Episode 136
Chapter 5
Ronald and Felix were knights who swore loyalty to Margrave Hermann.
To be exact, after graduating from the academy four years ago and entering Marquis Hermann’s household as a trainee knight, he made a rapid rise in rank and was naturally appointed as a full-fledged knight.
The two knights were academy classmates, rivals, and also comrades.
Those two were excited now.
My face is turning red.
Honestly, there are many reasons to be excited.
Let me just pick two of them and talk about them.
First things first.
The knights of Marquis Hermann are strong.
To be exact, the number of high circle users belonging to Marquis Hermann is as many as 20.
That means he has power that is at least one of the top three within the Teslan Kingdom.
The strongest power outside of the Teslan, Assenble, and Malone families.
There is a reason why he is called the Great Lord of the East and holds the East in his hands.
A knight belonging to that family.
Also, the treatment is not bad, and the family values them so much that they sign lifetime contracts.
It makes sense, because at just 21 years old, the two knights formed a whopping 5 circles.
Everything was satisfactory.
And the second one.
This was the most important thing.
The knights of the Hermann family, ironically, want war.
During this time, I pushed myself through training and further refined the sharpness of my sword.
So, having reached that level, not being able to swing a sword even once was a punishment in itself, a prison under the sky.
So when the Marquis Valanti and the Youngji War were decided, I secretly cheered.
at las.
You can fight.
You can wield a sword and increase your own value.
This was one reason I was excited, but there was another reason too.
The eldest son of the Marquis de Valantier.
Elizabeth Valantier.
Anyone who has seen her will say this a hundred out of a hundred times.
It’s beautiful.
And you might think this:
I want to hold you.
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It may sound really strange, but it’s true.
If you see her, if you really see her in real life, you will become lustful.
Not only the article, but everyone who saw her in person at the Academy would have felt the same way.
I wonder if I really am under some kind of ‘curse’.
That’s what I thought.
however.
Now, a war over territory is waged between the family and the woman.
At that moment, that feeling I couldn’t forget.
It’s time to unravel it.
It wasn’t something a simple knight could have thought of, but things were different now.
A while ago, Margrave Hermann gathered his knights and gave a speech.
To abandon the Kingdom of Teslan.
Everyone was surprised, but that was the end of it.
The Tulcan Empire offered him the title of ‘Count’ and gave him permission to bring all of his vassals and knights with him.
In other words, a knight from the weakest nation, the Teslan Kingdom, becomes a knight from the absurd monster nation, the Tulcan Empire.
the opposite?
Who would object?
The world is like that anyway.
Marquis Hermann then said:
I will leave an indelible bloodstain on the Kingdom of Teslan.
Everyone was puzzled.
Why do you say something like that?
But, everything was resolved with the following words from Margrave Hermann.
“My son, Dimitri Hermann, is dead.”
Sogaju.
That bastard who would later become Margrave Hermann… … No, that kid is dead?
“The culprit is the youngest son of the Marquis Valantier family. Jack Valantier.”
“… … .”
“Therefore, the Marquis Valantier family must be destroyed. Also, Jack Valantier must die, and his sister, Elizabeth Valantier, must die. No, not a single person in the world must use the name Valantier.”
The anger was so palpable in his voice.
Also, the energy rising from the body of Marquis Hermann, a 7th circle mana user.
It was the anger of a father who lost his child, and an expression of wrong denial that only tries to cover up whatever his child did.
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“and!”
Everyone is silent.
“Anyone who uses the name Valantier should die in the most horrible way imaginable on this earth. Elizabeth Valantier, she will be your reward, and whoever destroys her spirit will be rewarded with 500,000 gold.”
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That was the gist of it.
A series of speeches and cheering articles followed.
And that’s about it, that’s the end of the story.
Elizabeth Valantier.
The certainty that it would be ‘all’ the knights who would embrace her.
That’s when Ronald and Felix spread their wings of imagination.
From the sky, a man fell.
Bam-
The landing sound was so light.
I was curious.
How can a person fall from the sky?
His appearance also looked very young.
Age: roughly 14 or 15 years old.
Excessively handsome appearance… … .
When he thought about it that way, the knight’s eyes widened and his mouth dropped open.
They look alike.
Elizabeth Valantier, whom I saw when I was attending the Academy.
He looks a lot like her.
no way.
No, I don’t think so.
“Jack… … Valantier?”
The man raises his head.
A long sword as tall as himself was held in his hand.
The man swung his longsword without saying a word.
Crunch-
The knight with a red face standing next to Felix.
Ronald’s neck slowly flows down.
No kidding, it really flowed like water.
Felix did not understand this whole situation.
If you swing a sword, isn’t it normal for it to make a swinging sound or something?
There was no sound, the neck just fell off.
Are you sure you really swung it?
Is this child in front of me really a child?
It feels like things have stopped.
Next.
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The child slowly raised his other hand.
“******”
A strange language.
Let’s shout something in a strange language that we have never heard of before.
A black aura spread from that hand.
The aura divided the entire castle and estate of Marquis Hermann.
At least that’s what Felix felt.
The child slowly turns his head.
“5 minutes.”
5 minutes… … ?
Five minutes, are you telling the time?
What 5 minutes?
“I’ll give you five minutes. Go and get ready.”
“……preparation……?”
The boy, without saying a word, stuck the longsword into the floor.
Only then did I hear a sound.
A thud, a sound of the ground hitting the ground.
Why didn’t I hear that sound before?
Then, the child slowly closes his eyes.
Looking at that sight, Felix finally realized the reality.
A child who resembled Elizabeth fell from the sky.
I don’t know if he used magic or what.
According to the rumors that have spread throughout the world, isn’t he the talented person who was able to subdue the Master Matapju (although this is clearly a false rumor)?
He broke into the Marquis Hermann’s residence and killed his colleague Ronald.
Felice turned around and moved her legs.
I didn’t walk, I just ran.
That look.
That feeling of oppression.
And the black smoke that covered the sky.
It’s coming, albeit late.
The emotion called fear.
and.
This thought occurred to me.
‘Something is wrong.’
That too, very significantly.
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* * *
After 2 minutes.
I opened my eyes slowly.
No matter how much I think about it.
“I wonder if I should have come alone.”
The teacher turns his head at the unexpected words.
Our eyes met.
[Why do you think so?]
“This is my personal matter.”
The teacher didn’t answer and just looked at me blankly.
Those eyes.
It’s a look I’ve received a lot in my past life.
The teacher’s characteristic look in his eyes as if telling me to tell you more.
“The reason Marquis Hermann is making a fuss about fighting a territorial war, the reason he’s talking all over the place about messing with my sister, no matter how I look at it, it seems like it’s because of me.”
Actually, the thoughts didn’t matter.
Because that must be true.
Otherwise there is no reason.
Without going too far, in the past, Hermann and Valanti did not fight over territory.
Then and now.
If you look for something that has changed, there is only one.
Hermann’s bastard is dead.
[But it wasn’t you who killed that child back then.]
He shrugged.
Strictly speaking, it was the Master who killed him, but if you look at the chronological order, it’s no different from me killing him.
His target was me, and I was going to kill him anyway.
I have no intention of evading responsibility just because my teacher killed him.
Dietrich Hermann was the one I killed.
The Master only touched the board I was in, but everything else was my doing.
As I was thinking that, the teacher said.
[You’re being dishonest.]
“yes?”
[Is there something you don’t want to show?]
I think I said this before.
Smart people are very perceptive.
And among the intelligent people, those who have risen to the top with power like the Master often see beyond the human mind.
[Something similar happened before.]
“Is it transfer?”
[Don’t you remember when you accepted Aveiro as your subordinate in the guild?]
There’s no way it won’t happen.
At that time, I told Aveiro very briefly what I had done in my past life.
Honestly, I could have gone into detail, but I just didn’t.
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I’m afraid that the teacher next to me might look at me differently.
[I’m afraid that if I see what you’re doing here, my opinion of you will change. Is that right?]
Look at that.
I said I can fool other people, but I can’t fool the teacher.
I’m at a loss for words for the first time in a long time.
Ugh.
[But, you’re worrying for nothing.]
“yes?”
[Everything happens for a reason.]
I just kept my mouth shut.
[I have been watching you for a while now, and you are a guy who would never point a sword at innocent people or good people. I can tell just by looking at the way you take care of children. However, if you point a sword at someone and decide to kill, then there must be a good reason for that.]
I don’t think it’s a mistake.
long time.
It’s been a really long time since I’ve felt this way.
At that time, I was receiving teachings and having various conversations with the Master in the cave.
At that time, the teacher said exactly this.
[Let’s assume that one person must be killed to save a hundred. In such a case, as Rommel and you talked about with that child, an intelligent being is bound to fall into a dilemma.]
“… … .”
[What is right and wrong, what is good and evil. These are questions that permeate all people regardless of race, past or future, and there is no clear answer because each person has a different answer. However.]
I turned my head.
[Don’t you have your answer?]
I didn’t laugh.
I’m just intoxicated by the emotions I haven’t felt in a long time.
[No matter what you do, I will never hate you.]
“Aren’t you going to get angry?”
The teacher closed his mouth for a moment.
And then he snickers.
[I don’t know about that, because you’re not the type of guy who moves according to someone’s expectations.]
I locked eyes with the teacher for a moment.
I like everything about my teacher.
I have seen all the things my teacher has done, the mistakes he has made, and the silly things he sometimes does, and I have kept all of those things in my memory.
Yeah, that’s enough.
There was no hesitation from the beginning.
What I wanted to do remained unchanged, and what I wanted to finish remained unchanged.
If my teacher started to hate me, I was willing to accept it.
But, those worries disappear.
I feel at ease.
