The Soldier Shouted Save - Chapter 20
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The soldier shouted save (20)
-Chiiik.
I put the triangular stone with the strange noise in my bosom and head back to the inn.
Then, not long after, the letters that appeared in my eyes changed.
[‘Guild Stone’ is used.]
[Your application has been completed.]
[… … .]
[… .]
[Your membership to the ‘Imperial Palace’ guild has been completed.]
It was a strange statement.
“… …Imperial Palace Guild?”
What kind of crazy mercenary group or merchant group would name their guild ‘Imperial Palace’?
‘But how did you get signed up?’
I didn’t visit the guild and fill out an application.
I just picked up the stone and put it in my bosom.
‘Is this the place where the palace’s back office is done?’
It was absurd for a guild that did the after-sales work to openly use the name ‘Imperial Palace’, but that was the truth.
When I picked up the Imperial Palace Warrior’s Token, a group called the ‘Imperial Palace Guild’ appeared.
‘First, shall we take a look?’
I didn’t slow down and read the words that appeared before my eyes.
[Guild-wide notice]
[Change your status message when you receive a whisper.]
[If you have anything to say, please send it through Jang Jin-woo or contact him directly.]
[Always keep the microphone reception on unless you are performing a special mission.]
‘Contact Jang Jin-woo or directly. By whisper… do you mean a signal or a note?’
I tried to recall the words the warriors had spoken in the Room of Fate, but the term ‘whisper’ did not stick in my memory.
‘I think I’ve seen it… … .’
However, I was able to figure out what the role of the triangular stone that had ‘Guild Stone’ written on it was.
‘Judging by the writing that appeared before my eyes, it is a magical tool that can communicate from a distance.’
But how do you get in touch with this stone?
I look at the stone I took out from my bosom here and there.
Then, a new letter appeared.
[Kim Yu-chan to you: Lee Hyun-seong. Why don’t you edit your status message?]
The text appears in purple.
[From Kim Yu-chan to you: Write your name, identity, application route, affiliation, and what privileges you have within 3 minutes.]
It seemed like the other person was asking for my personal information and the promised signal, but I couldn’t say anything.
Because I touched the triangular stone here and there, but there was no reaction.
‘… Let’s hurry.’
Unidentified group.
When I saw the writing appearing before my eyes, it was only a matter of time before my existence was questioned.
It will soon be revealed that the guild stone is not mine.
―“Hey, number 17! What are you? Why is your stamina red?”
A man’s voice was heard right nearby.
The man seemed to be speaking loudly, but for some reason his voice sounded soft, like a whisper.
‘… … Did you hear it from here?’
The guild stone in hand.
I put my ear close to the guild stone so I could hear the voice well.
―“What, he died…? What was that kid’s name? Eindel? Einhel? What was he doing?”
A male voice, as if talking to someone.
I had been straining my hearing, and frowned at the familiar sound of a male voice.
‘It’s clear. It’s a palace warrior.’
She holds the guild stone tightly next to her ear and listens to the man’s voice.
―“… … Oh, that gloomy kid? Isn’t that the kid I gave to my saintly brother?”
Saint Brother. At those words that seemed to refer to me, I lifted my ears from the stone and ran as fast as I could toward the inn.
―“Then, he must have killed him?”
Because the palace warrior had already figured out that I had killed his comrade.
‘We have to take them all out of the inn.’
Their plans were ruined because of me.
So what they have to do is bring the plan forward.
They could have abandoned their caution and attacked Croa right now.
[I was kicked out of the guild.]
The ‘guild stone’ he was holding turned into dust and slipped through the gap in his hand.
‘hurry!’
What’s important is not the guild stone, but ensuring the safety of my younger siblings.
At the end of the field of vision, an inn building appears.
The main gate was wide open, welcoming me.
‘You can’t do that.’
What if they’re waiting for me to come back?
Go back to the side of the building, look up and check the windows.
‘… … End of the hallway. Over there!’
Apply strength to your fingertips and climb up the outer wall.
‘Ugh!’
It takes less effort than I expected.
A body that seems stronger than when he was an active-duty soldier.
Pull yourself up with your hanging fingertips and place your feet on the railing.
I opened the window.
“Uh, uh, oh, oppa?”
The two younger brothers looked scared.
And Lee Hye-rin reaching out towards the closed door.
I could immediately understand what the situation was.
-Bang bang!
“Oh, right. The innkeeper told me to call you. Open the door!”
Someone is pounding on the door as if they’re going to break it down.
I gestured toward the window.
“Let’s go out. Come out this way one by one.”
The only escape route is through the window.
When my siblings, who trusted me even though it was two stories high, tried to climb out the window, someone grabbed their clothes.
“Not there, this way! Everyone, grab my arms!”
My younger siblings are stiff and in an awkward position.
I saw blue particles floating around Lee Hye-rin’s body and pulled my siblings’ bodies towards her.
“This way! Everyone, grab Anna’s arms!”
Three hands are attached to Hye-rin’s slender arm.
Lian and Croa. And my scarred hands.
“Don’t miss it!”
Hye-rin shouts as she creates blue particles that obscure her vision.
“Migratio!”
A spell I heard during my time as a palace soldier.
Blue particles floating around Hye-rin covered her vision.
* * *
The feeling of being in the sky disappears and nausea sets in.
As the blue particles that had been blocking your vision disappear, the scenery changes in just a few seconds.
“Where is this?”
Hye-rin’s magic is a multi-movement magic, teleportation.
Hye-rin, who was asked a question, looks around as if she is not confident and answers.
“Probably the outskirts of Tallinn. I’m not sure because I’m only focusing on the distances… … .”
I pass the tree that bothered Hye-rin and look around.
A hollow field of vision.
Below the high hill where I stand, I can see the city of Tallinn.
“… …Can you explain what’s going on now?”
Hye-rin looks straight into his eyes and asks.
The younger siblings who followed behind also listened.
I stopped what I was about to say and looked down at Tallinn.
‘Have you noticed already?’
It took about four minutes to recover from the dizziness that was the aftereffect of the teleportation and look towards Tallinn.
But then, as if he had already noticed our path, I saw the figure of an imperial warrior running out of the main gate of Tallinn in a panic.
“Let’s talk on the way.”
How did you notice?
It was absolutely unpredictable that Hye-rin would use teleportation in her inn room.
Even for palace magicians, teleportation, which requires more than 5 minutes of preparation, could be used in just a few seconds like Hye-rin, so it was impossible for anyone other than the Magic Tower Master.
‘You don’t know the exact location, you just know that you left Tallinn?’
The palace warrior, who was looking around while pushing aside merchants waiting for inspection, heads to the wrong place.
I started speaking while walking in the opposite direction of where the palace warrior was headed.
“I don’t know why, but the palace warriors are after you and Croa.”
Hye-rin frowns as if she has guessed something.
“Me, me?”
Croa with a puzzled expression.
I pointed to Hye-rin and Croa and explained the situation while walking.
The incident where he was followed on his way back from church by guys who were spying on Croa while pretending to be a guest at the inn.
Hye-rin spoke with a thoughtful face as she spoke about the pink letters she had seen on the guild stone, the guild notice, and even the man’s voice she had heard from afar.
“They want to kill all the warriors who do not belong to the palace.”
“……why?”
“… … That’s because they don’t know what special privileges the new warriors have. They might be trying to deal with them because they might be targeting them as their level increases…?”
Certainly, Hye-rin’s presence was essential.
Even if it was the same information, it became new information when it passed through Hye-rin’s head.
‘… … The problem is that it’s difficult to understand new information.’
Hye-rin, whose sloppiness was revealed after a long conversation, stops talking and stares at me with a blank expression.
I pretended not to notice the gaze and pointed to the side.
“Then why are you targeting Croa?”
“You said you were a candidate for the sainthood. … … I don’t know because I haven’t played the game, but isn’t the sainthood connected to a rebellion quest or something?”
You need to know the other person’s intentions to be able to respond.
I kept asking questions, and Hye-rin answered them faithfully every time.
“… … .”
As my questions increased, our private conversations became less and less frequent.
“Wait, I’ll see if I can stay here for the night.”
I pass a small farm and knock on the closed door with the back of my hand.
“What’s going on?”
An old man looks warily at the sword on my waist.
“The trip has been long and I haven’t been able to find a place to stay. Can I stay for a night?”
I say, pointing to the barn.
The old man, who saw my group of young people, nodded with a relaxed expression.
“Tsk, you must have had a hard time raising the kids. Go get some rest.”
Head towards the barn the old man pointed to.
A heap of hay.
First, he went in and covered the dirty area with clean hay to make a place for his brothers to sleep.
“Come in now.”
We motion inside, and Lian comes in first, pressing down on a haystack and looking at Croa.
“Croa, I think it would be better for you to lie down here.”
“……huh.”
I checked that my two brothers were lying on the hay and headed back to the door.
“I’ll go outside and take a look.”
As I leave the barn, I feel the cold wind again.
Is it because I’m anxious?
‘How should I ignore you? … … And for how long?’
If a candidate for the sainthood is someone who deserves to be killed with such great effort, then Gerard may chase them to the ends of the continent.
It’s impossible to run away with your younger siblings for the rest of your life.
‘If I turn back here… … .’
Feeling stuffy.
As I was fiddling with the dagger attached to my heart without realizing it, I heard footsteps behind me.
“Is your bed uncomfortable?”
He asks without looking back, with narrow strides.
Then Hye-rin, who was behind him, answers.
“If you have any questions before you leave, feel free to ask. I’ll answer anything.”
Notification that I will be leaving this place alone.
As if to say that, he lets out a deep sigh and turns around.
“Since when did you know?”
“You avoided talking about Korea so thoroughly. That’s when I started to think something was strange. You didn’t know anything about the guild, and the whispers were in pink letters… … .”
Hye-rin smiled and said to me, who lowered her head with a small sigh.
“I don’t think you’re a bad person. You must have been desperate enough to pretend to be Korean. I see you care a lot for your younger siblings.”
It doesn’t seem like he’s as upset about the lie as I thought.
“then…….”
But when I tried to say something, Hye-rin said with a stern expression.
“I don’t trust the people of this world. They pretended to be innocent and did me a favor, but in the end, they all sold me out.”
Hye-rin says with a bitter smile.
“You too, can you sell me out for your siblings?”
I had nothing to say.
It was obvious how the people of Gerard Continent would exploit the warrior, an otherworldly person who was ignorant of the ways of the world.
When the time came to request the extermination of monsters and pay the reward, the nearby lord would have been informed of the warrior’s presence.
If the palace takes the warrior, they won’t have to pay him any reward.
‘No matter how you lie, it will eventually be found out.’
To begin with, I knew nothing about the other world the hero lived in, so it was absurd to act like I lived there.
I had a feeling that I couldn’t catch Hye-rin, so I looked into Hye-rin’s eyes, which I had been avoiding, and spoke.
“It’s true that they’re after you, not just Croa.”
“Yes, I thought that was true too.”
“… … If I leave here alone, what will I do?”
My first life in Tallinn.
Hye-rin, who mistook me for someone from the same hometown, said with a tearful face that it was too scary to be homeless and that she felt relieved to have someone from the same hometown.
“I’ve only ever slept on the streets, but next time I’m thinking of renting a barn like you. It doesn’t look so bad.”
Same age as Croa.
Seeing Hye-rin pretending to be mature and hiding her true self, I let out a long sigh and took out a gold coin from the pocket in my arms.
“100 silver coins are worth 1 gold coin. As soon as you enter the town, pay the gold coins at the shop and receive silver coins. If they find out you have a lot of money, they will come after you, so you should leave the town right away or stay at an inn with strict security. And also… … .”
I handed Hye-rin a gold coin as her eyes widened and continued talking.
Hyelin, who had been quietly listening to what I was saying, smiled as if she found it ridiculous.
“If you’re so worried, why don’t you give me silver instead of gold?”
“You’ve been through a lot up until now. If you want to live alone, you need to learn how to live like a Gerard Continental person.”
Hye-rin nodded without realizing it, perhaps because she felt sympathy, and stared at the gold coin I had given her.
“… … What, do you have anything else to say?”
I answered Hye-rin’s words firmly.
“Never exchange gold coins with street vendors. If they know you are naive, they will try to give you change in exchange for things or counterfeit silver coins.”
Hye-rin, who had been laughing in vain at my words, said with a bitter smile.
“I wish I had met you first when I came to this world… … Anyway, thank you.”
Hye-rin’s words gave me hope for a moment, but the result did not change.
Hyelin lifted her feet, turned around, and left.
* * *
Two days have passed since we left Tallinn.
After spending a night in the barn I visited with Hye-rin, I continued to sleep out on the streets.
We stopped in front of a farmhouse we had found after two days of being homeless.
“Croa, what’s wrong? Are you hungry?”
“Oh, no. … … I just saw it.”
What was at the end of Croa’s gaze was a monsterberry tree with fist-sized fruit hanging from it.
I approached the monsterberry tree, examined the tops of the berries, and said:
“I’ll ask if you’ve harvested anything.”
The blue color at the top indicates that it is not in season.
He knocks on the closed farmhouse door with the back of his hand.
“… … Yes, what’s going on?”
A man looking me up and down as if on guard.
I opened my mouth, glancing at the man’s clean, uncut fingernails.
“I’m hungry, so can I eat a few of those monster berries outside?”
He hands over a silver coin and points to the monsterberry trees lined up at regular intervals.
The man nods with a smile and says.
“Will you be full just from eating that? Just wait while you pick some fruit and eat it. I’ll treat you well.”
After expressing my gratitude, I approached my younger siblings who were drooling in front of the Monsterberry.
“Get ready to go. We need to get out of here quickly.”
Monsterberries that are not iron cannot be eaten straight away because of the poison that causes diarrhea.
The correct way to eat it is to cut off the top attached to the tree and wait a few hours before eating it.
There was no way the owner of the monster berry farm wouldn’t know that.