“this guy!”
“Hup!”
Max panicked and stepped back from the range of Luke’s sword. I was already in a situation where no excuses would work.
Hundreds of double curses came to mind, but there was not enough time to spit them out.
‘Let’s bounce!’
Now it was commissioned and Nabal, and it was good. If you don’t run away right away, the knights will catch you and kill you.
But just before Max opened the door, the teacup flew out of Luke’s hand.
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“Kek!”
Max staggered from the impact of the teacup smashing against his head. Meanwhile, Luke quickly jumped out and blocked the door.
“You can’t run away!.”
‘Such a plague…!’
Max, who barely came to his senses and stepped back, bit his lip. The only way out was the one window in the back.
After thinking about it, Max turned around and ran, then threw himself at the window with all his might.
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“Keugh!”
Max fell down from the second floor and rolled over to shake off the glass powder. The glass was of the highest quality, so when it broke, the fragments were not sharp.
I breathed a sigh of relief for a moment, saying that I was very fortunate, but a bigger problem occurred later.
-What are you talking about!?
-I came from over there!
‘I knew it would be like this.’
That’s why I didn’t want to do anything like escape the window. It was like letting people in the neighborhood know where they were.
Fortunately, I was able to get away from Luke. Just hide the mask and dagger and go back to being the ignorant warehouse keeper.
The moment I thought so and tried to hide in the dark.
“cancer! fat! ruler!”
“…!”
Max’s heart sank at the sound he heard next to him. When I turned my head, there was a person I didn’t want to meet the most.
‘What crazy! Why the hell is this drunkard here?’
Bruno Baston. Although he is called a foolish knight, he is a person who competes for first place in his family in terms of military power.
And even if Max attacked in perfect conditions, he was a man with no hope of winning.
Bruno grinned at the trembling Max.
“Don’t worry, I won’t touch you. I am not the one to deal with you.”
“…?”
What do you mean? It’s not the assassin who attacked the lord… but a person who looks like that is in front of you, so you won’t attack?
It was a shame that I couldn’t ask directly for fear of my voice being heard. Fortunately, Max’s question was soon resolved.
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“Oops.”
Max shuddered at the sound he heard from behind. When I turned my head, Luke with a sword had arrived before I knew it.
Apparently, he had jumped out of the place where he had just broken the window.
As Luke landed, he brushed off the dirt and gripped his sword.
“Bruno, stop it properly so it can’t escape.”
“Don’t worry. If you think you can’t catch it, I’ll just sew it up with this.”
Max broke into a cold sweat at the sight of Bruno knocking on the window. If he threw the spear with that monstrous strength, he would be skewered without any chance to escape.
With the retreat completely blocked, Max gritted his teeth and fixed the dagger.
‘Now there is no real way. I have to hold even that young boy hostage!’
It is already impossible to explain. There is no way to escape undetected. The only way out is to take hostages.
To be honest, I don’t know if I’ll be able to survive even if I do that, but I don’t think there’s as much possibility as when I was on my fingernails.
‘Fortunately, Sir Bruno is only blocking retreat. It’s enough for a young boy who’s only been learning swordsmanship for over a month…!?’
Max frightened at the lightning-like sword strike and stopped thinking. The dagger raised reflexively and the sword collided with sparks.
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‘Keugh!’
The arm that was blocked by the unusual force trembled. There is a difference between a short sword and a long sword, but such a powerful blow.
‘You son of a b*tch, you’re not a beginner!’
A cold sweat broke out on Max’s back. I thought it was possible enough to take a hostage if I was prepared for a little loss.
But now that I see it, isn’t it time to worry about my life even if I do my best?
Looking at Max who stopped the surprise attack, Luke smiled as if he liked it.
“Oh, how is it? A little more intensity would be fine.”
“…!?”
I thought I was bluffing, but as soon as I finished thinking about it, a series of lightning-like stabs flew in.
Max parried the stab with his dagger with all his might. There was no time to think of anything else.
I had to run away and sleep, and I had no choice but to block the blade that was approaching in front of me.
****
Time continued to tick while Max blocked Luke’s attack. People began to gather around the three of them.
“Sir Bruno, what is this!”
“Do, Bocchan-nim fight…!”
The knights opened their mouths in amazement when they saw the situation. Aren’t the unknown assailants and Luke fighting swords against each other?
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“What are you doing? Let’s help!”
“no! Stop everyone!”
Some knights drew their swords and tried to rush out to join them, but Bruno blocked them.
The disturbed knights contorted their faces and let out a roar.
“Sir Bruno, why are you stopping me!?”
“Brother Luke is your lord! The first person to help…!”
At the shouts of the knights, Bruno lowered his head with a calm face.
“Why would you not want to help me? But his true identity is the problem!”
“What is that guy’s true identity? Aren’t you an assassin?”
“Not just an assassin! That guy… is a pagan assassin from the East!”
“What!”
The knights stared at each other in fright. Assassins of pagan origins from the East were notorious even within the Empire.
I did not spare my life with fanatical belief, and even remodeled my body over 10 years for just one occasion.
To think that the assassin Luke is dealing with is such a dangerous guy!
“The Assassin of the East! Is that true?”
‘Is it true! What kind of nonsense is that idiot talking about all of a sudden!?’
What shocked me even more than the shocked knights was Max himself. I’ve never been outside the empire, but the east is a mess!
But Bruno’s mouth movements did not stop.
“You can tell by looking at his dagger technique now. Even though it looks weak, it is a dagger technique that viciously kills defenseless opponents, Rakvija!”
“I can’t!”
‘What is that, madman!’
I had never heard of a monstrous name like Rakvisa. It’s just a nameless dagger technique that he supplemented with his own experience what he learned from his master.
“Looking at the way he ties his mask, it must be a sect that hides poison by modifying its body. If there are more than two of them, they will give up and try to take everyone along the way by exploding the poison in their body.”
“Well, in that case…!”
“I have no choice but to leave it to the Bocchan! Fortunately, they never self-destruct due to the precepts when it comes to one-on-one!”
‘doesn’t exist! There is nothing like that! I’ve never had a boil on my body, what kind of alteration!’
Max was on the verge of fainting. At first, he became an assassin in a prank to keep him from sleeping, and now he has become a madman whose whole body has been remodeled with poison.
What was worse was that even if I wanted to protest, I couldn’t. Aside from being unconvincing, the moment you open your mouth, your throat will fly!
“But the young master has just learned the sword…”
“Now, wait. take a closer look The young master is overpowering you.”
“What is that…!?”
Only then did the knights accurately grasp the situation. At first, I thought Luke was barely defending himself because of preconceived notions.
But when I looked at it, wasn’t it unilaterally pushing the assassin?
“oh my god! What the hell is this all about?”
“He’s someone who’s never experienced combat before!”
“I heard that Sir Werner praised it, but…!”
The knights continued to watch the duel with their mouths wide open. Although quite a bit of time had already passed, the workshop continued like water flowing.
If you’re a beginner, it’s easy to reveal your gaps in a long-term battle, but it was the assassins who were losing more and more.
“Dear founder Leonic…”
Someone inadvertently put Leonic’s name in it and lowered his head. So did the other articles.
Then Max could see. Luke and Bruno wink at each other for a brief moment.
‘Wait a minute, these gentlemen can’t…!?’
The moment he thought of a hypothesis, Max stiffened in shock. It was a fatal gap in a battle where life goes back and forth in one second.
Luke quickly dipped in and smacked the temple with a pommel.
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“Ouch!”
With a flash of shock, Max lost consciousness. With the despair that everything is over now.
****
“Keugh…!”
Moments later, with a throbbing pain, Max opened his eyes. It was still night.
Max was lying in a corner of an empty warehouse with his whole body tied up.
“I thought it would be a dungeon…”
“I took blood to stop everyone from sending them there, you bastard.”
At the sound he heard next to him, Max stunned and turned his head. There, Luke was watching Max with his legs crossed.
“They said it was a pagan from the East, so it worked better than I thought. Crazy people don’t do anything strange, so they must think that everything makes sense.”
At Luke’s words, Max blinked for a moment and sighed deeply.
“Did you say something about the Bona Mana Doctrine?”
“I know.”
To be precise, he said that he shouldn’t be sent to prison because he didn’t know what he would do the moment he lost hope.
He added an excuse that Luke should be with him because he would not do anything stupid if there was a possibility of an assassination.
It was an excuse that would not work if the count had been there, but he was just about to go down to the manor to see errands.
“Damn it, you just kill them nicely. Why did you frame them like that? Do you want to make the young master stand out?”
“Why do I do that?”
Max snorted as Luke tilted his head.
“I am not stupid either. Is this all what the Bocchan intended?”
I don’t know how far Luke knows. Did he even know that Michael’s purpose was a simple threat, or did he mistake it for a real assassination?
What is certain is that he already knew that Max was coming. And he tried to use this situation to make himself stand out.
These two were absolutely certain.
‘If I said that they colluded in advance, everything would be explained.’
The fact that he usually slept well and was only awake at that time, and the fact that he had prepared a sword in advance. And even what Bruno was waiting for.
Max was caught in a trap without knowing anything.
“Anyway, isn’t it too much to be framed as a pagan assassin in the East? You’re making people go to hell just to raise the value of your name.”
Max grumbled that he had been praying quite hard after all this.
“Then why would I do such a thing?”
“Are you going to keep pretending until the end? Do whatever you like.”
“Not that.”
Luke smiled meaningfully at Max, who turned his head away.
“You are from the assassin organization ‘Black Moon’, right? To increase the value of your name, you would have just told me about your birth.”
Max felt icicles sticking up his spine.