Chapter 437 Chapter
125. Brothers of the assailants (5)
“Revenge. There was no resentment between you and me. Until today. Then, the reason you hit me must mean that you want to achieve revenge through the power of the Council of Elders.”
As Jin answered, Luton’s gaze turned to Talaris. I didn’t look at it to beg for my life using old affection.
“Hehe, why are you looking at me? Even if I hadn’t been there anyway, you wouldn’t have been able to help Tikan. Aren’t you so lost that you can’t even calculate that much?”
Those who raided Tikan were armed with the ability to destroy at least a small country.
Tikan would either have suffered great damage or completely disappeared without Quikantel.
“…I know. We hadn’t even heard of the Silver Dragon being here. Just as our swords have become dull, it seems that the Senate has become rather incompetent than my memory and perception. This time, the prior information was all inconsistent and full of variables.”
“Aren’t the execution knights of Runkandel always performing their duties despite such variables?”
“That’s right, Thalaris. But we’re outcasts now, not executioners. Anyway, it feels odd that you’re moving for the Twelve Horsemen.”
“Why is it strange? I helped my son-in-law.”
A grotesque laugh escaped from the contorted mouths of the Shiit Exiles.
“I had a hunch that one day I would die in vain. I don’t know if meeting an old friend at the end was a curse or a blessing.”
“It’s more like a blessing, if you have to question it. Even when you were young, you sometimes said these needlessly sentimental stories. Tell me what happened to Luton. Since there has been no news from sometime, I thought some of you became the Black Knights.”
Talaris wondered how they got into this situation. It wasn’t to the point of being friends, but it was natural for them to be affectionate.
Jin also had doubts about the fact that people who were equivalent to ‘execution knights’ were exiled.
Excluding the ten black helmets, Execution Knight was generally the highest position a Knight belonging to Runcandel could ascend.
‘If he had committed treason, no matter how great his merits were, he would have taken his life instead of just being banished. However, except for treason or betrayal, there is no punishment beyond exile for an execution knight.’
purge.
Those words came to mind.
‘I get it roughly.’
Jin and Luton’s gazes met again.
Luton just stared at Jin in silence for quite some time. They had never thought that the 12 Horsemen would decorate their end.
shit key. Luton opened his mouth again, spitting out a leaky laugh.
“We, the 12 Horsemen, were the knights of Runkandel and the swords of the patriarch even before you were born. Even though I couldn’t wear a black helmet, I was close to the best among the execution knights at the time, and I was proud of it.”
If his face hadn’t been crushed and horribly injured, Luton could have been the Black Knight.
“When Shiron Runkandel was in the Black Sea for a long time. We were transferred to the 1st rank under the command of the family head.”
“Sister Luna?”
That was the first time I’d heard of it. True to her nickname of Baekkyung, the only white whale in the world, Luna was famous for her non-grouping habits.
“It was a time when everyone was sure that the first jockey would be the next family head. But it must have been around the time you, the 12 Horseman, were born.”
The first jockey declared that he would not become the family head.
Luton went on. Even though his face was completely crushed, Jin could see that he was wearing a very bitter expression.
“From family guardian knights to executive knights, family head knights, and first rider knights… Over the decades, our affiliations have changed in this way.”
If so, the right order was to become a knight of another rider or belong to the Council of Elders and serve as a family executive knight.
However, Luton and his crew had to face a future they never thought of.
“Second rider…”
Joshua Runcandel Luton paused as he said the name.
“We thought we would be his knights. Even before the First Horseman gave up the throne, Sir Rosa has often shown signs of wanting to empower the Second Horseman.”
Even then, Shiron spent an overwhelmingly longer time in the Black Sea than in the Garden of Swords.
So, it was up to Rosa to actually command the family as it is now.
Rosa did not appoint the outcasts as knights of the 2nd Horseman.
At the time, Luton’s members were fifteen, which meant that the highest-ranking executioner was fifteen.
“They just threw us away as if we had no value.”
As Jin foresaw at the beginning of the conversation, Rosa began purging them.
As if trying to make Luton and the members into people who did not exist in the world from the beginning, Rosa destroyed everything about them.
Your life, your family members, the animals you raised, even the people around you you knew.
Although the inaction of Luton and the members was great, it was helpless to be stabbed by the knife they believed.
Because they never thought that the family would abandon them.
“With the help of the Black Sword Chairman, four out of fifteen people were able to survive. Even though it turned out to be such a disgrace. But one of the four died shortly after, and one died a few years ago while helping the Council of Elders.”
“So it’s just the two of you left?”
“exactly.”
He devoted his whole life to Runkandel, but why did he have to be purged so cruelly and miserably?
Execution knights who became exiled could not be free from that question for the rest of their lives.
“My mother seems to have judged that you are a sword that is difficult for a second horseman to handle.”
“…probably so. Otherwise, there would be no reason to purge us.”
Even when Luton and his crew were knights of Shiron, they used to attack Talaris without his command. There was a corner that ran rampant enough to comment that Talaris was like a ‘extreme beast’.
That’s why Rosa didn’t make them Joshua’s knights.
Also, not assigning him as a family executive knight belonging to the Senate was the result of the Senate being wary of having more power than necessary.
They had to be purged without even having a chance to pay allegiance to other brethren who had not yet become standard-bearers, or who had become standard-bearers by that time.
Of course, that’s why they can’t understand it.
However, there was no strength to resist the incomprehensible absurdity. Because the opponent was Rosa Runkandel.
“Huh… I have a question about Luton’s story.”
Talaris narrowed his brow and opened his mouth.
“What was Shiron doing to get to that point? Did Shiron sit still while Sir Rosa killed you for no reason?”
Luton nodded slowly.
“exactly.”
“why?”
“…I’m sure you’re not asking because you really don’t know, Thalaris.”
Thalaris sighed.
It was because from some time ago, the image of a friend with dry emotions came to mind more than the desert of the dry season.
“Anyway, Chiron cared about you quite a bit 30 years ago… but didn’t you really do anything to make it that much?”
“After the first horseman gave up the throne, the patriarch acted as if everything in the world was disappointing. Maybe that’s why we didn’t care even more. Haven’t you ever been curious about our news?”
“That’s because I thought there wouldn’t be a big problem with you, of course. How could I know what was going on inside Runkandel? When it comes to looking at you, Shiron and I, who are outsiders, shouldn’t be compared.”
“That’s right. There’s no reason for you to find out about us when the head of household isn’t looking. Except for the family head, we were closest to you.”
Looking at the hesitant Talaris, Luton went on to say something behind his back.
“Of course, I didn’t bring up the story to resent you.”
“Yes, I know. You can’t resent me. I don’t know if you’ve ever come to the secret palace to ask for help after surviving.”
“Right. We didn’t come because we thought you had nothing to do with this. Since me and the members of the group lived a life without anyone by my side, you were the closest, but it wasn’t objectively special. To you, we must have just passed on.”
Thalaris shrugged.
If he had come, he would have helped you in some way.
Thalaris kept the words out of his mouth. because it didn’t make any sense.
A moment of silence passed.
“I have nothing more to say.”
“That’s for me to decide. I still have a few questions I want to ask you.”
said Jin.
“You said the reason you hit me earlier was revenge. Is that the target of my mother?”
“exactly.”
“Why is that?”
“Chairman Black Sword must have given me an order for his own benefit. And everything he does is an act to become a family head.”
“Do you really think Elder Jorden will be able to defeat Joshua and become the family head?”
When Jin showed a genuinely puzzled look, Luton shook his head.
“It doesn’t matter how likely it is. Because there is nothing else we can do.”
“In other words, he intends to achieve revenge through the Black Sword Chairman. Judging from what he’s saying, it doesn’t seem like he’s moving with the grace of saving you.”
“favor? Jorden paid for it by using us like dogs whenever he wanted. I could have been a little more grateful if I had saved this face without making it.”
Indeed, the exiled enforcement knights were moving with revenge as their raw material.
“Okay, then let me ask you one last thing.”
“Something?”
“You said you survived with the help of Jorden Runkandel, the Black Sword Chairman. But does your mother know about that?”
“I don’t know.”
“I guess so. If my mother had known, she would never have been alive. And that fact is the only means by which you can realistically avenge your mother… I will offer you a more worthy death.”
“…Worthy death?”
“Anyway, you can never see the future where the Black Sword chairman becomes the family head. If you die at my hands like this, it will just be the end, so your revenge will not come true.”
“What do you want to say? 12 riders.”
When Luton raised his head, Jin continued.
“Go back to the Garden of Swords. Go and tell them that something like the Black Sword Chairman disobeyed his strict mother’s orders. Make a dent in your mother’s power. That is the most meaningful revenge you can have.”
