Episode 10 Panda, No Panda, Panda. (1)
Kane Loges is a cousin of Giselle, one year younger, and heir to the County of Loges, located a short distance from Ferdium.
He was quite large and strong, so the Rogas Territory had high expectations for him.
To Giselle, he was her only friend during this time… … and also her greatest enemy.
I used to come to Perdium often, but since there was a festival going on, there was no way this guy who likes to have fun wouldn’t come.
‘Yeah! You forgot about this guy?’
As I looked at Kane laughing viciously, old memories came flooding back.
The two men were equally troublemakers, but their evaluations were slightly different.
Kane was arrogant and violent, but he was not ignored by people.
Because he was always confident and dignified, he was sometimes evaluated favorably as being spirited.
In contrast, Giselle was always treated as a petty and inferior person.
‘I got cursed at more because of this guy.’
There have been more than a few times when I’ve been put in an embarrassing situation because of this guy who always teases, tramples on my self-esteem, and harasses me.
And that’s not all? Even though they hung out together, Cain always treated Giselle like a subordinate.
It was natural for him to order me around, and when he was drunk and lost his self-control, he would swing his fists at anything that didn’t suit his liking.
The more things happened to Jiselle, the more angry she became, and she started to harass and cause trouble for the people of the territory.
‘Ha, it’s embarrassing just thinking about it.’
Jiselle smiled self-deprecatingly and rubbed her forehead.
At this time, he couldn’t dare to attack Kane, so he took his anger out on the wrong people.
Since he couldn’t even make a sound outside and only shouted inside, he inevitably earned nicknames like ‘Corner Tyrant’ and ‘Corner Sword Master’.
‘Ugh, why did I do that?’
Giselle crouched down and plucked at the flower petals, recalling memories from the past.
Kane frowned at the sight.
“What, aren’t you listening to me? I’ve been hearing a lot of rumors lately that it’s gone bad. Is it really gone bad?”
Kane grumbled. Jiselle stood up, dusting off her pants, and stared blankly at him.
Then Kane approached him with a bewildered expression and whispered.
“Didn’t you prepare what I told you before? I came here to have fun after a long time, but you’re reacting a bit strangely today. Did you take some drugs or something?”
“Ah… … Ready.”
Only then did Jiselle recall her memories and nod at Kane’s words.
That’s right, every time this guy came he would order me to prepare alcohol and women.
The pretext is that they’re just hanging out together, but how can they be friends? To Cain, Jiselle was just a puppet he could use.
Kane said, tapping Giselle’s cheek.
“Yeah, let’s have a drink and party together for the first time in a while. We really get along well in that way, don’t we? That’s what true friends are like.”
What that meant was that he was going to go around and harass people.
Kane was just as reckless as Giselle and caused a lot of accidents.
Forcibly harassing maids was common, and he was also known for beating soldiers without reason.
Since Count Ferdium was almost always away on expeditions, he was able to run around Ferdium Castle to his heart’s content, using the pretext of being his relative.
There was nothing to be hesitant about, as Jisel, the successor to the estate, was like a subordinate to him.
Kane shouted as Giselle continued to stare blankly.
“Oh, why are you like this today! Huh? Why are you so slow in reacting!”
“… … .”
“Hey, aren’t you going to answer? Are you crazy all of a sudden? Did you eat something wrong?”
“… … .”
“Hey! Giselle! Are you out of your mind?”
Kane snarled, his face right in front of Giselle’s. His knights quickly whispered to stop him.
“Confucius, there are many eyes watching. Please calm down a bit here.”
“I think it would be better to talk to Prince Jisel in a quiet place, apart from him.”
This is the territory of Ferdium. It would be bad if rumors spread about the bullying, so at least pretend to stop them for now.
If you want to vent your anger, you can do it in a quiet place.
The knights didn’t even pretend to hide their intentions.
It had been a long time since she had been in such an absurd situation, so she was really embarrassed and just rolled her eyes.
‘What should I do?’
The level was too low for the little girl to fight back and forth.
However, since it had been a long time since he had saved up some dignity as the King of Mercenaries, he felt somewhat awkward about directly reaching out to Aesong.
It’s been a long time since the people who bothered him disappeared. Even if they did appear, they were usually dealt with by his subordinates.
‘I guess I’ll have to get a useful subordinate soon.’
It is embarrassing to respond to each and every one of Aesong’s provocations, but it would also be disrespectful as the mercenary king to just leave it alone.
‘Saving people is saving people… … .’
Jiselle glanced at Kane without letting on.
‘Should I throw this away? Or just leave it?’
After thinking about it for a while, he decided to try flower petal fortune telling, which he had recently become interested in. He sometimes uses this method because the results are certain.
Jiselle picked up a flower, plucked its petals, and began to divine Kane’s future.
‘Panda, no panda, panda, no panda. Panda. No panda?’
Kane frowned as he watched Giselle plucking the petals with a strange expression on her face.
“What are you doing, you punk… .”
“Ha, are you lucky?”
“what?”
Jiselle continued speaking, throwing back the withered flower stalk from which all the petals had fallen.
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“You shameless brat. Since you came as a guest, I’ll forgive you this once. Be thankful for the flower petals.”
“What, what?”
Kane blinked his eyes in confusion, then quickly came to his senses.
“People are saying you’re crazy, crazy, so are you really crazy… … . You’re just a loser who takes out your anger on people weaker than you. Aren’t you?”
Kane’s words became increasingly more intense. Even the servants passing by stopped and watched.
Kane, who was furious, continued to spew venomous words even as people watched.
“Don’t you see? You lie and say you won the knight, so do you really think you’re strong?”
“… … .”
“I heard the rumor and laughed for a long time because it was so ridiculous. Who would accept you with such a lie? Let me know your subject again?”
“… … .”
Jiselle realized once again that she had changed.
‘If it were like before, I would have just kicked him out when he said something about his height. I died once and came back to life, and now I’m an adult.’
“Hey, what are you doing? Aren’t you going to answer me? Should I tear your mouth off?”
‘Hold on, I’m an adult. I don’t need to fall for the provocations of a kid like this… ‘
“Hey, you little shit!”
At that moment, Jiselle’s right hand moved like lightning.
Phew!
“Ugh!”
Kane, who was suddenly hit in the eye, covered his face with his hand. Jiselle looked down at her right hand and admired it again.
‘I just wanted to hit you, but my hand went out on its own?’
Kane shouted, clutching his face.
“This crazy kid!”
Phew!
“Ugh!”
“Confucius!”
As Kane stumbled again, the knights of the escort came running in panic.
Meanwhile, Jiselle was looking at her left hand and again making an expression of admiration.
Kane’s face turned pale, he took a step back and drew his sword.
“I will kill you!”
“No, sir!”
The escort knight stood in front of Kane and whispered softly.
“There are too many eyes watching now.”
Servants, maids, and soldiers were already gathered around, murmuring and watching the situation.
Kane looked around and ground his teeth.
“I got hit in front of other people too, so you’re asking me to put up with it?”
“Duel, challenge me to a duel. That will do. First of all, you were the one who attacked first, weren’t you?”
The escort knight spoke with a meaningful expression. Kane hesitated for a moment and nodded.
“Duel… … Yeah, good. That sounds better.”
If you publicly humiliate me, that lump of inferiority complex won’t be able to bear it.
Plus, you can also rip him off somewhere and render him crippled.
Kane immediately took out his glove and threw it at Giselle’s face.
Whoosh.
As Giselle lightly dodged the glove, Kane’s face distorted even more and he shouted.
“This is a duel! Rumors are spreading throughout the castle that you lied about beating Jamal and Philip! You have lowered the dignity of a nobleman and dared to attack me when I tried to verify the truth!”
At the sudden declaration, Giselle’s eyes widened and she pointed at herself with her finger.
“A duel? With me? Seriously?”
“Yeah! You won’t be scared and run away now, right? A lot of people are already watching!”
“and…….”
Jiselle felt a very unfamiliar feeling.
A duel! I couldn’t even remember the last time I had a duel.
Even Aiden, one of the seven powers on the same continent, safely took a joint attack in the final battle.
That’s what the 7 powers of the continent are. They’re the kind of beings that no one can guarantee victory over in a one-on-one fight.
But who would have thought that I would be challenged to a duel by this most adorable of adorables?
‘Just do whatever comes to your mind. Did you suddenly come back and think too much about your future plans? It’s hard to adjust.’
It might be because of the disparity between my past life memories and my current body. I needed time to get used to it, but I was too impatient.
‘What happened to that guy in the future?’
The County of Loges sided with Ferdium during the ongoing territorial war and was destroyed along with it.
After that, Kane went missing.
In her previous life, Jiselle gathered information up to that point and then lost interest.
Because he was too big of a person to let bad memories from his childhood remain as trauma.
Anyway, his son was a loser, but Count Rogers was loyal.
‘Yeah, well. I guess I should at least give him some education this time, at least for the sake of Count Rogers. He needs to be properly taught at this age to gain enlightenment. I suffered a lot because I was immature, didn’t I?’
Giselle, having made her decision, swung her glove at Kane’s face.
Kane tried to dodge it with a snicker, but the direction the glove was flying changed and he ended up getting hit in the face.
“uh?”
The people standing around were giggling and laughing quietly.
“This, this kid… … .”
Kane’s face turned red and blue. Just as he was about to have another seizure, Giselle spoke calmly.
“Okay, I’ll accept the challenge. I’ve been thinking a lot about my financial plans lately, so I was going to just let it slide… … . Hey, wait a minute.”
Jiselle smiled brightly as she remembered something she had forgotten.
“Hey, pay me back the money you borrowed.”
“What? When did I ever borrow money from you?”
“You borrowed money from me little by little.”
Kane would often take money from Giselle.
Jisel lived in a poor estate, losing even the small amount of money he had left for his successor.
“If you add it all up, it’ll be a thousand gold.”
But when he heard the huge sum of money, a thousand gold, Cain was startled and shouted loudly.
“What a thousand gold! What I received from you was less than a hundred gold!”
“Oh, really? Well, you borrowed it anyway. With interest, it’s a thousand gold. Pay it back quickly. I need a lot of money right now.”
In fact, even a thousand gold was not enough to attempt the things that Jiselle had planned. At least ten thousand gold would be needed to handle even a small part of them.
But since Kane couldn’t possibly have that much money, I decided to just accept a thousand gold.
‘It’s only a pittance, but money can be made when you put it to work. The important thing is to get started on anything.’
Kane, who did not know what was in Giselle’s mind, shouted with a dumbfounded expression.
“What the hell is this crazy kid talking about! What does it have to do with me that you need money? In the first place, you gave me that money just to thank me for being your friend! Don’t you know what a friend’s fee is, a friend’s fee!”
Oh my gosh, these days you have to pay to make friends.
‘Friend, what kind of nonsense is that… … . I was just being a fool.’
Jiselle shook her head.
As we talked, I clearly remembered. To be honest, I didn’t want to give him the money, but Kane threw a punch at me, so I had no choice but to give it to him.
“Those who took it by force always say that. Well, you’ll have to pay it back after the duel even if you don’t want to.”
Jiselle raised her fist and smirked.
“After getting hit a few times, money that I didn’t have before started appearing.”
