Chapter Two: The Difference Between a Kettle And a Brain (Pt.23)

Sanson as pure Heltant man, unconditionally agreed, and another little special, but also pure Heltant man, Karl, is hesitating, but it seems that he can't resist the temptation of revenge too.

"Ah..... It's better for us to leave quietly."

"Not quite right. They might send soldiers after us. It's better to settle things down clearly. And the municipal government here is tantamount to the false Baron's puppet, so if we want a good ending, then, we find the Baron."

"Isn't that too dangerous? There are a lot of private soldiers in the baron house."

"Are you talking about those useless private soldiers? They must be sleeping deeply now. Those guys could even say," We were sleeping when the trolls came out, so we couldn't help"kind of thing, couldn't them? Those guys would not wake up until we set fire to the house."

I continued to convince Karl. The reason I do this, is to get a clear explanation on being imprisoned, and the subsequent prison break events from them, and if incidentally revenge is included, that should be good right? I persuaded Karl, and Karl finally made his decision.

"Then we give it a go."

"Great, we should back to the Hostel of Dozen first. We have to get our luggage back."

We rode to Hostel of Dozen. Sanson asked Iruril to sit behind him, but Sanson looked overwhelmed. Conversely Iruril naturally grabbed Sansoni's waist, Sanson seems to be the only one who believed himself did something bad, kept being excited. Sigh, he should get a wife, sigh!

There is no light in Hostel of Dozen, except a lamp in the lobby on the first floor. We quietly went to the window of the lobby. Jusina is sitting in the lobby, looks like there are some account books on the table in front of her. She is looking at the ceiling blankly, I knocked on the window.

Jusina startled, she looked at the window, and startled again.

"Hu... Huchi?"

"Hello! Tonight is going to be a good night!"

"Huh? How did you escape?"

"Can you believe that? I just spilled the bottle of strong wine on the wall, and it melted."

Jusina is so surprised that she doesn't know what to do. But then she ran over and opened the door for us. We went inside quickly. Jusina carefully checked out our body, and then said:

"Why? Oh, I mean how could escape from....."

Karl shook his hand.

"We don't have time to explain. Is our luggage still in our room?"

"Ah, I moved those."

We followed Jusina, and then picked up our own luggage. Cherine and other manservants should be sleeping, so we don't see anyone else. When Sanson was filling his water bottle, and I talked to Jusina:

"Well, listen, but don't interrupt. We broke from the prison, and now we have to leave this city. But before that we need to deal with someone, so we are going to find him first. How much is the room rate ? "

Jusina didn't answer me, and said something irrelevant.

"Are you leaving? Now?"

"Shall we leave when the warm spring comes?"

"...Your mouth is really....."

"Oh, really what? Do you want a goodbye kiss?"

Jusina's cheeks turned red, and then she received the hostel fees from Sanson. We are leaving with the luggage quickly. At this time, Jusina came out from the hostel and gave a basket to me.

"Time is too hurried, there is nothing I can give you. Here is some food, you can enjoy on the road." 

"Thank you. No wonder people say, after visiting this hostel, no matter where you go to the land, you can tell people the good memories here. Thank you again, the noble lady Jusina. Well, please say thank you to your brother for us too. "

Jusina seems to want to add something. Time is running out, why is she dragging, sigh! In the end Haltent girls are the best. Because they are straightforward and simple. 

"Jusina, you better finish your words now. Even cursing would be better than regretting not finish your words in the future, Hurry, because you didn't get a good chance to scold me, so you are behaving like this now right? "

Jusina's lips suddenly became flexible again. 

"You... Bad man, give me back my heart!" 

"....What?" 

My "What" sounded even weaker than the night breeze. Karl and Sanson also seemed to get hit by a hammer. I managed to cleared my throat, and ask a little louder: 

"What did you say?" 

Seems I am not loud enough. Jusina began crying. 

"Hum, hum, it's like all the legends! Hum, a girl working in a hosel, hum, a traveler stole her heart, But then the traveler left the city, and never came back again. The girl will wait for a lifetime. Hum. She might marry another man, and have children, hum hum, but she misses that traveler for her whole life. "

Wow ah! I can't take this anymore. Really! This girl is making story between her and me. Sounds like a really story, but only making up everything with her imagination! Such imagination is usual in puberty. I wiped the tears for Jusina, and then asked her: 

"Hey! Weren't you so angry that you wanted to kill and swallow me?" 

"That's exactly the beginning, you abducted my heart. I knew it. When I was very rude to you, I had the feeling, you would be the man who abducts my heart. Alright, you must be, I know I've met my Magical Autumn, once a lifetime. "

Magical Autumn... I am getting crazy! Hey, you were the one being rude first, that's probably because you were pissed off by that drunkard. What the hell is happening? 

"And, that morning, you fought against those trolls in order to save the people you don't know, but those people still treated you cold, and you were wounded, I looked at the man, I knew my heart would never turn back. "

Gran Elver, please! After I screamed a few times in my heart, finally forced myself to say calmly: 

"Jusina, stop your nonsense imaginations. You and I just met each other for three days, and two days of those I was in the jail, you have no way to get to know me. I'm not a good man. The feeling you have on me, 90 percent are from yout imagination. "

"No, this is my fate! But I will not stop you from leaving. Since she has given her heart to the traveler, of course, she will get punishment. Go, I won't grab your legs. Though you are taking away the most precious thing I have, and never come back again. But I don't blame you."

She seems to love the story. Jusina seems to want be a "after her heart got stolen by a traveler who left with the autumn, the girl missed the man in every autumn throughout her life." Then I certainly d should not shovel the reality into her mind. Jusina will feel stupid after a while. Although she could be very sad from now until then, she can keep her beautiful fantasy. 

I rode on Jamini without saying anything. The they people are surprised but they also got on their horses afterwards. I looked down from the horse, and said: 

"Hey, Jusina!" 

"....Huh?" 

"You will find a good man. If you get a son, and if his forehead looks trouble-making, name him Huchi, okay?"

Karl and Sanson are groaning. My uncles! This makes me sick too. But I think Jusina would like to listen to these words. As I expected, Jusina blushed and nodded. Oh, ridiculously! Her husband will probably strongly oppose. This little girl! But I nodded with a very solemn expression. 

Jusina suddenly moved her hands close to my neck. 

"This, keep this for me carefully. Don't forget me." 

It's a necklace. ...... My head is expolding. The necklace Jusina gave me, there are shiny beads on it. It's the kind of necklace that I fear people would notice and hence won't put on my neck. 

I didn't shout, "Oi! How could I wear this vulgar childish necklace!" ! On the contrary, I accepted that thing, worn it around my neck. Then I rode away without a word. "That traveller did not speak further, marched in the autumn night and disappeared, He never returned. Yet that man who stole my heart, Can I not hate him? Certainly I hate him." ...... Think of here, I am full of goosebumps! 

As not to disturb Renus citizen's sleep, we rode quietly for a while, and I turned back. Jusina is still standing in front of Hostel of Dozen like a stone. Did someone say "Tonight is going to be a good night," but, sigh. After riding some time, Sanson began to talk to me: 

"Oi, Huchi," 

"Stop! I did what the girl wanted, and I couldn't take that too. So don't you try to mock me with that." 

"...... You shouldn't play around with innocent girl's heart." 

"Then what do you want me to do? That girl doesn't really like me, she just put me as a prince in her puberty dreams. So what can I do? I just accomplished the girl's dream, spoke some touching words and then leaft. If I didn't, I would probably feel guilty. Damn, I don't love her at all, no guilty! "

Karl nodded, and Sanson closed his mouth. Iruril behind looks like that she totally cannot understand what we did. But soon Sanson said in a low, butvery clear voice: "Of course, your heart is already at home, no, it's at this horse you riding...." 

"Grrrrr! Sanson!"

Chapter Two: The Difference Between a Kettle And a Brain (Pt.15)

Sanson didn't draw his sword. He said to the soldiers:

"You insulted my lord, so I have to duel with you. Do you want to come one by one, or once together?"

The soldiers looked at each other. Anyway, if they so many people are going to fight against a person, it would hurt their dignity. One of them, that soldier who got his halberd broken by me, took over another soldier's halberd, then took a step forward. This man seems to be their leader. He looked at me standing on the stairs above, said:

"Hey, do you want to come down?"

"Why should I go down? Ah, are you begging me to fight with you?"

Thay guy grunted, and then suddenly stabbed with his halberd towards Sanson who hasn't drawn his sword. But Sanson has been monitoring his footsteps, so before he could move his arms, Sanson had already read his intentions. Sanson gently stepped back, and then kicked the ground with the same foot, then charged towards the soldier who lost his balance. Sanson sent a heavy punch. Bang!

"Ah!"

That guy was hit right in his face, he looks like that he is going to faint, and began to retreat. Sanson said:

"Did you really close your eyes? This guy's foundation is too bad."

Sanson then drew out his sword. That is the sword our thane spent almost all his money to purchase, in order to deal with Lycanthropes, it's coated with a layer of silver, so it's a very beautiful sword. The soldier also waved his halberd nervously, Sanson held his sword horizontally, and then parried the halberd. The halberd hit the sword, emitting scrubbing noise, and then bounced away. It takes time to lift the heavy Halberd again, Sanson took a step forward and gently stabbed. The soldier's hand immediately stopped moving. Sanson pointed his sword at the guy's throat. Simply, the duel ended.

"Ah, ah -"

That guy emerged bloodshot in his eyes, watching the sword pointing at his throat. Sanson shaked his sword around a few times and said:

"I will not kill you if you apologize. But if you want to die, you should know what to do."

"Damn you!"

Another soldier waved his halberd suddenly, and Sanson took a step back swiftly. Then, the soldier who lost raised his halberd again.

"You son of a bitch! Do you know who we are!"

All the rest of the soldiers swarmed over. I have never seen such despicable persons. I raised my bastard sword and the then jumped forward. Because I was standing on the stairs, so I can jump quite high. I pulled out my sword in the air, and then held the blade and scabbard with my hands.

"Ah ah!"

Using the power of jumping off, I destroyed two halberds with this strike. I cut one with my sword, and broke another one with the scabbard. Then, after I was standing on the ground again, I immediately performed 'Unaware Slash', because both of my hands are raised, so it's easy to follow the center force, I again destroyed two other halberds. Although they don't act like human, I wouldn't have a single thought of stabbing their bodies with my sword. This is not for these guys, but for myself. So I swing my scabbard.

"Uh ah!"

The soldier who got hit in the cheek by me, even had his teeth popped out, and he fell to the ground. I put my sword back into the scabbard, and then started waving. I hit two other soldier's arms, they are scared and retreated. I hit their arms like chopping with an ax, they should be very painful  right? Are their arms broken? They should be able to live in this lesson in a month.

Sanson looked at me and seemed to understand my intention. Similarly, he withdrew his sword back into the scabbard, and then waved it. Before that, I hadn't felt that Sanson even tried, but once the sword was back into the scabbard, Sanson's moves became very cruel. Because there is no further consideration, he started hitting neck or chest or other important parts. So even it's a scabbard, among the soldiers who got hit, no one didn't faint after screaming. Sanson thinks those fallen soldiers are clumsy, so he kicks them away, or simply steps on them, and then continues to attack the others.

So the two of us are crazily beating them with our scabbards. After a while, on the road in front of the hostel, there is no healthy soldier left. The eight soldiers are all lying on the ground together and groaning.

I kicked the guy who tried to ambush Sanson and said:

"You bastard, I'm an ogre killer. How dare you!"

Come on, I've dueled with Ogre, Gargoyle and Gorgon, those monsters illusion, and even fought with real Orcs, Urcs and Trolls. Although my foundation is poor, in fact these soldiers are in similar level as me. But compared to them, I have those horrible experience. So probably because of those experiences, I am able to  defeat them so easily. I aggressively scared them, Sanson stopped me.

"Stop, Huchi. If they are as capable as us, then it doesn't matter. But their foundation is really poor, I start to feel sorry doing this."

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Cherine standing on the stairs is looking at us blankly. Soon Jusina called some servants to help the soldiers. But Jusina seems to don't know what to do, Sanson as well. Sanson frowned at the achievement me and hims have just done, he said:

"If we leave, it creates no problem to us. But Cherine and Jusina have to do business here, things must end satisfactorily. Let's move them to the lobby."

Jusina gratefully looked at Sanson. The following servants helped to move the soldiers into the hall.

Once we entered the hall, Sanson asked the guy who looks like the leader to sit down, together with Karl and Cherine at the same table, while the other soldiers are taken to other few tables, sat by me and Iruril. Jusina brought mugs of beer to us and the soldiers. She seems to want to treat this as a simple matter like a fight between energetic teenagers in a village, and now it should end with a smile. In fact, no one suffered from serious fatal injuries, so Jusina's action received very good results. What a calm girl, she can catch the essentials! Soldiers don't seem very happy, but they didn't refuse the beer.

Karl and Sanson are talking with the leader(his name seems to be Hanster?). Hanster although looks miserable, I can still feel his anger. Sanson also looks angry but  is suppressing himself. Karl and Cherine are trying to coordinate between the two of them.

I took the beer mug and stand against the wall, monitoring the soldiers sitting there and drinking the beer. Iruril is standing beside me, against the same wall. The soldiers have been staring at me, whether they are enemies or not, I really don't want that kind of expressions while enjoying beer.

"As long as you keep your hands on the table, plus, do not stand up, I will not interfere you." The soldiers heard me and smiled a little. Some soldiers are touching their abdomen, some stroking their cheeks, and sipping beer.

One of them said to me:

"Hey, lad."

"Why, please call me Huchi."

"So your name is Huchi? What a funny name, I am called Kelly. Why do you have such a big strength? Also, you mentioned that you are an ogre killer? You mean you've killed an ogre?"

"I have fought against ogres, gargoyles , gorgons, hobgoblins, minotaurs, also nine Urcs at once, and trolls this morning. Trolls are the most annoying, they just keep regenerating. "

The soldiers are all surprised. Kelly said:

"Kid ....Are you bragging?"

"You should have seen the trolls we killed. The others are also true. Why would I lie to you?"

Kelly didn't reply. I stated a long list of monsters, looks like they haven't even seen them. I am surprised to say:

"Aren't you mercenaries? You got to be useful so that you were selected, right? Why are you so surprised?"

Kelly unhappily smiled, and then replied:

"Lad, if it's not redneck like you, no one dares to touch us. We have never thought that someone would really mess with us, so we just relaxed our guard."

"Really? Sanson and I had sufficiently warned you, and you were still relaxed?"

"...... Although I don't know whether you can keep this arrogant attitude, if our troops are all deployed, you'll be finished in a minute. So stay happy when you still can."

I am not very happy about those words. But this time Iruril spoke first.

"Then I would like to ask a question, why weren't you deployed when the trolls were breaking out?"

"We were sleeping! It's early in the morning!"

The soldier replied unhappily. But I am very angry. That was already long after dawn. I recalled our hometown guards, who wake up for training before the sun rises in order to protect us. I said:

"What? Don't you have sentry? And before we started stopping the trolls, they had already come out for a while. And then we fought for a long while. In such a long period, you should have had some men here! "

Kelly hesitated to answer:

"Where we live is far away from the market place."

Heard these words, Jusina laughed. The soldiers looked at Jusina ferociously, but Jusina came closer to me without looking at them and said to me.

"Silikan's mansion is just next to the market. Oh! It's so far away! About one minute away."

I'm really speechless. I finished my beer.

"Well, thank you, Miss Jusina, please give me one more."

Jusina smiled and picked up the mug. However, Iruril said:

"Please don't drink anymore. You have been drinking since you sat down, totally six pints."

I didn't have time to reply before Jusina's words, she said:

"Ah, he can drink whenever he wants to. That's none of your business right?"

Huh? Wow, really powerful businessman spirit. Do you want to make money so much?

"No, it does not matter, Jusina. I shouldn't drink anymore indeed. And well, do you have to be so blatant of your business mind?"

Jusina looked shocked and looked at me. Why are you so surprised? Then Jusina suddenly changed her face and shouted at me:

"You Retard! Do you think that I want money from you?"

Jusina ran away. I am tongue-tied. Huh? When your mind is exposed you should escape quietly, why the hell she shouted retarded at me so loud? Really sinister girl. The soldiers are tittering. What are you laughing at?

I leaned against the wall, and then pulled out my sword and checked the blade carefully. This sword has slayed trolls, crashing with halberds. After the few battles, I want to see if there are damaged areas. Fortunately, the blade is still intact. Ah, thinking carefully, this sword hadn't crashed with metal before. However, when the soldiers saw me looking at the sword, all of them became tensed. So I put my sword back into the scabbard. Kelly again said to me with an unhappy voice:

"You lad, you may be able to gloat around with your strange strength, but if you meet magic, can you still be so easy?"

"Do you know magic?"

"Ha! Mr Baron employed Aphnaidel the Archmage! Aphnaidel will be dealing with you people, and maybe he will suck your soul out before killing you. If we let Aphnaidel know what you've done on us, he will! "

"Ah, an Archmage...... Not a good news."

Really bothering. I think of Tyburn, he can make the trolls flying to heaven, summon Balrog to kill Taurens, and also make a lot of horrible monster illusions. But now this is not even an ordinary wizard, but an Archmage!

Sanson shouted to me:

"Oi, Huchi! Let's go."

"Where are we going?"

"We should go to visit the Baron. Talking to his men is not enough."

"Ah? We are walking into the enemy's camp?"

Sanson heard what I said, and immediately smiled.

"Come on man. Of course we have go to make this clear. We helped to handle the trolls, but he sent the soldiers to seek compensation, sure, we don't feel good. Although we won't ask for rewards, we should make our reasons clear, and we should send these soldiers back nicely, so that they won't say anything. "

"Wait a minute, wait a minute! I just heard that there is a wizard! No, a nArchmage!"

Sanson although looked lost, he turned calm shortly.

"So?"

He asked me, I have nothing to say.

"Then let's go. The Archmage is waiting for us!"

Cherine nervously held Sanson's shoulder, said.

"Are you really going there? Do you think if you go there, he would apologize and repent their faults? Don't you think you are silly doing that? Just leave this town. You don't have to do it for us... And the Archmage, Aphnaidel is a very cruel man. It's because of this Aphnaidel, the Baron gained such a power in this city."

"We certainly know it could be dangerous, but if we go with his soldiers, try to talk with him, he shouldn't be severe on us."

Cherine shook his head.

"Is it that simple?"


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Chapter Two: The Difference Between a Kettle And a Brain (Pt.13)

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After a commotion and Karl's explanation, I finally realized that the taste was not poison  but the original taste of that thing. Jusina's eyes became colder, and Sanson is laughing to a extent that he can't breathe. What a shame, shame! But why would people want to drink this thing?

Anyway, after the breakfast, we went outside. Sanson is going to buy a horse with Iruril. Karl and I are going to the market. But Iruril felt that we better go together. She also wants to buy something, so she suggested to come with us. I borrowed a wheelbarrow from Jusina, Jusina seems to think that I will break the wheelbarrow, took it out unwillingly.

"Going to the market?"

"Yup."

Jusina's face grew worse, she repressed her anger and said:

"Hum, how unfortunate that I'm going to market too? Follow me!"

"Oh, are you? Great! But are you going alone? This large hostel should need a lot of supply right?"

"Humph! Hick. You can simply make an order. Then they do the shipping."

"Oh? Really?"

Under the guidance of Jusina, we easily found the market. Jusina separated with us once we arrived.

We bought flour, dried meat, bacon, vegetables we can eat tonight, salt and some others. The price level here is really low. Those are cheap prices that can't be imagined in our village. Especially paper is incredibly cheap here. Karl dragged me to buy a lot of paper. Paper should be useful wherever!  At least it can be used to record something. I also bought pen and ink. I put them into the barrow and asked happily:

"Why are things so cheap here?"

Karl replied with a smile.

"You should have said things are so expensive in our village. Because merchants don't often enter our village. But Renus City is close to the Hudyne river waterway, it's also a gateway of the Central Avenue, so goods are rich here. Hence of course, the price level will be very low."

"If we eliminated Amurtaat, our village would become a gateway of the Central Avenue too,  then there would be much more goods in our villages, prices would become cheaper too, right?"

Karl just smiled quietly. Iruril then said:

"Huchi, the reason you want to eliminate Amurtaat is to get richer and happier? "

"The reason we want to eliminate it is not to be so pathetic."

Iruril seems not to understand what I meant. But I don't want to discuss Amurtaat during this pleasant shopping. How is my dad doing now? He might be locked up in a goblins cave, eating disgusting food. Damn it! While I am here happily shopping for cheap stuffs. Dad, how come your son is like this?

Just when I was thinking of that.

"Ughhhh!"

Screams! Are we in Fief Haltant? The atmosphere of the market suddenly changed. People are escaping crazily.

People are running around here and there. Sanson immediately found the source of the screams.

"There. What's going on?"

"Let's go and see."

Karl ran in front. We continued to hear more screams, and the sound of things falling apart. And the direction we are running to, there are a lot of people fleeing  The faces of the people are eclipsed because they are terrified. What happened? Then we saw the things chasing after the people. Damn! I feel like I have experienced the same thing somewhere before.

Three trolls are running over.

"What? Trolls! Why would they appear in a city?"

Sanson hurriedly draw out his sword. People are running around in a panic, but I saw a burly man actually bumped down an old lady in front of him. That old lady fell to the ground and is unable to get up. She seems to have an ankle injury. She is trying her best to stand up, nonetheless she can't because of fear and pain.

"Did you see that happen?"

No, how could that be! In our village, burly guys will come forward to help even if they'll die. In fact, not long ago I experienced the same thing in our village. My body is faster than the my thought.

I stood in front of that guy. He wanted to push me away rudely, but I clutched him and said:

"Hey! Help that old lady!"

"Kid, are you nuts? Are you her grandson?"

"No, I am not her grandson, but you can not do that!"

The man didn't answer and is trying to punch me. This asshole! I grabbed the man's wrist. The man's arm suddenly got blocked, he now looks like his shoulder is falling down. He fell to his knees after screaming stridently.

Although I wanted to punish that man properly, but more urgently I need to punish the trolls. I threw the man away, and then ran to the old lady.

"He - Help!"

That old lady crying for help with tears.  The trolls are ferociously running over. I found the troll holding a stone axe making a strike,  I grabbed the old lady's feet before her head gets chopped in half, pulled her away. I managed to save the old lady and put her behind me.

"Can you run by yourself?"

That old lady struggled to run. Then I pulled out my bastard sword and blocked the middle of the road. Well, bring it on! Men of Haltant do this! How much time can my life buy? Oh! Who can I tell my last words to now?

"Hey, you monsters, how long you think you need to take to kill me?"

Becuase I have OPG, so I dare to be so fearless. Meanwhile, the old lady has already long gone away.

Fortunately, I still have my reinforcements. Another man of Haltant came and stood by me. Sanson did not say anything, he pulled out his sword and brandished it. The arm of the troll holding a stone ax immediately got stabbed, a wound which bone can be seen is made. Sanson shouted with a low voice:

"I only got one life! So it's very precious! It's unique!"

Good, well done! Nice stab.

"Ah, ha, my unique move 'Unaware Slash'!"

My best and only trick! The troll is subconsciously swinging its stone axes, it got blocked by my first strike, and I chopped its arm off with the second strike.

"Pop!"

That monster hurriedly backed off. But in addition to the one Sanson is dealing with, there is another one trying to attack me from the side. Suddenly a dazzling light flashed in the middle of us.

She's Iruril. Iruril is performing a very rare swordsmanship with her left hand dagger. She's like peeling an apple, raised the dagger and aimed at the troll's arm, effortlessly cut down its arm muscles like dried meat, . How calm do you have to be to perform this move?

"Gahhhh ahhhh!"

That troll staggered backwards. Its wound is regenerating fast. Damn, after all, it's a troll. I have to pass this monster to Iruril, then focus on the one without arm in front of me. That troll's arm hasn't been respawned, but another arm without the stone axe is punching towards me.

"Wow!"

My belly got punched hard. My body is flying backwards. The reason I didn't die is only because of OPG's blessing. Thank you, Tyburn. I almost fainted, but that would then make me die. I stood up after tumbling.

I noticed someone were looking at me. I shouted at them:

"Please help!"

However, when they heard my voice, they were like hearing some kind of signal, wildly turned and ran away, some entered into the next building, and even shut the door. This is really ridiculous! The noise of banging door came one after another.

"Nedval! "

Hearing the voice of Karl, I finally got my mind back. That troll is now charging towards me. It has somehow  regenerated its arm, looks like it's going to give me a hug.

"Go to hell!"

I hold the sword body with one hand, clutch the hilt with another hand, then rolled forward. The troll missed its punch, and I got to the trolls' feet. Then I didn't even get a chance to get up, didn't look behind, I waved my arm. I don't know what I just hit.

"Gahhhh!"

Seems like I chopped that guy's inner thigh. I rolled forward, then again stood up. The troll struggled to turn around, we are now face-to-face. I can't give it the opportunity to regenerate!

"Unaware Slash - Sideways!"

I am spinning my bastard sword horizontally, and spinning my body. But this time I knelt down after I finished a lap. The second slash I chopped very low to tilt my waist backward, this time I hit the troll's feet. Don't you run fast! I immediately straighten my knees and waist and spin again. I can feel that my ankles are broken, but I still managed to jump forward, successfully made my third strike.

The troll's head flew away. Then I directly bumped into the troll's body with no head on it. The troll finally fell down, its blood sprayed into my mouth. Wow! Damn. And I don't know the condition my ankles. I held the pain of my ankles, stamped on the troll's corpse. I then looked at the situation around.

Sanson is dueling with one troll, he made thousands of wounds on its body with his ogre-like strength.  If it is a human, one of those wounds could be fatal. But the troll is stilling swinging its stone ax to force Sanson to step backward, in order to allow itself to regenerate its body. On the other end, Iruril is dodging around easily, moving between the back and side of the troll, but definitely not battling with it face-to-face. Whenever the troll tried to attack sideways, Iruril would cut its arm with her dagger, or stab it exposed waist or back with her estoc. But for trolls, wounds can be regenerated even they were made by Sanson's long sword, not to mention those by estoc. Those are just tiny wounds. Who should I help first?

I was thinking and stood up unconsciously. I feel serious pain on my ankles, almost felt to the ground.

"Hmm...."

Karl thought we were coming to the market for shopping, so he doesn't have his longbow, he hurriedly came to hold me. I grabbed Karl's shoulder, looked around angrily. Such a big city, with majestic buildings and wide roads that our village wouldn't ever have, why I can't even find one person? I really don't see anyone.

However, when I looked upward, I found on the second floor and the third floor there are people watching. Looking closely, every windows there are people looking at us.

Disgusting.

"Uh ahhhhhhh!"

I waved my sword, jumped a step forward. There's a troll with its back in front of me, it is chasing after Iruril. I lifted my foot, then jumped up with another foot without any hesitation. I turned the blade downward, stabbed the bastard sword into the troll's back.

"Galalalallaa!"

"Ahhhhh!"

I used all my strength to pull the sword down, I feel like something keep hitting my sword, and then suddenly, the feeling on my hands was gone, the sword is now outside the troll's body. The sword actually went through the troll's waist. It immediately fell forward. I stood on the troll's back, began to stab on it.

"Uh ah! Uh ah! Uh ahhhhhhhhhh!"

I don't know how many strikes I did. The back and neck of the troll have completely turned into minced meat, its blood is all sprayed on my body. Finally, I grabbed the head of the trolls. Because there is no hair, my fingers penetrated into the capsule. Because it's waist was completely destroyed by me, I pulled up only its upper body, and then cut its neck with my bastard sword . I then threw it to the side.

Iruril wasn't looking at me, she is still calm. She has begun to help Sanson. Iruril from behind barbed the troll's knee from behind, forcing the troll to knee down. Sanson then split troll's head into two halves. Bone and blood are all around. But Sanson and Iruril still have their bodies clean, I am the only one who is completely covered with blood, there is even flesh on my face and hands. I am still sitting on that troll.

Sanson approached and held out his hand. I grabbed his hand and stood up. My foot is still hurt and I almost fell, but Sanson held me.

"Feet injured?"

"Sprained. It doesn't matter."

"Luckily, we don't have any serious injuries."

"But aren't there any guards in this damn city?"

"Maybe it takes a while for them to mobilize."

I blankly looked around. The windows of surrounding buildings started opening. Then people started coming out. Now you come out! Ha! Are you going to help now? Those people are frowning and trying to block the blood with their feet to prevent it from flowing to their doors, they are even wiping those blood and flesh off the walls and doors angrily. I looked at the scene.

"Sanson, let's get back. Hurry."

"Hurry?"

"If we stay here any longer, I may kill some persons."

Sanson nodded silently. I began to walk forward under the arm of Sanson. Karl pushed the cart over. And Iruril came over, started to wipe the blood off my face with her handkerchief

"It doesn't matter, Iruril. It's not easy to clean anyway."

"You can walk only when your eyes can see, isn't it? Okay... Now your face look better."

"Thank you. I'll definitely buy you a new handkerchief."

Iruril didn't answer, just smiled. The road to the hostel is really damn long. When I think of walking there with this foot, my eyes goes yellow. Legs injury is not a trivial thing. Only one injured leg makes it so troublesome and inconvenient, not to mention Tyburn who is blind, he must be more frustrated. Tyburn! If you were here, you must be able to cleanly and simply get rid of those trolls. And we wouldn't have to see such a disgusting scene.

"Mr Nedval?"

Who is that? Who is calling me so brusquely? I parted away the bloody hair attached to my face, in order to find out who is in front.

"Oh, the Mighty Noble Lady!"

Jusina in a corner of the market is looking at me with a frightened face. I don't care what she wanted to say and said.

"I won't dirty the hostel with this blood. If that happens, I will be clean that up by myself."

"Ah, no, Huchi, ah.... I understand. "

I don't understand what she is talking about. Jusina swiftly ran away. Hmmf! She looks that she doesn't want to get stained by the blood so she ran back to the hostel. I looked back a bit and saw my footprints on the road. Bright red footprints. Footprints linked up. With such obvious red footprints, even not well-trained soldiers can easily track me down!

My footprints, really? That's my footprint.

So dizzy.

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Chapter Two: The Difference Between a Kettle And a Brain (Pt.10)

The western sky behind us is turning red, the land in front of us is glowing dark, we are about to enter the night. Far far away, when the lights of the city have all lit, we have already passed through the Hudyne Ridge, we are heading towards the plains. In the chilly evening air, twinkling lights in front of our eyes, we are naturally urging the horses to run straight-up forward.

After a while, the city appeared. This city is much larger than our hometown Heltant. One of the characteristics is the huge river surrounding the city. This is the confluence place of the Hudyne River. Around the rivers there is a vast wilderness. Along with the night, we saw the cattle and the shepherd boy returning. Sanson told me that the name of this city is Renus. Because it is located at the westernmost of the Mid Glade, so it can be said that it's playing the role of a gateway city of the Hudyne Ridge, hence it became such a metropolis.

Under the dark sky without a trace of evening sunlight, we entered Renus.

After passing through the Hudyne River, we crossed a bridge that leads to the entrance of Renus, the lights of the city seem to become warmer in order to welcome us. We walked along the main road of the city, then turned into a road lined with taverns and guesthouses. I don't know whether it's because here is a gateway city, there are a lot of hostels.

I looked around and said:

"How do we choose a better hostel?"

"Of course you ask people."

I nodded, then asked a middle-aged man passing by.

"Excuse me! I would like to ask something. We are travelers, where is the best hostel of this city?"

The middle-aged man raised his hand, pointing to a sign. It says "Hostel of Dozen".

"Lived over there, no matter where will you be on the land, you will be able to share good memories of this city."

"Ah, thank you."

I nodded then turned to Karl:

"The Hostel of Dozen? So if we don't have 12 people, we won't be served? "

"I'm afraid that's unlikely to happen. They may just be copying the name of the Bridge of Dozen I guess."

So we headed towards the hostel. The hotel is located a little further next to the main road. Once we got close to the hostel we could see a quite large backyard. The front of the hostel is built from wood, with elegant windows. It's a four-storey building.

We got off from the horses, walked to the hostel entrance.

Bang!

What was that? I am scared and stepped back. Then a heavyset man ran from the hotel entrance in a panic. Then, a bucket flew out from the hostel immediately and hit the man in the hind-brain. Whew!

The man fell forward, rolled down the stairs in front of the door. Really amazing! But soon a sharp cry came.

"If you have died, lie there, if you haven't, also lie there! Because I am going to make you die!"

But the man was not stupid, he got up and ran away immediately. And we are scared and looking at each other.

Sanson spoke first:

"Looks like we chose the wrong place."

Karl also nodded worriedly. But after a blink of eye, there is a girl coming out from the main entrance, holding another bucket. The girl ran down the stairs, nearly bumped into Sanson. Sanson was scared and walked back a few steps, The girl glanced Sanson, and then glanced the two of us. She is a blond girl in similar age as me.

"You are here for meal and sleep?"

"Any other special services?"

The girl heard my answer, deliberately picked up the bucket and said:

"Of course you can also eat this. But didn't you see someone ran out hurriedly just now? Okay, forget that. He must have run far away. You got three horses and three people, right? Please come in. Leave the horses here. Hugh! Come on, quick! Take the horses to the stables to get them tied, any of these need to change their horseshoes? Seems not. Looks like they run good! Hugh! Be careful of your head if you still don't hurry up! Why aren't you guys coming in? What you are doing? Do I have to prepare a red carpet in front of you? Hugh! You! You are so slow, are you useless? Take the horses! Quick! Horses follow Hugh, men follow me!"

Now the horses have fallen into their hands, seems that we must go in? Sanson and I heard her words, took a deep breath and followed her. Karl with a helpless face, smiled and came with us. Once we entered the hall the girl asked:

"Wine, food, bath, sleep, toilet? "

It's really hard to understand the question. I managed to find out that she is asking which one out of those five we want to do now. So I answered:

"The former two."

Under the guidance of the girl we entered the dining hall. The dining hall is quite dark, so we were unable to see clearly, but when our eyes adapted to darkness, we found that this is a very broad place. A light is hung from the ceiling, under the light some people looked at us carelessly, then went back to their own business.

It's quite noisy here. We were like pushed by the girl and sat down at a table, the girl immediately disappeared after shouting at someone else on another table. But soon enough, the woman took some huge beer mugs and appeared again. Those are foaming rye beer, the yellow foam are shining under the lights. That girl is literally throwing the mugs. The mugs are falling on the table and issuing loud sound. Surprisingly not even a single drop splashed out.

"What do you want to eat? You can order whatever you want, I guess I don't have to explain anymore?"

Sanson sheepishly said:

"Do you have chicken?"

"Didn't I say you can order anything you want? One chicken, and?"

"Pork pies and sesame cakes. "

Karl ordered. Sanson also picked up his courage and ordered again.

"Well, then I will get pork pies, plus meatballs and pancakes, but can you remember them all?"

"I can remember 'all' only after that kid ordered. Lad, what are you going to get?"

She is similar to my age, but keeps calling me a kid. Of course I don't feel good. Didn't she say I can order anything? I pouted, and then said:

"Dragon meat pie."

The eyes of the girl immediately sharpened up. I smiled and continued:

"Stew Gargoyle Wings, I especially like the wings. Roast Orcs Loin and Giant Flea soup. For dessert I want Water Element juice and Black Slime pudding. I haven't got a pudding for a long long time."

The girl said angrily.

"Hey, kid, do you know why that big man escaped like that?"

"Why?"

"Because he said he wanted to drink my milk."

Sanson suddenly blushed, and turned his head away, Karl also lowered his head. But I am looking at the girl with my very kind eyes and asked:

"Can I have one too?"

"Tired of living?"

The girl slammed the table, the guests around are all looking at us. A guest with a very tiny body murmured:

"Hey, Jusina can't even be patient for five minutes, she is about to fight again!"

I looked at the man. He is really short, even looks like Sanson's 8-years-old brother. But from his face, he looks a lot older. Halfling? I turned to the aggressive girl.

"So Jusina is your name?"

"Kid! If you piss off Jusina here, you will become the thirteenth!"

"The thirteenth? "

"This hostel is called the Hostel of Dozen. We don't need the thirteenth! I mean you will get your ass kicked out of the house!"

"Is this little girl the boss of this place?"

Jusina's cheek is twitching. Although the time we spent with this girl is not very long, that expression shows that her anger is about to explode. She is holding a plate with mugs on it. She suddenly lifted the plate.

Phew!

I really want to yawn. Even the Orc's machete can move faster. I blocked the plate pounding to my head, and pulled it back softly. Of course, Jusina who lost her plate is now looking at me with astonished eyes. All the other people in the dining place stopped talking and looked at us. Nice, it's much more quiet.

I am spinning the wooden plate with my fingertips and said:

"Oi, Jusina, I asked someone for a recommended hostel, he actually recommended such an unfriendly one, what could be the reason?"

Karl with a smile leaned back on the chair and drank the rye beer. Sanson who is so hungry with a dying face is now looking at me.

"Dude! Just order quickly, so that I can fill my stomach, can't you?"

"Well, I did order, but this young lady wants to hit me with this thing."

"Isn't that because you ordered some ridiculous things!"

Weapon snatched away, the overwhelmed Jusina said:

"You! You are an adventurer? I see you have a bit strength, so you are trying to be rude on me, aren't you?"

"Speaking of rude, you are the one who behaved rudely first. "

Jusina didn't want to listen to what I said, turned away and shouted:

"Brother!"

Whoops! She really got so many tricks. Why didn't she simply call out her dad? I expected a four cubits tall big man, with a ferocious and grim face.

My expectation is only partially right.

From the kitchen there is really a four cubits tall big man coming out, almost as big as Sanson. His face, however, is covered by big beard , so can't tell it's ferocious or not. His beard is really rich! He walked over, the low ceiling now looks even lower. The light hanging from the ceiling almost hit his head. The man wiped his hands with his pron, and then said:

"Why call me out?"

Huh? The voice sounds pretty young! Although he looks old because of the beard, in fact he can't be too old. Maybe around Sanson's age? Anyway, since he is the brother of the young girl, he could be very young. Jusina said with a righteous expression to me :

"Order again in front of my brother."

Why not! I crossed my arms, looked at the man and said:

"Dragon meat pie, Stew Gargoyle Wings, Roast Orcs Loin, Giant Flea Soup. Water Element Juice and Black Slime Pudding for dessert."

Ha, what will be flying over this time? Firstly a bucket, then a plate, what could be next? How exciting! However, I found the man's eyes are with a smile.

"Sorry sir. The ingredients just ran out. Would you mind ordering something else?"

Hum! That's quite a gracious answer. This gives me an opportunity to clean up my joke! I should also answer graciously.

"Then I'll get pork pies and chicken, sesame cakes, coupled with meatballs and pancakes. We'll drink the beer first, so you can take your time to prepare."

"Yes sir."

The man immediately walked away. Jusina with a funny face chased after.

"Brother! That kid was fooling..."

"I heard what you just yelled. You are calling him a kid, but in fact he is as old as you."

"What, what!"

Jusina continued talking to her brother while he walked into the kitchen. I laughed, then leaned on my chair. This is really a pair of ridiculous siblings. Well, the brother is nice, but the sister is very ridiculous.

"Why would someone recommend this place?"

Karl said with a smile:

"I think I know the reason."

"Oh? What is it?"

"Please try the beer in front of you."

I tilted my head, then picked up the huge mug and moved it to my mouth. One, ah? Two, Huh? Three, Ah! Glou-glou.

"Wow, ha, wow!"

Sanson who was with a painful expression because of hunger, saw my sudden change of mood, also picked up his rye beer and drank. Sanson's eyes suddenly widened.

"Oh, it tastes really good!"

Sanson and I finished the two-pint mugs in a glance. Even someone like me who doesn't understand wine thinks it tastes good. I asked Sanson whether he wants another one, and then shouted at the kitchen.

"Oi! Jusina! Give us two more beers!"

Jusina ran over from the kitchen like a dashing wild boar.

"How dare you speak to me with such a command tone!"

"The mighty noble lady Jusina, may I have the honor to get two cups of delicious rye beer from you?"

Of course, I was not trying to praise her. Jusina immediately raised her eyebrows angrily:

"What? Are you making jokes on me?"

She lost her temper again. In the end why is this lady so dissatisfied, how come she gets offended so easily? Why so aggressive? The other guests in the dining are looking forward to the second round showdown and watching us.

"Hey, Jusina, I would like to ask you a question, seriously. Did you just break up with your boyfriend?"

Laughter burst in the dining hall . And Jusina is now grabbing my throat. Oh my God! Now I have no way to speak, so I can only stare at Jusina. If she were in our village, she's absolutely a smelly bitch that no one wants, even Jamini wouldn't be so rude. Zero mark!

I finally said in a broken voice:

"I'm done! Take your hands off now, otherwise you'll regret! "

"Then give it a try!"

Can this be tough? I grabbed Jusina's waist and lifted her up, because I often practice with Jamini, and I got OPG, so I feel that her weight is even lighter than a beer mug. I threw Jusina up like a child, then caught her back (I try not to let her hitting the ceiling, but that's difficult). People in the dining hall started screaming.

"Mum!"

Jusina is struggling like drowning people, and then fell down towards me.

"Am I your mum? Then please be a good girl!"

Jusina although fell down quickly, I'm still able catch her on her waist, she is hanging in midair. Jusina kicked my chest a few times, but I couldn't feel hurt even when my horse kicked me before. I ignored this, warned Jusina:

"If you can stop attacking me, I will quietly put you down. Otherwise my action will be more brutal, whether you believe it or not, I have the record of throwing Orcs 60 cubits away. "

"Liar!"

I turned to Sanson, Sanson said.

"Miss, what he said is true. During the day at the Bridge of Dozen he saw four Orcs, they were unable to cross the bridge because they had insufficient number. In the end he threw them all over, so those Orcs could cross the Hudyne Valley. But hey Huchi, put her down, what are you doing man? "

I obediently put down Jusina. Jusina is staring at me with bitterly eyes, but now she knows my strength so she doesn't dare to do anything. I handed out the empty mugs, and then said:

"If you can take us some beer, I'll appreciate much, and then drink quietly. Peace, okay?"

Jusina picked up the mugs and then ran away swiftly. I took a deep breath, sat on my chair.

"What a rude girl! She actually grabbed my throat!"

"Well, I was astounded too. Maybe she turned into this after working in this bustling hostel."

"No, that should be her raw personality."

The halfling on the table next to us then spoke:

"Excuse me, is what you said really true? You really threw the Orcs across the Hudyne valley?"

"Yes, it's true. Thanks to those Orcs we could make up the number to cross the bridge. So we had to send them back."

The halfling's eyes are blinking, and said:

"Oh, really incredible! If it's not a giant, it is impossible to throw a person over a distance like the Hudyne Valley. Ah, my name is Duhon • Butter."

"My name is Huchi Nedval. You name is Butter? Really a special surname, does your family make butter?"

"That is not my surname, but my nickname."

"Oh, is that?"

At this time, Jusina came back. The huge beer mugs are still being thrown on the table forcefully, but she didn't even throw me a glance.

"Thank you!"

Jusina then fiercely stared me in the face, and then walked away. Really a rude girl.

"Despite the quality of the beer here,  the service is really bad. With that kind of girl here, how do they do business?"

The halfling named Duhon laughed and said:

"Jusina is in fact a very kind girl. She is different from her appearance. She thinks that she is already a grown up woman, being thrown around by a man she first met, how could her mood be good?"

"She provoked me first."

Duhon laughed, and continued to eat. I started relaxing and began to enjoy the beer slowly.

That's because I am not good at drinking, and I don't want to get Jusina here again. But Sanson has already finished another mug. He is really an ogre.

Sanson looked at me, I said without any hesitation:

"I definitely won't get that damn girl here again. Do it by youself."

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