episode_0422

After making sure everyone was asleep, I quietly packed my bags.

There is no need for supplies or anything like that.

Just as I was taking all the bow and arrows that were hanging on the hanger.

“Where are you going?”

Isabelle’s voice rang out.

I’m not really a light sleeper like this.

“I’m going to the bathroom.”

“Wait a minute…”

If you talk here, everyone will break up.

I closed the door and walked out.

After that, Isabel came running out without even wearing her shoes.

She lunged at me.

“Think again… If you leave now, you’re admitting it…?!”

The eyes are determined.

After some reasoning, I figured out the reason.

Isabel thinks I am going to kill Wuzuray alone.

‘I’m just deserting.’

It was so funny that a light smile came out.

Because I woke up after a little sleep, my stress has subsided.

Part of me wanted to run away quietly, but this person’s powers don’t work.

Although it was a fake relationship, there was still affection that lasted for half a year.

That made me unkind.

“It doesn’t matter.”

“I know revenge is important, but it shouldn’t be done!”

“I am not a citizen of this country. There is nothing that cannot be done.”

three days

Isabel screams at him to leave.

“Just three days! Trust me and invest three days! It only takes three days…”

“What should I believe and wait for three days?”

“I will solve it neatly!”

“So, what do you believe in?”

Isabelle looks at me in confusion.

Then, in the end, I opened up the words that I couldn’t stop talking about.

“I submitted a complaint to the front headquarters! The letter should have arrived by now!”

“I don’t know what you wrote, but you’ll be lucky if the petition you sent isn’t torn to pieces and thrown in the trash.”

“No! That can never happen!”

What kind of confidence do you have to say something like that?

It’s not worth listening to.

Just as I was about to turn around.

“Me! He’s a nobleman’s child! He is the child of a nobleman so high that no one can ignore him!”

“Is that so?”

“Yes! So it’s okay!”

This is a story I already knew from Jean.

“So what are you saying?”

If a general’s son dies in the military, he becomes a nobody.

How exclusive is the military as a group to say something like that?

“Please consider my position too! If you go now, it’s like acknowledging that you’re a dirty person! What happens to me when I file a complaint to defend such a person?!”

“You will be the one who was deceived by the man behind your back.”

“Don’t do that…! You won’t be able to return home…!”

Isabel looked like she was about to die and slowly took my hand as if she was begging.

When I didn’t respond, he weakly pulled me.

“Trust me and wait just three days. If it can’t be resolved, I won’t say anything even if you leave.”

‘This person is difficult to deal with.’

I don’t know what he’s thinking or what kind of person he is.

Could this be a trap? Or is it really a favor?

If this is a favor, is it really a pure favor?

Or is there some other ulterior motive?

‘I don’t know.’

I can’t figure out anything.

Ignorance turns into aversion.

Also no. Right now─

“Please…”

Isabel pleads.

But I cannot accept that plea purely.

I have looked into too many people’s hearts to judge people by their facial expressions.

‘This is the curse of knowledge.’

I felt a sense of rebellion against myself.

Because I didn’t want to trample on the innocent kindness of others.

“···Okay.”

It took half a year.

It won’t matter if it’s three days late.

The rainy season is coming soon anyway, so even if I desert now, I won’t be able to get much further.

‘Let’s test it.’

Is this really the curse of knowledge, or am I just a fool pretending to be noble?

* * * * * *

I didn’t do anything.

Eat, sleep, sleep.

I wasted my precious time based on the three principles of biology.

I don’t know how easy life is if you don’t think.

Jump and run…

The pretense of popularity catches my attention.

Next, the driver’s quarters are opened.

Now is not the time for anyone to come?

“Wow, it’s so good.”

The door opened and Susan and Kilish from the supply unit appeared.

“Good. Would you like to try probation too? I’m bored to death.”

“Do you think we are like you? Honestly, if you just do what you’re told, you won’t get suspended.”

A man and a woman sit down on their bed.

It seemed like there was time to rest for a while.

” I’ve only been like this for one day, but I’m already bored. Is there anything interesting to say?”

“What are you talking about?”

“Anything, like a story about the world going on.”

Now, I thought it would be fun to hear any story.

If you can play Jenga, you can play with the same tension as Russian roulette.

“Ah, that illegitimate princess. They said he was dead.”

“Illegitimacy?”

“You know. Black hair princess.”

I’ve heard of it.

This is a kid with black hair, not blonde.

“They say he was assassinated by Boksu. But, it was the king who requested the assassination!”

Susan acts exaggeratedly, like a storyteller.

“What are you talking about?”

“You’re a princess that your wife had an affair with, right? You killed your wife for cheating on her, so why would you have any qualms about killing a child with whom you are not related by blood?”

“You’re crazy.”

“The only people who don’t know how crazy he is are foreigners like you.”

Susan glances at me with a strange look.

I see Even their own citizens treat Harold like a crazy person.

At this point, it is difficult to conclude that it is simply underdogma.

“Anything else?”

“The world is abuzz with that story. Everything else was completely buried.”

‘You killed my child.’

This is an action that is difficult to imagine.

The princess was probably only 16 years old, the same age as herself.

You are too young to commit something serious.

‘···I unleashed the beast.’

Hang in there.

I’ll be there to rescue you in three days.

* * * * * *

“Did you hear? The illegitimate son of the royal family was assassinated by Bok-su!”

The same story I heard in the morning came out of Amilla’s mouth.

It seems that it has spread not only to the supply corps, but also to the search corps.

“Oh, I heard. By the way, where are Jean and Isabel?”

Neither Isabelle nor Jean can be seen.

Where on earth are these two?

“Well, Jean is on duty… Isabelle is there too.”

From afar, Sherry mumbles in a dejected voice.

“Oh, really?”

Why did Isabel go to the guard?

“It’s lonely today.”

Coober quietly recited and rolled his eyes.

I know.

Susan and Kailish, who had enjoyed a lazy afternoon with me, boarded the wagon again to resupply at night before the rainy season.

I probably won’t see you until tomorrow.

I like it─

Someone came into the restaurant.

I wondered if Jean and Isabelle had finally arrived, but no.

“Are you Dwin Lee?”

They were knights of the Defense Security Guard.

He wears a rank insignia of junior rank on his chest, and the clothes he is wearing are not armor but a uniform.

Despite their blunt tone, the two knights were looking at my face with quite interested eyes.

“Yes. I am.”

“He is an executive engineer belonging to the Defense Security Command. I was sent to check on you after hearing that you were being treated unfairly.”

“That’s right. Thank you for coming to help.”

The security guard’s gaze glances at my plate.

“I think the meal is already over, but I would like you to guide me to the commander.”

I heard it would take about three days, but it arrived in just one day.

It was a suspiciously fast process.

These people also have work schedules to begin with, so why come to visit in the evening?

Let’s not think too deeply.

It just has to be good for me.

“I will guide you.”

* * * * * *

“Deputy Chief Dewin. Clearly under probation…”

Baek In-jang’s backstory was cut off as soon as he encountered the officers’ main enemy, the security guards.

“Is this you, Pike Remitier?”

“Yes. That’s right, but…”

“He is an executive engineer belonging to the Defense Security Command. Recently, we received a report that White Chief Pike Lemitier caused mental distress and social aggression to Deputy White Chief Dwin Lee through excessive punishment and words and actions.”

Excessive punishment?

misery?

Social attack?

What kind of puzzling story is this?

“Oh, I can explain everything. Would you like to sit somewhere first?”

Baek In-jang glanced at me with a stern expression and stood up.

The defense technician standing behind him began writing down something like a beam of light.

what? Is that a death note?

“I told him to explain.”

“Yes.”

A long yet short story began.

The safety technician didn’t ask any questions and just listened to the whole story.

But it didn’t seem like he wanted to understand the situation.

The look in his eyes as if he was loading each gun one by one gave me goosebumps.

Baek In-jang was waving with an innocent expression.

No more fluttering!

They’re loading bullets to shoot at you!

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“That’s it.”

finished.

The gunmen had already loaded the bullets and were making cruel calculations about where and how to fire.

“There are more than one part that I don’t understand.”

The security technician smiled arrogantly.

“Who is infiltrating troops into the enemy country without orders from the Heavenly Seal?”

“I am the former commander. Because I’ve been through this situation a lot─”

“The hundred people in question called the missing person a deserter. The search results of the search party also stated that they had crossed over to Yunaira ‘voluntarily’. It happened in the same Cheonindae, so you wouldn’t know the outcome, right?”

“But…”

“So, are you sending soldiers to the south? To retrieve a deserter? What on earth are you thinking?”

I can see it as I stand next to the safety technician.

Writing down the words “megalomania” in the notebook of death.

“This has happened many times before!”

“Can you guarantee that the same thing will always happen?”

“···No.”

“Keep in mind that commanders steeped in inertia are Drekkar’s main enemies.”

The pen begins to move again.

“This isn’t the only thing I don’t understand. When the apprentice knight failed in the operation due to the servant’s power, the deputy chieftain was placed on probation as retaliatory disciplinary action.”

“Retaliatory disciplinary action?! I don’t know why, but the white wolf was targeting the vice-white seal!”

“So, did the White Wolf arrive across the Rhine River, watched by tens of thousands of people?”

“But didn’t the Immortal cross the Great Wall?!”

“Deputy Chief Dwin subdued Immortal and handed him over to the military. That basilisk will be an important prisoner.”

The pen started to move again with a crunch.

Baek In-jang’s eyes waver like the movement of the pen.

“Chief of the Whites, deserters are criminals, not soldiers.”

“······.”

“Let’s organize it. Chief Baek In-jang attempted an unreasonable operation to rescue the deserter based on his own delusions of grandeur, and when the operation failed even though it was an unavoidable situation, the deputy Baek In-jang was placed on probation as retaliatory disciplinary action.”

“This is not retaliatory disciplinary action!”

“No? Then, why did the deserter, who was killed in retaliation for a failed operation based on his delusions of grandeur, get into an argument with Deputy White Chief Dwin even after hearing that he was in fact an Immortal?”

“Well, that’s…!”

“In other words, isn’t it uncertain whether the deserter is dead or alive?”

and.

These people basically think on the premise of distrust.

“Canceling the restraint order wasn’t enough, so Deputy Chief Dewin, who was abiding by the restraint order very well, wanted to stay ‘inside the dormitory’. It was a completely different story from the one I knew. This is obvious absurdity.”

The defense engineer’s words were sharp, but also strange.

‘I just said something simple that we ended up arguing.’

How does Isabel know what I was arguing about?

“Well, that’s…”

“Inconsistent. Since I’m like this, I should be able to trust Baek In-jang’s words.”

The defense technician looks at Chief Baek with an eerie smile that seems to be his habit.

“But it is clearly suspicious that the White Wolf wants the Deputy White Seal!”

“You probably know that white wolves are heterophiles who have an abnormal love for humans who have been blessed by Venus, right? Don’t you know what the newly created Wolf Church is and what it is doing?”

“······!”

“We think like this. Is the white general the main enemy of Drekar, who suffers from megalomania, or is he a cancerous lump in the colon wall that is blinded by balls?”

There was fear and anger in the eyes of the chieftain.

“I issue a summary judgment. As of this time, Captain Pike Remitier is under indefinite probation until a decision is made by the higher-ups of the Defense Security Command.”

It was a brilliant finish.

…But this is the only way he might be shunned by non-commissioned officers.

I glanced at the members of the House of Representatives and the supply officer.

The supply officer─

“Please pack your bags.”

I was looking at the current situation with joyful eyes.

When our eyes met, he slightly avoided my gaze, but beyond gratitude, I felt even affection for him.

‘Shouldn’t it normally be the other way around?’

“I have worked in this unit for 10 years.”

The eyes of Baek In-jang, who looked at the defense engineer, contained despair and a glimmer of hope.

“It is natural for a person who commits a crime to be judged. Don’t justify it.”

But those looks had no effect on the defense engineer.

“Until a new leader is elected, the 3rd Reconnaissance Troop will be led by Quartermaster Tess Decor, Deputy Chief Isabel Laphobia, and Deputy Chief Dwin Lee. ”

“Yes.” “Okay.”

I like the supply center so I’m trying to ignore it.

What should I say?

I almost burst out laughing at that seemingly innocent appearance.

Fortunately, I was able to suppress my laughter thanks to Baek In-jang glaring at me.

“Get out of the way.”

When I sneaked out of the way, I was pushed by Baek In-jang’s broad shoulders and hit my head on the wall.

thud!

At that sound, the eyes of the security guards flashed and they came towards us.

“Ha, you’re crazy. Now you are omitting mutual respect and resorting to violence?!”

Maybe I just got the balance wrong?

“In summary, Captain Pike’s command authority is temporarily revoked. Pike members must not leave the dormitory for any reason other than relieving menstrual needs, natural disasters, or accidents.”

“This can’t be happening…!”

The white commander, who was furious, looked at me with his eyes wide open, and cast a look of injustice at the defense engineer.

“How can this happen─?”

“···No.”

However, the command officer’s hyena-like gaze eventually silenced the chief.