Here’s the extra chapter in Volume 1! Enjoy!
Goat POV
[When I first saw him, he was stabbing an enemy soldier’s heart with a knife. The sight of him approaching the enemy who was begging for his life, with red drops dripping from the tip of his drawn knife resembled the very personification of terror. Short black hair, fierce gaze, and muscular physique. His words are laced with sarcasm and exude cold-blooded brutality. Everything about him was the polar opposite of lovable or needing to be protected. That’s why I couldn’t stop laughing when I heard that he was a ‘goddess’. Even now, when I recall this fact, I find myself giggling quietly to myself…]
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At the same time, Tyet, who was staring at Goat’s grin from across the table, narrowed his eyes.
“What are you laughing at, creepy ass?” Tyet said loudly. Holding a large glass in his hand which did not match his small body, he spun the contents of the glass and gulped it in one go. Rows of empty glasses were already forming in front of him. Tyet, despite his baby-faced appearance, was a heavy drinker who had never felt inebriated—which was actually a problem to him. He wished he could put himself in the shoes of someone else who would have to pay for his drinks as well.
“Well, when I think back on today’s ‘event, I can’t stop laughing.”
When Goat hinted this, Tyet gulped down his drink, and grunted a low growl, “Ah, you’re talking about the goddess’s speech?” he said, grinning.
At Tyet’s reply, Goat nodded, “Did you see that too?”
“Of course, I did. That was quite a show.” Tyet cast his gaze into the air as if remembering that moment. His eyes were filled with a mixture of admiration and elation. The heat of the battlefield he had just left could still be smoldering inside his body.
The same thing happened to Goat. The heat in his body did not dissipate after the battle, preventing him from falling asleep. As a result, he would always come to the bar with Tyet, drinking until he passed out, or buy a prostitute at a brothel. But, for today, he and Tyet had unanimously decided to drink.
“Was it, ‘I will bring victory to King Noah?’ That was, quite frankly, the best speech I have ever heard. With that alone, he won the hearts of not only his allies but also his enemies,” Tyet boasted. His voice was brimmed with anticipation for his new superior.
That was how impressive Yuichiro was today in Tyet’s eyes. After exposing Lord Weldham’s treachery at Am Abbey, Yuichiro also liberated the royal capital from being surrounded by the rebels. Furthermore, there was also that divine speech. The image of the goddess calling out benignly and sometimes harshly at the enemy camps that were on fire would undoubtedly live on as a mythical tale for eternity. Tyet, as a citizen, considered it a stroke of luck to be allowed to witness a page of that mythical tale.
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Goat, on the other hand, felt a faint stirring sensation in his chest. Goat felt a silent tingle in the pit of his stomach every time he remembered Yuichiro’s blood-soaked appearance. He felt a violent urge to crushingly embrace someone, killing that person in one breath. He immediately drank more to quench his thirsty throat. He calmed slightly after his throat moistened.
“What do you think?”
“What do you think? You mean, him?” Tyet raised an eyebrow in response to Goat’s direct and outrageous question.
“He’s an excellent commander,” he said, stroking his rounded jaw with his palm as if in deep thought, “But… also a doombringer. If those around him don’t pull his reins, he and his allies will end up jumping off a cliff together.”
At Tyet’s blunt remark, Goat burst out laughing. As he continued to laugh, Tyet added, saying in an exasperated voice, “That goes the same for you too.”
“Me?”
“A doombringer.”
Tyet’s candid assessment elicited more fanatical laughter from Goat. When Goat was still hysterically laughing, Tyet called out the bar’s waiter to order more drinks. “It is bad enough for my men to have both their captain and his adjutant as doombringers,” Tyet said as he sipped the newly arrived liquor, “I do not want to die in this war. And I have no intention of making my cherished ‘wives’ widows.”
Goat lightly shrugged his shoulders as he heard these words. He secretly judged that the man in front of him did not match his baby-faced appearance, despite the fact that he was a ‘lady-killer.’ Aside from that, whenever he heard the word “wife” spoken by someone, his skin crawled with discomfort.
His discomfort was also tinged with a sense of loss. It was similar to the feeling of the world instantly losing its color the moment he heard that his wife and child had been burned to death. At that time, not a single tear was shed at the sight of his wife’s and family’s charred, reddish-black bodies. Since that day, he had never cried once.
Although some of his meddling subordinates suggested he take another wife, he just laughed it off as a joke. On the surface, he would say he wanted to have a little more fun and that there were too many pretty girls to choose from—but in reality, he did not want to create anything precious again. He could not bear losing someone important for the second time.
As he absentmindedly rolled the nuts in his mouth as a snack, he suddenly wondered. Perhaps, he was indeed a doombringer like Tyet said just now. He also wondered if that man was also a doombringer like him.
[Did he also lose something important while rushing toward death, carrying a curse and hatred in his heart?]
Goat felt a surge of affection in his heart as he pondered this. It was as if he had finally found a companion to accompany him on his journey. Nonetheless, he was also aware that the end of his journey was a dead end.
Tyet gave Goat a false smile and whispered, “I think, you need someone to depend on.”
At Tyet’s words of concern, Goat manically replied, “I’ll just follow Captain Ogami until I die.”
“You’re really going to die.”
“If I do, then I’ll die with him.”
Tyet furrowed his brows visibly in response to Goat’s fanatical statement. He downed the rest of the remaining liquor in one gulp after staring at him with a displeased expression. He asked eagerly, “How do you feel about him?” after placing his glass on the table with a clink.
“Feel?”
“Goddess-sama.”
Goat cocked his head slightly in response to Tyet’s question. He chuckled after a brief silence. “I want to eat him,” he replied with a wide grin.
“Huh?”
“When that man dies, I want to devour him up from head to toe.”
Tyet was stunned when he heard Goat’s response, which seemed to be filled with loose screws inside his head. However, Goat soon laughed, and Tyet’s face twisted as if he was hearing a silly joke.
“My bad. My head will literally fly if someone hears me, even if it is a joke. Since both Noah-sama and Temeraire are both jealous people.”
It was difficult for him to look away the day after that man was devoured by Noah and Temeraire. The lingering scent of the aftermath of the affair, along with the traces of scars on his tender skin and his languid breathing. Goat found it difficult to believe that the man was the same brutal individual who had been killing his enemies. This particular memory gradually caused his throat to be perched again. When he reached for his glass to drink, he realized that there was only a little left. Afterward, Goat raised one hand to the waiter, asking for another liquor. In response, the good-looking male waiter answered chirpily, “Yes, sir.” After thinking that the waiter’s short hair looked a little similar to that man, Goat unconsciously licked his lower lip with his tongue. Tyet who witnessed this sighed exasperatedly.
“It’s probably useless for me to say this, but please don’t try to die as much as possible.”
“…As much as possible.”
“No matter how much you pray, when a person dies, he or she will die. But if possible, I don’t want you to die. Even for me, it’s not fun to have no one to drink with.”
Tyet’s somewhat optimistic yet resigned words were intriguing. The previous male waiter arrived, bringing liquor to their table as they both laughed. As Goat took the glass from the waiter’s grasp, he ran his fingertips, as if by accident, over the back of the waiter’s hand.
“I appreciate it.”
After he smiled at the waiter, the waiter averted his gaze briefly in embarrassment. Afterward, the waiter bowed his head and walked away while Goat watched the waiter’s back with a smirk. Tyet immediately kicked Goat’s shin under the table.
“That fucking hurts!”
“Even though you’re not serious, don’t mess with a child who’s not in the nightlife profession.”
After Tyet hit him right on the mark, Goat raised his hands in a playful way.
“Hey, I might look like this, but I’m really an honest person.”
“I know. That’s why you’re difficult to deal with,” Tyet remarked rudely. Then, he shook the liquor in his glass and muttered to himself.
“Never touch your hands on other people’s property.”
Inside, Goat instinctively knew what Tyet was referring to. As a result, he remained silent. With one hand, he raised his glass, which was filled to the brim with liquor, with a loose smile.
“Let’s give a toast to our Goddess,” he said in a conspicuous tone.
After Tyet smacked his lips in annoyance, he still raised his own glass slightly.
“To our Goddess.”
“Cheers!”
They cheered quietly and lightly clinked their glasses together.
Translator’s Notes
What do you think of Goat’s impression of Yuichiro? Are his feelings based on a sense of camaraderie or something else?
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Thankieesss!
Me: confused because does Goat want snu snu with goddess?
I think he kinda wants to monopolize MC as well, but since the other 2 MLs would never let the MC be w other ppl, I guess Goat is keeping his desire to himself…
My heart skipped a beat on Goat’s statement! Whether it was from fear or excitement, only god knows hahahhahahahaha
Thanks for the Chappie (っ¯³¯)っ♡
I thought Goat only saw Yuichiro as a comrade, so this chapter really shocked me. But yeah, sorry but you can’t have him, Goat. Yuichiro belongs to the brothers only lol
Bueno…es que como es una traducción…ya las opiniones valen ver**…pero de todos los ML…el que mas llama mi atención es Cabra…creo que aunqeu interviene poco…es un personaje poderoso y MUY AFIN con la Diosa…ese personaje del reyecito…no me gusta es un personaje baboso molesto…sin estructura…y Temerario…llama la atención…pero creo que es un personaje confuso sin una definición clara como tal…es evidente que tampoco me gusta
It honestly wasn’t a shock to me that he’s attracted to MC I even wanted them to be together cause they have the same sad tragic back story because misery attracts misery but that’s not a good balance I do to kind of want them to snu snu once but some people are just addicted to monogamy or whatever I feel like mc needs to fully explore his options for him to be satisfied with what he has and whatever I do wish goat to have happy ending but I don’t feel like he could end up with someone else if it’s not the MC