Chapter 137 – Exodus (5)

The sound of explosions echoing through the valley at the right time sounded like a cannon for our escape. Alice and I hummed and clung to the sled, and Lorena, stepping out of the shadows of the trees, gave a friendly smile. I snatched her young hand from Alice’s hands and stroked her hair.

“Little boy. Do you like it because we escaped?”

“Don’t touch me, my child!”

Soo-in didn’t seem to like the kind words he heard from behind and the way I held his child tightly. It was because he spoke in an urgent voice even as he ran towards the village. I handed over the baby beastman to Alice again and said,

“I’m dragging quickly.”

“Shit! Shit! I will inform the beastmen that you are a traitor! I will never let you come to the North again!”

I smiled at the beast’s cry. It was Lee Ji-sun-da, who had to be prepared to be the enemy for the rest of her life, unless she lived as a slave to a gay boss for the rest of her life anyway. Whether Baara beat Drek-Cy to death and was enraged at my betrayal, he was the King of the North, and he didn’t even know where I lived.

“Do it yourself. Either that or not. I will go home.”

“Shit! Shit! A traitor child!”

Soo-in seemed to be more upset when I casually let go of the threat. Shit! He shook his head in a row, and his arms and legs were busy working for his son. The sight of him running lightly through the deep snow field made me want to use it as my exclusive sled dog.

The lights of the town were visible in the distance. The familiar sight of the snowfields I had seen before came into my eyes. Alice looked at me and said.

“Looks like you can’t really get your deposit back.”

He seemed to have remembered the sleigh deposit. At Alice’s words, both Lorena and I giggled and nodded to her. Suin ran until the lights of the village were close by, then stopped the sled in the direction of the nearby bush and said.

“We can’t go any further from here. Now the village is really right around the corner, stop it and release my child!”

“Ruler.”

I received her child from Alice’s hand and handed it over to the hand of the hand. The prisoner held on to the young prisoner and glared at us once, then slowly opened the distance with his back steps, then turned and walked away from him.

We waved his hand until he was out of sight. Then I turned and walked leisurely toward the village. Lorena fiddled with her short sword, looking back at the valley with her wistful expression on her face. Said Alice.

“Knife. I couldn’t find it.”

Lorena tried to pretend she was okay, she smiled and she said,

“I can’t help it. Because I didn’t have enough time to look for a knife. Evan will find you next time. Yes?”

After the weapons were confiscated, we couldn’t afford to get the knives back from the weapons storage. It was because the time to prepare the sled and escape by threatening the prisoner was a series of tight and risky moments even though it was pleasantly packed.

“Of course.”

I gave her a nod to Lorena, cheering her up. The valley in the distance spewed a mist of snow and faded out of sight. I followed the trail in the valley for a while and looked everywhere, then shook my head and headed back toward the village.

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“How did you come back alive?”

In the end, the deposit was never returned. The innkeeper was taken aback when we returned to our new selves. After we were taken away by the beastmen, the fragments of the broken sled returned to the inn with the hunters wandering around. The innkeeper, who looked up the identification number of the sleigh we rode on, seemed to think we were dead.

“Hey, if I hadn’t paid for the carriage in advance, I would have gone home with the carriage and the article flew away. Isabel must have fainted.”

Fortunately, the innkeeper was a man of loyalty. Even though he thought we were dead, he didn’t sell our wagon or send us back to our house. He had kept our wagon and horses until the appointed time had passed.

“Once upon a time, people believed that otherwise dead ghosts would cling to the inn. It is a kind of superstition.”

“Sometimes like this, the dead come back to life. Yes?”

The innkeeper chuckled at my joke and stroked my beard. At the inn, northerners who knew how to drive horses were waiting for guests while drinking at leisure. The innkeeper asked, handing over the key to his stable.

“By the way, what happened?”

“I had a fight with a boss who raped men and a 3m muscle imp.”

“I guess you’re good at joking. Heh heh heh!”

The innkeeper and I made eye contact and laughed out loud. Alice and Lorena sat at the next table, stretched out, and enjoyed the warmth of the store. After laughing for a while, the innkeeper nodded and asked again.

“Heh heh heh… So, what really happened?”

“It’s true.”

“…?”

The innkeeper looked at me with a mysterious expression. I took her key and stroked Alice’s hair.

“Let’s go. I really need to go home now. Tired of the snow and ice now. People should live by looking at the grass.”

“Huh. Dad. Let’s hurry.”

“I’m really going now… !”

Lorena was exhausted and collapsed on the table. I said, rubbing Lorena’s back.

“Get up quickly.”

“Ah Okay! It tickles!”

I squeezed Lorena’s hard back and she laughed as she twisted her body around. In a friendly atmosphere, the northerners with threatening impressions glanced at them and then turned around. We headed towards the stable amicably, clinging to each other.

It seemed that the carriage had been moved to the backyard of the inn. We turned to the inn’s backyard. The yard surrounded by bedrock and coniferous trees was sparsely populated. While the hired coachman brought her horse, Alice looked at the dust and frost accumulated on the carriage with a sad expression on her face.

“Oh, I’ll have to clean this up when I get home. Are the wheels rolling well? Wouldn’t it be rusty?”

“Alice. Look at this. Icicles are icicles.”

Lorena said as she watched the spiky icicles form on the roof of the carriage. Alice touched it with her hand and she laughed at the falling icicle.

“Really. It’s an icicle.”

“Walking out of the snow, is the icicle strange?”

Alice and Lorena turned their heads. I was sitting on the fence of the stable, yawning. Large northern men warmed up through the brush as they approached. They had weapons in each hand, and their shoulders were as wide as the Pacific Ocean.

The man with a stern expression said.

“Since we live in the North, money is very strange. It won’t do any harm. Judging from the wagon and their faces, they seem like people who live a little. Just give me a little money and I’ll step back gracefully.”

Alice came out and looked at Lorena. Because we are experts in this matter. Lorena shook her head and put her hand around her waist. I rolled up her arms and stared at the man.

Seeing our hostility, the bearded robber started laughing. Starting with his laugh, all the robbers around him burst into laughter.

Haha!”

“Uh heh heh heh heh!”

“Heh heh heh heh heh! See these? They think we’re kidding. We don’t like long stories. Think carefully. Just give us a few pennies and we can go comfortably with each other. Or, will it come out favorably after we give it a few punches? Uh?”

Lorena wordlessly drew her sword. Since the sword was much shorter than usual, she swung it in the air a few times to measure her distance. I said.

“Lorena. I’ll just take care of it. Huh? I’m going to rest until I go back and draw a new knife.”

“Still, I am the bodyguard.”

“Hey, those bastards, I can beat them all up even if I hit them just one night.”

A man resembling a northern mountain range seemed very offended by my derogatory remarks. He frowned and told me.

“A guy who looks like a parasitic brother… What’s up? This is the last time I can even say nice things! Give me the money!”

I saw the entrance to the backyard. There, too, stood a man who looked like a gangster. I smiled and slowly approached the captain. Everyone, including the captain, saw me approaching and started laughing at each other as if they were dumbfounded. On the contrary, the captain held out his face to me and even shook his head as if asking me to hit him.

“Ruler! Kid! Here’s a face! Hit it! Uh? Haha!”

Haha!”

“Uh heh heh heh heh!”

Haha!”

Laughter was heard from all directions. The captain, intent on mocking me, opened his mouth wide and began to laugh closer and closer to me.

Haha!”

I raised my arm. Everyone’s faces were full of anticipation, and I swung my fist.

“Uh?”

“Huh?”

The captain couldn’t help but laugh. His head was spinning like a top, facing his men. His jaw was crushed by his punches, and an avalanche of teeth rained from his mouth. Everyone was stiff

I told Alice and Lorena.

“There are too many people. Let us pull the wagon out.”

“Okay.”

“That would be nice.”

Alice and Lorena nodded, and I pulled the wagon by hand. The gang of robbers stood there, looking at me and their leader, who were standing in unrealistic shapes, alternately over and over again. I said to the burglar guarding the backyard.

“What are you doing? Move.”

“Ah yes.”

Robbers are kind to the strong. It wasn’t until we climbed into the carriage and were guided by the polite coachman that we realized that we had left the North.