episode_0081

Surprisingly, it was thanks to Fran’s great performance that I realized the seriousness of the situation.

“Uncle, I have something to tell you.”

After the somewhat embarrassing reunion day, Fran stopped by my general store from time to time.

When I asked if he was here on business, he didn’t answer, but said he bought it because it looked delicious and brought me food.

“What else did I buy today?”

I said this because I thought they would have bought food like other times.

He was taken to the military and came back after missionary work for a lot of soldiers, and it seemed like the life of the church had improved a lot.

Think about it.

Every single soldier he saved was a noble.

What if they made an offering for the franc?

‘It’s worth noting that life will get better.’

While I was thinking these thoughts, Fran dropped a large bomb.

“There’s someone targeting you.”

“what?”

Are you targeting me?

It was a story that was hard to believe.

How can you know and target me?

There are no bad relationships built up while working as a mercenary.

‘Because those bastards are already gone.’

To begin with, I wasn’t the type of person to build a deep relationship with someone.

“It seems like he deliberately targeted a woman to target the man.”

“female?”

Where’s the girl for me?

“Who did you name? I don’t know any girl in particular.”

If I’m involved with a woman, shouldn’t I at least know the woman I’m involved with?

But I don’t really have a connection with any woman.

Of course the SSR kids I summoned wouldn’t fall into that category, right?

And when I heard about him targeting a general store owner and seducing a woman, it was absurd and only made me laugh.

“Besides, what’s the point of attaching a woman to the owner of a general store? Are you targeting this old general store?”

“I don’t think so. I don’t know why, but I’m sure they were targeting you. Do you remember the woman I ran into last time?”

“Woman? Ah, that strange woman.”

Since I couldn’t call her a prostitute in front of her, I just casually mentioned it.

“That’s what I heard from him.”

Is that what you heard from that woman?

“You talked to her? Somewhere without me?”

How is that possible?

No matter how much I think about it, there is no reason for Fran to get involved with a woman like that.

“Actually, I went looking for it.”

“Why there?”

“Sisters at the church were making bad choices, and I helped them get back on the right path.”

“Did you really follow him there and spread the word?”

Since I call him Fran these days, he may seem normal, but you must never let down your guard.

He is a Domingeul who goes around doing missionary work.

I didn’t know I would go there and do that, but it was light years.

It seems like he didn’t go anywhere with his old habits and instead became obsessed with that woman and visited her place of work.

“I have to go wherever I am needed.”

“Then it must have been her who tried to seduce me.”

In the process of proselytizing that woman, Fran must have heard about me.

“yes that’s right.”

“Who ordered it?”

“They say they don’t know that either. They say they just crossed over and received the request. Even if they try to find out, they won’t be able to contact the person who actually submitted the request.”

“She probably doesn’t want to take that big of a risk for me in the first place.”

I felt uneasy that someone was targeting me, but finding out their identity right away seemed impossible.

But just knowing that someone was targeting me was a huge accomplishment.

Isn’t this information obtained for free by staying still?

‘What kind of bastard is it?’

After retiring as a mercenary, I came here without leaving a trace as much as possible.

Since I wasn’t actively involved in outside activities, it was impossible for any grudges I might have to find me already.

“First of all, thank you for letting me know. Thanks to you, I know that this is a situation where I need to be careful, so it’s okay. Don’t meddle too much anymore and do your job.”

The criminal returns to the scene of the crime.

Targeting me meant that it would get close to me at some point.

I tried to hook her up with me, but things didn’t go as planned, so why not try to touch her in another way?

‘There is no need to rush. If you wait quietly, it will automatically roll into my territory.’

Fran seemed to find it strange that he reacted more calmly than I expected.

“Aren’t you surprised? I was very surprised to hear this. And if I can, I’m happy to help.”

“I don’t know where the resentment came from, but when you live as a mercenary, you face all sorts of things. This level is not a big deal.”

It was a shameful thing to be scared at this level and get help from Fran.

Even if you hear people telling you to get off your ass, you won’t have anything to say.

Moreover, isn’t the trick they pulled at the level of trying to flirt with a woman?

It’s really at a level where I can’t even laugh.

‘It would be quite thrilling if that woman were an assassin…’

At first glance, the woman’s arms looked like they were not trained at all.

If he was an assassin who hid his identity, there is no way I wouldn’t have noticed.

Because he knew that she was a pure prostitute, he was tempted.

‘What I’m worried about is…’

When you look at the current situation, the situation may be completely different from the past.

The guys I clashed with in the past were mercenaries of a similar level to me.

So, I was able to deal with them even at my level.

However, if the grudge arises here, the situation is different.

‘Because the other person could be a nobleman. If he is a nobleman, he’s really fucking with me.’

Who the heck is this?

No matter how hard I searched my mind, I couldn’t find anyone who could guess.

I was busy recruiting SSR and raising children, but I wonder if there was time to hold a grudge.

“Are you sure you don’t need my help?”

“Okay, no need.”

“If you need anything later, please let me know.”

Fran continued to appeal his abilities as if he still had regrets.

“First, let’s find out who is messing with me and talk about it.”

“Can you find out?”

“If you put in a request to that woman and it doesn’t really work out, wouldn’t you want to try it again?”

So, just wait and see.

I pricked up my ears as much as I could, and since I didn’t know who it was, I was planning on being suspicious of everything that looked suspicious.

Even so, it was difficult to find a suspicious person in my narrow personal relationships.

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“….”

“Kyahaha! Doesn’t this look really ugly?”

“Yes. Kikikick!”

I knew that children would burst into laughter at the mere sight of a rolling stone, but I had no idea that Hash and Narrell would cackle like this even at the general store.

It wasn’t new for them to come to our store on the weekends when they were bored.

However, I was currently in a situation where I had to regard everything as suspicious.

And Hash and Neirel, who had a relationship with me even though I wasn’t summoned through SSR, were one of the targets I had to watch carefully.

‘They don’t seem to have any thoughts…’

So are their parents like that?

Do you not like the idea of being friends with commoners and commoners?

‘Things like that happen, too.’

But if that’s the case, wouldn’t it be okay to come to me and tell me not to come near the kids?

It was incoherent that he was trying to separate me by attaching a woman to it.

‘Who on earth could it be?’

I found out that someone was targeting me, but there was no way I could sleep peacefully.

These days, my nerves are as sharp and abandoned as they were when I was working as a mercenary.

“Mister, what’s wrong with your eyes?”

And Hash must have sensed that momentum as he looked at me with wide eyes and asked.

I was momentarily embarrassed and couldn’t answer, so I blinked.

Nayrel pointed out Hash’s words for me.

“Hash, you can’t point things out so bluntly. We learned that in etiquette class.”

“That’s what you do in a situation where you have to follow etiquette. Should we be polite to you?”

“uh…?”

“Think about it. As close as you and I are, we get along comfortably. It’s the same for you too.”

Nayrel was caught up in Hash’s smart words.

Neirel nodded at the nonsense, as if it seemed to be true.

These damn jammins…?

“Am I close to you guys?”

“omg!”

“So you’re not close?”

I guess he thought we were very close.

“Wow, I’m completely shocked. You even gave me a gift. But you’re still not close with me?”

“If you give me a gift, is everyone friendly?”

“of course!”

“Then, if someone passing by gives you a gift, you and I will become close friends from then on.”

“Ssi…it was bad.”

Hash’s lips stuck out like a carp.

Nayrel became so serious that his eyebrows were furrowed.

This guy, who is still so young, already has wrinkles.

I wanted to keep teasing the kids because I really enjoy teasing them, but I felt like if I teased them too much, they would cry, so I decided to appease them.

“I’m just kidding. We’re friends, right. So don’t try to cry.”

How annoying it is to comfort a child.

“Is that really what you think?”

Hash crosses his arms and looks at him suspiciously.

“It’s true. Have you been fooled? If I didn’t like you, I wouldn’t have come into the store and played with you in the first place.”

“Well, that’s true. You gave us something delicious every time we came, right?”

“Hey… I was surprised.”

Only then did Narrell relax his frown, which had become serious, and grumbled while grinning.

Anyway, he’s a serious kid.

“So why were your eyes so open?”

“Did you ever tell your parents about me?”

Hash rolls his eyes at my question.

“You still don’t trust us? You promised! We’ll never tell you where we got the stuff we bought at your store.”

“Hash and I are keeping our promises. No one knows.”

Hash and Narrell rant.

Judging by his attitude and the way he raised his chin, it didn’t seem like he was lying.

‘I don’t think we really talked about it. Then it would be right to exclude their parents from the list of suspects, right?’

When I assumed that their parents were the culprits, I thought it was not very likely because the situation made so much sense.

“Yeah, it looks like they’re protecting me well. That’s amazing. Would you like some candy?”

“Do you have anything to eat? Please give me! I’m hungry!”

“Can you make the egg sandwich you made last time?”

“…I can do it for you, but you know this isn’t a restaurant, right?”

“Hehehe.”

“Wow! That sounds delicious!! Wow!!”

“…..”

Because of the anger of the hungry kids, I had no choice but to go up to the second floor and bring them something to eat.

I left the guys eating their food alone and tried to find another candidate.

‘Excluding SSR, the only relationship I’ve had is with Sasha… but there’s no chance of Sasha at all.’

Why did Sasha set a woman on me in the first place?

Since she was feeding Sasha’s family, there was no reason for her to offend me by touching me.

“Ha, I really don’t know.”

Mumbling ㅡ

“Merla?”

“…It’s nothing. Just focus on eating. He’s eating everything. He’s not a squirrel, so why is he storing food in his cheeks while eating?”

“Ahh! Hashi!! It’s mine!!”

“Umuumumuumaum!!”

I placed my hand on my throbbing head while listening to the jammins’ wild bickering like background music.