167. Dark Core (2)

Lewis gave a blank expression at the roar he heard. It felt as if someone had forcibly pulled him out of the deep water and pulled him ashore. Louis just stared blankly at the door, not knowing whether he should open the carriage door and go out to see what was going on, or whether he should remain quietly in the carriage.

“You bastard come in saying where is this place!”

“Stop! There are only two opponents!”

two guys?

Lewis froze in embarrassment. Outside the opaque window, only the outlines of human figures could be seen. As Louis drew closer to the door, there was another roar, and then a black shadow flew in and crashed into the door of the wagon Louis was about to approach.

puck!

With the sound of something being crushed, a dark liquid splashed onto the windows of the opaque carriage. There was what appeared to be pieces of meat dripping through the liquid, but Lewis had no time to care about it. Whatever was happening, this was an opportunity for Lewis. Louis’s fighting spirit revived little by little, as if he had poked a poker into a burnt-out fireplace. I tried to move my arms, which were still handcuffed behind my back, but it only hindered rather than helped. Louis tutted and clicked his tongue.

‘The handcuffs don’t matter. Getting out first… .’

Louis changed his posture, leaned back on the other side of the carriage, and stretched his feet toward the door. After taking a deep breath, Lewis threw himself forward and kicked the door open.

thud!

“Ugh-!”

I thought it was kicked pretty hard, but the door broke and didn’t open as expected. It seemed that the lock had been secured. In the meantime, only the sound of dozens of people entangled in a fight could be heard from outside the carriage. The sound of screams and metal clashing. It seemed that those who attacked this group were fighting hard.

‘one more time… !’

Louis slumped over the seat of the wagon. The moment you bend your knees and aim your feet at the door,

“Kuuk!”

The noise echoed for a while as if it had reached a climax, then stopped suddenly with the sound of someone’s throat being cut. Louis, who tried to stretch his foot forward, froze in that position. I could feel the presence of the carriage approaching. Lewis changed his posture and stood up. Thinking that if the approaching guy were Leon Benning’s soldiers, he would kick them right in the face.

“majesty!”

It was at the same time that the door opened and Louis’ foot extended forward. However, the kick did not produce any noticeable results and was caught in the hand of the person who opened the door. Luis looked at the face of the man holding his feet and opened his eyes wide like a lantern.

“Dennis… ?”

He was handsome, but somehow had a playful face there. Behind Dennis, Charlotte, her hair pulled back together, was frowning as she looked down at the aftermath of the battle. I was poking my knife over the corpse to see if anyone was alive, but I mercilessly struck the sword at the person who flinched and trembled while disguising as a corpse.

“How is this… No, what about Michelle? What about that child, why are you guys here now?”

In response to Louis’ question pouring in like a rapid-fire cannon, Dennis raised his hands to calm down first.

“First, calm down. 1 Her Highness is safe and sound. Now I am protected by the branch manager and adventurers of the adventurers guild.”

Louis sat down on the floor of the wagon, feeling the tension in his shrunken body loosen at once. The relief from Michelle’s news was greater than I thought.

“Yeah, that’s right. Did you guys come all the way here alone?”

“Me and Charlotte have separated from the main unit to rescue Her Highness separately. I’ll answer any questions later, so for now, get to a safe place. I will see you.”

Louis, who was very concerned about the word ‘main unit’, but did not question Dennis’ power to pull him out of the carriage by half force, and quietly stepped on the ground.

“Handcuffs… These guys who can’t even eat enough… ! Your Highness, are you sick anywhere?”

Dennis contorted his face as he looked at the handcuffs that bound Louis. Louis was happy to see such a thing again, but he couldn’t bear to show it like that and just shrugged his shoulders.

“does not exist. I want you to release this first.”

“Yes, then.”

Dennis slammed the knife into the handcuffs without hesitation. Lewis’s wrist broke free with a light sound that could not be believed to have been cut. Louis, still fiddling with the shackles rattling around his wrists, gazed at the landscape beyond Dennis and Charlotte. Numerous corpses were strewn across the bloody streets of the palace. Louis looked at Dennis with a half bitter expression, half relieved.

“Let’s go, Your Highness. Soon, the chasing party sent by Leon Benning will arrive here.”

Louis was dragged half way by Dennis’s guiding hand and started walking. Charlotte remained vigilant until the end, and hurriedly followed the two men in the lead.

“Did you think the two of you ran all the way here through so many troops?”

“I got help. If it was just the two of us, we wouldn’t have been able to come this far.”

“How and why did you come here? No matter how helpful they were, this place is like being in the mouth of a demonic beast with its mouth wide open.”

Dennis shrugged as he walked away. Lewis stuck out his tongue at the sight of him not losing his composure even though it was as if he had stepped into the clutches of Leon Benning.

“If most of the fangs stuck in the jaws of that monster fell out, wouldn’t it be worth stepping in and seeing?”

Lewis blinked at the unexpected answer. Dennis raised the corner of his mouth playfully.

“Someone came up with such a crazy plan. Let’s throw the elite into the palace and strike the enemy’s head while the Margrave enters the royal capital and holds Leon Benning’s forces.”

Louis tried to find out who had made such a crazy proposal, but when he suddenly remembered a person, he smiled bitterly and shut his mouth.

“Right. So you… .”

Lewis didn’t ask anymore. At that time, Charlotte shouted sharply in an urgent voice.

“-Dennis!”

Dennis also pulled out his sword in a cold sweat, probably feeling what Charlotte sensed. Louis didn’t notice anything wrong, but soon felt a sense of life getting closer and stopped. Somehow, he could figure out who the owner of the killing spree was getting closer. Dennis stood in the way of Lewis, who was staring blankly at his stepbrother approaching.

“Your Highness, please do not leave my side.”

Mana was spinning vigorously in Dennis’ body, creating speculation. Charlotte moved closer to Dennis, drew his sword, and faced the oncoming enemy.

“… If it is necessary, take Your Highness and get out of here.”

In a low, serious voice that was not typical of him, Dennis asked Charlotte. Charlotte was moaning, not knowing how to respond to Dennis’ words. Her concerns were dismissed by Louis without a chance to last long.

“That won’t happen.”

“… majesty.”

When Dennis called Louis with a scolding frown, Louis shook his head resolutely.

“Me and Kyle have things to face. We lived with a wall between us, not even thinking about listening to each other.”

Lewis spoke calmly.

“So you’re saying you’re going to talk now? With Your Highness’s life at stake?”

Louis nodded, and Dennis shook his head in amazement.

“You know that it’s impossible for just the two of us, Sir Charlotte, to get out of this palace and safely reach Michelle. Pretending to listen to the stubbornness of the foolish first prince. And,”

A certain light flashed in Lewis’ eyes. Overwhelmed by those eyes, Dennis couldn’t help but stare blankly at Louis’ expression.

“No matter what I say or do from now on, I just want you to stay still and not interfere.”

“If Your Highness commands it, I will, but I don’t know how long I will keep Your Highness’s command in a situation where Your Highness’s life is in danger.”

“That is enough.”

Dennis sighed. At that time, I heard someone’s cry from afar.

“You run away well, brother!”

Whatever happened, it was the second prince whose voice was completely damaged. As if he didn’t get tired of it, the search for his older brother with bloodshot eyes was still the same even after he removed his father. Dennis glanced at Louis’ profile. 1 The prince will not run away anywhere now.

Kyle Loire rode his horse and arrived in front of Louis. After that, Kyle’s knights formed a formation side by side, spewing terrifying blood. Dennis and Charlotte raised their fighting spirit and faced the momentum. Louis looked up at Kyle’s face. It was hard to see her face with her back to the sun, but it was clear that she was trembling uneasy somewhere.

“Because you were stupid like someone who gave up on living, I thought you would be captured and die without any hesitation. Foolishly.”

Saying that, Kyle jumped off his horse. A heavy black fur cloak, draped arrogantly over his shoulders, fluttered together. It looked like his hair was covered in hair and snow was all over the place because he had been riding his horse vigorously. Even so, those blue eyes were shining without losing their essence. No, it wasn’t a concentration, it was close to madness now.

The king’s two sons looked at each other in the flurry of snow. Dennis and Charlotte were very nervous in preparation for an armed conflict at any moment, but Kyle raised his hand and stopped the men from approaching further.

“Your subordinates often break through the castle, brother. I don’t know when Michelle sister had such outstanding people under her command.”

Lewis didn’t listen to Kyle. However, he only spat out words in a bitter voice while looking at the eyes that were caught in the madness and obsession.

“I thought it would be nice if you could meet face to face and talk before you stray further.”

“What nonsense are you talking about all of a sudden, brother? You say it as if I’d come all the way here and focus all my energy on a conversation with you.”

Louis said in a cold voice to Kyle, who smiled and put his hand on his waist.

“You have always been that way.”

“… ?”

Kyle hardened his expression at the sudden lowering of Louis’ voice. He seemed to have forgotten what situation he was in now. No, maybe because I know better, I can come out with that attitude.

“I have always had pity for you. I tried to talk again, and every time you rejected me, I tried to forget your rudeness and try to talk to you again. And yet,”

Kyle’s expression slowly distorted as Lewis said. Lewis continued with a nonchalant attitude.

“You locked the bar on your heart until the end and refused to talk to me. It was fine though. Because I knew that I started by committing a big sin against you just by existing. So, Your Majesty… It must have been that Obama also waited for you without giving me the position of crown prince.”

Kyle raised a twisted smile. His face was so rotten that he couldn’t believe he was talking about his father he had killed.

“You have no idea that your indecisiveness has angered you.”

father’s death. Louis didn’t feel particularly sorry for him, but hearing Kyle’s words made him angry.

“Being obsessed with emotion deserves criticism. But you, who have been given opportunities many times because of that kindness, shouldn’t you say that… .”

“I hate that.”

Kyle made an angry expression.

“Looking at me with pity for the subject I should have lived my whole life deceiving others, for taking everything from me, always trying to leave such admonitions as if I was better.”

“Don’t blame me for your pettiness. Because it’s ugly to see and hear. In the first place, I was never nominated as the Crown Prince, and I do not remember having yours taken by force. If you had been honest and diligent, how could there have been no other opportunity?”

Lewis added as if he couldn’t lose. Kyle let out a laugh as if it were absurd.

“You talk well. Look at the fodder now. About the fact that the life depended on the brother you had so much pity for.”

“If you’re that confident, come and take my life yourself.”

Louis wore the sword of a knight who had fallen near the wagon around his waist. He grabbed the hilt of the sword, pulled it out, and aimed it at Kyle. Kyle looked blankly at the point of the knife pointed at him. It was like the reaction of someone seeing a knife for the first time.

“Provocation? with a sword? you, me? Do I look easy on myself now that I learned how many catching skills from that bastard?”

When Kyle said that, Louis twitched the corner of his mouth and provoked him even more.

“Why, would you remain an incompetent person who could not achieve anything unless it was your strength? Oh no.”

Louis’s last words put a spotlight on the tension that was soaring without knowing how high it was.

“I was never yours in the first place. If you were his, you would be a man.”

cringe

The sound of grinding teeth. It was clearly Kyle’s voice.

“… It would be good to prepare your mind firmly. I won’t take the guilt of scorning me.”

“You have always been such a talkative guy. It might not be a big deal if you actually clash the swords.”

Lewis drew his sword and pointed it at Kyle. The 2nd prince, his eyes widened, deflected his sword and fired a new type at Louis.