Chapter 51 · 9 min

Chapter 51

51. Father (2)

A method to discipline the guys while properly establishing a pretext.

What Benrik chose was receiving the first hit.

Here there is also something called legitimate self-defense.

Depending on the concept it could be seen as more advantageous to the victim than modern times.

If not directly harming the noble, one could sufficiently secure a hole to escape.

Needless to say if the opponent is guys who make illegal work their means of livelihood.

Benrik looked at the entrance.

“Aigo, why did the store become a mess? And where did the door leaf go?” “It seems the wastrel of the Rowan Viscount family brought thugs.” “Thugs? Isn’t it the Crow Gang? Caught by guys of poor quality.”

Onlookers who sensed dopamine were gathering in threes and fives.

“Lisa also became pitiful. What does it matter if there is a lover belonging to Jenkinson’s mercenary group? He can’t even show his face at the store tsk tsk···.” “No, why can’t he show his face?” “Didn’t he beat that noble almost to death, if he gets involved in a fight again he might be sentenced to death.” “Eui? As I heard he only kicked the shin once.”

Thanks to the guys breaking the entrance door attention gathered a lot. All the gathered onlookers would become witnesses.

“···What did you say?”

The dark-skinned man asked back as if he did not hear.

“Cripple, you got scared.”

Benrik gladly said again.

“If you grabbed the sword you should cut something. The appearance of running away with the tail falling. Even a dog with a collar would be braver than you.”

The reaction was immediate.

Blood vessels swelled as if bursting from Guroi’s Adam’s apple to the temples, to the half-revealed forehead.

Sreung, he draws the sword without delay.

The blade that received the shaking lamp light sparkled bleakly.

“Hey Guroi! So, personal business later─!”

─Seogeok!

Guroi’s sword cut the empty air. Precisely it cut the table.

“···Keum, my business is not that urgent.”

Viscount Rowan who blankly looked at the table cleanly cut in half cleared his throat and stepped back.

Benrik who saw that appearance provoked once more.

“No. I will correct it. A dog with only a tail would be better than you. Anyway that side is better than a dog that reveals its teeth to the owner.” “You, you this kid bastard since looking and looking, are you saying dog bastard to our brother now!” “No no, the dog bastards are you, that guy is the dog boss.”

Hodge half-opened his mouth and looked at the child.

Would there be a person who can be calm in front of such primary and blatant criticism?

He believed Benrik.

Stimulating these for no reason is clearly, clearly something he thought─

‘─right···?’

Hodge who saw Benrik twitching the corners of his mouth was confused.

It was then that Guroi reacted.

“It was like that from young. Because my skin color is like this, fights did not stop. Speech is unclear, and I was skinny.”

Unlike the voice muttering sinisterly the expression was quiet. That appearance was like the calm before a storm.

“Learned things? Of course there were none. Even while crawling and begging to get one piece of bread I did not even know that it was an insulting matter. Just if doing like this people give money, and also give food. There were not only good points, for some reason the humans who helped well at first from some point did not give food and kicked and spat. So I periodically moved neighborhoods and begged. Then one day I saw that appearance. A beggar kid smaller in build than me and with thin bones striking the head of a gambler soaked in alcohol with a stone. And when the gambler’s breath cut, he quickly took the money pouch and fled!”

Guroi muttering as if possessed by something.

“Something, the atmosphere is more ominous than thought? Isn’t it an atmosphere of dealing with one corpse.” “Shouldn’t we call the guard team?” “Leave it. Someone would have called.”

Whether that appearance looked dangerous even to a person who does not know, words came out among the onlookers.

He looked like a madman no matter who saw.

“Do you know what I thought at that time? Ah! That is so! Taking is easier!”

At that moment the sword moved.

─Chwaak!

“Kak, keok!”

The subordinate of the guy who talked about dog bastard gripped his Adam’s apple. Red blood gushed between the fingers.

“Money too! Life too!”

Guroi standing while fully receiving the blood gushing from the subordinate’s carotid artery looked at Benrik and wore a peaceful smile.

“···You blocked that path.”

“······.” “It seems you wanted me to fall for the provocation and run first, kid.”

Benrik’s expression coldly hardened.

“Would I be crazy and rush from the front at the guy who made Kan that bad? That too with the vice-captain standing firmly next to him.”

Dugeun dugeun···. Benrik’s heart fluttered.

“Be careful of the night road. No, you will also have to be careful of the day road. Because you do not know when where what guy will rush to stab your belly.”

Deep malice undulated in the rolling whites of the eyes.

What was undulating was not only that. Black haze was rising from Guroi’s whole body.

He slightly turned his head and looked at Viscount Rowan hardened like a stone statue.

“The contract is broken. Debt or whatever receive it yourself.”

The gleaming eyes turned to Benrik again.

“Because a much more important personal business arose.”

The moment the guy who muttered sinisterly turned his back, Benrik kicked the place.

─Tat!

In the short hand a short medium sword he does not know when he drew was held reverse.

Benrik who jumped and squatted on Guroi’s shoulder pulled his forehead tightly with one hand then without hesitation cut the revealed Adam’s apple.

─Chwaaak!

“Ke, keok···!”

Guroi who opened his eyes wide as if unable to believe continuously grips the Adam’s apple where blood sprays.

Eye light that blurs in an instant.

The whole face was full of unresolved questions.

─Teolsseok···.

Guroi who collapsed side by side next to the subordinate he killed with his own hand struggled for a while then soon the movement stopped.

Benrik who looked at him for a while apologized in a low voice.

“I am sorry, Hodge. I enlarged the matter for no reason.”

***

Edmond the head of the Rowan Viscount family was only flustered by this situation.

‘···Fuck, on earth what is this matter?’

It is something one cannot know why two corpses suddenly arose.

Today his purpose was one.

To snatch Lisa from the mercenary or something with only shit in the head.

The her who did not work with earnest confession, gift offensive, or inducement showed some reaction to threats, so he gathered non-existent money and hired thugs.

The boss guy stabbed a knife into his colleague’s neck and caused internal strife then suddenly died.

He only needed to receive the unpaid compensation from Lisa.

He means he had not the slightest thought of getting involved in an unnecessary murder case and staining the family name!

Since a commotion of this degree arose the news would already have entered the guard team.

It is a matter of time until arrival.

Unlike publicly claiming to be the head the family seal had not yet fully passed to him.

If this matter even enters the half-sister’s ears there is no answer.

If that crazy witch woman she would run wild saying she will burn you together with the seal to protect the family honor as obvious as seeing fire.

Not only words but a woman who would actually do so.

‘···I do not know the matter.’

Edmond who decided to withdraw his feet tried to turn his back and leave the store, an young voice rang.

“Viscount Rowan.”

Edmond hardened on the spot.

···Gulp

If he moves even one step, it seemed the child who stopped him would rush with that ghost-like movement a little while ago.

“······.”

Benrik said to Edmond’s back hardened as if a nail was driven.

“I hope we meet again.”

Even though it was clearly a polite tone chicken skin rose on the revealed arm.

Edmond understood the meaning of those words one beat later.

If seen again,

“Goodbye.”

···Dies.

Edmond barely soothed the trembling thighs and left the scene.

***

Even the noble who hired them withdrew his body alone, the remaining Crow Gang also completely lost fighting spirit.

Because among the remaining four thugs there was no one who captured Benrik’s movement a little while ago.

“Da, damn···. What is this.” “We, we have no particular feelings.”

These who were stepping back while glancing at Benrik’s mood a group blocked behind them.

“Do not move!”

It was the guard team.

“Crow Gang! These bastards finally caused an accident!” “Throw away the weapons, these vermin-like bastards.”

Benrik discovered Lisa among the armed forces. Her face is covered in sweat.

It seemed she went out the back door attached to the kitchen and brought the guard team.

“Throw away the weapons, and lie down!” “Lie down these bastards!”

Benrik obediently put his hands behind his head and lay on the floor with the sword put down.

“Hmm?”

Brook the guard team leader who discovered such Benrik raised the child.

“No, why are you lying down?”

Rather the one flustered was Benrik at the gaze looking at himself as if absurd.

···Is the situation not yet grasped?

“I killed.”

Benrik said calmly. It is not that he takes the weight of murder lightly. If not killed I would have died. He only does not regret.

“The one who killed the person called Guroi is me, Brook.”

Brook who opens his eyes wide as if surprised at Benrik’s conscience confession.

“I have no thought of resisting, I will obediently receive investigation─” “The rumor that you go around catching criminal guild guys lately was true.”

Huh?

“It was true. All cause and effect, you worked hard. Since you killed, the bounty would have decreased, but still it will be quite juicy.”

Bounty? Does that mean there was a bounty on Guroi’s neck?

“I will send an official document later so go find it. Or you can also receive it at the adventurer guild. Although the fee will be deducted.”

Brook ended with those words and quickly cleaned up the scene.

Under orderly instructions the dispatched guard team tied both the living thugs and dead thugs and took them out.

While standing blankly, Hodge approached.

“Benrik.”

Benrik had nothing to say even if he got angry. The adventurer guild officially recognized that Benrik’s affiliation is Jenkinson’s mercenary group just today.

Did he not almost cause harm to the entire mercenary group by acting arbitrarily.

“Sorr─”

Just before Benrik opened his mouth Hodge said.

“Do not apologize. You did nothing wrong.” “If there was no bounty on Guroi, damage would have gone to the mercenary group.” “The ones who picked a fight first were the guys. If you were not hurt that is enough.”

···What, even Gerik who shares blood was not this generous. Benrik’s chest area itched.

“Yes, straighten your shoulders. You bravely protected this older sister!”

Lisa said. The itchiness intensified.

“······First let’s clean, where is the mop?”

At Benrik creaking like broken the two people met eyes and laughed.

“I will try to fix the door. Are the tools in the warehouse?” “Yes, thank you Hodge. Benrik, I will wipe that, so will you help Hodge instead?” “No, a pregnant woman kneeling and wiping the floor is not good for the waist and also burdens the belly.”

Benrik immediately picked up the mop and started wiping the floor soaked with blood.

And,

‘···What?’

He discovered something in the floor gap where blood seeped.

Rough as if made by carving bone···.

‘Ring?’

The moment Benrik extended his hand and picked it up,

“I···?”

Lisa behind blankly muttered.

“I am pregnant···?” “Oh my god, Lisa···? Does Bram, does Bram know?”

Ah.

[Acquired the remains of the robber Guroi.]

“Ah?”