287 – Are you going to assassinate me? 100 Years too early (2)
“I will meet head-on and crush the intentions of those trying to assassinate me. For their safety, we will first send Louise and Frederick to the imperial palace in the suburbs where His Majesty is staying. If the reason was ‘Louise wants to show off her only grandchild’, it wouldn’t be that awkward. “Among the personnel in my mansion, I will immediately send out all the maids and butlers who may poison the food.”
“You’re saying you’re going to survive for a while with only trustworthy butlers and maids. Would that be enough? “If you want, I can lend you some of the Guard Knights.”
“Would it be okay to hire northerners and soldiers from the 7th Guards Division who are just about to be discharged? “I have heard people worry that they have nowhere to go after being discharged.”
His Majesty heard those words and responded.
“Don’t hire someone whose back is bent.”
**
And a week later, that night, Louise and Frederick left for the imperial palace in the suburbs where His Majesty the Emperor was.
Due to special circumstances, Anya, Laura, and Charlotte were sleeping in the same room as me when I heard suspicious footsteps near the bedroom.
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He is presumed to be an assassin… No, seeing as he sneaked into my house at this hour, I’m guessing he is an assassin.
Anya and Laura, who were sleeping next to me, reacted to the sound of those guys stepping on the floor of our house with their heels raised.
“Captain, I can hear footsteps outside. “It’s the sound of people stepping on the ceiling above and in the hallway of the house from the side, but the number doesn’t seem to be small.”
“I think it was really good to send Her Highness Louise to Her Majesty. “He doesn’t know how to use a sword, so if we didn’t send him and Frederick to a safe situation near His Majesty… we might not be able to protect him.”
I listened intently to the sounds coming from around me and from the floor, and it seemed like there were about 10 people approaching the room we were in.
This alone is too many to be mobilized to assassinate a single individual, but if what they had in their brains wasn’t udon sari…
It would have been taken into account that the houses of nobles with titles have security personnel called ‘servants,’ so the number of people who infiltrated our mansion was at least 20.
Damn you Pietro, you stupid militarist bastards.
I don’t know if there’s something going on in their heads, whether it’s due to their lack of ability or because they committed a mistake, or they’re plotting to assassinate a well-to-do person who has retired or been discharged from the military.
Thinking like that, I was starting to get angry, but the retired 7th Division soldiers who were staying at my house and acting as guards started ringing the bell to warn me.
“f*ck you, boss! Wake up! “The damn assassins have invaded!”
“He said it was okay to break the furniture and other things in the house and eat it! Cut those bastards off first! “It’s 2 gold per person!”
“You bastards, you’re trying to assassinate our captain! Kill every single one of them by breaking their limbs! “Kill any bastard that tries to run away!”
Charlotte also woke up to that sound and asked me with a puzzled look.
“Master, what should I do?”
“Hide under the bed. “They are after my head anyway, not you, Charlotte.”
Generally speaking, in animations and comics, there are cases where people say, ‘I will fight together for my master, too.’
But to put it bluntly, Charlotte is just a maid, but she is an ordinary person who doesn’t know anything about killing people, so she can’t help me in this fierce battle.
Not coming forward will only help.
She understood that too, so she quietly went under her bed.
The three of us, Laura, Anya, and I, pulled out our respective knives that we had hidden under our pillows for such occasions, and I walked lightly to the door leading to the hallway where the cowardly assassins were presumed to be gathered, and immediately opened and slammed the door. I dumped it.
The wooden door shattered with a loud crashing sound, and some people let out loud screams as if their bones were broken in the process.
“Ugh, sh*t!”
“f*ck, my nose…”
The assassins received a counterattack they had not expected, and came to a temporary halt as if embarrassed.
I signaled to Laura and Anya with my hand that I would take the right side.
Then he lunged and charged towards where there were about 6 assassins.
“f*ck, everyone gather around! Now that things are like this, you have to kill Peter Yeager from the front! If we just kill that bastard, our lives will flourish. Don’t be scared. “There are so many more of us.”
When a man who looked like a leader shouted, the assassins quickly gathered together and tried to put me down with their collective strength.
If these assassins try to fight as a group like soldiers, they are not experts in group warfare, so if they try to do something, they end up just imitating it. The limits will be clear.
Still, perhaps because they are experienced elite assassins, they form a tighter and more well-connected formation than knights of the same size.
“I don’t know if it’s Li Chen or Li Cham, but how on earth can one person cut down dozens of people in the vanguard?”
“It’s obvious the bullsh*t the imperial soldiers say all the time. Do you like playing heroes for a day or two? “I’m not scared at all.”
“Look at the perfect connection between our brothers!”
The one running from the front stabbed me with a knife towards my neck, the two behind me stabbed me in both shoulders, and the rest delivered a fatal blow in preparation for an unexpected situation behind them.
In a group battle, there is no such thing as forming a formation and attacking just to kill one person.
I was momentarily taken aback by the new group attack style I had never experienced before, but I quickly bowed my waist and body.
“Oh, no, damn it!”
When their perfect strike was on the verge of being missed, the bastard let out a panicked voice, but if you’re going to kill someone, you have to be prepared to get beaten up, you son of a b*tch!
I bent my knees and stabbed the guy in front right in the solar plexus, and the two guys behind me blocked the knife with the body of the guy who pierced the solar plexus.
Kicked the corpse with his right foot to limit its movement, cut off the heads of two people with a spinning slash to the left, and cut off the front of the ankles of the three people behind, rendering them unable to move.
“Ugh. My ankle! “f*ck my ankle!!”
“You monster bastard. “How can people fight like that?”
“…… This is crazy. That guy was real. f*ck…”
When their ankles were cut off, they tried to run away and tried to resist in any way they could without losing sight of the sword in their hands.
I stomped on both of their hands vigorously with the intention of preventing them from resisting at all.
They screamed with a crunching and breaking sound.
“Ugh! My hand! “My hand!!!”
“Peter Yeager, you son of a b*tch!!”
“You bastard!” Not this! Are you crazy? Help me!”
I don’t know why the bastards who came to kill people are asking me to save them, but they will soon be tortured anyway, and then they will shout for me to be killed, so I won’t care.
Now that the limbs of all living creatures have been shattered, no matter how hard they try, they will not be able to escape. You can leave it alone.
Meanwhile, Laura and Anya were also working together to deal with the assassins one by one.
Laura, true to her personality, neatly aimed at the assassin’s vital points with minimal, restrained movements, and Anya, having a habit of fiercely looting in the north, swung her sword flashily, quickly, and loudly.
Although they were dealing with five assassins who were more than twice their size, the two even seemed relaxed, perhaps due to the difference in skill and prowess they had accumulated during the war.
“The crime of trying to kill the captain deserves to die! “Trying to kill the leader, the protector of the North, is not even worth fighting over!”
“No, we have to capture him alive and make him a prisoner, so let’s not kill him.”
“…… That’s right, Laura.”
Actually, watching the assassins fight, I think it’s true that the best people from the top assassin’s guild have been hired at a high price.
Because Laura and Anya are so strong, they don’t seem like very talented people.
While I was blankly watching the fight, Laura and Anya completely cleared out all five assassins who had been standing and fighting just a moment ago and came towards me.
“Captain, what should we do?”
“Laura and Anya, you protect Charlotte. If that child is taken hostage, we will be at a huge disadvantage. “I won’t let those damn assassins touch my servants.”
Laura listened to me and hugged me for a moment, telling me to have a safe trip, and then left.
When Anya saw the scene, she looked at me with an expression of resentment that she had not been the first to play, but due to the situation, she could not say anything and just quietly followed along.
I didn’t see her clearly because the lighting was a bit dark, but I think I saw resentment on her face, so I should remember to comfort her later.
And then I quickly searched all over the mansion and helped the guards who were fighting hard.
In the process, I succeeded in killing or capturing nearly 6 assassins, and because the guards except me were dressed in armor, there were no deaths.
You could say that missing a few of the assassins was a bad thing, but not only did I not lose any of my precious men, but I even captured a prisoner, so even if it wasn’t the best result, it would be the next best result.
“Move the corpses to the yard, and put a rope in the captives’ mouths so they can’t bite their tongues. “If you bite your tongue, you won’t be able to speak, so even if you torture them, there will be no use.”
“Yes, I understand. “Captain, shall we now contact the Iman Islands (Imperial Capital) security force?”
If it were a normal assassination, it would be right to contact the security forces and deal with it, but in this case, it is a political case in which even current officers are involved.
Furthermore, His Majesty already knows, in order to exact revenge on the assassins and those behind them.
“Report directly to the Imperial Guard and come. Then the head of the inspection department will light up his eyes and tell you what to do.”
**
And the next day, a shocking order was issued from His Majesty the Emperor.
It was so shocking that I doubted whether what the royal envoy in front of me was saying was true.
So, I received His Majesty’s order from the royal envoy and checked it again, and when I looked again, it said this.
[Emperor of the Reich Empire, Michael von Reich, hereby commands that he hired assassins and dared to kill an active captain of the Empire, and to his wife, Louise von Reich, the 4th princess and daughter of His Majesty Fernando von Reich, the Emperor of the Empire. There are people who have committed sins that almost caused harm. This incident is directly related to the safety of the Reich Empire, so the assassins and the weightlifters behind them will be severely punished. Therefore, I entrust full authority over the investigation and prosecution of this case to the Marquis Peter von Jaeger, and in this case only, I also grant the command authority to the entire inspection department to the Marquis Peter von Jaeger.]
….. Why? f*ck! It’s not even a war, so I have to interrogate and harass those guys myself?