I Became the Tyrant of a Defense Game - Chapter 563
◈ 563. [Side Story] The night before the storm
When he came to his senses, Candler was sitting in a noisy bar.
“Let’s start with a toast!”
“Cheers!”
“You worked hard today too!”
The party ‘uncles’ vigorously clinked their glasses.
Nobody and Chain Janice and Thorkel sat at a table and had beer glasses. Candler, who raised his glass according to the mess, also toasted together.
“Big!”
“There is nothing better than a drink after work.”
“I thought I would get heat stroke because it was hot today, but after drinking this, it went down quickly.”
Except for Thorkel, who was drinking in silence, the three of them spoke one word at a time. Candler, who had been sitting blankly next to him, trembled his shoulders.
‘… Why am I here?’
I was swept away by the atmosphere, but how did I end up here?
Candler hastily swallowed the glass in his hand.
“I’ll just drink this and go… .”
Then, Nobody and Chain crumpled their expressions.
“Ah? What are you talking about, Candler?”
“Just because you quit your job as a mercenary, you don’t want to play with us anymore, ma’am?”
“No, not like that… .”
… Isn’t it the other way around?
The one who retired from service because he could no longer be on the battlefield, the one who ran away because he was afraid of monsters… … Can I continue hanging out with them?
Nobody and Chain clicked their tongues as they gave Candler a new beer glass.
“Why are you sad? We are comrades who have worked hard to die together.”
“You can’t be this cold just because you moved to a good job!”
Janice and Thorkel also helped.
“Was it when the Gorgon sisters fought together? At that time, I really struggled to die.”
“Whoops… Wasn’t it worthwhile though?”
Everyone’s expressions softened at Thorkel’s words.
“Because I saved Sid.”
“… .”
It was.
Everyone in this seat was a comrade who fought together that day for Lily, a pregnant woman, and Sid, a newborn baby.
With freshly filled beer glasses in hand, the party toasted again.
“Now for Sid!”
“Grow up quickly! Uncles and aunts will give you a lot of pocket money!”
In the end, Candler couldn’t leave his seat and swallowed his drink while watching.
It was around the time the second glass was half empty.
Kik- Kung!
The tavern door opened violently and someone rushed in.
The other guests seated at the entrance saw it and backed away in amazement.
“Hee!”
“Look over there!”
“Why are they here?!”
Candler looked back in puzzlement at the fearful reaction. And I was equally astonished.
“Kick-kick.”
“Keukkeuk… .”
“It smells delicious from here.”
With Evangeline at the forefront. After that, Lily Elise Yoon Junior Verdandi Rosetta… … .
A famous female heroine from the front line was walking in with a sloppy attitude.
“It’s ‘big yeoyeongyongwi’!”
“These are the ‘scary sisters’… … !”
“Aww! I’m here to destroy this bar today!”
“Everyone run away! As long as they’re here, this store’s alcohol and side dishes are over!”
Frightened patrons hurriedly paid their bills and left the bar in a huff.
Evangeline, who laughed evilly and enjoyed this atmosphere, eventually found this meeting and staggered towards it.
“reel? Who is this? Aren’t they ‘uncles’?”
“Welcome, Miss Evangeline.”
Thorkel greeted Evangeline politely.
“First of all, Sir Lucas will join you in a little while.”
“Ahang! thank you… no wait Why did you think I would ask that first?”
Anyway, the female jin occupied the next table.
And, according to that terrifying prestige, a huge amount of spells were poured out. The waiter wrote down the order on the order sheet in a cold sweat.
Everyone broke into a cold sweat as they saw orders that were almost twice as large as those at this table. Then, Torkel found an unexpected person buried among the female camp.
“By the way, Damian-sama, why are you there… ?”
I saw Damien, who was caught between the female heroes drooling as they looked at the menu with a wicked smile on their faces, with a look of helplessness.
“I just came out with the head of the church because he said he would buy me dinner… .”
Damian mumbled in tears. His complexion was not very good, perhaps because he was stuck among scary older sisters.
“In the first place, Yeoyoung Keu… Isn’t it a female mercenary meeting anyway? why am i here… … ?”
“Brother Damian! It’s okay to honestly be happy to eat among these pretty ladies.”
However, even with Evangeline’s words, Damian wasn’t happy at all. Instead, he started sniffing.
“Ooh I miss you… half… .”
“Ah, cry. Cry.”
“Okay, okay. Then, Damian, go to the gloomy old men over there!”
As soon as the words were out, Damian quickly rose from his chair, visibly relieved. It must have been really scary.
At that time, Lily, who was looking at the table at the ‘Misters’ party, was delighted.
“Hey Mr. Candler! long time no see!”
Candler shrugged and pointed at himself.
“Do you remember me?”
“sure. You injured me and my child while protecting me. Did I look like a heartless person who even forgot my benefactor?”
Lily smiled broadly and gestured.
“Great! Damian sits there, Mr. Candler! come this way! Let’s talk for a while.”
So somehow, Damian and Candler switched places.
Lily, who had seated Candler next to her, introduced them instead to those who hadn’t met each other.
“This is Candler. You’re a golem wizard, but you saved me and Sid in the past… … These days, the production union is helping to restore the base.”
Yoon and Junior clapped their hands.
“Ah, I saw it while passing by. He was the one who built the walls with those golems!”
“I’ve heard of it too. Thanks to the golem, I heard that the work efficiency jumped up due to the trouble of installing medium-sized construction equipment… … .”
why does everyone know me?
Candler’s hand holding the glass trembled slightly.
After he quit being a mercenary, the city had already defended more than 10 times, but he was just one of the mercenaries passing by… … .
Why do these people still remember themselves?
Evangeline, who naturally approached Candler, put her shoulder on her and gave a soft voice.
“Come on then, Candler sister? Are you going to join the Great Yeoyeongyong Committee?”
“Keuk Yeo Young-yong… ? join… ?”
“It’s an abbreviation for Crossroad Female Heroes and Mercenaries Rights and Interests. What are the benefits of signing up here? … .”
Candler stammered as Evangeline explained at length the benefits she would get at a dinner party and drinking party when she joined.
“but… I’m no longer on the front line… … Can I sit in a place like this… … .”
“What does that matter?”
The answer was replaced by a young man who had just opened the bar door and entered.
“Aren’t we all fighting together in our respective positions?”
It was Lucas who came before he knew it.
Lucas smiled and looked around at everyone.
“No matter where we fight, we all have the same heart to protect the world. So we are all colleagues.”
Evangeline frowned as if in amazement.
“This old man said the same thing when he gave a speech… .”
“I am on my way to meet my lord. So it seems that these comments come out naturally.”
Lucas, who smiled at Evangeline at the gosirangdae, grabbed his share of beer glasses at the bar and raised them as he approached the table.
“According to your lord’s words, the next battle is predicted to be quite tough… … If everyone works together, we will be able to overcome it again.”
Lucas was very good at such comments because he often took on the role of acting lord when Ash was absent. Lucas led the way.
“Now then, for all the people of this city fighting together!”
All tables, male and female, cheered and raised their glasses accordingly.
“for!”
“For~!”
Only Evangeline was crying.
“No toast, I will do it! Why are you doing whatever you want, uncle!”
“You’re going to do it to your heart’s content when you become a lord later. Borrow a chance.”
“Ei-i-i-ik!”
Everyone swallowed their glasses and started chatting about their difficult but rewarding day.
“… .”
Candler slowly lowered his head.
His own face reflected in the glass was rippling with the drink.
***
The drinking party is over.
Lucas, Evangeline, Damian, and Junior broke up separately, saying that the main party members had something to talk about.
Janice and Rosetta went out separately with serious faces on each other… … .
After everyone scattered like that, in threes and threes.
Candler, the last person left in the store, left the store with Nobody and Chain.
Without saying a word, the three of them naturally came out west of the city and headed for the grave site. And I stood in front of a familiar tomb.
It was the grave of two colleagues who moved together during the ‘Blacklist’ days.
When the Gorgon sisters invaded the city, they were both killed and buried here. And the three survivors were still chained to this city.
“Hey, have a drink too!”
Shriek-
I opened the bottle of alcohol that Nobody had brought and sprinkled it on the grave. Soon, a clean, empty bottle was placed in front of the tombstone.
After a long silence, Candler cautiously opened his mouth.
“… I was scared.”
Nobody and Chain huh? I looked at Candler. Candler looked at the two of them.
“Because I thought that you wouldn’t treat me like you used to because I ran away from the battlefield… .”
“Hey Candler. I don’t know why you think that way.”
Nobody laughed and patted Candler on the back.
“You never ran away.”
The chain I was listening to agreed.
“Yeah right! You were the one who gambled until you ran out of the stakes you always brought, let alone profitably!”
Even when fighting the Gorgon sisters.
She screamed why she didn’t run away, but in the end, it was Candler who was injured while protecting Lily and Sid.
Nobody and Chain giggled in front of Candler, who stood still with her mouth shut.
“If you understand, don’t avoid us from now on! Let’s play at the casino next time, just like before!”
“You worked hard all this time, so you saved up some money, right? You should spend it happily!”
After a few more small talk, Nobody and Chain left first.
The only thing left in front of the graves of former colleagues is Candler.
“… .”
Candler, who stood still until the summer sun went down and his son-in-law became dark, slowly looked down at his legs.
A leg that made him unable to work as a mercenary any longer as he had been limping all the way after the battle that day.
“… No, I’m not as great as you… … .”
The Golem Master’s hands clenched into fists.
“I am… I mean, he ran away… … .”
***
same time. Heterogeneous barracks.
Ash broke into a cold sweat when he visited the Fairy Queen to meet Burnout and Body Bag.
A dimly lit room lit only by dim candles. Four kings were sitting in a meeting.
Fairy Queen Skuld.
Dwarf King Kellison.
The mermaid king, Poseidon the 13th.
And now, to Quylan, who has become the king of beasts in name and reality.
The kings of the four generations of different tribes gathered together and talked about what to do with each other, and looked embarrassed when they saw Ash who suddenly came.
Ash, who had been frozen in embarrassment, asked cautiously.
“… What kind of meeting is this again?”
“Hehe, you got caught.”
Skuld covered his mouth and laughed while caressing the diamond-shaped tear points under his eyes.
“As you can see, this is a meeting secretly brought by the 4 kings of different tribes… … .”
“… .”
“We call ourselves ‘The Outsiders.’”
Looking at the meeting of these Assassins, Ash swallowed a moan inwardly.
‘Why I don’t know about a private organization… … No, it seems that private gatherings are increasing more and more.’
Yes, it would be nice if the heroes could get along with each other on their own, but… … .
‘Are you feeling a bit sad, Prince?!’
… It was Ash who seemed to be a little hurt because he seemed to be playing without him.
“So, Your Highness Prince Ash. What happened here today?”
Ash came to his senses at Skuld’s question.
The original reason for visiting was to borrow burnout and body bags, but there was something to talk about while meeting these kings.
“I have something to tell you guys.”
After catching his breath, Ash exhaled.
“This defense battle. It won’t be easy.”