Chapter 11
11 Cold Night Truth
Leaving the last town, proceed with a moderate break. I was worried the Charlottes might tail me, but there’s no sign of it. Are you sure you’re just here to see Ville at first sight?
We reached a small village in the evening. I’ve had a few trips around here, too. It feels local.
“Oh dear Sonia!? How did you get here…?
“Long time no see, village chief. For the record, the wedding was cancelled.”
“Oh my God!
He hasn’t received any news of the divestiture of the engagement yet because of the small village. When I told him about the situation in Kamamen, below Mr. Murakami, the adults of the village stood up.
“That’s, uh, what can I say…”
“I don’t give a shit. I’m so glad you’re home again. So suddenly I’m sorry, could you lend me one tent? I want to reveal the night on the high ground in the woods tonight.”
“No, please stay at my house. It’s a village with nothing, but the best hospitality-”
“I’m sorry. That’s another time. I have some important business to attend to. I’m sorry to overlap you, but stay away from the woods tonight.”
All of a sudden I said impotent, but the village chief nodded without hearing anything and put a tent on the high ground and plugged me in until dinner. On top of that, he even kept Unica for me in the village.
Under the starry sky, Ville and I head across the burning fire. After a warm meal, I heard a potpourri and a grunt.
“You seem to have earned a lot of trust…”
“You seem to be thanking me for exterminating the warcraft that lived around here a while ago. Thank you very much for your courtesy.”
You should do something good. I guess I don’t have to worry about the Warcraft tonight.
“So, what’s an important business?
I don’t know if he’s unconscious or threatening, but Ville pulled the witchkiller on hand. I return a grin and a smile.
“We can go home to Kruge tomorrow. Thank you for taking care of Unica and exorcising the Warcraft on the road. I’ll give you whatever Ville wants for the reward. Money, treats, anything else.”
I have to pay a price that matches my hard work. Well, I’m going to spoil Ville too much.
Ville stares jizzily at me to see what I’m up to. Eventually, I said it in a low voice.
“All I ask for is the truth. Honestly tell me everything you’ve got to hide.”
“Hehe. I do have one or two embarrassing secrets. I can tell you, but that won’t be a reward. You must be crying.”
“Are you making fun of me?
“I didn’t. But yeah…… maybe I could tell you if Ville only became a good kid tonight”
Ville’s face became as rude as a tiger at hand.
I’ll have to laugh, too, when I’m that good at it. What do you think they’re gonna do?
You can’t. All the far-fetched stuff is going to be taken that way.
I sighed.
“… I think the envoy of King Mistria will be visiting soon. If Ville wants to be present on the spot, just stay submissive tonight. I want you to know that you are definitely my squire, not Lady Rain. To not talk about anything extra and to fit in with my story. Can you promise?”
“… His Majesty’s messenger? How do you know that?
“Because I would. As far as possible from Wang Du, just before entering the Kruge. Tell a story that no one should listen to. If it’s true, it’s a story that Ville can’t… let the prince’s side of the human race hear, but I’ll allow you to be present. Something that Ville can’t do anything about from what he finds out.”
While annoyed by the provocative language, Ville seemed somewhere anxious. I guess I never thought there was a connection between me and His Majesty that Ville and the Prince didn’t know about.
“If acting can’t even pretend to be submissive, I’ll have to get you to sleep in the tent. What do we do?”
“… whether present or not. It doesn’t make sense if you run away here. Okay. I swear I won’t do anything extra.”
Satisfied with that answer, I quickly moved next to Ville and deposited my body in his arms.
“Hey, what are you doing?”
“Practice. You’ll stay submissive tonight, won’t you?
Even rubbing his head like a sweet cat, Ville didn’t move stiff. Maybe it’s white in your head.
“Hey, Ville. Maybe tonight, you’ll hate everything and want to die.”
“… a threat?
“No. I want you to be prepared for what you deserve. Besides, remember. I’ll protect Ville for you. I wouldn’t throw it away even if it was broken and out of use. So don’t worry.”
Through pluckiness, Ville’s confusion comes through.
I know.
That you have ever lived unprotected by anyone.
Ville is a knight, so he waves his sword to protect someone. Sacrifice yourself for someone’s happiness.
Whether it’s the original or the real world, that’s what it’s all about, isn’t it? I think it’s splendid.
But that’s not funny. What’s the point of enduring it even though it doesn’t pay off?
It would be a life to have fun. I want to see Ville go bad.
So I think I’m going to kill one Mistrian knight tonight.
“… you’re here”
I heard a unique wingspan cleaving the sky.
A black shadow crosses his head. The fastest horseman in the world – the Flying Dragon.
Deep in the woods, as the dragon headed down to where it stood, five men were waiting. It’s dim, and we’re all hooded out of our heads and we don’t know our faces.
There were signs of intense magic. The men will be magicians and nuclear warriors. And I can tell that the gray Fei Long is also a combat educated individual. A handful of elites… Looks like you’re getting ready for a rough thing.
“… that’s surprising. I didn’t know you were bringing Ville Obsidia.”
The man in the middle stepped forward. You look baffled by the existence of Ville.
“I’m sorry. It’s like this lovely squire doesn’t want to leave me for a while. Don’t worry about it. I won’t divulge the story here. Of course it won’t pass on to Lady Rain. Because he’s my captor now.”
You make me feel sad telling these lies yourself.
Ville turned her eyes to me like she saw something incredible. I don’t think you’re going to notice any minor facial changes because they’re dim, but let’s deflect your attention for once.
I hug him in his arms as a branch drips. Anger or shame. Bill’s face turned slightly red, but he wasn’t shaken off. Good job.
“Yeah, yeah, I get it. The more serious a man falls into pleasure the more droll swamp he is. Losing a good knight is a huge pain in the ass for Mistria… but as it stands, he’s probably best to be imprisoned by you. If that’s the case, I’ll admit to being present. He has a right to know.”
The man gently removed the hood.
“Lord Sedonil…”
Ignoring Ville’s little whine, the man – Mr. Sedonil bowed his head respectfully. He’s about fifty years old with a gentleman’s smile on his face. I don’t have to ask for more information. Being on this occasion means he must be the belly of King Mistria for twenty years.
“From my Lord King Mistria, I would like to confirm a few things with the Witch Sonia. Please don’t lie to me.”
Mr. Sedonil erased his soft grin.
“Twenty years ago… the truth is inherited. Come? Of course, it’s not the” beautiful lies and lies “you were told at the wedding, it’s the” ugly and obnoxious truth. ”
I heard a breathtaking sound right next to me. I grasp Ville’s hand subtly. You can’t pinch your mouth right now. Because it’s going to be tricky.
“Yes, I hear it from your mother”
My mother forced her master, Jebella, to raid the king’s capital in order to prevent a great battle and to conclude a peace treaty between Mistria and the witch, and consequently made her predecessor king and master deceased.
I defiled my hands because I wished for true peace, not for my absolute selfishness.
That’s the story I told you at the wedding.
Very well done beauty talk.
But I’m sorry. Isn’t that true?
“Hmm. So for confirmation, can you talk to me? I fear that Aronia may be telling you falsehood.”
Encouraged, I snort.
“Twenty years ago, Prince Rain’s uncle – then king Stomus Mistria was conducting an obstinate witch hunt. Because I learned of the existence of a treasure developed by a certain witch and feared the witchcraft of a witch. Awkward, maybe he was looking to get it himself.
Even though most witches were irrelevant, they were targeted by witch hunting units in the kingdom just because they were witches, and they were put in a predicament ”
I don’t like to flock as much as a strong witch.
There was little horizontal connection, even if there was ever a relationship between a child and a mentor that I took away as a disciple. Because my development of witchcraft came first and I was extremely reluctant to be taken away from it.
It’s secrecy, the witch.
So it’s brittle when the state targets you. No matter how powerful magic can be used in many passives, it will be taken over.
He’s a creature who won’t fight if he can’t be hunted down.
“It was Jebella, the Green Beauty witch, who was in a bad rush to stay like this. What to hide, because it was she who developed The Rose Jewel, The Road Crocian Orb, which Master Stoms feared. I’m talking about only one successful creation, but that recipe remains in Jebella’s head. Master Stoms was extremely afraid the recipe would be dispersed.”
“Rose jewels……?
It’s also pathetic that Ville can’t come about the story, so I explained it to him as well.
“The rose jewels are immortal, precisely ‘a spirit medicine that can always be flesh when you are young and beautiful’. Embed it in your stomach and use it. So when we were hunting witches, I heard they were revealing the bellies of the witches they captured.”
“Become…”
The captured witch was being drained of blood and dragged out of her bowels. It wasn’t just a show, it was a search for a jewel. By the way, it looks like the blood you drained was used to make the witchkiller. With nothing to waste.
“Jebella thought of a young man named Ambert. I was already a close to sixty old lady at the time, but I think I wanted to rework the youth I lost young with him. So the realization of immortality… I got my hands on the Seven Prohibited Tests” Taboo “”
“I can see that. Young people won’t understand, but how wonderful it would be to go back to your vibrant bodies… even more so if you were a woman.”
Mr Cedonil showed understanding. But I also said that was something you shouldn’t wish for. I agree, too.
“With rose jewels, you become a body that doesn’t even have to be immortal to die old. That leads to a disturbance of world order. What happens if the powerful get the treasure? Generations may no longer take place and they may gain eternal dominance”
What would people do if they knew that immortal jewels existed?
You want to take it from me first?
But if I get the jewels, I know I’ll be targeted this time. Then don’t you think it’s better to fall for the powerful with the jewels and be gracious?
If that is how the world of tablet stones is built, we may even be able to flatten the nations throughout the continent.
King Stoms was afraid of it.
If you can’t get it yourself, you have to bury it in the dark for every recipe.
So let’s have a bloody eye and find Jebella.
“Sure, if the octopus above your eyes lived forever, you’d be in trouble, wouldn’t you? At the time there were those who neglected both the names of the witch Jebella, and King Stoms. That’s my mother, Aronia Carnelian. And the then king Prince Schnello.”
Schnello Mistria.
I mean the current king of Mistria. You’re Prince Rain’s father.
Ville warped his face that the name of the current king had come up at this time. I’m sorry. I have a bad feeling about that.
“If you’re a mother, it’s simple. I wanted to take an immortal recipe from my mentor, and I wanted the king to stop what a depressing thing it is to hunt witches.
Master Schnello agreed with his father that the part about burying rose jewels and Jebella in the dark, but was against witch hunting. You must have been able to read ahead. In the time to come, the development of witchcraft will shape the power of the nation. He thought that life, culture and war would require witch wisdom in all areas, and he urged the abolition of witch hunting. But Master Stoms won’t listen to me. If that’s the case… ”
And that’s pre-construction.
Mother said that Master Schnello and Mr. Stomms had a very bad fold.
Despite being Prince Wang, Master Schnello was in a great hurry that he might not succeed to the throne. Master Stoms seemed to adore a distant child.
Well, you don’t have to bother telling me this. Because no one gets it.
“I hear your mother and Master Schnello came up with the same plan almost at the same time and met each other so that we could meet. Mother said the wavelengths fit as if they were living apart brothers and sisters. And we plotted to kill each other’s eyes…”
The connected palm became colder and colder, and began to tremble into small pieces.
I grip back so that Ville doesn’t collapse.
“The truth of the raid twenty years ago…… it is that the present king of Mistria and the witch Aronia conspired to kill the previous king and Jebella”
It’s a big lie that your mother plotted a raid to avoid a major battle.
I’m not that kind of person. There’s no such thing as a beauty story.
“Finally, it was a coup.”