Chapter 240
TL: Zimmings
The chief who was staring at me smirked.
“What value is the wealth of humanity to me, child of God?”
Why did he keep talking about God?
I said, skillfully hiding my trembling.
“It may not have been valuable before, but it’s different now.”
“What?”
“Why did the Odis Academy send out new students in the battle against Kuhelm? Didn’t you find that funny? They thought they could win even with newbies.”
The chief and the tribesman were enraged when I spoke ill of the tribe. The chief screamed.
“But Odis lost the children of my fate to me!”
“Yes. With the power of wealth.”
“…….”
“Kuhelm is no match for Odis because of their resources. They always win with the power of wealth. Is it really not worth it?”
The chief’s eyes shook.
‘It’s working, his eyes are shaking.’
I didn’t miss this opportunity.
“I’m the daughter of Duke Dubblede, the richest man in the continent. Do you want me to contact my family and get that wealth in return for letting me go?”
The chief burst into laughter.
“You’re making no sense. It made me laugh. Just because we live in a recluse doesn’t mean we’re clueless. The moment you contact Dubblede, I know that they will crush our tribe!”
He shouted, but I pretended to be calm and laughed.
“When did I ask you to contact Duke Dubblede?”
“… Then?”
“I’m the daughter of Duke Dubblede, the richest man in the continent, that means I know how to make wealth.”
“…….”
“Use me.”
There was silence in the room.
The man slowly got up after hearing my response.
“You’re a cunning child.”
“That’s right.”
After laughing heartily, he told the tribesmen in the room.
“They are considered noble in Kuhelm. You shouldn’t be negligent in serving them.”
“Yes, Khan.”
“Yes”
The tribesmen bowed their heads.
It means that my proposal worked.
***
Emeline and Alan got up as soon as me and Mina entered the place where students gathered under the guidance of the tribesmen.
The tribesmen bowed down toward me.
“I’ll prepare a meal for you. If you need anything else, please feel free to tell me.”
The Kuhelm tribesmen were suddenly polite to me. After they came out, Alan looked at me strangely.
“Why are those barbarians so kind to you?”
“Because I made a deal with the chief.”
“What?!”
He shouted and stared at me.
“A deal with the barbarians who kidnapped us? You don’t have any pride? If you’re an Odis Academy student, you should have died instead of tarnishing the reputation of the school!”
“You’re talking nonsense.”
“Huh, what?”
“As you said, if Kuhelm is a barbarian, we’ve already tarnished the school’s reputation by being caught. So why are you still alive?”
Alan was rendered speechless but soon shouted.
“But I didn’t have any deals with those barbarians.”
Just then, the door opened and a table full of greasy meat, fresh fruits, and grilled fish came in.
“Please have a meal.”
It seemed that the tribal chief generously served food for me, Kuhelm’s ‘noble’.
I sat down casually and started eating.
‘Oh, it’s pretty tasty.’
The meat is juicy and soft, and the fish does not smell fishy at all because of its exquisite fire control. More than anything, fruits! The fruits are sweeter than those eaten in the empire.
Having starved all day, I hurriedly ate. And the students who had not had a sip of water all day gulped when they saw me.
“Aren’t you going to eat it?”
Alan snorted at me.
“Do you think we’ll beg you like you? Right, guys?”
When he said so, he looked at the students. The students only looked back at him awkwardly. They couldn’t respond to Alan, they only seemed to be very hungry.
I looked at Alan ridiculously.
“Not you.”
“What?”
“Emeline, come and eat. You have to be full of energy to run away or attack.”
Emeline immediately sat across from me, and answered, “Yes.”
“Oh, it’s delicious!”
“Right?”
We finished the meat that came out in two pieces and handed over the grease left in our mouth to the sour orange juice.
‘Ah, I finally think I will survive.’
Before being sent to the battlefield, I was very nervous and was dragged around, also was on the verge of fainting because I hadn’t eaten yet. After I have eaten, my mind becomes clearer.
Among the students, there was some groaning and stomach growling.
“I will die before the barbarians die.”
“I haven’t had a meal since yesterday…”
That was the same for Alan, he coughed and said,
“Well… even though it’s barbarians’ food, I can’t die like this. Dying to the barbarians is a disgrace to the school. We have to fill our stomachs and wait for a chance to attack… We should eat food too, right?”
Alan said quietly, so I glanced at him.
“Say, ‘I’m sorry’ to me.”
“What?”
“Say that ‘What I said before is nonsense. Please share the food.'”
“You won’t give food to your friends? Are you saying you’re going to survive alone?!”
“Who said I won’t share? I only told you to apologize.”
“I can’t!”
“Really?”
I knocked on the door. Then a tribesman came in.
“Do you need anything”?
“I ate it all. Please put it away.”
Alan’s expression hardened. The students looked surprised and at a loss on what to do.
I said to the tribesman with an indifferent look.
“Do you have dessert too?”
Seeing me smiling brightly, Alan’s mouth was agape as if he was stunned.
After a while, the chief came to the place where we were trapped. He smiled broadly seeing me eating ice cream, a dessert given by a tribesman.
“It seems that my people treat you well.”
“Yes. They were very kind to me.”
“Then after you finish, let’s have a proper conversation.”
“Of course.”
“You said you could make me a fortune. You’re definitely an interesting girl. So you invented something very special and made a big contribution to Dubblede?”
My hand immediately stopped.
‘It’s a story about long-distance teleportation.’
[Why did the frequency of battles decrease?
Kid, war is like chess. If we catch the king, it’s over. But we have a long-distance teleportation. It means that there is a knight in the empire who can move anywhere, anytime, no matter how many spaces.]
[They can’t attack because they’re afraid that we might capture the king of the enemy with a long-distance teleportation.]
[Yes. If we know the coordinates, we can move easily. What kind of foolish person would wage a war?]
That’s what Isaac said.
But of course, it will not be easy to capture the king of the enemy country.
Even if we use long distance teleportation, it’s not easy to penetrate the ultra-high level barrier.
However, it is true that it had tremendous utility in the war. Because it is not easy to spread the barrier everywhere during the war, everyone is anxious that they can’t use teleportation.
“Make a long-distance teleportation scroll. Don’t hesitate to give us all of your support.”
“… If I make it, will you get us back safely?”
“Of course.”
“…….”
“Give me an escort. With an escort, we can go anywhere in the village, you will give us whatever we need.”
“…….”
“I’ll wait for your answer.”
The chief glanced back.
A large man with thick hair, who could not see because his hair covered his eyes, and a thin young man came forward.
They seemed to be escorts to be attached to me.
‘Rather than an escort, I think he put someone to spy on me. But there’s nothing else I could do.’
I clicked my tongue inwardly.
‘Okay so, now what?’
Odis will be in big trouble if I make the long-distance teleportation scroll.
The aftermath will also be given to Dubblede, who enjoyed power by monopolizing long-distance teleportation. But if I don’t make it, I don’t know what will happen to my life.
Odis was unable to save us because they did not know where their village was.
In other words, the Dubblede also can’t save me because they do not know the coordinates.
“It’s not just the long-distance teleportation scroll that makes money.”
“No, I want it.”
“…….”
“Because you’re a smart kid, I believe you’ll make the right choice.”
Having said that, the chief ordered the tribesmen.
“I’ll make your friends work. Until you make the right choice.”
Everyone looked at me.
“You should watch your friend working under a shade while drinking a drink.”
It means that they will treat me well, but I will feel the urge to make a quick decision while watching the students suffer.
After saying that, the chief left, and the students were headed to the quarry, guided by the other tribesmen.
‘If they even have a quarry, their village might be bigger than I expected.’
The students had to work under the surveillance of the tribesmen.
Some with weak physical strength nearly fainted. After seeing that, Mina told the tribesmen.
“Give them some rest.”
“The chief ordered you to work.”
“If we stay like this, we will die.”
“The chief-”
“I am!”
Mina bit her lips and stared at the man.
“Aren’t I the bride candidate for the chief? I could be his bride, but you easily reject my request?”
“…….”
“Also, if you give us a little bit of time, the ‘noble’ will be satisfied, right? Right, Leblaine?”
When I didn’t answer, the young man clicked his tongue and declared.
“Ten minutes to rest!”
Only then did the students sighed with relief and collapsed one by one.
Alan, who was the first to fall, stared at me and said,
“As expected of Mina. It’s different from ‘you know who.'”
I got up and ignored him casually.
“Where are you going?”
“The bathroom. Emeline, let’s go together.”
“Why does she have to go with you?”
“Because she’s my close friend. I want to drink water.”
“…… He’ll escort you. Hey.”
When the thin man gestured at the bushy-haired man, he followed me without any qualms. Emeline whispered to me, glancing at the bushy-haired man that was following them.
“Shall we run away? He looked foolish.”
“Look at that man’s hand.”
He had a wounded hand full of calluses. Seeing his hand, Emeline’s brows narrowed, and I continued.
“It’s the hands of a killer. Dubblede’s Irie also has that kind of hand. I think he’s the strongest one in this tribe…….”
“Well, there must be a reason why the chief attached him to you. What are you going to do now?
“Did you forget our assignment?”
“Assignment…?”
I replied with a chuckle and smiled.
“Isn’t the freshman’s task ‘find the enemy’s relics’?”
Now it was time to go to work.
Emeline said, sticking her tongue out.
“You really…”
I immediately changed my expression and was about to say something to the man.
“Excuse me, I…”
“C-chick… chick…”
What?
The man muttered with a disheveled face, and I narrowed my eyes.
‘Did he have a low intelligence by any chance?’
“C-chick, chick finally, we…”
“Do you know me?”
“Little c-chick…”
“Who are you?”
“Hello chick, chick…”
I felt a strange sense of dread.
‘Looking at it now, I think I saw him somewhere… Did we meet in my previous life?’
It’s not a face that I remember clearly though.
When I tilted my head, the man came closer to me.
“Chick, I know you. Me, Sourire. Chick, we met… in heaven.”
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