Chapter 196 – Chapter 5: Rose Sabel – 1
Waaaaa-!!
Every scene feels like a painting.
Like an oil painting hanging in the corridor of a quiet saint.
Flower petals falling like snowflakes, and the high arms raised by cheering people.
And even my heart.
All things stop and point to only one thing.
King. Their queen-.
‘Tia’.
When I saw her face. I felt it with my skin trembling.
This world is never a lie.
It is not a nightmare that makes you shiver on a gloomy night. It’s not like I’m wandering around death under the spell of an evil devil.
It is reality.
I met Tia.
With the same smile you had when you opened the door to the pharmacy and came in… He is greeting me.
“Tia.”
She stretched out her hand towards her.
Even though the distance between us is so far, I grit my teeth and reply to his shy gesture.
I’m here. I came.
In these arms of thousands of people shaking like waves – did Tia see me?
If she had seen me, she would have definitely noticed.
Because we remember the look in her eyes that recognized each other.
“Waaaaa-!!”
“Hurrah-!!”
… But I couldn’t see it.
The countless hands stretched out as if trying to touch Tia on the red castle in the distance separated us.
Her figure seemed almost invisible through the back of her hand and between her fingers, but eventually she was buried.
And- someone grabs my shoulder tightly.
“Oppa Ritz!”
It was Marie.
The child was sweating profusely as he had to break through the crowd with his small body.
“…”
I looked back one more time.
Tia was no longer there.
* * *
“Tia has become king…”
Marie also lowered her head in disbelief.
It’s worth it. Even the events that just happened are not easy to understand.
We have been through countless things. For me, it felt like a long time had passed since I had seen all the memories, but for Marie, it had only been two months since she left Brisden.
That’s how fiercely he chased Tia without any time to catch his breath.
By the way.
Tia appeared before us as a ‘queen’.
Marie asked.
“Now… What should I do?”
Up until now, I thought all I had to do was somehow find Tia. She thought that if she punished Posao once and for all and told Tia everything about her, this long, long-suffering would end.
But the reality was different.
Tia became queen.
She became the monarch who ruled this country from the Red Castle.
What does that mean?
I. This means I can’t meet Tia right now.
We, who are just commoners in the mountains, cannot enter the royal palace.
Even if Tia leaves the palace, there will always be a thick line of armed soldiers guarding her side.
The queen’s protection also applies to Posao, the official.
The moment I put on my sword and approach that pig for revenge. I must become the main enemy of this country and fight alone against thousands of knights.
What should I do?
I’m just as confused as Marie’s question.
I never expected that things would turn out this way.
“I don’t know.”
I can’t think of anything.
I somehow managed to walk all the way to Deseo, holding on tightly to this torn and tattered heart.
As if God was laughing at my journey, he erected another barrier called the ‘Red Castle’.
The woman you are looking for is there, so go get her back.
“Ritz, do you want to get Tia’s older sister back?”
“Yes.”
“Never… “You’re not going to give up, are you?”
I raised my head.
Marie’s sky blue eyes were transparent. It’s so transparent, I still don’t know what’s inside.
Why did you bring up the word ‘giving up’ now?
There is a long and difficult road ahead to get Tia back, so is this a story about calling it a day?
The tight breath flowed out.
“Number of animals. If she gets tired, she can stop and go back.”
“No. It’s not hard.”
Marie curled her fingers tightly on her chest.
“More than me… Ritz oppa is having a harder time. I want to help her brother.”
“…”
Crash.
She held tightly onto the rose saber that was leaning next to the bed.
The prediction was wrong.
Her expectations were ruined.
But even so, my wish did not change one bit.
“I have no intention of giving up. Even if it means climbing the castle wall with your own hands. “I will get Tia back.”
It is a personal grudge after all.
But now… It was no different from declaring a rebellion against the state.
I did not know the weight of those words.
“It will definitely be difficult. But I just have to somehow kill Posao, meet Tia, show her that I’m alive, and tell her the whole truth. That’s it.”
Marie asked.
“How about visiting the royal palace in person?”
“Then it will also reach Posao’s ears. Maybe Posao will get his hands on it first before it even gets to Tia. It’s too dangerous.”
“Writing a letter wouldn’t work either, would it?”
“It’s impossible. All letters entering the royal palace are thoroughly inspected. If the sender is unclear, it is discarded.”
“How about asking that drunk driver from yesterday a favor? “Didn’t Tia say she was on her sister’s side?”
“No. That person is also in Posao’s hands. Rather, it would be difficult if it became known that we had been in contact with that person. So we don’t have much free time left.”
Posao, like me, has the ability to read memories.
If he comes into contact with Lobrt again… You will see that I ‘read Robert’s memories.’ They will notice my presence in Deseo.
If that happens, the one in power will definitely attack us first.
But fortunately, I don’t have to worry about that yet.
This is because Robert is currently on vacation and has no plans to return to the palace for the time being.
So before Robert returns to the palace.
All work must be completed within one month.
Don’t let Posao notice.
“Number of animals. Remember that. “There is something I must do first before getting Tia back.”
“Yes?”
“We have to kill Posao.”
I made my judgment based on all my memories of what I had seen so far.
“He is no longer the ‘general store guy’ we knew. ‘The devil.'”
Until now, the impression we, and indeed everyone, had of Posao was miserable.
It’s so unpleasant, smelly, fat, ugly, stuttering, indecisive, and even lazy that you don’t want to get close to it. He was a guy who couldn’t do that no matter how much he wanted to look good.
Still, it’s not as bad as it sounds. With that alone, he was able to open a small general store near Breeze Dune.
But no. It was everyone’s mistake.
Even the spirit of that pig was treacherous.
He laid his hands on little Tia, took her away, and tried to kill me.
There was no feeling of guilt in all of these atrocious acts.
He was literally a guy who would do anything to make Tia his.
So it must be removed.
We have to make it into something that never existed in this world.
That’s the only thing me and Tia can receive… Because it is the only salvation.
“Then we have to hide that we are here.”
“Yes.”
“You must enter the palace quietly.”
“That’s right.”
In the end, Marie seemed to understand that what we had to do was not much different from assassination.
The guy turned his head and looked out his window.
The red castle was clearly visible even in the small bedroom of this inn.
“How about asking someone who knows the palace well?”
“I don’t think it’s a very good idea. “It is very dangerous to approach that person.”
“Even if Tia became king, it doesn’t mean her royal palace has changed.”
“However… ?”
“I’m asking someone who used to work at the palace. “Is there such a thing as a secret passage?”
Someone who ‘used to’ work at the royal palace?
Speaking of the past… The king before Tia became king.
In other words, they would be officials of the former king who has now been exiled from this country.
However, I heard that most of them fled abroad during the war, and those who were caught were imprisoned or executed.
“I don’t think that person is still here. Above all, there is no one who knows anything about it.”
“… “What about the person who treated my brother?”
“What?”
Marie explained in a calm voice.
“The doctor who treated Ritsu when he was injured by a bear. My brother said that the teacher was ‘the doctor who treated the king.'”
“Ah.”
“Then, since you must have met the king often, wouldn’t you know the palace well?”
“… That’s right. “You’re right.”
Court doctor.
Why couldn’t I think of that person?
The king’s health was a strict secret that should not be known to the outside world, and therefore the access of the royal doctor was also conducted in secret.
In other words, the ‘court doctor’ was a person who knew the structure and passageways of the royal palace better than anyone else.
If I could just meet that doctor, it wouldn’t be difficult to infiltrate…
The problem was that he was captured by Archduke Piolo a few days ago.
Although his subsequent whereabouts are unknown. What is certain, though, is that unless you kill it, it is somewhere in Deseo.
“Thank you, Marie. Thanks to you, I figured out what to do.”
Marie smiled slightly.
“As soon as the sun rises, let’s go find the doctor.”
