Episode 8
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My bloody advice is worth enough to save the future bastard’s life, so it was a cheap deal for just ten fingers and one eye.
“Ah… … Aaaahhhhhhh!! My eyes!! Aaaah!!”
I looked down at the screaming guy for a moment.
In the future, things like this will happen frequently.
My past behavior was like that, and the rumors going around were a bit exaggerated, but strictly speaking, they weren’t wrong.
I used to be a really shy and introverted kid.
If you just look at the current situation, it’s simple.
How much of a jerk must I be to think it’s normal for a low-level soldier like this to speak informally to me and threaten me?
If it were any other noble family, they would have killed him on the spot and said nothing, but the fact that they made an exception for me is truly… I’m speechless.
at last.
“It’s all my karma.”
He shrugs his shoulders and roughly throws the dagger on the floor. The soldiers who came here after hearing the guard’s scream belatedly look on their faces in bewilderment.
Besides, the soldiers’ position is really annoying. It’s like they’re surrounding me.
Tch.
“What are you doing? You’re not clearing the road.”
“… … .”
Did the group become dumb after eating honey?
“Pick up the road.”
If you raise your voice a little, only then will the soldiers make way for you.
I came out after being locked in solitary confinement for two days.
It was still light outside.
Indeed, it is a nice day.
Chapter 3
The rose garden I returned to after a long time was still beautiful.
“master!!”
Ron ran towards me with a bright expression and hurriedly examined my body.
It was as if he was checking if I was hurt or not, but then he saw a red stain on my sleeve and started to panic with a pale expression.
“Your Majesty, this is… … this is… … .”
I calmed down a bit and took a quick look around.
There seems to be a slight increase in the number of soldiers compared to before entering the prison.
“Your family has grown quite a bit?”
“Oh, yes. We have added ten infantry battalions and one trainee knight from the Iron Blood Knights.”
The term trainee knight literally refers to a prospective knight.
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Although it was not a formally appointed position in the five-rank system that had taken root on the continent, by convention a knight was sometimes called a sort of baronet.
For reference, most knights and ordinary magicians are also called barons.
Among them, those with exceptional abilities are carefully selected and given honorary titles, or if they have truly achieved great things, they may be given titles with realms, that is, original titles.
Anyway, I raised my finger and pointed at a man who was looking at me from the entrance and asked.
“Iron Blood Knight Apprentice Knight, is that you over there?”
“Yes, that’s right, your highness.”
“Tsk tsk. Poor guy.”
“… … .”
It’s nothing special, but it looks strangely pitiful.
The grand dreams and plans they had when they first took up swords.
I guarantee you that nothing will stand in the way of your dreams and plans.
So, it can’t be helped but be pitiful.
At that moment, a soldier approached the trainee knight with an anxious expression and said something, and then the trainee knight and the soldier turned their heads to look at me.
Let’s take a look at the situation.
I guess he must have figured out what I did in prison.
Only then does the trainee reporter approach me.
“Your Highness the Three Princes.”
“why?”
“Tell me what happened in prison.”
My eyes widened slightly at his more polite attitude than I had expected, but I ended up frowning at his next words.
“I just received a report that the guard’s fingers were cut off and his right eye was gouged out with a dagger. Why did he do that? I have no right to ask… … .”
“Ha… … Really, you kids.”
“What did you just say?”
I ended up putting one hand on my forehead.
A while ago, a soldier was getting on my nerves, and now it’s this guy called a trainee knight who’s getting on my nerves.
qualifications.
It’s called qualification.
“I’m a trainee reporter.”
“… … Please speak.”
“Is it really appropriate to use the word ‘qualification’ in this situation?”
I just looked up at the guy who couldn’t answer.
Momentum and body movements.
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And from the position of the feet to the sensitivity of mana.
Overall, this guy.
It is a knight of exactly 4 circles.
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“맨티스의 개새끼면 적어도 사리분별은 할 줄 알았는데 아니었나 보네.”
“Your words are a bit harsh.”
“What are you going to do?
I guess it’s true, judging by the way the knight is opening his mouth.
“Then, you take care of the additional work that comes up on your own. Don’t talk nonsense about qualifications and experience to me. You should become a full-fledged knight. Right?”
“… … .”
“You were given the job of watching over me, and I keep causing trouble? Will Mantis accept you like that? You have to beg me. Please stop causing trouble.”
It seemed like a bit of a digression, but it wasn’t for the reporter.
The knight who had been quietly listening to me swallowed his saliva as soon as I finished speaking.
I guess he finally realizes his situation.
“Thank goodness. But he’s still a dog with a head, so I cut off the guard’s finger? I cut it off because I had to. Did I gouge out his eye? He endured it with one eye when he was about to be beheaded, so he should be thanking me instead.”
“… … .”
“I don’t want to talk anymore. You take care of it yourself and come and report to me when you’re done.”
The knight’s eyebrows furrow slightly.
“Do you still not understand? You are in a position where you have to ask me for a favor? What if I storm into the main building right now and beat up the second child a few times? Will I be the only one punished, or will you be punished with me? Prison? I can just get out of there. But you? You are a regular employee and a bum, and you will just fly away.”
Even though I am just an abandoned child, the Marquis needs me.
At least until I decide where to marry my sister off, I am safe from the Marquis.
The perfect pair of handcuffs to take advantage of your sister’s gentle nature.
That’s about my worth.
So, until the moment when its utility as value is no longer needed, I can enjoy the luxury of being the youngest of the series to my heart’s content.
No matter how shameless I am and how many accidents I cause, I am still the son of a true and worthy successor to the author.
In my previous life, I didn’t understand the difference, I didn’t even think about it.
But now it’s different.
I’m not a kid, so if there’s something I can use, I should use it.
That’s the attitude of an intellectual.
“If you have any complaints, go to the Marquis and complain. Apprentice Knight, no. I don’t want to bother calling you Apprentice Knight, so from now on your name is Chick. When I call you, come running.”
The chick with the absurd expression stood there silently, unable to say anything.
Then I gently tapped Ron on the shoulder, who had a blank expression on his face, and headed to the kitchen with him.
Strangely, I feel like eating meat today.
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I didn’t say anything, but in fact, our Ron’s cooking skills are so good that he can be counted on one hand among the top ten in the world.
The plate before my eyes.
The meat on display was so beautiful that I felt it would be rude not to put it in my mouth right away.
I am a very polite person.
So I immediately picked up a piece of meat and put it in my mouth.
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As soon as you take a bite, the juices burst out in your mouth.
Hehe.
“As expected, you’re a good cook.”
“You are too kind, my lord.”
The sight of me slicing steak in a modest restaurant was the epitome of leisure.
I glanced up and saw Ron, who was sitting across from me, continuing to open his mouth.
I guess you have something else to say.
“If you have something to say, say it. Don’t be a carp and squeal.”
“Ah… … It’s nothing, Your Majesty.”
I ended up laughing hysterically.
“But Ron, aren’t you hungry? There are so many sheep, why don’t you come and eat with us?”
“How could I dare to have a humble meal with you, my lord?”
The overly polite Ron at that time was indeed the Ron in my memories.
“Sit down first. I have something to say.”
Ron sits down across from me, mumbling.
“How are you doing now, sister?”
“Is this Lady Elizabeth? She’s as usual.”
It’s no different than usual.
Who do you know as a kid?
“Ron’s not stupid. He knows that my sister is having a hard time right now, even if no one else knows.”
Ron’s hand, which had been scratching his head clumsily, stops.
“… … I don’t know what you are talking about.”
Ron’s once-flinching appearance looks strangely cute.
He put the meat back in his mouth and chewed it quietly.
“As I said before, you’re a really good cook. The reason I’ve been able to eat in the rose garden without worrying about the food these past few days is because Ron checks the ingredients every day to make sure they’re not poisonous.”
As I continued talking, I found myself laughing without realizing it.
As I continued to speak, Ron’s eyes opened wide and his slightly open mouth slowly closed. If I had seen that, I would have laughed even if it weren’t me.
hmm…….
“Let me guess, Ron is a 9th Circle wizard now?”
Ron’s face hardens into a plaster statue.
Without a care, I picked up my fork again and stuffed the sliced meat into my mouth.
The atmosphere is getting a little strange, so let’s change the subject a little.
“I mean, you know, Rondo, I don’t know what kind of person my real mother was. She died when I was born. But when I see my sister’s behavior toward me, I think she must have been a very good person… … I mean it.”
“……master.”
“Ron was the one who protected his mother like that?”
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“… … .”
“A servant escorted by a 9th Circle wizard? Oh my, if this were a novel, I would have thrown the book at him and said, ‘Where did all the plausibility go?’ It’s almost comical. But, it actually happened.”
When I ran away from the Marquis, I wasn’t alone.
I ran away from the Marquis with Ron, and I ran away from the ‘pursuers’ who followed me.
As it turns out, the pursuers are the ‘Iron-Blooded Knights’.
That is, the elite knights of the Marquis of Valanti were chasing me to kill me.
At that time, the Knight Commander was a 9th Circle Inspector, and Ron perished with them to protect me.
As a former nerd, I didn’t know much about Ron.
However, when I found out that Ron, who was good at cooking and housework, was a 9th circle wizard who protected his mother, I was honestly very shocked.
Rather, it is truly regrettable to think back on it, as I was even afraid of Ron for a moment because of that huge sense of alienation.
“My mother’s status was not that of a commoner, but that of a fallen noble, or perhaps a royal who had run away from a distant land, or something like that. She probably didn’t tell the Marquis about it… … and she probably didn’t tell Ron either. Actually, I can guess where it is. She’s going, but… … .”
He quietly put his knife and fork down on the table and raised his head.
Ron’s appearance, which had shed his immature appearance, was more solemn than expected.
He continued slowly, looking into Ron’s eyes.
“I’m just going to live without knowing. Right now, all that matters to me is who Ron is.”
“… … How did you know?”
“There is a way to do this. But isn’t that the question you should be asking me right now?”
