Future Knight

Chapter 118

Among the women who sold their bodies, the one who seemed the oldest was nervously trimming her nails as she ordered the youngest woman.

“Hey! Call her. How dare she come here without even greeting her seniors?”

“Ah, unni, why do you always make me do it?”

“Who else but you is going to do it here! Hurry up, you wench!”

“Tsk! So annoying! Does age even matter?”

“What? How dare you glare at me! I’ll smash your head!”

“Ah, I’m going, I’m going! Isn’t that enough?”

Even though she had also been in this line of work for a while, she hadn’t managed to shake off her position as the youngest, simply because of her age. She found it unfair.

But now, seeing that someone even younger had come in, she was determined and called Loki.

“Hey! You!”

However, Loki was momentarily distracted, looking at a bird perched on a tree.

Seeing the bird reminded him of the forest he used to live in.

It was a forest teeming with cute and charming monsters, at least by ogre Loki’s standards.

‘I wonder how Teddy is doing?’

Loki worried about Teddy, whom he had no choice but to release into the forest. He was concerned that the small and delicate creature might be starving somewhere.

But Loki’s thoughts didn’t last long.

Someone suddenly smacked the back of his head.

Smack!

Loki, having been hit on the back of his head, looked at the person who hit him.

Surprisingly, it was a woman he had never seen before, glaring at him with a very displeased expression.

“What are you daydreaming about! How many times did I call you? Huh?”

“Who are you?”

“Who do you think? I’m your senior, someone like the sky!”

“Senior?”

“Yes, a senior like the sky!”

“What’s that?”

“A senior is a senior, what more explanation do you need?”

“A senior is a senior?”

“Yes, if you mess with a senior here, you’re done for. Remember that!”

“I don’t know what you mean, but I’ll remember.”

“Follow me.”

“Where?”

“Where else? You need to greet the great seniors.”

“Do I really have to go?”

“What, you don’t want to? If you don’t, you’ll be marked by the seniors, and life here will get tough.”

“It’ll get tough?”

“Yes, very.”

“Alright, let’s go.”

Loki then followed the prostitute into the red-light district.

Waiting for Loki were about ten prostitutes, all of whom looked very rough and seasoned.

“I brought him, unni.”

The prostitute who brought Loki stood him in front of them and went back to her seat, applying powder in preparation for the evening’s customers.

“Wow, so young and firm. He’s got a nice face. He’ll be popular, I bet?”

“But he’s got no chest. Completely flat!”

“Oh my! Look at his skin… It’s as smooth as a baby’s.”

“Even the clothes he’s wearing are so luxurious. Is he really a prostitute?”

The prostitutes scrutinized Loki from head to toe, making him uncomfortable with their piercing gazes.

“Hey! Whose house are you from?”

“Me? I’m from the Visman Empire.”

At Loki’s response, one of the prostitutes retorted as if it was absurd.

“Crazy wench, I meant the place you work.”

“The place I work? You mean my workplace?”

“Yes.”

“The Helrainer Knights.”

“Pffft!”

“Kyakakaka!”

“Ahahaha!”

The prostitutes burst into laughter at the mention of the Helrainer Knights.

“Is she crazy?”

“Well, with the war going on, there are a lot of crazy kids these days. She must be one of them. Tsk tsk, such a pretty face, but how did she end up like this…”

Seeing them treat him as a madwoman, Loki frowned and spoke.

“I’m not crazy. Why are you saying weird things after calling me over?”

“Yeah, no crazy person admits they’re crazy. And talking to me like that is crazy in itself.”

At that moment, her hand flew towards Loki’s face.

But Loki wasn’t one to get hit twice; he easily caught her hand in his grip.

As Loki slowly applied pressure, her eyes widened in pain.

“Ah! Let go! Girls, what are you doing! Help me!”

She pleaded with the other prostitutes, but they were too intimidated by Loki’s menacing aura to move.

Despite appearing as a small girl, Loki was actually an ogre at the intermediate level of Sword Expert.

“You! Ah! Please let go! Please…”

She struggled to free herself from Loki’s grip, but couldn’t match his strength and eventually collapsed.

Despite being larger than Loki, she was easily overpowered without putting up much of a fight.

The other prostitutes watched in fear and didn’t dare approach Loki.

Thinking it was enough, Loki let go of her hand.

Her hand was left bruised and bloodied.

Seeing her bruised hand, the prostitutes whispered among themselves, eyeing Loki fearfully.

“What’s with her? Why is she so strong?”

“I don’t know, they say you get stronger when you go crazy, and it seems to be true.”

“Oh my, how can a woman be that strong?”

At the word “woman,” Loki revealed that he was actually a man.

“I’m not a woman! I’m a man!”

At Loki’s words, the prostitutes screamed in disbelief.

“What? You’re a man?”

“With that face and body, you’re a man?”

“Wait, now that I look closer, doesn’t he seem like a man?”

“Maybe it’s because we’ve only been seeing burly soldiers lately? He looks like a woman to me.”

“We don’t believe you. Show us proof.”

“Proof?”

“Yes, proof. You look like a woman and even wear women’s clothes. Show us proof that you’re a man.”

“You mean my penis?”

“Yes, your penis.”

Being in their profession, they weren’t embarrassed by the word “penis.” To them, it was a casual term.

“I won’t show it, but you can touch it.”

“Really? Let’s see.”

The prostitute who demanded proof stepped forward and touched Loki’s nether region. Her expression instantly changed.

“Gasp! It’s real! He’s really a man!”

“What? Really? Let me touch too!”

“Kyah! Me too!”

The prostitutes rushed over, each taking turns to touch Loki’s lower region.

However, Loki didn’t particularly mind their touches.

Loki’s understanding of sex was still in its infancy.

“This is a scam! A man with that face?”

“And that’s not the only thing…”

One woman, after feeling Loki’s size, displayed her hand in the shape of what she felt to the others. Seeing the size, another woman gasped and lined up to touch Loki’s privates as well.

In the midst of this, someone entered the establishment.

“Hello~ everyone!”

“Oh my! Hollis oppa!”

“Hollis, you’re here?”

The person visiting the brothel early in the morning was Hollis from the Black Wyvern Unit.

He was known as the biggest spender here.

He was also the most frequent and valuable customer, especially during times without battles. He practically lived here.

When he entered, he saw the ten prostitutes groping one woman’s privates.

“What are my kittens doing? Are you having fun without me?”

Hollis slyly squeezed himself among them.

And he discreetly placed his hand there too.

But he stiffened at the voice he heard next.

“Hollis?”

“Gasp! Lord Loki?”

Loki couldn’t fail to recognize Hollis, one of Kang Chan’s subordinates.

And Hollis couldn’t fail to recognize Loki either.

Loki was from the same Helrainer Knights of the Visman Empire and was the adopted son of the missing Duke Kalitz Garman from ten years ago.

Moreover, he wasn’t human.

He was an ogre.

“L-Lord Loki, what brings you to a place like this?”

Meeting an ogre, not a human, in a brothel was indeed an extraordinary encounter for Hollis.

“I was dragged here.”

“What?”

“That woman over there brought me here.”

The woman Loki pointed at turned pale.

Even Hollis was the biggest shot they dealt with, being a knight from the Helrainer Knights, the greatest on the continent.

Seeing Hollis’s utmost respect towards him made the prostitutes realize something was terribly wrong. They cautiously whispered to Hollis.

“Hollis oppa, do you know him well?”

“Of course, he’s a friend of our commander.”

“Your commander? You’re with the Black Wyvern Unit, right? Does that mean he’s friends with the Sky Knight?”

“Didn’t you know? He’s from the same Helrainer Knights as me. And he’s the adopted son of the missing Duke Kalitz Garman from ten years ago.”

“Gasp!”

The prostitutes’ faces turned dark.

Loki left the brothel and wandered back into the streets in search of something more entertaining.

In his hand were ten coupons, each with a woman’s name and the words “One Year Free Pass” handwritten underneath.

The prostitutes had given them to him as an apology, urging him to come back anytime.

With those coupons, Loki headed to the market within the military camp.

Currently, nearly a million people were gathered at this base.

Small merchants had flocked here, risking danger to make a profit, forming a large market.

Prices were outrageously high due to the dangers, which went without saying.

The shops were all set up on carts, ready to leave at any moment when the war started.

So, mules and horses were tied to the carts.

Loki’s face lit up with childlike wonder as he wandered around the market.

It was his first time in such a bustling market.

Everything was fascinating to Loki.

He wandered the market, engrossed in his surroundings.

Time flew by, and as dusk fell, the market transformed into a different scene.

The shops selling goods closed, replaced by mobile taverns.

Many soldiers on leave flocked to these taverns.

Soon, they were heavily intoxicated, savoring the taste of alcohol after a long time.

Loki noticed a tavern selling roasted boar, his former staple food.

‘How long has it been since I last had roasted boar?’

Just the thought made Loki’s mouth water.

He checked the money in his pocket.

He still had the 10 gold coins Duke Sachsen had given him as allowance.

The 10 gold coins were a substantial amount, equivalent to what a commoner would earn in a year of hard labor.

It was indeed a generous allowance, befitting a duke.

With the money confirmed, Loki approached the tavern owner excitedly.