Chapter 875 – 875. Recognition of Knights (1)
“… Riod. How about calming down for a moment?”
“Calm? Did you say calm down?”
Lyod narrowed his eyes and looked at Eunhyun.
The office of the Artia Knights, praised as the strongest force in the Kingdom of Pernias.
Riod, the head of the knights, showed a strangely nervous attitude with a stiff face.
Instead of listening to his friend who now asked him to calm down, he rebuked him.
“Ayra didn’t come home last night. It was the first time. You don’t understand how important this is.”
“… Hey. I have a daughter too.”
Eunhyun sighed and replied.
In fact, he came because he thought he would be agitated to some extent, but Eun-hyeon didn’t even imagine that he would come to the knights’ headquarters early in the morning before sunrise and commit an extraordinary madness to the extent of calling an emergency call to the entire knights.
“You know that this is an act of exceeding authority, right? Even if you are the leader of the knights, it may be difficult to avoid responsibility if you use your own knights for personal matters.”
“…”
Lyod said nothing.
He just clenched his fists tightly and couldn’t answer anything because he knew it well.
Even if he might be reprimanded by other nobles or even by Queen Yuria, he couldn’t remain silent.
“It was the first time.”
“What.”
“Ayra stayed out with her. And without saying anything.”
“…”
He always listened to himself and his wife, Theresia, and grew them like plants in a greenhouse.
Sincerely and uprightly, yet undesirably, he resembled himself, grew upright and courageous, and became a great knight.
She really was the eldest daughter she had nurtured.
That’s why her daughter’s behavior of staying out all night on her own without even asking her permission in advance came as a big shock to Leode.
Due to her agitation filled with urgency, she called an emergency call to the entire knights, a tremendous shock.
It was intense enough to shake a man who always valued discipline and was armed with the honor of being the kingdom’s greatest knight.
In fact, Eun-hyeon knew about it.
That he, who was the straightest and most upright, was so shaken that he did the rarest crazy thing for the first time in his life.
As much as that, it was a family that had a lot of meaning to Leo, the eldest daughter, Ara.
“So? After finding Eira and Cha Hanseong and bringing them to the headquarters? What are you going to do?”
“… I haven’t thought about it.”
“What’s up?”
It was the first time that Eunhyeon had ever seen Riod do things wrong without any countermeasures.
‘It’s more serious than I thought.’
Apparently, this time, it was clear that not only Erin but also Lily had hit the right spot.
The result of encouraging Eira and Cha Hanseong to be a little more honest and sincere with themselves and each other was to turn the headquarters of the Artia Knights upside down.
The butterfly effect couldn’t have been this spectacular.
Naturally, Eunhyeon sighed as she couldn’t figure out how to deal with this.
Ugh
When he was feeling so helpless, Eun-hyeon felt the small crystal ball he had put in his arms vibrate.
“Let’s communicate for a moment.”
“… Okay.”
Eunhyeon left the commander’s office at the headquarters of the Knights after leaving a brief comment.
He took a small crystal ball from his bosom, held it in his hand, and infused it with his mana to activate it.
“It’s me.”
[How is the situation?]
It was Illyana’s voice.
“He was more embarrassed than I thought.”
[Is that enough?]
“I guess that’s how shocking it was.”
[Hmm, it seems like it would be difficult to calm down easily?]
Illyana understood the general situation just by briefly listening to Eunhyun.
She was always active, she was the one who bothered about everything, such as stepping forward, but she was quick to grasp the situation as much as she originally had a good sense of humor.
[What are you going to do?]
“Well… I’m thinking about it right now.”
[Is it worth worrying about?]
“What?”
[I can think of a suitable method.]
“… What is that?”
Eunhyeon was interested in Illyana’s solution that she came up with before herself.
[I think if I just call one person, the conversation will work out?]
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“Ha, what kind of fuss is this? . It really feels like I was struck by lightning.”
“… I agree.”
While the two senior knights sighed deeply and returned to the Knights Headquarters, they glanced at Cha Hanseong and Eira, who were following them.
“…”
“…”
The two of them had no choice but to lower their heads and avoid their gaze.
Like young boys and girls whose embarrassing shame was exposed, they couldn’t make eye contact with the senior knights.
In fact, the day after what she experienced was her first experience at a hotel, she felt like a criminal being caught.
“Haa, it’s true that you all wanted to reconcile, but I never imagined that you would immediately reconcile and become lovers, so we went to a hotel and made friends, right?”
“… Noisy.”
Eira’s expression frowned at the senior knight’s candid words and tone.
“Why are you dissatisfied? Even though we are on holiday because of you guys, we are in a situation where an emergency call has been issued?”
“… Tsk.”
Unable to come up with anything to refute, Eira turned her head again to avoid her gaze.
In fact, of the three senior drivers who drank with Cha Han-seong last night, the two in front of them were originally off duty today.
Even though she unintentionally had to go to work due to an emergency call-up order, she had quite a bit of regret for her.
“Release your expression. Hey. If you just say something, you’re serious, so you can’t make fun of it.”
“…”
The senior engineer giggled and continued to tease Eira.
The reason he treated her Ayra so casually was because he had known her and her classmates since she was attending Aether Royal School, before he joined her knights.
He was not at all intimidated by her glaring eyes.
On the contrary, he made fun of her by treating her more humorously.
“Whoa! Scary! The hangover that I haven’t woken up yet will blow away! Very!”
“… Can you really let me fly?”
Perhaps it was because she was already annoyed, Eira’s tone seemed a little sincere.
“… Stop. Although it is morning, it is not that there are no eyes at all.”
Another senior engineer, frowning at her, stopped the two of them with words.
There may have been an intention to ease Eira and Cha Han-sung’s stiff feelings with a light and humorous atmosphere, but it was not good for the knights to harm the solemn and weighty image accumulated in the Artia Knights.
“Hey, junior.”
“Yes?”
The insolent senior knight changed his target altogether, as if he had lost interest in teasing Eira.
Slowing down her steps, which had been leading her, she came up to Cha Han-seong and slipped her arm around his shoulder.
She then asked, covering her own mouth and Cha Hansung’s ear with her other arm.
“How far have you gone?”
“… Yes?”
“No. I mean, we became lovers, and we slept in a hotel-like room. How far have you gone?”
Cha Han-seong noticed the meaning of the question contained in the senior’s meaningful smile.
“Uh, that, that, so…”
I couldn’t decide whether I should answer this or not.
She said that it would be rude to Eira to answer any answer, so she didn’t want to do it if possible.
“… Don’t make Hanseong difficult.”
“Hey. What did I do I was just asking because I was really curious.”
“… Whew.”
Ayra let out a sigh as she looked at him, who couldn’t help but think of eating her.
“Hanseong-ah. Can’t answer He is such a kid.”
“Yes yes…”
“Ah, that’s no fun.”
The senior knight clicked her tongue and fell away from Cha Han-seong like a child whose appetite fell off her.
When she saw him again leading the way with her fellow senior engineer, Cha Han-seong looked at him curiously.
“Why are you looking at him like that?”
“Oh, no… Just… I want to be a really strange person.”
Among the members of the Knights Cha Han-seong saw, that person was the most unusual.
His tone and demeanor were very frivolous, and he had a strong tendency to spit out words without thinking.
There must have been a reason why Riode, who valued the character of the member as much as his skill, chose him to join the knights, but Cha Han-seong could not understand the reason.
I couldn’t help it even if I cursed at him as a foolish bastard who judged his senior rather than himself as a successor, but it was strange enough to make an exception for how that frivolous senior knight really joined the knights.
“He’s a bit… It was an odd case. I’m not a bad kid…”
Eira let out a sigh as if she couldn’t stop it, and her words trailed off.
I was very concerned about the way he spoke, as if he knew the frivolous senior engineer well, but there was something else that bothered Cha Han-seong the most.
“Captain… Were you very angry?”
“Writing… Well…”
Even Ei couldn’t come up with a proper answer with a complicated expression.
In fact, Ei was worried that he might get scolded for what he had done.
Yesterday, I did it without thinking about it, but now I broke out in a cold sweat when I felt that the moment I was worried about was approaching.
As she was making her complex expression, Cha Hanseong held Eira’s hand.
“I will only trust Eira.”
“Huh?”
“I told you that Eira will persuade the captain.”
“Ah.”
Ayra belatedly borrowed the power of her alcohol last night to recall her words she had uttered.
-Why are you looking at my father?
-I just need to convince my father.
-The person you should keep an eye on for the rest of your life… Not my father It’s only me. So, focus on me now. Okay?
“Uh, uh…”
Eira blushed and tried to distance her from Cha Han-sung, but Cha Han-seong, who was holding her hand, pulled her hand instead and kept her distance.
“Hey, let this go…”
“No, I do not want.”
“…”
Seeing Cha Hanseong smiling mischievously, Eira couldn’t lift her face in embarrassment.
‘I guess I’m crazy… How could you say that…’
It was said that he had drunk too much, but it must have been madness.
And what I don’t like the most is Cha Han-sung’s attitude, which seems to have found a sense of calm.
“… Why are you so calm?”
“Yeah, you said that Eira would come out and convince her captain. I will only believe in Eira.”
Seeing the mischievous smile on his face, it was somehow unkind.
“Oh come! Hey! Did you hear! She doesn’t call her ‘senpai’, she calls her by her first name ‘Eira’! Damn it very!”
Even her senior engineer, who was leading her, teased her mercilessly, and she was under a lot of stress.
“That’s really…”
Eira glared at her senior knight, gnashing her teeth in her annoyed expression.
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“You’re here.”
While having a small scuffle with the senior knights, Eira and Cha Hanseong, who arrived at the Knights Headquarters, immediately met Riod, who was waiting in the leader’s office.
Facing his gaze as he was sitting on the sofa, Cha Hanseong trembled without realizing it.
As if looking for something like prey, a lion-like fierce gaze scanned Cha Han-seong and Eira up and down.
Then, Lyod’s eyes gazed at the middle between the two, at the two hands that were clasped and interlocked.
Unsurprisingly, realizing that what he expected had happened, Liode closed his eyes and said.
“In the end, this is how it turned out.”
Lyod muttered bitterly and rose from the couch.
Eventually, after leaving the director’s office, he spoke to the two people who were standing at a distance.
“Follow me.”
“”… Yes.””
The two of them nodded and answered at the same time, and walked after Leo.
The place where Riod arrived with the two was the training ground used by the knights.
All the members should have gathered at the headquarters due to the emergency call-up order, but for some reason, not a single knight was seen at the training ground.
“Take it.”
Cha Hanseong received the sword flying through the air in a parabolic arc from Riod.
“Captain? This… ?”
“Pull it out. I will check how much your skills have improved.”
“… Yes.”
Cha Hanseong pulled the sword out of the scabbard with a stiff face, and as soon as he checked the blade, he was greatly embarrassed.
“Everything, Captain? Isn’t this just sparring?”
“Is something wrong?”
“No. Why is it a real sword?”
