Ran shut her mouth. The sailor came down and held a lamp against Ran. The magic lamp was not hot, but Ran turned her head because she was blinded. A full stomach grabbed Ran's chin and said.
"It's soft, it's very."
Lan slapped him on the cheek with all his might. There was a rotting sound and the lamp fell to one side and rolled around with a loud noise.
"Crazy girl!
When he kicked Ran, Lan's body went out and fell.
When he pulled the leash on the pole, Ran's upper body was forcibly heard, and Ran curled.
The sailor saw it and said with a smile.
"You won't be able to carry your face with you soon.-Uk?!"
Eustaf kicked the sailor from behind. Exactly kicking the ankle, the sailor went tumbling fell with a loud noise, followed by Eustaf kicking his head hard with his heel.
Ppak!
The sailor's body drooped with a strange sound.
"Ran, Ran, Are you all right?"
Ran touched her neck and nodded. My body didn't hurt because of the armor, but my neck hurt.
Ran looked at the fallen sailor with trembling eyes.
"He, he's dead-"
A cry came before she could finish.
"What's all this fuss about?!"
Another sailor above shouted as he opened the dock. But the fallen sailor didn't move at all.
"Hey, hey, are you okay?"
When he couldn't hear an answer, he pulled out the sword and came down carefully.
The magic lamp behind the floor has not yet turned off, so the inside of the dock was dimly bright.
He flinched at the sight of the fallen sailor, then put the sword back in and came up and smacked Eustaf with a sword.
Ran swallowed a scream, and Eustaf grinned with blood.
"Why? Because you're embarrassed to see a co-worker who's been beaten by a human being tied up?"
The sailor checked his fallen colleague's breath. Seeing that he was not breathing, he clenched his teeth and raised himself up.
"You bastard! I don't care if I kill you! She's the only one I need to save!"
Then he began beating Eustaf and Ran screamed. "Stop! Eus! Eus!"
The sailor breathed and said, kicking a blood-soaked sword house on a road checkpoint, turning toward the Ran.
"She's your fiancee, isn't she? Ssi, when you get there, you'll see what happens to her with your own eyes."
He spat out, went up with a thud, and closed the dock.
"Eustaf, Eus, you're okay?"
Ran sobbed and asked, and Eustaf spit out blood and said softly.
"It's all right."
I made a provocation on purpose. It's better to vent your anger on yourself than to be interested in Ran.
I'm used to this.
"I'm not okay-"
Ran cried, and Eustaf whispered softly, "Don't cry."
Ran took a deep breath and looked at the fallen sailor's body.
Until just now, I was scared that the author would have died, but when I saw Eustaf getting hit, I didn't feel scared at all.
"Maybe he has clue."
Ran then began to rummage through the body. It was better to touch it now that there was still warmth than to touch it after the postmortem stiffness occurred.
Her hands trembled, but Ran searched his clothes meticulously.
"Nothing."
When she said so, Eustaf said.
"Can you look inside the boots?"
"Boots······?"
Ran reached out her hand wondering and felt something inside the boot.
"Ah."
Ran pulled it out with all her might. It was a dagger.
"Please push this way."
At Eustaf's words, Ran carefully pushed the dagger toward his hand. After several attempts, Eustaf managed to grab the dagger's grip.
Unlike Ran's leash, his was a straw rope, which soon broke. He slowly moved his shoulders to release them, feeling the burning pain as his shoulders were loosened. When the pain disappeared, the blood circulated and felt numb, so Eustaf clenched his fist a few times and opened it.
After cutting the rope on his ankle, he stabbed the dagger back into his waist rope, and Eustaf approached and examined Ran's leash.
The iron cord was securely fastened to the pillar with a lock.
He went up the stairs and gave a little push on the lid of the dock.
However, it seemed to have moved heavy things after locking them.
"Eustaf, escape alone."
Ran spoke desperately. He thought for a while and came up to Ran and said,
"Let's get to the destination for now."
"What? Not escaping?"
"Shouldn't we look at the other person's face? Besides, to escape from this situation, we need to get the crew above to open the door, and I don't think that's possible."
"But...."
Ran nodded while agonizing over it.
"Okay, if Eus say so."
"They said they'd be there soon, and the smell of the water has changed. We'll see him in a minute."
Eustaf sat in front of Ran and began to examine her wounds. Every time a wound was found in her, Eustaf's blue eyes sank deeper and deeper.
But his voice was calm.
"I don't think he's an expert in this kind of course."
"He's not an expert?"
"And the way he deal with hostages, and the way he left the lamp. He was inefficient when he hit me."
He said so and bit his lips when he saw Ran's arm, which was now beginning to sit on a scab.
Ran felt weak because he was so soft to look after himself. She asked, trying to pull herself together.
"Is there an efficient way to hit?"
"There is."
Eustaf knew many ways to effectively bring pain to the opponent and bring him down.
Eustaf cut some of Ran's petticoats with a dagger and wrapped the cloth around her ankle as if it were taping.
Ran groaned unknowingly as his fingers gently flickered over her hair as he examined her head wound.
"Is it painful?"
"No, it's okay."
"Don't you feel dizzy or hurt?"
"It was like that at first, but now it's fine now."
Eustaf breathed a sigh of relief and continued.
"And there's a magic artifact on this ship. No matter how hard it is, magic crafts are not easily available to anyone who is not a nobleman. In other words, those sailors will belong to the Miro's. I'm sure he have some dirty work to do."
Even more if it's close to central politics.
Ran sighed,
"Eus, once again, you can't take risks like this."
You still don't know what's going to happen, do you?
At Ran's words, Eustaf looked at Ran for a moment and said,
"My mother gave me advice."
Ran looked over his head.
"If you have someone you love, kill her."
Ran flinched loudly, and Eustaf smiled faintly.
"Before the other person betrays you. Then we'll be forever in love."
"Scary....You mean...."
Ran managed to speak out, so Eustaf nodded and said.
"I was wondering if I needed to do that. Because of that."
Eustaf slowly swept Ran's cheek.
"For those who don't know love, it's always ambiguous."
Ran's lips trembled. She said,
"There's nothing more certain than that for someone who's loved."
Eustaf smiled and frowned.
"There's a scar here, too."
"Oh, I think I hurt myself when I fell off the horse."
Ran murmured. She glued it on awkwardly.
"You're all married now."
"I'm done. You'll do it with me."
That's what Eustaf said.
"So if I fall in love, there's only two of you in the world, and you know those descriptions? I knew it would happen."
Ran laughed as if he were drowning.
"Yes."
"But it wasn't."
His blue eyes fixed on Ran and looked straight at her.
"I couldn't even see myself."
Ran swallowed her breath.
"I can only see you."
"Eus..."
At the sound of her trembling breath, Eustaf kissed lightly on top of it.
"It tastes like blood."
When Ran mumbled anxiously, Eustaf said with his tongue.
"Nothing separate."
"But still...."
When Ran didn't know what to do, Eustaf whispered.
"So forgive the reckless choice of a man in love. Besides, it wasn't that reckless."
"It's reckless enough."
She said, touching the scar on Eustaf's face. With his burst lips, Eustaf smiled lightly.
"It's better than sending Ran alone."
Eustaf listened to the sound from the top of the ship and said.
"You don't have to worry. The ship is slowly slowing down. I think it's really arrive now."
"Already?"
When Ran asked in surprise, Eustaf nodded and listened to the sound coming from outside.
He kissed her on the forehead and said.
"Close your eyes when you hear a whistle."
"Yes."
Ran nodded, and he went back to his seat and sat down, as if his hands were tied roughly with a rope.
Ran was nervous and her heart was about to explode, but it wasn't that scary.
Because Eustaf with me.
Thump.
A small echo was delivered to the ship. The ship seemed to have reached the dock.
A loud voice came from outside.
There was a sound of some people stamping on the boat.
Then the door of the dock opened.
"Come up."
He said outside as if he knew that Eustaf had loosened the string.
"Eus·····."
When Ran called his name nervously, Eustaf whispered, "It's okay."
"If you want to get out, come down?"
Then the oil poured out from the dock. Then he heard his voice.
"You don't want to be roasted alive, do you?"
Eustaf exhaled lightly and climbed gently onto the dock. After a while, a different man came down from the sailor he saw a while ago.
He tied Ran's hand first, then pulled her leash off the pole and pulled it.
Ran stepped on his left ankle, restrained the scream and limped, and on the stairs, he dodged four feet and climbed up.
When I got on the boat, the sun poked my eyes and I closed my eyes. My eyes hurt when I came out of the dark.
"A leash, it's a perfect fit for a dog."
Ran opened her eyes to a voice of laughter, intoxicated with victory. Olivia, who flipped the robe, stood on the dock. Her eyes were filled with excitement.
"Olivia ..."
Ran murmured, and the man holding her leash pulled the string vigorously, and Ran curled several times.
"You should call her Mrs. Olivia."
When the sailor said, Ran breathed heavily and said, "Mrs. Olivia," and Olivia felt exhilarious.
I felt frustrated and distressed, and I felt like I was going down.
Things went so smoothly that I even thought God was helping her.
The gods know her injustice.
Therefore, she was supposed to wait in a cabin inside the forest, but she couldn't stand it and even came out to the dock in a hurry.
Olivia liked image the of Ran being dragged out miserably with a leash on her neck.
She then looked at Eustaf and greeted him gracefully. Eustaf was not confined, but two men were holding spears at his sides.
"Long time no see, Duke of Lazia. It's an honor to catch you unintentionally."
"I didn't expect you to come this far."
Olivia smiled innocently like a girl at Eustaf's murmur.
"I couldn't sit and wait for the gift."
Eustaf asked as if he was really curious.
"So, are you sure you're going to take care of me?"
"No way."
Olivia said with a surprised look.
"I don't mean to kill Ran either."
Isn't that too easy?
Olivia laughed as she said so, and Ran got goosebumps on her back. Olivia prepared what she thought was the most terrible thing to do.
Olivia looked at Eustaf with a sad face.
"We have prepared hospitality for Ran, but we have not prepared hospitality for the Duke."
Olivia said with an innocent-looking smile.
"Why don't you watch Ran get the hospitality instead? It's going to be a lot of fun."
"I wonder what kind of hospitality it is."
Eustaf looked at the forest saying so. I heard the wind shaking the trees.
"Is what I'm telling you now raising expectations?"
When Olivia said so and beckoned, the man holding the leash dragged Ran, and Eustaf also pushed the sides to the tip of the window to get the two off the ship.
"There are people and things inside that will entertain Ran in many ways. It's what we call a torture tool."
What Olivia said gave Ran goose bumps on her back. When her face was filled with fear, Olivia said quickly, feeling a surge of joy.
"When it's all over, your pretty face will be scarred and horrible. Of course it wasn't just your face."
Olivia looked down at her hand and sighed.
"You'd feel uncomfortable without nails, Wouldn't it?"
Olivia thought nothing was more useless than an ugly woman. She was able to come all the way here because of my beauty. Don't you need a look to attract a man?
If Ran gets ugly, Eustaf will abandon Ran. Because it's worthless.