Episode 61. Two hearts
A purple light flashed over the Legion. At the same time, something unbelievable happened.
“It’s over, Monestier.”
Kwasik!
Verdin appeared from nowhere and pierced the dragon’s heart with a purple sword.
“Coooooooo!”
The dragon roared.
The guy tried hard to shake off Verdin somehow. The more roughly I flapped my wings, the deeper the blade went.
Quad deuk.
The hard scales surrounding the skin crack and blood flows out.
With Valentine who was watching this scene.
‘Verdin?’
The two generals’ eyes widened.
‘You cut down a dragon?!’
Not only this, but his success in cutting down the dragon gave hope to the adventurers and residents of the Legion who were watching the battle that they could survive.
“Uuuuh!”
“No way!”
Buuuuuung-
The dragon falls.
Verdin spoke to Monestier without letting go of the sword stuck in his heart.
“From now on, listen to me carefully. “I will teach you and your parents how to survive.”
Monestier’s eyes, transformed into a dragon, slowly closed. He wanted to answer Verdin, but his mouth would not open, as if he had already exhausted all his strength.
“You have already become an apostle by God’s will. “There is no turning back from this, but if you give up on the affair and quietly go to the tower like this.”
“… … .”
“I will do my best to save your parents and get to where you are. “Let me swear to God.”
“… … .”
“Open your eyes, Monestier.”
“… … .”
“And remember, what your true dream was.”
“… … .”
“Sure, that flame is falling on the Legion. Do you want everyone to die? “Even your family and innocent citizens!”
Monestier closed his eyes.
Then, in the unfolding darkness, he remembered his past.
‘It’s my dream.’
Was there such a thing?
Qua-ang!
* * *
A vast plain where green blades of grass dance according to the direction of the wind.
A brown-haired child lay under a large tree and looked at the blue sky.
“They say this land is as wide as the sky. “Why am I here like this?”
The child gestured toward the flying dragonfly with a dissatisfied expression.
“You guys are good. You can go anywhere you want, right? huh?”
Of course, there was no way to get an answer from the insect.
A dragonfly flew in and landed on the child’s head.
He waved his hand, sent the dragonfly flying away, and stood up, stretching.
“Mmm! Whoa, let’s go back to the village now.”
The child went straight back to his village. But there was no one to welcome him.
All the adults had gone to work in the mountains and fields, and he was the only child in the village.
“Mom, am I really Strange?”
My mother, who was picking a basket full of flowers, answered.
“Monestier, do you call that a horse? Of course it is! “The guy who received Bae Hu-ryeong’s name through the ordeal is talking nonsense.”
Young Monestier lowered his head.
“But why am I here?”
“What does that mean?”
“I heard from my uncle that all of Strange’s other children learn swordsmanship… .”
His mother did not speak. She just picked the flowers with a frown.
“Mother, mother, mother! “I want to learn swordsmanship too!”
Monestier didn’t know that day. His family bears Strange’s name, but he is too poor to be sent to the academy.
Not only that?
Monestier’s family lived in the most remote village on the outskirts of the many Strange clans.
The people from their original family, with whom they shared blood, were so distant relatives that they were not even aware of their existence.
“Did you really want to learn swordsmanship?”
“Yes, mother. I’m sure I can become the best knight. Bae Hu-ryeong also said that.”
The old man holding the wooden sword floating above Monkle’s head nodded briefly.
Mother sighed deeply. She answered, lightly stroking her monk’s head and straightening her back.
“Why didn’t you tell Bae Hu-ryeong?”
“Of course I learned it from Bae Hu-ryeong! But he said there are limits to what he can tell us now.”
“Why?”
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“Please tell me that there are many parts that cannot be understood just by explaining them in words.”
“… I get it. Then, let me find out who my swordsmanship teacher is.”
Monestier jumped up and down in joy.
“really?!”
“Yes, my father is planning to visit the west this time. “He has a close relative there, so let me ask him if he can take it in.”
“West… .”
“Maybe I can learn swordsmanship when I go there.”
He was happy.
Will the day finally come when we can escape our boring daily lives and live up to the name of Strange?
Less than a week later, my father brought good news.
“Monestier, a carriage will come from the west tomorrow. If you follow me, you will learn how to use a sword like your relatives there.”
It’s God’s blessing.
Finally, Monestier went to learn the swordsmanship of his dreams.
Thanks to being given the name ‘Strange’!
“hey! Monestier, I heard you’re going west to learn swordsmanship? Finally, a knight will be born in our village!”
“Hohohoho, you shouldn’t forget about the lady just because you become successful later?”
“Here, take this. The villagers saved up a little and bought it. “I heard from my arms dealer, and he said that although it’s not good, it’s usable.”
The village chief wiped the tip of his nose and handed me a short sword. It was a shabby-looking leather scabbard, but when I pulled it out, the blade was still standing properly.
Monestier bowed his head.
“… “I will come back as the best prosecutor!”
So Monestier left for the west with the blessings of the village people.
But life in a foreign country was not easy. The carriage he arrived at was a mansion much larger than the village he had lived in until now.
From eating to dressing, it was so different from what he had experienced so far.
There were several children who learned swordsmanship with him, but they all ignored Monestier’s birth and family.
“You damn thing! “Why did you come here when you don’t have money to replace the broken sword?”
Monestier tightly grasped the handle of his sword, which had become loose due to hard training.
“Leave it alone, those bastards are all farmers. What should I do? “You don’t even have money to sharpen blades?”
Next, he returned the chipped blade of the sword he was holding into its sheath.
“Do you think that just because they bear Strange’s name, they are all the same Strange? Puhahaha!”
I was embarrassed.
Monestier closed his eyes and trembled.
He suffered all kinds of insults from his peers who stayed at the mansion. However, he persevered despite the words and actions that ignored him.
‘You damn bastards.’
Although I had anger in my heart, I kept a smile on my face.
If I fight them now and get kicked out, I will disappoint my parents and the village people who sent me there.
We have to survive here somehow.
The mind of a child who was only nine years old was filled with resentment towards those who had the same name as him, ‘Strange’.
But as the years passed, his efforts did not betray him. While all the relatives who couldn’t endure the arduous training and left disappeared.
He stayed in his position no matter what.
The year I turned sixteen.
“Starting today, I will appoint you as Strange’s official knight.”
This day was the day when the first knight from the village where Monestier was born and raised, and the most talented swordsman in the world, saw the light of day.
‘Did it take too long?’
No, I am the only one here who became an official knight at the age of sixteen.
‘okay.’
In any case, I succeeded in achieving my dream.
I will now return to my parents and have a happy return. With this thought, Monestier returned to his homeland with the knights he led.
He wore a shabby sword given to him by the villagers when he left, tied to his belt.
But the reality he would face was so cruel.
“What happened?”
The village disappeared.
No, to be precise, the house was on fire and people were dead, as if it had been invaded by someone.
It was a gruesome sight.
Even before he arrived, crows were devouring the flesh of the dead, and parts of the living people were missing, as if they had been eaten by animals.
Monestier knelt down on the spot and shed tears.
‘Who on earth did this?’
After receiving a report from a resident of a neighboring village, he felt a sense of emptiness. The reason the village disappeared was so absurd.
“You killed me because you were bored?”
A knight who came to solve the empire’s request killed all the villagers.
His name is ‘Hysteria de Strange’.
It was a knight of the same age as Monestier.
“crazy!”
Hysteria is Strange’s second direct son and one of the current strongest swordsmen.
Moreover, the heights at birth were very different. He is a being so high that he cannot even be touched.
Isn’t he a guy who is reputed to be a madman that even his eldest son, Gunther, can’t stop?
“Huh… … . Hmm… .”
He was indignant, but there was nothing he could do. The despair I felt from that reality was so heavy.
‘Strange.’
My cursed name.
Crack.
Blood flowed from his tightly clenched fist.
“Damn… . Damn… . Damn it!”
From that day on, Monestier left the knights and wandered the continent.
To become stronger, he went to the battlefield or hunted monsters every single day.
I cut, cut, and cut again.
One day, I will be stronger than anyone who bears Strange’s name.
Monnestier lived with this one will.
As time passed, his reputation spread throughout the continent, and the imperial army, recognizing his excellent swordsmanship, attempted to select him as the next ‘Sword Master’.
Even Lois, Strange’s matriarch, recognizes him and recommends him as one of the generals.
‘The time has finally come.’
If I receive the title of Sword Master and become a general, I can take revenge on Strange, who despised me so much and took away all the people I loved.
Monestier had been planning for a long time. How will we take down Strange?
“Are you saying Bourbon is targeting Strange?”
And soon enough, good news arrived. One of the mercenaries who were on the battlefield together told me about the incident between Bourbon and Strange.
‘It’s an opportunity.’
The mercenary told Monestier to be careful because he was a member of Strange, but he accepted it as a revelation from God that would enable him to achieve his long-held wish.
“Introduce me to Marquis Pierre.”
With this, he was able to solve all the puzzles of Strange’s annihilation operation. Everything he planned went smoothly. If time passes like this, Strange will disappear.
Moreover, in a year like this, God blessed us.
“My parents are alive?!”
I found out about my parents’ whereabouts through a wandering merchant I met by chance in the Legion.
“Yes, I happened to stop by that village at the time. “Those who were running away from there were caught in several wagons and ran away.”
It’s God’s blessing.
Monestier followed the wandering merchant with an expression filled with joy. And he met his parents, whom he thought were dead, in a mercenary group on the outskirts.
“mother… . father… .”
A dramatic reunion.
thank god.
I’m so glad.
With this, there is nothing more to wish for.
Perhaps it would have been better if the story had ended here. All I had to do was take my parents and go live in a quiet place.
However, the plan to eliminate Strange, which had already begun, was carried out and the operation failed due to Verdin.
He was sent straight to the death row.
And with parents I just met.
‘… Oh God.’
* * *
The center of the Legion.
Monestier, who returned to human form, fell in front of the statue that was once called a hero of the continent.
Qua-ang!
‘… ‘My true dream?’
Monestiere answered with all his remaining strength in his fading vision.
“My true dream.”
Past events flashed quickly through his mind, stopping at one scene.
“my dream is… .”
My childhood self, lying in a wide field and watching dragonflies flying freely in the sky.
“That’s my dream.”
Ssaaaaaa-
The wind blew strongly from the west. Monestier looked at the sky, closed his eyes, and smiled slightly.
‘Everything has been achieved.’
“If you want to get an answer, come to the tower.”
Don’t wait, Verdin.
“With my parents.”
fantasy,
