The number is 12, p.1
The Number is 12, page 1
Female Warrior
Author: Yu Wo (御我)
Novel Illustrator: 50/午零 (Wu Ling)
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Volume 2: The Number is 12
Original work by: Yu Wo (御我)
As the saying goes, once you have one, you’ll have another and most definitely a third as well…
Then what in the world is twelve?
Silvester Uriah Nate!
The team is only allowed one imbecile!
Either you scram, or the other must. You choose!
Ah…
But Carol…
I have already picked up many more…
Number, 1, Prologue
Previously:
Due to his teacher Lorenzo Louis’s final wish, Silvester began searching for his teacher’s old companion, one of the Holy King’s two wives—the Warrior Queen.
With great difficulty, he finally managed to find the Warrior Queen, who now goes by the name of Carol and travels all around the world.
After much pestering and the use of his teacher’s name, Silvester managed to make Carol agree to become his companion, and now they travel the continent together…
“Silvester!”
A roar penetrated the forest, startling countless birds into the sky and even scaring ferocious beasts into running off one after another. The originally tranquil forest was suddenly in turmoil.
Silvester, usually shortened to “Silvie,” was presently feeling wronged as he crouched on the ground, looking up from below and giving off a bright-eyed, pitiable expression. This trick was very effective on the female gender. Whenever he was hungry, as long as he made this sort of bright-eyed expression, he would usually be able to find a female who would give him a free meal.
Unfortunately, the female in front of him had the most masculinity out of anyone in the entire world. (Formerly commanding five thousand troops to oppose fifty thousand demons, the Warrior Queen—also known as Carol—who had journeyed under countless skies with her pair of dual blades, was currently Silvie’s companion.)
However, this word “companion” was in itself only Silvie’s own acknowledgment… According to Carol’s words, if he had not been her deceased companion’s only student, he would have been abandoned by the roadside long ago, and would even have a “Stupid creature. Please do not pick up” sign stuck onto him.
“Tell me!” Carol roared. “How many times has it been that you’ve endangered yourself now?”
Silvie blinked and said, “The th-thir…” At first he thought of casually saying the third time, but faced with Carol’s eyes burning with black flames, he truly didn’t have the courage to lie without blinking. He truthfully replied, “Maybe the thirty-fifth time.”
“You’re sure?”
“… If you include slipping and almost falling down a mountain wall, stepping on the tail of a cobra, and stealing honey and ending up being chased by a swarm of bees, then it would be the thirty-eighth time.”
Carol said coldly, “Then tell me, how long have we been adventuring together?”
“I know, I know!” Silvie smiled very sweetly. “Just two more days and it will be a full month! Are we going to celebrate a bit? How about going to the tavern and ordering a banquet? That’s a bit extravagant but it is a rare occasion, commemorating a month since we’ve met. What do you think we should order? A slice of cake is a must, and then, and then…”
No! If Silvie had not been her deceased companion’s only student, she would have already killed him a hundred times over!
Carol’s face twitched, her hand on the hilt of one of the dual blades on her back, but upon further thought, killing this guy would tarnish her own blade! She then lowered her hand, clenched her fist, and growled, “Shut up or die!”
Silvie cleverly chose to shut up immediately, even crossing two fingers in front of his mouth to make an ‘X.’
Carol breathed deeply with all her might. Calm down! Calm down! However much this guy is stupid, talkative, and useless, he is also LL’s only student. On behalf of LL… LL you old bastard! What kind of student did you accept? Was it because of your old age that your sympathy overflowed, and so you were determined to take care of a piece of rubbish?
“Go!” Carol had exhausted all of her strength before she managed to calm down. After saying that one word she immediately continued forward, not caring the least bit whether the person behind would be able to keep up… It would be even better if he can’t keep up!
It was a pity that while the person behind her was not good at anything, his skill at following people was actually decent. Although Carol wasn’t running, her pace was not slow either, yet Silvie always managed to easily trail behind.
So having long legs gives such an advantage! Carol glanced behind her, confirming that Silvie was indeed following two steps away and, judging by his relaxed expression, was not finding it hard to follow her.
After walking for a while, Silvie finally could not help but open his mouth to ask, “Carol, how are we going to celebrate the day commemorating our month-long companionship…?”
Carol, who was walking in front immediately lifted her right hand; five fingers starting from the little finger began to curl one by one, until at last it became a fist bursting with blue veins.
Seeing this, Silvie could only close his mouth in grief and switch to mumbling in his heart. But there is only one chance to commemorate our month-long companionship! How can we not pleasantly celebrate this very important day? But seeing that Carol appears very angry, maybe I should just give up? Ah! Oh right, it’ll be okay if I wait until our two month anniversary and then celebrate both anniversaries together…
“Ahh!”
Here we go again… Upon hearing this cry of alarm, Carol stopped walking, sure that she would have to save him again though her heart only bore the wish to kill him.
She turned around. There were no traces of Silvie in front of her. Looking down, she could see him clinging to the edge of a giant pit, obviously a trap set by a hunter. But there was plainly a large pile of leaves and branches spread atop it. So long as a person had eyes, he would not fall in… However, this guy in front of her seemed to have thrown his sight out the window and fallen in, and even looked miserably at her with his pair of large, watery, blue eyes. Those eyes are so huge yet they don’t have a single bit of usefulness!
She crouched down, faced that big pair of big blue eyes, and asked suspiciously, “How could you have managed to survive on your own up until now?”
At this moment, a ball of yellow jelly poked its head out from the area of Silvie’s chest. A knowledgeable person would know with a glance that this was a slime, only a slime was normally green. This one was gold, with a strange decoration on its head, and even possessed two tiny eyes!
Its name was Ohmygod, with reference to God but with the meaning of “Oh my god, what is that?”
At this moment, Ohmygod’s eyes were half-opened, half-closed, clearly having just been startled awake.
“Ohmygod, hurry and pull me up,” Silvie shouted.
Ohmygod’s tiny eyes fully opened in an instant. It leapt from Silvie’s chest to the ground, wrapped its tail around Silvie’s hand, and then forcefully lifted Silvie up.
Carol watched as Ohmygod, who was no b igger than a person’s head, used its tail to lift Silvie out… Maybe she had been making a mistake all along about who was the master and who was the pet?
Silvie finally climbed out. His whole body was covered in mud and he looked exhausted, but he lifted his head and smiled at Carol. “I’ve crawled out already! I’m fine! I didn’t get hurt!”
Silvie’s smile was of the kind between a boy’s smile and a man’s smile. When she had first seen it, Carol had admired this smile quite a lot; it carried a bit of a child’s sincerity yet was not without a man’s charm. But now, as she looked at that smile, she only felt an incomparable headache.
This guy is not a man at all; he is definitely a boy who has yet to grow up!
Silvie brushed the dust off his body and subsequently took out a comb and ran it through that head of long, golden hair. After neatening up his appearance, he raised his head and faced Carol with a smile, saying, “I’m done! Let’s go! Carol, if we don’t continue onwards the sky will turn dark soon.”
Under the light of the setting sun, Silvie’s smile was even more matchless in its brilliance. So there are still advantages for a person to be handsome. At the very least, her tolerance of Silvie had increased a bit because of it, and she would probably be able to resist killing him for a few more days. Probably.
“Mm, let’s go.”
Number, 2, Divergence
When asking for rooms at the inn, Carol had originally wanted to get two rooms. However, she hadn’t expected that upon opening her wallet, she would find that they probably wouldn’t have money for dinner if she really booked two.
Carol hesitated for a moment, but that was not because she had apprehensions regarding people of opposite genders sharing a room. They had basically slept in the same tent for the past month. It was just that Silvie was simply too noisy. Sleeping in separate rooms at night would be the only way to avoid hearing his voice.
“One room is enough.” In the end, she reluctantly asked for a single room. In the end, tonight’s rest won’t be a very quiet one.
She turned around and walked back to their table, but upon seeing Silvie look around excitedly, his mouth already open in preparation to start talking, Carol had only one feeling. It is high time to start doing missions to earn money.
“Carol! We haven’t come into a city for almost a month! Why did you suddenly want to enter one?” Silvie asked excitedly, “Are we going to look for evil-doers, capture them, and make them forsake evil and return to the right path? Just like the last time with the city lord!?”
Forsake evil and return to the right path? Carol shot a glance at Silvie, and then said indifferently, “I’m not looking for evil-doers or whatever intentionally. It was just that countless soldiers had used their lives to protect this country, thus at that time when I saw that this country had areas of corruption, I just wanted to take action and excise that corruption. Also, it is ‘excising evil,’ not forsaking evil or whatever and returning them to the right path!”
Silvie received a shock when he heard her. “Excising them? You mean to say… Killing them? B-but some people perhaps aren’t that evil, and as long as you talk to them properly, they might change for the better!”
Carol gave a cold laugh and replied, “Just like the city lord before who was selling slaves in private? Once the operation fell through and was exposed, he was even prepared to murder someone who carried a white rose insignia to prevent the secret from being divulged. Don’t tell me that you seriously believed that he would change for the better?”
“He might have!” Unexpectedly, Silvie said this as though it was a matter of fact. “He thought that he would be sentenced to death! For the sake of living, that’s why he would do such a thing!”
“It’s not ‘thought,’ it’s a fact. Once the fact that he was selling slaves in private was exposed, he would certainly die, no doubt about it.”
“What?” Silvie’s eyes widened, and he exclaimed, “He would be sentenced to death?”
“Sentenced to hang, that’s the kind of penalty it would be,” was Carol’s clear-cut reply.
Silvie’s eyes opened even wider, and he trembled as he said, “Why must he be killed? Perhaps he might change for the better… If he is killed, he would never be able to amend his ways.”
“For the sake of this ‘perhaps,’ how many more deaths would occur?” Carol coldly said, “Without a harsh enough penalty, how would we stop the rest of the populace from selling slaves in private as well? If the crime of selling slaves in private were to spread, how many people do you think would suffer from it? You were also once a victim of it, weren’t you? If it weren’t for me, you would already have the mark of a slave branded on your body!”
Silvie muttered in a small voice, “But even if one was sold as a slave, at least they are still alive. Is this not so? As long as one still lives, hope exists.”
Carol frowned, but did not say anything more. She unconcernedly said, “Order some dishes! There isn’t much money left, so you’re not allowed to order wine.”
Hearing about this prohibition, Silvie just could not accept it and began complaining, “I’m not a drunkard! I rarely drink!”
Carol did not quite believe him. “Last time, didn’t you very happily drink wine worth one silver ducat?”
“That’s because I hadn’t been drinking in a long time!” Silvie hurriedly explained, “The last time I had gone drinking was after I had buried teacher LL!”
After he finished speaking, he saw Carol’s face darken, and immediately realized that he had made a mistake with his speech.
LL’s full name was Lorenzo Louis, and he had possessed the white rose insignia that was personally bestowed upon him by the Holy King. As the imperial bard, he was a past companion of Carol’s and was also Silvie’s teacher. However, he had died of illness two years ago. Carol had only learned of this a month ago and hadn’t even managed to meet him one last time.
Because of that, Carol had always been brooding about it. Especially since when the two of them had parted ways, LL had had a few misunderstandings about Carol, leaving the two of them with an unpleasant feeling in their hearts, an unpleasantness that she would now never be able to resolve.
At this moment, a waiter walked over and briskly asked, “What would you like to order?”
“Two plates of beef, a plate of bread, two bowls of soup, and two bottles of grape wine!” Carol ordered without any hesitation.
“And a cup of milk!” Silvie added in a hurry, and then he registered what Carol had ordered. He blinked, not understanding her actions as he asked, “Didn’t you say that we are not allowed to order wine?”
Carol coldly said, “I said that you are not allowed to order wine. Did I say that I couldn’t order it myself?”
Silvie was speechless. Though half of their money was earned through his singing, he still did not dare retort even once. Who had asked him to say something so imprudent just now anyways?
The dishes arrived rather quickly. The aroma of beef made Ohmygod instantly squirm out of Silvie’s embrace. Silvie cut up a piece of beef into several small pieces, and then put them into a small saucer together with the milk, so that Ohmygod could use his little mouth to swallow the food.
Raising a carnivorous slime was a very expensive proposition. Thankfully, Ohmygod’s food intake was not large, as a piece of beef and a cup of milk was enough for it to stay sated for two to three days.
Carol, on the other hand, grabbed a bottle of wine with one hand and started pouring it into a cup.
Originally, Silvie thought that Carol was going to drink it all herself, and would not leave even a single drop for him. He didn’t imagine that she would push the first cup of wine she finished pouring to him, saying, “Drink!”
Silvie received the wine cup, smiling as he said, “There’s also a portion for me?”
“There’s no point in drinking alone.” Carol also poured herself a cup of wine, which she drank in one go.
Compared to Carol’s boldness, Silvie drank in small sips. A cup of wine that was hardly considered big took him five to six mouthfuls to finish.
