“All right!”
“I like your voice. And Yuren.”
“yes!”
“Because it has been more than a week since the war ended, the whole kingdom knows about your performance. But don’t people look closely at you if you stay behind like that? A lot of people over there have gathered to see you.”
“you’re right!”
“Yuren-nim should stand in front!”
“Go quickly.”
When Duke Roper looked back as if asking for consent, everyone smiled and nodded. Ilya, who had a sullen expression on his face, pushed my back as if telling me to go forward.
“All right.”
He went forward and took a position right behind the Duke of Lopert and the princes. Prince Il greeted me with a smile, and Prince Lee, his cheeks drawn, avoided my gaze.
“Then start again.”
As soon as I settled down, Duke Lopert set off right away.
The gates of the royal capital were wide open as if to welcome them in, and behind them, numerous people could be seen waiting in line on both sides.
“He came!”
“Wowaaa!”
“They are the warriors who defeated the Lizardmen!”
“Uren Rocks!”
People were cheering and waving even though we hadn’t crossed the gate yet. You wouldn’t even see my face, but there were already people calling my name.
“Whoaaa!”
“Thank you all for your hard work!”
“Lizardman King Slayer Yuren Rocks!”
“Yuren! Please look over here!”
“Krasis hero Uren Rocks!”
A lot of people were praising everyone who went out on the field, but it wasn’t my self-consciousness that made me hear my name the most.
So many people were cheering and shouting my name. Hearing their cheers, I felt pleasant goosebumps.
“thank you.”
As I was waving at people, my eyes went to a man in a black cloak in the alleyway. He had a cape pulled over his head and even a mask.
“Keugh!”
I looked at him thinking it was strange, and our eyes met. At that moment, a sudden headache hit me. But it wasn’t just me, he also clutched his head as if feeling a headache.
“Wait, what the hell…”
make up your mind
“Ugh!”
The cloaked man and I groaned as if we were sharing the pain, each holding our heads.
“Ugh…”
The pain felt like being stabbed with a needle inside the brain. I thought I had gotten used to the pain, but the pain was unbearable.
“what’s the matter? are you okay?”
As I grabbed my head, Ilya behind me patted me on the shoulder and gave me a worried expression.
“Okay, it’s okay.”
Enduring the pain, I raised my head and looked for the man I had seen earlier. The man leaning against the wall of the alley disappeared somewhere in the meantime.
“sh*t!”
“uh? Where are you going!”
“Viscount Yuren!”
He immediately got off his horse and jumped in the direction of the man. The people behind me were startled by my sudden action, but right now it was the most important thing to check.
“Whoaaa!”
“Yuren!”
“It is an honour!”
People cheered as if they thought I had gotten off to shake hands, but I looked around and couldn’t find the man, so I went into an alleyway.
“That guy can’t be…”
He was a man who couldn’t see except with his eyes because he wore a hood over a cloak and even a mask, but I felt a strange feeling from him.
“Where are you?”
I went deep into the alley and turned on the watch tower to try to find the man’s presence, but I saw only a few bullies, and I couldn’t feel the man’s presence anywhere.
“sh*t!”
“Viscount!”
Arin appeared from behind with round eyes like a rabbit. I don’t know exactly where I am because I just ran, but I wonder how she found me.
“Are you okay? He grabs my hair, then suddenly runs out…”
“are you okay. sorry to everyone The event must have been weird because of me.”
“no. People think it was planned, but rather they like it. Duke Lopert led the mood so well that everyone is cheering and marching on.”
“You got help from the Duke again.”
When I go back, I think I should go and say thank you to Duke Lopert. Looking at Arin, she remembered the cloaked swordsman she fought before.
“scale.”
“yes?”
“Do you remember the swordsman I met when I followed my orders and moved separately in Kibon Mansion?”
“Of course I remember.”
Arin’s tone became rather calm, perhaps because he still felt anger toward him.
“Wasn’t that man wearing a mask by any chance?”
“How did you know? He was wearing a black mask.”
“Ho, by any chance, the color of your eyes was also black?”
“He was shadowed by a tree, so he couldn’t see his eyes properly. no way! Did the man show up?”
Arin put his hand on the hilt of the sword as if he was ready to fight.
“Ha, that’s not…”
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“Yuren-sama…”
At my weak words, Arin relaxed and took a step closer to me.
Arin continued to call me Viscount after I was given the position of Viscount, but I felt welcome when I heard her call me Yuren for the first time in a long time.
“Yuren. Please let me know if you have any difficulties. We will help with anything.”
“okay. thank you.”
Arin looked into my eyes and calmly conveyed her words, feeling her sincerity and warming my heart.
“Let’s go back now.”
“I will guide you.”
I let out a deep sigh while watching Arin walk in the lead.
“I’d like to think no, but…”
There is no evidence.
It’s just a feeling, but I thought that the man I just saw might be Rashid, the main character of my original story. It was the strangest thing that the pain resonated with me.
At the same time, I heard the suspicion that he might be the swordsman of Sephiroth who saved the breeder from Arin.
“Since the story of the Orbis I haven’t touched has also changed…”
Obis, who was tossed by me in the labyrinth of Aukusol, became the lord of the arena in the original work and then became a companion after being defeated by the main character.
It is possible that the main character also became the sword demon of Sephiroth due to various incidents.
“If the man in the cloak is really Rashid and the Sephiroth Sword Demon… it’s not time to decide.”
When I go back to the Gairin estate, I think I’ll have to make preparations right away.
**
As they were marching slowly, the duke and princes had not yet reached the palace. Arin and I moved quickly and joined the group at the back.
Wow.
When Duke Lopert arrived in front of the palace, the front gate of the palace, which had never been seen open before, opened with a heavy sound.
coo goo.
When the door that looked like a giant’s hands were fully opened, I saw many people waiting inside. All the nobles, attendants, and servants living in the palace were waiting in line.
Among them was the king, queen, and princess, who were smiling and couldn’t hide their joy.
“Well, in front of His Majesty the King. Everyone get off your horses!”
“yes!”
Duke Lopert probably didn’t know that the king was there, so he gave an order to everyone in a slightly embarrassed voice.
When all the knights who heard him dismounted, the waiting servants politely accepted the reins.
Duke Lopert went to the king first, followed by the princes and knights.
thud.
When Duke Roper stopped in front of the king’s ten steps and knelt down, the princes and knights behind him also knelt. I also knelt at the back and bowed my head.
“Roper Elion! In obedience to His Majesty’s command, we have returned after recapturing the Kibon territory!”
“Duke Roper. It was really, really hard.”
The king walked slowly, took Roper’s hand, and raised him up.
“I didn’t suffer. It was only possible because the knights and soldiers here now risked their lives to fight!”
Duke Lopert looked at the people behind him proudly and said.
“ha ha ha! That’s right. We can’t let such heroes kneel in a place like this! Let them all rise!”
“yes!”
“Because you all did your best, we were able to achieve such great results. Thank you all so much!”
“no!”
The knights who heard the king’s heartfelt voice turned red as if they felt joy.
“As long as there are warriors like you, Krasis will last forever!”
“Wow! Hey Krasis! Live forever!”
As if in sympathy with the king’s loud voice, the knights let out a loud roar. He looked at Roper, the two princes, and the knights behind him with a proud face.
“Um, but…”
The king, who had shouted along with the knights, looked around with a puzzled face. His own sons were right in front of him, but he seemed to be looking for someone else.
“Where is Yuren?”
“Oh, he…”
Duke Lopert came out to the side so that he wouldn’t have to worry about packing me when he jumped out like a mad dog.
“Here it is. your majesty.”
“oh! Yuren!”
The King approached me with the brightest smile ever.
“Why is the hero who made the biggest contribution in this war the last one!”
“Something happened in the middle. sorry.”
“What is there to be sorry about? I was just asking.”
The King looked at me with a sad smile. Sorry to the princes, but they seemed to welcome me more than the princes.
“I’m sorry to call you every time this happens. As long as you step up, the soldiers sacrifice little, and they do a great job, so I couldn’t help but call them.”
“As His Majesty’s servant, it was natural. Call me anytime.”
“hahahahaha!”
As if the King was even more satisfied with my answer, he let out a cool smile like carbonated water.
Since I was receiving the king’s attention alone, others deserved to be jealous, but everyone suffered together, and because my performance in Kibon was so great, the other knights also smiled at me and the king.
The only person who faked a smile here was Prince Lee, who was scared of me.
“I heard you saved Gwen’s life from an assassin and captured the Lizardman King. Thank you for saving my son’s life, and thank you so much for saving the knights and soldiers.”
“Like I just said, I just did my job.”
“your majesty. Viscount Yuren is humble enough to say that he did such a simple thing, but he did a great job that is hard to explain in words. Without him, the western formation I was in charge of would have been annihilated by the Lizardman King.”
“you’re right!”
Prince Il came out and approached the king and opened his mouth. The knights with me shouted as if agreeing.
“okay. I know. He is a very reliable man.”
The king looked back at the prince and the knights and smiled happily.
“But you…”
The king’s expression as he looked at the emperor changed strangely.
“You seem to have changed a bit.”
“I also knew that I couldn’t remain immature forever.”
“I see… I think I did a really good job sending you there.”
The King patted the Prince on the shoulder and went back.
“Again, you worked really hard. We have arranged for everyone to rest, so take a break for two days, and there will be a festival for five days after the break, so be sure to participate!”
“Your last name is ruined.”
**
Compared to the previous visits to the palace, I was assigned a much better room. It was big enough to play foot volleyball, and I think that’s why people are trying to succeed.
I must have been quite tired too, so I passed out as soon as I entered the room and woke up after a good night’s sleep.
“Buck.”
In the morning when the sunlight was seeping in, I pecked my face as if telling me to wake up.
“okay. okay.”
Physical fatigue is relieved by simbeop alone, but mental fatigue is not. After a good night’s sleep, not only the body, but also the mind feel light.
“Buck.”
Waking me up, I went back to the fruit plate piled high on the table and started inhaling the fruit.
“If that’s the case, why did you wake me up?”
“Buck?”
When I was dumbfounded, I felt a presence outside the door. It’s a step I’ve never heard of.
smart.
I opened the door, thinking it was the servant who brought the water. But it wasn’t the servant at the door. He was the first clean-looking man I had ever seen.
“Sorry for this early morning. Viscount Yuren. My name is Kyrio Tail.”
The one who knocked was the king’s third aide, Viscount Kyrio Tail. It was the man who had come to the Rocks Mansion to pick me up and returned empty-handed.
“nice to see you. My name is Uren Rocks. You came to my house before, and I’m sorry for making you waste your steps.”
“hahahaha! Didn’t Viscount Yuren know about it? We were also in a hurry because of Iokal’s diplomat.”
I didn’t go because I knew that Kairio was at the mansion, but I kept my mouth shut.
“But why are you here at this hour?”
“Your Majesty has summoned Viscount Yuren. If all is well, could you go to the audience room after breakfast?”
“All right.”
Who would say no? answered right away.
“Then I’ll come back after dinner. We will prepare the clothes for you.”
“thank you.”
It is a situation that has been expected and waited to some extent. Perhaps it was to save his son and give him a reward for catching the Lizardman King.
After washing and eating, I changed into the formal clothes brought by the servant and waited in my room.
smart.
A gait like morning. It’s Viscount Cairo.
“Are you ready?”
“yes. Let’s go.”
With his guidance, we headed to the king’s throne room.
“Go right in. Your Majesty is waiting for you.”
“Thank you for the guidance.”
“yes. then.”
Viscount Cairo greeted me with a light smile. It’s already the third time I’ve seen the opening of the audience room, but it feels new every time I see it.
Unlike usual, there was only one king sitting on a throne in the audience room.
“Yuren! Come on!”
“Meet Your Majesty the King!”