Chapter 253. Jealousy (1)
My eyes flashed open.
I felt it in that moment.
f*cked.
“Damn it… How many hours did I sleep?”
“I don’t know.”
Looking to her side, Celica was sitting with her arms crossed and talking curtly.
Okay. There is no reason for Celica to wake me up.
I sighed and got up from the bed.
Seeing as no one came to wake me up, it seemed that nothing was urgent.
“I thought about it while you slept.”
“Really? Good job.”
What Celica was thinking was none of my business.
Since Celica’s intentions will not be reflected in what will happen in the future.
I put the longsword leaning against the wall on my right waist and trimmed my clothes.
“No, don’t listen casually…”
“Tell me. I’ll listen to everything.”
“You intend to go to war.”
“Hah. War? With you elves? Then you would have brought an army.”
“No. With Mine.”
“·······.”
For a moment, I wondered if I had heard it wrong.
Pretending not to be embarrassed, I secretly checked Celica’s eyes.
Serica’s eyes were firm.
It was never something to float.
She was asking me with confidence.
“How on earth did you come to such an absurd conclusion?”
“It’s simple. You pretend to naturally intervene in the conflict, and you’re attracting allies one by one. You jumped in to quell a rebellion in the south and brought the Great Forest to the Empire’s side.”
“And.”
“And I don’t know how he did it, but he assassinated the emperor of the Freya Empire and roasted and boiled the new emperor to obtain a tremendous office.”
“That’s an interesting conspiracy theory.”
“Also, warlords rebellion and coup d’état in the kingdom probably had something to do with it. Taking control of the intelligence agency or something, instigated the rebellion so that the kingdom of Trude could not help but depend on the empire. You are here. I came here to enlist the elves as allies.”
The right words and the wrong words were jumbled together.
But since it was mostly true, I was a little surprised by Celica’s guess.
Because they matched so well that they didn’t hit each other at will…
“What are you trying to do by uniting all of humanity like that? It’s obvious. A war against non-humans. A war against demons.”
“Wrong.”
“Yes, yes. You would deny it. Of course-“
“What’s wrong is that I’m trying to start a war. The war has already started.”
“What, what?”
“The empire has already been attacked by demons. When will the desert be attacked?”
“Wait a minute. Now-“
“Something urgent has happened. I have to go now.”
I opened the barred door behind Celica, who had eyes like those of a surprised rabbit.
When the door slammed shut, Celica ran and clung to the barbed wire.
“I think I can help you.”
“Thank you so much, I’ll take your heart.”
“No, I’m not joking! Seriously! I can help the elves stand on the side of the humans!”
“Let’s think about it. Rest in peace.”
“Dogs…! They don’t even listen to me!”
It was very tempting.
Although Celica is the princess of a ruined country, she has no foundation, property or anything, but her voice is quite loud.
It wouldn’t be difficult for her to conclude positive pacts with her tribal chiefs if Celica actively helped her.
But that was later.
For now, I decided to give Celica more time to think about it, and then I left the room.
“Your Excellency. Are you here…”
“Yes.”
When I came out, the guards were gathered in front of the door.
However, it felt strange that everyone was avoiding eye contact with me.
“Your Excellency. The top button of the shirt…
“Ah. Thank you.”
I was able to figure it out thanks to one of the guards clearing his throat.
But why is everyone doing this outside without entering the room and standing guard?
What if Celica had a different opinion of her and pulled out her sword and cut my throat…?
I really didn’t like the workmanship of these guys.
-Schlus!
At that time, Erica’s voice flowed through the communication magic.
It was a raw communication without encryption.
It seemed that something very urgent had happened.
-There’s a fight between Trier and Hurt Locker!
“What…?”
Why me fighting those two?
At the moment I wondered if I was mistaken for sparring-
“Oh.”
I let out a sigh when I thought of a place where the two would fight.
It’s a big deal.
Hurlocker looks dead.
***
“That’s why I came to the desert to meet my old master. From then on, I devoted myself to training for four weeks.”
“I was in the desert frontier for research… I might have encountered this at least once.”
“That’s right.”
Sitting across from Trier, Hutlocker gulped down an entire bottle of beer.
It was after I had just finished sparring with Trier at the stadium.
There were only 5 rounds, but after the 4th round was overwhelmingly smashed, we managed to win the last round.
“It’s unfortunate…”
Speaking anything, Hurtlocker tried hard to hide his embarrassment.
At first, he didn’t believe at all that this well-armed woman was an escort for Schluss Heinkel.
She thought it was either a wizard disguised as a knight or Schullus’s lover.
Because the other side asked for sparring first, I expected it to be as good as a low-ranking knight with an assortment of skills…
The last bout he managed to win was, in fact, just a fluke.
Using the rule of winning if only the first hit succeeds, regardless of the strength, he succeeded in hitting a blow that would have only left a residual wound in a real fight.
The fact that he had given five rounds to a woman he had been ignoring made Hurt Locker feel like he wanted to get up and run away right away.
“When did you first catch the sword?”
“Hmm? About 5 years old? No, maybe 6 years old? Around that time. How about that?”
“Around the age of 10. Since participating in the war.”
“Oh.”
When the sensitive subject was brought up, Trier realized he had made a mistake and let out a sigh.
Heart Locker was a spy from the Royal Army.
He was Triae who had forgotten about it for a while.
“Sorry. I said something stupid.”
“No. It’s a nonsensical story now. It’s just that the Trude kingdom at the time was in such a hurry that even talented boys had to be dragged to the battlefield.”
“Do you mind if I ask you some more questions? What happened on the battlefield…”
“Of course.”
I was curious.
What happened on the battlefield that was said to be like a gutter?
If even his father, who was called an incomparable genius, lost his life, how cruel was the war?
I wanted to hear it from the mouth of the child soldier who fought on the other side.
“I wasn’t a combatant at first. It’s only natural. No matter how sh*tty a country is, no way would they send their children to the battlefield as arrowheads. I’m a common errand boy who carries luggage, caters to officers, and delivers messages between units. That day was no different than usual. The company I belonged to was a fairly elite unit with the name Siegfried. But the opponent was not good. It was a mage platoon that had just returned from the rear after being replenished.”
“So?”
“Exterminated. Everyone but me.”
“So you ran away?”
“No. I moved on, decapitated the enemy commander and disintegrated the enemy troops.”
“·······.”
I heard later that the commander of the unit was the Count of Lichtenburg.
Of course, Hurtlocker wasn’t rash enough to mention the name when the daughter of the Countess of Lichtenburg was here.
“It turns out that I have a great talent for detecting magic waves. Utilizing that talent, I was assigned the mission of evading the wizard’s observation spell, breaking through the barrier, entering the enemy’s rear, and assassinating the enemy commander or wizard. Became.”
“Hmm. How many did you kill?”
“·······.”
“Ah, ah. Sorry. I said it wrong.”
“No, that’s fine. I haven’t counted them, but I’m sure there are at least 100.”
“100 People… Among them are there any memorable battles?”
“Do you really mind if I tell you?”
“Of course not.”
Hurlocker glanced at Trier.
No matter how much they say they are in solidarity with each other now, just a few years ago, the empire and the kingdom were at war with each other.
Even if they are enemies to me, they are allies to the other side.
But the listeners didn’t seem to care that much.
Hurlocker was relieved and opened his mouth.
“Once I met a man as strong as a monster in a snowy mountain.”
“Snow Mountain?”
“I don’t remember the location… Yes. It was a snowy mountain that was destroyed in a surprise attack after receiving intelligence from an unknown source that the empire’s supply was moving on a large scale. It was cut off and I was sent to investigate the situation.”
“Hmm…”
It was an explanation of the situation that was somehow familiar.
Trie started to concentrate on the story with a rather serious expression on her face.
“As it turned out, all of the fia had been wiped out. There really was nothing left. All the supplies had either fallen down the cliff or been burned, and there were no living people, just corpses buried in the snow. He was a tall, tall man with a long sword. Judging by his attire, he seemed to be a general.”
“Wow…”
“I must have been in distress for several days, my beard was gone, and I looked really tired and tired. I immediately thought it was an easy prey. But I was wrong. A bloody battle ensued, and I I poured all my strength and managed to put the dagger into the man’s chest. I wanted to remove the full medal from the chest, but I remember not being able to because the body fell down into the snow valley at the last moment.”
“Wait a minute.”
Trie’s eyes narrowed.
The supply corps was annihilated by a sudden surprise attack while marching.
And a general with medals on his chest who led that unit.
In addition, he has the fighting skills to fight a veteran assassin even if he has been in distress for several days.
No matter how you think about it, Trie resembled the end of someone he knew well.
“Do you remember the sword that man had?”
“A little bit.”
“What did you look like?”
“I don’t remember well… But it was certain that it was a good looking sword.”
“Has there ever been a jewel on the end of the handle?”
“Ah. It was definitely attached. It was a red jewel, but at some point it lost its luster.”
“·······.”
Trier’s clenched fist trembled.
Magic stone.
A gem that loses its light and color when the user loses their life.
It was the jewel hanging from my father’s sword, Judgment Day.
Among them, the red magic stone.
“Heart Locker.”
“What’s going on?”
Heart Locker’s body began to gain strength after noticing that Trier was not serious.
I was preparing to jump out and run away at any moment.
At that time, Trier’s hand moved smoothly around her waist.
“I haven’t given much thought to my father’s enemy? I’ve never really thought of taking revenge. But, by the way… But… It just appeared right in front of my eyes…. . . Is this very different from what you thought?”
“Trie-“
Quang!
Trie’s sword was drawn and rushed at Heart Locker.