92 – Halo (3)

I pulled back the tent and went outside.

Baran, Shawn, and Jackson standing around express their doubts.

“The wives… Huh? Vice-captain?”

“Here I am.”

I left Baran alone and moved on.

They looked at my back as I left with puzzled faces.

I headed for Aracredan.

I heard they threw more provocations than anyone else.

Is it because I ignored Touro yesterday?

He sighed.

It seems that this neglected reality does not change no matter how much time passes.

A deep history that has been going on since the time he and Adam were in the former mercenary squad.

Perhaps it’s because he’s a human race, he gets into fights often.

Maybe it’s my fault for not grasping the situation objectively as much as I’m used to.

This is how we confirm new facts.

I know that my pride is not the only thing at stake in my name anymore.

I have to step up now, even for the sake of my wives.

I haven’t learned how to stand up for every situation yet.

As if returning the ball on the battlefield to others, it seems that the mind to live quietly remained, albeit vaguely.

What else would Adam say about my choice?

I said it’s okay to fight…But maybe I’ll get in trouble again.

No matter what, as the vice-captain, I had to act seriously.

…Even so, I didn’t want to think about it right away.

“Oh, vice-captain! Where are you going!”

A member standing on the border between Aracredan and Red Flame Team asked me, but I didn’t stop walking.

Enter Aracredan’s camp as it is.

The members of Aracredan are blocking me.

“…The vice-captain of the Crimson Troupe? If you’re here on business-“

As I spoke, I passed by, ignoring the approaching Aracredan mercenaries.

Then they continued walking deeper into the camp.

It was only then that the Hongyeomdan member, realizing my intentions, shouted from behind.

“Hey… Go, bring the executives! Oh no! Bring the captain!”

****

Turo was smiling as he ate with the executives.

As soon as I returned to camp, I felt relieved by the news I heard.

That the members made Blackwood, one of the aristocratic wives, cry.

“…hehehe.”

Turo imagined how Berg felt while filling his stomach with food.

His feeling that he couldn’t even fight back even after being insulted.

To spread the lie that I am good at fighting in order to raise the value of my name, I feel powerless even my wife can’t protect it.

Just imagining that expressionless expression distorted in anger made my stomach swell.

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There was nothing more fun than bullying the weak.

Turo looked at Chiffre.

She was imagining something with blank eyes.

The way he was flipping through the rice, he must have been thinking of Berg.

Turo couldn’t understand why she liked such a pathetic human.

Is she doing this because half of her human blood flows in her?

Turo shook her head and said.

“… Captain.”

Chiffre’s cold eyes turned to him.

Today, Chipre had only spoken harsh words to Berg.

Perhaps this was the chance to cut off her unrequited love.

“…Let go of that pathetic man now.”

“…”

“He is a man who stays still even when he hears insults from his wives. Shipre-sama also has such a pathetic man by his side-“

-Wow!

“Too, toro vice-captain!!”

At that moment, a member of the lower ranks broke into the executives’ dining tent.

All the executives distorted their expressions.

It was the same with Turo.

He said frowning.

“…If it’s not a big deal, you’d better be prepared.”

He said with his mouth open.

“Vice-captain Berg has arrived.”

.

.

.

Turo laughed at Berg standing alone in the center of the huge circle formed by the Aracredan mercenaries.

I came all the way here, wondering what I was thinking.

“Vice-captain Berg. What’s going on here?”

Turo said.

Meanwhile, his head was spinning. If the reason you came all the way here alone… Is it because you came to kneel on his knees?

Maybe I came alone to hide the embarrassing side I don’t want to show to my members.

Perhaps he came to beg him not to insult his wives anymore.

Shifre also looked at Berg as he came out of the tent.

“…Vice-captain Berg.”

She whispers.

For some reason, Turo looked at Berg, suppressing his uncomfortable feelings.

Chiffre couldn’t stand it and asked.

“…Did you come to see me?”

Chiffre says honorifics again. There was also a hint of anticipation mingled in his voice.

But Berg shook his head.

Instead, he pointed at Turo with a nod of his head.

Chiffre’s expression hardened.

However, before drawing attention to such a leader, Turo asks.

“So?”

“Before that, let me ask you one thing.”

Berg’s stance when he said those words contained a strange power.

Unexpectedly, he doesn’t flinch at all.

My voice doesn’t even tremble.

In a way, he even looked relaxed.

“Was that your order?”

Touro burst into laughter at that bold question.

Turo laughed, and some of the members followed him and laughed at Berg.

“If so?”

Turo responded to Berg by laying down respect.

Berg shook his head.

“No. I was curious about that.”

“…”

“So, is the sparring I mentioned earlier still valid?”

“………”

Turo was silent for a moment before bursting into laughter.

It must have been that Berg finally made a choice.

He must have chosen to come here alone and be trampled on.

It wasn’t a bad choice.

Rather, it is said that he made an effort for his wives.

Because there is no such thing as saying that I was scared and hid.

He didn’t want to show the image of being trampled on, so he must have left his members behind.

“Not valid.”

Turo replied with a smile.

Shipre blocks the gap between them.

“…For a while. Fighting between the vice-captains is a big problem-“

“-It’s none of my business.”

Berg said to her like that.

Shiffre blushed at Berg’s words. She was worried, but as if she spat.

Turo took off his shirt and headed towards Berg.

It was rather a good thing. It seemed that he could just step on it without hesitation and squeeze out even the last lingering attachment to Berg in Chiffre’s heart.

“…Even if I die like this, I don’t know?”

Turo provoked Berg.

I made a plan to make the porridge and throw it into the red yeomdan’s camp.

“Good.”

Berg replied.

“Me too.”

****

Ner waited for Berg, who did not come, in the tent.

Berg suddenly left somewhere.

I was just thinking about whether the water was coming up.

I was confused for a while after saying that I would protect you and then suddenly leaving.

“…I understand your feelings.”

In the meantime, Arwin spoke up.

“…Yes?”

“If I hadn’t married Berg… I might have avoided this whole experience.”

“…”

Ner expressed his doubts for a moment.

But Arwin only whispered his head slowly.

“…So understand.”

At that time, a great commotion broke out outside.

Someone was yelling and shouting.

“Baran! Theodore! Crian! Captain Adam!”

A member running around the camp calling all the officers except Berg.

Ner and Arwin exchanged brief glances.

I heard the sound of Baran moving in front of the tent.

“What’s up?”

In place of Nere, who is still unable to wake up, Arwin steps forward.

Then he took the tent and looked outside.

Baran approaches a mercenary and talks to him.

Numerous mercenaries also gathered near them.

“What?!”

Then Baran raised his voice in surprise.

Soon he looked around and started giving orders.

“Shaun! Call Captain Adam! Jackson! Come on kids!”

Shawn, bewildered, approaches Baran.

“What’s going on?”

Ner was frightened by the sudden situation, but doubts arose.

Could it be something related to Berg?

My heart began to tremble.

****

A fight that ended lightly.

– Puck! Puck! Puck!

I slammed my fist into the fallen Turo’s face and looked around.

None of the members of Aracredan can open their mouths.

It was a look of disbelief even after seeing the collapsed Turo.

Sometimes I think about it.

As expected, showing it directly is the most effective.

In a way, it was natural for them to be surprised. As long as the leader is sitting behind the table, Aracredan’s real support must have been Touro.

That’s why stepping on him was more important than anything else.

I wiped the blood from my forehead and looked at Aracredan’s mercenaries again.

Some seemed embarrassed to see me not stopping even in a match that had already ended.

“It’s over!”

Unsurprisingly, someone shouted in the crowd.

After hearing that, I started hitting Touro again.

– Puck! Puck! Puck!

It’s meaningless because I still have thoughts to say that.

It seemed a long way to go.

I beat Turo until his teeth fell out and his face was bloody.

Delivers the fight he so longed for.

“Vice-captain Berg…!”

Chiffre called me urgently.

I retrieved his fist and looked at Chipre.

“…That, stop it. I don’t know why… But enough already. Two, Two has lost.”

Her face was full of confusion. It seemed that she couldn’t believe what was unfolding before her eyes.

But I had no intention of stopping.

“Let’s not interfere in sparring.”

“…”

“It was the sparring that Vice-captain Touro suggested first.”

No one has been involved in sparring yet.

There is nothing more insulting than having someone intervene in a mercenary fight.

Perhaps knowing that, no one seemed to be able to come to rescue Touro.

The moment he raised his fist again, Chipre asked.

“…Ah, because of the things you said to your wives?”

“………”

She says.

“T-I’ll make sure that doesn’t happen again… Leave me alone. He will die then.”

“….”

– Puck!

– Took.

Turo’s right horn was broken by another punch.

– Puck!

– Took.

The next blow broke the left horn.

A head that has become like a cow.

I looked at Aracredan again.

Unlike before, emotions of fear are blooming.

There were no mercenaries who wanted to meet me now.

It seemed like things were coming to an end.

“…Ha ha.”

I sighed deeply and stood up.

Sometimes, fists are closer than family strength.

As long as they don’t fear Blackwood.

You just need to make others afraid.

I was also comfortable with this because it was intuitive.

From now on, Aracredan will think of me whenever he sees Turo.

You can also read the warnings I send you.

Leaving the fallen Turo alone, I looked at the mercenaries around me.

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Tell them.

“…The white tail you insulted today.”

Some of the mercenaries even backtracked as if they were stabbed.

“You’d better not even look at it from now on.”

I slowly looked around.

“From now on, I will not tolerate even light insults…Make sure to remember that.”

“Vice-captain Berg!!”

At that time, the Red Flames walked through Arakredan.

Arakredan paved the way for them.

As soon as the road opens easily, Baran’s expression is questionable.

Instantly, looking at the fallen Turo, he stiffened for a moment.

“…The vice-captain.”

He too is astonished like the Aracredan members.

“If you do something so suddenly…”

“…”

“…Go back for now.”

He tried to lead me.

But I shook my head.

I brushed off Baran’s hand.

“…It’s not over.”

In order for the word to protect Ner from spreading, more examples were needed.

There was a justification, and emotions remained.

On top of that, it was better to be sure when doing it once.

****

Ner didn’t know how things were going.

However, it was certain that a great uproar had spread around Berg.

As the rumor gradually spread, the members of the Red Flame Team began to become more active.

I couldn’t help it because there were only rumors that there would be no regrets about.

The news that Berg severely stepped on Aracredan’s vice-captain.

The news that Berg severely injured the vice-captain of the Moon Deer.

Until the news that Berg is now stepping on the vice-captain of the Dragon Command.

All of this happened overnight.

The Humans, reputed to be weak, were defeating everyone.

As if the rumors that had been spreading were true, he was proving himself.

The whole earth shuddered at the commotion that lasted all night.

Morning dawned, but no one seemed to be asleep.

“…”

Ner sniffed and snorted in the center of the scarlet team’s camp.

Her whole body trembled at the news.

She went to all the mercenaries who had harassed her and made them pay for it.

He was doing things he never thought would be possible.

“…Why?”

Ner whispered to himself.

It’s a question I’ve asked many times, but I’ve never been as curious as this time.

Why and how does it go this far?

Ner put his hand on my cheek.

The warmth of Berg was still there.

Berg, who got into a fight with everyone over the fact that he was teased a little bit.

It was a story that didn’t fit even with common sense.

I couldn’t understand his thoughts.

Is this a reasonable choice?

He hasn’t done anything to Berg yet.

There was no reason for him to love himself.

He had no reason to fight those vice-captains.

But Berg stepped in and was making a difference.

Ner closed his eyes tightly.

My fist curls up on its own.

A fact that I have no choice but to admit whenever pain comes like today.

The fact that you learn every time you shed tears.

…Berg keeps becoming a precious person.

I feel like crying just thinking about it.

Even if you try to push it away, it won’t work like words.

He was the first person to affirm my tail, which I had always been criticized for.

He was the only person who stood up, gave, and fought for himself.

No matter who the opponent was, he was a person who stood by his side and gave him strength.

The dawn wind blows.

With the wind, a loud noise coming from afar gradually grew louder.

“Berg! Berg! Berg! Berg!”

“Vice-captain Berg! After all, I am the vice-captain!”

The sound of approaching.

Ner felt that the person he had been waiting for was approaching.

-Thump thump thump thump

The heart is born.

Ner slowly opened his eyes.

I see Berg approaching at the end of my line of sight.

Someday, the man I’ve grown accustomed to comes closer.

The man who petted me and told me I was pretty walks by.

“…Ah.”

She let out her exclamation.

I instinctively felt it.

I need to push him away at this moment.

Maybe this moment might be your last chance.

But at the same time the sun began to rise behind him.

A halo shines behind Berg.

It becomes so bright that you can’t even look straight at it.

Ner closed his eyes in the sunlight.

I tried to calm myself down.

-Thump…Thump…Thump…

But at the fact that Berg was approaching, her heart started beating faster.

Ner thought as he closed his eyes.

‘…Grandmother.’

-Thump…Thump…Thump…

‘What should I do in a situation like this?’

-Thump…Thump…Thump…

Ask questions that won’t have an answer.

‘…If someone wants to take your heart first…’

-Thump…! Thud…! Thud….!

‘What should I do in that case?’

“Ner.”

But before I knew it, I heard Berg’s voice calling my name.

Ner’s breath stopped for an instant.

Berg was so close that it was absurd.

There was no way to dry it.

There was no moment to resist.

She simply jumps over the wall she has erected.

Ner couldn’t look at Berg.

My heart was beating wildly just by imagining it.

But then she touched her chin.

Her damp hand lifts Ner’s chin up.

The smell of her blood and the scent of Berg, which I had become so accustomed to by now, wafted up.

Ner opened her eyes at the same time.

Berg covered in blood.

But unlike his hideous appearance, he had a bright smile on his face.

“….”

Ner groaned helplessly.

Mercenaries.

Human.

Commons.

The person who expected endless differences, stayed by her side.

Berg says.

“…It will still take time.”

Tears flowed from Ner’s eyes at the sound of his voice.

“But I will help you…”

But the tears were different from the tears she had shed all her life.

“So be proud of yourself too.”

She realizes for the first time that she can shed tears with these emotions.

“…Huh…”

Finally she covered her face with her hands.

I couldn’t hold back the tears anymore.

Berg stroked her hair again.

At the touch of her hand, her heart raced like crazy again.

Berg says.

“I’ve said it many times, but you said it was pretty.”

He even affirmed her dark side.

‘…Ah.’

Ner groaned and realized.

The side she wanted all her life was right here.

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