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Leon’s family was close to the middle class, to say the least, and although he was a powerful family, he did not make any effort to get close to the king. So people ridiculed Leon’s family as ‘one tightrope masters’, but he was showing such excellent behavior. They didn’t get too close to the king, didn’t interact with the king’s enemies, looked like an entertainnt-only family, but everyone was faithfully occupying their place. He chose a different way from others to live in the tis.
Everyone has a different way of surviving.
After the eting was over, Leon smiled while biting the cigar. He didn’t leave the hall, so he just had sothing to say. On the other hand, Chris had sothing to say so he remained, but at Leon’s words, “Get lost,” he squeaked and disappeared.
When Leon’s words beco harsh, it ans that he doesn’t feel very well. He’s a cold-hearted type, so he’s scary when he gets angry and nagged a lot, and so he fell back. Oh, I don’t want to hear that. Leon slamd the door where Chris ca out and looked back at as if sothing was written on my face.
“My lord.”
“Huh?”
“Really, why did you save the Grand Duke?”
I also didn’t understand.
“To so extent, there was a genuine inheritance problem.”
“It was a problem that could be solved in another way. It wasn’t a big deal enough to risk Hastred.”
“… … .”
“In the first place, without Hastred they don’t have the title or property they want, so how will they keep it? Hastred belonged to the lord and this is immutable. Don’t look at like I’m an idiot.”
“Hastred is mine, but my uncles are not easy people. Of course, the knights follow but, so of the family mbers have been conciliated.”
“… Who? Whose family is it?”
“If I tell you, they’ll run and catch a mouse with a mouse, so how can I tell you?”
Leon clicked his tongue vehently at my words. He seed frustrated because he didn’t know the other person, even though he wanted to argue and run away. But I couldn’t tell him. The knights know . They have seen closely what kind of person and capabilities I had. But what about the knights’ families? To them, I was just a twenty-six-year-old, well-bred girl.
Oh, the beginning of the year is delicious. Tobacco is known to be good for the body, but in the case of holy knights, there were many people who stopped smoking. They would define this languid sensation as pleasure and as an obstacle to an ascetic life. Also, as a sex holy knight, they advised to lead a celibate life in order to maintain my credibility and to quit smoking.
I can’t cut this off. It’s too delicious.
“My lord.”
“No. And it’s not their fault. Do I have to cut off their throat just because I’ve been trying in living my life in different ways?”
“When did I say I to cut their throat?”
“It’s like that.”
“Ah, you misunderstood. These deer-like eyes.”
“I think I saw it right.”
“No. Look at my eyes, these innocent, clear eyes.”
Leon pushed his face on . I looked into his gray eyes and smiled bitterly. It’s far from being clear, it’s quite insidious. I probably don’t agree with what you say, so please stop. Seeing the words written on my face, Leon clicked his tongue.
“The traitor must be caught imdiately.”
Who betrayed whom?
I don’t even know every ti I heard this. Did they betray ? From my point of view, that might be the case. But strangely enough, I’m on the side of a fence.
I don’t.
Was it because I was living on the verge of death? I always feel like I’m standing in a gray area. People organize their positions more clearly than ever and move forward with their will, while slaying enemies and embracing their allies, but I always stand in a place where neither the earth nor the water is half-subrged, and watched everything. Twenty-eight. Duke of Hastred. I know I have to decide and take responsibility for everything.
Why am I doing this?
The reason Eden suddenly ca to mind was probably that he was thirteen. The age at which I killed a person. At that age, I thought that life would all be clear by the ti I reached my present age, or when I was approaching 30.
There are tis when I find it difficult to bear the feeling of floating alone. As always, I inhaled the smoke of the beginning of the year deep into my lungs. I drank the drowsy smoke to the end of my stomach and sighed.
Leon was about to say sothing but finally bit his mouth. I know his loyalty. I’m the lord who only knows money so that’s why he’s loyal only to . But I often think. What makes you loyal because I’m Ilyd Sarian’s daughter? Because I’m a holy knight? What makes you risk your life? Is it worth it to ? Am I worthy of that?
I know I have to pretend I don’t know.
I have to understand everything with a chin raised up, pretending to be worthy.
“My lord?”
Leon called as if he felt sothing strange. I breathed in the last smoke of the beginning of the year and laughed as I dusted off the ashes of the cigar. Perhaps the beginning of the year tonight was needed a little more than usual. After holding onto the last act, I felt like I was getting better as usual.
“Why?” When I asked, Leon looked at intently and shook his head.
“No, it’s nothing”
“Leon.”
“Yes.”
“Bring a map.”
Leon is here anyway, so let’s finish the story.
“Yes?”
“For the next month. This war will be over.”
I laughed languidly as the last ashes fell from the cigarette. Now that we’ve cleared up so in the battlefield, it’s ti to rush. It was a plan to remove the nests of the monsters. This ti, I will cut off the monsters’ buds in the north. A cruel smile lingered on Leon’s face when he saw my expression.
“Everything will be done according to the will of the lord.”
As always.
Leon did not make a sound and added only the shape of his mouth. I smiled at that face. I felt most at ease when talking about the war when we could smile with the sa face as usual.
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It took less than a month to finish the 7th monster subjugation.
The plan was expecting up to a month, but I was lucky. Everything happened one after the other as promised, and in three weeks we arrived at the nest of the northern monster king, Lichtatline. Lichtatline. The monster did not beco a dragon but pretended to be a dragon and gathered the surrounding monsters. From a human’s perspective, the gathering place of the monsters should be described as a ‘nest’, but in fact, it was not insufficient to say that it was a small town. Everything was there. From the blacksmith to the farm, he had all the minimal things that make up a village.
“If it had been a little longer, we almost would have faced a city,” said Leon, who ca closer to and was covered in demons’ blood. He looked very tired.
“We have dismantled the ruins that have been abandoned nearby. You can see stone walls here and there.”
“Damn, are they now living in a house made of stone walls by demons? People live in a wooden house too?!”
Chris pulled out his sword that stabbed the monster’s heart and ca to our side while complaining. It seed that he was more dissatisfied with the monsters living in a stone-walled house than fighting them. … In fact, it was more like a castle than a house. It is because the fortress was not completely built with stone walls and was covered with grass in so places.
“The Griffin is coming!” Soone shouted. Sophie pulled out a crossbow from her back and fired at the rushing griffins. Then a few shots flew away in an instant. While the griffins dodge arrows, so pull out the crossbows, while major forces such as Leon and Chris focus their minds on fixing their swords and dealing with the falling griffins.
Then suddenly the sky began to darken. Whooosh! A strange and bizarre cry, it was difficult to call a monster or a human scream, but it seed to fill the whole world. I quickly looked around. Not only , but everyone else did. Everyone looked around to find the source of the sound, but it was so loud that they couldn’t tell where it was coming from.
Flutter, flutter. The wind blew with the sound of wings flapping.
“This is Lichtatline!”
It is rare to find a monster with a na. The Lichtatline was one of the few monsters with a na. Lichtatline “Prophet of the damned” in cursed language.
“I was going to get angry.”
It was large enough to say that it filled the sky.
Lichtatline. The monster that didn’t beco a dragon seed to be bigger than a dragon. A huge black monster was floating in the sky had yellow eyes that were looking down on us, and it’s every move gave us a chill in our spines. The eyes were too big and too bright that it was like two, thin moons were floating.
“An unexpected person has arrived. It’s a holy knight, isn’t it?”
The way he spoke was slightly different from that of humans. It wasn’t a sound, it was a feeling that was transmitted directly into my head. I could understand him, but I couldn’t hear his voice. It was a strange feeling. So of the knights stepped back. It was an instinctive fear.
“I didn’t think my na would be so great that even monsters would know it.”
I crossed my arms on the horse and smiled. It would be difficult to say what a terrifying monster the Lichtatline was until I t him, but I know how powerful his magical powers are. However, on the day that I show even the slightest sign of a decline here, everyone’s morale will be shattered.
And, oddly enough, I wasn’t afraid of this. In fact, I seem to have forgotten that I am scared from so ti ago. I can’t rember since when.
If you die, you die.
Just that.
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