6. Please Live Quietly (5)
Siwoo calmly explained the situation in front of the screaming people.
How the balance of power in the kingdom has changed due to Ensis, and even how the king is targeting the Anima family to protect his throne.
Every time Siwoo finished a sentence, he continued to criticize the kingdom. Those from other countries were relatively restrained in their words and actions, but even they did not hide their anger.
However, among those people, there were also those who were deep in thought and remained silent.
He realized that there was something Siwoo intentionally left unsaid.
One of those who had remained silent, Ankora, asked with a somewhat confused look.
“I understood what Ensis said. However… It’s a little strange. How dare the kingdom dare to mess with the Sword Master? Unless Ensis has lost his power… “
Ankora could not finish her sentence and her complexion turned pale. The hypothesis she said without thinking was that scary and should not have happened.
The state is not something that can never be lost. Moreover, aren’t all the Ensis’s limbs that are visible now in good condition? This is ridiculous. How has Nsis lived so far? There’s no way something like that could happen to someone like that.
One word that Ankora earnestly utters with all her heart.
“… No way?”
She looked at Siwoo with trembling eyes. I hope that Si-woo will smile without any hesitation, and that the king is just getting old and senile and trying to start a fight that he can’t win.
However, Siwoo did not respond to those expectations.
“Yes, that’s right.”
And one breath.
“I am no longer a sword master.”
The moment I heard that short confession.
No one who set foot on the earth dared to open their mouth. They looked up blankly at Si-woo, who stood on the podium, weighed down by words they could not bear.
The setting red sky behind Si-woo looked as if the sky had depicted a downfall, and in the silence that followed, engulfed in an unbearable panic, only long shadows fluttered like flames.
In that quiet chaos, only Siwoo was at peace.
“To be exact, I stopped being a sword master three years ago. Still, if you lasted 3 years without getting caught, you would have lasted quite a long time. “Isn’t that right?”
“That… Run…”
Angora clutched her chest and swayed. There was no change in her expression, but beyond the incontinence that broke and continued from moment to moment, there was despair at the loss of the whole world.
It was only after Siwoo saw that that he understood the meaning of Hastina’s expression on the first day of possession.
How much Ensis means to them.
“… What happened three years ago? Who, who on earth dared to do Ensis like that?”
Spear, the man who had been listening quietly, asked a question.
His burning eyes dripped with murderousness, as if he could tear someone to death at any moment.
In the face of such a life that could have made him feel intimidated at any moment, Siwoo calmly accepted the words.
“hahahaha, someone didn’t make me like this. “I gave up on myself.”
“Why… “
“New“Because I saw the path.”
With those words, Siwoo pulled out the sword he was wearing.
At this moment, what Siwoo was trying to demonstrate was the swordsmanship that SF Siwoo had taught him three days ago.
It developed endlessly for billions of years, eventually attempting to bring down even the power of God to the realm of science.
However, it is a masterpiece of the universe that brings together the brilliant history of a civilization that was destined to be destroyed due to that attempt.
Dīvínĭtas.
A sword master from another world commented on the swordsmanship that was called ‘perfect’.
The swordsmanship itself is already equivalent to being a ‘master’.
The peak master from another world paid his respects and praised:
It was an honor to be able to observe the Heavenly Arms.
The constellations of other worlds were jealous like this.
That is too much swordsmanship for a mere mortal.
“Ah… Ah…”
Just once.
Siwoo swung the only sword he had learned in a week. The sword was precisely fitted to Siwoo’s body, optimized under SF Siwoo’s guidance.
The power of the sword strike itself was not great. Siwoo was just a beginner at becoming a sword user, so most of the thousand people gathered here could easily defeat him.
But still. Everyone felt it.
I felt with my whole body the supreme history contained in swordsmanship and how great a state it would reach when it progresses to the end.
To make a thousand people understand, that was enough.
“… So. I can’t go back to being a sword master. So, I hope you can help.”
Siwoo said that and put his sword back into its sheath.
Seeing the eyes of the people following the sword, Siwoo made a leisurely request.
“I am not seeking revenge. I don’t want to make a fuss or get anyone hurt. So just help me live quietly. Please.”
After finishing his sentence, Siwoo slightly lowered his head and came back into the house. The gathered people stood in shock for a long time and then left the mansion one by one.
With Siwoo’s request engraved in his head and heart.
Seeing that, Siwoo smiled proudly, saying that everything had worked out as he had planned, and Hastina shook her head.
And a few days later. The day when the thousand people that Siwoo had gathered returned to their respective places.
There was chaos all over the world.
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The first person to speak out was the young king of a minor kingdom.
He, who was famous for passionately admiring Ensis, poured out harsh criticism without any diplomatic rhetoric, saying that those who do not know grace are no different from animals.
At first, not everyone viewed the statement favorably. The content itself was refreshing, as if it was scratching an itch, but talking about other countries’ affairs seemed close to interference in internal affairs.
The fact that the credibility of the statement itself was not high also contributed to that reaction. Only about a thousand people who responded to the invitation heard directly from Ensis, so for everyone else, it was the first time that the Anima family was being targeted by the royal family.
But the next day. Next to AnimaAs the ‘Aryan family,’ a prestigious family with a long history, maintained its opposition in a relatively moderate but firm tone, public opinion gradually began to move.
A suspicion that maybe it’s true. Gossip that attracts people’s attention even more. Public sentiment solidly supports NSIS.
With the three of them together, the rumor grew like a snowball and spread like wildfire.
On the third day, 72 small and medium-sized noble families came together and expressed their timid regret. Compared to the weight of the issue, the rhetoric used was as light as a feather, but their solidarity and implied meaning were by no means light.
At this time, the royal family recognized the seriousness of the situation for the first time, but they still underestimated the seriousness of the situation.
On the fourth day, the story of Anima was discussed in the mouths of nobles from many countries. The attitude they took was like that of bystanders to a major incident, but the rumors and interest that spread due to their bystanderness played a big role in causing the incident to snowball like a snowball.
On the fifth day, a statement was made in the ivory tower where the best minds gathered. The statement explained in detail how helpful the Anima family and Ensis had been to the kingdom, and how much of a loss it would be to the kingdom if they were kicked out.
They even indirectly mocked the current king by comparing it to the history of power-crazed kings ruling. In normal times, they would have dared to ask for the crime of taunting the royal family, but the situation was already too big to catch them.
The royal family ultimately had no choice but to watch as academic journals published by the Ivory Tower spread around the world.
On the sixth day, voices of criticism erupted simultaneously from the royal houses and noble families of several kingdoms. As if they had made a concerted effort, they came together to defend Ensis and Anima, condemned the royal family, and declared that if Ensis was harmed, they would personally protect it.
Their intention was not only for Nsis. Those who try to cover up domestic incidents with bigger topics, those who try to cover up their own shortcomings by finding fault with those abroad, those who try to rally internally through public enemies, those who try to reorganize the framework of national power, and those who seek to protect the loyalty of their close associates. Even those who try to elevate them. Rather, they sided with the Anima through political engineering.
However, such intentions were soon disguised under the justification of morality and justice, and this greatly moved the continent.
Finally, on the seventh day, even the emperor and the pope expressed concern.
“So, what brings you home now?”
“It is said to be a gift sent by the Emperor of the Empire to comfort Siu.”
“No, what kind of gift scale is…”
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Siwoo looked bored and listened to the ‘gift’ sent by the emperor.
The identity of the gift was very simple. A sword with a flickering light on the ink-colored blade that seems to contain the universe, and a brilliant scabbard to sheath it.
The problem was that both the sword and the scabbard were made entirely of adamantium.
Considering that the unit in which adamantium is mainly traded is carats, not kilograms or grams, and even that is called value.
What Siu was holding in his hands right now was a weapon worth as much as the annual budget of a decent kingdom.
“Is this what the empire is like? “If I generously give gifts like this, will there be any financial problems?”
“What… It is said that up to 30% of the world’s gold is stored in the imperial palace’s underground vault.”
“No matter what, it’s not like a pearl necklace on a pig’s neck…” … It looks like a single sword user will be holding an adamantium sword..”
Siwoo carefully put down the adamantium sword because he was afraid that the sword would be damaged even a little. I knew in my head that perfectly processed adamantium could withstand even the full power of a sword master, but putting that into action was another matter.
As Siu moved gently, repackaged the sword and sheath, and sighed, Hastina said as if throwing it away.
“Of course, it may not be a gift with truly pure intentions.”
“That’s right. “Among the people I called, there were quite a few people from the empire.”
Perhaps the emperor accurately recognized the potential inherent in Siu’s swordsmanship. And this gift was likely sent in the name of consolation in order to promote a future relationship in which its potential would fully blossom.
In fact, other than the emperor, there were quite a few powerful people who sent ‘gifts’ to Siu in this way.
However, its scale is not as overwhelming as the emperor.
Siwoo opened a few more presents and lamented from exhaustion.
“This wasn’t what I wanted…”
“Then what was it?”
“It’s simple. Mutually assured destruction.”
Siu’s plan was simply to show that even though Ensis was not a sword master, he still had the power to destroy the kingdom.
In the first place, the cause of the incident was Siwoo’s possession and loss of the sword master’s power, so he thought that if he showed a means to make up for it, it would naturally become something that never happened.
After that, I thought that we could live quietly, respecting each other and being careful…
“That could work really well. Most of the guests would have understood ‘Please help me live quietly’ to mean ‘Sweet everything so there is no noise around me.'”
“I also said I definitely didn’t want retaliation.”
“This is not revenge. In fact, I don’t think a single member of the royal family was actually injured.”
“Isn’t it retaliation if there is no direct harm?”
“Isn’t it inevitable that anyone will interpret it that way? They invite famous people from all over the world and tell them that they have been harmed and ask for help, but they do not want revenge… “You’re asking me to openly wage a war on public opinion, right?”
“No…”
Siwoo took care of his troubles. He regretted that if he had known this would happen, he should have gotten confirmation from Woo or Si-Woo, the speaker, and he sighed every time he saw an editorial related to him published in a newspaper.
However, Hastina, who had been closely watching the past few days and knew a bit about the situation, looked at Siwoo as if he were dumbfounded.
“Did you show me ‘such swordsmanship’ in the first place and then expect me to be quiet? “Isn’t that too conscienceless?”
“Still, there had to be an excuse as to why I lost my master’s status…”
“Isn’t the fact that swordsmanship is so great that one would give up the level of mastery itself is a huge topic of discussion?”
“I see…”
Siwoo weakly agreed and lay down on the bed. Then, the place where Si-woo was lying caved in, and a pile of presents on the bed tumbled towards Si-woo.
Siwoo was half buried in them and lamented.
“Ahh- why isn’t anything working…?” … “I just wanted to live quietly.”
“Well, that’s true. At this point, the world is not willing to leave Siwoo alone.“I don’t think it was planned-”
Deeng-
As soon as the auspicious sound of the bell was heard, the expressions on the faces of the two people who were leisurely talking suddenly hardened.
That was because it was the sound of a royal family, coming only from a bell made of adamantium, a body made of pure gold, and a bell decorated with mithril and diamonds using all its acoustic capabilities.
What the bell meant was clear.
“… Hastina.”
“Yes, I will prepare.”
The king came to visit.
Without even sending an agent, directly.