71. Rolling Wheel (3)
It’s a bit unsettling, but Remember is undeniably a great butler.
I packed my luggage that the butler had secretly and quickly prepared for me, put on my travel robe, and went down the stairs of the mansion.
When we arrived at the first floor, Remembert, who was waiting at the entrance holding the reins of a horse, handed us arrows and a bow with a rubber ball instead of a point along with the reins. I accepted it silently.
If you suddenly use a bow and arrow, you’re going to be in a lot of trouble from now on.
As expected, it was when I had just gotten on the horse.
“Count niiiiim!!”
“I heard you’re leaving? You’re leaving us behind?!”
“Isn’t it too much for you to leave without even saying goodbye!!”
“No, more than that, I heard that His Majesty is taking charge of us again. Can’t you at least prevent that?!”
Guys dressed in white knightly uniforms are rushing in from afar.
…Let’s bounce.
That’s a crazy dog. I don’t even want to imagine being bitten by a crazy dog.
I quickly kicked the horse in the stomach. Since the front door was already open, there was no difficulty in escaping. Thank you Remember!
But they are not the ones to give up here.
I left the city smoothly and was running through the fields when, as expected, I began to hear the sound of several horses’ hooves behind me.
“Bag’s agniyyyyyyyyy!”
“Stand there!”
“If we stop obediently now, there will be no bloodshed!”
“Catch it!!”
“Get the fuck out of here, you crazy people!!”
A thick layer of dust rises from behind. I screamed inwardly at the sight that resembled a puffy cloud.
Those crazy people! Where is Lien doing? Your master is now in danger!
“You guys! Don’t you stop right now?!”
“…ah.”
It was there. They just didn’t listen.
I looked behind me with a tired expression as I saw the horse chasing me with fearsome force at a little distance from the stampeding herd of horses.
I touch the quiver of arrows I packed a little while ago. From there, I took out an arrow.
I put an arrow on the bowstring, and without slowing down my running speed, I turned my upper body and aimed at the head of the horse running in front.
Since there is a rubber ball instead of an arrowhead, there shouldn’t be any problem. If you’re not careful, the guy above you might fall off the horse, but considering how monster-like they are, I don’t think it’s that dangerous.
Either you will avoid danger on your own, or other people will take care of it.
“Count!! I don’t like the emperor or the imperial palace! I’m scared of both your majesty and the general!”
Who is that guy going to kill along with him?
‘Oops, I made a mistake!’
I tried to hit the horse’s head, but I ended up hitting the guy’s forehead!
The head of the guy who could have been accused of insulting the imperial family was thrown back. The hand that was tightly holding the reins suddenly loosened and the body fell to the side.
It was a dizzying situation where he could have been trampled by the hooves of a horse coming right behind him, but there was a hand who lifted him up before he fell to the ground.
“Wow! Gotcha!”
“Oh nice!”
“Haha….”
“Haha….”
“…It’s disgusting, so why don’t you get out of the way now?”
“Do you think I like being on your lap?! Get out of the way! I’ll take the reins!”
While one side was having a sweet relationship(?), the other side was in chaos.
The path of a horse that lost its owner became entangled with that of other horses.
Sometimes they get caught in front of a good horse running in a straight line, and sometimes they collide with another horse and fall, so it was natural for the other horses following them to fall at the same time.
“Uggyaaaaa!!”
“Whoo! I dodged it!”
“Did you see? My falling technique skills?”
On the floor, those who landed safely are proudly avoiding those who fall on top of them, shouting,
“Idiots, I’m going first!”
“Ugh!”
The other guys holding the reins jump over them and continue to chase me.
If it were the guys I knew, the moment one of them fell, they wouldn’t have been able to think of any other way and they would all have fallen together, but to be able to react like that…?!
Of course, it’s only a small part of it, but still. What on earth did the imperial palace teach you?
I’m glad Remember brought plenty of arrows.
Praising the deacon’s excellent preparation, I pulled the string again.
***
Deonhardt secretly received royal orders and left the Count’s residence.
Duke Stave Illuster, who heard this news through an informant during the conversation, glanced at the other person.
I suddenly heard the information in front of him. If your prediction is correct, your reaction will probably be right now….
“You said it was Deon Hart. I guess we can use this opportunity to find out where he is going.”
also.
“I’ll have to add four people.”
“We cannot afford to cause trouble to you, Your Excellency. Since you have been indebted to us so far, we will assign someone from our side this time.”
The Duke’s eyes widened at the intended reaction. Sinister purple eyes were hiding behind the eyelids.
“I’m sorry. I don’t remember doing anything worth talking about.” “Now
that you say that, I have nothing to say. Anyway… I was getting on your nerves a little while ago. Can I ask how you got that wound on your neck?”
“Ah.”
I reflexively touched my bandaged neck.
“It’s nothing. I have a child who was a bit irritable.”
“Do you have a nephew?”
“Well, I’m talking about what you said earlier.”
A topic that is not nutritious . There was no reason to continue. The duke blatantly changed the topic.
The other person was not particularly interested, so he obediently followed the changed topic.
“Ah, you mean the story about the emperor declaring the conquest of the continent? I don’t dare doubt your Excellency, but I still have to ask you why.”
“….”
“Why are you telling me not to move?”
The man sitting across from the duke asked, adjusting his posture as if he would listen if he told me the reason.
As if he is not the leader of the revolutionary army for nothing, the solemn atmosphere characteristic of a person leading people dominates the room.
The kind of atmosphere I was familiar with from the emperor.
The duke, who narrowed his eyes at the very atmosphere he could not achieve even if he tried hard, soon smiled and began to sing in a soft voice.
As if he was trying to regain the initiative he had lost, the duke’s unique atmosphere began to gradually encroach on the entire room.
“The revolutionary army must not move in earnest until the Emperor has eaten half the continent.”
“So why on earth…!”
“When war is ripe. So when the emperor can no longer stop the war at will, that is the right time.”
The position of leader of the revolutionary army is not something that can be held by a fool. The man, Daniel, kept his mouth shut.
By the time the empire has consumed half of the continent, other kingdoms will have already moved on. Even if you were slow to make a decision and stayed still, the situation would have started to move at that point.
Because he must have felt threatened. There is no way we can just ignore this situation. This means that even if the emperor is satisfied and wants to step down, he will not be able to do so easily.
In order to replenish the troops lost in the previous war, the emperor will draw most of the troops except the minimum troops to protect it from various places, including the imperial palace.
At that time, even if revolutionary forces run rampant within the empire, they will not be easily suppressed. Because there won’t be enough people to stop them.
“…As expected of you, Duke. Please excuse me.”
Daniel, convinced, took a step back and Starbe moved immediately.
There must be a revolutionary army following Deon Hardt by now. It would be nice if it ended well like this, but the emperor can’t be that easy.
[Did you say you were leaving now? No matter what, flies will be attracted to it. Take care of them and come back. Instead of chasing after Honorary Count Hart, you should just kill the flies and come back.]
He did not induce the revolutionary army to move for no reason. The revolutionary army that follows Deonhardt will soon die.
I feel sorry for the soon-to-be-dead revolutionary soldier, but there is no grand reason for doing such a meaningless act.
What he is aiming for is none other than screwing over the emperor.
‘I’d be quite upset if the person I sent to clean up didn’t come back.’
Dead or alive? If he lived, he would have betrayed him, so even if he was rejected, if he died, he would have died after completing the matter, or he would have died before that, etc.
The Duke grinned, thinking of the emperor who was quite upset, and gave an order to Cruel.
[If you follow the traces of the revolutionary army, there will be someone who receives orders from the emperor to watch over Deon Hardt. Kill him. And if you are in a position to chase after Deon Hardt, check where he is going and then come.]
Pugh!
Since the revolutionary army was being killed in an ongoing manner, it was not difficult to find the ‘man who was watching my back’. Cruel, who killed the masked man as instructed by the Duke, raised his head.
As a result, the blood that splattered on his cheek rolled down his jaw line and fell on the floor, but his gaze remained unwavering and focused on one place.
In the distance, Deon can be seen walking into the forest after returning the horse he rode.
Is it because they are afraid that traces will remain?
Cruel, who had been staring at the back for a while, stepped into the forest just before Deon disappeared between the trees.
With just enough distance for Deon to come into view, Cruel also disappeared between the trees of the forest and I wonder
how long it would have been since then
…
Cruel came out of the forest.
The same attitude and expression as usual. Green Eyes, not knowing what he was thinking, glances back at the forest I came from.
And for a moment, Cruel turned around. He finds a horse that was tied up some distance away, mounts it, and runs towards the place he needs to return to.
Perhaps because autumn had arrived, the wind became sharper and hit him harshly.
….
“You’re here. Did you handle your work well?”
“yes.”
“So did you find out where Deonhardt was headed?”
“….”
“….”
“…By the time I finished the job, Deon Hardt had already left. I’m sorry.”
***
“He left.”
“huh.”
“He left.”
“They abandoned us.”
“I even have a bruise on my forehead!”
“Looking at your mouth, it looks like you have some time to spare. Let’s add 10 more laps of the training ground.”
“Ah, Captain!!”
“We’re going to die!”
“It’s noisy! If you keep talking like that, we’ll add 10 more laps, so shut up and run!”
Lien, who spoke fiercely to silence the knights, sighed and looked up at the cloudy sky.
The dark sky, which looks like it’s going to rain at any moment, seems to represent her feelings, making it even more depressing.
Lien sighed again and lowered his head. The two clear eyes, as if they had been depressed for a while, were filled with solemnity and shined resolutely.
The reason my lord left without saying a word of greeting was because I was so untrustworthy.
So….
‘I will become a more trustworthy knight until the day we meet again.’
The firm resolve of a knight that no one could hear was scattered silently in the air.
***
Salvation Church collapsed. There was no salvation.
Shiia sat down in front of the empty lot that had burned down, leaving only the remains, and stared into space in confusion. His eyes were blurry, as if he was drawing the Salvation Church when he was fine.
Tuk. Fighting.
Cold raindrops hit her body. The rain that fell one or two drops soon became a torrential downpour, hitting my entire body violently, as if to remind me to come to my senses.
Even in a downpour that felt like a torrential downpour, Shiia could not easily come to her senses. Because Salvation Church was going to be her first and final resting place.
There existed a world where warm bread and clean water were provided consistently and people did not have to be wary of those around them.
I feel like I had a warm dream for a moment. It would have been better if it had been a dream. Shiia couldn’t help but despair even more because the remnants in front of her were showing her that it was not a dream.
Because now I can’t even dream.
I don’t want to do anything.
I wish I could just die like this.
A child who had let go of everything saw someone’s legs stopping.
“Sia.”
“….”
“How long will it be like this?”
“….”
“…Please Shiia.”
Please at least give me an answer.
A squeezing voice came out as if pleading.
Looking at Siia, who was still silent, Paul squeezed and released the collar near her thighs with a dark expression.
An overwhelming feeling of regret came over me. At that time, Salvation Church should not have been introduced.
It might have been best to just live life as usual. Such meaningless assumptions run through my mind again and again.
‘…No no.’
Those bastards of the Murderous Knights, not Deonhardt, not the Emperor…!
Yes, if it weren’t for the emperor. If he hadn’t meddled, the current situation wouldn’t have happened.
In the end, the emperor is the problem.
The problem is high-ranking people who clumsily intervene without knowing anything about slums.
Anger appeared in Paul’s eyes. The anger grew deeper and turned into fierce hatred, which soon became cold and hardened with a sense of duty.
“I joined the revolutionary army.“
