Chapter 11
gossip: The melancholy of the Knights Captain
Wilhelm Eiblinger is the strongest general in the kingdom of Freakista.
I was originally born as the third son of the Earl of Eiblinger, and as long as my eldest and second brothers survived, I was relatively free to live without succeeding the governor of the Earl family. To this end, he joined the Knights after graduating, although he was only obliged to attend school as a Count’s boy.
After joining the Knights, Wilhelm gradually appeared on the headlines, becoming, in the fifth year, the commander who led the first squad.
For Wilhelm, who brought together three more bear-like bodies, the strength that matched them, and the strength that intimidated enemy soldiers, the battlefield was exactly the stage where he could handle his talents without losing them.
Wilhelm named a number of ranks in the battle against neighboring Eins Empire, once more skirmish.
For the first time in its battle, the enemy army called it ‘Wilhelm the Unfallen’, etc.
By the time he received thirty-five, his predecessor entrusted him with the post of Knights Commander.
No one opposed Wilhelm’s inauguration, which he called the strongest in the kingdom of Freakista for no reason to say no and with honor. And the man who has lived on exactly the battlefield, who has continued to fight on the front lines even since he became the Knights Commander, and to this day, even after he received sixty-two, his body is magnificent.
But – so Wilhelm was alone.
“Mmmm…”
I still have a crush on the Ains Empire, but now I can say I am in a state of well-being. Wilhelm took over the empire’s famous general, and now he lacks a good commander? The Empire is more powerful as a country than Flare Kista, and I can’t even make the moves to attack this gap.
Therefore, by entering into a treaty that was somewhat favourable to Freakista, we had no choice but to make it a state of well-being.
Nor do we know how long this situation will last. But whenever equilibrium is broken, Wilhelm always raises himself and the knight who obeys him.
So even today, Wilhelm was coming to the Knights’ garrison – the training station.
A room where things are wasted, called the Captain’s Office. Although Wilhelm, who prefers the qualities, doesn’t really like the interior, he tries to do basic errands and the like here because it is a room that has been handed down from generation to generation.
But in Wilhelm today, there’s nothing to work for.
Still – Wilhelm has no business, but he’s in the Knights.
“What to do…”
Something that haunts Wilhelm’s head – it’s a girl who has been disturbing Wilhelm’s mind since yesterday.
A friend who entered the school as the Count’s three boys and was close at that time, Duke Ridd Ambrose. He was a man of the Duke of Ambrose family, even said to be the greatest force in Freakista.
Wilhelm and Duke Ridd were close as friends of the school, however different their identities may be. Wilhelm used to say it was awesome, but Duke Ridd still treated me like one. That’s why Wilhelm also unraveled that heart against Duke Ridd and became close enough to even call him his best friend.
Even after I graduated from school, I don’t know how many times I’ve been called to Duke Rid’s home party. And how many times have you told Wilhelm, who is always alone, to consolidate himself?
But Wilhelm never looks favored by women.
Bear-like bodies were frightened by women, the strong side was frightened by women, and the crude personality for staying on the battlefield kept women away. And as a result of not engaging with a woman in her life, she gave up her marriage.
I came to the edge a few times but didn’t intend to take it, but at least I refused to say a word to the person I spoke to, and I used to cry the moment I went out to say hello to their house and showed up to the other woman. I don’t like it, I can’t believe I’m dowry with a bear like this! and when the other woman yelled at me, it was so much so that I seriously fell into female distrust.
That’s why for Wilhelm, Duke Ridd’s family even seemed like his own.
Elizabeth, the daughter of Duke Ridd, who was close to her because of her interaction from an early age. While she was a child, she did not try to be more afraid of Wilhelm because she had seen her since childhood. More so than I’ve been nostalgic for you to play. Duke Ridd unfortunately never remitted a child other than Elizabeth, but if a boy had been born, he might even have seemed exactly like his own son.
I was delighted to hear that Elizabeth had decided to marry Gilliam, her twelve-year-old Marquis son, about twenty years ago, and that was as if she had decided to marry her own daughter. At the wedding, as if my own daughter had been married, so much so that I felt deeply lonely.
And his son Alberto, the son born of Elizabeth, and his daughter Carol.
Duke has invited Wilhelm to the party many times, even after he had a grandson. I stopped telling you to marry from just beyond fifty, but it’s still new to my memory that I even thought about what to do when I brought the adoption story instead.
And Wilhelm adored Alberto and Carol, like his own grandchildren. If I had a happy family, I might have had a grandson like this, so much so that I had an impossible delusion.
That’s all Alberto and Carol missed me.
Such interaction with the Duke of Ambrose family was also lost four years ago – after Duke Ridd fell ill. I went to visit a few times, but Elizabeth wasn’t so common sense as to throw a party while Duke was in the hospital bed.
In doing so, the war with the Empire intensified, and Wilhelm was unable to return to the King’s Capital again, fighting even the front lines. I also heard that Duke Ridd is dead, in the tent on the battlefield.
Since then Wilhelm has not visited the Duke of Ambrose house.
I only visited Duke Ridd’s grave, but there is no reason why Wilhelm should visit the Duke of Ambrose. Though he was Duke Ridd’s best friend, Wilhelm is just another person for the Duke of Ambrose family. That’s why my legs went away and I haven’t seen anyone from the Duke of Ambrose family in a long time.
When Alberto came into the Knights, it was a surprise.
When I said I was a man, I even wondered what I was thinking, such as coming all the way into the Knights. Originally, Wilhelm, the captain of the regiment, would never talk to the newcomers who had just joined the group himself, but only Alberto had the edge from an early age, and he called in and talked.
– Why did you join the Knights? Non speaks of the Duke of Ambrose family man, but if he is one of the Knights, he does not discriminate. You could lose that life on the battlefield.
– Above and beyond.
Alberto replied so with a strong sense of will.
To Wilhelm, I didn’t understand that. If you are the son of the Duke of Ambrose family, you should be educated to inherit the title in the future. But Alberto was promised freedom between eighteen and twenty.
That’s why he wants to spend time in the Knights and feed himself on it.
– I’m the heir to the Duke of Ambrose, but I don’t want to think of myself as a special person. I am one person willing to protect this country. That’s why I was a spirited knight defending this country, and I wanted to study at least.
Alberto has said so strongly.
That’s why Wilhelm made his grandchildren train as if they had grown up splendidly, but without discrimination. Sooner or later, when the battle is rolled, Alberto must also be sent to the battlefield. At that time, he said, at least to have as much power as he can survive.
But – now, Wilhelm’s head is haunted by their, one crack, once thought like a grandson.
Carol Ambrose.
“Mmmm…”
Last night, Wilhelm also took part in a night club hosted by His Majesty the King, with the heavy town of the Knights.
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen Carol.
Exactly. Though nightclubs, nightclubs are also a place for nobles to boast of their existence. Wilhelm weighed himself in and stayed away, wanting to talk for a long time if he could, but by his proximity he should not be taken into account, for example, the adhesion of the Duke of Ambrose and the Knights.
What surprised me – Wilhelm was also present, Carol’s engagement to His Highness Rayford, was unilaterally destroyed.
Carol is an adorable, intelligent girl.
In the future, Rayford will be king in support of this country. Such a rare talent to serve beside Rayford and be a queen. And the kingdom becomes more rocky thanks to the ties between the royal family and the Duke of Ambrose. I guess that’s why His Majesty the King recommended the engagement of Rayford and Carol.
At that time, it was still something my grandson felt lonely about going to his wife.
But I was too angry at the one-sided remarks of His Highness Rayford. Carol is smart. Never, I wouldn’t imitate that.
Besides, I used to hear stories about Carol being educated by the queen when she entered the court. That’s all Carol is trying to be a queen, and she’s supposed to harass me like that.
But Wilhelm can’t have an opinion between His Majesty the King and the Duke of Ambrose – yes, I was trying to be quiet.
Exactly, when the argument between His Majesty and His Highness began, there would be no one else who could be stopped, he went into a stop himself.
Stopping the royal argument would not be possible in the vast majority of nobles. It was about the Duke of Ambrose if I could, but Gilliam wasn’t trying to stop it. Then it was at the beginning of the first place that I entered and praised His Majesty the King and His Royal Highness Rayford, trying to stop them with the position that they were not in the brackets of nobility, but in the important office of the royal family.
– Dear Wilhelm Eiblinger, Make Carol your daughter-in-law.
For a moment, I wondered if either my ears or my head had gone crazy.
Carol is sixteen. And Wilhelm, sixty-two.
The difference that year is forty-six. It’s an age difference that Wilhelm can even say is separate from the year we’ve been hearing about.
Whatever the hell your intentions were, I suspected – oh, my God, Carol’s eyes just seemed serious, no matter what you thought.
That’s why Wilhelm is seriously worried.
If Carol is reluctantly asking Gilliam to marry her, she can easily say no. It is easy to play with such an old man.
But is that for political strategy or is it really admiring me?
That’s about it, and if you look Wilhelm in the eye, you can guess.
“But hey…”
Again, Wilhelm is sixty-two years old.
It is still magnificent and I am not going to die so easily. But people don’t know when they’re going to die, just as Duke Ridd died without getting sixty.
Assuming Wilhelm lived to eighty, Carol is still thirty-four.
You’re too young to be a widow.
Not that Wilhelm and I don’t have any money, but rather to prefer a qualitative life, so much so. To the extent that Carol’s life is not in trouble after her own death, there is a build-up.
But that would be different from this.
If Carol can, I want him tied up with a man of more appropriate age, and accompanied. This doesn’t have to be Wilhelm, you’ll think.
“… um, still -”
Yeah, nod.
I’m glad Carol feels like it. But Wilhelm is too old and Carol too young.
You can’t take the future of a young girl that old because of such an old man.
That’s why Wilhelm, he decided.
– Let’s say no.