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curtain call (5)
Missed Isabelle and Kristel.
– Just, just, right, right…
Simon de Sarnez nervously tapped the desk. It wasn’t just today.
He only slept three hours a day after losing two mothers and daughters.
When I sat in the study, I used to torment my finger bones like crazy for half a day.
There was a bruise on every part of the body, but there was no pain.
It was only natural that he was suffering a greater loss than that.
The two most precious beings in the world were not out of their grasp.
“I went by boat, so I should catch it with water.”
he murmured quickly. His right eye, wearing a white mask, looked sad and helpless.
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On the other hand, the unburned left eye flashed with ominous madness.
“Ship, port, ship, port, ship, port.”
– Tick Tick Tick…
The plot was simple. All we had to do was bring down Prince Jesse Penetian’s honor and kill him.
There was no need to get your hands dirty.
It was destined to take his breath away if he had the dear emperor cast him out and hand him over to Berner Penetian.
However, Simon decided that it would be beneficial to the family if he would definitely shut his eyes in the Empire.
So I made an unreasonable number. Rather than leaving room for it, it was a way to prevent relapse by doing it neatly on my own line.
“Isabel, Kristel, Isabelle, Kristel, Isabelle . . .”
– Tick Tick! Tick Tack!
At least, that’s how my great-grandmother behaved.
She made a plan so that the innocent Baron Ash was killed by the sword of the Emperor.
Because I knew that if you didn’t sacrifice him, or you didn’t show determination, you and the duke would fall.
“Why did you leave?”
“master.”
“I need my protection.”
“master?”
“You don’t know how dangerous it is outside.”
“Master Simon.”
Startle. The peacock woke up from his thoughts and raised his head.
The chieftain looked down at him and smiled kindly.
The old man took out a handkerchief, wiped the bloody desk, and wrapped his master’s red-stained fingers with a napkin.
The light returned to the peacock’s eyes.
“Would you mind re-distributing the flyer?”
“······okay. A method that fails once is more likely to fail a second time.”
The man’s voice calmed down.
Nobok nodded once and poured a cup of strong coffee.
The peacock raised the glass with his trembling left hand.
I couldn’t feel the taste or even the temperature properly, but it was one of the many things I took as a habit.
“Is there any news from Asu Port?”
“Yes. The Sarnez shipping staff are checking all the ships that stop at the port, but they say that the wife and the lady are nowhere to be seen. There were no sightings of pirate ships.”
“·················ogue.”
The peacock fell into silence. As far as he knows, the nanny Ellen, who fled with him, was from a fishing village.
But her hometown was too far from Sarnez on the west coast.
If the three of them could go by boat, only Serenite, the prince’s estate, came to mind.
There is a large port in the free city of Ases, so I thought that I could leave the ship and land and hide in the lord’s castle.
However, until eight days after running away, the three women did not appear in the West Sea.
Like a ghost ship, it disappeared without a trace.
“Seek eyewitnesses along the shoreline. Until such a large ship was not stranded……”
He shrugged and clenched his fists. A precious daughter has the power of the water attribute.
Simon still considered it a curse, but never showed it.
After waking up from the sick bed, he was overwhelmingly stronger than everyone else.
Hopefully, such a tragedy would never have happened.
“I will take orders. What about the prince?”
The old man asked in a soft voice. Simon made eye contact with him.
The valet was as active in this work as he was, and perhaps even more sincere than himself.
Again, this was more of a pressure than a question. The peacock raised the corners of his lips helplessly.
I had something in mind.
“New Year’s Week starts tomorrow.”
“That’s right.”
December 28th. It was Monday, the beginning of the last week of the year.
Every year around this time of the year, New Year’s Eve festivals are held across the continent.
Starting with Claire Square, in the zodiac, dances, songs, and parades were scheduled to continue everywhere.
Even in the year of the cold wave and heavy snow, the festival never stopped.
The Listerians naturally liked to gather together and have fun.
The peacock’s forehead was wrinkled. It was a look that traced distant memories.
“Isn’t there something commoners were doing around this time? I went up on stage to accuse the lord, and sometimes complained that I had been unfairly treated.”
“There must be such a faucet.”
“There is someone who deserves to be put there.”
The peacock raised his bloody hand and pushed the paper on the other side of the desk.
‘Results of investigation into bounty clothing.’
The old man’s eyes narrowed.
Last spring, the Duke had investigated the atrocities of ‘Le Sipre’ inn in Huangming.
The situation in which the innkeeper had long extorted the bounties given to villagers by the passing nobles was captured.
The people who caught the scene at the time were Prince Jesse and the Crown Prince and his party.
The perpetrator, Claudine Green, testified that most of the stolen money was buried in the mountains.
But when Simon’s soldiers arrived, the tunnel had already been robbed by someone.
He kept the clues found there without telling the emperor.
And when I saw the business card stuck in the document, I realized it too late.
Perhaps for a very long time, he had acted like the bloodline of Sejak.
“…a great idea, but will he follow suit?”
asked the old man who quickly grasped the back and forth. The peacock shook his head.
“Those who have something to protect become powerless. He does not hesitate to do toxic things.”
‘Weakness’ and ‘evil’ were only one notch apart. Simon smirked. Having said that, it was his own story.
It was to protect the family that he put into practice a series of horrific acts.
With only the shipping business that the Sarnez family has cultivated so far, the duke had thousands of family members.
Including numerous Young Ji-min, the responsibility increased endlessly.
He had to somehow avoid being caught and abandoned by the emperor.
He handed the papers to the old man.
“Put interest on the stage and pay the price. and.”
The sentence was interrupted for a moment. He casually drank the steaming hot coffee.
And he smiled hard and continued.
“To the commander of the Imperial Guards… Tell me to beat the Duem Youngjuseong.”
A terrifying silence passed. The two met their eyes.
If the emperor’s forces moved, the knights of the Marquis would eventually raise their weapons.
Simon was aiming for that point.
They will move to protect the castle and Yeongji-min, but they will never be free from sin in that their opponent represents the imperial family.
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Once the garrison had sprayed blood on the sword of the great nobleman, it was not difficult to inflate him and wrap him into treason.
“I can say that I did my first work at Yeongjuseong. Evidence can be produced in moderation.”
“It would be possible if you were the deputy commander.”
Already, Johann Haines has slaughtered dozens of Imperial Guards.
If the marquise’s error is added to it, the prince as well as François Duheme will be extremely endangered.
I have no regrets for them, but…
“How do you say your Majesty is doing?”
Simon swallowed his saliva and changed the topic. The old man answered politely.
“It is said that he brought Duke Cecil Blanquere, who had come to visit him after losing his son, to the palace and solved the case for a while. Rumors circulate that the chief of the Imperial Palace was in tears among the close sister-in-law.”
“Good.”
The peacock nodded his head. If that’s all it really is, that’s fine.
Burns dripped down his chin.
*
December 28 evening.
– Hui Yiying…
‘There is nothing more than the West Coast.’
A sign made by stitching excess fabric was tied horizontally between two trees and fluttered.
Sarnez Shipping’s employees were busy exhaling white breaths.
The mercenaries hired in shipping also patrolled with their own weapons.
There was no time to set foot in the port due to the crowds of loading and unloading people, loading and unloading personnel, and cargo.
When the New Year’s week began, everyone was a little bit excited.
“Would you like to have a drink of Benedictine at my house after work?”
“From Monday? I knew it was your week, but that’s great.”
“How about it, isn’t it New Year’s Day!”
“Yeah, good. for a moment. Where did you get such a precious medicine?”
‘Uh-huh!’ Loud laughter echoed the shore.
It was a gloomy and cold weather, but the colorful flags and decorations hanging here and there somehow made me feel excited.
The atmosphere of the superiors was unusual, but it was the year-end and New Year holidays, so there was nothing special.
The winter sea mixed with the sunset and night was beautiful.
“Smile quietly, other shipping people are staring at you.”
“Is it a day or two? Uh oh, there’s a boat coming in.”
Those who were groaning drew their attention to the sea.
Then he looked at the approaching ship and frowned at the same time.
A particularly sharp foreign object somehow caught my eye.
“Where have you seen a lot? Am I mistaken?”
“Well, isn’t it a ship we see every day? It can be confusing.”
The staff groaned. They started waving the signal poles towards the familiar boat.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa…! The hull cut through the water and approached at high speed.
My body shivered and I felt strange.
The thickly-dressed staff stood close together unconsciously.
As the ship got closer, everyone’s eyes widened.
Suddenly, someone raised a gloved hand and shouted.
“that! Is that a whale over there? Big whale!”
“Right? Am I not mistaken, the whales are jumping?”
“The whale is coming after the ship. A spectacular sight to see for the first time in ten years, hehe!”
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One of the employees was stunned.
What he had discovered could not have been overlooked by others.
“I, I! ironware! Black iron on the bow!”
“Whoa!”
“O Lord!”
black horns. It was a symbol of North Sea pirate ships crashing into and destroying Lister merchant ships.
“It’s a pirate! It’s a pirate ship!”
“The pirates have come down!”
‘Ahhh!’ The port quickly turned into a chaos.
Some of the blue-eyed employees fled inland.
Skilled men evacuated customers and crew in an orderly manner, even in fear.
The person who talked about alcohol quickly ran to the post and rang the bell. Deng, den, den!
“Pirate! Drop all your bags and run! pirate! all······!”
“Get out of here!”
– Come and go!
Then, someone roughed the employee.
The woman rolled over on the floor and trembled at the unexpected attack. Maybe the robbers who have already landed,
“Hey, knights!”
she opened her mouth was not a pirate.
The group wearing flashy armor was different from the mercenaries of the shipping industry in terms of momentum.
“From now on, the Knights of Sarnez will face the enemy ships. Get your bastard out of the way!”
“·········Yes, I understand.”
The woman clenched her teeth and ran away.
The Knights Templar moved in unison under the secret orders of Duke Sarnez.
Suddenly, the pirate ship was sitting on the berth.
The swarm of whales that had been chasing like an escort disappeared like a bubble, and the deck was also empty.
A few knights grabbed the rope with skillful arm movements and started turning it. ooh, ooh, ooh!
– Flirririk, shudder!
– Clap, clap!
A huge hook was caught on the player’s head.
The pirate ship was holding the ankle to prevent it from escaping.
Seeing the crowd falling like low tide, the knight commander exclaimed.
“Miss Christel! Take your wife and nanny and disembark now! Your father is very worried!”
“·················ogue.”
I waited for a long time, but no answer came back. The knights exchanged bewildered glances.
That was definitely the pirate ship that the young lady had looted from the borderless borderlands.
It wasn’t long ago that I saw him running away on board with my own two eyes.
With her personality, she couldn’t have been so quiet. no way······.
-Sureung!
– Sreung, Sreung!
The leader drew his sword with a wretched face.
His men followed him and quickly formed a fighting stance.
“Being a thief doesn’t change anything! surrender immediately! How dare pirates despise the Duke!”
“Heh heh, like a pirate.”
A clear voice rang out. ‘Exactly!’ and the sound of snapping fingers.
At the same time as the leader opens his eyes,
– Dumpling!
– Cheol-seodeok, Cheol-suk—–!
A large pirate ship began to sway up, down, left and right.
It was like a move to get out of a hook.
The waves in front of the ship writhing like a living creature did not know what to do.
The leader sharpens his teeth and fixes the sword,
– Paah!
A man wearing a captain’s hat soared from the hull. It was an invisible speed.
The moment the manager, who had his mouth shut, wielded the hilt, his pink hair fluttered in front of his nose!
“Ah, miss!”
Awkward! Just by hearing the noise, his arms froze with his sword.
The subordinates, who were momentarily bewildered, opened their mouths wide.
Kristel moved smoothly and swiftly, like a torrent.
Puck, puck! After kicking one guy with his long legs, he uses the recoil to spin the guy in the back and kick them, and then put fine ice under the feet of those who are just rushing at them.
You fall well, woodang-tang!
“What is a pirate? Pirates rule the wind!”
-Whew!
“Aww!”
The soldiers rushing from behind were blown away like fallen leaves in the strong wind.
A white-haired paladin appeared on the deck.
“Crabs down on the dry sky!”
– Whoa!
A crowing sound came from Christel’s arms.
Then, out of the sky, crabs poured out of nowhere. Shoot!
“Ouch, ow!”
“Evil, it stings!”
“Running across the ground!”
– Kiying!
Kugugugung, blah blah! The famous port of Sarnez was split in two in vain.
The astonished commander exclaimed.
“no! What are you doing!”
“Switching a sharp sword like a flame and splitting the continents!”
– Whoops!
A terrifying fire attacked the top of the Knights Templar. It was as if the sun had fallen!
“Aww, my head is burning!”
“Do you know how to handle that sword like wings!”
– Beep!
The wren gave a courageous reply and landed on someone’s head.
Everyone’s eyes were focused on it. Her purple eyes lit up with an awkward light.
“I am sorry. I didn’t mean to do this.”
“It is a pirate’s job to help the poor prince!”
Standing in the midst of the fallen knights, the noble lady declared loudly. All of that was instantaneous.
Sarnez Port was attacked by the Sarnez Pirates.