proposal.
proposal.
I slowly opened my mouth while looking at the fox beastman who suddenly intruded.
“I couldn’t pass it because the border was closed, but what did you come for?”
“Wait a minute, my leg hurts a little. Could you step aside for a bit?”
The woman pushed me away very naturally and sat down next to me with her buttocks pressed. She looked up at me and her bright yellow eyes twinkled.
“hi? My name is Wolfie. What is your name?”
“First of all, my name is Marnak.”
“Marnac. Mum. It’s an easy name to memorize. So are you here?”
Wolfie stuck out his thumb and wiggled it from side to side. I don’t know what that means exactly, but it’s clear that she’s asking me roughly if you’re the head of the party here.
“I would like you to tell me about the matter first.”
“okay. okay. You know…”
She pricked her gray fox ears, looked around, then leaned over to me. A woman’s body odor wafting along with the light smell of sweat.
‘killing!!!’
Sitting next to me, my mother, who had stuffed both cheeks of food and munched on it, frowned and raged, telling me to expel this fox of unknown origin right away.
I pushed away Wolfie’s body as it approached me.
“Please refrain from unnecessary contact.”
‘Kill and kill.’
Mother’s praise for doing very well. I listened to my mother’s praise in one ear and focused on this wolfie, a fox beast.
The eastern Dragon Kingdom, the beast tribes that roamed outside the extremely closed beast kingdom, were generally of three types.
A messenger from the Dragon Kingdom sent to another country. A traveler visiting another country. If not, an exile from the Dragon Kingdom.
In the affluent Dragon Kingdom, the sentence of exile was given to serious criminals, slightly less than the death penalty. If this woman named Wolfi was an exile, as I guessed, the seal of exile would be stamped on her right back. Of course, there was no way for me to check that now that the woman was all dressed.
Wolfie laughed bitterly, perhaps noticing my gaze toward her right shoulder.
“What you think is right.”
“Then, no matter what you say, it will be hard for us to believe it.”
“I’ve been ‘working’ here for quite some time. I have quite a bit of credit. Why don’t you just listen to the story?”
Honey dripping voice. Wolfie leaned against me very naturally. In the end, Dakia, who was looking at Wolfy’s actions with a very uncomfortable look, opened her mouth.
“I want you to stay away from Priest Marnak for now. Priest Marnak is uncomfortable.”
Wolfie opened her eyes wide and looked up at me in amazement. When our eyes met, bright yellow eyes blinked quickly. It was a very natural coquetry.
“Inconvenience? Are you really uncomfortable with me?”
I smiled bitterly, pushed away Wolfie, and nodded.
“yes. A little uncomfortable. Even if we sit apart and talk, we won’t just throw you out, so please stop leaning on me.”
“Uh…”
Perhaps my answer was unexpected, Wolfy looked at our party with a slightly surprised face. She glanced over at her mother and Dacia Jamel, then shook her head knowingly.
“Are you the kind of guy who feeds the fish you’ve already caught?”
“It’s rude!!!”
Jamel jumped up from his seat and shouted vigorously, pointing his finger at Wolfie.
“How ascetic is Priest Marnak, unlike the savages of the world! How stoic he is. Priest Marnak is said to be so stoic that it is doubtful whether he has everything that depends on men!!!”
At Jamel’s sudden cry, the eyes of the diners on the first floor turned to us. After blinking a few times, Wolfie looked at me and smiled strangely as if he knew everything.
“aha. It’s like the way you pushed me away without much reaction, so are you ‘that’?”
“yes?”
“You don’t stand for that? huh? I know someone who is familiar with the treatment there, but when I introduce you…”
“No!”
I was fine Yes, I was a perfectly fine man.
My harsh protest brought a strange conviction to Wolfy’s eyes.
“really?”
At her question, the three mothers, Dacia Jamel, all looked at me with very interested eyes. On top of that, the eyes of the other guests who were eating on the first floor of the accommodation also kept an eye on my mouth.
Here and there, extremely insulting words such as ‘eunuch’ and ‘incompetent’ came to my ears.
The misunderstanding that started with Jamel’s useless metaphor grew bigger and bigger. But there was no way I could prove that I was very ‘healthy’ here.
We couldn’t take this vixen woman upstairs right away to confirm that.
“ha. I don’t want to talk about this topic any more. Please tell us about the business that came to us as soon as possible. Wolfie.”
The other customers who had been focusing on my answer, which was almost evasive, looked at me with disappointed eyes and then everyone started to focus on their meals again.
Wolfie looked at my waist with a compassionate gaze and whispered in a small voice.
“The medicine he makes is really useful, so is it really okay if I don’t introduce you?”
I just smiled quietly and told Wolfie.
“Before kicking me out right now, tell me the main point.”
Seeing my smile, Wolfie flinched and moved away from me.
“Okay, I won’t talk about this anymore, so can you smile and stop being angry? Your smile is so creepy right now.”
“Haa, it’s okay, so tell me about it quickly.”
With a sigh, Wolfie took another quick look around to make sure no other guests were looking at us, and began to speak in a small voice.
“Border. I’ll do more than that. Two gold coins for each.”
Two gold coins for two? Jamel Tergio Daciana mother. There were five people in the party, so that story meant that we asked for a total of ten gold coins.
Dacia, her eyes narrowed, glared at Wolfi.
“Surely the offer would be illegal, right?”
“Oh, it’s not illegal. It’s just a little ‘unofficial’ way to enter the Northern Empire. Anyway, the neighborhood over there is already a mess, so once you enter, you don’t even care if it’s illegal or not.”
Yes, I knew from the very first words of this woman that she had been approaching us with the intention of bringing up this proposition.
However, ten gold coins were equivalent to 100,000 coins in terms of a thousand coins in silver.
The pocket money my mother could earn by picking up twigs 100,000 times.
On top of that, considering that the amount we paid for a night’s stay, including meals, in a cheap inn room was roughly ten dongs, we could see that the money this woman was asking from us was really an absurd amount.
When we didn’t answer Katabuta, Wolfie opened her mouth in a very serious tone.
“Isn’t it a bit expensive? But it will be well worth the money, because it will get you safely across the border without a mouse or a bird knowing.”
“What are you going to do if we don’t have that much money?”
Wolfie pointed at Dacia with a slight glance.
“You think my eyes are knotholes? It makes more sense that the rich nobleman of Irmelga doesn’t carry ten gold coins.”
Dacia stared at Wolfy and slowly opened her mouth.
“is it so. About ten gold coins. I can give you anything. But can’t you guys eat that money and bounce?”
As if to anticipate Dacia’s question, Wolfie answered in a light voice.
“I don’t know about the noble lady, but we’ve been working here for quite some time. I’m not stupid enough to blow away the trust we’ve built up just to rob you of ten gold coins.”
I’m not sure if 10 gold coins is really a small amount, but if you’re working as a ‘group’ rather than an individual, 10 gold coins might not be that big of a deal.
Wolfie stood up, looked around us, and smiled.
“I won’t ask you to answer right away. I’ll be here by tomorrow morning. Until then, let’s have a good conversation with each other.”
As she was about to leave without regret, she stopped and spoke to us.
“That’s right, as far as I know, there won’t be any convoys heading to the Northern Empire past this place for at least a month or two from now. If you plan to get stuck in the upper part, fold it early.”
Wolfie is gone. After she left, Dacia asked me.
“What should I do?”
“Hmm. What do you think of Dacia?”
“Actually, there is no way. Do you have the Locles Merchant I mentioned before?”
Locles was the name of the upper class in which Dacia held a considerable share. Dakia touched her lips and took her luck.
“If you contact them, you will be able to cross the border in an official way. It’s just…”
The next words were expected.
“It will take a long time.”
“that’s right. Like the Beast Tribe said earlier, you may have to wait here for at least a month.”
Spend a month doing nothing in this border town? I honestly didn’t like it. It wasn’t to the point where I had to use it right away because of the tight schedule, but if I went around as if I was sightseeing, there would be enough left over even if something happened to my mother’s holy relic in the Northern Empire.
Because I wasn’t the only one who was aiming for the holy relic where my mother’s divinity was sealed.
I stroked my chin and pondered.
“The question is, is that person really trustworthy?”
“that’s right.”
“What do you think, Jamel?”
Jamel looked around at us with a little annoyed look, as if he didn’t like something, and quickly opened his mouth.
“Ten gold coins! This is totally overpriced! Gold coins are too precious! They must be treating us like hogu!”
Because it was treated like a hukou… Certainly we didn’t know the current value of this illegal entry. As long as they figured out that Dacia was Irmel’s blood relative, there was a good chance that they were pushing hard to overcharge them.
“Are you sure about that?”
When I asked if he was sure, Jamel shrank like a deflated balloon.
“I’m not sure…”
“Then, on what grounds did you think we were being treated as hukou?”
“Just a feeling…? Ten gold coins is too much money…”
A reasoning based on emotion. I shook my head and asked Tergio.
“What would you like Terzio to do?”
– I want the heir to do as he wants.
He has given the same answer as he has always on this journey. I asked a question to the last remaining group.
“What does your mother think?”
‘killing!’
The answer is that I don’t like that prisoner woman.
“I wasn’t asking for your opinion on Wolfie, I was asking about how to cross the border.”
Mother clutched her chin, pondered for a moment with a rather serious expression, then shrugged her shoulders.
‘killing…?’
The answer is that I have no idea. I sighed and looked around at the group.
“First of all, let’s contact that person tomorrow and listen to the story in more detail. Everyone worked hard today, so let’s go to sleep.”
Everyone nodded and got up one by one and headed for the rooms upstairs. In the meantime, Tergio cautiously approached me.
“Do you have anything to say?”
Terzio glanced at the other comrades ahead and whispered to me in a low voice.
– If you have any difficulties with the heir’s sexual function, I will tell Dispense and immortalium castle…
“No problem. Not at all. go and rest Tergio.”
– yes.
***
Next morning. When I left the inn, Wolfi was waiting for me. She looked at me and tilted her head.
“What about the other party?”
“Everyone is resting in their room. Even if you hand over the money, you’re not leaving right away, are you?”
“Indeed, it is. So what about the money?”
I opened the pouch I had prepared in advance and showed it to her. Wolfie quickly counted the gold coins with his eyes and nodded.
“Ten gold coins. That’s right. thank you.”
“I won’t give it to you right now.”
I moved my wrist lightly to avoid Wolfie’s hand trying to snatch my pocket. Wolfie straightened his manicured hands and looked at me with bulging eyes.
“then? What are you going to do?”
“That informal way you said. You’re not running it alone, are you? You have to confirm to me that this is the ‘way’.”
Small wrinkles were carved between Wolfie’s eyebrows.
“That road is the food line, but you ask me to show you without paying?”
“If you don’t want to show us the way, you can show us other people who will help you cross the border. I just need to make sure you’re not scamming us.”
“Hmm.”
A hairy tail scurried from behind its ass. After a moment of thought, she looked at me and nodded.
“I’ll take you to that boss. After all, I am just a middleman between you and them.”
Wolfie held out his white palm.
“What is it?”
“My share. take it off beforehand If you had given me the money, I would have taken it out on my own, but if I took him like this and signed a contract with him right away, I would be the only one who would be an idiot.”
It made sense. I wasn’t trying to take the money anyway, I just needed reassurance that I would be able to cross the border, so there was no reason not to give it.
“How much can I give you?”
Wolfy smiled, wagging his huge tail.
“Five gold coins.”
“Isn’t that a complete overkill? Are you eating half of it?”
“Originally, asking for customers is the hardest thing. So are you going to give it or not?”
I placed five gold coins in the palm of her hand.
“If you take it and run away, you will regret it pretty big.”
“I’m not going. don’t go Now follow me.”
It took a long time to walk along the wagging tail. Wolfie led me through the back alleys of the border town to a house that was quite large and incongruous with the back streets.
Men and women in a hurry. Wolfie passed them and led me to a middle-aged man with dark scars on his face.
“Scan. I brought guests.”
A man called Scann glanced at me wearing a robe and asked Wolfie.
“Money?”
“One gold coin for two. It is also paid in cash. how is it?”
He looked at me with dark eyes and opened his mouth.
“Anyone other than the author?”
Wolfie answered instead of me.
“I’m resting at the inn.”
“money. It is prepaid.”
He reached out his hand to me, full of scars here and there. I put a bag of gold coins on his hand. He opened the pocket and counted the coins inside.
“Five gold coins. That’s correct.”
I smiled and said.
“Then when can I come?”
“There is no need for that.”
“yes?”
“Shoot.”
hooked hooked hooked hooked
Arrows that flew simultaneously pierced my body indiscriminately.
“It’s over.”
“Who is finished?”
squeak.
“Gagging!”
I swung the frost-steel sword I was wearing around my waist as an arrow skewer. Scann’s arms were torn apart and blood splattered.
“Buy and save…”
“No matter what you ask, I have no intention of saving you. So don’t beg.”
buzzing sound. I opened my mouth as I trampled on Segan, whose arms were cut off, with one foot.
“They said in the storybooks that foxes were originally cunning and treacherous animals.”
hooked
“Ouch!”
A frost steel sword pierced Scann’s throat. He died with a scream of agony. I brushed off the blood on my sword and smiled at Wolfy.
“Still, I don’t believe in children’s books, so I’ll ask just one question in particular. Wolfy, are you also one of these writers?”
