to change the future (4)
“Oh, an assassin?!”
Why did the assassins come?
There were many places to catch up. Rather, it would be a lie to say that there is no place to guess.
However, this development was not unexpected.
The first prince who left the palace without an escort knight, and the only attendant who had no connection to swordsmanship.
Lastly, because of the bizarre rumors, the background of a cemetery where even people were rare overlapped, so it was not too strange that assassins came to visit.
“I guess now is the best time.”
As if they would not tolerate even a single variable, the appearance of the assassins hiding and waiting for the attack was quite good.
Even the flying insects couldn’t feel the change and were making cries.
At that level, they weren’t idiots who only came to visit after being told to do so.
‘The elite killers of the minimum assassination guild.’
In fact, even the location where they were standing was organized, so I could guess their level.
Five hidden behind.
Eight in a fan shape in front.
There are four strike teams aiming at the flanks.
There were seventeen assassins in total like that.
I pushed the baron back and muttered in a low voice.
“You’ve already been caught, so why don’t you show up?”
“… … .”
“Tsk. Foolish.”
Silence still flows.
Are you going to keep acting even though you’ve been told you’ve been caught?
Well, even if that’s the case, you won’t be able to break hiding and face him with just one word.
I looked out of the corner of my eye at the cemetery and sighed.
“Two behind the tombstones ahead. three on the tree. Five transparent potions were eaten… … .”
“… … .”
“Can you tell me the rest of the location too?”
“To see through our hiding… … This is amazing.”
A grotesque voice from somewhere echoed through the fog and resounded inside the cemetery.
It was a skill that must have been honed for a long time.
I would have made it impossible to guess the direction or distance, but my gaze was directed at exactly one point.
“It’s a useful hiding place. You look like you’re going to be the captain, right?”
“… … Allen Esteban, you are a greater person than I have heard.”
“I will take it as a compliment.”
A man wearing a black hood appeared from the fog. He was the main character of the voice.
They seem to have thought that as long as they knew everything about each other, further hiding would be useless.
“I was embarrassed because I missed the trail from the middle, but the waiting will be worth it.”
Missing the track would mean when you went into hiding.
I said with a smile.
“Are the rest of the henchmen not showing up?”
“her. They have great eyesight, but they don’t seem to have the brain to figure out what’s going on. Otherwise, it’s just bluffing.”
Despite being caught by the assassination target, it is a confident confidence.
That’s why he came here with a bold ambition to assassinate the prince of a country.
It was just laughable.
“What if neither?”
“To be stupid. I was surprised by the unexpected situation, but the fundamental situation of becoming the prey has not changed.”
“well? At least I don’t think I’ll be hunted by cowards who hide and wait for an opportunity.”
It’s not a very good situation to look at objectively. you’re thinking
Of course, the source of that confidence would not be their skills or a surprise attack coming in from the fog.
“It is a great confidence even with the burden. It’s hard to believe he’s going to die soon.”
“her.”
“Please don’t feel bad about it. Aren’t they beings that move for mutual benefit?”
The burden they called was Baron Vidor, who had no fighting ability.
Let alone confrontation, I have no strength to protect myself.
In case of emergency, it was clear that he would become their hostage and only hinder the battle.
… … really?
Do you really think so?
I felt a little absurd and laughed out loud.
Then, the man’s eyes revealed through the hood narrowed.
“What are you so excited about?”
“hahahaha. This looks really funny.”
It was a fun story because I knew that he was actually a funny person.
“Are you full of confidence even after carrying a load? Are you just bluffing?”
Confidence refers to your feeling that you can do a good job at something.
Likewise, bravado refers to a person who has no rattlesnake and shows off his strength only on the outside.
So I couldn’t help but be embarrassed.
“by the way… … Do you need confidence to step on an ant to death?”
The left hand still holding the scabbard strapped to the waist.
They are ants.
It was so small that it was impossible to climb with shoes, so even if dozens or hundreds crawled together, it would not pose any threat.
A test subject that only measures my newly acquired strength.
“I don’t know who sent it, but I’m just thankful at the right time.”
“… … what?”
“Be sure to say thank you in the afterlife.”
The right hand holding the hilt moves slowly.
Soon, he lowered his stance as if he were going to pull out his sword at any moment, and began to twist his back.
A distance that is still more than 30 meters wide.
It was possible to laugh at the contradictory and deformed combat posture, but no one in the seat thought to move a single facial muscle.
That moment.
“Uh, what… … .”
fear? fear?
The assassin felt a strange sensation that touched his instincts and surveyed his surroundings.
“… … !”
The world was black and white.
It certainly wasn’t because of the fog blocking the sunlight.
hour.
What would it be like if there was a world in black and white photos that were fixed forever?
In this moment, it seems like time has stopped. The only one standing there was the first prince holding a sword.
All I could do was listen to the words coming out of his mouth and fall into despair.
That was the end of the Assassins.
“The noble who sent you will be sent soon.”
Woo woo woo woo!
The swinging sword cut through space.
Where the sword passed, an afterimage of red light rose beautifully and was clearly engraved in the air as if a painting was drawn.
He only swung his sword once in an oblique line, but the result was by no means light.
“… … !”
single blow.
graves and tombstones. Even fog and assassins.
Everything in its trajectory split in half.
Maybe it even looks like it’s still intact.
I would never have believed it if it hadn’t been for a slow fall to the side.
“Twelve with this.”
Time, which seemed to have stopped at last, returned to its original state.
But the world still stood still.
The bodies of the assassins who escaped death thanks to being located in the rear were trembling to such an extent that they could no longer move.
They were usually trained to die, but if they touched the basic human instinct, the words were different.
The same was true of the baron, who was watching the situation.
“… … Oh God.”
In a nutshell. It was the first time in my life to see such a scene.
surprising? It was difficult to describe the situation with just those words.
Even the word “impossible” didn’t suit the current situation.
Sword Master.
Great people who have reached the level of superhumans beyond the human category.
His boss was a very strong man.
“that is… … Could it be… … .”
Even speaking to myself, I couldn’t help but shake my head.
I wasn’t so stupid that I couldn’t believe it even if I saw it with my own eyes.
How that was possible was not so important in the current situation.
“If anyone moves, I will kill them immediately.”
It was an instant.
The one that overpowered the hall. Passing by the baron and approaching the assassins who were hiding.
“Damn it! This is different from words!”
An assassin couldn’t overcome the fear and tried to run away, but I was quicker than that.
“Tsk.”
Shu Woo-wook-
The chunk of meat collapsed on the ground with its upper and lower body separated, and could no longer be called an assassin.
A welling fountain of blood soaked the bodies of the other assassins, but none of them moved.
It would be accurate to say that I couldn’t move.
“good. to stand still.”
I smiled and approached the assassin on the far left.
Then he took off his mask and opened his mouth.
“you. Which assassination guild are you from?”
face for the first time.
It was pitiful for those blue eyes that shook miserably.
“Boo, please save me!”
“Tell me where you are from.”
“I-I am a wife and child and a sick old woman… … .”
“Whoa.”
hooked!
The assassin stabbed through the heart said nothing more and collapsed on the spot.
I roughly wiped the blood off my face and walked to the next assassin.
“you. Which assassination guild are you from?”
“That, that… … .”
“If you don’t want to answer, don’t.”
hooked!
It was in the hands of not even a word of mercy.
The bodies of the two remaining assassins began to visibly tremble.
The musty smell stinging my nose was unpleasant, but my smile still lingered.
“next.”
“Sah, I belong to the assassination guild in the commercial city of Adela!”
A very satisfactory answer came.
But it was still not enough.
“Then who commissioned the assassination?”
“… … .”
“Tsk. You lack the ability to learn.”
hooked!
From noble mtl dot com.
With this, there was only one assassin left.
I approached him with a brighter smile than before.
“Who commissioned the assassination?”
“I will tell you everything! Everything related to this request!”
“You are cooperative.”
I crossed my arms in front of him and nodded my head.
“Now tell me.”
“Cheo, it started with an attendant who came to the guild a week ago.”
“and?”
“That person said that the nobility he served needed top-notch assassins… … .”
The assassin, who was holding his breath for a moment, continued.
“Instead of giving 100 million gold as a request fee, he told me that if I heard the assassination target, I couldn’t bite anymore.”
“Hoo. One hundred million gold each?”
“Yes, yes.”
“Funny.”
A nobleman rich enough to spend a large sum of 100 million gold?
I asked while stroking my chin at an interesting story.
“So who did you say the client was?”
“The client… … The client… … .”
“hmm?”
Gradually slurred speech and confused eyes.
That moment.
“this.”
I felt something strange and stepped back.
It was a momentary judgment, but it was very right.
“Quaaagh!”
pop!
The head, which had swelled little by little, was soon shattered, and fragments soared into the air.
Fortunately, I didn’t take a direct hit because I was back, but I couldn’t avoid getting the hem of my clothes dirty.
I said, licking my lips in regret.
“Tsk. It was cursed.”
hahahaha I wouldn’t have missed the minimum of prevention for this kind of thing.
It was already expected.
“One hundred million gold… … .”
Shaking off his clothes, he fell into a brief thought.
The nobles who might be hostile to me in the present situation are the remnants who committed infidelity with Asus and got their crimes discovered, and the idiots whose feet were numb. There were only two categories.
Among them, except for the remnants of Asus, who will lie flat because of the example of Viscount Honoreo, all that remains are idiots with numb feet.
But idiots who don’t even have a pivot are trying to assassinate me while carrying the risk?
‘It’s impossible.’
If that was possible, the intelligence department would have attacked me already at the noble meeting and drove me into a corner.
It was true that it was difficult to expect an organized movement from such guys in the first place.
In other words, it was said that there was a third party, a third force to be exact, who left the nobles who were trembling in fear to act.
It is also a new force that hastily formed in the wake of the death of Asus.
If so, the identity of the forces attempting the assassination was obvious.
“Right. It’s all sorted out now.”
My lips curled up.
A force with a reason to move even though there is a person who has enough wealth to use a large amount of gold as the head.
I quietly meditate on the hypotheses that have popped into my head. Maybe with a little bit of physical evidence, you’ll be convinced right away.
“Baron Vidor.”
“ah! Yes, Your Highness!”
“I’m just going back.”
Now was the time to really return to the palace.
It was a week before the delegation’s visit.
* * *
The 4th prince, who was reading the report, laughed.
“therefore. It wasn’t enough that he died in vain, so he even left behind evidence, right?”
An honorific word beautifully packaged as if it were made up.
At this, the body of the attendant who posted the report trembled.
Because he knew the character of the 4th Prince better than anyone else.
“and? Is it the first prince who stopped my plan?”
“Yes, yes.”
“That’s a really interesting story.”
is it a funny story?
It was his owner who was consistent with an indifferent attitude about everything, but it was different now after hearing the report about Asus.
That appearance was unfamiliar even to the attendants who had been assisting the 4th prince.
What is certain is that this situation is by no means a fun scene.
“But, why did you report this only after a long time?”
“Ah, His Majesty the Emperor directly controlled the information. As a result, the delivery of information has been delayed.”
“Your Majesty?”
“I apologize. majesty.”
Surprised by the unexpected answer, the 4th prince put down the report and said.
“All right. You must have had intentions. You can go out and have a look.”
“Then, the small person is enough… … .”
“Oh, wait a minute.”
The attendant, who was about to leave the seat quickly in case sparks would fly to him, trembled at the voice of the 4th prince calling him.
But what followed was completely different from what I expected.
“The first prince of Esteban. Keep an eye on him.”
“yes?”
The sound of air escaping from the attendant’s mouth leaked, but there was no explanation twice.
“And I must see His Majesty right now.”
“Ah, I see. We will inform you in advance.”
“yes. then.”
What are you thinking?
The 4th prince, who had been looking at the report on his desk for a long time, got up from his seat when he heard the sound of a carriage coming through the window.
Beneath the report received from the attendant, information about the first prince seemed to be glimpsed.
“You’re indecisive and weak and won’t be a big stumbling block?”
A ray of sunlight entered through the meticulously drawn curtains and illuminated his face, revealing a terrible stab wound across the prince’s eye.
I couldn’t feel anything because my nerves were dead, but I thought to myself that those eyes were smiling.
“Who the hell gave you this information?”
Leiden del Carrot.
The 4th prince of the Carrot Federation Empire, and the future emperor, his self-talk hinted at the bloody winds that would blow upon the imperial palace.
Really hard to take an antagonist named Carrot and the enemy that supposedly tortured MC in past life “Carrot” federation seriously lol