Haroon

Huff!

Harun felt his body disintegrate into fine particles as he tore up the scroll while twisting the space around him. After a while, he found himself teleporting in front of a fountain in the center of the town's man-made square.

The feeling of moving the space using the teleport scroll was so strange that it was hard to express. However, the body felt nothing but a slight dizziness.

The square was phosphorylated with more users and NPCs than when it left for Fuchran. Even the heavily armed users and merchants against the knights made it difficult to walk.

‘It's definitely called a jewelry rush. ’

Harun makes swift strides away from the occupation of the crowded jewellery rush. As I walked further into the alleyway used by the residents, the number of people was significantly reduced.

Harun felt a strange feeling here, though it was not as well organized or cleaned as the road, but it was full of garbage and smells and noises flowing from various workshops.

"Don't you think I want to be a resident here? ’

Maybe I didn't. I thought it might be because he has a different direction from other users who access Beyond here for level-up, items, or power or money.

Harun walked down the street having a light look at his identity and saw a group of children gathering to play.

The boys seemed to be playing knight with a long stick, and the girls were gathering and throwing stones at a picture that was roughly drawn on the pavement.

I approached the children.

“Ouch!”

“Ow!”

“Now you're dead. Go back.”

“No. I'm a Knight of the Twilight. I don't die from wounds like this. ”

“My sword is the sword of Narvos, my great hero, and it will kill me. Get the fuck back! ”

“Don't be ridiculous. The Dragon Armor worn by Zur, the Knight of the Twilight, doesn't even cut a new sword. ”

A smile comes to mind when I talk to children who are feeling overwhelmed during play.

Seeing the children playing with their friends without any worries, with purer and more unpretentious temperament than ever before in life, I was somewhat satisfied and heartbroken.

It was within a narrow barrier, but the children used to run around in kindergartens and schools all the time, but he was weak, and he always sat back and watched them with jealous eyes.

"Huh?

Suddenly, there was a child who came into his eyes. It was a little girl with a small tapered body. The boy with the round, clear eyes sat leaning back against the wall of a helpless workshop and was lonely watching his friends play.

Harun's heart was wet with the loneliness he felt when he was a child, and he went to his side with a strong compassion and sympathy. She looked up at him for a moment and turned her gaze to the girls playing around again.

Harun sits down beside the child. When I turned my back on the sunny dirt wall, the sun felt warm as well.

“What's the name of that game? ”

“Call it a squeeze pass. ”

His voice was joyfully light and sunny. Ordinary children sometimes watch out for strangers, but this child seemed to enjoy answering. Is he as lonely as he once was?

“How do you do that? ”

“Throw a stone in that squid line, jump on one foot, pick it up and come back. ”

Wherever she looked, a girl braided her head in two braids was running through the line with one foot as light as the wind.

“Why don't you? ”

“Well, that's ……. ”

Instead of answering, the child broke his lips tightly, and there were big, round eyes with thick teardrops.

Harun realizes that he made a mistake and becomes embarrassed. It was awkward for a moment.

“Namire can't use his left foot. I can't stand on one foot because my other foot is so weak that I can't play this game. If it's a sit-down game, we can play together.... ”

There was a girl who was just playing around with me when I got here.

The cheeks of the girl who breathed excitedly were red, and her face was filled with a healthy and bright energy. However, the eyes of the girl looking at her friend melted with deep sadness and sorrow.

“I wish we could play together, Namire. ”

“Soon I'll be able to play with you. Grandpa said a great man went to Fuchran to get my medicine. ”

Namire said, stealing teardrops from the snow to his sleeve. Unlike before, it was a voice full of hope.

“Heh heh, don't be ridiculous. You went into the Devil's Mountain to get your medicine? That's something neither Juror nor Bordeaux, the Knight of the Twilight. It's full of monsters, including Demon Orcs. ”

There was a boy who insisted that he would not die even if he was cut by the sword because he was called Knight of the Twilight. He was either chased away by the others or he stayed dead and listened to Namire.

“Beverly, where is that coming from? Grandpa Gatz is not one to talk nonsense. ”

Namire hears a friend's reversal. Namireh listens to the boy named Beverly and stares down at the ground with a face that has lost all hope. Her big tears are falling down.

“That's what grown-ups said, Nenemy. Strangers and knights who had been here before were just killed there. ”

“Don't say that. Namire is crying.”

“I didn't mean to. Namire, I'm sorry. ”

Beverly seems to be the younger brother of a girl named Nenemy, but she apologizes to Namire with a prickly look on her face. It was clear that he did not say anything because he was malicious.

“Namire, don't cry. I didn't mean to upset you on purpose. ”

“Ugh, ugh! It's okay, she's right. It's a scary place where demonic people eat people. My grandfather did, and a lot of adults got hurt or killed there. Your father died there, too. ”

Namire's head was filled with tears. Her eyes are filled with dreadful terror towards the distant Hookran Mountains.

“But one day, I just want to run through the wind because I'm all better. I want to go squeezing with my friends, digging for herbs, and dancing in beautiful dresses at the town fair. ”

Namire's words of talking about his dreams were getting smaller and smaller. Although she was young, she seemed to know that she was also the limit.

“So you're the granddaughter of old Gatz? ”

“Yes? Yes, it is. You know my grandfather? ”

“Hahaha. My name is Harun, commander of the gale mercenaries. I'm on my way to Hookran on Gatz's request. ”

“Then you...? ”

Namire's eyes widened. The same was true of Nenemy.

“Yes. Luckily, I was able to get the four herbs my grandfather asked for. ”

“Y-you mean...? ”

Namire's expression was unbelievable, but a sudden glow of joy was radiating on his face.

“Yes."

“You really... You really got my medicine, right? ”

“Yes. I'm on my way to bring the herb to your grandfather now. ”

Harun smiles and taps his magic backpack on his back to reassure Namire.

“Queek! It's true! He really brought me some medicine to fix my leg! ”

Namireh woke up from her seat. Excited, she wakes up as if she's running, but she's about to collapse. Nenemy, who was next to you, hastily lifts her up.

Tsu! What's wrong with this child...? ’

Harun kicks his tongue. Namire's left ankle, wearing a linet skirt coming down to his ankle, seemed to have only leather on the bone. Besides, I couldn't concentrate because I didn't have the strength.

“Slow down with your friend. I'll go to the pharmacy first. ”

“Oh, no. I want to go. I want to go with you. ”

Namireh gripped the edge of Harun's clothes that stood up from his seat with a desperate look. If I let go of that hand, I feel like Harun will scatter like smoke, and that desperate attitude makes my heart tingle again.

“Would you? Well, what if you can't walk? ”

“I can help you with that. No, I'll carry him. ”

Nenemy was desperate.

“Then I'll put it on your shoulders. Come with me. ”

“Yes.”

Harun lowers back down, placing both girls' bodies on his shoulders. They were little girls under the age of ten, so I could hardly feel their weight. Harun strides for Gatz's Medicine Statue.

I followed the jealous gaze of other children who didn't know the English language, but soon they were distracted by their own play.

“Grandpa! Grandpa! ”

Namireh, who was right in front of the Medicine Shop, quickly entered the Medicine Shop under Nenemy's support.

“Ugh, this guy! Fall down. Grandpa's here. ”

The old man Gatz was cutting dry herbs just like when Harun left the Medicine Shop. His wrinkled face reminded him of a soft smile toward his granddaughter Namire, who looked like it wouldn't hurt to put it in his eyes.

“Hello! Hello! ”

“Huh? Who's here? ”

The old man, Gatz, gets up from his seat with a thumping sound close to the shout of Namire, excited to have his cheeks red.

Harun, who saw the medicinal ingredients behind the shelf, hugged Namire, who glistened briefly in Gatz's eyes, but leapt into his arms. The lovely granddaughter was tearing beads in her eyes because it was hard for her to lead her guests here.

“What? Why are you here already? Are you back? ”

Gatz's voice stands still as if disappointed.

I had a lot of expectations of Harun, who knew he was a herd but wanted to believe where he was. But even for a moment, Gatz's voice looked at Harun with a pitiful look at what he had in mind.

“Hell, yeah! Where is it? You probably didn't even find it. Moreover, monsters would have been scouting everywhere. ”

I've already tried three times.

Not only did the mercenaries say they flew, but also the mother Earl, who secretly became greedy, sent two knights. The Blue Brain Horse Tower, which failed once, also sent additional manpower on a massive scale. Of course, all attempts were foaming, and no one had lived.

“Survival is forgiven. Good job."

The old man, Gatz, pitied Namire's back. In fact, he knew that ninety of the hundred would be impossible, so he could easily give up. His left arm, writhing like a branch, disappears and shows his disappointment.

“He's got it! He's got me and my mom's medicine. ”

“I definitely heard it with my own ears. ”

Namire screams out of his arms, as well as Nenemy screams in excitement. Gatz thought that it was because the tears flowing on Namire's face were difficult, but he finally realized that they were tears of joy.

“Well, are you sure? ”

Surprised Gatz stares at Harun for a moment.

I feel like I'm surprised at Harun's deep smile and his nodding head.

“I'm glad it worked out. ”

“Really? You'll get punished if you lie. ”

“Namire's legs should now be back to normal so he can play well with his friends. ”

“You're right. Thank you! Thank you!”

Gatz leaps back and forth, holding Harun's hand. His face was filled with indescribable joy, and his thin, small body, who had lived with guilt all his life, was noticeably trembling.

“Where are you? ”

Harun points his hand at the magical backpack.

Harun's hand slithers into his backpack for a moment, and the tail of the Iron Snake with the orb that looks like a ball appears soon.

“I don't think we should let him out here because he's so big. ”

Radiance spills from the old man Gatz's eyes, checking the tail of the Iron Snake. There were joy and sadness, guilt and emotions mixed together in the intense light that could not be believed to belong to a helpless old man.

“You caught him yourself. I didn't think so. You weren't really a mercenary. That's why I'm asking you this even though I'm a novice. I didn't feel at ease all the time because I wanted to send you away and catch a young man for no reason. ”

I was just a little bit wet in Gatz's eyes.

“Namire, I should go with Nenemi to inform Grandpa Mayoron's house. ”

“Okay."

Namire and Nenemi hug each other's shoulders and quickly go out to the herbalist.

“Yes, then come here. Oh, wait a minute. I've got to close up shop. ”

Gatz hurriedly closes the shop. It is not the movements of a weak old man who seems to have collapsed soon. His face was shining with anticipation and excitement, and his body movements were as light and flickering as those of a young day.

Gatz showed me the basement of the Medicine Storage in the back of the store. I could see why this secret place was needed as soon as I looked inside the large room.

A well-curated interior with books, large glass bottles of medicinal herbs, stuffed monsters, and experimental tools, Gatz was showing the evidence of his efforts to fix the sculpture of his friends and family.

In the center of the basement is a large desk that is used as a workbench. Thinking about the body of the Iron Snake, Harun recalls the baby Iron Snake. The grown-up was too big to let out in this basement.

Harun pulls the baby Iron Snake out of his magical backpack and puts it on the table. He didn't burst.

“Oh! It really is Iron Snake! I never thought I'd see this guy again in my life! Gaius, thank you so much for granting this poor old man his wish. ”

Gatz, who had seen the corpse of Iron Snake, trembled in shock with tears of emotion. His wrinkled, dark mushrooms bloom all over the place, gently stroking Iron Snake's corpse as if it were a treasure.

‘Now that old man will be able to get over the guilt of living a lifetime of hardship. Well done, Harun! ’

I was proud of myself for the first time since I played the game.

At this moment, Harun could feel how happy old man Gatz was. I was so happy that I could feel this proud, even though it was just a game I started to raise my own abilities that I was helpless.

On the other hand, Harun's eyes, which he claimed to be cold, were also spreading.

I had never experienced how rewarding it was to help someone. Although not under any conditions or without compensation, old Gatz was able to release the guilt and grief that had plagued him his entire life before he died, and that seemed to be enough reward.

“Uh, how did you catch this guy? No, it's not urgent. We need to dissect the body before it solidifies. ”

Gatz has been treating Harun like he's been gone for a long time. Harun was not bored just by watching Gatz's fantastic hands slaughter and dissect with amazing skill while muttering something to himself.

It was that much slaughtering skill that went up to the top. Harun carefully observed the process of slaughtering, guessing where Gatz was touching and the movement of the bones and muscles that derive it.

He also learned Butchering skills, but his skill level was so low that it was hard to even peel the hide properly without borrowing the blade's sharpness or Mana power. So I had to take an interest in seeing it.

"Can Shirine's Butchering Skill go up this far?" ’

Gatz's hands on the dagger were quick, accurate and even flexible. The iron snake, which was much longer than five meters in length, was separated from the bones and flesh, as well as being able to unwrap the metal in an instant.

The intestines were divided into different sized glass bottles, and the bones and flesh were also cut into large containers. It was Gatz who also took care of the tendons separately.

‘Then how did you peel off that hard, tough armor? ’

When I think about it, I can see the dagger in Gatz's hand. The dragon symbol engraved on the sword, the white sack, and the yellow glowing sword were not ordinary items at all.

“What a great guy! ”

The old Gatz gives way to excitement. Gatz completely dismantles the enormous Iron Snake in less than half an hour, and finally sees Harun. Gatz's face tightens as he grips Harun's hand.

“Thank you so much! Thanks to you, many people will find a new life. ”

“I'd really like that. I really want to see Namire running around smiling. ”

The moment Harun is humbly greeted, a window appears informing him of the completion of the quest.

- You have successfully completed the quest on the Iron Snake. You won 50 S.P., 300 Gold and 200 Reputation points as a reward. Gatz will now formulate the antidote to the best of his ability.

“Thanks to you, I was able to repair the sculpture that plagued my friends and family. This grace will be repaid to me and my friends and my family for the rest of their lives. ”

Harun smiled instead of answering. Seems to have been rewarded somewhat just by gazing into Gatz's tumultuous eyes.

“Wait a moment. I have better friends in medicine than I do. ”

Gatz hurries up the stairs without waiting for an answer. How delighted he was, his old age turned upside down like that of a bird.

“You look good. You're doing good for the taste of this. ”

While taking pride in seeing the herbs on the shelves made on the walls of the surrounding basement, four elderly people jumped down into the basement. It was old people who looked like Gatz and his friends.

Each part of his body was uncomfortable as if it were just bones, so he could see that they were friends of Gatz. Their faces staring at the deconstructed Iron Snake's corpse reminded me of a look that was hard to express in a shock and emotion like Gatz.

“You wait a moment. I need to make an antidote as soon as possible. ”

Gatz asked Harun to speak softly as if he were a guest in a shop without an owner. Unlike a gentle horse, Harun nods, noticing the urgency in his eyes.

“We're in a bit of a hurry because one of our friends' descendants has been stranded by a poisoned child on one side of his neck. ”

That's why the elders are in such a hurry. Now I understand.

“Don't worry about me. If I'm bored, I'll look at a book. ”

“Yes. The knowledge of the herbs that I and my friends acquired while traveling the world and the medicines that I organized while discussing here are all recorded in it. You deserve to read them. Yum!”

Gatz gives Harun a warm look and then joins his friends.

“We need to extract juice from his gallbladder first! ”

“I trim tapas stems and roots to help muscle regeneration. ”

“I'll take care of the mapacu berries, which will neutralize the poison. ”

“I'll prepare to distill. ”

Your old man shared his role as if he had promised and moved quickly. Harun became completely a bystander because of the elderly people who teased their hands quickly looking for their own work.