The Soldier Shouted Save - Chapter 34
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The soldier shouted save (34)
The heavy feeling of being weighed down disappears, and the air feels clear.
“… … Sir, Mister.”
Hye-rin’s voice can be heard right next to me.
Slowly, as I clench and unclench my fists and regain my senses, Hye-rin grabs my arm and points somewhere.
“Which one would you choose?”
I follow Hye-rin’s index finger.
What you see are the three Walker siblings appealing to the choices of commander-level knights and mercenaries.
“Hmm, yes. If you wish, I will prepare additional compensation, including the share of the knights you hired.”
The first thing that caught my eye was the sight of the eldest son, Kyle Walker, surrounded by nobles who had hired powerful men.
“Ha, hahahaha! You’re welcome! Don’t you all know that I’m not as picky as you, hyung? You won’t regret it!”
Next, the youngest, Goyle Walker, who cleverly belittles the eldest son and appeals to him with a hearty voice.
“Even if the Walker family’s teeth fall out, the claws that will tear your family apart… … .”
Finally, we also see the cunning second daughter, who reminds those who do not hesitate to be rude of the appearance of a high-ranking noble.
“So, where are we going?”
The three Walker siblings, all of whom have been examined.
Still recalling my vivid past life, I patted Hye-rin on the back and pointed to the farthest place.
“Go to the eldest son.”
“… Yes? Weren’t you going together with us?”
“We’ll act together. Your camp is the eldest son’s side.”
Far away from the people who are obsessed with choosing a faction, he starts explaining in detail to Hye-rin.
The eldest son’s plan is to claim that the demon Mentis does not actually exist and to use this as an excuse to collect the punishment money, and to kill us all.
“No… what, that kind of guy!”
Hye-rin, who had been glaring at her eldest son from afar with her hair in a rage, suddenly looked up at me with a bewildered expression.
“But, sir, how do you know all this?”
“Palace Guild Information.”
“… This wasn’t written on the parchment.”
“That’s because I didn’t show you all the information, I only shared the necessary parts.”
When Hye-rin pouts slightly, seeming slightly offended by my words, I smile and put a hand on her brown hair.
“If I show you everything at once, it’ll just give you a headache. Do you know what I mean?”
“…i know.”
“I’ll tell you what to do there right now, so listen and go to the eldest son.”
He explains the plan to Hye-rin and sends her to the eldest son.
However, I didn’t choose a side and just sat in a corner and waited quietly.
A quiet, lonely place, in contrast to the eldest son, Jinyeong, who is surrounded by people.
“… … .”
Until the second daughter, with her head bowed, fell into even greater self-loathing.
“Hmm, good. Now that we’ve made our selections, let’s talk about the details in the conference room.”
First of all, those who chose the eldest son rushed out.
“Hahahahaha! Let’s have a serious talk too!”
Next, those who chose Goyle Walker head to their respective conference rooms.
“Miss Marie, now come inside… … .”
“Okay. It’s okay. You all can go too.”
Marie Walker biting the servants with a smiling face.
As the servants who had been looking at her with concern left the training grounds, Marie Walker sat shivering with her face buried between her knees.
“Ugh, uh… uh… . I… I… why…”
A voice that reproaches itself for not being able to make even one person its own.
As the sobs I had been struggling to suppress grew louder, I leaned against the corner and headed toward my second daughter, making footsteps.
“Do you know why no one chose you?”
The second daughter stopped crying at those words and flinched.
The second daughter said, covering her tear-stained face with her sleeve.
“… Ha, you have a bad temper. You’re deliberately making fun of me…”
“Because you emphasized the honor of being a high-ranking noble, shouted at other nobles, and offered unclear rewards. Wipe it off.”
He took the handkerchief out of his bosom and put it in the second daughter’s hand.
The second daughter flinched at the sensation of flesh touching, then turned her head and wiped her face.
“So, what is it that you want to say?”
… … That’s what I wanted to say.
He responds to the second daughter’s words in a calm tone.
“What you need to catch a fish is a tempting bait on a hook, not an understanding of the fish’s plight before it can be put on your table.”
I knelt down on one knee and said to the second daughter.
“Don’t change the people under your command to your liking, but use their desires to seduce them. If you do that, the one person who was left here without anyone else choosing will follow you.”
At my words, the second daughter lifted her face, which was covered by her long hair, and looked at me.
Eyes that glare sharply, as if having a staring contest.
“You… no, what do you want from me?”
He bows his head and speaks as the second daughter’s appearance becomes similar to his memories.
“I want the power to stop the next lord, Kyle Walker. I want the power to stop him from annihilating the expeditionary force.”
“…what?”
—Whew.
A frozen face, not even noticing that the wind had blown away the hair that covered his scar.
“Tell me more.”
The second daughter, who had been crouching, suddenly sat up.
* * *
The second daughter’s conference room.
“Are you really saying you brought this from your brother’s office?”
Hye-rin, who was discouraged by the sharp gaze of the second daughter, pointed to the documents one by one with a tearful face.
“Hey, the story about the hemp is from the desk… and that ledger with the numbers written all over it? I got that from a drawer that was locked with magic…”
There was no need to go through the trouble of sneaking into the eldest son’s room.
Hye-rin was a palace-born magician who was a key force and could freely move around the eldest son’s room.
With Hye-rin’s skills, she could have easily shaken off one or two guards with magic and stolen the documents.
“I knew there was a problem with the expedition force… a very big problem. However, I couldn’t help but ask. How did you know about this in advance and come forward with evidence as if you had been waiting for it?”
Hye-rin blinked her big eyes at my words and looked at me.
I answered with a laugh at the second daughter’s suspicious words.
“Do you know what the greatest desire of a person like me is?”
“… Well. Maybe gold, or maybe a position of respect?”
“Survival. Our greatest desire is to survive each day as an ordinary person.”
The second daughter, who was about to say something to me, closed her mouth.
“You chose me to live, and then you stole these documents?”
“Yes.”
“… Was this all you wanted?”
“Is there anything more precious than life?”
The second daughter, who had been squinting her eyes as if wanting to look inside me, sighed deeply and then burst into laughter.
“It’s annoying. I cannot accept that such a thing is your desire.”
The second daughter, who found a smile, sits up with a start.
“I will go and check if what you said is true. If I meet the Druid in person, all the clues will be solved.”
“I have prepared a carriage outside.”
“… … Wouldn’t it be better to use teleportation? Wouldn’t the carriage’s path be revealed to your brother?”
He responds to that with a smile.
“The coachman’s greatest desire was gold.”
“So, you’re saying you silenced him with gold?”
“Yes. I gave him a handful of gold coins, and he told me, without asking, a secret shortcut he could take.”
At my words, the second daughter laughed out loud and shook her head.
“… Ha, hahahaha! You are truly… … scary.”
“A trained beast will not bite its master.”
“Ah, ah, ha. I understand. I’m being dragged around now, but one day I’ll train you perfectly.”
The second daughter continues with a smile.
“Even if it takes a lifetime.”
Something, a word that feels eerie.
I quietly avoided the second daughter’s intense gaze and explained the detailed route.
“We will teleport to the carriage prepared on the outskirts and go to the Forest of Spirits.”
“Why don’t you just teleport to the Forest of Spirits all at once?”
Hye-rin answers to that.
“It’s not that I don’t do it, but I can’t go to places I haven’t been before… In the first place, I can’t even travel that far in one go…”
“I see what you mean. Well then, let’s get ready.”
The second daughter, rising from her chair, puts on her armor.
“Your Majesty, will you help me put on my armor?”
“…How about asking Anna?”
I said my pseudonym and pointed to Hye-rin.
But the second daughter smiled at me without even looking at Hye-rin, who was of the same gender.
“No, I ask you, my lord. I need to try many things to train you.”
“… That joke is a bit too much.”
“Is that what you heard? You hesitate to touch my ugly face, so I guess you still think of me as a woman.”
Hearing those words, he let out a frustrated sigh and started putting on the armor with his hands without hesitation. The second daughter wiggled her body as if she couldn’t hold back her laughter.
“Hahahahahaha! I don’t know why I find it so enjoyable to see your troubled face!”
He took his hands off the second daughter’s body at those absurd words and let out a tired sigh, but then he heard a voice muttering next to him.
“… Hehe, I think I know what that feels like… .”
Hye-rin sympathizes with the second daughter’s words and secretly lets out a dark laugh.
I frowned at the sight and shouted.
“Let’s go now!”
Hye-rin, startled by those words, quickly runs over and places her hands on my shoulders and the second daughter’s shoulders.
“Hey, Migratio!”
Blue particles covered our bodies.
* * *
The place we arrived at via teleport was the outskirts of the city.
“Oh my, you’re here? Come on in.”
After riding the carriage we had arranged in advance for about an hour, the Forest of Spirits appeared.
“I’ll give you more than what you received earlier, so wait nearby.”
“Oh, my! Oh, thank you! Like a dead mouse! I’ll just hide here quietly!”
The coachman bows and smiles at my words.
The second daughter mutters in disbelief at the sight.
“You are better at dealing with people than I, a nobleman.”
“The one who has been through it knows better.”
“Hahahaha! Is that so?”
That’s the end of the brief conversation.
We entered the Forest of Spirits, cautious of our surroundings, and encountered a druid possessed by an animal.
Druids who threaten us with beastly sounds.
“Ignis!”
Hyelin saw flames rising above her palm.
“I ask you again. Can you protect the forest against hundreds of humans like me?”
-Whoosh!
I press on, chopping down a thick tree, while the Druid Chieftain leads us to the negotiating table.
“… … Let’s talk inside. Follow me.”
This is the role of the second daughter.
“Don’t make fun of human greed. Somehow, I’ll find something more beneficial than the leaves of the World Tree.”
“As expected of shameless humans.”
“Still, wouldn’t a person who spews shamelessness out of his mouth be trustworthy?”
At the World Tree, the second daughter succeeded in persuading the chieftain again.
“We, the druids, hereby declare that the new master of the Walker family is none other than Marie Walker.”
With the support of the Druids, he discussed new plans and returned to the carriage.
“… … I wonder if my father didn’t know about this fact.”
The second daughter, who is suspicious of not only her eldest son, Kyle Walker, but also her own father.
“Wow, woof!”
“Stop the carriage!”
I saw Hye-rin on the verge of vomiting, stopped the carriage, handed the coachman a gold coin, and said.
“You go back by this back road, and go to Tallinn, not Walker.”
“Oh my, thank you! I will be like a dead mouse in Tallinn as you mentioned!”
A coachman turns his horse’s head while receiving a gold coin.
The second daughter, who had been quietly watching the scene, muttered something next to me.
“The one I just gave you was 5 gold coins. Since you said it was the same price as before, the one I gave you before was also 5 gold coins. Then, should I give you 30 gold coins, which is three times the 10 gold coins?”
The second daughter stares at my face and asks, “What kind of answer do you want?”
“…I will accept it gratefully.”
When I answered in a calm tone, the second daughter nodded and answered.
“As expected, your desire for gold is small. I think I’m starting to understand how to train you.”
When I instinctively frowned at those words and pulled my upper body back, the second daughter laughed as if she was happy to see my expression.
“Hehe, you’d better not make fun of the nobles.”
The second daughter mutters quietly as she watches Hye-rin return with a haggard face after vomiting.
“Because I have already chosen you.”
I pretended not to hear that, wiped Hye-rin’s mouth, and looked at her face.
“Are you okay?”
“… It’s not okay.”
As Hye-rin said, her expression looked quite tired, but she still did not slack off on her work.
A blue potion that goes down Hye-rin’s throat in one breath.
“… … Come here, Migratio!”
A changing field of vision, with blue particles surrounding the body.
As I checked the surroundings, I saw the conference room of the second daughter where we were staying.
“Let’s talk more about the details tomorrow.”
All that remains is the detailed planning.
On the day of the final battle, as each of them was heading to their respective bedrooms, a loud noise of footsteps was heard.
“I found the car!”
A soldier shouts at us as we just come out of the conference room.
“You, stay in.”
As I close the conference room door and put Hye-rin back in, who was trying to follow me out, I hear rough footsteps.
“Brother. What brings you here?”
The eldest son, Kyle Walker, walked out among the soldiers.
The eldest son looked back and forth between me and the second daughter, frowning.
“The soldiers said that he went outside secretly. Why did he go out and come back?”
The eldest son’s words were a lie.
There’s no way the soldier would have seen us teleporting away.
“Nothing much. It’s just… I was feeling depressed and wondering if I really fit in with the Walker family, so I went out.”
The second daughter, who, like me, saw through her eldest son’s lies, acts bitter.
Left alone in the training ground, swallowing my tears.
A perfect mask that portrays that appearance at that time.
The eldest son nodded, having been fooled by the nobleman’s skills that he could never imitate.
“So, you’re saying there was only one person who chose you?”
“… Yes, I thought this one person wouldn’t be able to participate in the expedition, so I suggested an escort knight.”
“Hmm, even though there are many shortcomings, it’s not good to give up without even trying. I’ll hand over command of a few squads, so you should also participate in the subjugation.”
The sight of his younger brother, who refused to participate in the expedition, being forced to participate and killed.
Marie Walker responds with a bright smile to her eldest son’s appearance.
“Thank you, Brother. I will repay all the favors you have shown me and helped me without fail.”
Kyle Walker turns away, seemingly uninterested in those words.
“Okay, don’t worry and take care of yourself.”
“… Yes, take care of yourself too, brother.”
The second daughter smiles and speaks to the eldest son, who has his back turned to her.
“Please stay healthy until I repay all that you have given me.”
* * *
The next day, the second daughter attended the meeting more enthusiastically than usual.
“It is right to make a decision here so that there are no variables that can escape.”
“No, even if we win and finish like this, there’s nothing left. We’re taking advantage of the fact that we’re the only ones who know about our brother’s plan… … .”
The second daughter adds a plan to my strategy that only ensures victory or defeat in a fight, containing the future of the Walker family.
‘You’re smart.’
Every time we had a conversation, I would look at my younger sister in amazement as she absorbed all my military knowledge, but she would stop talking and avoid my eyes.
“… …Why do you look at it like that?”
The second daughter, conscious of my gaze, straightens her long hair that covers her scar.
I asked that second daughter for the final piece to take down Kyle Walker.
“Can I receive the warrior’s privilege that was supposed to be given to the person who contributed the most to Lady Mari’s camp in advance?”
The second daughter, who was fixing her hair, smiled mischievously at my words.
“Hmm, well. Who knows, maybe you’ve done the most? You could hand it over to Anna, a former palace magician from a different faction who’s been of great help.”
“… … Don’t be stubborn. In the first place, isn’t it just me in Mari’s camp?”
“Hahahahahaha! Yeah! I really wanted to see that expression! Hahahaha!”
As I shook my head, looking at my second daughter who bursts into laughter whenever she sees me looking embarrassed or troubled, my second daughter slowly wiped away her laughter and spoke in a serious tone.
“I’m sorry to disappoint you, but the reward I have prepared will not be of much help to you.”
The second daughter stretches her index finger into the air.
[‘Marie Walker’ invited you to the party.]
A message inviting you to a ‘party’ that you’ve heard about through Hye-rin.
“Try putting that ring on.”
As I put on the blue ring that symbolized the party that appeared on my hand, something appeared before my eyes.
“This is a special privilege of a warrior that allows him to know the health and mental strength of his soul mate.”
Under the name Marie Walker,
I smiled and stretched my hand into the air as I saw a red bar representing physical strength and a blue bar representing mental strength appear in one corner of my field of vision.
“Actually, I have something similar to this.”
A message that changes from ‘off’ to ‘on’ with a click or a pressing sensation.
“I thought it was a useless ability, but what a coincidence that it’s connected to this.”
“I thought it was a useless ability, but what a coincidence that it’s connected to this.”
My voice echoed continuously, as if speaking from a cave.
The second daughter’s eyes widen in surprise as she hears my voice again from the ring.
“Oh, how… your voice came out of this ring… .”
A special privilege that can only be used when in a guild or party.
[‘Mic’ is activated.]
“I also received it from a warrior.”
The special privileges of the palace warrior Jang Jin-woo were being reenacted here.