Chapter 91 – 091. Official Expedition (1)
After the organization of the expedition was over, preparations for Eunhyeon’s expedition plan went smoothly.
Princess Yuria was able to officially participate in Eunhyeon’s expedition with the permission of the royal family, including Helena Hubei.
Alex made a great contribution to this. After officially being appointed as the new minor duke, as part of the successor class, he planned an expedition to explore and overcome nearby dungeons, and informed the royal family that Eun-hyeon’s expedition was officially was announced as an expedition led by the ‘Armitas Duke’.
Naturally, when she was a knight of Krasir’s royal guard, she invited her escort, Princess Yuria, to join her expedition, and Yuria gladly accepted it, and the story continued.
Even from the viewpoint of the royal family, the duke’s invitation could not be refused without any reason, so Princess Yuria was able to participate in the duke’s expedition without being hindered by the other hostile faction, Queen Diane’s faction.
And after the brief ceremony, it was the moment when Alex’s official expedition and Eunhyeon’s expedition, unofficially, were about to embark.
“Who do you pack cosmetics to look good to? Take it out right away.”
“Oh, what! Just get over it!”
Eun-hyeon did not go out and suddenly started checking the luggage of the personnel who participated in the expedition.
In fact, as an escort knight, I thought that the members of Krasir, including his companion Alex, would have some expedition experience, so I wasn’t too worried, and in the case of Erin, it wasn’t a big problem because Eun-hyeon packed her bags herself.
However, the first person to check was Princess Yuria.
Neatly ignoring Yuria’s resistance to her unwillingness to show her backpack that was carrying her own luggage with her ominous face, Eunhyeon snatched Yuria’s backpack from her.
She was immediately and mercilessly pulling away items she didn’t need.
“How did you go on your last expedition in this state?”
“At that time, the princess had run away from home. She didn’t even have time to pack. After she left the castle with the princess, she stopped by the adventurer’s guild, bought the minimum amount of food and tools, and left the capital right away.”
“What the hell did you do without drying this?”
Even if she was an immature princess, this wasn’t something Alex had to manage.
“I have no face… I never thought of it.”
Not being able to think is an excuse, and not being able to strongly restrain it would be the correct expression.
Looking at Alex’s bitterly smiling face, I felt that way all the more.
“… At that time, it was an unreasonable expedition in many ways. Really.”
“Ahhh! I’m sorry! Really! I really apologize for taking action without thinking! Give me back my backpack right now!”
“What. This? Cookie? Why are you bringing this?”
“That, that… I have a strong memory of being hungry during the last expedition, so I prepared for any emergency…”
“It is not a bad idea to prepare for distress or various emergencies. It was a good idea to bring emergency food.”
“Yes? You think so?”
“But there is no nutritional option with these things. I’ll give you a proper preserved meal, so I’ll leave this out.”
“Aww! Let’s just move on!”
Yuria cried as if she had lost her temper, but Eunhyeon didn’t pretend to hear.
The people around him who saw it only had a disgusted look on their faces.
“Wow, even against the princess, it’s not that bad…”
Even though she thought that even Aisha, who usually didn’t have such a good impression of Yuria, she didn’t know that she could check something that meticulously, she was checking in her head what she had put in her backpack just in case. .
It was because she thought that if she herself was unexpectedly interrogated and she was treated like that, her mentality would not be able to withstand.
“But are you really okay? This is, after all, a duke’s expedition. You don’t have to come…”
“Senior! How can you say such sad things! How long have we been together!”
“I agree too. Even if you quit Krasir after inheriting the family, there’s no law saying I shouldn’t help you. Besides, we are also Princess Yuria’s escort knights. We were the ones who volunteered where the princess was going. I did not participate in this expedition only to help you.”
“… Thanks.”
At Aisha and Merdin’s words, Alex smiled and nodded.
“And… Personally, I participated because I was concerned that a man named Eunhyun was involved in this expedition.”
“Eunhyeon?”
“Strangely, it seems that Queen Helena and the princess are keeping an eye on that man, so even within the royal family there are people who want to find out what kind of person this man named Eunhyeon is. Furthermore… That man is the witch’s lover.”
“Ah, I saw that surprise kiss in the courtroom. I was really very surprised.”
The treatment of Eunhyun among the Pernias nobles is very subtle in the current situation.
This was because the individual named Eunhyeon was neither a noble nor a citizen of this country, but a foreigner like Illyana, and few people knew his identity.
There were some aristocrats who ignored and neglected Eun-hyeon, who was very uncommon in terms of origin, background, and appearance, but they were called ‘witch’s lover’ or ‘witch-raised snake’ and asked to build a bridge with Illyana. There were also aristocrats who tried to trick them.
There were even those who noticed that the people at the center of the country, such as the Duke of Armitas, the Marquis of Olivion, and the Marquis Boris, were making remarks and movements to support and defend Eunhyeon, and began to recognize his value little by little.
“Right.”
It is not unreasonable for nobles and royal families to keep an eye on Eun-hyeon, who suddenly appeared through a public trial.
“I’m also curious, what the hell is he doing?”
“He sure is an interesting man.”
“So? After this expedition, will you completely leave Krasir?”
“Perhaps it will.”
“I see…”
Merdin put on a sad expression.
“Then this expedition will be the last mission with you.”
“Huh, senior… Couldn’t you accept me from the duke’s family too?”
“Don’t talk nonsense. How did Krasir join, it would be a waste to quit.”
“Enough. The reason I was able to survive in the Royal Guard was because of the senior, but the senior leaves. In the first place, even within the Knights, they fight each other over their seats, and the atmosphere is completely shit, but they are completely discouraged. Honor is something that freezes to death.”
“Certainly, this public trial caused a serious division within Krasir. You seem to be busy with family matters lately, so you haven’t heard the news, but there are many members in Krasir who take issue with Captain Walter’s arbitrary act of imprisoning innocent people and indiscriminately beating them, relying only on eyewitness reports.”
As a result, Krasir’s image was shattered and Artia’s status rose as it was announced that the culprit of the raid was caught by Artia.
It happened because of Walter’s arbitrary actions, who regarded Artia as a thorn in the eye, but the conflict within Krasir was aimed at bringing him down by raising a question about Captain Walter’s command ability under the pretext of not being able to take advantage and suffering only severe losses. This was a serious situation.
As a result, Alex remembered that the two knights who were known to have directly assaulted Eun-hyeon were subject to disciplinary action.
While the three of Krasir were talking like that, Eun-hyeon returned his backpack to Yuria after the inspection was over.
“You are the devil… How could you treat me like that in front of so many people…”
“Noisy. Hurry up and put them in the backpack wagon.”
As soon as she glared at Eun-hyeon with her ferocious eyes, as soon as she held her dividend in her hand, Yuria, who opened her hurriedly, was followed by Ineira. I handed it over to Eunhyun.
“Hey, here I am…”
“Okay. Shall we take a look?”
After receiving her backpack from Eira, Eunhyeon hardened her face as she looked at the items in her backpack.
“This…”
“What, is something wrong?”
“No, nothing like that…”
Seeing Eunhyeon’s stiff expression, Eira asked, but as he said, there was no problem with Eira’s backpack.
“Too grade A… It’s FM… ?”
Eunhyeon burst into laughter when she found a small note in her backpack.
‘There’s no way your meticulous guys won’t check your luggage anyway. I put in only what was really necessary, and I didn’t put preserved food or small things. Don’t make Ayla carry heavy things, and make sure you stick around and take care of the necessary things. Then please.’
“Why are you like that?”
“No.”
If she was so worried, she would rather have Artia join and train her herself, but why did she go out resolutely and create this sadal?
“Good. Aira passed.”
“Thank you!”
Eira, who shuddered slightly at the sight of Eunhyeon who pointed it out to the princess without hesitation, was overjoyed that she had passed Eunhyeon’s test without receiving any criticism.
“Now, the princess is next?”
“Can’t we just move on?”
“I can’t.”
Eleanor sighed at her resolute attitude and handed over her backpack to Eun-hyeon.
Thinking that Eleanor’s rucksack was the most normal, Eun-hyeon finished inspecting her luggage and got on the carriage.
“Aren’t we doing ours?”
“What? Iknow, right?”
“You two, don’t you have a lot of expedition experience through the Knights? Isn’t it a bit strange for me to even interfere with you two?”
“It is, but…”
The appearance of the princess and the princess thoroughly inspecting their backpacks while neglecting those belonging to the lower class made Merdin and Aisha feel complicated and subtle.
“Well then, shall we depart?”
There were a total of eight people, and even if there were not four people from the royal family, duchy, and marquess, who would be the center of the country, Merdin and Aisha were also descendants of the noble families of the kingdom of Pernias.
“Wow, wow…”
Erin, who was the only member of the group that was nothing short of a commoner, could not erase the feeling that she was the only one floating.
“Don’t be intimidated.”
“Huh.”
Encouraging Erin a little, Eunhyeon drove her carriage.
It didn’t take long to get to the destination, near the Archis Great Labyrinth Dungeon.
In the first place, it took about a day and a half to walk along with Eleanor, and since it was located very close to Pernin, the time it took to travel could be further shortened by moving by carriage.
“I will walk from here.”
The march began by walking through a forest road where wagons could not enter.
“Princess. Are you okay? The march will be very difficult.”
“Are you okay. It was an expedition that he participated in after receiving a promise from that man in advance. I won’t cry because it’s hard.”
She had a strange rivalry with Eun-hyeon, at least to Yuria, who was mistaken for the position of being the same reincarnated person.
“Today we will camp here.”
Since there were more things to pay attention to with more luggage and more people, Eunhyeon set up a campsite in the forest without overdoing it.
No matter how many knights and skilled people are included, excluding Aisha, who is familiar with expeditions among the eight members of the party, the fact that four are female, and it was an expedition that had no choice but to be considerate of Erin or Eira, who were new to the expedition, so Eunhyun did not make an unreasonable choice.
After setting up a tent at the campsite, Eunhyeon made soup with plenty of chunks of lamb under the setting sun.
“Ah… Ok…”
After eating her liver-soaked mutton soup, Erin’s face softened and she sat down in her seat, and her others followed her and began to eat her soup from her Eunhyeon.
“By the way, Hyuna. Can we leave the capital on our own like this?”
“Huh? Are there any concerns?”
“No, that… You and I have a history of being imprisoned in prison. And you that… It is also the body that was judged.”
Even though they were misunderstood, did it matter if he and Eun-hyeon, who were criminals, went abroad like this?
Moreover, Erin still remembered the fact that Eun-hyeon had blown up at the public court.
“And isn’t another devil still lurking in the capital? Is it okay if I leave those demons alone?”
“Ah, that’s what you’re talking about.”
As Erin threw her head, everyone else started paying attention to Eunhyun.
Still, this demon case was a sensitive topic that made the whole country buzz, so a quiet silence began to rise around the bonfire to focus on the story of ‘another devil infiltrating the capital’ that Eun-hyeon threw.
Eventually, Eunhyun opened her mouth.
“That is a lie.”
“… I beg your pardon?”
The first to react was Princess Yuria.
Starting with her questioning while frowning her eyebrows, Merdin and Aisha also made expressions that made her think she had heard the wrong thing, and even Erin and Erin were dumbfounded.
Only Alex and Eleanor, who belonged to the duke’s side who secretly participated in this plan, knew the whole truth, so they are eating mutton soup.
From YuRia’s point of view, the Armitas brother and sister, who were not agitated at all, seemed more strange, so she frowned and asked Eunhyeon again.
“I didn’t hear that wrong, did I? Therefore… The fact that the devil is infiltrating the capital… You said it was a lie?”
“Yes. By the way.”
“Hey, hey! Let alone all the nobility of the country gathered, how can you be so shameless even telling lies in front of the royal family?!”
“What if I beg you to save me? It’s obvious that you won’t save me. Then you have to create a situation that will save me. Isn’t it?”
Seeing Eunhyeon’s shameless smile on her face, YuRia put on a dumbfounded expression.
‘Under… Isn’t this person a complete cheater?!’
Yuria put on a stunned face, saying that she should be bluffing properly, and that she was able to tell such a lie in a situation where her neck would be blown off if she made a mistake.
‘Snake of Mercury’, isn’t it a nickname that really suits someone who coined it?
As the saying goes, ‘a snake with silver poison’, it made me wonder if Eun-hyeon, who escaped a crisis with just one word, really had a snake’s tongue in her mouth.
