Chapter 120
He’s an insane old man, but you can’t help but want to cheer him on, Seong-Hwi thought as he watched Don Quixote’s adventure through his eyes.
Don Quixote was crazy; he was so obsessed with chivalric romances that he confused the worlds in the novels with reality.
“The name of a horse changes with its master’s status. I will bestow you a new name that befits your new duty!” Don Quixote said to his old and scrawny horse.
The first name he thought of was Rocinante. It sounded cool and noble, but it was just a combination of rocin, meaning low-quality horse, and ante, meaning before. In other words, it meant the horse used to be a workhorse.
“Now that I’ve become a knight-errant, I need a beautiful woman who will call my name. I need a lady love to whom I will attribute my glory when I defeat a giant with one strike!”
A knight-errant with no romance was simply a soulless body. Hence, Don Quixote made up an ideal woman in his head. There just so happened to be a farm girl in a nearby village named Aldonza Lorenzo, whom he used to love deeply, despite her having no idea he even existed. Don Quixote decided to designate her as the lady love in his head and gave her a new name befitting a princess or nobility.
“Dulcinea del Toboso! Ahhh! My beautiful lady love! My glory is yours alone!” Don Quixote shouted as he set out on his adventure.
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On his adventure, he encountered six traders from Toledo, heading to Murcia to purchase silk. They held parasols and were accompanied by four servants on horseback and three boys driving the mules.