Episode 232 – God, Felix Esperanza. I swear allegiance to the monarch of my new kingdom.
The swordsman’s declaration, which no one expected, brought an unsuitable silence to Daejeon.
The nobles all looked at each other, doubting their ears, and soon everyone opened their mouths with wide eyes.
‘That swordsman?’
Daejeon has suddenly become so quiet that you can even hear the sound of a pin falling.
In that sudden silence, Logan’s eyes slowly changed.
The shaking eyes found stability and the open mouth closed tightly.
An expression that seems to have made a firm decision on something.
Padrick’s expression, who was watching his son from the side, also became a little lighter.
‘The Duke of Swords… acknowledged Logan.’
How did he appear in Daejeon at this moment?
Why did you act like that?
It was a situation worth wondering about, but it didn’t really matter now.
I can only sigh with relief because I know how my son has been struggling so hard.
The richest person with the most influence remains silent.
In the silence of Daejeon, the swordsman opened his mouth again.
“I heard that everyone in the kingdom made up their minds before me. Please make a firm decision for the people of this country who have suffered from years of disaster, Your Majesty.”
your majesty.
Logan, who was sitting in the regent’s seat, trembled again at the sound of those words.
His tightly clenched fists and trembling lips seemed to indicate the turbulence in his heart.
However, the moment the tightly closed lips opened, a clear and loud voice rang out as if the shaking had never occurred from the beginning.
“I accept that oath.”
OK.
“Huh.”
“This is…”
“Then…”
The surprised nobles exclaimed in the quiet Daejeon.
Logan, with a stern face, left those voices behind and declared to everyone his unwavering resolve.
“I, Logan McLane, here today, accept the wishes of everyone in this country and declare the beginning of a new dynasty!”
“Oh oh!”
With the declaration announcing the beginning of a new era, cheers erupted in Daejeon.
After that, Padrick McLane’s voice rang out in Daejeon.
“Ministers, prepare for the coronation ceremony to announce the beginning of a new dynasty! Prepare for the beginning of a new era!”
“yes!”
Declaration of a new kingdom.
When the rumor began to spread rapidly around the royal palace.
Logan was face to face with his teacher who appeared in a completely unexpected way.
* * *
“Master, how on earth is this happening?”
“It was something I decided from the moment I entered the battlefield. The loser must follow the winner. Even for the sake of the people of this kingdom.”
The teacher’s answer to Logan’s question was firm, and the change in speaking style that went along with it was difficult to get used to.
“…Please speak at ease, Master. It will be uncomfortable if you do that suddenly.”
Logan said with an awkward expression.
“No, no. If you do not use honorifics to the monarch just because he is your teacher, the authority of the new dynasty you are about to start will not be maintained.”
“I’m uncomfortable. I hope you can at least speak comfortably when it’s just the two of us.”
Despite Logan’s request, the swordsman’s attitude was stubborn.
“No. A bowl that leaks on the inside will also leak on the outside. So it is right to do it this way. In that sense, I have something to ask for.”
“…yes?”
“I escaped from prison on my own and injured several knights. Please punish this criminal.”
thud.
In fact, Logan was ultimately left speechless by his teacher’s increasingly extreme attitude.
But after a while.
Logan held out his hand to his teacher with a long sigh.
“Wake up. I have never thought of you as a sinner.”
At those words, the eyebrows of the swordsman who was lowering his head slightly twitched.
But that attitude still didn’t change.
“Thank you for your grace, Your Majesty.”
The teacher gets up from his seat with a way of speaking that I still can’t get used to.
Looking at his teacher like that, Logan confessed the worries that had been building up in his heart recently.
“Do you know? I was still thinking about it until Master came.”
“Yes. I assumed so.”
“…yes?”
“That’s why I came to see you, Your Majesty, to remove your hesitation.”
“Ah…”
At those words, the teacher’s face, still sweating coldly, came into view again.
Beneath the stern expression was a pale complexion that was not typical of an Auror user.
‘Teacher…’
A teacher whom I once followed endlessly and at another time was at odds with.
But even at the end of that extreme confrontation, the teacher was thinking of himself.
From the surprise surrender of the Esperanza army and what happened in Daejeon.
He faced the sword to protect his beliefs, but even thought about what happened after he was defeated.
‘What would you have done if I had lost?’
Then, I suddenly remembered the last moment of the confrontation with my teacher.
The teacher’s sword and that sword, whose power suddenly decreased in the end.
It suddenly occurred to me that it might have been an attempt to capture me alive.
He swung his sword without regard for his teacher’s life or death.
‘For sure…’
Once my thoughts started to focus that way, unfounded confidence followed.
‘No matter how much I couldn’t afford it…’
I was embarrassed.
So Logan opened his mouth without thinking.
“Master. Could it be that time…”
“Stop mentioning the past. Now is the time to prepare for the future.”
But the teacher cut off the conversation before the question was finished.
“…Won’t you regret it?”
“What can I regret now? I have already made up my mind. Rather, there is something I want to confirm from Your Majesty.”
“yes?”
“Your Majesty, how certain are you of the imperial invasion you mentioned earlier?”
The heavily sunken blue eyes brought up a topic that had been discussed before.
But things were definitely different back then.
At the time, the swordsman, who doubted the probability and wanted solid evidence, eventually thought of it as Logan’s excuse to seek a counterattack.
but.
“100%. The empire will invade no matter what. I’ll say it again, I could risk my head.”
There is no reason to make excuses now.
Yet, there was not even the slightest hesitation in Logan’s voice.
‘no. It must have been like that before. I was just stuck in my own stubbornness and turned away.’
After hearing the answer he wanted and acknowledging that it was his stubbornness, the swordsman then let out a deep sigh.
“I swear again. I, Felix Esperanza, will sacrifice my life to prevent the invasion of the Empire and protect this kingdom.”
thud.
Logan’s expression as he looked at his teacher kneeling again was perplexing.
* * *
“Our Grand Duke is becoming king!!”
“really?!”
“Then what happens to us?”
“How can life get better!”
“Is that so?”
“Uh… I don’t know! Anyway, if Confucius became king, it’s something to celebrate, right?”
“yes!”
– Long live Logan McLane!
Voices praising the new king rang out throughout McLane territory, including McLane Town.
However, unlike everyone in the McLane territory praising Logan’s achievements and waiting for the start of a new country, the reaction of the other residents of the territory, except for them, could not help but be apathetic.
“New country?”
“So Grandia will no longer be Grandia?”
“I heard it’s going to be McLine?”
“What is that? It’s strange…”
The street was filled with not-so-friendly whispers.
Even if a new dynasty was declared, that was the only reaction that could come from the kingdom’s people.
For them, their own livelihood was more important than the name of the kingdom.
However, the beginning was very important for the leaders of the new dynasty who wanted to announce the launch of a new kingdom.
Therefore, the Daejeon meeting held to prepare for the coronation ceremony was more intense than usual.
“The order of events is…”
“The location is Daejeon, in front of the royal palace, and a march around the capital…”
“Isn’t a march too much? Rather…”
The voices of the ministers debating fiercely made Daejeon I filled it up.
Nobles from each local fiefdom who had been invited to prepare for the coronation ceremony also attended and watched the spectacle.
Formally, a new dynasty opened with the consent of all nobles in the kingdom.
To begin with, all influential nobles gathered together.
However, the eyes of some nobles watching the discussions between the ministers of state were turned away from the heated conversation.
The headstone of Daejeon.
The old knight now stands next to Logan McLane, who is sitting on the throne.
To swordsman Felix Esperanza.
They had reached their own agreement before coming to the capital, and this situation itself was embarrassing.
– If the McLane dynasty begins like this, the king will have absolute power.
– Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Ultimately, our coming together is for the good of the country.
– As a noble, you must protect the minimum rights and interests.
– We must be loyal to the new king, but we must band together and secure our say.
For the nobles who had secretly reached such an agreement, the best means was the swordsman or the Grand Duke of Esperanza.
A family that fought against McLane until the end and fell.
Nevertheless, the family maintained its name under the respect of Logan McLane.
It was thought that such a family could become the center of a newly formed ‘noble faction’.
However, the head of the family and a swordsman who was known to have collapsed was standing next to the new king.
That too.
“The situation is in turmoil, but the cost of the coronation ceremony should be kept to a minimum…”
“No, Your Majesty. The beginning of a dynasty that will advance into a new millennium should not be shabby. If funds are insufficient, I will even unpack Esperanza’s warehouse to make up for it. For now, it is the authority. “Please just think about elevating .”
Even to the point of showing the utmost respect to someone who was once his student.
‘This is bad.’
The plans of the nobles who dreamed of the birth of a new aristocratic faction were virtually thwarted at that moment.
“Your body may not have fully recovered yet, so you don’t have to come out like this already.”
“It’s okay. If I stay in this position, no one will have different feelings from the start of the new dynasty.”
It was not noticeable from a distance, but up close, you could see the cold sweat running down the swordsman’s forehead. Even in such poor physical condition, his attitude was stubborn.
Although he was a swordsman who lived in a politically neutral position for a long time, he knew the physiology of nobles well.
So he was making sure to lay the foundation for a new dynasty, as he said.
Just by being here.
And then, without anyone knowing, the moment when the birth of a new aristocratic faction was aborted.
“Then we will decide the schedule for the coronation ceremony.”
The meeting in Daejeon also ended.
Confirming the date when the McLane dynasty officially begins.
* * * Dung. ridge. ridge. ridge.
“Stand in line!”
“Correct the gap!”
“there! Just a little to the right!”
The road leading from the west gate of Grand’s castle to the entrance of the royal palace.
The crowds filling the wide thoroughfare were moving left and right according to the soldiers’ instructions.
“But why are you coming from outside the royal palace…”
“I heard it. We are planning to start the coronation ceremony in commemoration of His Majesty’s first visit to the palace.”
“What do you mean?”
“I don’t know either.”
“Well, we just have to look at the new Majesty’s face. They say he will be blessed.”
“Of course!”
” Quiet, quiet!”
The crowd on the main street, where the knights had managed to organize the whispering voices and set up the display, was brought into order around noon.
Boom, boom, boom, boom. Soon,
the sound of drums started again, and a huge voice filled the entire main street. It rang out.
– Enter Your Majesty Logan McLane, who founded the Kingdom of McLane!
With that, the west gate of the inner palace opened and a group of people began to slowly walk in.
Atop a horse with a flaming red mane and a huge stature. A man wearing splendid armor.
He stood out with hair the same color as the red mane of the horse he was riding. He slowly entered the temple with attendants on his left, right, and back.
However, all of the attendants following him were knights, not servants. .
The moment when knights wearing colorful armor and contrasting solemn expressions began marching with the king.
“Waaaaaaaa!”
A loud shout resounded throughout the capital, announcing the beginning of a new kingdom.
“Hurray!
” Long live the Kingdom of McLane!”
“Long live Your Majesty, Logan McLane!”
Three cheers of hurray heard endlessly from all directions. The
shout was so strong that the famous horse of the Rubens breed, whom the teacher had rescued in great difficulty, froze in surprise. Logan even used the force to calm the horse. He was able to move forward one step at a time.
Soon, pollen was spraying along his path.
The endless pollen spraying from the roofs of the mansions on the left and right of the main street was fluttering everywhere, creating a dreamlike atmosphere. The
sight of the knights accompanying him. In this unrealistic sight,
Logan looked around in all directions and slowly drove his horse forward.
