Episode 1173. It’s okay to use the beauty world,
Fiesta.
Countess Bellanus.
Upon meeting Captain Althelm at the port, Benzel immediately returned to Count Belanus.
Her face as she entered the introspection was complicated.
It was good to wait five days to meet the captain, but I heard a very absurd sound.
“To think that a person ran over the sea… It wasn’t even a flying fish. Is the captain drunk? His eyes seemed to be fine…”
I can understand the fact that he cut the large sailboat in two with one sword.
Even if you become a sword master, that much is possible.
However, I couldn’t believe the words that ‘Viscount Elio Lagoa ran more than 100 meters across the sea’.
It was time for her to hesitate whether she should go to the knight commander and report it or not.
Baron Tais Pluty, the butler of the knights, came out just in time and gave her a hand.
“Yes, Baron.”
Benzel ran in front of the baron in a month.
“The magic sailboat that the northern nobility rode on has returned, right? Hearing the news, the captain has been looking for you since morning. Did you have any income?”
“This is the way back after meeting the captain and crew of the magic sailboat.”
“okay? Then hurry up and go see the captain. After the meeting with the captain, come find me.”
“Yes…”
Benzel replied in a limp voice.
That’s what it’s like to meet the leader in a situation where you don’t know how far to report.
After parting with the head butler, Benzel headed to the knight commander’s office.
Boris Knight Commander’s office.
They said they had been looking for her since morning, and Viscount Camilo Kussman, the commander of the knights, urgently asked her as soon as he saw her.
“Is there any progress in the investigation of the northern nobles?”
“In the morning, I met the captain and crew of the horse-powered sailboat rented by the northern nobility at the port. He sailed with them for five days.”
“Did you find out why they came to Fiestra?”
“They say they’re looking for a star. So, for three days, I searched around the Sea of Ma.”
“Do you believe that?”
“It seems to be true that they stayed in the Sea of Ma during the voyage.”
“Hmm! it’s celestial Amazing, amazing.”
Benzel looked at the knight commander with strange eyes.
The knight commander’s expression was subtly different from that of being surprised at the unexpected words.
‘Is there anything I don’t know?’
But then she shook her head.
No one in Fiestra knew more about the northern nobles than he did.
“Do you believe that, Captain?”
“I want to believe. If that is false, the Duchy of Lauren may suffer devastating damage.”
“Do the northern nobles have that much power?”
Then Viscount Camilo Kuzman looked up and glanced at Benzel.
“The management and supervision of Hades Port has been transferred from the Police Force to the Knights. I warned the knights, so I won’t approach the northern nobles. Still, someone has to watch the movements of the northern nobles, right? You have to keep doing it. Take a look at the northern nobles as you do now, but don’t touch their heart. If you happen to run into them, treat them with the same courtesy as a great aristocrat of the empire.”
“Are you… a great noble of the empire?”
“Yes, the great nobility of the empire, maybe even more…”
Only then did Benzel realize that the superiors were hiding something about the northern nobility.
Suddenly, the words of the captain and crew of the magic sailboat came to mind.
“I heard strange noises from the captain and crew of the magic sailboat.”
“Sounds strange?”
“Yes, it was so absurd that I thought I would just bury it, but I thought it would be better to say it.”
Then, Viscount Camilo Kusman put down the papers he was holding and met Benzel’s eyes.
“What is it?”
Benzel told me what happened in the Sea of Ma.
“…Count Omar blocked the shells with his mana blade, and Viscount Lagoa, who had been running on the sea in the meantime, cut the pirate ship in two with one sword.”
“…”
Viscount Camilo Kussman didn’t say anything for a while, probably shocked.
“I was wondering if I should tell you this because it was so absurd.
“Did the captain and the crew say that?”
“Yes, I said the same thing as if we were kissing each other.”
“A few days ago, at the direction of the lord, I inquired about the personal information of the northern nobles from the Imperial Security Guard. Then I got a call from the Inspection Department right away. The Earl of Larva Omar, Helio, and the Viscount Fabian Cloud, Viscount of Lagoa, are the highest-ranking personnel specially managed by the Empire.”
“It’s not enough special management, so it’s the highest grade?”
“Do you know what is in Hirhera in the Northern Escatos Kingdom?”
“I do not know.”
“I knew this too. It is said to be the place where the scutum (ice wall) passes. However, there was a crack in Hirhera’s scutum, and it seems that demons as well as monsters invaded through the crack. It is not known to the Empire, but the northern kingdoms say that they fought a war against the Demon Legion there.”
“A legion of demons?”
Benzel’s eyes widened.
I never dreamed that a war with the demon army would emerge from the story of the northern nobility.
“The Northern Eight Kingdoms united and managed to stop it, but it seems that the sacrifice was not small. Well, thanks to that, the Empire could only focus on the southern kingdom. Anyway, the person who led the war against the demon legion to victory was Viscount Elio Lagoa. So, in the north, he is called ‘Guardian of Hirhera’. He is known to be stronger than a sword master. The Inspection Department said he might be the Grand Master. From what you’ve said, I don’t think the term grand master is an exaggeration.”
“It is nonsense. Viscount Lagoa could only be seen in his mid-twenties. But how can I become a grandmaster?”
“You know what’s more absurd? Viscount Lagoa is a savage and a spiritual practitioner. It is the sound of someone who became a Grand Master as a Reiki practitioner.”
“It will be nonsense.”
“Are you doubting the intelligence of the Imperial Inspection Department?”
“That’s not true… but it’s so absurd… don’t you know that it’s impossible, Captain?”
“It’s not rationally possible. But where did the world flow as people thought? Four demon lords died at his hands in the north. That’s why it’s bound to sound like a grand master.”
“…”
Even Benzel couldn’t refute that statement.
Asmodians are known to be stronger than sword masters.
If he killed four demon lords like that, he deserves to be called a grand master.
“I guess you missed the main point by talking nonsense. Warlocks who caused a rift in Scutum in Hirhera were arrested, and some testified that they returned to the Celestial Star. The Inspection Department’s conclusion was that ‘the northern nobles are chasing after the black magicians who disappeared.’”
“ah!”
Belatedly, Benzel realized why the knight commander had said such a thing.
“Yes, the northern nobles may be looking for the real sky star. However, it is difficult to completely rule out the possibility that this is not true.”
“Maybe not?”
“I might have believed it if there hadn’t been a war between the Empire and the southern kingdoms. But now that we are at war, we have to doubt and doubt again. If the Grand Master attacks the Duchy of Lorraine, there is no choice but to be helpless.”
Benzel recalled what the knight commander had just mentioned as devastating damage.
When I thought ‘the real Duchy of Lorraine could collapse’, I got goosebumps.
“The Inspection Department said they would send a special task force under the pretext of supporting the northern nobles. The task force will take care of everything about the northern nobility, so just wait until they come. Don’t let dung flies fly around the northern nobles. In addition, he would have to look closely to see if the northern nobles were interested in other places. Just go.”
“yes.”
The knight commander added a word to her as she turned around and was about to start walking.
“It’s okay to use the beauty world.”
Then Benzel said, ‘Boom!’ Responded by closing the door to make a sound.
“Tsk tsk! With a temper.”
The knight commander, who had been clicking his tongue, got up from his seat and approached the window.
My heart is disturbed that the Empire’s special forces are coming to the eastern end of the continent.
If the magic corps is the strongest group in the military, the special forces are the secret weapon of the Ministry of Home Affairs.
In a good way, it is the shield of the Empire, but in fact it was a group specializing in murder.
It is understandable that the warlocks who caused cracks in Skutum, which is known as an eternal legend, are a risk to the security of the empire, so sending a special task force is understandable.
But I don’t know why I’m so anxious.
***
As soon as Benzel got on the horse, he ran to Hades Port without hesitation.
indeed! The police force was invisible and the knights were patrolling.
She waved her hand when the knights turned a blind eye and went inside the harbor.
After a while, the place where the horse stopped was in front of a tavern named ‘Sea Breeze’.
She dismounted, tied the reins to a wooden post, and went inside.
It was around noon, but they also sold simple dishes, so there were quite a few customers.
When Benzel found an empty seat and sat down, Sally, a saleswoman, trotted up to her and whispered.
“They haven’t come down yet.”
“Yes, give me beer, smoked chicken, pickled salmon, and fried rice.”
“So many?”
“I skipped breakfast and I have a lot of things I want to eat.”
“Oh my gosh. please wait for a moment. I’ll bring it to you right away.”
When Benzel looked hungry, Celie brought out beer and marinated salmon.
By the time she finished eating the marinated salmon, smoked chicken and fried rice were served.
Benzel, whose eyes went back to the savory and sweet smell of oil, hurriedly began to eat fried rice.
It was then that Elio and the others came downstairs.
Sally hurriedly approached Elio and the others who were sitting in an empty seat.
Before she could even open her mouth, Fabian asked, pointing at Benzel’s table.
“What is that female knight eating?”
“Beer and smoked chicken marinated salmon fried rice.”
“Give me the same. What would you like to eat, the Count and the Viscount?”
“I will eat the same.”
“me too.”
Sally smiled when the three of them had the same spell.
“Then, I’ll bring all three of you beer-smoked chicken marinated salmon fried rice.”
Eventually, as Sally returned, Fabian glanced at Benzel and whispered,
“By the way, do you think it’s okay for a knight here to drink in broad daylight?”
“Each country is slightly different, but there are places where beer is consumed like water.”
Hearing the words of Count Larva Omar, Benzel turned his head.
“Lorren Principality has a long lunch break, so you can drink a glass of beer.”
At her explanation, Fabian said with a puzzled face.
“Oh is that so? I didn’t mean to criticize it, I just asked it out of curiosity.”
Elio then shook his head.
“Fabian, no one else knows, but you shouldn’t say things like that. When you were in Hirhera, you drank all the time in the camp.”
“It was because some drinking was allowed back then.”
“You sound like permission. It is allowed to drink moonshine secretly. don’t distort the truth People who don’t know will think that the military discipline of the North is a piece of shit. If His Highness Escatos found out about that, would he cancel the title?”
“There is no way His Highness Escatos would know! And was I the only one who drank the moonshine? Didn’t the viscount share a drink with me as well!”
“I hung out with them for a short while to comfort them because they were having a hard time. You are a prodigal knight who has professionally violated discipline. Where are you biting me like a water ghost? Like a knight, think of taking responsibility by yourself.”
At the bickering between the two knights, Benzel shouted ‘Poop!’ and burst into laughter.