Dear My Knight

2. Rachel Cardia – (3)

***

“Others in the mansion don’t know about it yet. I thought that he would be lying around with a girl somewhere like he usually is, so I’m not very interested in him until now.”

And if you think about it in light of Bledian’s usual behavior, it was definitely a reasonable idea. Laying outside for days with a woman he caught sight of was a common occurrence recently, and even those who pointed it out became rare after the passing of the previous head of household.

Death at her own hands, Gora outclasses Agelan with his greed for riches. Compared to them, it was the second son of the Glead family, Bledian, who was classified as a rogue.

But Lady Ashera’s attitude was strange.

She even felt a sense of impatience from the appearance of Ashera, who continued her words, as if the situation was going strangely, as well as the question about the existence of an assistant.

As if he was certain that something had happened to him……

“You seem to be certain that something is wrong with him. Do you know anything?”

“I obviously gave up the position of successor, but there are forces that secretly support me within the Glaad family. Borrowing their power, as usual… “

Ashera paused for a moment, glanced at Ed, then continued her words, pretending to be calm.

“A person who was given the surname of Glaad. There are people who are tracking it. It is a fact that I learned about the disappearance of Bledian because I received a report from them.”

“And after he chased after the red-haired woman, the traces of Bledian disappeared completely.”

Those who tracked it missed its traces.

As he read the meaning behind the words, Ed realized that Asherah’s words about him disappearing in Beuldian were not simple at all.

“Are you saying that someone intentionally lured him out of Bledian?”

“According to the pursuer, at some point their figures disappeared into the darkness. He said so.”

“… So you’re saying that it’s definitely someone’s work.”

“Yes, the fact that I can know so far is that after chasing the red-haired beauty, her whereabouts became unclear. Nothing but that.”

In the calm way she spoke, Ed read a passionate emotion like anger in her eyes.

‘I’m not like an Ashera lady.’

Asera, who has always been more proud of the Glead family than anyone else, she didn’t like them for behaving inappropriately for the Glead family’s status.

She was openly confused about them, and it was easy to see what she was thinking about them.

Not only Gorea, but also Beuldian and Azelan.

And that was a fact that even they knew, and after Arjen, the previous head of the family, passed away, it got even worse.

And it didn’t get along well enough that they knew better.

No, it was close to an accurate expression that no one was close to them.

That’s why Ashera is showing an emotion close to anger……

“The reason I asked you about this first, Ed, was because I was wondering if there was an assistant I didn’t know about Bledian.”

According to Ashera’s will, the atmosphere shook violently. Ed, who inadvertently received her momentum from the front, couldn’t help but be nervous without knowing it.

“Before I told you to kill Gore, I told you, Ed, what I thought of them all.”

Involuntarily, Ashera’s eyes radiated a sharp light, and Ed was overwhelmed.

Her blue flower and why she is called the Jewel of the North.

The beauty she had was also beauty, but she was more fundamentally compared to them, her other brothers.

Her popularity encompassing most of the people who met her, her blue jewel-like eyes contained in her fragile impression, and above all, her martial arts that she possessed, It was genuine, befitting Leard’s stature.

In addition to having learned all the forms of the “Glead family swordsmanship” Passed down only to Glead, at the age of only 19, Ashera always participated in the demonic subjugation pouring down from the mountains in the north.

Looking at that figure, Ed couldn’t help but think that she was the heir to the Gleades family, and that position should be inherited by Lady Ashera.

“But it must be you or me, Ed, to deal with them. It is absolutely unacceptable for anyone else to touch them.”

When she noticed that Ed was nervous, Ashera naturally lost her momentum. She looked at Ed with her eyes, which contained her firm will.

“Because it is like her challenge to Glea Degas.”

***

On the outskirts of the city of Glia.

The outskirts of the city were often surrounded by darkness unless the entrance and exit of the city gates where merchants came and went were close.

And such a place meant the outskirts of the city, especially the places where people’s footsteps did not reach well. The fact that people’s steps do not reach it naturally means that the management of the buildings is insufficient.

The buildings located on the outskirts were shabby because you could see how old they were and cracks everywhere.

And despite the numerous mercenary and knight families nestled in the city of Glia, the existence of such a place also signified the greatness of the city of Glia on the contrary.

The poor and the lame.

An old man whose eyes have lost his strength, and children whose bones have been exposed due to not eating properly.

Although various people formed a diverse group of people. The majority, or even all of them, were not in good shape.

Rachel, who just looked at all of it indifferently, moved her steps toward the darker outskirts.

Wearing a hooded robe that covered her face and body, her figure overlapped with the dark background of the outskirts, so she was not noticed even by the people living in the outskirts.

Rachel was filled with displeasure inside as she indifferently passed by people of unfavorable appearance on the outskirts.

“…… “

She jumped into the life of a mercenary full of resentment towards the world.

It reminds me of a girl who is only 15 years old practicing her sword as if she was overcome with evil.

The way she continued to cry as if she was sad, but continued to swing her sword without letting go of her hand.

The figure crouching down on the outskirts of the city eating bread as if living in hiding with little money.

Tired of her exhaustion, the days she spent looking shabby, as if consciously damaging her own appearance.

“… f*ck.”

Rachel’s tone was deeply subdued as she muttered lowly.

Every time I passed a person with a filthy appearance, I felt dirty because I felt like I was projecting myself in their appearance.

It wasn’t long after I walked like that that I saw a locked door in the thick darkness.

She erased all possible traces of her once again, and she hid the corpses of the knights she killed in another place, so she was not discovered yet.

Despite the passage of several days, the city of Glia was quieter than expected.

Even though the second son of the Glead family had been hiding from her for several days, there were no rumors or Glead’s response.

The Glead family’s knights are wary of Gorea’s death.

I confirmed that I was investigating it in various places around the city.

There was no action taken against the second son, Vuldian.

No, to be precise, there were no rumors that Beuldian had disappeared.

To the point where he feels like it’s worthless that he’s putting so much effort into his actions……

Beldian, the second son of the Glad family. The city, and at least the Gleard family, were too indifferent to him.

“Eup, Eup, Eup!!”

As Rachel opened the locked door and entered, in a corner of her room, she saw a bizarre figure scratching the wall in terror.

Judging by the fact that he didn’t make a loud sound like a scream in the middle of it, it seemed that even his insides were engulfed by the emotion of fear.

Rachel Cardia.

The interrogation that lasted for several days after she kidnapped Beuldian.

At the end of it, Rachel confirmed that Gora’s known death was true.

Rachel looks at Bledian, who is struggling with a pathetic expression.

‘Ha…… ‘

After finishing her disguise and entering the city of Glia, she walks around the city, gathering information that she knows will flesh out a bit more.

As I turned my head to that sticky gaze that felt persistent, I really bumped into Bledian Glade.

The moment he heard the name Bledian Glade from the mouth of the man, the man in front of him belatedly noticed that the appearance of the Bledian Glade he had investigated was the same.

And that’s right, I thought there was no one better suited than Bledian to confirm with certainty about Gora’s death.

That’s why I didn’t have a plan, but I lured him out on the fly.

She didn’t even have to torture or threaten a guy named Beul Dian.

It’s amazing how the second son of a knight’s family can be so weak even if he’s weak.

When he tortured him with the thought that it might be false, he didn’t even feel the value of interrogation anymore when he clung to him while crying as if he had lost his mind.

Despite the low-intensity torture by his standards, he passed out within a few hours.

The tolerance for pain was too weak, and the spirit within it was even more insignificant.

If it was a family of knights, they would have trained and learned about the sword. As for the guy named Bledian, it was as if he hadn’t even trained properly.

“You… how will we do it.”

Seeing Rachel muttering coldly, Beuldian’s complexion turned white. It was as if she had intuited her own death.

Even as she looked at her, Rachel only frowned at her.

There was nothing more to find out, and he didn’t even need a guy named Bledian.

Besides revealing a woman about a guy named Beuldian, I looked into the rumors that circulated around the city, and he was a piece of garbage among garbage that wasn’t even worth thinking about.

It was basic to play with a woman I liked, and if her words didn’t work, I would solve it by force. If that doesn’t work, use the family name.

That’s what the information came in even though I didn’t really look into it.

If you dig into it in detail, just thinking about how much garbage it is will make you feel sick.

And I don’t really like murder. Even though she was disguised, she couldn’t let go of it, considering that she had seen her own face.

“Eup!!”

With a suppressed moan, he crawled on the cold floor and approached himself instead of walking properly as if begging.

Rachel’s eyes sank even colder as she looked at her.

A person from a family of knights shouldn’t be so pitiful.

It was a constant annoyance to him that he was living like garbage even though he had things that no one could have even if they wished for them and overflowed.

I couldn’t understand how such trash could exist in a family called Glead, a famous knight family even in the empire.

Let’s brush her hands lightly with a frowning Rachel.

A ray of light flashed in the darkness.

At the same time, Beuldian’s wide-eyed gaze was bizarrely broken.

The second son of the Glaad family, Bledian Glead.

Beuldian’s life was lost in vain.

***

“Then… There is nothing but the outskirts.”

Ed murmured as if sighing. He was walking around the outskirts of Glia.

Ed’s outfit was light at first glance.

Except for the sword strapped to the waist, the outfit was so light that it didn’t look like a knight at all. Ed was forced to change into light clothes because he thought he would alert the people of the city to his actions in the city.

And that was an action I chose because I had experienced several times not to say that I was wearing knight armor, even though I would normally say it naturally, for fear of telling the wrong truth while dealing with the knights of the Glaad family.

From the mouths of the guards who manage access to the city of Glia, they said that they had never seen a woman with red hair or a Bledian.

That meant they were still in the city.

Starting from the center of the city for several days, I spent quite a bit of time looking for the Beuldian.

Originally, it was the time to escort Ashera. In the last few days, Ed He has been concentrating on probing the city.

Ed’s walking around the city was formally an investigation into Goa’s death. In reality, it was to find the traces of Beuldian who disappeared without a trace and the escort knight who followed him.

Then they searched for the center of the city or any place where there were a lot of people, but there was no trace left of Beeldian.

“…… “

And after entering the outskirts of the city, Ed he couldn’t help but be surprised.

Ed was the first to enter the outskirts, so this was the first time he faced the reality of what human life was like living outside of Glia.

The life of a nursery school before receiving support from the Mage Tower 8 years ago was not so difficult.

They were so miserable that such thoughts naturally popped into Ed’s head.

Then the old man bowed his head while holding both hands to himself.

She is a woman who prays pitifully while carrying a child of about 5 years old.

Children whining near her own in shabby clothes, saying that she is hungry.

Handing a small amount of money to that desolate appearance must have been the cause of trouble.

Even though he knew that he would have to reject their begging with reason in the face of a child starving to the point where his bones were visible, Ed eventually left the Glead family and gave most of the money he had received to them.

“This…… You will be scolded by Lady Ashera.”

The moment Ed, with a bitter smile, walked past them and set his foot towards the outskirts, surrounded by even more darkness.

Not far away, a corner of the space caught my eye.

Ed’s gaze naturally turned to Shimmering.

Looking at it again, it was actually a person wearing a hooded robe that was so dark that it was indistinguishable from the darkness.

Even she mistook herself for being shivering. After that, she felt strange to see the robe moving her steps naturally.

In fact, if you don’t look closely or pay attention, most of them are insignificant signs that you will naturally pass by.

Ed hurriedly opened his mouth at the sight of him gradually moving away.

“Wait, stop.”

The robed being stopped at Ed’s voice and slowly turned around.

In an instant, Rachel and Ed’s eyes met.