Chapter 21 – Upper Escort

It’s something I always think about, but the night watch was the most fucked up thing in the world. To put it mildly, it was so fucked up that it could be simply and clearly defined as ‘the vigil was lost to the mother’.

If you feel that it is not a refined expression at all, you are mistaken.

“It’s like fucking a night watch.”

Ruler. Take a good look. Today is the day on which a vigil is scheduled. Then let’s lie down to sleep Oh, you’re fucking vigilant? Not only can I not sleep well at the thought of this, and when I barely fall asleep, it’s time to wake up.

Against the incredible drowsiness, he forcibly gets up, whips his drowsy spirit, and endures several hours under the name of vigilance. Then I wake up again, but when I lay down to go back to sleep after work, I can’t fall asleep.

Time just goes by. But I’m all awake, so I can’t fall asleep even when I’m lying down. The pressure to sleep runs through your body. I can’t sleep any more. Purgatory itself. Even if I somehow manage to fall asleep, the morning sun rises in an instant.

Doesn’t it make you feel like shit just by listening to it?

I was half-psychotic now.

“Be quiet.”
“Ah yes.”

Crackling, the bonfire burns. The night wind was cold. However, being close to the fire, I didn’t feel the cold, I was just tired. Since there was nothing to do, I gathered dry twigs and threw them into the bonfire as if feeding them.

It was quite enjoyable to see the flames roar with each wood being added.

The person who kept watch with him was a bald man named Turk, an employee of the Merchant Merchant, who was bizarrely reticent.

Only the sparse words to be quiet proved that he had not forgotten how to speak. In other words, he is as silent a man as he is without thinning hair.

I had to kill time for at least two hours, but since the person who was on watch with me didn’t say anything, it was just hard work. When you sit still and do nothing, time stops.

I looked around the patrol here and there and gathered dry twigs to try to pass over that silent moment somehow, but I don’t know. 30 minutes must have passed. I do not know.

“Mister.”

Unable to overcome my boredom, I spoke to Turk.

“Mister.”

But he didn’t react at all as if he were a rock.

There is a degree to ignoring people’s words. I had the urge to pick up a branch and poke my cheek with it. Of course not. Anyone who actually does that is an idiot.

“Mister, I don’t have time, so would you like to joke with me?”

Making jokes was a kind of drip battle. As if each other is dueling, each player hits the drips they know one by one, and the rule is that the person who runs out of drips first loses. It’s perfect to do when you’re bored. There was no penalty in case of defeat, so it was a game that could be enjoyed without burden.

“Didn’t I tell you to be quiet? You can’t see everyone else sleeping? I think they’ll really enjoy it if you make a noise.”
“Don’t you know anything about Isvant?”
“…”

Turk said that with a frown on my words, but I lightly ignored him and let my rhyme rise. If you say that you can’t spit on a smiling face, it will work out somehow.

“It’s a little bigger than Krasheim. Is this your first time?”

Turk, who was about to keep his mouth shut, could not overcome my persistent question and answered. This allowed him to communicate with the bald man Turk. It would be nice to ask for some helpful information.

“That’s right. Is there something adventurers can earn and live for?”
“Well… The best place to earn and live as an adventurer is, of course, Krasheim. It’s a town right next to the unexplored land, isn’t it? Monsters abound if you go outside the gates. I think it’s better there than Isvant.”
“Is that so? Is Isvant without adventurers?”
“There is, but the scale is bigger in Krasheim.”

Krasheim was the city I started from, and Isvant was my destination. After listening to the rough explanation, it was a story that Krasheim is better if you want to live by catching monsters.

“But if you’re confident in your skills, Isvant might be better.”
“Is there something?”
“There are still a few unexplored dungeons near Isvant.”
“What? A dungeon? Is there something like that? There?”
“I’ve never been there, so I don’t know, but I’ve heard that adventurers and wizards and the lord’s privates are flocking there.”

With that feeling, the hours of vigil had passed.

Turk was a very talkative man when it came to talking.

He managed to get some tips from him. By the way, it’s a dungeon… It was a story that was a little interesting. When it comes to dungeons, there were only bad memories of getting beaten up and squeezing out all the tears and mucus in the kobold dungeon when I was fighting, but now I can say that I have become quite strong compared to that time.

If you have time, I think it would be good to visit once.

“Sleep well.”
“Uncle too.”

After waking up the next adventurer, he laid down and closed his eyes. He thought he wouldn’t be able to sleep, but maybe it’s because he raised his body temperature near the bonfire.

“—Wow, fuck. The sun has already risen.”

Haven’t you been lying down for only three seconds?

In an instant it became morning.

“Depart!”

I barely got my tired body up. Total sleep time was less than four hours. I’m doing this to earn 10 coopers, right? From now on, I will never do long-distance missions. Anyway, isn’t it common sense that people work while sleeping?

Leaving behind such a terrible regret, the ascension continued.

I’m not going to go to the middle of the day, and I’m going to have a good time with my life. I think I’m going to fall asleep.

There was nothing left for me even if I lived here, but I couldn’t figure out why I had to live.

I have no idea when I will return to my alternative hometown, Earth. The hope that he would come back suddenly because he came suddenly one day had long since been exhausted.

I walked leisurely while overlapping my hatred of the world. I was tired from not being able to sleep, so negative emotions crawled up naturally.

It seemed that the castle would not be full unless something was broken right away. Poor people tend to be a bit rowdy, and I’m just that right now.

The break time came, but I closed my eyes for a while, and it was an instant again. I was very angry because I wanted to sleep a little longer. It was to the point of turning into anger.

Yes, that was the time

Around noon, the incident occurred.

—-Rurr!

It happened in an instant.

“Huh? Huh? Fuck?”

Someone cried in vain

At first glance, it seemed that he was a child with little practical experience or lack of immediate response skills that required improvisation. Feeling that I had been fucked the most, I secretly picked up a jjangdol and hid it in my sleeve.

It’s an old habit. Humans are surprisingly weak creatures that can go to the goal with a single stone.

“What are these bastards?!”

Another adventurer drew a sword and shouted.

In an instant, threatening-looking armed men surrounded the wagon. What are the armed men living in the mountains like? They were the famous bandits. It was hard to believe. I screamed in amazement at the absurdly fantastic sight of bandits suddenly appearing.

“Fuck!! Bandits behind their mothers!!!!! Fucked us!!!!”

I deliberately exaggeratedly shouted to alert the idiots who hadn’t grasped the situation yet. No matter how stupid you are, when you hear the word ‘bandit’, you’ll know that it’s fucked up.

“Shut up everyone!!!”

Just as the startled people were about to murmur, a bandit clad in a rather decent-looking iron breastplate exclaimed nervously. At those words, the hall instantly fell silent.

Is that kid the boss?

“What’s blocking our way?”

A middle-aged man in a green hat said that as he got off the wagon and hid behind the upper rank soldiers. What the fuck, of course he was blocking the way to rob a wagon.

“Don’t move!”

The bandit in the iron breastplate, I’ll call him the captain bandit for convenience. As the people on the upper level tried to move, the leader of the bandit shouted again hysterically. At that, everyone on the top side looked at the middle-aged man in the green hat. He quietly gave the order, ‘Stay still for now.’

The leader of the bandit smiled grotesquely and opened his mouth.

“Clean, nice to meet you guys.”

If you look at the atmosphere, what kind of phrase is English Hello friends? It seemed to be no different from casually saying, but the voice was that of an unpleasant plunderer, like overflowing rotten greed.

Hearing his voice his seemed like a surge of anger.

I must have been annoyed because I was still sleepy, but I can’t help but be angry because some idiots are suddenly blocking my way.

Anyone who suddenly goes through a shitty thing will be pissed off. I was terribly upset.

But even in the midst of my anger, I calmly looked around.

Unexpected development, bandits with swords suddenly appeared. It was an extreme situation in which there would be nothing strange about being stabbed and killed if one did not judge coldly and rationally. My body felt threatened for my life and sounded the best alarm bell.

“I don’t know my name. You guys need to listen to me for a second.”

The number of bandits looked similar to ours, and their armament didn’t seem particularly special either. Above all, the bandit in charge was the only one wearing something like armor. It just seemed like it wouldn’t be much different from a bunch of poor adventurers who decided to change their business to hunting people instead of monsters.

Overall, he looked poor and looked like he was fed up. Most of all, everyone was shorter than me. Growing up with proper nutrition in the modern world, my height is almost 180cm.

I don’t know much about the people of this world, but most of them were hobbit cubs smaller than me. What is the most important thing in battle? Is a weight class

To come to a conclusion, I thought that these bastards might be a bit of a dick.

I have lived my life arguing with robbers in back alleys.
It wouldn’t be much different from being a bandit.

“Hey. I’ll make a nice offer. No, should I call it an offer? You guys know the term ‘toll’? I want you guys to pay for it. No, you have to. Because this is our territory. “
“Tolls? What do you mean by that? You’re even the masters of this road?”

As the bandit leader continued to talk nonsense, the middle-aged man in the green hat asked curiously. It was sarcastic, but he didn’t point out the leader of the bandit. Rather, he responded with a smile.

“Is your friend in charge? Okay. You don’t seem to know much, so let me explain. Of course, this road belongs to us. Do you know the term ‘armed occupation’? That’s it. So you guys have to make a choice.”
“What do you mean? Did you have any other options?”

The top officer in the green hat narrowed his eyes and looked around.

It was a gesture as if he was grasping the power of himself and his opponent. The numbers are similar, maybe subtly different. What if there is an ambush? Defeat. At least that’s how I judged it. If you fight head-on here, you will suffer great damage.

“Either fight with us here and run it all over and take all our property. Or just quietly pay the toll and go off happily.”

The atmosphere of the leader of the bandit, who was talking with a smile, suddenly changed. Judging by his attitude his, it was not a skill he had ever hit with blackmail once or twice. He was a professional murder robber.

“Ah, of course I’m not asking for everything. How will I live if I steal all the goods from the merchant? I have that level of mercy. So, only half of the goods you have. If you give me just half , I will quietly pass you on, that’s it. In advance. “I’m telling you, if we all fight, you’ll all die. That’s why we’re making a deal. Do you understand? We don’t want to shed unnecessary blood either.”

When he said that, he crossed his arms and smiled contentedly, as if he had made a very reasonable and very merciful offer. ‘Cancer, by the way,’ he added, saying to himself as if affirming his declaration of his.

The situation was so fucking disgusting that I couldn’t keep my sanity any longer.

I was dumbfounded when I asked to listen. How can you be so proud of the subject of trying to steal other people’s things for free? Right now I’m trembling all over the place saying that I’m going to invest all day and earn 10 coppers, but what? Will you save me if I pass half of my property?

“I want you to choose quickly… I’ll give you one minute. You don’t want to die, do you?”
“Chuckle.”
“Come on, pay the toll.”

The bandits were excited and chattered. I decided to make a decision to save the country. No, I couldn’t stand it any longer. He took out the stone he had hidden in his sleeve his. I’m always thinking about it, but my pitching is equivalent to the magic bolt of a 1st class mage.

It’s cerebral, but anyway.

Get ready.

“Unstoppable!”

Shoot!

“Impulsive Dejaaaaa!!!!!”

In less than two seconds, I twisted my body like a major leaguer and threw the jjangdol with great power. The target is, of course, the boss bandit.

ㅡ Wedge liquid!

Along with a cheerful sound, the stone that drew a beautiful trajectory called a straight line flew across the ground.

“Huh? What else is that bastard…”

—-Bah!

There was a gourd popping sound.

— Fluffy.

That was the end.

The careless captain bandit couldn’t escape my slinging with a stone and received the stone with his face. Is it a facial depression? Perhaps it was an instant death, he collapsed without even screaming. In the vulgar language, “I went to the goal.”

“Kiyaaaaa!”

A strange feeling of pleasure covers the whole body.
An outburst of joy takes hold of my soul.

“Strike!!!”

A cry of victory breaks out. At those words, all eyes around me were focused on me. The bandits looked at them in disbelief, and the adventurers looked like they were asking what the hell was going on.

Having nothing to say, I drew my sword.

“It’s not the first time I’ve seen people scouring, what did you fall for looking at? These assholes don’t fight quickly!!!!”