Chapter 256 – 256. The Core of the Past (4)
It is true that the situation is infinitely unfavorable to Erin and herself, but for some reason, she realized that the lump in her heart had loosened up a little.
At this moment, he thought he must have grown up, that he could be proud to say to himself.
It was as if the days of hard training had paid off.
“Swimming.”
“… Smile?”
From the point of view of Krasir’s high knight, who had no way of knowing Erin’s inner satisfaction, she looked like a crazy girl who smiled contentedly after mercilessly beating three of her men.
‘That girl must be…’
Seeing the girl in front of her eyes, the high-ranking knight, Deln, twitched his eyebrows.
Her development was more advanced than a year ago, and she emphasized the physical beauty of an adult, but the color of her hair and the shape of her face were definitely memorable.
‘The girl who was imprisoned with the silver-haired man in the case of the attack on Pernin?’
At first, she was imprisoned as a suspect of attacking the nobles of Pernin, but after that, Deln’s expression began to harden as she realized that she was a person who had left behind an achievement in annihilating demons through direct combat.
“Ah, lady! Now is not the time to be laughing!”
“Yes? Ah… Yes.”
Erin, who belatedly came to her senses after hearing Jess hurriedly tap her on the shoulder, stared at the knights of Krasir opposite her.
“… Big breasts with a method?”
Although she made a statement in defense of Erin as she had requested in advance, Jis barely thought that the members of Krasir could not quietly withdraw.
Krasir Royal Knights are knights who protect the Pernias royal family.
As such, when selecting new members within the kingdom, it is customary to consider various requirements, including skill and reputation, and select the knight with the highest rank.
Looking at the appearance and skill level of the three fallen to the floor and Villard, who is holding up a scare and staring at Erin as if to kill him, they are just knights who have just been recruited.
However, no matter how inexperienced the new knights were, the fact that a member of the most honorable knights in the kingdom suffered one-sidedly was a very sensitive issue.
The fact that the knights, who have the heavy responsibility of protecting the royal family, who are no different from the masters of the country, were defeated by a single girl with their bare hands, not even weapons, would dishonor the knights as well as the royal family.
‘Please, please just move on…’
Jess thought it could never happen, and prayed inwardly that the problem wouldn’t escalate further.
Deln’s fierce gaze staring at Erin with her thin eyes made the situation feel awkward.
Growl
As soon as the fight ended with a sense of satisfaction and the fighting posture was released, a signal of hunger sounded from the girl’s stomach.
“Hungry…”
The first thing he heard of her girl’s words was on his own empty stomach, Deln opened her mouth, frowning and breaking the awkward silence.
“Are you kidding me?”
“Yes? Oh no. Oh, i’m right I did it alone.”
“…”
Seeing Erin proudly acknowledging her own actions, Deln lost her words.
“Rash that girl right now.”
“I didn’t do anything wrong.”
The Knights of Krasir, who were trying to fulfill Deln’s orders, stopped their actions when they heard Erin’s words.
He puts on a dumbfounded expression when he sees the girl who calmly admits that she knocked down three knights, but proudly says that she did nothing wrong.
“… Didn’t you just say that you made our members that way?”
“Yes. It was. But I don’t think my actions were wrong.”
“Why?”
“That’s right, those people made my rice that way.”
Erin answered Deln’s question, pointing her finger behind her own.
Seeing the spilled bowls and bowls of soup on the floor, she wondered if the reason she thought was right was such an insignificant reason that she asked herself back.
“…”
Instead of Deln, who frowned and kept her mouth shut, a knight yelled at Erin with indignation.
“For that reason… !”
“And as an apology, they even insulted me by saying that if they fawned over them tonight, they would prepare a meal that was incomparable to that meal.”
“… !”
A knight who tried to disprove her made her speechless at Erin’s insistence.
Soon after, she looked at Villard to try to sort out the authenticity.
Sensing her gaze focused on her, Billard hurriedly denied Erin’s claim with a surprised look on her face.
“That’s a lie! We’ve never… !”
“Hey! You can’t use it if you lie!”
“If the knight of the kingdom writes then!”
Several adventurers nearby who were observing the situation hurriedly cut off Villar’s words, who were trying to deny Erinn’s claim, and mocked him with giggles.
“Hey! Good luck knight! Is that girl telling the truth? Hey, the wizard lurking behind them used wind magic to create a gust of wind and threatened the lady!”
“Keugh!?”
When an adventurer pointed a finger at the wizard who was with Villar, the wizard flinched.
Although he belonged to the court mage corps, he could not refuse Billard’s orders because he was the scion of a lower noble who was supported by the count’s family, the family of Billard.
But even so, the wizard, who always thought of it as an extension of the old master’s mischief, was in a state of panic as he had not known that the matter would grow so big.
It is caused by the fact that the timid and weak Erin shown in Aether in the past was stuck in a stereotype, and it is the result of a complacent judgment that failed to gauge the level of the current Erin.
“That knight also has a completely different personality!”
“It’s not just one, it’s several, but are all the knights in the kingdom selected in order of personality?”
“Oh! It makes sense, yes!”
The Krasir Knights, who were directly subjected to the ridicule of the adventurers who were enjoying their meal while watching this situation with giggles, clenched their fists and trembled as if they had received all the insults they could have received in their lifetime.
“How dare you insult the honorable members of Krasir!”
Sureureung!
As each of the knights indignantly pulled out their swords from their waistbands and started glaring at the adventurers, the atmosphere of the adventurers who were mocking and laughing at them gradually turned stern.
“Ah? Are we going to do it?”
“It’s good!”
Although the numbers were not equal, the level of adventurers currently gathered was mostly silver-tier adventurers, including Erinn, and compared to the Krasir Knights, who were the most elite agents of battle, and the strength of the adventurers, of course, the adventurers were inferior.
However, the reason why the adventurers were able to get drunk with the atmosphere and flirt with each other was because once, three of Krasir’s new knights were horribly broken by one Erinn.
Thoughts such as ‘Maybe they’re nothing special?’ And ‘I think I can do it too?’ Began to sprout in the unconscious and instilled confidence in the hearts of the adventurers.
In addition, the girl named Erin was already famous and popular enough to be known by almost no one in the adventurer’s guild of the Duchy of Armitas.
Not only her Jis, but also other adventurers defended and stood up for her Erin because the sincerity she consistently showed in her Adventurer’s Guild shone through.
“How dare you dare to mention mere adventurers… !”
From the point of view of the knights, the current situation, which proudly shows an attitude of trying to match them, is a situation that hurts their pride.
What was embarrassing in that situation was Erin as well.
“Ah, men…”
In a situation surrounded by many people, the bloody atmosphere gradually begins to expand to a level that he cannot handle.
Adventurers and knights stare at each other, draw their weapons at any moment, and in this situation where a fight seems to start at any moment, none other than Erin, she herself is the culprit.
‘Oh, what to do… ?’
Erin said she honestly never thought things would turn out this way.
The cause was that the irritation and stress that had accumulated in her chest suddenly erupted as a catalyst.
From the moment she came to her senses, Erin was already swinging her fist at Billard.
After the fight was over, I felt a little bit relieved by the relief of the past that had accumulated in my heart, but the adventurers in front of me and the knights of Krasir were about to start a second fight right away.
“Hey, wait! Since this is my problem, why are you guys stepping out… !”
“Stop!”
Just as Erin raised her weapon and stood up to stop the adventurer from responding emotionally, her knights stopped their actions at the sound of a voice forced to command them.
At that voice, Erin, her adventurers, and the knights all turned their heads in the direction of the voice.
Accompanied by two knights who acted as attendants and escorts, the woman who showed up hurriedly knelt down and bowed her head. Just by looking at the behavior of the knights, it was easy to guess that she was a person of high status.
Even Erin was a woman I had seen several times through her unintended coincidence.
‘… Why is he here?’
“Wow, Her Highness the Princess!”
The knights were taken aback by the order of ‘Yuria Pernias’ who suddenly entered the situation and restrained their actions.
In fact, the Krasir Royal Knights were not suitable for subjugating the demons.
Their role is to protect and support the royal family.
However, if Yuria, a member of the royal family, participated in this subjugation expedition, it would be natural for the Krasir Knights to escort her, her royal family.
However, as her royal family, why did Yuria choose to participate in the subjugation expedition herself?
Erin wondered what she was thinking.
Before long, Yuria’s mouth opened.
“Please step back.”
“… Yes?”
“I want you to step back.”
Delren questioned YuRia, wondering if she had heard it wrong, but her answer didn’t change.
Even though he is a new member, Deln’s face is distorted at the words of Yuria, who gives the order to step down even though the kingdom’s knights are terribly broken.
“Wow, Princess! But that girl made three of our members that way… !”
“Looking at the circumstances, they say it was the Knights who started the fight first.”
“That, it is…”
“And isn’t it embarrassing that the level of the knights who have to escort me is just that high?”
“Big… !”
No matter how different the reasons were, it never changed that the fact that three knights were horribly broken by a girl was an ugly and inconvenient truth.
“Furthermore…”
Yuria narrowed her eyes and continued her words as she stared at Billard, who was glaring at Erin with her sword drawn.
“It’s not enough that you lost a fight, so you drew a sword against a woman with bare hands, Deln? What do you think?”
“That is… What do you mean… ?”
“Do you think that new knight who caused trouble has the personality to be a member of Krasir’s Order?”
“…”
Deln didn’t answer.
Looking at the situation, it is a situation that anyone can see that Villard and the others quarreled with Erin and then ended up being horribly broken.
She also agrees with Yuria’s point that Villard’s skill as a knight, personality, and character itself are the worst to the point of revealing the bottom.
However, the reason why they couldn’t blindly answer YuRia’s question was because Villard’s family belonged to a high-ranking aristocrat, a member of the court aristocracy, who had supported the Pernias royal family for generations.
“The silence is getting longer. Was my question that difficult to answer?”
“It is not…”
“Since it’s going to be that long, don’t waste your time standing like this, hurry up and defeat the knights around you.”
“Egg… I will…”
Deln, unable to refute, swallowed her drool and followed Yuria’s command.
“Take those who have fallen down to the priests and get them treated.”
“… Yes.”
“Wow, Her Highness the Princess! That girl made my face like a knight of the kingdom…”
“Take that thing away right away and put it out of my sight. The kingdom’s, it’s trash that’s no different from my shame.”
“Princess, there are still many ears around you.”
When he gave an order to the knight standing diagonally behind him in a low voice, the knight gave Yuria a small voice to warn her, but Yuria didn’t pretend to listen and continued.
“Okay, take it quickly.”
“Yes…”
The female knight who received Yuria’s order slipped backwards and began to move, and when the Krasir Knights began to step back, Yuria smiled as she looked at the completely alert adventurers.
“My knights have been rude to you adventurers.”
“Yes? No, what…”
“I will tell you to be careful about fuss and rudeness, so I want you guys to get some rest. Because I want to get a lot of help in the fight ahead.”
“No, of course! Haha!”
Yuria encouraged the adventurers by mixing her words and facial expressions to energize them as much as possible.
For the royal family to proceed with the story by directly citing the rudeness on their side, it was close to a formal expression that indirectly conveyed an apology in a soft tone.
As soon as a situation arose where the princess of a country directly encouraged them, the adventurers, who had exuded bloody energy until now, melted away like snow.
Eventually, when YuRia’s gaze met Erin’s, Erin’s expression was slightly tense.
She said that through Eun-hyeon’s intervention, she once got acquainted with Yuria through her labyrinth expedition, but to her Erin, her princess, Yuria’s existence felt as far away as the gap between the earth and the sky. .
“Could you give me a moment?”
“Yes? Ah… Me, that’s…”
Erin was too burdened by Yuria’s invitation to her, who had the status of a princess in a place like this.
However, she hesitated in her answer, deeply conflicted with the thought that it was not polite to refuse the invitation.
“You haven’t had dinner yet? Would you like to talk while eating with me?”
“Yes. I will go.”
