promptly.
promptly.
A jet-black muzzle and the head of Soldos with its tip pointed.
I was making one big mistake. I am mistaken that my mother and I must have gone through all the experiences together because we have always been with our mother.
Why did you think your mother must have known that Soldos was a master?
My mother had never seen Soldos because she was suffering from a hangover in the water swallow. There was no way to know that he was a master.
The moment stretched endlessly due to extreme tension. Contrary to the slowed down time, thoughts shot through my head like bullets.
Given the personality of Soldos I’ve seen, even if he threatened himself, he wouldn’t kill his mother in one blow. He didn’t seem to enjoy killing.
However, there was a good chance that he would beat his mother with that thick stick to subdue him, just as he had just subdued the two female bodyguards.
He is a master and yet an opponent I couldn’t handle. Besides, there was no Master here who could handle Soldos.
The sight of her mother being beaten. Can I be sane after seeing that scene? I couldn’t tell.
My head was complicated by the calculations.
However, my body had already thrown away calculations and moved.
***
“Please step back.”
The blue blade touched the neck. Two eyes full of enemies looking at you.
As the shield protecting Emperor Soldos Garandibald and an adviser to the Imperial Guard, he was just very embarrassed by the current situation.
Even though he hasn’t taken any hostile action yet, doesn’t the woman with dark green hair point a gun at her? I don’t understand what’s going on at the moment, so I’m in a daze, so wouldn’t that priest named Marnak put a sword to his throat without hesitation?
Soldos looked into Marnak’s eyes without a word.
Having reached the level of a master, he could vaguely understand the disposition of the opponent he faced with a weapon.
What I could feel while confronting the blue-haired woman who was said to be my teacher was a terrible mass of murder that I had no intention of hiding. The disciple, unlike the teacher, had a very refined and calm feeling, putting the word “disciple” to the teacher.
If the blue master was a beast with his claws exposed, the disciple was a scavenger who thoroughly concealed himself and sought a chance to find a corpse.
no that’s not it
The corners of Soldos’ mouth rose subtly.
To be a scavenger simply looking for an opportunity, the life he exhaled was too sticky. Soldos smelled the faint smell of madness at the end of his life.
It’s like you don’t even know yourself yet.
Soldos was troubled.
Will you gladly accept this opportunity to gauge the skills of a man named Marnac? Or will you express your intention that you have no intention to laugh and be hostile?
He carefully added strength to the hand holding the stick.
It is natural to be very happy when you see a young talented person. To be honest, as a senior who entered the path of nothingness first, my heart was moved by the thought that I wanted to mingle with that young man to the fullest here.
Soldos soon regained the strength he had added to the hand holding the staff.
‘I almost didn’t care that it wasn’t suitable for my age.’
He recalled a word from His Majesty the Emperor, whom he had heard and told about Marnak and his master.
‘Let them do whatever they want. A word.’
To be honest, I don’t understand why the Emperor treats them so leniently, but I don’t understand His Majesty’s orders, but rather follow them.
Soldos lightly retracted his rod and smiled at Marnak.
“Since I took the weapon first, why don’t you show your due courtesy?”
“Thank you for your understanding.”
Marnak put the Blue Sword of Despair into the scabbard and bowed his head in gratitude. Soldos gestured with his chin to the woman with dark green hair poking out behind Marnak’s back.
“You’d better tell your party to be a little more careful when drawing weapons.”
The Mother of Decay rolled her dark green eyes and looked at Marnak.
So excited about the situation that she couldn’t get the other money, she took out a slayer and threatened Soldos, but as she aimed at Soldos, she read the number of his fingers and was very embarrassed.
Soldos was a human with four fingers.
Marnak sighed heavily at the oblivious Mother of Decay, exhaled, and smiled.
“Next time, I hope you can talk to me and make a move. Didn’t you almost get seriously hurt?”
With a small nod of her head, her mother, with her resentment broken, clung to Marnak’s waist. Marnak gently patted her mother on the head.
“but.”
Marnak turned his head at a word that jumped out. Soldos met Marnak’s eyes. Soldos’ eyes twinkled with a bit of mischief.
“Even though my life is threatened, I don’t think I can save face to pass it on like this.”
“Is there anything you wish for?”
“Are you going to be busy tomorrow night?”
“There is no specific schedule.”
“Then…”
Soldos stretched out his thumb and forefinger, tilted them slightly, and made a light snap with his tongue.
“Let’s have a drink tomorrow night, man-to-man, just the two of us. Aren’t real men pouring out their emotions from this or that with a glass of strong alcohol? I will take no refusal.”
Although that man named Marnac had to follow the emperor’s order to do whatever he wanted.
‘A little bit of curiosity would be fine.’
Marnak nodded at Soldos’ suggestion.
“great.”
As long as Soldos wanted to bury this threat as a favor first, there was no reason to refuse. Marnak, who did not have a specific schedule until the bowl was ready anyway, readily accepted his offer.
clap clap clap.
A member of the Royal Guard approached Soldos with the sound of the heavy armour.
“The names of all the nobles who were present were recorded, and all the others were subdued.”
“Good job. Since the man sitting there is the owner of this gambling house, arrest him and ask him to return all the property here to the palace.”
“yes.”
“Don’t be ridiculous!!! How could I have inherited a fortune…”
Puff!
The metal gauntlet hit Raghur’s chin without hesitation. Several teeth protruded along with blood and rolled on the floor. The guards looked down at Ragour with indifferent eyes.
“From now on, be careful even when you say a single word. My warning is that this is the first and the last.”
“Hick…”
Ragour disappeared, being dragged by the guards. Soldos smiled as he looked at his back with very satisfied eyes.
“As you can see, I’m going to be busy doing some stuff tonight, so you might as well go.”
Although permission was given to go, Marnak did not leave immediately. Soldos looked at him with questioning eyes, and Marnak glanced at his mother before opening his mouth slowly.
“Would it be okay if the party took some money?”
Soldos shook his head.
“That can’t be done. All property here will be returned to the national treasury. And…”
He glanced at the Mother of Decay standing behind Marnak’s back.
“Somehow to pick it up once. Everyone starts gambling like that. The money won through gambling contains the poison called “getting rich.” I don’t want to see someone swallow poisonous money right in front of my eyes.”
Unlike before, a very determined tone. Marnak withdrew meekly, realizing that he could not convince Soldos with just a few words.
“All right. Then let’s go back and see.”
“Okay go well. Oh, don’t forget the drinking promise tomorrow.”
“yes.”
After Soldos sent off, Marnak and his party left the gambling den.
***
“If you count all the other money, it was over a hundred gold coins!!! this is too much!!! Seriously!!!”
As soon as he finally got out of the gambling hall, Jamel, who had only been paying attention to Soldos, burst into anger as if he had waited.
“No matter how prowess and master you are, you can’t do this to me!!! Does Priest Marnak think so too?”
Jamel’s eyes twinkled at me. To be honest, the first money Jamel and her mother made was thanks to Pearly’s pranks, so there was nothing wrong with that.
“Jamel is right.”
“also!!!”
In response to my response, Jamel swung his bracken-like fist and exploded in rage again. If you run wild for a while like that, your temper will fade a little.
“This outrageous treatment of the Northern Empire! This Jamel will remember and pay you back someday!!!”
Pearly, who was watching Jamel, grinned. She sneaked up to Jamel’s side and shouted in surprise.
“What? hi! hello! Why did the Royal Guard follow me? Did you have anything more to ask of us?”
“Hey, hey!”
Jamel, startled, jumped out of place. She trembled and shouted quickly.
“That Royal Guard!!! I actually didn’t say anything!!! Really!!! Please don’t take me…”
Of course, there were no guards. Jamel shook his head and grasped the situation, and soon realized that he had been tricked by Pearly’s prank, and his face blushed red.
“THIS BAD!!! Don’t play with this!!! You really almost passed out!!!”
“Hehehe! sorry! sorry!”
A small fist pounded on Pearly’s back. Oddly enough, my mother was so quiet. I turned my head slightly to see my mother walking beside me, and I heard her muttering softly as she gripped the handle of the slayer.
‘Kill and kill.’
Mother wasn’t quiet, but she was trembling and cursing and cursing at Soldos, who stole the money.
The curse of being terrified of eating a spoonful of pure white rice and black bugs coming out and rummaging through the rice for the rest of your life Curse that when you wake up every morning, countless hairs will be scattered on your pillow and the hair will visibly fall out from the top of your head, etc. .
The curses my mother uttered were terrifying curses that I dared not say.
But do masters suffer from hair loss? I’ve never seen a master without hair, so I don’t know.
“mother.”
‘…killing?’
“By the way, didn’t you say you had something to live for?”
The mother’s eyes widened.
‘Hat killed?!’
One word that I forgot while tailing Pearly. Unfortunately, it was already dark and most shops had already closed their doors. The only thing that lit up the street was the street vendors who had not yet folded their seats.
“Well, today isn’t the only day, so next time we come out together again, it’s okay to buy it.”
‘killing!’
Mother nodded, saying that was indeed true. Having succeeded in distracting her from the negative thoughts towards Soldos, I smiled softly at her.
“Let’s buy something to eat for dinner and late-night snack and go back to the ship. They are specially selected with things that my mother likes.”
‘killing!!!’
“I want to choose too!!! let’s go together!!!”
As the mother, relieved, ran forward toward the brightly lit street vendors, Jamel quickly ran after her mother.
Left alone with Pearly, I carefully asked her the question I had in mind.
“How on earth did you know that Soldos and the Royal Guard would come to the gambling house?”
She said she had been to a gambling house to people watch. Like I knew things would go like this. Pearly stared at me with purple eyes and smirked.
“That’s it! Report me! Declaration! I know because I did!”
“yes? Did Pearly report the place?”
“huh! huh!”
“Why did you report it instead?”
Pearly’s eyes sank. The woman who had just been jumping around and enjoying herself had disappeared, and only a calm and inorganic woman stood in front of me. she replied in a low voice.
“Ragour crossed the line.”
“What the hell did that Raguru do?”
“The idiot asked me to move some items through my father’s connections, and pretended to be attacked by bandits, and took his time and replaced the items with a few lower quality ones. So, over the course of several months, I destroyed his business step by step, losing all but one of the gambling establishments. Today was the day to reap the fruits of the plans of the past few months.”
Pearly glared at me and slightly puffed out her cheeks.
“Although I didn’t fully enjoy seeing Raguru completely ruined because of someone. Had things gone according to the original plan, Raguru would have been ruined more tragically and miserably. So right now I’m in the mood to do something, so I’m a little annoyed.”
“I’m sorry about the tailing.”
She chewed her lips a few times before smirking again.
“It’s okay. It’s not like you did it because you wanted to. I guess I just set it up as usual anyway. Besides, this is still within the acceptable range. I never even explained to you what I’m doing!”
“By the way, how did the guards move?”
Pearly mischievously opened and closed the fingers of both hands.
“I’m the type of person who has strings all over the place. I’ll tell you more details when I get to know you better! Still, it turned out to be a reasonably good opportunity!”
The body odor of a woman rushing in. Pearly’s purple eyes shone in front of my nose.
“Because I have shown you how those who deceive or betray me pay the price.”
When I met her in silence, Pearly backed away.
“But don’t worry too much! don’t worry! I’m not stupid enough to cut open the goose that lays the golden eggs! As long as you keep your promises, I will always be a good person to you!”
After that, Pearly, as if having said all she had to say, turned and left without hesitation toward her mother and Jamel, who were ordering late-night snacks.
***
“Oh come? come with me I know a good bar.”
Soldos sent someone to the Wet Swallow to notify us of the time and place of the appointment, and I went to the place he sent.
I walked shoulder to shoulder with him.
“Then why did you ask me to come out alone?”
Soldos smiled shyly and brushed his dull blond hair.
“I don’t drink with women since my wife died.”
When I thought about what to say for a moment at the unexpected answer, he patted my back as if it was okay.
“I don’t want you to look at me with that expression. My wife lived happily with me for a long time and closed her eyes comfortably. It’s just that her walking time is a little different from me, who has become a master.”
Soldos seemed very accustomed to this kind of conversation. His casual attitude put me at ease.
“You are dear to me.”
“What is dear to you? I was just a common mistress.”
He touched a young face with one hand, seemingly no different in age from mine.
“I am so old with wrinkles, but how rudely I was saying that it would be nice to be firm on my own. Do you know how difficult it was for me to always beg for a younger second wife? I never fell for that shallow trial. It is obvious that if he had brought in a second wife, he would have been mistreated several times more than before! Ha ha ha! There’s no way!”
There was a lot of deep affection for the wife who left first in the way he grumbled.
My mother, who had turned into a hand and listened to the story silently in my inner pocket, murmured lowly.
‘killing.’
It’s noisy and it’s just that you’ll get alopecia areata.
