I Became the Villain’s Wife - Chapter 59

Translator: Lioness

Editor: Lioness

Watching as the men, who were surrounding her, were slowly stepping back, the blonde in front of her had already thrown the chair he was sitting on and hit the back of the men who had attacked her.

“You look like a foreigner, so don’t interfere with other people’s affairs!”

Another man who had thrown a dirty flirtation earlier at Eun-woo shouted at the blonde man with a ferocious voice.

However, judging from the uproar earlier, Eun-woo could see that the man who fell inside the bar was not the first man to fall after being hit by the chair in front of her.

“Shut up! An outsider doesn’t have rights to intervene, my job is my own problem! You really got on my nerves. Bring it on right now! I’ll beat you up with the chair like you did and even worse!”

“What…!”

The man’s face, which looked like one of Rethual’s companions, who had already collapsed after being hit by the blonde man, turned red and green. However, unlike their ferocious and mad expression, firm provocation, they couldn’t attack the man in front of them recklessly.

Eun-woo could guess without difficulty the fact that a blonde man was the center of the big fight just before she came in. She didn’t know maybe he was the winner of the fight.

In the tension that seemed to explode at any moment, Eun-woo’s body trembled like a leaf.

On the other hand, she was comfortable with the blonde man who got involved in the situation. The man shouted with a strong voice, taking this silent momentum so that everyone in the bar could hear him, from the ends of the bar.

“The Cremons’ men are so vulgar! Merely seeing a skirt wrapped around a noble’s waist, you’ll behave like this?! What’s so fun about that kind of thing when there’s nothing to enjoy?! If I were you, I would have cut my hands and feet to regain my senses before I could touch the noble lady’s body!”

The blonde man exclaimed madly and poured the left beer into his mouth as if there was still alcohol in the empty glass in his hand. Then, when nothing came out, he kicked his tongue and threw the glass to the floor.

Looking at his disheveled figure, Eun-woo couldn’t decide whether he was really drunk or not.

On the other hand, the crowd of drunkards who heard the man’s words looked at each other and were bewildered. They seemed to be questioning the firm man’s words, when he referred to the woman they tried to touch as ‘Noble Lady’.

As the blonde man looked around the crowd, he aggressively yelled as if the drunkards were acting pathetic.

“Well, how can men like you, who’s always at the bottom, at the lowest rankings, recognize a noble lady by her precious body? It’s impossible for dogs like you! Come on, come on! You filthy men! I can handle you all with just one stick!”

The blonde man grabbed one of the broken chair legs on the floor, pretended to play a lute, and stimulated his opponents.

“Don’t cry looking for your mamas once this fight is over!”

The blonde man warned menacingly.

“What did you say…?! You crazy bastard!”

“We’ll see, we’ll really see, this bastard stranger.”

The drunken men immediately fell for the provocation of the blond man. The fat man who could see his uvula trembled, unable to overcome his anger, was the first to fly towards the blonde man.

However, the blonde man dodged the man’s attack with ease, as if effortlessly avoiding an obstacle.

“Ugh…!”

At the signal, the other men also started rushing towards the blonde man. Each of them had possessed a broken glass bottle, a leather belt, a hammer, and a small dagger in their hands.

Eun-woo became contemplative and faced the cowardly drunkards and shouted to the drunkards, who were about to beat a person who had a single weapon in his hand.

“Cowards…! He has no weapons!”

How can a group attack with all their might on a man without any weapons? It felt like blood was running down her body.

Eun-woo looked around quickly to ask for help. However, the store owner and the other customers were all cheering and averting their gazes, making it clear that they had no intention of getting involved with them.

While anxiously biting her nails, Eun-woo found a heavy plank that had been broken next to her. She whimpered and lifted it up. Then she lifted it up into the air as hard as she could to strike the back of a drunken man who was busy attacking the blond-haired man.

“Ackk…!”

But before the drunkard could feel the blow from her plank which she was holding, the men attacking the blonde man began to fall to the floor one after another, screaming and moaning in pain.

Eun-woo was startled and threw the plank she was holding, quickly stepping backwards.

The cheers of the crowd watching the fight grew louder. At the same time, booing voices erupted everywhere.

But the blonde man was beating the men who rushed at him with the broken leg of a chair he was holding to make sure he wasn’t interested in such onlookers. The men who jumped at the blonde man were beaten like dogs on a lucky day and fell in all directions.

Eun-woo swallowed her dry saliva while watching the scene.

Even though she had no knowledge of martial arts, it was a very agile movement. Even though it looked like he was just wielding a broken wooden leg, the stick was precisely hitting the enemy’s head, abdomen, and their vital points.

Due to his light and precise attack, the drunken crowd fell like fallen leaves in spite of their determination. They screamed and crawled on the floor like pigs rolling around in the mud.

“Aww! My legs! This, this jerk…! what!”

“What is it! You’re drunk!”

Without even snoring, the blonde man smashed one of the men in the face with his fist. Along with the sound of bones breaking, the man’s lips popped, and the two men bounced off as if they were broken. Red blood soaked the floor instantly. The man groaned in pain, grabbed his face, and fell to the ground.

The situation was settled in an instant. In the blink of an eye, the group that had rushed to the blonde man were all lying on the floor like a group of giant bugs.

Eun-woo looked at the men who had fainted, bewildered, with puzzled eyes.

The blonde man who took care of the drunkards, spit, and threw a wooden stick on the floor. Then he groaned, stroking his wrists which were tingling in a bit of pain.

“Damn……! These bast*rds just wasted these precious drinks!”

The commotion they had made had the bottles lying on the table shattered and rolling on the floor.

Eun-woo, who watched the scene, had to swallow the words that they had not drunk all the alcohol in it before they started such fuss.

“Hey, owner! Please give me another bottle here.”

An old man hiding in the corner crouched and brought out a new bottle of wine. The man took the bottle roughly, and after opening it, he gulped it down as if drinking water.

Eun-woo looked at such a man with narrowed eyes.

At first glance, he already didn’t seem like an ordinary man. Without a proper weapon, he possessed considerable ability to subdue three or four men in one shot with only a wooden stick and force.

Judging by the words of the small group, he seemed to be outsiders, not one of the locals.

Then the blonde man staggered as to where the beautiful-looking figure he had been before, then grabbed a nearby chair and slumped down. And he cast a stern gaze towards her.

“Just looking at you, you look like a precious girl from a noble’s house. Did you come alone?”

Eun-woo couldn’t open her mouth to the man who saved her. Considering that he saved her from her crisis, he may not be of the same category as those men earlier, but she still couldn’t lower her vigilance just because of that reason.

Moreover, as a person who watched the scene a while ago with both eyes wide open, Eun-woo could assert that. The man in front of her was quite a dangerous one.

She created a cracked, hard voice so as not to show to the blonde man that she was scared.

“Thank you for your help. I lived thanks to you.”

“… You really do look like a doe.”

Eun-woo’s eyes widened as the blonde man muttered out of nowhere.

“I beg your pardon?”

“Oh, your eyes are getting bigger.”

The man with the bottle in his mouth slowly drank the contents of the inside without taking his eyes off of her.

Eun-woo received that gaze and suddenly noticed that the man’s eyes were as blue as the sea. But the look in his eyes was as black as the wine he was drinking.

He warned in a slow, low voice.

“By the way, lady, from now on, don’t do anything dangerous to fight with a plank like that. A skinny poker like the young girl you are, can go to heaven in one shot if you make a mistake.”

Eun-woo’s cheeks reddened at the man’s words. Mistaking that the man was at a disadvantage, she had been watching everything she tried to intervene in his fight.

Seeing her like that, the man whistled.

“Wow, my neck is turning red. If you tease me a little more, my toes will turn red, right? Let me see….”

“Look here!”

Eun-woo cut off the man’s words while screaming. The fact that she was disregarded because she was trembling in fear because of the men before, and the man who made fun of her, made her angry to the top of her head.

“Stop it! Thank you for saving me, but if you keep trying to tease me, I’ll leave right away.”

At first glance, he was a rough man with a dangerous atmosphere.

Eun-woo was nervous, but in order not to get involved with this man any longer, she bowed her head roughly to only say her gratitude and tried to leave. But the man did not let her go as well as she had thought.

“Hey, doe girl. I saved you, but where are you running now?”

Eun-woo trembled at the sound of the man preventing her from leaving and turned to face him. The man had the same expression and posture as before, with the bottle of wine in his mouth.

It was the expression of a drunken main character who had the spirit of dealing with the men he had quarreled with by himself, but without a hitch.

Such a man’s expression strangely relieved her tension. The man asked, biting his tongue.

“A white woman is dressed in white and wandering around in these places, there are inevitably bugs on the way. Where did you come from? Don’t tell me you came all the way here alone.”

Eun-woo raised her chin in order to relieve the tension she was feeling and responded to him in a fairly confident voice.

“I have said it before. I have my friends waiting for me. Did you come to enjoy the festival alone?”

“Tell me who exactly. Those who are ‘waiting’ for you, or those who are ‘seeking’ you?”

But the man wasn’t easy to deal with. He grinned as if to pry at her with a gangster look. He looked as if he had already noticed that she had been separated from her friends and was left alone.

Eun-woo proudly lifted her chest with courage to hide her caught off guard expression.

“Those drunkards know nothing.”

“Looks like you need a guide, but do you think you are in a position to be so picky right now?”

The man raised his arms behind his head, shook a wooden chair, and said with a smirk. But Eun-woo snorted at the man’s words.

“Even if I’m lost and I’m looking for them, I’m not stupid enough to entrust my guide to a wildly drunk stranger like you.”

Looking at Eun-woo, who did not blink an eye even when he had teased her. The man made a playful expression as if he was about to give up. Then he favorably suggested to her.

“Aiya, I can’t beat you. All right, Miss Doe. How about this one? I’ll be your escort until you find your friends. And I do a side job to kill time, and you are safe until you meet your friends again. What do you say, it’s a complete loss on my side.”

Eun-woo lightly glanced up and down the man.

Even if the man had already won a victory over a group of drunkards, his shabby demeanor was not invisible.

The man was barely clad in an old shirt and basic trousers, even if he had been walking from a neighboring country. She had seen him fight earlier, but he didn’t seem to have any special weapons carried with him.

Eun-woo asked with questionable eyes.

“What do you gain by doing that?”

“Drinks.”

The man shrugged his shoulders and answered.

“Find your friends and pay for the drinks. I lost all my money at the gambling board earlier. And gave all the money I had. I’ve drank more than one drink so far, but isn’t that old man over there going to run away without paying for his drinks?”

Eun-woo glanced at the man pointing his finger. The old man, who served the bottle ordered by the man earlier, was wiping the plate with a dirty towel.

No matter how much she looked at it, he was an old man who could hardly even raise his eyelids, far from opening his eyes at the man.