286 – Monia is Alive (2)
It’s hard to believe that William lost the estate. A large and luxurious mansion, many servants, and dignity in his natural attitude. It was an aristocrat equipped with
One side of his leg was uncomfortable, so he walked around the mansion holding a cane in his right hand for practical use, not for fashion. I could tell that my legs were more uncomfortable than they seemed.
However, his gait was unstoppable, and every step he took up the stairs was also very powerful.
William’s mansion was full of art.
From the armor and artworks lined up on the walls, to the candlesticks and chandeliers on the ceiling, everything was decorated with some kind of artwork.
‘The atmosphere is very different from Duke Reynald’s mansion.’
Following Monia, Chester has seen mansions and villas of various aristocrats while traveling here and there for parties and teatime, but among them, the most memorable and impressive place was the ducal family mansion.
With a long history dating back to the beginning of the kingdom, the duke’s mansion was a building that symbolized the kingdom of Beend, even older than the castle that had been newly built along the way.
Since the mansion itself was of enormous value, the duke’s mansion had very few ornaments or works of art, except for stuffed animals and expensive bows according to the owner, Reynald’s taste.
Rather, the mansions of other aristocrats below them were decorated more extravagantly and extravagantly.
However, since all such mansions are decorated by scraping together popular themes or works of popular artists, there is bound to be some degree of unity.
However, Billium’s mansion was different.
His mansion is always decorated with only the works that Billium thought he wanted to make that day and then, so he did not feel any particular theme or unity.
I don’t know if Billium was a stubborn artist who was only digging into one subject, but he was the type to make anything he wanted to make with his own hands.
“Ever since I was little, I liked beautiful things. To begin with, yes. It was a bird that came in through the window by chance and flew freely around my room singing. I’ve had bad legs since I was born, so I felt the beauty and wonder of the freedom and voice of the bird. I guess you could call it faith.”
When he said that, he stopped and looked at a painting.
It was a picture of heinous criminals fighting each other. The criminal coliseum that was popular in the kingdom of Beend in Monia’s childhood. They said that they would forgive the heinous criminals for their sins and that they would give them a big reward, and they fought each other to the death.
Since the general Colosseum was a game in which not only criminals and slaves but also commoners and nobles participated in various classes, even if there were deaths, it was not so violent and rough as to belittle life.
That’s what the aristocrats, who were tantalizing about, implemented that criminal coliseum. A game in which only criminals who don’t care if they die get involved and really fight until one of them dies.
“As I expressed beauty under the theme of freedom, I soon came to express the oppressed.”
Having said that, Billium said as he opened the door to the studio.
“The old Monia also looked like that. Beautiful, but still suppressed by her parents… She looked like that. It’s an rude word.”
Billium went to the place where he had been working on Monia’s painting a while ago, and pointed to the canvas that the servant had newly placed while disposing of the ruined Monia painting.
“Could you bring me a bigger one?”
“How much do you want?”
“Atrium.”
Atrium. To put it more clearly, it is the only huge wall-sized canvas in the central hall that is not decorated with any artwork.
“Okay.”
How huge it was, the servant asked several knights to move the canvas and moved it together.
“You were beautiful when you were oppressed. From then on, I tried to recreate Monia’s appearance while watching her grow, but it was not easy.”
“Really? Then how about now?”
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Monia laughed and pointed at herself, and Billyam smiled as well and looked at her Chester.
“Did that man set you free? You can tell by looking at it. You have become more beautiful. He was shackled from birth. It must have been difficult to break the shackles from your parents, much less.”
William looked at Chester and said.
“You were Monia’s exclusive butler, right?”
“Do you know me?”
“I remember. Well, there are probably a lot of people who don’t remember. There won’t be many people who look closely at the butler’s face.”
William looked Chester in the eye.
“I like someone special. I want to make them my work. So when I observed Monia, I also observed you. There was something foreign about you that, yes, is not easily felt by others. It seemed very natural to have a wolf in between the sheep. A wolf watching the sheep quietly, without hiding its teeth, not hiding its claws, and not wearing sheep’s clothing.”
William smiled meaningfully.
“Still, I was calm at the time. Because the wolf put himself among the sheep. But now it is a little different.”
“Is it different?”
“At that time, it felt like we were one step away from each other, but now it feels like we have stood out even more. Yes, that person you call your benefactor, feels similar to Urgo… Is it? A truly special person cannot hide himself, no matter how much he wants to hide it.”
While we were talking like that, the engineers brought a huge canvas and propped it up against the wall of the studio.
“Now, now! Let’s have tea and have a conversation. In the meantime, I will draw a picture.”
“Don’t we usually tell models to be quiet?”
“I draw inspiration from vivid and lively images. You can’t get inspiration from a model who just sits still. I hope the two of you can spend your time naturally as usual.”
And, how long has it been since you lived in Billium’s mansion? The Kingdom of Zappy, who judged that Monia’s travel poisoning had been resolved enough, began to spread the news that Monia was alive.
* * *
In the kingdom of Viend, a knight is a weapon for war that is thoroughly managed by nobles. Also, unless it’s something like Reynold’s Sky Knights, most of them are made up of children from aristocratic families, and they have an arrogant tendency because they have pride in becoming knights after passing through rigorous training.
In the continent of Matoto, a knight is a guardian who grants his qualifications in the kingdom to maintain the peace of the kingdom and protect the people, and since most of them are voluntary, everyone has a strong sense of justice, responsibility, and mission.
However, this is only unique to the Kingdom of Beend and the continent of Matoto.
Usually articles are very different from that.
To put it bluntly, a knight could be said to be a mercenary with a lot of money. A rogue boat with good bloodline and good equipment.
Unlike mercenaries who barely wear leather armor, they wear proper plate armor.
Unlike the mercenaries who eagerly run and walk on their own feet wherever they go, they ride a stately and stylish horse.
It is common for weapons to have teeth missing. Unlike mercenaries, who sometimes have bent or even rusted or broken weapons, they carry polished and shiny weapons that reflect like a mirror.
That is the only difference between a knight and a mercenary. Other than that, is it that the knights care a little more about face than the mercenaries?
Of course, because he cares about face, he explodes in strange parts and wields violence.
Yes.
Being a knight is not something that is normally granted formal qualifications by a royal family. It’s not like a noble family supports you from one to ten and raises you as a knight.
Any number of people can become knights just by running scams that the person who is lucky enough to get good armor, sword, and horse is from an appropriately noble family.
And, those who became knights like that wander the continent and try to get involved in all sorts of conflicts.
All I want is fame. A knight without a name and a knight with a name are treated differently, and as he gains fame and power as a knight, he can occupy a moderately small castle or village and pretend to be the owner.
As long as the nobles who manage the royal family or territory pay taxes well, they don’t care if the knights dominate the land and play the power, so there was nothing to stop them from doing it if they had the power.
Perhaps this is the biggest difference between a mercenary and a knight. When mercenaries rule a village, they are subdued, but knights are forgiven.
And, that’s why the knights flock to the war to make a name for themselves. This is especially the case when the war is clearly defined as good and evil.
The moment she finds out that Monia, whom she thought was dead pitifully, is actually alive, and that the Duke is an evil power who started a war by using her Monia as an excuse… Wandering knights from various parts of the Side continent intervened in the war and moved to make a name for themselves.
As the wandering knights move, the forces they lead also move, and the nobles and those in power, who were contemplating whether to withdraw from the war or not, show interest in the war again and raise their heavy buttocks.
As the war seemed to be coming to an end, the merchants who had intended to quickly dispose of their weapons and supplies and go elsewhere began to procure and sell weapons and supplies again.
Forces gather from all sides.
Because they know the devil’s army, the armies that are more prepared than before are moving to deal with them.
They once again trampled on the land of the Kingdom of Biend and began to burn it with the flames of war.