Chapter7. I protect mine strictly. (3)
I spoke in a friendly tone, as if explaining something to a child.
“You know he hates people who covet what is theirs.”
“…….”
“But I happened to be on my way to the capital. And as an agent of the lord.”
I took out Diego’s seal that I had in my arms and shook it gently.
“I have to go and report to the emperor exactly what happened in Bezerk territory.”
“Woe to your Majesty…”
“At that time, there will be no end to tearing down a dresser like this.”
“Now!”
Lord Marco squeezed his voice. Did he say that even a mouse will bite a cat if it is cornered?
“Now, if you’re threatening me…”
“Threat?”
I grumbled lowly as if it was fun.
“It’s a threat.”
Where the rat named Marco bitten, not even a tooth mark was left. To that extent, his resistance was weak and foolish.
“It’s sad to think that way. I’m giving you a chance now.”
He let out a humorous mutter and awakened the energy that had been sleeping deep inside his body.
Saaaa-
A sound that only I can hear and that no ordinary human being can hear passes by my ears.
A pitch-black ray spread out as if it was about to attack Lord Marco. It covered the instep of his feet and plunged him into a deep, black fog.
“……omg!”
Lord Marco’s beard vibrated violently, as if an earthquake had occurred. Cold sweat poured down like rain on my pale cheeks.
“My lord?”
The guard captain standing next to him tilted his head as if puzzled.
In his eyes, it would appear that the lord suddenly became meditative and trembled.
He won’t know. What state is Lord Marco in now?
‘Because I spent my life targeting only Lord Marco.’
The past week has brought me to a point where I can freely manipulate my energy.
In particular, the energy of Requiem is completely asleep during normal times, so it is not revealed at all.
No matter what powerful person I meet, in their eyes I will only be seen as an ordinary noble child.
You would never imagine that you were holding in your hands the Requiem, a disaster that could destroy the empire.
“Huh, huh!”
However, currently, Lord Marco was facing that energy head on.
A void that he had never encountered in his entire life, a void he could not see an inch in front of, and whose depth he could not even guess, was gaping in front of him.
My vision is spinning, I feel like I’m being strangled, my breath is suffocating, my whole body gets chills, my feet feel like they’re sinking, and I can’t come to my senses.
“My lord, my lord?! Why are you doing this all of a sudden?”
The guard captain repeatedly called him in a puzzled tone. But Lord Marco was in no condition to listen to his words.
I just clenched my teeth together while holding my knees tightly with both hands. He didn’t dare take his eyes off my bright blue eyes.
“Okay, this is an opportunity.”
“…….”
“A chance to give what I deserve.”
I asked him in a soft tone.
“Do my words still sound like a threat?”
Lord Marco trembled and opened his lips.
“……Ah, huh.”
Only difficult sounds that could not form complete words came out.
“Uh, uh huh.”
I tried to get my voice out several times, but each time it ended in vain. He eventually started to turn his head to the side with difficulty.
“……huh, huh.”
I watched Lord Marco struggle with a faint smile. When his weak movements became barely a side-to-side nod, he said, “Hmm.”
The deadly force that had been thick as fog was taken away.
“Huh!”
Lord Marco clutched his chest and took a deep breath. He looked like someone who had been strangled for a long time.
“My lord! Come to your senses!”
The guard captain tried to comfort him with a face full of confusion.
‘Was it a bit harsh?’
He scratched his chin and then snorted.
‘If you try to take my money, even the emperor won’t leave you alone.’
Why did you take the trouble to cut off the heads of monsters? I couldn’t let it go to waste.
“So, when you steal from others, you should have been prepared for the consequences.”
Lord Marco’s face turned black at my scathing words. He hung his head down like a tree rotten from its roots.
“I understand…yes.”
It was always satisfying to see the other person’s stiff neck bending softly as if it had been tanned.
“I will get the money somehow. So please do this….”
His voice was weak, as if he had completely surrendered.
“Oh, of course.”
I waved my hand willingly.
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“You just have to pay the bounty exactly. There’s no problem since you’re getting the money you’re supposed to receive.”
After speaking, he picked up Halfas’ head and put it back in the bag.
“Oh, and.”
As he closed the mouth of the sack, he spoke to Lord Marco, who seemed to have aged 10 years in a moment.
“It’s been a while since I left home. Do you miss my room a lot?”
“……?”
Lord Marco tried to open his bleary eyes.
“If this longing gets worse, well, I might want to leave this territory quickly and go to the capital.”
An impatience appeared on Lord Marco’s face. I hummed happily as I watched his complexion change.
“On a bed with a high-quality mattress made in central Busan, lay at least three layers of blankets filled with 100% goose down.”
“…….”
“Make sure you prepare at least three scents for your bath water. I like to mix different scents.”
The guard captain’s face, who was listening, became increasingly crumpled.
“And for every meal, prepare at least three main dishes, and dessert must include lemon.”
I smiled and put my clasped hands behind my head.
“I can look forward to it, right?”
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The empire has a large boulevard that extends north, south, east, and west, with the capital Maggiore at the center.
And on that road is Davanti, a city located west of the capital Maggiore.
A place you must pass through to enter the capital from the western territory. A city with developed trade and commerce as it is located at the center of transportation.
In front of Davanti’s huge gateway.
There were people of various appearances, ages, and genders standing in line.
And among them,
“Ugh.”
There was a man with a bushy beard and matted hair that hadn’t been washed in several days.
“What if you’re not even here?”
He was knight Jonas Klein.
The brilliant blonde hair and forget-me-not-blue eyes were everywhere. His appearance was so shabby that even a member of the Ovest Knights would not be able to recognize him.
“If it’s not even here, there really is no answer. Damn it.”
He pounded the ground with his foot, chewing thick curses uncharacteristically for a knight.
“Please, please stay here.”
He was constantly muttering as if he was mentally unstable. People looked at him like he was strange as he kept talking to himself and pacing around.
But he was so deep in thought that he couldn’t pay attention to those gazes.
“Is there anything I didn’t go through?”
His steps suddenly stopped. He took out a map that had turned black from the stains of his hands from his dirty backpack.
“From here,”
A trembling finger pointed at Obest’s territory.
“Kader, Eik…….”
And slowly moved towards the east.
“Wight…, and Davanti.”
What he muttered was the name of a city located on the highway leading from Ovest territory to the capital of the empire.
To reach the capital from the west, this was the shortest route, safest and most efficient.
Jonas has been running along this path all along. He urged his horse forward at top speed, changing horses in every city he stopped by, and advanced as fast as possible without stopping.
“Where on earth have you gone, Master?”
To find Abel Ovest Kindreal.
On the day that Abel disappeared along with the lord’s seal, he and Philip searched the entire territory like a rat.
And then I realized that Abel had disappeared without leaving any trace.
A more serious problem was that the gatekeeper did not see Abel passing by.
It was truly something that made a ghost cry.
‘It’s not like people evaporated from some land.’
Anyway, I couldn’t just leave it like this.
Jonas told Philip to continue looking for Abel, while finding a horse and setting off immediately. I went forward, retracing the path I assumed Abel had taken first.
but.
‘Abel Ovest Kindreal? ‘I haven’t seen anyone like that.’
All the guards of the territory responded in unison. There was no way they wouldn’t have remembered a man of Abel’s rank as they checked each visitor’s identification card.
‘No, I really didn’t see it. Please believe me.’
But there really wasn’t. really.
‘Blue hair and purple eyes? ‘I’ve never seen such a person.’
They acted as if they had not even seen a single hair on Abel.
Jonas had no choice but to believe what they said.
It was difficult to pass through the gate without being noticed by Abel’s appearance.
“Nonsense.”
Jonas chewed his lips. No matter how much I thought about it, this situation was simply impossible.
“There’s no way you can drive a horse faster than me, right?”
His horsemanship was quite recognized within the knights. He seemed to be sleeping and ran non-stop, so in theory he should have caught up with Abel.
“Besides, Philip said his arm was hurt.”
So it would have been even more difficult to speed up. It was normal for Jonas to have faced Abel in some way.
“But why isn’t there one!”
Jonas, unable to bear it, ended up yelling. People passing by were startled by his shout and walked away.
“shit!”
Unable to overcome his anger, he threw the map he was holding on the floor. The corners of the map had become tattered because he had already thrown it dozens of times.
“Damn, damn!”
Jonas sat down on the floor, scratching his head.
“I’m going crazy, really.”
It was astounding.
I exchanged messages with Philip from time to time, but no good news came. There was still only the frustrating story that Abel was missing.
“Where on earth did you go? There’s nowhere else to go but this way.”
Jonas’ eyes turned to the map spread out on the floor. Because I had already looked at it dozens of times, I was almost ready to memorize the shape of the mountain.
“…No.”
He was frowning and suddenly muttered.
“There is no other way.”
I picked up the map again and put my nose down. His bloodshot eyes looked to the southwest of the map.
“There is a path that goes down and up this mountain range.”
He muttered like a person possessed by a ghost and then burst into laughter.
“Jonas, you are truly crazy.”
The empty laughter soon turned into giggles.
“That’s nonsense. There are a lot of monsters swarming in the western mountains. Going that way is suicidal.”
Above all, if you take that route, you will never be able to reach the capital on time.
Not only did we have to go through that difficult monster den, but the route took a circular route instead of going straight.
The convening date of the noble council was already three days away. I had to be in Davanti by today at the latest.
“Aren’t you headed to the capital by any chance? Are you hanging out somewhere else?”
He was so frustrated that Jonas even thought about that.
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