episode_0362

The Liola Strait is the capital of the Kingdom of Tirana.

Befitting its reputation, it boasted a large scale.

And what about that wide strait?

There was a wooden fence planted at the end visible from a distance, and as if that wasn’t enough, there were two whaling ships floating at the entrance of the strait.

Young children live in the Liola Strait.

Security was tight, and it seemed like carriages were not allowed into the village at all. Thanks to this, I was able to quickly find Golden Road’s camp.

“Are you back?”

Steri glances at me and goes about his business.

“Yes.”

Then I looked this way again.

There was something strange in Steri’s eyes as he looked at Anne.

“Is he a guest?”

“This is Anne.”

“What is Anne? ······Anne?”

Astonishment appears in Steri’s eyes as she looks at Anne for a long time.

Now it was time to prove my eccentricity was innocent.

“Didn’t I tell you not to act like a schizophrenic?! Where on earth did you kidnap me?!”

Anne began to tremble under the pressure of Steri’s force.

“Well, I… ah-ah─ Anne…?”

“No need to lie! Come here!”

Steri grabbed Anne’s hand and dragged her away.

That hurt me a little.

‘Did I look that mentally ill? ‘Why?’

“Well, think whatever you want.”

It was hard to understand, but what can you do?

Until now, Anne’s actions have been overlaid with my actions.

At that moment, I saw Jesse and Merson coming here from among the members of Golden Road with their backs turned and faces looking like they were about to die.

“Sister! Help me! It’s too heavy!”

At Jesse’s scream, Steri startled and looked at me and Anne in turn, and then she glared at me.

“I’m listening to everyone, so if you do something strange, I won’t let you go.”

Sterry runs to Jesse and Merson, giving me a bloody warning.

Why did my image fall to this level?

“It’s all because I don’t know.”

“Yes?!”

“It’s a joke. I have to go say hello. Let’s go together.”

He held Anne’s hand, who had a stupid face on her face, and walked ahead toward where the group was coming from.

The people in the carriage were looking at Anne with confused faces.

You’re not interrogating me, why are you looking at me so intently?

“···So. Are you saying that woman is the one who usually calls into the air like that?”

“Yes.”

“Ma, that’s right. Two, you two sleep together… and Mr. Steri…”

“Please call me Steri.”

“···Steri sleeps on a straw pillow, right? When Lee stood watch on his behalf, we chatted next to him every day. And over there… we sit here and always eat together…”

Although Anne has been spending time with me, this is the first time she has spoken to other people.

But when Anne revealed the truth, confusion arose in the eyes of the three.

“Ma, that’s ridiculous…”

Jessie was so fed up that she felt like she had seen a ghost and burrowed into Merson.

You will feel something.

Seeing that, Anne must have gained confidence, and her voice became slightly louder.

“How sorry were you for seeing Lee getting noticed? They say they eat a lot every day… and they talk to themselves…!”

I guess he was dissatisfied with being subtly noticed.

I feel stupid.

“Anne, people live according to what they see.”

I don’t want to see Anne stigmatized as a woman who only says things to show her interest from the first time they meet. I cut off the continued complaining and pulled Anne’s hand.

“? why? Not yet…”

“Shouldn’t the owner of this top have a face stamp?”

Several mercenaries keep glancing at Anne.

It’s because it’s my first time smelling it.

Rather than reporting to a clerk or clerk, it is better to talk directly to Jemmy Drucker.

He gently pulled Anne and led her to the large tent where Jemmy Drucker was resting.

“What’s going on?”

“I came to see the chief executive.”

The mercenary glances at Anne, then looks at me.

“The person next to you is someone you’ve never seen before.”

Now that I think about it, they were mercenaries at that time.

The mercenaries screamed when they saw the flying underwear.

“Yes. I would like you to share a message with me.”

“Who can I tell you?”

“Please tell them I am a drug thief.”

The mercenary’s brow furrowed.

Even between Anne’s eyebrows.

The mercenary let out a deep sigh, glanced at me and entered the tent.

‘···I’m not being sarcastic, it’s the truth.’

The mercenary who had just walked out returned to his place and let out a sharp throw.

“I ask both of you to come in.”

After giving them a quick nod, I walked ahead.

Jemmy Drucker, who was setting snacks on the table, greets me comfortably.

“Did you have a good time in Oceania?”

“Yes. Thank you for your concern.”

“Thank goodness. Oh, please sit down. But the person next to me…”

Jemmy Drucker slows down and looks at Anne subtly.

Anne, who did not understand what he meant, just stared blankly at Jemmy Drucker.

“This is the person who came to steal the Precious Blood before.”

There is a strange look in his brown eyes.

“Now I can finally control the blessing of a servant who is nowhere to be found.”

A situation is a situation.

Although he might have doubts, Jemmy Drucker immediately complied without question.

So incomprehensible.

The fragment of madness seen beyond the eyes made me uncomfortable.

─That is ‘fanaticism.’

“Ah, I see you know. I heard it a lot in passing.”

“Ah, hello…?”

Jemmy Drucker extended his hand to shake my hand, but I didn’t know what to do, so I just bowed and stared at the outstretched hand.

Soon, two pairs of perplexed eyes turn to me.

“Because of my overwhelming power, I was unable to communicate with people for a long time. Because of that, I still don’t understand nuances or body language.”

From now on, I have to teach everything about human relationships and nuances.

“Anne, extending your hand like that means you want to shake hands.”

“Ah! handshake! Yes!”

Only then did Anne reach out and shake Jemmy Drucker’s hand, which had been awkward, and then sat down next to me.

Jemmy Drucker’s gaze, which had been looking at Anne, finally withdrew.

Soon, a strange smile appeared on his face.

“You look just like a baby bird.”

Baby bird.

yes. It seems somewhat similar.

Depending on what you hear, this may make you feel bad.

But Anne seemed to have no thoughts.

“I’m going to take care of him until he gets used to people, is that okay?”

“Yes. There is no problem with increasing the number of people eating. I just hope you’ll be careful of major accidents.”

“Thank you.”

There was still adoration in the brown eyes that looked at me.

What kind of treatment would I receive if the day came when the pods fell from Jemmy Drucker’s brown eyes?

“Don’t be burdened. Compared to what I received from the Lord, this amount is nothing more than dust.”

It seems like he read my eyes.

Even though Anne was talking about herself, she was sipping fruit wine, munching on the provided refreshments as if she was listening to a story from another world.

‘If I go to a bar with Anne, there won’t be any snacks left.’

“I will inform the governor, secretary, and mercenary commander that a new guest has arrived.”

When I looked at Anne, she bowed her head to Jemmy Drucker.

“Well, thank you!”

Now the work is over.

I have to go back soon.

“Oh, have you had lunch?”

“I haven’t eaten it yet.”

“It’s just right. Would you like to join us?”

“Yes!”

The answer came out of Anne’s mouth, not mine.

···I have some business to attend to.

* * * * * *

The Liola Strait was a child’s paradise.

The children came out to the land and gathered in groups of twos and threes to chew on something.

They can also swim quickly in the water.

Looking at the webbed feet and fins hanging down like a cape, it reminded me of the flowing clothes that enhance the beauty of a dancer.

After climbing up the hill in the channel and scattering a handful of Jules’ bone meal, I helped Jesse and Merson pack the fish into dozens of refrigerators.

Rectalians seem to be crazy about seafood.

It is said that the taste is better than meat, so the price rises significantly.

The seafood frozen here is bound for the ‘cradle’, the nursery of all Rectalians.

‘No way, I get to go to Lexi’s hometown.’

This trip ends with buying iron ore in Niflheim in the north and selling the iron ore in Romaria.

In other words, this strange journey was almost over.

“Ugh! Everything is loaded!”

Merson fell asleep, saying he was going to die from exhaustion.

“Don’t you need to build up your stamina?”

“Yes?! Aren’t those boxes worth 100 Bounds each?!”

Merson looked at me as if he felt aggrieved.

‘Even in the military, I carried 40 kg artillery shells on my shoulders?’

80 kg.

Looking at the weight here, it is 160 bound.

“They all lack physical strength.”

“Don’t pretend to be normal. The ball is the strangest here.”

As he says that, Sterry is moving 240 pounds at the same time.

Anne chats with Jessie, feeling rehabilitated, and leisurely carries seafood.

It seemed very peaceful, but it wasn’t.

This is because Steri has come into heat.

It was an inconvenient fact that Jules noticed with his excellent sense of smell.

It seemed like Jesse was pretending not to know.

I wondered if that was etiquette, so I had to pretend not to know.

It’s still early days, but they probably know the estrus cycle just like women know their menstrual cycle.

The signs of estrus soon turned out to be stress.

for example···.

“Who on earth enters the Liola Strait, a children’s daycare center?! That’s no longer the level of schizophrenia! It’s a crazy thing to do just because you want to.”

to me.

Did you really think I was schizophrenic?

“First, calm down. Didn’t you just go there to vent?”

“If I don’t do crazy things, I won’t be like this, right?! If it had been poison that was sprinkled there, the kids would have died!”

‘I didn’t spray poison.’

Anne keeps glancing in this direction, probably because she’s scared of Steri.

When estrus begins, like a female cat, she quickly becomes excited by even the slightest stimulus.

The important thing is that the smell spreads to the same mercenaries.

Terub, unlike Hosot, is not a matriarchal society.

They still can’t surpass humans, but women are also weaker in terms of strength.

It seemed like he naturally became anxious because of this.

“I will report to the acting manager!”

“Don’t you know that you’re already on my side?”

“···Do whatever you want!”

Sterry went inside the carriage without even looking at the freezer I was carrying.

It seemed like traveling would be quite difficult for a while.