Episode 282
It was a group of villagers.
There were so many people in this small town that it seemed like everyone had come… … .
They were armed with grim expressions, holding shovels, skewers, butcher knives, and even pots.
With many possibilities running through my mind, the middle-aged man standing in front shouted.
“Free the village chief right now!”
“… … .”
Could it be that all the residents of this village were church members?
It’s a guess, but I don’t think that’s the case.
Those who are ostensibly church members are not likely to be so poorly armed… … .
If they had decided to attack us or put pressure on us, they wouldn’t have shown up in such a sloppy manner.
At that time, the door to the mansion opened and Ramon appeared.
“What on earth is going on?”
“… … .”
Ramon spoke in an embarrassed voice, but the residents’ reactions were still cold.
I felt an atmosphere from them that I had experienced once before.
This is the gaze of an unspecified number of people that I felt at the merchant guild just before leaving Tefer.
When Ramon’s shoulders shrank slightly, the middle-aged man standing in front spoke again.
“As I said. Please release Chief Snero, whom you have illegally assaulted and imprisoned, right now. It would be best not to think about playing a role. “I already heard that a savage woman broke into the village chief’s house, broke her door, and dragged her away.”
The savage woman probably refers to Syndra.
Then Ramon responded with a stern look on his face.
“I’m sure you already explained the situation today during the day, right? Chief Snero is the most likely suspect as he is currently a member of the church. As heroes of Heros, we also have the right to interrogate and detain suspects… … .”
“On the topic of different races.”
“… “I have it, I have it.”
There’s no way he couldn’t have heard someone muttering, but Ramon completely finished what he wanted to say without showing it.
Then the man spoke again.
“You’re saying something funny. You don’t know. How much Chief Snero devoted himself to this small village… … . It’s all thanks to Chief Snero that the village grew large enough for Heros to come here! “When he was young, he became involved with a key figure in the company, so he caught the attention of the company, and that brought vitality back to the dying village!”
“That’s right!”
“But you, who are at most an outsider, treat him like a member of the church? “You could have been trying to scare the powerless Chief Snero and force him to come to that conclusion!”
The tone itself was in the form of a question, but judging by his facial expression and voice, he seemed completely convinced that his claim was correct.
“Well, that’s a misunderstanding! We follow fair procedures… … .”
“Due process is a mess! It’s not like you’re trying to get revenge on the village chief for blocking your entry! By taking advantage of the rights that Heros has or something!”
The man looked back with an excited face and said.
“Was I wrong?”
“That’s right! “That’s right!”
The man who received the thunderous shout spat with a bloodshot face.
“Do you understand? You wicked, cross-breed bastards who don’t know grace! If you understand, liberate the village chief immediately! And get the hell out of this town!”
go away! go away! The sound and booing covered the entire area.
Ramon hesitated and took a step back, but then gritted his teeth and protested.
“Your demands are unacceptable. “It was not Heros’ hero who judged the village chief to be a heretic.”
The voice soon changed into a short scream.
Ramon’s head turned with a ‘popping’ sound.
The man had thrown the stone he was holding.
“… … .”
Dark green blood flowed from Ramon’s broken forehead, and a woman who saw it pretended to gag.
“Why is the blood that color… … ? It’s the same as a snow troll… … .”
“Gee, that’s gross… … .”
“You disgusting monster!”
“go away! “Get out of our town!”
The angry crowd shouted with heated voices. I was about to jump out of the window because I couldn’t see anything.
The door opened roughly and Araksad appeared.
“… … !”
It is different from the dwarf goblin in appearance.
Disparate white scales and countless scars carved all over the body. Muscles that can be seen even beyond the scales and countless weapons packed into the body.
The appearance of the Lizardman warrior was enough to stop the shouting of the angry people, even if only for a moment.
“Ah, Brother Araksad.”
“Ramon, please go inside.”
“But this role was originally mine… … .”
“Your role is done.”
Because conversation no longer works with them… And I felt like I could hear the words Araksad swallowed.
“… sorry.”
Ramon returned to the mansion with his head down.
Around that time, I also went down to the first floor, and then I bumped into Mir on the stairs.
“Luan!”
“Did you see the situation outside?”
“Look, I saw it! What on earth is going on? … .”
“Let’s go down first.”
When I went down to the first floor with Mir, who nodded, I saw Ramon pressing his broken forehead with a handkerchief.
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“Sir, what on earth is going on?”
“ah… … . Master, it’s no big deal, so you can stay here. “Brother Araksad will solve it well.”
“Is your forehead okay?!”
“It’s just a little scratch, so it’s okay.”
Ramon said with a smile, but the handkerchief he used to stop the bleeding was already soaked in blood.
“You don’t look okay.”
“It’s really okay. This amount of bleeding will stop soon. “Because he’s a goblin.”
The sight of Ramon responding like that seemed somehow familiar.
I looked at him blankly and said.
“It seems like this happens often.”
Ramon laughed. It wasn’t a particularly pleasant smile. Ramon, who was walking towards us, stumbled, so Mir helped him up.
“Thank you.”
At that time, shouts were heard from outside again.
“After goblins, are lizards? You disgusting half-breed bastard! “Do you think that will scare us?”
“I don’t mean to scare you.”
“Sure! Are you no longer able to understand what people are saying? “Is it that difficult to understand that you should release the chief and get out of this village?”
I went to the window and looked outside again.
“I have already explained that matter sufficiently. Currently, Chief Snero is suspected of being a church member, and specific evidence has been secured. There may be a church member hiding somewhere in this town, so for your own safety, you cannot leave for the time being. “Please understand.”
“What?! Are you guys suspicious of us as church members because the village chief is not good enough? … ?”
“This search is also for your benefit. “The reason we want church members to live together in our home is…”
“oh my! Neighborhood people! Look what this walking lizard has to say! “Now these guys are treating us like church members!”
“… … .”
The atmosphere became even more heated due to the middle-aged man’s instigation.
“Get out of our town!”
“I shouldn’t have accepted you guys from the beginning… … !”
The slinging began again with excited voices. It seemed as if hatred had overcome the fear of Araksad.
Wow.
Araksad’s hard scales did not break when hit by a rock, but it did not prevent it from getting scratched.
As evidence, the stones rolling on the floor were stained with blood.
Grinding his teeth, Mir walked forward with great strides, ready to break the door.
“Now, wait a minute! calm down.”
“It looks real! “Aren’t both of you hurt because of those guys?”
“It’s happened several times. Because we’re really okay… … .”
“But, but!” “This is strange!”
Mir shouted.
He glared at Ramon with a face dripping with resentment, even though he had not suffered it himself.
“The seniors didn’t do anything! On the contrary, I am working harder and harder than anyone else for this village! But the authors attack their seniors without knowing or even trying to know that fact? This… … .”
“… yes. “It’s unreasonable.”
The moment Ramon smiled bitterly, both Mir and his head fell.
After a moment of silence, I spoke.
“Didn’t the Corrupted stay in this village and help them many times? At least for a few years. “I think it’s enough time to resolve any misunderstandings.”
“I subdued the snow trolls that were rampant around me, swam across an icy lake in the middle of winter to repair a collapsed bridge, and even personally brought a pharmacist from the next village to my granddaughter who had a fever.”
“Even though you did that?”
“I did that, but I think it wasn’t enough to completely remove prejudice. It’s probably something that can’t be helped. Chief Snero was the most prestigious figure in the village before he was corrupted into a church member… … .”
“There is nothing in this world that can’t be helped.”
As I was about to open the door and go out, Ramon quickly approached me and grabbed my forearm.
“Wait a minute. young master.”
“why?”
“Please calm down a little and leave it to Brother Araksad for now.”
“Are you just going to watch Senior Lizardman get pelted with stones over and over again?”
“yes. Please do so.”
“… … .”
“Don’t you know? Residents also do this because they are anxious. “They’re afraid, so they come out aggressively to relieve that fear.”
“A scary dog barks. But I know the difference between a man and an asshole. “People are beings who can communicate, and even if they don’t, if you beat them a little, they’ll understand everything.”
Of course, I have no intention of selling everything.
A middle-aged man who appeared to be the representative and the guys who threw rocks. I memorized all the faces.
“So you’re saying you’re going to do that?”
“… … .”
Ramon’s voice suddenly became sharper, so I stopped.
“Are you planning to chase them out by threatening them, scolding them, and if that doesn’t work, using violence? “Do you think that is the right response?”
“… … .”
“Isn’t that right…?” … . The situation is different from the time of Tefer. “They are not in good condition either, and may have just been incited by a hidden church member.”
You can leave the identification of church members to Verita.
but… … .
In fact, I also know that Verita’s power is not absolute.
The ability to identify church members means, in other words, that it can only weed out those who have already officially joined the church.
However, in the world, there are more people who are not church members but cooperate with the denomination than are church members.
It sucks, but it’s the truth.
“Aren’t you angry?”
“I’m angry. Of course I am outraged, and it is so unfair that it brings tears to my eyes. However, young man, I believe that eliminating the anxiety of the people of the empire is the ultimate goal of Heros’ hero.”
“… … .”
“I know it’s not easy. Please bear with me though. it’s okay. Because we are used to being patient. And seeing these two people so angry makes me happy again. “I don’t mind the pain of my broken forehead.”
Ramon laughed while saying that.
“What should I say? “I feel like my family has expanded.”
“family?”
“ah… Was that rude?”
It wasn’t particularly rude, though.
I wanted to hear what Ramon was thinking, so I stared at his face without saying anything.
Then Ramon smiled awkwardly and said,
“Actually, I don’t have a family. I didn’t even have a home… … . Brother Lanfero helped me survive by scavenging for food waste. And then he joined Corrupted, and he was very scared at first. “They all looked scary, and it wasn’t like we were the same species, so at least none of them seemed worse than a goblin like me.”
I was a little dazed by Ramon’s words.
And muttered as if possessed.
“… But after seeing each other a few times and spending time together, I started to like him more and more?”
“That’s accurate. They were rude, unruly, and radical, but none of them were truly evil. “They just had strong personalities, but they were all clumsy people.”
It’s clumsy.
After hearing those words, I looked at Araksad once again.
There seemed to be no way to explain the sight of the crowd expressing their malice, hatred, and slings with their bare bodies, waiting for them to pass, other than that they were clearly clumsy.
“Is that why you call your boss brother?”
“It’s a secret from the boss, but yes. “He is like my father, but it would be strange in many ways if I called him that.”
“… … .”
“haha. The clan is home. “Isn’t it strange?”
It’s not strange.
I superimposed myself on Ramon.
A place where Ai Song, who could never accept Badknicker as home or Sanghyeolgong as family, left his hometown and wandered around until he finally arrived.
The eccentric old man who took me away and the mountain surrounded by fog. And the people who were there and even now are more like family than my blood.
‘It was a clan I joined without thinking much about it.’
The reason I joined Corrupted was not because I liked the clan leader or because I found the talking goblins fascinating, and that aroused my interest.
Just because I was in the area closest to the disaster that was about to happen.
That was exactly the impression I had on Corrupted, and in reality I only used this clan as a means to an end.
But now that thought was changing.
This is the statue of a hero I admired in the past.
They were people who knew how to persevere and not be swayed by the flow of the world, the standards set by the majority, and the criticism of the ignorant.
He was a being who did not give in or waver despite the persecution of the majority, and thus finally achieved what he set out to achieve.
Absurdly, I ended up here witnessing a hero I had never seen before even at Heros Headquarters.
The hero was a green-skinned dwarf who was small and shabby, but had a grander spirit than anyone else.
“Sir, I saw it again.”
“yes?”
I grinned, walked past Ramon, and headed back towards the door.
“Now, wait a minute… … . Violence… … .”
“I won’t use it, I won’t use it.”
If you put in effort, you should be recognized.
This is especially true if it is done with good intentions and to save others.
A world where even such obvious things cannot be accomplished is wrong… … .
My theory is that what is wrong must be corrected immediately.
After opening the door and going out, I suddenly looked up at the sky.
The cold northern sky, with unusually few clouds, was shining brightly.
Suddenly, a strange purpose arose.
I hoped that one day their hard work would be recognized.
The day when not only Heros, but all citizens of the empire will shed their prejudices against them and treat the Corrupted as full-fledged heroes.
While I was thinking about it, a fresh breeze blew through my mind, and I soon found out why.
Today was the first time I set a goal that had nothing to do with Master’s orders.
“you… … .”
Araksad, who was bleeding, looked back at me, but I smiled slightly and passed by without saying a word.
Then I saw the man standing in front.
“who are you?”
He slapped the cheek of the man who was talking.
Sigh-!
“… … !”
“… … !”
The once noisy surroundings were immersed in silence.
Ramon’s stuttering voice was heard.
“I don’t use violence… … .”
“It did.”
I said, touching the writhing man on the floor with my foot.
“But let’s just hit this guy once.”
fantasy,
