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‘Ignorant medieval bastards.’
I clicked my tongue inwardly as I watched the three of them shaking their heads and expressing their anger intensely. Even though I clearly said that they were security guards, they showed no sign of stopping. I guess they thought it was a fine at best.
However, as if he had some sense left, he didn’t pull out his axe, but instead came at me, hurling curses at me. At that, I also took my hand off the handle of my sword.
The guy in front was a balding, rugged man. Judging from his thick arms, he seemed to be quite strong, but his arms were shorter than mine.
“You fearless bastard. You son of a whore!!”
The man immediately cursed his parents and threw his fist with all his might.
처음 부모 욕을 들었을 때는 심히 당황스러웠지만, 저건 용병들 사이에서 ‘개새끼’ 수준의 범용성을 지닌 욕이었다.
‘Maybe he’s really the son of a whore.’
Since I didn’t know exactly about this body’s family relationships, there was a chance that what he said was true.
Still, he must have been a guy who had fought quite a bit, so his stance when he threw his punch wasn’t bad. Of course, it wasn’t fast enough to hit him, though. I slammed my forearm down on the guy’s arm. CLACK- There was a terrible sound as the guy’s forearm twisted in a strange direction.
The guy’s face suddenly contorted, and he opened his mouth wide to scream. I grabbed the back of his head.
“Ugh···.”
Before the guy could start screaming, I had him face-first into the table.
Crazy.
The table shattered, sending up shards of red-stained wood and yellow, rotten teeth.
The guy right behind the guy who fell had an ambiguous expression of anger and confusion mixed in, as if he was bewildered by what had happened in an instant. His eyes were wide open, but his mouth was hunched over in a ridiculous way, as if he was swearing.
It was already a fight with momentum.
I took a step closer and swung my foot.
“Kkaaaak!”
My foot kicked the guy in the thigh, and his leg buckled in an unsightly direction. He let out a long scream and rolled around on the floor, clutching at my dangling leg.
The noise was so loud that I hit the guy on the head with a piece of wood that had fallen nearby, and it immediately quieted down.
The last one left was a guy with eyes that were turned upside down and looked like a weasel. The weasel looked back and forth between the two guys who had fallen and me with his mouth open. It was the kind of expression you would make if the wall suddenly collapsed in the shower and you were exposed to the public.
“Ah···no···.”
The guy twitched his hand on the axe handle, as if he was debating whether he should draw his weapon.
Light fistfights within the castle were tolerated as a way for the commoners to bond and for sport, but pulling out iron stakes had a different meaning.
“Are you going to pick it?”
I said, choosing a piece of wood of an appropriate size. The guy rolled his eyes and thought for a moment, then shook his head. Judging by his sad expression, he seemed to have made up his mind.
“Yeah, I thought about it well. Bite this hard.”
“Ah··· That··· What I just said to that woman was because I’m a mercenary··· It’s kind of a custom, you know··· It’s just a courtesy that mercenaries do when they see a woman··· I didn’t mean it··· It’s the truth.”
He must have peed himself, he smelled sour. His previous energy was gone, he looked at me with gentle lamb-like eyes and stuttered.
That sight was not particularly funny. It was natural for a person to become a docile lamb in front of someone stronger than them, just as water flows from above to below. The brave and noble people who overcame that natural law were already in their graves.
His gravestone will proudly bear the words, “He was braver than anyone else.” I don’t know if that will be any consolation.
I swung the piece of wood at the head of the guy who had given up, his eyes tightly shut and his lips bitten. Bam! With a loud noise, the guy fell down. The floor was littered with yellow, rotten teeth that belonged to one of the two owners.
‘Ignorant medieval bastards.’
Tsk. I clicked my tongue and gathered the fallen guys to one corner. They must have eaten well, they were quite heavy.
“They’re kids who haven’t even been around for 3 days···.”
Hannah whined as she picked up the scattered teeth on the floor, but the transaction was already over.
***
“···I’m sorry.”
The first to come to his senses was the weasel-like thing. He opened his eyes and faced me, and was about to scream, but he quickly covered his mouth with his palm. He seemed to be quite quick-witted.
I nodded to the side. The weasel slapped the unconscious guys on the cheeks so hard that it made a crunching sound.
The guy who happened to be there was swearing at the weasel, but when he found me he was about to scream, but the weasel quickly stopped him.
“I’m sorry.”
“···I’m sorry.”
He sat next to me and looked up at me as he spoke, and his pronunciation sounded funny, perhaps because he had lost his teeth. His arms and legs were twisted in strange ways, and he grimaced in pain, but when we made eye contact, he forced a smile.
“What did you say just now?”
“···to?”
The weasel answered in a very frightened voice.
“You said your salary was 30 silver just now.”
“That… that… is the nonsense you were talking about earlier when we were talking! I’m sorry!”
“Why 30 silver?”
“to?”
“Why did you think it was 30 silver?”
“That··· That···.”
“uh?”
“B… A guard I know from Bijantu Castle said that at a drinking party….”
“I’m 20 silver.”
“to?”
“I get 20 silver a month.”
The guy’s eyes widened at my answer. His expression seemed to ask, ‘So what?’ He was more oblivious than I thought. He looked like he could use mind control.
“I’m still suffering even after getting off work like this. Even the Byzantine guys say that their working hours are shorter than ours.”
“Ehhh… Is that so? Ma… This is ridiculous! You’re suffering like this! You sons of whores! You’re worse than the devil!”
“Right? Doesn’t that make sense?”
“···to.”
The weasel, who had been rolling his eyes for a moment, opened his eyes wide again as if he understood the situation when I gently held out my palm, glanced at the door, and sighed.
I raised my head and stared at the ceiling. I heard a busy sound from below. Then, as if someone had touched my injured spot, there were groans and curses, but I continued to look at the ceiling.
“This is a small token of our appreciation for the hard-working guards.”
When I turned my head again, the weasel was politely handing me a few silver coins and a few coins. He was an honest guy, and just as he said, he was really modest.
“Hmm. My eyes are blurry so I can’t see very well, but is this 10 silver?”
“That… That’s because we haven’t completed the request yet, so this is all we have!”
The weasel cried out in a desperate voice, but I didn’t even laugh. There was no way that those mercenaries who didn’t even trust their own parents were the only ones carrying around that kind of stuff.
“Isn’t there anything inside your underwear?”
“Th-how! Hmph!”
The weasel screamed in shock, then realized his mistake and quickly covered his mouth, but it was too late. I looked up at the ceiling again.
“pup···.”
Behind the softly muttered curses, as if spitting them out, a more busily moving sound than before could be heard.
“···Sob.”
I lowered my head as I heard the sound of her trying to hold back her tears, and this time there were ten silver coins in the weasel’s palm. Some of them were yellow and I was reluctant to touch them.
“Your sincerity is a bit dirty.”
Crack. The weasel that made that sound wiped the silver coin on the cuff of his pants. He held it out again, and this time it was all shiny.
“Okay. Don’t cause any accidents in the future. But if you can’t stand it and still cause an accident, do it where I can see you.”
I patted the weasel on the shoulder, impressed that he had escaped the ignorant medieval mercenary idiot thanks to my education. The weasel grimaced in pain, but it was none of my business.
“Let’s go and see.”
With a wave of the hand, the guys supported each other as they got up from their seats and limped out of the inn.
Seeing the man with a broken arm and the man with a broken leg supporting each other, it seemed as if their friendship was strengthened by their mutual shortcomings.
I expected them to say something like “let’s wait and see”, but they quickly disappeared without looking back.
I raised the corners of my mouth as I looked at the silver coins in my hand. I was really lucky today, relieving stress and earning silver coins.
At that moment, Hannah reached out her hand to me, motioning for me to hand over something.
“Three chairs, a table, some fancy food, three beers, and a cleaning fee!”
Hannah looked up at me with force in her eyes, pointing around the messy hall.
It was bullshit. The chairs were already broken and in the corner, and Brick had broken one of the table legs while dancing after getting drunk last time.
It was an obvious trick, but I gave Hannah two silver coins. Since I had earned this money thanks to Hannah, I deserved to receive this much.
“Let’s all have a beer.”
He said with a smile, seeing Hannah’s dumbfounded look, as if she hadn’t expected me to give her two silver coins.
“Waaaaaaaaaah!!!”
The hall suddenly became noisy when a middle-aged man with a potbelly in the corner suddenly stood up and cheered.
‘He’s always there when I come.’
I clicked my tongue at the sight of a fat man dancing in an unsightly way.
“···Aaron is now 50 Cooper.”
For some reason, Hannah blushed and ran to the kitchen, smiling brightly and shouting.
He seemed quite pleased to have received two silver coins.
***
“Aww… my head.”
“Captain, did you drink last night?”
Brick, with his round face, asked in a young voice.
“Oh, so you do the inspection today.”
He answered, taking out the leather armor he had placed in the corner and putting it on.
“Hahaha. When we worked together, didn’t I do everything?”
Brick came over to me, grinning brightly, and firmly fixed the leather seam.
“That’s called division of labor.”
“Oh, is that so? As expected, the leader is smart.”
“Are you being sarcastic?”
“Hey, no way. Oh, my mother packed this for me to give you.”
Brick handed me some bread with pickled fish in it. Bread with pickled fish… The last time I ate it, it left a fishy taste in my mouth all day. Just the smell made me feel like vomiting.
“You don’t have to do this.
“Hey, how could that be such a big deal? From then on, whenever my mother prayed, she would always mention the leader’s name.”
I wanted to refuse, but I would forcibly smile.
“Please stop by my house later···.”
“Arooon!!!”
Brick’s words were cut off by the sound of a pig squealing on the second floor. It was the captain’s voice.
“···Chief, did you have another accident?”
Brick looked at me with a worried expression and asked.
I wondered if I had done something wrong, but no matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t figure it out. I’ve been so busy lately that I haven’t had time to think about it.
“No? I didn’t have an accident.”
“Aroooooooon!!!”
“If you keep doing that, you’ll suffocate, Captain. Go ahead. I’ll go first.”
I nodded to Brick’s words and headed to the captain’s office. The voice was trembling as I opened the door to the captain’s office, as if it was calling me so desperately.
“Roooooooooon!!!”
“Yes, this is Aaron.”
As we entered the captain’s office, the captain’s cheeks were flushed red, and he sighed. It seemed as if he was gathering his breath to speak at length.
“I told you to be careful of your actions because I’ve been acting like a mess lately. But you couldn’t stand that bird and caused an accident?! You’re the leader, and it’s not enough to stop the kids! I can’t raise my head because of you! I can’t raise my head!! And those guys are just being so annoying···.”
The captain was furious, but he didn’t say anything about what I had done wrong, so it was hard to figure out what was going on.
‘Didn’t you say last time that you had complete confidence in me?’
This time, when I saw all the blood vessels in his eyes burst, it seemed as if all his trust had been blown away. Unlike his appearance, the trust in the captain was really light.
I just stood there blankly, and I made a lot of money, but I was thinking about going to District 3 to eat tonight. It was expensive, but District 3 was pretty good.
“···So you take responsibility for your mistakes! Got it?!”
“Yes. ···Yes?”
As I was thinking about being a little more greedy and eating in the second area, the captain suddenly asked me. I answered him out of habit, and then hurriedly asked him back.
“Because you turned the mercenaries you hired directly into cripples! Go to Bolt Castle instead of them!”
The captain slammed the desk down with a bang. Then, as if his hand was sore, he made a grunting sound and furrowed his eyebrows.
Only then did I realize what my fault the captain was reprimanding me for.
Yesterday, I kindly taught some manners to the ignorant medieval mercenaries who were causing trouble and received a small amount of money.
‘That’s… wrong?’
He scratched his rough beard at the shocking fact.
Why do they just ignore those who shit on the street and point fingers at me who did good deeds? These ignorant and spineless medieval bastards have always confused people because they have no clear line.
“If you’re going to knock them down, you should knock down the mercenaries hired by the Naeseong side! Just like last time! Why do you always beat them up when you lose! Don’t you plan on talking to them?! And if you’re going to beat them up, do it moderately! Turn them into cripples?!”
The captain looked at me as if he was looking at an animal and asked.
“Why do you have to say something so painful? If you hit him, he’ll become good right away. And considering that he was hired by Naeseong, the quality of the mercenaries is… If I had just sent them out like that, there would have been problems. On the contrary, I wouldn’t have been able to praise him….”
“Get out!! Take responsibility and come back!”
I felt like the captain’s face would burst if I stayed any longer, so I hurriedly lowered my head and went outside.
“You ignorant brat!!”
Something must have been thrown, and it hit the closed door with a loud bang!
‘Ignorant and spineless medieval bastards.’
I shook my head at the sound of breaking glass.
