episode_0142

“Let’s go eat.”

“Can’t we just stay like this a little longer?”

“You’re heavy.”

“···Don’t act harshly.”

Shir’s hand runs down my back, like stroking a baby’s back. This happened to me once while traveling. However, the meaning is different from the pure actions of childhood.

“Well, how long are we going to keep doing this?”

When I slowly push Shir with force, it falls off obediently. Shir, who was looking down at me with a tantalizing look, smiled and stood up first.

“When I die someday, I think it would be nice to die in your arms.”

Suddenly it spits out a death flag.

I know there is no such thing, but it feels strange.

“Stop talking nonsense, let’s go get something to eat.”

I wanted to go out because I thought something was strange. This is because the village, which used to be noisy and chattering in the evening, is quieter than usual.

As soon as the door was opened, Shir flinched to a halt.

I thought he was joking, but then Shir’s ears started fluttering.

“Huh?”

Shir looks at the village square with a puzzled expression.

“···I smell blood.”

“Whose?”

“Cockatrice.”

“The next egg will hatch in 3 months. Is the egg even broken?”

“No. The smell of blood is so strong that it clogs your nose! I can’t wait to go!”

Shir started running towards the downstream gate. It felt clear that something was wrong. As I hurried to the main gate downstream, there was a smell of blood that I could even smell.

Almost the entire village’s hosots were located at the downstream entrance, and in the center…

The female cockatrice was crushed.

The face was sunken and the right eye burst.

The beak was also broken, and the neck bones were shattered, giving it a strange appearance, as if a chicken’s neck had been broken. My leg was dislocated and broken and my arm was broken.

There is no way that Grootsrang, which has the best nose in Pangea, would hunt a cockatrice that has the scent of Hosott. In the first place, these were signs of abuse, not hunting.

───Ogre.

This was done by the strongest demi-human of Pangea.

Looking outside, where a faint warning was coming from the front door, Tinchy’s situation was not that good.

Screaming and limping.

There was a large wound on his face, and the little finger on his left hand was torn off. Looking at the swollen limping leg, I felt incontinence.

“Heinrich! Do you have any leftover wood in your workshop?!”

Heinrich, entranced, looks at me.

“····There is.”

“Please bring some wooden blocks. If you have rope or tent leather, please bring those too!”

“Uh… Huh? Got it.”

The only person standing next to Tinch was Dennis.

Dennis was tearing apart his tent and making a splint for Tinch.

“Dennis! What happened!”

Dennis, who probably didn’t even notice me coming, glanced up at me and then turned his gaze to Tinch.

“Ah, Lee… Tinch was attacked by an ogre. He brought his female by the hand to ask for my help, but she was already dead.”

Emotions can be read through expressionless expressions.

“What do you think of Teen Chi?”

“One finger was torn off. The leg was cracked.”

“Do not destroy the tent. Heinrich will bring you a splint. First, I’ll dig up some herbs to prevent infection.”

“Thank you.”

Ogre is also the strongest demi-human in Pangea, strong enough to hunt a standing dragon.

Even with Grutz, you can’t defeat Ogre.

However, I don’t understand.

Although this area is the ogre’s area of activity, it was neglected for a year. Why didn’t he kill Tinch in the first place?

It is difficult to say that Tinch rebelled and retreated.

Ogre is a demi-human who can catch a cockatrice like a chicken.

We dug up all the medicinal herbs and crushed them with stones.

“Still, it’s great. Even though you have night blindness, you came all the way here.”

Dennis quickly spread the herb on his damaged finger.

It looked as if he had hit his forehead several times on the way here, and the crest that Dennis always stroked was covered in scars.

“Dennis, help me. You have to tighten it tightly for the bones to stick together well. Sur! Tinchy may struggle so please press!”

If it had been a complete fracture, I would have been crippled for life.

However, if it is cracked, it can be recovered somehow.

Dennis stood across from me.

“Now, 3.2.1!”

I adjusted my breathing and started wrapping the splint.

Kyaaagh───!

Tinci struggled, but Shir pressed down on the two-ton giant Tinci. Thanks to this, I was able to wrap the splint as quickly as possible.

“The patient must be prevented from walking to prevent stress fractures from occurring.”

In other words, Tinch has to lie down for a while.

We tied Tinchy’s legs together for a long time.

“······I will have to lie down for about 15 days, so what about feeding the tinchi?”

“I guess I should hunt them and feed them myself. Lee, Sur. Thank you so much for your help.”

Somehow, the big fire seemed to have been doused.

*

Heilang is one of the few people who hates ogres.

Because I lost my mother and spouse to the ogre.

And this incident became the catalyst.

“Mom was angry to the core.”

Shir, who was dragged out to the subjugation battle, spoke as if complaining.

The first time making crossbows was the cornerstone of ogre hunting.

The Cockatrice may have been the only carriage available for public use in the South. In order to transport cargo, the Uniera Alliance imports all of its grain and horses from Horus.

The price of one horse of Horus is similar to the price of a car.

The concept of price for grains is also quite different from that on Earth.

There is no nitrogen fertilizer here.

Also, horses are timid.

It responds sensitively to the body odor of hosots, and causes competition in harvesting almost all seawater in the southern region.

Due to their physical structure, dire wolves are limited to pulling dog sleds.

In other words, it was almost the only means of cargo transportation that Hosott could operate, and the plan to mass-produce it fell through.

Thanks to this, Heilang returned.

If they could succeed, the flow of goods in the south could have accelerated, and it was obvious that the village would have become very wealthy simply by selling cockatrices.

If the country had been surprised here, it would have turned back.

“Shouldn’t you go and comfort Heilang?”

“I don’t like it. These days, they notice that I’m with you.”

Bacon and sausage were grilled.

After that, I spread the bacon grease evenly on the pan and added the eggs.

─Chiiik!

The copper frying pan that Heinrich made was very useful. Now I can work freely with the wok.

I baked the soft cheese I got for the sur until it was crispy.

Shir, who hugs me from behind, pops his head to my left. It looks like he wants to eat cheese.

“Are you always like this with your aunt?”

“Not hugging like that. Jules doesn’t like cheese.”

Cheese is only eaten outside of the village.

“Ah, I’m so jealous of my aunt.”

“It’s done, let it go. Cheese is cooling.”

Shir relaxes his leaning body and sits down at the table in one step.

After soaking the pan in the lye water I had prepared and eating quietly, I finished washing the dishes and returned home.

As expected, Shir had no intention of going back, so he went to bed first and lay down looking at me.

“Come in.”

Then he looks at me as if I were the owner of the house.

“···Go a little further to the side.”

What can I do?

We should sleep together.

*

Looking at Sur, I thought of my first love.

Hyeyeon Lim.

Although we are friendly in my heart, in reality, I have never even spoken to Hyeyeon.

To be honest, it wasn’t pretty.

She didn’t have a good personality, wasn’t exceptionally pretty, smart, good at studying, or anything like that.

I just… laughed really well.

It wasn’t that the smile was beautiful or anything like that.

When I think about it, back then, I was hungry for other people’s smiles like a third-rate comedian.

Laughter is contagious.

Because like other comedians, I was able to get vicarious satisfaction from the smiles directed at me. I came to like Hyeyeon, who made me happy by smiling.

I barely spoke a few words throughout high school.

That was enough, it was fulfilling.

What aspect of me did Shir feel happy about?

“What are you thinking?”

Shir suddenly looks at me.

“Just because it reminds me of the old days.”

“What old thoughts?”

“Dark history.”

“···Dark history?”

“My secret that makes me feel embarrassed when I think about it and makes me want to kill everyone I know.”

The corner of Shir’s mouth rises.

“What is that? Oh, I really want to know, can you tell me?”

“After listening, are you going to kill me?”

I finished arming myself and stood up.

The Ogre subjugation war soon begins. I felt it while eliminating Juul and countless bandits. There were many cases where thieves experienced incredibly unfortunate and strange events.

So much so that I can’t even be one of the unfortunate ones.

Approximately one in ten people are born with this problem.

A half-elf by noble birth, Luna’s collateral who can live inside Ymir’s tomb, and a person who was defrauded and deeply in debt…

Everyone has their own story.

This village was built on the corpse of an ogre.

It is not a reasonable judgment that an ogre has endured alone for over 20 years in a village of over 1,000 people.

In other words, it means that one has stubbornness or stubbornness towards this village. Would it be right to find out what the reason is?

Is it right to watch it turn into a beehive and die?

‘I’ll have to find out.’

I know what is right.

I’m reluctant to do it because it’s a very antinomy behavior, and if I didn’t have an interest to betray, I would have tried to find out why.

“You are thinking strange things.”

“No.”

In the first place, if I had been a person who considered interest rates, I wouldn’t have moved out of my parents’ house and I wouldn’t have worked so hard here.

However, keep the line.

It will never cross the line.

When I try to get up, for some reason Shir lets me go easily.

“You don’t have to go.”

“You can go.”

The morale of the villagers was high.

These are people who have been harmed by Ogre.

I think I think it was something I had to do at some point.

Only non-combatants remain in the village.

For example, Amy approaching me.

“Sihyeon, please take good care of Sir.”

“Who the hell are you worried about?”

“Is that so…?”

Amy smiles and looks at Shir.

Although she is a powerful immortal, she is death-phobic.

It was not suitable for combat.

“You’ll have a headache in the future, so get some rest.”

“You too, be careful.”

Knights wearing white plate armor lined up the entire mountain under Heilang’s command. Yuso and Mira were helping distribute signal bone whistles.

“It’s dangerous up here, so go down to the village.”

A local guy, Mercedes, blocked my path.

“I need to help you even just a little bit. Has the location of the auger been determined?”

“···It was only revealed that it was on a mountain.”

It means that you have no intention of revealing it to me.

Because I am too weak for them.

Looking at the large map, it is highly likely that it is a circular siege network that tightens the entire mountain. The circular siege network moves towards the center, so if you head to the center of the siege net, you will encounter an ogre.

“Yes. Thank you!”

I overtook the Benz and ran deep into the forest.

“Hey! Is it dangerous?!”

Around the mountain, there were many wild animals that Tinchi and Tinchi’s wife had eaten. From deer and oxygen, jaguars to tigers.

It really makes you realize how scary the cockatrice is.

The animal on this mountain just blinks and looks at me, as if unaware of the disaster that is about to occur.

Tightening the siege in a circle means that all of those beasts will face Hosott.

The animals, overcome with fear, attempt to attack head-on at some point. This was a characteristic of all animals.

Anyone who gets hurt will always come out.

You have to do the math before.

I walked through the mountains like a monkey, walking like a monkey.

Fast, like running on the pavement.

How far did it go that way?

Plot oooo!

I could feel the presence of an animal in the distance.

The tall horns on its black body stretched out like the horns of an African bison.

The ones wagging their tails like horse tails are oxygen.

These are the guys who even put Hosott to death.

Those guys were so nervous, they were forming a circle, leaving each other behind, and were keeping a watchful eye on the surroundings.

‘From what?’

There were several cubs jumping around on the rocks, stroking and tapping their mother’s thighs. Hosott is too far away for that group of oxygen to notice.

This is because the wind flows in different directions depending on the temperature and day and night. It’s dawn now. It’s when the upward wind blows and the smell comes down from the top of the mountain.

That means there is an auger up there.

So it was concluded.