097 – Morgoth (2)
Morgoth is the second prince from the Kingdom of Gillion.
In the kingdom of Gillion, a person who is higher in rank than Morgot is the only king with the highest dignity.
“Aww! help me!”
Such a being was running towards Charlotte, wearing an unsuitable mustache and wig.
To be honest, the paladin told me it was Morgoth, so I recognized it, and I almost didn’t recognize it.
Anyway, while he was hesitating just to figure out what the situation was, a paladin wearing plain clothes ran towards Morgoth.
“100 million!”
“··········!”
Charlotte and the three of them couldn’t believe it.
The paladin grabbed Morgot’s waist and took it down.
Morgoth rolled on the floor in trouble, and the Paladin bound the rebellious Morgoth by using her body as an auror.
Charlotte doesn’t know much about the Gillion Kingdom.
However, he could not have dared to imagine that a single paladin, even a knight loyal to the kingdom of Gillion, would grab the prince’s waist and crush it on the floor.
“Ahhh!”
Mogotte’s cheeks were ripped from the sharp bricks and bled.
The paladin held Morgoth strong or not and did not let go.
No, rather, I tried to use a joint to prevent rebellion by splitting one leg.
Although Morgot is famous for not having a presence in the Kingdom of Gillion, this was absolutely not common sense.
“Don’t resist, stay still……
puck!
Charlotte’s body bounced off.
And before the paladin could even recognize Charlotte’s charge, Charlotte had a kick in his temple.
The paladin rolled the floor a few laps as it was and passed out with blood foam in his mouth.
Morgotte looked up at Charlotte, who took off her glasses.
“Can you walk?”
At Charlotte’s words, Morgotte reflexively nodded her head slightly.
“back!”
At Irene’s cry, Charlotte immediately bowed her head.
A fist the size of a paladin’s cauldron lid passed through Charlotte’s hair.
“Uh-huh!”
Charlotte shoved her elbow into the hollow of the man’s side.
His ignorant charge, the paladin stopped breathing for a moment, and his eyes became dark with the strike that flew to the vital point at the perfect timing.
Charlotte clenched a fist in the nose of the kneeling paladin.
The paladin spilled nosebleeds and passed out.
“Wake up.”
“······Yes.”
Morgotte took Charlotte’s hand and stood up.
Irene and Linia quickly defeated the three Paladins who rushed in and joined them.
Charlotte looked at Rakan.
I don’t know where Rakan came from, but he was subduing the Paladins with an artifact called ‘stun shot’ that stuns even 4 star knights at once.
Fierce-!
“Don’t worry about me and go!”
At Rakan’s call, Charlotte did not hesitate.
I don’t know exactly what the situation is, but the three know Rakan.
There was no way to escape the prince of Gillion Kingdom for no reason.
“let’s go.”
He didn’t know where to take Morgoth, but he seemed to know which way to get out.
I heard the paladins running from the other road, but I couldn’t hear it as much as the east road.
“Come this way.”
* * *
Charlotte, Irene, and Linia had good stamina, so it was okay to run for an hour or two, but Morgotte was different.
“Ugh······. Ugh······.”
Morgotte had only run for about 20 minutes now, and took a deep breath.
Charlotte remembered the basic information of Morgotte that Vice-President Miller had given him yesterday for the VIP security service.
181 cm tall and 120 kg.
Although he is a three-star knight, it has been almost 5 years since he put his sword down, so his strength was only slightly better, but his physical strength was only slightly better than that of a normal adult male.
Charlotte looked at Morgotte’s feet.
Morgotte’s shoes were taken off and he was running barefoot.
It looked like he had injured his foot while running, as there was red blood in the dirt on his white socks.
limp- limp-
Morgoth was running limp, even though his wounded foot was quite painful.
Running any further was impossible.
‘I need to rest for a while to think about it.’
Charlotte looked around.
There were several places to properly hide.
There were narrow alleys where streetlights could not reach, there were inns, and there were stables.
‘stall!’
I knew there was at least one lost horse in every stable.
Of course, running on a horse is very conspicuous, but considering Morgot’s physical strength and foot condition, it was unreasonable to run away like this.
And on the contrary, it may not be a bad option to stand out.
For the Paladins, to stand out is the same as saying that you get a chance to get in touch with Rakan again.
I didn’t know if I could get a safe escape route by contacting Rakan again.
“Let’s go over there.”
Charlotte headed to the most shabby-looking place among the stables.
The smell of horse dung stung his nostrils, but Morgoth hid inside the stable without raising an eyebrow.
It was very shabby for a prince of a country to stay, but even Morgoth seemed to know that it was not the time to ask for cold or hot water.
“Who are you here?”
The Stable Keeper’s eyes widened as Charlotte took off her deeply pressed hat.
The stable keeper seemed to recognize Charlotte’s face at once.
After that, Irene and Linia also took off their glasses, and the stable keeper just stared blankly, as if no words were coming out for a moment.
“What are these precious people doing here?”
Charlotte silently took a silver coin from her bosom and handed it to the stable keeper.
“If there are any bandages or potions left over, could you give me one? If you have spare boots, give them to me.”
The stable keeper looked at Morgot’s condition and nodded.
“Yes. Okay. Please wait a minute.”
“Irene, follow me.”
Irene raised the collar of her coat and pressed her hat deep, and followed the stable keeper.
Linia stood guard at the entrance to the stable, noticingly.
Charlotte bowed her head slightly towards Morgotte, who looked at the entrance to the stable with an anxious look.
“The introduction is late. His Majesty Prince Morgoth. My name is Charlotte de Friharden, a disciple of Tigris di Norverd.”
Morgotte’s eyes widened.
“Oh my God, I thought I was familiar somewhere, but I couldn’t recognize it because of the lack of circumstances. It’s really an honor to meet you. Sir Charlotte.”
“It is an honor for me. First of all, it looks like you hurt your feet a lot, so I’ll take off my socks first.”
“Oh, no. I can take it off.”
Morgotte tried to take her socks off before Charlotte could burn her hands, but her belly fat prevented her from reaching her.
About the time the whimper was about to take off his socks, Charlotte knelt down on one knee and took off Morgotte’s socks.
The soles of Morgoth’s feet were bleeding as if they had been torn by something sharp.
“Ugh…”
Aside from the pain, Morgoth’s face flushed red from shame.
Either way, Charlotte saw Morgotte’s wounds.
“········The condition is more serious than expected.”
If you look closely, you can see not only the soles of the feet, but also the big toenails.
If there was a potion, it seemed impossible to heal wounds with common ointments or bandages.
Then, Irene and the stable keeper came in.
“There was no potion.”
“I can’t help it. it’s okay.”
Potions are said to have begun to be mass-produced recently, but they were not cheap enough to even come to such a shabby stable.
The stable keeper said as he put the old boots next to Charlotte.
“Then I’ll go upstairs for a while.”
“thank you.”
The stable keeper seemed to have a pretty good eye.
When the stable keeper left his seat, Charlotte began to heal Morgotte’s wounds in earnest.
Wash the wound with clean water and wipe with gauze.
Of course, it was the first time Charlotte had tried to heal someone’s wounds, but slowly recalling what she had learned from the Golden Knights, she began to put on bandages.
“It’s a little strange to ask this now, but why were you being pursued by the Paladins?”
“Weren’t you aware of that?”
“no. We do not know at all.”
Morgoth said absurdly.
“Then why did you help me?”
“I came here because I believed in Rakan.”
“If it’s Rakan…”
“Isn’t there a friend who escaped from the Celtic Hotel with Prince Morgot? I’m talking about that person.”
“Oh, I see. He seemed to be an unusual person.”
Morgoth thought for a moment and then opened his mouth.
“Then you mean you don’t know any escape routes or contact points?”
“I’m sorry, but yes.”
Morgotte sighed involuntarily with a complicated mind and washed his face dry.
“······sorry. Without realizing it, I let out a sigh.”
“no. it’s okay.”
‘······It is not like a real prince.’
I hurt my foot, so I hope you can heal your foot and go.
My stamina has gone down, so I want you to rest.
Although it is likely that he will speak of these difficulties at least once, Morgot did not open his mouth until his feet reached this point.
Rather than simply protecting the prince’s dignity, he seemed to be watching Charlotte.
‘I’m pretty depressed.’
I don’t know if Morgotte was originally this timid personality, or if he was changed to be timid due to external factors, but it was clear that this kind of personality was not common in the aristocratic world.
Morgoth opened her mouth carefully, as if she had organized her thoughts.
“I recently requested asylum from the Lucet Empire.”
Morgoth briefly described his situation as if complaining.
Morgoth is 7 years older than the first prince, Prince Matthew.
Usually, in this case, Morgoth poses little threat to the throne, since Prince Matthew is already well positioned to ascend to the throne.
In addition, Morgoth had repeatedly stated that he had no intention of ascending the throne in an official position, so he had no power to threaten Prince Matthew.
However, Prince Matthew began to kill Morgoth as soon as his mother died.
“Some of the nobles I was close with started leaving me first. After that, the knights who shared the sword with me left, and the nanny and servants who have been with me since I was born have also changed.”
Morgoth said, pointing to the scar on his neck.
“The assassin even entered the bedroom.”
“Is it because of the succession issue?”
“That’s the most likely reason, but I don’t know. My presence in the Kingdom of Gillion is almost like air, so it’s not a threat…”
Morgotte would rather think that Prince Matthew’s outright killing was due to the succession to the throne.
However, Prince Matthew rolled up Morgoth to death as if he was playing with a toy.
It’s like an ant that swims ashore and keeps drowning it in deep water.
“So you asked for asylum?”
“Otherwise I thought I would hang myself before I die by the assassin. I don’t want to live this hellish life anymore.”
‘…’
Morgotte is trying to asylum because he can’t win the assassination attempt of his older brother and next king, Prince Matthew.
As soon as this is known to the press, Prince Matthew will be embroiled in a major political scandal and will be quite troubled.
And even worse, the faces of Charlotte, Irene, and Linia were known to them.
If the Kingdom of Gillion officially protested over this issue, it would be very difficult.
“······sorry. to get involved in this.”
“no. Because this is my choice. We will help you through to the end.”
Morgoth shook his head.
“no. Are you completely unrelated to this? If you stop here, you might end up saving a police officer who was ambushed by a gangster.”
Morgoth was right.
Morgoth and Rakan were wearing police uniforms with their makeup on, and the Paladins were all in plain clothes.
If they did not know about it, the three of them wouldn’t have much trouble.
“No, though….”
“There are personal problems with Sir Charlotte, but shouldn’t you also consider the honor of Sir Tigris and the Friharden family?”
When I mentioned Tigris and the family, the faces of the three men hardened in an instant.
The three are not just knights.
Linia is Tigris’ younger sister, and Charlotte and Irene are Tigris’ pupils and the only heirs of a family.
Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, the scandal will not be avoided.
Although it is a problem that his reputation is being damaged, he did not come up with any words of help as if he was standing with the thought that it would damage the honor of Tigris and his family.
Morgotte looked at Charlotte’s hard expression and stood up with a smirk.
“Thank you so much for helping me so far. It would be nice if we broke up here.”
“·················ogue.”
Charlotte had a complicated head.
It is right to help Morgoth. .
But if doing the right thing puts a strain on the house of Tigris and Friharden, nothing will be more tolerable than that.
Charlotte’s hands trembled from an unbearable helplessness.
“Then I will go. Thank you so much so far.”
Morgoth limped and left the stable.
Charlotte and the three of them couldn’t do anything other than stare blankly at Morgot as they left.
* * *
Irene sat down and ruffled her hair.
“······shit.”
After the duel with Roy, Irene had vowed never to do anything that would embarrass Tigris.
So, if he did what he wanted to and did damage to Tigris, he couldn’t possibly see Tigris’ face.
It was the same with Linia.
Linia had a very good relationship with Tigris now.
Unlike a year ago, Tigris was a good older brother, a noble who would serve as an example, and a wonderful knight and teacher.
If Tigris was greatly disappointed by Linia’s immature behavior and returned to Tigris a year ago, it seemed that he would not be able to withstand it.
Charlotte opened her mouth while washing her face dry.
“······· I think we know what is different from Master. We cannot take responsibility for the decisions we make.”
This is especially true of this Morgoth case.
It is not simply to save a man, but it can lead to severe conflict between countries.
This was not something that Charlotte, Irene, or Linia could be responsible for.
“What if Prince Morgot is captured by the Paladins?”
“…you will probably be taken back to your home country and executed. Because it’s not anyone else, the prince of Gillion tried to exile.”
Charlotte slapped the pitiful wall with her forehead.
The person I kept thinking of in this situation was Tigris.
“If you were a teacher, what would you have done?”
After a long silence, Linia opened her mouth.
“You must have helped.”
“why?”
“Because you are who you are.”
Charlotte closed her eyes and remembered the day.
Thousands of monsters coming.
The monsters flocked to the heavens and earth, and Charlotte could not even stand properly because of the sound of the earth they had created.
However, there were 31 knights and 45 men who stood in their way.
– Go! We’ll stop here!
They knew they were going to die.
Their faces were smiling, but their hands were shaking.
However, he was willing to give up his life to save 13 children, 8 elderly people, and 3 pregnant women, including Charlotte.
Did they not have wives?
Which parents do you need to bring?
Golden children?
They were all fathers with a family to take care of.
Why did they sacrifice themselves?
Because that’s chivalry.
Because that’s the right thing to do.
Charlotte opened her eyes.
“I will go.”
to do the right thing. To be proud of yourself without looking at other people’s eyes.
Because that’s why Charlotte decided to become a knight.
“If I stop here, I think I will stop again for the same reason.”
Even if I was excommunicated by Tigris because of this.
Even if Gaheon’s knights come to Charlotte and ask about Gaheon’s qualifications because of this incident.
To do the right thing today, Charlotte decided to raise her sword.