Future Knight [EN]: Chapter 118

The oldest-looking woman among the prostitutes was filing her nails irritably and snapped at the youngest.

“Hey! Call him over. How dare he waltz in here without greeting his older sisters?”

“Ugh, you always make me do everything.”

“Who else is there to do it but you! Hurry up, you little brat!”

“Tch! Annoying! What’s age got to do with it?”

“What? Hey! Where do you think you’re looking? I’ll smack your head right off!”

“Okay, okay! I’m going! Geez!”

Yeonsu, having entered this world herself, wasn’t one to back down to anyone.

But just because she was young, she couldn’t escape the life of the youngest, and she felt wronged.

Still, now that a new youngest, who looked even younger than her, had arrived, she was determined and called Loki over.

“Hey! You!”

However, Loki was momentarily distracted, watching a bird perched on a tree.

The bird reminded him of the forest where he used to live.

A forest teeming with truly cute and adorable monsters.

Of course, ‘cute’ and ‘adorable’ were according to Loki’s, an ogre’s, standards.

‘Hmm, I wonder how Teddy is doing?’

Loki worried about Teddy, whom he had reluctantly released into the mountains.

He was concerned that the small, fragile creature might be going hungry somewhere.

However, Loki’s reverie didn’t last long.

Someone smacked him on the back of the head.

Whack!

Suddenly hit on the back of the head, Loki looked at the person who had struck him.

Surprisingly, it was a woman he had never seen before, glaring at him fiercely with a very displeased look.

“What are you spacing out for! How many times have I called you? Huh?”

“Who?”

“Who do you think? Your senior, of course!”

“Senior?”

“Yes, your great senior!”

“What’s that?”

“A senior is a senior, what more needs to be said?”

“A senior is a senior?”

“Yeah, here, if you mess with your seniors, you get nothing. Remember that!”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about, but I’ll keep it in mind.”

“Follow me.”

“Where to?”

“Where else but to greet the great seniors, the big sisters.”

“Do I have to go?”

“Why, don’t you want to? If you do that, you’ll get on their bad side, and life here will be tough.”

“Tough?”

“Yes, very.”

“Alright, let’s go.”

Loki followed the prostitute into the brothel.

Waiting for Loki were about ten prostitutes, all of whom looked very fierce, as if they had been through a lot.

“I brought him, 언니 [eonni – older sister/term of endearment for a female].”

The prostitute who brought Loki left him standing in front and went to her spot, applying powder and preparing to greet the evening’s customers.

“Wow, young and firm. And with such a pretty face. He’s going to be a hit.”

“But he has no chest at all. Completely flat.”

“Oh my! Look at his skin… so fair, just like a baby’s.”

“And the clothes he’s wearing are so high-end? Is he really a prostitute?”

The prostitutes surrounded Loki and scrutinized him from head to toe.

Loki, feeling uncomfortable under their gazes, looked at them with a displeased expression.

“Hey! You, which house are you from?”

“Me? I’m from the Visman Empire.”

The prostitute, taken aback by Loki’s words, retorted.

“You crazy thing, I’m not asking about your hometown, but which shop you work at.”

“Work at? You mean where I work?”

“Yes.”

“The Hellainer Knights.”

“Pfft!”

“Kyahahahaha!”

“Ahahaha!”

The prostitutes who had gathered around burst into laughter at the mention of the Hellainer Knights.

“Is this one crazy?”

“Well, there are a lot of crazy people these days because of the war. Maybe he’s one of them. Tsk tsk, he has a pretty face, but what a pity…”

Loki frowned at the prostitutes who were treating him like a madman and said,

“I’m not crazy. Why did you call me here just to say strange things?”

“Yeah, no crazy person would admit they’re crazy, right? And the fact that you’re talking to me like that is crazy in itself.”

Suddenly, her hand flew towards Loki’s face.

However, Loki wasn’t one to be hit twice, so her hand was easily caught in Loki’s grasp.

As Loki gradually tightened his grip, her eyes widened as if they were about to tear.

“Ugh! Ah! It hurts! Let go! Hey, what are you doing! Help me!”

She asked the surrounding prostitutes for help, but they were intimidated by the intense murderous aura emanating from Loki and couldn’t move.

Although Loki appeared as a small girl, his true identity was an ogre of intermediate Sword Expert level [a high level of swordsmanship].

“Oh, you! Ah! Please let go! Please…”

She struggled to escape from Loki’s grasp, but she couldn’t overcome Loki’s strength, and eventually, she collapsed to the ground.

She was bigger than Loki, but she was helplessly subdued by the small, frail Loki without even being able to use her strength once.

At that sight, the prostitutes couldn’t easily rush at Loki.

Loki thought it was enough and released her hand.

Her hand was bruised.

The prostitutes, seeing the bruised hand, looked at Loki with fearful eyes and whispered.

“What is she? Why is she so strong?”

“I don’t know, they say crazy people are strong, maybe it’s true.”

“Oh my, how can a woman be so strong?”

At the word ‘woman,’ Loki revealed that he was a man.

“I’m not a woman! I’m a man!”

The prostitutes screamed as if they were shrieking.

“Eek? A man? You?”

“With that face and body, you’re a man?”

“Wait, now that I look at it, doesn’t he look like a man?”

“Maybe it’s because we’ve only been seeing burly soldiers lately? He looks like a woman to me.”

“We don’t believe you, show us proof.”

“Proof?”

“Yes, proof. You look like a woman and even wear women’s clothes, prove that you’re a man.”

“You mean my dick?”

“Yes, your dick.”

As expected of women in the profession, they weren’t embarrassed by the word ‘dick.’ It wasn’t a big deal to them in the first place.

“I can’t show it, but you can touch it, then.”

“Really? Where?”

The prostitute who asked for proof stepped forward as a representative and placed her hand on Loki’s crotch. Then, her expression changed in an instant.

“Gasp! It, it’s real! He’s really a man!”

“What? Really? I want to touch it too!”

“Kyaa! Me too!”

The prostitutes who had gathered rushed in, fighting each other to touch Loki’s lower body.

However, Loki, who was being subjected to it, didn’t particularly dislike the touch.

Loki’s concept of gender was just beginning to awaken.

“No, a man with this face is a scam!”

“The scam isn’t just that…”

A woman touched Loki’s thing and held out her hand in the shape she felt, saying.

The woman, witnessing the size, was startled and rushed to stand in line to touch Loki’s thing.

In the meantime, someone entered the shop.

“Hello~ Everyone!”

“Oh my! It’s Hollis 오빠 [oppa – older brother/term of endearment for a female]!”

“Hollis 님 [nim – honorific], you’re here?”

The one who visited the brothel early in the morning was Hollis, from the Black Wyvern unit.

He was known here as the biggest spender with the most generous tips.

And he was also the best customer who frequented this place the most.

Especially during times like these when there were no battles, he practically lived here.

As he entered the shop, he saw a very embarrassing scene of ten prostitutes fondling a woman’s crotch.

“No, what are my kittens doing right now? Are you having fun without me?”

Hollis subtly squeezed into the midst of them.

And he also subtly put his hand there.

However, he stiffened at the voice that soon returned.

“Hollis?”

“Gasp! Loki 님 [nim – honorific]?”

There was no way Loki wouldn’t recognize Hollis, a subordinate of Kang Chan.

There was also no way Hollis wouldn’t recognize Loki.

Loki was from the same Hellainer Knights of the Visman Empire as him and was also the adopted son of Duke Kalitz Garman, who had disappeared ten years ago.

Moreover, he wasn’t human.

He was an ogre.

“Lo, Loki 님 [nim – honorific], what brings you to a place like this?”

Meeting a non-human ogre in a brothel was, in a way, a great opportunity for Hollis.

“I was dragged here.”

“Yes?”

“That woman over there brought me here.”

The woman Loki was pointing at turned pale in an instant.

Even Hollis in front of them was the best VIP they dealt with.

Because he was a knight of the continent’s best Hellainer Knights.

To see him treating someone with such extreme respect…

They thought something was going terribly wrong. And they cautiously whispered to Hollis.

“Hollis 오빠 [oppa – older brother/term of endearment for a female], are you close to that person?”

“Of course, he’s a friend of our captain.”

“오빠’s [oppa’s] captain? 오빠 [oppa] is in the Black Wyvern unit now, right? Then that person is a friend of the Sky Knight?”

“Didn’t you know? He’s from the same Hellainer Knights as me. And he’s the adopted son of Duke Kalitz Garman, who disappeared ten years ago.”

“Gasp!”

Darkness fell on the faces of the prostitutes in an instant.

Loki, having left the brothel, went back out into the street in search of other fun things.

In Loki’s grasp were ten coupons, each with a woman’s name engraved on it.

And below that, the handwritten phrase ‘1-year free pass’ was clearly engraved.

They had given Loki the coupons, urging him to come anytime as a sign of apology.

With that, Loki headed to the market that was uniquely formed within the unit.

There were nearly a million people gathered in this garrison right now.

Therefore, small merchants took the risk and came to make a fortune, forming a large market.

As it was a dangerous place, the prices of goods were incredibly expensive, needless to say.

The shops were all decorated as carts.

So that they could leave at any time when the war started.

So mules and horses also stayed tied to the carts.

Loki’s expression as he looked around the market was like that of a child.

It was his first time coming to a market with so many people.

Everything around him was full of wonders.

Loki wandered around the market without a care in the world.

Time passed quickly, and as it gradually became dark, the market changed into a completely new form.

The shops that sold goods closed, and mobile bars opened in their place.

Numerous soldiers who had come out for the night gathered in groups of three or five at such mobile bars.

Before long, they became heavily intoxicated with the taste of alcohol they had enjoyed after a long time.

Among such bars, Loki found a place that sold wild boar barbecue, which used to be his staple food.

‘How long has it been since I’ve had wild boar barbecue?’

Just thinking about it filled Loki’s mouth with saliva.

Loki checked the money in his pocket.

The 10 gold that Duke Sachsen had given him, saying it was pocket money from his uncle, was still in his pocket.

The 10 gold that Loki received from Sachsen was a large sum of money that an ordinary commoner would have to work hard for a year to earn.

To give such a large sum of money as pocket money, he was indeed a duke of a nation.

Having checked the money, Loki spoke to the bar owner with an excited expression.