Chapter 1366 Two-Person Trip (Part 1)

After the officer-dressed guy finished speaking, the young man finally reacted.

"Huh!"

After a cold snort, the young man turned his wrist that was caught.

The young man used extremely exquisite techniques to break free from the officer's control.

"Huh?"

The officer raised his eyebrows, and then said in a deep voice:

"You are using the fighting skills of the army!"

"You... are you also in the army?"

The young man did not answer the officer's question.

Instead, he quickly grabbed the sword that had just been taken off the officer and placed at his feet, and then quickly stepped back a few steps to distance himself from the officer.

While distanced himself from the officer, he drew the sword from the sheath.

The officer looked at the young man's sword-holding posture and slowly stood up.

"......Sure enough." The officer whispered, "Your sword-holding posture......Sure enough, you are a soldier."

"Shut up!" The young man yelled, "I am no longer a soldier! I am just an ordinary farmer on my way home!"

"Hand over all the valuables on you quickly! As long as you hand over all the valuables on you, I promise you that I will never hurt your life."

"I won't give you anything." The officer replied in a calm tone, "And I won't let you hurt my life, after all, I still have an important mission."

"Then......Don't blame me......!" The young man slowly tightened the long sword in his hand......

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That evening-

"Come on, just eat something."

The officer threw a freshly roasted chicken leg to the young man.

But the young man did not take the chicken leg off his leg.

Instead, he continued to stare at the officer with hostile eyes.

"Don't be unconvinced."

The officer said in a calm tone without any emotion.

"You swung your sword at me with the determination to kill me."

"And I subdued you with my bare hands and made you my prisoner - isn't this fair and reasonable?"

"So - since you dare to draw your sword at someone, you must be prepared to accept any consequences."

At this point, the officer paused.

In order to further persuade the young man to eat well, the officer thought about the wording for a while and then said:

"We are lucky to be able to hunt pheasants in such a wilderness."

"Eat well with a grateful heart. If you miss this meal, you don't know when you can eat chicken again."

"Hmph!"

After the young man snorted with a displeased and resentful "hum", he grabbed the chicken leg thrown on his legs with his hands tied together by hemp rope and began to eat it.

After the young man started eating the chicken leg, the officer also tore off another chicken leg of the roasted pheasant and gnawed it silently.

While chewing the chicken leg, the officer whispered:

"My name is Roger. Roger de Sanchez. What about you, young man?"

"Don't call me young man!" The young man said in an unhappy tone, "You are not an old man, it's strange to call me young man!"

"My name is Barrister! Barrister Brune!"

"You are a soldier, right?" Roger asked, "Which unit did you belong to before?"

"...Northern Border Army, 3rd Army."

As soon as Barrister finished speaking, Roger stopped chewing the chicken leg.

After a long while, he resumed his action.

"You turned out to be a member of the Northern Border Army..."

After learning that the young man had belonged to the Northern Border Army before, Roger understood everything instantly.

I understand why this young man... went from being a soldier to a thief who makes a living by stealing money from unconscious people on the roadside...

After Barrister looked at the expression on Roger's face,

he sneered a few times:

"It seems that you understand my difficulties."

"I don't want to be a soldier anymore."

"I don't have the courage to be a soldier anymore."

"I say, officer, do you know what happened on the northern border after the Britannia Empire launched a full-scale attack on us?"

"We were constantly surrounded, annihilated, and massacred."

"The 3rd Army of our Northern Border Army is known as the strongest force of the Northern Border Army - but so what?"

"It's still as vulnerable as ever and collapsed at the touch of a button!"

" I saw it clearly!"

"At the beginning of the battle, I, an ordinary infantryman, stood at the forefront of the army!"

"So I saw clearly how our army was easily torn apart by the Britannian Army!"

"In just less than half a day, the 3rd Army of the Northern Border Army was completely wiped out!"

"And I disguised myself as a dead body and hid in the pile of corpses, so I escaped..."

"The other corps of the Northern Border Army were the same as the 3rd Army to which I belonged. They were either completely annihilated or defeated to the point that they had no ability to fight again..."

"In less than half a month, the Britannian Army annihilated our entire Northern Border Army..."

"Occupied the entire north of our country..."

"There is no way we can defeat the Britannia Army, the 'superpower' in the north!"

Tears filled with emotions began to roll down from Barrister's eyes.

"I no longer have the courage to fight the Britannia Army."

"I don't want to be a soldier anymore."

"I just want to go home now... and be an ordinary farmer again..."

"You can call me whatever you want..."

"You can call me a deserter, or a coward..."

"Or you can just draw your sword and punish me for the 'deserter crime'..."

"Anyway, I'm in your hands now, you can do whatever you want..."

After saying that, the young man lowered his head as if he had accepted his fate.

But the sword he imagined coming to his head did not come.

There was no sharp insult.

There was only a sigh.

"...Raise your head."

After hearing Roger's words, Barrister slowly raised his head after hesitating for a while.

After raising his head, he saw Roger's expressionless face.

Although there was no expression on Roger's face.

But... I don't know if it was Barrister's illusion, he always felt that there was a hint of bitterness on Roger's face.

"I won't scold you, nor will I punish you for the crime of desertion."

"I understand you very well."

"After all, the gap between our country and the Britannia Empire is so great that people just want to stay away from the Britannia Army, but it's just human nature."

At this point, Roger picked up a long branch at his feet and poked the campfire in front of him.

"And..."

A bitter smile appeared on Roger's face.

"I might be the culprit who indirectly caused your northern border army to be defeated by the Britannia Army..."

"You just told me your story."

"Now let me tell you my story."