Chapter 136 – Chapter 02: The Gold Half Is a Warrior, the Other Half Is XXX
‘Phew, I was able to make quite a lot of money.’
Meanwhile, Eugene, who had raised funds by selling magic stones and magic ores as an adventurer, leaving Yeonhwa and Genos aside, was relieved to see an artifact in the form of a metal plate that played a role similar to Earth’s bankbook.
‘With this amount, I can somehow squeeze in all the knowledge I have about the original work and roll it up to the amount I aimed for.’
In that case, it would have been possible to establish the targeted intelligence organization within at least two months and secure the necessary information through it.
‘As a bonus, I also got a few hidden pieces through him.’
It was Eugene who went to great lengths to secure the hidden pieces he knew about through several companies in which he had invested capital.
However, the hidden piece is not a hidden piece for nothing, so there has been no result yet.
‘At least I’ll be able to get my hands on that item soon…’
Eugene was about to secure at least one of the hidden pieces he had requested from several companies he had invested in, so he planned to visit and check it out before entering the academy site.
In the first place, he should have stopped by the company to find out about the news and check the status of the money he had invested, so it could be said that he killed two birds with one stone, or rather, killed three birds with one stone.
With that in mind, Eugene was checking the amount he had exchanged and soon checked the bank account he had created with the intention of using it for Genos, who had become his slave.
‘I guess I can put my salary in this account. I saved all the money I earned from conquering the entry-level dungeon this time, so there should be no problem with living expenses for the time being.’
Eugene, thinking of secretly handing it over to Genos without Yeonhwa knowing, kept the bankbook in his arms and returned to the place where Yeonhwa and Genos were.
… And there, Eugene encountered an unexpected person.
“… “Master Stral, how have you been?”
“… “Who are you?”
This is because the person who knew him clearly but did not know him at all greeted Eugene very politely.
Therefore, Eugene looked at Yeonhwa with an expression of confusion as to why someone who knew him was with Yeonhwa, who was calmly sitting on Genos.
“It seems he is the leader of the Grand Duchy Zenon’s knights.”
“Uh…”
Yeon-hwa explains to Eugene who the person who pretended to know him was and why he was with her.
“It was very fun to recognize the main character who was killing his presence and start talking to him, so he joined in. Apparently, the body in the sky… , So it seems like a guest who came to Stral Zenon.”
When Yeonhwa introduced the knight in front of her as the leader of the knights of Grand Duchy Zenon, Eugene was also able to roughly understand why the female knight in front of her had come to visit him.
‘It seems that the Academy has passed on information about me to Grand Duchy Zenon.’
Eugene, to be more precise, Strahl Zenon, was the descendant of the Grand Duchy of Zenon. And that was not just Yeongsik, but Yeongsik, who was greatly loved by the Grand Duke, or more precisely, the Grand Duke.
It was not for nothing that Stral Zenon was able to cause trouble as the villain Youngsik.
The reason was that even though he admonished Stral Zenon for his evil behavior, Grand Duke Zenon was unable to give up on him until the end, so he protected him.
In other words, even if Stral Zenon wants to be disciplined, go ahead! The story goes that the foolish son who listened to this story is the current Grand Duke of the Grand Duke of Zenon.
In that sense, the Archduke’s feelings must have been torn into a thousand or ten thousand pieces when his son made an irreversible mistake and had no choice but to expel him from the Archduke Zenon.
But it turns out that the son who committed such evil acts that even he himself could not cover up was just brainwashed by the devil’s army?
It was not unusual for Archduke Zenon, who had been informed of this to the Academy, to come into contact with the body of Eugene, or more precisely Stral Zenon, whom he had not been able to protect due to the punishment of banishment.
‘I just didn’t expect to be contacted like this…’
Even though he had thought that they would contact him after entering the academy, he couldn’t help but be embarrassed because he didn’t know that he would be waiting for him at the adventurer’s guild like now.
“… Master, do you really not remember me?”
Therefore, when Eugene, who had not clearly prepared how to deal with this surprise meeting, began to shake his head at Yeonhwa’s explanation, the female knight of the Grand Duke’s family looked at him with suspicion.
Unlike the Grand Duke, who believed in the innocence of his beloved son as soon as he heard the news that his son had been brainwashed by the Demon King’s army and attempted to approach him without any doubt, the female knight in front of him seems to be suspicious of Eugene.
Well, no matter how much information was relayed from the Academy, it was strange that they immediately believed Eugene’s claim since the body’s original owner, Stral Zenon, had committed something.
It would be a more realistic judgment to think that Strahl, like the current female knight, is using a trick to deceive the Archduke, make the banishment something that never happened, and then regain the surname Zeno.
In other words, she is suspecting that Eugene, who lives here in front of her, is pretending not to know her and acting like she has lost her memory in order to pull off her trick.
“I don’t know.”
“… “Don’t you remember that while you were learning swordsmanship from me, you tried to stab me out of anger?”
“Wow, it was more trash than I thought.”
… Of course, ignoring the female knight’s suspicions that Strahl was manipulating her, Eugene, who had a separate soul from Strahl in the first place, simply reacted honestly to the female knight’s pretense.
He showed his disgust at the fact that Stral’s past, which he did not know about, turned out to be more of a villain than he had thought.
“No, rather than that, did Yeongsik learn swordsmanship?”
“Self-defense level swordsmanship is an essential skill even for today’s young scholars.”
“And yet this body was so untrained?”
“You were more talented than I imagined.”
“No matter how talented you are, physical training would have achieved some results if you made consistent efforts…”
Anyway, I don’t know if the soul returned to reincarnation, or if the body itself moved like a machine without a soul in order to become possessed in the first place, but Eugene shook her head, saying that disappearing would not help.
And while the woman living here is suspicious of his appearance, she cannot erase her worried expression at the attitude of Eugene, who seems completely different from the Stral she knew.
“I don’t mind if you’re suspicious of business, but wouldn’t it be better to get straight to the point? You bitch, aren’t you a knight? Are you selfishly planning to put off the orders given by your lord?”
“That…”
When Yeon-hwa, who had been watching Eugene, who was under suspicion from the female knight, came forward and spoke, the female knight turned her attention to Yeon-hwa.
Then, he remembered that although he contacted Eugene to meet him, he couldn’t understand why a person like Yeonhwa was with Eugene.
‘At first glance, he is a more expert person than me. That woman there…’
Even Yeonhwa’s presence was enough to make one wonder what on earth Strahl had been through after being exiled, and in addition, the former warrior, Genos, was with him.
After receiving information that Eugene was active as an adventurer, she was a female knight who was hiding in the adventurer’s guild in order to contact Eugene, who could not be found even after desperately searching her system.
As if her hiding had not been in vain, the female knight was able to confirm the appearance of Eugene, who had entered the adventurer’s guild with Yeonhwa and Genos.
‘A former warrior who was sentenced to permanent slavery… I knew about an adventurer named Jeol Yu-jin who bought it before it was even put up for auction and then disappeared…’
And honestly, she was so surprised that she couldn’t move for a moment until Eugene left her place to exchange money.
That’s because the female knight was inwardly astonished when she saw the former warrior, Genos, with Strahl.
Genos’s face was already so famous that there was no one in her island who didn’t know her, so it wasn’t strange for people here to recognize her.
But apart from that, it was natural for her to be shocked as she had confirmed that an adventurer named Jeol Yu-jin had indeed bought the former hero, Genos.
‘When I received the information that Master Strahl had renamed me Eugene and that she was active as an adventurer, I couldn’t believe it…’
Since it has been confirmed that Stral was the one who personally purchased the warrior who was thought to be a drain on the national budget, the female knight cannot help but understand the current situation.
‘The former warrior is also a former warrior, but what on earth is this woman?’
However, at a time when suspicions about Stral could not be resolved just by the presence of Genos, there was even the presence of Yeonhwa, who completely killed and hid not only the presence of Stral and Genos, but also the presence of his other self.
The female knight, like the leader of the Grand Duchy of Zenon, is a top-level expert who is on the verge of becoming a master, so she noticed the presence of Eugene and the others.
If it weren’t for that, like everyone else, Eugene and his group could have passed by in front of their eyes without detecting their presence.
Of course, the female knight would not be aware of the fact that this was something that Yeon-hwa was able to sense by chance, as she controlled the killing of presence in her own way.
However, the skill of immediately killing the presence of a controlled presence was sufficient basis for the female knight to judge that Yeonhwa was a better expert than herself, that is, even if she was not good, she was on the same level or better than herself.
‘Maybe she is a master on par with Ozone.’
However, including the known Ozone as well as the unknown ones, there are said to be less than 10 people on the Orbital Continent who have reached the level of Master and are acting together with Strahl?
No matter how you think about it, this is a situation that is difficult for a female knight to accept.
So, to be honest, as a female knight, I couldn’t help but want to ask Eugene about various things.
It could not be said that she had no personal curiosity, but more than that, she was also the leader of the knights who protected the Archduchy.
That is why she believes that she has a duty to know what Eugene, the eldest son who was exiled from the Grand Duchy, is doing.
“… “My lord would like to see you.”
However, despite carrying such a sense of duty, the female knight was literally a knight.
In other words, he had no choice but to prioritize his lord’s orders above all else, and Yeonhwa’s remarks just before could be said to have pierced that point.
Therefore, the female knight put aside all the complicated questions that immediately came to her mind and performed her most important duty.
According to the lord’s order, he takes Eugene, whom the lord wants to meet, to the Grand Duke’s house.
Originally, in order to prove the innocence of the Archduchy, it was never acceptable to reintroduce Strahl, who had been stripped of his castle and exiled, to the Archduchy.
If done incorrectly, the Archduke’s family could be politically suspected of being in collusion with the Demon King’s army through Strahl.
However, since we received information that Strahl may have been brainwashed through the Academy, there is a justification for bringing Strahl to the Archduchy.
“If it’s a grand ducal family, it’s from the main family…” … ?”
“No, he is waiting for you at the mansion of the Archduke in the Islands.”
Therefore, based on that justification, the female knight faithfully followed the mother’s orders to meet her son in person and wanted to take Eugene with her.
“The mansion…”
Indeed, even though the Grand Duke did not stop admonishing his son in various ways as he knew, Eugene smiled bitterly and thought that his son was a fool because everyone loved him.
Otherwise, the current Grand Duke, who is staying at the Grand Duke’s home in the Grand Duke’s territory, would not have come to the Islands and waited for Strahl.
… And that is why, despite having the body of Stral, Eugene returned a predetermined answer to the female knight’s remarks.
“I’m sorry, but I think that would be impossible. “I have no intention of meeting with His Excellency the Archduke, and I have no intention of returning to the Archduke’s house.”
