50 – The mother and the daughter (1)

Slowly, slowly, the prosthetic leg stepped on the ground.

After closing the carriage door, the coachman greeted us with a single lowering of his hat and slowly walked away.

My new feet, made of a little heavy iron, had a rather strange structure, and each time I stepped on the ground, the parts made a sound and helped me to stand on the ground with a sense of stability.

Being able to stand on my feet again made me feel uncomfortable.

Shouldn’t it be the other way around, someone might ask me, but no.

It was uncomfortable.

Aside from the fact that it wasn’t my leg, I think I felt that way more as the leisure and warmth of walking slowly while leaning on her were all gone.

“Let’s walk from here. It won’t take too long.”

With the bumpy mountain road in front of her eyes, she held my hand tightly.

Then, he hugged me with his arms and gave me a kiss on the forehead.

“Just because you can walk alone, there’s no way you’ll be left alone.”

Is it that tea?

After rubbing his face once, he gave her a bright smile.

Then, leaning towards her a little, he began to move his feet little by little.

Slowly, slowly, the iron prosthetic leg stepped on the ground and went out.

“Prosthetic limbs are quite noisy.”

Jeolgeureok, ding, jeogeureok, ting –

The metal parts continued to make noise as they engaged. It wasn’t broken – it was just that of the sturdy prosthetic limbs she and I had chosen because it felt the most comfortable.

I was able to gently step on the ground as if I had a heel, and push forward with force as if I had a front heel, but among those that do not use magic, this seemed the best.

If there’s a problem, it’s the sound of this guy.

The sound of metal colliding with metal, spring-loaded parts scratching elongated parts, seemed to bother her.

“…Are your ears hard?”

okay.

And the prosthetic leg stepped on the stone steps.

“No, it’s just that I’m not used to things like this… it’s bothering me.”

clap.

and the right foot floated in the air.

“It’s a strange structure. Isn’t it heavy?”

clap. And once again the prosthetic foot stepped on the ground.

I’ve never used prosthetics either, so of course, I was a little confused that they were much harder than my feet felt in shoes, and I didn’t have toes to wiggle freely, and my ankles didn’t move freely…

“Gandbags on your ankles…? Where should I call this place? Calves?”

“Yes, a calf.”

“It feels like hanging there. I’m not used to it.”

Leaning lightly on her shoulder, he wiggled his feet.

Let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go –

“Puhuhw, what are you doing?”

She smiled at my prosthetic leg rattling noisily, then pricked her ears, then clenched her teeth and began to look around.

“…I didn’t expect there to be idiots out there doing big theft right around town, even if it’s far from the city.”

Crawling out of the bushes were scarred men clad in tattered cloth armor or sheet metal.

All of them had stern faces, to the point where you could say, ‘You pay for your face’.

“You idiot? Ha, rabbits have a rougher mouth than they look.”

“I can’t use it because I’m pretty, huh? I’m smarter than I look. Enough to target idiots who will cross the mountain road unarmed.”

“hahahahaha!!”

…As they say, we had no weapons.

There was nothing except the dagger in her arms that she had brought for emergencies. It wasn’t even wearing armor. Rather, she was wearing tight black leather pants and a white blouse that showed off the body line.

It was a suit suitable for the cool yet sunny spring weather.

“Besides, how can a rabbit with a bad mouth look so precious to an idiot with weak legs? How is it? We’ll treat you well without regret. Gentlemanly in our own way? We are.”

“Even if it looks like this, I’ve lived in the city for a while, and I’ve had experience with city women.”

I started to get angry at the ugly men with their gruff voices, poorly trimmed beards, and ugly men who never spoke again.

Even so, I didn’t have the strength to protect her.

pitifully.

How did I, who had no weapons, fight against them?

Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to go over to the price of throwing away all the property in the bosom, I thought.

As I was about to slowly bring my hand into her arms, she took my hand and said,

“If you’re thinking of giving money and moving on, stop. They’re not the ones to keep alive anyway.”

“Ow, you’re smarter than you look? Of course! It’s difficult to survive. It’s annoying. Steal money, enjoy women’s bodies, and get rid of witnesses!”

The guys who approached slowly, but not slowly, trudged, trudged, and sprinted to close the distance with their knives still in their sheaths.

She grabbed my hand and stopped at a dead end, glancing at the trees and bushes beside me.

Then, with me behind her back, they put the men in front of me so I couldn’t see properly.

“Why, if you’re going to do it, why don’t you do it in a slightly hidden place?”

Tok, todok, and the buttons came undone.

But she snorted and rolled up her sleeves.

“No… I’m the type to only look at one person.”

“Aha, would you like to entertain one person at a time?”

Laughter broke out.

She turned to me and gave me one wink, then one shudder.

That moment when I felt an unknown anxiety…

Her arm struck the man in front very quickly, really instantly.

Before I could even wonder what had happened, I immediately knew the consequences of her actions.

With the man’s chin dislodged from where it should have been, he groaned and stamped hard on the ground.

Everyone except her stood there in a daze.

She was the only one standing on the spot with her legs stretched out without any hesitation. She took a deep breath, exhaled, and quietly looked at the bandits.

“I didn’t say anything to you.”

The bandits seemed quite taken aback by the unexpected result, and before they could draw their swords, they had to see another comrade being grabbed by the collar and pinned to the ground.

Cuckoo, crackle –

The bandit, who was lying on the ground, didn’t seem to know what had happened, but neither did I.

Until she slammed her fist down.

It wasn’t swinging.

taken down

I had to watch with my eyes open as the man’s face gradually deviates from its original shape and distorts.

with her ghastly murmur.

“Where and where do you look at my body carelessly? The clothes I prepared for you are not the body you put out for you to see… No.”

Uzijik.

I got goosebumps at the sound of bones breaking.

Caught in her hands, the victim twisted its limbs and screamed with its body.

Although all I could hear was the sound of fists breaking bones, shoes dragging on the ground, and the still, rough breathing of frozen people –

Surely I could hear the man’s screams.

Ugjeok.

And when her final blow was over, her hands were slightly wet with red blood.

The bandit lay flat on the ground and seemed to have stopped breathing.

The bandits standing in front of her trembled at the gruesome sight, then started to grit their teeth and charge at her.

I tried to get up to help her, but –

Paang –

The sound of the air exploding in front of me startled me, and I had to sit back in my seat in the trembling wind.

“Turn off… uh…”

The instep of her foot accurately hit the ship of the bandit who rushed first,

Crying, blood poured out of the man’s mouth.

It was not at all pleasant to see a thick clot of blood pouring out of the man’s gurgling mouth.

From that position, she kicked the man who was coughing up blood again, and threw him into a tree behind him.

The last remaining bandit shook his sword and aimed it at her.

However, his steps were gradually heading backwards.

“Oh, don’t come, don’t come, you monster!”

With a clang, the knife fell to the ground and covered it with dirt.

“Ughhhhh! Huhhhhh!”

In order to get away from her who quietly moved one step at a time, the bandit began to desperately go out to the sidewalk, stomping on his buttocks.

And the moment she set foot in India…

Peeing –

and the arrow hit her head as it cut through the wind.

The arrow landed right on her head…

“Oh, oh, no, no!”

I hurriedly got up and ran to her, but as I tried to stand up with my right foot firmly planted on the ground, she smiled without turning her head.

“Puhuh, ah… it was really dangerous. It’s been a while. I never thought there would be an archer.”

Looking at it now, she seemed to have grabbed the arrow right in the middle.

It looked so unreal.

Again, the arrow broke and fell randomly to the floor.

“Speech, nonsense-“

The bandit’s barely audible voice soon cut off unnaturally.

shhh-shhh-

The arrow cut through the wind and quickly hit the bandit’s head.

And the other sound was directed up the tree,

Pudeudeuk.

With a shout, the bandit wearing a cloak and holding a bow broke his neck on the hard soil and died. With an arrow stuck in his chest.

Where did the arrow come from?

“…daughter?”

A woman in leather armor stood with her back to the sun, wearing a brown hood.

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