198 His Highness or something is going to kill him.
***[Crown Prince Robert]***
Rattle rattle rattle.
everything shakes
It felt like everything in the world was jumbled and shaken.
It is as if the whole world is contained in a small bottle.
I don’t know how many days it was, but it must have been like this for quite a while.
Memories flashed in and out of my head like flashes of light, and then surged again.
ah… ah… that was it.
now i get it
Robert muttered involuntarily in a space filled with darkness.
Originally, Oscar’s life was all his own.
Originally, he would have been born as Oscar, but he was taken away.
I lost my whole life to him.
Yeah, that’s why I was so blinded by her.
my fiancee
my wife.
… My dear Catherine.
need to get it back
Even now, I must get it back no matter what.
Her lovely smile was originally his.
The moment he thought so, Robert opened his eyes as if he had jumped.
“Hut!”
There was a sound of breathing next to me.
When I turned my eyes slightly to the side, there was a man I had never seen before.
The man seemed taken aback, but soon lowered himself.
“Are you awake, Your Highness the Crown Prince?”
The man continued with a little embarrassment, as if he was not accustomed to being served by royalty.
“Ooh, don’t move. Your Highness has been unconscious for a long time.”
That’s pretty good.
Robert opened his mouth.
“… uh… kuh… ah…”
Inadvertently, he tried to ask where Catherine was.
But no voice came out.
“…”
Robert kept his mouth shut.
ask, what next?
what to do
Catherine must be in the Duchy.
It’s something you already know.
She had already married Oscar and officially became a duchess.
It was stolen a long time ago.
Tears flowed without my knowledge.
Everything Oscar has now.
A brilliant mind, faithful subordinates, Catherine, fame, all of that was originally Robert’s own…
In a twist of fate, Oscar stole it.
yes, it was stolen
Tears flowed incessantly.
“Your Highness, rest assured. You will soon see the gates of the royal capital. We have passed all the dangerous places. It is safe.”
What did he misunderstand? The man was taken aback and spoke up.
royal road.
When I heard that word, something vaguely filled my head.
It is as if a thick fog covers your thoughts.
Suddenly, no, that’s what I thought.
“…”
You must not go to the royal capital.
Now is not the time to go there.
“…”
Robert stared blankly at the carriage ceiling.
Yes, I have to go see Catherine.
You have to tell her that you were her husband, and that this is how it all came together in a strange way.
We have to get back everything that Oscar took away.
‘I have to fix it right now…’
Robert forced his wobbly body to stand up.
Suddenly, his hand came into view.
“!”
what.
It is full of lines, as if a hand had drawn something on it.
I wondered what the hell was drawn, and it was only after holding it close to my face that I realized it was a wrinkle.
oh my god.
After muttering inwardly without realizing it, I am startled and touch my face with my hand.
As I felt it with my fingers, I felt a deep rift.
My God… why did this happen.
The whole face seems to be full of wrinkles.
‘No… No…’
The figure of Igor came to mind.
His wrinkled, monstrous skin.
Robert involuntarily raised his fingernails and scratched his face.
It was clear that something had been overturned.
He couldn’t have become a monster like Igor.
My face was tingling and my fingernails were dripping with blood.
“Um, Your Highness! No! The wound… My God, what have you done.”
shouted the man and grabbed Robert’s arm.
Maybe it’s because I haven’t moved for a long time?
I couldn’t move when the man grabbed my arm.
It doesn’t even budge.
How dare you touch the body of royalty!
I was so angry I couldn’t stand it.
Emotions are completely out of control.
It was the moment Robert glared at the man with angry eyes.
I felt something spreading around me, similar to the heavy aura that forms around a swamp.
It seems that something has left the body.
At that moment, the man’s movements stopped.
After holding Robert’s arm for a while, he collapses as if slowly collapsing.
The man was dead with his eyes open.
“… what, what.”
A crackling voice came out of his mouth.
Is this your own voice?
It is as if the dry, cracked ground from the drought has become a voice.
The voice bothered him for a moment, but Robert’s consciousness immediately turned to the man.
Why did you suddenly fall down?
It wasn’t scary or anything like that.
It just felt odd.
My head is blank.
It was blurry for some reason, and my whole body felt heavy.
Why did the man fall down?
There seems to be something important, but I don’t know what.
After a moment of silence, the carriage stopped and the door opened.
A voice is heard at the same time.
“What’s going on? Is it possible that Your Highness is awake…”
Opening the door was irrelevant.
Maybe it was the soldiers escorting this wagon.
However, the military officer fell forward without speaking.
Our eyes met for a brief moment, but we were just gagging as if we couldn’t breathe.
what.
“Why do you do that, Captain!”
someone shouted.
In an instant, there was a commotion outside.
Robert suddenly came to his senses after seeing the collapsed military officer.
The inside of the carriage was still full of heavy air.
Somehow this heavy air seems to come from Robert.
The air that kills people… is it…
When I thought about it, it felt strange.
If you are alive, why do other people die?
Robert moved slowly.
Anyway, I have to go to Catherine now.
We need to get it back from Oscar.
The thought popped into my head like an iron skewer.
I can’t move properly yet, but unlike when I just woke up, I feel like my strength has returned.
When I grabbed the wagon door and went outside, the soldiers who were moving in a fuss stopped moving.
“Me, Your Highness.”
Eyes full of fear fell on him.
The gaze of one of the military officers was directed to the corpse collapsed in front of the door.
Alternately look at Robert and the corpse.
Oh, I wonder if that’s why he died.
that’s why i’m afraid
‘Did I really do it?’
But that can’t happen.
It’s kind of strange.
As Robert looked at the dead military officer on the floor, he suddenly remembered Oscar’s work.
It is said that if he went near the demon, he would collapse and die.
The locust demon that flew through the air fell around him.
Maybe this is something like that.
‘no way….’
Robert suddenly looked at his hand.
Maybe these wrinkles created a mysterious power.
Robert looked up and saw a soldier nearby.
Let’s try it.
‘die.’
It was the moment I thought so.
Something came out of his body and spread all over the place.
The soldier and several people nearby fell suddenly to the floor.
“…Really… is it?”
Oscar and the Duke of Weiss have the same powers.
oh my god.
Robert looked at his hands again and burst into laughter.
got stronger
stronger than anyone in this world.
Neither his father, nor Emile, nor his mother, nor Oscar, nor anyone else can say anything to himself.
don’t let that happen anymore
The soldiers around them were hesitating and backing away.
One turned around.
Are you trying to run away
Robert’s throat moved.
“Stop.”
“Ugh, uhhhhh.”
However, the soldier continued to run.
As he glared at him, something rained down on the soldier like an invisible wave.
The soldier collapsed and did not move.
Seeing the scene, the soldiers who tried to run away stood still as if nailed to the spot.
“… to the dukedom… to the duchy. Turn the wagon there.”
A military officer who looked a little older asked with a face full of fear.
“Hey, Your Highness. The royal capital is right in front of you. Why is the Duke’s family…”
Robert let out a laugh involuntarily.
Of course.
Going to get back what was stolen.
And kill the culprit.
Robert suddenly saw the soldiers around him.
The faces of the soldiers who listened to his words turned earthy.
***[See Grasshopper Farmer, Episode 45]***
In the middle of winter, fields and trees all become cold.
The work that farmers had to do also decreased.
However, livestock such as goats and sheep do not stop eating.
You have to feed something.
The peasant let out a long sigh.
Straw, which serves as food for them, is prepared in advance before winter, but it cannot survive the long winter with just that.
For this reason, even in the middle of winter, they had to take goats and sheep to find grass.
A place close to home is preferable, but you are not alone in trying to feed your livestock.
Everyone is like that.
There was no more livestock to feed inside the royal road and near the city walls.
The peasant sighed again.
Originally, feeding the livestock is the children’s job.
However, in recent years barbarians have invaded and people who have fled to the capital have gathered near the fortress walls.
It would be a big deal if I entrusted my livestock to the children and then they took it away from them.
There were guards, but that happened from time to time, and it became common for adults to go out to feed livestock outside the capital.
The peasant stopped walking when he came to a spot where he could see the gates of the royal capital in the distance.
Near the royal road, there are many trees with their trunks uncovered, but there are fewer of them here.
Refugees were not far spread out here, and there were few people nearby.
“This should be safe enough. Let’s eat here.”
A farmer hung a goat rope from a nearby tree
As he shuddered, rubbing his arms over his layers of clothes, a goat began to nibble on the bark.
Others are digging hard snow.
Sheep stood beside him, waiting patiently.
The goat digs the hard ground first, then the sheep slowly start to eat.
He lets the goat do the dirty work and skips the good stuff himself.
He’s like an aristocrat.
‘No, I shouldn’t call him an aristocrat.’
It was the nobleman who saved him from the locust swarm that invaded the capital last time.
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Duke of Weiss.
When he remembered that beautiful face, the farmer’s face was filled with a smile.
Thanks to the duke’s silver coin, the second daughter was able to get married safely.
I had a lot of money left over, so I bought a goat and a sheep.
These guys are just that.
“hehehe.”
It was around that time that the laughing peasant discovered the wagon.
A very large wagon and soldiers escorting it appeared.
He didn’t have a crest, but he seemed to be a very high-ranking person anyway.
The wagon looked very good.
The high nobles don’t really like having commoners nearby, and now everyone is upset that barbarians have invaded.
Everyone’s nervous, so you’d better go unnoticed.
The farmer lay flat on the back of a tree.
Anyway, for a commoner in front of an aristocrat, prostrating on the ground is the best way of life and wisdom.
Even if you could see me here, I was lying down, and if I did, it would pass without incident, and if I couldn’t see it, there’s nothing better than that.
The frozen ground was too cold, but I thought it would pass if I stayed like this for a while, but for some reason the carriage stopped nearby.
It’s not very close, but you can barely hear her voice.
The peasant was still lying on the floor.
oh, i’m dying of cold go fast… go fast…
As I thought to myself, I realized that something was wrong with the situation.
Trembling at the sound of screaming, I slightly raised my gaze to see that a person was collapsing and dying in the distance.
what, what
The farmer lowered himself even more.
Lower it further and further so that it is one with the floor.
At that moment, I heard the words of a man covered in wrinkles, His Highness or something.
I will kill you.
kill it
uh… who? Duke of Weiss? Are you talking about the nice and pretty noble who saved his life and gave him a silver coin as a gift?
While the wagon changed direction and drove away from the royal road, the peasant continued to lie on the floor and mutter to himself.
What do we do.
What do we do.
What do we do.
‘Mo, should I pretend not to know?’
You won’t be punished for doing so.
Even if a farmer or something like that goes to the duke’s house and talks about it, no one will believe it, and since the opponent is His Highness or something, if what he hears is true, that His Highness or something will be His Highness the Crown Prince.
It was obvious what would happen to the commoners if they accused the royal family.
‘but….’
The duke is a good man.
saved him
The second daughter also married safely, and he had more goats and sheep.
More than anything… it saved me.
He didn’t just save himself.
He saved his wife, daughter, and son, all living in the capital.
The peasant trembled and murmured.
“Ah, I have to tell you.”
We need to let people know that a man full of wrinkles who makes people die is visiting the dukedom.
‘Then I have to hurry.’
The farmer tried to get up, but he continued to lie down without getting up.
what to do
The body seems to be stuck to the ground.
Or the bones are frozen.
I can’t move.
Meee…
The goat came over crying and started chewing on the clothes.
Hey! that’s not eating Do you know how expensive clothes are?
But his mouth was frozen, so no words came out.
‘What can I do? I’ll die first before I tell the duke.’