Chapter 114.1
The Young Ladies
“Why are you here? I remember meeting you with His Highness the Crown Prince before, didn’t I?”
I lightly intimidated the boy, who had fallen on his back, pressing down on his chest with my knee and thrusting the blade of my dark weapon between his eyes, he narrowed his eyes slightly and appeared composed, as if he had made up his mind.
“After all, you are the adventurer’s son I met at the Royal Capital…why are you serving at the side of Her Highness the Princess? Are you her highness’s bodyguard?”
“I am the one asking.”
The person on the Crown Prince’s side was not necessarily a nobleman on the royal side. Even if they were allies, what was the reason for their sudden action that could be taken as an “attack”?
I tried to determine this for myself, but he gritted his teeth and met my eyes with a strong gaze.
“I am Mikhail Melrose of the Melrose Frontier Count House, who oversees the dark side of the Cleydale Kingdom. Knowing this, would you still turn your blade against me?”
“…alright.”
The Melrose family… that was the name that Spirit had said was my bloodline, and now here it came up? And being a frontier count family that oversees the dark side, means that they were a great aristocrat on par with Dandol.
Mikhail knew me only as an adventurer, but it was possible that the Melrose family had received information about me through Sera.
It was not the answer I wanted, but it was not safe to antagonize them “just yet”. I would have to do some research, but if he was from the dark side, then he would currently be an ally.