Chapter 93. Telling and thinning (1)
Once upon a time, a long, long time ago.
There lived a slow private soldier.
The private always got his joints slammed by his superiors.
So one day, the private soldier made a wish.
‘Please help me to get along with the stars and seniors.’
Then, a star descended on the unit!
‘…And in front of the wrath of the Two Star Stars, the bad-hearted seniors were sent straight from the farm to the detention center. Ah happy ending. happy ending.’
Lloyd curled up one lip.
It suddenly reminded me of my military days.
There was a guy who was the same age as him.
He had a good personality, but he wasn’t a bit of a military constitution.
The action was slow.
I was also a bit slow.
Besides, my luck was bad.
There were a few bad-tempered guys among the seniors.
I was called by seniors almost every day and the joint was cracked. No, worse things happened often.
I advised the guy who was half-crying about deserting for a few months.
Why are you deserting?
Rather, stab the unjust acts of the seniors with a wish repair.
And two weeks later, the unit turned over.
Not only the division commander came to the unit, but all the seniors who were lynching the comrades were taken to the barracks.
It was the power of wish fulfillment that the motive ventured.
So the motive was happy.
It had its own happy ending.
‘Whoa. Today was just like that.’
Lloyd took off his cumbersome robe.
I tossed the loosened tie over the chair at the inn and put it on.
I threw my tired body onto the sofa.
Drowsiness came along with a pleasant softness.
Memories of what happened today also came with it.
‘I’m so glad. Everything ended well as I thought.’
Suspension bridge finally completed.
The completion ceremony to commemorate it.
He was bestowed with the title of Master by the King.
He also received the promised benefits and rewards.
At the end, he even snitched as a bonus.
I still couldn’t forget it.
The expression on King Alicia’s face as she listened to her tattle was really bloody.
“…absurdity? irrational? Besides meanness?”
The King’s voice flowed coldly.
King Alicia had a just and fair personality. He especially hated the act of harassing the weak with unreasonable force.
Even in the novel Iron Blooded Knight, this fact was mentioned several times.
At least that was certainly the case until he lost an arm in the attempted assassination of the king.
So it was.
Given the king’s personality, he thought that the snitch would work.
Coincidentally, the king had complete confidence in himself.
This is your chance.
Opportunities should be seized when they come.
If you miss that, you’re an idiot.
Convinced, he nodded his head vigorously.
“It is, Your Highness.”
It will be important from now on.
Choose your words carefully.
Place your vocabulary strategically too.
“I dare to say that the reality of the academy that I witnessed was very far from the purpose of its establishment.”
“Away?”
“That’s right, Your Highness.”
“Tell me in detail.”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
Again, the operation worked.
It gave more strength to his voice.
“Students who should be devoted to learning cling to cliques. Instead of competing for their knowledge and wisdom, they assert their family rank and authority. The sons of the marquis and counts hold hands and persecute the son of the viscount, and the son of the viscount is pushed on the back and tramples on the children of the baron. And everyone is silent. In the time to polish your studies, indulge in the sweetness of power, and in the time to have aspirations for the world, you get frustrated in front of the absurdity of class walls.”
The thoughts that I have kept in my heart for this day.
It was sharpened and pulled out without hesitation.
“Even the academy’s attitude to lead such students was no different. The housekeeper who has to point out injustice takes unfair back money. A professor who should be vigilant and afraid of the world’s absurdity only fears that he will fall out of the eyes of the aristocratic family. And the dean, who has to overcome this deplorable reality, is only breaking through the pleas for help from students from weak families.”
It was true.
It was after he brought Julien out of the academy that day.
Even while he was busy with the construction of the suspension bridge, he made inquiries in his spare time.
I met the janitors and restaurant workers who work at the academy.
There was also a time when he visited a lower aristocrat who had graduated from the academy.
I heard numerous testimonies and reports through them.
All kinds of nasty corruption.
The housemaster and the dean take care of the back money while turning a blind eye to injustice.
High-ranking aristocratic children who believed in that and acted more like their own world.
Like a bad habit or a rotten root, countless absurdities are embedded.
I gathered as many testimonies as possible about it.
Evidence was also meticulously collected.
I took the evidence out of my chest.
It was a rolled up wad of paper.
“This is a list of my own research and compilation of when and where individuals involved in the academy received private payments. Next to each item, I have also attached a list of those involved in each case and the witnesses.”
“Where do you open it?”
It was unfolded according to the king’s order.
handed over carefully.
The process after that was a breeze.
It was a document in which the evidence and witnesses were clearly organized.
From the moment he confirmed it, the King’s eyes changed.
Then, he descended (?) on the military unit with the wish granted written on it, and possessed the anger of the division commander.
“That means from now on, we’re going to call in all the people involved and get rid of it.”
Lloyd, who escaped from his thoughts, said with a smile.
I looked around the entrance of the house.
Julien was there.
It’s a bit darker than when I first saw it a few months ago.
His small physique was also a little stronger than before.
However, the unique round and youthful impression remained the same.
That guy was staring at me, hesitantly.
“If you have something to say, do it.”
Fang Fang.
He tapped the seat next to the sofa with his palm.
Julien hesitantly approached this way.
Instead of sitting next to the sofa, he stood and wrinkled his nose.
“Um, hey, then what’s going on now?”
“What’s going on?”
“They.”
“Academy bastards?”
“uh.”
“Are you worried?”
“It is not. curious.”
Well, I’d be curious.
They were the ones who bullied him for a long time.
There were also a number of people who stood by the sidelines of such bullying.
However, those who were like that all got hit by the king’s mace today.
Lloyd laughed.
“I don’t know either.”
“uh?”
“How do I know what they are doing? die or not.”
“…Are you going to die too?”
“Well, I won’t be punished that severely. Just-”
“Just?”
“You will receive a rather severe punishment. Some will go to jail for taking bribes, and some high-ranking nobles will be sentenced to severe whippings and imprisoned in a mansion for several years, unable to step outside.”
“….”
“Anyone else who had anything to do with it would have their lives as nobles severely entangled in the future. because. Because it was properly stamped by the highest person in the country.”
“Did you really expect this from the start?”
“Roughly.”
It’s true.
From the time he brought Julien out of the academy.
No, from the time I measured my angle to lay my hand on Diego.
I designed how to touch, prod, provoke, and smash them.
“It’s not too complicated. It was a situation where I had won a construction project from the king. Because the construction was quite necessary for the royal family. I thought that if you successfully completed it, you would get points, and that if you earned that kind of trust, you would be cheated on.”
“….”
As if it was nothing, Lloyd shrugged.
Seeing that, Julien had to swallow dry saliva without even realizing it.
something great
It wasn’t like that before.
I was just a human who was improvising and pampering.
Not anymore.
I watched from the day I was forced to take a leave of absence and was dragged out of the academy, but I didn’t feel that Lloyd Frontera was the idiot he knew.
Didn’t drink.
amazingly sincere.
He was especially kind to himself!
‘He hasn’t been mad at me once in months.’
Caring and kind Lloyd Frontera.
Looking back, it was unimaginable.
It was to the point where I often wondered if it was the same person.
‘It’s made me so proud…It was awkward at first, but it wasn’t bad because I kept going.’
It was the same with shoveling himself.
It was the first shovel I had ever done in my life.
Of course it was hard.
The first few days I struggled with muscle soreness.
Even my palms were blistered and peeled off.
However, the soreness and the pain of the muscles did not feel like a big deal.
It was because it was really nothing compared to the agony of being bullied every day at the academy.
‘No, rather, I felt relieved.’
I sweated and shoveled all day.
Every time he shoveled something changed.
The dirt pile was moved. The bell ate it. Then a wire was made. Pudongi gathered the wires and twisted them to make a cable.
The cables supported the suspension bridge built in the royal capital.
I was proud.
At the beginning of the whole process, there was a shovel of one’s own.
In other words, his own shovel supported that suspension bridge.
Thinking that way made my chest feel full these days.
Self-confidence also grew.
As much as the stamina that has been strengthened by clinging to the shovel for several months, as much as the result of the sweat he shed, he has come to believe in himself more.
‘Maybe my brother made me use a shovel to make me feel this way.’
Julien’s gaze turned to Lloyd.
His older brother, wearing a loose-fitting outfit, is smiling.
A hyung who I always hated, was cumbersome, and was just ashamed of.
The older brother looked a little different for the first time.
Maybe that was it, I don’t know.
The fact that Julien unknowingly brought out the words he thought he would never say to Lloyd.
“thank you.”
“ok?”
“Thank you.”
“Did you eat something wrong?”
Lloyd cleared his ear canal.
Only then did Julien realize his mistake (?) and frown.
“uh. I guess so. Throw up.”
“Actually, me too. It looks like it will come out of my ear.”
“Do not be ridiculous. Did I get goosebumps now?”
“Creepy? I even got a thorn.”
Lloyd stuck out his tongue.
Julien laughed.
“By the way, bro.”
“Why?”
“When are you going back home?”
“Okay. Maybe tomorrow?”
“tomorrow? so early?”
“uh.”
Lloyd nodded.
There was no longer any need to remain in the capital.
“The work has been completed. I received everything the King should have given me. I have to go back to the manor now. Because the things that have been done there must be formidable.”
It really was.
From the bituminous coal mine to the Marez clearing to the water supply.
There were not one or two places to manage.
“Besides, I’ve saved up all the money to pay my debts. But what if I get lost here? What if the interest date is exceeded? You have to pay one more interest that you don’t have to pay, right? So, I should go back and pay off the debt completely before interest comes.”
“Oh, yes. however….”
Julien scratched my cheek.
“I didn’t know that.”
“What did you not know?”
“The debt my family brother just talked about.”
“iced coffee. that?”
“huh. I really didn’t know. Because I only studied here. My father and mother sent me letters every month, but they never mentioned that. I really never dreamed of it. To think everyone was having such a hard time.”
Julien’s head bowed.
To be honest, I was a bit ashamed.
In the meantime, I had only thought that I was having the hardest time.
They say they are suffering in a faraway country away from their hometown.
He is also enduring bullying even though he is busy studying hard.
He had put up with it, endured it, and thought he was proud of himself for not telling his family.
However, the reality that I found out belatedly was a little different.
I could hear it through Xaviel.
How my father got scammed.
How much debt the family was under.
How Lloyd started to change in that situation.
“To be honest, I didn’t believe it at first. How can I easily believe that my brother has changed so much? But Lord Asrahan was like that. He said he was really cool. Sometimes he was mean, but he really worked hard. If it wasn’t for him, our family would have already collapsed.”
You don’t know how surprised I was when I heard that story.
How many times I opened and closed my fists without realizing it.
How much I sighed as I remembered the hardships my family must have endured.
How much I blamed myself for the fact that I finally realized.
‘It turned out that I was the most comfortable.’
but i didn’t know that
It’s just the old Lloyd.
I didn’t trust my brother and just grumbled.
I literally just acted like a child.
“So sorry.”
“I’m sorry?”
“huh.”
Julien nodded.
Embarrassed, I couldn’t meet Lloyd’s eyes.
Still, I mustered up the courage.
It shouldn’t be today.
My brother will go back to the manor tomorrow.
So I have to tell you now.
In this way, Julien carefully brought out the sincerity that he had been holding in his heart for the past few months, but had not been able to bring it out because he was embarrassed.
“I don’t want to hate you anymore.”
That was the moment.
Ding dong.
[Julien Frontera is conveying his sincerity to you.]
[The emotional core in Julien Frontera’s heart is being resolved.]
[Julien Frontera has come to recognize you as his older brother.]
[Julien Frontera’s feelings for you has risen by +65.]
[Current relationship with Julien Frontera: +6]
[Acquired 910 RP by dramatically improving the relationship with a key person.]
[Currently owned RP: 3929]
[Intimacy with Julien Frontera has increased. It has been upgraded by 3 levels from < Hate > to < Irritability > < Indifference > to < Daily Interest >.] [An
additional 100 RP was acquired as a bonus for increasing intimacy level.]
[Currently owned RP: 4029]
Unexpected A warm and proud feeling gently knocked on my heart.
