My Villains Episode 074
20. City of Confusion (3)
After leaving the prince’s tent, Ellen and I sat down on a box full of arrows. It was to wait for Nogisa Ariad.
“In the end, I just talked to my heart’s content. I haven’t even heard why the situation has turned out this way.”
Ellen responded to my murmur.
“Why don’t you ask me something?”
“That’s right. I thought the prince would tell me, but he only asked me questions until the end.”
With the title of prince and even an army, I must have been a bit scared. ‘Why is the prince’s army here?’ It was a bit difficult to ask.
“But you didn’t even tremble in front of the prince and spoke well? It’s sarcasm, it’s terribly sarcastic. I thought I was going to die from nervousness dude.”
“What are you nervous about?”
“Aren’t you afraid? What if the prince gets mad and slaps his neck?”
As I whispered while looking around, Ellen let out a mocking laugh.
“Slitting the wizard’s neck for being a bit rude? Would you do something like that when you’re living on just fame?”
“What are you talking about? Living on one reputation? who? A prince?”
“The reason Prince Ulkar is still alive is thanks to his popularity among the lower nobles and the people. If it wasn’t for that, the king would have blown his neck long ago.”
“…the king killed his son? why?”
“Because he thinks he is not his son. Are you asking because you don’t know?”
What kind of troublesome sound is this again? I’m still messing around with my head.
“Yeah, that’s it. talk about that later What is guardrail weir and what is duty?”
“…wouldn’t you like to read a history book during your time to learn a foreign language? Don’t you know ‘The Massacre of Guardil Weir’?”
“I don’t know dude. Can’t you just explain it instead of scolding me every time?” Ellen slightly furrowed her brow, but soon answered meekly.
“About 80 years ago, the king killed about 300 wizards at Guardil Weir. The king took out his anger on the fact that his mother was killed by an unknown magician… It was just something like the royal family of Zeore.”
“Did you mention that duty or something?”
“The prince dumped me. They checked to see if I belonged to the ‘Council of Dawn’.”
“The Dawning Council?”
“For generations, there are crazy people who stick together with the king and act as servants. They’re the ones you don’t need to know.”
Didn’t the mage earlier call the House of Magic a combination of the ‘Council of Dawn’, the ‘Palace’ and the ‘Lao Family’?
Among them, the ‘palace’ probably refers to the ‘Palace of La-Palace’, where Ellen is from.
If that’s the case, there must be some sort of rivalry between them.
for a moment. Dawning Council?
I think the full name of the ‘Twelve’, a group of vicious names in Chapter 7… was ‘The Twelve Mages of Dawn’.
Um, is it a little too much to associate with just one word, dawn? No, it seems that they overlap with crazy bastards who use magic.
For now, I’ll just have to remember the name. What’s urgent right now…
At that time, I found a familiar face among a group of soldiers carrying sacks and passing nearby.
“What is that? Hey Aibo!”
“…Mr. Phoenix?”
Aibo had a stupid expression on his pimple-filled face. I quickly grabbed him because I thought it was all right.
Aibo is a young skirmisher belonging to the army led by Prince Ulkar. Returning to South Harbor through the secret passageway, in a short period of time, they had accumulated a lot of comradeship.
Aibo, who was being dragged by the scruff of my neck, made a stupid sound like “Uh uh”. Then, when he saw Ellen, his eyes widened.
“Oh Ellen? Are you all right?”
As Ellen chewed on her words as usual, Aibo approached him with a welcomed expression.
“I heard that you went down the sewer. I was worried”
“Stop. We can talk there.”
Saying that and blocking the way, Aibo’s face turned white for some reason, and he nodded.
“Swing. Yes. “I’m sorry.”
“No, I’m sorry.”
I turned him to the other side and continued.
“It’s enough to say hello, let’s ask something.”
“Eh yes? What?”
“We’ve just been on the surface, so we have no idea how things are going.”
“Oh, you see.”
“Then, give me a brief explanation. How did the prince’s army get here?”
“That’s…”
Aibo glanced back, looked at the other soldiers’ eyes, and then began to explain.
South Harbor, which had been surrounded on both sides, faced a major crisis due to the earthquake. Part of the castle wall and several palace towers collapsed, leaving a large hole in the defense line.
The earthquake was strong, but it didn’t last very long, and when the shaking subsided, the magicians immediately started attacking, aiming for an opening.
And in that emergency situation, ‘Osred Kurdson of Eafrid’, Earl of Sayburn and owner of South Harbor and Salt Castle, chose to run away.
He headed to the pier with only his wife, young son, relatives, and a few members of the bodyguard.
Of course, due to the earthquake, quite a few ships sank altogether, so they could not sail in the end.
Anyway, it was Prince Ulkar who stepped out of the crisis. The prince, who climbed the castle wall while taking care of the disorganized garrison, shouted.
– Hold your seat! It’s the prince’s order!
The shouting became a relief and spread through the city.
The soldiers who had abandoned their weapons and fled began to gather on the walls one by one, whether they were led by the prince’s authority or realized that they had nowhere to run.
There, the soldiers saw the prince drawing a bowstring with silver hair fluttering. I saw a huge knight standing alone under the collapsed castle wall. I saw reinforcements attacking the bandits while cutting through the reeds.
The sight restored the morale of the soldiers, and they succeeded in driving out the enemies under the command of the prince.
In addition, when the army entered South Harvey, Prince Ulkar began to take control of South Harvey.
In the process, the prince imprisoned the castle owner and his family, who were stomping on the pier, in the half-collapsed salt castle.
It was under the pretext of protecting the castle lord in preparation for an emergency, but not many believed it. Anyway, it’s like the guest imprisoned the owner.
The vassals of the lord of the castle, such as the captain of the guards and the captain of the guard, immediately protested.
An infighting almost occurred due to the resistance of the military officers in direct command, but a direct armed conflict did not occur thanks to the mediation of the military commander, the highest ranking military officer.
It was also a virtue of the military commander’s personal popularity, but the fact that the prince’s knights were standing behind him must have had a big impact.
It was because it was a sufficiently intimidating sight to see the knights, who were said to be the best of the kingdom, with their eyes glistening white, covered in blood.
After that, there were several wave attacks by bandits and pirates, but it is said that they managed to block it under the command of the prince.
And just as the supplies brought in by the reinforcements were starting to run out, Ellen and I fell from the sky.
“…Haha, that’s shit.”
“What is it?”
At this level, it’s not that the scenario is slightly distorted, but it’s at the level of being smashed and reassembled?
I sighed deeply and took out a silver coin from my pocket and handed it to Aibo.
“Thank you for the story. It looks like I wasted my time, but go quickly.”
“Oh. Silver coins for what I did
.”
“Hehe, it’s really good…”
While he said that, he stuck a silver coin somewhere in his pants. Just in time, the soldiers who came with Aibo shouted.
“Aibo! How long are you going to keep chatting!”
“Ugh, I’m going now! Nice to see you again Mr. Phoenix. Ellen too.”
“Okay, go now.”
Aibo ran towards the soldiers, then suddenly looked back and said,
“Oh, the savage who came with me!”
“… a barbarian?”
“Yes, that tattoo! The gnome is caught on the gallows! I heard you will be executed tomorrow around noon?”
“what?”
A tattooed savage?
…Could it be Utequai? is he executed? why?
“Aibo you young labor bastard!”
“I’m going!”
With the veteran soldier’s nervous shouts, Aibo disappeared through the tent.
“Yumma! Aibo!”
“sorry!”
Damn it – you have to say everything and go, you bastard!
Uh utequai, what the hell did this bastard do in a few days?
“Let’s go to the Ellen gallows.”
“what?”
Ellen, who was fiddling with the gray wand, narrowed her brows and asked back.
“What kind of misunderstanding are you trying to move on your own?”
“If you face the professor, it’s right in front of you. You can come and check it out soon.”
“Go later. Don’t think about making things messy.”
“Hey man, is it a problem that things are a little twisted right now? Does it look like someone is going to die?”
Ellen let out a sigh in frustration at my push, and then responded in a low voice.
“Because you and I are still under suspicion? If things get messed up by wandering around recklessly, you won’t lose a few pennies, but your life could be in danger. Don’t you know that one of the royal family members is a human butcher like me?”
“Isn’t it different from before? Isn’t that the type of prince who kills people carelessly?”
“That is when there is no excuse, you idiot. Since you deserted after seeing us disappear, what would you do if I told you to lay down your head? I pretended to be a wizard with a background, so it might be okay, but you’re just a mere mercenary.”
…is it.
“And what is that savage? Whether he was caught or dead, what does that have to do with us?”
“What does it matter…”
Well, Ellen has no motivation to save Utequai. What kind of contact could there be between a wizard from across the narrow sea and a savage from beyond the plateau?
I scratched my head for a while before opening my mouth.
“Didn’t you see him fight? It deflects all arrows and is very strong.”
“so?”
“Um, he’s someone who can help with this and that. Right now, even in the current situation…”
Ellen crossed her arms before she knew it and put on a sour expression with her eyes narrowed.
“You’re not going to make that savage your companion, are you?”
“I’m not saying I’m going to do that… but in fact, isn’t there anything that can’t be done?”
“You crazy bastard, it was just the other day that you dragged an old woman who gave off a rotten corpse and fucked her. but what? You’re going to bring in a savage who doesn’t even wear clothes this time ?
did you turn?”
I have nothing to say.
‘Hey, you don’t have to worry. He got hit in the back of the head too hard for Luke to approach me saying, ‘He’s digging up my wealth~’… It’s crazy to trust Utequai over his wealth.
However, considering that the difficulty will increase in the future, I need at least one meat shield like Utequai.
At that time, the old knight appeared from the prince’s tent.
“I made you wait a long time.”
“Oh no.”
The appearance of the old knight ‘Ariad Barin’ in the game was not very impressive. It was just an NPC who served as a guide in the residence of the king of slaughter, Ulkar.
The guide also plays a pretty big role, but compared to princes who appear as chapter bosses or other knights who appear as picknams… it’s just a radio that recites background explanations.
However, Lord Ariad was the only knight under Ulkar who was not contaminated by the magic of another dimension.
Not only did he not fall, but he even helped the heroes, so he can be said to be quite an extraordinary person. It’s a future thing that hasn’t happened yet… but isn’t it a person you can trust?
I waited for Knight Noh’s words with some anticipation, but
said, “I have a rough plan. First of all, I need to collect information, so you guys should wait for a while. Do you have a place to stay?”
“Uh, you can stay at the Boathorn Inn. As long as it’s fine there.” “Baego-dong Inn? Oh, you mean the guard post?”
A guard station? not a sentry?
The old knight nodded and continued.
“It was just fine. I’ll send people through the night. Go and wait.”
Having said that, Ariad disappeared with a young man who seemed to be a squire and three or four soldiers.
“uh…?”
…What is this? If it’s going to be like this, why did you tell me to wait?
no this is not the time I asked him as I hugged Ellen.
“Now is it?”
” what?”
“Let’s stop by the gallows quickly before going to church and then go. Can you figure out what’s going on?”
Ellen put her arms around my neck and looked up at me suspiciously.
“Again, I hate savages.”
“Are you sure you’re an X-King racist?”
“Okay what?”
“It’s done. You don’t have a choice anyway, so keep your mouth shut.”
“This madman uhhh!”
Ellen roared loudly as she put the struggling arm around her shoulder.
“Don’t let this go! Hey! Let go!”
Ignoring the small hand tapping on my waist, I moved on.
