Future Knight [EN]: Chapter 74

“So, how many people have you been with, Sir Zekyon?”

Elica seemed utterly shocked by Zekyon’s extensive knowledge of sexual encounters.

“Me? Hmm… if you count all the casual ones, about 3,000?”

“Pfft!”

Kang Chan, who had been silently sipping his drink, was so surprised by Zekyon’s words that he spat out what he was drinking.

Zekyon frowned and said,

“What the hell, that’s disgusting.”

Kang Chan, who rarely lost his composure, stammered as he asked,

“Wh-what? 3,000 people?”

“Yeah, what’s wrong with that?”

“…….”

Zekyon had lived for over 8,000 years. To him, 3,000 people wasn’t a particularly large number, but Kang Chan couldn’t help but feel betrayed.

Whether that betrayal was felt as a friend or as a potential lover, only Kang Chan knew.

“Never mind, let’s not talk about it…”

“You’re no fun.”

“Wow! That’s amazing, Sir Zekyon.”

Whether it was flattery or genuine admiration, Zekyon felt good at Elica’s exclamation.

“Really? Then from now on, should I start telling you some really spicy stories?”

Kang Chan was even more speechless that the lewd stories so far were just the beginning.

“What is it?”

Zekyon began to pour out his experiences again.

Elica no longer felt embarrassed and began to listen intently to Zekyon’s increasingly explicit stories.

Kang Chan could only watch in dismay.

‘That fallen dragon is corrupting a lot of kids today…’

As Kang Chan sighed, watching Zekyon corrupt the innocent Elica and Loki, a bell rang in the distance.

Ding-dong! Ding-dong!

It was the sound of Choux Cream calling him.

With a face hardened by displeasure, Kang Chan got up.

“I’ll be back.”

Heading to Choux Cream’s room felt more refreshing to Kang Chan than listening to Zekyon’s lewd stories.

Soon, Kang Chan arrived in front of the room and knocked. Choux Cream, flushed red, opened the door, gasping for breath, and said to Kang Chan.

“Hah! Hah! Bring the remaining human girl too.”

“Yes.”

As Kang Chan turned to head towards the carriage, Choux Cream called out to him again.

“Wait!”

“Yes, Clan Lord.”

“Bring that young boy with you too.”

“…….”

The young boy was clearly Loki.

‘That beastly bastard…’

Kang Chan said, trying his best to maintain his composure.

“Y-yes, Clan Lord.”

The Clan Lord was a true lecher who didn’t discriminate between men and women if they were pretty.

Kang Chan wanted to snap his neck and tear out his tongue right then and there, but he held back and carried two bundles to Choux Cream’s room.

Of course. Inside were Zekyon and his subordinates transformed into Loki.

“Good work. You can go.”

“Yes, Clan Lord…”

Everyone’s eyes were on Kang Chan as he returned to his seat with a constipated expression.

“What’s wrong? What happened?”

“Shouldn’t we just kill that bastard right now?”

“Why? What happened?”

“…….”

“Tell me, what happened?”

“He took not only you but also the guy who transformed into Loki.”

“Pfft! Wahahahaha!”

Zekyon suddenly burst into laughter, drawing the attention of everyone in the restaurant to his giant form.

“Really?”

“Yeah.”

“What a great lecher, huh?”

“Hey! I can’t take it anymore. Hurry up and undo the magic.”

“Wait a minute, it’s no fun to undo it now. Just bear with it for 10 more minutes.”

“Ugh! Exactly 10 minutes… I can’t take it anymore!”

“Okay, after that, do whatever you want.”

The Choux Cream Merchant Company had only 10 minutes left.

Unaware of this fact, they were simply drinking and chatting, reveling in the moment.

Kang Chan, who was watching them, could see people in black stealth suits heading towards the carriage he had been dragged to through the darkened window.

Even if they were using the darkness to approach secretly, they couldn’t escape the notice of Kang Chan, a Sword Master.

Kang Chan, watching the suspicious group even more closely, discovered a familiar woman among the masked figures.

‘Hmm? That woman is?’

It was the same woman who had warned him during the day.

Curious about her intentions, Kang Chan got up from his seat.

“Hey, wait a minute. I’m going to the bathroom.”

“There’s not much time left. Hurry back.”

“Okay.”

Kang Chan went outside the inn and carefully followed her.

If her target was the same as the Choux Cream Merchant Company, then her company would also face Kang Chan’s burning rage.

Born as the only daughter of the Kalina Merchant Company, Mu Kalina.

Originally, her dream was to become a knight.

However, when her father fell ill, she had no choice but to drop out of the Sword Academy, where she had been excelling, and lead the company as a woman.

Of course. She was very sad, but she soon accepted her fate.

However, there was something she had not yet abandoned, something she had followed as a knight, and that was her sense of justice.

But it only made her more miserable.

With the outbreak of war and the continent in turmoil.

As she had to travel all over the continent, she couldn’t help but see countless injustices, and each time she turned a blind eye, she fell into self-loathing more than once.

But this time, she couldn’t bear it.

In the end, despite the dissuasion of her loyal retainer, Galleon, she independently set out with her subordinates to save them.

‘I’ll save you.’

She knew very well what she was doing.

If she was discovered trying to rescue him, there was even a risk of a full-scale war between the two merchant companies.

But if she just turned a blind eye, she felt like she would fall into deep self-loathing again and regret it for the rest of her life.

She didn’t want to bend her beliefs in the slightest.

Fortunately, there was only one guard in front of the carriage she carefully approached.

After communicating with her subordinates with gestures, she quietly approached and subdued the guard before opening the door of the carriage.

Inside, there were about 10 young boys and girls tied up with ropes.

‘These beastly bastards…’

Mu Kalina drew her dagger and cut the children’s ropes.

“Children, run away quickly.”

“Th-thank you.”

“Thank you.”

“Everyone, come this way.”

Her subordinates led the limping children to safety, away from the carriage.

And finally, one man remained.

He was clearly the confident man she had warned during the day.

Since the others he was with were nowhere to be seen, it was clear that they were already becoming someone’s playthings inside the inn room.

“Where did your overflowing confidence go?”

“Mmph! Mmph! Mmph!”

“Okay, just a moment.”

Mu Kalina cut the rope tying the man with her dagger.

Then the freed man rushed at Mu Kalina.

“Kyaa! What are you doing?”

Mu Kalina, caught off guard, was subdued by the man, and the man brought the dagger to her neck.

“Why! Why are you doing this?”

“Hoo! Hoo!”

Mu Kalina resisted with all her might. But as the dagger slowly approached, blood flowed from her neck.

“Ugh! P-please, come to your senses.”

To try to kill her, who had come to save him.

Mu Kalina couldn’t understand the man’s actions.

Just as the situation was heading towards despair, an unexpected man appeared in front of the carriage door.

But she could only despair even more.

The one standing in front of her was none other than Pedro, Choux Cream’s right-hand man.

Then an amazing thing happened.

A light flashed, and the man who had been subduing Mu Kalina’s back had his head soaring into the air.

Swoosh!

Blood spurted like a fountain from the headless torso.

Chwak!

“Kkyaaaaak!”

Mu Kalina, covered in the blood of the man who had threatened her life from behind, screamed and held out the dagger she was holding.

But her dagger was trembling like an aspen tree.

“D-don’t come any closer!”

“Calm down.”

“To think you’ve been hiding such skills until now…”

The blow that had just flown in front of her eyes was so fast that it couldn’t even be seen.

The man behind her probably didn’t even know how he died.

Mu Kalina was shocked by the fact that a man named Pedro had been hiding such formidable skills.

But soon she saw something even more unbelievable.

“Oh, no!”

Pedro’s body in front of her was dyed with bright light and returned to its original form.

“Y-y-you are!?”

Too surprised, she took a step back and looked at the severed head in her hand and was surprised once again.

“Kyaak!”

The severed head was not the man in front of her but the face of a mercenary working for the Choux Cream Merchant Company.

“H-how could this happen…?”

“It’s a long story.”

At that moment, a scream that seemed to tear the world apart was heard from the inn.

It was close to a shriek.

“Kkeuaaaaaak! Wh-what is this! Euaaaaak! How could this happen!”

Kang Chan chuckled without realizing it.

It was obvious who was screaming.

Choux Cream, who had been diligently working his waist on a voluptuous woman with green hair, suddenly doubted his eyes.

Suddenly, a dazzling light flashed, and the green-haired woman disappeared without a trace, and a burly, muscular man was lying under him.

“Huk! Shit! Wh-why are you here!?”

“Th-that’s… well… sob! My butt….”

The giant, who had been robbed of his precious first time that should not have been taken by the same man, buried his face in the pillow and wept.

It wasn’t just him.

Three naked men were on the bed, bleeding from their butts and weeping.

Feeling a shock as if he had been hit in the head with a hammer, Choux Cream screamed with all his might.

“Kkeuaaaaaak! Wh-what is this! Euaaaaak! How could this happen!”

Choux Cream’s desperate screams echoed to the restaurant, causing Zekyon, Elica, and Loki to burst out laughing on the spot.

“Puhahahahahaha!”

“Ahahahaaaahaha!”

“Hehehehe!”

The people of the Choux Cream Merchant Company around them were surprised once by Choux Cream’s desperate screams and twice by the sight of the captured slaves sitting in the restaurant and laughing.

“Huk! How did those things get here?”

“Uwahahahahaha!”

“Ah, Sir Zekyon, it’s so funny that my stomach hurts.”

“How is it? Fun, right?”

“Yes, Sir Zekyon.”

“See, I told you it would be fun.”

“How did these things escape!”

The mercenary of the Choux Cream Merchant Company raised his voice even more at the sight of Zekyon and Elica laughing and chatting among themselves without paying attention to him.

But feeling an unapproachable sense of intimidation, he only raised his voice and couldn’t easily approach them.

He was just fidgeting in place like a puppy needing to pee.

Zekyon looked at him pitifully and said.

“Goodbye.”

No sooner had Zekyon’s words ended than a violent storm accompanied by blood rushed into the restaurant.

Kang Chan’s expression, who had been chuckling at Choux Cream’s screams, changed back to a murderous one.

The time he had been waiting for had come.

He drew his mithril daggers with both hands.

Mu Kalina, seeing Kang Chan’s mithril daggers, recognized their true value at a glance as a merchant.

“Huk! A sword made of elven mithril with a top-grade dwarven handle?”

The only mithril that shines so whitely as if it were freezing is the mithril refined by the elves.

It was an item with tremendous scarcity that was worth whatever you asked for on the continent.

Because it boasts nearly twice the strength of ordinary mithril.

Usually, mithril alone is 10 times harder than ordinary steel.

Mu Kalina, who was looking at Kang Chan’s mithril daggers in surprise, saw an even more amazing sight.

An aura blade suddenly erupted from Kang Chan’s daggers.

“Huk!”

That was the very thing called the authority of the Sword Master, the dream of all knights!

The very thing she had longed for and wanted was now unfolding before her eyes.