Chapter 676,
Chapter 173. Chasing the sword (1)
“Eating food prepared by Mr. Jin… Ah! I just want to live here in Tikan like this. Right Hedo?”
“Not at all, miss.”
“Why are you so negative all the time? I don’t like what I’m doing these days.”
“If you keep doing that, we can inform the family of the young lady’s eccentricities. If that happens, even if you have the opportunity like today, you won’t be able to come and meet the 12 Horsemen.”
“Oh, there is no garbage? Do you think a snitch would suit that size?”
“It sounds like a good combination. No one will think of me as a snitch because of my appearance, so I have my own surprise and charm.”
A day has passed since Hedo and Sandra came to Tikan.
And the colleagues who watched the two of them, like Jin, felt that the two of them were just like a father and a daughter who are on good terms (but the daughter is very rude).
“Hmm, no matter how many times I roll Crayon Shin-chan, this jet doesn’t know. What the hell is the reason that great man can’t budge on Sandra Ziple? It doesn’t seem like there’s any weakness.”
“It’s a strange relationship.”
“In the first place, the existence of that person named Hedo is strange, Sir Barkas. Our ghost squad has no information about the author at all, and isn’t it the same for Black Royal? The lord also knew of its existence only after meeting him in person in the Sota Desert. Does it make sense that we don’t know a person like that at all?”
“It seems that Sir Shiron and the highest level of the Runcandel Ziple knew about it… but it is true that he is a mysterious person in many ways.”
Tikan still knows very little about Hedo.
He is Ziffle’s Sandra’s exclusive butler and Ziffle’s second-class butler, and yet he is treated the best in the family.
Hedo was in a position where he could apply for a vacation with only the vague reason of ‘personal history’ in this situation.
“The words written on the sword that Miss Valeria is examining are also veils.”
Since yesterday, Valeria has been up all night looking at the records of Hedo’s sword ‘Veil’.
Since the veil is related to the old Runcandel, history was manipulated as expected.
“Sir Hedo.”
Barkas found Hedo on behalf of everyone.
“You can just call me Tower Keeper, Captain of the Black Kings.”
“It’s more convenient to call you a gentleman. I called because I had a question.”
“What is it?”
“I’m curious about the relationship between Sir and Sandra Zipple.”
“Does it make sense for a butler to serve his master?”
“Because he doesn’t look like an ordinary butler and master. I heard from Jin that you are loyal to Sandra Ziple, not Zipline. I will prepare good alcohol and cigarettes, so if you have a special story, can you tell me?”
Barkas was a very friendly person. Hedo also seemed not too uncomfortable with Barkas’s sudden approach.
“Good alcohol and cigarettes are always welcome, but there is no particular story.”
“Don’t do that, tell me. Curiosity about Sir and Sandra Ziple is paralyzing Tikan.”
Valkas took out the finest pine smoke from Mila from his bosom and held it out to Hedo. Hedo took a sip of the scent and smiled in satisfaction.
“Across all the Millar Tobacco Farms, the quality is such that at most one carton comes out a year. Alright let me know.”
People who prick up their ears.
But the next moment Hedo gave a very disappointing answer.
“There are often people who care more about their dog or cat than their own body. The reason why I attend the young lady is no different from that. Since you’ve been by my side since I was little, it’s only natural now.”
“Compare me to a pet?”
“If I had to put it into words, it was so, my lady. Anyway, it’s a small story compared to the cigarettes I received. I hope you are not disappointed.”
“then…! In zipline…! How did you come to have enemies?”
Jet glanced over and intervened. He also took out the finest pine pine from Mila, a different kind from Balkas, and held it out to Hedo.
It was stolen from Quawl’s drawer.
“There is no need to speak so frightened, Jet. Ziple came to belong by chance while wandering in his youth. Well, this is a very elegant fragrance.”
“It looks like you’re having a lot of fun eating Tican people’s backs, Top Keeper.”
Jin shrugged and said.
“If you have something that appeals to me so that you can ask questions.”
“There is no need to do that. When we become human, we will naturally come to know everything.”
If you ask Sandra, Jin will be able to find out about Hedo’s past.
But Jin didn’t.
There was no need to make the giant, who could become an ally, uncomfortable by revealing the past he was trying to hide.
His past doesn’t matter too much.
The important thing was to enter the sixth tomb through the veil.
“And I’m more curious about the past of your sword than your past. I don’t think I’ve told you yet, but the words “Veil” written on the sword body are the name of a person presumed to be an old runkandel teenage knight.”
“Like the guy I saw in the snow? The sea I guessed to some extent.”
“It’s a very bittersweet story for me that the sword of a teenage knight is possessed by Ziffle’s minion. Well, except for the fact that you are a member of Zipline, you are a soldier who deserves to own a sword of that size.”
“I thought flattery would tremble too.”
“I was just telling the truth. When I first met you, I really wanted to know if there were monsters like this.”
“That won’t change my mind.”
“One of the reasons why I have to look good for you is because I also have an issue with Yona-sister.”
Jin had asked for help in finding Jonah as soon as Sandra and Hedo arrived.
“If that’s the case, didn’t the young lady agree yesterday?”
“Hey, don’t worry. I will somehow rescue your sister-in-law.”
“I believe in Sandra. But I have a feeling you might report upstairs.”
“You get treated like a snitch twice. You can bring the Contractor of Truth and confirm it.”
“Trust me and leave it to me.”
“I don’t believe it, but the moment Yona Runkandel goes wrong, she will try to intimidate Lady Sandra, so you must be thinking that I won’t report it even if I don’t like it.”
“I am not that mean. But if the other person behaves meanly first, then there is nothing you can do about it.”
“I don’t mind being kidnapped by him.”
The moment the conversation continued to that point, Valeria left the lab. His face was haggard, as always when things like this happened, but there was one thing that was different from usual.
‘Your eyes are quite twinkling…?’
It was the look Valeria only showed when she made a particularly great discovery. Jin smiled inwardly as he remembered his previous life.
“jin.”
“Have you finished analyzing the records?”
“Okay, follow me. I’ll explain.”
As Jin left, Sandra glared at Valeria from behind, and Hedo sighed to calm her down.
“You seem excited. The harvest seems to be bigger than expected, right?”
“This sword contains the most complete record of the old Runkandel objects we have ever found.”
“Didn’t I say that the history of the sword was fabricated quite strongly?”
“I said so, and at first it really was. But this is the first time for me too. As soon as my magic touched it, the history of this sword began to recover itself.”
“Do you restore history yourself?”
Like a dry forest swallowing rainwater, as soon as Valeria’s record magic reached Hedo’s sword, the records in it were gradually revived.
Valeria only stayed that way overnight and did nothing special to further restore the record.
“okay. It’s safe to say that this sword perfectly contains a fragment of Runkandel from a thousand years ago. It is in incomparably better condition than the records we saw in Wantaramo Forest.”
So far, Jin has never seen the ‘complete record’ of the old Runkandel. The records Jin saw were always partially or mostly damaged.
“Then I’ll show you more than the recording devices that Solderlet left behind.”
“of course. Besides, maybe…”
Valeria paused for a moment and met Jin’s eyes.
“You may even meet the old Runcandel, who is still alive. In the grave within this sword.”
“what…?”
Jin’s eyes widened.
“I thought about why the fabricated history was restored so easily. Over the years, there may have been a part that naturally weakened, but that alone couldn’t explain it. It wasn’t because my record magic was excellent either.”
As Valeria cast record magic on Hedo’s sword, she clearly felt that a certain living power within it began to resist the fabrication of history.
“So you mean that the living teenage knight is reacting to your record magic within there and surviving the manipulation of history?”
“There’s no rule that it’s a teenage knight, but there’s a very high chance that someone is still alive under the sword. Not in the form of a Guardian, but as a real living being. And if his mind is even sound, and if he is kind to you. You can hear the stories of those days directly from him.”
My heart beat quickened.
If only he could directly hear the story of the mysterious old Runkandel, the many doubts he had harbored could have been resolved.
In the first tomb, Silderray called Solderlet a traitor. The reality of fabricated histories. The death of Temar. The end of Runcandel in those days.
And why Soldert hid that fact, even though he had been a contractor a thousand years ago.
“It is an amazing story. I didn’t expect to find such a clue in the sword of Ziple’s Tower Keeper. I couldn’t have entered the fifth tomb without the sword.”
“Are you going to tell the Tower Keeper about this?”
“It would be good to inform. He’s a thorough person. He’ll probably ask for verification through Yuria when we go back after we’re done talking. I already mentioned Yuria. If they were caught lying then, they would never cooperate with us.”
It wasn’t a matter of refusal.
Since Hedo is the owner of the sword, it would be better to be honest unless you want to take it from him by force.
Of course, Hedo is a character from Zipple. It was very uncomfortable to inform him of the existence of ‘an old runcandel that might be alive’, but there was no other way.
“Right now killing the tower keeper or taking the sword from him would be crazy, so that would be better. When will the grave be entered?”
“I have to prepare and go in now. We don’t know what will happen during the opening process, so we’d better try it outside.”
