episode_0049

Prince 1 promised to help me.

As a result, overall security has been strengthened inside the capital.

In addition, a security system has been established to immediately notify when a heretic attacks.

Now, there is nothing to do but wait to quickly stop the heresy when it attacks.

In the meantime, I heard a report of the information I asked Lena to find out.

The content of the report Lena gave me was quite surprising.

A knife mark found along with the pattern.

The knife mark was a kind of pattern and symbol, and a sign that could be seen as a warning of rebellion.

About 100 years ago from now.

It is said that during a fierce battle between royal families for succession, a prince rebelled, and the prince who rebelled carved this sword mark, saying it was a symbol of himself.

The rebellion was immediately put down, but many sacrifices were made, and in order to prevent something like this from happening again in the future, the king completely concealed information about the knife wound from then on.

It is said that all people involved in this were beheaded.

That means there are very few people who know about this pattern.

‘No, how did you find Lena before that?’

Lena clearly said that this was information that the king of Dillun Kingdom had planned and concealed 100 years ago.

But where on earth did Lena, who said that, get that information?

Now it was almost creepy.

‘Ugh. I have to do better to Lena from now on.’

I think I’m doing well enough, but after experiencing Lena’s intelligence again, I feel strongly that I need to do even better. Otherwise, I feel like my finances will all be taken away.

‘anyway.’

To return to the main point, it is a type of pattern that very few people know about at the moment.

‘If the pattern was concealed from 100 years ago in the first place, there is a high possibility that even the royal family would not know.’

However, it could not be completely ruled out that the royal family was the culprit.

Even though information about this was concealed, there might be a royal family like Lena that was found.

In particular, this is the Kingdom of Dillun, where the source of the information Lena found herself is located.

It wasn’t surprising that it was recorded somewhere and that I had found it.

‘But then that means there’s a royal family behind those heretics.’

No matter how much I thought about it, the royal family could not find a reason to do that.

Doing something like that at a time when the succession structure is important?

It even engraves sword marks to encourage heresy and cause rebellion?

‘It does not make sense.’

It made no sense.

What kind of benefit would there be for a prince who wants to become king to do something that would lead to a rebellion?

That too, while moving heretics and killing the people, which is clearly what the religious order is about to do.

No matter how much I thought about it, it was an assumption that had no possibility.

So, if we exclude the royal family, who will be the suspects?

I thought about it carefully, but no one came to mind.

Since I don’t know anything about the Kingdom of Dillun, of course I have no choice but to know.

‘Then I should go to someone I know.’

Luckily, there was someone around me who knew more about the Kingdom of Dillun than anyone else.

I headed straight to the palace where the first prince was.

***

“What happened again this time?”

After receiving the sharp 1st Prince, I carefully looked away.

Nevertheless, even though I knew that it was rude to keep coming without saying anything, I thought it would only be a waste of time if I let them know in advance, so I just came.

It’s also because the decision to visit was so sudden.

Prince 1 glared at me and immediately sighed.

“Ha… It would be difficult if you keep coming here blindly like that. I know the hero is not the type of person to do that, but how do I know if he is trying to harm me?”

“Because I was in a hurry… It seems like this happened out of necessity. It seems that the only person who can answer the questions that have arisen recently is Prince 1.”

“Please just be careful in the future. Aside from me, the guards guarding the palace are scared, which is a problem.”

The guards guarding the palace are scared.

If anyone heard it, they would have laughed, but I couldn’t do it.

That’s because I created the reason why the guards are afraid.

So I nodded quietly.

“Good. So what did you come to ask?”

“Is there anyone around you who is presumed to be a person likely to cause a rebellion?”

Prince 1 heard those words and paused for a moment.

Then he said nothing.

He just looked at me blankly and asked back as if it was absurd.

“Yes?”

Seeing the First Prince’s dazed expression, I realized that I had spoken too quickly and roughly explained what had happened earlier.

After hearing the explanation, the 1st Prince’s face became serious.

He stroked his chin with his hand, lost in thought.

“… It’s a symbol of rebellion… Come to think of it, I think my father once said something like that. There was a rebellion once in the past, and there was a symbol symbolizing it. At that time, I just skipped it. Could it be that the person involved in this has something to do with this incident? It’s very suspicious.”

“I would like to ask if there is anyone who might know about this or who might cause a rebellion.”

“He is a suspicious person… ”

Prince 1 swallowed his sleep.

I don’t know if it’s because there are a lot of suspicious people, or if there aren’t any.

Prince 1 closed his eyes, lost in thought for a long time without saying a word.

Since it was so important from both his perspective and mine, I quietly waited until the first prince came up with it.

Only after about 10 minutes had passed did the first prince open his mouth.

“I think it’s in the royal family.”

The first prince’s appearance is quite different from what I thought.

I asked him again.

“Can I ask why you thought that way?”

Personally, I was puzzled because I thought they had no reason to rebel.

After all, why would the royal family rebel?

Of course, if you look at it that way, you can say what the prince was that started a rebellion 100 years ago.

I don’t know exactly what the situation was like at that time, but at least now there is no reason for them to rebel.

‘no. ‘I wonder if there is one.’

If we simply look at the rebellion alone, we can judge that there is a slight possibility.

What we need to see more here is that it is not simply a rebellion, but something related to heresy.

No matter how much you try to rebel, that’s the case.

What would be the benefit of doing something related to heresy, which would obviously involve the church, and killing the people?

It was difficult to understand.

“Actually, I don’t think my younger siblings would have planned something like that. No matter how much he wanted to ascend to the throne, he would not be foolish enough to do such a reckless thing. Even if I think about it, it doesn’t make sense to commit something that is bound to be related to a religious order and kill innocent people. But the reason I still think about it is because of the knife marks.”

“There’s something in the knife mark.”

“After refining my memory a little, what came to mind was the pattern of the knife mark. My father told me about it, and the exact details about it are written in a record that only the royal family can see. Only the royal family knows the location, and there is a ban on it, so the location cannot be revealed to anyone.”

They even put a ban on it.

It seemed like there was more emphasis on controlling information than expected.

I wonder if there is a need to go that far, but they do it on their own.

‘More than that, I’m even more curious about how Lena found out.’

I was surprised before, but now I was truly scared by the fact that they had gone all the way to Geumje to prevent information about this from being leaked.

I was once again impressed by Lena’s intelligence and spoke to the first prince.

“So, the 1st Prince believes that one of the royal family members is behind this incident.”

“At least that’s what I think. I don’t know how you found out, but just like the warrior found out this information. It may be that someone found out, but seeing as there is no clue, the only explanation is that someone inside the kingdom is helping.”

That being said, the first prince’s expression was not very good.

As if even saying these words was difficult.

I said.

“Who do you think is the strongest candidate?”

The first prince’s eyes became distant.

Complex emotions were contained in the distant gaze.

I couldn’t tell if it was anger or sadness.

“Honestly, it’s hard to say exactly.”

He paused for a moment and took a deep sigh before speaking again.

The emotions that he couldn’t shake off even with a sigh were still contained in his eyes.

Prince 1 continued speaking again.

“Because none of the younger brothers thought that they would rebel. Even if it doesn’t seem like it, my mind is in a very complicated state.”

The first prince’s face was full of worry.

No matter how much of a succession competition he was, he did not want to fight with his younger siblings and had the intention of caring for them.

However, it must be quite disturbing to know that one of the younger siblings may have created this situation maliciously.

‘To be honest, I don’t really think of myself as royalty.’

Since nothing has been clearly revealed yet, it was not possible to confirm anything.

It’s not yet clear that the entity behind them is royalty.

I got up from my seat.

Accordingly, the first prince’s gaze shifted to me.

“I’m not sure they’re royal yet. In the absence of hard evidence, other possibilities also exist. So, Prince 1, please take a look at the royal family. I will look for it that way.”

After saying that, I bowed my head slightly.

1 I escaped from the prince’s villa.

I didn’t really see what the first prince’s expression was like when he escaped, but I thought it would be quite complicated.