Chapter 67 – Migratory Birds in Summer.

The man did not follow Rogi even after he left, but stood there looking at the place where he had left and muttering.

“…It’s also interesting.”
“It’s still a nasty hobby.”

There was someone who talked to him like that.

“Are you awake? Devalin.”
“I just woke up. Looks like you kicked out another guest?”

The figure walking out into an alley slightly brighter than the inside of the bookstore was considerably smaller than the man. He was the green dwarf who had been asleep when Rogi came.

“I would have guessed that there would be no business anyway and opened a bookstore that deals in magic books.”
“Ghmm, I know. I know. But don’t kick even the normal customers out.”
“I couldn’t help it. He was holding the book I was going to buy.”

Then, what he took out of his arms was the book Logi was about to read. Although he coaxed me into telling me about the witch instead.

“I’ve told you everything you might want to know, so there’s no problem.”

Then the man handed the book to Devalin.

“Ah, it’s a book about witches. It’s written about witches in detail, so it was quite difficult to obtain. It’s 91 fairy tales ago.”
“Give me seven.”
“With iron?”
“Few things are as accurate as those written by someone who observed witches by their side.”

The name Aeolus was written on the cover and spine of the book where the author was written. What other book could be as useful as the journal of a man who succeeded in mixing blood with a witch? The man recalled the letters he had found at the end of the book and let out a snort. He said, ‘I dedicate this book to my wife’.

“By the way, it looks like the kid from the guild that just came in this time.”
“Did the top come in? It’s a big deal.”

It seems that Devalin was completely unaware of the fact that the corps had entered.

“That’s right. Even on such a scale, it’s the top, so I want to insist that I pass through the wall.”

The man thought of the appearance of the top he had seen on the way. No matter how you look at it, it simply wasn’t something that could be called the top. Each of the knights is unusual in prayer, but there are dozens of such people. It’s safe to say that they are knights. And the carriages for going up were also made strong, but people who knew that the carriages they rode in were close to chariots, they couldn’t help but notice.

“I don’t know why the lord let them through, but there seem to be a lot of rare items, so I’ll have to go there at least once.”

The first visitor in summer brings good news. He didn’t believe in such a superstition passed down in Lantua as he was not from here, but this time it seemed that it might be quite right. Seeing Rogi’s reaction, the man couldn’t help but have low expectations.

“Hey, I didn’t expect it to sell like this since it’s only the first day.”

Donard marveled at the items that were sold out in an instant. Because it is difficult to exchange with other countries for various reasons, such as cloud regions, wilderness, and monsters, he thought that the items belonging to other countries would stimulate curiosity and help sell goods, but he did not know that they would sell so quickly. Even though it was the first day, it seemed that some of the wagons to which the goods were assigned were already closed and guarding the wagons.

Before he came here, he had found out the market price of this place with the help of Faryar in the mining town. As most of them were brought from far away and hard-earned items are also mixed, most of the expensive items here are still there, but people do not stop walking. A large amount of iron coins have already been put into sacks. That’s when Donnar was watching the smooth sale of goods.

“Why don’t you accept fairy tales!?”

I heard that sound somewhere. He let out a sigh at the sound of an angry man’s voice. Yes, even when things go well, things like that happen sometimes. His job was to deal with those thugs, so he went to the place where the sound came from and made an impression. Because the person the man was shouting at was Sif. Still, I listened to the conversation just in case, but the man seemed to be getting angry simply because it couldn’t be calculated as a fairy tale.

“Hey.”
“Ah! What are you!”
“If you’re going to interfere with business, get out of here.”
“Oops?!”

Needless to say, Donard threw the man down. The man wasn’t particularly weak. Judging from his rugged physique, he seems to have been trained, but he doesn’t seem to be used to fighting. The vague smell of earth and the farming tools around his waist made him look like a farmer. From his point of view, who was dealing with a dragon in the first place, it was a really cute opponent. I’d rather have a cute dragon.

“What are you doing! Call the guards?!”

Is it because he wants to be tough, or does he think that the people here will take his side? The man who had been slammed by him raised his high-pitched voice. He doesn’t even know how he sees himself around him.

“If you want to be taken away yourself. And we don’t want to treat you as a guest either. And let’s live with understanding the situation. Do you live without caring about how others see you?”
“…Sir!”

The man, realizing that everyone around him was staring at him, cursed until the end and withdrew.

“Are you okay? Sif?”
“Yeah, I didn’t get stabbed in particular.”
“Anyway, sometimes there are guys like that.”

You may think it’s rare, but if you listen to the words of a colleague who has experience in business, it seems that such a truth is more common than you think. Especially if it’s a woman who has no power like Sif, it’s especially difficult to fight.

“Ha, there are quite a lot of people like that. How many times has this been?”
“Wasn’t this the first time?”

There are quite a few places to help, so I didn’t pay attention to it. Didn’t this happen once or twice?

“Yes, other people came and helped, but since I keep doing this for that reason, I think I should get a fairy tale.”
“That’s because those guys are ignorant, don’t worry too much about it.”

Perhaps the reason for their quarrel is that iron coins are usually saved money. While other currencies often go down or up in value depending on the situation of the country or region, the price of iron coins is mostly constant. This is because iron coins are literally made of iron. Iron is used everywhere, and it is all the more so because iron coins are easy to use or collect in the country in case of emergency. Because of this, ordinary people had a tendency to save iron money.

However, I don’t know if it was because they were ignorant, but it was common sense and polite to trade with iron coins when a merchant company from another country came in. Copper, silver, and gold coins were not suitable for trade because the amount of metal they contained differed depending on the situation or policy of the country. On the other hand, iron coins are made of pure iron, so it is often used in transactions with people from other countries because it is enough to measure its value by weighing it.

“So, you can treat him with the thought that he stepped on poop, seeing him as an ignorant human being.”
“But doesn’t that make it difficult to sell things?”
“Don’t worry. It doesn’t mean that other people don’t look ignorant. And those people are people who have a twisted judgment and would argue if they had a small fault.”

She might be like that because Sif is a relatively easy-going woman, but it was right to think that she was like that because she is just the character of such people. If she pretends to be strong and strong, she thinks that the other person will get scared and do anything. Well, she wouldn’t dare do it in his hometown, but Sif has a particularly gentle personality, so she’s like the girls in his homeland…

“Oh, just imagining it is terrifying.”

That’s why it seemed like Sif had a lot of fights.

“Yes?”
“It’s nothing. I just remembered something bad.”

It’s so bad that it becomes traumatic. So he stayed by her chief’s side until her business was over for the day, and since then no one has ever quarreled with her. In the evening, when it was getting dark, the business was over. And the time to settle the amount earned during the day.

“Didn’t you sell more items than you thought?”
“So that’s what I mean.”
“I ran out of time to calculate.”

Donar looked at the records to report to Ermis, the owner of the merchant family, and added additional records while counting the items that were sold much faster than expected. The hailstones obtained in the cloud region also became an unexpected side income, and many people rushed to buy the goods as if by word of mouth. It must have been enough to arouse people’s curiosity as it is a very difficult environment to trade with other countries for various reasons.

“At this rate, there won’t be any problem if we start the auction tomorrow.”
“Already?”
“This is enough to be a problem if we don’t hold an auction tomorrow.”

I thought I would have to gather people for at least three days, but it seemed that the charm of being a product from a foreign country was greater than I thought. At the same time, Donnar glanced at the great wall of clouds in the distance. The barrier of the cloud plays a very grateful role in providing an environment for people and creatures to live nearby, but on the contrary, it was also a savage existence that blocked the passage of people and creatures. That is why trade between countries is particularly difficult.

The wilderness, which takes a long time to pass, is not impossible if you detour or cross it, but passing under the cloud zone was literally an act close to gambling. I can only say that they were lucky in their case. Then Donard waved at the sight of the happy children in his field of vision.

“Guys! Are you coming now?”

I could see Usher coming this way with Belka on his back.

After returning to the top, Rogi continued to sigh in frustration. From the first time he met Belka, he thought that she would not be an ordinary girl, but he did not expect that she would be a witch. Listening to the man’s words, it was not difficult to imagine that the girl was special among them. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to reliably defeat the sorcerer, Pan. He had never seen a mage use offensive magic, but he knew how powerful and dangerous magic could be.

At least, people from Paciphenia can’t know. They had to be wary of attacks by dragons called the king of monsters just ten years ago. Every time the dragons attacked, they rushed in droves and harassed people with their special magic. There were also rumors that the liquid that melted not only iron but also people upon contact, the breath that made people freeze to the bone, and the fire that did not go out even when water was sprayed on it, but rather raged, was hellfire.

The methods and processes were different, but the commonality of those magics was the fact that people’s homes, property, and lives were taken away fairly. Belka was the one who could neutralize such magic. He was the only girl he hurt.

“…Is it a witch?”

She wants to forget her now, but to get rid of her lingering feelings, he just wants to know more about her. Maybe it’s because his parents died by magic, precisely by dragons. He was a child to Rogi, but he remembered the scene clearly. His house collapsed as the dragon ran amok and the memories collapsed.

His parents, who were melting under it, giving off a sour, disgusting smell. But what he can’t forget more than anything else is the eyes of the reptile that kept watching his parents even though he could have killed them by trampling on them. He did not have the special ability to know the emotions of animals. Nonetheless, he knew. He couldn’t help but know The dragon was most afraid of the fact that he was enjoying watching his parents die in pain.

With such parents and the dragon in front of him, he ran away. He couldn’t think of anything. Because he only had the heart that he wanted to live. Thanks to him, he was able to survive. Instead, what was left was the guilt of abandoning his parents and running away, and the children’s words of cowardice and bullying. He was alone So he trained several times more than the other children and worked hard to become a knight. He becomes a great knight so no one can call him a coward.

He didn’t want to go through that again. He wanted it to be somewhat successful. Because he is stronger than anyone his age. But what about him now?

“Ha, please!”

Rogi dryly washed his face with a pained sound at the thought of the girl who kept coming to mind. He hurt the girl he dared to say he liked, the girl he wanted to protect, with his own hands. He really wanted to forget. Because that was the only way he could wish the girl happiness now. Then, when he heard Donnar greeting someone, he turned to see Usher coming back with Belka on his back. The girl on his back looks very comfortable.

Her heart broke as she rubbed her own face on her Usher’s back, so she turned her head away. Have to forget have to forget I kept thinking about it, but I couldn’t stop having different thoughts about the story I heard from the suspicious man I met earlier at the bookstore. What if, indeed, he had known beforehand how to do it and knew that the girl was such a witch? I said.

The moment when he was consumed by desire was so ecstatic and sweet that Rogi couldn’t let go of his lingering feelings. He’d rather go crazy, because that moment and the way he told me came to mind and made me think about what if. That night, he was so mad at the thought that he couldn’t fall asleep.

“Please stop.”

He asked, not knowing who he was talking to. He goes out for a walk at night to catch up on his complicated mind, but he can’t calm down. Then, when he heard a clanking sound from a little far away, Rogi was startled and hid in a carriage right next to him.

“Isn’t there something wrong here too?”
“Still, I have to continue patrolling tonight, alternating with the others.”

After a while, the voices coming through the door were those of Shalby and Odur.

“There’s no guarantee that people here are like that, but maybe there are people with bad intentions.”
“I guess so.”

And at the sound of them passing by, Rogi sighed, letting out the breath he had killed without even knowing it. I guess that’s why I grew up with the door locked. Then I wondered why the door of this carriage was not locked. And when he realized that there was a familiar scent somewhere, he seemed to know where this place was. The broken lock was also familiar. He turned his head to check where the breathing was coming from. Just as expected? There was Belka sleeping with Usher.

Seeing the two of them quietly sleeping in this empty space, he couldn’t contain his aching heart. Belka wrapped her arms around Usher’s head and held him in her arms, and Usher was also comfortable in her arms as if he were used to it. How could you not be upset by that look? He tried to pull her girl away from her Usher, grabbing her by the shoulders and laying her on her back.

“Omg!”

Belka was forced to lie down by him and looked uncomfortable in her sleep, but what caught his eye was the girl’s breasts visible through the disheveled dress. At first glance, the pink fruit could not be so appetizing. I couldn’t stand it any longer because it seemed to remind me of the very soft touch. He tried to touch her body, thinking that there would be nothing strange about it, since he had gone as far as he could, but the girl’s eyes as he was looking at him came to mind.

Her inorganic eyes looking at him with even the slightest resentment gone. Can he do something like this again and handle the girl’s eyes like that? Logi clenched his teeth and, instead of touching Belka, tucked her in her clothes. There was no way he could afford something like that. In the end, unable to do anything, he sat down on the bed next to him and looked at the sleeping girl. He just stared blankly.

“Are you Logi?”

Then, at the sound of the voice, Logi flinched. Even though he didn’t do anything at the moment, he got scared for no reason and when he looked back, Donar stood there as if he didn’t know why he was here. He looked at him, Usher, and Belka without saying anything, then gestured to him.

“If you can’t sleep, let’s patrol together.”

Logi nodded his head. He thought it would be strange if he refused. Donnar held out what he was holding when he came out. Something like a lumpy iron rod with a handle was a piece of iron usually used for riots.

“Do you know how to handle it?”

I couldn’t have known One of the first things you need to learn if you want to become a knight is to handle the iron, as knights can sometimes cause riots or subdue criminals. It’s not even a toy level for something like a dragon, but it’s a pretty menacing weapon for the same person. But what about his weapon when I hand him this?

“What about you?”
“Don’t worry. At least I won’t get hurt more than you.”

Well, the knight’s weapon is not one or two. He might have his special skills, but basically you need to know how to handle at least three things to become an official knight, and even if you’re bare-body, you won’t be easily beaten by him in full-body armor. Because they were patrolling like that, the two walked between the wagons. No word was spoken between them until the next shift. Donar sighed, hoping that he had cooled his head enough to grow up and send Logi back to the carriage where he was originally.

“I can’t tell you anything.”

There was something in my life that I had to keep in my heart no matter how heartbreaking and painful it was. The more you touch it, the more it hurts. At that time, I had no choice but to pray that time would solve it. If you think that even time can’t solve it, you just live with it as a painful lesson. To never make that mistake again.

If you’ve done something unforgivable, you have to choose one of the two. Either throw away the tattered conscience and put in a new one that only looks good, or live holding on to the tattered conscience. Still, he remembered the boy who cried and confessed his sin and confessed the real culprit.