061 Episode – Smile
The victoria station, which was already noisy at the appearance of the outrageous Bergand and the golden knights, became even more noisy.
The golden knights walked in line with platform 5 with a determined expression as if they were going to a battlefield.
Passengers, nobles and commoners, all kept their way out of the way of the golden knights.
– What’s going on?
-Sir Tigris was attacked yesterday.
-What? really? Are you seriously injured?
-I don’t know. Anyway, they say you’re coming by train from Tern.
– Wasn’t Tern a place where trains didn’t stop?
-Sir Tigris said he was riding, so it stopped. Would anyone else have stopped?
The golden knights headed for platform 5.
Platform 5 was full of reporters and passengers, who kept people at least 3 meters away from the railroad tracks.
People were forcibly pushed back and turned like rice cakes, but no one said anything to the Golden Knights.
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Judging from the looks of the golden knights and the energy emanating from their bodies, it was because the blade stood as if it would really cut it if it were torn.All they could do was timidly press the shutter or furrow their eyebrows.
Bergang stood before the crowd.
A cold wind blew in the already chilly platform, and it became quiet in an instant.
Because of the vicious life that Bergan exuded, his body had hardened like a mouse in front of a snake.
Berggan looked at reporters and passengers with a speechless and frightening expression on his face.
When the reporters made eye contact with Berggan as they were about to press the shutter, they swallowed their saliva and carefully put the camera down.
Bergan said with magic in his voice.
“From now on, anyone who touches the body of the knights or approaches more than 1m without permission will be arrested immediately according to His Majesty’s supreme command. I’m sure you know why.”
At the growl of Bergang, passengers and reporters involuntarily nodded their heads slightly.
Tigris’ status within the Imperial Victory is so influential that it is said that he is almost like a princess or a prince.
Such a being was attacked by gangsters last night.
Because this was no different than a declaration of war for the Empire, there was no choice but to stand still.
After Bergang’s warning was over, the train entered.
The reporters looked at Bergang and captured the train coming in on camera.
Eventually, the train stopped and the front door opened.
Tigris got off the train with a stern look.
It was not like the person who was attacked yesterday.
The reporters were anxious to ask questions, but they couldn’t open their mouths because of the sharp eyes of the golden knights.
All I could do was press the shutter timidly to the applause of the crowd.
Next to Tigris, Bergang and two golden knights approached.
“Is your body okay? Sir Tigris?”
“yes. it’s okay.”
“Are there any other places to stop besides your home?”
“There is not.”
“Then you know. Your Majesty the Emperor has sent a doctor and a healing wizard to your house, so you can see him.”
“All right.”
Berggan nodded and entered the guard position.
According to the original law, to be escorted by a Black Meister, you had to be a member of the Imperial Family.
However, there was no one who could raise the law in front of the angry emperor, and Bergangdo knew Tigris was not just a five-star knight, so he immediately accepted the escort mission.
Tigris and Bergang left the platform and headed for the golden carriage prepared in advance at the main gate of Victorie Station.
The carriage was escorted by the golden knights themselves, and the iron-blooded wizards were also spreading barrier magic in case of an unexpected attack.
“I’ll be out there just in case.”
“All right.”
Tigris got into the carriage.
The carriage had a familiar face.
She was Princess Rain Rover.
“Sir Tigris, how are you? Are you okay? Wouldn’t it be better to go to the Imperial Palace and get a detailed diagnosis?”
Rain Rover asked questions like a rapid-fire cannon before Tigris even said hello.
Rain Rover woke up last night when he heard the news that Tigris had been attacked.
Although Tigris received a report from the Inquisitor that not a single hair was injured, his heart was beating so fast that he continued tossing and turning on the bed.
Instead, Rain Rover looked through the logbooks and directories written by Tigris, and planned who the ‘Black Maw’ were, how they would get revenge, and how to protect Tigris in the future.
Rain Rover was able to understand what Tigris had written about him: ‘When anger fills up to the end, he doesn’t sleep’.
“I am fine. His Majesty, Rain Rover.”
“What’s okay? He said he had a strange spell that caused him to lose that sense of balance.”
“Because you killed the shaman, the spell is already broken.”
Rain Rover sighed deeply.
“I was stupid. I should have thought that Lord Tigris could be in danger…”
Tigris became the target of removal of the first rank, which Lota and Arphem’s clan sought.
After locating all of Schwitz’s Chimera Lab, he captured those with knowledge of Rota and Arphem’s clan, including Viscount Kayle, and killed Lucas, leaving room for the Empire to intervene in the Blacklands.
They must have been eager to tear the Tigris to death.
Knowing that this is the situation, but not taking any action against Tigris…
This was clearly a Rain Rover mistake.
“The Emperor has ordered 12 golden knights and 3 iron-blooded wizards to form a team to serve as a personal escort for Sir Tigris. Other than that, there was also talk of having some iron-blooded wizards reside in the Norberd Tower, where Lord Tigris is staying, so that they can use protective magic all the time…”
Rain Rover looked into Tigris’ calm eyes.
“Me and Sir Berggan stopped them.”
Rain Rover and Berggan read Tigris’ Regression and Directory three times.
The inaction of Tigris in the regression was so great that it was comparable to that of ‘Pereira’, who sealed the demon king of annihilation.
Fighting alone with the unsealed dragon gave the Iron-Blood Magic Corps time to unleash long-range teleportation magic.
He broke through the ‘Cursed Holy Grail’ through an army of 10,000 horses consisting of the ‘Horn Knight’, the chimerized evil spirit ‘Black Reaper’, and the ‘Loon Eclipse Knight’.
Despite the fact that the two members of Rota’s family and the two members of Arfem’s family rushed towards them, they succeeded in escaping by killing Lota’s mouth Levis.
He killed ‘Oslo’, who was raised as the adversary of all knights.
To escort such a formidable being?
This was like putting shackles on Tigris.
Of course, it is true that Tigris is still lacking compared to when he was in his prime as he now has 5 rings, but Rota and Arphem’s clan are in a weak state as well.
The moment they set out to kill Tigris, they could be counterattacked.
So, what Tigris needed was not an escort.
“Instead, His Majesty the Emperor will grant the door to the first-class treasury. You told me to take a type of relic that can protect Lord Tigris instead of not being escorted, so I think you should choose a relic of healing, evasion, or shield type rather than a weapon.”
Rain Rover scratched the area Tigris itched.
Tigris had never used a holy relic other than a sword type in the past.
I thought that a single sword was enough, and as the treasury of the Empire was destroyed, thousands of holy relics evaporated.
However, this time, when I tried using ‘Chain of the Sky’, I learned how comfortable it can be to continue fighting if I use other holy things well.
“Instead, the people around Sir Tigris, Charlotte and Irene, and Linia will have secret escorts. One 4 star knight and one 4 circle mage will be paired. We couldn’t stop this.”
The emperor is still unaware of the existence of the regression record.
The Rain Rover was currently in the process of editing and was due to be completed within the next month or so.
At that time, if you explain the regression log and the directory to the emperor, he will take more necessary measures for Tigris and his disciples.
Tigris thought it was a good idea to entrust Rain Rover with his regression and biography.
If the escort had been attached before this happened, Tigris would have had a hard time moving as if he had been shackled.
However, since the Rain Rover took care of the tuning, there was no need to tell His Majesty the Emperor that Tigris was out of control and needed no escort.
“Thank you so much for your concern.”
“and······.”
Rain Rover opened and closed his mouth several times.
He had something to say, but it didn’t seem to come out of his mouth.
“Of course, I will tell you about this later.”
Tigris tilted his head, but decided to move on because Rain Rover would talk to him later.
“Yes. All right.”
“after······.”
The Rain Rover erased the characteristic hard office expression and changed to the usual relaxed expression.
“You don’t know how much sweat I’ve been sweating with Sir Berggan because of this issue. It’s been a long time since I’ve been scolded by His Majesty the Emperor.”
I did just that.
The emperor as well as the vassals must have said together that Tigris should be escorted.
However, it would have been very difficult because only Bergang and Rain Rover would have rebutted that absolutely no.
Tigris was very grateful and sorry for Rain Rover and Bergang.
“I’m sorry to bother you.”
“What. The really difficult one must have been Lord Tigris. It wasn’t enough to deal with those ‘Black Maws’ alone, so I had to protect the soldiers…”
Rain Rover rolled his eyes.
“However, if I’m so sorry, could you please grant me a small favor?”
Tigris nodded.
“yes. Please tell me.”
Tigris was going to do whatever he asked for.
However, Rain Rover’s request was both unexpected and difficult.
“Please smile.”
“······yes?”
Rain Rover’s broken Tigris expression is funny! and laughed.
“I’ve never seen that Lord Tigris really laugh. Please smile properly once.”
“Do you have anything other than that request?”
“Originally, I had other requests, but after you said that, I wanted to see you more. Please smile once. like this.”
Rain Rover smiled brightly.
It was a smile created after thousands of rehearsals to show the people, but it was far more beautiful than a diamond.
“Well······.”
Rain Rover was the first to see Tigris swallow a drool in front of him.
So I wanted to give it more.
“why? it’s hard? Oh, then don’t do it.”
“Is there really nothing else?”
“yes. There is nothing else but this.”
Tigris had no memory of genuinely smiling except when he was really young.
In my teens and early 20s, I was crazy about swords, and in my mid to late 20s, I lived through terrible battlefields, so there was nothing to laugh about.
So, I had never smiled so brightly like a Rain Rover in nearly 20 years, including before my return.
But imitation was possible.
Being as unattended as Tigris, it was possible to have a moderately bad smile because even every minute of the muscles could be controlled.
I haven’t tried it, but it probably will.
“after······.”
Tigris sighed.
Tigris took it seriously, thinking he was training swordsmanship.
In Rain Rover, the look of Tigris with a wretched expression was so funny.
No one would ever think that that expression was just before she smiled.
Tigris laughed.
“·················ogue.”
“Fuck!”
Tigris’ bright smile…
No, seeing the sullen smile made me burst into laughter.
Tigris’ smile was so messed up.
“You must be crazy! You must be crazy!”
Rain Rover was so funny that he slapped Tigris.
Rain Rover had a style that would hit someone close to it when it was really funny.
Rain Rover’s palms were stained redder, but Rain Rover couldn’t stand it.
“Is that laughing now? Oh my God, there was something that Tigris couldn’t do!”
“…are you ready now?”
“Is this supposed to be crazy?”
“no.”
Rain Rover burst out laughing again.
It felt like the stress from worrying about Tigris last night was relieved.
“I need to teach you how to smile. Learn to smile at me for an hour each week from now on.”
“…is it that much of a mess?”
“yes. Right. From today on, I am Lord Tigris’ teacher. I know?”
“Are you sure you need to learn it?”
“You don’t have to learn it.”
“then······.”
“But it is an order. Sir Tigris. Learn to smile at me.”
The Rain Rover knew very well how to move the Tigris.
“······All right.”
Rain Rover said with a meaningful smile.
“okay. It starts like this.”
“······yes?”
Rain Rover smiled softly and shook his head.
“No. I’m just talking to myself.”
Emperor Todd talked to Rain Rover about the marriage issue he had been talking about.
– Finished the story of the Norbert Marginal Encyclopedia. Tigris said that there is no problem in marrying you if you wish. Let’s ask Tigris his intentions soon.
After that, there was talk about changing Tigris’s heart so that the marriage could happen because Tigris’ help was absolutely necessary for centralization, but Rain Rover couldn’t hear well.
Since I was born as a princess, I never thought that I would get married with pure love alone.
However, it was a little uncomfortable to think that I would get married to Tigris for political reasons and not to anyone else.
If Rain Rover had a little more time, I wondered if it would be possible to get married after true love, just like her favorite romance play.
‘But that would be possible only in fantasy.’
Rain Rover knew how much burden Tigris was carrying as he shared the future with Tigris.
He knew all too well that he couldn’t afford to fall in love.
So, if you have a heart… To be precise, it was right for the person you fell in love with first to come forward.
‘Well, it’s not bad for me to confess first.’
However, she also needed some time.
very little.
thump- thump-
Her heart was pounding.
* * *
The next day, the Leviola Teahouse.
Tigris was called by the Inquisitor and headed to the Leviola Teahouse.
Leviola’s tea house was full of people, and Tigris approached the man in the white fedora.
The man naturally turned the vase and took off his fedora.
it was nadal
Nadal took off his gloves and shook hands with Tigris.
“Long time no see. Sir Tigris.”
“yes. Long time no see.”
Tigris sat down.
Nadal said with a characteristic artificial smile.
“The investigation was very easy thanks to the information Sir Tigris gave me. As expected, ‘Teho’, the leader of the beast tribe, and ‘Morgot’, the second prince of the Gillion Kingdom, were our goals.”
Nadal took out the statements of Raya and Ten that Tigris had captured and handed them to Tigris.
Their writing was very crooked, and I can only guess why.
“The only disappointment was that the two didn’t know about the spell on the B-13 guard point. The shaman was a temporary member of ‘Black Maw’, so he said he knew very little. Maybe the shaman didn’t say it on purpose.”
“Hmm······.”
He had no choice but to kill the shaman in order to undo the magic on Tigris’ body, but if he had known this would happen, he would have saved the shaman somehow.
‘It’s not that you can’t predict what kind of magic they are in that they’re targeting Teho.’
There was a high possibility that he cast a spell called ‘Wild Instinct’, a magic that blows away the reason of the beasts.
The wild instinct was literally to raise the wild instinct latent in the body of the beast people to the limit.
Although the beasts were faithful to their instincts, they were able to communicate and trade with other races because of their rationality.
If you can suppress your instincts as much as a night fox, you can get along well with humans.
However, if the ‘Wild Instinct’ enchantment occurs, the instinct that was suppressed by reason will burst.
As for herbivores, it is fortunate that they are gentle, but in the case of a race with a mixture of predators that eat meat like a night fox, they hunt and eat regardless of whether they are humans or not.
In addition, Teho is a beautician from the tiger tribe.
If the wild instincts were enchanted, the tiger’s wild instincts would come out and harm all the humans in the train.
And the Empire, the Kingdom of Gillion, and the Suin Autonomous Region would have crossed an irreversible river.
“But… I have one piece of not-so-bad information.”
“what is that?”
“It seems that there is a laboratory for shamans who cooperate with the Kingdom of Gillion. A woman named Ten knew the location.”
This was information that Tchrist did not know.
The shaman and the lab were a very strange combination, but it was most likely a lab related to Lota’s Mouth Levis.
“And it seems that there are a lot of beast people in that lab.”
“If we release those beauties, we can improve our relationship with the beauties.”
“Yes. you’re right. The problem is its location.”
Nadal said as if in trouble.
“It is a Lux Church dungeon located in the capital of the Kingdom of Gillion.”