Chapter 158
My Villains Episode 158
40. Again, trackers.(2)
I ran frantically, looking everywhere. Fortunately, thanks to the darkness of the early morning, I did not encounter anyone..
Then I found a quiet space behind a warehouse and laid Atalanta down there..
“lower jaw, black—”
The man who followed behind took a deep breath and placed the elder's body on the floor. His whole body was covered in sweat from carrying the body..
I took off Atalanta's belt, secured the airway, and looked back at the bundle..
“why did you do that?”
“yes?”
“Why did you kill me?.”
After wiping the sweat from his forehead, he blinked for a moment..
“I'm trying to be a noob.”
“Speak louder? I tried to scream?”
“yes.”
“Then you just have to subdue it. There was no need to kill.”
“to……
The guy's expression became clouded..
“Here's what to answer?”
“……To that old man?”
“yes yes.”
“Why are you suddenly asking me that??”
Hearing my question, Moongchi tilted his head with his face slightly clouded..
“If you're too strict about asking for an answer, then, eh, there's no need to give it to me..”
“••••••what?”
I tried to explain what he was talking about, but my Milanese was so bad that I couldn't understand it..
However, judging by his puzzled expression and the nuance of his words, it seemed that Mongchi did not understand the concept of ‘you must not kill people’..
I sighed unconsciously as my bones ached..
“ha. Okay, let's talk later..”
“Eh, yes……
I ignored the bundle that was looking at me with a sullen face, and looked at Atalante lying on the floor..
Fortunately, there seemed to be no abnormality when I checked using blood angiography. I was worried because my mouth was bleeding, but I just bit the inside of my cheek to hold back the pain and it wasn't anything other than internal organs..
……What should I do now?.
We killed Atalanta's clan elder. Regardless of whether he was an innocent victim or not, murder was murder. It wasn't going to be easy to clean up after all..
“Umm-”
After a moment of worry, Atalanta let out a groan. Frowning with my eyes closed, it seemed like it was about to happen.
After roughly organizing my thoughts, I quickly approached Mungchi and quietly gave him an order..
“I'm at the Yeongjugwan.”
“yes?”
“I'll take care of this, so you can stay in the main office..”
“Yes, I understand.,”
“fizzle. Go quickly.”
The bundle closed its mouth and disappeared into the darkness..
And how long has it been? Atalanta slowly opened her eyes. Amber eyes blink slowly.
“……Knicks? It's you?”
“Atalanta.”
“why are you here,”
She raised her upper body and cupped her forehead as if she was suffering from a hangover..
“Okay.”
“ are you okay?”
“……Ugh, no.”
Atalanta, who had been grumbling for a while, suddenly raised her hand as if she had a good idea..
“Can I touch your butt??”
“……What kind of bullshit is this all of a sudden??”
“Ask me to touch your butt. Because I think it will be better then.”
It was a wonderful nonsense that relieved all the tension..
When I quietly frowned, she clicked her tongue and swept her gray hair as if she was disappointed..
“But what on earth is this??”
“that is.”
I scratched my eyebrows and started explaining..
“……therefore.”
Atalanta opened her mouth with a confused expression..
“You found us by chance while taking a walk? It happened while Maurio was torturing me.?”
“that's right.”
When I nodded quietly, she burst into laughter..
“And you killed that Maurio?”
“……It was a mistake. I was only thinking of making you faint.,”
“The body?”
“I brought it with me.”
When I pointed in the direction where the elder's body was, Atalanta staggered to her feet and walked toward that direction..
“……
Complex emotions appeared on her face as she looked down at Maurio. Anger, sadness, relief, and joy were all intertwined, centered around astonishment..
“……fate, like this……
Atalanta, standing blankly in front of the body, muttered something to herself. I added, as if making excuses to her..
“I felt like if I left it as is, you would be framed. So for now,”
“That won't happen.”
“••••••what?”
“I cannot kill a member of Asun. It's a fact the whole clan knows.”
Atalanta got down on one knee and rummaged around in Maurio's arms..
I quietly watched her and brought up what I had been guessing..
“You're cursed.”
“……It's not a curse. some kind of ban.”
“taboo? what kind of ban?”
“I don't know exactly.”
She continued talking while gathering her purse and other belongings..
“I got it when I was very young. About six or seven? I don't even remember.”
“Who imposed the ban? your elders?”
“huh.”
……This is a taboo that the elders hung when they were very young. I just have a rough feeling..
Atalanta felt the elder's neck and narrowed her eyes slightly..
“I used a rope?”
“……tether? Ah, yes. I used a rope.”
“Hmm.”
She seemed to notice something, but didn't ask any further questions, just snorted and raised her eyebrows..
Atalanta stretched out her hand toward the pendant hanging around Maurio's neck. The moment her fingertips touched the dark green gem.
Cheek!
York ”
Atalanta's fingertips were burned, as if she had touched a red-hot fireball. She gritted her teeth and threw the pendant on the floor, trampling it in one breath with her leather boots..
pakak!
The dark green gem embedded in the pendant simply broke into pieces, like a glass bead. Then, the magic disperses with the sound of the wind whistling.…….
“Ha, ha.”
Atalanta let out a sigh, not sure if it was laughter or sighing..
“Wasn't that a magic tool? You can just destroy it like that.?”
“……I know.”
Amber eyes turned to me. Through that gaze, the turbulent emotions were clearly conveyed..
“I just moved without thinking about it..”
““Have you lifted the ban?” Atalanta laughed and shook her head..
“no. Other elders also have the same items as that one. There's a long way to go before the ban is lifted..”
Contrary to the content, I felt a certain refreshingness in her voice..
I quietly scratched my eyebrows.
“……I have no idea how this works. Please explain what is what.”
“okay. But before that.”
“ Ugh,”
Without even speaking, she suddenly stretched out her arms and hugged my neck. Then they pressed their bodies close together and kissed each other..
“Hey, what are you doing out of nowhere?,”
I grabbed her shoulders and tried to push her away, but Atalanta forcibly pulled me in, dyeing her hair purple..
Dramatically stronger muscles…….
It was clear that ‘Power of Void’, a rank 1 void skill, had been activated..
“Oh, Atalanta, wait a minute.,”
“Shut up and congratulate me.”
“What is the celebration?-”
She was lunging at me, ready to eat me from the lips. I felt like I was out of my mind..
Atalanta was emitting a series of purple eyes, and I could somehow read the emotions there..
A sense of liberation and guilt. excitement and fear.
These emotions are not just uplifting, they seem like madness at first glance..
The purple light from the vision was dispelling the surrounding darkness. A situation where you could get caught by the guards behind the wooden fence if you are not careful.…….
……Hey.
I tightly clamped Atalanta's lips, lifted her up with my left arm, and pulled out the Hrunting with my right hand. Then he went to the warehouse with his back to him, stuck the blade through the crack in the door, and cut off the bolt..
In one corner of the warehouse that I had to force open, there was a pile of hay for horse feed. After pushing Atalanta onto it, he closed the warehouse door again. The cut bolt was replaced with a Hrunting..
There was a strange man.
He performed all kinds of miraculous feats, was able to come and go, and knew nothing about the world..
The Nude people who encountered Gigi regarded him as a demi-god and worshiped him, and sacrificed a shaman to receive his seed..
After Gin impregnated the shaman, he disappeared as suddenly as when he first appeared. He left one prophecy for everyone and one message for only the shaman..
The child born that way was Atilia. According to Giin's prophecy, this was the child who would save the nation..
As a daughter of a Gein, Atilia learned one of his many talents from a very young age. That was the power of vision..
The elders of the Al Qadari clan trembled with anxiety as they watched Atilia grow unusually. This is because Atilia was afraid that she would suddenly disappear at any moment like her father..
Around that time, the shaman died..
She closed her eyes as she whispered her message to Atilia, and the elders gathered in Asun to make a decision. Let's put a ban on Atilia's strength and spirit before she grows bigger..
The clan chiefs and elders were given the reins to control Attilia and acted as her parents. The satisfaction of taking on the role of a demigod was an added bonus..
Around the time Atilia, who had become the best warrior of the clan both in name and reality, celebrated her 23rd birthday, the Al Qadari clan was passing through Multingham, the capital of the Marva region..
It wasn't planned, but it wasn't anything special either..
It was natural for the Nude people to wander, and the central and southern regions, with their mild climate and good public sentiment, were particularly preferred transit points..
So the Al Qadari clan would pass through Multingham once every two or three years to do business or sell goods..
The journey that had been going on so routinely ends up receiving an unexpected proposal. Tristan Baek, owner of the Marva region
It was a suggestion from the.
-My vassal, Baron Marlow Lee, lord of Longville, is acting crazy. Help my son, Doyle, retrieve the territory..
It was a suggestion that was practically an order, but the reward was sweet..
The earl personally promised that if he completed the work and provided an appropriate amount of gold and silver, he would grant him a manor near Multingham..
The count was so thoughtful that he even prepared documents notarized by the church, and Asun immediately accepted the offer..
The elders entrusted the clan's elite warriors, excluding the Hareskis (guards protecting Asun), to Atilia..
Doyle Mullin, the second son of Count Tristan, was a quick-witted but arrogant man who gained notoriety..
His notoriety was so great that when Count Tristan's eldest son died young, dozens of vassals petitioned the count to nominate his younger sister as successor instead of Doyle..
Doyle, who lost his place as successor to his younger sister Clarissa, was looking for an opportunity with his resentment engraved in his bones..
Meanwhile, he heard Baron Mallory's crazy proclamation, and went to Count Tristan and made an earnest request. His point was, ‘If you’re not going to hand over the earldom, please let me eat Longville!’.
Count Tristan eventually accepted Doyle's request. Even though he was one of the kingdom's greatest nobles, he was ultimately a weak-hearted father in his 50s..
Doyle, with his father's support, prepared several cards. Atilia's victory in the hunting contest was also one of those cards..
After much sacrifice and hard work, Atilia, who gave Doyle a useful card, thought that the mission given to her was completed..
However, Doyle demanded that the Al Qadari clan cooperate until Longville was completely taken over, and the elders could not refuse this..
After the agreement was reached, Doyle and his group decided to relax after their travels at the Golden Knife Tavern..
As usual, Doyle sent out his family soldiers and chased away all the other customers, then drank alone. And like usual, he couldn't overcome his lust and broke into the beautiful woman's room..
The beauty who invaded in the middle of the night was none other than Atilia, and she beat up Doyle..
Elder Maurio, who noticed the commotion, quickly came from the next room and was shocked to see Doyle with a broken nose and ruptured lip..
Maurio left the unconscious Doyle in the room and dragged Atilia outside..
Then, to cover up this incident, he ordered her to sleep with Doyle..
- Prince Doyle is a brave man, so if you apologize deeply and serve with sincerity, even a broken nose will be considered a medal. Go and take responsibility for what you did..
Atilia was extremely angry at Maurio's bullshit. As the conversation between the two escalated into an argument, Maurio finally took out a ‘gold pendant’..
By the time Atalanta's breathless story was over and I was leaving the warehouse, the sun had already risen in the east..
“Doyle is aiming for the throne..”
“He said the position of successor passed to his younger sister..”
“They want to take it back. Because there's a gold mine.”
Atalanta continued, pulling on the laces of her boots..
“As soon as they took Longville, they mobilized all the people of the territory to mine gold mines..”
“If you mobilize all the people of the territory, farming will be?”
“You can just buy food.”
“…… Well, it is natural to invest intensively in industries with high added value. But would people who used to live as farmers want to work in gold mining so obediently??”
“Hmm? What are you talking about? Of course, it has nothing to do with the will of the people of the territory..”
Gray hair was blowing in the wind, and the scent of jasmine was in the air. The fluffy nape of the neck drew attention while the red cloth lifted the hair..
“2, 3The plan is to squeeze out as much money as possible by squeezing out the territory for years, and then turn the territory over based on that..”
“2, 3within a year?”
“Count Tristan will be dead by then..”
“How old is the count, and is he already dead??”
“Must have been a little over fifty.”
“Isn’t fifty a time to flourish? He's a great nobleman, right?.”
“That's not the case. During the Thousand Day War, you were shot by your master with an arrow and fell from your horse.
They say they’ve been fretting over it ever since. My body has become weak from being in prison, so the priest's treatment doesn't work..”
I remember what Ellen said again..
-Not another nobleman, but one from the Zeore royal family, Prince Ulcar? How many enemies does Prince Ulkar have?!
I know exactly what you mean..
Fight against the seven great nobles during the Thousand Day War
They say they took three prisoners and killed two. I'm very worried about the journey ahead..
……Hey, I took the knighthood for nothing..
While I was grumbling internally, Atalanta came over and hugged my neck. and whisper.
“Convince the Baroness.”
“••••••what‘?”
“If this continues, the people of Longville will be trampled by Count Tristan's army, exploited by Doyle, and then march towards Multingham. The Baroness will be killed without even a rat or a bird knowing, or worse..”
A short kiss passed.
“Buy time by promising the earl a full inheritance. In the meantime, let the people of the territory flee to other provinces. The same goes for the Baroness..”
“……I'll talk to you.”
I grabbed her hand again as she tried to back away..
“Don't forget that you have other options too..”
“……I mean your manor in Southernshire.?”
«Ugh » huh*
Atalanta smiled bitterly..
“I told you. The north is too cold and dangerous for the Nudein. There are few cities to travel to..”
“Still, you don’t have to worry about the owner..”
Her smile got a little brighter..
“I'll go.”
“It's okay, even if you don't help me?”
I pointed at the corpse of Elder Mauriot lying in the corner. Thanks to hearing Atalanta's story, any feelings of guilt had long since disappeared..
“are you okay. 'Cause I have a plan.”
The eyes that had regained their peace took on a golden color as they were colored by the morning sun..
“nicks.”
“ huh?”
“thank you.”
“……Thank you. It was just a coincidence.”
“still,”
She added with a stern expression.
“If this happens again, don't get involved..”
“……what?”
“You could have been in danger too. I got lucky this time, but I don't know what will happen next time.”
I was silent for a moment and then shook my head..
“I can take that level of risk. 'Cause I owe you my life.”
“I was the one in debt first..”
I'm talking about the second time we met. When a fight broke out due to a misunderstanding over the corpses of mercenaries..
“……That's like saying I owe you my life
n,”
“anyway.”
Atalanta carried Maurio's body and made a request with a serious face..
“Please, if something like today happens, please don’t come forward..”
“Atalanta.”
“Even for me. Okay?”
I ended up nodding my head at her who smiled sweetly..
For no reason, I sighed..
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