The Returner Wants Complete Victory

16 – 016. City at the Bottom (2)

As soon as day dawned we left the inn to buy weapons, as I had told you yesterday.

Eunha and Bokyung both looked tired, as if they had had trouble sleeping.

It is of course necessary to maintain a certain level of tension, but it is not good to overdo it and your condition collapses.

Because you never know when and where something will happen.

But that’s not a problem I can solve.

You have to overcome it yourself.

I walked along with the two who looked tired.

“let’s go. “The blacksmith shop is in my area.”

The streets of Emur have a very stiff and rigid atmosphere.

This is a characteristic of being a planned city originally created for military purposes.

The outer castle area where we stayed was a little less like that because it was expanded after mercenaries came over from Earth, but the inner castle had a landscape that seemed to embody the word military itself.

As soon as I passed through the castle gate, the buildings lined up in a wide open street caught my eye.

It wasn’t enough that the buildings were all lined up, and the sight of them being unified in size seemed bizarre at first glance.

“Wow, even people who live here will spin around if you make a fuss…” .”

Bo-kyung muttered after seeing all the buildings that looked identical, as if they were self-duplications.

As I walked along the seemingly similar path without hesitation, Bo-kyung asked me carefully.

“Sir, have you ever been here?”

“Yes.”

“when?”

Instead of answering Bo-kyung’s words, I opened the blacksmith shop door.

Bo-kyung didn’t seem to have any intention of forcing me to answer, so she quietly followed me in and stood next to me without saying anything.

“You will choose your weapon here. “Choose whatever you want to write.”

There was a girl sitting at the counter with her chin resting on her head. She looked like the blacksmith’s daughter or granddaughter.

The girl glanced at us, then lost interest completely when she saw us take out our phones.

Since the emotional system is more accurate than the explanation given by the girl herself, there is no need for the girl to bother to follow her around and explain various things.

“You don’t have to think too deeply. Just choose what you think will suit you best. “This isn’t some kind of game, and once you pick up a bow, you don’t have to keep shooting until you die.”

Eunha snooped around to see if she was interested in the bow, and Bokyung kept clicking the camera at the window, thinking that the spear she held during the tutorial was better.

After completing the appraisal a few more times, Bo-kyung tilted her head as if something was strange.

Then he came closer to me, showed me the screen of his phone, and asked.

“Senior, are you sure this is working properly?”

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It is a well-forged spear.

“that’s right.”

I gave a concise answer.

But Bo-kyung looked at me intently, as if she needed more explanation.

When I looked back on my memories from the first episode, I was able to easily understand what illusion Bo-kyung was under.

“Attack power wasn’t originally written down. Because it’s not a game. “Even if it’s the same spear, if you and I swing it, the power is different.”

“But there are stats. “If I add my strength to the power of the weapon itself, isn’t that the attack power?”

After listening to Bo-kyung, I thought that she might think that way.

Eunha must have had similar thoughts, so she stopped looking at the bow and started listening to our story.

“The premise that if the stats were the same in the first place, the same power would come out was wrong… . Just do it. I didn’t make it either. “Actually, I don’t know either.”

I was trying to explain something, but I had no confidence in making them understand at this point, so I decided to skip it.

And it’s true that you actually don’t know much.

This cell phone itself was created with the power of Gaia, who sold us here in the first place.

After rummaging through the shelves for a while longer, the two seemed to have made a decision, picked up weapons one by one, and approached me.

“I’ll take this.”

“I have this.”

As expected, Bo-kyung chose a spear, and Eun-ha chose a bow and a dagger.

It’s not a bad choice.

I nodded once and said.

“Go and pay. “Don’t you think there will be some support money you received after yesterday’s training?”

The care provided to new recruits after the tutorial is not limited to one day of training.

At least if you’re going to leave it alone, you’ll have to give it money to buy weapons.

Although it is at the discretion of the acting mercenary group, the money given in this way is included in the public value, so it is customary to give it quite generously.

Maybe even if I couldn’t do it, I would have received at least two gold coins?

Two gold coins issued by the Leveron Empire are roughly worth about 200,000 won in Korean currency.

With that amount of money left over from buying weapons, you can go without going hungry for about a week.

“Didn’t you buy it for me?!”

Bo-kyung shouted in surprise.

Beside her, Eunha also looked as if she had been betrayed.

When I thought back and wondered why they were like this, they had told me as if I would come into the blacksmith shop and buy it for sure.

It was misleading.

But that doesn’t mean it’s not true.

I said firmly.

“no. When you have deep pockets, desperation disappears. “But you won’t starve, so don’t worry.”

Of course, we will provide a fantasy traveler set – rye bread and stew – for meals.

The rye bread in this world is so hard and tasteless that it feels evil.

Wouldn’t eating food that is worse than human food be a stronger motivation than anything else?

Because I did that.

If you keep trying to survive, you will inevitably be overcome by the urge to kill every chimera in the world.

As I was waiting in front of the door, Bo-kyung, who had finished paying first, followed me out, grumbling.

Then he looked at my empty hands and asked.

“Aren’t you buying it?”

“huh. “I have a separate way to get it.”

“What is it?”

Well, whatever. You can get it right.

A newbie has arrived in the lawless area, and isn’t there one bastard itching to show off his strength in that disgusting garbage dump?

Anyone is bound to start a fight.

This is like a law.

Then, after dealing with that friend, all I have to do is pick up the missing weapon from the ground.

“Senior has a lot of secrets… .”

While I was alone with my imagination, I heard Bo-kyung’s sad voice next to me.

When I looked to the side, I saw Bo-kyung with her head down and her toes digging into the ground.

“Of course, it’s only been a few days since we met, but still… .”

I didn’t know how to respond to the slightly watery voice.

Rather than because I didn’t answer, it seemed like my anxiety about reality itself, of being dragged into a strange world and placed in an unknown situation, came out.

I was simply the catalyst.

“Sister, are you crying?”

At that time, Seo Eun-ha, who had just come out with a bow, a quiver of arrows, and a dagger hanging on a leather belt, asked Bo-kyung.

At the same time, he dared to put his face in front of Bo-kyung, who was bowing his head, but when I saw him from the side, he didn’t seem to be that evil.

“Oh, no? why me?!”

Bo-kyung waved her hand with slightly bloodshot eyes.

Eunha looked at Bo-kyung for a moment, then turned her head towards me.

“But then what was that? “A giant made of light.”

He doesn’t say anything back.

Still, this was more convenient.

Bo-kyung must have been curious about that, too, as she looked up at me with bloodshot eyes.

I decided to give one last time the answer I had been repeating like a parrot all day yesterday.

“I can’t tell you.”

Still, since we will be traveling together from now on, it would be a good idea to at least convince them.

Not being able to completely trust the comrades you are supposed to have your back in is fatal even in battle.

“It’s not that you don’t tell me, you really can’t tell me. There is a situation. Don’t worry too much though. “I will never break my promise.”

Bo-kyung blushed as if she remembered what the promise was, and Eun-ha just nodded her head once.

When I saw that, I smiled slightly and said.

“Then let’s go look at clothes. “I’ll buy you clothes.”

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Tight leather boots that go below the knees, leather armor worn like a vest over cloth clothes, and even forearm protectors with iron plates.

It was truly a perfect set.

The two people who received an unexpected gift from me had black, dead eyes.

“… The clothes they said they would buy me… This was it… ?”

“What did you expect? Buy your everyday clothes with your own money. “There’s still a little bit left.”

I don’t know about Eunha, but Bo-kyung only bought one spear, so she must have at least one gold coin left.

Seeing the two with lost expressions made me feel a little pathetic, but considering that it was only day 5 even including the tutorial, I decided to just skip it.

“Then let’s leave now.”

“yes!”

When I spoke, Bo-gyeong responded bravely.

The child who was so anxious earlier that he even burst into tears turned around very quickly.

After stopping at an inn for a last meal before departure, we boarded a carriage heading to Kirnyu.

As if they had heeded my warning yesterday, there were no chicks riding in the same carriage as us.

Besides Kirnyu, there are three other border cities that can be active.

It seemed like they decided to go somewhere else because they couldn’t be trusted with me and there was no point in going with me and getting compared.

I sat down and waited patiently, and soon the carriage was filled with people.

A total of about 12 people including us.

Even though most of them were full-bodied men, the narrow carriage felt even more cramped.

Seeing that everyone except us had worn protective gear, it seemed like everyone had experience in the field in their own way.

Of course, since there is a shortage of supplies in Kirnyu, it is not that uncommon for experienced people to come to Emur and buy what they need in this way.

however… The atmosphere is quite strange, isn’t it?

Normally, when you get on a carriage like this, you’d be talking to each other, telling various stories, but it was very suspicious that everyone kept their mouths shut, as if to emphasize, ‘We don’t know each other.’

I have a feeling, this.

Is it starting already?

Weapon drop event?