A dull longsword and a heartbroken villager

“No, no, no, let’s travel separately,” Bray said calmly.

"!" Naruko was startled, not expecting Bray to say that.

"Traveling with beautiful girls! Isn't that great!" Naruko categorized herself as a beautiful girl.

Naruko is definitely a regrettable person, and Bray is now very clear about this fact.

“No.” Bray replied calmly. “Come on! Travel with me!” Naruko knelt on one knee and extended an invitation to Bray.

This made Bray's eyelids twitch wildly.

“We can each go our separate ways,” Bray said earnestly.

Naruko is a very troublesome person, Bray has that intuition.

"Ahhh! I want someone to subdue me whenever I see a handsome guy!" Naruko blurted out her reason, her mouth still drooling.

Naruko is already fantasizing about falling in love with a handsome man in the capital. How wonderful!

"There are so many handsome men in the capital! I definitely can't control myself! In fact, nobody can control themselves! You agree, right?" Naruko said painfully.

“Most people can control themselves,” Bray said coldly.

Naruko is quite impressive in a way for being able to openly admit that she can be a fangirl.

"Because!! Because if I see a good man, I can't help but fall in love with him again! There's nothing I can do about it!?"

"Because I'm a wanderer who chases love! If I don't chase love, what's the difference between my life and that of a salted fish?!" Naruko said, raising an eyebrow as if she were talking about something glorious.

"First of all, I think your life is already pretty dull."

"Secondly, is the 'good man' in your mind just a handsome guy?!"

As he finished speaking, Bray's voice rose a few octaves, his originally lazy tone becoming more forceful.

"Isn't that right!" Naruko exclaimed, her voice tinged with doubt.

Naruko tilted her head, pondering Bray's words.

"Could it be!?" Bray exclaimed in surprise.

“Yes! Handsome guys and good men are the same thing!” Naruko nodded vigorously.

Seeing Naruko's expression, even Bray was stunned for a moment, and thought it made a lot of sense.

“Then I must be a good man too,” Bray said.

“Huh? No, that’s not true.” Naruko’s words shattered Bray’s illusions.

"Because, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a dead fish!" Naruko stated the truth.

"..." Bray fell silent, then led his horse away.

Bray disagrees with the statement that a disheveled appearance cannot make a handsome man!

"Hey! Don't go!" Naruko stood up in a panic and caught up with Bray.

No matter how much Naruko yelled, Bray just wanted to run away.

Thinking this, Bray did just that, and without saying a word, he mounted his horse and galloped away.

Seeing that her continued shouting was useless, Naruko decisively mounted her horse.

"Chase after them!" Naruko kicked the horse's belly, and the horse took off running.

Although Bray had run quite a distance, it wasn't a problem for Naruko.

Naruko's horsemanship was far superior to Bray's, and she caught up with Bray in a short time.

I learned a lot of sword skills, but I didn't learn equestrian brawling.

"So fast!?" Bray exclaimed in surprise.

"Hey!" Naruko shouted, pulling a long whip from behind her waist.

Then he tied the whip to the leg of the horse beneath Bray, binding its leg with a fluid and graceful movement.

After his legs became entangled, the horse tripped and fell off.

Fortunately, Bray was quite agile and didn't fall after getting off the horse.

"Hey!" The whip wrapped around Bray's arm.

"Ah! Let's travel together!" Naruko rode her horse around Bree joyfully.

"Meeting you is fate, come travel with me!!!"

"..."

"More importantly, my intuition tells me that you can bring me back to my senses when I lose control!"

Naruko's eyes gleamed.

She sent Brehu herself, which means she herself is aware of her own actions!?

That's really something, a self-aware fangirl.

Bray stared at Naruko with a strange look in his right eye.

“Ah, from now on we’re companions,” Naruko said from her horse.

However, the whip was not loosened.

Although it's not that Bray can't loosen his grip, he has a feeling that if he does, even more trouble will follow.

"..." Bray felt like he was being entangled, and there was a possibility that he wouldn't be able to shake it off.

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And the fact is, Bray did get entangled in it in the end.

The two are now riding horses along the tracks, heading towards the capital.

“By the way, why do you people in your empire wear these kinds of clothes?” Naruko suddenly asked.

"Oh, this kind of clothing? No, we don't have any," Bray said casually.

"I thought all of you dressed like me!" Naruko said, looking annoyed.

It seems that the Yundu Kingdom still has some misunderstandings about the Empire.

“You’ve been fooled by information you got from who-knows-where,” Bray said, pursing his lips.

Denim outfits are worn by very few people, so they can hardly be considered fashionable.

"Well, this outfit actually looks pretty good! It's very fashionable!" Naruko completely ignored what Bray said and puffed out her proud chest.

"..." Bray's eyes were filled with disdain.

"What...what kind of look is that?!" Naruko was furious.

Seeing Naruko's expression, Bray indeed chose to change the subject.

“By the way, you’ve liked seven men before, haven’t you?” Bray said.

"Yes, what's wrong?"

“How are they?” Bray asked.

"..." Naruko's eyes darted around, and she even whistled.

"Alright, that's enough." Bray had probably already guessed that the seven men's fate would be terrible.

"Hey! Those seven guys, all they wanted to do was seduce me! It's only right that I fight back!" Naruko protested.

"A handsome tribal chief, two dashing underworld leaders, two handsome Eastern nobles, a dashing smuggler, and a heroic soldier..."

"Ah, it should have been seven beautiful love stories." Naruko pursed her lips, her face full of resentment.

"But they were all thinking about that stuff that very day!"

"What's this! Good men are going to become extinct!"

Bray felt that Naruko's logic had serious problems, but the more important problem was that Naruko's judgment of people was really terrible.

Bray looked up at the sky; the journey to the capital was truly arduous, in every sense of the word.

Skahn Village is a village in the wild, not particularly far from the capital.

However, despite being so close to the capital, this village was rarely visited by travelers.

Because this village is located in a dense forest.

The forest and scenery are beautiful, but the terrain is so bad that it makes one not want to go through it.

However, two unfamiliar visitors have now arrived near this village.

"So even horses can't walk in a place like this!" Naruko's voice echoed through the forest, filled with strong dissatisfaction.

The reason why we ended up in this place is simply because Naruko wandered off aimlessly.

A hopeless navigator, an absolute hopeless navigator, beyond saving.

Following his infatuation with girls, Bray was surprised to discover this fact, and felt only helplessness.

However, Naruko herself seems completely oblivious and is still complaining.

But thinking about it carefully, how did Naruko manage to meet a tribal chief and a yakuza boss...?

Maybe it's because she's terrible with directions?

"Isn't the reason we got lost because we suddenly decided to go this way?" Bray quipped.

Bray intends to make Naruko realize just how bad she is at navigating directions.

"Is that so!?" Naruko was taken aback.

Naruko doesn't think she's bad at directions at all, and of course, she doesn't think she's a fangirl either!

"Have you even forgotten the decision you made...?" Bray was at a loss for words.

Thanks to Naruko, they've even thrown away the horse now.

After all, horses couldn't possibly traverse this terrain.

Looking at the unfamiliar surroundings, Bray felt helpless.

Bray, who had never been to the capital before, didn't even have a map.

They were supposed to follow the track properly, but Naruko led them astray.

But the idea that Bray planned to walk along the tracks was already quite strange.

Bray was also unaware of this.

Both Bray and Naruko are equally bad.

Well, Bray would never admit it.

“A dangerous aura!” Naruko suddenly exclaimed, and the next moment, the light armor exhaled hot air, emitting a sharp whistling sound.

"Hey!" Then, without warning, Naruko threw a punch at Bray.

Bray didn't even bother to move and just stood there in place.

A wail came from behind Bray.

The wolf that had attempted a sneak attack collapsed to the ground, convulsing.

Of course, wolves are not solitary animals.

As expected, Bray and Naruko soon spotted several wolves.

The injury to their own kind made these wolves even more ferocious.

Unfortunately, the wolves' intended prey was not suitable.

"Hiss—" The steam disappeared, and Naruko shook her right hand.

Wolves lay sprawled at my feet.

Ordinary wolves, no matter how many come, are just easy prey.

"There are so many wild animals here! How are we going to find a place to sleep?" Naruko put away her fist and looked at me.

“You know how troublesome it is at night?” Bray sighed deeply.

During the time he spent with Naruko, Bray spent half the time sighing.