Chapter 66. Mine (1)
has bloomed.
The red roses in the rose garden were still waiting to bloom, but spring was already in full swing elsewhere. Before we knew it, the yellow Fredia had withered and fallen, and flowers of all colors had bloomed all over.
Therefore, the training ground of Chermil Palace is the season when some people are happy for the blooming, others are trying to get used to the new scent, and others are regretting the flowers that have already withered.
– Kaaaaang! Kagang!
– Kaaaang!
A sound that did not match the purple flower petals fluttering in the wind passing outside the building spread out.
– Kaang!
A thin, dark ink-colored sword slashing down from above was blocked by another sword that was larger but had the same color. Then, the blue-silver sword that he had been holding down as if hidden until now extends upward from below.
A sword belonging to the person who blocked the attack.
The two swords of the person who sent the attack.
While I was blocking an attack from above, a second sword flew in and I was wondering how to block it, but Kirie, who successfully blocked the first attack from Plants, solved the problem by slightly opening his sword.
– Kagang!
As the opponent’s sword was twisted under the force, Planz’s ink-colored sword slipped momentarily. It was aimed precisely at where the second sword was being stretched out.
The inky sword fell on the blue-silver sword that was about to be raised. He blocked his own attack with his own sword.
“I thought you could avoid it, but you just let it go and resolve it.”
“Kiri doesn’t usually dodge well. If you can, just block her.”
“Is there a special reason?”
“No. That’s not true, but I don’t really like avoiding it. That’s both an advantage and a disadvantage that I really don’t like.”
Plantz moved his arms to either side without hearing the other two voices eagerly evaluating what had just happened. Two crossed swords are extended simultaneously in opposite directions.
– Kaaaaang!
But that didn’t have much effect either.
This was because Kyrie’s sword struck the point where the two swords intersected just before the divided Sinastar split into two sides.
Planz frowned as two successive attacks were rendered ineffective. And as he retrieved the sword, he lunged at Kyrie one more time and stretched out his arms. The sword in his right hand stabbed towards his neck, and the sword in his left hand swung horizontally as if to cut off his waist.
“… If you move like that, you will lose your balance.”
Kirie’s voice is heard, calm as usual. However, contrary to his relaxed words, he continued to move faster than taking a breath.
– Sreuk… Tuk!
– Kaang!
The sound of feet grazing the floor, touching something, and the loud clanging sound of three swords intertwined rang out all at once.
It was the sound of Kirie stepping aside to avoid a thrusting sword, the sound of Kyrie’s long leg lightly touching Plantz’s shin, and the sound of the sword being swung raised as if kicking it away.
In an instant, the tip of Planz’s sword swayed greatly.
“Like now.”
Kirie’s movements, after dodging and kicking and blocking the sword, were like flowing water. Because of this, Plantz was unable to block all three of Kyrie’s movements. Although he didn’t lose his balance enough to roll on the floor or shake his body, Planz clearly missed the attack and ended up getting bitten by one foot.
The spectator’s mouth opened again after seeing that.
“I heard you don’t like being avoided.”
“… I didn’t say I didn’t like it, just that I wouldn’t do it.”
Demirea chuckled as she looked at Calian, who seemed a little embarrassed to answer.
“But Lord Bern is also amazing. He’s thinking about kicking the Crown Prince’s legs.”
“It’s better to experience it yourself than to explain it in words. The swords in both hands move separately, and it’s obvious that you won’t be able to keep your balance if you step like that.”
“They say it’s better to experience it yourself, but most people can’t. I think the prince would think the same.”
“I can’t do it. If I kick it, it won’t end like that.”
My older brother is so weak.
Demirea simply nodded her head in response to this addition. And then I turned my head back to the training ground. Plants and Kyrie’s voices continued to be heard.
“You must be careful not to be swayed by the movement of the sword. If you stab with one side and cut with the other, won’t the way and direction of using force change? In that case, it is better to think of putting all of your body weight on your feet. If you do it wrong, the power will be dispersed and you will end up with nothing.”
“You’re not my brother.”
“The prince has an auror, doesn’t he? The way he moves is somewhat different from ours. If you think about how the prince moves when he uses his aura and when he doesn’t, and then compare the steps he takes, you will see the difference.”
“okay.”
Plantz nodded calmly and held his two swords. Kirie, who confirmed this, immediately rushed towards Plantz.
– Kaang! Kaga River Kang!
– Kaaaang kaang!
Plantz, who instantly merged into one, raised Synastar to block Kyrie’s attack, and then divided it into two again, rotated his body greatly. Kyrie let go of two quick slashes and struck out different colored Sinasta one after another.
After exchanging attacks for some time, Plantz’s eyes narrowed. This is because there has never been a successful effective attack so far.
Plantz, who quickly gathered his disordered movements, rushed towards Kyrie with both swords hanging equally. He then turned in front of Kirie, who was ready to receive his attack.
– Taaaat!
Kalian, who was watching the two, raised his eyebrows. Demirea, who was sitting next to me in a relaxed manner, also had an interested look on her face.
“It won’t work.”
“It won’t work.”
Isn’t it Calian’s fighting style to instantly change the direction of his attack in front of his opponent? This meant that it was the method that Kirie had the most experience with.
Not only was the sword held in both hands heavier, but it also moved slower than Kirie. It was difficult for Plantz to reproduce the attack that followed Calian, not Kirie.
“There’s no way you don’t know that. What else are you going to do?”
As if he had heard Calian’s continued words, Plantz’s hand moved quickly as he approached Kyrie’s side.
– Bang!
The handles of the inky sword and the blue-silver sword touched and connected. Plantz, who was holding the middle of a sword that was longer than his height, threw himself away.
– Boo!
– Kaaaaang! Kagagak kaang!
Kyrie’s sharp eyes watched Sinasta’s movements. And it continued to rotate, blocking every single Sinastar that seemed to attack from all directions. Then, at some point, Kyrie, who had hit one side of Sinastar’s sword hard, kicked his foot. Kirie’s sword flew between the two, instantly narrowing the distance.
Plantz, who blocked the attack coming right in front of him, turned his upper body. Then, the remaining sword connected to the end of the handle naturally extended towards Kirie.
Kirie slightly lifted her sword, which was blocked by Planz’s sword, and then struck it down strongly again.
– Kaaaang!
Sinastar’s blue-silver sword plunges to the floor. On the contrary, the connected dark-colored sword was raised upward.
“Don’t lose your balance. You’re distracted again.”
– Hwiik kaang!
Kyrie’s sword moved like the wind along with the endless teachings. And then I swiped away the inky-colored side of the rising Sinastar.
– Ugh…
Immediately, the sound of a thin sword reached Plantz’s ears. This was followed by the sound of a heavy sword falling to the floor.
Plantz, who felt Kyrie’s sword aimed at his throat, nodded. Kyrie withdrew the sword, as if responding to his attitude of not having to worry about getting cut by the blade.
“okay.”
“Yes, sir.”
Kirie rushed in an unexpected direction and sent a sword attack in an unexpected way, but instead of winning, she ended up only finding many of her own weaknesses. But Plantz did not feel discouraged or annoyed.
Hasn’t Kyrie grown to the point where she can compete with Ren, the captain of the King’s Guard and Lemain’s bodyguard? There was no need to be disappointed because it was not a fight to win against Kirie, but a fight to find and fix her shortcomings.
Kirie soon sheathed her sword and picked up Sinasta that had fallen on the floor. He then returned it to its original form and handed it to Plantz.
Demirea, who was watching the two’s sparring end, opened her mouth again.
“The movements seem to have become much faster. They have become more precise and the weight has increased.”
“My brother? Or Kirie?”
“Both of them. Especially Sir Bern, his skills have improved again in the meantime.”
“That’s right. Just like you, Kirie also holds the sword with great effort every day. I think it won’t be long before the number of people taking the sword path increases. That’s a good thing.”
“Are you excited?”
“Of course I’m looking forward to it. Will you climb first or will Kirie be faster? How far will my smart older brother grow? It’s fun to teach and watch.”
“…How old are you, prince?”
Calian’s laughter echoed through the quiet gymnasium.
“Why? Do you look like someone who has lived enough to live in this world?”
“Yes. When will you think about my position when I hear such words coming out of the mouth of my fiancé of the same age? I thought my mother was next to me.”
“I’m sorry. I’ll take care of you, fiancé.”
“I want you to look forward to seeing how much you will grow yourself, Prince. I’m not asking you to be careful about what you say. Isn’t that the right age for you now?”
“Have I ever expected that? I don’t know.”
Demirea made a face of disapproval.
“I’m curious about how you lived in the past, prince. I’m talking about the present. You take it for granted that you grow up as if it were a set process, and you enjoy watching others improve by teaching them. Rather than doing that, I’m saying that you should look forward to and examine yourself as well. “Just because the prince has never looked forward to seeing himself grow up and enjoyed it, doesn’t that mean he should still do so now?”
“Are you worried about me?”
“I’m nagging you. I don’t want to see you.”
Calian nodded with his still full smile on his face and opened his mouth.
“If I have such expectations of myself, the day may never come when my fiancé can beat me. Is it okay if that happens?”
“I’ve never been interested in a target that isn’t moving.”
Red eyes with only a long smile instead of a playful smile looked at Demirea.
“It’s a big deal because my fiancé is so cool. How can I break off the engagement because I’ll regret it later?”
“Who comes here after they’ve finished being a cat and done all their work?”
“Give up your title as prince?”
“Of course.”
“Then, if I wear a crown instead of the title of prince, will you accept me?”
“I will accept the letter of divorce, not from the prince.”
“Wow… Even though you say it so nicely, it doesn’t make sense.”
“Isn’t that why you like it?”
Eventually, laughter broke out again.
“That’s right. That’s why I like Demirea.”
“Yes. I know.”
Demirea smiled slightly and nodded, then stood up. And he pointed to Calian’s hand, to be exact, the bandage wrapped around his hand. The wound was caused when Calian, who was pulling out the sword he had stuck in the wall while threatening Gray, made a ‘mistake’ and slightly cut his own hand.
“Will it get better tomorrow?”
“Wouldn’t it take two more days for me to get better before there’s a rumor that I’m injured?”
“In addition to the blessing, Viscount Bern is also here, and if the prince’s wounds won’t heal for two more days, the square should have already been covered with Renicita leaves. Moreover, since you passed by just as the nobles were leaving after today’s luncheon, the rumor must have already spread as much as needed. So, I think it would be best to get better by this evening at the latest.”
“I will have to do that.”
“Then I will come back tomorrow. As you said, Lord Hill, and if it’s okay, your mother and Lily too.”
“Yes. “As much as you want.”
Hasn’t this rumor been a rumor for an eye for an eye since ancient times?
Calian and Plantz’s actions and the sibling rivalry over the crown prince’s position as Randel’s fiancé? Calian now has a new source of interest that will put to rest the rumors that Gray has been diligently spreading. was in the process of making.
So to speak, it was the second threat to Gray.
On the day he returned from Siegfried’s Territory, Calian returned to the palace in good condition in the presence of many people and went straight to Chermil Palace, but he had never sparred with anyone. But. As a result, since Gray had a wound on Calian’s hand after visiting Chermil Palace, he was told to remain quiet and not act out a wound if he did not want strange rumors to spread about the cause. Since blackmail does not necessarily require the blood of others
. .
“If you think that’s not enough, why don’t you stop by somewhere else on the way to take me there?”
“Then shall we go see the flowers? “It bloomed a lot.”
“The roses are still there. And the flowers blooming in the palace are prettier.”
Demirea, thinking of the flower petals fluttering outside the window, expressed the opposite opinion. Then, she looked towards Plants, who was walking while talking with Kyrie, and said, “Let’s go to
Astricia. There can’t be a better place to spread rumors.”
Astricia Street.
Isn’t it a place where nobles gather no matter when you visit? Calian, who thought about that place, expressed his disapproval and said, “I
went here and there while seeing you off, but it’s still Astricia. “I think that’s a bit too much.”
“It doesn’t matter as long as there’s a good
reason.” “Why would I go there?”
Of course, it’s true that there’s no place like Astrisha to spread the word. However, Calian doesn’t have to go to Dmirea with Demirea. There was no reason to go there together. But Demirea answered with her face facing forward.
“Someone with a reason is coming there.”
“Brother?”
“Your Majesty’s birthday festival. Aren’t the prince and his wife the only ones who need to prepare?”
“… Ah. Hina.”
“Yes.”
Before going to Siegfried’s Land for Lemain’s birthday, Kalian and Planz each matched their clothes. But they were not the only ones who had to match their clothes this year. They were by their side throughout the festival. Isn’t the same thing true for Demirea and Hina, who are supposed to be together?
That’s why Demirea already called someone to the mansion and ordered several new clothes. But it wasn’t Hina. Even though she was given a title, she didn’t have a separate mansion and continued to live in the royal palace. Because of this, he couldn’t have called someone to make clothes for him. Moreover, he was obviously so busy that he couldn’t even think about going out. It is very strange that the young crown prince, knowing
that fact, would personally take his fiancé out and have him make a few clothes for her. It won’t be thought of. It’s not difficult to understand that Calian, who was supposed to take Dmirea to her anyway, would come along to escort her. Calian smiled and opened his mouth. “Thanks to me, the clothing store in Kairis became the most
famous
. It’s there.”
From neat suits to frilly robes, from small ruby accessories to jet-black cat brooches. No matter what he wears and how he decorates it, Kalyan’s outfit is always on the lips of nobles. Shatin is in charge of it. Isn’t there a clothing store in Astrisha?
“It’ll be expensive, but whatever. Brother, you have to open the safe once in a while.”
My Hina doesn’t like being spoiled, so I’ll say I’ll pay for it myself, but since I can fill it up again, I’ll tell her to choose as she pleases. Anyway, how pretty will our Hina choose this time? Our Hina, who is so proud, will become even prettier. We shouldn’t end up attracting more
strange people. We haven’t been able to get rid of even
the rarest of them yet, so that’s a big problem. I’m starting to
worry deeply.
A street with a different atmosphere from Astrisha. A market where both nobles who want to look around and commoners who want to buy goods gather, cafes that are not as expensive as Astrisha, and many restaurants and bars. Therefore, there are many people regardless of class. A place to wander around.
Naerangsha in the evenings was always crowded with people. Some people wanted to buy late groceries and many people wanted to relax after an early dinner. People wearing deep hoods were also often seen
. It was a place where it was common to see nobles with well-known faces, wizards who were bothered by people’s gaze, and people who simply liked wearing hoods. It was common to see people walking around with their hoods down for reasons known only to them, so the outfit itself did not attract attention. .
– Knock!
A man who was walking without anyone’s attention with his head covered in a deep brown hood bumped into someone who was walking in front of him. A voice full of frustration came out of the mouth of the man in the hood who lightly brushed off the shoulder that had been pushed away.
” Where do you keep your eyes?”
“Isn’t he who can avoid it the first to avoid it, Marquis?”
Then I heard this reply. At these
words, the man covered by the hood slightly lowered his head rather than frowning. I heard. Now that I think about it, there is nothing wrong with what the other person said. It was true that I bumped into the other person who was walking too quickly. Gray Brissen, the
man in the hood who was called the Marquis, looked around. Many people passing by were the two small people. I didn’t pay much attention to the conversation. There was probably no one who had heard the word ‘marquis’.
“I never made an appointment to meet you.”
“Tell me exactly. It’s not that you never promised, but that the Marquis unilaterally broke his promise?”
“It’s not that I broke my promise, I’m just postponing it. Don’t be a bother and back off.”
Gray, who made an annoyed voice at the other person, took another step. Then the person standing in front moved one foot and blocked Gray’s foot again.
“I think it’s time for the Marquis to tell me what was discussed with Prince Randel at the palace yesterday. If you’re busy moving around in the wrong place like this… wouldn’t you be curious as to what’s going on? ”
“I said I would definitely contact you again, but now you’re looking at me funny too.”
“How could I possibly do that?”
The voice of the person in front was full of mockery.
“It’s my father.”
Gray’s face, hidden by the hood, frowned.
Gray looked around for a moment and raised his head a little more. I saw a young man with dark brown hair and green eyes, standing with his bare face straight, as if he wasn’t worried that someone would recognize him. Gray frowned again at that sight and made a chewing voice.
“You don’t need to know. Go back before we get noticed.”
“I don’t like it.”
The person who immediately showed his intention to refuse put his face in front of Gray. And then he opened his mouth with a smiling face.
“There is chaos in Astricia right now. The Crown Prince and the Third Prince have gone out with their betrothed. If the Marquis is taking such suspicious steps in a place like this, how can I wait patiently?”
Gray’s eyes frowned again.
Calian, who had been threatening to eat me just the day before, came out to Astrisha Street himself this time.
“I heard that the third prince has a wound on his hand, but that doesn’t mean the Marquis has one. I doubt that the current Marquis would be able to touch even a single hair of that prince’s hair.”
“… What do you mean?”
“Oh no. That’s nothing.”
Words that were clearly spilled on purpose.
It’s as if he knows that Gray is no longer the Sword Master.
The person who said those words waved his hand and took a step back. Then, after looking around for a moment, he opened his mouth.
“I will come back to the mansion tomorrow night. I hope you will tell me what happened then, Marquis.”
The person with a long smile nodded his neck in greeting. And soon it disappeared into the crowd.
Gray, clenching his fists, looked at the spot where his son was for a long time. I thought I wanted to chase after him right away and get angry.
– I don’t think I knew when to crouch. Unlike me, like Brisen.
I had a hard time stopping because of the voice that rang in my head.
‘Planz.’
It means that you are hiding your true feelings and crouching down.
It clearly refers to a relationship with Calian.
What on earth are those true intentions that you are hiding? Gray, who thought for a moment, soon took his eyes off the crowd. And then he moved back to where the nobles who were closely connected to him, the earls whose names Calian had mentioned directly, were waiting. This time, I made sure to check that no one was following me.
“…I heard it would be in the Marquis’ Territory.”
The rooftop of a building far away from Gray.
Blinking his long eyelashes a few times, he looked at the place where the man who returned from meeting Gray had disappeared and shook his head. At that movement, the dull buckle attached to the black leather clothing that clung to the body made a very small sound.
The guy who blocked Gray’s path and disappeared after talking to him. Isn’t he clearly Gray’s son? I couldn’t hear what the conversation was about, but I got to see a scene that Calian would be quite interested in.
However, what needed to be checked now was what conversations Gray was having with the nobles he was secretly meeting, so the priority was to chase Gray, not the guy who had already disappeared. Therefore, he just kept the new news he wanted to convey to Calian in his mind and then got up. And then he took a step toward the direction Gray passed by.
But then.
“Anyway, this is the problem with the Marquis. He didn’t notice one rat… so he caught me too.”
An unfamiliar voice came from behind me.
A cool touch touched the neck of Aila, the person who had just stood up.
