Heavenly Inquisition Sword

Episode 1329. Why do you ask where you are from?

three days later.

Elio’s party finally returned to Exodo, a village at the entrance of the Abyss.

Then, following Fabian’s suggestion, ‘Shouldn’t we celebrate before leaving the Abyss?’, we headed to a nearby bar.

Even though it was still broad daylight, the bar was bustling with customers.

Elio and the others were able to stick their butts into the corner seats the clerk had prepared for them.

“Why are there so many people?”

Fabian, who was grumbling, called the clerk busily between the tables.

A slender-looking young clerk trotted closer.

“yes? What can I get you?”

“Let’s give the alcohol and side dishes what we always ate and ask one. Why are there so many customers in broad daylight? It looks like you can see not only adventurers and mercenaries, but also handymen.”

Adventurers and mercenaries who enter and exit the Abyss like to drink.

On the other hand, handymen were people who flocked to make money, so they were far from entertainment.

When I was thirsty, I would buy it and drink it at the dorm rather than at a bar.

But now it was different.

There was a noticeable increase in the number of people wearing shabby clothes typical of a handyman.

It’s not like the handymen became rich in a month or so, and I wondered why.

“Have you been in the mines or the plains until now?”

“how did you know?”

“The Shade Kingdom has been occupied by the Empire, right? These days, those from the Southern Kingdoms won’t be able to get their hands on work. I’m curious about the outside news and I can’t get my hands on work… I’m going to go to this place.”

“When did that happen? Weren’t the imperial troops pushed back?”

“At first it was. But when the Empire sent in special forces, it completely turned upside down.”

“Special forces?”

“It has been known recently that the southern kingdom army started a war because of the steel golem. The southern kingdoms have kept quiet about what was excavated from the mines of Abyss. Anyway, I pushed it up to the Principality of Toplar… The imperial prince developed a strange weapon and defeated the steel golem. The good times are gone. After that, the Shade Kingdom was taken away, and now they are fighting on the border of the Adria Kingdom. So, would the southern kingdoms be good to work for? Because of the contract, we can’t even leave the Abyss, so we have no choice but to get together and drink.”

“Wow. Has the world turned upside down in one month?”

“By the way, you asked for something you always ate… Are you a regular?”

“no?”

“What would you like?”

The clerk was moved to tears at the customer’s pun, but he tried to hold back his emotions and asked again.

It was because fighting adventurers and mercenaries would only cost him himself.

“Bring the number of the best in this house. If you catch the hugu saying to bring it on your own, I will beat you all up, so you know that.”

“I don’t know what kind of bar you’ve been to, Adventurer, but we don’t do that. Then, I will bring the best snacks and drinks according to the number of people.”

The clerk bowed his head and went back, as if he didn’t want to say anything more.

Elio said as Fabian licked his lips with a shy face.

“Young man has spirit.”

“My personality is so good that I don’t scold even when I hear such arrogance.”

“Why does that sound so cheeky? It’s a statement of conviction. Howard am I wrong?”

At Count Elio Lagoa’s question, Howard nodded vigorously.

“Lord Lagoa is absolutely right.”

“It is not unconditional. I am human too, but not unconditionally.”

Howard cried to himself, ‘Where do you look?’

How could a being who killed not only the transcendent demons but also the god they serve!

After a while, food and drinks came out.

After a month or so, Elio and his friends ate and drank in a hurry.

Feeling full, Fabian glanced around.

It’s a very different atmosphere from a month ago.

When the empire was defeated repeatedly, the bar atmosphere was not so dark.

Fabian muttered involuntarily.

“Looking at the atmosphere of the house of mourning, it seems that there are many people from the Southern Kingdom in Abyss, right?”

Then Howard said.

“You’re surrounded by the southern kingdoms, aren’t you?”

“Right.”

Fabian nodded.

Geographically, the Empire was far from the Abyss.

As the distance increases, interest tends to diminish.

It is no wonder that development of the Abyss took place mainly in the southern kingdoms.

At that time, a mercenary in the seat next to him intervened in a fight.

“What portrait house? makes the words weird Are you from the Empire?”

The pub, which had been noisy for a moment, suddenly became quiet.

Until now, adventurers and mercenaries in the Abyss had no nationality discrimination.

It was like that when the empire was defeated.

Adventurers and mercenaries from the Southern Kingdom were generous to those from the Empire.

The atmosphere was ‘what use is a country to adventurers and mercenaries?’.

However, when the southern kingdom was repeatedly defeated and the Shade Kingdom was occupied, the atmosphere changed.

Adventurers and mercenaries treated people from the Empire harshly.

Considering the families who would suffer under the rule of the Empire, it was probably natural.

The eyes of the guests watching Fabian were fierce.

Even the facial expressions of the clerks, who were courting the customers with forced smiles, were not good.

There was no way that the quick-witted Fabian could not read such an atmosphere.

“I did pass through the empire. We are adventurers from the North.”

The tense tension slowly melted away.

The bar patrons looked away one by one and started talking again.

Wagner, a middle-aged mercenary, asked as if confirming.

“Did you say you were from the North?”

“however? Do you still have something to do with me?”

“I stayed. Coincidentally, there is a northerner in our party. Hey Orlando. Come here for a second.”

Wagner called a mercenary from another seat.

The eyes of the scattered bar patrons returned to Elio and the mercenaries.

A young mercenary named Orlando approached cautiously.

“Orlando, that person seems to be from the Empire. You say you are northern? Since you’re from the north, check it out. Are you really from the North? Nowadays, there are many people who lie about where they are from.”

Fabian frowned at Wagner’s words.

It wasn’t something to say in front of people.

Looking back, the middle-aged mercenary’s reddish face made him look like he was drunk.

I wanted to watch it because of my antipathy towards the empire, but maybe it was just a drunkard.

Orlando, who was paying attention to Wagner, the butler of the Balom Mercenary Corps, asked the young man.

“You’re from the North?”

“Yes.”

Fabian, who was displeased inside, let go.

If you ask who he is, his aristocratic status will eventually be revealed, so he went out comfortably.

“Northern where…”

“He is from Anatolia in the Kingdom of Escatos. Where are you from?”

“This is the Baylem Kingdom. But a little bit of talk in the first meeting…”

“I am a baron. Are you a noble?”

“….”

Orlando, a commoner, could not answer and only blinked his eyes.

Wagner, who had been watching the conversation with a twisted eye, intervened.

“If you go on an adventure, you’re just an adventurer. Why do nobles appear here? seed bee. Orlando is not going to die. If you want to be treated like a noble, go north. There is nothing like that in the Abyss.”

Then, Fabian looked at the middle-aged mercenary with cold eyes.

“Hey you! Why do you insist on where you are from when you say ‘If you go on an adventure, you’re just an adventurer’? In a place where nobility and commoners do not discriminate, do you want to question where you are from?”

“Hehe. Northern nobility. I’m from the north, so I won’t say anything more. Why do you ask where you are from? Because the Empire bastards invaded the Southern Kingdom. Even if you’re a noble, if you’re in the north, don’t you hate the imperial guys?”

“You heard me well. Then, did you apologize to the people from the Empire when the Southern Kingdom occupied the city of the Principality of Topla?”

“Fuck! That’s… it’s not because the Imperials started a war first!”

“Then why didn’t you give a damn to people from the Empire like you do now? why did you start a war Back then, adventurers from the Empire were welcome. When I came to the Abyss, I saw that they accepted without asking or questioning. Why are you so anxious about not being able to eat the people from the Empire now? ah! The southern kingdom won then and lost now? Where is the country for adventurers and mercenaries? Wasn’t it the homeland where you paid money and hired mercenaries? If you’ve been drinking, go to your dorm and sleep quietly. Don’t get into trouble with the other adventurers.”

Wagner, who was suffocating at Fabian’s harsh words, raised his eyes and shouted.

“I love you, you bastard! I’m from the north, so I tried to look after it, but I can’t see anything in my eyes! you passed away today! Where’s the bastard who didn’t even have blood on his head… evil!”

Wagner, who had been making a fuss as if he would attack at any moment, grabbed his face and sat down.

“My teeth… what are they? What a bastard… evil!”

Wagner, who jumped up clenching his missing teeth, tumbled backwards.

The Balom mercenaries in the bar gathered around Wagner.

Some surrounded the seat of Elio’s party.

Elio said as he forgot the peanuts he was holding.

“That’s what happens when you carelessly tease your snout in front of me. If anyone else wants to eat peanuts, let me know. I’ll put it in your mouth.”

The Balom mercenaries hugged the unconscious Wagner and sat him down in a chair.

A lump the size of a chestnut rose in the middle of Wagner’s forehead.

The Balom mercenaries looked at the young man and Wagner alternately with puzzled faces.

If he defeated Wagner, the head of the butler, with a peanut, it means that he is unimaginably strong.

But you can’t just look around like other people do.

As the mercenaries rolled their eyes, Fabian snapped a finger at Orlando.

Orlando’s heart sank, but he approached the young man without expressing himself.

“If you came from the North, you would have heard of it at least once, right? Guardian of Skutum (Ice Wall) Lord of Slash Land Grand Master of the North…” “

If you’re talking about Count Elio Lagoa, I know. You are the pride of the North.”

“The person eating the peanuts is Count Elio Lagoa. Next to him is Count Larva Omar of your homeland, the Kingdom of Baylem.”

“….”

Orlando, who was alternately looking at Count Elio Lagoa and Count Larva Omar, hurriedly went to Count Larva Omar and bowed his head.

It is a sight that shows how dignified Count Larva Omar is in the Kingdom of Baylem.

“The lowly people welcome the Count.”

Count Larva Omar waved his hand with an embarrassed face and said,

“Go away.”

Orlando did not dare to raise his head and backed away.

Orlando and the Balom mercenaries carried the fainting Wagner on their backs and left the bar.

The pub was so quiet you couldn’t even hear breathing.

There was no bravery in front of Count Helio Lagoa and Count Omar of Larva.

Suddenly, Fabian grumbled.

“ah! this! Come to think of it, I didn’t teach you who the most important me was. shit.”

Howard smiled and asked.

“Who are you?”

“me? It’s the ‘Knight of Tamion’. Haven’t you heard?”

“I think I’ve heard of it… I don’t think I’ve heard of it… I’m not sure.”

“I am the first knight to return from scouting Tamion, the land of demons. Of course, I received a little help from Count Lagoa.”

Elio shook his head excitedly at his constant bragging.