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Be careful of the shishi
060 ? Be careful of the shishi #2
I carefully followed Luna, throwing rocks on the park floor. After walking like that for a while, Luna pointed at something on the market floor with her fingertips.
“There, there it is! It’s him…!”
Luna whispered carefully as if she was trying not to be caught. After all, that guy probably knew Luna’s face, so if his location or identity was discovered, he might have run away.
It was a very wise move, not typical of Luna, to quickly call me over instead of doing the work alone.
Anyway, that kid.
I’m sick of it-.
I watched from a distance a man wandering around the market floor.
The conman, Rapu, was a middle-aged man wearing a loose, long poncho like the one I was wearing, with wavy light brown hair and a face covered in scars and wrinkles.
The eye patch over his left eye was a little different from the appearance Luna had described, so I think it might be a fake, worn for disguise.
“What are you going to do? Should I cover it?”
Luna takes out the Silence Totem from under her own robe.
Luna seemed to be itching to bash a man’s head in with her totem. It would be strange to be calm when you’re facing a con artist who’s taken your money.
However, the opponent is a villain with a bounty of 50 silver. He will not be caught easily by simply pounced on and captured.
Underneath that leather cloak, there might be all sorts of tools and secret weapons that I can’t even imagine.
Most hunters wearing such long robes are clearly planning some cowardly tricks, so it can’t hurt to be careful.
And we also need to capture the deer that he’s teaming up with. So it’s best to wait until he joins up with the deer.
“Oh, who is this? Isn’t it Samaritan?”
As we were following the conman for a while, someone spoke to us from behind. I don’t know many people in this city. When I heard a woman’s voice, I turned my head back in confusion.
The first thing I noticed was her blond hair, braided back, and her skin, which was slightly tanned with a reddish tint and dotted with faint freckles.
The next thing you see is a copper armor with a red cape, greaves, gauntlets, etc. It feels like a typical country girl swordswoman.
The sight of her blinking blue eyes looking at me felt quite familiar to me.
What was your name? Rene of the Sword Maidens?
“Luna is here too. What are you two doing? A date?”
“I don’t have time to deal with you, so go.”
Rene was interested in us as if he had met an interesting person, but I was busy with work and had no time to pay attention to him.
The reason was that the swindler Rapu walked so fast that he could easily be missed if he wasn’t paying attention.
If I’m going to miss it anyway, why don’t I just go and attack it now? While I was seriously contemplating that, Rene kept talking to me.
“Why are you so cold? We’ve even carried out a mission together. Isn’t it okay if you tell us what you’re doing?”
“I’m carrying out your request. Now, I told you to go.”
“I see, the request. The way you’re holding it low is one thing. The way you keep looking ahead is another. It looks like you’re catching a wanted criminal. Then it looks like this request was commissioned by the Coast Guard. How long has it been since you’ve been promoted to Bronze Tier that you’ve been taking on all these Coast Guard requests? You guys are more ambitious than I thought.”
I felt that Rene was more impressive in that he was able to come to a conclusion close to the correct answer with a meager explanation. It seemed that the vibe of his experience as a bronze tier adventurer had not disappeared.
“If you know, then go, I think I’ll miss it.
“It’s chilly. Well, do your best. I’m busy too. I have to go to the Deer Forest to do some trading.”
Luna was the first to react to the words “deer forest” instead of me.
“Deer Forest? What do you trade?”
“This armor I was using. If I take it off and sell it through a direct transaction, you’ll buy it for 50 silver, right? I bought it for 30 silver when I first bought it, but you’re selling an old one for 50 silver? That’s a total rip-off.”
They give you more money when you buy something you’re wearing. For some reason, I thought I heard a story somewhere before, but I just thought it was a coincidence and let it go.
So we parted ways with Rene and continued to follow the conman Rafu.
Without doing anything particularly suspicious or talking to anyone, the guy just walked somewhere diligently, eventually going outside the South Gate and strolling through the plains.
What was visible in the plain was a dense deer forest with quite sharp and tall trees.
* * *
The deer forest was dense with trees and grass. There were also many bugs and the birds chirping here and there were incredibly loud.
“Wow, there are so many bugs. They’re all money.”
Luna looks around and speaks with regret.
I wanted to move my body right away to catch herbs, mushrooms, bugs, etc., but I couldn’t because there was someone chasing us, so I seemed to be fidgeting.
“Let’s do that later. Why are there so many animal footprints?”
The forest floor was littered with trampled grass and countless footprints crushed by weight.
It had two claws positioned diagonally, which made it obvious to anyone that it was the mark of a four-legged animal, perhaps a deer.
“Hey, watch out for the deer, Hassan.”
Luna shook her pink hair tied into two pigtails as if she was remembering what had happened before. It seems like being eaten by deer was quite traumatic for her.
Anyway, that wasn’t the important thing. The urgent task was to find out where the baby Lapu had gone after disappearing from sight after entering the forest.
So I was looking around trying to figure out where the hell this con artist had run off to.
“Shh, I hear something, Hassan.”
“What do you hear?”
I tried to listen to Luna’s words, but all I could hear was the noise of cicadas or some other insect or bird that was making really loud noises.
“I can’t hear you.”
“Here, over here.”
After saying that, Luna started to move somewhere, lowering her posture and making a swoosh sound. After avoiding the path and weaving her way through the trees and bushes for a while, Luna finally stopped walking.
“There, there. He’s talking to someone.”
In the place Luna was pointing while hiding in the bushes, the figure of Lapu, who had been lost, was indeed visible.
Shiva, how did you hear Lapu’s voice from so far away? Does your physical abilities, including hearing, increase when you enter the forest? Because it’s a grass Pokémon?
I had many doubts, but soon I too began to listen to the voices coming out of Rapu’s mouth. Although I couldn’t hear them clearly because they were hidden in the bushes, Rapu was talking to someone right now.
“This time it’s real. It’s the virgin thing. Your situation will be better, my friend.”
Purruk-, pruruk.
So I wondered what kind of kid he was talking to. All I could see around Lapu was a baby deer. No, a person talking to deer?
No matter how many smart kids there are, this is the first time I’ve seen one that has a serious conversation with an animal.
“Wait a minute, I sense something. You too, get far away for now.”
At that moment, Lapu lowered his posture and listened to his surroundings. At the same time, the deer that had been talking to him disappeared into the grass.
Luna and I were so nervous that we couldn’t even breathe because the con guy was watching us from the outside. Did he notice that we were watching him from the outside?
Indeed, he is an adventurer of the same rank. It is understandable that he has been evading capture and committing fraud until now. He tried to pounce on me when he had the chance, but it is difficult to find the right timing.
The guy’s attitude was like a hedgehog with its spines up, and he never showed any signs of letting his guard down or taking a break.
“… Is there anyone there?”
At that very moment the swindler shouted into the grass.
“Are you the one who posted the trade notice on the guild market?”
A familiar voice came from somewhere, and a freckled woman appeared through the grass and spoke to Rafu.
“Yes. Are you the female warrior?”
“Yeah. You decided to buy armor?”
Shit, it was Rene. Rene was going to the deer forest to make a deal. Who would have thought that the deal was with a con boy.
“Is the armor you’re wearing something you can sell? Are you sure it’s the one you used?”
“Yeah, that’s definitely what I used to wear. I think I used it for about a year.”
“Then it must have been infused with mana and other things. Something like that is worth 50 silver.”
“You sound like a pervert. If you hadn’t paid me, I would have cut you down. Then give me the money first.”
“I will receive the goods first and then give you the money.”
“What, you don’t trust me?”
“We don’t trust each other. How about we do this? I’ll put my bag of silver coins on this rock over here. You take off your armor and put it on that rock over there. We count the numbers and run toward ours.”
What kind of trading method is that?
Even at first glance, the feeling that it was a scam was overwhelming.
As a boy who has been exposed to all kinds of games since childhood and has been trained in phishing and fraud, I couldn’t help but feel suspicious about those suspicious transaction methods.
“good.”
Rene readily accepted the offer and began to take off his armor with a clank.
That moment when my pupils dilated when I saw the sweat-soaked T-shirt and very short shorts that were so short that my buttocks were visible, hidden under the armor.
“Look, don’t look…!”
Luna covered my eyes so I couldn’t fully see the warrior’s undressing scene. At that moment, I was trying to quietly warn her what was happening.
“What is this, a deer?”
“Pop, pop!”
“No, fuck, fuck, you little shit! Stop right there!?”
With a loud shout, the sounds of bushes and branches breaking and moving roughly, with a swoosh, swoosh – begin to spread in all directions.
“Fuck, stand over there!”
Rene’s voice split through the grass with a panicked voice. I also pulled away from Luna’s hand that was covering my eyes and sat up.
“Fuck, let’s go after them!”
If I had known this would happen, I would have just covered it up. I ran for a while, following Rene’s voice that was so thick.
“Shit, shit… That’s so fucking fast. Shit…”
I found Rene resting with his arms against a tree, panting.
“What are you guys doing? Why are you here?”
“The conman chased me. Where did he run off to?”
“Fuck, you were a cheater. The deer fawn went to the left, and the human fawn went to the right. You bastards, just try to get caught.”
Rene drew his sword and shouted ominously. Luna made a proposal to Rene.
“Rene! You chase the deer! We’ll chase the man!”
“Fuck, no. I’m going to take care of that kid myself. You guys go after the deer!”
And then it was Rene who ran back to where the conman Rapu had run away and started chasing him.
Anyway, since we were part of the Deer Scam Group – meaning we had to catch both deer and men – it didn’t matter where we went.
“Luna, then let’s go quickly!”
Luna and I run towards the place where the deer ran away.
“Footprints! There are footprints here!”
In the place Luna pointed to, there was a line of deer footprints that seemed to have just formed.
Shit, that deer cub. I’ll kill that cub today and buy a nice leather quilt for Luna’s barn. With that thought, I too drew my sword.
Diarrrrr… .
Dearrrr… .
Aren’t there deer with red eyes and fierce horns on their heads jumping out from somewhere and starting to surround us?
More than anything, those damn deer fawns had long fangs in their mouths like Dracula’s and they looked really scary.
They look like huge, horned deer. Their eyes are more like those of wild beasts eager to tear at my flesh than the clear eyes of herbivores, which makes them even more terrifying.
Drool was dripping from its mouth. Its long head, with horns, was taller than me and its size was enormous. Its muscles were so bulging that it looked like a kangaroo standing on all fours.
“Lu, Luna, what are they eating? They look really hungry.”
“Deer in the deer forest eat anything.”
“… Do you know how to talk to deer? There’s some voodoo stuff going on.”
“How do you talk to a deer? Hassan sometimes says strange things seriously.”
What the heck!?
It was when I was so confused.
“Still, I’ll give it a try. I’ve grown up a lot these days, so maybe it’ll work out.”
Hit, hit.
After saying that, Luna trembled and approached the deer, which looked to be at least fifteen in number. The deer soon began to place his fingers on his head like horns and began to make strange imitations.
“Whoosh, woosh, woosh.”
Multifaceted, multifaceted.
One of the deer that saw it approached Luna. Shiva, is it really effective? Is it possible to communicate across species in this world? That’s what I thought at that time.
Whoosh!
“Gek!”
The deer swung its huge horns and went after Luna!
Booooow-.
Luna, blown away by that merciless force, hangs on a high tree branch like wet laundry on a clothesline.
“Lu, Luna!”
“Well… .”
“These damn bastards, how dare they not fear humans!”
My anger was so intense that it looked like horns were rising from my head, and I pulled out two swords in each hand and shouted.
“Come in you fake vegan bastards, I’ll kill the first bastard who comes in!”
As soon as that scream ended.
Multi-faceted, multi-faceted, multi-faceted-.
All the deer started running towards me at the same time, showing their antlers.
“Fuck, come at me one by one!!”
[Work Review]
Today I received fanart about Luna and Hassan..!! But the level is quite high so I can’t show you ㅠㅠ… I’ll just keep it for myself to see… Because I don’t know how to do mosaics or anything…
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