episode_0087

“Are you okay, oppa? You’re your subordinate, so you should know, right? Tell me quickly.”

“I told you 40 times that I just broke a bone. Can you please stop spitting on the food and get out of here? If you spitting on me one more time, I’m going to fry you.”

“Why is a broken bone not a big deal? It’s serious.”

“Miss. Haven’t you ever heard what kind of injuries those gentlemen received while fighting on the battlefield?”

Kyle, who was preparing patient food, pushed Lisel away with an annoyed expression.

“A little broken bone is normal.”

Those who laughed and swung their swords even after losing two liters of blood, calmly slaughtered their enemies even with both their legs shattered, and never opened their mouths to discuss their plans even when they were tortured mercilessly.

“Of course they must have been in a lot of pain too. They’re not monsters, they’re people. Oh, sometimes they’re devils. If you speak to them informally even once, they’ll beat you with something around you for three hours… ”

“So it’s okay, right?”

“Is it true that not listening to people runs in your family?”

After finishing cooking, Kyle clicked his tongue at the siblings for not listening to each other. Now that he thought about it, their mother was also not listening to each other. She was a great person who wanted to kick with her feet rather than her tongue.

So the two of them headed to the room where two patients were resting, carrying a tray full of food.

Camila and Raoul were eating huge amounts of food while their bodies were wrapped in bandages.

“Additional. How on earth do they fit all this into those skinny bodies… It’s amazing how fractures heal with alcohol and food.”

“I’m sorry for being born that way.”

Raoul chewed his duck meat with his eyes closed and gave Kyle a sidelong glance.

Camilla also laughed and laughed at Kyle.

“The little kid who used to talk informally to us and got beat up has grown up a lot.”

“I was hit with the chicken that Camilla ate for six whole hours. That’s why I still hate chicken.”

“Do you want to eat until you hate all the food in the world?”

The conversation between these people who lived together on the battlefield was extremely rough and crude.

It was an awkward conversation for Lizel, who had never known hardship in her life, to hear, and she ended up feeling a little intimidated because of it.

And Raul was the first to notice the change and speak up.

“Lizel,”

“Hey, oppa…? Hey, is there anything that hurts?”

“Are you sure there isn’t anything uncomfortable? This place seems a little shabby for you to stay in.”

“Ah… I’m okay. But are you really okay, oppa…?”

“… I’m fine.”

“So said Raoul, putting the squid fritters that Kyle had brought into his mouth.

Still savoring his food with his eyes closed, he suddenly brought up a different topic.

“By the way, what’s the situation in the capital? If there was a battle with the Demon King, I’m worried about His Majesty and His Highness the Empress’s condition as well.”

“Would those gentlemen be easy prey? A mad dog has a tough lifeline. Fortunately, they only suffered minor injuries.”

“That’s fortunate.”

The Emperor and Empress who fought against the Demon King were able to successfully defeat the Demon King, although their sides and thighs were cut respectively. Of course, the Demon King did not even have a single fingernail injured.

“Before those gentlemen worry about their health, worry about yourself first. There’s nothing funnier than a gentleman who is in a state of death worrying about others.”

“……”

As Raoul quietly picked up the duck bone, Kyle immediately fell to his knees and began to beg.

“I was wrong. I got off topic. I really don’t want to get hit with a duck again.”

“……”

Kyle, who saw Raoul still eating with his eyes closed, seemed to sense something and began to watch Liesel’s expression.

Then, as if he had made a decision, he began to mutter quietly.

“Anyway, no matter how old you are, you still… tsk. Beating with a chicken, beating with a duck, beating with a book, beating with a chair… It’s so barbaric, really.”

Then Camilla and Raoul each grabbed Kyle’s left and right hands and sent current and vibration through them simultaneously.

“Grrr!!!”

“Okay, you choose. What do you want to get hit with today?”

“Liselle. Go out for a moment. I think I need to give some special training to my subordinate who has lost his manners today.”

At Raoul’s request, Liesel nodded as if she understood and left the room.

“Then, if you need anything, oppa, just tell me. I’ll get it for you somehow.”

“… Yeah. If anything comes up that’s a problem, you can always tell me. ”

As she closed the door and left, the sound of Lizel’s footsteps grew further and further away.

Raoul vomited dark red blood on the spot.

His bloodshot red eyes also proved that his physical condition was not normal.

He vomited out everything he had eaten so far, covered in blood, as if he had barely been able to hold it in until now. It was clear that he had held it in desperately because it was in front of his beloved younger sister.

“… I knew this would happen, tsk. Why are you acting so rude when I said I’d kill you? ”

“If you did that, Lizel might notice.”

“Oh my, you are being so hardworking. I feel like crying when you throw up food that someone else made while wrestling with oil.”

Kyle quietly began to clean up Raoul’s blood with a wet towel.

“Even if I get caught later, I can just say that it was the blood I shed when I got hit. Anyway, I thought you were really going to beat me up because you suddenly grabbed my wrist.”

“We just matched the play you prepared.”

“Ah, I know it’s just acting, but I still feel bad about saying it?”

Kyle immediately wanted to slap Raoul and Camilla’s faces on a plate, but he lacked the courage and ability to do so, so he ended up failing.

“… By the way, how long do you plan on hiding it?”

“I don’t know what you mean by hiding it.”

“I’m talking about Raul’s physical condition. Are you planning on hiding it until Pick dies later?”

“Just because others know doesn’t mean we can change the outcome. Rather than living in meaningless pity…”

“At least Miss Lizel will be sad.”

“… That kid is strong, so he’ll definitely be able to overcome it.”

Raul’s physical condition was now irreparably damaged.

In addition to the poison injected by the Queen, the aftereffects of all the injuries sustained on the battlefield, and the side effects of all the spells and strengthening drugs used on the battlefield.

To be honest, it’s been nothing short of a miracle that I’ve survived until now.

“My thoughts haven’t changed. But I don’t know about Lizel. I wonder what’s best for her.”

Raoul just looked at the distant mountains in confusion and didn’t say anything.

“… I really don’t know.”

Raoul was once again adrift in a foggy confusion: whether it was right to speak, whether to remain silent, and whether there was any point in such an act.

I just want to let things flow, but if I change the flow, won’t it just cause more trouble?

Nothing was clear.

“Well, I won’t interfere anymore… Oh, by the way, there was a message from Her Highness the Empress.”

“Message?”

“The message was that I was going to go preach while holding the corner, so wash your ears and neck and wait.”

“… I guess that day will be my memorial day.”

Then Camilla chuckled and started mocking Raoul, who was sentenced to death.

“Yeah, I’m going to die properly. Penelope’s sermon is the kind of thing I’d rather jump into lava.”

“As a bonus, Camilla was also said to be the subject of the sermon.”

“… Isn’t there something like a volcano nearby?”

“He also added that if Her Highness the Empress ran away, he would double the sermon time.”

Kyle left the mansion, leaving the two men gripped by fear behind. He then kicked a rock with an annoyed expression on his face.

“Fuck…”

It was because I was so resentful that my benefactor’s life was running out.

“Over there…”

“Oh my god, this is so shocking.”

Kyle was startled by Lizel’s sudden call and found himself cursing without realizing it.

“Do you have a moment?”

“The time is okay, but I’m not okay. I just got hit and I’m still hearing a beeping sound in my ears…”

“Excuse me…”

“Most requests with words like that are rude.”

“Can you tell me what kind of person your brother was on the battlefield? I think it might be different if you knew from now on…”

“Ha… This makes it hard to refuse.”

Since it seemed out of place to recite an epic poem on the spot, Kyle took Liesel to a shabby tavern.

And then he exaggerated the stories of Raoul’s bravery that he knew about twenty times. Even though his words were annoying, Kyle was an ardent follower of Raoul.

“So, at that place… Raul-nim pounced on the king of the demons…”

“So Raul is fighting a giant sea dragon with only one staff…”

“Well, I threw my staff right there and smashed one guy’s head, and then immediately took the other guy’s neck with my hand…”

The stories never dried up, and neither did their glasses.

One thing they overlooked was that the liquor was extremely toxic, and that strong liquor clouds a person’s mind.

How ripe would the story be?

The next day, when Raoul saw the storyteller and his audience sprawled out on the inn bed, he picked up his cane with a cold expression, and Camilla, who would normally have laughed and held her stomach, had to stop him.

“Hey, you can tell at a glance that I didn’t do that. I just got drunk and passed out, and the bar owner made me sleep here!!!”

“I trusted Kyle, but I’m so disappointed one way or another.”

“Calm down you crazy bastard! Your little sister is an adult now!!!”

“I can send a worthy tribute to the Queen of Dragons.”

“Listen to what people say!!!”

While Raoul and Camilla were arguing over Kyle’s execution, a carriage bearing the Bergé family crest left the capital.

The woman with a pretty face that resembled Raoul looked out the window and muttered quietly.

“Honey. I… just… that kid…”

Her meaningless mumblings were lost in confusion, and she, like Raoul, was left adrift in an unknown range of emotions.

She quietly closed her eyes, buried in unknown emotions.

If we meet that child face to face soon, we will be able to resolve the whole situation.

Because that child was the type of child who would unconditionally obey whatever was done.

Just one word, “Come back,” would solve this maelstrom of inexplicable emotions.