Knights, Let’s Smash Them

2 – Don’t you need an administrator?

It’s been about two weeks since I left the Knights.

I was living a pretty satisfying life.

The endless green plains. Bird sounds from everywhere. Even the friendly travelers and villagers who greet you by waving when you meet them.

It was only after five years of falling into the world of the novel that I was able to enjoy this kind of romance.

To be honest, the Black Lion Knights were certain about their salary. The position of chief administrator is not something anyone can afford.

That wasn’t enough, so where would I have spent money when I was living a life where I was always being abused? It’s only about drinking with Latheon, but it’s an event that happens once a month, so what did you do to call it ‘consumption’?

Thanks to you, my bank account balance is infinite.

I feel like I now know why people travel abroad for years after working for a large company.

Of course, there is no such thing as a jerk.

Are you all Algiers?

It was hard to earn a living every day, but after leaving the company, I had to be serious about traveling and paying for soup for lunch.

‘Yes, at least the welfare benefits and annual salary are at the level of large corporations, so it’s fortunate. If even that was f*ck news, he would have hanged himself a long time ago.’

I shook my head and stuck the past I didn’t want to recall into the other side of my consciousness.

“By the way, where shall we go today?”

A life in which all that is left now is money and time.

There were two candidates.

The north is famous for its beautiful snowy mountains and mountain ranges, as well as its cold beer. The south is full of emerald-colored seas and islands, and the sweet wine is the best in the world.

What’s good about being attracted to both?

And my ancestors said, when it comes to choice paralysis, just toss a coin. This is a long tradition of Koreans, which is also shown in Goguryeo’s Subakdo.

I took a silver coin out of my pocket and threw it into the air. North face. Opposite South.

Ping—!

As the coin whirled through the sky, I snatched it at the right timing.

And the long-awaited result is—.

“It’s great, yes~~~~.”

Cool foam gulp down the back of my neck. The weather was chilly for March, probably because it was in the north, but it was a beer worth drinking enough while trembling outside.

“How did you know our house was the best beer house in the North?”

“I know that when I see it.”

This is at least 8 years, including the days when I served Jjambab as an administrator and manager of a small company. An important guest has arrived and you take him to a bad restaurant?

On that day, the contract was broken, and I was beaten like a dog on the day of the ox. Of course, I didn’t really swing my fist in the 21st century, but I shook my mentality with a blunt snout.

It’s an intuition I’ve trained so much.

Now, you can tell whether a restaurant is a restaurant or not just by looking at the signboard and the structure of the building.

I gulped down the cold beer. It was a real thing that did not fade no matter how many times I drank it.

If something like this existed in the capital, I would have eaten it every day to soothe my loneliness.

Besides, since it was in the north, I thought it would be barren and cold, but this territory was an exception. Did you say it was Count Rupel?

Since it is a territory that has not been seen well even in the imperial report, it is a remote county in the north that is not very important.

Usually, these places are barren because they are not properly managed, and the residents are quite closed.

The county of Rupel was rather cozy and warm.

Immediately, the owner in front of me, also with a shaggy orange beard, exclaimed in an excited voice, “Come closer to the warm fire!” Because it gave me the impression that I would cry out.

“It’s a pretty nice city. Kind.”

“Isn’t it~? We never leave strangers alone. Everyone who came to ‘Petaronto’, the center of Rupell, is a valued guest!”

At the words of a positive evaluation of my city, the boisterous owner smiled brightly with his beard moving.

“In addition, the lord who rules the territory is famous for having a very good personality. Our territories always love Count Rupel.”

It was a rare sight.

I’ve seen many cases of swearing at the lord, but it was the first time I’ve heard words of admiration and respect for the lord from an outsider’s point of view.

It seems that the lord is quite popular.

‘The upper water must be clear, so the lower water is clear. If such a lord had been my superior, I would have buried my bones in the Knights instead of resigning.’

Although it was strange that such a lord existed.

On the one hand, I also felt bitter.

Besides being the one who has been overworked under a beggarly boss for several years. All the counts I’ve seen so far have been f*cking assholes.

‘What the f*ck, the request to use only one person as a maid because he has a female female fetish was a real legend.’

I personally stabbed the central bureaucrat with the title of count, whose gender conception had degenerated due to progress, to the imperial inspection department.

I don’t think he would have known that he would be filming the bondage story of a female knight confined in a cellar that he so longed for.

“Welcome! This is the Balgroud Tavern!”

The tavern owner, who had been talking a lot about the city ever since, turned his head at the sound of the door opening.

I move my gaze slightly, and a stately man with his black hair hanging down to the sides catches his eye.

A neatly trimmed beard.

Sharp but strong eyes at the same time.

I immediately noticed that he wasn’t the ‘culprit’. Considering that he also shows a rough side, where is he the leader of a popular mercenary corps?

No, he might be one of the knights of Rupel Mansion.

There were several knights with a similar appearance in the Imperial Black Lion Knights.

However, my expectations were completely wrong.

“How are you, Hakyl?”

“Lord Rupel!”

“Puh-heap—!! Kuk, Cough, Cough Cough!!”

Unexpected stagnation.

“Oops, customer! Here’s a handkerchief! Can I bring you some water?”

“Oh, no, that’s fine.”

I wiped my mouth with the handkerchief the host gave me, then turned his head and coughed. Out of the blue, why is the lord here?

Somehow, he felt that the spirit was different.

First of all, I hurriedly closed my posture, got up from my seat, and bowed respectfully to the count.

Even if I don’t have to reveal my identity, it’s suspicious to not be polite to the count and lord of this place.

“Hello. As a traveler, I greet the lord, who is the legitimate owner of the beautiful Rupel Manor.”

As soon as he handed over a greeting with perfect manners, the lord looked surprised.

Ah, did you show that you came from the center?

“Wait a minute. Maybe you…… ?”

“??”

“Aren’t you the Tactical Administrator of the Lechenberg Plain?”

Oh.

How do you know?

As I stepped back in a bit of a panic, Count Rupel smiled confidently and asked for a handshake.

“Lubern Magistrate! I never dreamed that I would meet someone I had only heard about here!”

Since the lord stepped forward like this first, isn’t the tavern owner looking at me with a burning expression this time?

“Are you, by any chance, a high-ranking person?”

“Don’t you know? You are the owner of an extraordinary brain who made a revolutionary contribution in the Battle of Lechenberg three years ago. I heard that he is probably the chief administrator of the Imperial Black Lion Knights…… Am I right?”

“Oh, yes.”

Although he replied shyly, the owner already opened his mouth wide in surprise.

“Woe, Imperial Black Lion Knights!!!”

He rushed out of the counter and refilled my beer glass.

“Oops, I didn’t get to know you because I didn’t have enough knowledge!”

“You don’t have to go this far.”

“Ayu, don’t hold back! The Battle of Lechenberg is well known to me. It is rather an honor to have such a person come to our store!!”

In fact, I wonder how meaningful the title of chief administrator would be when the Knights had also quit badly.

It’s free alcohol, so I decided not to give it up.

“I heard that you completely fooled the great army of monsters with your excellent tactical skills and out-of-the-way deception.”

“Sure. I saw it myself. At that time, I also led the knights and participated in the war.”

Ah, was it?

Sometimes I think I saw it, and sometimes I don’t.

My memory was fuzzy.

And apart from that, it was unavoidable for my face to heat up from the untimely rush of compliments.

When was the last time I was praised like this…… ?

“I don’t know what to do with you saying this. To formally introduce myself, I am Lubern Eilo, the former Chief Administrator of the Imperial Black Lion Knights.”

I exchanged greetings with the tavern owner and Count Rupel, and then took my seat again.

Soon the count naturally sits next to me.

Stupid, a feeling of tension rises up my spine without even realizing it. Even though he gave up his position as an administrative officer, whenever he sees kids asking what he is doing, his body reacts first.

Occupational disease Occupational disease.

“Please bring me a cold beer. And the most delicious snacks.”

“Yes, just leave it to me!”

“Are you eating here?”

“There is no reason not to do that. This is also my favorite bar.”

It was amazing that the lord who ruled a manor came down to a regular bar, but the fact that he was casually drinking there didn’t make sense.

An unthinkable sight in the capital.

I was just staring at it curiously, when Count Rupel gulped down a beer and said.

“By the way, you said you changed your job a while ago…… Did you leave the Knights?”

“Yeah, what…… There are various circumstances.”

After answering shyly, Count Rupel nodded his head.

“You can’t stay in one place forever. You’ve been working there for several years, and now it’s time to take a break.”

It was a personality worthy of a large person.

It wasn’t difficult to understand why he was so loved by the people under his command, even after just a few conversations.

“However, you visited our manor, and I sincerely apologize for not being able to treat you properly. Just a few days ago, the ‘Frost Spirit’ came over from the snowy mountains and completely destroyed the count’s residence.”

Has the count’s residence destroyed by the Frost Spirit?

I wondered why there were traces of recent repairs all over the city, but it seemed that the mischievous Ice Spirit had gone on a rampage.

“But was the damage so severe that the count’s residence was destroyed?”

“Ah…… That’s because there aren’t that many soldiers in our territory. Rather than the city being damaged, we decided that it would be better for our official residence to be destroyed, so we lured them to the official residence and repulsed them.”

Wow!

I almost shed tears.

You mean he allowed his house to be destroyed in order to minimize the damage to the villagers?

I’ve lived in this world for about 5 years, but I’ve never seen a real aristocrat like this.

Ex-class, both in appearance and personality.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t the Northern Grand Duke, but it was enough to make the man’s heart thump.

The Northern Earl is f*cking cool.

Also, the hair hanging down like seaweed was like looking at Stark, the lord of Winterfell from Game of Thrones.

Is this noblesse oblige?

The nobles I’ve seen in the capital so far…… ?

It was the moment when their image was demoted all at once to the de facto sweet baeknam and aristocratic assistants.

“I will buy the food. A precious person came to visit, and I am sincerely sorry that I could only treat you like this.”

“No, no. I am no longer the chief magistrate, but a wandering traveler.”

“If you don’t mind, I’ll tell you in advance to our best inn in Petalonto. You can stay there to your heart’s content.”

A heart that has been stained with all sorts of contempt and malice toward the world is purified again with pure good intentions.

“Yes…… Since you have been so kind to me, how should I repay this?”

“What do you need to pay back? It’s just my greed, ha ha ha.”

Count Rupel waved his hand, saying not to refuse, but he was born as a man, so he couldn’t just accept grace and eat it.

You can’t drop everything into a ignorant girl who skips everything.

Furthermore, the official residence was destroyed by the Frost Spirit ‘someone’.

Certainly, the damned local administration is a long-standing tradition of the remote county.

Perhaps it was because I had the habit of being an administrative officer, I felt like something was boiling inside me when I looked at this damn administrative power.

Perhaps a deceased person looking at a newbie, something like that.

And wouldn’t it be better to lick such a newbie yourself? Give me some sleeves, and tell me some high level know-how.

“The Count.”

“Yes, Miss Lubern.”

I said as I grabbed the count’s rough hand in the northern air.

“Are you sure you don’t need an administrator?”