Chapter 25 – Generation of White Flowers
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After a slightly late lunch, Claire returned to the castle with a much more comfortable mind.
‘Everybody was a better person than I thought.’
The step back is light.
A 12-year-old girl suddenly finds herself in an important position.
At an age where you don’t even know how important the position of knight commander is,
She trembled inwardly, observing only the complexion and reaction of the people around her.
But she bluffed as hard as she could, knowing that on the outside she shouldn’t appear that way.
Even if you are hated.
Because Claire was more afraid of not reaching her determined goal.
However, the Hundred Flower Knights were just taken aback at first.
Upon getting to know her girl named Claire,
Everyone in her was busy taking care of her baby and her family.
“Captain! I will lick and clean the path you walk!”
Oh, this is not caring.
It’s Clopas’ nonsense.
“If you need anything, you can get your pass and go to the city.”
“Yes, Sirocco.”
“What about you. She just calls me Sirocco.”
Sirocco rummaged through Claire’s room.
“It’s empty.”
“I was out of my mind.”
“Let’s go to my room. I’ll give you anything you need.”
“Yes, sister.”
“Sirocco.”
“……Sirocco.”
Claire’s cheeks turned red.
It’s natural for her to call her sister, but just saying her name makes her fidgety because she thinks she’s done something bad.
Sirocco tidied her Claire’s clothes, she said.
“The captain is the face of our knights. Dress properly.”
“…”
The eyes of the members who followed naturally focused on Sirocco’s chest.
“…What. If you have something to say, say it. You bastards.”
“If Claire is the face of our knights, is the vice-captain the heart?”
“A guy who really says he should get scolded!?”
“Gyaaaaagh!”
Sirocco immediately casts a joint technique on the member who flirts.
It was a common sight in the corridors of the royal palace.
“Uh. Vice-captain. Look over there.”
“What?”
“Are the kids coming in one after another?”
“Ezekiel! Look! They must be our country’s knight commanders!”
As if they were having fun, Clova’s absurd remarks do not stop.
“Is your eye sprained? They’re students. They look like Decebal Elementary School?”
“There are a lot of kids your age, Captain.”
As if they were on a field trip, following the guidance of the servant in charge of the guide, children around Claire’s age smiled and passed by.
Claire looked at the procession curiously.
“Would you like to follow me secretly? You probably won’t notice.”
“If you take off the cloak.”
“I think the kids will gladly accept it.”
“Can I?”
“If found out, the vice-captain will take care of it.”
“You…….”
Sirocco let out a sigh of relief.
Not knowing how to react to Claire’s anticipation of her youthful gaze, she briefly turns her head away.
‘The students of Dessebal won’t cause trouble….’
Decebal is also Sirocco’s alma mater.
When she was in middle school, she was drafted into the Knights, and she became the youngest member of the White Flower Knights.
Claire broke that record, but she never thought of herself as proud of it.
Because she wasn’t the best at Dessebal either.
Rune Kingdom’s largest hero training academy.
That’s what Decebal is.
Students who have completed a total of 12 years of education in elementary, middle, and high school will be entrusted with the most important mission in this country in the future.
“Can I come back? Sirocco…?”
Claire asked Sirocco, her pretty blue eyes shining like jewels.
“If you become the captain, you can do whatever you want.”
It was a very misleading statement, but Sirocco really thought so.
Considering how much trouble she had to clean up after herself, since the former leader also went about her own way.
Claire following the procession on a school trip to leave behind memories is not even an abrupt action.
“Make some friends.”
“Yes.”
Have you ever been as excited as today?
Claire jumped with her rifle and joined the furthest back of the procession.
The guide had just received permission to enter the throne room and started walking in the lead with the royal guards.
“Who are you?”
A blue-haired girl suddenly approached.
“Claire…”
“I’m Daphne! You have unusual hair color too, don’t you?”
She didn’t seem to care why she wasn’t wearing her school uniform,
Daphne spoke friendly and held her hand.
Claire blushed slightly on his cheeks.
“Yeah. It’s been like this since I was born.”
“It’s me!”
The audience room is somehow inexplicably busy.
What happened? Claire caught his attention.
“Did you come all of a sudden?”
“It seems to be because of the devil’s omens.”
Even the eyes of the elementary school children shone.
“Is the rumor that the Demon King has appeared?”
“How old is the Demon King?”
“Are you taller than the warrior?”
“No, no matter what, the warrior is stronger!”
The nobleman scratched her head in embarrassment.
“Gee… What are these guys?”
“They’re elementary school students. They said they’re here for a field trip…”
“You are entering now!”
It is not a door through which elementary school students pass,
The grandest door of the audience room opened.
‘Mighty aura.’
Before Claire could see her opponent’s face, she was already feeling it.
At first glance, the black-haired man who opened the door looked like an adventurer, but
All the guards were unable to make eye contact and were very nervous, and their servants did not know what to do.
He must be such a great person.
Even the king rushes to the throne to greet him.
“Who is it? That person.”
“You’re handsome.”
“Guys, let’s get out of the way. The hero has to pass.”
“Hero!?”
“Is that the warrior?”
“Yes, yes.”
The guide smiled and answered the children’s questions.
“This is Ethan Hillrail, the 7th warrior who defeated the demon king.”
‘That person, the hero…….’
Claire had also heard of fairy tales as a child, but it was her first time seeing the real thing.
If he is the heroic figure who defeated the demon king, the pinnacle of all monsters, then
Claire admires him the most, and he is the greatest man in the country.
Old King Keder said, wiping sweat with a handkerchief.
“Ethan, please contact me saying that you will come when you come.”
“I heard that a new demon king has appeared.”
Looking at the outside, he is at most 30, and he spits flat words against the king with a shaggy white beard.
No one thinks it strange.
The Decebal Elementary School students were already drunk with the hero’s aura and screamed and shouted,
The boys were staring at something dissatisfied.
“I just saw the omens of the demon king. Anyway, where have you been?”
“…”
Ethan shut his mouth.
You don’t know how much the king suffered because of this sociability and his unpretentious personality.
“I want to take my sword.”
Elementary school students were louder.
“Claire, did you hear?”
“Yes?”
“The warrior’s sword! You might be able to see it yourself!”
Valpurgis, the demonic sword of the brave, said to be a sacred weapon.
It is known that very few people have seen the real thing, so everyone seemed excited.
As soon as the king ordered them to come out, dozens of guardsmen stabbed black swords into a large rock…… It was loaded onto a large cart and brought in whole.
“Please understand that I brought it like this. No one but you was able to lift it.”
“If I had left it there, it would have saved me a lot of trouble.”
Instead of the silent king, a woman with a picky personality screamed.
“Where is the person who leaves the magic sword unattended like that?”
The warrior looked a little embarrassed as well.
“Seriously, Archon…”
“No. Your Majesty the King.”
Said the gray-haired woman, adjusting her glasses.
“I have to say something. To the careless warrior who abandoned such a dangerous object in the field.”
“Nothing happened.”
“It’s become a tourist attraction! Residents come to hear it!”
“…”
“…”
Isn’t that good?
To say the least, Walpurgis was not something anyone could touch.
It is also an ominous sword, the only one among the sacred objects called a monstrosity.
The only thing he can handle is Ethan in the whole world.
The word cursed sword that sucked the blood of hundreds of thousands of monsters was quite famous, and it was my own personal fact.
“Next time, please be sure to go through the sealing process and put it in the storage box. Mr. Ethan Hillrail!!”
“……It’s still noisy. Delia.”
“And! His Majesty said that he could see the omens of the Demon King, he did not say that he had appeared.”
“That’s not it.”
Delia glared at Ethan.
Ethan was downcast. Rarely.
“There is a very big difference between being still ‘investigating’ and the hero directly saying ‘the Demon King has appeared’, isn’t it?”
“Okay. Grab a lodging and wait.”
“Did the saintess come with you too?”
“If you’re an immature demon lord, I’ll be enough alone.”
“You know it’s not possible if subjugation isn’t approved, right?”
“Even after ten years, it’s still bothersome…”
Claire tugged at Daphne’s sleeve.
“Huh? Why? Claire.”
“What do you mean subjugation approval?”
Shouldn’t the demon lord be defeated somehow?
Claire was a child who lived in the countryside not long ago, so she was ignorant of common sense.
“Claire doesn’t know that well? Subjugation of the demon king means that the whole world must unite.”
Daphne proudly stretched out his small breasts and spoke eagerly.
“Union….”
“Because the prestige of the country?”
The hero easily pulled out the magic sword that no one else had ever held, kept it in his scabbard, and turned around.
“Tell Ethan that he arrived first.”
Now, as he is about to leave the throne room,
Decebal Elementary School students ignored the guide’s restraint and flocked to an impromptu fan meeting.
“Hero!”
“Hero is cool!”
“Pose with a knife, please.”
‘I think the hero is in trouble….’
Claire didn’t know what to do behind the scenes.
“Guys, it’s rude to the warrior!”
Daphne takes the role of class president and panics and stops the children.
“Hero, stick with me!!”
The boy who was caught boldly applied for a challenge.
“Ha, it’s really childish, so I can’t look at it.”
The blonde girl crossed her arms and glared disgustedly at her children as though they were different.
Ethan saw the faces of the Desebal students.
‘Are these guys from the generation of white flowers?’
“Your term of office is coming to an end, so why don’t you stop and step down right now? I will be the next hero.”
The guide came in hastily and put her blonde girl’s mouth shut.
“I’m sorry! Hero!”
“…”
“Eup! Eup!”
“Beatrice, please stay calm…! It’s in the presence of His Majesty the King!”
Ethan looked around at the children and said quietly.
“If there’s anything you want to ask, ask.”
“How do I become a hero?”
“Be strong.”
“Did the Demon King really appear?”
“It appeared. It’s your turn next. Grow your strength.”
“Mr. Ethan Hillrail!”
A scary woman comes after her with lights in her eyes!
“…Sorry, but the question time ends here. Enough then.”
Ethan hurried out of Delia’s throne room.
