chapter 34
34 – Underground ticket – (1)
“Look over there. It’s the National Guard.”
“Ah~ that mad dog, Fried? Didn’t he say he was put on probation for violating a lady-in-waiting? It seems that the empire is on the wane. Such a playboy becomes a border guard.”
“It sure looks scary. But if you look closely, it looks a bit handsome, right?”
“They say they conquered Milia. That too in an instant.”
“It’s ‘hurl’, right?”
chin chin.
I didn’t even want to get angry anymore, so I just ignored it and walked away. In a short while, another dishonorable adjective was added. Have you conquered Millia now, me?
Rumors began to circulate that words without footing could go a long way, and that I was enslaving all the women around me within the imperial palace. It seems that the story has finally spread outside the imperial palace.
I’m going crazy because it’s unfair. To conquer, what to conquer? He was on probation, and he was almost locked up in the guards quarters!
“You were a real asshole, you.”
muttered to himself
This is why people’s daily behavior is important.
Lyncia also repeated running away with the face of a ghost whenever she saw me during the probation period, as if she had completely lost her temper. Of course, swordsmanship lessons were also cancelled. I was going crazy and jumping, but there was no way to clear up the misunderstanding.
So, half-confined, with nothing to do, he wrote in black all the time, and now there were movable types flying in front of his eyes. Did you feel that the foreign language was more like your mother tongue than Korean?
[ Act 2 – Rat Hole ]
> D – 7
But it wasn’t all bad.
Because it gave me time to organize my thoughts.
It’s time to draw a future drawing based on the various events in the first act.
“For the moment, the Church intervenes unconditionally in the second act.”
Even in the game, that was confirmed.
However, there were many gaps to move forward based on the information of the original work. Pushing forward with clumsy knowledge had to pay a painful price just a few weeks ago.
If so, it is right to use the original development as a reference. Instead, we need to take advantage of the current lull and move faster than anyone else.
There is a possibility that the development of the country has gone wrong due to impurities in the second act.
Reminds me of Arwen. The dog-like situation in which the 4th act boss appears in the 1st act is an extreme specification.
If so, hit the player. I decided to act first.
First step to do that.
The place we headed to was the Royal Guard’s quarters.
rattle.
As soon as I opened the door, the knights raised their faces and looked at me. Then, with a nod of his head, he opened his eyes again. I don’t even want to get entangled.
“Yes, yes. I don’t mean to be a jerk, so take a look.”
After a casual greeting, I went up the stairs and turned the corner. Then a small door at the end of the hallway catches my eye.
I slowly approached and raised my hand to knock.
profit.
“Oh.”
However, the door suddenly opened, and blue eyes peeked out through the narrow gap.
“Sir Fried?”
“Uh, Millia. How did you know?”
“Your footsteps are different.”
After all, I don’t think it’s a knight, so I have a good feeling.
Millia pulled out her head, checked both ends of the hallway, and spoke in a hesitant manner.
“Come in at once.”
“yes?”
“You never know who might see it. It’s embarrassing.”
Millia hurriedly reached out, grabbed my arm, and pulled me tight. I was dragged into the room as it is because I have considerable physical strength for a woman.
The room is small but has everything you need. The inside seemed to have a slightly sweet scent.
After looking around the room for a while, I saw Milia. He was wearing wide-leg pants and a cloth shirt that exposed the nape of his neck. Obviously, everything was covered, but because of Millia’s strong chest, there was nowhere to look.
In the end, I lowered my head and looked only at the top of Milia’s neck.
“Aren’t you sleeping lately?”
“…is it obvious?”
“Uh. Dark circles aren’t the word.”
Milia was a living corpse, like someone who hadn’t slept in days. This is enough to jump rope with dark circles.
“Did something happen?”
“There’s something like that. It’s nothing to worry about.”
Millia smiled bitterly and leaned against the table.
Miria nodded through the flickering candlelight. There were two small round chairs.
I sat quietly. Millia took out a teacup from a drawer and poured out warm water. As she calmly accepted and sipped, Miria sat across from her and asked,
“So, what business are you?”
“Um. That’s…”
what should i say
Hesitantly, I looked out the window. The sun was already about to set.
Now, when Lincia was paying less attention to me, was an opportunity. If the second act begins, there will be no time to stay by her side. Then we had to move quickly.
I held Millia’s hand and said straight forward.
“I want you to hang out with me tonight.”
“……What, what?”
After a moment of silence, Milia asked with a pale face.
Before long, her face turned red like a carrot… … .
“No no, it doesn’t mean what you think.”
I waved my hand.
At those words, Millia calmed her trembling shoulders and frowned.
“I have somewhere to go. It might be dangerous.”
“……Where is it?”
Worst place for a date.
“Groundwater. Commonly referred to as a gutter.”
Act 2, rat hole.
This is where the backstage is.
*
When night fell, the lights came on in an instant. Take in the scenery of the imperial palace with soft lights shining down under the starry night sky. The appearance of the capital unfolding after that is so beautiful that awe rises from a corner of the heart.
“Nice.”
Night view is crazy.
As I was breathing in the cold night air, Milia jumped down.
Only then did I turn around and head towards my destination.
“Are you here?”
“I think so.”
What you see in front of you is an open tunnel.
A hill overlooking the capital of the empire at a glance, behind it is Songsudo. An aqueduct that has been around since ancient times, but is no longer in use.
However, the passageway that stretches underground is so sprawling that you can go anywhere in the capital.
It’s probably a secret that only a very few of the people of the Empire know about. Those who know the map of the underground canal are even rarer.
“Incredible.”
Milia looked at the entrance and exclaimed.
“I didn’t know there was an aqueduct in a place like this. How did Sir Fried know?”
“Well.”
Actually I don’t know either.
In Raising the Empress, there was virtually no need to walk around the city except for the prelude. In the first place, it wasn’t a game that directly moved the character.
I didn’t know the way, so I borrowed a map of the capital from the administrator. However, since it was a map a long time ago, half of it relied on intuition. Still, it seems to have come along pretty well.
It must be because it matches the CG in the game exactly.
I tapped the wall in front of me.
There is a hollow sound and the noise echoes.
“So why are you here?”
“I have something to say to my friends who live here.”
At my words, Milia opened her mouth and looked at the canal.
“Do people live in places like this?”
“I live, but it’s poor.”
It is mainly inhabited by beggars and criminals.
The Lair of Discord.
Since it was a shadowy place, people who turned their backs on society often gathered there.
There was an order of their own in the underground waterway. The Order broke the order and seized the feet of the Empire.
Right before the second act begins, a bloody wind will blow here. I came out to investigate and look at the situation. In case a battle could break out, he chose Milia as an escort.
I slowly put my foot out into the waterway. When I took out the lantern and shined it, only a black cavity came into view. Millia hurriedly followed me.
“Here Sir Fried.”
“Why.”
“I have a question.”
Millia was silent for a moment, then continued with a slightly hoarse voice.
“Why me? There are many other articles.”
“You are the only Guardian Knight.”
“And Sir Lautrec?”
Lautrec… … something is a bit awkward
After watching the corrupted figure in the 5th act, I was reluctant to get close to him. Lautrec himself doesn’t seem to like me too much.
On the other hand, Milia didn’t seem to hate me even though she was reluctant to me. He is naive, listens well to words, and has excellent fighting skills. That’s the best long term.
Seeing this, I’m so trash.
“Sir Fried?”
Millia seemed to be having a bit of a bad idea when I didn’t answer.
hastily made excuses.
“You gave your life to protect everyone from Arwen. That’s why you can trust me more than anyone else.”
“…”
“That’s why. Anyway, let’s go.”
“Yes.”
Millia’s voice at the end answered slightly excitedly.
Anyway, I don’t think it’s too easy.
After going a little further, we came to a fork in the road. A sharp wooden fence had been erected on one side, and a small bonfire was burning brightly.
It also seems to have come to the right place.
But the human figure was nowhere to be seen. It seemed certain that there were people here not too long ago.
Thinking about it, I raised my foot and knocked over the wooden fence. A tremendous roar echoed through the canal as the structure, which seemed to be a good two meters tall, collapsed.
“f*k!”
“Hey, you bastard! What are you doing!”
Then it is.
Several men dressed in rags who had been hiding in the dark rushed out. Everyone was holding a tool in each hand.
Milia hurriedly took a stance, but I raised my hand to stop her.
“You ignorant bastard! Knock!”
Among them, the one who seemed to be the leader swung the hammer in his hand into the air while shouting loudly. Every time there was a boom and a threatening sound.
I touched it as much as I could see anywhere.
“So, who’s hiding? If a guest comes, I’ll have to jump right out.”
“Such an unlearned child!”
Now I hear that even beggars are ignorant.
I took one big step.
“Get out of here if you don’t want to be treated badly!”
The man hurriedly swung the hammer, but it didn’t stop.
Anyway, even if I hit it 100 times with that tool, there won’t be any big scars on this body. It was because of that conviction that he acted.
“Okay. Where do you guys belong to? Thieves’ guild? Amphitheater? Or smugglers?”
“What, what! You bastard, what is your true identity!”
I listed the names that came to mind from the game.
Then the man panicked and stepped back. Sweat is dripping down your forehead. Well, I thought it was just an ordinary person who had heard the wrong way, but it was embarrassing to see them so quickly.
“No, what happened?”
I bent down and grabbed a stone.
Ah, this cool feeling.
I got into a stance and swung my arms.
Of course, the power was regulated.
swish
fast.
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Didn’t fit However, right under the man’s feet was dug more than a span, and stone fragments bounced here and there.
“Hee, hee!”
A man tearing his butt in shock.
I stomped on the floor between his crotches and threatened.
“I won’t say much. Guide me to the mouse king.”
He twisted his stomped feet.
The man was terrified and couldn’t even breathe.
“If you don’t want to get your balls killed.”
mouse king.
The head of the Underground Waterway and a person with considerable influence in the criminal world of the Empire.
However, in the second act, an unfortunate extra who is killed by the cult.
I needed to meet him.