Episode 146

Rurin's Grocery Shopping (7)
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The boy’s name was Melby.

He was born in the slums of a city called Serink, located north of Greek City. His father passed away early, and he lived with his mother and younger sister.

For Melby, his younger sister was his light.

He practically raised her alone in place of their mother, who went out to work, and his sister followed him very well.

“Brother.”

“Yes?”

“Someday, I’ll get a big house for you to live in.”

“Haha, what are you talking about all of a sudden?”

“Because you’re always struggling.”

“Stop saying silly things and eat this.”

“I mean it.”

Until then, he had a life with dreams. The dream of someday escaping this slum and making his mother and sister happy.

Then one day, a big change came to his family.

Their young mother caught the eye of the lord, Arndo, and was on the verge of becoming his concubine. But there was no way a mere pauper could resist the lord.

Moreover, the lord was secretly dealing in slaves, gathering them by tricking people into borrowing money and then forcing them into concubinage.

And the boy’s mother was deceived by the smile that offered her a big house to live in with her children.

Without knowing the hidden meaning behind it.

Providing a house for a concubine with children. Arndo let them live comfortably for about a week, but then everything changed.

He stationed guards in front of the house to keep the boy’s mother and sister from stepping outside, essentially imprisoning them.

The boy could do nothing. At least he was allowed to come and go, which was a small relief.

The boy vowed to grow stronger and rescue his mother and sister from that house. Arndo’s clutches hadn’t yet extended further.

Then one day, on his beloved sister’s birthday, the boy went to the market with the money he had saved to buy the gift she wanted.

“Can you give me this?”

“Sure. Melby, are you sure you want to spend all your hard-earned money on your sister’s gift?”

“What does it matter? My sister needs something like this to lift her spirits.”

“Tsk tsk, what a harsh person.”

The shopkeeper, who knew him well, clicked his tongue at Melby and carefully wrapped the item the boy bought.

But on his sister’s birthday, the boy couldn’t enter the house. The guards blocked him.

It was very strange. The boy had a bad feeling and tried to get into the house, but it was no use.

Frustrated, the boy ran to Arndo’s main house, desperately trying to find a way.

Luckily, the boy found Arndo’s wife, Merdi, getting into a carriage and fell to his knees before her.

“Please let me into the house! Please!”

The boy knew Merdi’s face.

“Who are you! Get away from the Lady!”

The guards tried to block him, but Merdi spoke to the boy.

“What are you talking about?”

The boy seized the opportunity to explain the situation. Merdi, unaware that her husband had a concubine outside the house, got angry and rushed back to the house with the boy.

At that moment.

The boy’s mother was murdered.

In fact, Arndo’s original target was not his mother but his sister.

Arndo was drawing the girl’s blood for a ritual. According to a wicked fortune teller, drinking the fresh blood of a girl of a certain age could make him younger.

“Arndo!”

The boy rushed towards Arndo in anger, but was met only by the kicks of the guards.

“You…”

Merdi was also appalled, but she couldn’t let such a thing be known publicly.

“Take this boy out and kill him immediately!”

Merdi’s family was more powerful than Arndo’s. That’s why Arndo couldn’t make a sound. That’s also why he had to prepare things secretly.

Merdi chased the boy away and sold the girl to a slave trader at a high price. She thought it was more profitable than killing her because of her cute face.

The girl, who was unconscious, knew nothing, so she managed to stay alive.

The boy was dragged out and beaten to the point of death. At one point, he stopped breathing, alongside the birthday gift he had prepared, now cruelly crushed.

“Cough, cough!”

But the boy, left in the slums, managed to cough up his breath again. A testament to his tenacious life force.


“A slave trader.”

As expected, it’s not surprising at this point. The boy seemed to have followed the slave trader all the way to the outskirts of Greek City.

“So, you thought you’d rescue your sister by charging in alone?”

“Yes, well…”

“And you ended up like this. Is that correct?”

The boy bowed his head as if struck by a nerve.

“Such reckless actions will only cost your life. Instead of saving your sister…”

“But if I wait, it’ll be too late. I wanted to get stronger, but… but! I couldn’t… If she’s sold, I heard my sister would suffer something horrible. Instead of just watching and doing nothing…”

“Tomorrow, when the sun rises, there will be good news. Don’t worry. Dealing with slave caravans is a job for adults.”

I signaled Elena to put the agitated boy to sleep. Elena nodded and used her elf-specific sleep magic.

And then, I teleported directly to the slave caravan with Rurin.

“Huh?”

“Unnie?”

And once again, Selly came along like an appendage. When did she latch on again?

She really is a mysterious girl.

It couldn’t be helped. I pointed to the fortress again and asked the girl one more time to be sure.

“Is the enemy who killed your parents there?”

“Yes. There.”

The girl nodded again.

“So, my subordinate’s enemy. I don’t even know who my enemy is…”

Surprisingly, Rurin frowned and lamented her own situation. As for her revenge for her mother…

It will be achieved.

As long as I am alive.

Of course, dealing with those bastards comes first.

I felt sorry for Rurin’s serious expression, so I looked at her for a while. She seemed to notice my gaze and looked at me.

“You?”

“Yes?”

“Were you looking at me?”

“Yes.”

“Hehehe.”

She was frozen in a serious expression, but then started smiling as if her mood improved. She approached me closely.

“I always see you. When I walk forward. When you’re behind me.”

“What? You have eyes on the back too?”

“Of course. Dragons have twenty million eyes.”

She nodded while saying something absurd.

“Well, then Rurin, will you stay here with Selly?”

“Huh? No. I’m coming too!”

That’s a problem. Someone has to stay with Selly. We can’t show her a scene of slaughter.

But leaving just Rurin and Selly alone was certainly worrisome. There’s a high chance they’d come inside.

“Alright. Go ahead.”

“Really?”

“Yes, go and break everything. Don’t touch the captives. It would be best if you explode everything so Selly doesn’t get shocked when we go in later.”

“Hmm, got it!”

Rurin glanced at Selly briefly and then walked forward.

She seemed to empathize with the idea of avenging parents and had been looking at Selly seriously since earlier.

If she sees Selly’s enemies as her own, it means Rurin empathizes with humans, which isn’t a bad thing.

If she can understand human emotions in this way.

And there’s no need for mercy in dealing with trash. To Rurin, humans were always insects anyway.

And those in front of her were the trash among insects. So I had no intention of stopping Rurin from rampaging.


Rurin entered the fortress.

Her eyes wide open, her mouth tightly shut. This is the descent of a dragon.

When a dragon descends upon the human world, it often means destruction.

“You guys. Die.”

Mana exploded.

The gatekeepers who had been glaring at Rurin collapsed on the spot.

They were the ones who had toyed with Melby, slowly giving him stab wounds, but before Rurin, they were mere insects.

“Intruder!”

Loud noises like those in a palace courtyard began to echo.

-Clang clang clang clang!

Of course, Rurin didn’t care at all. She just kept walking.

El had told her to blow everything up. So, it wasn’t fun to just take them down with mere fear.

And the girl.

The girl who, for some reason, followed her very closely. It was very annoying, but…

She was like El.

She didn’t care about fear and ran towards her. And somehow, being with the girl increased the chances of physical contact with El.

She liked that.

She liked it, so she put up with it.

Such a girl’s enemy.

Rurin planned to awaken her dragon instincts and crush these insects.

Like the original Rurin.

Her forgotten instincts.

Like the days of darkness when she flew as a dragon, hunting countless beasts, driven only by survival instincts.

The guards of the slave caravan gathered.

The soldiers, seeing Rurin walking limply, stopped in confusion. She looked so different from the intruder they had imagined.

“What are you doing? Is she an escaped woman? Capture her!”

The captain of the caravan’s guards ordered, and the soldiers approached with their tension gone, unlike when the alarm for an intruder had sounded.

“You…”

And Rurin spoke to those guards.

“Do you like fireworks? I do. I did it with El. It was fun.”

“What? What are you talking about?”

Bang!

Bang!

And the front line of guards really became fireworks as Rurin said. A fireball exploded at their rears, making them fly high and engulfed in a magnificent mana explosion.

“This isn’t fun. Fireworks need El to be fun.”

Rurin started walking again.

“A, a mage!”

The guards, realizing she used magic, and with their eyes bulging, started swinging their swords.

But the swords couldn’t even touch Rurin’s body and were either cut in half or returned by their own swinging force.

-Crack!

-Aaagh!

Rurin didn’t even exert effort, but the guards couldn’t break through her shield and bounced off, rolling on the ground.

Rurin started a splendid fireworks show.

Intense explosions occurred everywhere. A chain of explosions.

Boom!

Boom!

Blowing up the attacking guards all around, Rurin walked to the central building of the fortress.

Melchak, the owner of the slave caravan inside, came out, startled by the loud noise and was dumbfounded.

“Where is this hired mage from?”

A female mage using explosive magic.

Melchak thought of Rurin as such and shouted.

“What are you doing, Nolen!”

“Understood. A mage is no match for my sword.”

It seemed he had confidence. At Melchak’s order, the bodyguard standing next to him drew his sword.

The sword trembled, probably due to the aura imbued in it.

“Hmm, you.”

“Are you scared? Mage? If you’re a mage, you should know what this means. This is equivalent to your 5th-class magic!”

“Ooh! 5th-class.”

Rurin started clapping at the swordsman’s words and took out a lip balm from her pocket.

“It’s dry. Wait a moment.”

She applied the lip balm, smacked her lips together, and looked back at the bodyguard.

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