chapter 19
19 – Council of Elders – (5)
The next morning, Lincia looked at me with a worried expression.
“Freed? Your complexion is not good.”
“… … it’s okay.”
I smiled as plainly as I could to reassure her.
But Lynchia put her hands on her sides and fired at them.
“Are you overdoing it too? Overwork is bad.”
“I am okay.”
“I am not okay.”
In fact, this body never got tired. Even if he stayed up all night and made fun of his body, Fried’s body was truly superhuman.
However, Lynchia seemed to have interpreted my stiff expression in a different way. Maybe that’s why I was putting my utmost sincerity all morning, such as brushing my bangs or handing me a glass of water.
“Wait. I will bring you something to drink.”
While Lyncia was away, I caught my breath.
I am in the waiting room in front of the conference hall.
Today’s meeting will begin soon. There was little leeway until the beginning.
“Huh.”
I sat down in my chair and thought again.
Last night, the woman of the church disappeared as if she was melting into the darkness after saying to fulfill the oath.
Ever since I heard the shocking words from the woman, my consciousness has been focused on that direction. The wind must have made it look like her complexion had deteriorated.
I expected it to some extent, but to think that Fried was in the dark. That’s to the point of even contacting the head of the church.
kill lincia That was the work the Church had entrusted to Fried.
Based on that, she said it was an oath. In fact, the moment he saw the necklace, Fried’s consciousness reacted. My heart was beating like it would explode. A cold sweat broke out.
I could intuit myself.
The fact that an oath is something that cannot be followed.
“Damn it.”
see lyncia She turned around and was pouring water into a teacup.
Killing Lyncia? I?
He shook his head. I hope it can’t be
But I understood it in my head. Even in the actual game, Fried fulfills the oath.
‘She definitely said we’re going.’
The women said they would go out on their own.
I don’t know when that time will be, but it’s my mindset that if I don’t kill Lyncia, they’ll take care of it themselves.
can i keep it
He broke through Lautrec’s guards and Rowan’s barrier casually. Even if it was the original Freed, it’s not an enemy that someone like me can deal with.
In fact, as soon as dawn broke, I asked Rowan and Lautrec, and they said there was no intruder. If they didn’t even notice, they said everything.
Above all, if what she said is true, there are rumors that members of the Church have infiltrated this conference hall as well.
My head was pounding.
The magistrate, Milia, Melina, Rowan, and other members of the council, and so on. I put the people in front of my eyes one by one.
There may be Church spies among them.
that it is
If they judged me to reject the oath, they could target Lynthia at any time.
“It’s the worst.”
I sighed and shook my head.
I always feel it, but this world has f*ked up.
*
The meeting on the second day had similar results.
The method of continuously blurring the point was effective. The meeting went to catastrophe without a brake and ended with a fight between Goseong and Goseong.
Watching it still, I was at the level of sighing.
To the point where I wondered if an elementary school class meeting would be more polite than this.
“Whoa.”
In the end, I left the conference room without any income, and Lyncia also looked exhausted.
She sighed and took my hand.
It seems that since I asked him to become a protector of the border, he seems to have lost his hesitation.
I hope you pay more attention to the people around you. look at me Melina is staring at me like she’s going to kill me.
“Sir Fried.”
As we walked down the aisle side by side like that, Rowan started talking to us.
He called me quietly and took out two spell stones from his bosom.
“This!”
“I searched during the meeting. Undoubtedly.”
To be honest, I didn’t expect it, but it was an unexpected harvest.
Rowan, he’s pretty useful, isn’t he?
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> Avoid
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“Five.”
I also got survival points. As the situation was the situation, each survival score was a treasure itself.
Rowan made a meaningful expression.
“Is this the end?”
“Probably not. They’re not going to give up that easily either.”
Edwin Paleread persistently aims for Lyncia throughout the first act.
However, the assassination attempt using the spell stone is blocked like this. If that’s the case, the rest of Edwin’s nervousness will try to kill Lynthia himself.
His ambitions are also thwarted because it is caught by the tail.
But that’s after a few more days. Right now, I’m just trying to work behind the scenes like this.
At my words, Rowan’s shoulders drooped as if the future was bleak.
“Anyway, I will continue the search as it is.”
“please.”
I nodded and was about to leave, but Rowan stopped me.
“Sir Fried, I have a question for you.”
Looking at it again, he spoke quite seriously.
“What does Highness Lyncia mean to Sir Fried?”
“Well?”
“I heard rumors about Sir. Unintentionally.”
I can roughly guess what you’re going to say.
“But the Sir Fried I see now is a righteous knight by all accounts.”
“… … .”
“So I am curious. What the hell did Her Highness Lynchia mean to make Sir Fried such an upright knight?”
I’m just curious Why is the madman so zealously escorting Lyncia? What kind of meaning did the princess have?
Meaning, I fell asleep and was possessed in another world.
Of course you can’t say that.
I shrugged.
“It’s complicated, so to speak.”
Lyncia Ayrn.
The protagonist of Raising the Empress. And the mistress of misfortune with over a hundred deaths.
Perhaps I had a great attachment to this character. Without doing that, would you have been able to hold on to a crude indie game worth 15,000 won for over 500 hours? All because I liked Lyncia’s narrative.
The Empress of Dawn brings a new wave of peace to the empire that has lost everything and gone through great adversity, but does not give up and advances to the end. Perhaps he was drawn to her majestic appearance.
So, since I was possessed, I wanted to lead her to the best happy ending. Of course, it’s also for my personal comfort.
“Well, it has multiple meanings.”
In the end, I had no choice but to gloss over it.
But Rowan looked at my expression and guessed it.
He said looking into the distance.
“There will be many crises. It’s sure to hurt Sir Fried as well. Threats to life will come. Are you okay though?”
“It doesn’t matter.”
After all, if the Empress dies, this world is over.
I don’t even want to imagine what the world would be like if I threw out Lyncia to take care of my body.
I hope it’s game over and won’t come back.
“… … Hmm.”
Rowan was silent for a moment, then murmured softly.
“As expected, I don’t know Sir Fried.”
that’s the same for me too
*
There was no big schedule that afternoon. The meeting ended before noon, so the afternoon was empty.
So, I was just staring out the window, and Lyncia suddenly pulled me over.
“the weather is good. Would you like to take a walk to catch your breath?”
“It is dangerous.”
“Fred will protect you, right?”
It was a bit of a joke.
I actually found the spell stone and avoided the dead end, so there shouldn’t be much danger today.
Even if there was an attack, I didn’t think that I wouldn’t be able to protect her.
However, it might be dangerous, so I thought it would be better to be careful.
“Get out, come on!”
There was no other way to be stubborn like that.
Reluctantly, I followed her outside.
“Wow! It’s my first time here, and it’s well maintained. how about fred? Isn’t it pretty?”
“It’s fine.”
I walked through the garden with her.
I didn’t know because it was late at night when I was there yesterday, but the garden I visited during the day was like a paradise on earth with bright flowers and deep blue skies.
Lynchia walked on the grass, humming a song as if she felt happy about the freedom she hadn’t enjoyed in a long time.
I followed her a few steps behind as she ran excitedly.
“therefore.”
Then, Lyncia suddenly turned around.
“What are you worried about? I will listen.”
“Are you saying that?”
“Who else besides me and Fried?”
Lynchia suddenly came to me and looked up at me.
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Due to the considerable height difference, Lincia had to tilt her neck quite high.
“Tell me please. Just as Fried helped me, I have an obligation to solve Fried’s troubles.”
“Is that why you came out?”
“Absolutely. If it wasn’t for that, I wouldn’t have come to a place like this for nothing.”
Lyncia smiled brightly.
“So, what’s wrong?”
“That is… … .”
I tried to speak, but I didn’t know what to say.
You can’t just say I have to kill you here.
It’s embarrassing.
“There are things I dare not go against, and I want to go against them.”
So I decided to say this.
Lynchia tilted her head, as if my words were ambiguous.
“What does that mean?”
“I do not know.”
“What is that? Weird.”
“I think so too.”
“Are you kidding me?”
“no.”
Saying that, Lyncia puffed out her cheeks slightly. Her face, reddened by the sunlight, and her protruding cheeks stood out.
Seeing that, my heart was relieved. There was a strange power in Lynchia’s face.
I let go of the tension and tightened my expression.
“… … Well?”
Then I saw something shiny.
To be precise, the object rising from the other side of the conference hall.
At first glance, it looked like a bird.
However, it is thin and pointed for a bird.
“ah.”
And as it reached its peak, it slowed down and soon began to point its head down.
The poisonous snake’s head stopped in the air and slowly looked this way.
I realized it only after seeing it there.
It was a blade.
“Avoid!”
In an instant, I hurriedly grabbed Lyncia by the shoulder.
However, the blade flew towards Lynthia at a formidable speed.
There was not enough time to embrace Lyncia.
“Kuk.”
There was no hesitation.
I wrapped my arms around Lincia to protect her.
At the same time, a shrieking sound rang out.
Woowook.
I thought I could hear the sound of a knife being driven into a piece of meat, followed by a tremendous excruciating pain.
Patter. Red flowers bloomed in the meadow.
“… … Whoa. Hoo-wook.”
I breathed rapidly and endured the pain.
The blade went through my hand.
Fortunately among the misfortunes, the blade did not have enough thrust to pierce the thick gauntlet. The blade protruding from the back of my hand couldn’t pierce Lyncia.
Blood seeps through the hole in the hand.
“Freed!”
A quiet silence passed, and Lynthia, who grasped the situation, let out a scream.
The meeting hall was shaken by that sound. A guardsman who was patrolling hurriedly ran this way.
Crying, I clenched my bloody hand and glared at the roof of the meeting room where the blade had come flying.
Through Fried’s enhanced body vision, he confirmed the figure of a person looking down from the rooftop.
It was a man wearing a hood. Half of the body is covered, so it is unclear whether it is a man or a woman. I couldn’t see his face because of the backlight.
But it was clear that he was spinning towards me.
Edwin would not be. He doesn’t do such blatant surprise attacks.
As if to prove this, no system window appeared in front of me that said I had avoided the dead ending.
In fact, there was no such development in the game. There was no dead end like this.
A twisted development due to a variable called the country.
“platform.”
he muttered softly.
It was clear that this surprise attack was the work of the Church.
Last night the woman told me If I don’t act, I’ll take action myself.
“Anyway, I wonder if this is too fast.”
If it starts in less than a day, what are you going to do with me?