Knights of the Argent Dawn – 5
That evening, Iris and I prepared to go see the lord. Originally, I was planning to go tomorrow morning, but he sent a servant to tell me to come now.
Iris was wearing a white sleeveless top and dolphin pants, as she had always been, and I was wearing a plain cloth suit. It was really fortunate that men’s clothes did not change.
“You see? Never act on your own, and if he asks you a question, just shut up and be still. I will answer you on my own.”
“okay. How many times have you said that already?”
“I do this because it doesn’t go too far even if I repeat it like this. Keep in mind, you don’t know how he’ll treat you, or he might find fault with you. It means you must stay still.”
All the way to the manor house on horseback, Iris repeated her own advice over and over again. It was a meaningless advice.
If he was really determined and tried to find fault, advice like that would be useless, and above all, I knew a lot more about the lord.
The rest of the knight commanders, including Iris, were simply suffering from evil. However, I was an experienced person who had killed him in all kinds of ways while playing the game.
I couldn’t do it all the way here, since the next job would be very exhausting if I cut off the hair from the first meeting.
“It’s here.”
It had been some time since they rode into the center of the city, when Iris stopped talking in front of a grand mansion.
It was a mansion of an absurd size. It was much larger than the mansion in the game I remember, and I stared blankly at it, speechless for a moment.
Was it the setting that he still couldn’t throw away the vanity that he was the blood of the imperial family? Rather, it seemed to believe that it was the residence of the emperor.
‘Come to think of it, the emperor must be a woman too, right?’
In the NPC appearance retouching mode, the emperor was also a woman.
No, it would have been more accurate to just assume that most of the humanoid bosses in the appearance change mode have been replaced by women. Rather, it was to the extent that a boss whose gender remained male was even rarer.
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My head got complicated. Yes, it was probably a woman. I hope it’s not just that my personality has changed.
“Stop, stop!”
The knight standing in front of the door to the mansion checked us out and exclaimed nervously. It was a world apart from the way the guards guarding the entrance to the city were polite in their own way.
His posture was crooked, his face was full of annoyance, and his tone was brusque. In terms of skills alone, it seemed that a guy who would not be able to take a bite out of Iris trusted the lord and did that.
“Why did you come?”
The question popped up without even the slightest courtesy. Looking at me from the side, I was dumbfounded, but Iris spoke with a calm expression and tone, as if she was used to being treated like that.
“I came to report on the case of being sent to prison.”
“Oh yeah? then go in Leave your words alone.”
Now, instead of gesturing with his hand, he was pointing inside, telling him to enter.
Iris motioned me to hold on and got off the horse. I got off my horse in the same way and walked past the knight.
“Wait, who’s next to you?”
I thought I was just passing by, but this time, he pointed at me with his chin and asked a curt question.
“It’s a newcomer.”
“newcomer? Fuha, to get kicked out in another day? Are you incapable of learning?”
The knight giggled, and Iris silently tied the reins to the tree. I whispered in my ear as I crossed the garden and got so far that the knight couldn’t hear me.
“Is that normal?”
Even in the game, if you talk to the knights of the mansion in a situation where the story has not progressed for a while, you will usually get a rude and rude reply. But it wasn’t that serious.
“You should get used to it too. The longer you stay without being kicked out of our knights, the more you will hear things like that.”
Iris replied calmly. It wasn’t that irritation or anger wasn’t welling up, it was a tone close to resignation.
After that, until I entered the manor house and was told to wait in the parlor, I felt keenly how poorly the Knights of the Argent Dawn had been treated.
I don’t know what the hell it was, but it was definitely worse than in the game.
In the game, the servants looked down on the player, but it still felt like they were doing their part, but now it felt like they weren’t even playing the least part because they were looking down on us.
It must have been how long since I waited almost abandoned in the drawing room, and suddenly women in maid uniforms came pouring in and spread all sorts of refreshments on the empty table.
“The lord is coming.”
Of course, these were not for us, but refreshments for the lord who would come in from now on. What else are we picking up after leaving us alone for dinner?
Hearing someone come in, he raised his head, barely wanting to see his face.
‘… … Wow, god damn it.’
And, I was stunned by the far more heinous visuals than I thought.
As if it wasn’t enough to have gained weight all over the body, the fat came out all over the face, and not only did the features get buried in the flesh, but the whole body was so bloated that I wondered how the hell to walk with that body.
It was the first time in my life that I had seen a human whose body length and width looked almost the same.
He wanted to pay tribute to the fact that he had gotten up and walked in on his own two feet rather than rolling down the floor. Even though I walk around like that, my knee joint is fine?
‘I was fat in the game, but not to that extent.’
Yeongju waddled in, took a deep breath and sat down on the sofa. The seat was sunk all the way down. The first thing I did as soon as I sat down was to eat the snacks on the table.
After hearing the hissing sound for a long time, the lord opened his mouth with a long burp.
“Yes, are you back, Iris?”
“… … Yes, as you said, we inspected the prison.”
Even if it looked like that, Iris was using the highest honorific title for the lord. Although the face of the person who used respectful words was unusually distorted.
“Report.”
“All the humans in the prison, including the prisoner and guard, were attacked by monsters except for one. When I went, the situation had already taken place, so I had no time to use my hands.”
“Tsk, that’s why I told you to prepare well. I don’t know why you didn’t listen to me.”
well Wasn’t that monster lured by you?
Knowing the inside story of the situation, I snorted inwardly. There was no such thing as bullsh*t about pretending to be foresight after he ordered a human to lure a human butcher into the prison.
“Is that guy next to you the only survivor of the prison?”
Still, it seemed that the jjambab that he had been politicizing at the imperial palace was quite good. Iris nodded.
“That’s right.”
Yeongju seemed to be pondering something, then took a handful of cookies on the table and chewed on them, then looked at Iris and gestured for her to leave. Iris was greatly taken aback.
“You stay out, Iris.”
“Yes? But-“
“I told you to stay out. Are you going to disobey my orders?”
“… … .”
Iris looked at me with anxious eyes, but she couldn’t point. After chewing on his lips, he lowered his head roughly, closed the door, and went outside.
It was unexpected to be in this situation from the first meeting.
Well, from my point of view, it didn’t matter. It was because it was an event that had to go through at least once to eliminate the lord without any trouble.
In the game, you can have a private meeting with the lord from the third meeting, but if you slowed down the pace from the first meeting, I was rather grateful as I wanted to deal with that as quickly as possible.
When only the two of them were left, Young-joo arrogantly threw his arms over the back of the sofa and put his feet up on the table. It was a very disrespectful attitude towards me.
Well, from the lord’s point of view, since I was a prisoner, I would think that such behavior was natural. Would a guy who looked down on even the captain of the knights care about a mere prisoner?
In fact, considering the fact that the personalities of the humans in the mansion as a whole have changed far more than they did in the game, it wasn’t strange that he had crossed the line a long time ago.
“Hey, you.”
“Yes, lord.”
“Did you say you were imprisoned?”
“That’s right.”
“You barely survived meeting Iris?”
“That too.”
“Did you ever have trouble with that knights in the middle, or did you ever fight with one of the knight commanders?”
“There is not.”
Thinking about the options that appeared in the game, I chose only the answers that the lord would suggest to me. Yeongju nodded knowingly, and thought about something for a while.
“Why were you imprisoned?”
right.
I laughed inwardly when I confirmed that I was asking the expected question. It seemed like things would work out pretty well.
“Why were you locked up in such a place? It won’t be much different from what the lord thinks.”
“Hmm, yes, I mean… … .”
I deliberately smiled as meanly as possible.
If we had come this far, we could see that the digging of the grave was almost done. Now, prepare the burial goods to put in it, and let this guy see it and walk into the tomb, and that’s it.
The lord, who was lost in thought for a long time, finally opened his mouth.
“Are you interested in girls?”