Incompatible Interspecies Wives

25 – Building Honor (2)

A dawn when the sun hasn’t risen yet.

My eyes open naturally.

Today was a battle day.

The fuss you vaguely hear from outside tells you that it’s a different day than usual.

It’s a subjugation battle that I’ve experienced countless times, but the tension is different each time.

Especially when you consider that it is a day when all of your colleagues can die in droves.

But all this pressure was something I had to overcome in the end.

I get up alone from my seat as usual and prepare to go out.

Roll your shoulders, clear your neck.

Then, he put the sword he had left in the corner of the room around his waist and started walking.

“…Are you leaving now?”

At that time, a voice came from behind.

When I turned around at that unfamiliar sound, Ner was on the bed, half-upright, looking at me from behind a pillow placed in the middle of the bed.

For some reason, I didn’t expect her to wake up.

I didn’t even want to wake up.

I thought we wouldn’t have much to say to each other.

“…That’s how it should be.”

“…”

I suddenly imagined what she would say to me later if we got along better.

If we were in love, would we have had a more emotional breakup?

I put my thoughts aside and turned around again.

I put my hand on the door and gave it strength.

“…That.”

Ner is calling me again.

“…Why?”

“…”

She hesitated for a while.

Looks like he’s trying to say something, but he feels like he can’t make a decision.

I had no intention of putting pressure on her.

“…That’s…”

“…”

“…So…”

After giving her time, she couldn’t say anything, so I said.

I didn’t have enough time today. No matter how much preparation I did, there were things I had to go and do.

“…I’ll be back.”

Ner finally nodded weakly at her words.

After seeing that, I turned around and went outside.

****

On the way to camp, I saw unusual behavior.

Several pairs of werewolf couples are out of the house.

Here and there, seemingly simple magic was being performed.

I knew that werewolves were good at combat, medicine, and sorcery, but I didn’t know they would be so common.

All visible pairs of couples were fulfilling.

The man was giving his back to the women who looked like his wife, and the women put their hands on the backs of those men.

In that state, orange-colored lights were extracted from the muttering women’s bodies, and the lights were entering the bodies of the men who touched them.

I was proud that I had seen a lot of werewolves, but this was the first time I had seen it.

At that time, someone spoke to me from behind.

“It is to distribute energy. For a husband who goes to battle.”

I looked back and saw Gidin approaching me. Adam’s brother was also standing next to him.

When I stopped at the unfamiliar word ‘ki’, Gidin said.

“…I’m sure the vice-captain got it too.”

His expression contained a feeble sneer.

It was evident that he knew that he hadn’t performed this ritual with Ner.

“…”

I looked at Adam hyung.

I don’t want him to worry about my relationship with Ner.

…Perhaps this was what Nere was hesitantly trying to convey in the morning.

Gidin and I did not speak for a long time.

Just exchanging glances.

“Captain Adam. I’m off to check on my soldiers.”

“Yes. See you later.”

Gidin left first and greeted Adam.

I looked at Gidin’s back as he walked away.

Adam hyung walks slowly and speaks to me.

“…I talked with Gidin about the operation for a long time.”

“…”

“Even though he was definitely quick to understand. Seriously observe the situation, give advice… Even if you are hostile, the goal is the same.”

“…”

“…So I don’t think I’m going to do anything stupid, but I’m going to keep fighting.”

“…”

My older brother looked at my silent expression and said.

“…Berg. Don’t do anything stupid.”

I looked at my brother curiously.

“What are you talking about?”

“It’s written all over your face. Anyway… I’ve got a bit of an angry personality.”

“…Should I be as big as my brother?”

I didn’t really deny what my brother said.

I didn’t like Gydin more and more.

It must have gotten worse after hearing that Ner had been eating alone for a long time the day before.

Gidin, the eldest son, must have had a lot of influence in creating the atmosphere that harassed Ner.

I wonder if Ner has enough heart to be angry like this…

Is it because she is a wife? There was something wrong with being still.

I felt like I had to pay something back to feel relieved.

The habits I learned in the slums that I had to take care of my side did not leave me easily.

Adam hyung’s arm caught on his shoulder.

“Berg. Anyway, did you have a good rest?”

I nodded.

“What about you?”

“I am also in good shape.”

“…”

“Right, Berg. It’s a story after the subjugation is over…”

“… Huh?”

“You are no longer hiding, but let’s step out.”

My brother said the same thing he had said before.

“As I said the other day, Red Flame Team is famous, but no one knows who the vice-captain is. Let’s take this opportunity to blow up some names. If I had made a name for myself, there wouldn’t have been any trouble like this with Gidin.”

I’ve been living as the vice-captain of the Red Flame Team, and I’ve never been out.

At first, I just didn’t want to get involved in troublesome things.

I ended up leaving things that I had to put my head into my brother.

But as I went through it, I also felt uncomfortable taking care of the ball.

In the end, many of the achievements that our leader, Joe, were made by the deaths of members.

I have felt remorse for taking all of that on my own.

The members of the same head group have been raising their voices, telling me not to think like that and to step out, but I have ignored all of their suggestions.

Just because my reputation has increased, nothing has changed much.

…But now I’m gradually changing my mind.

As my brother said, if my subjugation record and my name were famous, this might not have happened.

“And now you’re married.”

“…?”

Adam said.

“…Now with your name, your wife’s reputation will follow.”

I’ve never thought of it that way…But I didn’t know if my brother was right this time either.

“…Just think about it, Berg. I get angry whenever you are ignored like this by someone like Gidin.”

At my brother’s words, I lightly rubbed my neck.

And nodded quietly.

Then he laughs.

“If you really don’t like it, I won’t force you again… But anyway. Alright then. Now let’s finish our work quickly and go back to Stockpin.”

Hyung’s words lightened my head even more. I also made up my mind again, and headed to the red-yeomdan’s camp with my brother.

****

Once everything was ready, we went.

Wrapped in thick armor and mounted on a horse, I headed towards the huge boss in the northwest, ‘Draig’.

Brother Adam was the first to drive his horse slowly, followed by my leader Joe and Gidin’s company.

My boss, Joe, and Gidin’s party each had about 30 people.

Baran, who was behind me, whispered something to the chief Joe members, Sean and Jackson.

“Yes? Did something like that happen?”

“Huh…really?”

Sean and Jackson catch their breath at what Baran said.

Then the gidine began to spill.

Maybe he explained the fight between me and Gidin. It was something that only officers knew.

In the meantime, Gidin talked to me.

“By the way, vice-captain. It’s a new groom… Did you sleep well?”

When I turned my head to look there, Gydin and his brothers were smiling.

An insult too vague to point out. However, the continued provocation stirs emotions.

It feels like I’ve tasted it very often in the mercenary corps before Hongyeomdan.

There are so many different races, so many fights like this have taken place.

It was something I forgot since I only dealt with the Humans when I joined the Red Flame Team.

“…”

But I was a bit dumbfounded. How can you be so stupid?

What are we going to do if we have a bad heart?

Maybe it’s because we don’t look like mercenaries, we look like a well-trained army.

And maybe, again, they seemed so arrogant because they knew we couldn’t harm them.

Blackwood’s army followed us along with the three brothers, and we have nothing to say if they all die.

“…Did the close brothers sleep well? I can’t see you falling even for an hour.”

I also asked them back with a slight insult.

The smile on Gidin’s face gradually disappears.

I ignored him and continued.

“Ah, Gidin. By the way, I heard that the location has not been decided yet.”

“…Still, I’m memorizing all the plans, so I’m thinking of giving my own credit. Berg-sama is hiding behind you.”

I told him something I hadn’t bothered to tell him about before.

“Could it be because the boss, Joe, is hiding behind him?”

“…”

As soon as he hears that he is the boss, Gideon’s expression changes.

He seemed to already know that it was the most dangerous squad.

“…Vice-captain Joe is the boss?”

“I see.”

“…Don’t lie to me. Which foolish mercenary corps puts the vice-captain in the group of bosses?”

Adam hyung kicked his tongue in front of him.

“So stop now, Berg. Everyone thinks like that.”

Gidin was watching us to see if we were lying.

Rolling his head, he says if he remembered something.

“…Ha, do you believe that the person who leads the boss group has 20 subjugation records?”

I didn’t bother to make excuses for the lie I had earlier. Instead, I propose to him.

Since it happened like this, I decided to relieve my anger a little bit.

I wondered if something like this would happen if I made a name for myself as my brother said.

“Gidin-nim. Otherwise, if you haven’t decided on a location, join us.”

“…What?”

“If you have a hard time believing that you are the boss Joe, why don’t you follow me? I want to see the strength of the warriors who subjugated 26 of them. In order to raise the honor that he likes so much.”

“…”

Gidin did not answer easily.

He can’t help it either.

If he suddenly asked to join the boss group, there would be only a handful of people who would accept it.

How many people would accept an offer to double their chances of dying?

Of course, a Gidin with a subjugation record of 26 might accept it.

And with the words already spit out, even pulling out would be out of shape.

As Gidin pondered, Shawn shouted from behind.

“Ah, it seems the young master has swallowed his fear.”

Baran, Shawn and Jackson giggled at the prank.

Now it seems that the atmosphere of the mercenaries is rising, not the rigid atmosphere of the military.

I also looked at Gidin and smiled. There was also a slight disregard for it.

I didn’t avoid a fight.

Maybe they have finally remembered the fact that we are a mercenary group, not an army, and are raising their guard.

Gidin whispered.

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“…As expected, humans are savage..”

I also answer his whispers.

“If you know, you had better be careful with your mouth.”

“What? This commoner bastard-“

Adam said in front.

“Let’s go to sleep. The fight ends here. Berg, stop you too.”

Again, it was Adam who made the wisest choice.

I feel like I have no choice but to continue to trust and follow you.

I felt through my back that hyung was also on my side, but it seemed like I had no choice but to say that from my position.

I always respected my brother in front of the members, so I showed my consent to his orders.

“…Gidin, excuse me. It must have been too much of a joke-“

“- That’s it.”

Cry out, don’t do it. Gidin cuts off my words with his heat rising.

It looked like he had given up all his respect for me.

I smiled inwardly. It was easy to see that he had fallen for provocation.

Gidin said frowning.

“…Yes, I will follow you. Even so, I’ll be able to raise the ball more than the coward hiding behind the crew. Captain, I will be with the vice-captain.”

Adam’s older brother expressed concern about Gidin’s declaration.

“…Are you all right?”

“Don’t worry. No matter how much we quarreled, we won’t do anything stupid because the liberation of the Blackwood estate comes first.”

“…No, not that…”

Adam looks over me.

“…”

I nodded quietly.

Then the older brother let out a long sigh and said to Gidin.

“…I see. Then with that.”

I said to Gidin with a smile.

“Thank you very much.”