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116 – Hyde, meets Her Majesty the Queen!? #3

Jeopuk, Jeopuk-.

Jeopuk, Jeopuk-.

There were many soldiers and knights in the royal capital, Royal Road.

They were all wearing capes with flames on them or holding high flags.

They were said to be soldiers of the Uniger royal family.

“This way! This way!”

We followed Lucy to a quiet place.

It was a shabby motel room.

A room in an inn that is rarely visited, with cobwebs hanging in the corners and the ceiling so shabby that there are holes in it due to rotting wood.

Ssuk seu-.

Lucy looked around and spoke in a low voice as if she felt relieved after she thought there were no people around.

“It was when Psyche sent me a letter saying she would come to the royal capital. Was it about a month ago? At that time, soldiers came to the royal capital and took over the city!”

“So what Miss Lucy is saying is that those soldiers appeared a month ago?”

“Yes! It was then that the “Queen” appeared. The royal capital has now become the queen’s city.”

A queen.

It was a very unfamiliar word.

There hasn’t been a queen like me in the last 5 years that I can remember.

It seemed like the path had changed from the life I had walked in the past.

very… It was a very good thing!

Because it meant that I, too, could start a new life.

“The city of the queen… .”

Sze-.

Psyche looked at the street through the broken window, through which the wind was blowing in.

Psyche was trembling as if she was anxious as she watched the soldiers patrolling.

“Rebels have taken over the royal capital and are invading this land where a long history sleeps… ! Are there any damages to residents? Who are the injured or dead?”

Psyche was a woman with a strong sense of justice.

They seemed angry that there was a force occupying this historic city of kings without permission.

Even when I invaded the capital wearing the mask of Rust, Psyche brought soldiers and fiercely resisted.

Lucy said.

“People are fine! On the contrary, they welcomed the queen and her group warmly! Everyone in this royal capital, Royal Road, loves the queen and the knights!”

It’s a situation where those who have taken over the city without permission are welcomed.

From what I heard, it seemed like they were being welcomed by abolishing taxes such as oil and donations that had to be paid to religious denominations.

Taxes are important.

Soon Milione frowned.

“So where did such a large number of troops suddenly appear? If they had taken control of the royal capital without conflict, it wouldn’t have been something that was simply planned overnight.”

Milione’s opinion was also right.

The “Queen” suddenly appears and the “King’s Knights” led by her.

It must be an unusual organization.

“Miss Lucy, would it be possible for me to meet the Queen?”

The most effective way to understand this situation was to meet and talk to the leader of the rebellion, the self-proclaimed queen.

But Lucy shook her head.

“The queen is in the royal castle and cannot be met by anyone. The royal castle is not a place where anyone can enter without permission. The only time I saw the Queen was when she came to the Ivory Tower.”

Isn’t this a being that can be easily met?

I realized that my schedule was not working in many ways.

According to Lucy’s words, a being claiming to be a “queen” was ruling the royal castle of Royal Road.

I have come to receive the royal treasure, the Holy Grail.

Will this “Queen” treat me favorably when I try to take the Holy Grail according to Pope Gregory’s orders?

no.

Absolutely not.

As I was thinking that, Psyche seemed to have found something troubling in Lucy’s story.

“The queen. It seems that Miss Lucy has a good opinion of the queen. Aren’t you the leader of the rebellion who started a rebellion and took over the city?”

“I thought so too! The Queen who came to the Ivory Tower was a very nice person. Everyone in Royal Road likes the queen. You guys will probably think the same when you see it!”

# # #

The city was bright and full of life.

A metropolitan city with a population of 330,000.

All kinds of people were bumping shoulders, blushing, laughing, and talking like a swirling whirlpool.

“I’m so glad that the taxes I have to pay to the church have decreased!”

“That’s right!”

I sat in the park and listened to the conversations of people passing by.

Everyone’s faces were full of will and vitality for life. The streets were neat and the soldiers were patrolling faithfully.

“No abnormality in alert.”

“Yes, if there is anything wrong, report it immediately.”

The soldiers’ faces looked serious in everything they did.

They seemed to revere the mission of protecting citizens and maintaining public order as if it were a noble calling.

“Mom! Let’s go together!”

“Come quickly. I’ll make stew with meat for dinner tonight!”

Crackling-.

The child and parents laughed.

Now I see that there are a lot of children running around the city.

This is my first time seeing a city with so many children running around freely.

“What on earth is this?”

I was rather embarrassed by this quiet appearance.

Can the world be this peaceful?

Right now, beyond the walls of this city, there are all kinds of swindlers, heretics, and charlatans, blushing noisily, pointing at each other, and drawing swords.

“Hyde! Look at this! It’s a dog squirrel! Dog squirrels are running around the park!”

━Kkeongkeong… !

“Dog squirrels are called dog squirrels because they bark like dogs! Isn’t it cute? This is my first time seeing these kids and they are so cute! I guess he likes me when he sees it on my palm!”

Psyche loved holding a squirrel in her palm that barked like a dog.

She looked as pretty as a princess in a fairy tale.

Milione, with a sullen expression, shouted “Wack!” at Psyche.

━Crumbling… !

Dog squirrels fluffing up their fur and running away.

Milione held her stomach and laughed as she watched that scene.

“So funny!”

I can’t believe you like chasing animals away.

The guy must have felt my gaze and said something to me.

“So─. Hyde. What are we going to do now? You have to return with the Holy Grail. But I feel like I’ll be arrested the moment I bring up Gregory’s name.”

Milione’s sense was quite good.

It felt like the moment we mentioned Pope Gregory’s name, everyone in this city would turn against us.

Milione makes a snoring sound.

“But if you look at it this way, it’s a really nice city, right? At least in appearance.”

Psyche also nodded.

“I think so too. A city where old people and children can walk around the streets without worry and laugh. That “Queen” must be very wise.”

Everyone had favorable reviews of the situation at Royal Road.

But my thoughts were different.

“Humans are a race of people who betray and slander each other and cannot see the prosperity of others. The moment I committed the original sin by eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, I had no choice but to do so.”

Although this city appears peaceful on the outside, it may not be so in reality.

I don’t trust humans.

Therefore, I could truly say that the joy and happiness of this city were also an ‘illusion’.

“Humans are a race of people who have no choice but to run towards destruction at an unstoppable speed. That is the prophecy written in the Book of Revelation.”

The human world was inevitably heading towards dystopia.

Broken, shattered, making war, killing each other. Heretics and homosexuals take power and destroy the proper order.

That was the necessity written in the Book of Revelation.

It was natural that only when the world collapsed like that would the Lord return to restore the world and restore a beautiful utopia.

Therefore, humans were bound to betray trust.

Isn’t this city, behind the mask of its peaceful exterior, sure to have an uglier side than anyone else?

“Then I have to go back to the ivory tower! Hyde, Psyche, Millie! When you have time, be sure to come visit Ivory Tower! Let me introduce you to the Ivory Tower! There are many amazing magic tools!”

Lucy waved her hand at us.

We can’t just sit still like this.

I decided to head to the royal castle.

“Psyche. Let us return with the Holy Grail. Because that’s what we had to do in the first place.”

I already knew the path to the capital.

When I came here before, it was a place that was burning in many ways and the smell of blood was terrible.

I arrived at the royal palace surrounded by beautiful flower fields.

“Who are you! No one can enter the royal castle without permission! Go back!”

Those wearing flame-patterned cloaks blocked me as if it were natural.

Milione and Psyche are looking at me with anxious eyes.

I spoke bluntly.

“I am the messenger of Pope Gregory. We are going to retrieve the king’s treasure, the Holy Grail, and return to the sacred land of Barakhan, so please open the way!”

“What? Pope Gregory’s messenger?”

“You bring up the name of the usurper without fear! Yes, this guy!”

Sereung-.

They were royal soldiers pointing spears and swords at me.

I was expecting such a strong reaction.

I did not give up and told the soldiers.

“Do you know who I am? If you touch me, Elohim, the Lord of Heaven, will not leave you alone! Bring in the person in charge! I will talk to him!”

A tumultuous situation in many ways.

In this intentionally created confusion, someone appeared.

“Why the commotion in the palace where the Queen is? !”

He was bald with a balding forehead.

He was wearing a gold necklace in the shape of a flame around his neck, and even just looking at him, it was clear that he was a knight of high rank.

“I am Hyde, a silver plate priest of the church. Are you in charge of this palace?”

“I am Paul, the knight of the royal family’s gold plate! As I have been entrusted with guarding the palace by Her Majesty the Queen, I have a duty to protect the safety of the palace!”

The bald knight of the royal palace.

He introduced himself as Paul, the gold plated knight.

Milione, who soon heard the story, raised one eyebrow.

“If you’re Paul, you’re a grand knight of the Marquis Sandros family, right? Is this Paul Apollo, who is called the “Knight of the Sun” and whose skills are said to be at odds with that of Agiles?

“ho, girl. Do you know me?”

“Aha-. That is indeed what happened.”

Milione nods his head.

The guy looked closely at the faces of the soldiers and knights with his red eyes.

“Now I see that these so-called knights of the royal family were troops of the Marquis Sandros family. The prime minister of the old kingdom took over the royal capital with the person called “Queen” on his back?”

It was just as Milione said.

The knights and soldiers of this royal family were not, in fact, real soldiers of the royal family, but troops created by the joint efforts of certain nobles and sponsors.

I already knew, but with Milione’s sharp eyes, it seemed like it took quite a while to figure it out.

Is it possible for a soldier from a fallen royal family to pop up overnight?

If such a thing was possible, the only way was to give the royal cloak and flag to the existing soldiers.

Paul, the bald knight, immediately burst out laughing.

“You’re a girl I know quite well! But I also know who you are. You said it was Silver Plate Priest Hyde, right? Durgien and Palcea, famous priests in Barakhan!”

Was Hyde’s name that famous?

Actually, it was natural.

Because I was a priest who was better than anyone else and a devout believer.

He was also the author of “The Village of Back-Alley Nymphs,” a masterpiece that will forever be remembered in world history.

It’s rather strange that you don’t know me.

“You must be the daughter of Archibald the Medici. And this is Miss Psyche, the daughter of Count Dovan Agarpe. The blood relatives of Archibald and the traitor Agarpe came to the palace without fear!”

Sereung-.

Paul, the bald knight with his sword drawn.

“An opportunity to catch the hated Archibald and the traitor’s daughter at once! After all, Her Majesty our Queen must have been chosen by the great Lord Elohim! Surround these people!”

Pababababat-.

Soldiers surrounded us.

In many ways, it is an imminent crisis.

Sreung-! Clap!

Psyche also took out the great sword “Agarpe” she was wearing on her back and aimed it in all directions.

“I thought things wouldn’t be easy. Hyde! It’s dangerous, so get behind me!”

Even in this situation, you put my safety first.

As expected, Psyche had a good heart.

But it wasn’t me who had to step down.

“How dare the band of robbers who have arbitrarily occupied the historic royal palace of Royal Road and trampled it with earthen feet are trying to intimidate me, Hyde! Go away! The warning is now!”

I shouted loudly at the soldiers.

At the sound of my thunderous voice, the soldiers shrugged their shoulders and looked at each other blankly.