134. Laios Mountains (4)

Battle Bishop of Lost Hope.

Julie closed her mouth, which was about to open, and bit her lips, capturing the whole situation clearly in her eyes.

Just like the supernatural power bestowed by Lost Hope, a strange power worthy of being called a miracle.

recovery.

The bitterness of countless tortures remained in my body, and my heart was already broken by fear, but

The moment I saw the knights of Joheiden eating a piece of bread and recovering their bodies

her head went cold.

‘There is no recovery magic in this world… … . That’s for sure.’

Even if there are magicians who rarely use magic, they cannot heal them.

It’s just a well-mixed medicine that works well.

Even the most widely known mage in the empire, the imperial palace doctor, couldn’t do it.

Compared to the others, he is knowledgeable about herbs and can detect magical powers, so he can only find the cause of injury faster.

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Magic could not heal the injury.

The Doctrine of Lost Hope made this very clear.

A great magic cast by a black magician who shook the empire to the brink of destruction a long time ago.

Due to the [Eradication of Saints], the very concept of ‘recovery by magic’ has disappeared in this land.

As well as direct magic, reagents with magical effects were the same.

Lost Hope artificially created a recovery technique to show this point.

That day, the hostage, who had a deep wound on her stomach, turned into a rugged figure like a huge mass of cells as soon as she was hit by the forced recovery magic, and died soon after spitting out a terrible death sigh.

‘So in Lost Hope… … . It’s because he gave me the power to not get hurt in the first place.’

So, it was clear that the bread mixed with the elixir was a trick of some kind.

‘then… … . what the hell… … ?’

Julie felt a sense of mission to uncover the secret of this alien power.

If the opportunity arises, he must inform Lost Hope of this information, even at the cost of his own life.

That would be the only atonement he could make for himself.

However, after the Duke of Joheiden’s affair.

The Knights of the White Tiger really did not say a word, dragging their feet like hostages being taken by force.

So it was far from getting information from them separately, and Julie suppressed her desire to be impatient.

Soon it was time for dinner.

The Joheiden Knights took out the food they had brought and started making field meals.

Half of them watch their surroundings, and the other half eats, and they take turns when they finish eating.

Bondi how the highest quality information flows out at the moment when you are nervous and relaxed.

As food enters the stomach, the mind and vigilance will loosen.

Julie awakened and focused all five senses.

Now is your chance to discover the secret to that recovery.

Tak-tak-.

The sound of sparks from a bonfire burning firewood.

The soup in which various ingredients were beaten in a large pot on top of it was bubbling and bubbling.

The white smoke that rose from the hot soup headed for the sky with an appetizing smell.

“Chureup.”

Julie swallowed the saliva that came out as a reflex to the smell.

“Whoa… … . Just walking without speaking is tiring. Didn’t you get the bread distribution today too?”

Julie’s eyes narrowed at the voice of the cook who stirred the soup so it wouldn’t burn.

“Yeah, they say it’s only given to people who haven’t gotten well yet… … .”

“That’s right… … . Bread with that precious elixir… … . Because there can’t be many of them.”

A voice full of deep regret.

“I ate that bread yesterday. Now I don’t want to eat any other bread anymore.”

“Oh, me too… … . If I ate that one more time, I wouldn’t have a wish… … .”

“Arthur. Arthur. If we eat it again, will it be cheaper than the filthy expensive shit?”

“I know. That’s just what I said.”

So far, no useful information has been found.

However, a decisive conversation will soon take place.

‘Anyway, it’s so delicious… … ? under… … . hungry.’

That time when Julie was raising her concentration to the next level.

Growling—!

A rumbling sound came from the stomach.

It was so loud that the cooks stopped talking and turned their heads toward Julie.

I caught them fixing my eyes on them and staring at them.

‘Damn it! I was caught secretly gathering information… … ! What should I do if I tell the hero… … .’

Julie’s face hardened.

“… … Hey, isn’t that bitch staring here because she’s hungry right now?”

“… … under. With saliva dripping down the corners of your mouth. Even the butcher who kills people with a smile must be hungry.”

Julie’s face turned bright red at the sarcastic words that intruded into her ears.

‘It’s not like that! I mean no!’

Still, getting that misunderstood was at least better than getting discovered that he was gathering information.

Julie quickly shook her head and moved her lips hesitantly.

“Bae, I’m hungry… … .”

The cooks spit out laughter as if they were not even praying.

“under. What is it? If I were you, I wouldn’t have said that even if I had a conscience. Ah, because it’s the garbage of the garbage group, did you already buy and sell your conscience?”

fast-

If it weren’t for the hero, the people who would have already been dead, flipping their stomachs under her feet, insulted Lost Hope, and Julie’s forehead grew blood vessels.

“Hey… … . Don’t mix things up with that.”

“Hey, hey. let go I almost couldn’t keep my wedding promise because of that bitch.”

A man with a face contorted with anger strides forward.

Then Julie calmed down.

A little more. A little more provocation will surely bring out various information.

Now is the time to think about the future rather than mere pride.

She lowered herself lower and let her voice flow through the cracks in her mouth.

“Captive… … . Please treat prisoners… … . my please… … . I am very hungry… … .”

“Treatment of prisoners? This fucking bitch is now!”

Originally, they were the ones who could be crushed with just one finger.

Not now.

Currently, Julie cannot move her body freely.

To the extent that I could barely walk with all my might.

Unable to use Lost Hope’s power, she was now an ordinary woman everywhere.

However, Julie was not afraid of anything.

There is only one thing to be afraid of.

Zeke Kleiman.

He’s just a man who calls himself a warrior.

“Now, what are you doing here?”

At that time, Julie felt her body stiffen at the sudden low voice from the side.

Cold sweat formed on my forehead, and my teeth clashed involuntarily.

How can a person tremble in fear with just one voice?

Julie fixed her gaze on the floor, afraid to make eye contact.

It wasn’t just Julie who stiffened when Zeke appeared and intervened.

The same was true of the two knights of Joheiden.

“… … Hey, hero… … ?”

“I asked what you were doing.”

In front of Zeke Kleiman’s cold, dark eyes, they shrank like herbivores.

“That, that.”

“… … Me, that bitch! He asked for a meal to be treated as a prisoner!”

The one who shouted that was the cook who had been arguing with Julie from earlier.

“Treat prisoners?”

“… … yes! He dared to demand treatment as a prisoner of war without conscience. He yelled at me with swear words to give me something to eat!! The person who tried to kill us would say such a thing. Does that even make sense!”

“Hmm, that’s right… … .”

Zeke stroked his chin and listened to the cook.

Then, he became impatient and framed Julie.

“Even the hero’s swear words made my brain burn!”

Julie’s face turned earthy in an instant.

I never thought that what I provoked just to get information would come back like this.

Now, that terrible time of torture awaits her again.

Just imagining it made my bones feel cold and my hamstrings tingle.

“Huh…”

A moan escaped from the gap between her bitten lips.

but,

Then, the words that came out of Zeke’s mouth made her eyes wide open.

“Hmm, I don’t like lies very much… … .”

“… … Yes… … ?”

“Did this woman really curse at me?”

“… … .”

Julie raised her head and looked at Zeke with shaky eyes.

“You, what are you doing now… … .”

However, Zeke didn’t even look at Julie and continued talking to the cook.

“Because my ears are pretty good. I also heard that they demanded treatment as prisoners of war. I heard that they asked for something to eat. Of course, as you said, I wasn’t confident and I wasn’t intimidating.”

“… … .”

When Zeke pointed out his faults point by point, Kuwook. A cook with a clenched fist.

He looked very sad, as if he felt betrayed.

Zeke nodded his head as if he understood the reaction.

“It’s not like I’m writing a book. There’s no such thing as a face I know how much you hate this woman. I’m sorry for stealing your personal history, but are you getting married?”

“… … Yes.”

“Then I hope you can relieve your anger with this.”

Zeke took out a gold coin from his chest and handed it to the cook.

The cook accepted the gold coin with both trembling hands.

He immediately fell to his knees and prostrated himself.

“… … uh, uh this. You can’t get anything like this! Now, I was wrong! hero! Go, how dare you give a false report to the hero!”

“no. I wasn’t angry I can understand where you meant to say that. Please accept that as my apology for not being able to ease your mind right now. And I will manage this woman from now on, so please spread it.”

“Yes. yes! Oh, I see!!”

After sorting out the situation, Zeke lightly grabbed Julie by the hair and dragged her into the woods.

“Aah! Let go! Let go!! Let go!”

Julie, who was caught by her hair, scratched the floor with her feet, but was dragged in by Zeke’s violent power.

The two cooks opened their mouths while looking at the forest where Zeke entered.

“note. It seems that Hero-sama has no intention of forgiving that woman… … ?”

“Ugh, that’s right… … .”

“But why… … . did that to me… … ?”

“… … I think I know why… … .”

There was awe in the knight’s voice that could not be hidden.

“why?”

“Your hero asked me if I would marry you.”

“Yes.”

“Maybe he doesn’t want you to hold any hatred in your heart as you face the end of your life… … ? So give me gold coins too. to relax… … .”

The eyes of the knight about to get married widened.

Those who turn their heads back to the forest where Zeke entered.

“Well, then… … . He said he would bear all the hatred… … .”

“Ahh… … .”

“… … This is a hero… … .”

Impressed, the cooks made a resolution to spread this anecdote to others.

* * *

As soon as Zeke returned to the forest, he let go of his hair.

Then Julie glared at Zeke with ferocious eyes.

“… … what! Are you going to torture me again!?”

“Well? It’s not.”

“… … If not that, what, what!”

I looked at him defiantly, but my body was honest.

She knelt on the floor with her hands on her knees and trembled pitifully.

Zeke carefully placed the bread in his hand in front of her.

It was a short baguette that was distributed to soldiers, not the long baguettes they usually carried.

“Eat.”

“What… … ?”

“Didn’t you hear? He told me to eat it.”

Julie couldn’t understand.

Why did this man suddenly save himself?

After torturing her to death like that, would she come and take care of her meal?

What was even in front of him was the bread he had been curious about so much.

The bread was freshly made, but it was still steaming warm.

The savory scent of the bread wafted through her senses.

Klopp.

saliva passed

Rumbling—!

Hunger roared loudly on the ship.

Hunger was telling me to put that bread into my mouth right now and swallow it.

However, the situation is too strange to accept this as it is given.

Julie looked back and forth between bread and Zeke with a wary look on her face.

“If you don’t want to eat, don’t. If you’re worried about poison, I’ll tell you it’s okay.”

Zeke crouched down in front of Julie, bit off the tip of the bread that had fallen on the ground, and brought it to his mouth.

well well

“Ugh. Pretty tasty.”

“why… … . Why the hell are you doing this… … .”

Julie said in a voice that could not hide her agitation.

I couldn’t adapt at all because the person who forced me to suffer so suddenly changed his attitude as if it had never happened.

“Well? I just brought you a meal because you looked hungry.”

“Not that! What the hell are you thinking!”

Julie puts a vein in her neck and threatens.

Zeke looked down at her and opened his mouth.

“Originally, there was a book that I enjoyed reading in the world I lived in. I remembered the lines that came out of it.”

“… … book?”

“yes. It is a story of a rubber man wearing a straw hat traveling on a boat.”

“… … What is it. I never heard of it.”

Zeke nodded.

“Yes, it is worth it. Anyway, to quote the words from there… … . [Gives food to the hungry no matter the reason. Hunger is like a terrible disaster that does not discriminate between the good and the bad.” Probably because I was impressed with that scene.”

To give an enemy a precious meal for such an absurd reason.

Who would say such a delusion?

Julie was suspicious of the structure of Lee Ja’s mental world.

However, it was such an absurd logic that Zeke’s words sounded like the truth.

‘The mercy of the strong… … . Is it the same… … . But, this is an opportunity. I can try this bread now and deliver it to Lost Hope myself. This man doesn’t know the value of this bread right now, but he doesn’t know too much.’

Julie managed her expression and looked up at Zeke.

In fact, even if I hadn’t thought about such efficiency, I couldn’t bear the constant cries of hunger anymore.

“I… … . Even if you really eat… … . okay… … ?”

Julie asked in a cautious voice.

Zeke nodded.

“I’ve been telling you to eat since before.”

Julie looked at Zeke and slowly lowered her head.

He opened his mouth at the bread that had fallen to the floor.

“Hup.”

one bite.

one bite.

one bite.

Grabbing the bread little by little, she banged her head and stuffed the bread into her mouth like a dog starved for several days.

“mmm,

Julie chokes up her throat as the stuffy bread fills her mouth.

“There is water here, drink it.”

Zeke put the water in the dish in front of Julie before he knew it.

Gulp.

Well well.

“It must be filthy delicious.”

Zeke raised the corners of his mouth.

He watched as the bread in front of Julie quickly disappeared.

He erased his expression before he knew it and looked down at her with a cold face.

‘To the extent that I can’t live without bread now.’