213 – Jarod, Capital of the Kingdom of Jaim on the Matoto Continent (1)
After the formal interrogation by Sena, the female knight, Chester and Monia return all their belongings and enter the capital. Could come in
“Whoa. I’m glad Sena came.”
A person who has gone through a difficult experience inevitably develops a sense of sympathy and goodwill toward someone who has gone through a similarly difficult experience.
For example, in a terrible war, it is not uncommon for hostile soldiers who know nothing about each other except their faces to form friendships.
“Did you see the reaction of the guards earlier? I don’t know what would have happened if another article had come.”
“Maybe Rex was considered a real demon and burned… ….”
“Until now, no one paid attention when I was walking around, so I didn’t pay much attention either? Actually, now that I see it, it’s not that no one cared, but I didn’t dare to touch him because I was afraid of Rex.”
“I thought they were afraid of us because we were mercenaries. Could it be for a similar reason that the owner of the tool store was strangely kind?”
“Hmm. I guess so.”
Even now, Chester, Monia, and Rex had tremendous eyes on them. However, there were few eyes that were wary or scared, probably because they had passed through the checkpoint once.
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Chester and Monia took a tour of the capital and drove their horses to the place Senna told them about when leaving the checkpoint.
“Huh.”
“Wow.”
It was a huge mansion. To be more precise, it was the mansion of the Illenia family, a knight family that Senna had built alone.
The mansion, which was too huge to be called a knight’s family, spoke of the country’s wealth, as well as the power of Senna and her ancient artifacts.
As Chester and Monia approached the front door, the gatekeepers greeted them with smiles.
“I have already heard the explanation from the owner.”
“I was waiting for you. Come in The Illenian family welcomes you.”
Upon entering the mansion, Chester and Monia were treated luxuriously.
First, the two borrowed bathrooms that existed in the mansion and washed their bodies in order to wash off the dirt accumulated on their bodies during their long trip.
“Wow.”
Chester marveled at the muddy water pouring down as he poured the heated bath water over his head.
“Rex, how are you?”
“Dad, look at this!”
Chester looked at Rex, who was in her bath, spinning around her and enjoying her bath getting dirty.
“Oops. Serious.”
Chester took Rex out of the bathroom and began lathering him all over with soap.
Actually, the maids offered to wash before entering the bath, but Chester refused and Rex, Ant and Dan went in.
Monia wanted to take a bath with her family, but she said that it was rude for a man and a woman to use the same bathroom in someone else’s house.
“It’s no joke. Is it because it’s a good soap?”
“This is amazing! Wow!”
“Yes, is it interesting?”
“Yes! Dad, look at this! I can feel it in my hand, but it has no weight!”
Rex was fascinated by the soap bubbles that formed on his body, so he brought Ant and started rubbing them with his hands.
When the soap in Rex’s hand started to bubble up on Ant’s body, Rex got excited and started rubbing the soap a little harder.
– Kahang!
No matter how much soap I used, Ant, whose nose had soap bubbles in it, was startled and coughed.
“Oh. Sorry, Ant!”
Chester came out after washing away the dirt accumulated on his body and changed into clothes left by the people of the mansion.
“Oh.”
It was an aristocratic suit from the Kingdom of Jaim.
A suit in the form of wearing various decorations to adorn oneself, starting with the crest of the family, on the overall width of the cloth.
However, since Chester was always in the position of a ‘noble guest,’ the clothes were simpler than those worn by nobles.
After taking a bath like that, I waited while being treated by the servants of the mansion. As the sun slowly went down, Senna returned to her mansion and greeted them.
“Chester, Monia. Nice to see you again.”
Sena greeted them with a smile and took them outside saying that she had prepared a special dinner.
“We will discuss the details at the restaurant.”
“So you dressed like this on purpose?”
Monia made an expression that she was uncomfortable wearing the Jaim Kingdom-style aristocratic suit.
“Hmm. But this outfit… ?”
“It’s a bit frustrating. I hate that too But you can’t go there if you’re not dressed up, so bear with me.”
Sena said that she could understand Monia’s attitude, and she took the lead and rode in her carriage to her restaurant.
The place they arrived at was a luxurious and huge restaurant resembling an opera house.
“We actually do opera here. When that happens, the price becomes more expensive. I can’t understand opera, so I don’t come here to enjoy it…….”
Chester quietly observed Senna.
As she watched Senna from behind, she didn’t look like an evil witch who brutally cut people to pieces for the slightest disobedience to her orders.
Rather, Sena Ilenia, who took off her armor and changed into aristocratic attire, was just a beautiful woman.
I don’t think I’m a young person, white hair like an old man. Green eyes shining brightly. She talks to Chester and Monia, and her lips always smile.
Everything belonged to a pitiful and beautiful woman.
In particular, it was hard to believe that that supple body belonged to a powerful knight who had accomplished enough to build a family. A body like that showed off its supernatural strength by lightly pulling a guard wearing armor with one hand?
When the four of us were guided to a room with a nice atmosphere inside the restaurant, a clerk came in and asked for a meal prepared in advance by Senna.
“Haewangwoo course meal is the pride of the capital. We supply fresh sea king cows through huge canals that lead to the sea and sell a limited number every day.”
“Haewangwoo?”
“It is a creature that looks like a mixture of a clam and a snail that lives in the sea… You will definitely like it. It’s delicious.”
When the aperitif was served, Senna lightly tipped her wine glass to quench her thirst.
“Then, shall we tell our story? This is the first time I’ve met anyone other than me who survived the ruins. Tell your story.”
“I heard that you can enter the Ruins of the Thirteen Heroes by stabbing money and get a weapon?”
Senna smiled bitterly at Chester’s words.
“Yes. You’d better start with me.”
As Senna spoke, she pulled out the sword hanging from her waist. Then, a thin tentacle emerged from the hilt of her sword and she dug into Senna’s arm.
“This sword is called Hopper after the biggest statue of the 13 heroes, ‘Hopper’. If you know the ruins of the 13 heroes, you know it, right? That people go in there and come out with rusty weapons.”
Chester nodded his head. Monia was more interested in the wine than listening to her, and Rex was looking at the painting.
“They are all broken. You would have guessed it by looking at my sword.”
“Hmm. A blacksmith was trying to find it, saying that it would be more powerful if it was intact rather than a rusty weapon.”
“It’s stronger. However, that is not the strength of a simple weapon.”
Senna looked at the tentacle digging into her own arm and said.
“The identity of the weapons made in the ruins of 13 heroes is a ‘weapon that makes a hero’.”
“…… Are you talking about the hero in the story?”
“No. The real heroes who exist in this world, possessing incredible dragon power.”
Chester looked at Senna’s weapon.
Doesn’t that mean that Urgo can have the same power just by holding that weapon?
“Strong force. Quick recovery. In addition, the mind is forcibly changed so that it does not mind blood at all. There is no upper limit on violence.”
You will not be afraid of blood. As a result, behavior becomes extreme. Taking what would have been a matter of punching him, he took a knife, thrust it into his chest, and then twisted it to make it spurt blood.
“Can’t control myself?”
“No. You know what? I was going to push the guard and send him back.”
Senna said that and smiled a little twisted.
“But my hand drew the sword and cut the guard.”
Saying that, Senna put her sword into the scabbard.
“I’m used to it now, so I don’t care if my body behaves differently than I thought.”
“…… Right. But it’s weird I haven’t heard of a weapon that is in good condition coming out of that ruin, right?”
“That’s right.”
Sena said with her face that she didn’t care.
“These weapons only give power to the right people. When the unsuitable man takes a weapon, he becomes a monster. Didn’t you hear Talk about the monster that roams the ruins.”
“…… Right. Those monsters were originally people.”
“Yes. They were people who couldn’t stand weapons, like the friends who went into the ruins with me.”
The man who confessed his love to him came to wield a sword as a distorted monster.
Her best friend was turned into a chunk of meat in front of the sword and ended her life.
Running, running, and running, with bodies covered in the flesh and blood of her friends, and reaching a dead end, she cursed her gods and the world.
In her desperation, she accidentally found a sword in her hand and, holding it in her hand, she had to slay her monster, the man she loved, who wept and called her own name.
She vomited each time she stabbed dozens or hundreds of times at her lover, who did not die easily because of her life force that had become a monster.
When the hell was over, she survived alone.
“I couldn’t tell anyone. It’s something you won’t understand unless you actually experience it. That’s why I’ve been looking forward to meeting you ever since I heard about you guys.”
“Rumors about us?”
“In fact, I probably know your gossip better than the guards there.”
Saying that, she deliberately pretended not to know, she laughed mischievously.
“Please, won’t you tell me your story too?”
In front of a soft smile filled with the desire to share the same pain, Chester and Monia mumbled because they didn’t know what to say.
‘Uh, we don’t have anything like that.’
‘Uh, what should I do?’
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“This is amazing! Dad! Mom! Look!”
At that time, Rex was excited to see the chandelier and tried to hang on it.
“Le, it’s Rex!”
Seeing the surprised Monia hurriedly grabbing Rex, Senna burst into tears.
“Ah, to think that my son went through something like that… ! hehehe…… ! I’m sorry, it must be painful to say! No need to go into details! Uh huh!!”
And then she began to misunderstand on her own.
As they stopped Rex from running into the chandelier, the couple couldn’t bear to say otherwise.