Chapter 101 – 101. Affair

The Empire is the most advanced civilized city in the world.
Beyond the class society divided into nobles and commoners, the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. A city that has entered the stage of dividing the haves and have-nots.

Naturally, all sorts of entertainment was prepared for the haves. In the empire, if you had money, you could live a life like a king, not envious of others.

“Guest, how are you? It is 200-year-old Euggd-Briton fermented in an oak barrel said to be made from plucking the branches of the world tree, with steaks made from slaughtered cows raised on the empire’s best ranch.”

“It smells so good.”

“It’s a very rare item that there are few in the Empire.”

John spent money. He really did a lot of writing. He wasn’t my money anyway, and it was all the more so because he would give more if it wasn’t enough.

After all, he knew very well that even if he spent this much money, he wouldn’t have a big blow to the economy of the whole country, so he spent some things without hesitation.

And, of course—if you spend this much money, the flies are bound to attract you.

“Everyone, stay still!”

So far, there have been 31 attempts at pickpocketing, 18 blackmail threats, and 5 cases of bumping into the body and asking for medical expenses for injuries.

However, this was the first time he had been robbed with a gun.

While the people inside the store screamed and lowered their posture, Yohan exclaimed in amazement as he looked at the robbers.

“Take out everything you have! If you don’t want to lose!”

Armed robbers threatened people with guns they didn’t know where they got from. Fortunately, it wasn’t the rear-loading automatic rifles seen in the imperial palace, it was a flintlock that took dozens of seconds to reload.

However, it seemed to be already loaded, and even though it was only one shot, the gun was a gun——people around me were meekly putting down their wallets and valuables in front of me.

“What are you!? Fuck, do you want to die!?”

The robbers who were collecting money from people aimed their guns at John, who was sitting still without taking anything out.

John shrugged his shoulders and opened his mouth as if nothing happened even though he had his gun in front of him.

“I don’t have anything.”
“Then take off your clothes- you bastard!”
“I don’t like stripping in front of other people.”
“You know this is a joke-!”

At the seated John, the robber deftly turned and swung his butt. Skillful bayonet. When Yohan saw that, he realized that the other person was either a soldier or he was used to this.

Neither one of them would have been a proper guy—John slipped his head back to avoid his butt, and, standing still, struck the robber in the knee.

Staggering – John took the gun from the robber who lost his balance as if he was about to fall, and pointed the gun at the opponent who was aiming at him from a distance.

“You crazy bastard-!”

The moment the opponent realized that Yohan was holding the gun, he immediately opened fire. The gunpowder filled the inside of the muzzle was hit by a violent gunpowder and bullets were fired——and John pulled the trigger in the same way.

Bullets fired simultaneously from two guns collide with each other in the air, and the bullets that collide with each other ricochet in all directions.

In the midst of embarrassment at this situation where he was standing still despite firing a gun, John ran as if he were slipping and tripped over the leg of the last thief who was standing in a daze.

After taking the gun the robber had, he aimed it at the man who was standing there blankly. One gun had a bullet in it, but the other one didn’t.

“Surrender?”

When John asked that, the man slowly put down his weapon and raised both hands, as if he didn’t have the confidence to move like John.

John, who subdued the armed robbers in an instant, went back to his place as the police came and arrested them.

“…… There.”

Then, a woman who looked quite beautiful at first glance approached and began to hesitate in front of John.

John felt a very good feeling and joined her.

* * *

Seven witches descended upon the Empire.
They robbed people’s eyes in an instant, but they themselves didn’t care much about those eyes.

“Where is the location?”
“…… West.”
“It’s west…….”

Margaret left one of the witches alone and went with the others to the western end of the Empire. Since the size of the empire was so enormous, it was not easy to find it simply by knowing the direction.

After finding a location at the western end, they moved south, north, and various directions to locate John.

After teleporting six times, I was able to figure out, at least roughly, where John was.

“You mean in this city?”

Arriving at the city where John is, Margaret smiled and looked for a place where John might be. Being able to create a tracker, Rinne, who was with her, tilted her head strangely and asked.

“…… Why so.”
“Yes? Ah- why are you moving so inefficiently?”
“Yes…”
“That’s right—if we all reasonably figure out the location together, I can’t monopolize the disciples.”
“…… Yes?”

Linnaeus looked at Margaret with a twinkle in her eyes, as if she had heard it wrong. But she was sincere.

“Do you know what we are trying to do to divide the disciples amicably? No. Everyone wants to monopolize Yohan. And there is a good opportunity to monopolize the disciples like this——there’s no way you won’t use this opportunity, right?”

“…… Why am I?”

“You? You don’t have a relationship like that with your apprentice, and above all, you can make a tracker that can know your location, right? It’s safer with me than with other witches. Now, hurry up and find the location of the disciple-kun. Hurry.”

Sensing an incomprehensible madness and obsession in her eyes, Rinne began to move in search of John’s location with a tracker while shaking.

* * *

“There…… It was really cool before.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes. Because I almost fell in love with you at first sight? How the hell are you able to move like that?”

John let out a soft sigh as he saw the woman asking him a question. Yohan, who was lightly thinking about the correct answer to the question while slicing the steak, opened his mouth with a slight joke.

“Because I am a soldier.”
“Are you a soldier? A soldier can’t move that fast…….”
“I served in a very special place. I even entered the imperial palace once.”

Served in Korea. The imperial palace came and went thanks to the witches. However, the woman who heard John’s words did not interpret it that way, and both eyes lit up and clapped their hands.

“Imperial family! Then, the Imperial Special Forces, which had only been heard in rumors… Are you from the Royal Guard!?”
“Oh, that’s a secret.”
“Awesome……I am a member of the Royal Guard for the first time! After all, the guards have a lot of strange things, right? I heard that there is even a flying carriage in the imperial family!”

The woman said so, prompting John to tell more stories. Not yielding to that induction, John slowly recalled what he had seen in his world.

This world where there are trains and electric lights. A world with science roughly from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century.

Then it was almost obvious what to offer next.

“There are no flying carriages, but there are horseless carriages.”
“Yes? How does the carriage go without horses? …… Ah, the train!”
“It will be smaller than a train. But it could replace the wagon.”
“Replacing wagons, how many people are involved in wagon-related businesses…….”
“I don’t think the emperor would care about that. Don’t you care?”

The moment he said that, the woman in front of John put down the fork and knife he was holding. And he looked at John with slightly trembling eyes.

John, who wondered what he had done wrong, looked at her with a tilt of her head, and the woman took her deep breath for a moment, then cautiously shook her head.

“Mr. John…… Do you have anything to do tonight?”
“Umm—I don’t think there’s anything special.”
“Then, how about going somewhere like a room where the two of you can be alone? I think it would be better not to be in a place like this, but somewhere out of sight…….”

The woman blushed as she said that. Yohan had never experienced anything like this before, but he knew what the woman meant.

Yohan, who succeeded in hitting a home run even though he had never aimed for it, looked at the woman with a confused expression. Even by the standards of John, whose eyes were raised inexhaustibly by the witches, she was a very beautiful woman.

Considering that her makeup her was barely visible and she covered her flaws with it, she was at the level of a pretty woman. If it had been her other men her, they would have gotten her up straight away from her seat her at this moment and taken her to a hotel near her.

“I don’t like it.”
“…… Yes?”
“I’m sorry, but I’m not here to have sex with women.”

It wasn’t John. He ran away because he couldn’t resist the witches’ tricks, and he goes out and flirts with women? It was absurd.

However, the woman seemed to like Yohan’s attitude even more and she began to seduce him more actively.

“Why? It’s not that I’m going to do something weird, I really want to be alone…….”
“So, going to a place like that in the first place is-“

“—Stop.”

And at that moment, Yohan looked to the side with a stiff expression. Wavy hair with a slight purple tint.

A beautiful woman who was incomparable to the woman in front of him was looking down at him.

“Were you here, honey?”

Margaret said that and leaned on John.