ALL NOVEL chapter 6
6 – The Uninvited Guest
“Clara?”
“Yes. Your majesty.”
Princess Clara, who should normally have responded bluntly to her brother and her king, Edwin, put her hands together politely and answered him, probably because it was her official position.
“I have to go out for a while, so please give me a banquet.”
“Yes. Your majesty.”
Clara gave her answer with a smile as if it was a common occurrence.
As Edwin left the banquet hall, he slapped the hero Carlos on the shoulder a couple of times before leaving.
“Are you bringing troops or something like that?”
“Yes. I brought it, but it’s only about the strength of one knight. Your majesty.”
Now, in front of the castle gate, the prince of the Eritre Empire, who stole the fiancée of Edwin’s friend and warrior Kalos, was about to enter the banquet hall.
Reports came in that the royal palace guards, who had received orders in advance, were mobilizing and blocking his entry.
Edwin fully guessed why the crown prince had come here, but
Still, there could be a diplomatic problem, so he went out to the castle gate and tried to send the crown prince back.
“To prepare for an emergency, gather the knights in the outer castle.”
“Yes. Your majesty!”
I don’t know how there was no report while the crown prince crossed the border and entered the capital, but
On the one hand, I had to take into account that the security would be lax when such a large banquet was held like this time.
Maybe it’s fortunate that I didn’t come all the way to the banquet hall…
“Can’t we get out of the way!!? I am the Crown Prince of the Eritre Empire! Open this road right now!!”
“Sorry. Your Highness the Crown Prince. His Majesty the King ordered us not to let you in without an invitation…”
“This… This!! You know who I am!!”
A struggle between the crown prince, who somehow tries to enter the castle gate and go to the banquet hall, and the knights of the palace guard who are tenaciously blocking it…
“What are you doing now!?”
As Edwin approached the castle gate and shouted, the amazed knights and the prince…
Thanks to that, their struggle stopped, and all eyes turned to the king, Edwin.
“Your Majesty! Welcome! I am Chris, the crown prince of the Eritre Empire! I should have sent my letter ahead of time.. How rude is this!?”
“Ha ha ha. I know. Prince Chris, please forgive our knights for their rudeness. It must have been a mistake since such a large banquet is not common like today.”
“Hmm!”
When Edwin took the prince’s side, the prince, who was tidying up his disheveled clothes and clearing his neck, tried to come back in…
“But…”
“??”
“The hero says he doesn’t want to see Prince Chris, so please leave.”
The knights once again blocked the crown prince from entering, and he stopped looking at Edwin’s words with a puzzled face.
“That.. That.. What!!”
“It is exactly what it says. This banquet is for warriors. I am saying this because the hero does not want to be invited by anyone related to the Eritre Empire.”
“What… What!!?”
“Please return to your home country so that there will be no more military clashes.”
As the prince again failed to enter, he showed an uncomfortable feeling towards Edwin.
So Jill Sarah Edwin’s face, which she had been explaining kindly until now, was gradually hardening.
“This is a matter between me and the hero! I don’t think it’s your business to interfere!”
“It’s nothing to meddle with. Before I became the king of this country, I am the best friend of the hero Carlos. So how could I kindly bring in the man who stole her friend’s fiancée?”
“I.. I…!!”
“So please die in the Empire before anything more harsh is said.”
“Do you think I will stay still after all this!!?”
“…..”
When King Edwin, who was praised for his coolness and composure in dealing with his usual work, was unable to hold back his anger unlike his usual appearance, his face was revealed,
Not only the crown prince, but also the knights of the palace guard who were watching, were all surprised.
“What if you don’t stay still? Are you saying you’re going to declare war?”
“Ah.. No.. That is not..”
“Okay. I will directly ask the Emperor of the Empire for the truth about this incident.”
Edwin turned around and headed for the palace, and the crown prince, who made matters even more complicated, tried to enter to catch him, but his knights blocked him.
“Oh.. Misunderstanding! I don’t mean that…. Please tell me!!”
After that, the crown prince did not leave the castle gate and went around asking for the king to be summoned, but
I had to give up and go back when I saw the number of knights and soldiers who gradually flocked from the outer fortress.
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Edwin, who went out for a while, did not return to the banquet hall.
It wasn’t until after the banquet was over that I went back to the royal palace, and it showed up.
“Well, did you happen to be busy?”
“Yes. I went to the castle gate for a while.”
“At the gate?”
For the king to visit the castle gate, not his office…
And while an important banquet is being held…?
I didn’t understand his actions until I heard what Edwin said next.
“Prince Chris came earlier.”
“What!!?”
I stopped what I was doing and looked at Edwin when he said that the prince had come who stole his fiancée, the saint, and no one else.
“Since I went and told him harshly about entering the palace, he won’t be coming for a while.”
“What are you here for?”
“It’s obvious without looking at it. Now that the demon king has reappeared and you, the warrior, are not in the empire… You must have been terrified by the emperor or nobles, right? I hear the 2nd prince and the nobles following him are targeting them at every opportunity…”
“……”
Even while Edwin was talking about the crown prince, the face of the saintess I thought I had forgotten appeared in my mind, and my breathing was getting quicker.
Noticing my condition, Edwin poured whiskey into my empty glass, pushed it forward, and opened his mouth again.
“Okay, let’s forget about your business and think about ours. Is not it?”
“Yes.”
Edwin tried to change the subject so that I wouldn’t have any anxiety symptoms, and my symptoms were slowly getting better.
“You must have officially revealed yourself today. Should we recruit party members now?”
“Party member?”
“Yes. Although there are some people who have seen it…”
“I don’t need it.”
If you are a warrior,
Of course, we need a party of warriors to fight together.
Alone can fight monsters and low-level demons belonging to the existing demon army, but
The importance of the party was becoming more and more emphasized when the Four Heavenly Kings, the direct subordinates of the demon king, appeared and went further to fight the demon king.
Edwin was taken aback when I said that I didn’t need a party.
“Hey.. What do you mean… no matter how much that happened in the past, a party is like a lifeline to you… You are going to fight alone without a party?”
“Yes. I can fight alone enough.”
“Don’t be reckless. How are you going to fight without a party supporter?”
“It’s not the first time I’ve defeated the demon lord, and since I have experience, I can defeat it.”
I know it’s impossible.
Because I’m not an omnipotent god, and I can’t deal with the Demon King, the Four Heavenly Kings, and that many Demon Kings alone…
“Stop talking nonsense, look at the documents here.”
“This is…”
Edwin spread hundreds of application forms for the warriors’ party on the table, and on each of them, basic profiles and career details of the people who wanted to join the party were written on them.
“These are the applications that have been sent to the palace since the announcement that the hero will return.”
Looking at the application forms on the table one by one, there were profiles of people who applied from various races and countries.
Most of the applications were from children of prestigious families who knew how to handle swords or magic, but few applied because they had real skills or experience.
“Among these, here are some of them.”
Edwin handed me an application he had selected in advance, and unlike other applications, the names of really famous people were written on it.
“A saint?”
“Yes. The saintess you know isn’t because she’s retired, but in the meantime, she picked a new saintess from before, so I thought it wouldn’t matter, so I put it in.”
A saint is an indispensable and important presence in a warrior’s party,
Although treatment and recovery are the main purposes, it was necessary because it often plays an important role in purifying monsters or miasma in dungeons.
But…
I didn’t hold that application for long…
Maybe it was because she was afraid that when she was traveling with her, she would think of her ex.
And…
I also saw a familiar name written on the application form…
“……”
“Why? Carlos?”
As I froze with my application in hand, Edwin took it and began to read it.
“Who… Ha… Why is this application here? It’s because I left it out earlier.”
The name written on the application is none other than Illuen…
It was an application form for Iluen, an elf who was in charge of ranged attacks, patrols, and explorations of the former warrior party.
“Seriously, being an elf is shameless.. Shameless..”
Giik
Giik
Edwin tore up Iluen’s application form and checked my condition.
“Never mind. I would have sent an application out of my mind. Wouldn’t he have sent an application again to the hero he abandoned?”
If it’s Iluen…
Enough of that and still have it.
Because if he wants something, he’ll try to get it, whether it’s selling his body or doing some crazy thing…