Episode 217: The king suddenly falls.
And Logan is frozen in front of him, holding a bottle of alcohol.
As the eyes of the guards and servants all focused on Logan, it felt as if all time in the room had stopped for an instant.
“your majesty!”
But soon Cleo and other officials run toward the king.
“Get Lord Logan!”
The silence was broken by the escort knights who were unable to move even though they were shouting.
In the meantime, Logan’s eyes, which had been blankly frozen, quickly returned.
‘Oh my…’
It was so absurd.
I thought that maybe the king would try a new trick.
However, such extreme numbers were not predicted at all.
Self-harm?
King?
‘Damn it.’
I got stabbed in the back.
‘If you use force here…’
you will be confirmed as a traitor.
As Logan was rolling his head as he watched the approaching guards, he heard his teacher’s panicked voice.
“Logan, what is this…”
“It’s not me. Don’t you know that?”
Logan shook his head in response to his teacher’s surprised gaze, then chuckled as he looked at the approaching knights’ swords.
The knights, who were nervous, raised their force.
“Clean it up. I’ll get there with my feet.”
With a cold face, he shook off the swords of the guard knights and looked at the fallen king again.
The face of a young prince full of guns who made him a king.
‘How did it change like this?’
I sighed out of bitterness.
‘Did you hate me so much that you even harmed yourself? why?’
Hatred beyond comprehension.
The irritation and anger that welled up naturally turned to the official who was screaming next to the fallen king.
‘Is this your work too, Cleo?’
Words that cannot be said out loud in the current situation.
Logan calmly turned around, trying to suppress his rising anger.
“Where should I go now?”
“That… that.”
“You have to go to the dungeon first.”
“…Guide me.”
Logan left the king’s office with knights surrounding him like a bodyguard.
* * * Logan McLane tried to assassinate the king.
The rumor that suddenly began to spread in the capital was initially treated as nonsense.
“Why that Logan McLane?”
“You are talking nonsense.”
“If you don’t want to offend the police, just tell me nonsense.”
However, the moment it was confirmed that Logan McLane was imprisoned in the castle’s dungeon, the rumor spread out of control.
– How on earth did this happen?
At that time, most of the kingdom’s nobles fell into panic.
The actions of the major nobles, who had no choice but to react most sensitively to this incident, were divided into two.
“This is a big deal. How could something like this happen!”
Count Roberts Floyd walked nervously back and forth through the living room, pondering his thoughts.
‘There is no one who does not know the conflict between His Majesty and his son-in-law. Whether it’s really the son-in-law’s act or His Majesty’s, this can never be resolved well. If that happens, I…’
Roberts, who soon made up his mind, shouted at the butler.
“Connect to Macline! And prepare to leave the capital immediately!”
“Yes yes?!”
“Hurry! Hurry!”
The count quickly began to pack up the mansion’s valuables, ignoring the surprised butler’s questions.
A few nobles who felt such ominous war clouds hid deep within the capital or returned to their fiefdoms, while other nobles chose to watch the situation unfold while holding their breath.
Even though something unimaginable happened, the real power of this country still rested with Logan and the swordsman, and since the two were priests, many people judged that the situation would not spread any further.
However, the reaction of the McLane estate was bound to be much more extreme than the majority.
“The Archduke?”
“Nonsense!”
“What’s wrong with our Confucius!”
Most of the residents of McLane territory who heard the rumor actually criticized the king.
“We can’t just stand still! We have to free Prince Logan, even if it means overturning the capital or even the kingdom!”
“Of course, miss!”
Logan’s fiancée and personal servant rushed to their lord with angry faces.
And immediately a meeting of McLane’s vassals was convened.
bang!
“How on earth did this happen!”
The vassals gathered in Daejeon all fell silent at the shouts made by Padric McLane in anger.
Soon, their eyes focused on one place, and Dwayne, who could be said to be the representative of the vassals, took a step forward.
“First of all, it seems to be true that Confucius is in prison. After finding out the situation, His Excellency the Duke of Geom sent a message asking you to wait a little while because he is persuading the king…” “
Wait? What are you waiting for? My son Are you telling me to wait to be executed?!”
An angry shout that instantly crushed Dwayne’s tense voice.
As the bloody spirit of the top knight spread from the head table, Daejeon became even colder.
However, Dwayne was the only one who could stop Padric in that state, so the furry administrator suppressed his trembling heart and barely gathered the courage to speak again.
“Calm down, my lord. If the king has his own thoughts, he won’t be able to easily do something to the archduke. Honestly, this is a very strange situation for anyone to see.”
“Of course it’s strange! If my son, a superhuman, had tried to kill the king, he would have cut his head on the spot. Why would he use poison?”
“So, I think you just need to wait a little while. Even so, there is something called common sense…”
“But we can’t just sit still. Gather all of our troops! Prepare for war!”
“My lord!!”
The complexions of all the vassals, including Dwayne, changed drastically due to Padric’s harsh orders.
“If the King hears that we are preparing for war, the Archduke may be in even more danger!”
“No! Even if something happens, Logan is not one to be easily defeated. So do as I say!”
“My lord!!”
“This is a warning to the king! A warning that if my son does anything wrong, I will overthrow the kingdom!”
“yes?!”
The eyes of the vassals all focused on Padric.
In particular, the eyes of Dwayne and Heinkel, who had been with him for a long time, almost doubled in shock.
Honor and chivalry.
This statement is even more surprising to those who know well that Patrick McLane has pursued that value his entire life.
Moreover, isn’t loyalty to the king the basic ideology that underlies those values?
but.
“If the king attacks my son, from now on there will be no king for me!!”
For a father who saw his child in danger, everything else was second best.
“Prepare for war!”
Padric’s angry shouts filled the Daejeon, and the troops of McLane territory began to make rapid movements.
* * * The king, who was in critical condition, quickly got up without any trouble thanks to the divine power of the bishops.
However, the news rather attracted the public’s suspicious attention.
“The hero used his hand?”
“Isn’t it so strange?”
“What on earth is going to happen to the kingdom?…”
Anyone with consciousness could not help but be suspicious of this series of processes.
However, the king paid no heed to that and ordered a purge as soon as he got up from his seat.
– Capture everyone involved with the traitor Logan McLane!
At the king’s order, the royal guard moved, and soon most of the ministers based in the capital were captured by the guard.
Of course, there were cases like Count Floyd, who fled to McLane as soon as Logan entered prison, but the rest of the ministers who could not do so had no choice but to end up in prison.
The general consensus is that he ended up in prison because the swordsman desperately tried to prevent him from being summarily executed.
It has already become an open secret that the shouts of the king who woke up in the royal castle office and the voice of the swordsman who blocks him can be heard continuously.
In the meantime, as the troops of McLane territory showed unusual movements, all the kingdom’s nobles had no choice but to pay close attention to what would happen next.
– There may be another war.
– If McLane turns to the rebels now…
– the worst civil war could break out.
It was a time when an evil atmosphere was coloring the kingdom.
In fact, the main character who started the whole incident was in a place where no news could be heard.
A spacious room with a bright lamp emitting a subtle scent.
A bed with a silk blanket, a luxurious desk and dining table, and even a bathroom with a door on one side to allow for separate toilet treatment.
It looked like a luxurious lodging for nobles only, except that there was no sunlight and everything was behind bars.
‘Well, it’s only for nobles.’
Logan cleared his throat and opened his eyes.
I was confident that I could stay in the same posture I had been meditating in all night for several days, but for the first time in a long time, I felt a familiar movement.
“Are you awake?”
“How can I keep my eyes closed when the Master has come?”
A familiar face visible through the dim light of a lamp.
“Can you guess what happened?”
Logan let out a small sigh as he looked at his teacher’s face, where his gray hair and wrinkles had grown noticeably.
“My guess is similar to yours, Master. No, this is the guess most people would make when looking at this situation.”
“…You mean Your Majesty’s self-harm?”
“As expected, you knew.”
The swordsman looked bitter at his disciple’s words, which seemed to treat people like fools.
“How could you not know?”
“Blind faith can sometimes completely block your vision. And Master, you are the most confident person I know.”
Logan expressed it indirectly with a wry smile.
How could Felix Esperanza, the kingdom’s strongest Auror user, be an idiot?
Nevertheless, the reason he seemed frustrated and dull at times was because his beliefs obscured his vision.
This tendency was especially strong when it came to kings and royal families, so Logan assumed that his teacher might think differently about the situation.
The swordsman looked intently into his student’s eyes and continued speaking with a sigh.
“But the situation is not good, Logan. There were too many people who saw it, and the timing was not good. The same goes for the dock.”
“…You must have planned and prepared for this opportunity.”
The teacher sighed at the sarcastic tone.
“It is an extremely poisonous poison that pierced the magic of the ruler’s crown that your Majesty possessed and seriously injured you. If we had not been careful, your Majesty could have died.”
“But he didn’t die. If I had really tried to assassinate your Majesty, I would have used the auror there, not the poison.”
And no one could have stopped it.
Even if there was a teacher.
The final sincerity was not expressed in words, but the teacher nodded with a heavy expression.
“…Yes, that’s right. However, as it was so dangerous, there are also those who sympathize with His Majesty’s claims. Starting with the guy named Cleo you mentioned earlier.”
“Ha… as expected of him…”
“And His Majesty is very strongly insisting on your punishment.”
“Of course I will. So how long do I have to stay here? I think I need to come to a conclusion quickly so I can decide what to do.”
It’s not a punishment, but a conclusion.
The teacher’s expression darkened at the blatant expression of his intention not to accept punishment even if the king insisted on it.
“…I will persuade His Majesty. So just wait a little longer. Even if it’s uncomfortable, endure it.”
Can you really persuade him? This
is the king who trapped himself by harming himself.
And even if they release him without punishment as the teacher claims…
‘I will not tolerate it any longer, Master.’
Anger boiled in my heart, but when I looked at my teacher’s face, who seemed to have aged again over the past few days, I couldn’t bear to say those words out loud.
“…I’ll wait.”
“Okay. Please… no, no, I’ll come back later.”
The teacher was about to say something more, but turned around with a deep sigh.
‘What did you want to say?’
I had doubts, but those doubts were soon consumed by the boiling anger and died down.
And then,
“Aaaah!”
Roared.
Logan’s angry roar, unable to contain his rising anger, rang out as if it would shatter the dark dungeon.
