chapter 21
“Are you saying that the acting head of the family, who should be in charge of and leading the big and small affairs of the family, is away? It is nonsense.”
I lay on my side on the long bench, tossed a grape into my mouth, and shrugged.
“Why don’t you make sense? I have nothing to do anyway. Isn’t Halon working hard instead?”
“Absolutely not.”
“If I can find someone to go out and help Halon, I’ll send it to you. Aren’t you just going out to play?”
“I cannot give you permission. young master.”
He laughed lightly at Alkaido’s fierce objection.
“Is there anything I can’t do with what I’m trying to do?”
Watching him press his temples with his fingers as if he has a headache, I calmly take a bite full of freshly picked grapes and chew on them.
“The head of the family won’t allow it.”
“Do you really think so?”
I don’t think he would mind at all.
And Alkaido is expected to some extent.
“Go with at least three elite knights, then.”
At his words, I shook my head with an openly embarrassed expression.
“what? watch me? And what fun is that?”
As if I was getting bored, I pushed the grapes out and stretched out to hug the cushion.
“I’m bored. I mean, I’m so bored here. Alkaido would have guessed to some extent that I would come out like this. is not it?”
Besides, I know why you want to leave.
As I threw the words into my mouth, Alkaido frowned and sighed.
“Wide world. is it good I’m going to go around the continent for a while, I’ll contact you occasionally and send you a present.”
“If there are more than three, take at least one.”
“This way and that way. That’s what puts me on a leash. And I’m thinking of leaving the shadows as well.”
At my words, Alkaido looked at me as if wondering why.
“My father is so partial to me. externally.”
Standing up in a chair, he brushed up his disheveled hair with his fingers, moving only his eyes as if he was glaring at Alkaido.
“You never know. Will you just ignore me and use me as an external cause to get what you want?”
Alkaido couldn’t refute what I said while smirking after pretending to slit my neck.
“For example, the grand duke of the Kruger family who was murdered in the capital of the empire. If this is done with public opinion, wouldn’t my father openly gather more soldiers?”
“You are thinking too much.”
Well, I shook my head and said as if it was nothing.
“What would I know if I don’t know anything about the world? I’ve written some novels. But isn’t there something similar like that, I mean?”
I said it was an exaggerated idea, but Alkaido would know enough to know.
The only important thing to Caiman is this family and Guardia.
‘That’s why even though he had great power in the latter half of the game, he couldn’t use his strength if only Guardia was in the party.’
Alkaido sighed lightly and opened his mouth to persuade me in a slightly subdued tone.
“You may not know because you have only been in Laves, which belongs to the main family, but it is not as safe outside as this city.”
“It’s because my father will be happy even if I’m wrong. And Alkaido, I think you’re mistaken about something.”
I sat arrogantly, leaning my head against the back of my chair and laughing.
“You think I’m trying to convince Alkaido?”
“… … .”
“This is a notification, Alkaido.”
* * *
Actions that suddenly do not make sense.
Why did Adelian buy the boy and buy various items at the auction house?
Most of the things that were told to buy for yourself were common herbs, but why did you say that you should buy and keep them regardless of the amount of money?
If you look only at the memories of the past, you would have thought that most of Adelian’s orders to Alcaido were given as a joke.
‘I wonder if that was the reason.’
Alkaido’s heart has become stronger with today’s events.
No matter how much I was notified, I thought I would control it so that I could never leave the city if I couldn’t convince myself properly.
No matter how incompetent and useless he is in the world, he is the blood of the Kruger family.
I didn’t want to listen to the vain words of travel because that alone was worth it.
“What are you talking about. don’t you believe me I am Adelian. why? Are you afraid that Adelian Coin will crash? under. I don’t know johnber… … .”
In a way, the tone sounded a bit frivolous.
However, the words contained in it were not light.
Alkaido laughed silently while drawing his beard with his fingertips.
I wonder if my eyes were too low level to say I couldn’t fathom the depth even though I’d been looking at it for so long.
On what grounds are you so confident?
What do I have to believe in and send it out there?
Please give me a clue to erase the evil deeds of the past 10 years. Give us a basis for confidence.
After he complained, what did the other owner of Alcaido say?
‘Alkaido, then only Alkaido knows. Actually I am.’
Alkaido called me with a beckoning gesture and recalled what he had whispered in my ear in a low voice.
‘My trait. It’s Ye Jian. Alkaido.’
* * *
My conscience is openly trying to scold me… … .
It doesn’t hurt too much.
“If you think about it, isn’t it a big lie?”
What is Ye Jian?
Are you looking into the future?
I finished reading the novel and saved the continent several times with games, but wasn’t that enough to make it because I couldn’t see the future?
I defeated Alkaido with the word Yejian, and opened a large, empty subspace in the ring.
“Do you have anything to bring?”
Then, secretly, he throws books in the study, the blanket he sleeps on, and even the candlestick with a nonchalantly chic touch.
I met eyes with Luna, who didn’t know when he came back.
“Look at me like it’s so weird.”
“now… what… do?”
“Ah, I want to take something while traveling, so I pack a few things.”
“to… that’s why… Take it with you… … ?”
“You don’t know what the world will be like. Besides, the bag has no weight and is large, isn’t it okay?”
A female friend I knew did that.
He says he is a peddler.
They carry everything from real nail clippers to colored paper cakes and firecrackers.
Why did you do that in the first place? While I was doing it, I had to borrow it once in a while… …
How proud he was when he said he felt the pride of a peddler every time.
He carries a bag the size of his torso, but I don’t have any weight and it doesn’t get in my hand. What could be worse than that?
Now that pride. It’s my turn to feel it.
“Why is the book… … ?”
“If you’re bored, do you want to read or light a fire?”
“A blanket… … ?”
“In my mind, I put up with putting that bed in. Even if you are homeless, you should sleep well covered with a blanket.”
“Then this… … .”
I quickly changed the subject before hearing more nagging.
“By the way, what do you have in your hand?”
When I saw the letter in Luna’s hand, I asked nervously, and Luna tilted her head to the side and opened her mouth.
“Bocchan’s room… I’m going… Because… A servant gave me… … .”
… You didn’t send Gadia to come, did you?
I took a sneak peek and looked at the sentence stamped on the sealing wax, and it was the pattern of an unknown family.
I asked Luna while shaking it between my fingers.
“Do you know which family it is?”
“hmm… this… The Chester Family Crest… What is it?”
Chester?
What I don’t remember right away is, was it an acquaintance who originally interacted with Adelian?
I put my hand on the family ring and pulled out the letter knife among the randomly thrown junk.
“Ah, this is DeVio.”
Dear blah blah, the sunshine, the scent of flowers. Erase all these rhetoric.
I read through the three pages of the letter and smiled.
“young master… What is it about… … ?”
“When I went to the temple the other day, there must have been a group from Debuona. Please lend me Kane.”
I read that it has no nutritional value, I.
I roughly crumpled it up and opened my mouth to Luna who was looking up at me with pink eyes.
“If Luna has something heavy to carry, give it to her in advance. I will keep it.”
Luna is troubled by my lightly thrown words.
Well, since she’s a girl, she probably wants to carry a lot of things. When I think of my female friends, my bag is full of things.
After thinking about it for a while, Luna sneaked up to her side and opened her mouth.
“… young master.”
“uh? why.”
“The field… Are you coming in?”
field? Maybe a carrot field?
I blinked at Luna’s words and smiled awkwardly.
“Shall we just buy a bunch of carrots?”
Not the small subspace, but the large subspace of Kruger’s ring, it seems that the material does not change.
“still… can?”
I was going to prepare some food anyway because of the problem of preparing for the incount related to the different races.
What does it matter if carrots are added to it?
I nodded and Luna smiled brightly.
“however… When do you want to leave… Already prepared like this… do?”
“Oh, didn’t I tell you? tomorrow.”
“ah… tomorrow… tomorrow?”
Looking at my room, which was quite empty, I wandered all over the castle, thinking about whether to tear it apart and put it in, then looked at Luna.
“Aren’t you too fast?”
“why? Anything else to prepare? Anyway, we’ll be leaving tomorrow, so get ready.”
Normally, a trip doesn’t go as planned, Luna.
“then… A letter to my family… I’ll come write… … .”
“As you leave, tell Kane that you will be leaving tomorrow.”
“yes… … .”
After Luna left, I couldn’t see anything else to take care of, so I threw myself on the remaining bed without a blanket and lay down.
First of all, since Alkaido said that the time to hold the shadow is until tomorrow, it’s a bit tight, but there’s no choice.
If you wear them around, you never know when you’ll get involved in Caiman’s plans.
‘Actually, I can’t trust anything other than Kane and Luna.’
Alkaido is also not an enemy right now, but you don’t know what will happen in the end.
That’s why I’m equipped with a teleport scroll that erases the fixed coordinates just in case.
‘If it doesn’t work, I have to tear this up and hide the path once.’
Because Kane won’t be able to defeat the shadow yet.
If I wear it, not only will information on our side leak out, but my life might become a Caiman’s chess piece.
“Did you say you were leaving tomorrow?”
While lying on the bed and thinking about this and that, Kane appeared as if he had heard what Luna had said.
I didn’t get up and just looked at him with my eyes moving as I was lying down, then nodded my head.
“Why are you so fast? I still can’t help it.”
“No, not fast.”
Kane sat down on a chair a little further away and tapped the table lightly with his finger.
“There is no reason for you to go, is there? After all, the purpose of our deal is, first, to make me stronger, and second, to be loyal to you after that.”
“So why do you want me to send you alone?”
“If you don’t trust me, it’s okay to attach someone else.”
I snorted at Kane’s words.
“What are you talking about. I must be the one who believes in you more than you.”
You don’t know what sacrifices you made and what you ended up doing?
I know everything.
I got up and met the eyes of the only 18-year-old protagonist, who didn’t yet know the extent of his potential.
[Writer, why do you keep giving me only sweet potatoes? Is the writer a sweet potato pass?]
[It’s proof.]
[No, what are you talking about? Why is there evidence!]
I remember one time when a comment from an author made fans go crazy.
historical evidence… Later, when the continent is confused and security worsens, everyone is wary of outsiders. At that time, there are many shops that do not sell well or use poor quality food because they are strangers even if they kindly ask for meals.
Because everyone is hard to live.
But no answer, how can the main party eat well?
Later, like savages, there comes a moment when they can’t even buy something to eat unless they hunted it.
why?
I can’t speak!
Can I make some firewood for you and mother in a friendly way? If you act friendly while doing it, will you give me a potato?
Even when punishing a group of evil gods in the middle, there is no question and answer.
Just blow up the head, burn the body, and blow up the mansion to blow up the human sacrifice room in the basement… … .
He was a popular person in the city, so he was put on a wanted list so that he couldn’t escape, so he moved in the dark for a while.
It would have been different if I had just brushed my teeth off as a worshiper of the Evil Gods!
My eyes watered as I recalled the future I knew.
Come to think of it, I believe in Kane’s power, but not his old power.
No, I just can’t trust all the party members, that part.
“So you just trust this hyung.”
I gave up on explaining, and after talking in moderation, I raised my thumb, and Kane’s eyes also cooled.