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< Bad Guy >
The village chief bowed his head repeatedly in greeting.
“Thank you so much for saving the village.”
The village chief was a strong and courageous man for an old man. He was not discouraged by the assaults and threats of the bandits, but was so brave that he defeated three bandits at the age of seventy.
Although he was a village chief with that kind of personality, he sincerely bowed to the village’s benefactor.
“If it weren’t for our benefactors… we would all have died.”
The man spoke as if it was no big deal.
“I did all this for money.”
The village chief knew how humble an excuse that was. A kind smile appeared on the old man’s wrinkled face.
“If it was really about money, you wouldn’t have used that expensive potion on us.”
After dealing with all the bandits, the Great Man ordered Jang Yeong-sin to get the potion from the carriage.
A potion that could be purchased for at least one gold coin per bottle was used to treat the injuries of dozens of villagers.
Just by looking at that, you could tell that Dae-in wasn’t someone who was motivated simply by money.
It wasn’t just the village chief.
“I will never forget this favor for the rest of my life!”
“Thank you! Thank you so much!”
“Thanks to you, my child is alive···.”
Daein was regarded as a savior and saint by all the people of Rowan Village.
And that was a very desirable picture that the man wanted.
‘You can remember it for a lifetime, but just remember it for one year.’
Using potions was a kind of investment.
After the interdimensional gate is connected, investment is made to quickly establish friendly relations and exchanges between this village and Seoul.
When that time comes, the favors you give today will return in value hundreds of times over.
The Great Man smiled happily, imagining a future where the value of the potion he used today would return hundreds of times over.
That evening.
The village chief invited the group to his house.
“Please stay comfortably at our house today.”
“thank you.”
While the village chief prepared dinner with his wife, the old man looked around the living room with the children.
“Hmm.”
A house in a rural village that looks ordinary, except that it is larger than the other houses.
However, inside the house, there were some unique decorations here and there, as well as books and items that were hard to find in the countryside.
‘His actions and speech are like that, he doesn’t seem like an ordinary village chief···.’
Then the village chief called them.
“Dinner is ready. Come this way.”
After a while, the group of people and the village chief and his wife sat facing each other at a fairly large table.
“I feel embarrassed because I don’t have anything prepared, but···.”
Contrary to what the village chief said, the food on the table was quite plentiful.
Although there was no expensive food, the stews, meats, vegetables, and bread smelled good.
“looks delicious···.”
Lily, sitting next to the man, was already gulping.
Two fists were already firmly holding the fork and resting on the table.
However, they did not eat indiscriminately like before.
Instead, he looked at the person and asked.
“···When are you eating?”
The man proudly pointed to the empty seats, boasting that this was all the result of his excellent home education.
“Who else is coming? Village chief. Are there any more guests?”
The village chief nodded with an awkward smile.
“Yes. He will be here shortly, so please wait a moment.”
After a while, the person who entered the village chief’s house was a familiar face.
A young man with brown hair and green eyes, dressed in loose robes.
Hawkin nodded to the man and said.
“Thank you so much for earlier!”
And behind Hawkin, a young woman with a freckled face and a large old man followed.
“If it’s okay with you, can we have a meal together…?”
To Hawkin, who was asking while looking at the situation, the master answered as if asking why he was asking him.
“The owner of this house is not me, but the village chief?”
At that moment, Hawkin, his group, and the village chief simultaneously breathed a sigh of relief.
The man looked at the sight with an expression of interest.
“Then, excuse me, but I will join you.”
Hawkin introduced the woman and the old man sitting on his left.
“This woman is my… wife. And this man… is my bodyguard.”
‘You’re really bad at lying.’
The man nodded, holding back a laugh that was about to break out.
“I see. Nice to meet you.”
Even if his wife is like that, where is the employer who would be so observant of the knight’s mood? He wasn’t even seen when he was surrounded by bandits earlier, even though he was a knight.
As everyone sat around the table, the village chief spoke.
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“Then, please eat.”
The meal began in a quiet and awkward atmosphere.
“······.”
Hawkin kept watching his wife and the escort knights, the elder observed them with interest, and the village chief and his wife were so concerned about everyone else’s reactions that they couldn’t even eat properly.
Of course, there were also girls who ate well and munched on food.
“It’s delicious!”
The girl swung the forks in both hands like a sword and started eating the food on the table one by one.
Mumble, mumble, mumble.
“This is also delicious! This too!”
Lily, who had her cheeks full of food, looked the happiest in the world.
Jang Young-shin was munching on food here and there next to her, pushing food that looked delicious to the girl.
“···Eat this too.”
“Yeah! You too, oppa!”
It was a very familiar sight to the adults. However, it seemed that other people did not feel that way.
Hawkin looked puzzled, his wife looked surprised, and the old man, the escort knight, looked extremely displeased.
The escort knight said.
“Ahem! There are rules even during meals. How can you be so vulgar…”
Neither Lily nor Jang Young-shin were interested in the grumbling of their grandfather, whom they were seeing for the first time.
Finally, the old man raised his voice toward the man.
“Hey! Take care of the kids…”
Kook.
At that moment, when the woman sitting next to him poked the escort knight in the ribs, the old man shut his mouth tightly.
“Ugh···.”
The man looked at the sight with a smile as if he found it amusing.
He asked questions without beating around the bush.
“What were those thieves doing earlier? They seemed to be looking for something.”
Shudder.
At the same time, four people shivered.
Hawkin, a woman called his wife, and an old man who is his escort knight.
Even the village chief is here.
“······.”
As the man’s gaze lingered on the village chief, the chief cautiously opened his mouth.
“Well… Are you completely unaware of the current situation in this country?”
The man nodded honestly.
“It’s been a while since I’ve been out in the world, so I’m not familiar with the situation around me.”
The village chief let out a sigh that was either a relief or a sigh and began to tell his story.
“Then I will tell you one by one.”
The place the group arrived at was Rowan Village.
A small country called the Principality of Hicks, located in the southeastern part of the continent on the map. Even within that country, it was a rural area.
The Duchy of Hicks has recently been in a state of great turmoil both internally and externally due to rebellions.
The man thought back to the Higgs Kingdom he knew.
‘It was definitely a pretty chaotic country in the beginning.’
It will be approximately one year before the dimensional gates of Earth and the Gaia continent are normally connected.
However, it was about six months later that the two sides began to interact in earnest.
What the great man experienced after stepping foot on the continent of Gaia was the continent after that.
Of course, I knew something about the major events that had occurred before that.
The village chief’s expression was dark.
“So, the security situation has been bad recently. It’s common for bandits to attack villages. Those guys… are one of those guys.”
It felt like the explanation was missing something, but the man nodded anyway.
“okay.”
This time the village chief asked the elder.
“Is your benefactor traveling? Where are you going···.”
The other three people focused their attention on those words.
Everyone was pretending to be natural, but they couldn’t fool the other person’s keen senses.
The man said.
“For now, we’re looking for people. Our destination is a small village in the Kingdom of Teru.”
The town where Lily lived with her mother until a few years ago.
That was the destination of our group on this vacation.
“It’s quite far to the Teru Kingdom. You’ll have to cross the border too…”
Hawkin joined the conversation with the aforementioned expression on his face, and glanced at his wife and the escort knight on his left.
It seemed like he wanted to say something, but wanted permission from both of them.
“Ahem.”
The escort knight coughed, and the woman nodded faintly.
And the village chief took his wife and left the place.
“I’ll be there for a moment…”
It was dinner time, but the only people eating properly were the kids.
Hawkin lowered his voice and spoke to the man.
“I… have a favor to ask.”
As the man nodded, wiping his mouth with a napkin, Hawkin spoke as if telling a huge secret.
“Would you please escort us to the border?”
“Did you commit some crime?”
All three people flinched at the same time.
“What, what, what···.”
Hawkin stuttered, speechless. Then the old knight spoke instead.
“I heard that you are a group of exceptionally talented people. Don’t ask for details, but just escort us until we cross the border. The reward will be very generous.”
“Hmm···.”
Authoritative speech and behavior that cannot be hidden.
That sight reminded the man of a type of human he had experienced on the continent of Gaia in the past.
nobility.
The man shook his head.
“I refuse.”
The expressions on the three people’s faces showed great agitation, as if they had never thought that they would be rejected.
Then, for the first time, a woman with freckles all over her face opened her mouth.
“···Why?”
The man stared intently at the woman’s face. Their gazes met in the air.
“···How rude.”
Eventually, the woman averted her gaze first, and the man spoke with narrowed eyes.
“I don’t have any interest in serving high-ranking officials.”
Then he took the wanted poster out of his bosom and placed it on the table.
-Hockin Allen-
Court Wizard
Charge: Rebellion
Bounty: 100,000 gold
*Must be brought back alive
The wanted poster contained a fairly detailed drawing of a face that looked similar to Hawkin.
“This is what the bandit leader had in his pocket.”
“This, this is···.”
Hawkin’s face turned ashen. He looked back and forth between the wanted poster and the man.
At that moment, the escort knight gripped the handle of his sword tightly, and the woman lowered her head.
At that moment, Hawkin sighed in resignation.
“Was this the only wanted poster?”
When the man nodded, Hawkin let out a sigh of relief.
“That’s fortunate.”
Hawkin rose from his seat and knelt before the man.
dump.
“You can sell me for the bounty! But please, at least let my wife and my knights cross the border! Please!”
“you···!”
“······.”
An old escort knight looking at Hawkin with a sorrowful expression, and a freckled woman bowing her head.
It was a sight that could have made one feel sorry for him, but the man just snorted.
“Where did you come from to try to scam me?”
“···yes?”
“That woman is much more dangerous than you.”
“Huh? W, what···.”
The man noticed the identity of the woman who Hawkin claimed to be his wife.
At first it was just a guess, but now that guess has become a certainty.
“Even if they are a criminal, there are cases where you can’t make a wanted poster. There are times when you absolutely cannot let them fall into the hands of other people.”
That woman still becomes quite famous a few years later.
Although it’s not on the good side.
“Princess Alina. The last bloodline of the royal family of this country that was annihilated in a rebellion. And···.”
“This guy-!”
At that moment, the old knight Leonard jumped up from his seat and swung his sword.
Kyaang!
The longsword placed against the great man’s neck glowed coldly.
However, the longsword was blocked by a thin dining knife.
“Can I consider this reaction as acceptance?”
The man rose from his seat. The dining knife easily pushed the longsword aside.
“Ugh···!”
Leonard tried to hold on, sweating profusely, but eventually fell to his black floor.
And the sword’s owner suffered a similar fate.
Kkudang tang tang!
Leonard, pinned against the wall, groaned with cold sweat pouring down his body.
“Ugh! If only I hadn’t been injured….”
“What a lame excuse.”
The man who had been laughing turned his head and looked at Princess Elina.
“Can I talk to you for a minute?”
At that moment, Hawkin blocked the princess’ path.
“Don’t come near me!”
Whoosh! Whoosh!
A fireball the size of a soccer ball floated before his two hands.
The man clicked his tongue lightly. The thing he was least afraid of in the world was fire magic.
“Kid. You ate, so pay for the meal.”
Even in that situation, Lily, who was calmly eating dessert, blew air with her mouth together and said, “Whew-!”
Fish food…
The fireball created by Hawkin went out like a candle in the wind.
“That’s ridiculous…. Yaaaaah!”
When the magic didn’t work, Hawkin screamed and attacked the man with his bare body.
And in one second, he was lying on the floor in a horrible state.
Kkudang tang tang!
Now there was nothing standing between the man and Princess Elina.
The man walked up to the princess and said.
“What am I eating? Let’s talk about something···.”
That was when.
“This noooom!”
“Oh my.”
The man turned to the side and dodged. The village chief’s sword swung and cut through the air, and the man tripped and knocked him down.
Kkudang tang tang!
The man spoke without being surprised.
“I thought you were in the same boat.”
“Ugh···.”
The village chief of Rowan Village was a knight who retired 30 years ago.
After retiring, he returned to his hometown and lived quietly until he received a call from Leonard, and took a risk to hide the princess in the village.
But I never thought things would turn out like this.
The person I thought was my benefactor is after the princess!
The old village chief cried out in sorrow, lamenting the past.
“Princess! Run away!”
Old Knight Leonard shouted as he struggled to his feet, using his sword as a cane.
“You ugly bastard! You can’t touch the princess until you kill me!”
Hawkin also raised all his body’s magical power with the resolve to die.
“If you want to take the princess, you’ll have to kill us all!”
Even the village chief’s old wife shed tears and held the kitchen knife with trembling hands.
“This, this, this bad guy···.”
And before them, Princess Alina spoke, shedding tears like chicken poop.
“I’m okay. I knew this day would come someday… I was prepared.”
The princess’s last subjects burst into tears at the same time.
“Princess Mama-!”
The man looked at them with an expression of absurdity.
This isn’t some melodrama.
“You were the ones who attacked first… Why are you only accusing me of being the bad guy?”
With a few people talking together, it took only a moment for one person to be turned into a bad guy.
It was so effective that even his own teammates began to doubt him.
Lily whispered in Jang Yeong-shin’s ear.
“Brother. Are you a bad guy?”
“!!”
The boy’s hair stood on end and his face turned bright red at the girl’s whisper.
So I just nodded without understanding a single word Gaia said.
“···Yeah. I think so.”
At that moment, the man looked back at the kids with a hurt face.
“Hey. You guys shouldn’t do that.”
ⓒ Ganjjajang
