There Was a Porter Who Would One Day Be Called a Prophet

89 – Teacher’s Grace

What is a thief?

Usually, the image of him being carried into the back seat of a police car wearing a silver bracelet will come to mind first.

If you say ‘I want to become a thief when I grow up’ in modern times, you would have given up your dream of becoming a thief after seeing CCTVs everywhere.

I don’t have money, I don’t have anything to promote in my family, I don’t know how to do anything, etc.

In most cases, they choose to become thieves because of their absence. I did too.

Of course, like Burke and the older brothers, there are reasons why it can’t be helped.

So what about bandits in the game?

Assassination, ambush, stealth, ginpai.

Isn’t it a skill composition full of romance that touches a man’s heart just by listening to it?

Unfortunately, bandits are the only enemies in this game. In the first place, the only characters that could be manipulated were the warrior party.

So when I first joined the thieves, I expected something like that.

It’s the kind of thing that jumps across rooftops, flaps its cape, looks at those who pursue it in a funny way, and then disappears with a laugh at a dead end.

However, the thieves in this game chose survival over romance, so it was very different from what I thought because it was strangely patched in reality.

In the first place, it was a position where you could not rob the village because you were living in the forest.

In addition, if you look at bandits in the south, it seems that there are even differences by region.

Since there was not much floating population in the eastern part, the number of bandits was that small. Because the inflow is dry.

Because of this, even the looting that takes place like beans in a drought was quite different from the southern part.

They took away things that could make money, and sent people as much as possible.

With the meaning of passing by again and getting caught next time.

On top of that, the stats and size seem to be in inverse proportion to each other, and on average, the level in the eastern part was a bit higher. Simply put, there were a lot of dead people.

Right above me. That’s why even seniors who were the youngest before I came passed on useful skills to me and left.

Even if it’s a crappy technique, I polished it every day. In fact, that was the only thing I knew how to do, and I wondered if I could use it someday when I was living the dreamy thief life I dreamed of.

Anyway, I’m going through a pretty difficult situation right now because of that.

I succeeded in escaping the slaves and taking out the reserve boss mob.

“Please let me know! I’ll do anything you want!”

Who knew that boss mob would cling to it, wanting to learn my secret skill? It’s embarrassing.

“I felt it as soon as I saw it earlier! Even though they looked weak on the outside, they were hiding great abilities!”

Is that a compliment or a curse?

It’s a pretty tough situation.

“No, I’ll learn it and use it somewhere.”

Taken aback by my words, she rolled her eyes and gave her brazen answer.

“That, that’s because I’m the best thief in the beast!”

I put my hand on her head for a moment and thought about her.

‘Beasts usually lived in mountains or forests as a racial unit, right?’

There’s no such thing as infrastructure, and all you have to look for is game or skins.

Above all, you have strong strength and teeth and claws, so why do you need the painstaking secret stealing skills? All you have to do is go ahead and tell them to give it up.

There are reasons for not doing it.

I felt uncomfortable with her attitude of trying to take away even the skills of someone who didn’t have it even though she was born with a handful of spoons.

This is looking down on stealing.

Even if it’s a technique that doesn’t produce shinji and is salty.

Even while learning this, there were side effects.

Like magic that devours your body, the more you learn, the better you get.

Even now, just hearing the word ‘can you do it?’ Made my body flinch.

But you want me to teach you a secret technique like that.

“I’m sorry, but I don’t think that will work.”

“Why!”

“You’re a prisoner in the first place. If you’re a prisoner, you don’t have to do that, so why do you want to learn?”

She answers my sharp question with a crawling voice.

“I can’t hunt…”

“Yes? What do you mean by that?”

Sarak.

She held her head and tail in each of her hands and showed them to me.

“I can’t get close to you because of this color of fur. I’ll find out before that and run away…”

Mmm. It could be if the protective color is pink.

She was at a loss for words at the sight of her giving a pretty scientific reason.

“But even if it’s not stealing, if it’s hard work…”

I felt sorry for saying that. If he was strong, he wouldn’t have been caught there.

Swipe.

I’m looking at you because I think I made a mistake.

“I’m weak…”

Chloe digs into my conscience.

I feel like I’ve become garbage when I see her tail twisting sullenly in her hand.

How the hell did a kid like this become a boss mob? Is there something I don’t know about?

No matter how it was, this was the money I had, so I tried to reject it in a good way.

Anger!

Chloe looked down at me immediately as if she had read my thoughts.

“I will serve you as my master for the rest of my life!”

She couldn’t find her pride or anything in her anymore.

But her determination to let go of everything wasn’t completely ineffective.

Master.

It’s a title that’s something, but that’s it.

Why do I come up with regrets that I couldn’t finish in the Empire?

Maid.

A beast maid with ears sticking out of her head.

‘This in its own way….’

I thought about it for a while, but eventually shook my head with the meaning of rejection.

Despair filled her face at my actions.

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“Why not!”

Chloe asks me with a face that the world is collapsing.

That’s what I mean.

– Kyaooooo!!

Because Kyudol is madly refusing. The only one who can call me master is you or something.

By the way, Kwydol. Is it a hair wheel? Aren’t the words too harsh?

These days, I’m a idol that absorbs modern knowledge through me, but it seems that I’ve even learned bad things in the process. I’m going to have to pay for this.

While I was giving a warning to Gyuldori. Not knowing to give up, she has presented me with a different opinion.

“Then Master!”

“No.”

“Then Master!”

All the time.

What is the difference between the two? It’s the same.

“I can’t give up any more! Master, please!”

Seeing that the title returned to Master, he must have liked it.

‘Write…. I don’t have time for this here.’

But the pink tiger in front of me didn’t seem to give up at all. In the current situation, I was the one who was in a hurry, so I decided to give the answer I wanted in the end.

“I don’t take anyone in as a disciple.”

The folded ears and tail of the horse begin to defy gravity.

Easy to understand.

“That, that word…!”

“Yes. I’ll take care of you until you become the best beastman thief.”

“Really?! No, really?”

She nodded her head towards her as she asked again and again.

After all, you are the only thief among beastmen. Since he has no competitors, he can be said to be the best thief who is already a beast. The moment we get out of here, we are strangers.

“Then, I look forward to seeing you in the future, Master!”

Nod.

I was slightly stabbed to the inside by Chloe’s politeness towards her teacher, not knowing about her future, but what is it? I didn’t lie though.

At that time, the relationship between priests and priests blossomed against the background of the valley.

-The footprints are here!

The voices of thieves can be heard from not far away.

‘Damn… ! I thought you’d already come this far….’

I hurried out of her valley carrying her on my back as she was preoccupied with her manners.

‘Oops….’

In front of us, dozens of lights flickered in the direction we wanted to go.

At this rate, it is only a matter of time before they are caught.

“Master…”

Kwak.

With the sound of her trembling voice, I could feel her strength in her arms.

“…”

Once again faced with a choice, I chose a different option than before.

“…Get down.”

“Yes?”

A cold voice came out of my mouth as I decided to poison my heart.

“If you want to get off, you will get off. Why are you so talkative?”

Flinch.

Let’s say it in a harsh tone. Only then did Chloe carefully descend from her back.

“At this rate, we’ll both get caught. You don’t like that either, do you?”

“What, what do you mean now…?”

Rabbit Looking at me with his eyes open.

I hope you don’t look at me like that because I’m a tiger.

I made her ignorant of her world realize her reality.

“Listen carefully. If I’m going to run away anyway, wouldn’t I have a better chance with my legs intact?”

“Master…”

“Teacher is a teacher who will freeze to death. I’ve done enough for him to carry me all the way here. Isn’t it greedy to want more than this?”

“Huh…”

Chloe finally bursts into tears over the teacher-teacher relationship that lasted less than an hour.

As if it didn’t matter, she kindly told me the direction to go, and she showed it with her actions again this time.

Fluff.

“What did I do wrong…? I’ll fix it… I won’t do it again, so please don’t leave me…”

Her feet are shaped like that, but she prays to me while kneeling down to her knees to make sure it doesn’t hurt.

However, her efforts did not reach me.

“Wrong? Didn’t you ever think that it was wrong for you to do this to me?”

The hope that had filled her eyes was now gone. All that was left of her pink eyes was deep despair.

“Go ahead. When the bandits join you, they’ll move.”

“Huh… heh….”

Then Chloe went in the direction I had pointed out to her while sobbing.

One foot. Two feet. Three feet.

While limping, I watched her back as she walked away step by step.

“…”

By the time I can no longer see her back.

Swoop.

I let go of the meanness on my face, got up from my seat, and looked around.

Now the torches that came close to me shimmered.

“I wonder if this is enough.”

***

Limp limp.

There were two of them until they entered the forest, but now Chloe is walking alone.

“Huh… Huh…”

She was pushed to the limit by what had just happened.

Abandoned again.

When I ran away from the crowd, I thought I came out on my own, but now that I think about it, it feels like it’s not much different from the current situation.

‘Have I been abandoned even by my master?’

He has been bullied by his family for being weak, and has been hated and despised by others.

Why was I born weak? Why was I born with this color?

I wonder if there is anyone who will hug me now that my mother is lying down.

Just when it seemed natural, he appeared out of nowhere.

When I first saw it, it was like a frightened prey. I was just curious to see him afraid of me, so I kept talking to him.

Then I thought it was so because he left in a hurry, but in the evening he brought me meat. The most delicious meat I’ve ever eaten.

Even after that, the person who held my arm without hesitation, carried me on my back because I was injured, and even treated me.

‘I thought I finally met someone who wasn’t….’

It was the first feeling I felt in my life.

Even he didn’t know what it was, but he was just happy. I wanted to enjoy it more.

So, I forced myself to accept him as a disciple.

I coveted technology, but more than that, I wanted to be next to him.

I thought I would finally be able to live a happy life because I had lived only with hatred.

‘I could feel the warmth that I only received from my mother again….’

The pain of being deprived of what I received was still painful even after I grew up.

‘Why am I always hated and abandoned….’

The process of unexpected happiness turning into unhappiness.

Could that have been the catalyst?

– Awesome.

The bullying she endured throughout her life and the scars she endured became her resentment and engulfed her. Eventually, she began to stimulate her bestial instincts that she had.

It was then that she, in her twisted ways, began to awaken to her inner strength, and was about to transform into her hated claws, just as she was in her original story.

– Here you go, you assholes!!

Her roaring cry came from the corner of her path as she walked.

She’s as if she’s letting her know she’s there.

“…Master?”

And the owner of the cry was someone she knew well.