150 – winter(4)
Why, why, did all happiness collapse in an instant?
Remembering the memories of the day the academy burned down, the day pain began in her happy life, Tiara ran away from the castle.
The castle was burning like the academy of the day.
It didn’t actually burn because it caught fire, but just like it did at the academy that day, people were killing each other and burning each other’s lives violently.
Tiara seemed to be out of breath. People were dying before our eyes, nearby, or within earshot, or out of the corner of our field of vision.
The revolutionary army, who entered the castle through a secret passageway, ran rampant as if the castle was their own world while the royal knights went out to the capital.
Of course, the butlers and nobles here are basically those who have received dueling lessons, and they have also received all of the training that assumes a situation where they will fight on the battlefield like nobles. If you are a butler, you also learn self-defense techniques to protect your master in an emergency at the butler academy.
However, it is education to the end, and those who melt it into experience through actual combat and make it their own are extremely rare.
Even in occasional land battles, when nobles give orders from behind, it is the commander who gives them the order, not the nobles themselves.
On the other hand, the opposing Revolutionary Army went through many real battles and honed itself through hard training. However, most of those who join the Revolutionary Army are those who are alienated from society or those who have suffered unreasonable suffering.
Because there were many people who did not grow up properly, even if their skills were better, they were inferior to nobles and butlers in terms of basic physical strength and strength.
At first, the damage to the nobles and butlers, who were confused by the sudden attack, increased, but soon the nobles and butlers regained their senses and fought the revolutionary army with courage.
However, at that time, the revolutionary army had already spread throughout the capital.
Someone exploded a bomb and committed suicide, someone trembled in fear and found maids hiding and annihilated them, someone died fighting a nobleman, and someone ran everywhere to find and kill the king.
“This is it.”
In such a chaotic situation, Tiara was the first to flee from the castle, escorted by the only remaining royal knight thanks to Jordi’s favor.
The Royal Knights are like the dreams of knights. Just like when the duke created the Sky Knights, it is a place where talented people who have been picked and selected from among the ‘nobles’ who can become knights have gathered.
As can be seen from the loss of the Royal Knights to the Sky Knights, they may be inferior to the Sky Knights, who were selected solely based on their talents and qualifications, regardless of status or talent, but the fact that they are the strongest Knights in the kingdom remains unchanged.
Armor and shields made of high-quality metal are enough to block the guns used by the Revolutionary Army by a narrow margin, so even if the Revolutionary Army does not have such a thing, it cannot win no matter how much it attacks.
Again, the breath of the revolutionary army is cut off by the blade wielded by the royal knight.
“Hick!”
The sight of the fallen man dying while holding his neck and staring at the ceiling with eyes full of bitter poison seemed to resent Tiara herself.
The shadow of a dying person is cleverly embedded in the pupil of the tiara.
The royal knight continued to move forward, forcibly moving the tiara, which had stopped in fear and horror.
Passing through the secret passage, exiting the royal capital, and trying to move to the hiding place for the royal family, the moment they exited the royal capital, the revolutionary army waiting in advance attacked them.
“I’m sorry, Miss Tiara. Hide for a while.”
The royal knight who put the tiara back into the secret passage confronted the three revolutionaries alone.
‘… … That’s strange.’
The feeling was very different from the revolutionary army I had killed so far.
Unlike other revolutionary soldiers whose eyes were blinded by anger, hatred, and pain, the three revolutionary soldiers in front of me had vivid eyes, were neatly dressed, and were tall and large, probably because they ate well.
It was a rare sight in the revolutionary army, most of which consisted of people who grew up poor and unable to eat.
An act full of confidence that does not feel intimidated even in front of a royal knight. In addition, although he holds a gun in one hand, he does not just have a gun, and has a separate weapon that clearly has a feeling of use. It could be seen that the rough and crudely damaged hand had been trained for a long time while holding the weapon.
‘They are professionally trained. I’ve heard that the Revolutionary Army also undergoes combat training, but there’s no way they can do such advanced training.’
The Royal Knights were not ignoring the Revolutionary Army. It was simply because I knew they couldn’t afford an advanced training system.
Although the history of the Revolutionary Army is quite long, there was no way the kingdom could have a training system equal to that of knight training, a collection of lifelong know-how.
The Revolutionary Army cannot afford to spend time on such things. Besides, there was no time for a perfectly established system. There were no funds to provide satisfactory training facilities and meals.
‘No, it’s a little different.’
A gun, an advanced weapon that has not yet been developed in the kingdom. In addition, the cannons they brought with them this time.
Aren’t these things too expensive for the revolutionary army of poor commoners to put up with? Look at the sound of cannons firing in your ears right now. Could a poor commoner with no money prepare that amount of gunpowder?
‘Is one of the nobles supporting the Revolutionary Army?’
Thinking that he should add these thoughts to his report later, the royal knight looked at the three revolutionaries.
Each one’s ability is one step below that of the Royal Knights, but the Royal Knights are rather at a disadvantage because of the weapons they have and the numerical superiority of three.
‘First, thoroughly kill one person. Next take away the gun. By the way, I heard that a weapon called a gun takes time to load unlike a bow… … .’
The revolutionary army was poking a long stick into the muzzle while confronting.
‘Loading is like a cannon. Are you pressing the gunpowder? Then hit the bow first before reloading.’
The gun was a terrifying weapon even for a royal knight. If you pull the trigger, something flies out at an invisible speed and kills a person.
It wasn’t even stabbing directly with a knife, nor was it shooting with a string as hard as a bow. The guilt of murder is less than that of other weapons.
If such a weapon is sufficiently mass-produced, the loading method is changed so that it can be loaded quickly, and the gunpowder used in it is very cheap so that anyone can easily obtain it… … A cruel world will be created where anyone can easily slaughter people.
In line with the fiercely charging royal knights, the revolutionary army spread out in three directions and fled.
While running away, he continues to reload his gun using the ‘device that helps him load a gun with one hand’ researched and developed by the Duke Army.
Two people stepped forward to keep the royal knights in check, while the one who finished loading fired the gun.
Taang!
The moment the gun was fired, the royal knight stiffened up in tension, but the bullet hit the round part of the royal knight’s armor and ricocheted off.
The gun is obviously powerful, but not yet strong enough to pierce thick armor.
‘I’ll be able to penetrate the thin part of the armor, but it’ll be blocked by the chain armor I’m wearing inside.’
The three revolutionary soldiers calmly grasped the situation.
Similarly, the royal knight, who had been shot a while ago, also grasped the situation.
‘It must be the eye socket that the gun is aiming for. It grabs my attention and attacks in that gap.’
‘Attract attention with a gun, attack with sound at the same time. Attacking the ears by exploding the gunpowder at close range will upset the sense of balance, so it will be easier to attack.’
A royal knight and three revolutionaries… To be precise, they were picked up and raised as candidates for the Knights of the Sky, but the three who did not become the Knights of the Sky quickly collided with each other while teasing their heads.
* * *
Every time she heard the sound of a gun being fired, Tiara shrank. Every time the sound of gunpowder exploding resounds in the darkness, a fear arises as if the heavens are raging and thunderbolts are dropped over one’s head.
We come to realize how terribly a weak human being can be crushed in front of nature.
If possible, I would like to go to bed, wrap the blanket tightly, close my eyes in the peaceful darkness in the bed heated by my own body temperature, forget everything and leave for the land of dreams.
Taang!
Every time I think about it, the sound of gunfire forces Tiara back into reality.
There is no comfortable bed anywhere, and in reality, she sits down on the cold stone steps, trembling in fear as she hears the constant fierce fighting.
To suppress her fear, Tiara crouched down and chewed her thumb nail.
His beautiful, well-maintained fingernails were crushed by his teeth and became ugly in an instant, and the flesh at the tip of his thumb was scratched and chewed by his teeth and began to bleed.
environment in the dark. An outdoor environment full of blood and violence. Anxiety and fear toward one’s own future, which is about to come.
The first time she fell on the floating island, the time of the storm, the time when Chester fell while holding a bear, the mental stress that Monia suffered at that time.
A similar stress overtook Tiara.
However, unlike Monia, who became stronger in pain and learned how to overcome stress or hide it inside and endure it, T-ara, who fell in love with the prince’s eyes and received only happy and good things, found it difficult to overcome stress.
Tiara, who had forgotten even the flow of time and was buried, came to her senses when the blood flowing from the stairs soaked her buttocks.
“uh? Hee! blood! Blood! blood!”
Surprised, Tiara got up and avoided the blood. She touched her buttocks, and when her hands were stained with blood, she screamed again and had a seizure.
I’ve seen blood splattered everywhere so far, but it was the first time that it was on my body.
“… Who, who won?”
The gunfire ceased. Blood flowed here. The Royal Knights and the Revolutionary Army, whoever won won’t open the secret passage and find themselves?
Tiara trembled as she opened the door to the tightly closed secret passage. Should I open this? What happens when you open it?
If so, shall we go back? as king? To the place where people die every minute and every second? Where is Jordi?
In the past, she would have chosen to return without hesitation, but Tiara couldn’t do that. In this situation, he hated Jordi who wasn’t by his side, he hated Jordi who gave him a cold look even though they became a couple, and he hated Jordi’s behavior of trying to hold onto him and lock him in his arms.
If so, wouldn’t it be possible to get away from Jordi by using this situation well?
With no money or skills, a good life would never await her wherever she escaped from Jordi to the phone-infested kingdom, but Tiara didn’t even bother going there.
She reached out for the door to the secret passageway.
A long unmaintained secret passageway opened with a loud noise that sounded like the world creaking.
The smell of blood and the cold air rushed in and covered the tiara.
It signaled the beginning of a harsh, indeed harsh, cold winter.
* * *
“… … A mountain of ice has appeared.’
While watching the scenery outside after waking up quite early, Monia saw a large icy mountain rising in the distance and looked at it curiously.
Not knowing that the floating island has stopped moving after being caught between icebergs.