Chapter 259 : Chapter 259
Chapter 259
“Secret?”
Secundus Debius laughed heartily.
A hundred men are surrounding him.
Even though he caught a few, their numbers are still high.
Each one is Commander of a Thousand class, and Ferbias's Ars ‘Prince’s Eye’ is inflating their power several times over.
Mm. Secundus glanced out the window.
He saw iron chariots that one would never see inside the Imperial Palace.
It is clear they are killing him.
If there are dozens of iron chariots, magi-soldiers must have come too.
The mages who regained their senses are reciting spells with all their might around Ferbias.
He killed Kentil by taking advantage of his carelessness, but now it would be hard to penetrate.
“Asking if I have a secret.”
However, Secundus is full of composure.
“Mm, I do! Why wouldn't I?”
He just continues to laugh heartily.
“Actually.”
Attention focused.
Secundus seemed to enjoy this.
“I make sounds like ‘mm, mm’ pretending to be noble, pretending to have some thoughts, but actually I have no particular thoughts or plans. I am just always enduring. That I have no petty secrets, that is my secret.”
“......What does that mean...?”
“Ah. How frustrating.”
At Ferbias's question, Secundus snorted a pick.
It meant ‘Brother is truly uncool’.
He clenched his fist.
It was the size of a decent man's head.
“Actually, this Secundus is....”
He is a giant.
His eye level is three heads above others.
From there, he looked down to his heart's content.
“...A tremendous reckless fool, that is what I mean.”
***
It was always stifling.
Born noble by nature.
Born robust by nature.
Born strong by nature.
How noble?
He is the second son of Great Emperor Continua.
Those who did not bow to him were at most a few people in the whole continent.
Even though he made no effort, except for barely a few, everyone was under his feet.
How robust?
After he grew up, it was hard to get even a single scratch.
His body was never pierced even if stabbed with spears and swords.
Far from minor illnesses, even if he stayed for days in a place where plagues were rampant, he didn't cough once.
He still doesn't know what it means to be sick.
How strong?
He was born harboring a heap of the most primal violence.
At nine, he tore a lion's maw, and now he crushes rocks with his grip strength and swings iron chariots for exercise.
Even the Mountain Dragon's maw opened with a crack when he applied force.
Therefore,
Because he was simply born with all sorts of power,
He had to learn patience his whole life.
The world looked only soft.
At least to him, it was truly infinitely soft.
He lived crushing things he didn't want to crush countless times.
The nine-year-old didn't tear the lion's maw because he wanted to.
Yes, nine years old.
It was from that day he accidentally tore the maw of the lion he made his friend.
It was from the time when he was just playing excitedly and applied a little force, and the maw tore rip.
The lion that was his friend convulsed with its maw torn.
Its yellow eyes were dyed with fear, looking at Secundus and trembling shiver shiver as it died.
In front of that torn lion's maw, In front of the fleeting fear and convulsions, Covered in that blood, the nine-year-old Secundus just blankly ended up realizing.
‘Ah. I see.’
The scent of blood he was covered in gave him a teaching.
Because of the terrible feeling he didn't want to experience again, he had no choice but to learn.
‘I am a human who must not do as I please.’
And he lived restricting himself.
He was born with strength, but lived bowing his head easily as if he had no such born strength.
If pushed, he was pushed.
If pressed, he was pressed.
If stabbed, he was stabbed and even bled.
He did so because there were many precious things.
He did so because he didn't want to treat even the things that pushed, pressed, and stabbed him roughly.
I don't want to crush! But my hands are a cruel strength that crushes too easily.
So let's endure. I must endure. Since I am strong and they are weak, I must have patience.
Looking back, he was angry.
The young man was extremely angry at his life where he had to stay still even possessing strong power.
He lived holding onto that anger for quite a long time.
“However, looking back, I am grateful.”
Secundus spoke abruptly.
He recited without knowing to whom he was speaking.
“Since I learned thanks to it.”
The life of restricting himself.
The days of binding himself tightly with his own strength, not others.
Even if there are no regrets, if asked if it wasn't painful, a time painful enough to burst into anger.
All those times became a shout inside and surged up to his uvula.
“However, just for today, yes....”
He lifted his head high.
Light poured down.
“Just for today when I die, at least once in my life.......”
He decided not to bow his head.
Not fearing if he would collide with others, if he would collide and break them, he decided to keep his head stiff.
Even if it is pride, just for once, even if he ends up crushing everything in front of his eyes like piles of dirt, making the excuse that there are many lives he carries.......
“......Let's behave as I please.”
Secundus Debius's Ars,
‘Tamerarious.’
***
He inhaled a breath.
And exhaled.
“Mm.”
He wanted to throw a tantrum for no reason.
So he threw a tantrum for no reason.
“Eu-aaaa---!!!”
A low sound occurred as if a beast was roaring.
Those nearby were startled and trembled with shivers.
Secundus found that sight funny and giggled kik-kik, then stomped his foot thump.
The foot stamped down, the roar of Kaboom, the spreading vibration, people losing balance, fragments and noise, the reckless Prince rushing headlong, the overturned long table, flying plates, obscured vision, disappeared Secundus.
“Where is he?”
“Where did he go?”
The Ten-Vigorous General and Nine-Lines General shook their heads this way and that, scattering golden light.
Secundus stomped his foot and overturned the table, then became invisible in a brief moment.
Not only the hundred men but also Ferbias was flustered and looked for him.
“Over there!”
One man pointed.
Secundus was between the two largest pillars of the banquet hall.
“Mm. Of all places, you chose the detached palace where I lived.”
He grabbed the two pillars.
He grabbed one pillar each with his left and right hands.
When he applied force, the entire detached palace trembled shiver.
Because these two pillars supported the whole building.
The more he applied force, the more the entire detached palace shook anxiously.
“Since long ago, I wanted to pull these two pillars out pop.”
So he pulled them out.
“Ah, refreshing!”
Holding the two pillars supporting the entire detached palace, one in each hand, he bent his body with all his might.
They were pillars sturdy enough not to shake even if dozens of bulls were brought, but they ended up being pulled out pop at the sound of Secundus straining.
Everyone's face turned white as a sheet.
Secundus, having pulled out the two pillars, stomped his foot again in the center of the detached palace which was shaking all over.
Shock ran through the detached palace that lost its spine.
Everywhere cracked anxiously, crack, crack.
“It, it, it's collapsing-!”
“Your Majesty, Your Majesty-!”
“Protect His Majesty the Emperor!”
Soon everything collapsed and crashed.
Beautiful walls and the ceiling with fancy lighting all crumbled down at Secundus's stomping.
Stones poured down like rain.
The detached palace, which was several stories high, poured debris towards the banquet hall.
It was pandemonium.
“Ha! Ha, ha, ha-!!!”
Secundus, who brought down the detached palace he used to live in, couldn't stop laughing because he felt good.
Guffawing endlessly, he tucked the pulled-out pillar under his arm like a spear.
Then he rushed towards the two Ten Great Generals.
“Nine-Blood General!”
“......I said Nine-Lines General!”
“Whatever I call you is my will!”
Secundus Debius is reckless.
He swung the stone pillar against the Nine-Lines General's halberd.
The stone pillar was incredibly thick.
One wondered how on earth he pulled it out with one hand.
It looked three times thicker than Secundus's thick waist.
Since he swung such a stone pillar, even a Ten Great General found it not easy to receive.
If he went Ha!, it went Thud.
One swing per one laugh.
“...Do you really intend to kill His Majesty!?”
“So what?”
The Nine-Lines General's halberd slowly shaved down the stone pillar.
However, the Nine-Lines General's stamina was being eaten away rapidly.
Secundus swung the stone pillar of ruthless weight recklessly.
Every time he received it once, his hands trembled shiver shiver down to the roots.
“Is there anything you can do?”
Secundus, who exchanged blows with the Nine-Lines General, saw the Ten-Vigorous General approaching.
Then he twisted his lips and pulled the pillar back.
It looked like he would thrust it out any moment.
The Nine-Lines General noticed that Secundus was trying to use the secret technique of the Debius family, and realized his defeat.
“......I'm going to be stuck in the wall again.”
If one thinks he thrusts, he has already thrust.
Debius Forged Horn.
The stone pillar hit the Nine-Lines General as if pushing him.
He couldn't even dare to handle it and was pushed to the wall along with the halberd.
Fortunately, this time he wasn't embedded in the wall.
Because almost every wall had collapsed.
Instead, he flew for a long time, destroyed three iron chariots halfway, and barely spat out one word before losing consciousness.
“......Damn it.......”
The Nine-Lines General flew away and fainted, and the Ten-Vigorous General was in a position to block Secundus alone again.
“Again you and me?”
“...I intended to pincer attack with the Nine-Lines General.... He collapsed so quickly....”
“You should have come a little faster.”
“...I guess it's my fault?”
“Of course!”
“...Still, it will be different from earlier.”
“I guess it will be different.”
Ferbias's Ars ‘Prince’s Eye’ added strength, but Secundus also became ‘Tamerarious’.
He couldn't dare to face him.
Still, he had to face him.
Because responsibility follows the name of the Ten Great Generals.
“Then let me grab a weapon too.”
He picked up something from among the debris of the collapsed building.
It was the skull of a beast that had been buried under the banquet hall.
Precisely, the jawbone of the lower head. It is unknown what animal it is. Probably a donkey or that kind.
“I don't know why there is a donkey skeleton under the detached palace I lived in, but....”
Secundus tilted his head.
Did a hungry chef secretly eat a donkey and hide the remains?
There are many other delicious beasts, so why specifically a donkey?
No, perhaps he thought he wouldn't be caught precisely because of that.
Secundus suddenly recalled an incident where a donkey used by a detached palace porter went missing when he was young.
It seems this donkey is that donkey.
“...You intend to face my sword with a donkey jawbone, Grand General?”
“No reason why not.”
“Rather, bare fists are less insulting!”
“What is insulting is your sword skill.”
The Ten-Vigorous General flew his sword.
Secundus blocked it without difficulty.
Of course, with the donkey jawbone.
He caught the sword with the groove between the jawbones thud and tried to strike the legs.
However, the Ten-Vigorous General also didn't get hit that easily.
They exchanged many blows in a split second.
Even so, he is a Ten Great General.
Since his power was inflated several times by Ferbias's Ars, he couldn't be easily beaten.
Secundus found this whole situation just refreshing and fun.
“Hmm?”
Secundus frowned.
Suddenly his body went limp.
Looking to the side, the mages standing next to Ferbias were reaching out their hands toward him.
It seemed they cast some curse magic.
“Doing petty things.”
He became unpleasant.
For a mage to dare intervene in a fight between generals, it was hard to tolerate.
“I don't want to play anymore.”
He threw the donkey jawbone abruptly. Uh? The Ten-Vigorous General's eyes unconsciously followed the jawbone.
Of course, it was very brief, but for Secundus, it was sufficiently long.
It was time to shove four punches exactly into the face.
The Ten-Vigorous General, who was hit by Secundus's fist four times in the face, immediately vomited blood.
Still, his will was outstanding so he tried to counterattack somehow, but he was hit by three more punches in the abdomen and eventually collapsed.
He couldn't even make a scream properly.
“I like this jawbone.”
Secundus, having knocked down two Ten Great Generals, grabbed the donkey jawbone again.
There are still many enemies.
Over a hundred remained.
Everyone seemed to have lost their hostility.
Normally he would have let them go.
But he was living his last day, and he had become reckless.
“Good, you are now a treasure of the Debius family. My name is... Rames? Ramar? Ramat? What shall we do...?”
Ah right, Secundus raised his eyes.
Beyond the collapsed debris, Ferbias was visible.
He spewed golden light and pretended to be calm, but his feet were trembling shiver shiver.
That scary appearance was very, very good to see.
“Brother Your Majesty-!!!”
He was covered in blood and dust.
For Secundus, this appearance was familiar, but for the viewers, it was just fearful.
He raised the donkey jawbone high and shouted.
“Wait just a little! This brother will soon twist your neck for you!”