The Regressor and the Blind Saint

Vera was out at the smithy early in the morning, talking about swords with Doban, when he suddenly heard a voice and raised his head.

“I think another guest has come.”

“… no.”

“Yes?”

Vera looked at Doban at the words of denial he had heard.

At the end of his gaze, Doban was showing his blatant displeasure with his expression frowned.

“The truth is here, can you wait a moment? Get out of here soon.”

“Let’s go together. I have no reason to stay here alone.”

“… I’m sorry for making you look ugly.”

“It was nothing.”

Chick-. Dovan’s wheelchair moved.

Immediately after, Vera, who followed Doban, frowned at the ‘people’ seen through the front door.

‘army?’

Those whom Doban said were uninvited were an army of about 30 men in uniform armor.

Like Doban, bear beasts.

He had a generally stout physique, but the one that stood out the most was the one standing in front of him alone and wearing different pieces of armor.

Black hair and copper skin. A particularly strong power was felt from the bear beast wearing the black armor.

‘General level.’

At least that was the momentum.

They were all fierce and oppressive.

Vera could understand at once that what flowed out of them was not an atmosphere that was formed naturally, but an atmosphere that was deliberately created to provoke the opponent.

Vera thought, ‘That’s right.’

Didn’t it make sense in the first place? Doban is a craftsman at a level that will receive hospitality wherever he goes on the continent. Of course, there will be groups that want to recruit him.

It is not at all unusual for such a systematic army and general-level figures to come to visit him.

Vera’s gaze turned to Doban again.

‘It’s true… .’

Dare to predict, Doban doesn’t want to belong to a group.

As Vera’s thoughts continued, the doban shouted with a grim expression.

“Go! I clearly said no!”

“It is not something to be stubborn about! How long are you going to abandon your duty?”

As if this was not the first time something like this had happened, the general spoke out in the same tone that Doban had done.

“I have to end this chaotic political situation, no! Let go of personal greed and stop! How long do you think we can hold out? No need to think about the cause. A cause!”

“Greed is what you call greed! and cause? Where is the cause of your greed? Genga thinks that a cause can be said so recklessly!”

voice has risen The atmosphere was burning like it was about to explode.

Vera, meanwhile, felt the presence of people walking from the backyard and turned his head. Rene and Aisha are approaching.

Vera let out a small breath and looked forward again, telling Dovan.

“Can I come and solve it?”

It’s a bad sight for Renee. With that thought in mind, Dovan looked at Vera.

Vera made eye contact with Doban, adding an explanation.

“It seems like something I can do.”

It wasn’t just a word. Vera had a card to put an end to this situation.

Doban responded with a ‘knuckle’ sound to Vera’s face, which was somehow filled with certainty.

“… I want to continue to cause trouble.”

“I think of it as an investment.”

Vera said so and walked towards the general.

The general frowned at the sight of Vera approaching him.

“Who are you?”

Vera’s head turned upward. Of course, it was because of the size difference.

A bear beast with a physique much larger than a human. Among them, Vera, who turned his head upward due to the size of the general, who was particularly large, rummaged through his arms, took out the rosary, and shoved it into the general and said:

“This is the procession of the Holy Kingdom. What’s wrong?”

“west… !”

“Shh-.”

Vera put his index finger in front of his mouth, then continued.

“It’s difficult. loud.”

An embarrassment crept over the general’s face.

Vera looked at the bewildered general, and remembered that he was fortunate enough to think he was a man who knew how to think.

A card that Vera has. It was his position as an apostle of the Holy Kingdom.

‘The beast people can’t fight the kingdom.’

Even if they had the will to resist, they couldn’t reveal it.

It was because it was Bargo who broke the bones of Haman, the king who oppressed and exploited them, and gave them freedom.

Vera looked at the general, rolling his eyes with a tense expression on his face, and added one more word.

“I have come here for something the Holy Spirit has entrusted to me, so I want you to leave today.”

fast-.

The general’s grinding of teeth caught Vera’s eyes, but Vera did not point him out.

No matter what you think inside or what you do behind the scenes. It was because they knew that they could never stand in front of Seongkuk.

This platinum-colored rosary made them realize whose grace they were living by.

As long as Bargo was alive, the kingdom union of the beasts had to take a position of obedience to the kingdom.

If you do not want to be eliminated from the continental situation, or if you do not want to be branded as a thug without grace, it is an absolute proposition that must be followed.

General Bear Suin, fortunately, was someone who knew the meaning of the proposition.

“… I am always grateful for your grace.”

The general said so with a grim face, then turned and disappeared with the army.

Vera looked at the troops moving away, then turned back and looked at Dovan, Renee, and Aisha.

“I am glad that it was resolved through dialogue.”

As always, it was a blunt tone.

*

“How did you do it? You bit that army.”

The forest around the forge.

Renee, who heard about the general progress after the military retreated, asked Vera a question that came to mind while he was taking a walk.

Vera answered the question in a low voice, looking around to make sure no one was there.

“I showed you Rosario. It seems to me that this side is much better than creating friction.”

Startle. Renee shrugged her shoulders at the words she had heard and spoke in a worried tone.

“Wait, are you okay? It’s like my whereabouts or something like that… .”

Renee knew how much effort he had put in to hide his deeds.

Besides, the person who suffered the most was not Vera. Vera replied in a calm tone to what he said, wondering if he was exposing his best disguise for fear of being in danger.

“it’s okay. Everyone who knows the apostle goes undercover is something that everyone knows, and above all, it is not known externally that I am in charge of the escort of the saint, so no one will think that I and the saint are entwined.”

“Oh, it was.”

Renee breathed a sigh of relief as he remembered Vera’s words and remembered that this was the first time he had come out with Vera.

Vera watched René relax and exhale ‘whooo’, reminiscing on the previous conversation between Doban and the general.

‘It wasn’t just a recruitment offer.’

The general clearly used the terms ‘duty’ and ‘responsibility’.

Though Dovan immediately denied it, Vera thought that it was not a word he would use to recruit Hana Blacksmith.

No matter how advanced he is, he is a blacksmith in the end.

The meaning of a few well-forged weapons in war is not that great.

From https://readwn.com

Of course, the story would be different if the master piece of Doban, the Demon Sword, was completed, but the magic sword is not yet fully completed.

‘There is something.’

Vera intuited that the ‘event to complete the magic sword’ he had thought about the day before was related to this.

In retrospect, this was negligible. It was okay to leave the quest as it is and move on to the next destination. By the way, today, the specifications of the sword to be requested are roughly decided.

No matter what kind of person the master is, the way the magic sword is completed is not his job.

In the end, as a result of this incident, a demon sword is made, and Aisha will fight the demon lord with it, so there is nothing bad about it.

So it was okay to just move on like this… . Vera felt it bothered him for some reason.

What is rightly said to be frustrating is to push it inside.

Any personal impression.

If you think about Renee, it might be better to cover it up and leave quickly after completing the quest, but it was not easy, so Vera, who had a frown on his face, clenched his fists for a moment and opened them again, then opened his mouth to Renee.

“… Lady.”

“Ah yes.”

Anxiety arose again in Vera’s mind.

how should i say this

How am I supposed to say that I feel uncomfortable when I leave my work alone and leave, and that I can’t help the doban while staying here?

Vera stopped talking because his thoughts were not organized, and Renee tilted his head and muttered.

“What’s wrong?”

Vera responded with a deep bow to Renee’s words.

“… Yes, I think it is not right to leave like this.”

“uh… , is it related to the army earlier?”

“Yes, I must have been entwined with Dovan-sama in a bad way. .”

Vera’s brow narrowed.

It’s because of the thought that the words he’s vomiting now aren’t logical no matter how much he thinks about them.

“… I feel uncomfortable.”

It was simply because I thought it was a statement made on the basis of emotional judgment.

Renee listened to Vera’s words, read the emotions in it, and smiled softly.

“Did you think the same as me?”

Vera’s head was raised.

“… Yes?”

“I had similar thoughts. I heard from Aisha. They are harassing Doban.”

Renee felt a tickling sensation come to her mind that she had somehow had a crush on Vera, who had always been ignorant of her own heart.

In addition, Vera, who thought only of his own safety in the Great Forest, felt a spring of joy that this time he thought of others and acted first.

Renee smiled even more at the thoughts that came to mind, turned his head in the direction where Vera’s face was, and added:

“Isn’t it natural to help someone in need?”

A word that adds a bit of humor.

“You have to keep yourselves.”

At those words, Vera’s eyes widened slightly.

What followed was an answer with a bit of emotion.

“Yes, indeed.”

A small smile hung on Vera’s lips as he spoke.

*

The drawing room of the blacksmith.

Renee sat down opposite Doban, took out the platinum Rosario he was holding, and said.

“Is there anything I can do to help?”

What I pondered with Vera.

How can I hear the progress of work from Doban?

Isn’t it? What was happening was Doban’s personal history, where he could never get an answer just by asking.

It would be rude to ask about it from the perspective of a customer who just came to entrust a request.

This is what came to mind.

Before asking about the other person, it was about revealing their true identities frankly.

This platinum-colored rosary had a special meaning for the beast people, at least because it was something that could prove that what he said while showing it was not just words.

Renee held out Rosario and spoke, waiting for Doban’s answer.

Dovan made a surprised face at the words of Rosario and Renee that were revealed in front of him. The state of being unable to pick out what to say about the identity of the customer, which he had never thought of, and his mouth twitched.

The same goes for Aisha next to him.

Aisha began to regret what she had said this morning about the identity of the ‘woman with a broken heart’ that she finally found out about Rosario in front of her eyes.

-Are you religious?

Iisha’s complexion darkened. Its ears perked up and its tail tucked between its legs.

‘Okay, something big happened… !’

Aisha started timing her knees.