Chapter 160 – Chapter 10 – Merchant

-Dagdak

After parting ways with Lu Xiaochun, I got into the merchant’s wagon and started my journey to the Demonic Church.

Although the time has been shortened, I have to ride a wagon for a few weeks, so I bought a book nearby to read in the meantime, but…

“…It’s going to be long enough to last with this, right?”

“Tell me when you finish reading. I’ll give you what I read.”

“Is that one too?”

“A person starts to go crazy after years of staring at empty fields without speaking to anyone for weeks.”

“…Ah.”

“It’s not a completely empty field, but sometimes something comes out.. But basically, it’s a land with few people.. There aren’t many villages..”

I expressed my condolences without words, looking at her eyes that looked empty somewhere.

“It’s a half-forced contract, but it’s nice to be with a person after a long time.

“…Isn’t it just a matter of making friends?”

“If I could, I would! It’s a problem because it’s not that easy to find someone in a similar situation!”

“Are you in a similar situation?”

“Yes. You can’t bring someone who was not originally related to the Demonic Cult into this job, right? You never know when they’ll stab you in the back and sell you to the Murim Meng.”

…But.

Hearing that, it seemed that making a deal with the Demonic Cult wasn’t all that easy.

“Then wouldn’t it be much better to just do business in midfield?”

“You only know one thing, but you don’t know two things. Traditionally, the greater the risk, the greater the gain. If someone finds out, it’s only going to be a big deal. From a merchant’s point of view, there aren’t many trading partners like the Demonic Church, right? I don’t have as many things to worry about when I’m in business as I do in midfield.”

“…Is it so?”

“Which crops grew a lot in which region.. What price went up or down because of a disaster in which region.. You have to pay attention to all those things and go uphill so you don’t make a loss… Is that easier said than done..”

Come to think of it, I’ve seen merchants I knew in the past rot their headaches with it.

Merchants aren’t just carrying around and selling things.

In order to get a bigger profit, you have to use your brain, and then the moment you screw up, you go bankrupt and climb into a pile of debt and ruin your life.

When I was running a fortune teller, I also had memories of having a hard time because of those people.

“In that sense, it’s not like this is a bad thing. As long as you don’t get caught, you can make a lot more money than most merchants just by driving a wagon and bringing things.”

“If you get caught instead, won’t you die?”

“…Actually, I have a debt because of the previous bankruptcy… I have to earn at least this way to pay it off before I die…”

“That’s…”

“I have to get married before it’s too late.. Who will marry a woman who is in debt.. Do whatever it takes to pay off the debt quickly..”

As the merchant said that, his shoulders drooped as if his strength had weakened.

…This person must have had a hard life in his own way.

Since he is a person who deals with the Demonic Cult, I thought he would have a special story, but he was a little surprised because it was more realistic than I thought.

While I couldn’t say much because the atmosphere of sympathy was formed for a moment

“By the way, how did you end up being called to the Demonic Cult?”

“Me?”

“You’re the only one I can talk to here.”

He asked me why I was going to the Demonic Cult, as if he suddenly became interested in my situation.

“Um… What should I say about this..”

“You don’t have to do it if you have trouble talking. I just take you there and get paid.”

“No, it’s not difficult.. Um.. Should I say that I’m being called because it’s so famous..”

“…”

The merchant who was driving the carriage turned around and looked at me with very unlucky eyes.

No, but how can you say that it is true?

If you’re not famous in the first place, how many times will you be called to the Demonic Cult?

“Well, I’d like you to go and have a fortune teller. I’m not sure exactly what you’re asking for.”

“…Dots?”

“You know divination, right? It’s like reading the future after roughly shrieking a few wooden boards.”

“Yeah.. I know, but.. That’s in the middle of the day f.. Suck!”

The merchant covered my mouth with his hand and looked at me as if he had made a mistake.

Maybe it’s because they think I’ll be offended by the fact that fortune-telling is a pseudoscience.

“I’m used to it. Never mind.”

“Ah! That, come to think of it, I’ve heard of it! A fortune teller who hides his face in bloody clothes, but mysteriously can’t see his face from any angle! That, that… There’s a nickname!

“Are you faceless?”

“Ah, yes. That’s it. I thought it was a merchant’s nickname at first, but I remember wondering why it was a fortune teller’s nickname.”

“Well… It kind of feels like that.”

At the time when I was given that nickname, I was quite a money-loving person, so it would have been natural for me to have a faceless face and a golden demon in the fact that I couldn’t see my face, which is the biggest feature.

Thanks to that, I still don’t like nicknames very much.

“Uh, I thought he was not an ordinary person because he was willing to give me a large amount of gold, but he was a bigger man than I thought.”

“…”

It’s not really the money I earned.

I thought it would make the atmosphere weird if I just said that it was the money I received from my girlfriends here, so I reserved my words.

What did you say when you said that you were luxuriating with other people’s money in front of a person who works dangerously to pay off debt?

“Oh right. Come to think of it, I’ve heard of that too. A few months ago, a fortuneteller saved the life of a swordsman and gave him a clue to the next level, and the middle court was shocked. It was you, maybe?”

“…You remember it well.”

“I can’t remember. But because of my job, I have no choice but to be sensitive to information. Come to think of it, after that, the news suddenly stopped, and there were even rumors that someone kidnapped her.

“…Yes?”

“Who are you going to meet? A high-ranking person? A great leader? An elder? Perhaps not the headmaster? Oh, the headmaster, no matter how hard you are… Because the headmaster is supposed to see you three times… No matter how you are, he wouldn’t carelessly meet an outsider. Then he’d be an elder or an elder.

…I think I misunderstood something.

I think I was mistaken as if I had a relationship with the Demonic Cult continuously.

“I also received the letter a while ago… And this is my first time going.”

“Oh yeah?”

The merchant was somewhat regretful.

“Then, are you going to go this time?”

“Maybe not? Unless I get kidnapped there.”

“…”

“…Why are you silent?”

“They are my grateful customers, but I can’t bear to say that there is no possibility of kidnapping…”

“…”

Would you like to turn the car around now?

“Eh, ayy, no matter how much they call them and kidnap them? Is there anything wrong with ruining people’s perception?”

“…Was there an image that would further spoil it?”

“…Ah! Even at the bottom, there’s a bottom! But then, next time I call someone, no one will come, so I’m going to take that risk?”

“…Wouldn’t that be enough for Jill?”

“…Uh, um.”

“Say something..”

“I wish you luck..?”

After that we didn’t say anything for a while and just drove the carriage in silence.

* * *

“Flora, look at this!”

“…?”

Sword Flora.

In her past, she was nicknamed “Her sword painting”, But at the words of Warstein, who called her, she swung her sword and looked back at her.

“It’s new clothes for this body! Does it suit you!”

I could see her holding onto her sleeves and showing her open arms to me while wearing the clothes I had never seen before.

“What are those clothes?”

“…Doesn’t it suit you?”

“No, it suits me, but the clothes…”

It was really the first time I saw it.

Somewhere similar to a mid-century outfit, but different. At least, a style of clothing he had never seen before in midfield.

No, this is more than a midfielder’s outfit…

‘It looks like the clothes people across the sea wear..?’

I had a vague memory of seeing it in a picture when I was being taught by a former teacher and an enemy who would not be happy to tear it to death now.

Although I don’t remember the name.

“…I don’t think it’s the clothes of the midfielder?”

“Hmm? Is that so?”

“Where did you get it from?”

“I found it by accident, but it had a pretty good design, so I tried it on.

After saying that, Warstein sat down as if leaning back on his throne.

Come to think of it, it seemed that Warstein and his subordinates had a lot of difficulty adapting to the atmosphere of the midfield.

Even when I told her her name was Han So-yeon, there were often people who changed her name to So-yeon.

That was partly why Warstein called me Flora.

Chinese characters are difficult to pronounce.

‘…From my point of view, that name is more bizarre.’

Sitting on his throne, he watched Barstein pouring red wine out of a strangely shaped goblet.

I pointed out that it was not a midfielder’s outfit, but it seemed that she had no intention of changing.

“Aren’t you going to change?”

“I already burned the clothes I was wearing before. It’s a caution not to have any regrets about the past.”

“Wouldn’t it have been necessary to burn it…?”

“Well, apart from that, I was thinking of burning it anyway.

“…!”

Hearing that he was going up to the ground soon, the hand that was holding his sword felt strong.

After dying and reviving, he received Barstein’s blood and got used to handling this strange power.

I can say with confidence that he has become several times stronger than he was when he was alive, but…

‘Teacher..’

-Kkadeuk

Against her, we still cannot guarantee her victory.

When she was young, when her martial arts achievements increased rapidly and she was full of confidence, she begged her master to see a swordsmanship that fully contained her skills.

Master’s swordsman’s swordsmanship, which I was barely able to see that I didn’t want to show it, begged me several times with childishness peculiar to childhood…

[-Passasak]

[Now, it is a state that you will have to jump over someday.]

Will she be able to recreate the feat of dropping the snow from the plum tree on the other side of the mountain with a single swing of her sword?

“…”

-Kkadeuk

‘Yet..’

Still far away

To snatch Yooseong out of that damn woman’s hands.

More power was needed.

Regardless of means and methods.