35 – Episode 32: Stagnant water rots – 2

“Joo Hyuk.”

It will not be.

It’s because I’ve been under too much stress lately.

I wanted to tell you that somehow I heard it wrong.

I didn’t want to give up hope that this village would be a normal village.

I must have heard it wrong.

“Joo Hyuk!”

“Why is Rin suddenly making a sound… ”

“Since the man left earlier, I’ve been standing there blankly, what the hell is going on?”

Rin looked at me in a cold sweat like it was strange and asked.

“it’s nothing.”

I shook my head and smiled like it was nothing.

However, I couldn’t help but feel a strange feeling in my back.

It was a familiar, unpleasant feeling.

The sun was already setting and the sky was burning red.

My body was tired after walking from far away for several hours, so I wanted to hurry up and find a place to rest.

I grabbed and asked villagers passing by several times, but just like that man, they just glared at us and told us to keep an eye on them as they passed by.

“Shit… Everyone here is Kimoi!”

Kyoko frowned and made an expression of displeasure.

Certainly, the attitude of the villagers toward us was quite rude. No matter how much foreigners were excluded, this seemed a bit harsh.

I don’t know why, but I didn’t get that much damage, but Kyoko and Rin seemed to be dealing with it quite hard.

We started wandering around the village, feeling uncomfortable about something. Then, I found a building marked ‘Accommodation for Travelers and Adventurers’.

After entering the building and opening the room door after receiving the assigned room key, our faces gradually began to harden.

“Is this right?”

What stretched out through the door of the room was a narrow room, a room the size of pellets that could be filled with three people lying down.

In addition, the building was converted from a stable, and the floor was covered with straw bales.

I had never seen such a cramped room in my entire life.

But what can I do?

To be honest, I didn’t expect too much since it was a free accommodation.

It was more serious than I thought, but the meaning of coming here disappeared when we paid money and looked for a room, so we decided to stay here for a few days.

Although the room was small, it was not that uncomfortable because there was some space left. I had to accept the musty musty smell.

Tired, we each settled down and lay down to sleep.

Honestly, my senses kept telling me that something was about to happen, but I was distracted by money and ignored it.

I thought it was just a needless worry.

So I closed my eyes, promising tomorrow.

…

“Evil f*ck!”

I woke up screaming at the strong shock delivered to my abdomen.

It felt like a light flashed in front of my eyes.

I grabbed my throbbing stomach and took stock of the situation.

Perhaps because of Kyoko’s habit of sleeping in the middle, she kicked me in the stomach in her sleep.

Annoyance surged to the top of my head, but I decided to settle my anger and go back to bed as I was waking up this early in the morning.

And just around the time when I was drowsy again.

puck-!

Again her feet hit me.

This time, he kicked me hard on the lower back as I lay on my back.

“I’m going to get some sleep, stay still f*ck!”

“Oops! What are you doing all of a sudden!”

I couldn’t stand it anymore, so I slammed the chestnut into her sleeping forehead and shouted. Then Kyoko woke up from her sleep as if she was startled and said to me in anger.

“What, what… is it…”

Even Rin, who was sleeping in the commotion, was awakened and abandoned.

Since the full-fledged competitions start tomorrow, I have to save up my stamina somehow.

My stomach was boiling, but I managed to hold it in, and we really decided to go to bed.

About an hour later, as usual, Kyoko’s sleeping habit began.

The war with Kyoko, which started without knowing that the dawn was over, only faded after about 7 times that I hit the honey night each time.

I was already half out of my mind.

Kyoko seemed to have fallen asleep again after being beaten so much. However, perhaps because of learning, he was protecting the top of his head with his hand even while he was asleep.

That’s how I was able to fall asleep in less than a few hours.

…

“I’m dying of pain…”

In the morning, barely opening my eyes, I headed to the plaza where the schedule for the first day was going on.

Last night, Kyoko kicked me several times, and my back ached.

Rin, too, must have been beaten by Kyoko, and it seemed like she couldn’t sleep. Only Kyoko walked the streets with light steps, as if refreshing.

It was very embarrassing, but maybe it was because I couldn’t sleep properly, so I didn’t even have the energy to hit the night.

“Chop! There are people gathered there!”

People were gathered in the direction Kyoko pointed.

Perhaps that is the waiting area for the monster subjugation tournament scheduled to begin this morning.

We moved to the place, and there were many people gathered and talking to each other.

“Hey, nice to meet you! Thank you very much for coming to the annual Loperion Festival!”

Soon, a man dressed in neat clothes opened his mouth.

A clean shirt and a golden star on his chest indicated that he was the head of the village. The very unreliable, bat-like foreman continued.

“Okay, this year as well, the Loperion Village Festival! The gorgeous curtain has risen! The product… The back is ready, and the long-awaited winner will receive 30 silver coins!”

The atmosphere in the plaza heated up at the words of the chief shouting from the stage. For a festival held in a small town, the rewards were hotter than expected.

The desire to do this right was welling up.

“Since it has already been 15 years this year, everyone knows all the rules, so let’s proceed with the first tournament, monster subjugation… ”

“No, wait!”

When I heard the head of the village smiling and talking with the villagers on the podium, I screamed in surprise.

All eyes were on me.

No, what kind of competition in the world omits the f*cking rules.

Even though the festival has been held for 15 years, it was the right thing to explain the rules to newcomers.

“What happened… ?”

“We are participating for the first time today, so if you skip the rules…”

“Haa… there were influxes. So I’ll keep it short. I’ll explain it only once, so listen carefully. The rules… ”

The chief spoke to us as if it was a nuisance.

His expression was clearly mixed with annoyance, and anger was building up from the start of the battle.

After a brief explanation, the contest began.

To put it simply, the winner was the one who collected the most flags by finding the slimes and monsters that were captured alive in advance, put up red flags, and then released again.

Team play is okay, but it is said that the number of players is limited to 5 or less.

Everyone gathered in the village went out of the village and looked around, eagerly searching for the demons with red flags.

We, too, became frantic and started looking for demons with flags.

“Chop over there!”

At that time, Kyoko was calling me and pointing somewhere with her finger.

Where Kyoko’s fingertips were pointing, a small monster wearing a red flag was leisurely grazing. Who knows, I quickly started running towards the Witchbeast.

At the very moment when he extended his sword toward the beast, a man first thrust the knife into the beast’s head.

Then he took the flag from the body of the dead witch and took it with him.

I was dumbfounded for a moment, but I couldn’t ask for this again. It could be that the man also found it from afar and ran quickly.

Also, if you heat up on such private things, your mentality won’t be perfect.

With that thought in mind, we searched even harder, searching for the flag.

“Lin, Lin! I’m in front!”

As I looked around, I saw a beast carrying a flag in its mouth. I hurriedly called out to Rin and pointed at the magic beast.

Rin hurriedly tried to kill the beast, but the bastard killed the beast first and took the flag proudly.

This is the 4th time a man has stolen our monster.

I just couldn’t stand it any longer.

I walked up to him and started yelling loudly.

“No f*ck! Do it in moderation!”

I vented my anger at the man who kept interrupting us from earlier.

That bastard had been blatantly chasing after us from earlier, stealing every monster he found.

I didn’t want to cause a fuss so I stayed quiet, but who the f*ck are you looking at as an idiot?

At my words, the man glanced at me, then started to laugh, raising the corner of his mouth.

We couldn’t help but be stunned by the sight.

“What’s going on there?”

When my side became noisy, the villagers began to gather towards me one by one, as if they had heard the sound.

“Listen. this person… ”

I pointed to the man standing in front of the people who had gathered and began to speak as if it was unfair. But what happened next left me at a loss for words.

“The influx is coming! What’s going on, Corres?”

One of the villagers cut off my words one-sidedly and began to ask the man in front of me cautiously.

“That’s why I was still, but they suddenly… ”

The man didn’t even blink an eye and started spitting out lies.

Damn, I even doubted if that bastard was really human.

“What? How dare the influx brawl with Korres, the first-team leader?”

“Dear 1st Team Named Corres… Not recognizing the energy of named residents in District 1… This is why you shouldn’t have any dealings with the influx.”

“Corres-sama, are you hurt anywhere?”

People all took exaggerated actions and were worried about Korres. Before long, they glanced at me and said harsh words to my face.

It was definitely familiar, but it was a part that was strangely uncomfortable.

f*ck this was it.

This village must have been composed of a group of people, not a single community.

“Oh f*ck.”