Chapter 58 – 5. Tamed Beasts Do Not Bite Masters (8)
Ayeek!
The dragon roars. It traverses the sky and descends as if carrying a man on its back. It draws a whirlpool round and round, exuding an overwhelming presence to those around it. It may not be as strong as a dragon’s wings, which are said to cause typhoons, but it is enough to knock down the long, thin leaves of coniferous trees.
Sureureung.
The flying dragon flew again just before it hit the ground. The unidentified person on board with a saddle on top of it passed through the air with a sword wrapped around its waist. He fell at an invisible speed using centrifugal force.
“…… ?”
Where did you go? At the speed at which he was plummeting, he should have become bloody and dead on the floor, but the scene he saw a moment ago doesn’t seem like a lie. Confused, I looked in the direction of Adele.
Clink!
Before I could even turn my head, the rupture I heard made me understand the whole situation. I belatedly pulled out the sword of the cane in my hand. Adele was fighting a gangster who was about the same height as me wearing sheet metal, but the opponent was by no means unusual.
“Adele!”
“Back off!”
Adele yelled at me. The plate knight who appeared riding a flying dragon used a two-handed sword as a weapon. His swordsmanship was fast, heavy, and even elegant, so there were no gaps. Adele was enduring the surprise of such a strong man.
“How…….”
It is neither magic nor alchemy. A knight who seemed to have jumped out of a fantasy wielded a sword similar to Elisabeth’s movement. The helmet was closed, so not a single hair was exposed, and the armor glittered black, which was very familiar.
“It’s quite right.”
Such a classic strongman in this day and age. The powerful man who did not use her firearms pushed Adele furiously, and she responded with an alchemist’s style of combat, jingling and jingling the flask slung from her belt.
I was honestly surprised. It’s a back alley bully’s way of fighting, but Adele did quite well. Unlike me, who failed to follow the movements of the knight who appeared on the flying dragon and missed it, he reacted to surprise attacks. They held back by throwing flasks of fire that did not go out, drugs that slowed their movements, and refrigerants that made them freeze rapidly.
“But that’s all.”
But the article was right. Adele’s alchemy had its limits. Originally, a combat alchemist tends to focus on fusion rather than fusion, but Adele was not prepared for that. All she could show was soft water in a round flask, and even that was dripping.
Clink!
The last flask is broken. The knight swung his sword and Adele narrowly avoided it. However, it seemed that her breath was hitting the limit.
“It is over.”
The knight returned to his stance. She put one foot forward and raised her sword skyward.
“Stop!”
I couldn’t stand it any longer and attacked him. With only a flimsy cane knife, he aimed and stabbed between the seams of the sheet metal. Unlike the sword gun, it was a very difficult weapon, so unless you were familiar with it, you couldn’t use the proper technique.
“Your purpose must be me? Not killing her!”
The knight quickly counterattacked. Surprise returned to dance. I pulled out the sword that had been tucked in between the seams. The blood flowing down his sword proved the injury he must have suffered, but perhaps the depth of the wound wasn’t deep, so he showed no hesitation in his movements.
“I have no intention of killing you.”
Straight and fast The knight swings his heavy sword lightly like a weeping willow branch. Beatrix never taught me swordsmanship. The knife he held in his hand was like a toy. If it was hidden secretly and taken out at an unexpected moment, it would be a surprise attack, but colliding with a proper sword is an act of suicide.
“But he said not to touch your body, he never said not to touch your concubine.”
“A concubine? Stop prying!”
Acknowledge that the relationship is immoral. I have nothing to say even if I express it as wrong. But all of that is the original sin I have to bear. So I wasn’t going to let a stranger insult Adele.
It’s a sin I’ve committed Because it’s my own vice that I got like that.
“If you want to have a conversation, share it, and if you want to point a sword, point it!”
“Is it worth having a conversation with a male prostitute who is no better than a brute force?”
“If I do, I’ll have to point my sword…… !”
The sword made by remodeling a cane is fragile. There is no metal frame on the handle, so you could cut your palm. Even so, I gathered my spirits and went on the attack.
Kkang, Kkang!
I knew that I would not be an opponent in a single match. He was a strong man who used swordsmanship similar to Elisabeth. On the other hand, I am the Führer’s male prostitute. He was just a puppy running amok believing in only a few skills he had learned for self-defense. What should I say about swordsmanship that I have not even learned?
Caga Gang, Caga Gang!
The vibration transmitted through the sword is too strong. The tingling is the taste of death. I bit my teeth and competed with the knight. It was a situation where it wouldn’t be strange if I let go of my hands at any time, but the reason I couldn’t do that was because of Adele standing behind me.
Because of me, I don’t want anyone else to lose their life…… !
“Only the spirit is good, but the skills are at a level that can’t be seen with open eyes.”
The knight swung his sword wide.
“It is over.”
The sound of cutting the wind conveyed a warning that they should never collide. But even though I was aware of the warning, I brought a knife to the trail. So, I saw that the sword, which was already dangerous, was shattered.
“Kuh…… !”
Papababak! Fragments of the blade scattered in all directions. The knight was fine because he was wearing armor, but I wasn’t. With scratches on my cheek and clothes, I threw the cane, which only had a handle, roughly.
“You pathetic bastard, what have you been doing all these years?”
Adele bit his finger without the knight’s knowledge. The blood that flowed from it drew something on the back of my hand. He clenched his fists one after another. Surprisingly, it was the act of exploding the liquid in her flask that she threw last.
Pop! An explosion erupted from the jet-black armor.
“Master, now!”
“Wind, dwell!”
I didn’t miss the gap and wrapped the wind around my body. With even more nimble movements, she sprinted toward Adele’s location. She grabbed her hand and quickly tried to get out of here. But I couldn’t. It was because the guy who came to his senses belatedly used magic without dictation.
“…… !”
Suddenly, the knight seized Adele’s accomplishment. She separated the two of us at once and threatened her by the collar. Judging by the wind blowing through his whole body, the magic he used was the same as mine, but the power was truly different.
“Are you going to run away again?”
He pointed the sword in her hand at Adele. He acted as if he would pierce the pit of my stomach at any moment, restricting my actions. At first, I thought it was to catch me, but it wasn’t. The jet-black knight wearing this plate armor had other plans.
“What do you want?”
“Your despair.”
There was not even a second of worry. The answer came out immediately. I felt the grudge he was carrying. It was a very bitter grudge. Like the vengeance gained from losing a loved one.
“We want to give you a choice.”
“We?”
The knight extended his sword upward. Then, a group of dragons flying in the sky descended all at once and landed all of their colleagues on board.
“Nonsense.”
I couldn’t believe it. That one, seen from a distance, was apparently in wild motion. But what is this? Amman flying dragons are easier to handle than normal dragons, but their level is by no means that of a city slayer. He dared to be compared to the courageous beasts led by Beatrix!
“What are you…… ?”
The number is about a hundred. In terms of the Air Force, it is a battalion level. Their armaments are all plate armor and two-handed swords, and like the jet-black knight who seems to be the leader, they are proficient not only in swordsmanship but also in magic. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be able to engage in air combat.
“The person we serve told us to keep an eye on you. But I don’t want to do that anymore. To that extent, you are trash that cannot be saved.”
The leader, the jet-black knight, received an old wooden box from his subordinate. Without hesitation, he twisted it open and threw the ring inside at me.
“Don’t give it back.”
The ring, which at first glance looked cheap, had been used by a couple to sign their vows. Originally, they were a pair, but they were separated by the queen who ruled this country.
“Victoria…….”
After confirming the inscription on the inside of the ring, I shut my mouth and groaned. The president’s prostitute Seo Jeong-woo and the ruined princess Victoria promised to be together for the rest of their lives with a 70-mark ring purchased from a stall at the time of their 100-year marriage.
“You seem to feel regret for your appearance, don’t you?”
We engraved phrases with hot love on each ring. I wrote a phrase to put a person in the middle of the day, and she wrote a phrase to put a true heart.
“Were you the one who recovered the bodies of Victoria and Cecilia in Partenope?”
“It’s a question that assumes death. I guess that’s what you want. If not, don’t you feel ashamed of yourself for not doing your best to find it?”
“Are you saying you’re alive!”
“There is no obligation to inform you.”
The jet-black knight scolded me. He was surprisingly knowledgeable about my past.
“Seo Jeong-woo, you are the same now and in the past. It’s still inescapable. Was it that concubine who couldn’t forget him and found a replacement? An elf with dark hair and milky white eyes? It seems that he couldn’t do anything about his status.”
“Don’t insult Adele…… !”
“There is no such thing as shamelessness. On the one hand, I guess I still can’t feel it.”
He slammed the sword he was holding into the ground. He ordered his subordinates to take Adele hostage, then drew something in the air. One after another, he uttered mysterious incantations. A large light rose in the area and formed something like a barrier.
“If I had been shut up in her closet and became a disabled person, I would have accepted it. If you spent every day being crushed by that vicious Beatrix, you would have considered it the price of your sins. But you showed your true colors. The true color of the eagle owl of the black orchestra.”
I was in awe.
“Abominable bastard. You were such a seed from the beginning. When I broke through Saxony to rescue such a lowly woman, I never thought of honoring her soul.”
They know my identity. Since his status has already been passed on to the great leader of Saxony, it would not be surprising if it spread somewhere, but if it is an avenger with a deep grudge, the story is different.
“…… You could have caught me and killed me, but you didn’t.”
“A death like that is too much for you. You need to struggle a little harder.”
The jet-black knight drew his sword again. He pointed the point of his knife at Adele and said to me.
“Shall we go back to the main topic?”
Coincidentally, that line reminded me of a memory buried in the bottom of my hippocampus.
“We are ghosts. The specter of Partenope.”
“…… !”
“I will obey the will of the person who once served you as your father.”
A chief knight clad in jet-black plate. An armed group that appeared riding a flying dragon. The movement of the sword reminiscent of Elizabeth. A reference to the past years. They scolded him for asking if he would run away again. Above all, to the point of owning Victoria’s ring.
“Tonight, everyone you love dies.”
“What?”
“Choose.”
I finally found out their identities.
