Episode 1090. Do you know what romance is?
When Erica and the saleswoman disappeared, Elio asked Fabian.
“Do knights always run away? Do you want me to sing you a song that you are proud of?”
“It’s because the vice-captain doesn’t know the lyrics.”
“It’s all already in the title, but what do you know? Are you always running away? Do you want to hear such embarrassing songs as a knight? After all, it is special.”
Then Fabian said with a frustrated face.
“It is not about running away from the enemy.”
“It’s not because I was wrong to run away. You can run away if your life is in danger. But isn’t it a little bit like running away all the time? Still, a man called a knight.”
“Because it’s not like that. I really can’t explain this.”
“Don’t explain. I don’t even want to hear it.”
Erica appeared on stage as Elio and Fabian squabbled over a song.
With the pipa on her lap, she smiled at Elio and Fabian before singing.
Fabian muttered with a puzzled face.
“Did you see Miss Erica smile at me?”
“I saw you smiling while looking at this side.”
“It’s a smile for me. There are emotions that only Ramus, not nobles or commoners, can feel. Loneliness, emptiness, sorrow, desolation, etc… This is really a very special soul resonance that only Ramus can understand. You can think of the two souls resonating.”
“Yeah, you are good. So are you going to end things with Sarah?”
“The resonance of the soul and love are slightly different. It’s a very emotional relationship.”
“I’ll admit it if I can say the same thing in front of Sarah. can you do it?”
“I can’t.”
“Ah! You thief.”
Erica’s song started when Elio shook his head.
You said that night when the two moons turned blue.
Only you are my destiny
Being immature, I believed those words and gave my all.
But the future as sweet as honey never came.
You say you love me, but why do you want to leave me as if you were running away?
They say knights always run away, so are you?
Erica’s sobbing voice filled the bar.
Her appealing voice made the eyes of the Knights of the Kingdom Alliance foggy.
Elio, who was looking around, spoke to Fabian.
“I didn’t know you were running away like that.”
“Yes, that’s why I asked you to listen.”
“Are there so many knights who run away leaving women behind? Enough to say that knights always run away?”
“Shouldn’t seven out of ten be like that?”
“Wow. They are flirts.”
“It’s not necessarily because he’s a flirt, but if he devotes himself to swordsmanship or wanders around as a free knight, that’s bound to happen.”
“Can we settle down?”
“The lord should hire you.”
“why? The lord would also need a knight.”
“There are so many articles that come out every year. If we hire all the knights who came in, the territory will be ruined.”
“It is like that again.”
“Well, that’s why the knight moved from flower to flower like a bee.”
“After listening to it, did you sing the heartbreaking reality of the knight?”
“Isn’t life like that? It’s beautiful from a distance, but not quite so from a close up…”
“Recognized.”
Elio shook his head.
I thought it was a song about a playboy article, but hearing the explanation makes me sad.
Following this, Erica sang about a fateful encounter between a man and a woman.
It was quite lyrical like the other songs she sang, but Elio noticed it was worse than ‘Knights Always Run’.
Fabian, who was looking at Elio’s chubby expression, asked sneakily.
“why? Don’t you like the song?”
“The lyrics sound like Youngnam’s story, so it’s not good.”
“why? How is it that a man and a woman met like fate at a royal banquet? It is the romance of knights and ladies of all generations.”
“I haven’t met you like that.”
“Ah yes. You must be. So, did you meet at the bottom of a waterfall deep in the mountains? Or in front of a tiger or bear den.”
“We first met in a garden in full bloom. And we went out into the dog hole together.”
“A dog hole? When are you talking about enemies?”
“Six years old.”
“You met your wife when you were six? Were you engaged in a prenatal marriage?”
“It is not. She was the daughter of my father’s brother-in-law. My uncle’s family came to our house to play and we met.”
A bitter smile formed on Elio’s lips as he remembered Namgung-yeon.
Fabian nodded and said.
“I prefer a meeting at a royal banquet to such a boring daily life. There are no fantastic encounters in real life, which is unusual. What is a dog hole? Even if it’s a dream, it should be romantic.”
“Do you know what romance is?”
“Of course I know. Isn’t it the vice-captain who doesn’t know that?”
“me?”
Elio pointed at himself with his finger.
“How was it when you first met Mrs. Don’t talk like a bitch, tell me what happened.”
“I was beaten up by my sister.”
“yes? What did you do wrong?”
“I don’t know. I just remember getting hit hard.”
“wow. It’s a really unexpected encounter. I respect you.”
“yes? My sister and I met intensely from the beginning. There was no time to be bored.”
“Honestly, I don’t want to hear more about the vice-captain’s romance. I had never heard of such a militant romance.”
When the two were arguing about romance, Erica, who had finished singing, came to the two of them and casually joined them.
She gently permeated the two of them without interfering with their conversation.
When the conversation was about to end after listening attentively, everyone led the conversation by asking questions that everyone would have thought about at least once.
A female clerk approached the three people who were unaware of the passage of time.
“I’m sorry, but it’s time to close the door.”
The three of them were taken aback by those words and hurriedly got up from their seats.
Fabian asked the hesitant Erica.
“Where is Miss Erica staying?”
“I got a room on this floor. I plan to stay for about a month. Of course, it could still be there.”
“Are you here for work?”
“I was supposed to sing for four months.”
“Then I can listen to Miss Erica’s songs as much as I want for a month.”
“Whoops! The place price is expensive, so don’t overdo it.”
“no. The alcohol is delicious, and the side dishes are better than most restaurants. The company commander’s salary is low compared to that of the vice-captain, but I will stop by often.”
Then Erica smiled and said.
“The price is high, so don’t come alone. Come with the Viscount.”
“ah! Of course it should. In that sense, vice-captain, should we do the calculations for today?”
At Fabian’s words, Elio nodded happily.
Considering the future of Fabian, who would follow him and suffer a lot in the future, that amount of money was nothing.
“Fabian, you know I don’t buy from anyone, right?”
“Yes yes. I am well aware. Even when you were a company commander, you never gave me an ‘energy ball’.”
“I just need to know. Always be grateful.”
“It’s nagging if you say it twice.”
Erica, who was watching the conversation between the two, shouted ‘Foot!’ and burst into laughter.
It was so strange that there was no dignity for a conversation between a viscount and a baron.
Elio and Fabian said goodbye to Erica and went outside.
As the cold wind of the north rushed into his face, Fabian said, ‘Ew!’ and made a sick sound.
“Are you cold?”
“Yes, it seems colder after coming out of a warm place. Are you okay, Vice-captain?”
“Should I be shivering in this cold? I need to sharpen my mana more.”
“I said it was cold, but I wasn’t shivering.”
Fabian pointed out the exaggeration of Viscount Elio Lagoa.
In fact, if you’re a mana user, don’t you know?
For a sword beginner, this level of cold was bearable—for a very brief moment.
“What are your lips blue?”
“Isn’t it warm outside?”
Fabian didn’t want to lose, so he kept talking back.
A groan escaped from Elio’s mouth as he looked around.
“Wow! really progressed Is this possible in one month?”
“If you’re talking about a stone building, you can do it by pouring money into it.”
“Money is good. Buildings rise above the snowfield like bean sprouts.”
“But I have heard strange things.”
“what?”
“If you want to raise a masonry building, you have to level it from the ground up, don’t you?”
“I guess so.”
“But they say it’s not easy to find a flat floor. If you remove some snow, the ground is hollowed out. It’s like a magic bullet dropping.”
“okay? Was it a battlefield before?”
“Who would come to a place like this to wage war? I heard that the Glaches Fortress was also closed because there was no use for it.”
“…”
Elio did not reveal that it was caused by the Meteor Swarm.
‘Even if I knew that Meteor Swarm had fallen here… would a city have been created?’
I think it may or may not be.
There are times when humans, like moths to a fire, do not cover fire and rush at it.
“So I thought about this. I wonder if it’s a trace of an ancient war we don’t know about.”
“Ancient War?”
“Isn’t the history of the continent short? I don’t even know who lived here before that. There may have been a very advanced civilization before our ancestors settled there. Hirhera’s Pit is a trace of that time.”
“If it’s that old, shouldn’t it be in the ground instead of under the snow?”
“Oh, that’s it again. So what are all the pits under the eyes? They say it’s difficult to find flat land around the garrison.”
“I guess they secretly experimented with magic cannons here in the past.”
“oh! Maybe so. If it’s a magic cannon lab, it makes sense. So there were large and small pits around the garrison. Is this the most plausible?”
“Or maybe the Meteor Swarm has fallen.”
“Ah, that’s not it.”
“why?”
“There are no wizards of that level on the continent. Haven’t you met the wizards of the Corvo Magic Corps, the pride of the empire? Magus Killian Duke of Hale is a 7th circle, but Meteor Swarm is a 9th circle magic.”
“What if you get help from black magic?”
“To lead the 7th circle, you need to be at least 8th, but there is no warlock that has reached that level. If it’s a black magician, they’ll kill each and every one they find.”
“It’s definitely not a Meteor Swarm?”
“of course. If it was a trace of the Meteor Swarm, the Northern Kingdom would have been turned upside down already. They wouldn’t have allowed us to camp in a place like this.”
“It’s not a situation where the northern kingdoms choose the location of their garrison. There is a rift in the northernmost part of Hirhera, but we can’t gather at Glaches Fortress far below.”
“Well, since you said that, I suddenly have nothing to say. But why do you speak as if it were a meteor swarm? Couldn’t it be that Meteor Swarm fell on Hirhera? Please say no. Otherwise, you will be in real trouble.”
“What else is going to be a big deal?”
“There is no guarantee that what happened once will not happen twice. isn’t it? Did you just try?”
At Fabian’s urging, Elio turned around.
“how is it? Aren’t you cold now?”
“Aren’t you cold? It’s creepy. If you did it to make me forget the cold, you failed. It is very creepy.”
“You don’t get a cold sweat?”
“Yeah, I don’t. Don’t joke around with that. They say words become seeds, don’t they?”
“Tsk tsk! I have a lot of fear.”
“If you don’t get scared when you hear that, you’re not human. really! By the way, Count Victor Cairne of the Kingdom of Tallinn. Wouldn’t you like to speak later?”
“What do you mean?”
“Didn’t the viscount blow off the count’s ear covering to make his nose bleed in front of the knights?