Chapter 34 – Wanderers.

“What were you doing in a place like this?”

Said Usher hastily, realizing that he had been delayed in his reaction in disbelief that he was riding in a wagon pulled by that strange creature.

“That’s it! Belka’s down! Can you help me?!”

He must have been taken aback by the fact that he forgot the fact that the other person didn’t even know who Belka was and asked for help, but he spoke slowly.

“Try to calm down a bit. Is that girl behind you named Belka?”
“Yes, yes! Because he suddenly collapsed without even drinking water.”

Usher gave a gibberish, half-crying voice. The old man went behind him and put his hand on the girl’s forehead.

“Umm, the fever is high, but I don’t seem to be sweating… Is it heatstroke? I’ll ask someone I know.”
“Thank you! Please!”

The carriages following him left the road before he knew it and stopped in a large circle. As people started to get off the carriage and looked at them curiously, Usher got off his horse, looking a little intimidated.

“First of all, this word.”
– Purrung!

When the old man looked at the horse and seemed to be contemplating where to put it, the horse made a purr as if to say it was annoying and went to the side of the carriage where he was and lay down.

“You’re a smart guy.”

Then, at his admiring appearance, the horse snorts proudly. The sight was astonishing to Usher. I think it’s true that those words are smart, but I wondered what it would be like to know that she identified a woman and that she also had horns. Still, it was important to treat Belka now, so I hurried the old man who was distracted by the horse.

“Excuse me.”
“Ah! I’m sorry.”

As he walked past the people who seemed to be preparing for camp, Usher could feel their eyes drawn to them from time to time, making Usher very nervous. Yes, he had experience with the villagers, but for some reason, Belka had hardly ever met other people. He was wary of his surroundings, thinking that he might meet someone like Mac. That’s how he passed a few large wagons. Somewhere, there was the smell of sharp grass and a similar but different scent. The place where the old man walking ahead finally stopped was in front of a man who was setting up a tent near the wagon that smelled strongly of that scent.

“Hey, is the doctor very busy?”
“Eh, Mr. Ermis?”

The man was called a doctor by the old man, but somehow there was a bandage wrapped around one of his legs, and bandages were also wrapped around his head and back. The sight of him approaching the old man with his leg limping made him doubt whether he was really a doctor.

“Hey, is he really a doctor?”
“Well, even if it looks like that, the skills are clear. Don’t worry.”

He looked like a patient who needed to be treated right away rather than a doctor, so he knew it was rude, but when he carefully asked the old man, his skills seemed to be surprisingly good.

“Uh, uh, what happened?”

His stuttering to the end was very far from being reliable, so it only increased my anxiety. Contrary to Usher’s mind, the old man was accustomed to dealing with him.

“I thought it would be nice if you could look at the condition of the child this child is carrying.”

At his words, the man made a surprised expression as if he had barely noticed their existence.

“Uh, cheo, cheo, these are the first children I’ve ever seen. Oh my gosh, the children are bleeding…”
“Ugh! You man!”

The man stuttered his words so badly that the old man yelled, as if he was angry. But there was something strange about seeing it that way. He listened to their conversation even with his doubts.

“There are things to say and things not to say!
“Ah, ah, I see!”

In the end, it seems that Belka needs to be treated by this foolish man. Even when I looked at the old man anxiously to see if I could really trust this man, he smiled as if not to worry and motioned me to follow him.

“Now, ah, I’m still making tents, so I can’t. Come to the wagon.”

Usher listened to the foolish man and reluctantly followed him and got into the wagon that the man seemed to be riding. The inside of the wagon was as wide and shabby as its size, but it looked neat. At first glance, I was concerned about several people lying in bandages, but I heard the man’s words.

“Hey, hey, lay it down here.”
“Yes.”

The place he pointed to was a bed. It’s just that it’s a bit high, so he takes Belka instead and lays her down. He didn’t call himself a doctor for nothing, but his appearance looked familiar. But that’s for a while. I cried at his actions.

“What are you doing!?”
“Huh?!”

For he undid the girl’s front, shaking his hand. Let him huff in his angry voice. He spoke even though he stuttered.

“Yeah, yeah. Oh, you have to take off your clothes to put on the stethoscope.”
“Ah.”

Usher couldn’t hide his face heating up at the object that looked like a medical instrument that he took out proudly. After the treatment, Usher sat on the chair next to her and watched the girl who was lying on the bed and breathing shallowly without moving. The doctor said that it wasn’t something like heat stroke, but that it was just exhaustion and she fell asleep, so if she woke up after a little bit of sleep, there would be no problem, but maybe Belka was really sick and didn’t notice? I keep thinking about it. He could hardly leave her side in peace.

“Hey, that?”
“Why?”
“That, that child is waking up. It’s going to take some time, I guess. How about playing outside with the other kids?”

It wasn’t that he wasn’t very curious about the story that there were other children, but Usher couldn’t trust the man who stuttered.

“It’s okay. All I need is Belka.”
“The child’s name is Be, Belka.”

Let’s answer bluntly. He looks suspiciously at the man checking the girl’s name.

“Yes, what’s your name?”
“…Usher.”

As I asked his name, I lost my senses as he smiled like an idiot. It was still suspicious that such a man was a doctor, but he was not wary.

“I-I’m called Truss.”
“That’s a strange name.”

He laughed hysterically, as if he didn’t mind saying that the name he introduced was strange.

“Still, I’m worried. I’ll give you some blood and fatigue medicine.”

He pulled out a clear bottle from his bosom and poured a few drops of the liquid into the girl’s lips. Maybe it looked like medicine.

“Ho, could you get a bar or bar of water to drink from Mr. Ermis?”
“You can bring it yourself.”

Isn’t that usually prepared in advance?

“Eh, things like drinking water. Because Mr. Ermis manages this. I have to feed the patients. I can’t drink the radish or water used here.”

Saying that, he soaked a towel deeply in the bucket of water, squeezed it again into the bucket, and placed it on the girl’s forehead. Afterwards, the sight of him busily walking around, checking on people who were asleep while lying on other beds, saying he was busy, made me think that being a doctor was not a complete lie.

“100 million!”

Still, that didn’t change the fact that he was unreliable. As he walked, Usher shook his head as he watched him stumble and fall. Somehow he seemed to know why he didn’t leave the water with him. Usher left him, who had fallen, and headed for the door. He remembered that the man had called Mr. Ermis, and was trying to find the old man he had met for the first time. The wagon was tall for its size, so even this wagon required a small ladder to get down. Step on the ladder and slowly descend out of the wagon.

People’s gazes flew from here and there and were fixed on his cheek. As he looked at something unfamiliar or miraculous, he shrank his body in a burdened mind, and then quickened his steps to find an old man named Ermis. When he was walking in reverse the way he had walked after the old man. Something jumped out in front of him and strangled his feet.

“What!?”

He was in a hurry and his steps were fast, so he couldn’t avoid it and almost fell over. Unless someone supported him when he was about to fall.

“Little boy. Are you not hurt?”

The one who supported him as he was about to fall was a man wearing old brass-colored armor. The man who covered his face with a helmet up to his head was kindly asking him, and Usher, who was dumbfounded for a moment, belatedly realized the situation and thanked him.

“That, thank you.”
“No, it’s our child’s fault.”
“Yeah? What is that?”

He tried to ask what the man meant, but he soon found out what he meant.

“Hey man! Rogi! Where are you trying to run away!”
“Keeck!”

He stopped him, ran somewhere, and grabbed a boy by the scruff of the neck who was walking slowly.

“Are you even harassing a child you see for the first time?!”
“Mr. Wu! What did I do?!”

The boy struggled in the man’s hand, but he couldn’t overcome his strength and eventually dragged him in front of him. The boy I saw up close was dark-skinned and half a head taller than him. His short-cropped hair was stretched out randomly, and the brazenly resentful face seemed to say that he was a bad boy.

“Okay, apologize.”

Usher seemed to know what the boy would do from what he said. Just as expected? At his words, the boy glanced at him with a sullen expression, and then peeked at him with a sneer.

“Keep a close eye on your way around. Dwarf poop bag.”
“Hey! Apologize! Is that what you mean?”
“There’s no evidence!”
“I saw everything! You bastard!”

Seeing that appearance, which was no different from what he had expected, Usher stopped the man who was about to hit the boy on the head lightly with his fist.

“Wait a minute. You don’t have to.”
“Eh? But this guy.”
“Heng, it’s okay!”

His words puzzled him and the boy was confident, but no one could have predicted what Usher was about to do.

“Huh!”

Usher lifted his leg with a cheer, and his leg landed a precise blow on the boy’s inner thigh.

“Ohhhhh?!”

Maybe he didn’t expect it to come out like that, but the boy dyed his face white and grabbed his thigh. The boy seemed to take it lightly on Usher because of his small size, but even so, he was the most badass in the village he lived in. Thanks to Belka, his personality is surprisingly calm, but that doesn’t mean his bad boy temperament disappears. When even the man who saw the scene stiffened awkwardly. He said with a refreshing face.

“I think I’m fine now.”

Rather, thinking that thanks to that, I felt relieved, and I went to look for the old man through the gaps of people who were a little less unfamiliar.

“Hey, you seem to have touched it wrong.”
“Keuk, shut up.”

Ignoring the voices of the two people behind me, I searched for the old man’s carriage. Usher witnessed a strange sight.

“Huh? Over there.”

In the place where the old man’s carriage was, many people had gathered and were buzzing. Could something have happened there? Then he remembered the existence of the horse carrying him and the girl.

“No way!”

Could it be that the words were an accident? With a nervous heart, he intervened in the gap between people.

“Wait a minute! Move out of the way for a moment!”

When I crossed the gap between people and reached the inside where they were surrounded, I could clearly hear the voices of the people who were buzzing.

“What do you mean?”
“Danju said it was a horse that some children had.”

It didn’t look like the horse had caused an accident. They were just curious about the animal itself. It was the old man he was looking for who found Usher, who was standing among the people, not understanding the situation.

“Oh, you’re back. What happened to the child?”
“Thank you! The doctor says you’ll be fine after a good night’s sleep.”

Even if the doctor was not trustworthy, it was inevitable. It was true that he felt grateful to the old man, but he wondered why he had helped them. Still, he can’t believe what the adults are doing and if he just doubts it, he doesn’t make a very good impression, which is something he’s already had enough of in the village. Usher needed to look good for the old man who seemed to be leading the procession, even for the fallen Belka.

“Hey, sweet lord?”

At that time, a woman among the people came forward and said to the old man. The detailed meaning of the word Danju was unknown, but I could feel that the old man was playing the same role as the village chief.

“Who is that child?”

And the woman’s gaze turned to Usher. Let’s gather even the curious gazes of the people who have gathered. He got embarrassed He should have thought since he saw that the wagon is huge. He saw people pitching tents on his way here. Not all of the people from the wagons had gathered here, but they seemed to outnumber the villagers.

‘Really, it must have been the countryside.’

I felt that the village where I lived was a secluded countryside. He wasn’t shy, but with so many people staring at him, Usher felt nervous.

“He’s one of the kids I was talking about.”
“You said you had this horse?”
“That’s right.”

At the old man’s words, the murmurs of the people grew louder. It sounded like they were talking, but there were so many conversations that I couldn’t hear them properly.

“Hum-Hum!”

The old man who had silenced the people with a clearing of his throat soon beckoned to him.

“So, what did the doctor ask for?”

The old man asked what Usher had been expecting to come to him.

“Ah! He asked me to bring him some water to drink. He said the patients needed it.”
“Okay, let’s take this.”

Then he held out a covered bucket, and Usher, who was about to receive it, saw the old man suddenly collect the bucket. If you look at the old man wondering if he doesn’t like to give water.

“Well, it seems impossible for you to carry it yourself.”
“Ah.”

Usher remembered that he was smaller than most of his peers. Still, he had never lost by force, so he never felt uncomfortable, but he spoke faster than the old man.

“Look! Donnar!”

Let him shout someone’s name loudly. A man jumped out of the crowd. Usher opened his eyes wide in amazement at the man’s appearance.

“Yes! Elder! Did you call?”
“Can you carry water in the doctor’s wagon for this child?”
“That’s it, of course. Huh? You.”

He was an unusual man who had caught the mischievous boy earlier. As if they knew each other, the old man stroked his chin as if he had noticed.

“Have you already met?”
“Ah, yes. On the way, I saw a mischievous prank being played, so I helped a little.”

The old man nodded at his words and spoke to Usher.

“I’m sure you guys didn’t just wander around here, so if you have a bucket of water, I’ll give you some water.”
“Sweet Lord?!”

There was someone who raised his voice as if he was trying to stop him. Other people seemed surprised, even though they didn’t raise their voices like that. He calmed people down and winked at him. Usher went over to his horse, a little questioning why the old man was being so kind. It was to get the leather water bottles out of the bag the horse was carrying. When he took out a bottle of water and approached the old man, he could see that people were looking at him with a more surprised look. Why are these people doing this? When he looked at the horse with the intention of asking if he had had an accident without his knowledge, the horse just shook his head as if it was unfair, so he couldn’t figure it out.

“Now, why don’t you take your share of water and go back and prepare for the night? It’s almost time for the sun to set.”

At the end of the old man’s words, others began to take water one by one. Usher is on his way to the carriage where Belka is staying with the man he has attached. As the old man said, the sun was setting over the wilderness with a shimmering haze, and shadows formed in the irregularly sandy wilderness, making it look like there were sparse holes. The sight was one of the things he was most unaccustomed to here. If it were a forest, it would have been time for the sun to set. Even though it was setting, the bright sun was still shining on the land.

“You are such a strange child.”

As we walked along watching the scene, the man carrying the bucket alongside Usher said,

“Are you arguing now?”

When he glared at him, he flinched and waved his hand.

“Oops, I’m not allowed to kick four feet either.”

The man seemed accustomed to dealing with children of his age, and Usher had arrived at the doctor’s wagon after involuntarily chatting with him.

“Huh? Why is the carriage door closed?”
“I haven’t even pitched the tent.”

The strange thing is that the carriage door that had been open until he came out was firmly closed, and it seemed that the tent he was pitching had also been damaged.

“Tourse! What are you doing without setting up a tent!”

The man who put the bucket on the ground knocked on the door of the wagon, and at that moment. Cudang-bang-tang in the wagon! There was a loud noise and a small scream. Even though she had only recently met him, she seemed to know what was going on inside.

“Doctor, are you like that?”
“Oh, it’s a little stupid, but I can trust your skills.”
“Uhhhhh!”

As soon as he finished speaking, the carriage door burst open and the doctor was seen tumbling down. Let Usher stare at his man in silence. He whispered softly.

“Maybe.”

It was a truly believable answer.