episode_0089

“What kind of bastard dares to attack a knight of the County of Modric…!”

A fairy tale thrown by oneself.

And the silver coin flew at his head and fell to the ground.

Hearing that it was no money, the driver got angry.

But, as soon as I woke up, there was a sword pointed at my neck.

I had to start by finding out who my opponent was.

However, since he was standing with his back to the sun, he could not be seen clearly.

“What are you? Are you a knight from another family?!”

“A knight from another family… Well. That’s right.”

Well then.

There is no way there is a person in Ruthmire with a sword.

“Ha. Then go on your way. Why are you acting like this? Yes?”

“Didn’t you commit misbehavior first?”

“What?”

“I think I clearly saw you throwing fairy tales at the residents of the Ruthmeier territory as a mockery.”

Well, there are all these strange characters. Touspel, a knight of the County of Modrich, frowned.

“Hey. That’s none of your business. It’s related to this territory, so what do you say you know?”

“That’s right! We are in a position to stop those guys from recklessly crossing this road!”

“We are knights of the County of Modric. Is it a crime to stop those Ruthmeyer guys who don’t know what they might do?”

Then, his colleagues right next to him also defended him.

Touspel also retorted with vigor.

“Besides. If you sharpen your sword like this, friction will arise between families. A mere knight is going to embarrass the owner?!”

“…”

“Apologise, even now. If you at least show some honor, I’ll just let it go.”

I can’t be satisfied with being offended by the money thrown at me as if I was paying back what I did to those Ruthmeyer guys.

I kicked him repeatedly and pulled out his sword.

And then what? No money?

Isn’t it natural for your pride to be scratched?

You will receive an apology. Even if you can’t, I plan to threaten you to bow down and that if you don’t, I will unilaterally notify your family.

Of course, in my mind, I was going to tell the count to say fuck it and say it directly to him.

“Did everyone talk?”

“…What?”

-puck!

“Kuhuhhh…?!”

“Hey, hey! Are you out of your mind?”

“What did you hear us say!”

After hearing those words, the man crushed Tuspel’s body with his foot.

Still without losing his strength, he brought the sword to Tuspell’s neck once again.

“Three things. Give me a good reason to punish you guys.”

Three fingers spread out.

“First, if you are crossing over to another territory, charging a toll fee is enough. In an emergency situation, you just giggled and ignored it.”

The first finger is folded.

“Second, you unilaterally attacked the people of my territory. Therefore, I have reason to impose appropriate punishment.”

The second finger is folded.

“Finally, the Rusmire estate has received a certificate from the imperial family and has been placed under my management as of today. So I don’t mind punishing you guys.”

Up to the last third finger.

After giving his reasons, he calmly cut down without removing the blade.

“Are you some kind of lord? joy. Just talking nonsense…! good. If you want it to get that big, let your family know right away!”

Touspel, who could not bear to endure humiliating events one after another, drew his sword, stood up, and swung his sword diagonally.

However, Touspel’s sword flew through the air and landed on the ground quite far away.

“You bastard…! Do you think you can get away with something like this? A knight is going to cause direct friction between families and punish them with a sword?!”

“That is an obvious crime! Do you want to be dismissed as a knight?”

“It is not a crime. Didn’t I just say that? I have the right to punish you.”

“What…?”

It was nonsense.

It means that if you have the right to point a sword at the neck of a knight belonging to another family and punish him in that state, you will swing that sword.

There’s no way something like that isn’t a crime.

But this man is so confident.

They are acting as if this is not wrong.

Suddenly a question arises.

‘Could it be… it’s real?’

‘This man I’ve never seen before is Ruthmeyer’s protege?’

‘You’re in a position to punish me for touching Young Ji-min?’

The three knights’ doubts were quickly dispelled.

Because the piece of paper he held out proved all this.

“ I, Karssein Vagrand, as the lord of Rusmire, have the right to punish you. This is proven by a permit directly acknowledged by the Peselos imperial family.”

As soon as they heard those words, the complexions of the three knights, including Touspel, turned pale.

***

‘Ka, it’s Karssein Bagland…!’

‘Are you really saying that they had the Bagland duchy as their backs?!’

‘Besides, if it’s an imperial certificate… you can’t even take it away…’

For a moment, when I heard the name Karssein, I thought he was a different person because he had changed so much, but looking at that dark blue hair and pale eyes, it was hard to see him as a different person.

Also, the man in front of me was Karssein.

That certificate is not false.

I mean, it’s true.

So what is this situation like?

This can’t help but be truly embarrassing.

It was as if a single knight was holding out without giving passage to the people of the Rusmire territory.

They blocked the road, kicked him, and even insulted him with money in front of the nobleman who was managing it.

However, the adopted son of the Duke of Bagland, whom they were chewing over here, even giggled and asked if he would help them…

Truly an outsider.

It was a foregone conclusion that he would be punished by Karssein.

However, it wasn’t that there was no way out.

‘No news has reached the Count Modric family yet!’

Touspel was relieved by that fact.

Karssein said that if the news had reached the count family, he would have been truly a rogue. He said that the punishment would not be placed on the count family, but on the three knights.

Although it is humiliating to be punished by someone who was originally a low-class citizen, this punishment allows him to finish the job on his own terms.

Also, there is even a faint glimpse of an escape route.

The permission to manage the territory that the imperial family presented as proof was in the name of Karssein, not the name of the Duke of Bagland.

It’s the responsibility of the man in front of me.

Well, isn’t it simple?

If only I could trick that guy.

What if that man, who has no idea how the world works, massages it with his tongue?

You can get through it without any problems.

‘okay. ‘You’ll never know what we did anyway, right?’

With a drop of cold sweat, Touspel changed his attitude.

“I understand very well that Master Karssein has become the lord in charge of Rusmire. However, as it is now, the level of punishment we receive is not large enough to lead to injury.”

The two knights, who were skeptical at first, soon realized Touspel’s intentions and agreed.

“That’s right! We also have one thing to consider!”

“Even if you try to collect the toll. The Ruthmire estate was a poor place from the beginning. Do you think it belongs to those three or four people right now?”

“I have never used this route so far as I have secretly used it. It is not for nothing that people can steal.”

Another consolation.

They did not ask about the toll at all, but on the other hand, there were also times when they passed by without paying the toll.

“The people of Ruthmeier territory. It was well known that they were destitute. Still, would you have thought that we could collect toll fees from them?”

The people of Ruthmire Territory themselves did not even think that they would have to pay a toll due to their poor lives.

That was the justification for not telling them to pay the toll.

and.

“Instead, this kind of noise also exists. Do you know that because they are poor, they are suspected of being criminals who attempted to steal from other villages?”

“Not long ago, thieves were discovered in a village in the County of Modrić. It was so fast that I couldn’t even catch it.”

“The culprits are currently strongly assumed to be residents of the Ruthmeier territory. There were more than a few people who showed deep suspicion, saying that they had to ask them outright.”

The poverty of the people of Ruthmire territory leads to suspicion in other territories.

Naturally, compared to nearby villages where there are no problems, they are being cornered as potential criminals.

If the topic was raised in line with this point, the story would be very different.

“What nonsense is that…!”

Kiyan, who heard those words, could not stand it anymore and tried to join in on the conversation.

Ruthmire’s poverty is due to the magic beasts that periodically come down from Mount Waglu and the raids that occur periodically.

Those who are on the receiving end of looting cannot possibly commit theft and looting even though they know the suffering.

At best, they had to explain it so that Carcein, who had come to accept their village, would not misunderstand.

But before Kiyan even stepped forward.

Someone’s sword is swinging.

Someone’s hair was flying in the air.

“Hmm. It looks good now.”

Karssein muttered as he cut off Tuspel’s hair with his sword.

Just looking at his appearance, he had a hairstyle that would make you believe he was a bandit rather than a knight.

“What is this…!”

“What are you doing? This is because it makes me look like a bandit.”

“What, what?!”

“Are we some kind of bandit!”

Karssein calmly responded to the three knights’ protests.

“I don’t know why you’re kicking back when you’re being beaten? Actually, you guys must have been plundering Ruthmire territory.”

“What…?”

“Those knights… our village?”

“Yes. You may not have noticed, but those guys are the ones who plundered your village.”

The three boys’ eyes widened.

They regularly disrupt their lives and are quick to leave whenever they ask for support.

Even if you try to hold on, you can’t.

The residents of the Rusmire territory, who had no power, had no choice but to call the three knights of Count Modric, who were the fastest to summon knights among the nearby territories.

But when they say they are criminals, wouldn’t their eyes roll?

At this, the knights became angry and shouted.

“Don’t say nonsense! It’s sophistry!”

“If you’ve been there yourself, you know how rough Ruthmeyer is! It takes time to get there!”

Even with that excuse, doubts were already in full bloom.

“I was late every time. It doesn’t come on time every time. Wasn’t it strangely at odds with the timing of the bandits’ appearance?”

“How do you do that…”

“When I looked up the assignment reports for about 2 years, the same content was always there. When the bandits appeared, we went to find the three knights, but they arrived much too late. If not, there were times when he was completely absent and it was recorded.”

Karssein said:

If you think about it carefully, the bandits and those knights have never met at the same time.

And it was true, Kiyan and the two boys knew.

“No way, those people… those people really…!”

In response to their anger, Karssein drives a wedge.

“Crucially, Ruthmeier does not receive protection from surrounding families. So even if they come hiding as bandits, you will have to rely on those knights. So, you wouldn’t have even had to show the scars on your back that you made when you saw the gap.”

-Poof!

Karssein swung his sword twice.

When he sharply cut off only the clothes, the scar from the broken stake that Kiyan had driven into the bandit in the past remained on Touspel’s waist.

“ character. What excuse are you going to make now? A bandit.”

When Karssein laughed like that, the two knights behind him immediately drew their swords.

-Sreung!

“You did this yourself.”

“Consider it a sin for not knowing how precious your life was!”

Two swords flew in.

Blood sprays out quickly.

Soon, they became incapable of becoming knights or even bandits.

***

Even though it was an unfavorable situation to deal with three people at the same time, Karssein showed no sign of backing down at all.

I thought it might be dangerous, but that only lasted for a moment.

Three knights. No, the three bandits were unable to use any power against Karssein and fell to the ground.

After shaking off the blood from his sword, Karssein looked over and said.

“The windpipe will be attached. However, since both arms have been blown away so that they can no longer hold weapons, it is up to you to punish them.”

“Yes, yes…”

The three boys were mesmerized as they watched their master sheathing his sword.

“Cough, Cough!”

Meanwhile, a harsh coughing sound escaped from the mouth of the girl who was being carried.

Not only was there a coughing sound, but red liquid was flowing from the mouth.

“D, Deanna!”

“Kiyan. let’s go. I have to go now!”

“Yeah, right!”

The actions of those bandits will be revealed to the world, but there is still work left to do.

It was a situation where Deanna had to be taken to a doctor in another village somehow.

“Thank you. But, unfortunately, we don’t have time right now to say thank you properly!”

“I am truly sorry. My lord. Please…!”

“Follow me.”

Right then.

Karssein interrupted Melik.

“It is difficult to arrive on time at running speed. Because the lawmaker may be absent. So, let’s take a carriage.”

“Ma, carriage?!”

“Master. We don’t have the money for that…!”

“The plan is to take him in the carriage of the Duke of Bagland.”

It was a statement that was truly shocking.

It’s not that I’m going to lend you money for a carriage, but I’m going to give you a ride in the carriage of the Duke of Bagland.

It was impossible for a mere citizen, not even a servant, to ride in a nobleman’s carriage.

but.

“What are you doing? It doesn’t burn quickly.”

“…”

He was trying to get the people of the territory to ride in his carriage as if nothing had happened.

At Carcein’s subsequent urging, the boys boarded the carriage without complaining.

After getting into the carriage, Carcein said nothing.

After giving Deanna a handkerchief to wipe her mouth, she looked out the window at the distant sky.

‘A person like that… takes care of our village, our territory?’

Kiyan had a hunch.

Ruthmeier will no longer suffer.