79 – What is loyalty (1)

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-ah… It’s a Prius.

When I asked if she still remembered the article that caught my eye, Lily answered with a pause.

It seemed that his awkward appearance did not welcome questions about him.

well, don’t even do that

Who must have been the one who reported my death, it must have been that Prius who was in charge.

Even though there was an order from Lily that it was okay to kill it, it must have been reported directly by the knight commander who acted on his own judgment thinking that it would be more beneficial for me to die.

At that time, his decision to kill me was not very noble.

Not long after, looking back, the reason was a reason I was very grateful for, and I, the person in charge, completely forgave him.

Let’s objectively determine what he did wrong.

He was just a knight who was hard to watch as his lord gnawed at his own heart to torment that ungrateful boy no longer.

Even his attempt to kill me was given Lily’s permission, albeit conditionally.

If Lily had told me to capture me alive and bring her back, she would have done so.

In other words, he was one of the victims of my scheme.

He was a pitiful scapegoat who, ignorant of anything, was overcome with guilt for driving the boy who gave his life for his master to death only after the work was over.

He can’t be compared to Finn, but if he’s loyal, he’s a loyal knight.

Proof of that is the fact that I can see him quietly practicing his swordsmanship training so hard.

Alone in a training ground with no one around.

Lily couldn’t punish him too severely because he hadn’t really done anything wrong.

So, the method chosen.

– Even so, putting the Prius in front of me made me nauseous and passed out.

Prius, who was the knight commander under the direct control of the princess, was demoted to a general knight.

To avoid running into Lily.

The unit she belonged to was also the regular imperial knights under the direct control of the princess.

His position is also from the knight commander to the knights.

In a way, it was a punishment that would be considered unreasonable from his point of view, but after realizing all the truth, he accepted him silently without raising any complaints.

He said that he would continue to work for the imperial family, even under those who were weaker and less experienced than himself.

There was no way to know the exact intentions.

It was for that reason that I am now heading towards the training ground.

To meet him and have a detailed talk.

That’s why, even after realizing all the facts, I still walked away from Lily, who said she couldn’t face him.

-Uh, someday… I will try my best to face you.

By all means, I wish I could capture that scene with my eyes on a day not too far away.

Sincerely loyal knights are not very common.

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“Ha, ha, ha…”

The time when even the evening sunset half hid its head.

The Prius was still breathing heavily and was producing beads of sweat from its efforts.

He swung his sword so vigorously that he didn’t seem to even notice that I had arrived near the training ground.

Turbuck.

The head of the Prius, which had been facing the ground, turned towards me at the sound of footsteps deliberately made to listen.

“…!”

Prius, who was so surprised that he just opened his mouth wide and started looking at me with his eyes wide open.

The shocked look on his face made it seem completely unexpected that I would find him on my own.

It wasn’t a place that would become dangerous just because the sun went down and it was night, so there was plenty of time.

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Just silently, calming my turbulent heart and waiting for me to say something, before long, questionable words poured out of the Prius’s mouth.

“Uh, why are you here…. This… must be a training ground far away from the imperial palace…”

Guilt and fear are mixed together in Prius’s eyes, creating a mysterious atmosphere.

It was as if he had misunderstood that I had come to rebuke him, saying, ‘Why did you try to kill me at that time?

The stupid honorifics clearly reveal the fact that he is quite embarrassed.

“There’s something I’d like to ask you.”

trudge.

He said as he moved to the edge of the training ground where the sparring swords were placed side by side.

I didn’t use the honorifics that I used even for the exclusive ladies-in-waiting and maids assigned to me.

Rather, if I use honorific words for him now, it will only add to his guilt. For opponents who prefer not to use it, it would be appropriate to use short words from the beginning.

or Grace.

Is it Ian?

whether or not

It was for a slightly different reason from that category, but the same goes for the Prius.

“Why did you come here at this late hour because you wanted to ask something?

“Because the princess said she didn’t want to see you.”

“…Ugh.”

It’s the exact opposite aspect to the time when Lily asked me if I knew how much she was suffering because of you, driving me off a cliff.

He seemed to have felt that the indelible wounds of my selfish murder had been pierced again.

“Is this your method of atonement?”

Although he did not commit a crime, he asked because there was no doubt that he made himself bear the original sin.

Rather than blindly saying that you are innocent, this would be right.

So I looked at him with a hard face without any expression.

The Prius met my eyes and lowered its head as if blaming itself.

“This fool who couldn’t understand the nobleman’s will, there’s nothing he can do except swing his sword.”

“I mean, no one noticed.”

Even Lily, the party involved.

“Even so. What I committed was the crime of killing the nobleman…no, driving the nobleman to the precipice without realizing his ignorance and ignorance.”

I was so foolish that I lost my judgment.

The Prius was blaming its own impatience and immaturity.

How can all these loyal knights be so stupid?

Rather, it was a result that could not have been achieved if they had not been deceived.

It was a strategy that might have had to correct the trajectory in the middle if the Prius’ ability was a little better.

To me, who wrote a letter to that early morning emotion and produced unexpected results, he was like a fool who held the responsibility for an illusion that did not exist and strangled himself.

So paradoxically.

He could have been loyal because he was a fool.

Through experience, I learned how to speak to such a fool.

The guy I’ve known for almost 7-8 months, including the entrance exam, for the past half year that I’ve been at the academy can be said to be the purest fool.

I said arrogantly, recalling Ian Cedric’s face.

“You’re still stupid.”

“…Yes?”

“I am the one who discovered the treatment for the princess that no one else could find. But you are the only one blaming yourself for not understanding my intentions… How can I call this stupid?”

“……You are right, that is your word.”

There seemed to be a deep sense of guilt.

No matter how blatantly he took him down, he didn’t even show any reaction and silently nodded his head.

“What you did, pushed me off a cliff?”

Without giving him time to answer, he began to push.

For idiots like Ian, this is the magic bullet.

“Don’t be ridiculous. I pulled you in and what I planned went as planned.”

“You guys were just too loyal to the target they were supposed to be loyal to, so they couldn’t control themselves.”

“I thought I was complaining like an immature child, unable to accept the fact that I was used like a piece of chess in a strategy for the princess just because I was proud of my fodder…”

“That’s not it!”

Prius let out a shrill voice as if he couldn’t stand it.

“For Her Highness’s sake, I would have gladly accepted it even if I had to become a piece of chess!”

“Then why are you doing such stupid things?”

To be honest, deep down I didn’t like the Prius, who was still loyal to Lily, but I couldn’t express it.

What these guys need isn’t always carrots.

They are a perverted tribe who get pleasure from a piece of carrot given at the end of a whip.

The language is vulgar, but there is no better way to describe these idiots than this.

“…I just couldn’t stand my foolishness.”

I finally got my heart out.

However, it is still not enough. A little more, you need to stimulate the Prius without being impatient.

“That’s why, rather than worrying about how to devote allegiance to his lord, the knight was doing this shit by himself in vain sentiments…”

“I was struggling not to repeat the sin.”

When the things he had been trying to pay his allegiance to were uncovered, the loyal knight responded to me with a little bit of anger.

“That’s it. In the end, you’re an idiot who can’t control your proud feelings and leaves your lord alone…”

“I don’t know and do everything like you!!”

As if the Prius was unfair, he yelled and shouted at me.

It must have been that he couldn’t stand the feeling that his loyalty was being tarnished.

“Someone like you can’t understand the mindset of a criminal like me! Just like I couldn’t even understand how you could have such loyalty at such a young age!!”

“So I had to think, and think again!! For me, who only knew how to handle a sword…! That was all!”

“So, the guy named Sword was stuck in a small room like this?”

“…”

“No matter how well-honed a sword is, there is nothing worse than an ornament like a sword that confines itself in a sheath.”

It seemed that there was no corner to be stabbed in that fact.

Because the Prius bit his chapped lips and confessed his resentment.

“Isn’t Her Highness the Princess, you can’t stand even looking at me?”

“Then let’s look back. We have to make you blurt out the past with the loyalty that you think you’re so proud of. Isn’t that true loyalty?”

“…What can I do when I can’t come up with a method no matter how much I think about it. I had weak hopes at the news that the nobleman was alive, but I heard that the Knights, where I am, seem to be far away… so I gave up even that.”

“Is that why you’ve been swinging the sword by yourself right up to this point? Do you think that will calm the troubled mind?”

“……Yes.”

deep. It’s a very deep emotional goal.

Lily’s trauma and Prius’s guilt are entangled together like a thread that will never be resolved.

If so, the method was simple.

To provide a means to dissolve that loyalty.

I had to let the world know that being a knight is not the only way to prove loyalty.

Because I couldn’t stand to see such a rare talented person lose his goal and become discouraged.

sereung.

To inform him, he pulled out a sparring sword that was placed on the training ground and said.

“I’ve put all of your loyalty into the sword… you mean? Then let’s see. I won’t move from this spot, so give me at least one scratch within 10 minutes.”