Chapter 23. Night guests appear without warning (2)
The topic currently circulating among the subjugation team was definitely about the ‘Black Knight’.
“Do you think it’s possible to sweep up everything by yourself every night?”
“Aren’t the survivors so scared that they had a dream?”
There were some people who whispered like this and did not believe it,
“Anyway, thanks to that, we saved the survivors and made the battle easier.”
“A knight of justice who appeared to help us, isn’t it?”
Most people praised and thanked the ‘Black Knight’.
“I heard he’s twice as tall as a human and is very strong?”
“Actually, I heard you’re not riding a horse, but you’re half-man, half-horse?”
Since they had never seen me in a bright light, exaggerated rumors like this circulated.
“No, the survivor said he was a very handsome young man.”
“How did you see it in the dark?”
Of course, it wasn’t just exaggerated rumors.
‘As expected, this face glows even in the dark of night.’
I, who was eating with my ears open, chuckled.
“Isn’t it possible to reach the level of Captain Diego?”
“No, I don’t think even Captain Diego can do that.”
“The speed of movement is incredible. It’s almost like moving from east to west.”
Discussions about the ‘Black Knight’ were also active within the Ovest Knights.
While we were sitting in a circle eating as usual,
“young master.”
Conrad, who was sitting next to me, spoke quietly.
“Can I ask you one thing?”
“No. Just eat something.”
Despite my harsh rejection, Conrad remained steadfast.
“please.”
“…….”
It was another start.
Conrad very effectively utilized the dissonance created between his ugly face and the word please.
‘Isn’t this combination too harsh for humanity?’
I responded bluntly, not hiding my shit-chewing expression.
“ask.”
“Are you a master?”
“what.”
Conrad lowered his voice even further.
“That black knight. Isn’t that you, master?”
“It looks like you need treatment.”
I answered without even raising an eyebrow.
“yes?”
“Is something wrong with your eyes already?”
“Huh? What are you saying all of a sudden?”
I looked at Conrad in confusion and pointed at my hair.
“What color is it?”
“……It’s blue.”
“Then what about this?”
When I pointed to my eyes, Conrad understood my intention and twisted his lips.
“……It’s purple.”
“Hmm. It seems to be functioning properly. But is this why you think I am the Black Knight?”
I looked at Conrad with a pitiful gaze.
“Maybe it’s the head that needs treatment, not the eyes.”
“No, master!”
Conrad pounded his chest in frustration.
“You have nothing to hide from me!”
He lowered his voice even further and spoke as if he was yelling at me.
“I’ve been keeping the secret capture of Kinus a secret until now!”
“…….”
“More than anything, there is clear evidence! The day after you vacate the tent at night, you will definitely hear the Black Knight in action!”
“Can’t I go out to run errands? It must be a coincidence.”
After speaking with a sour face, he gave me a cold glare.
“Anyway, I told you not to let anyone into my tent.”
“Oh, that.”
Conrad groaned and curled his tail.
“I just wanted to make sure you were sleeping comfortably. I just took a quick look…”
“Just finish eating. Stop talking nonsense.”
Conrad blushed at my harsh slap and put the spoon in his mouth.
He spoke irritably, and if someone he didn’t know saw him, he had an expression that would have made his cheeks tingle in shock.
‘By the way, the black knight.’
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Isn’t this a too intuitive name?
It was rewarding to leave survivors behind. How dare you inflate rumors about me like this?
At this rate, by the time we reached the node territory, it seemed like songs of praise for the Black Knight would be loud.
And later in the late evening.
I was sitting across from Mikel in his tent, giving and receiving tea.
“So, does the tea taste okay?”
Mikel smiled as he took a sip of his tea.
‘Oh, I want to go out hunting at night.’
Maybe it was because I was chopping up monsters every night, but my body felt so energetic that I felt like I was flying.
While others were dozing off on their horses from exhaustion, I was very active, moving around and doing various tasks.
Looking at me like that, Conrad would shake his head as if he was fed up.
“It’s tea made by boiling whitetail mint. The scent is really….”
He answered Mikel’s words leisurely and smiled faintly.
“…I feel nostalgic.”
“Yes. When I first met you, I think you were eating a cake with this.”
Mikel smiled happily.
He must have been annoyed that he couldn’t invite me to his mansion in the capital, so he often called me to his tent.
The reasons were varied.
I can’t sleep. Why not drink tea, which is said to be good for the body. Why not guess the monster’s habitat?
It wasn’t so frequent that it bothered me, so I used to adjust the rhythm appropriately.
“I wonder who the black knight is.”
Mikel tapped the map on the table.
The location of the place where we had completed the subjugation was marked around the route we had taken.
Many of them were places I had cleared out earlier.
“There aren’t many knights in the empire who can wipe out so many monsters single-handedly.”
“I was curious too. I wanted to see what level of skill he had.”
As I gave him a sneer, Mikel’s gaze fell on me for a moment and then fell.
“It’s been quiet for a while, but our subjugation team appears on the move. Isn’t it too elaborate to be a coincidence?”
“That’s right.”
“Plus, they move ahead as if they know our route. Seeing as they are good at finding monster habitats, it looks like they have a lot of knowledge and experience with monsters.”
As Mikel said that, his eyes slowly fell on me. I quietly tilted my tea cup and pretended not to notice his gaze.
‘Inspiration, just think about it.’
It was a fairly valid inference, but it was not the time to confirm his words yet.
“More than anything, since they are only active at night, I think they might be part of our subjugation team.”
Mikel stared at me with sparkling eyes.
“What does Prince Abel think?”
“well.”
If you asked me so bluntly, I couldn’t help but answer. After putting down the teacup she was holding, she slowly opened her mouth.
“Common sense tells us, would humans be able to do such a thing? They move together with the punitive force during the day, but then move separately at night to wipe out monsters.”
“Well, he is too.”
“Maybe it moves during the day and we haven’t noticed it yet.”
“All the witnesses said he appears at night.”
Mikel pushed his hypothesis quite tenaciously.
“But there is no one among the subjugation team who looks like that.”
In fact, black hair was a characteristic that only the royal family had. Therefore, the nobility of the Black Knight was further emphasized.
“Could it be that I was seeing it wrong? When fear increases in the dark of the night, you tend to see useless things.”
“In that sense, the witnesses’ statements are consistent.”
“…….”
“Anyway, the important thing is that the Black Knight was helpful to us, not the other way around.”
He added, pouring tea into Mikel’s empty teacup.
“He only targets monsters, not humans. He must have a good heart.”
Although it was a bit funny that he was trying to embarrass me with his own mouth.
“I appeared because I couldn’t ignore the difficulties in the Node territory.”
I continued shamelessly without changing my expression.
“……You’re right.”
Mikel nodded and took the teapot from me.
“As far as I know, there is no such person in the Node Territory. That’s why I even suspected that he was among the subjugation team.”
“…….”
“I just want to meet him once.”
Mikel poured tea into my empty tea cup.
“It looks like we are on the same path. If we go to the Node Territory, wouldn’t we be lucky enough to meet each other?”
As I spoke with a small possibility in mind, Mikel smiled slightly.
“Maybe so.”
He put the map away from the table and sat back comfortably.
“Let’s skip this story now. It’s just sad that I can’t have a drink with Prince Abel on a night like this.”
“Please be patient. You can’t drink on the battlefield.”
“I plan to open Koldeste as soon as I return to the Nord territory.”
“Can outsiders participate?”
When I asked with a grin, Mikel shook his head gently.
“Are you planning to make me a laughing stock again?”
“What are you saying? I just did my best to win.”
“No, it won’t happen. If Prince Abel participates, wouldn’t first place be too obvious?”
“You have to see the long and the short to know.”
“Are you going to provoke me like that again?”
Mikel laughed it off by saying that he had provoked him by saying he wanted to fight with his sword. He had an attitude of not dwelling too much on the past.
The atmosphere inside the tent warmed up with the sound of small laughter.
My time with Mikel wasn’t too bad. His insight and wealth of experience made the conversation enjoyable.
“By the way, Prince Abel.”
Mikel, who was smiling all the time, started crying.
“yes.”
“By any chance, what is your ideal type?”
Without changing his expression, he slowly passed the tea he was holding in his mouth down his throat.
“I don’t know why you’re suddenly curious about that.”
“He is of the right age to get married, and he seems to be a prominent talent in the empire. That’s why I was curious.”
Mikel studied my expression persistently.
“It looks like there aren’t any other women who make friends.”
“…….”
“So what? If it’s okay with you, then with my daughter Leah… hmm.”
Mikel cleared his throat and looked away.
‘Oh, is that why?’
He was particularly kind to me. Was he doing this calculation in his mind?
Mikel, who was thought to be a northern tiger, suddenly became an impressive guy next door.
“I didn’t know that Lord Mikel thought of me that way.”
As I spoke in surprise, Mikel looked at me again.
“You don’t like our Leah?”
“I can’t say I like it, because I’ve heard a lot about it but never actually seen it.”
Perhaps because he sensed the nervousness on my face, which was neither positive nor negative, Mikel’s tone became somewhat faster.
“I didn’t say much because I thought I would be compared to someone else, but our Leah is a child who is not left out.”
I think that ‘someone’ is Carlo.
“-She was so pretty that many of her vassals were taken aback by her. In particular, her eyes that looked exactly like mine were really pretty.”
Mikel was already praising Leah in a similar way to Carlo.
“Ever since he was young, his speed of learning was extraordinary. If you taught him one thing, he learned ten.”
“I see.”
“Thanks to Leah, I had to diligently fill the library with books every month. Is that all? He is also the second best sword user in our territory after me.”
“That’s amazing.”
As I was listening to a story I already knew, I couldn’t help but yawn. In the original work, Leah’s genius was emphasized repeatedly.
‘My mother’s friend’s son… … No, it’s my daughter.’
Looking at Mikel’s sparkling eyes, it seemed like he would be in trouble if he refused outright.
‘I don’t like my daughter right now!’
Like this.
However, as I listened in silence and added insult to injury, there was no sign of it ending.
“I know very well that Ms. Leah is a very talented and wonderful woman. So, I’m sure you’ll hear a lot of marriage talks, right?”
Mikel stopped speaking for a moment at the sharp instruction.
“That’s true, but Leah’s eyesight is a bit… high.”
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