soldier training center full of energetic young people and sharp weapons.”
“…!”
“It’s better not to bring him in the first place than to bring him to a potentially dangerous place and try to protect him. The fact that it is safe is a fact that can be seen if you think about it just a little. Nevertheless, the reason I allowed Victoria to be brought in was because I wanted you to realize that fact.” Of course, Logan also felt sorry because he had not expected such an extreme situation, but Viktor needed to change.
“You understand what I mean .
Do you want to do it?”
“….”
Victor, who was silent for a while, reluctantly nodded.
‘This is enough for now.’
Future Auror users will be able to break away from being overprotective of their younger siblings just by this incident.
Knowing this, Logan smiled and nodded.
“Good. Come out.”
“Logan!”
Ignoring Vector, who screamed in surprise, Logan took out the key he had received from the guard and opened the cage.
Squeak.
Clink.
Viktor looked very nervous. Logan, who had even removed the shackles himself, watched the guy wince. “ It
’s definitely a sin to kill someone, but you did a good job today.”
“Yes?”
“But next time, get my permission. I am saying that the guy who should be my knight should not have his life held back by a pervert who is no better than trash.” ”
…Yes! I’ll keep that in mind!”
Viktor’s dark complexion brightened again.
However, Vector, who was listening to their conversation next to him, couldn’t help but interject with a somewhat bewildered look on his face.
“Logan. Logan, you were the one who said that rulers must set an example.”
“That’s right.”
That was what he said just a few days ago.
“It’s an incident where a slave killed a civilian. If you decide arbitrarily like this…”
“Victor is my slave. Then it’s mine. I killed a violent criminal with my belongings. Then what happens?”
“That’s… I see.”
Vector nodded as if he finally understood.
Viktor looked at Logan again in surprise.
“Okay. Viktor killed that guy according to my will. Put a charge on his head and hang it at the castle gate. In particular, tell the soldiers to be careful.”
“…Understood.”
As Logan left the prison at a slow pace, Vector and Viktor followed him.
Viktor’s eyes, looking at Logan’s back from behind, were complex.
*
… “Damn you son of a bitch. ”
How dare our angel!”
“He died well! If you weren’t dead, I would have killed you!”
“You?”
“Why? Do you think you can’t do it?”
“No, you think we would have killed him!”
Moreover, as Victoria, who was quite shocked, continued to run out of the door, her swearing at Cowell, who was already dead, became more severe day by day.
“Leah. Are you okay? Can I come in?”
– …I’m sorry.
‘Damn it!’
Victor was forced to swear again in the powerless voice of his younger brother, who was passed out of the door, and his
brother refused to meet with him if he came to mind a few days ago just by looking at his face
. ‘I killed it easily.’
Boom!
“Ah, Lia. Sorry. My brother made a mistake and hit the wall.”
– ….
It’s like he’s apologizing to the wall he hit without thinking. I
don’t know how on earth it happened, but the tantrums just kept building up.
“Then take a break.”
He just stayed there. Viktor soon turned around because he had no confidence in it.
Even though they were young, they survived the death of their parents, life as slaves, and up to the present.
The siblings have endured a difficult life relying on each other.
Just when they finally thought that everything would work out okay, this happened. Dani…
What would have happened if she had arrived there even a little late… It was terrible to even think about it.
‘No, no, that’s not it.’
There was a more fundamental problem.
– Are you going to take a girl to a military training center full of men?
– It’s not a good idea to blindly protect her.
The words of the person who influenced him the most in recent years came back to me, and my heart ached greatly. dug into
