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Never touch Eldmia Egga - Episode 335

The busiest times for the gatekeepers to the west of Kelvast Fortress are usually early morning and early evening. Since most of the area beyond the Cursed Steppe was the territory of monsters, the vast majority of those they deal with are adventurers, and if they do not go out early in the morning and camp, they usually return in the early evening before the sun completely sets..

Since the main customers are adventurers who deal with monsters, it seems to be an unpopular place to work because it cannot expect side income in the form of receiving 'toll fees' from merchants according to the custom like other gatekeepers, but it has a fixed hazard allowance and relatively low workload. Therefore, the evaluation is better than the general perception..

It could be said to be a kind of resort. This is a resort where you can relax your mind and body by leisurely looking at the grasslands after a few days of painstakingly collecting tolls at other gateways. Even if the orcs appeared, it wasn't a big disadvantage because the gatekeepers didn't fight right away..

Gatekeeper Hansdek, like everyone else, went about his work with that level of awareness. He was like that even at the moment when he leisurely had lunch after dealing with adventurers who went out to the plains early in the morning..

Until an orc riding on a demonic beast appears from the distant horizon, holding a huge two-handed ax in one hand..

Hansdek and his fellow gatekeepers, who almost reflexively blew the emergency flute and rang a warning bell, were able to remain calm because the orc that came into view was somehow different from usual..

Looking at the horse riding the horse, it was clear that it was an orc from the Kakula tribe, the harbingers of the grasslands. The first reason was that it was moving alone, and the second reason was that it was walking very slowly, not running towards the castle gate..

Even as Mongolia was in despair, Hansdek, who fully understood this, took out an expensive telescope, which cannot be taken out except in an emergency, and looked at the orc, and was surprised again..

"Yes, you are a person?"

The magical beast was that of the Orcs he knew. There was a time when he went out with a scouting party and had the misfortune of encountering them and almost getting bitten, so he couldn't have known. But he was clearly human sitting on it. After seeing a human as large as an orc and wearing a fur cape similar to that worn by barbarians, Hansdec was at a loss, but could not easily decide how to accept the fact that the human had returned riding a demonic beast like an orc..

Of course, the stranger did not wait until Hansdec decided what to do. He thought he was definitely approaching slowly, but when he came to his senses, he realized that the human riding the horse had arrived right in front of the gateway..

"ah."

I haven't decided yet. Regardless of Hans Deck's inner lament, he and his companion carried out the duties of a gatekeeper with mechanical movements..

"Hey, stop! Stop that demon right now!"

Honestly, I had no idea if this was the right response. Because until now, no human has come to the city on a magical beast. It was fortunate that the other party stopped in response to the request..

But after looking at it up close, it became more threatening. It hadn't been a day or two since I'd dealt with adventurers, but for some reason, the intimidation I felt from the man was special. Is it because I'm riding a magical beast? In the midst of such a feeling of intimidation and a tense stare to see what the other person would do, the man who looked around for a moment got off the horse and asked..

"excuse me. Is this the Kelvast Barrier??"

It was a very strange question. There isn't any other city on the steppe that has built a wall like this, and he himself left Kelvast after all, so he's probably coming back from the steppe, so why ask that question? At that moment, an ominous thought passed through Hansdec's head..

'Fuck, isn't that ghost story about the prairie devil or something real??'

Unlike the joke that it was a new devil emerging recently, pushing out the green devil of the grassland, it was a very bloody rumor..

The rumor is simple. 'The orcs are running away in fear.' That's all. However, to the people of Kelvast, who had suffered from orcs their entire lives, that simple rumor was even more terrifying. If you live face to face, you will get to know each other even if you don't like it. How ridiculous it is that the Orcs who have grown so strong are scared and run away..

Moreover, the orcs have now grown to an unprecedented scale due to the harbinger of Kakula. Hansdec couldn't even imagine what a terrible monster would have to appear for those guys to escape..

"Yes, that's right. This is Kelvast, humanity's walled fortress city. Please present your ID."

As I was about to move forward, making an introduction that I never thought I would make at the western gateway, a man with a look of relief on his tired face held out his hand and stopped Hansdec. While Hans Deck tilted his head at the action, which had a strong nuance of asking him to wait for a moment rather than disobeying, the man swung the ax he was holding like lightning and hit the neck of the demonic beast he was riding in one go..

The man who took out a piece of cloth and cleaned the ax said calmly while watching the giant body of the dead demon beast fall to the floor with a heavy sound, unable to even react, let alone resist, to a blow that was so fast and clean..

"excuse. Because it wasn't trained."

How did you get all the way here when you weren't trained??

The fact that I was able to force the question that almost came out of my mouth reflexively was largely due to the skill I had just shown. Besides, if you think about it and think about it carefully, it doesn't seem like he's a bad person. If we had come closer, Hans Deck would have had to stand on duty covered in blood until his return, and after work, he would have had to swear and import equipment..

Hansdek, trying to somehow take this situation positively, accepted the ID card the man handed him and couldn't help but tilt his head once again. From the moment he discovered the man, he continued to have doubts. It was clear that the situation was unusual, but since there was no other way, Hansdek asked carefully..

"Isn't this... an adventurer from the Kingdom of Itisel??"

Memory is important for gatekeepers. This may be because you are simply dealing with adventurers and commoners, but major characters such as nobles and merchants need to be recognized and dealt with immediately. However, no matter where you go in the world, there is no military that requires you to remember only the necessary things. Among the infamous absurdities of the Kelvast Gatekeepers was 'memorizing the adventurer cards of all nations'..

And Hansdec could guarantee it. He has lived for 40 years and has been a gatekeeper for half his life, but he has never seen the countless adventurer paddles he memorized when he was a recruit..

It was natural. The only adventurers who could freely travel between countries were those who had canceled their nationality and switched to a common card, and those who traveled around with nationality carried a special permit rather than an adventurer card..

'But that record was broken today.'

As I looked at him in disbelief, thinking that this might be Kelvast's first, the man who was seriously contemplating with his brows furrowed slowly opened his mouth to explain..

"That's a bit long to explain...."

As the man said, the explanation was a bit long, but he spoke so coherently that it wasn't complicated. Thanks to this, Hans Deck was able to run to the barracks with all his might, leaving his colleagues behind. He explained with enthusiasm what he had heard, only to be hit on the back of the head by the guard captain..

"Hey you frustrating bastard! Do you think that makes sense?! A man who fell into the middle of Kakula's village wasn't enough to walk out on his own, so he killed him and even brought an ax to him.?!"

It was unfair. Why are you arbitrarily assuming that it isn't real, but if it were real, you would have made an uproar by cutting off all the branches? Still, it was better to have a tingling sensation in the back of the head and feel dirty than to get a pay cut and dismissal, so Hansdek worked hard to persuade the security captain..

I don't know if it was because of his enthusiasm, or whether he thought it was fake and thought his position would be in jeopardy if it were real, but the guard captain showed a disapproving attitude and looked for a knight who could recognize Kakula's axe..

Fortunately, the process didn't take very long. There was no knight in Kelvast who did not know the story behind Kakula's axe, and even more so there was no one who did not know what it looked like..

Although there was no time to tell the knight the detailed story of the man who visited with an axe, Hansdec didn't care because that wasn't immediately important anyway. Hans Deck, who returned to the gate with the knight, listened to the conversation between the two people and was greatly surprised to learn that the ax was really Kakula's two-handed axe..

"Adventurer, I don't know how you got this, but this ax is a keepsake of Sir Maximan Dubert, the great hero of Kelvast. The legal rights belong to our Kelvast, so I would like them to be returned.."

"Sorry, but this is a trophy I rightfully earned from my capture of Kakula. I refuse."

"...Didn't I tell you? legitimate rights..."

"therefore......"

"...no..."

However, at the end of a conversation that went on without any time to contain my surprise,.

"Hey, you bastard who doesn’t know the fucking law! That's not legal!"

Without any time to contain my surprise, the situation quickly took a strange turn. I have another suspicion. Did I hear correctly? Fuck? young?

Fortunately, Hansdek's ears were fine. The knight's expression, which had been holding his chin high in a calm manner, suddenly became distorted..

"What, what?!"

"Why do you still have rights to the things that were stolen by that idiot orc? Does the Western Law work alone in the world? I'm very easygoing?"

Wow, that goes so fucking hard..

Hansdec slowly stepped back, forgetting that his eyes were popping out. Although the knight did not seem to believe the man's words or skills, Hansdek did not have any doubts about the skills of the man who cut off the log-like neck of the witch in one blow right in front of him. He looked like he was going to get stabbed at any moment, but it was clear that he wouldn't even be able to get his bones if he was so close..

Above all, for Hans Deck, who lived under the common sense that being confident in one's abilities and being pretentious with the power of a country are two different things, the man's strong attitude was so terrible that it drained the blood from his hands and feet, so he instinctively resisted it. There were things I wanted to keep away from..

"How dare the adventurer and babbler!"

Naturally, the knight was better than Hans Deck. The knight, his face red with anger, quickly brought his hand to the sword at his belt. Oh my goodness, I'm really going to be the main character of this evening's drinking story. A knight and an adventurer started a sword fight, and a huge fight ensued. It gave me goosebumps to think that the attention of his colleagues and those around him would be focused..

"Crazy helmet hanger bastard."

However, the bloody battle that Hans Deck expected did not continue..

-Kwasik!

The ax, which was obviously much heavier than the sword, was swung at a speed that the eye could not catch, splitting the knight vertically along with his armor..

"...uh?"

What Hansdec felt as he watched the lightning-like movement was the absurd sensation that a person was being split into pieces as if they were splitting firewood. It didn't feel that realistic. At the moment when Hans-Dek was about to tremble in fear at the unbelievable sight he saw right in front of him, the man said to Hans-Dek without even looking at the dead knight..

"Sorry for your inconvenience, but could you please bring someone who knows the law this time??"

Hansdek, who turned to run again at his incredibly polite demeanor for someone who had just cut a knight in half with a double curse, was inwardly lamenting as he saw the back of his comrade running away in the distance..

'Fuck. This is what happened. Please bring someone higher up..'

is not it? If someone high comes and gets cut in half and dies, is it dangerous because I also contributed to the cause??

While I was in the same place and had many conflicts with the creepy man who killed the knight and still cleaned his ax as if nothing had happened, it was more than twenty years later that my comrade who was like my enemy returned with the lord..