Incompatible Interspecies Wives

91 – Halo (2)

A night passes at the meeting place.

I got up early in the morning and enjoyed the morning air.

I wasn’t the only one like this.

As if they couldn’t sleep due to the tension, more members of the Red Flame Team than usual got up and warmed up.

Perhaps he was preparing for the fights that would start today.

I, too, wandered around the Red Flame Altar, warming up.

Check the status of the members and grasp the atmosphere.

As I wandered around like that, I came across other mercenaries staying from a long distance.

Especially after Touro provoked me, Aracredan’s mercenaries became elated and tried to continue snowball fights with me.

“…”

I didn’t pay much attention.

It was just a little annoying.

I ignored them and walked past them and circled our camp again.

As I walked along the border of Aracredan, I saw a familiar face.

“Vice-captain Berg…!”

As soon as she saw my face, she immediately called out.

As if you have a lot to say.

“…”

Turo was seated behind her.

He raised his chin and looked down at me arrogantly.

I bowed my head and said hello to Captain Chiffre.

Then I walked out the same way I had walked.

“Let’s talk…!”

But Chipre grabbed me and said.

The members near me started paying attention one by one.

I faced her and said dryly.

“Tell me.”

Chiffre demands my answer.

“…There are a lot of eyes on you, so can’t you avoid the seat?”

I shook my head.

“Let’s do it here.”

Touro sneered at that answer.

“I am worried about facing each other, Vice-captain Berg.”

Chipre frowns.

“…Turo.”

Turo didn’t care and provoked me.

“I’ll avoid the seat, so why don’t you worry and talk to the captain.”

“…”

I did not respond to his words.

Looking at Schiffre again, he repeated the same words.

“…Here you say it.”

Chiffre was silent at my refusal.

Then I looked at the members of the Red Flame Team and my own members.

After standing still for a long time, she let out a sigh.

“… Ha.”

“…”

“All right.”

Then he spat out words.

Even his expression was distorted.

“…This cowardly human prostitute. I was flattered and tried to save it.”

After that, he turned and left me.

I didn’t hide my anger.

Turo stayed behind even after Chipre turned around, giving me a long look.

After looking at me for a long time, he finally let out his snort.

Then he turned around after Chiffre.

****

Arwin had a nightmare the night before.

The same nightmare that you have at regular intervals.

The World Tree approaches and spreads its roots.

I feel a great pain from the moment the root touches.

A sense of shame comes from powerlessness.

The moment when there is no one to help.

However, a man always appears at the end of the dream.

“…!”

Arwin groaned and woke up from his dream.

Berg, who had been by her side for some time, was looking down at her with concern.

“…Are you awake?”

As if she had shaken herself up from her nightmare again, Berg’s hands were draped over her shoulders.

I didn’t hide this familiar yet embarrassing process from Berg anymore.

“…Yes.”

She couldn’t hide as long as Berg did.

Berg wiped Arwin’s exhausted forehead with the cloth she brought.

Arwin didn’t even think of stopping Berg at that cool feeling.

I left my body before I knew it, and I felt the touch.

I calmed my beating heart and picked my breath.

Being by Berg’s side made her feel as if all her worries were blown away.

Arwin was also experiencing her unusual emotions while being with him.

Her head gets complicated, especially in this mercenary talk.

She was going to outlive anyone in this space.

But even so, I couldn’t understand why everyone was fighting so hard for my short life.

Aren’t you aware that you can die like this?

…The one I couldn’t understand the most in that respect was Berg.

Because it was Berg who did not avoid the fiercest fight.

I still can’t forget the image of him challenging Gallias to a fight.

We’ve talked about it before, but I still don’t understand why he became a mercenary.

Arwin, feeling Berg’s touch, suddenly asked.

“Berg.”

“Huh?”

Because it’s morning, or maybe it’s because of a nightmare.

It was a moment to be honest.

I reveal my true feelings that do not match the atmosphere.

“…I don’t know why everyone is fighting so hard.”

“You don’t have to understand.”

Arwin accepted his words and said again.

“…Berg?”

“Tell me.”

“What Ner said…I will do it too.”

Arwin knew how Ner felt about Berg, but she sympathized with her words.

“No matter how much the opponent provokes me… Do I have to fight?”

“…”

“You seemed wise to avoid fighting that minotaur yesterday.”

Will Berg lose if he fights the Minotaur?

A battle between the Humans and the Minotaur.

Looking at the letters alone, there seems to be no chance of winning.

But if it was Berg… It seemed like he wouldn’t lose.

Nevertheless, there is what if.

Didn’t Berg beat that Gallias too?

He didn’t want to take the risk of not knowing what might happen.

He hoped that the touch that stroked him would not disappear.

Berg stared at Arwin for a long time even after wiping off his sweat.

Then, with her bare hand, she ran her forehead through her hair and whispered.

“… Report.”

****

Berg left for the meeting with Adam.

Ner was taking a deep breath and spending time at the shelter in the middle of the camp.

Alwin was also by his side, and the other members were protecting them.

“….”

But maybe it’s the second day.

The atmosphere was even more heinous than yesterday.

Ner’s anxious eyes scanned the borders of the camp.

A number of mercenaries were watching them with me.

The moon deer dando with many of his own people, and the aracredan dando with Turo who provoked Berg.

Baran, who protects them, speaks from the side.

“…Let me know if you need anything.”

Ner nodded his head.

Actually, there was only one thing she wanted right now.

…I wanted Berg to be by my side.

I was so afraid and anxious to stay among so many mercenaries.

It was a moment when Berg’s presence was felt more clearly than ever.

“Hey, Whitetail!”

Then someone shouted.

“…..”

Ner’s heart skipped a beat at those words.

Her tail curls up on its own.

At the place where I checked with a side glance, a fierce fight was taking place between the Crimson Troupe and the Moon Deer Troupe.

“Hey! Saw. You bastard come out!”

“I stayed still, you asshole! Did you still try!”

In an instant, even a fight broke out between the Red Flame Team and the Moon Deer Team.

Ner’s heart raced like crazy again.

It was the first time she had ever seen a fight break out because of her.

I gradually realized that I was among mercenaries.

During that time, Berg had been so different that she hadn’t felt it.

Sean expressed concern from the side.

“…Ner, ignore it.”

Ner answered that.

“…Yes. I am ignoring you.”

But she felt that even she herself was lying.

As much as Berg told him to hold on to his heart, he was trying hard… But it wasn’t easy.

Soon after, the members of the Red Flame Team, who were fighting for themselves, were pushed back and lost to the Moon Deer.

Their voices and spirits rose, and the Red Flames members groaned.

In the first place, there was a difference from race.

The more he did, the more Nere’s heart shrank.

At the same time, she gritted her teeth. She hated the reality of being insulted by the commoners here.

And yet contradictory. I missed Berg more than ever.

It was the moment when I missed the smell of his body and the warmth of his arms.

The fight wasn’t just happening there.

A fight also breaks out in Aracredan, which provoked Berg.

In the meantime, the insults continued.

“I don’t know whose wife it is, but I love it!”

“Look over here! Pretending to be expensive in the yard that was sold.”

The mercenaries gathered nearby all threw insults at themselves as if they were salty.

I said Berg would be tough, but it was beyond my imagination.

Not only Ner, but Arwin also seemed to be having a hard time.

Although Arwin rebelled against the snowball fight with a sharp expression… Her efforts continued to fail in the harsh eyes of the mercenaries.

As both of them grew up as nobles, they couldn’t overcome the filth of raw things.

At that moment, someone shouted.

“Even the Red Flames are stupid. Get the badass as a reward!”

The moment she put it on, she felt her tears fill up.

She already knew that the idiot referred to herself.

It was something she had heard countless times from her brothers.

Because she was the horse I once thought was my name.

“….”

Eventually, unable to hold back her tears, she stood up.

Baran and Sean were surprised by her behavior.

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“Whitetail! Where!”

“Are you running away like a cowardly husband?!”

But when she awoke, the mercenaries who gained her powers threw more insults at her.

Ner was more moved by the words that her husband was a coward than by any other words.

But she couldn’t argue, because she felt like she was about to burst into tears.

She ran into the inn quickly.

Seeing her run away like that, her cheers grew.

****

The meeting lasted late into the night.

Still, nothing has been decided yet.

I had no choice. Because now was just the moment to confirm everyone’s goals.

It was a place for everyone to keep an eye on each other and see what they could achieve.

The real deal is tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. It was something that would be decided after the battle of nerves began in earnest.

It’s about slowly examining each other’s size and negotiating.

Because it is accurate to directly check and judge the other party before negotiating, rather than being frightened by rumors and negotiating losing.

That’s why the mercenaries were fighting fiercely.

“Should we stop here?”

When it got late, Adam suggested it.

I was thinking it was a good idea too.

The vice-captains of the other mercenaries were just getting tired of staring at me.

Not only the vice-captains, but also the captains.

I was definitely at the center of the meeting.

Especially, Chiffre kept looking at me with a resentful expression.

I stood up one by one at Adam’s words.

“Let’s talk more tomorrow.”

Khan, the leader of the Dragon King, speaks.

He was the first to leave.

The vice-captain of the Dragon tribe, who was said to be his younger brother, was also with him.

After that, Icahn, the leader of the Moon Deer. His vice-captain.

After that, Chipre stood up.

Adam hyung was also trying to avoid the seat, Chiffre told me.

“…You will regret not choosing me.”

“…”

At her unexpected words, I looked at her for a moment.

I also met eyes with Turo who was standing behind him.

“…”

I didn’t answer and followed his brother.

****

After the meeting, when we returned to camp, the moon was high.

But the flowing atmosphere was strange.

A languid atmosphere has already been formed.

I knew I was going to be checked, but I saw several members already covered in scars.

I knew just by looking at the face how fierce the fight was.

Soon, wished from afar, and Sean and Jackson approached.

I smiled at Sean’s face as he approached.

It’s full of scars no matter where it came from.

“…What’s wrong with your face?”

I asked, and Sean smiled lightly.

“You can’t say that if you see the other person’s face, vice-captain.”

But there was a gloomy feeling under Sean’s atmosphere when he said that.

“…What’s going on?”

When I asked about the atmosphere, Baran gritted his teeth.

He said.

“…Sorry.”

.

.

.

I hurried back to my quarters.

And my heart sank at the sight I saw.

“…Huh…Huh…”

Ner covered his eyes and was weeping.

Beside him, Arwin was looking up at me worriedly.

Alwin, too, didn’t look good as if he was having a hard time.

“…What happened?”

I asked, but neither Arwin nor Nere could answer.

Ner was hugging his tail.

My hands are shaking.

In fact, even without asking, the feeling was transmitted.

I already saw a lot of members who were giggling at us as we entered the dorm.

“…Arwin.”

I asked Arwin about the situation instead of Ner, who seemed unable to answer.

Arwin, who was silent, finally spoke.

“…I insulted Ner intensively.”

“…”

At those words, heat rose in my head. I could roughly guess what Ner would have said.

“I’m fine…but Ner…”

“Who.”

Arwin was silent for a while before replying.

“Arakredan and… the moon deer. Even Yongeondan would come and flirt sometimes…”

After saying that, Ner wiped away my tears with his forearm.

She said, looking up at me with her reddened eyes.

“Sigh…I…I’m fine, Berg.”

“…”

“Mi-sorry. Crying is a little embarrassing but i’m used to it It’s something I’ve always heard.”

“…”

“…T, I didn’t say anything wrong. It’s true that her tail is ugly, and it’s true that she took her mother’s life…”

I slowly lowered my stance.

– Took.

Then he placed both hands on Ner’s cheeks.

Feel the touch of the cold cheeks.

I wiped the flowing tears with my thumb.

“…”

Arwin silently watched the scene from the side.

My heart felt heavy.

“…You always struggle with this problem.”

I muttered that unchanging truth.

At those words, Ner’s lips began to tremble violently.

She whispered as if the emotions she had been holding back were bursting out at my words.

“I can’t help it…”

“…”

“…Huh…That’s my brand.”

Ner grabbed my hand as it rested on my cheek.

But I didn’t push my hand away.

“Huh… I hate it too, Berg… Did I want to kill you? Is that my fault? Who said he wanted this ugly tail?”

“…”

“…I want to cut off that tail…”

I bit my lip.

It seemed that no matter how nice the words were, there would be no way to heal this pain.

Besides, even if you care for and comfort me now, it doesn’t mean that the problem will completely go away.

Someday, Ner will shed tears over this again, and he will feel the same pain.

Even I have witnessed her like this twice already.

“…Ner.”

I lightly brushed Ner’s cheek and called her name.

Ner’s eyes found me.

We seemed to be connected with that line of sight.

“Don’t say cut off the tail.”

“But-“

“I said I liked it.”

“…………”

Ner’s tears hardened for an instant.

And when her tears stopped, I made my choice.

If that tail will continue to be her weakness.

If it’s going to be painful.

I’d rather use that weakness as a weapon.

Don’t let anyone ignore her.

“…I will make sure no one ignores you from now on.”

I already had this experience.

I knew better than anyone how to deal with a situation like this.

“…What?”

Ner slowly blinked her eyes as if he didn’t understand.

He lightly grabbed my hand that covered my face.

I smiled at Ner.

“You promised to protect me, right?”

Ner couldn’t react to those words.

He just stared into my eyes.