chapter 7
7 – Grand Duchess and Village Trip (4)
There was silence in the streets for a while.
“These crazy bastards!! I was freaking out because I wanted to die!!!”
“…… What’s going on?”
“The carriage hit the child….”
“Such a nasty bastard. From whether the child is okay….”
People began to mutter, starting with the coachman’s angry shout.
When the coachman heard that, he raised her voice as her face turned red.
As if she was trying to cover her own sins with Cain and Ellensia’s faults.
Hearing that voice, Illencia, who was staring at Cain in Cain’s arms, came to her senses and got out of his arms.
“… Cain?”
My heart was clearly beating.
So she isn’t dead yet. Even as Ilencia lost consciousness, she let go of Cain’s arms that held her tightly and she sat down next to him.
“Hey, wake up….”
Illencia’s face has been around since she was born… No, she was the face she hadn’t seen since she realized she was the Grand Duchess.
Her small hand shakes Cain’s small body.
Still, he didn’t even move. His face, distorted by pain, stood still and showed no signs of waking up.
——How did this happen?
Illencia’s knee was scratched and bleeding.
However, Illensia’s heart was more bitter than the first wound she had ever suffered in her life.
For the first time, the girl shed tears for someone.
“Wake up… Cain….”
Drops of tears fall down my white cheeks. Surely, had he been awake, he would have wiped his cheek.
She would have always looked at me with a warm smile and told me not to cry.
The boy who was supposed to say that closed his eyes and didn’t even move.
Only small moans and faint heartbeats that burst out intermittently informed that he was still alive.
Illensia was afraid.
He was alone, he himself, unable to rely on anyone, he always lived in fear.
She thought that thanks to that, he had gotten used to fear, but this fear was a different kind of fear.
“… What’s going on?!”
She must have watched everything from inside the carriage, but the figure in the carriage asked the coachman.
The coachman whispered into the carriage, startled and startled by the voice that seemed to have greased her throat.
“No sir. There was a bit of an uproar because some beggar-like kids suddenly intervened.”
“… Throw in some money or a few bucks and put it away.”
“Yeah yeah of course.”
Even though it was an accident because they did not slow down the carriage, they whispered as if they were showing mercy.
It cannot be said that Illencia who jumped into the main road was not at fault, but the coachman obviously did not slow down even after seeing it.
However, since the opponents were children, they were trying to smooth things over.
His elongation The coachman, who had been talking while bending his back, turned his head again and came down from the carriage as if in a hurry.
“…… Come to think of it, isn’t that pattern the top of Fallen?”
“Above Fallen? I see now!”
Their identities were revealed from the mouth of a shop owner who was watching the whole situation.
It is difficult to say that it was a large-scale merchant guild, but it was a small and medium guild that regularly delivered goods to this domain ruled by Balenciaga.
It was a small and medium upper class, but to deliver goods to one territory on a fixed basis was like saying that they were making quite a lot of money.
So, most of the stores around here receive their goods from the Fallen Merchant Merchant.
“Huh… It must be the top of Fallen….”
“You were unlucky.”
People clicked their tongues and looked at Cain and Illencia with pity, realizing that the owner of the carriage was the heir to the Fallen Merchant, and the first known as a madman.
First at the top of Fallen.
Unlike his father, the owner of the Fallen Merchant Merchant, Daniel Fallen was known for his savage nature, his love for women, and his innocence.
Considering that his father stopped rumors with money to prevent his father’s image from getting worse because of his successor’s evil deeds, it was obvious that Daniel’s disposition would be worse than rumors, not good.
Moreover, since the majesty of the Fallen Merchant was spread all over the village, it was clear that this incident would also go unpunished.
It was a pity that only two children were injured, but no one thought of rushing at the Fallen Merchant.
With the halo at the top on his back, the coachman triumphantly headed towards the fallen Cain and Illencia.
“Hey, kid!”
He rummaged in his arms.
I wanted to hit the children in front of my eyes with the whip in my hand, but I knew that the owner of the carriage would not like a bigger commotion.
He raised her voice and called for Illencia, but Illencia didn’t even move her and just looked down at Cain.
“Who the damn b*tch is trying to ruin someone’s life….”
Gripping his teeth at that figure, he took out a handful of silver from her arms and threw it on the floor next to Illencia.
Clink!
Dizzy, the spilled silver was scattered on the floor.
Illencia’s head slowly turned at the loud and raucous sound, and she stopped at her coins that were scattered on her floor.
‘That’s right, he said his eyes would go round in front of money.’
No, maybe money was the purpose from the beginning.
The coachman stared at Illencia with a fishy smile. Where do beggars dare to block the boy’s wagon?
In fact, if the coachman had a little broader knowledge, he would have realized that the clothes worn by Illencia and Cain were very luxurious, even though they might have been soiled.
Not only that, but also that her Illencia’s beautiful appearance and her well-managed hair cannot come from ordinary commoners.
However, he was distracted by the recent accident, and his eyes were covered with anger against them.
“Go away with that worm-like bastard. Don’t block the road.”
The coachman spat out a word to the fallen Cain and Illencia and turned his back.
“Who are you daring to stand in front of? .”
Wow!
The coachman, who spat thick spit on the floor and muttered, “I stepped on poop,” Was forced to stop at the sound of a voice behind him.
“Stop.”
Ha.
Hearing the girl’s clear voice, the coachman let out a small sigh.
“A b*tch like that isn’t satisfied with that… okay… ?”
Turning his body and looking at Illencia, he had no choice but to stop talking.
Unknowingly, Illencia raised her body and was looking at the coachman.
Gulp.
The coachman, who had been thinking of throwing some more money at Illencia while saying a word, was frozen the moment he met her gaze with the girl’s red eyes.
Unknowingly, I swallowed dry saliva.
Like a mouse in front of a cat, like a prey in front of a predator, it instinctively stiffened.
Obviously, obviously just a little girl.
The moment our eyes met, I got goosebumps all over my body and my whole body started to tremble.
Those red eyes seemed to forcefully bring out the emotion of fear that was dormant deep inside him.
‘What… The child’s eyes….’
The coachman forced his trembling hands to stop and bit his lower lip.
Should I just run away for a moment? I thought about it, but I couldn’t.
It was obvious that the person in the carriage was watching both him and the situation.
Besides, his shy pride wouldn’t allow him to run away in fear of a kid like this.
“I apologize.”
“… What, what?!”
“Apologize to Cain.”
And Illencia’s words.
To be exact, he was enraged at the sight of himself trembling at Illencia’s cold voice, and finally lifted the whip in his hand.
He knew that hitting a child with it wouldn’t be a simple matter, but he believed in the power of the Fallen Merchant.
So he whipped out.
No, it may have just been his desperate attempt to relieve his fear.
“This… This cheeky b*tch… !”
Illensia stared at him with unwavering eyes even as the vicious whip that struck her horse flew at her.
That stimulated the coachman’s planting even more.
The power of the whip has become stronger. The whip that tore the air with a gasp was swung, but it did not touch Illencia.
“Keugh… ! Stop!”
Evan, the man who sold chicken skewers, blocked Illencia’s way and blocked the whip with his body.
“What are you again!!”
The coachman shouted loudly at Evan, who was blocking his way.
Evan glared at the coachman and gnashed his teeth, not minding the blood dripping from his whipped arm.
“Aren’t they little children! If you hit the kids with a carriage, you have to apologize, how can you think of swinging a whip!”
“You… you… ! Do you know who the person riding in this carriage is, and you’re making such a foolish statement!!”
“What use is that? Even if the person riding in that carriage is the Grand Duke of the North, it would be fair to apologize if he hit the children!”
Evan vented his anger thinking of the cute faces of Cain and Illencia that he had just seen.
Why are these children whipped and treated like beggars for what crimes?
Even if that opponent was the heir to the guild that delivered goods to this village, he couldn’t help but step forward.
The coachman was taken aback when the man twice as tall as himself screamed out loud, but it was just after the work had already begun.
All the village guards were already watching the situation, and there were too many eyes on this place.
Yes, that petty pride kept him from backing down.
“These lowly miscellaneous things!!”
The coachman whipped again.
Evan looked at the whip and stood in front of Illencia. It was to protect the children from harm.
But this time, the whip did not come off.
At that moment, a light shimmered in the air.
At the same time, the driver’s wrist holding the whip was severed, and blood fountains poured out from the cross section.
Neither the coachman, nor Evan, nor anyone watching could believe this situation.
Took.
What was supposed to be the driver’s hand holding the whip fell to the floor, raising dust.
“Quaaa!!! My hand!!!”
It wasn’t until her coachman grabbed her own severed wrist that she collapsed on the floor before Evan saw the man standing in front of him.
He was holding a sword, but there was not a single drop of blood on it.
The man spoke in a cold voice to the coachman who was rolling on the floor.
“That’s it.”