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133 – Hyde gets into a fight with Kusan’s secret wife! # One

“It’s cold! Hyde, look at this, breathe!”

When Lucy exhaled, her white breath filled the world.

The world was chilly and cold as fall passed and entered winter.

It will snow soon.

5 years ago.

I remembered that the first winter I spent in this world was unusually cold and snowy.

The icicles were frozen and the snow was up to my knees, so my hands and feet were so cold that I almost got frostbite.

However, what was more difficult to endure than the cold body was the cold heart.

At that time, there was not a single person I could trust.

“Miss Watson! Come quickly! hurry! There’s a rabbit here! The rabbit is digging a hole with its front paws!”

“Yingying yaing.”

But now I have someone I can trust and can afford to travel.

The land of the United Kingdom, where autumn passes and slowly turns into winter.

Just the freedom of being able to ride around in a carriage made me feel at peace and happy, like I was in heaven.

Heaven is not in the sky.

It already exists in people’s minds.

“Hyde, look at this! I caught a rabbit! rabbit! Is not it cute! Since it’s this cute, it must taste good too! Let’s bake and eat! It’s my first time traveling with a friend, so I’m so excited!”

A break after stopping the carriage, which had been running happily for over a week, near a large tree on a hill.

Lucy ran around and caught a rabbit in each hand.

How on earth did they catch it?

The evening passed with that feeling.

“Fella-Tio!”

Lucy recited a very strange magic spell to light the firewood.

Crack, crack, crack-.

Whatever the spell, the flame was so warm that the cold wind that blew felt quite pleasantly melting my frozen body.

Ssuk seu-.

The rabbit that Lucy had expertly prepared was delicious when roasted over a magic fire.

Watson said soon.

“Yingying yaing.”

“That’s right! Perhaps because it was before winter, the rabbits gained weight well!”

Lucy and Watson had a strange conversation.

I’ve been watching this conversation for several days already, but I still can’t figure out how this conversation could work.

From what I heard, it seemed like Lucy could get a general feel for what a person wanted to say by looking into their eyes.

Could this be part of the magic Lucy learned?

“Gyuiing.”

“Yes! You can go into the carriage first and sleep!”

Watson brushed his teeth with the prepared toothbrush and entered the carriage.

Now only me and Lucy are left by the fire.

“Miss Watson is such a good friend! It would be good if we could cure the “Habitual Ying Ying Yaing Yeonho Syndrome” that Miss Watson suffered from at Barakhan.”

It was Lucy’s opinion that led Watson to follow our journey.

From what I heard, Watson is suffering from “ying-ying-yaing disease” and is being greatly ostracized and harassed within the wizards’ ivory tower.

I understood the situation since the wizard who had to recite the magic chant kept saying “ingingyaing.” or “gyiing.” like a tic.

Lucy seemed to want to bring Watson out and give him treatment at Barakhan.

“Habitual Ying Ying Yaing Yeonho Syndrome.”

Do people really believe that such a stupid disease is real?

In fact, the disease Watson suffers from is probably closer to “Ripley Syndrome,” where people believe the lies they tell are true.

Whiooo-.

Then a cold wind blew.

It’s the end of fall, but winter can already be felt in the wind.

Parrr-.

Lucy shivers.

I turned up the wood fire for Lucy.

“If it’s too cold, you can go into the carriage and sleep with Miss Watson. Because I can stand alone on watch.”

“No! Psyche asked me a favor. Hyde is as delicate as a foxtail, so you have to protect him from getting hurt! And there are a lot of forests around here, so there are a lot of vicious beasts!”

In fact, around us, animals that we couldn’t tell were wolves or something were howling loudly in the forest in the distance.

━Hiooong… !

━Miowong… !

━Kkeongkeong… !

━Crumbling… !

What kind of animals make that noise?

They must be beasts so ferocious that they swallow humans with their gaping maws.

Still, I wasn’t afraid.

It was because Lucy was by my side.

Even five years ago, nights were a time full of fear for me.

Who and where “Rust, you guy! You were hiding here!” I was afraid that he might barge into my bedroom and grab my neck.

Actually, there have been several times like that.

I was always nervous that someone might betray me and snitch on me.

Even though I betrayed myself before he betrayed me.

however-.

Having trustworthy colleagues and family was such a reassuring thing.

It was like that.

I had a family.

There was Psyche, and in Agarpe’s estate were my father-in-law, Doban, and my mother-in-law, Lady Wilhemina.

I also have a brother-in-law, Prince Dihon.

How is Dihon doing these days?

Crackle, crackle-.

I added more firewood to the burning campfire.

When sitting in front of a campfire, people, especially men, become sentimental in many ways.

If you think about it, Milione also liked burning things.

He was always chuckling as he added firewood to the flame.

You and Psyche should be getting along well.

Parrrr-.

At that time, Lucy, sitting in front of me, trembled again.

“Are you cold?”

“No! It’s not because it’s cold. We’ll be arriving at Barakhan soon. It’s my first time at Barakhan! I just know that this is where His Holiness the Pope was.”

Right.

Lucy was Gregory’s biological daughter.

It was natural that I was agitated in many ways about heading to the city where Gregory lived.

I asked.

“Miss Lucy. What do you think about the Pope?”

“Me? I do not know. But I think I wanted to meet you once while you were still alive. Because, no matter what, I am the father who brought me into this world. family… .”

Lucy seemed to think that she and her mother, Emma, were blood family, even if it was Gregory who had abandoned her at the Grande Convent.

I understood that feeling.

Lucy must have found it difficult to endure being ‘alone’ in a deep corner of her heart. There were quite a few children at the orphanage who thought about their mom and dad, imagined themselves, and gained strength.

Crackle, crackle-.

I said, looking at the wood fire.

“What I am talking about is not about Pope Gregory. I am talking about the position and position of “Priest.””

“Office? I’ve never really thought about that! All I know is that he is a very high-ranking person. Even if they are my wife and daughter, I cannot meet them without permission.”

“To put it on the other hand, the Pope is also a person who should not meet his wife and daughter. Miss Lucy, to tell you the truth, I want to make you a Pope.”

“Profit… !?”

Lucy was startled by a strange sound.

“My, I am the Pope? How!”

“I will make it so.”

Jojal Jojal-.

I informed Lucy of my plans.

Lucy looked very impressed and depressed at the same time.

“But, you can’t get married if you become a priest. I am that… I wanted to be Hyde’s second bride… . When you become a priest… .”

“Once the kingdom is stable, you can retire by handing it over to a successor. After retirement, you become a natural person.”

“I see!”

“The rule that priests should not get married in the first place is also strange. The great command that God gave when creating the world and creating living things was to be fruitful and multiply.”

Even the Pope can get married.

Peter, who is revered as the first Pope in Catholicism, was actually a married man.

Even though I abandoned my children and wife.

# # #

When Barakhan returned, the atmosphere was quite different from before.

Knights in armor were stationed everywhere, and the number of people conducting unannounced inspections increased.

“There you are. Please show your ID.”

A knight wearing silver armor and a silver plate grabbed me.

I frowned at the cross on his surcoat draped over his armor.

“Are you sincere? Don’t you know who I am?”

How dare you not know Hyde, the most famous person in Barakhan?

You don’t know me, Hyde, who has now surpassed Barakhan and become the kingdom’s greatest superstar and most beloved preacher?

“Silver Plate Priest Hyde. I know. However, as a matter of procedure, it is our duty to check the identity of all personnel entering Barakhan.”

I see.

I can’t do it if it’s an obligation.

I showed Barakhan’s identification card, and Lucy and Watson also showed the knight the identification card made in the royal capital’s ivory tower.

Then a problem arose.

“Grace, Watson, Seraphine? If you’re the Watson of the Seraphine family, you’re Thorin’s daughter, right?”

“There is a rumor that Thorin joined the Queen of the Capital’s forces.”

“… She is the daughter of a traitor!”

Sreung, screech, sreung-!

The knights surrounded us with maces and swords drawn.

“Gyu, Gyuiing… !?”

Lucy’s friend Miss Watson is very embarrassed.

The knights shouted at Watson.

“For what purpose did you come to the Holy Land? Are you planning to assassinate His Holiness the Pope?”

“Just catch him and interrogate him!”

A few days ago, at a magic sparring held in the royal capital, a rumor seemed to have spread around the world that the platinum wizard Thorin had become the queen’s court wizard.

And Watson seems to be in trouble because she is Thorin’s daughter.

“… Hyde, what should I do?”

Lucy was embarrassed.

You could easily imagine what would happen to your friend Watson if he were taken away by the knights of the church.

I can’t do it.

“Who is in charge? I will vouch for Miss Watson’s identity. She may be a little grumpy and make weird noises, but she’s not a bad person!”

“I am in charge.”

It was a thin voice.

Togak, ttogak-.

Soon, someone came towards us, making a high-pitched sound.

It was a woman wearing tight-fitting steel plate armor that clearly exposed her body.

Her thighs were exposed white, and her rose-yellow, rich blonde hair was quite attractive.

The cross that shines between the large cleavage is golden.

Although she was dressed vulgarly, like a back alley prostitute, her true identity was like this.

“Gold Plated Knight Naive?”

“I guess I’ve been late with news since I stayed with the queen in the royal capital for a long time, Hyde. I am not Naib, the gold plated knight. Naibji, advisor to His Holiness the Pope.”

Naib, a knight of the gold plate and head of the torturers, became the Pope’s advisor?

Just when I thought everything was going on, Naive shouted.

“Take them all to jail! If you resist or if this guy starts talking nonsense, you can kill him right away! This is an order from His Holiness the Pope!”

Are the rules too strict?

Gregory’s Barakhan didn’t have this feeling.

We were imprisoned like that.

There were already a lot of people locked up in the prison, and there were five more people in our room.

“Why is this prison so crowded?”

A crowded prison with terrible stench and groaning.

Soon someone’s voice was heard from the next room.

“Is this voice, Hyde? you. Is it Hyde?”

“You─. It’s an alter. Are you in prison too?”

Paladin Alter.

I reunited with him in prison without even thinking about it!