Chapter 0 – 1. A Lonely Woman in a Village

-Gulp, gulp…

“After…”

The full canteen was exposed to the floor before I knew it.

“I’m just thirsty for nothing.”

I put the skinny canteen in my backpack and looked around. I couldn’t even see the town the peddler I met right before was out of sight, so I could only sigh.

Homelessness was really disgusting. She has been a wandering mercenary for more than five years, but she is never used to homelessness wrapped up in the name of camping.

No matter how thoroughly you prepare, the bare floor is bare, and if it is the magic items that nobles use, even homelessness is equivalent to glamping.

Blaming the fucking world, she walked endlessly in the direction the peddler she had met had pointed out, only to see a tiny flickering light of hers.

It was evening, and the sky was dyed red. If she had come a little sooner, she could easily have passed the fucking guards, but it was a pity.

As I approached the village gate, two sturdy guards slid their loosely held spears toward me and stopped them.

“What are you going to do?”

The sun was already setting in the evening, so it seemed that they had agreed among themselves to interrogate and put them in. It’s not a small town, so I decided to join the guards’ party because I thought it would be too bothersome to force myself and pointless quarrels.

“I’m on a trip, I’m planning to stay for a few days and then leave again, so don’t worry.”

Honorific words were essential because if you treat the village guards with respect, your shoulders will rise considerably and your neck will be strained. I placed the mercenary card and 50 coppers on the hand of the guard who was sneaking out his hand, and I put the same in the other hand.

“Thanks to Nari, a silver rank mercenary, we will have a drink today, thank you.”

“If you look near the fountain in the center of town, there is an inn.

It was a shame to give advice pretending to be patronizing, but I wanted to take a break, I listened casually and asked questions.

“I could stay longer than I thought, but is there any cheaper way to stay other than an inn?”

They put their heads together on the condition that it was cheap, thought about it, and then smiled sinisterly and talked quietly.

“There are quite a few people in need among the villagers. If you go straight from the fountain, there are houses, so go there. Hehe”

“Once you taste the windmill taste of our village women, you will keep thinking about it. Haha!”

It was quite useless, but it was a useful story, so I lightly ignored it and passed them and entered the village.

Rather than the size of the wooden fence or the number of guards, the village looked quite spacious and intact, and we passed by women fetching water for the evening and villagers heading to a bar to find the fountain the guard said.

‘Seeing that there’s even a fountain and torches hanging here and there, the village chief seems to be quite concerned.’

Beggar-like villages were often poorly managed. Apparently, this area is farther away from the city and the capital, so the environment is inevitably deteriorated…

The same 1 silver can comfortably stay at an inn in the city, but villages like fuck beggars used to show dog-like signs of giving out stables for 1 silver, so they would stick beggars into a trough.

I continued walking to the most remote part of the cluster of houses. At first, the houses around the fountain were packed with neatly built houses with no broken parts, but as we went inside, the boards creaked and we began to see houses one by one that looked miserable at first glance.

Then, a house that caught my eye caught my eye, and I stopped and looked around the exterior. The location of the house is in the most remote place, but the exterior is quite neat and does not look flawed.
The owner may have taken good care of it, but my gut feeling was that it had recently been forced to build a house here.

After consolidating her thoughts, she stood in front of the door with light steps and politely knocked twice.

-Smart

There was only one presence in the house, and I could feel it approaching the door at the sound of a knock. Hearing the sound of footsteps, it seems like they are running pretty rough.

-Kikkik

A woman carefully sticking out her upper body. I really liked her appearance.

Her hair, a faded golden color that seemed to flow down to her waist when unraveled, was pulled up to reveal the smooth nape of her neck for a country girl, and her pursed lips and defined nose were the typical hallmarks of a beauty rare even in the city. In addition, perhaps before going to bed, her thin beige one-piece dress exposed her curvaceous body in the middle of the night, causing quite a stir.

She seemed to have scattered it too carefully. She put her hand on the doorknob to cover her chest, leaned her shoulder against the door, and fixed her body, she said to me. A glance at her showed blue bruises on her wrists.

“What are you up to late at night? If it were her husband, she would be in a tavern.”

She must have known that she had come to her husband on her own business. At the words of such a woman, she lightly shook her head and said hello.

“Hello? She is none other than a traveler passing by. She’s going to stay in town for a while, but she can’t afford to stay long at the inn, so if there’s a room left, how many days can she stay? I can pay enough.”

He took her little purse from her bosom and gave her a glimpse of her. A little desire shimmered in her eyes, probably heavier than she thought, but she shook her head and firmly refused.

“Anyway, I can’t decide on my own without my husband, and the room is also small and remote, so it doesn’t seem like a good place for travelers to stay. She is sorry.”

If possible, he would have given up his mind and left sooner, but it seems that he has accumulated quite a bit, perhaps because he traveled alone for too long. Her wife’s voluptuous breastbone was pressed with her arms, but rather the appearance of being crushed and her flesh protruding through the cracks made it even more lewd. She couldn’t easily get off her feet at that figure, and her gaze continued to go to that majestic figure.

“I… Excuse me…”

Did you see it too clearly? The wife drew her arm around her chest even tighter and with her blushing face she spoke to me again. However, I sensed some possibility in that hesitant look. Despite the lustful glances of her burly male figure, her shy and responsive appearance was evident that this lady was also quite hungry.

Then, along with the sound of scratching the ground, a high voice came out from behind.

“Hey Boy!!! What are you doing in front of someone else’s house?”

When he turned his head, there was a man walking with an outstretched hand pointing at him and a limp on one leg as if dragging his foot.

He had already had a glass of wine on his face, his face was stained red, and he somehow led his sluggish body and limped towards me. As I stood still while glancing at the man, the lame man started to get angry as he poked his chest with his outstretched fingers and spat at me, perhaps because he was dissatisfied with me for not answering his call.

“Why go to someone else’s house! What were you doing by calling someone else’s wife?! I’m asking!”

At first glance, he was an inconsequential drunkard and lame man who wasted money and begged for alcohol every day. But I was deeply intrigued by the appearance of her wife, and I had a flash of thought and looked at the man with a smile. I grasped his fingers poking at his chest and forcibly opened his hand and turned his palm toward me, and the man whimpered and resisted.

“Uh… Uh!!”

Then he put the pouch he was holding in her arms into his hand. The man was taken aback, and the corner of his mouth went up at the feel of the weight in his hand. Then I said

“I was just asking her wife if I could stay in this house as a tourist. I plan to stay for a few days. Would this amount be okay?”

Excited at the weight he felt in his pocket, the man nodded his head and told me that he didn’t care at all about Mrs. Che’s doctor.

“Of course, stay at ease, Gash. Instead, pay for the meal separately. Hehe…”

“Wait! Honey, our only room is the bedroom!”

The wife with a pretty angry face yelled at her husband not once or twice because of her husband’s self-righteous behavior.

She must have been pretty stingy herself, that’s… She chewed the cud as she did, and at the end she roared out once more.

“Then you should just give me a room and take care of yourself. Where are you screaming! Sudden!”

She seemed to be trying to stab her hand, but she must have drunk a lot of alcohol, so she lost her strength and messed around once. She glared at her wife once again, as if that had inflamed her even more anger, and swung her hand as hard as she could.

I can’t just stand by and see an opportunity like this. I took a step closer and grabbed her wrist, tightening her grip.

“Keuk…!”

“I don’t want to cause a disturbance by making a fuss at night. I’ll talk to my wife, so come and have a good time.”

Unable to properly judge the situation, he smiled as soon as he loosened his wrist and only talked about a good time.

Judging from the way he talks and the way he behaves toward his wife, it seems like they haven’t mixed their bodies for a while, and it seems like the two of them have a fairly deep emotional rift.

That was a good story for me.

Shaking his aching wrists to relieve them, he shouted to his wife as if informing him, and limped back to his tavern.

“Anyway, you do it on your own, and I’ll come back with this money, so until then, treat your guests well!”

“Honey! Honey…!”

Maybe both the husband and the wife are just ignoring it somehow, but they probably don’t know that part of that amount is a repayment. No matter how insane they are, putting a strong man and woman in their prime into a room at night is clear evidence for anyone to see.

The wife’s body was trembling little by little. It must be a trembling of many emotions.

The fear of having to spend the day with a stranger and regardless of one’s will, the anger at the husband who doesn’t listen to her, the lust for herself by handing over a pocket with more money than the inn, saying it’s the cost of staying for a few days. The fear of men who see through their eyes. Emotions are like snakes biting their tails.

Her trembling increased as she reached out and placed her hand on her wife’s shoulder. But I don’t like the look of being stained with fear like this. In order to ignite the body of a married woman in her prime, it is necessary to make it burn with lust, not fear.

“Don’t worry, ma’am, as long as she sleeps in her bedroom and I have a place to sit, she’ll spend the day there. Her husband must be quite upset, but she should go in and get some rest.”

She really did raise her eyebrows as if she was concerned, and looked at her pitifully, and the trembling stopped. With the sound of her light sigh, the wife bowed to me and apologized.

“No, I need to make it comfortable for you to sleep like this, but my husband ahh… He didn’t do that before, but the years just suck.”

“She seems to have lived together for quite a while, but at first glance, she looks like her wife is 22 years old…”

At the obvious lie, the wife immediately smiled and shook her hand.

“No~ Now she’s looking at the age of 30… It feels good to hear that~”

“No, it’s really obvious. When I first opened the door, I thought it was an old couple’s daughter, so I was quite nervous.”

“Oh! Even jokes…”

The repeated praise seemed to subside the boiling emotions before I knew it, and I entered the house with a little skinship, such as gently hitting the shoulder or stabbing the side.

She lowered her wife’s guard, but it bothered her that she looked so obvious at the door earlier. Still, her heart was excited because it was a delicacy she hadn’t tasted in a long time.

I was so excited about how to cook and eat a wife who is ripe for ripeness in this house where her husband will not return.