chapter 24
Episode 24. Let’s make just one thing clear.
“I would have told you to call me boss when I was active, right?”
“Sorry, boss… …. Big!”
A fugitive with an angry voice and being caught by an outstretched hand.
The sight of the young man’s body lifted up in the hands of someone who had stepped out of the darkness was in itself teaching that the opponent was not a mediocre person.
Anyway, it’s a faction that’s aiming for a saint, but there’s no way they’ve gathered only those guys.
“Are you the boss?”
Spitting out a burnt cigarette, he approached the leader who was throwing down the henchmen he had just held in his hand and asked.
Moonlight as the leaves open in the breeze. What appeared from him was a middle-aged man with a shaggy beard on his chin.
The surface of the thick hatchet held in his hand had been stained black as if it had been soaked in a kind of liquid for a long time.
It means that he killed people to the extent that the iron in his blood oxidized the weapon.
“Yes, it seems my men are indebted. Damn b*tch.”
A man who boasts with his blade held high as if he wants to use even such a weapon as a threat.
Unfortunately, this side had long since graduated when they were afraid of such things.
In the first place, the strongest person in the world is a woman, so what do you mean by a girl in a fight?
“By the way, I’ve seen you on the wanted list, is that right?”
“Hoho, do you know me?”
Yes, it was common in war.
Things that take advantage of the hectic gap to cause a civil war and even slap the backs of allies in an attempt to steal power and property.
“Well, it’s the first time we met like this. Hello. Mr. Gryan Kais, who is caught trying to sell his kingdom during the war and is naked. I heard that they were banditry in the border area until a few years ago. How did you come to this central area?”
Gryan Kayse.
From the second prince of the Kingdom of Kais, which was a weak country in the past, he was an idiot who used the power of the royal family to enjoy luxury and pleasure with the people’s money.
That wasn’t enough, he raised a rebellion in his country and failed and was expelled…
In fact, no matter what he is from, he is a ‘criminal’ who should not be practiced even by traders today.
“No, now I have to remove Kais as well. How long are you going to live with that name?”
“… You’re being cheeky on the subject of a girl.”
The crazy Gryan grips the ax as if he is uncomfortable with the greeting with such a fact.
“I have a body like this now, but it is a body in which honorable royalty flows. Do you dare to think that you would be allowed to speak as if you were on an equal footing with me?”
“An era of peace isn’t all that good. Traitors even talk about honor.”
“It was not me who betrayed the country, but those guys. Even if you fight for the name of the country to the end, it’s not enough, but you’re a coward who accepts a peace treaty, not a war with the empire. As a member of the royal family, are you saying that is something you would have done?”
“Isn’t that a story that has been around for over 10 years already? I went there a while ago and saw that the king’s face had grown plump as well.”
For the time being, I was indebted to the grand duke’s family. While running errands, he had set foot in the Kingdom of Kais several times as a diplomat’s representative.
In a place that was so prosperous that even before the war, the name of a small country was colorless.
In fact, at first, the Empire also intended to take over the Kingdom of Kais for military purposes and pave the way, but after the war, the Kingdom of Kais even created a dedicated venue, playing the role of a diplomatic outlet responsible for peace between the Empire and other countries. .
If the rebellion had been successful, I wouldn’t have seen such a sight.
In the worst case, the war might have continued even after two years.
“Why don’t you just be honest? As her second prince, she doesn’t even have a chance to become a king, so she tried to cause a revolution by driving her older brother’s choice to become a traitor to the empire, but at this point she would go under the empire.”
“…… The tongue teasing form is amazing. At best, on the subject of serving a church with only about 20 years of history.”
Mr. Gryan Kayse gritted his teeth as if he had grown angry at my words.
But even that was soon swallowed up by ridicule.
It’s as if you’re belittling the author who mocks you.
“Two, boss. Be careful. That woman is strong.”
At that moment, a subordinate rushes from behind and gives attention.
There was fear in the voice of the guy who had been beaten and groaned before.
Rather than facing me, the fear towards the ‘lord of oneself’ that has been harassing oneself so far.
“Are you strong? Is that woman?”
Even with that warning, Gryan didn’t stop laughing.
“It must be strong. Priests usually can’t go into battle unless they are paladins, but it’s a different story if they are followers of Kleas.”
“Heh heh, you talk as if you know our church well.”
“I know it well. The thing hanging around his neck is what remains in my memory.”
Red Rosario.
While quietly gripping the accessory that symbolizes the Cleas Church, Gryan, who carved it into his eye, said with a fishy smile.
“You bastard, are you a member of the Red Cross?”
“… ….”
“Ha ha ha ha! Yes, I knew that too! Because none of the people from that unit didn’t wear that necklace.”
The crazy Gryan bursts into laughter when he sees me being silent.
As I stared at the reaction calmly, Gryan’s henchmen, who had been hesitant behind it, began to hesitantly ask.
“By the Red Cross Unit, do you mean the special forces of the Imperial Army created by Archduke Aries?”
“A small group of elites stepping into the forefront without a single armament… ….”
“Yes, as you say.”
This is the one who harshly scolded his men before. From the moment I guessed my identity, all attention was directed to me.
As if they were expecting something to happen from now on.
“The Red Cross is a unit created by the Imperial Army solely for the purpose of rescuing people……. It is known that they go to the most dangerous frontlines, abandoning even their armor and weapons to secure even a little mobility.”
That in itself was called ‘seunggi’.
Yes, it stemmed from the grounded conviction that a guy of this level wouldn’t have much to worry about.
“But does surviving on the front line mean that you are strong?”
“Yes? That’s it, of course…….”
“Even those who run away ugly and ungainly can exaggerate their stories and tell the world.”
Gryan, who resolutely denies common sense, narrowed his gaze as he stared at me.
As if he had seen through me now.
“When faced with the strong men of the continent, all they can do is run away like crazy. Am I wrong?”
“…… There is nothing wrong.”
No, every single one was a fact.
In fact, the main purpose of the Red Cross unit is not to fight, but to rescue people.
My main job has been to give first aid to dying soldiers and officers after arduous battles, and escort them to the clergy in the rear by returning to the main unit with only their breathing tubes attached.
Of course, the battle was the last thing in mind to get rid of the pursuers.
If they were in a position where they were said to be the strongest on the continent, the Red Cross unit would be nothing to call it a danger.
“By the way, didn’t your subordinates not even use a side to me, who was only a small spoonful?”
“Ha ha ha ha! How could I, who was born with the fate of a king, do everything with my own hands? In order to accomplish a great cause, you need to know how to fill in the number of heads, whether you are competent or not.”
It’s been quite a while since I was kicked out, but I still can’t give up my greed.
Anyway, the guys under it are all like that after all.
Even if they are scumbags, they have royal blood, so if you are loyal to him, they follow you with the vague expectation that your loyalty will be rewarded sooner or later.
“Of course, any guy who made it to the front line and survived has a pretty temper. Yeah, the guy I dealt with back then had no choice but to go out on my own in the end.”
But the important thing now is not the circumstances of his subordinates, but how well he knows the information about the Red Cross unit to which I belong.
“It was a very enjoyable fight. At first, he rushed in brazenly, but after being pushed back to a certain extent, he immediately ran away with his tail falling out…….”
– Took.
“… It ended up like this.”
Something thrown from his arms.
The one that fell to the floor was the same ‘red rosary’ hanging from my neck.
The guy stomped on the rosario and said smirkingly.
“So, how does it feel to meet an old colleague’s foe, Clea’s believer?”
“… ….”
Old colleague.
The moment I heard that, I had time to organize what he was saying for a while in my head.
So what is it?
This guy has a perverted hobby of collecting things from the people he killed by beheading, and that rosario belongs to someone in the unit I belonged to in the past?
He fought him, and took the loot to commemorate his victory?
“Whoa.”
As I let out a sigh in frustration, the lingering smell of cigarettes hit my tongue.
The moment you chew on that sensation, saliva flows.
Swallowing the food that was slowly accumulating under my tongue was my immediate reaction.
“The reaction is a bit boring. Aren’t you angry?”
“Woe? At all.”
He sneered and shrugged his shoulders.
“Do I have to be so surprised to write it? In the first place, I’ve seen people die on a daily basis, but the unit I belonged to is where seven out of ten died. It would be strange to turn a blind eye to someone who died in a yard that is difficult to remember.”
But what I am saying now is half a lie.
Unfortunately, the unit I belonged to was always operated with a platoon or lower, and even that was all dying regardless of top or bottom.
The reason why I was the unit commander when I was only in my early twenties was because the people above me were all in a row.
As there were so many people who died, there weren’t that many people who stayed until the end of the war.
So that necklace must have belonged to the guy I remember.
“…… Still, if you provoked it, you must be prepared, right?”
The reason I can keep my cool is because I know that if my emotions are crushed more than necessary, my concentration will also be disturbed.
So, let’s find out who the owner of that necklace is, and postpone the timing and method of commemoration until later.
“Are you ready? What do you mean?”
Now is the time to think about how to roast and boil the idiot in front of me.
“Be prepared to risk your life.”
– Profit.
The embers bursting out with the friction of my fingers burn the tip of the cigarette that was newly placed in my mouth.
While the heat on my fingertips went away, I squeezed a cigarette with those fingers and gradually controlled the boiling emotions.
“…… Gryan Kays.”
Speak like that.
“Roughly I understand why you are hanging out here.”
His real name is clear and distinct.
In my own way, I put ‘politeness when dealing with an equal’.
“In short, someone placed a bounty on the saintess of Heide in the underworld, and needs money to build an army to usurp the kingdom again… …. No, at least you yourself believe that it is the path for the lineage that runs through your body.”
Yeah, what I’m saying right now isn’t like a twist.
In the first place, war is a ‘fight between those who have different justice’, and only the one who wins in it discusses justice.
So, in a broader sense, what is happening here can be said to be a kind of war.
And that’s why…
“So, for now, I will consider what you are doing for someone else’s justice.”
“… What do you want to say? Girl.”
“I also received a request, so I am in a position to protect the saintess.”
-Ugh.
Mana that oscillates from the tip of the hand.
Along with that, the mana that seeped into every corner of his body was being operated in a different way than when he dealt with the small pikes in the past.
“After all, we both have reasons not to back down. So from now on, don’t argue about each other’s circumstances, just one thing……. Let’s make one thing clear.”
Leaving aside the light-heartedness I had until now, I am gradually taking on this situation ‘seriously’.
I’m used to it, but I don’t want to go through it again.
But I’ve always been ready to take it out whenever I need it…….
Really this moment.
Resolve that this may be the end of your life.
“Ha ha ha ha! Before the slaughter!? Those are the pants I want!!”
Gryan responds to me and draws a deep smile.
He also began to vibrate the young mana in his axe as if anticipating the battle to follow.
“Come on, the girl from the Red Cross. From now on, I, Gryan Kais, will deal with you! Please enjoy me once on this honorable battlefield! And put that neck…….”
-Kwaang!!!!!
Immediately after that, an explosion of drinking swallowed up the guy’s babble.
When the mana carried by the legs presses the ground, the ground cracks and turns over.
Even the trees planted on it eventually rose up into the air.
And at that time, my fists were already tightly clenched.
-Wedge jaw!!
The fist behind the sonic boom behind it.
It was already aimed precisely at the face of the enemy in front of me.