The Porter Is Not Interested in the Hero Party

21 – Reservoir Vipers (2)

It was not surprising. It was something I often experienced when sharing a brief consolation with a widow. Just as mushroom experts often get poisoned while picking and eating mushrooms, I just got poisoned. Poisonous mushrooms are always lurking among real widows who are tired of loneliness.

A poisonous mushroom who is shameless, has no love for her husband at all, and is only mad with lust.

Today, I almost suffered a big upset because I couldn’t sort out the poison. As a member of the warrior’s party, if you mess with a woman with a husband and get into an accident, you can’t handle it. I wiped the sweat from my head again and let out a sigh of relief.

The sight of me walking around in a shabby outfit with clothes on seemed to evoke disturbing imaginations in people. The farmer sitting on the calf laughed and laughed at me, and the women who fetched water from the well looked at me and giggled. I pretended nothing was wrong, put on my clothes, and left my seat with my head tucked into my clothes.

If I moved to the main road, I would look suspicious, so I had to move my body to a place where there were no people as much as possible. I thought so and turned to the back alley. Passing by the obscure place, pretending to be nothing, and coming out in the other direction of the downtown area.

As if a creature mimicked. If I went back to my room, away from the jokes and interests of passers-by, pretending to be normal, I could change my clothes and return to being a great porter.

The plan was perfect.

“So, huh? A proposal that doesn’t even sound like that… … . Is it better not to? Why are you so annoying between us?”

Until the voice I heard as I turned the corner stiffened my body and killed my presence.

It was obviously Lena who was there. Orange bobbed hair and green eyes sparkling like jewels. And the iron needle biting in the corner of the mouth. She rolled the needle around in her mouth like a toothpick, then put it back into her waistband.

Standing in front of her was a man of enormous stature, his muscles on his back like a picture of a mountain, and his head down looking at Lena like a wild bear running amok. He was breathing heavily and moving his shoulders as much as his large body, but strangely, there was no sound of breathing.

“Are you betraying me? Lena.”

He cut off his words and threatened Lena, but Lena raised the corners of her mouth and imitated his tone.

“Who, whom?”

It was quite a provocation, but the man maintained his composure. A huge fist was clenched as if it were ready to break Lena’s neck at any moment, and the other hand gripped something at her waist.

His voice had a strange resonant sound, as if his vocal chords were being beaten with a threshing machine.

“Lena. that’s an opportunity. It doesn’t come easily. You, who ate you rolling in the back alley. The thing that raised me to be a decent thief. We all. Be loyal. Lena. Betrayal. It is unacceptable.”

Lena opened her eyes, glanced at the floor, and raised her head again. She carefully stroked the rough edges of the needles and began trimming her nails. the act of ignoring others. humiliating behavior.

Lena seemed to be waiting for her opponent to get angry, and the man did not waver with his mental strength as strong as a mountain. Lena ran over the smoothed sections of her nails and blew on them as she spoke.

“I forgot all about that. Righteousness. Betrayal. Were we the ones who dared to talk about that in the first place? Black society wasn’t like that.”

“Lena. Don’t change the subject. We are a black society, and you are also a black society. you are strong enough Useful. Team up with us.”

Lena smiled and moved her eyebrows around. Rolling his eyes seemed like he was trying to roll his hair, and he also looked like a mischievous mischief trying to play a joke. After thinking for a while, rolling her eyes here and there, she stuck out her tongue and said,

“no.”

live and intuition.

It refers to the survival instinct that a person has from birth. It avoids dangerous people through detecting living, and avoids dangerous places through intuition. People who have trained this to the extreme felt a sharp energy that had not yet been revealed and their bodies would react first.

For example, like now. As Lena avoided the man’s outstretched heavy fist, I grabbed the man’s waist at the same time.

“What, what… … .”

I saw the man’s expression change very slowly. He turned his back and tried to deliver a follow-up, but he was embarrassed by his heavy body that did not turn as he wanted.

He couldn’t even get out the thing he was holding on his waist. It was because I was holding his left arm with one free hand.

fleeting moment.

That short moment when the man was thinking about how to respond to me.

“Ahahahaha!”

With the sound of Lena’s lively laughter, iron stings dug into the man’s temples. The man widened his eyes, shuddered, and slammed his face on the floor with his mouth wide open like a puppet with a missing jaw.

I managed to get out by rolling my body to the side so as not to be pressed by the man’s body.

Dust rises and the man’s heavy body falls to the ground. Lena held the dagger in her hand and observed the man’s movements. I could see her arms shaking and her feet twisting wildly, dying like a broken wooden doll.

Lena tapped the needle in her hair with the tip of her toe, then pushed the needle into her head with gentle force. As if stabbing his brain and hitting the wrong nerve, the man’s body fluttered like a chicken with a knife to its neck, scattering objects around it.

The needle that went all the way in came out the other side, and blood dripped down. The sound of falling water echoing in the back alley created a gloomy atmosphere in the quiet alley.

I was making eye contact with the back of the man’s head, and Lena, with her hands in her pockets, looked down at me and said,

“mister. What’s up? Could it be that you came looking for me because you were worried?”

I got up and shook my head.

“I seduced a widow, a woman with a husband. It could have been a big deal.”

“Lovelace.”

There was no change in Lena’s face. He was smiling as usual and exuding a cheerful atmosphere as usual. However, the conversation she had just had with the corpse lying on the floor made it impossible to see her as usual.

The same expression changes into a different expression every time a different background is presented. To me now, she felt like a forced smile trying to hide something.

“What are you doing? He seemed like a very bad guy.”

A black toad was drawn on the man’s back. The depiction of a lumpy back made it look like a boil had formed on his neck. I rubbed my neck once and looked at Lena’s neck again. Black spider tattoo on neck.

And a toad tattoo on a man’s neck.

Lena smiled and looked at me. I exhaled and rose from my seat. Lena’s fingers moved slowly and she pursed her lips.

“secret.”

I wondered what the hell she was up to, but I didn’t bother to ask. Because Lena said she didn’t want to answer right now. Instead, I decided to share another realistic story.

For example, it was a story about the body of a giant lying on the floor. The corpse, which will be found shortly, will give the guards a hard time. I asked, tapping the giant’s stomach.

“What are you going to do with this guy?”

“yes? will you make a grave? are you okay. He’s not that nice.”

And she whistled as if nothing had happened and started to run ahead. I looked at the fallen body once more and followed Lena out of the alley. said Lena.

“mister. But were you worried about me and helped me?”

She was talking about what I had done for her. If I hadn’t grabbed my back, the fight would have been a little longer. Lena’s eyes twinkled and she smelled blood as she approached. I nodded and said.

“Because they are colleagues.”

“Ahahahahaha!”

A higher-than-usual high-pitched laugh rang out. Lena, who had laughed so loudly that everyone on the street turned around, turned around and took the lead again. Then he tilted his head and pointed to my pocket.

“mister. what is that?”

“It is alcohol. It’s a drink called [Dogref]. Have you ever heard of it?”

“Ah, I heard [Dogref]. Isn’t that a pretty expensive drink? Where are you going to spend it?”

“When you get older, you want to enjoy romance. Think about it. Lena. Defeat the demon king, sit on the ramparts of the imperial capital and watch the sun go down. There, you can have a drink with snacks. Wouldn’t it feel great? To finish off our task, we will have this expensive drink.”

Lena’s eyes were twinkling as she listened to my story. She reached lightly for her pocket and ran her hand over the bottle.

“me too.”

I met her green eyes looking down at me. She said with twinkling eyes and a strange smile.

“I will be by your side then. Let’s have a drink together.”

I nodded. When Lena saw me nod, she smiled even brighter and moved away. And he started mixing up his dreams.

“It’s the capital of the empire, and there must be alcohol more expensive than [Dogref]. Let’s shake it all off and have a party. You keep eating and then you get drunk and fall asleep. Just cover yourself in one rag and go to sleep, so both of you catch a cold. That’s why we find an inn in a drowsy state, wake up from a restless sleep, and laugh at each other’s ugly faces.”

It was a wonderful story. Sometime when I had family and friends, similar things happened often. I said.

“Then we joke about each other’s stupidity, and then we go out drinking again.”

“Ahahahaha… .”

Lena threw a fist at my words. The story of the never-ending dream always ended in laughter. I bumped into her fist and started walking side by side.