Chapter 16. 100 Bees (1)
Sir Neumann.
Senior Knight of Baron Prontera.
He did not like this country estate.
I wanted to get out.
I wanted to live luxuriously.
But the reality was a gutter.
This Frontera Territory was a remote village in the corner of the kingdom.
It was nice to enjoy some idyllic peace, but that was all.
To enjoy such tranquility, he thought, was only for a retired old man.
In other words, this place didn’t suit me.
He believed that he was not a talented person who would rot in a place like this.
‘I wanted to escape!’
I wanted to leave this estate and leave.
I wanted to play in the bigger water and get ahead.
I wanted to enjoy a movie that was not envious of wealth.
To do so, he wanted to withdraw his allegiance to Baron Prontera.
But that was impossible.
Knights who withdraw their allegiance to their lord are ostracized wherever they go.
No lord would have such a knight as his subordinate.
A knight who betrayed his master.
A knight who has lost his chivalry.
It was like being branded as a trashed article.
So he thought.
If he could not abandon his master and his territory, wouldn’t it be better to make that master and his territory perish?
Then you will not be branded as a traitor.
I would be able to leave this damned corner without any reproach.
put the plan into action.
colluded with outsiders.
I sold the information of Yeongji.
They also sold information about the baron.
As a result, the baron was caught in a large-scale investment scam.
Suffering from severe financial difficulties, he ended up opening his hand to loan sharks.
I was happy.
It was certain that the baron’s bankruptcy was imminent.
That meant that the day of his freedom was near.
‘The whole plan worked. Now you just have to wait a little longer. But why? why?’
Am I being beaten aimlessly by that young boy here?
Whoops!
“…!”
A shovel came flying.
The flat shovel head grew rapidly in the field of vision.
Heads turned around with a clear and beautiful sound that resonated throughout the world.
The intense shock that resonated throughout the inside of the bone was a bonus.
Tuong!
“Gagging!”
Sir Neumann’s leg was broken.
But it didn’t come crashing down.
Instead, he shouted in a voice that was unfair to the world.
“Stop that! I already have no sword in my hand!”
It was true.
Black missed it earlier.
From then on, he was unarmed.
The outcome of the duel was clearly decided.
At that point the duel should have ended.
That was an extremely universal procedure within the common sense of Sir Neumann, and it was the reason and the conclusion.
But the reality was a hardcore gutter.
Even if you are empty-handed?
Lloyd’s attacks did not stop.
He kicked himself up after he had fallen down.
He repeatedly shouted for surrender, but he did not listen and assaulted him.
Even when he tried to run away, he followed and swung his shovel again!
“Geugh guh! stop! Don’t insult me anymore!”
I couldn’t stand it and cried out.
But there was no answer coming back.
Instead of an answer, only a resolute shovel (?) came flying.
Tuoong!
“…Whoops!”
The bone pain rang again.
‘Someone…Let it dry.’
My eyes were blocked.
I thought I would really die if I stayed like this.
It was no longer the time to take care of one’s ego.
His desperate gaze turned to Baron Frontera on the podium.
‘My lord! Please help!’
Lloyd wields a shovel like a madman even after the duel is over.
Only the father, the baron, can stop that son of a bitch.
Thinking so, Sir Neumann desperately turned around.
I fell in the direction of the baron.
He raised his head and stretched out his hand toward the baron with a pitiful look.
‘please!’
It didn’t even come to mind that he had betrayed his master, the baron. It was ingratitude, and it was much more important to get out of this situation.
Fortunately, I wonder if that kind of heart has reached me.
The Baron was seen rising from the platform.
“Stop Lloyd. It looks like the duel is already over.”
Baron Prontera’s voice echoed in the gymnasium.
It was a low voice, but with the authority of the owner of the territory.
At that point everyone thought.
Ah, at this point, that crazy boy will stop shoveling.
Farmer A, woodcutter B, wife C, and soldier D were all the same.
It was a reasonable guess.
It was the owner of the estate and the name of his father.
No one thought that no matter how quickly Master Lloyd went out, he would ignore the lord’s orders and continue to act in an official setting.
However, everyone’s guesses were off the mark.
With a cool hitting sound that hits everyone’s cochlea.
Whoa!
The shovel’s head was hit in an exciting parabola like a pro golfer’s tee shot!
It gave a strong shock to Sir Neumann’s chin.
“…Quak!”
“What is Quak? It’s not over yet. It should fit better.”
“Ku ku huh cool look! Kuck!”
“it hurts? is it unfair Do you think I’m crazy? huh?”
“Stop that grunt…!”
“Stop?”
“That’s right….”
“Who are you to do this and that to me?”
Quack!
I shot him in the back with the handle of a shovel.
Then Sir Neumann screamed in pain again.
However, Lloyd’s gaze toward Sir Neumann was cold.
‘Are you embarrassed? I can’t help it. Because this is just an example. If you didn’t want to end up like this, you shouldn’t have betrayed the people who trusted you.’
It was an honest feeling.
Strictly speaking, this guy is a traitor.
But what if you softly forgive this guy?
Will there be a beautiful story of repenting and reflecting on one’s mistakes and being reborn as a new person?
‘No, absolutely not.’
Lloyd shook his head.
Such stories only exist in children’s books.
He knew all too well how nasty and messy reality was.
It was because I had lived a boring life in Korea.
‘It was the same at Gosiwon. Like the man who got caught secretly skipping my soy sauce from the common refrigerator. You should have been angry then. I didn’t care.’
At the time, I was honestly a bit perplexed.
I missed the timing to get angry.
In the end, I laughed awkwardly and told him in a nice voice not to do that next time.
Did you?
‘They kept stealing.’
I even heard people say why they are so strict about living together.
Even now, looking back, it makes me laugh because it was absurd.
‘But you’re looking at this guy? Nonsense.’
It is human beings to be shameless even with one jangjorim.
But what if you forgive the guy who sold your master?
What if I do you a favor?
become a hogu
Afterwards, those who take it lightly and do similar things will hold hands and beat each other like Vienna sausages.
“So you will set an example today. It means that you will be trampled on until you become a super corpse. It’s not over yet. Stop the bullshit and get up.”
How many knives have you sharpened for this day?
Lloyd reached out.
He pulled Sir Neumann by the back.
He held the shovel in his other hand.
But that was the moment.
“Didn’t you hear my order to quit!”
The Baron’s loud roar came flying.
Lloyd flinched.
I looked back at the baron.
responded calmly.
“I heard.”
Tuoong!
Along with the answer, the shovel head struck Sir Neumann on the top of his head.
The baron’s eyebrows twitched.
“what?”
“I heard it, but I can’t follow it.”
Tuoong!
The shovel head hit Sir Neumann’s head again.
The baron’s eyebrows twitched.
“Are you aware of what you are doing?”
“of course.”
Tupperong!
Sir Neumann’s body trembled whenever he was hit in the head.
Anger flashed in the baron’s eyes.
“You are insulting the opponent who just finished the duel. Is that all? That opponent is a descendant of a family that has served our baron family for the fifth generation, and is also a senior knight of the estate.”
“yes. And even though he was trusted that much, he is also the one who betrayed the master and the territory.”
“what?”
The baron hesitated.
Lloyd replied calmly.
“I knew you would ask that question, so I prepared it in advance. Look under the cloth spread on the table on the dais.”
“what….”
“There must be something I have prepared.”
“….”
The baron was bewildered.
What are you talking about?
Sir Neumann betrayed himself and the estate.
Look under the cloth on the podium table.
Even in his bewilderment, the baron lifted the cloth from the table on the podium.
Soon, I opened my eyes.
“This….”
There was a paper bag under the wrapping cloth.
I took out the envelope and opened it.
Three or four pages of hand-stained letters came out.
“What is this?”
“I’ll tell you when I see it.”
“….”
Something didn’t feel right.
Lloyd’s attitude was too imposing to dismiss it as just messing around.
The baron turned his attention to the letter.
Slowly and slowly at first.
Soon, with increasingly trembling eyes.
In the end, I hurriedly read the contents with my fingers shaking.
“this….”
Wow!
The baron’s hand gripped the letter.
Before he knew it, he was staring at Sir Neumann with disbelief.
It had to be.
The letter Lloyd showed to the Baron.
It was because it was the correspondence that Sir Neumann exchanged while selling the information of the estate to the swindler.
‘Thordes.’
A name that immediately comes to mind.
It was a young merchant who had approached him.
He was passionate, prudent, and had an enterprising impression.
One day he vouched for his honor.
He said there was good land.
Now it is said to be a barren land.
However, he also said that in a few years, the value would skyrocket.
So what if you buy the land in advance, right now?
He promised that his fortune would be multiplied several times in the future.
I believed it.
Of course, all investments have risks.
What if the investment results are bad?
What if your income is less than you expected?
At that time, I thought that I could sell the land I bought back.
I felt relieved that I could at least make up for it.
There was no more hesitation.
He bought the land with the money of the manor and even debt.
And I lost all my money.
‘As it turned out, the land I bought was a fake sale that existed only on paper.’
Of course, I lost all my investment.
Tordes, who deceived himself, swallowed all the investment money and disappeared.
It was like sitting in a pile of debt with no income overnight.
‘however…Sir Neumann was the one who informed Tordes of the estate’s financial situation, my personal taste, taste, and interests in detail?’
He remembered the many gifts he had received from Tordes.
From the mahogany furniture to the eagle collared shirts.
It was a gift attack that sniped everyone’s taste properly.
The same was true for the selection of topics of conversation.
When we were talking, we always matched our interests.
Maybe I wanted to properly scratch this itchy place.
‘Thanks to that, I thought he was a very good fit. He approached me like that and bought me trust.’
The end of that trust was a painful betrayal and bankruptcy.
However, the person who had an affair with the swindler was Sir Neumann.
Doo-kung Doo-kung!
It felt like the blood was pumping backwards.
The sound of my heart beating hit my eardrums.
I felt dizzy as if my eyes were turning yellow.
Lloyd, who watched the baron like that, tasted a bitter taste.
‘The shock must be great.’
The truth that the person he had right next to him was driving him to ruin.
The shock and betrayal you must have felt upon realizing it.
Even from a distance, the baron’s complexion was pale.
It wouldn’t be strange if he collapsed right away.
I wondered if I had just shown that letter.
But it didn’t matter.
‘I’ll understand the situation only when I show the evidence like that.’
It was Lloyd who mobilized Pudongi early on for this.
He infiltrated Podong into Sir Neumann’s bedroom.
I brought that letter to you.
It was thanks to the mention in the novel Iron Blooded Knight that Sir Neumann kept the correspondence he exchanged with the swindler in the drawer of his bedroom nightstand.
‘As expected, that comment was true.’
Like a small hamster, Little Boy secretly infiltrated Sir Neumann’s bedroom.
The power was strong even though it was small, so I opened the drawer without difficulty.
That’s how I was able to secure the letter that was evidence of betrayal.
‘That letter contains the impostor’s promise to hire Sir Neumann someday. With a magic signature proving that the correspondence is genuine. That’s why Sir Neumann couldn’t just throw away the correspondence. Thanks to that, I got caught up in this way.’
Suddenly, my taste buds became more bitter.
If only it was like this in Korea.
If only the crooks who cheated on my father had left evidence.
If he did, his family would not have fallen into misfortune.
At least my father and mother would not have died.
‘Whoa, let’s not fall into sentimentality for now.’
Lloyd shook his head.
Now is not the time to indulge in sentimentality.
It is time to take advantage of the current situation as designed.
Thinking so, Lloyd raised his head. He opened his mouth to the still pale baron.
“Are you okay?”
“….”
“If you feel dizzy, sit down for a while and catch your breath.”
“…i get it.”
Baron barely reacts.
Seeing that, Lloyd thought.
After all, the baron is not a poisonous person.
He is just a good man who can only rule the territory with kindness.
Such a person is praised as a sage in times of peace.
But what about in difficult times that require the ability to overcome adversity?
It is easy for a good heart to be taken advantage of.
It soon turns into a hogu.
In other words, it will be weeded out.
‘It’s clear from the fact that he hesitates to deal with it even after realizing that he was betrayed by his confidant.’
At first glance, the baron’s expression was a crucible of shock and confusion.
Sir Neumann, whom he had regarded as his henchman until now.
How would you deal with his betrayal?
how to deal with it.
It must be that he is hesitating because he cannot eat a strong heart.
‘Then I have to do it.’
Anyway, someone has to do it.
If we don’t do it now, Youngji’s discipline will be messed up.
Thinking so, Lloyd opened his mouth.
“I, Lloyd Frontera, the son of Arcos Frontera, have something to tell you as the heir to this territory.”
