Heavenly Inquisition Sword

Episode 1209. A person with the heart of a beast

‘If you have a conscience, you should save as much as possible and receive help’.

At Fabian’s nagging, Elio couldn’t resist and turned his head away.

Count Omar of Larva listened to the conversation between the two, but did not intervene.

It’s not that I’m short of money right now, but it’s still better to save money.

A teenage girl in the middle of a middle-aged couple looked at the loser (Elio) with pitying eyes.

The mother whispered, pushing her daughter’s face to the other side.

“Don’t look at me.”

For a moment, her husband, Andrea Jeter, looked at the men’s complexion with a confused face.

If they were knights, their ears would be clear, so they might find it unpleasant.

Fortunately, however, the men did not pay attention to their families.

He looked at the men carefully, relieved inwardly.

There are two elderly men in their late fifties and a young man in their mid-twenties.

I heard the sound of ‘Count’ at first glance, but the count does not use the stagecoach.

Looking at the clothes of the three people, it was clear that they were free knights.

It’s probably right, seeing as they roam freely during the outbreak of war.

‘It would be nice if they were kind people…’

Free knights are said to have better character than mercenaries, but that is also a common voice in the city.

I don’t know how it will change if I go out of the city to a deserted place.

Didn’t they say the dead don’t talk?

‘Well, there are guards anyway.’

A stagecoach is more inconvenient than a chartered carriage in many ways, but it is because of the guards that stagecoaches are used for long-distance travel.

As the departure time approached, three stagecoaches appeared in a row.

The stagecoach stopped in front of the three waiting stations with a measured precision.

Elio and his party boarded the lead stagecoach with a strange family.

The seating arrangement is three rows with two seats.

Fabian and Helio are diminutive in build, but Count Larva Omar is – befitting his nickname the Tiger of Baylem – tall-boned.

Elio shoved Fabian next to Count Larva Omar and moved one block forward.

Meanwhile, Andrea Jeter also made her wife and daughter sit next to each other and passed backwards.

When the young knight’s eyes met, Andrea Jeter greeted him first.

“hello?”

“Ah yes.”

Elio closed his eyes after replying casually.

It was annoying having to deal with people, but the Abyss made my head complicated.

After a while, with a rattle, the stationary carriage moved forward.

Five guards quietly followed behind the three stagecoaches.

The carriage departed around 2:00 PM and ran without stopping for 3 hours.

As dusk fell, three stagecoaches entered the small village in a row.

The carriage stopped in front of the hall building in the center of town.

Eighteen people poured out of three stagecoaches.

Hana, a middle-aged man in fancy clothes, shouted in protest at the stagecoach transport manager.

“Hey boy! The guide says they provide an inn or tavern as accommodation! This is just a community hall, right? Are you asking us to stay in the communal hall now?”

said Leon Thoros, director of stagecoach transport, turning to the middle-aged man.

“It must have been written that areas without lodging facilities could be substituted at will. As you can see, there are no inns or taverns around here.”

The middle-aged man asked with a broken spirit.

“Is there a bed?”

“Yes, of course. It is an extra bed, but so far there has been no word that the bed has collapsed. Dinner will be provided by the village. There is no restaurant outside the town hall, so please take a break in a safe indoor environment. Accidents outside the town hall are at your own risk.”

After speaking, Leon Toros entered the town hall without looking back.

Eighteen passengers rushed after him.

Fabian whispered to Elio.

“Looking at the knife-like response, it seems that the person in charge of transportation is from the Imperial Army.”

“Have you ever worked with the Imperial Army?”

“I only saw you from afar?”

“Then why do you pretend to know?”

“Can’t you speak? It seems like you’re betting something else because of the day’s work, but don’t be like that.”

“I?”

“yes.”

Fabian nodded with a confident face.

Elio was a bit unfair, but he just shook his head, not believing that Fabian would believe him if he said no.

The first floor of the town hall was empty.

After snooping here and there, the coachman approached Elio and his party, who were late to go up to this floor.

“A large room is allocated for each horse. You can go over there.”

The coachman with the horse pointed to a point.

It was said to be a room, but in reality it was nothing more than an area divided by wooden planks.

Still, it was a partition at the height of an adult’s shoulder, so it was impossible to see other people when sitting or lying down.

When Elio and his party entered the designated area, Andrea Jeter approached as if he had been waiting.

“If you decide which bed to use… we’ll take the rest.”

Elio looked around the inside lightly.

Three cots were placed along the plank walls on the left and right, as if they were installed in accordance with the wagon.

He went over to the nearest bed on the left and sat down.

Fabian and Count Omar of Larva also approached the bed next to him.

Only then did Adria Jeter move to the bed on the right side with her family.

Leaning his upper body sideways, Elio whispered to Fabian.

“Hey, do stagecoaches get put to sleep in one place like this? Are they afraid to sleep?”

“So the guard follows you, right? Trust the guard and sleep well.”

“Who are the guards?”

“These are mercenaries hired by the Stagecoach Transport Association.”

“Are mercenaries trustworthy?”

“It’s not trustworthy, but you can trust the mercenary guild. Trust is the lifeblood of the mercenary guild. Unless you’re determined to go bankrupt, you’re good at managing mercenaries.”

“Are there any knights among the mercenaries?”

“of course. When free knights run out of money, they often enter the mercenary guild. Knights who do not belong to the territory are almost considered to be mercenaries.”

“I see.”

The eyes of Elio and Andrea Jeter’s daughter, Synchrae Jeter, who were lying on their arm pillows, met.

Seeing the little girl, Elio blinked as he remembered the daughter he had left behind in his hometown.

Shocked for a moment, Synclare Jeter covered her head with a blanket.

After a while, out of curiosity, she lightly lowered the blanket.

However, the bed of the young man who blinked at himself was empty.

A guard blocked Elio’s way out of the town hall out of frustration.

“It’s dangerous outside the hall, so you’d better not go out.”

“Even though it’s an imperial territory, is it dangerous?”

“Why aren’t there any inns or restaurants in this town? This is an undeveloped area abandoned by the lord, so the security is bad, and beasts sometimes bite passers-by.”

Elio nodded and patted his waist.

Guard Duvalier who saw the longsword opened the way without saying a word.

It’s not because I guessed the opponent’s ability, but because I didn’t feel the need to try to protect it.

Elio leisurely passed the guards and went out of the town hall.

After being locked up in a narrow carriage for half a day, it was nice to come out, even though there was nothing to see.

They said the security was bad, but no one approached, perhaps because they were armed.

I was about to go around the village and return to the village hall when I heard a woman’s scream in the distance.

I hurriedly ran and saw a huge gorilla waddling around with someone caught in its side.

The woman caught by the gorilla continued to scream, but no one came out.

Elio soared through the air and landed on the back of the gorilla.

“Kaak-!”

The gorilla swung the other hand behind it with a growl.

A huge palm swept across Elio’s upper body.

In an instant, Elio drew his longsword like a thunderbolt and cut off the gorilla’s arm.

squeak-!

With an eerie sound, the gorilla’s arm flew into the air.

“Kyaaaa!”

Screaming, the gorilla threw the woman away and hurriedly ran away into the darkness.

However, a longsword that came after him pierced his chest and he died.

Before long, Elio, who had returned the longsword, approached the woman.

Honeycat, a woman who came back from the dead, knelt down.

“thank you. thank you.”

Elio, who was looking at the woman with pity, asked bluntly.

“I heard it’s dangerous. Why are you walking around at night?”

“I was on my way to the town hall. I stopped going late because something happened in the house…”

“Why are you there?”

“I have to serve dinner for out-of-town guests staying there.”

“…”

Elio turned his gaze to the night sky.

Why do you live in the land that Yeongji gave up? I wanted to ask, but my mouth wouldn’t come out.

Who would want to live in a place like this?

It’s the only place to live, so I guess.

Honeycat, who had been watching the young man for a long time, cautiously took her luck.

“Excuse me, but could you accompany me to the town hall? After that happened, I was so scared…”

Only then did Elio take a closer look at the woman.

My heart was full when I saw the young face that hadn’t even lost its breasts yet.

“How old are you?”

“Nineteen.”

“I’m a lot older, so can I talk to you?”

“yes? yes.”

“let’s go.”

As Elio walked, Honeycat hurriedly matched his steps.

The two did not speak until they reached the town hall.

Upon reaching the town hall, Honeycat bowed to Elio and disappeared into the kitchen.

The guards standing guard looked at Elio with strange eyes.

Some blatantly whistled.

Elio knew why the guards were doing this, but he didn’t explain the context.

Are you saying that you did a great job and let the Mijoo know that?

Duvalier, who stopped Elio from going out, gave a thumbs up and said,

“You are the one with the heart of a beast.”

“There seems to be a misunderstanding…”

At that time, Honeycat came out of the kitchen, handed Elio an apple and ran away.

The guards whistled as a group this time.

Duvalier waved his hand away, a face full of envy and annoyance.

The slight commotion at the entrance led even Leon Toros, the transport manager, to come out.

Elio, wanting to get into a scandal for no reason, hurriedly left.

To the guards, ‘What’s going on?’ I heard the voice of the transportation manager asking, but I tried to ignore it.

Fabian asked when Elio, who had been out, returned.

“Is there anything to see?”

“doesn’t exist. More desolate than the North. Gad says it is the land that the lord gave up.”

“no wonder! So why is the town so small? By the way, how was the town hall built?”

The answer to that question was given by Count Omar of Larva.

“Maybe it was built by the Stagecoach Transport Association. I would have needed a place to stay.”

After looking around the village, Elio nodded.

Certainly, the town hall was oversized for the size of the palm-sized town.

After a while, Elio’s party went down to the first floor at the notification of ‘have dinner’.