Chapter 100 : Chapter 100
Chapter100 For What Purpose?
“Hiek!”
I covered Crystal’s mouth.
“What are you so surprised about? Just asking if there is a person named Gwen among your ancestors.”
“No, asking such a thing suddenly…….”
Crystal, swallowing her words, stared at me intently.
The string of tension that had loosened slightly became taut.
Thud-thud.
I caught Crystal who tried to leave the room hurriedly.
Crystal trembled shiver shiver and made eyes asking to save her.
I don’t know why she is acting like this.
“I, I know nothing. So…….”
“Answer the question asked quietly.”
“N, no. Why do you ask such a thing? I know nothing. Really.”
Know nothing my foot.
“Not trying to harm you, just say it.”
“N, not sent from Manatium, right?”
“What are you talking about? I, am the 5th Prince. Poinus’s 5th Prince. Maximilian Caesar.”
“Then why such thing…… No, how does the 5th Prince know our ancestor?”
Come to think of it, it is suspicious indeed.
“There are ways to know everything. And how did you make the Mana Heart?”
“……Had it from birth.”
“Is Gwen Benedict your ancestor?”
Crystal swallowed a big breath. She nodded after hesitation.
My thought was correct. Then it is not strange that she had a Mana Heart from birth.
Because Gwen Benedict did so.
“How do you know Mana Heart?”
“Because I am a Mana Heart holder.”
Crystal opened her eyes wide. She opened them so big, more than twice as big as she had opened until now.
“Eyeballs will fall out. Stop being surprised. What happened in Manatium?”
“……They killed all my family.”
“Who? The Imperial Family?”
Crystal nodded.
Gwen wasn’t a person who worked with me as a priest. So he wouldn’t have been attacked because of me. One can know just by seeing his descendants lived in Manatium until now.
But suddenly tried to kill…….
“Did you commit treason?”
“Treason? Nonsense.”
“Then why? They wouldn’t have done so without reason.”
“Mana Heart…… because we have Mana Hearts, we had to die…….”
Just because of Mana Hearts, they killed everyone?
It doesn't make sense with my head.
“How did you survive?”
“Dad hid me in a cave. Saying God would help.”
“Then how did you escape Manatium? If it were those guys, they would have definitely checked the number.”
If not treason nor enemy. It means they killed to wipe out the seed. Then there would be a list. Checking against the list whether dead or not would have been essential. Hiding in a cave doesn’t mean one can survive and come out.
“I saw light in the cave and prayed. To save me. That’s when I met Lord Lucius. He guided me to escape Manatium. To always pray and worship him. He said so. I am really a Priestess.”
It seems Lucius really led Crystal to life.
“Then did they try to kill only your family? Or try to kill all Mana Heart users?”
“Mana Heart holders. Mana Heart holders inside Manatium.”
The thought to completely erase Mana Hearts from the world is read.
Why on earth?
Since it’s an old era relic, they don’t make it nor use it.
Squeak, click.
While pondering the reason for the Mana Heart Extermination Order, the lock was released ever so carefully.
I signaled Crystal to lie on the bed.
“S, suddenly why?”
“Because needed.”
“……Isn’t it dangerous?”
“It’s fine. I protect.”
If unreliable, just pray to Lucius? He wouldn’t just watch a scarce Priestess die.
“……Hing.”
Despite saying she is a Priestess, she must be scared.
Crystal pouted her lips and placed her body on the bed.
I hid my body in the darkness holding the prepared sword.
Creak.
Beyond the faintly opened door, a small foot entered.
I watched their movement hiding mana.
One small step, and another. Like that approached the bed where Crystal was.
The curtain covering the window fluttered. Moonlight entered between the unclenched cloth and cloth. The small light hit the honed steel and fell on Crystal’s face.
Clang!
The small sword aimed at Crystal sparked and wandered in the air.
“What?”
A female voice.
Clang!
The assailant blocked the dagger aimed at the leg. But couldn’t do anything about the ensuing fist.
Bam!
Crash!
The small table, unable to withstand the falling impact, collapsed as it was.
“A rat was hiding.”
A male voice was heard from behind the back.
Sharp killing intent pricked the skin.
Instinctively twisting the body, I tried to receive the male’s killing intent.
At that moment.
Ping!
A small sword grazed the face.
The mask covering the face split and fell to the floor patter.
“It was you bastard.”
I came here for the first time today. Yet knowing exactly who I am means.
“Means you saw me in the morning.”
Perhaps realizing ‘Oops!’, the guy hurriedly shut his mouth.
But it was already late. Because his voice was already captured in my ears. And a voice heard this morning at that.
“Why is the Head Butler here at this time?”
“…….”
I saw his shoulders flinch, but he is trying hard to pretend not.
“Do not interfere. Since I am not trying to kill you.”
“Interfere? I am just doing my job. If you say so, I’m disappointed.”
“Having a light snout, you aren’t a guy to live long.”
“No. I lived long. Muuuch longer than you think.”
The Butler’s eyes changed sharply. Killing intent thicker than sprayed before poured out from his whole body. He opened his mana circle without hesitation too.
‘Oh my. Savage. Savage.’
Can know without speaking. I shall kill you. It is a silent outcry.
Zzzzt.
Lightning danced on the guy’s sword.
“Kyaaa!”
Crystal’s voice.
Turning the head hurriedly, the fallen female assailant was aiming at Crystal holding a dagger.
“Anxious to die!”
Lightning barked ferociously and tried to bite me.
Clang!
“……!”
“……Gasp!”
The split lightning lost power and crawled on the floor.
The Butler’s fragmented blade is stuck between the female assailant and Crystal.
And my sword is…….
“Au, Aura?”
Like the Butler’s words, it is wrapping faint silver Aura.
“You have eyes.”
“No, how can a young guy like you use Aura…….”
“So what if young? Is it forbidden to do this? Then why is an old guy like you trying to kill a kid the age of your son?”
“……Shut up!”
Above the broken sword, lightning struck out and created the shape of a blade.
“Means over 3rd circle?”
Binding rampaging lightning into a constant form is impossible with 1st or 2nd circle.
“You cannot block with mere Aura!”
The Butler’s lightning sword emitted intense light and raised its claws sharply.
What the guy aims for is the neck.
I erected the pitch-black sword containing Aura and received the guy’s sword head-on.
Stinging air touched the face.
Fine hairs on the back of the hand burnt making a frizz sound.
“Die!”
Truly a villain-like remark.
“Do you know what happened to guys who said that to me until now?”
“Uoooooh!”
Since he closed his ears and screams, no need to tell him kindly. Just have to make him experience it.
Kaboom!
The form of lightning forming the blade crushed. Lightning fluctuated in all directions and clumped together among themselves.
“Devour!”
Die, devour. It’s chaos.
Lightning gathered in one place inflated like a balloon.
Crackle.
Furniture touched by lightning crumbled.
“Acting tiresome.”
I gripped the sword with both hands and pulled up mana.
The Mana Heart beat strongly. The talisman also emitted intense light.
The density of Aura wrapping the sword thickened and the size became huge like Dawn.
“Cannot block with mere Aura!”
“Is that so?”
Aura made a line and split the light.
The balloon of light swayed like reflection in water and divided in half.
The Butler seeing this made a surprised eye and spat out a hollow breath.
“W, what on earth?”
Between the fading light, the Butler’s face was seen. Despair was seated there.
“Asking when you know. 5th Prince who uses Aura.”
The Butler dropped the sword. It seems he judged he couldn't do anything with force.
“Nothing more to do?”
“……Kill me.”
“Hmm, that is not my share.”
It’s Rosenberg’s share.
I turned my head and looked toward Crystal.
“Hey! Don’t try funny tricks and come here. If you move your fingers wrong, you live without hands for the rest of your life.”
The female assailant, who only looked for a chance to harm Crystal, threw away the weapon she was holding and came next to the Butler. Seeing the Butler collapse without even fighting properly, it seems she gave up everything.
“What happe…… did you catch them?”
Rosenberg stood in front of the door and looked at the two assailants standing side by side.
I kindly took off the assailants’ masks.
Rosenberg’s face was dyed with shock.
“Head Butler! You are the cook in the kitchen…… these damn bastards!”
He screamed close to a wail and tried to grab the sword rolling on the floor.
Adellian, Piontek, and Odekerkh who appeared subsequently blocked Rosenberg with all their might.
“Let go! Let go of this! I will absolutely not forgive those things! Absolutely!”
Rosenberg holding the sword shook his whole body. But only people holding him increased.
I snatched the sword the Duke was holding.
“Before doing anything, listen to why they did it. What do you intend to do trying to kill blindly?”
“What does the reason matter? Those damn things! Made my son like that!”
I grabbed Rosenberg’s collar whose eyes had turned due to anger. A sound ‘Gasp!’ was heard, but I didn’t mind. Since there is something more important than relieving Rosenberg’s insides.
“Where is the Rosenberg family located?”
Rosenberg stared at me with a desperate face like he would cry.
“Wake up! Where is the Rosenberg family located!”
“……North.”
He, reading the meaning, opened his mouth with difficulty.
The bastards didn’t kill Isaac at once. If they hated Isaac, if they tried to destroy Duke Rosenberg, they would have just killed him. But they didn’t. They made him sick and made him use expensive medicine. Spilling all sorts of information, making him spend massive costs. Little by little, bit by bit, crumbling the Rosenberg family. With a clear intention.
“Right. Right behind the Border Guards protecting the North.”
Rosenberg’s eyes became as big as lamp lights.
He swallowed rough breath and looked at the Butler and the maid.
“Are you Uresra bastards?”
“Ha! Damn it.”
The Butler stared at me.
“To think that young brat would see that.”
“What does age matter. If the enemy is inside, isn’t the answer obvious?”
As Isaac’s condition became serious, Rosenberg’s desperation grew endlessly. So he must have visited the Black Market to buy medicine that didn’t even have substance. Information about the Black Market must have been leaked by the Butler too. To check how desperate he is, if desperation leads to action.
Having confirmed the actual movement, they must have been preparing the next step. Since they thought judgment was clouded.
‘They would have ordered a desperate task aiming for that time.’
A task the Rosenberg family must do.
“Did you intend to tell me to attack the Border Guards?”
The Butler receiving Rosenberg’s question laughed heartily.
Everyone looked at him with serious faces.
“Fuck, if not for that damn brat. Troops would have been moving.”
“How dare! How dare me! Using rebellion, my son! You dog-like bastard!”
Rosenberg, swept by anger, strangled the Butler.
“Kuhuk! Kuh!”
The choked Butler drooled and struggled.
I grabbed Rosenberg’s hand.
“Stop. Still much to hear.”
So until he vomits everything in his head, breath must stay attached.
Absolutely.