Chapter 63 – Choose to Do It or Not
About five hours ago.
Watchman. No, Havens, the chief imperial knight disguised as a sentinel, received a secret order.
‘Take a look at a guy named Dre while doing the usual ‘thing’ that sentinels do.’
What the king said It was like a rite of passage exclusive to strangers, which the soldiers called ‘the prank’.
It is an order from a loyal king.
However, Havens, who knew that the order was influenced by someone, did not like it at all.
‘Eight days…’
He heard as a report.
Three families with prestige and influence that are the best among the teenage families.
He was recommended by the indisputable Gryze, Heart, and Blizzard as instructors at Pryunar Academy.
And what is even more surprising is that he accepted the recommendation from the Prunar Academy.
‘They’re not afraid of anything in the world, so why did they accept the unconventional offer?’
Those who manage Prunar Academy are arrogant.
A teenage family that supports the backbone of the country and is the successor to a teenage hero with the same roots as the academy.
It’s enough to listen to the words of people like them.
And at Prunar Academy, there are enough achievements and skills to convince their arrogance.
Even if they were students, the fact that they were placed in the lecturer’s seat meant that there was something about Dreran.
Something that was kept secret even from the royal family.
‘How much more so a stranger.’
Those strangers who are basically the target of hatred unless they are certified.
‘Did he say he was a swordsmanship instructor?’
Havens had previously been nominated for an instructor at the Fryunar Academy.
In the end, he was dropped, but no one doubted Havens’ skills just because he was nominated.
The candidate is also highly regarded, but how much will the man named Dre be able to sit in the lecturer’s seat without any controversy over such an unreasonable progress?
Even if it wasn’t the king’s name, he was a man I personally wanted to see at least once.
‘The king’s order was to find flaws.’
It was a twisted order, but in abbreviation, it was to touch his temper, determine what he thinks of the royal family, and what kind of personality he has.
In the meantime, an order issued by the king.
I honestly wanted to ignore the fact that I told them to play a ‘prank’ on strangers.
Yes, Dre is rumored to be crazy.
It is a very famous story that turned Ulysse into a half-corpse and brought the Sherton family close to extinction.
He must have a dirty temper in all likelihood, but he didn’t want to scratch it and make it a boil.
Besides, Havens had little experience with ‘the prank’.
In his case, his main job was to train in the imperial family, and he only came to the gate when there was an existence that the gate soldiers could not handle.
However, it is the king’s order, so if it’s black, shouldn’t it be black?
The prank is simple.
It is an act that does not feel like a joke at all from the point of view of the victim, who declares a stranger to be a traitor and observes the reaction to find out what kind of person it is.
This traitor declaration was now a kind of tradition targeting strangers, and since there was a track record of actually filtering out some dangerous molecules, it could not be ignored.
Havens has half expectations. He waited half anxiously.
Then, he saw an unbelievable sight.
“Sir Havens.”
“Uh huh. I’m not a knight right now, I’m your colleague. Did you forget?
“Look over there…!”
The watchman chews a warning and hands over the telescope he was holding.
Having received the telescope handed to him, Havens was puzzled but did as the watchman said, and was surprised.
‘The flags of the Hart family and the Gryze family are hanging side by side in front?’
Teenage crest.
Long ago. It refers to the descendants of a family founded by ten heroes who were said to have saved and sealed the world from his evil beast when the ‘true demon king’ was still intact.
Not only legitimacy, but also artifacts, unique magic, and unique Ryunar training methods, it is a horse family that has a reputation not only in this country but also in the world, but in terms of influence, they can be called a country.
Among the seven families that directly or indirectly belonged to Entiaer, Heart, Grise, and Blizzard were particularly powerful.
Blizzar spread the low-level Ryunar training method, which was improved by removing parts of the family’s own Ryunar training method, from a long time ago.
Hart was holding on to the Sang-gye, and recently had a great influence on the culture.
Grise reigns at the top of the political world to the extent that it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the most powerful person in this country.
Authenticity of all three families. Strength. The competition was very fierce as there was no one to follow.
Although they belong to the same category of teenage families, they are no different from rivals.
Among the three summarized in the seven, Hart and Grise had different tendencies and were famous for clashing at every turn.
Fighting between teenage families seriously damages their tradition and image, so no major fights take place, but on the contrary, small fights. Nervous warfare is innumerable.
The war of nerves between the two families was very famous.
That’s what happened decades or centuries ago.
But two families, who couldn’t get ahead of each other, entered the capital by raising their symbolic flags side by side?
Why would two families in the middle of a power struggle do such a thing?
This was headline news, at least in politics.
The social world will be buzzing for a while, Havens gasped.
Hadens known that the Blizzard family’s Clarir was also mixed in there, Havens would have stopped thinking.
‘I knew there were Viscount Gold and Elysia in that procession. They were childhood friends.’
Maybe the two got their eyes on each other? Havens had a wild imagination, but quickly erased it.
He has seen both of them.
At first glance, Gold and L seem to have quite different personalities, but the fundamentals are the same.
Perhaps that’s why the two distanced themselves from each other as if they were homophobic.
Not just the two of them, but in the long history, there has never been a case where a marriage was concluded between the direct descendants of a teenage family.
So, what are the variables left?
What came to Havens’ mind was the stranger Dre.
Other than the man who had all kinds of unconventional rumors going around, I couldn’t think of any other reason.
Did the two families’ reunification happen because of that stranger, Dre? What did you do?
Havens suddenly remembered an absurd rumor.
There is a human who fought a dragon and won. His name is Dre. Or, Dragon.
Unlike other rumors, the source was unclear, so it was considered nonsense.
What kind of existence is a dragon?
It has a powerful skin that dissipates all kinds of energy, such as magic of 5th grade or lower, mana and ryunar of lower level, even if it is not an adult body, and it is the worst creature that uses dragon words, magic, and breath.
They are also called the natural enemies of the Gentiles.
Even Hetzling is because the strangers can seal the reason for their strength, their perks.
Those who can overcome the disadvantages and fight the dragon are those who are called the highest rank strangers.
Did Dre grow up like that?
‘If it’s true that I caught a dragon, then it makes sense to be a lecturer at Pryunar Academy.’
Prunar Academy basically hates strangers and is very picky with them.
However, if you’re a human who can win, not just fight dragons, you might be flexible.
‘I wouldn’t be surprised if those people at Prunar Academy enrolled out of curiosity or delegated the position of lecturer.’
However, Havens was a man who would not believe unless he saw it with his own eyes.
He opened the city gates, took only one of the sentinels by his side, and went out to prepare to meet them.
The pranks ordered by his master, the king, must end with pranks.
There was no need to create a high-pressure atmosphere by dragging out a group of people.
The procession stopped in front of the gateway.
Marien and Kaisir, who were in the lead, recognized Havens’ face and frowned.
What else is this It was a face I thought.
Havens gave a shy smile.
“You are suffering a lot.”
Those were Marianne’s words.
Its meaning was that you, the Royal Knights, what are you doing here, but Havens bowed his head as if he were a real sentinel.
“It’s an honor to be in charge of checking the Harts and Grises. I’d like to see the people in charge. Is it possible?”
“Your identity must be registered.”
Kaisir said, “What are you doing so hard when you’ve come and gone through the gates?”, But Havens didn’t care.
Marien was expressionless. Because now I know what this is all about.
“I know of a few unregistered.”
“If you pass through the castle gate, the magic engraved on the secondary gate will automatically check you, but what…”
“Sir Caesar.”
Marien intervened with Kaisir, and she said she would call the person in charge and took her away.
She was quick on her eyes.
It’s been a long time since I realized that Havens is here to play pranks on the noisy strangers in the capital.
You can’t ignore him anyway.
After a while.
Even Havens, who lived in the royal palace and saw all kinds of luxurious things, stood at a carriage so splendid that his eyes widened.
The door opened and Gold and El got out first.
Seeing that the two still hate each other far, no, even more than before, Havens confirmed once again that the dating hypothesis of the heirs he had thought was completely wrong.
Then, a man got out of the carriage following them.
At first glance, he was a man who appeared to have nothing special in his sloppy clothes.
If there is anything special, is it dangerously sharp eyes?
‘Is that Dre the stranger?’
Excuse me, but the first impression was a total disappointment.
Still, after a while, seeing a young girl holding her hand and getting her off the carriage, I felt a little like it.
‘He has a heart that cares for the weak.’
The Dreran man looked at the gates, at the sky, at the floating islands floating in the sky, his eyes twinkling and exclaimed.
Havens was proud to see them admiring the capital he had lived half his life with.
But that’s it and this is this.
It was time to work.
“Is the author, Stranger Dre?”
L and Gold, who were glaring at each other at Havens’ words, looked at him. And for a moment, the two of them looked puzzled.
The knights who dealt with the sentinels on the front line were openly aware of the king’s pranks on strangers, but the heirs, who were usually confined to the wagon, would not know what the pranks were.
Afterwards, they thought that they might be reprimanded for playing such a prank on the man they recommended.
But the king’s name is the king’s name.
Havens approached Dre nervously inside.
“Are you a stranger?”
“Yes, it is.”
Dre responds with a flat voice to Havens’ overbearing voice.
I didn’t know if that attitude was trust in the teenage family behind me or my own confidence, but I liked it.
‘What do you like? Now Lee Ja will remember me with a bad feeling…’
It was a prank he really hated to do, but he was loyal to the king.
Havens raised his hand. At the signal, the sentinel standing behind him moved to the other side of Havens, putting Dre in between.
Dre looked at the two in turn with a bewildered face.
Soon the long spearhead pressed against Dre.
In the meantime, Havens pretended to kill him and brandished his spear.
Now, how will you react?
Like normal strangers, will you be embarrassed, then complain of resentment and anger? Or do you not even know what the situation is?
“Stranger Dre! We urgently arrest you for treason!!”
“…?”
It’s still a puzzled face.
Havens, who had high hopes for a man named Dre, was quite disappointed.
A little while ago, he threatened the spear with a mixture of flag and radish tricks, but seeing this, he didn’t seem to notice.
This man also meant that he was an idiot with privileges, only believed in skills, and had a low level of combat.
And.
“Fuck Nimmy.”
An unbelievable curse came out.
Havens narrowed his eyes.
‘Uh, uh…? Has there ever been a reaction like this?’
Usually, he was flustered and said that something was wrong, or he repeated explanations and eventually got angry.
But Dre didn’t seem particularly angry, he just spat out curses in a resigned tone.
‘What…?’
It was a strangely familiar feeling.
The discomfort did not stop there.
Certainly, he must not have been of a very high level, but something was strange.
Havens felt a cold sweat break out and his body relax.
‘Why do I get these chills…?’
He wasn’t even breathing life, he just stared blankly at himself.
However, Havens felt something uneasy about the man in front of him.
Finally, Dre slowly opened his mouth.
“The level of the guards in the capital is different.”
“What?”
“It was a fiercer threat than any knight I’ve ever seen. Is the person behind him hiding his skills?”
“…”
Being ridiculed
Dre noticed that Haven’s level was strangely high for a sentinel.
Also, the fact that the sentinels in the back are mediocre, talented people.
It means that he read Havens’ description of the spear, but even so, he knew that he had no intention of living at the point where he didn’t even move.
At the point when it became clear that he was an unusually talented person, he decided to stop joking around.
“It’s a crime of treason, but only the two of you come out, something you can’t do without confidence in your skills…”
“I’m sorry, stranger Dre. Please understand what happened and take your anger out.”
Havens, who eventually surrendered to Dre’s continued sarcasm and removed the spearhead, bowed his head.
In fact, it shouldn’t have stopped here.
To find out what kind of person he was, he would have to keep this pressure and ask a lot of questions.
But Havens didn’t.
The pressure and fear of the mystery weighed on him.
“Sir Havens. What skit is this?”
Gold frowned in displeasure.
“I’m sorry. Viscount Gold.”
Gold was known for being generous.
So, Havens apologized, thinking that nothing would happen.
However, the reaction was quite different from usual.
“There’s nothing to say sorry about. Tell me why you’ve caused trouble to my brother.”
It was surprising that Gold, who was passing it off as if it were tolerable, did not reap the displeasure, but Havens was shocked by the title he said.
‘Older brother?!’
Gold, take stranger Dre as your brother?
Rumors spread throughout the capital that it was the stranger Dre who had messed up Gold’s squire and direct knight, Ulith. But I don’t have a grudge, rather brother?
The surprise did not stop there.
“The disrespect you did to Dre. Can we see it as dissatisfaction with the Gryze family who recommended him?”
“…!”
Elysia Queens Grise.
A charismatic girl who is cold to those she sees for the first time or who doesn’t meet her standards, but can’t hide her warm roots.
She was glaring at Havens as if to kill him.
He gaped his mouth at the fact that two of the heirs of the teenage family were very fond of Dre.
‘Did this person really make Grize and Heart march together?’
The reason why Elysia and Gold joined each other even while bending each other’s pride.
It was now certain that it was because of Dre the stranger.
“It must be because of the king’s order. Lady, please forgive Lord Havens.”
Marien came out.
“The king’s name? Why is His Majesty?”
When Marien whispered something into her ear, Elysia’s expression changed moment by moment, and finally she let out a sigh.
“What the hell is your Majesty thinking…”
It was a remark that felt disrespectful in some respects, but it was an acceptable remark for a girl of Elysia’s level, and for the successor of Grise.
And, the king did not have a very good reputation.
Havens hung his head like a criminal.
“Then Lord Havens, can we consider the joke over?”
“Yes.”
Havens responded attentively to El’s words.
Gold helped.
“Since I have been rude to my brother, can I expect him to take care of himself after reporting to His Majesty as responsibility for that?”
“Yes. Of course.”
At that, Gold nodded in satisfaction, and again invited Dre to get into the carriage. Dre stared at Havens as if contemplating something.
And after a few seconds.
Dre finally set his sights on Havens.
The procession moved forward again and headed for the second gateway.
“Huh. Most of the strangers had a lot of sloppy friends, but that friend is a big criminal… Huh? What’s wrong? Sir Havens?”
“…”
Havens broke out in a cold sweat all over her body.
He noticed the identity of the sense of incongruity.
Dre, from the declaration of treason to the end, was only staring at Havens’ arm or shoulder.
In the situation where treason was declared, excuses, anger…Those things were not even considered.
The shelter of a teenage family? Perplexity? Comfort afterward?
I hadn’t even thought about anything like that.
He was just thinking about how to subdue Havens.
It just made me feel uncomfortable.
If I had said it wrong, I would have become a half asshole.
“A dangerous man has come”
“Yes?”
“No, it’s nothing…”
The geeks of Prunar Academy. And Dre, who seems to be an oddball to match.
Like Marien’s attitude, it seemed that the capital would become noisy for a while.
‘I’m going to break up with His Majesty for not playing around properly…’
Havens had a headache.
