How to live as a wanderer

After he died in an accident, he was born with strength into the Eights family, the knight family of the Holy Empire.

And then 17 years later,

Kim Johan had to admit that life here was not so easy.

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The Eights family was small enough to not be a genealogist among the many noble families of the Empire.

Unlike other knights without territory, it might be lucky to have at least one small town as territory.

However, it was likely that the village would not return to John. Gessen Eights had too many children.

My firstborn son, my second son, and my third son, who I had from my ex-wife. Fourth, fifth, from my ex-wife.

His mother who gave birth to John in this world was his ex-wife. As soon as John was born, John left the world and never saw his face.

"I'm not the daughter of a concubine.

It was still difficult enough. If it were a bastard, it would have been more twisted and difficult.

Once the sons of the old ex-wife, of course, disliked John or the children of the other wife.

And Mrs. Acts hated Johann and her children.

With the two forces on the ground, except for Sir Gessen, we had no choice but to struggle. Lord Gessen was not interested in the situation of the territory, unless Lord Gessen was able to mediate well.

Lord Gessen spent most of his year outside the territory. I don't know what he was doing, but he was damn busy. Sometimes when I return to the territory, I only drink poisonous liquor. John had never actually seen his father, Sir Gessen, a few times.

It was Lord Gessen's men, his wife, his old sons who took care of the land.

Dying were the sons in between.

At least the other sons had siblings with the same mother, John was really alone. If John were small, he would have been bullied the whole time.

“Oh, John. Greetings."

“Yes."

John greets the farmer.

There were territories, but small, poor families like the Eights did not have expensive castles. The village had all the right sized mansions. The permanent residence also looked like a palatial palace compared to the villages.

Thanks to that, the sons of the Ates family had to live in front of the people in the village. Especially sons who look like John.

Most of them acted like nobles, but not John. It didn't fit my personality and I didn't have anything good because I didn't want to get a grudge. Even if the opponent is joking.

Thanks to this, the people of the village liked John. He's young, but he's also a knightly fellow. In the village, it was said, 'John must succeed Lord Gessen.'

Of course, they meant nothing. Farming farmers tied to their territory couldn't be affected. Even if Lord Gessen dies quickly, the decision will be made by Lord Gessen's wives and elderly sons.

“What is it? It's John. ”

“Don't look at me. Idiot.”

If you walk a little further through the wheat field near the village, you see a dense forest. The elderly in the village were so dense that even in broad daylight, they called it the "Devil's Forest."

Unlike Earth, the Holy Empire was overflowing with places that were not individualized this way. It was a world where animals would protrude from the forest as they approached the roads.

And there were very few people in the village who could enter that forest. Most farmers were barred from entering the forest unless it was a special occasion. The trees and beasts of the forest belonged to the lord.

Only the son of the lord or the hunters allowed to enter the forest!

It was also clear that they would not look at John now. John shakes his head.

Such quarrels were now pathetic. At first, I didn't put up with it, but now I'm so annoyed that I ignore it and move on.

Don't you ever get tired of it? ’

The opposing Pokémon shouldn't be forced to use force. They don't even bother with their mouths, and don't come any closer. He knew that there was nothing good about bumping into John.

Woodduk

John stood before the thick oak tree, ignoring him. I was going to do it again every day.

‘I don't know if I need to train like this. ’

More than 6 inches. Strong enough to defeat four when fighting with other brothers.

I felt it from birth, but John had a blessed body.

It looked similar to my previous life, but I got a lot more attention. Overall, people are smaller. John's half-brothers were also the sons of the knight, and they ate well and slept well. They were more than normal, but they seemed humble to him.

Besides...

‘I feel like I'm getting stronger. ’

John clenches his fist. The grip feels stronger than before.

There are Bergman's laws.

The law says the colder animals live, the bigger they get.

Is the environment in this world just as powerful as John's? They were the same size, but I couldn't figure out why they felt stronger.

Bang, bang.

John stopped worrying and started exercising. It was a training that I had been doing since Earth. No matter how physical I was, I couldn't become strong without training.

And in this training, John was confident.

A man more familiar with modern and scientific training than any man in the empire!

It was hard to keep up with the diet without the utensils, but John did the best he could. The result was the current body.

The problem is that this is not the modern world, but another medieval world.

It was a world where you could not become a world where you could become a bare fighter, but you could become a world where you could learn to wield a sword in armor.

And John never learned any of this. It wasn't just John. Most of the other half-brothers were similar.

Lord Gessen was so indifferent to his children.

It was good to just wander outside the territory. There were a lot of those knights.

However, such knights usually sent their children under other knights to train apprentices. It was common practice for knights to exchange each other's children and train each other to be great knights.

The article was not made overnight. From childhood, it is completed by continuously learning what is needed as a knight, such as sword, craftsmanship, tactics and strategy.

One of Lord Gessen's sons, who was trained as a knight, was the oldest to first or second, and now Mrs. Eights' son, his youngest son, was learning from his family teacher.

What about the rest?

I was just living a good life.

‘I hope you guys are comfortable. ’

John shakes his head at the half-brothers who come in with swords to hunt in the woods.

I wish he could live like that.

But I couldn't. Unlike those who didn't know what was happening to them, John was clearly aware of his situation.

If you don't wake up, you could starve to death.

Let's think about this.

What if Sir Gezen dies?

Lord Gessen is already looking at middle-aged age, and the world rarely exceeds 60 and 70, rather than 100 years of human life. There was nothing like the fantasy novel that John saw in which the knights stopped aging internally.

It seemed that Sir Gessen would be difficult to look at for more than a decade. She's put on so much weight, so much age, and yet she likes booze and women so much...

When Lord Gessen dies, one of his firstborn and youngest will be knighted. John didn't even know which one would be. He's gonna win the fight anyway.

The problem was the rest of the sons like John.

If we were close, we would have given him a place in the territory, but John saw no soup. Whoever boarded the boat seemed to be expelled from the territory by all the other brothers.

‘It's a pity if you throw them out for silver. ’

Honestly, I didn't think I'd give it to him either.

Before, I didn't understand why the next of the nobles and the third of the three men joined the army so much in history, but I really understood it because I was in my own position to experience it.

There's nothing else to do.

He's the son of a formal knight family, and he's a nobleman, so he doesn't want to do business or farming, but he still needs to eat and live, so he needs money...

If I had been trained as an apprentice under the knight, I would have tried to keep running as an apprentice and try to get under another nobleman with territory, but I wasn't trained, so I had no choice.

"Do I have to make a big decision and ask you to send it under another article? But I'm his son... damn it. I can't try anything because I'm not coming to the territory. ’

John grumbled against Lord Gessen. We cannot try anything because we are not coming to the territory.

In the end, there was only one thing John could do.

Training.

I don't know how much fighting with my bare body means, but as long as I'm nervous, I have to do this. I don't know how much use it'll be to wield a sword in other people's armor, but...

And John laughed as the other half-brothers passed by. John seemed to be doing strange things with his naked body in their eyes.

“Weren't you seduced by a witch? Hahaha!”

“Shh. If you hear of the new priest, he's screaming for trouble. ”

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“Hello, John. ”

Joseph, the hunter, bows politely. John's personality was as polite as the bard's song, but the more careful he was.

“Joseph, are you ready? ”

“Yes.”

John stares at Joseph. I was not used to the arrogance of a middle-aged man at first, but now I am used to it.

If I treated them kindly, I could only make the opponent feel more burdened, and if I went into someone else's ears, I could only cause trouble.

‘I can't help but notice what I'm doing here. ’

The hunter's waist dances feature a shoddy dagger and a few bags of medicine. It was a unique drug passed down among hunters. Starting with painkillers, there were also drugs used to attract animals.

There's a bow and arrow. That was all the hunter had. There was no heavy cloth armor called gambison because of course there was no equipment such as chain armor, gauntlets or metal boots. If the hunter had such equipment, he would have sold it and turned it into money.

I wanted to meet a predator, but the hunter's answer was simple.

You don't want to go where the beast comes from.

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