EP.39 Imperial Social Gathering
Center of the continent.
An imperial Social Gathering that unfolds in the imperial palace.
It is an honor for the family just to participate.
Infinite opportunities open up just by participating.
This is the Imperial Social Gathering.
The seat of aristocrats leading the continent.
“Did a lot of your companions die while hunting the ogres? That’s so sad~”
There was a frivolous man who did not fit into such a noble place. A handsome man with gorgeous blonde hair and a contrasting copper skin tone.
The hero of the Kingdom of Alitia, Gis.
He sat cross-legged and ill-formed, picked a grape and put it in his mouth.
“It was a noble sacrifice. Their sacrifice will be recorded in history and passed on to future generations.”
Ironically, the man sitting opposite Gis was a man who got along well with the Imperial Social Gathering.
A handsome man with long long hair neatly arranged and exuding the atmosphere of a noble nobleman.
The Hero from the Kingdom of Carta, Lorian.
He took a sip of the tea in a neat posture.
“It’s a sacrifice… Kick, to wrap it up with good words. Well, let’s say that’s it. But these days, rumors say that your party is not recovering from the damage from the ogre subjugation… Do you think the rumors are true?”
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Gis said while looking at Lorian’s party members who were talking with other nobles.
They haven’t increased their party members since the Ogre War.
Like 5 people.
Eri is actually handling luggage, so there are only 4 people.
At Gis’s smirk, Lorian replied with a grin.
“I found out that day. That it is better to have a certain small group than to increase the number with a bunch of mediocre people.”
“How come you sound sarcastic to me?”
“I didn’t mean to, but that’s how you feel.”
“Damn, Lorian. As I have said many times, I hate the way you turn and talk like the sissy of your nobility bastards.”
“Then let me be straightforward. Do it in moderation. Rumor has it that your party already has more than 16 members. If you see a girl you like, do you take them all with you?”
“Actually, it has to be a good fit. I said that the woman I likes is all over the continent. I can’t carry them all, so I’ve made a compromise, right?”
Lorian frowned.
“Then let me ask you one thing. How many of your party members can actually participate in battle?”
“It’s a lot more than you think. Because everyone is more talented than you think. These b**ches behind me were all in the Hero Cloud’s party, weren’t they?”
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Gis pointed his thumb behind his back.
Behind him stood two beauties.
Neria, a beautiful girl with short blue hair and childhood friend of Cloud.
Ophelia, a beauty with golden blonde hair and emerald eyes, and former Cloud party nominee for saint.
Unlike other party members, they were not able to act freely.
At first, they had a different position from other party members in Gis.
For Gis, they were just trophies.
Lorian looked at the two women and sighed deeply.
“You say that after you erase the bruises on the back of their neck.”
“What?”
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Gis turned to his trophies. As Lorian said, there was a bruise on the back of Neria’s neck.
He furrowed his brow.
“Hey, Ophelia.”
“…Yes, warrior.”
“Did I clearly tell you to keep the exterior intact?”
“Sorry. I couldn’t see it because of the collar.”
“What if you didn’t see it? Could it be that your mistake wasn’t there? By the way, what if Lorian saw it, so what if other nobles saw it? I’m going to be known as an asshole abusing party members… Was that really what you were aiming for? Did you want to get revenge even if you were timid?”
“…Absolutely not. It was a mistake…”
“Shut up. Are you comfortable these days? Let’s go back today.”
Ophelia’s shoulders trembled. She lowered her eyes and nodded her head.
“Yes… Hero…”
“Isn’t that too harsh on them? You may not know men, but I know you were kind to women.”
“What’s a cut to b**ches who can’t even fuck?”
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Gis wrinkled his brow.
Lorian gave him an interesting expression.
“It’s not like you. I thought you were already playing around with them. To be honest, I was surprised that you were still carrying them. I thought you were going to throw them in the window somewhere.”
“Playing with the candidate of the saint and going to the window? Ha, am I crazy?”
“Isn’t it?”
“Gill. I have a head too. I have no intention of turning the church into an enemy.”
A saint must be a virgin.
If someone takes the virgin of a candidate saint before the next saint is decided, that person will be excommunicated and receive a punishment worthy of the sin.
“So, I will wait until the saint is decided. If only a saint is decided, then you can not look at the church.”
Candidates for saints who are not selected as saints are nothing more than just nuns. And if the church had to choose between a Hero and a nun, they would naturally raise the hand of the Heri.
“Okay. It is said that the reason why the candidate of the saint remains is for that reason, then that woman… still hasn’t achieved it?”
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Gis sighed deeply at Lorian’s words and scratched his head.
“Damn, I’ve been busy all this time. Do this from above, do that. How severe is the interference? tch.”
There was absolutely no time to look for the Cloud.
So he asked one of his supporters, his adoptive mother, Haley, to track him down… but was turned down.
Haley had also asked him not to get involved with Cloud for the time being, but it was something that could not be understood by Gis.
‘How fun it is to make fun of that bastard.’
No matter how much his adoptive mother, Haley, insisted, Gis had no intention of giving up on his own pleasure.
“So I have been looking forward to today. I’ve been missing for the past few months, but why doean’t he come to the Imperial Social Gathering anyway?”
Refusal to attend social gatherings without good reason is an insult to the Empire and the emperor who rules him.
Still, it is a Cloud that has no political foundation.
He doesn’t want to create silence anymore. It will probably come unconditionally.
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Gis giggled and whispered in Neria’s ear.
“Finally, the long-awaited day has come, Neria. The day you graduates from your virginity in front of your childhood friend.”
At Gis’ words, Neria could no longer pretend to be calm. Her eyes flutter like crazy. Her teeth clenched and clashed, and her body trembled in terror.
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Gis smiled brightly as he watched Neria tremble in the terrible future to come.
Like a child who received a toy as a gift from his parents.
Lorian was already tired of it, but this time he got tired of Gith even more.
Cloud’s expression deprived of the innocence of the person he loved right in front of his eyes.
Carrying them for months just to see one. As always, Gis’s obsession with twisted desires was abnormal.
“What? Look Neria. There is an audience here to watch your maiden plucked!”
Neria turned her head in the direction that Gis was pointing. The entrance to the Social Gathering. There, a handsome man in a black tailcoat entered.
An overwhelming appearance that stands out even in a Social Gathering where there are a lot of handsome men and women.
It was Cloud.
‘Cloud…’
Neria was moved to tears at the face of her childhood friend she had seen for the first time in a really long time. She wanted to run to him right away and say hello.
But she didn’t have the right or the power to do that.
All she was allowed to do was look at him from afar.
– Woongseongwoongseong.
As he walked in, the nobles began to murmur.
– Who is that person? Really handsome…
-Where is he from? Shall I talk after a while?
Some young girls attending the Social Gathering for the first time spoke admiringly about his appearance.
But most of the nobles put him down.
– Is he an incompetent warrior? He’s been hiding for months, what did he come up with here?
– An incompetent warrior? Why is his nickname incompetent warrior?
-Don’t you know? He’s only slick on the outside, he’s weak. Even though he’s a Hero. Maybe weaker than the new knight in my house?
– Hey, maybe. Anyway, he’s the brave.
– Really? It doesn’t matter where the low blood line goes.
– It’s of low blood… That’s right.
Some even raised their voices as if to listen openly.
Cloud didn’t care about their voices.
He just looked around once.
No one he looking for there.
Looks like she hasn’t come yet.
He let out a small sigh and sat down in a suitable place. After he received a drink from the attendant, he brought the dish and began to eat.
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Gis looked at him and smiled.
“Our hero is eating alone. He must be lonely. I’ll have to deal with him.”
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Gis walked towards Cloud with a smile on his face and sat down next to him. He patted him on the shoulder and said something.
Watching this, Lorian smiled.
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Gis’s behavior is a childish prank, but it’s different if the person being attacked is Cloud.
For Lorian, the scene where Cloud and Frilite were shoulder to shoulder was still clear in front of him.
‘She’s not a person to touch with those lowly hands.’
It would be nice to make you come to your senses properly at this point.
It was time for Lorian to think so.
Quang-! clink. Brilliant!
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Gis’s face was slammed into the table.
The plates on the table broke and made a loud noise.
Cloud raised his left hand that grabbed Gis’ hair.
The stupid expression of Gis, who did not understand the situation, was engraved in the eyes of the nobles.
Quang-!
His face fell on the table again.
Silence fell over the Social Gathering.
* * *
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Gis’s actions were no different from usual. He approached Cloud with a light-hearted attitude and mocked him. He draped his shoulders, obstructed his meal, and undermined his dignity.
If it’s the usual Cloud.
-Haha, are you choosing to do things without a mother? Do you want to show off that you’re an orphan like that?
It would have been accepted as because that would be more fun.
However, for that reason, the mood of Cloud right now was not very good.
Cloud grabbed the back of Gith’s head with his left hand and slammed it down to the table.
Quang-! clink. Brilliant!
Loud noise.
Apart from that, Gis did not understand the current situation for a while.
Cloud lifted his head.
The figure of the Social Gathering came back into Gis’s sight.
Astonishment, surprise, bewilderment.
The nobles were looking at themselves with such emotions.
Quang-!
It wasn’t until the second time he was hit in the head that Gis understood the situation.
The heat ran all the way to the top of his head.
‘This trash?!’
He doesn’t know what you’re thinking, but don’t make me regret it.
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Gis grabbed Cloud’s wrist, which was pressing down on his head.
He was trying to shake it off…
‘What kind of power is this kid..!?’
Couldn’t shake it off.
Ogre’s glyph.
Cloud that used it had a higher strength stat than Gis. Although it wasn’t a huge difference, it was enough for Cloud to subdue Gis.
‘What the hell is this..!’
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Gis groaned inwardly and swung his hand towards Cloud’s throat.
He doesn’t know what this trash did to make him stronger, but his vitals would be unavoidable. If Cloud in his throat stumbled, he was about to get out.
‘Give me a taste of hell.’
Don’t think it’ll end as fresh as last time.
However, such a promise could not come true.
The moment he saw his right hand wriggle, Cloud took his hand off Gis’s head and pulled himself back.
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Gith’s hand cleaved the air.
Before his blade could be retrieved again, Cloud grabbed Gith’s neck with his right hand. He used the power of his whole body as it was and threw the Gis to the ground.
Aww!!!
A different level of impact from when he was thrown on the table resounded in the Social Gathering president.
“Kuh..!”
The impact on Gis’s body was also different from when he was thrown on the table. He was shocked elsewhere, but it was felt the most in his head.
Mild concussion.
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Gis couldn’t stand up straight away, and that momentary moment was long enough for Cloud to get on top of him.
He smacked his stomach with his butt.
The elbows were fixed at the knees.
Leave no room for resistance.
In terms of the world of beasts, it’s like biting the neck.
The game was already over.
If it were someone else.
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Gis is a beast, if you consider it a viper.
Even if the neck is bitten, a piece of spleen remains. Gis rolled his tongue and pulled out the saliva he had hidden in his gums.
It’s not just saliva.
Basilisk poisoned and dried saliva.
Basilisk’s poison is so poisonous that it can only be used on enemies to kill.
Therefore, it was a poison that should never be used against a Hero like him, but he didn’t care about that for the current Gis.
He just have the thought of wanting to kill the Cloud in front of him.
He waited for the timing.
And the moment Cloud is about to slam his fist…
– Huh!
He spit in his face. Cloud’s face turned back.
‘It’s okay. This chewing, now slowly starts to be fired. ‘
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Gis’s face looking for a smile.
He soon succumbed to embarrassment.
The saliva he had spit was sandwiched between Cloud’s teeth as he lowered his head.
If Gis was a Salmosa, Cloud at this moment was a Honey Badger.
– Huh. brim, brim, brim.
The saliva that Cloud spit bounced off the marble floor. Gis watched the saliva bounce off his empty eyes, and Cloud even moved his fist.
What follows is unilateral violence by the strong.
The people at the Social Gathering, both you and me, were overwhelmed by the sight.
Cloud hits the Gis.
It was something no one could have imagined. The sense of reality never came.
Meanwhile, Neria came to her senses.
‘Oh, no..!’
It’s good for Cloud to hit a Giw.
But the Cloud has no political basis. There may be his own fault for that, but the most important thing right now is that there are too many eyes to see.
Those who saw it were, after all, high-ranking nobles of the Empire, and those who normally thought Cloud was not good enough.
What kind of aftermath will come to him when this situation is over…
Neria came up with a terrible idea and ran to Cloud.
“Cloud. I know you’re angry, but calm down. yes?”
Cloud did not stop despite her earnest voice.
“Cloud! Calm down!”
Neria grabbed Cloud’s body and tried to pull him away from Gith. But his body did not move. That was when she couldn’t do this or that and made her cry.
“What kind of fuss is this!!”
Cloud’s fists stood still at the loud shout that came from the entrance of the Social Gathering.
Person who was screaming through the nobles who had been watching the fight appeared.
“Your Gis again… Cloud…?”
The one who screamed was none other than Frillite.
Seeing her, Cloud looked around and greeted her with a smile.
“It’s been a while, Frillite?”