Ch.3838. Should I Curse or Something?

“Argh-!”

With a light twist of the arm, the large man who had been so aggressive fell to his knees, screaming.

When I applied a bit more force, there was a “crack!” sound as his arm went limp.

“Aaaagh!! My, my arm!!!”

And then.

Without a care, I grabbed the man rolling on the floor and put all my strength into my foot as I broke his ankle.

Thud-!

Thuud-!

I looked down expressionlessly at the man with one broken arm and two broken ankles.

Naturally, everyone in the restaurant turned their attention to me.

“Gigolo?”

“Kuhek!”

I raised my foot again and placed it against the large man’s face.

To be honest, I had no particular feelings toward the man.

I was just acting to relieve the stress I’d gotten from Luna last night.

Besides.

This is Ebis territory.

A place crawling with hot-blooded hunters.

As this guy said, someone who looks like a “gigolo” like “Selden Alphonse” would be an easy target for trouble.

So to live here, I needed to make an example.

The large man rolling around in front of me was just unlucky.

“Say that again.”

Thud-! Thump thump-!

The man, writhing on the floor trying to avoid my kicks, buried his head in the ground with a tearful expression.

“I’m, I’m sorry. I made a mistake not recognizing who you were.”

I thought people who pick fights like this only existed in novels, but they exist like vermin everywhere.

And my body remembers.

That the rod is the medicine for vermin.

With an expression showing I had no intention of letting him off, I raised my foot again, when Luna hurriedly ran over and grabbed my sleeve with her fingers.

“Brother, can you please stop…? People are staring too much…”

At Luna’s words, I withdrew my gaze from the man and looked around.

As she said, the expressions of the people in the restaurant were quite a sight.

They looked frightened, as if they had engraved “Don’t mess with that guy” in their minds.

‘Is this enough?’

After that, I immediately left the restaurant and headed to the inn.

By the time we entered our room, Luna, who had been silent the whole walk, carefully opened her mouth.

“Young master, I’m sorry. Because of me…”

“Why do you think it’s because of you?”

“If I had just stayed still, a bigger fight wouldn’t have broken out.”

“Of course you shouldn’t stay still in that situation. Were you really going to follow that guy?”

“N-no, but…”

“I was going to step in anyway, so don’t feel guilty.”

“…Thank you.”

Ding ♪

━Luna’s Affection Deficiency

= 50 → 10 [↓ 40 decrease]

With the words “Let’s rest a bit and then have dinner,” we each went to our rooms.

No matter how much of a vermin he was, the feeling of hitting someone wasn’t particularly pleasant.

Still, it seemed unlikely that I’d be picked on for a while.

By the way.

Perhaps due to the impact of traveling together, Luna’s affection deficiency, which was 80 before we departed, had now dropped to 10.

When it was at 100, Blood Massacre was activated, but what would happen if it reached 0?

I was curious, but I was afraid to even try since I couldn’t predict what would happen.

Especially since Luna wasn’t normal to begin with.

‘Sigh, how should I treat her now?’

Until we came here, my goal was to lower Luna’s affection deficiency, but now I felt like I should raise it.

‘Should I insult her or something…’

I sighed and lay back down on the bed.

I was resting after last night’s events, but I realized anew that you need to know how to rest to actually rest.

Since being possessed by this body, had I ever taken a full day off from constantly rushing around?

No.

It was a continuous contradiction of breathlessly rushing to live an easy life.

“Heave-ho!”

Just in case, I grabbed a sword and a bag and went outside the room.

When I told Luna I was going out for some fresh air, there was a bit of an argument as she wanted to come along, but after some persuasion, I finally managed to go out alone.

-Isn’t that the guy from the restaurant earlier?

-I saw him too, if the woman hadn’t stopped him, he looked like he was going to kill that man.

-Whew! How can someone be so cruel…

-Tsk tsk, let’s not make eye contact with him.

Why am I the one being criticized when I was the one who was picked on?

Weren’t they the ones who just watched and snickered while enjoying the fight?

I was about to snap back but stopped myself.

Fear was already etched in their eyes anyway.

Thinking that my too-noble clothes might have contributed to being picked on, I hurriedly moved to a clothing store.

I bought a comfortable outfit suitable for hunting monsters, and was about to buy one for Luna too, but hesitated and gave up.

What if giving her clothes as a gift made her affection deficiency drop to 0?

I felt I needed to be especially careful with my actions this time.

‘Hmm, now I really look like a hunter.’

I stood in front of the mirror and struck various poses.

That made me suddenly want to hunt monsters.

You know that feeling, right?

Like when you buy a nice suit and want to show off at a friend’s wedding.

“Excuse me!”

Suddenly, at someone’s call, I quickly turned my head with a reddened face after being caught posing.

A woman speaking shyly.

She wore silver armor with a curved double-edged sword at her waist.

Like Luna, she had blonde hair, and her red eyes were charming.

Her features were also distinct, giving her a foreign look.

Anyway, with a vague expectation of whether this was this world’s version of flirting, I put on a composed face.

“What can I do for you?”

“Are you a hunter?”

“Yes, I am, but?”

“I’m really not a strange person, but would you be able to hunt with me?”

In my experience, the more someone says they’re not strange, the more likely they are to be strange.

Still, filling my head with the bittersweet thought that flirting is flirting, I calmly replied.

“I’m sorry.”

I didn’t even feel the obvious curiosity about why she was looking for someone to hunt with in a clothing store.

As I turned to look back at the mirror, she spoke to me again.

“Actually, I saw you fighting in the restaurant earlier.”

“And?”

“I know the location of a treasure, but it’s too dangerous to go alone. If we go together, I’ll share it with you.”

‘What kind of new scam is this?’ What kind of crazy person would find a treasure and think of sharing it with a complete stranger?

I snorted at the absurd proposal.

“Kuk! You could go with someone you know, so why do you want to go with me?”

“W-well, I came to Ebis without my family knowing. I have circumstances, and if I go home, I won’t be able to come out again.”

“Even if I understand that a hundred times over, why did you choose me out of all the hunters?”

“I told you. I saw you fighting in the restaurant earlier.”

“Ah… so you think I’d be safe, is that it?”

When I asked with a slightly mocking tone, the woman’s eyes sparkled instead.

“I was half-doubtful, but now I think I know for sure. That you’re not a bad person.”

“What makes you so sure?”

“If you were a bad person, you would have been more interested in the treasure I mentioned rather than being suspicious, right?”

Hearing that, it wasn’t wrong.

But the problem lay elsewhere.

“But I can’t be sure that you’re not a bad person, can I?”

“M-me!?”

“Yes, you.”

The woman sweated profusely with a very bewildered face.

It seemed to be an unexpected response, as her pupils darted around.

Then, after looking around, she came closer to me and whispered.

“Actually, I’m not just any hunter. I have personal circumstances I can’t talk about.”

“Same here. I’m not just any hunter either.”

“Th-then what kind of hunter are you?”

“If you want to ask, shouldn’t you answer first as a matter of courtesy?”

As if she had never engaged in verbal sparring in her life, she just opened and closed her mouth without making any particular retort.

With an expression that said ‘Do people really fall for such clumsy scams?’, I shook my head and sighed, at which the woman, with a face turning red and blue, pulled out a map from her pocket.

“Ha! I was going to show you if you agreed to come along, but I guess I have no choice!!”

“What is this?”

“What do you mean what is it? It’s a treasure map!”

Without much expectation, I glanced at the map the woman showed me.

At first glance, it looked old, but the texture was soft, suggesting it was made of high-quality leather.

Moreover, there was a familiar emblem drawn on the map.

Where had I seen that before?

‘I definitely saw it somewhere?’

While pretending to examine the map closely, I combed through the recesses of my brain for the emblem.

Then it suddenly flashed in my mind, making me flinch.

This was the emblem of the Silonia Imperial Family of the Eastern Continent.

I remembered it clearly.

Because I had seen the author upload illustrations of noble family and imperial emblems, albeit amateurish ones.

Come to think of it, the silver armor looked too heavy for a woman to wear, and the emblem of the imperial family was prominently displayed on the scabbard at her waist.

‘What exactly is her identity…?’

She seemed too young to be an imperial knight, and too clumsy to be a court lady.

‘W-wait…’

The clumsy behavior, blonde hair, and red eyes…

This woman, was she the Imperial Princess!?