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“I feel refreshed. Captain.”
I found myself coughing involuntarily at Berman’s muttering.
However, there was no evidence because Berman’s hands were full of hair that had already been shaved.
“It’s because the weather is cool these days.”
“Isn’t it almost summer? What is that···.”
I ignored Berman’s question and headed to the captain’s office.
The captain was now lying naked, naked, with his ugly body exposed, looking like a pig soaked in hot water.
“Uh …
The captain greeted us in a feeble voice, waving his hands.
‘It’s not that hot.’
The captain was particularly cruel.
“Well, there are a lot of visitors… Thank you for your hard work….”
The captain, speaking lightly, waved his hand.
It was a curse.
I bowed my head to him and went out with Berman.
“The captain is almost dead. Sergeant. How about you take the captain’s position now?”
“The captain is sick. He’s just annoying.”
It was bearable enough, but it did seem a little hot.
‘I need to upgrade my mini fridge before it gets too hot.’
Even with the ice he’s making now, it’s a huge improvement over last year, but he still has a lot of room for improvement.
Even though the guy was a certified genius, it was clear that he would evolve into a civilization that went beyond air conditioning.
‘It’s been quite some time since I asked Jackson, so I should go and see him.’
Originally, medieval people didn’t do their work properly unless they were urged to do so. They would grab them by the collar and shake them until they were startled and started working in a hurry.
‘I guess I’ll have to grab that woman by the collar too.’
She was the kind of woman who would think of something else if she had even a little free time. I thought it would be a good idea to go and grab her by the collar later.
After chatting with Berman about this and that, I headed towards the castle gate.
Eventually we arrived at the castle gate, but the night watchman on top of the gate had a strange expression on his face.
“What is it?”
“That’s… Chief Aaron. The people waiting outside….”
The second group’s Kutan, startled by my voice, pointed outside.
When he turned his head towards him, an unexpected sight unfolded before the gate.
A group of people, nearly fifty in number, were squatting in front of the gate. They were all pulling carts loaded with various items, so it seemed they were not just travelers.
There, the carriage driver moved according to the opening time of the city gate. He didn’t come first and wait, so he wasn’t a carriage driver.
“What is that?”
“I asked around a little while ago, and they said that they were driven here because of the chaos on the Karzan and Bolt sides.”
“Bolt, isn’t it just one knight who died? What’s going on… Why is Berman blinking?”
Berman blinked his eyes at me as if he was malnourished.
“Director, you shouldn’t say things like that out loud.”
Berman whispered in a small voice in response to my question.
“What are you talking about? That knight died because he got kicked by a dog?”
“Ahhhh! Aahhhh!”
“These guys are really sick.”
Berman interrupted my words with a strange noise. The gurgling creature next to him also helped him with a pterosaur-like noise.
As the two of them were like that, I lost the will to talk.
I changed the subject to him.
“Anyway, why Karzan?”
“It’s a total lawless zone there now. The biggest gang is in disarray, the other two gangs have crossed over, and there are stabbings every day because of it.”
“Guruk scratched his head and answered.
‘It’s become such a mess that there will be immigration…?’
I swallowed my saliva and scratched my beard.
Migration from here rarely occurred.
For most people, their occupation and life were determined at birth, so they did not change their birth name until they committed a crime or starved to death from high taxes.
But if that level of immigration occurs…
‘Didn’t you do a good job of cleaning up? The new guy you hired was smart too.’
I had various thoughts, but it was already in the past.
That was something your guards had to deal with, so I shook my head to dismiss the thought.
“Anyway, Yeongju is so happy. There are so many people gathered here.”
“Yes, I think your lord would like it very much.”
Berman corrected my words by adding the word ‘nim’.
He was a very cautious man, even though there were no nobles next to him.
“Time will pass quickly today. Open the door.”
“Yes, captain. Can you help me out?”
“gladly.”
Kuruk and Berman went downstairs, chatting away.
At that, I yawned and headed towards the gate.
Although it wasn’t very difficult to accept immigrants, it was necessary to clearly distinguish between those who had committed crimes and those who had fled.
I had to do an in-depth interview with him.
Drrrrrr.
The gate gradually opened with a loud thud.
Through the open gate, I could see the eyes of people full of anticipation.
‘I guess I’m their first impression of the Cassadic Castle.’
Originally, the first impression of someone you meet was the most important.
I opened my arms wide and smiled brightly, full of welcome.
And I tried my best to raise the corners of my mouth and open my eyes wide.
At that moment, the guys at the end suddenly turned around with disgusted faces and walked away.
“Whew… The pulley was stiff so I had a hard time. Huh? The number has decreased since before?”
I decided to think positively. Ten people left, but there were still forty people left.
“Okay, everyone line up this way!”
“Line up! Line up!”
I raised my right hand and shouted loudly, and Berman ran around and lined up people.
Berman had drawn his most effective baton against the medieval bastards, the ‘sword’, so they listened well.
I locked eyes with the man in front.
The man carrying a bundle of cloth gulped.
“name.”
“Bu… it’s Buris!”
“Are you married? Are you single?”
“It’s not Buburis, it’s Buris···.”
“Okay, what about your family relationships?”
“Oh… I’m alone.”
‘It’s true that they are a couple.’
Then I looked the guy up and down carefully.
It was hard to judge their age based on the fact that these medieval people suffered so much, but they looked to be in their early twenties.
“How old are you?”
“It’s fourteen!”
“Don’t lie.”
“yes?”
It was clear that this guy had suffered more than the others.
“Don’t show your condolences on that face. Pass.”
“···yes?”
The guy who asked back with a blank look on his face got hit on the head and then ran inside out of breath.
“next.”
“Hello!”
“hello!”
The next guests to arrive were a group of three, a couple and their children.
Seeing the carriage loaded with goods and even a donkey behind them, it seemed like the family had a decent living.
“Why did you come?”
“We are from Karzan. Murders have been happening every day in Karzan these days, so we were afraid that our children would get hurt, so we sold them all for cheap and came here. They say that only the gangs fight each other, but how can we trust them? That’s why we came to Castle Cassidy, which is rumored to be peaceful.”
‘Is it peaceful?’
I scratched my cheek at the word ‘peaceful’ in the man’s words.
There had been recent incidents of warlocks invading and demons kidnapping Youngae, but there was no need to tell the new residents anything they didn’t need to know.
It was like telling someone that ‘the water pressure is low.’
‘Still, it’s better than other surnames.’
“passing!”
The man’s forehead was shiny, so I knew he was sincere, so I let him pass. His wife nodded with a somewhat uneasy expression.
“Okay, next!”
“I’m from Bolt Castle···.”
He looks like he would work very diligently if he got hit a few times because his eyebrows are thick. He also looks like he would be strong as well because his body is thick.
“passing!”
“I was doing well in Karzan, but I’ve been looking bad lately, so this is why···.”
A plump chest and a face so pale from putting on too much makeup.
She was a woman who declared with her whole body that she was a prostitute.
I checked the area around the woman’s exposed chest.
Judging from the clean skin, it seemed that he did not have syphilis.
“passing!”
The woman smiled brightly and said thank you and that she would give it to him cheaper if he came back later. After thinking about the ambiguous meaning of her words for a moment, he waved his hand.
There’s no way I’d go to a prostitute without going crazy.
Next up were the guys with dirty impressions.
They were obviously thin-skinned, with fat around their eyes. Judging from the wrinkles on their hands, they looked like they were used to handling hammers.
“I came here after working as a stonemason in Karzan.”
His polite speech did not match his rough appearance, but it was clearly a smokescreen.
‘I guess I need to take an in-depth personality test.’
He extended his fist to see their true nature,
The guy who got hit square in the face collapsed, holding his nose.
The guy looked up at me with a pitiful look on his face, red blood dripping from between his fingers.
However, they only showed signs of confusion and did not engage in any unsatisfactory behavior such as rushing in or swearing.
“What is this···.”
“passing!”
The guys looked up at me with their eyes wide open.
“Pass.”
When I shook my fist, the guys ran inside in a panic.
“next!”
I waved my hands and shouted energetically, but there were fewer people left than I thought.
There were quite a few people going back that far away.
Eventually, out of the number close to fifty, half of them ran away on their own accord, and the rest were let in.
“I’ve been back quite a bit.”
“Please, they are the ones who are geographic.”
Berman nodded at my answer, but there was something odd about his expression.
***
“Hey, Zenta, are you okay?”
Stonemason Zenta nodded to his friend Brown’s question.
‘What is this···.’
Zenta was extremely embarrassed because it was the first time he had been beaten up for no reason by a security guard who was conducting a security check.
The guards on the Karzan side where he was originally were also rough, but not to this extent.
‘Did I come to Cassidy for nothing?’
He had no choice, as the Karzan he was in had become a lawless zone.
Of course, they fought among themselves as members of the organization, but he, a stonemason, was also a member of one of the organizations called ‘Cute Rabbit’.
In the first place, Zenta joined the cute rabbit group because he was fooled by its cute name. If he had known it was that kind of organization, he would not have come near it.
The Cute Rabbits were also an organization, but they only carried out violent protests to claim the rights of stonemasons. However, at some point, their nature changed to resemble a criminal organization, and this incident completely blew them up.
In the movie, Zenta runs away from Brown, who likes the bear picture he met in ‘Cute Rabbit’, and Gibbs and Karzan, who like ponies.
I considered Bolt, but I heard there was chaos there too, so I headed to Cassidy, which had the least amount of rumours, and that’s the result I have now.
“Maybe we made a mistake? You saw that guard earlier… That vicious criminal is being questioned by a security guard….”
Zenta nodded at Gibbs’ worried words.
Certainly, the man looked more like a vicious criminal than a guard. And not just any vicious criminal, but a vicious criminal wanted by the Empire…
“Let’s just stay a little longer. It’s absurd that Zenta got hit, but he’s not everything in this castle.”
The other two nodded with uneasy faces at Brown’s particularly positive words.
Even if it was strange, it was definitely better than Karzan. It was burdensome to have to live in a castle without any connections, but I was still reassured by the fact that I had two friends next to me.
“First, let’s find a place to stay.”
Zenta, whose nosebleed had stopped, stepped forward first.
Because they were so large, they walked cautiously, with their shoulders hunched over, to avoid bumping into passersby.
“But it’s really clean here. There’s hardly any sewage smell. In the castle I was in, I would step in sewage every two steps…”
Brown started talking about the past again.
In response, Zenta nodded slightly and continued walking.
“Come on- this isn’t an opportunity that comes just any time! All men… no, all men who are running, gather together! All the women who say their husbands are not satisfied, gather together!!”
At that moment, I turned my head at the sound I heard next to me.
Two men with similar, mean-looking faces were standing on top of the counter, shouting loudly. They looked like ordinary brothers, but their outfits were unique.
“Is that kind of colorful armor popular here? Orange and green armor… Didn’t those guys have red and blue armor earlier?”
The two men were selling a green powder that they described as the ‘man’s resurrection powder’, and it was extremely popular. They barely managed to stop Gibbs from following them as if he was entranced by the long line.
“Let’s go in a little further. The rent seems expensive here.”
Zenta looked around and said, and the other two nodded.
Then, for a moment, I took a wrong turn and when I came to my senses, I found myself in a gloomy back alley.
“What is it? The geography is a bit strange.”
Zenta had to take a deep breath when he saw the men on one side of the alley.
A group of men with tattoos all over their bodies, clearly part of a criminal organization, were gathered together and talking about something.
Then, Zenta exchanged glances with the two people next to him and slowly took a step back.
If I were to be robbed of my money in a foreign land like this, my future would be bleak. I could even starve to death.
Fortunately, they were not very interested and were absorbed in their own conversation.
The moment he felt relieved and was about to leave the back alley.
“Hey, you guys over there.”
“yes?”
Gibbs, who had no qualms, answered blankly, and they were dragged out and stood in front of the men.
“It smells like silver.”
“I told you that if Aaron gets caught, he’ll be defeated. Let’s just let him go.”
“Aaron is a bastard. Is Aaron here right now? These bastards are all scared.”
“Huh? Then tell Aaron?”
“Hey, you cowardly little punk. And you’re still my friend….”
They stood by Zenta and his friends and fought among themselves, raising their voices.
After fighting for a while, they sighed as if they had given up.
“You’re lost. If you go this way, you can get back to the center. Be careful, this kind of place is dangerous.”
A man with an ambiguous expression, whether smiling or frowning, gritted his teeth and pointed to one side.
“Oh, thank you! Thank you!”
Despite their appearance, the men were quite friendly.
He even took me out to the alley.
“I guess we judged too much by appearances.”
Zenta nodded at Brown’s words.
After wandering around for a while, they found an inn in a corner.
“Laughing rabbit!”
Brown’s eyes sparkled in a way that didn’t match his grim expression. Gibbs and Zenta gulped at that.
“But··· if you think about a cute rabbit···.”
Zenta showed a look of discomfort, but the other two’s hearts had long since fallen for the cute rabbit picture.
The inside was cleaner than I thought.
There weren’t many people either.
“Is it good?”
Gibbs, who was in the habit of speaking quietly for fear of bothering others, muttered quietly.
Zenta noticed him and headed to the most secluded spot.
Somewhere in the bar, there were some gloomy, old men sitting apart, and they were watching Zenta and his group from the corner of their eyes.
The strange emotion in their gaze was jarring. The incongruous sparkling eyes gave me a sense of oppression.
Zenta sat in a corner.
“Wow – there’s a lace-trimmed tablecloth here.”
“Look at that. There are some cute pictures on the wall…”
Zenta and the rest looked around the inn, constantly admiring the view.
yet-,
A woman came out from inside.
“Oh my, we have guests!”
A beautiful woman, hard to find even in the city, greeted them with a bright smile.
At the sight of the unexpected beauty, Zenta’s neck tense up for no reason, and the other two also straightened their bodies.
Their bodies were frozen and they gave stiff orders.
Still, the woman took the order kindly and went back inside.
It was from then on.
The men’s eyes began to shine with even more burden.
Zenta coughed in vain as the surrounding gazes seemed to be expecting something. The other two’s situation was not much different.
Brown had his head down and Gibbs was looking at the ceiling.
What broke the awkward silence that had continued like that was-.
“braided.”
He was an incredibly cute little kid.
Suddenly, a little boy appeared next to me and opened his hand wide. On his small hand was ice that looked like someone had been carved, and the sight was somehow familiar.
“Wow!”
Since they loved cute things, they couldn’t help but exclaim at the child’s cute appearance more than the ice cube.
The three clapped their hands repeatedly, and the child showed them, one by one, the ice flying, the ice arms moving, and the ice face separating from its body and flying into the air.
After the mysterious show, the child opened his tiny palm towards them. This time, it was empty.
Then, as if possessed, Zenta and the rest took out coins and placed them in the boy’s hand, and only then did the boy bow his head with a satisfied smile and go in.
‘Did you just get robbed by a kid?’
As I was blinking my eyes in shock, the endless stew I had ordered arrived.
“I said that the Infinite Stew is the best. Let’s put some of the things we brought here later. You know, that jerky.”
Zenta smacked his lips as he looked at the mouth-watering dark red liquid in front of him.
The infinite stew, which has a unique depth of flavor as time passes and each guest adds their own memories, is deep and spicy no matter where you go and order it.
Of course, there were times when it was too thrilling.
I was quietly eating my stew, careful not to make any slurping noises, but the stares from those around me were becoming increasingly harsh.
‘What, are you giving me the impression that I’m a foreigner?’
At that moment, Zenta felt mentally uneasy and his hands shook, and the bread he was eating from the stew fell to the ground.
The bread was so hard that there was a loud thud! Zenta was startled and hurriedly picked up the bread.
But the gazes of those around me strangely changed.
Only then did they realize the true nature of the gazes of those around them. The look in those eyes was anticipation.
This time Brown looked at the ceiling and Gibbs looked down.
This time, Zenta dropped the bread on the floor as if throwing it. With a thud, the surrounding gaze intensified.
Even the man with the unusually large belly shook his cup.
Zenta couldn’t ignore the heavy expectations and threw the bread on the floor several times.
Brown and Gibbs also threw bread on the floor to help him, and soon the hall was filled with a warm atmosphere.
Even the waitresses were peeking out from inside and looking at me with expectant eyes, so I couldn’t stop.
And that weird bread-throwing continued for a while.
***
Razbeth read the densely written paper carefully.
There was only one person of Marquis or higher rank who had a large mercenary force.
Ethan, who was ‘the king’.
The last king of the Kingdom of Byzant, who had resisted the Empire for over fifty years with the impregnable Iron Shield, but suddenly fell to the Empire for some reason.
A man who received the title of Marquis and came under the Empire when the kingdom was destroyed by the Empire.
He was also the owner of a large mercenary corps, as he used the remaining soldiers of the Kingdom of Byzant to operate as a mercenary corps.
The conditions of the client the man pointed out were exactly the same.
‘What on earth does that have to do with Ethan…’
Unlike Aaron, there was a lot of information about Ethan, so I looked into it slowly, but I couldn’t find the link.
However, Razbeth hesitated because all the rumors about Ethan, who was the king, were equally grim and evil.
Of course, the hesitation was not due to fear.
‘There wasn’t just one circle. The others were smaller, but there was a clear sign.’
It was clear that the person that Ethan, the ‘King’, was looking for was no ordinary person.
If only we could connect that string to other places too…
Razbeth, who was ‘blinded by ambition’, continued to use his head to somehow make what he had in his hands bigger.
at that time.
“I guess you have a lot on your mind.”
The voice I heard right in front of me made my hair stand on end.
He forced his stiff neck to move and raised his gaze.
A man with his head full of thoughts was sitting across from her, staring at her.
“I miss you.”
Razbeth desperately raised the corners of his lips and made an awkward joke.
When his eyes met the man’s, Razbeth bit his lower lip and avoided eye contact, feeling as if his insides were being pierced.
“Really? Then come tomorrow too.”
The man who spoke lightly, as if greeting someone, stood up from his seat.
The moonlight that struck his body scattered around as the wall behind him was completely obscured by his large body.
Because of this, his face was hidden in shadow.
“This is a gift. It’s a famous item at our Catholic Castle.”
The man pointed to the table, where there were two hideous buns.
When Razbeth raised his head again, the man was already gone.
– Then come tomorrow too.
A scratchy, thick voice filled my head.
There wasn’t much time. Razbet tried to suppress his uneasy feelings and lowered his gaze back to the paper.
‘But why do I keep going to the wall… No, wait a minute… Isn’t that the wall from yesterday?’
Razbeth turned his head hurriedly.
The hole that was drilled yesterday was on her back.
Only then did I realize that the hole in front was a new hole.
‘···If it comes three more times, it’ll collapse.’
To Razbeth, the man’s words felt like an even clearer warning.
He had to quickly change his plans.
‘First, let’s contact Ethan and infer from his response.’
Razbeth bit his lip habitually again.
***
‘Have a fulfilling day today too!’
Gillian woke up briskly and stretched her body.
And then he went to the table to fill his hungry stomach.
Gillian pouted at the two loaves of bread on the table.
‘It seems that Razbeth likes me.’
How many children will she have? Gillian sat at the table, deep in thought.
And as always, we took turns holding a piece of bread in each hand and taking a bite.
‘Bread tastes best when you eat two pieces at the same time… huh?’
For a moment, the terrible taste brought a hazy flash of consciousness.
Gillian carefully unwrapped the bread in her hands with trembling eyes.
Hidden between the large pieces of bread was a hideous fish head.
‘What crazy person puts pickled fish on bread···?’
Gillian looked at the bread in her hands and thought seriously.
‘But I have to eat two pieces of bread in the morning… If I eat this, I might die…’
at that time.
“Gillian, who eats two pieces of bread for breakfast?”
I heard Razbeth’s voice whispering behind me.
“It’s morning, so I should eat two pieces of bread?”
huh-?
Gillian nodded desperately at the cool touch on the back of her neck.
Gillian made a mental note as she brought the bread to her mouth.
No matter how pretty she is, I decided to reject Razbeth’s obviously crazy heart.
