Fight of fate (2)
“… Don’t come any closer from there.”
Contrary to the exclamation of excitement as they pulled out their hammers, they did not feel any strength in their bodies.
The physical wounds and fatigue were severe, but beyond that, they were already reaching their limit in terms of mentality due to what the owner, who had no doubt believed to be the strongest so far, suffered.
He wore an academy uniform with the intention of letting people know that this is not an enemy, but he seems to have increased his vigilance because he was covered in blood.
“Jessica, Go!!”
In that state, they wouldn’t listen to anything I said, so when I called Jessica, their eyes began to widen.
“Everyone, be safe! This man has great mental deficiencies, but he is not an enemy!!”
“Miss Jessica… .”
It seems that they secretly cursed me, but anyway, the guards of the knights were lifted when Jessica, the only daughter of the family, appeared.
The boundaries were so relaxed that some of them slumped to the ground in relief.
While everyone loosened their guard and put down their hammers, a knight cautiously approached Jessica.
As he took off his helmet, Jessica’s expression began to contort for a moment, and tears welled up in Jessica’s eyes.
‘ah… . I see.’
Jessica’s expression, blonde hair and blue eyes like Jessica, the moment she saw it, she seemed to know who the knight was without having to say it.
Eventually, as if telling me that my prediction was correct, Jessica ran to the man and held her in her wounded arms and said quietly.
“Brother… !!”
“… … Jessica, you worked really hard to get here. But why are you here, who should be at the academy? No, how did you get here?”
Jessica, who fell from her brother’s arms and wiped the tears from her eyes with her sleeve, pointed at me and said.
“With his help, I was able to get here. Brother, this is Count Ian Ba Tow. Ms. Hori is behind me, an academy student like me.”
Jessica’s older brother, who heard my name, was startled by Hori’s bow, and immediately turned into a moved expression.
Then he came to me, clasped his hand, and said with a face that looked like he was about to cry.
“You have been very welcome… !! I thought it would take a few more weeks for reinforcements to come to the royal family, but I never thought it would come so soon. On behalf of my father, who is lying in the hospital, I thank him… .”
“Wait, I think you are misunderstanding something. It is true that I came here to help, but I did not come under the orders of the royal family.”
“No… ? Then why… .”
“There are my estates around here too. Jessica said she wanted to go. And above all… .”
There is a guy in this territory that I must kill with my own hands.
I had to come here to break this tough ties that have been passed down from Earth.
Jessica’s older brother nodded his head with a bewildered expression, whether he understood it or not.
“I don’t know the situation, but… .”
“ha… . Brother, half of the words that come out of this man’s mouth are nonsense, so it’s wise to just listen with one ear and let it go.”
“uh? that, is it?”
I don’t know why, but when Jessica spoke as usual, Jessica’s brother looked very surprised.
“By the way, brother, how about your father? I heard that you are in a very serious condition, but… .”
“do not worry. He was in critical condition as you said, but he overcame the hurdle and came to his senses. Now, let’s not do this here, let’s go see each other.”
When Jessica and her brother went to the shabby hut, I followed.
Hori seemed a little hesitant as to whether she could go to such a place, but it was also a little bit like being alone here, so she followed me behind the scenes.
The first thing that caught my eye as the door opened with a rustling sound of the hinges was the dust on the floor.
This cabin, which looked like an abandoned wasteland on the outside, was not an appropriate environment for patients to exist.
As we entered the creaky floor, we were greeted by a middle-aged woman who looked very much like Jessica and a man with a haggard expression with a stern beard under her nose.
“mother!! father!!”
When Jessica went inside first, Jessica shouted that, and the mother gave a surprised expression, while the father made a dissatisfied expression on the other hand.
At first I thought it was just a very tired expression, but the frown and clenched fist was a clear expression of anger.
“Jessica!!”
Count vongrind said in a solemn voice as the mother and daughter hugged for a touching reunion.
“… … Jessica. Why do you call me father? He told me how to call me so that my ears were scabbed over.”
Jessica’s body shuddered at the unexpected rebuke.
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Maybe it’s because I’m a great aristocrat, so in the presence of outsiders like me, do I make them call me Count or Headmaster instead of Father?
As I looked at Jessica with such thoughts in mind, my eyes met with Jessica, who was glancing at me.
For some reason, Jessica continued to glance at me as if she was looking at me, and after a while, she coughed and spoke to the Count again.
“Uhhhh… . I was so happy to see you again, I forgot about it for a while. that… Papa, Papa… .”
For a moment, I wanted to hear something wrong, but seeing the count’s expression of satisfaction, it doesn’t seem like I heard it wrong.
Seeing Jessica’s older brother and mother shaking their heads as if they were used to it, it seemed that this was the daily life of this house.
“… … … What’s this?”
At that word that came out unintentionally, the eyes of the people gathered in this narrow hut focused on me.
When Jessica’s mother gently grabbed Jessica’s hand and asked a question, her brother spoke instead of Jessica.
“This is Count Ian Ba Tow. It is said that he and Jessica moved from the academy to here to subdue Baek Jeong-nam.”
“Well, it was. Nice to meet you, your name is familiar to me.”
With that said, the Count asked for a handshake, and after a moment’s hesitation, I took his hand.
“Well, you are Count vongrind. Nice to meet you like this.”
As soon as I said those words, it felt as if the cold air that was above when Marina had deployed her magic had engulfed the hut.
Even though they are the same count, there was a very large wall between the Fongrid family, which had maintained their position for more than several hundred years, and the fast-rising Tou family.
“I tried to make a joke to lighten the mood, but it seems to have failed.”
“Jokes, jokes… . Well, it could be. Anyway, thank you for coming here.”
The Count had an expression on his face that he did not understand something, but he nodded his head saying he understood.
Even while shaking hands, I turned my head slightly to the sharp gaze that suddenly came from the side, and Jessica’s mother opened her axe’s eyes and was glaring at me.
It reminds me of the first time I met Jessica, and I feel very nostalgic.
Recently, Jessica listened with one ear to whatever I said, or just sighed, but it was really nice to see such a reaction after a long time.
“Now let’s talk about the problem we’re facing now. I heard that Baek Jeong-nam is now in the castle of the Fongrind family, is this correct?”
At those words, as I did before, my brother started to explain in place of Baek Jyeop, who was lying on the bed.
“As Gong Ian knows, the place where Baek Jeong-nam is currently located is our castle.”
The knights and soldiers were either at the hands of the gnome or evacuated by the Count’s orders, but the castle attendants were unfortunately unable to evacuate.
Fortunately, out of the misfortune, Baek Jeong-nam didn’t kill them because he needed someone to attend.
Entering the castle by itself is not even bringing barbarian soldiers, so it is easy to enter the castle, but the problem is that ninjas are guarding the castle now.
“Ninja? Did I say ninja now?”
“Yeah, I don’t know how he got to know ninjas, but as a result of spying, he was accompanied by several ninjas.”
However, it didn’t seem like a cooperative relationship, given his attitude toward ninjas and the fact that ninjas only stayed outside the castle, not inside.
“I don’t know what to say… The ninjas seemed to take orders from others to keep him and watch him at the same time.”
“… … I don’t know what the purpose is, but you’ll find out when you go.”
Having said that, when I got up from their seats, everyone looked at me in amazement.
“Ian Gong, are you going to go there alone right now? As I said before, strong ninjas surround the castle. Besides, if we don’t have to go alone, shouldn’t we all be able to subdue him together?”
“… … Jo Sen-jing’s neck is only meaningful when struck with a katana.”
“… Jo Sensei? what is that… ?”
As I was about to leave the hut behind Jessica’s embarrassed brother, the Count grabbed my shoulder and pulled me to his feet.
“What?”
The Count barely opened his mouth, panting as if he was out of breath just by getting up.
“I am really grateful that you took the initiative, but this is our family’s problem. You can’t leave it all to one person who is an outsider.”
“So, you mean that the Count will also come along?”
The Count nodded at my question, but just getting up from the bed made his breath and his legs tremble like this.
However, the Count’s eyes, with a very firm meaning, were not meant to be persuaded by words.
Reluctantly nodding my head, I put my fist into the Count’s stomach, who smiled softly.
“Big… !!”
In the midst of everyone’s astonishment, the Count, with his fist stuck in the wound, slowly fell onto the bed.
“It’s slow, even falling.”