No More Knights for Me

There are strict parents who forbid a twenty-two-year-old grown man from drinking, and surprisingly, that was Alfon.

Since the villagers knew how much he treasured his son, not many people offered drinks to Lien.

But it was a different story for men who were already drunk and out of their minds.

Alfon began to rage, exactly as the village men intended.

“You drank again?! I told them absolutely never to give you any, these bastards truly!”

A young man of his age would usually be scared of a father who was as angry as a bear, or talk back to him instead, but Lien’s worry was in a different direction.

Because Alfon never blamed him.

“Calm down! You shouldn’t beat up the customers!”

“I knew it was suspicious ever since you toasted~”

As Lien barely managed to stop the raging Alfon, Mona spoke up as if to encourage him instead.

She seemed to find Alfon’s raging amusing.

In the past, she had tried several times to stop Alfon’s overprotection, but when that didn’t work out well, she actually enjoyed it in her own way instead.

She didn’t seem to care much about her son who was stuck in the middle.

“I only drank one glass!”

It was quite an ordeal to push Alfon, who was still staring terrifyingly at the tables, by his back to put him back into the kitchen.

Since he considered his work important, he would start cooking even while huffing and puffing.

It was a temporary fix, but he gets better soon after doing that.

Thinking of adding the price of snacks—a raging bear must have been quite a spectacle to watch with drinks—to the men’s bill, Lien was wiping his sweat when he turned around at a sound calling him from a corner table.

They were merchants who were temporarily staying here while returning to the city after finishing a trade this time.

Somehow, they were gloomy, which he didn’t like much, but they were customers.

While going to their table, the conversation of the village men caught his ear.

“Come to think of it, a knight is coming soon?”

“Are they already subjugating the monsters in the mine?”

“It seems Suzanne’s son exerted some influence. Because it’s his hometown.”

“Aha, that knight son?”

“Amazing. A commoner becoming a knight. No matter how much it was during the war, it’s amazing.”

“Even without that, there are many people playing around because of the mine, so I hope it gets resolved quickly.”

Lien’s ears perked up at the words of the villagers, but the order came first.

After finishing their meal, the merchants were only drinking alcohol while taking out and turning cards.

It was probably an additional drink order.

Thinking that he should listen to the detailed story a little later, he stood in front of the merchants’ table.

“Is there anything you need?”

“I’d like you to call a woman for us.”

Lien’s smile almost collapsed at the words of the merchant whose smirking face he didn’t like.

There’s always someone like this.

Since it wasn’t something he experienced just once or twice, Lien spoke firmly.

“Our shop does not do such arrangements.”

“Where is there an inn like that?”

“It’s right here.”

Where would there be a barmaid in an inn run by a family.

Lumisen wasn’t small, but it was different from a bustling city.

It might have been possible in the city, but not here.

As he replied bluntly, the merchant raised his eyebrows as if uncomfortable.

‘He must have been in a state of becoming a dog after drinking.’

Still, was he drunk quietly in his own way? Just as he was thinking that, his colleague added words, as if he thought it wasn’t right after all.

“Why do you say there’s a need to call a woman anyway?”

Right, you guys play nicely among yourselves.

It was just when he was thinking that it was a relief there was at least one sane human being.

A shiver ran down Lien’s spine at a strange touch felt on his buttocks.

“There’s a pretty lady right here…….”

“You crazy bastard?!”

Smack!

“Argh!”

Thud!

Even before the words were finished, Lien struck the man’s head with the tray he was holding.

The merchant who was hit by the tray fell backward along with his chair, and Lien firmly stepped on the disgusting hand that had touched his buttocks.

“Who are you calling a lady?”

No, whether it’s a lady or a young man, one shouldn’t do this.

This is an act that deserves to be beaten up.

Although the scream of the man in pain was heard, Lien put more strength into his foot instead.

“Y-You crazy……. What are you doing to a customer?!”

“What do you mean customer? You bastards who aren’t even like humans?!”

“This b*tch?!”

“Where are you swearing!”

Smack! The tray that flew without hesitation hit another merchant’s head this time.

As the merchant collapsed toward the table, the sound of plates breaking loudly was heard.

The two men held their dizzy heads.

As the three companions, excluding the two who were out of it, stood up abruptly, Lien threw the tray to the floor and picked up a chair.

If it becomes like this, he should change weapons.

He smiled coldly.

“If you touched the buttocks of an unmarried young man, you should take responsibility, right?”

“S-She’s a crazy b*tch, isn’t she?”

“You keep saying b*tch, b*tch since earlier. I’m a guy, you bastard! Your brain is pickled in alcohol so your eyes are out of it too, right?!”

As he lifted the chair high as if he was going to throw it, the merchants hesitated and stepped back.

The men who were shouting at him just a moment ago shouldn’t be overwhelmed by just this much momentum, right?

Thinking just in case, Lien turned around and discovered his father standing there.

He spread his shoulders, which were twice as wide as others, wide open, and held a kitchen knife in each hand.

“What are you doing to my son?”

“P-Please speak after putting that down… okay?”

Seeing the weapon, they seemed to sober up instantly.

Lien carefully set the chair down on the floor—fixtures are property—and ran quickly to Alfon, pointing at them and telling on them.

“Father! those people touched my buttocks!”

The guy who touched his buttocks had already collapsed on the floor long ago—though he wasn’t making a single peep in the midst of that—but anyway, to Lien, this guy or that guy were all humans who were no different.

“S-Son……?”

“We didn’t touch…….”

The men began to step backward upon seeing Alfon whose face turned bright red with anger.

Seeing that even the men who were hit by Lien’s tray and sprawled on the floor moved back hesitantly, it must be a truly terrifying expression.

Alfon spoke in a chilling voice.

“Get out of my house right now!”

Even before his shout was finished, the merchants began to run for the door.

Lien, watching those who were being pushed around frantically trying to leave through the small entrance all at once, grabbed and pulled the back of the neck of the man who was at the very back.

He was the culprit who caused this matter.

“W-What?!”

“You have to pay the bill before going, right?”

“What are you doing not getting lost!”

“What are you doing not giving the money quickly?”

The face of the merchant who looked at Alfon, who was walking over with long strides, and Lien, who was now grabbing his collar and holding out his hand telling him to give the money, turned pale.

The merchant, looking back and forth between the two, rummaged through his pocket, threw down whatever was caught, and escaped through the door just like that.

Lien, who felt the touch of a thick wallet, let him go easily, and only the voices of the fleeing merchant group were faintly heard.

“These crazy people!”

Lien, who glanced at the wallet, quietly closed the door.

If it’s this amount of money, taking a little bit of abuse is also a service.

As the commotion subsided, the village men shook their heads, saying, “He’s doing that again,” and secretly turned their gazes away at Mona’s glaring look.

Mona, looking at the hall that had become a mess, let out a deep sigh and said to Lien.

“Dear. Doesn’t the calculation not add up too much?”

“The rest is compensation for mental damages, though?”

“It’s too lacking.”

Lien, who was worried he might get a lecture for extorting the whole wallet, secretly raised the corners of his mouth at Mona’s following words.

Perhaps this newly chosen life might not be so bad either.

While he was dusting off his hands, the sound of whistling was heard from the side.

Lien frowned upon seeing the village men clapping.

“Whew~ You’re quite something?”

“You pulled off another case today.”

“Father hasn’t gone back in yet, you know?”

Seeing the men simultaneously shut their mouths after checking Alfon’s mood, Lien turned around with a Hmph!

A moment later, he brought beer to the village men as if nothing had happened, and the men shook their heads from side to side.

Lien, who was smiling while completely erasing the chilling look from a moment ago, was truly abominable.

“Those guys also got caught by the wrong person entirely.”

“It was a pity they didn’t know how crazy the owner can get over his son’s matters.”

Alfon had a gentle and quiet personality that didn’t match his physique.

However, if it was a matter concerning his son, he was a person who could become an angry bear, and Mona was a woman who responded no differently from her husband while smiling quietly.

“Still, explain well to the knight that you’re a man so he doesn’t do that.”

“Do you mean Suzanne’s son who became a knight?”

“The news is fast, too. You know such things quite well, don’t you?”

“Earlier, the uncles were speaking so loudly, it stuck right in my ears, you know? So what about that?”

Since he was just about to ask out of curiosity anyway, Lien pulled a chair and sat between them.

“When investigating this kind of matter, not just one knight comes. Several will come, so then where would those people stay?”

“It’s our house, then?”

This is the only place that serves as the unique inn and restaurant in the village.

The laborers used the accommodations near the mine or stayed at guesthouses run by the residents.

But what would be familiar to knights who travel to various places would be an inn.

Since a knight never travels alone, it seems it’s a time when the unique inn in the village will get busy.

How much fixtures should I prepare? Looking at Lien who fell into worry, one man said smoothly.

“So, just because the knights touch your buttocks a bit, striking them with a tray or picking up a chair like just now is a bit……”

“Who is saying they’re touching my son’s buttocks?”

“Oops!”

“That damn buttocks……. Stop it!”

Lien was sick and tired of Alfon’s voice.

He felt like bringing back the merchant he had already chased away, to kick his buttocks once more and chase him away.

Alfon chuckled upon seeing Lien who was disgusted, and set down a whole chunk of meat brought on a large tray.

The man said to Alfon.

“It seems Suzanne’s son took charge of the mine case.”

“Ah, really? Well, since he became a knight, he wouldn’t come to a place like this for just any ordinary matter.”

“That’s true. How fiercely would a commoner have to behave to rise to that position?”

“We haven’t seen him for nearly five years, right?”

Indeed, he was a person who accomplished a difficult matter that was hard to achieve with ordinary determination.

Although people say in words that even a commoner can become a knight if they only have the skill, such a thing has rarely happened in reality.

Since the education to equip oneself with that much skill and the price of equipment are not cheap, the commoner knights who occasionally appeared were mostly people from wealthy families as well.

The reason why the stories of commoner knights heard occasionally become romantic topics of conversation is because it is that rare and conspicuous.

‘Well, it has nothing to do with me.’

Give all the romantic stories of knights to the dogs.

There will be no more intertwining with a knight in his life again.