Episode 13
“Are you sure you’re okay? Wouldn’t it be better if I just went with you?”
I turned my head and made eye contact with my older sister, who was riding a horse next to the carriage, keeping pace with her.
When I see my sister’s eyes filled with worry that cannot be hidden, my heart aches again.
Then my sister whispers softly in my ear so that no one else can hear.
“It seems like my second mother is up to something. I think I should go with her… … .”
“Sister.”
“huh?”
“A little kid like me has to grow up to be independent.”
“Ah… … So?”
My sister looks at me as if she finds this absurd.
“I told you, things will change. Really, things will change. Don’t worry. And no matter what happens, I won’t die. Don’t worry about that either.”
“… … .”
My older sister, who seemed to be thinking about what I meant, nodded her head heavily.
I stared blankly at my older sister for a while.
I know how my older sister is treated at the post office.
Honestly, there’s no way I wouldn’t know.
If you know even a little bit about what the Marquis is thinking and what the Marchioness is thinking, it is easy to guess.
Still, I left my sister here.
The permission of the Marquis, the permission of the Marchioness, such things are meaningless and unnecessary.
This is my will, my plan.
“Just go in. How far are you planning on following me?”
At my words, my sister pulled the reins and slowed the horse down.
Ron was riding next to her, and there was no difference in his sister’s expression or Ron’s.
I guess Rondo feels the same way as his older sister.
I just smiled slightly at them both.
This will do.
Ron will be following this procession anyway, and he can watch what happens next.
It will probably be engraved very strongly in your mind.
Should I say that it is a kind of gift that I am giving?
He closed the carriage door and quietly closed his eyes.
* * *
How much time has passed?
When the clattering of hooves stopped and the moving carriage stopped, I naturally opened my eyes.
At the same time, the surroundings feel a bit noisy.
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I slowly opened the closed door and went out.
First, you can see that it is getting quite dark, and then you can see soldiers and servants moving around busily.
I guess we’ll have to camp here.
As I opened the door and came out, I turned my head at the sight of someone staring at me.
chick.
A guy whose name I can’t even remember was looking at me with pity.
Oh, it’s not any other emotion, it’s sympathy…
With a strange expression on my face, I leaned against the carriage and crossed my arms.
And then I waited in silence.
The soldiers and a small group of servants, who had been moving around busily, quickly set up a tent and finished preparing for camping.
Then, as if they had made a promise, they began to line up next to the chick and the 6th Circle Knight.
As I said before, it takes about 4 days to get from the Marquisate to the Academy.
Four days is by no means a short period of time, and even solo travelers plan their routes based on other territories within their travel radius.
That’s the natural course of events.
Moreover, now, a large group of over 20 people have to travel a distance of 4 days.
But you’re saying that you don’t even enter other territories and just camp there?
Not everyone in this world is a chicken, and there’s no war going on right now and you’re running for refuge, so you planned your route using the mountains as a base?
Looking at how thoroughly they’ve prepared for camping, it seems like they planned the route this way from the beginning, and acting in such an inefficient way means that there’s something they have to do here.
Judging by the pitying gaze of the chick and the irritated gaze of the soldiers looking at me, the situation was very, very, very simple.
I slowly uncrossed my arms.
“Our chick, did you decide ‘that way’?”
“… … That’s what happened.”
“Okay, it’s your choice, what can I do? I guess I’ll just have to accept it.”
I raised my head and looked at the guys standing next to the chicks.
All the soldiers, except for three servants waiting quietly in the tent behind me, and even the chick and the 6th Circle Knight.
The way they looked at me was almost identical.
A kind of sympathy, and a little bit of hostility.
It’s a new thing, but the soldiers dispatched to the rose garden are not my people.
Strictly speaking, he is the Marquis’s person, and to be a little more specific, he is also the Marchioness’s person.
Then Rezong took a step forward and said.
“I think you noticed, so I don’t think I need to say much.”
“No. Tell me more. I’ll listen.”
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Let’s talk leisurely. The guy snickers.
“I have no personal feelings toward you, sir. I will always camp out except for the last day of the four days I have to go to the academy.”
“and?”
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“Every time we go camping, we will break the prince’s two arms and two legs, and at the end of the camping, we will feed him potions and heal him.”
It felt quite vicious, but I just quietly asked back.
“so?”
“That is the order given to us, and the Marchioness has given me special instructions.”
I’m a little curious about what it is.
I just couldn’t help but ask.
“What is that?”
“I know that Confucius created a circle. I don’t know how many circles, but judging from the fact that he was able to subdue James with ‘luck’, he must be a mana user with at least 2 or 3 circles. To be honest, I’m still a little surprised.”
“Are you complimenting me? I don’t know what to do with myself.”
“… …I’m trying to break that circle.”
Wow, this isn’t that bad.
For a mana user, breaking the Circle of Heart was like passing a death sentence.
Of course, you can recreate a broken circle.
But the process is harsh, and you have to go through and overcome all kinds of pain.
The probability that a mana user whose mana circle is broken can create mana again is roughly one in a thousand, or two or three at most.
To put it simply, it’s incredibly hard.
It’s not just hard, but when the circle breaks, the impact destroys and distorts all the blood vessels that are the passages through which mana flows.
People say that if your mana circuit gets tangled, you become a wreck, and this is the same story.
I don’t say it’s a death sentence for nothing.
But, you’re going to give it to me?
Let’s just laugh quietly and the guy adds.
“I heard from James. He said that you have talent not only with mana, but also with the sword.”
“It’s not much of a talent.”
“If you have the talent to defeat James with that body, even by luck, it may not be a big deal for knights like us, but in your case, it is just a small skill. Given your circumstances, mana and swordsmanship talent alone cannot change much.”
This is such ridiculous nonsense that I can’t help but laugh.
“I used to think that way when I was as immature as you, but it wasn’t like that.”
He slowly and gently grabbed the handle of the iron sword that was slung around his waist.
Then Rezong also put his hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist.
“Please don’t rebel. If you do, it will be more difficult.”
It’s a really interesting situation.
He quietly raised his head.
The subdued atmosphere, the hostility felt within it, and even the violence expressed openly.
I like all of this.
I guess I should say it feels like I’ve returned home.
I swung my sword on the battlefield every single day.
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A war of killing and killing again.
Even though I’ve been enjoying some peace these past few days, the scars of the past, or rather the experiences of the past, deeply engraved in my heart do not disappear.
I am a sword ghost.
A man who single-handedly brought down the Tulcan Empire, which ruled the entire western continent, without even a single name, Valantier.
A rare monster that is also called a demon and not a human.
That’s me.
“Ron, are you there?”
There was no answer, but Ron must be nearby.
“I mean, I was locked up in the mountains for ten years.”
“……yes?”
Rezong asked again, but of course he ignored him.
I just continued to mutter to Ron, who was probably somewhere in the bushes.
“I met my teacher there and learned a lot. Then, when my teacher passed away and I came down the mountain… … so many things had changed.”
“… … .”
“First of all, the Valanti family was destroyed. The kingdom was destroyed. Everything I knew was gone. But honestly, I didn’t care about those places in the first place, so I just assumed they would be destroyed. No, whether the king’s bastard died or not, whether the marquis died or not, whether Tulkan united the continent or not, what did that have to do with me? I really didn’t care.”
“Sam Gongja. What on earth are you talking about?”
Srrrrung-
Ignoring Rezong’s words, he slowly drew his sword this time.
“But there was one thing that bothered me. I wonder what happened to my sister. She was so pretty, so I thought she might have met a decent man and lived well. That’s what I thought.”
There was a pause.
Sister’s end.
That’s the worst future I can imagine.
“I could have gone out in the middle because my teacher was considerate… … but I just didn’t go. I’m not making excuses, but at the time, I just wanted to stay with my teacher a little longer. He was a more pitiful person than I was. As time passed, I sometimes thought about that. What if, really, if I had gone out even once? If I had known what was going on outside, if I had noticed it, wouldn’t things have been so different?”
“Your Majesty, are you truly crazy?”
This time I ignored his words again.
I don’t even care about Rezong’s gaze that looks at me like I’m looking at a lunatic.
“I don’t know if Ron has ever tried it, but revenge is so damn sweet. It’s so damn sweet. Just killing and killing. That idiot here is right to a certain extent. You can’t do much with mere talent, with mere swordsmanship. But with overwhelming talent and overwhelming strength, you can do a lot.”
He quietly lowered his sword.
Not only the Legion, but now all the soldiers look at me like I’m crazy.
Although he didn’t go into detail, I honestly expected this to happen.
It doesn’t make sense to provoke the Marquis and the Marchioness without any ‘punishment’.
As I told Ron, I thought it would end with me breaking my limbs, and that was the end of my patience.
I was just going to send you back after chopping off your limbs, but you’re going to destroy my mana circle?
Come to think of it, I’ve been acting really docile.
So now I’ve changed my mind a little bit.
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Why is a beast a beast, why is X-god X-god.
Why are the lacking kids called lacking kids?
Why are monsters called monsters?
I’m going to show you from now on.
