Cardboard Houses Do Not Tear

27 – Merchant Guild Escort 2

Civilized people say that even the places where they stay should be beautiful.

They were so small that I just wanted to get rid of the civilized people.

That’s why we were able to rest only after we rushed in and cleared the roadside of all the goblins.

I was sitting in the wagon for a while, removing grease and blood with a glue stick on the side of the road before cleaning with a cloth when someone called me.

“Did you say G-House? You’re using a knife.”

It was a blender.

“It was good that I ran out and called.”

He was standing there looking at me.

The fact that his clothes didn’t have any blood on them must have been fooling around behind.

‘They hired me as a subcontractor.’

Remembering that fact, he was willing to sarcastically.

“Looking at it earlier, I was almost out of breath. I am glad to see you alive.”

I picked it up just as it was and bent it to the point where it could be compared to a virtuoso.

“Thanks to you, I had a good rest. Ruler.”

The guy who was laughing like that took out a piece of cloth from his bosom and threw it.

It smelled of oil.

“What oil cloth?”

“Looking at the paste, it looked like there was no oiled cloth. I have another one, so you can take it.”

Blander said in a friendly tone.

“If you’re going to give it to me, please give me a whetstone as well.”

“Go to the smithy and buy it for 10 coppers. By the way, isn’t that a magic sword?”

What magic sword?

“Did your garden grow magic swords instead of carrots? Can you tell if this is a magic sword just by looking at it from a distance?”

I accepted it with a smile like that.

“This is just a knife. If it was a magic sword, I wouldn’t be able to run around wearing such a loose Gambison.”

I trembled like that.

“I see. That’s just what i said You want me to blow the head of the goblin so hard.”

“Couldn’t that ax be something that blocks even Auras?”

“If so, would I be an adventurer now? You suffered.”

Blander, who giggled and went over, went back to his work.

“……”

After confirming that he was completely gone, I folded the cloth gently.

Of course, I didn’t use this cloth right away.

It was because sometimes something was hidden in the favors received from strangers.

At least it won’t be poisonous.

The material of the gloves Blender was wearing didn’t look like deerskin, and giving poison to strangers was a paranoid idea.

So after folding the cloth, I went to find the prianian squad leader.

I just hoped that her anxiety would end with nothing.

“So, Captain Prianian has risen to this position despite being younger than us?”

“I think this position is a bit grandiose, but just say you’re lucky.”

“A. Don’t do that, be honest. Aren’t there few people who doubled as mercenaries at the age of the captain?”

“Oops. I didn’t know that the adventurer, Lily, knew the mercenary side well.”

As expected, the prianian squad leader was adept at adapting.

“In the south, mercenaries often work as adventurers. I’m using what I’ve learned while working with them.”

So said the brown-haired adventurer named Lily, who wore a dagger at her waist.

The prianian squad leader looked back at me for a moment and our eyes met.

“……”

“……”

She turned her head away casually and continued the conversation.

“By the way, Betty says she’s going to be promoted to the gold rank soon, and she’s definitely good with a bow.”

“Lily shoots better than me. It’s because she couldn’t adapt to the tension of her bow, which she changed before receiving the request.”

Blonde and slender, Betty said as she tossed Lily’s slightly petite hair.

Then Lily pushed her hand away.

“Don’t do it! How did you touch my hair in the morning!”

“He is. What kind of man is coming out dressed like that?”

With that said, she removed her hand from her hair and, as if thinking of something, asked the leader of the Priyanian squad.

“Come to think of it, there is a guard that the captain brought. A man with a longsword wrapped in bandages.”

“You mean G-House?”

“Yes. After that, a big man dressed neatly. His name was G-House.”

Suddenly, I woke up. It was because my name came out of nowhere.

Did I do something wrong? I didn’t do anything.

“Why G-House? Have you ever made a mistake with Betty?”

The voice of the leader of the Priyanian squad changed slightly.

Betty quickly hit his hand.

“No, that’s not it! Just…”

“Just, why?”

“I hope you use the sword well. I was curious, so I asked.”

“I see.”

“I see.”

Hearing that, the two nodded slowly, very slowly.

I see.

I turned around and disappeared again.

Anyway, if I went inside right now, I had a hunch that something embarrassing would happen.

***

After the honey-like break, the procession started moving again.

In the wagon with the new members, the atmosphere is definitely different from before.

“……”

“……”

The reason was simple. It was because I was climbing a mountain road sitting in a wagon that was not very comfortable to ride.

I rather liked the sight of the golden fields from earlier.

At least the horizon opened my mind, because the thick forest obscured my vision and made me feel very stuffy.

That said, it was even more horrifying when I closed my eyes. The gurrung, rattling sound gave me insomnia instead of sleep.

Occasionally, when a stone gets caught in the wheel, the f*ck comes out like a swearing old woman being led by her grandson’s hand to a disco for the first time.

That’s why, regardless of whether or not they had just run in the previous battle, they all sat there staring blankly at the wall, holding swords and axes with faces that had lost their country.

Damn it, this is the upper escort wagon. Or a land truck.

But there were times when everyone came to their senses.

“That’s King Tiger. I want him to-“

“Mr. Sten. I want us to go quietly.”

“Shut up. Please.”

“Sten.”

“…I got it. Hmm.”

As long as Sten tried to open his mouth again, everyone joined forces to condemn him.

I’d rather not know if I’m good at talking.

That, in one word, one.

In another word, um. Won’t one fall out?

Is it Yoon Dong-sin of the non-literate world?

Sten was speechless enough to make him think that the goblin should have hit that guy with a stone earlier.

Kurrure.

So, while everyone who had succeeded in sealing Sten’s mouth for the 17th time, quietly listened to the creak of the wheels, I organized the information in my head.

‘First of all, the upper management didn’t think very well of me.’

At least in this common sense, it was natural.

Although they didn’t pay for the guard’s hiring, it was because they didn’t directly sign a contract with me.

The contract on this floor was like a guardrail to prevent falling.

It is the role of protecting each other between employers who don’t know where to go and mercenaries who don’t know when to jump.

So, when signing a contract with a crossbow shooter or archer, there were many cases in which soldiers raised in the guild itself were attached as guards.

Not six silver to gold level adventurers who might have come from, but a guard force with a clear identity and loyalty.

‘Still, hiring the whole party was a good choice.’

As Betty just said, at least those who came from the South will be familiar with the way mercenaries fight.

Of course. He might have come to hunt mercenaries, but at least in the current situation, it was more comfortable to think of it as the former.

Anyway, what is the guy wearing the blue robe doing?

Looking at the metal sound when I got on it, it looked like it was wearing armor, but I couldn’t see a sword or anything like that.

While I was lost in thought, the coachman driving the carriage shouted.

“It will shake!”

Jumping!

“Damn it!”

“Oops.”

The wagon rocked more than when I stepped on the stone earlier.

Looking at the subtle cracking sound, it seemed that I had stepped on something wrong.

Looking back, I saw a goblin corpse with long ruts. The face is obvious, but I forgot it.

‘What kind of guy has so many goblin corpses?’

After that, the carriage continued to rock back and forth.

“It looks like a wave.”

After going through more than ten bumps, a word with an ominous nuance came out of Blender’s mouth.

“Wave?”

“You mean the monster wave. Otherwise, there aren’t that many monster corpses on the roadside. Because they are very timid.”

A look of boredom came naturally from the guy’s face.

“It’s a bit ominous.”

“What do you think will come out?”

Just looking at it, I can understand that it means that monsters are coming in droves.

But since I don’t know for sure, it’s better to ask an expert about this.

“I don’t know about that, but usually only goblins and kobolds come out. If the mountain is a little deeper, trolls might come out.”

A troll.

“Damn it, Blender. Please don’t bring up a bit of a f*cking name.”

Then Perun, who had been sealing the mouth until now, intervened.

“Don’t you know that when a troll comes out, everyone has to stand guard with a fire? And why are there trolls in northern Britain? It’s a place where all the monsters are hiding very deep because it’s a territory battle.”

“You never know. We also met twenty goblins earlier.”

I need to find out more information about trolls.

“Hey, Sten. Have you ever met a troll?”

Sten replied in an annoyed voice.

“Yes. They’re really f*cking bad guys.”

At least, it was a voice that didn’t suffer from trauma, even if it had been through sh*t.

“If you don’t mind, let’s ask. ‘Cause I’m a bit stupid In order not to be a burden to the adventurer teachers, I need to know at least a little bit.”

“Jim? Huh true.”

Blander said dumbfounded.

“What kind of burden is a human who sliced up seven goblins in less than 30 seconds?”

The time was possible for the last four of those seven because they just stood still.

“I was lucky.”

That’s why I said it honestly.

“Wouldn’t you guys make it easier?”

“Oh my God.”

Blander let out a sigh and kindly explained about trolls.

Recovery is very fast, arms and legs are not cut well, and fire is good. Blah blah.

The troll was the same as in the creations I know.

“Anyway, you’d better not come as an adventurer. It’s because they refuse to take away our work.”

I’ve already become a mercenary, but I’m an adventurer with no luck.

He responded with a smile at his favor.

“Whether you wish that the Northern Territory War would never end. Then you won’t have to go down to the South.”

“I will pray to the sun god.”

I summarized what I heard from Blender.

“So, anyway, goblins suck. If it’s a troll, it’s a bit more f*cked up.”

“Sure, then.”

But are there ogres here too?

I opened my mouth again.

“Hey, just in case an ogre-“

And immediately shut up.

“Hey!”

“f*ck you!”

It was because the adventurers were suddenly frightened and tried to block my mouth, as if they were looking at someone to kill.

“Mr. G-House, don’t say that name carelessly on the street.”

The man in the robe who spat that out looked at me and said.

Looking at him blankly, he sighed and explained the reason.

“…One of these floor rules. Not to call the ‘King of the Forest’ carelessly.”

That voice was quite brutal.

Anyway, he is the king of the forest. I see that.

In the past, during the Joseon Dynasty, people did not talk about tigers at night.

There seems to be a superstition in calling people by their own way, like calling them ‘sangun’ instead of ‘tiger’ or calling them by their own names, like calling a thief like a night guest.

Once I understood that, I immediately apologized like a knife.

“I’m sorry. I don’t know much about adventurers.”

Then their expressions softened little by little.

“Well, it could be.”

“Do not think I bought it because I am not an adventurer. There was no bastard who took out those three letters in front of me while I was working and was fine.”

With those words, the inside of the carriage became quiet again, as if it had never been.

But I could see that everyone was holding the weapons in their hands tightly, filled with invisible tension.

This floor is too hard.

The moment I was about to bruise on the mountain road again.

Boom!

A roar came from the front.

As soon as I heard the screams of the horses, the carriage stopped, and I immediately pulled out Selendian and ran.

“How did you take care of the wagon to make this happen!!”

“Sorry, Lord!”

Ignoring the merchant with the skinny top and almost a grennel, I saw the prianian squad leader and two archers holding weapons.

“Squad leader, are you okay?”

She turned her head, nodded quietly a couple of times, and then nodded in front of me.

“f*ck.”

In the middle of a mountain road, a wagon wheel broke.

But the more unfortunate thing is.

“How could the metal parts break, not the wood!”

From behind, the owner of the upper house shouted as if it were absurd.

The wheels are fine, but only the joints are worn.

As if caustic was used.

“……”

I felt something strong.

I picked up a small nail that seemed to have jumped out of the wagon when it was broken.

A bit bent but solid, it was an ordinary iron nail.

Then I unfolded the cloth I received from Blender earlier, rubbed the nail, and carefully folded the cloth wrapped around the nail.

In my experience of using it occasionally, you have to wait a little longer to see the results.