Chapter 22 – Chapter 3

“Oops! Wow!”

With the exception of a few runaway goblins, the Wolf Mercenary Corps, which had annihilated the greenskins, went on to collect loot.

Kaicent, who had vomited up from the shock of killing a person, witnessed the remains left by the greenskins and even vomited up gastric juices.

He was determined to see the corpse of the man he had killed.
I was prepared to see the ghastly corpse that had been hacked to pieces.

However, the greenskins showed cruelty that far exceeded Kaicent’s determination.

The traces of butchering human corpses and hanging them on hooks by upper and lower bodies, then cutting them into pieces and roasting them or boiling them into stews, was a very disgusting scene for young Kaicent.

The mercenaries must have seen this kind of scene many times, so they only frowned because of the smell, and they never vomited while collecting the corpses.

“Oh. Have you ever robbed a well-to-do house?”
“Do you have silver jewelry? It’ll be some money.”

The mercenaries, who had gathered the goods the greenskins had gathered, headed towards the wagon, feeling a pleasant heaviness.

Since the monsters or animals in the forest would dispose of the corpses, only the corpses of the greenskins who became naked were left where the mercenaries swept them away.

“Collect the heads in this box.”
“Hey, what is that?”
“Among the foods that greenskins ate, it looked the most normal. I picked one because it was amazing.”
“Crazy bastard. I’ll get sick later and scream for help.”

The mercenaries laughed and talked loudly as they pushed boxes containing goods and greenskin heads into the wagon.

It was a considerable scale, but the atmosphere was not bad because the victory was won without death.

“Aww!”
“Hold! Press!”

However, the mercenaries who were injured during the battle screamed while receiving treatment, and a strange situation unfolded where despair and hope coexisted.

“…”

Kaicent, who had been swept away by the atmosphere without thinking due to the series of shocks, sat in the corner with a dazed expression.

‘I don’t know what…’

After the battle, he doesn’t know how he got here, and he doesn’t know what to do now.

“Oh, here it is.”
“Fall in love with the maknae subject! Don’t come here!”

The mercenaries who found such a Kaicent dragged it somewhere.

Today, despite fighting a battle of a similar scale, there were no casualties, so Wolf released a few kegs of beer.

After the treatment of the wounded, he had to move, so he couldn’t get too drunk, but it was enough to enjoy the joy of victory.

“Since you’re a mercenary now, you should be able to drink beer!”
“Come on, drink!”

The mercenary poured beer into a wooden goblet and passed the handle to Kaisent.

The yellowish-brown liquid in the large glass made me wonder if I could drink it, but all the mercenaries around me were looking at Kaisent with expectant expressions.

“Well, then…”

Kaicent, who closed his eyes tightly and tilted his glass, reacted immediately as soon as he took a sip.

“Oops!? Fuhwaak!”
Haha!”
“Chuckling!”

Kai Cent, who drank for the first time in his life, created the reaction everyone was hoping for, causing a sea of ​​laughter around him.

“E-what is this? Can you really drink it!?”
“As expected, a child is a child.”
“Do you use this? I feel the world is bitter and sweet.”
“Asshole bastard.”
“Because the first one to get drunk can gnaw one tooth.”

When Kaicent, who thought he couldn’t eat it, looked at the glass with a rotten expression, Frederick, who was worse off, exchanged it for a glass filled with cool water.

“Kaisent, it’s water.”
“Oh, thank you.”
“Do you guys teach your kids good things?”

I shot at the mercenaries around me, but they also had their own excuses.

“Ehehe, it’s because it’s cute, because it’s cute.”
“That’s right. It’s a reaction that can’t be expected from those who are the worst in life.”

A reaction that could never come out between mercenaries who had seen each other all the way, and who rolled wildly.

In addition, he had a cute face, so he could understand why the mercenaries were mischievous.

“Kaisent. If you’re tired, you can take a break in the wagon.”
“I’m still fine.”
“I see. But if you feel tired later, go to the carriage and rest. If someone asks, I’ll say I gave you permission.”
“Yes, thank you.”

Expressing gratitude for Frederick’s kindness, Kaicent drank the cool water.

Thanks to that, I felt that his head had been washed a little bit, and I expected all the emotions and experiences he would experience countless times in the future.

‘I’ll have to feel this way for the rest of my life until I find my sister and get revenge.’

The feeling that something is being cut out of oneself.
The feeling of wearing down your emotions.

‘I feel like I’m not going to be…’

Kai Sent had a hunch that he would never be able to return to his old self.

It’s because I know what it feels like to end the life of a living being under one’s own will.

Beating- beating- beating-

And rejoicing in the joy of victory, his own body being activated even when he is still.

His own body rejoices in the struggle for his life, as if he had regained something that had been lost.

With this fight, I could feel that my body was being updated anew by gathering information so far on how to use muscles and how to shoot arrows to be more efficient.

In the next fight, you will be able to use your bow more strongly, accurately, and quickly.

‘I hated fighting so much… After all, I was also my father’s child.’

Kai Sent, who did not know that he would realize that the blood of his father who loved fighting was flowing in him in this way, poured all of his water into his mouth with a wry smile.

*                           *

After removing the weapon fragments from the wounds of the wounded and treating them with cheap potions, the Wolf Mercenaries started moving again.

The surviving goblins could lead the group, so the mercenary group moved while being wary of the surroundings, and after a few days, they were able to arrive at a city called Munratel.

“Whiyu.”
“It’s just squirming.”

There, mercenaries with the same purpose as themselves had arrived and made a camp outside the city walls.

The good seats were already occupied by the mercenaries who came first, but with a little compromise, they could camp in the next best, if not the best, seats.

“You guys make a camp. Frederick. I’ll leave it behind.”

It is a daily routine for mercenaries living rough lives to fight with other groups when they get together.

That’s why Wolf prepared for Frederick and headed for the castle wall with the mercenaries holding a box containing the greenskin’s head.

Although the greenskins are active, the guards of Munratel are simply using only the side gates that people can come and go by locking the gates.

This is because one day, suddenly, mercenaries can plunder the city.

Next to Wolf, who was waiting for the mid-length line, was Kaicent with an awkward expression.

“Um… Wolf?”
“Huh? Why?”
“I can’t be of any help here, so why did you call…?”
“Kaisent.”

Wolf sighed slightly at the sight of Kai Sent, who was far from his confidence, and showed a resolute look over the helmet.

Being timid, he suddenly fell alone in a strange land and was forcibly separated from Dang Seol-young, and his negative tendencies became stronger.

For some reason, Wolf couldn’t look at Kaicent like that.

“Don’t belittle yourself and look down on yourself. You have proven your usefulness with your own strength.”
“Go…Thank you…”
“The reason I came with you is to change my mood. If I’m with gloomy men, I won’t feel good.”
“That’s too much, Captain.”
“Right. Do you know that we were born because we wanted to be born like this?”

The mercenaries carrying the box grumbled, but Wolf chewed up the protests of his men as he sneered from the inside of his helmet.

“If you receive a bounty, I’ll give you your share. As the mercenaries flocked, the merchants must have brought a lot of products, so take a look.”
“Yes!”

Kaisent responded energetically to see if he was excited about the fact that he could earn money through his own efforts and buy the things he wanted.

After a while, the party, who showed the guards that they were mercenaries by showing the greenskin’s neck, entered the city.

“””””It’s a lot of poryangchi here!”””””
“Ugh…!”

As soon as they enter the city, people on the roadside talk about something to the mercenaries.

The sound they uttered all at once made it an incomprehensible sentence.

However, Wolf and the others skillfully ignored this and moved on, as if they were accustomed to such things.

“Sir! Is this your first time in this city!? If you give me 10 fairy tales, I will tell you the location of the mercenary guild and all the hidden restaurants in this city!”

Boys about the same age as Kaisent solicit customers, promising to be guides.

Even at a glance, he looks skinny and tangled, and despite his young age, it seems that he has lived a rough life without any protection.

‘If it wasn’t for Wolf, he might have starved to death long ago.’

I can imagine starving to death without having the energy to live like that, and not even being given the opportunity to utilize knowledge as age becomes an obstacle.

“Move.”

Unlike when he was dealing with Kaicent, Wolf was cold and kicked the boys out with a ruthless voice.

No matter how many times he had been here before, he followed the path toward the mercenary guild without hesitation.

“Kaisent. Don’t try to help those kids because they’re pitiful. If you help them once, they’ll try to beg again and again.”
“And if you’re alone, you’re sure to pull it into a trap and try to take the money.”
“When you get close, suspect the pickpocket first.”

When Wolf started to cry, the other mercenaries also warned him and advised him not to act on hasty sympathy.

As proof, the mercenaries who did not carry the box were chasing away the children approaching as if escorting their colleagues with the box.

‘This world… I can’t afford it…’

A system that helps immature children or the weak seems natural, but it is possible only when the country has room for it.

If a country has no money and can afford it, the first to die is the poor and weak.

Ignoring the children of her age who looked at Kaicent with envy and jealous eyes, she followed after Wolf.

Creepy-

“Hehe!?”

At that time, Kai Sent, who felt the chills that sounded a warning through his whole body, unknowingly straightened his spine and looked around.

“Puhahaha. What are you doing?”
“Did you step on anything strange?”
“It’s like heheuk, heheuk! Cheekikikick!”

The mercenaries who didn’t feel anything giggled and laughed at Kaisent’s cute scream.

“Why?”
“Ah, no… I feel like something… Creepy bugs have passed me by.

People sometimes get chills for no reason in their lives, so everyone ignored it, thinking it was such a case.

‘I felt a disgusting feeling that I had never felt before. Could it be that they are jealous of me?’

It was the first sensation he felt, so Kaicent, who couldn’t figure out his identity, passed on, thinking it was jealousy from his peers.

*                           *

Wolf’s party, who went to the mercenary guild and exchanged the heads of the greenskins, each received a mission and moved together as a group.

It is to check the market price of this place to see if it is okay to sell the looted goods.

I wouldn’t know if it was usual, but many mercenaries would have bought and sold this and that, so checking what the market price was was a necessary thing as a leader leading a hundred or so mercenaries.

“Uh… Wolf?”
“Why?”

And Kaisent, who moved with Wolf, couldn’t hide his embarrassment because the rats would get entangled if he was alone.

“I don’t think this amount of money should be returned to me at the level of exchange received earlier…?”

The heaviness of the pocket containing 3 silver coins and 40 copper coins feels uneasy.

“You are the master of what you have done so far. Think of it as a reward for your hard work, from chores to cooking to accounting.”
“Then I’ll be grateful.”

I know very well how meticulous Wolf, who runs the mercenaries, is with money.

If he gave the money because he thought it was fair, he wouldn’t have to be burdened.

‘What shall I buy with this?’

Until now, as long as I told my older sisters, they would bring me everything.

If they wanted to have a certain product that only came from a certain planet, they would buy the entire planet or, in severe cases, even wage an aggression war to present the whole system as a gift.

He wouldn’t be able to buy expensive things with this money, but thinking that he earned it himself, he was much more excited and happy than when his sisters gave him gifts.

Kaicent, who tasted the value of money for the first time, began to look for things he wanted to buy with excitement.

The first thing he did was check the vegetable or bread vendors to see the value of his money.

’24 fairy tales in a bundle of cheap vegetables. Black bread is the 8th fairy tale. It’s probably more expensive than usual because of the mercenaries.’

Invasion by the greenskins, mercenaries flocked to the price of food must have become more expensive than usual.

Considering that, Kaicent, who figured out the value of his money, knew that it was a large amount of money that was not easily obtained at his age.

Lastly, the amount requested by the children who wanted to become guides was 10 Dong, so this amount could be regarded as proof of the trust Wolf had shown himself.

‘What I have to buy with this… Is that right?’