CH 6

Well, that was what happened.

The soup was quite salty, but I drank a lot of it. While it didn’t taste great, there was nothing else I could do since I needed to hear more at that time.

Back then, I needed to prepare slowly and sell the things that could be roughly converted into cash. And now, I had to do it again… I could leave this guild as a reward for not killing me and making our married life happy.

Since I couldn’t go inside the mercenary guild with a restless mind, I was standing outside for a long time.

The next moment, I could see Nigella running without wearing her employee’s attire properly. She must have overslept. However, when I looked closely, her expression was unusual.

“B-boss!”

“What’s wrong?

“A monster appeared at the west entrance of the village…!”

“What?”

Wasn’t the west entrance close to here? Not many people gathered there because it was also called the back door.

In the first place, monsters were rarely seen in Ferrarium, so it meant that they had little to no preparation for it. The only preparation was to ask the mercenaries traveling here for help.

While there was a team of guards, their skills were poor because they were the only villagers who were selected. That was why I often went to restaurants or bars for dinner and scolded the spoiled mercenaries to help instead, as that made it easier to settle down here.

Still, was this no longer a safe zone?

…No, it was definitely a safe zone until the end of the original story…

“It came out of nowhere and broke through the entrance! Boss, we need to get out of here before we get any damage! It was too fast!”

I checked outside once and looked at Nigella again.

“I’ll go. So you go get some people.”

“Huh? Wh-what? You’re going to go there? It’s not a drunken brawl…!”

Nigella stuttered and freaked out.

I took a hair tie out of my pocket, bit it, and raised my hands before tying my hair high. It was the hair that Noah dried in the morning, but I couldn’t help it.

“It’s too late to call the mercenaries! I’ll go and beat it. Nigella, you go ahead and get the guards. Also, see if there are any mercenaries still in town.”

“Boss!”

“At this time, they would have been out of the inn after drinking all night. Tell the innkeeper to ring the bell, come on!”

“It’s too dangerous for you to go! You shouldn’t worry about them! If he happens to know about this…!”

I smiled at her.

“I will come back quickly.”

Not only that I have an S-Class mercenary registration card, but I was also a former Imperial Knight, the Knights of the White Dragon. Still, it was true that I was surprised as well.

…A monster appeared here?

There was no way Nigella would lie.

First of all, it was better to get rid of the monster and find out how it happened. Why did the monster suddenly appear in this peaceful place? My head was already filled with Noah, but this problem was rather urgent.

After I sent Nigella off, I hurriedly took out the sword I had placed in the office and ran to where the monster appeared.

What a relief.

It would have been a disaster if I wore a dress today.

* * *

Even before arriving at the entrance, the monster could already be seen. It was a monster in the shape of a bison with red eyes and horns, drooling and crying out loud as it opened its mouth wide.

That was right. It had the size of a monster that could swallow everything up.

It was hard to see that size in the village. It was a big monster that they could only see if they went out of the village. Fortunately, it was not a monster that had purple jewelry stuck on its forehead. I needed to lay my hands on the monster and make eye contact with it.

Roar!

As if it were a provocation, the monster cried even louder. I covered one ear with my hand at the thunderous sound.

“You’re really loud.”

The monster began to approach me, moving its huge body. It was so big that the surrounding trees and walls collapsed with just a little swing.

It seemed like I had to get rid of it before it ruined anything unnecessarily.

To use mind manipulation magic, the fastest way was to see its eyes unless I was in a war.

It was a target-type mind manipulation technique. In addition, it was a method that I often used because it would take less force and have a higher success rate than other techniques. However, the force had to be drawn from the eyes, which would cause my eyes to itch or change colors.

I heard that when we use stronger force, even the white in our eyes changes to black. I didn’t know how it felt because I’d never used it yet, but having seen it, they looked like a necromancer or an evil spirit.

In the original story, Hazel Love always tried her best, so she always used too much force. I have tried to increase the use of force once, and I suffered for several days because of it.

‘I don’t have to do that much today…!’

As I took a deep breath and opened my eyes, I could see that its’ eyes were quite cold.

The monster’s eyes, which stared at me as I gathered force, changed to red.

‘Why did it have red eyes? It was the same color as Noah’s!’

I lifted the thornbush from the ground in a fit of annoyance. This was a range-type mind manipulation technique that was different from a target-type technique.

I needed to set a certain range and perform the magic from far away.

With this range-type technique, the thornbush would feel real. It would even be stabbed by a thorn and bleed. I then continued to pluck out the thorn bushes by performing range-type magic to make it afraid.

The monster, who couldn’t avoid my eyes, cried and moved to escape.

Every time the monster moved, the thorn that felt stronger than steel scratched its skin and quickly injured it. I raised my sword while looking for the right time. Even though I could easily choke it to death, I thought people needed to see the fight and say it was cool if I pretended to do so a little bit.

‘I couldn’t help it. I’m a snob.’

This way, the status of the mercenary guild would rise, and it would be easier to live in many ways. I stomped the ground and waited for people to gather.

“The-there!”

“There’s a monster here!”

“Our boss is fighting alone over there!”

Nigella’s roaring voice and the people’s cries were heard.

“All right.”

I ran lightly with my sword as soon as the people appeared.

“Oh, my!”

The surprised people made a frightened sound when they saw the size of the big monster.

Tak!

As I stepped on the thick thorn stalks that I had made, I jumped lightly and landed on the head of the monster at once as it opened its eyes wide. The next moment, it started to shake its body with its nose out of frustration.

Well, a human being smaller than its arm was on its head, after all.

Whoa, look at this crazy monster! Stop it!

Duk!

I didn’t miss the timing and pushed the sword to the eyes of the monster.

Croak! Croak!

The monster’s body shook violently with a tearing cry. As if it was a thunderbolt, the mana that went down on the sword penetrated the body of the monster.

“Sigh…”

After I took a breath, I closed my eyes and stabbed it again deeply. Ah, this was really not my style.

The monster cried strangely, and its face began to crack like a dry stone wall.

Oh my God, that’s gross.

When I pulled out my sword and jumped before we fell together, I stepped on the ground, but I fell back with a thud. Then came a moment of silence.

After a while, thunderous applause poured out.

“The monster has fallen…!”

“She knocked down that big monster by herself!”

When I finished everything, the thick thorns disappeared.

“No way! Isn’t she the guild leader? She saved the village again this time!”

One of the innkeepers who recognized me began to brag about me as if he was bragging about his daughter. While stopping a few fights at the bar wasn’t enough to save a village, I was still a little proud.

“You must be surprised. I didn’t know that monsters would appear here.”

I laughed, wiping my forehead with the back of my hand.

“Yes. I didn’t know it was going to be dangerous here either.”

“Oh, when will we clean this place?”

One of the villagers who rushed to the village looked at the monster, who had fallen down while sweeping his chest. I could see the mercenaries who came with the villagers covet the monster. Everyone had brought their weapons with them as if they were going to fight properly.

“I think we need to clean this up. Can we clean it up if you don’t mind?”

They wanted to loot, so I decided to leave them at this point. Well, they could make quite a profit if they sell even the leather of the big monster.

“Oh? As you can see, it’s such a big one.”

“If you give me the loot here, I’ll clean them up.”

“Will you? Then I’ll get going… oh, that building is my mercenary guild, and there are requests from clients who collect loot, so if you haven’t come yet, please stop by. Our fees are also very cheap! Then, goodbye!”

As I stumbled a little after the promotion, Nigella came up to me and supported me.

“Our boss needs to rest, so get out of the way. Hurry!”

As if the sea were splitting, the crowd divided into both sides and I moved through the crowd. It was not until I got out of the crowd that I straightened my body to Nigella.

“See? Isn’t it easy?”

“Still, it was too dangerous. If a monster follower showed up, you would have been in big trouble.”

“I’m afraid I won’t get hit so easily. Look now, even mercenaries who didn’t trust me as the boss will come here now.”

Nigella shook her head.

“Should I have taken the heart of the monster separately? It’s a waste.”

“Boss!”

“Okay, fine.”