305 – Chaser (4)
“Wow, you poisonous bastards.”
Lorwan, the advisor in charge, was speechless after seeing the Sky Knights never open their mouths.
“Hey, how do I do this? “I think I was properly trained.”
“Can you endure like that just because you’ve been trained?”
“It happens sometimes. Those who have values that are more important than themselves can endure. Maybe those values were instilled in them through training. “They prioritize the Duke over themselves.”
“Does that make sense?”
When Chester looked a little like he didn’t understand, Lorwan lightly made him understand.
“If I am tortured to tell you where Monia is, will you tell me?”
“I will never say that. Good. I understand. “Then it will be difficult to extract information about Raynald from those guys.”
The Firmament Knights, who looked like half corpses, were confined in another room. Urgo used the martial arts knowledge of the Scorpion tribe under the sand to bind the body by pressing bone on bone, so it could never be undone by force.
After washing his bloody body, Lorwan sat down at the table and spoke.
“What are you going to do? Once I stopped the bleeding, I did everything I could to prevent him from dying. But I don’t know how long I can last. “The wounds may get worse, they may use any means to commit suicide, etc.”
Chester, who was listening to Lorwan, nodded his understanding.
“I wanted to know how Raynald found us. “I can understand the method to some extent.”
“How?”
“Yes. You know what? Originally, there was a revolutionary army in this country.”
“… ….”
Chester said as if it was no big deal.
“And the leader of the revolutionary army was Raynald.”
“The Duke?”
“Yes. Although there is a separate leader, the creation of the revolutionary army, the formation of armed units among the revolutionary army, and the provision of weapons and supplies to them are all conspiracies. “To keep his presence from being revealed, he supported the revolutionary army by crossing and moving supplies throughout the kingdom, erasing traces.”
“…… “Are you trying to undermine the royal family’s support?”
“Yes. But will the nobles listen to the commoners?”
“Hmm.”
“They won’t listen.”
Chester said, twirling his fingers.
“Yes. Nobles don’t listen much to what commoners say. “I think of it as a money bag that you squeeze whenever you need money, just like you squeeze a cow’s milk when you need milk.”
The purpose of the revolutionary army is the common people.
Making common people listen to their words.
“Raynald believes that even commoners are useful enough. “You can tell just by looking at his daughter that he has made me his personal butler.”
Chester looked at Lorwan.
“Rorwan.”
“Yes.”
“What would you think if a nobleman took notice of you, recognized your abilities, and even gave you money?”
“I will be loyal.”
“Yes. Loyalty is not a big deal. Raynald would have made loyalists among the commoners. “That’s my hobby.”
Everyone looked at the various bows hanging on the wall when they heard the word “Hobby.” These are the bows that Monia told me about as a hobby of crafting right after entering this villa.
Bows that were collected but were not used well and were left neglected and covered in dust.
“You call a commoner who you think is reasonably well-liked to the mansion, pat him on the shoulder, and say something nice to him. That makes you loyal. It’s okay if you can use it right away, it’s okay if you can use it someday, or it doesn’t matter if you can’t. Even if he dies and his descendants take over, the loyal subjects he has created will remain loyal until he dies or from generation to generation.”
It is important to create a hand that you may be able to use someday.
“Probably, among the people we met on the road we passed, and the people who lived in the villages we passed through, there were probably the duke’s loyalists. “They must have relayed our location.”
“… ….”
“Then can you avoid the duke’s eyes?”
The answer to Sena’s question came from above.
“It won’t work.”
Monia replied in a sleepy voice, still leaning her chest against the railing, looking at her friends eating at her table and then jumping off the railing.
“Monia, use the stairs.”
“Eng. “It’s annoying.”
Monia puffed out her cheeks and fell into Chester’s arms as he nagged her to use the stairs, and Chester asked Monia a question.
“Where did you hear it from?”
“Continuing from the beginning? “I haven’t slept that long.”
“You should have come out and eaten while it was warm.”
“Sorry, Chester made it at best. “I was just trying to organize my thoughts.”
After briefly chatting with Chester, Monia continued her answer to Sena’s question a moment ago.
“Sena. Why do you think we bothered looking for Urgo? “Anyway, the goal is to go to the secret warehouse without my father’s knowledge and take the money.”
“…… “Were you sure that you would definitely run into the duke?”
“I was about 90% sure. Ah, I am sure we will meet. Isn’t it a bit much to bet everything on the remaining 10%? “That’s why I found Urgo.”
Monia, who was looking at Urgo, looked at Senna and said with a smile.
“Isn’t it amazing? “It’s Senna.”
“Huh? What?”
“The first continent we set foot on after escaping from the floating island was the Matoto continent. There, by chance, I met Sena, who was in charge of the capital’s gatehouse at that time. And after meeting Sena, our travel destination became Sena’s hometown, Tongdan Continent. “When she smuggled from the Tongdan continent to another continent, if the ship had not been caught in a storm, she would have arrived in the Japi Kingdom.”
Monia looked at Lorwan for a moment and spoke again.
“But even after the ship got caught up in a storm, a ship appeared that could take us to the Kingdom of Zapi, to the Continent of Side, and to the Kingdom of Biend.”
This time we see Urgo.
“I felt it was fate. It felt fateful. So I cried and found you again. It would be nice to just secretly steal the money… Even if we did meet, it would be nice if we could just reveal that we were married and then get kicked out of the family register and leave, but I didn’t think that would work.”
Monia looked at Chester.
“It seems a bit foolish to feel like it was fate, but I still felt like it was fate. And she was convinced by this.”
“Are you sure?”
As Chester questioned, gently stroking her cheek, Monia leaned her face into Chester’s palm, covering her cheek, and said,
“Chester. I have no desire for revenge. I’m serious.”
“Yes. Believe.”
“I think it’s okay no matter what happens to my father.”
“Yes.”
“But, if you leave him alone, Chester could die. Yes?”
Monia looked at the wounds on Urgo, Rex, and Lorwan’s bodies.
If the knights and demon knights who came this time join forces and attack, will they be able to survive?
It was difficult to guarantee.
Monia raised her hand and stroked Chester’s cheek.
“So let’s kill Raynald. “I don’t want Chester to die because of my problems.”
Monia, who spoke the ‘name of the target’ rather than her father, said that, then jumped up from her seat and asked Lorwan.
“Where did you put those guys called the Knights?”
“Um, in the third room from the end of the hallway over there.”
“Okay.”
After a while, Monia went to the room where the knights were tied up alone, and soon she returned to her table. She scooped up the little stew left in her bowl and ate it, and said,
“I heard about Raynald Witch.”
“Really?! How?!”
Lorwan was startled and asked how, but Monia shrugged her shoulders and said it was no big deal.
“They say Raynald ordered you to bring me in.”
“You’re not killing me?”
“If I had said out loud that I would kill her daughter, I would have said it back because it would have been a huge blow to her cause and her reputation. Anyway, that’s how I got the answer. “It’s nothing special, I just told him I was going to see Raynald and he obediently told me the location.”
After saying that, Monia stopped talking and continued eating her stew.
On the way, Lorwan and Senna urged her to answer several times, but Monia seemed to have no intention of answering and continued to eat the stew.
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After finishing the meal satisfactorily, Monia spoke.
“Actually, I didn’t even need to know the location.”
“What?”
“They said it was in the warehouse we were going to.”
“… ….”
“… ….”
The moment she heard the answer, everyone was speechless.
Those who believe in God, those with just an ordinary level of faith, those who believe more in the wind of the prairie than in the god of religion that people speak of, and those who believe more in the worn-out dice they rolled with their lives on the line before going to war than in God. Everyone, including believers, was speechless.
Everyone felt something terribly thick and fateful.
Whether you are defeated by that knight, whether you win, whether you get information through torture or not.
Or, you can arrive at the secret warehouse after wandering around the Kingdom of Biend peacefully without any incident.
In the end, it is said that we were destined to meet.
The day I was abandoned on a wandering island.
That day a few years ago.
The moment when Chester was wondering, ‘Should I throw away this useless little girl who only cries, gets in the way, and doesn’t help anything, or should I raise her and use her as manpower?’
From the moment Monia told me about the Duke family’s hidden secret warehouse.
It was decided from the moment Monia was abandoned by Raynald.
After she finished eating, Monia said, lightly rinsing her mouth with a sip of water.
“Shall we leave?”
When Monia smiled brightly and said those words, everyone who had been watching her stood up from her seat and prepared for her departure.
The destination remains the same.
The purpose remains the same.
Just one of the purposes was added.
Money. And the life of Duke Raynald.