Quit being a knight and become a mercenary

19 – Fox Magical Girl, Lucia (2)

When the Sunday of the week I arrived in Salzheim arrived, Captain Dalton took me and the entire Whitebeard Mercenary Corps and chartered a bar. .

A few whole pigs were roasted over charcoal in an entirely rented bar, and everyone joined in, consuming alcohol and meat, except for a few who decided to enjoy their vacation outside.

“Captain Dalton, who is like a miser, buys everything! f*ck, let’s eat everything we have!”

“Captain Dalton, you are the f*cking best. Barbecue pork and beer. Very generous. Do you know that I respect you so much, Captain?”

“He pays a little bit of money so that these lower ones eat up a little. I don’t know if you know, I like pigs, but I like cows more. Like a real man, if you roast enough beef and pass the wine, you will surely live forever!”

When the old mercenaries were trying to rip Dalton out of more expensive food, Karin looked at me and asked.

“Captain Martin Dec. Do you know why we are doing this here? “

“I don’t know, Karin-senpai.”

When I answered her words with respect, Karin smiled mischievously.

“Although I am the captain of the Ten, I speak comfortably in private. After all, didn’t Karin-senpai eat a lot more in the spare time?”

If I were to compare my relationship with Karin, she would be similar to a new lieutenant Lang Cham Jom Chan, a deputy platoon leader who has no time to spare.

That means that while my ability is important for me to run this decapod well, I also desperately need the help of Karin, who has accumulated a lot of her experience.

Of course, besides her, if you want to get close to her personally, you have to be as comfortable as ever in her private conversations.

It is also because she decided that it would be much more helpful to make Karin my woman in the future… No, actually, this is the main purpose.

Karin smiled whether she knew it or not, and she replied.

“If you want Martin to do that. Then she’ll ask again. Why does our captain go out of his way to rent a bar like this, while serving drinks and snacks like a generous person?”

“What is it? That’s probably why they’re trying to recruit new people with similar circumstances to the Meat Shield guys who enlisted with me in the last war.”

Karin nodded in agreement with my words.

“Yes, you can actually make a lot of money by becoming a mercenary. However, if you are a serf who has a proper job, or at least a little bit of land to cultivate, no one wants to be a mercenary who has to risk his life.”

As it is said, many of our mercenary soldiers were either day laborers in the city because they did not inherit a piece of land to cultivate before becoming mercenaries, or they were people who habitually committed minor crimes such as pickpocketing, so to speak, they lived their lives as ephemera.

Then, although life is in danger if you become a mercenary, you will be given plenty of money, so your food, clothing and shelter problems will be solved, and you know that you can make good money if you do well.

With the money he made, he used it to buy land and a house and settle down after retirement.

But there is a job worth living for, who would want to work in a job where they have to wander around all the time and fight for their lives every time?

There is no one who can start a mercenary service except for a body that has a way to make a living, or a person who is really crazy about success like me.

“I know that much too, senior. By the way, isn’t it time for them to come soon?”

At that time, the door to the bar opened, and like me, about 10 guys who had just joined as new recruits and would be called meat shields came in, munching.

“Oh, really. Can I eat all of this? Without any conditions?”

Commander John lightly slapped the back of the guy who asked that question and laughed.

“It is not without conditions. I raised some money because these older brothers were doing so damn well, but it was a pity that there were no kids to listen to even when they boasted about their feats. Just sit down and listen to the story.”

“Is that really enough?”

John looked at them greedily and said.

“A f*cking idiot, a man like us, doesn’t speak with a bite. f*ck you We’ll put it in a suitable empty seat for now, so let’s sit down and have a drink.”

Anyone with even the slightest brain would be wary of thinking why these bastards would feed me this expensive meat and pour me beer for free…

The guys in front of me are filthy ignorant because they have never received any education at all, and they have become adults in their hometowns, but have been kicked out because they have no land to inherit, and come to the city to live without answers. .

So whether or not you get scammed, it’s free alcohol and meat.

Again, Captain Dalton also appeared at the church after mass, driving the stumpy, seemingly helpless assholes as if they were shepherds.

“It’s true that they will buy you alcohol and meat even if you don’t join the mercenary group, right?”

“Damn it anyway, it’s a life where you can’t even earn 5 silver every month even if you work so f*cking hard. Wouldn’t it be better to be a mercenary in this situation?”

“f*ck, I said I’d give you a drink. Give me a drink first!”

Looking at those bastards, it seems that Captain Dalton has brought in all the idiots and idiots in order to increase the number of mercenaries to 200 this time.

Karin looked at me with her mischievous eyes.

“Martin, aren’t you supposed to go in there and get a new recruit? If I procrastinate, I’ll come out on the next battlefield and become a tens with only me and Martin.”

“I want to do that. But among the guys over there, I don’t see a single one that I’m going to bring to the point of blushing with the other senior captains of the 10th. Look, everyone’s eyes droop like dried fish.”

Most of the guys who roll into the mercenary have no skills or desire to do anything because they have a bottom life.

If I come out with an ambiguous position in the mercenary corps to catch those guys, I’ll just be an idiot.

But since I am the commander of the Ten Commandments, I have to recruit new recruits, so I kept my eyes on the recruits.

“Oh, that’s f*cking sh*t. It’s good that I was promoted, but why do I have to go through all this hard work to recruit people because I have the least amount of time among the 10 captains?”

And then I looked toward the entrance, and I could see that Captain Dalton really thought of forming a proper mercenary corps this time to secure his share.

It cost a lot of money to bring them, so they brought a lot of guys who looked like wizards and knights who hadn’t hired a single member of the mercenaries before.

“Martin, I think Captain Dalton is very determined this time.”

“I will, senpai. Together with the wizards and knights, we gathered 10 people. It’s not that money rots, so it’s no joke to bet on this war.”

That would be true, too, if the war that was fought under Baron Tyllen was at the level of a local sports day in terms of the scale of a war between two small mercenary bands.

The war that the Earl of Salzheim has to fight is that if he loses this war, he will have to lose the county he has. If he loses, he will just become a commonplace fallen aristocrat.

Since it is a war where the survival of the family, which is more important than life, depends on it, of course the intensity and scale will be very large, and the mercenaries participating in the war must be strong and large in size accordingly.

And in the original game, there was a mention that the white beard mercenaries were active in this war and made a name for themselves.

With admiration inside, I looked around the place where the wizards and knights were, and there was a sorceress who caught my attention.

“I came because there was an announcement that they were looking for mercenaries here… “

Slightly high-pitched and delicate voice, flowing silver hair, fox ears and tail, blue eyes, breasts that show off their presence like rockets, and even a wizard’s hat and staff that symbolize wizards.

Must be Lucia, the fox mage girl the main character of this game was with.

Cute is cute, but as she builds up her skills as a wizard, she eventually grows up to become one of the top five wizards in this world.

‘Honestly, these meat shield bastards are idiots. If you roll them moderately, most of them become useful, so you don’t have to steam them first and bring them. She thinks it doesn’t matter if she just brings the guy who doesn’t have a guy who goes and takes him later. But miss Lucia? sh*t, it’s so damn wasteful, I can’t allow that.’

“Karin-senpai, I will go and pick up one wizard for a while.”

Karin looked at me with her surprised eyes.

“Isn’t it too sudden?”

Since I heard her say that she was actually going to this place, I made plans to recruit her.

As a personage of her game, I knew of her existence and the name of the inn where she stayed, so I thought of going to find her while I was staying here and offering to recruit her.

It’s a golden opportunity to add a silver-haired fox-eared wizard beautiful girl to my harem, and if I become independent here in the future, it’s one of the talents I must bring with me.

So, by all means, I wanted to bring her back without handing her over to another Ten Commander here or to her protagonist.

As I strode towards her wearing the armor, Lucia looked around her and put on a puzzled expression.

“Um, over there…”

As described in the original work, she had a very timid personality until she was attacked by the main character, Lucia showed her timidity with pricked ears, tail, and round eyes when I, wearing her plate armor, approached her.

Damn, did you get so excited that you gave Lucia her scare?

But the fact that she came this far means that she wants to join our mercenary group, so she should calm down from now on…

“I am Martin Mayer, the commander of the 10th rank belonging to the Whitebeard Mercenary Corps. I want you to come into our teens, are you interested?”

Lucia wiggled her tail this time, as if to express her bewilderment at her sudden invitation to join.

But she doesn’t seem to hate it, so somehow it seems to work out.