Chapter 4 - Assistance

Ed felt he was in the gap from the first appearance because of Kelpy’s tongue. But he made it impossible for him to use it as he stuck an arrow into his tongue.

Kelpy’s gap was now noticeably reduced.

Kelpy rolled his eyes and rushed from a short distance. No, he tried to rush in.

Until Ed’s arrow had already hit Kelpy’s front leg knee.

Oh, my gosh!

As kelpy couldn’t stand the power that was coming towards him, he fell and rolled over the floor. Ed’s arrow got stuck in the middle of kelpy’s forehead when he tried rolling and lifting himself up.

Ed approached kelpy who was shivering while not being able to scream and pulled out the dagger he was wearing around his belt. He then chopped off his neck. The girl and the maid couldn’t keep their mouths shut as they watched kelpy’s neck fell to the floor and gurgled blood.

She was so scared from seeing the horseman die in a blow and the knight falling out in front of her eyes.

But seeing Ed finishing it so easily in front of her eyes, it was like a lie. It was hard to believe even if it had been combined.

Ed took the dagger out from the dolmen and wiped the blood out in the rain while looking down at kelpy’s head. Ed looked down at Kelpy as he put his dagger back in his belt again.

It was an easier opponent than he thought.

Kelpy’s tongue was so fast that the knight couldn’t even respond properly but it didn’t work for Ed.

That alone determined the outcome.

Ed approached the girl. No matter how easily he caught Kelpy in front of her eyes, the girl who saw Ed approaching hid behind the maid’s back. Either way, Ed said what he had to say.

“You said you’d give me the money I asked for, right?”

The girl stepped forward to the maid beside her.

“I’m Baron Beryl’s second daughter, Elise. I won’t say anything much. If you come to the estate with me, I will fully repay you.”

I forgot for a second. The fact that I will become a little kid if I have a conversation with her.

“Give me what you have.”

Elise looked at Ed wondering what he meant, but Ed’s eyes remained on the maid.

“You just need to give that pocket you had earlier.”

The maid took the pocket out of her arms.

“You mean this?”

“Yes, that.”

Elise smiled in vain.

“That’s just travel expenses. Is that all you need?”

Ed spoke while nodding his head gently.

“You agreed to give it to me as much as I asked for and since I asked for that much, I’d like to close our deal with that.”

As Elise nodded, the maid approached and handed over the pocket. Ed wore his cape back on after putting the pocket in his arms without hesitation.

Elise asked when she saw him preparing with a hood on.

“What are you doing?”

Ed hung his bag on the saddle of a horse. The horse was safe as he left the horse under the dolmen. So, he was able to get ready to leave immediately.

It was only then when Elise, who was watching Ed climb the horse shouted urgently.

“Hold, hold on! Where are you going while it’s raining?”

Ed looked outside the dolmens. Whether it was because Kelpy died or because of the rain passing by, the rain was reduced. Ed pressed down his hood and spoke.

“I don’t want to spend this night with a corpse.”

Seeing Ed trying to leave with a slight bow, Elise approached quickly. She grabbed the bag hanging from the saddle as she spoke quickly.

“Are you really going to leave like this?”

Ed lowered his head slightly and tapped the horse on the side. Her hand naturally missed the bag as the horse moved.

Elise shouted urgently as Ed stepped out of the dolmen and went into the rain.

“Help, help me!”

Ed paused and looked back at her. Elise quickly said to Ed, who stood on the outside border with the dolmen, and turned around.

“The wagon is broken and the horseman is dead! The horse was eaten, and Lord Badel was knocked down. Help me!”

Ed looked back at Ellis and the maid behind her after hearing those words.

Only ten years old. As long as you don’t talk to her, she’s just a girl from the aristocracy. Even though Kelpy, the devil was already caught, there was no chance of surviving if he left them.

That’s how much of a harsh world it is.

Ed made a short sigh and looked out at the rainy dolmen.

It’s the same as killing the two if I just leave here. If lord Badel wakes up, that’s when I can leave.

Ed got off the horse and looked back at Elise.

“There’s a condition.”

“What are the conditions?”

“All I can do is help Lord Badel until he wakes up or arrives at the next town. Also, don’t talk to me until then.”

“Don’t talk to you?”

“Are you going to accept my terms?”

Elise inflated her cheeks but she couldn’t say no.

“Fi, fine.”

“Then let’s start now.”

Elise seemed full of things to say but she kept her mouth shut. Meanwhile, Ed picked up the horseman’s body and moved it outside. As he went out of the dolmen, the remainings’ of the horse came into his eyes.

For a short time of period, he steadily ate it up and only had the hooves left.

As he returned to the dolmen after throwing the horseman’s body away, Ed tried to take a look at Lord Badel’s wounds.

“Cough!”

Badel suddenly vomited blood and flinched. Then his body drooped.

“Lord Badel?”

Ed sighed briefly when he saw Alice and her maid running at the knight looking at him. I think he died out of internal bleeding.

I thought it was understandable since he hit his head so hard on the rock.

Unless you’re a believer, there was no way to save him in this world anyway.

“Lord Badel!”

Elis tried wobbling him but there was no way of him answering back as he was already out of breath.

Ed sat next to Ellis and put his hand on Badel’s nose. He couldn’t feel Badel’s breath. Ed grabbed Elise by the shoulder.

“Lord Badel is dead. Stop shaking him.”

Alice’s eyes shook. The eyes of a frightened child.

The size of accepting the death of the horseman and the death of the guard who guarded her must be different.

Ed laid down Badel’s body and asked.

“Do you want me to bury him?”

“…no, he’s been protecting me since I was born. He needs to be buried in a cemetery. I’d like to do that.”

Alice continued, looking Ed in the eye.

“Help me.”

Most aristocrats attach a nanny and an escort to a child. They raise the children of the nobles like parents. As a result, Badel could have been more like a father to Ellis than Baron Beryl.

Even if Badel’s skills were poor as a knight from the countryside, Ellis’s heart was sincere in thinking of him.

“I’ll help you. So, take some rest.”

The maid who caught Ed’s eye took her to the side of the dolmen. Ed left them and went to where the wagon was. A wagon with its wheels stuck in the hole.

Seeing the situation where the carriage couldn’t be lifted, Ed let out a grin.

He didn’t think it would go like this when he tilted while the two lanterns were approaching in the rain. Ed, who briefly recalled Elise’s eyes, took a sturdy tree nearby and lifted the wheel.

Ed let out a long breath while lifting the wheel out of the pit using the principle of leverage.

If he hadn’t invested in muscle strength, he wouldn’t be able to have done this kind of ignorant thing. Ed, who pulled the wagon out of the pit, dragged the horse and connected it to the wagon.

Two horses were needed because it was a double wagon. But not to the point where one horse couldn’t pull it. The wagon was too big to go under the dolmen, so the wagon was parked outside the dolmen and the horse was parked inside the dolmen to avoid the rain.

Elise could not say a word when she saw Ed bringing their wagon. She wondered how he pulled the wheel out of the pit that Badel and the horseman couldn’t even take out together. But for now, she couldn’t afford to ask such a thing.

“We’ll leave when the rain stops, so take a rest. I’ll put Lord Badel’s body in the wagon.”

After Badel’s body was placed in a wagon, they had to shiver under the dolmen until the rain stopped. Elise went to the maid’s arms while sitting upright with her back straighten up and looked back at Ed.

She wanted to ask a lot of questions but she had to bite her lips and swallow them because the terms of the contract were not to talk to him.

Ed seemed saddened by Alice’s efforts.

The rain stopped when dawn dew sank. With a fresh smell, Ed began preparing to leave. Now that it had stopped raining, Badel’s body was placed on the wagon and tied with a rope while Elise and the maid hopped in the wagon.

As he was driving the wagon while sitting on top of the coach box, he wasn’t able to get the right speed as only one horse was driving the double wagon.

Still, the wagon moved forward little by little avoiding the holes. While driving the wagon, Ed often picked up the bows and fired arrows. Now that he has killed Kelpy from the woods, the evil spirits are starting to run wild.

When there are demons, they can’t even open their respiratory tracts, but when the demons die, they run wild.

It wasn’t a threat to Ed but if he had left Elise yesterday, she would have probably ended up as a meal to the evil spirits

While the wagon was traveling killing all the approaching evil spirits, they were able to escape the forest when the sun rose overhead. Out of the forest, he saw a small city far away.

Looking at the walls around it, no matter how small it was, it was beyond the level of a village. Come to think of it, Elise was traveling through the forest with only one escort knight.

Which meant her house wasn’t that far away.

“Elise.”

Ellis stuck her head out of the wagon at Ed’s call. She spoke as if she was relieved to see the city in a distance.

“That’s Hampton city, my father’s estate.”

As expected, it was Baron Beryl’s estate. The wagon was slow but eventually reach Hampton City.

The soldiers rushed as the wagon reached Hampton city. As the wagon slowly stopped, Alice opened the door of the wagon and came out.

“Lady!”

She spoke with a haughty look on her face as the soldiers greeted her in surprise.

“Is my father in the mansion?”

“Yes, he’s in the mansion.”

Alice’s eyes turned on Ed.

“Can I ask you to bring me all the way home?”

He came all the way here but he couldn’t just take the horse off the wagon and leave. The sun has tilted anyway, so he decided to take her all the way home.

He wanted to avoid the aristocrats as much as possible, but if it didn’t work out, he’d just have to walk away by putting an arrow in their forehead.

When he passed the gate and entered Hampton City, the maid climbed onto the coach box and showed him the way. he saw the mansion as he went in the direction she pointed to.

he didn’t care because the estate was not that big, but he didn’t know they would live in a mansion like this. he thought he could at least expect a reward because they were richer than he thought.

If he had just left with the pocket, he might have felt sick.

When he approached the mansion, the soldiers opened the door so he could go inside. As he drove the wagon to the front of the mansion, he noticed a middle-aged woman and a knight standing behind her and also a Lord Chamberlain.

When he stopped the wagon in front of them, Alice opened the door of the wagon and jumped outside. Alice ran straight into the arms of a middle-aged woman.

“What’s going on? Where’s Lord Badel and who’s this guy?”

At the question of Baron Beryl who’s a middle-aged woman, the maid got off the wagon and quickly explained.

“We met the devil Kelpy in the woods who killed the horseman and Lord Badel. If he hadn’t helped us, the lady would have lost her life as well. Not only did he save our lives but he also carried Lord Badel’s body.”

Ed also got out of the wagon while the maid was talking. Baron Beryl listened to the maid and patted Alice on the back and smiled.

“Thank you, I’m Baron Beryl.”

“I’m Ed.”

I didn’t expect to be thanked by a noble. When Ed slightly bowed his head, Baron Beryl smiled and asked.

“You’re a lifesaver to my daughter so I can’t just let you go. I’ll repay you. So, let’s have dinner together tonight.”

He wanted to leave by just getting the compensation but if he refused the invitation for dinner, they might change dramatically at any time so he responded obediently.

“It’s an honor.”

Baron Beryl took Ellis inside first and the knight who followed them looked at Ed without saying a word. It’s been a long time since he received a unique look down on travelers from the knights

By looking face-to-face, the knight first avoided his eyes and moved away.

What the hell is wrong with you?