My villains, episode 378
, 62. Tactics of deception (5)
“You look good.”
These were the words Eordan said when he saw me returning to Heila’s room after taking a bath.
“…Who is it?” “The Bocchan and the Gongnyeonim. It’s nice to see
.”
The middle-aged blood knight gave off an inanimate atmosphere with his unique cold and grotesque face.
…It’s a skill if it’s a skill to say something similar to a good word like a death sentence.
Heila didn’t react. He was expressionless like Sir Eordan, but perhaps because of his pursed lips and long, deep eyes, he felt a liveliness uncharacteristic of a Balouin.
For some reason, she was sitting without tea, alcohol, or coleslaw. Well, for Heila, it’s been a while since it’s time to go to bed, so there’s no way she’ll have an appetite.
“…don’t talk white. because none of them fit And Heila is a princess, so why am I a young boy?”
“Then what would you like to call it?”
“If you’re going to treat her on the same level as Heila, you can call her Confucius. What is a Bocchan, a Bocchan.”
“It was a title that reminded me of Prince Ganix, so I thought you would hate it.” Garnix. My half-brother and son of Count Akele, I was originally destined to marry Heila’s older sister, Ayla, and become the conceived child.
However, Ayla, who was my first love, Phoenix, committed suicide by hanging herself. And after a while, Ganix also caught a fever and died in vain. I don’t know how the blood knight died from that kind of fever, but I inherited the position of the conceived person anyway.
Come to think of it, Ganix regarded Phoenix as an enemy. He was an asshole who harassed his 3-year-old younger brother in sparring and got beaten up.
Perhaps it was because my memory had come back, I snorted with a lot of emotion.
“I’m a backward person anyway, but there’s nothing to do but hate it. And is Ganixman Confucius? let’s go south Dogs and cows are all called Confucius.”
Lord Eordan stared at me and nodded.
“I see, Gongja… I’m saying it again, but you have changed a lot. I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone as talkative as me among family members.”
“…talkative? Who? Are you excited about me?”
“Yes, Gongja. The fact that I, a blood knight, came here as an envoy is thanks to my talkativeness and eloquence.”
There was no change in his expression, so I couldn’t tell if he was serious or joking.
Well, a poker face like this would be helpful in negotiations.
“late. Let’s finish our business first.”
Heila opened her mouth and looked back at me.
“I heard what you said to Lord Eordan.” “…what did I say?”
“He said he didn’t like being Zakhar’s son.”
“Oh it was.”
As I shrugged and leaned against the backrest, a tiny crack formed between Heila’s brows.
“You haven’t forgotten your promise, have you?”
“Promise 2”
“A promise. The oath I made to you in Longville.”
“That’s right, I remember.”
To put it mildly, it was a promise to build trust and get what we want from each other.
I took Heyla’s oath to make her an ally, and in return I promised to help her one day… fulfill her duties as a conceived.
“I remember that, did you say that?”
Heila’s eyes were so cold that I couldn’t even speak, so I opened my mouth quickly.
“No, that was a promise you and I made together. Having a family or being conceived has nothing to do with that promise.”
“Poi.”
She calmly interrupted me.
“Don’t play with words.”
“What a pun…
“I made the oath because of the conception ceremony. And the ceremony of conception must be performed only by the pregnant women in the ‘red room’ of Tow’s Den. That is the family law.”
Heila was obviously angry, but her tone was as plain as usual.
“If the family deprives you of the position of conceived child, you will die. Likewise, because that’s the law. If you die, of course I won’t be able to keep my promise.”
“I can understand not wanting to go back to Ireland. But your father is Count Akele. If Lord Eordan tells you, will your uncle stay still?”
The first reason why Phoenix’s father, Akele, was called the ‘Seonblood’ was because his skills as a blood knight were the best in Ireland. However, there are few people who don’t know that the ferocious and cruel personality also played a part.
If Count Akele finds out that I said, ‘I hate Zahakar, I won’t even conceive’… he might really come running with an army.
W……Uh W
……〒『.
I kept my mouth shut at her frosty rebuke.
…Somehow today, I feel something irresistible about Heila. In this situation, I have an ominous feeling that if I stretch out recklessly, I will really get hurt somewhere.
The middle-aged blood knight opened his mouth, perhaps for me who was quietly shutting up.
“Be at ease, Princess. Your Excellency the Count will never hear of such a thing.”
“I’m glad then.”
…Sir Eordan was a good man. After all, you shouldn’t judge people just by looking at them.
“If it’s possible, I’ll go to Oduenne with me to see the Count for the first time
in a while.”
His eyes, still cold, turned to Lord Eordan. A normal person would have turned his head quickly, but the caring blood knight met Heila’s gaze like a stone statue.
“Poi plays a key role under Ulkar.”
“There is no point in being bound by a position obtained through a false identity.”
“Poi is sincere. With the enemy in front, we’ll need an army to take Poi.”
Even with the person directly in front of them, Heila and Sir Eordan continued their conversation.
“Ulkar is a descendant of Zeot. Zahakar and Baluin do not serve the children of Zeot.”
“Serving Ulkar is not serving the descendants of Zeot, it is putting them into self-immolation.”
Lord Eordan was silent for a moment. He didn’t move, just blinked his eyes, then nodded.
“All right.”
…what do you know?
The conversation between Heila and Lord Eordan was a bit strange. To say that there is no clutter or to say that it is concise. It seemed that all the extras that often come into conversation had been ruled out.
“Then it would be good for the princess to die.”
“no. I’d rather stay. That would make Poi more likely to come back alive.”
“Adults would rather keep one intact than lose both.”
“It is impossible. There are two whole or neither. There is no perfect One.”
“His Highness the Duke-”
“Kaisis, he already knows everything.”
The blood knight fell silent again, and this silence lasted a little longer.
“This is unprecedented in the family’s history.”
The words were not high or low, but if it felt like a sigh, maybe it was because of my mood.
“that’s right.”
Heila brushed her slightly tousled hair and added words.
“The next duke will also be a person not in the history of the family.”
Sir Eordan shook his head quietly and stood up.
“I just have to go back. Is it dangerous to be away for too long?”
“yes. I’ll attach someone to you like when you came
.”
“Thank you, Princess. Confucius, that’s enough.”
Are you leaving as soon as you finish your business? It’s wild.
However, Heila and I are keeping our identities a secret. It is late, so there is no time to talk nonsense about going to bed or having a cup of tea.
“I didn’t know that before.”
Standing in the doorway, the blood knight looked at the two of us alternately.
“Now I see, you two look very good together.”
It’s amazing. To think that there was someone in Ireland who could say such a thing. It seems that the pride of being the best eloquent among the blood knights is not groundless.
“Just keep in mind.”
Lord Eordan left the last words as he left the visit.
“Whether it’s Baluin or Zaharkar, few have the patience.”
The door snapped shut.
I would have liked to have a few more words with Heila, but…
“…Heila. Heyla?”
She was already on the verge of fainting, or already fainting.
He usually goes to bed by 10 o’clock at the latest, so it was only natural that he fell asleep long after midnight.
Could it be that not drinking tea or alcohol was an arrangement to go to sleep without brushing your teeth?
While thinking such trivial things, I lifted Heyla up to the bed and carried her away.
“……Umm.”
She looked limp like a doll with a broken thread.
Pale white and soft cheeks, eyes that were a bit weak from sleeping, and lips as red and plump as ruby… It was so beautiful that I couldn’t take my eyes off it.
So I watched Heila sleep for a while and then left the room.
next day.
Accepting the prince’s proposal and my persuasion, Atalanta led her soldiers to the south as soon as the sun rose.
Now she and the Nudin army will stay at Oduenne Harbor and prepare to cross the Bay of Blades. Whether it will be Atalanta and eight hundred soldiers to trample on the land of the Elector Counts, or whether there will be others, I do not know now, but I just hope that the plan will succeed in the not too distant future.
On the other hand, thinking that Atalanta would meet Count Akele, the father of my father, or Phoenix, gave me a strange feeling.
Of course, he didn’t do anything to write a letter or send his regards through Atalanta. Count Akele did not know my relationship with Atalanta, and Atalante knew that I was Zaharkar, but did not know that I was Count Akele’s son, so there was no need to speak out.
Above all, he had not yet decided how to treat Count Akele. Because he absorbed Phoenix’s personality, he definitely feels like a father, but he’s a bit reluctant. I’ll have to think about it a little more.
And it was luck from heaven that Atalanta left early that morning.
It was because when the sun rose in the middle of the sky, the great army of the Mitergerland Empire had surrounded High Castle.
