Chapter 193
Chapter 193
Episode 193 Biffron (3)
Team Apple The 3rd floor of the bar where Narak always met.
Raven let out a deep sigh.
It was because of the existence of one person who was absent due to unexpected circumstances.
“Once we got together as promised, but we won’t be able to pay the bills properly.”
It has been three days since I returned to the city.
Raven went to Commelby alone in place of the absent leader and sold all the loot.
Its value is a whopping 152.4 million stones.
“Huh 100 million?! It’s the first unit I’ve ever heard of!”
“Wow, you really got that price without the equipment we took?”
“First of all, it’s a sale by collecting all the equipment of seven mid-level explorers. Even the number item ‘Fox Flame Knot’ is only listed on the exchange and hasn’t been sold yet.”
“…I kind of expected it, but it’s really amazing.”
As soon as they heard the amount, a gasp came out of everyone’s mouth.
Just the kind of reaction I was expecting.
But why do I miss something so much?
Raven unknowingly glanced at the empty seat once.
‘I didn’t know when it was there, but it’s kind of boring because it’s not here.’
Bjorn, son of Yandel.
A barbarian warrior and team leader who serves as the guardian of Team Apple Narak. If he had been there, he would have been fighting a war of nerves about the distribution ratio by now.
[As a special loot, ask for 40% of the Manticore’s essence value as your share? What a strange calculation. I don’t know if I won the dice that day, but since this was from the dwarves, it’s right to distribute it evenly.] [
Then, what about the 20 million stones you received as a labor fee?]
[Of course, I’ll give you the cost of the test tube you used. But ask for 40% of the labor cost? There wouldn’t have been any mention of such labor costs in the distribution contract for special loot?]
There would have been a conversation like this, and then he would have presented a new compromise with a smile as he always did.
At the time, I thought it was for profit.
Maybe it wasn’t exactly like that…
“Aruru, what are you thinking?”
“it’s nothing.”
Raven finished the seat by shaking off all his thoughts.
“If there is no one who needs urgent money, I will first keep this money until Mr. Yandel arrives.”
“Yeah. Yeah. Einar can just lend me money.”
“Again!! Do I have to borrow it!!”
“I don’t have much money to pay anyway. If I ask for it in advance, it will only make the calculations complicated, making it difficult for Aruru. So just be patient until then. Okay?”
“I get it!”
“Hmm, I said 20 days, right? It’s more than 15 days left now.”
Raven felt strange for some reason.
It’s the first thing he said.
However, is it normal for me to nod my head so meekly when I say I will keep more than 100 million worth of goods alone?
If that’s what you ask, then no.
Raven couldn’t hold back the wizard-like question and spat it out.
“Isn’t everyone worried? I said I’ll keep it.”
“Yes?”
“Worried? Why would you do something like that!”
A reaction as if asking all sorts of strange things.
I felt even more awkward.
I’m not saying it’s a bad mood, but what should I say is hard to define?
‘Is that why he used Awakening Magic at that time…’
In the past, after hearing that story from Bjorn, I thought he was a really naive person.
That’s because a mage of the Mage Tower would never do that.
But now I think I can understand that behavior a little bit.
Not a lot, but about 1%.
“Anyway, that’s the end of today’s agenda.”
After the purpose of the meeting was over, we ate together and chatted about various things.
Naturally, most of the topics were about the team leader who was away.
“What kind of place is Arurung Bifron?”
“…It’s a bad place. Even a noble person can’t help but become ugly when he goes there.”
“That’s what poverty and hunger are like.”
“Did Mr. Urijkfried have those times too?”
“…In the third year, I lost all my equipment. At that time, I barely recovered by saving money by eating stone bread all year. I remember paying taxes very close.”
A little heavy atmosphere.
Misha carefully brought out words of concern.
“Is Bjorn doing well?”
“Mr. Karlstein, what are you so worried about? You must have a lot of money, you must be strong. What is there to be difficult about there? You are probably resting as if you were on vacation by now?”
“Hmm, that would be nice…”
Raven shook his head with a smile.
No matter what I said to the woman I fell in love with, it seemed very pretty.
‘He was one year older than me……’
For some reason, I thought I was envious.
Will the day come when I can make a face like that?
It is not easy to imagine now.
As I stared at him, Misha turned her head away in embarrassment and pinched the strict Einar’s waist.
“Stop eating Einar’s meat and talk to me too. Aren’t you worried about Bjorn?”
“… Huh? Bjorn? Why are you worried about Bjorn? Bjorn is a great warrior! Life is better off without the law!”
A truly barbarian answer.
Normally, it was the timing to shake their heads and say one thing at a time, but unexpectedly, everyone kept their mouths shut as if they had promised.
It was for a simple reason.
“…….”
I really thought so.
Wasn’t he a man who did everything he wanted to do, skillfully getting out of here and there even when there was a law?
***
shouts.
Bigger than ever.
“Behel—laaaaaaa!!!!!”
Currently, I am on the terrace on the 4th floor of the old building of the district 14 administrative office. For reference, a total of 514 subordinates are standing in line at once on the ground.
And there is only one action they must do now.
Since I sang the first song, I sang the after song.
“Behel-Ra!”
This is the result achieved after 3 days of coming here.
Became the boss of the ‘Western Union’ that occupied Bifron’s western district.
It wasn’t difficult.
In a place where there is no law, it would be natural and logical for force to become law.
Oh, it’s the sound of just going in and hitting everything.
“Your voice is small!”
“Behel—laaaa!”
“Bigger!!!”
“Be Behel—Laaaa!”
While he had subordinates, he also taught him the Barbarian battle cry, but he wasn’t very good at it. Is it because there is not a single barbarian among all these people?
It will take some time to be satisfied.
If someone asks the fundamental question why I am teaching in the first place, there is only one answer I will give.
I am a K-barbarian who inherited the Hongik Ingan spirit.
Of course good things should be shared.
“Behel—laaaaa!!!”
I didn’t like it for some reason, so I squeezed the mace tightly, and my voice got louder.
OK, that’s enough.
“Then today is over! Go back and play! Oh, don’t do anything to harm others!”
“yes!!”
After the regular morning meeting, which has been in effect from today, I dismissed my subordinates. Quite a few people had to use crutches because their legs were broken, but they all got out of the premises safely with the help of their colleagues.
Then it’s my turn to start breakfast.
“I have the tea ready.”
Upon entering the room, a man with a jellyfish cut with a bald head bowed down and served brunch.
He was the boss of the Western Union until yesterday.
By the way, I usually wear a wig because I have severe circular hair loss, but I was told to take it off from now on.
Don’t you dare have a subordinate hide something from the boss?
“Tea and bread …….”
Looking at the breakfast set on the table, I couldn’t help but sigh.
“Are you kidding me? Bring me some wine and meat.”
“Yes? Ah yes! I’m sorry. I don’t know much, so I usually eat—”
“Eating breakfast with something like this makes my hair fall out even though I’m young.”
“This is because of the witch’s poison!”
what.
If that was the case, everyone here would be bald.
“Don’t make ugly excuses.”
“…….”
After waiting for a while, the table was set with crispy grilled meat.
I just ate it with my bare hands as usual.
The hand leather itself was thick and had high fire resistance, so being hot was not a problem.
“What was your name? I don’t remember.”
“That’s why you didn’t ask……”
Treason?
The tea guy who had been thinking about that realized his mistake and quickly put his words together.
“This is Gingkasar Feljain.”
“It’s unusual. Which name is it?”
“It’s a south-central naming.”
Ah, the ancestors were desert people.
Somehow, my skin was dark.
“Hmm.”
I looked at the guy for a while and thought about it.
It’s Gingkasar Feljain. Isn’t the name too troublesome to pronounce?
It needs to be reduced a bit for practicality.
Yes, first of all, since it’s Mr. Jing
…….
“…yes?”
“From now on, I will call you Jingjing.”
The answer came after a while.
“………………yes.”
“I have to attach a boss to the back.”
“Yes boss…”
Squidward didn’t seem to like the new name he was given, but what about Gee?
If you twist it, you win.
Or maybe I should have managed my subordinates so they wouldn’t quarrel with me.
“water.”
“yes?”
“water.”
“Ah yes!”
After eating, I swallowed the antidote given by the knight with water. It’s embarrassing because I don’t know the ingredients, but since Raven has guaranteed stability, it should be okay.
‘I feel more uncomfortable not eating it in the first place.’
Bifron is an area where the ‘Guardian Magic Circle’ has been damaged.
The ‘witch’s poison’ that drove the world to the end is leaking in at this moment, and all the residents here are exposed to it.
For reference, witch poison is radioactive.
Like a fantasy world, there is one peculiar part.
‘They didn’t show up until the age of 15, and after that, the chance of it appearing increased depending on the time of exposure.’
To explain it more game-like, Bifron can be said to be a place covered with probabilistic instant-death rugs.
For adults, life expectancy after deportation is eight to nine years.
Even so, the ‘Guardian Magic Circle’ is halfway working, so if you go outside the castle wall, you will die within a day.
‘Well, no one has ever been outside.’
The world outside the city is also an unknown space to me.
Even in the game, it was completely blocked by the system.
So in that sense…….
“I’ll fill my stomach, so I’ll go for a walk.”
“……I’ll see you by my side.”
I went for a walk with Squidward.
Then he walked aimlessly in one direction and asked questions that he was curious about.
As he was the head of a group, he knew more than the kid who gave directions on the first day, and he answered questions that might be a little strange with sincerity.
They are giving their souls to match the game of captain.
“Ask any further questions, and I, Gingkasar Feljain, will answer them all.”
Well, it was obvious how he was lying flat on his stomach.
He must have thought that since he was going to leave after 20 days, it would be fine if he adjusted it during that time. It is clear that if you try to hit the back of the head and fail, you will be killed.
‘Should I say thank you to that kid?’
There couldn’t have been a plan to get his hands on the Western Union by being exiled to Bifron, but it wasn’t something he did thoughtlessly.
Like it or not, isn’t it a place where you have to stay for 20 days?
I decided that it would be less of a hassle to have a seat.
I have something I would like to know personally.
It’s not like there wasn’t a reason why I was bored.
“But how far are you going boss? You’ve already entered the eastern area.”
“Follow me.”
After the morning walk lasted for more than two hours, Squidward expressed a question.
“But if you go further from here, there’s only a castle wall…”
“That’s the destination.”
Why is there a wall with nothing on it?
Those eyes passed by for a moment, but Squidward didn’t ask another question here.
He learned how to talk to me in one day.
Turbuck.
The street near the city wall we arrived at.
I climbed on the roof of a building that looked taller and looked at the castle wall.
‘This is the same here.’
As in other areas, there were soldiers standing guard on the wall.
After all, I’ve always wondered about this.
Why were the soldiers looking this way instead of outside?
“Well, isn’t it because you’re afraid someone might go outside?”
I asked Jingjing as well, but only such an answer came back.
In fact, I only knew that.
Everyone knows that in the first place.
But…
‘Does it really need to be like this in Bpron?’
Anyway, from the royal family’s point of view, it’s good people to disappear. No, rather, if you die from ‘witch’s poison’ while crossing the castle wall, it helps to gain the ‘legitimacy’ of the royal family.
‘As expected, it’s strange.’
It was a contradiction that I felt as soon as I arrived here.
Bifron’s ‘Guardian Magic Circle’ is broken.
So when you set up a sentry on the wall, you have to feed the antidote to the soldiers.
But, waste resources and set up sentries?
‘There’s something.’
I had such an intuition.
That intuition that helped me discover so many hidden pieces.
However, looking up at the top of the castle wall and organizing my thoughts, the answer did not come out.
A plausible hypothesis has come to mind, but…
there is still insufficient evidence to support it.
“Stop going back. I’m hungry.”
“yes.”
Soon, he took his eyes off the wall and turned his back.
But then I saw a group of dozens on the street down there.
“They’re from the east. They seem to have come here after hearing the news that we’re here. What do you do?”
The words themselves seemed to be asking for a doctor, but in Squidward’s eyes, there was an expectation that I would crush the other side in the same way.
to see inside.
“Okay. We’re going back to our area, so guide us. If possible, don’t run into them—”
As I was about to step away, I hardened like a stone.
It was because of the face of one person among the eastern guys.
‘……Amelia Laneways?’
why is he here?