Absolutely Do Not Touch Eldmia Egga - Chapter 17

“Go Ganilson!!”

The taste was certain. The nose must have been broken, and I’m not sure how many front teeth were knocked out.

The adventurers who immediately understood the situation and went into spectator mode burst into laughter as if they were genuinely happy. Some even held their stomachs and laughed, pointing at them in a foreign language they had never heard of. Even though I directed it, it gives me goosebumps.

Fighting with others is the most fun, and I was aiming for the end of being an idiot who is trying to be a fool with the method I tried, but laughing so brightly like that… isn’t it a bit out of touch?

I put aside my contemplation of the twisted sensibilities of this world for a while, and for the moment, I ignored the guy called Garnilson rolling around in tears and nosebleeds, and gnashed my teeth at my colleague who was hesitant.

“Hey. Hey! This fuck you come here. Where are you looking at my shoulders?

How high-level would mercenaries or adventurers be, comparable to bullies who do it for money when they point out people on the street and ask them to argue?

What and how much did the guys who made them do it tell me, and how much else would they know about me, who doesn’t even work properly in the village?

It was just that level. A low-level adventurer or mercenary that is mysteriously from where he got it. A throwaway card that is really meant to be used as a combat power meter and discarded.

“uh?”

“What the fuck is that, you stupid bastard!!”

When I put magic on my foot and kicked the shin while controlling the force properly, the guy collapsed from the unexpected shock and started to sob.

“Ugh!”

“It’s very raw. It’s just. Does it hurt? Does it hurt?”

Of course it will hurt terribly. But it’s kind of embarrassing to see around. Because the kick itself doesn’t seem to kick that hard.

It would be hard to imagine that he would have used physical strengthening to just crack a joint when he gave an impact with a manly punch that he had already cast with only his muscles. In fact, the adventurers around me were demonstrating what a big laugh was, and I turned around and hugged the bewildered Ragnis’ shoulders again. If it had been an alley, he would have robbed his pockets, but it was not something he would do on the main street.

“I’m just in a bad mood because of the star assholes.”

“Eh, Eldmia?”

I scratched my head and lowered my hand, pretending to cover my mouth with my finger. Ragnis, who noticed the situation, followed me without saying anything. Ragnis opened his mouth again after moving for a while, leaving behind the numerous ridicule towards the two struggling as they collapsed.

“Then those people earlier…?”

“I’m not sure, but I think it’s almost right. I think I just hired him for a little bit of money. I think he was trying to find out who I was…

“Why did you do that?”

“It’s easier to belittle me.”

He only had a knife at his waist, and he made an unorthodox movement. And the two guys hit by it fell down and couldn’t get up. Even if one person is like that, one person may be misunderstood as an idiot. That was what mattered.

It’s a fact that I found out after several experiments with Asillie, but the strengthening of the body through my magical power is not obvious even to those who can detect the aura unless the reinforcement is applied quite a bit.

Even the aura user’s detection of the aura is due to the aura operation method, but I thought it was impossible to detect because I was using an ignorant method of just covering magic around like armor in the absence of any operation method. It is said that even if you strengthen it vigorously, it will only look similar to receiving a magic buff. It was good to learn how to operate it because it was inefficient in many ways, but it was not easy to learn, and unfortunately, it was neglected.

But now it helps. Unintended underdog cosplay is possible.

As Asilie said, it was a measure taken because he did not ignore the possibility of a knight being put in. No matter how confident I am right now, I don’t think I will beat the knights by blowing their noses. There was a high possibility that I would die due to the difference in swordsmanship even if only a knight with a level equal to or slightly less than the level of physical strengthening my body could withstand came.

If that’s the case, I’ll make you think I don’t have anything, and I’ll reduce the risk if I’m vigilant.

“Still, thanks to those guys, I think I can be sure of a few things.”

“Like what?”

“That the aristocrats found out where you were earlier than you thought, and that you had no idea that there was someone there to protect you.”

That’s why I used them as lab mice. Because a variable that suddenly appeared stuck for four days.

“I’m sure you’ve been watching it somewhere. By now, wouldn’t you think that you’re stuck with some local thug for a living? I don’t know how to interpret my appearance now, but I don’t think it’ll interpret it badly for us.”

“…Would you use something different?”

“Of course. But I think there’s still a possibility of using them. Since you smashed one guy’s face and kicked another guy, you think you’ve made a plausible justification for retaliation? It’s too obvious, but I’ll keep going through them If you do, they’ll find an inn or us as soon as possible and come with other gangs. Of course, they’ll hire more talented people.”

Whether I was looking at my skills or checking if there was something unknown behind me. Normally, you’ll want to review it while putting yourself in a no-win situation.

But they say they’ve been monitoring it for at least four days… What are they waiting for? The inn doesn’t even have guards, so it would be hard to chase after them if they sneak in at night and kidnap them.

I couldn’t come up with anything to say, so I told Ragnis, thought about it together, and started buying this and that. It was because I had to create something natural that seemed like nothing special. Ragnis said as we were buying ice cream that was being sold and made with the fruit of an unknown alchemy like that, and hanging out together.

“Even if you kidnap me here, you have to go all the way to Laheira to ride the dragon, right?”

“yes.”

No matter where you put it, it’s only in the big cities that are proud of it. There is no other way around here other than the nearest Laheira.

“Perhaps…I’m not going to go there on horseback, are you planning to ride a flying dragon from here?”

“uh?”

“I think there is a way to secretly bring a dragon and kidnap me with a dragon… and use the carriage used for transportation as camouflage. We just thought, ‘Of course we will ride to Laheira’. That’s it. Use it as a loophole.”

Is this the difference between commoners and aristocrats? Certainly I hadn’t come up with that idea.

The reason why flying dragons exist only in large cities is that they require high-quality personnel to manage and that is why they are expensive means of transportation. He is a guy who has the same status as a 1-2 seater airplane in this era. Carrying it and hiding it, then riding it and flying? It’s definitely the idea of those with money. If that’s true, it’ll be impossible to track as soon as you get out of the city, so it’s worth trying in that situation.

“If you’re really rich, you look like you can do it, so there’s a lot of potential? Assuming it’s as you said, is the reason they’re so sluggish because the flying dragon hasn’t arrived yet? Isn’t it easier to kidnap them at the right time than to be suspicious of them?”

“I don’t know exactly how long it will take from Laheira to Ogwen…I think that would be the most plausible.

Well, there is no law in the world that says that only I have to be annoying, twisted, and cumbersome. They are people too. From now on, I’ll have to work my brains harder so that I can even imagine what the rich guys will do.

But then… isn’t that a lot of money?

Did Ragnis have so much value now that he really had to go that far? what am i missing? I can’t easily get a sense of it in my head, which is only a plus of the years of my previous life.

Since the territory has already been devastated, reconstruction will be impossible for a while. It’s a busy time to reinforce what’s there rather than building something new in a once destroyed territory. Unless there are very great resources or something like that, there is a strong possibility that our village will disappear just like it disappeared from the map.

But when Ragnis explained his situation at the beginning, he spoke as if he still had a fortune. In order to absorb property and rights and even have a name, the aristocrats took her death for granted.

I thought property was money left in a bank or something, and I thought rights were about the territory to be reconstructed after the war. Even the name was just considered as part of a factional fight… I can’t erase the feeling that I judged something complacently.

“Ragnis.”

“huh?”

“When you first talked to me… you said that the nobles were after your family’s wealth, rights and prestige, right?”

“That’s right.”

“Anyway, from my point of view, as a commoner, I don’t quite understand why the two factions are fighting over you so much? I mean.”

There is a certainty that her life and death will change the scales of the two factions that have been maintained for so long. It’s worth the downside of transporting a flying dragon, where you don’t even know how many gold coins will fit in it. So it will be this division.

“Do you have any specific feelings?”

“Hmm. Even if you’re smart, you can’t help it because of your point of view.”

Ragnis looked at me as if he was curious about something, then suddenly explained with a smile as if he had won.

“It’s not only the estate that belongs to the family. From the money in the bank to the stakes in various businesses. There are still a lot of things that are in my father’s name. That’s property. To be honest, even with that alone, flying dragons can be taken lightly.”

Property is as expected.

“Rights will mean all rights as a Marshal. In the position of the aristocrats, you will be greedy for military discretion as well as the privates you can have with the Marshal’s authority. I think it’s a level to roll your eyes at.”

…for a moment. change bag?

“The name is not different from what Eldmia had expected at first. ‘The daughter of the Rien family, who inherited the will of the margrave who gave her life to protect the country and the people, returned after several years and succeeded to the king. I swear allegiance.’ or ‘I fought for the people and the king, but due to the king’s incompetence, I was annihilated. He didn’t even try to find the last blood relative of a loyal subject.’ It must be that feeling…”

not different? How different is it from what I expected?