Incompatible Interspecies Wives

11 – Reward (3)

After talking with Adam, I walked around the village in silence.

There was still a festive atmosphere going on here.

The members who left to meet the client following their brother for two weeks were raising the mood.

Dancing, playing jokes, shouting, and singing.

Apart from this, the cute children of the village and the wives of the members were gathering in groups of two and three and laughing.

In addition to that, the word that Adam said to eat alcohol and meat had spread, and drinking parties were taking place here and there.

The familiar feeling of the mercenaries spreads.

Everyone was enjoying the present as if there was no tomorrow.

Accordingly, a warm and friendly atmosphere lingered in the village.

‘We must look to the future after the war, Berg. That way, the family members of the mercenaries, including the mercenaries, are safe.’

I pondered on Adam’s words.

The more the festive atmosphere continues, the more deeply the older brother’s words become embedded.

As if I don’t know how I feel, a girl comes running and clings to my leg.

“Ice!”

The child on my leg wasn’t looking at me. She was all about the other boy coming after her.

The girl exclaimed in an excited voice.

“It’s ice because it’s stuck to Berg’s leg!”

“Hey! It’s petty!”

The children enjoyed playing innocently.

The child clinging to my leg giggled at what was so fun about it.

The child’s parents were surprised by the child’s behavior and jumped out.

“Melissa! Vice-captain Berg, get off the bridge!”

“…Huh? Why…?”

A girl who gets sullen in an instant.

She looked up at me and wept.

I said as I stroked the girl’s hair.

“It’s okay.”

At that, the girl brightened her dark expression again.

With a bright smile, she looks at her parents and exclaims.

“Berg says it’s okay!”

“Melissa!”

I looked at the child’s parents.

A crew member who looks older than me.

“It’s okay. They are children.”

He reassures me too.

I didn’t want to break the party atmosphere.

Since I’ve been making such a small fuss, I’ve started to notice my presence here and there.

“Vice-captain!”

“Vice-captain! Didn’t you train too much yesterday? Kuk-kuk.”

“Vice-captain! Come and have a drink!”

I decline their offer with a slight wave of my hand.

Now, there was one place I wanted to visit.

I said, tapping the forehead of the girl clinging to my leg.

“Come on, Ding.”

The girl shook her shoulders and tilted her head back in surprise, then she let go of my legs and started running away again. Her boy also ran out after her.

I looked at the backs of the two for a moment.

For some reason, it was the day when someone seemed to overlap after a long time.

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“The vice-captain.”

As I was walking, someone ran towards me.

It was Baran, my aide.

Judging from her reddish cheeks, she looked like she had been drinking.

My lips were also glistening with oil.

Even so, I could see him trying to hide his drunkenness.

Looking over his shoulder, a woman is looking at Baran and me.

“A lover?”

When I ask quietly, Baran also looks back at her and replies.

“Yes.”

“Do you change your lover every time? And when did you bring her?”

“I brought it from the last expedition. Serious this time.”

I laughed.

“The ability is also good.”

Baran also laughs along with me.

“As for abilities, the vice-captain is better. You were handsome, you were successful…”

“Flattering.”

“Keuk kuk. So, what do you have, vice-captain?”

Unlike the daytime, in a softer atmosphere, Baran asked her a personal question.

I neither affirmed nor denied what he said.

It must be because Adam hyung’s proposal was floating around.

I think I’m ready to take a new step from the past, but I feel like my body doesn’t move.

I turned the subject.

“I hope.”

“Yes, vice-captain.”

“…I was sorry during the day.”

Certainly, there was a feeling that he had over-rolled his recent training.

Adam hyung said that the reason why I’m so sharp is because I have no match, but the stories that I passed off as jokes in the past came to me with a sense of reality this time.

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Baran smiled at my apology.

“…No, vice-captain. I understand that you are doing this out of concern for the crew.”

“…Go play with your lover. Stop following me.”

“Yes. See you later.”

Baran immediately turned to my words.

When he leaves, I am overcome with useless thoughts.

It was a strange feeling that I was the only one without a partner.

At one time, there was a side of me that was more sticky than anyone else.

Seven years have passed, so there aren’t many days when I think of Xian.

However, the void in her heart where she had been placed had not been filled.

As much as I knew what it felt like to exist on my side, I felt the thirst as well.

This loneliness was not difficult.

I was just holding on.

“… Ha.”

I sighed.

My worries were deepening.

The reason why I couldn’t refuse Adam’s offer at once was obviously because I had a change inside.

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I stopped by the village orphanage.

Many children scream at my appearance.

“Berg!”

“It’s Berg!”

Thousands of children are running towards me as if pouring.

The children were also eating fragrant meat together.

Thankfully, the food was distributed evenly everywhere.

I stroked the heads of the children who had gathered around me one by one.

These children were the children of fallen mercenaries. When the member died and even the mother ran away, we took care of the children left behind.

A young nun also hurried out with her children.

“Be, vice-captain Berg. You have come again.”

It was Julia, a nun from an orphanage who served the god of chastity.

“Are there any problems?”

Julia nodded at my question.

She doesn’t even make eye contact with me, she looks at the floor.

The mischievous children who were watching the scene told me.

“Sister Julia, you were waiting for Berg…?”

“Paul!”

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Sister Julia puts a chestnut on Paul’s head.

I laughed.

Julia was restless at my laughter, and she moved inward as if to take refuge.

“Be… Vice-captain Berg. If you’re going to come and dine, let’s do it together…”

It was a bonus to offer me a meal with my back turned.

I knew that too. That she has a crush on me.

But I always pretended not to know because I couldn’t respond.

Again, not wanting to give her room in vain, I declined her offer.

“Sorry. I came because I had something to see. Pole. Come and see.”

“…Me?”

Paul, who was being dragged by Julia with her head wrapped around her, runs out in front of me.

“I heard that it was your birthday yesterday. It’s late, but a gift.”

I handed Paul a pair of tough leather gloves.

Paul took the gift and looked at his gloves with his twinkling eyes.

“Whoa…Wow!”

He liked to run around with his gloves. Other children gather around Paul who received the present.

I gazed at the heartwarming sight for a while.

To be honest, I feel sorry that I can only do this. Paul’s father was my subordinate. Although I was killed while active in my boss Joe.

I didn’t take care of them like this because I particularly liked children, but it was a minimal courtesy for my colleagues who gave up their lives and left.

Again, it seemed like I could hear Adam’s words.

‘We must look to the future after the war, Berg. That way, the family members of the mercenaries, including the mercenaries, are safe.’

Let’s say that the Red Flame Team collapses.

The crew are still strong, so they should be able to find their way. It’s going to be tough, but I’ll be able to stick it in my mouth somehow. My family will support me somehow.

But what about these orphans?

If these children left ‘Stockpin’, they would live in a nearby city. You may or may not be able to enter an orphanage.

If that happens, some will experience slum life like I did.

You’ll have to steal, get hit, fight and survive in that dark atmosphere.

If you think about it for a moment, that wasn’t right.

That’s not what I promised the dying crew members.

Reason keeps telling you which choice is right.

But the hesitation I didn’t know kept holding me back.

“Berg! Thank you!”

Then Paul came and hugged me.

“…”

With that little warmth, dark thoughts slowly peel off.

I blinked and looked at the children in front of me.

And then he let out a sigh.

A mind that becomes lighter as if the troubles in the head are washed away.

I couldn’t always be stubborn like this.

Once you make a choice, you feel refreshed.

I nodded to Paul.

“Yes.”

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When we returned to the center of the village, a large bonfire was burning.

People flocked around it, dancing and singing.

Alcohol and meat were in everyone’s hands, and even laughter was full.

The feast was burning loudly.

I saw Adam standing in the center.

He was drinking and laughing, shoulder to shoulder with the other crew members.

After looking at him like that for a while, Adam noticed my presence.

We exchanged glances from a distance.

“…”

“…”

I finally nodded slightly.

Adam also slowly smiled benevolently and nodded at me.