How to Live as a Knight After the Ending - Chapter 11
Only Noblemtl
Episode 11. Checkpoint
The director clearly seemed displeased that this situation had even occurred.
The guard protested desperately, sweating profusely.
“This guy didn’t respond properly to the questioning!”
“You didn’t respond to the checkpoint?”
“Look. Aren’t you walking around with a strange object openly on your side?”
The curator’s gaze turned to the sword hanging from Ossian’s waist.
No matter how you looked at it, it was a pure sword without any decoration.
Sharp red eyes scanned Ossian’s face with curiosity.
“Who are you?”
“Ossian.”
“Ossian? What’s your job?”
“Problem solver.”
Although he was just a rookie who had just been recruited, Ossian didn’t bother answering to that extent.
The director’s face frowned even more at the word ‘problem solver’.
Just by looking at his face, you can tell he’s a young master from a noble family, but he carries a sword at his side and his job is to fix things.
“Are you really going to use that sword?”
Ossian narrowed his eyes at the question, which seemed to suggest that he really knew how to handle a sword.
As a knight, his body was upset by the director’s provocative words and actions.
‘No. Hold on, the wandering knight inside me.’
Ossian barely managed to maintain his sanity.
No matter how you looked at it, the opponent seemed to be someone of a higher status than the person in charge of this place.
Strictly speaking, he was a high-ranking police officer in the city, but there was absolutely no benefit to picking a fight with such people.
‘So let’s answer as politely as possible.’
Ossian opened his mouth, thinking it would be better to avoid a pointless fight.
“Then. Are there any fools who carry weapons they don’t use?”
“what?”
Ossian exclaimed, “Oh no!” at the words that came out of his mouth without him knowing.
But once the knight’s body was set on fire, it made no attempt to hide its discomfort.
“If you’re really curious, I can show you here.”
“… … .”
The director’s expression distorted subtly.
Rather than being angry, he was surprised that a mere troubleshooter responded like that without being scared when he saw him.
‘Blithe? But if you look into his eyes, you can tell he’s not talking nonsense.’
There is no bluff or any sign of trying to deceive us.
The man named Ossian in front of me seemed genuinely and unhesitatingly confident in his ability to wield a sword.
Besides, when you hear a confident voice, you can tell that there is definitely a corner that you believe in.
The curator had difficulty defining exactly what the sensation that had been stimulating his instincts like a needle had been.
Rather, it was the guards who had initially clashed with Ossian that were furious.
“This insolent troubleshooter dares to approach the director!”
The guard exploded in anger, unable to bear the fact that a mere troubleshooter, Naburangi, was making fun of the commander he truly respected.
Half of it was a calculated move to look good to the director.
The guard took out a black staff from his waistband and held it in his hand.
“A kid like you needs to be beaten to come to his senses!”
The guard shouted as he swung his staff at Ossian’s head.
It happened without even giving the director a chance to stop it.
Immediately after that, something amazing happened.
The other guards didn’t see it, but the general saw it clearly.
Before the staff could reach his head, Ossian drew his sword with his right hand and cut down the staff.
It happened in a split second when the guards waved their arms.
“uh?”
The guard’s eyes widened as he saw the staff he was swinging fall to the ground in exact thirds.
He seemed not to understand why his weapon had changed like this.
“What the heck… … .”
The moment when the guards are confused.
Kaang!
Sparks flew before my eyes.
The guards realized belatedly that the sparks were the result of the clash between Ossian’s sword and the general’s metal boots.
The general stretched out his long legs and blocked the sword that was coming towards the guard’s face with his legs.
Ossian looked at the curator with a look of surprise.
Looking closely, I saw that the soles of the boots the director was wearing were made of solid metal.
The director opened his mouth.
“Stop it.”
Her red eyes had been fixed on Ossian for a moment and would not leave.
Ossian, who was receiving that gaze, still just stood there still.
Then Ossian opened his mouth.
“I think this much has been proven. Is that right?”
“… … Okay. I understand. Let’s stop there. I will apologize on your behalf for your rudeness.”
“Sir! What on earth are you talking about!”
The guards were taken aback by the sight of the director apologizing first.
The director glared at the guard.
Shut your mouth.
The guards couldn’t help but freeze at the sight of the captain saying that with his eyes.
As Ossian put away his sword, the general also lowered his leg.
“And let me ask you again. What is your name?”
“Ossian. Didn’t you answer just a moment ago?”
“… … That’s right. My name is Alencia Hair. I’m the boss of this idiot here, and the enforcer of the city.”
executor?
Ossian didn’t react much as he had never heard the name Executor before.
However, the other guards, including the commander, were secretly surprised by Ossian’s insensitive response.
You’re not even afraid when you see the executioner in Tirna.
It’s just that he wasn’t usually a strong-hearted person.
‘No. Judging from the way he swung his sword just now, he might have been confident in his own skills.’
A person with this level of skill is nothing more than a problem solver.
Although Alencia didn’t know everything about the city, he was proud of himself for knowing more about it than other people.
‘Besides, just a moment ago, you followed my movements with your eyes.’
Director Alencia thought about it for a moment before shaking her head.
Alencia immediately stepped aside and said.
“It would be nice to just go now.”
“… … .”
Ossian stared at Alencia for a moment as she gently sent him off, then moved on.
Before leaving the checkpoint, Ossian looked back slightly and said.
“I never intended to kill him from the beginning.”
With those words, Ossian left the checkpoint completely.
The guard ground his teeth inside his gas mask as he watched Ossian’s back moving away.
“Sir! Why did you let that rude guy go?”
“It’s noisy.”
“Chief!”
“You idiot. You still don’t understand why I just let him go?”
The guard was speechless at the sight of the captain looking at him with pity.
Even though he was strict with his subordinates, he was not the type to give them such a blatant look.
At that moment, the look in Director Alencia’s eyes changed.
From a pitiful gaze towards this side, with surprise and astonishment.
What is it? Why are you doing that?
The guard tried to say something, then realized that his mouth was empty.
“Oh, huh?”
The guard realized belatedly that his gas mask was cut in half.
The guard’s eyes twitched wildly.
“Did you see? If I hadn’t stopped you, you might have died.”
“… … This, this. This can’t be happening. How on earth?”
“You idiot. And you still call yourself a guard of Tirna? You are a punishment.”
“Oh, why?”
“If you don’t know that, then that’s called discipline.”
Alencia turned around and left after saying that.
Thinking back to the Ossian I had just encountered.
‘I thought I had blocked it properly.’
Alencia clearly blocked Ossian’s sword, but the subordinate’s mask was cleanly cut off.
‘You can cut a metal mask with just a swing of your sword. I’ve never heard of someone with that level of skill.’
Alencia was also embarrassed, although she tried not to show it.
‘What would have happened if we had continued fighting there?’
As an Executor, if you fought Ossian, would you be able to subdue him? No, beyond that, would you be able to defeat him?
It is not impossible if you use the Arcparts that are only given to executors.
But Alencia had a feeling that just as she was hiding her powers, Ossian was also hiding something.
‘It’s Ossian. I must remember that.’
Maybe a big problem could arise.
Alencia thought so.
*
Area 47 is completely deserted.
I finally arrived at that place, which was dark and gloomy the whole time because the light didn’t come in because of the narrow and high alleyway even though it was broad daylight.
There was a bit of a delay on the way here, but it wasn’t a big problem.
‘Let’s see. First of all, the request itself was to clean up the gang in Area 47.’
Since the request form contained detailed information, I was able to finish looking through it all on my way here.
A gang is a type of criminal group that grows up in the darkness of the city.
Even within the game, there were criminal organizations like this in each city.
The only difference is that in the game he was armed with a dagger and a club, but here he was armed with a gun?
‘The gang that took over Area 47 was called the Black Snakes. They quickly expanded their influence and started extorting money from people, and even went so far as to touch businesses.’
District 47 is the district with the most direct access to the outside of Tirna.
It was a place that served as a kind of passageway.
But public security was not very good.
Besides the 47th Ward, there were many other districts that led out of the city anyway, and there was no need for the city to give special treatment to the 47th Ward.
‘If it’s this backward, touching it would be just a waste of money.’
There were police officers in charge of security within the 47th Precinct, but they were either paid bribes or only pretended to do the work.
That’s why gangs like Black Snake are so active.
They must have grown tired of increasing their power, so they ended up attacking a truck transporting the company.
‘Even if a company uses District 47, it is at best a small or medium-sized company. They must have decided that it would be okay to mess with it.’
Tirna is a huge city.
It was so large that the city was divided into districts, each of which resembled a large city.
How many buildings and streets are there in a city?
It was only natural that if you planned to hide in a place like that, it would be hard to find.
But I was more familiar with this situation than I thought.
Even when trying to complete various requests in the game, you will encounter unfriendly situations more often than you think.
Even if you received a quest, there was no system that told you where to go with arrows.
Only the users had to explore and find their way through it on their own.
From quests with unknown destinations to complex structures that make it difficult to find the locations of NPCs.
In particular, the back alleys of the city were the perfect places to waste time without doing anything.
Many users got tired of such quests and left the game, or did other simpler quests.
I was different though.
‘There are many NPCs in the game that you can’t interact with, so it was difficult to ask them questions or find things.’
This is reality, not a game.
So, you might be able to get some information just by talking to street vagrants.
With that in mind, I was thinking of looking for someone I knew nearby.
Boom!
A bright red apple rolled toward me with a crashing sound.
I picked up the apple and turned my gaze towards the place where the commotion was.
“If you do business here, you have to pay money!”
“Did you think we wouldn’t find you if you moved somewhere and ran away? You know we have you covered here, don’t you?”
“Hey. What are you guys doing? Beat it up.”
Five muscular men, who looked like thugs at first glance, were seen harassing a fruit shop owner.
The thugs kicked over the stalls and trampled the fruit rolling on the floor.
The old woman tried to resist, but was no match for him.
The old woman fell to the ground as one of the men pushed her with force.
Looking around, I saw that some pedestrians went on their way without interfering.
At least this isn’t the first or second time something like this has happened.
‘Yeah. In this world, there are bound to be people doing demolition and other work. It’s better this way.’
I threw the apple I was holding in my hand, caught it, and then threw it at the thug.
Plop!
The apple that flew straight up smashed into the temple of the guy who seemed to be the leader of the five.
“Hey, who the hell is that!”
A man with a fierce expression looked around for a while, then his eyes met mine and his face distorted.
“Is that you?”
“Yes, I threw it.”
The guys who were dumbfounded by my answer snorted and slowly approached me.
“Hey, bro. You look like you’re wearing nice clothes, but why are you coming to a place where other people are doing business and talking nonsense? What the hell?”
“I have one more question for you.”
“Why does this kid talk like this?”
“From what you just said, you guys seem to know your way around here pretty well. Can you give me some directions?”
At my question, the four punks looked at each other and soon burst into laughter.
The only one who couldn’t smile and glared at me was the guy who got hit with the apple.
I nodded my head at the sight of her, who seemed to know just by looking at me that he would never tell me.
“It’s okay. You don’t have to tell me right away.”
There’s no need to swing your sword against these guys.
I clenched my fist lightly.
“I didn’t intend to hear it right now.”