A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius

26 – Uninvited Guest (4)

There is room for interpretation as to why the enemy came, but you can infer to some extent by looking at what they do.

“I came here to protest and ask you to give me money.”

“Is that so…?”

“Yes, mother.”

I leisurely cut meat while watching the two masters arguing over the 50m high castle wall.

[Do you know the evil deeds you have committed!]

[This happened on the land of the empire.]

[You have come to the empire!!]

[The red wilderness must be the third zone.]

The sound coming from the projection box is a conversation between two masters.

[Then you have to clean up what you cut!!]

[If it had rolled towards the Empire, the Empire should have dealt with it.]

[aaah! You, a lump of blood! Come down now! I’ll fix your really messy hair today!!]

[The old man talks a lot.]

“Huh…!”

At that moment, I couldn’t help but laugh at my father’s irritated words.

“Grey.”

“Oh, sorry.”

I thought the same thing, so I thought my father felt the same way.

“From what you say, I don’t think you need to worry. They will leave in the morning.”

“Morning…?”

“Yes. I came here to dispose of the orcs’ bodies and curse before returning.”

It’s a bit surprising that the Marquis of Claydoll came in person, but it’s not that strange if he steps forward as a counterattack to his father.

Because he can buy enough time for the 5,000 soldiers to retreat safely against my father.

“Deacon, please turn off the sound from the projection box. My father will ignore Marquis Claydoll anyway, so it hurts my ears to keep hearing the enemies’ noise.”

“Do, Master…?”

Manipulation of the projection seat is the responsibility of the deacon, so I cannot do it carelessly ‘now’.

“Grey. But shouldn’t you leave the sound on?”

In a low voice, my mother pointed to the battlefield illuminated by the projection stone.

“All I can hear is the old man over there yelling and the soldiers swearing about the kingdom.”

“Still.”

“Okay. Just let me cover my ears.”

White noise is not a bad thing.

“Lord Mente?”

“Yes.”

“I’m on watch and if anything happens, please wake me up.”

“What’s with the night watch? Why don’t you sleep?”

Sir Mente smiled bitterly and glanced at the other knights.

I’m not saying you’ll notice it, it’s just a gesture that comes out instinctively due to a self-deprecating situation.

A person from another family, Morgania, comes here because he heard his father’s orders?

If Sir Mente had been as big as the Marquis of Claydoll, or at least as physique as Robert, the knights here would have been very wary.

But look.

The knights of the family are not conscious of Sir Mente at all.

Some of it is because Sir Mente is not wearing a sword, but it seems that no matter what Sir Mente does, he can be suppressed right away.

Because there is an order from my father?

No.

It was just looked down on.

Because she was a small girl, she was ignored.

But we can’t argue about that now.

“Lord Mente. If you need to be on guard, would you please shift with me?”

“Kyung-eun….”

“This is Robert, your escort.”

“No, I don’t need it.”

“No. Because I need it. I need some sleep too, right? Right, master?”

Is Robert the only one who cares about Lord Mente?

After all, people are good.

“That’s right, Sir Mente. You can take turns with Sir Robert later. Or you can sleep first.”

“…Thank you for your consideration.”

Sir Mente breaks his stubbornness.

No matter what happens later, if Lord Mente comes forward, we can respond to some extent.

‘What if a master-level talent doesn’t come?’

It is a kind of natural disaster and a situation I cannot respond to, so there is nothing I can do about it.

If that happens, I have no choice but to hold on until my father comes.

“Then let us sleep in peace, right?”

“Now, you’re going to sleep?”

“Okay, little brother. Good children have to go to bed early and wake up early.”

I put the empty bowl aside, rinsed my mouth, then leaned back on the sofa and closed my eyes.

“Don’t worry adults, kids should just sleep. That’s helping adults.”

“…….”

No matter what the surroundings say, close your eyes and focus on the mana in the meat, vegetables, and sauce.

‘Extortion.’

Although the amount of mana in the entire bowl was less than a pinch of salt, even that mana was condensed so that it could not be released carelessly from the body.

“Grey…? Seriously, are you really sleeping?”

“…….”

It’s done to absorb mana, but there’s no major problem if you fall asleep like this.

Lord Mente and Robert are here, and not only those two but also many other knights.

And above all, this mansion is not an ordinary mansion.

‘In accordance with the covenant with Nostrum, I command in the name of Gibraltar.’

Wow.

As a result of confirmation, it works properly.

‘If it weren’t for this, my father wouldn’t have been able to leave with peace of mind.’

Like the magic barrier at the gateway, a magic circle is installed inside the mansion.

A magic barrier that only the bloodline of Gibraltar can activate.

My father taught me how to activate this barrier with an attribute and left.

If it weren’t for that, the person standing on the wall right now wouldn’t have been me, not my father.

“…….”

“It looks like Gray is sleeping. … After watching for about an hour, if there is no change after that, I will put the kids to sleep.”

The mother gave instructions to the knights and gasols and operated the projection system.

“Malcolm, please turn off the sound and lower the brightness as much as possible.”

“Yes, ma’am.”

Weeeing.

The light of the magic stone shining above my eyelids faded, and I was able to focus more deeply on mana.

‘I hope I grow up quickly.’

There is a war going on, and there is a lot of work to do.

“…….”

There is a limit to what a 10-year-old child can endure with his mental strength.

If so.

‘It’s better to go to bed early and wake up early in the morning if something happens.’

I closed my eyes without resisting the rush of sleep.

‘This is good.’

Since the body is that of a child, there is no major problem even if it falls asleep right after eating.

* * *

I dream.

It is very difficult to realize that it is a dream in a dream, but it is something I am quite familiar with.

‘It’s been a long time.’

A new place, not Gibraltar.

The men and women gathered in the banquet hall, which is as spacious as the royal castle, are all young.

Correction.

Young.

It is full of people who are 17 to 19 years old before they turn 20 – just before they become adults.

Although there are differences between men and women, the characteristic feature is that they all wear the same clothes.

‘It’s a familiar uniform.’

White shirt and black coat.

Different colors for each person.

The colors of the patterns used as accents for status and title are different, so you can tell at a glance who has what status.

‘Seeing it again, it feels like hell.’

What kind of guy’s idea is this?

They say anyone can learn, but they also allow commoners to enroll and make everyone wear a uniform without discrimination –

The person who actually divided social status by color was.

‘He is an incompetent king.’

A unique feature that no other academy can see.

The evil that the incompetent king inflicted on the academy built in the royal capital to achieve harmony with the kingdom was indescribable.

The academy itself was already a plan of division created by the empire in the name of education, but the actions of the incompetent king accelerated that.

A fight for rank between nobles and nobles.

Political factions unfold even before adulthood.

Hostility and strife between nobles and commoners.

Meanwhile, I spent three hellish days here.

“It’s Gray Gibraltar, right?”

I wasn’t hit.

There is no crazy person who would use violence against the Margrave’s eldest son.

“For the glorious sword of the kingdom that will suffer in the canyon for us. hehehehe.”

If there was one factor that made me feel like hell, it was the prejudice they had.

-Gibraltar will be a sword for the entire kingdom for generations to come.

They forced good intentions on me.

Loyalty to the royal family.

Service to the Kingdom.

By sacrificing blood and life, they forced us to endure and overcome any insult.

‘Disgusting people.’

When Gibraltar was bleeding, they were sweating in the bathroom.

As they rolled on the dirt floor littered with corpses, they were rolling on a bed made of gold and silver treasures.

Gibraltar remained loyal to the kingdom for 500 years.

In a way, his father’s decision to rebel was not in order to cut off the legacy of that history from his generation.

So, I was always grateful to my father for that.

Although they became a family of traitors.

In the sense that he burned the thorn-studded laurel wreath from his pedestal and ensured that it could no longer be inherited by his children and descendants.

A knight who will sacrifice his life for us someday.

A lineage that always sacrifices everything for the kingdom.

A being who must give birth to a watchdog that will bark and bite at the empire –

“This, this. Isn’t he the master from ‘The Count’?”

“Ha, damn it.”

I stayed still because I thought it was a lucid dream, but it seems like I woke up from a nightmare.

“Marquis Roland of Fellwood.”

“What? hahahaha! You’re calling me Marquis. What’s wrong with your head?”

“I’m sorry. Since I couldn’t do that and died, I have no choice but to call you that even in my dreams.”

“Ha, hahahaha…what nonsense.”

Felwood Roland, a young man in an academy uniform with blond hair and slicked-back hair.

Although he looked like a gisaeng brother, he was more noble than anyone else.

He was the eldest son of the prestigious Marquess Roland and was the same age as me, but our futures were different.

“The knight of ruin can only see a bright future ahead of him.”

“A ruined country? Well, the kingdom might look like that! But I am different from you. I believe that this country will change!”

This Fellwood is a human from my memories when I was a student at the Academy.

“Long live Nostrum! The 500-year dynasty will continue for 10,000,000 years! hahahahaha!”

Because I said that at the time, no matter what I say now, I am a person who dismisses it as nonsense and only says what I say.

“I will become the marquis, and you will become the count! You will become the two-headed chariot that will lead the kingdom forward!”

“Marquis is a marquess.”

“Well, really? Wasn’t the Margrave a count?!”

“…That’s what Nostrum is like now.”

Whatever you say, this place is a dream.

I thought the first day back in the past was a dream, but Fellwood in front of me proves that this is a dream.

“You’re dead. I was going to rescue my younger brother who was taken hostage.”

“…….”

“As the leader of the ‘Conquistadors’, a group of ghost knights for the resurrection of the fallen kingdom, he charged towards the emperor and was killed by the emperor.”

Because this man died in the future.

“Still, I’m grateful that you showed up even in my dreams. Lately, I’ve been wanting to catch up with someone and talk about what happened later.”

“……hahahahaha!!”

“Why are you smiling so much? Are you telling me you’re going to die?”

“Isn’t that death truly a glorious death?”

Fellwood’s expression did not change at all, and instead he smiled brightly, raising the glass filled with orange juice high.

“The fact that my loyalty does not change even in the future you saw is proof that the path I am walking is the right one!”

“I can’t communicate.”

At that moment, I felt a sense of déjà vu.

Actually, I think the time I returned to the past was not when I was 10 years old, but when I was in my first year at the academy.

“Then, I ask you this. Are you going to side with the empire and sell out your country in this life too?”

The dream world, perhaps my self-consciousness, is asking through Felwood’s mouth.

“If there is something you want, it would be easiest to be on the emperor’s side, right?”

“That’s right.”

“Then I am the enemy.”

“It is true that Sir Roland is difficult to deal with, but that does not mean that he cannot be dealt with.”

“hahahahaha! Then….”

Felwood points his glass in the direction of the hall.

“Does she plan to confront her too?”

“……..”

Jeopuk, Jeopuk.

She comes down the red carpeted stairs in the center of her hall.

“Ah.”

Wow.

I thought I had become conscious, but before I knew it, I was standing in front of the princess.

“Princess?”

“Grey.”

The princess calls me.

“It’s only a dream, but I think you know.”

“…I somehow thought Felwood would say hello first.”

“Yes.”

The princess nodded her head towards me without any expression.

“Princess. Are you the princess created by my consciousness?”

“Yes.”

“So you’re saying it’s a dangerous situation now?”

“Yes.”

“…Then, yes. Thank you so much. Really.”

I pulled the princess’s hand and kissed the back of her hand.

“But since we met like this, I should say hello, right? Princess.”

“Grey.”

The princess lifted her hand from her kiss and cupped my chin.

“Be careful.”

Then she lowered her head, brought her face closer to me, and whispered.

“…Because.”

I couldn’t hear what she said.

* * *

“…….”

It’s quiet.

As soon as I opened my eyes, the ceiling I saw was my father’s study.

“…….”

Look around.

The mother is sleeping with Lettar in her arms, and several knights are standing watch behind her.

A few of the maids who were on watch duty with me were dozing off, and I quickly scanned the surroundings.

“…Lord Mente?”

“Are you awake?”

Sir Mente, who was standing next to me and looking at the extremely quiet projector, greeted me in a quiet voice.

“Sleep a little more. It’s 4 a.M.”

“4 O’clock….”

“The battlefield is the same. Equator, Haam. It’s been the same for 8 hours.”

The battlefield illuminated by the projector is extremely quiet.

My father continues to stand on the wall, and the soldiers aiming their cannons at the gate just stand still.

“…….”

And, there is none.

“Where did Noir go?”

Noir.

“Ah. Noir? I went to the bathroom with the butler and a driver.”

“…….”

There is no bathroom in the study.

And there is no deacon Malcolm.

“……Haaa.”

Noir, damn you.

‘Damn.’

If I had been awake, I would have just told him to put it in a bucket or something.

Then, what about the article that followed?

“Who followed you? Do you know who it is?”

“Remember me as Lord Balak.”

“Hmm….”

Sir Balak is at ease.

Although he is not as good as Robert, he is also skilled in his own way –

‘Why such a sh*t dream.’

Was I too worried?

‘I feel even more uncomfortable because Felwood appears.’

Did the trauma caused by the emperor’s actions manifest into a nightmare?

Or-

Gugugugu ㅡㅡ

The sound of urgent footsteps.

Kwa-euang!

The door opens roughly.

“Help, help…!”

Malcolm, the owner of the house, came in with blood on his head.

“Noir-“

Slurp.

After saying those words, I collapsed.

At the same time, red blood began to form a puddle beneath him.

“aaa!!”

The maid’s screams ring like alarm bells and the familiar smell stings your nose.

Through the open door, a pungent yet faint smell, along with the smell of blood, seeps into the lungs.

“Ha.”

It is fortunate among misfortunes.

‘Because it’s not the worst I thought.’

At least it wasn’t an accident caused by our teammate.

Worst – Correction. A better situation than the lesser evil.

“In the name of Gibraltar.”

I checked the knife I had in my pocket.

“The mansion is sealed.”

Excited.

My heart is pounding.

The magic circle inside the mansion recognizes the blood flowing through this body, and a barrier is immediately activated.

“This, this….”

“What are you doing, knights?”

I immediately gave instructions to the dumb knights.

“If you don’t want to die, immediately find the bastard who attacked my brother. Hurry!”