635 – 8. Will (9)
The door to the intensive care unit is broken and scattered. The fibers that exploded with the brute force scattered like mist and created a cloud of dust.
From beyond, someone was coming.
The sound of footsteps could be heard. I could tell just by its blurry outline.
What is the identity of that middle-aged man?
Wasn’t he one of those people all over the world respected and respected?
Imperial swordsmith.
He was one of only three masters on the continent, and an elder in the imperial family.
Everyone except me froze at his sudden appearance. I thought it would be because the swordsmith is an unpredictable person, but the rest seemed to have a hard time with the swordsmith.
The best swordsman on the continent didn’t even say a common greeting.
I just moved on and stood next to Iris, who was lying silently with a pale complexion.
It’s been a long time since Siene-senpai was startled and hurriedly left.
And silence.
Shien-do and Shiene-senpai also began to tremble, wondering what the swordsman would say. Or maybe the swordsman’s unconscious prayers made him choke.
The silence was broken after a while.
“Baby.”
“Yes, the old swordsman.”
At the title I’m used to, I quietly bowed my head and approached the swordsman. His face, peeking from the side, was unusually stiff.
After confirming this, I bit my lower lip.
What the hell is going on with Celine?
There is no existence that can stop the sword attack. Except for the saint of the holy kingdom and the great witch of the ten southern kingdoms, no one would have been able to avoid death before this sword.
“Did your childhood friend do it?”
Directly.
As if euphemism is the exclusive property of the weak, his questions were unrestrained and straightforward. I couldn’t speak for a while because I felt my heart tighten.
I had no choice but to lower my head and lick my lips.
“…… Not sure yet, but probably so.”
“I see.”
The swordsman left such a simple answer and remained silent for a while.
At the time I wondered if I would suffocate.
“Did I ever tell you before? All Masters are wearing shackles one by one.”
“Yes, maybe…” ….”
“My shackles are this child. No, all children of the imperial family are like that.”
I closed my eyes tightly.
The archwitch’s shackles were ‘vampires’. If so, doesn’t that mean that the swordsmith is courted by the bloodline of the imperial family, just as the great witch did to the vampire?
Nevertheless, I rolled my head as much as I could. A way to somehow preserve Celine’s life.
No, if you ask me for a chance.
People don’t know anyway. How the future will go, how miserable and terrible the end will be.
It was the same with Celine.
Maybe others would say it’s impossible. But what about me?
I was thinking of these words one by one.
“Will you do it?”
To the point of collapse, I put on a bewildered expression at the hopes I quickly gained.
“…… Yes?”
“I mean, will you do it? The punishment of your childhood friend.”
“But, the swordsmith… ….”
“If you don’t want to, that’s fine. As a member of the imperial family, I want to avenge my niece and granddaughter more than anyone else.”
I had a hunch.
Ah, there is no time to worry.
The intention of the swordsman was not important. Right now, it was important for me to somehow secure an opportunity from the swordsman.
My answer was immediate.
“I will do it.”
Then the swordsman nodded heavily.
It was a person whose motives were not known at all. I can’t even understand why he suddenly entrusted me with the treatment of Celine.
It’s not that I’m not angry.
“Let’s talk about the rest separately. And, Shien.”
“Yes, four! Grandpa!”
The swordsman did not let go of his solemn expression despite Shien’s cute reply. Seeing the serious swordsman he hadn’t seen a few times in his life, Shien was so nervous that his teeth trembled.
The swordsmith’s business was simple.
“Iris’s role will be taken over by you for a while. As a representative of the imperial family, she will be active in the academy.”
There was a strange power in that heavy tone. The magic that makes the listener follow the meaning.
Above all, it was an offer with no reason to refuse.
It meant that the power of the influential heir to the throne could be used, at least temporarily. In addition, if Iris, who is in critical condition, does not wake up like this, Shien will naturally emerge as her successor.
It was a proposal that even I, who was ignorant of politics, felt unconventional. Siene-senpai also looked at the swordsman with a look of surprise.
To such an offer that was hard to refuse, the princess did.
“Eh.”
I just showed a strangely bored reaction.
The swordsmith’s forehead narrowed slightly.
“Why do you do that, Shien? Did you not like it?”
“Oh, no… that, that is. Ehehehe.”
Shien tried to overcome her crisis with a cute smile. Even though it was not even eaten by the swordsmith with a serious attitude.
Since he sensed the failure of his strategy, Shien’s expression soon turned into a tearful look.
“Wei, isn’t that dangerous?! Iris unnie was like that too… You want me to act as Iris’ unnie? Also, these days, I’m a little busy with the training the Archwitch told me to do… True, true I can borrow Sir Irene!”
I don’t need it.
While I managed to swallow the words that almost came out inadvertently, Shien began to plead with me with her last hope.
“Sir Ian! No no. Metabolic type! You know… How much the master rolls his disciples. I might be excommunicated for doing this?”
It was a remark made with a lot of awareness of the swordsman.
Learning the Archwitch’s vision was an important task for the imperial family as well. It would have been a disaster if Shien was at least excommunicated.
In fact, she doesn’t think the High Witch would ever excommunicate her apprentice.
I couldn’t just leave my juniors staring at me with their eyes shining. Soon, with a voice mixed with a sigh, I started shooting in support.
“Swordsmith, I am there anyway. For a while, senior Siene and I will play the representative role together.”
It was then.
The princess, who was pleased with my help, froze as it was.
“Hmm, yes, but… Are you all right, baby? Your burden must be heavy.”
“Yes, it is fine. Not alone. Isn’t that right, Siene-senpai?”
Senior Siene, who was called out of nowhere, suddenly came to his senses.
The woman, who had been flustered for a while, regained her composure after clearing her throat. Siene-senpai soon began to mobilize pretentious rhetoric.
“Of course, swordsmith… While the two of us are already working together through the night, please leave it to us.”
‘Collaboration through the night’?
hahahahaha, I stayed up all night waiting for Celine’s attack. Although the one who was actually attacked was the second princess.
I laughed and looked away. I wondered if Shien would have been satisfied with this.
But why?
Shien looked at me and Siene-senpai alternately with her pale complexion on. Seeing this, I tilted my head while the swordsman seemed to have made up his mind.
“Jeong, then there is nothing we can do about it. Because I don’t want to hurt her niece or granddaughter more… Then, for a while, just the two of us…….”
“I-I want to do it!”
A word he shouted while raising his small hand.
At her sudden change of heart, all the eyes of her audience turned to her. But Shien didn’t care, and she cried out with her arms raised.
“I’ll do it! That’s Iris’ unnie’s substitute!”
The swordsman tilted his head. It seemed that he also did not understand her granddaughter’s heart.
“But, just now, it was dangerous…… ?”
“How can a person born with the blood of a dragon talk only about his comfort? Duty is the fate of blood! Please leave it to me, great grandfather.”
And while doing so, he even smiled quite confidently.
Seeing Shien’s attitude changed in just a few seconds, my swordsman’s eyes met in the air. Of course, the trouble didn’t last long.
It was a decision made because Cien said he would not do it in the first place. She said she wanted to do it again for some reason, but she had no reason not to reverse her decision.
The swordsman nodded his head calmly.
“Do it.”
“That’s it!”
As she hurrahed, Shien put a smile on her face. Her motivated rants followed her.
“I won’t disappoint you, great-grandfather! No matter what happens, I’ll keep my composure and show you the bold attitude of a dragon’s blood!”
And after a while.
I followed the swordsman’s call and met the swordsman in a closed room with Shien.
The first words the swordsman spat there were as follows.
“Boy, you have only a month left to live… Maybe a month?”
I was speechless at the sudden bombshell remark. It was because I did not know that I would ask such a sensitive question casually.
My eyes hurriedly turned to Shien. And there, yes.
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Bright light gray eyes were looking at me. With a pale face.
I covered my face with both hands.