Chapter 739
Rahedan Yeriega·
He first made a name for himself when he came to the capital on the day of the banquet celebrating the prince’s third birthday, brought a falcon he had caught as a gift, and while enjoying a drink, he discovered a snake crawling toward the prince, accurately pierced its head, and received the king’s praise...
“You didn’t just enter the banquet armed, you even shot an arrow in the direction of the prince?”
Even though it was my father’s story, I couldn’t help but wonder if it made sense as soon as I heard it.
In response to my natural question, Jin, who was throwing firewood into the fireplace of the cabin that had clearly been touched by human hands despite having clearly unpacked and emptied the cabin, smiled and nodded.
“Haha, that’s right. Wouldn’t there be a warrior or a powerful magician or high-ranking priest who is a master like Radan? Of course, I had finished all the preparations for my safety, and as soon as that snake bit its fangs, its neck was cut off by the captain’s dagger without anyone noticing. It was known to the world that he highly regarded his archery skills, which allowed him to accurately pierce the snake’s two eyes even while drunk, but in fact, what my father highly regarded was not his skills but his chivalry.
He was a country bumpkin who had just come to Seoul and didn’t know what the world was like. He had only hunted all his life and knew nothing about fighting.
However, he knew that pointing a weapon at the prince would raise suspicions and that it was a great sin. He knew that if he made a mistake, he could be beheaded on the spot, but he pulled out an arrow at the snake that was after the prince, and the king liked his attitude.
“It was clear that the master’s archery skills were amazing, but that was only based on the standards of people who were not Aura users. However, he was more sincere in doing his duty than anyone else.”
There are already many people with excellent fighting skills, so it wouldn’t be a problem if one person with a better personality was added to the group.
The king was the one who immediately enlisted my father in the royal guard for a reason that could only be described as unique from the beginning, but the one who gave him the biggest headache was my father.
He even refused the king’s command.
“If you can become a member of the Royal Guard by risking your life and meddling, it will not only tarnish the reputation of the Royal Guard, but also cause chaos by repeatedly committing similar acts in the future,” he said.
The logic was perfect, but the opponent was bad. The great king is said to have coolly dismissed his father’s argument, saying, “That’s not something you should be concerned about.”
Normally, I would have given up there, but my father’s madness did not end there, so he wrote a new legend of asking for time to sort things out and then trying to run away in the middle of the night.
“Your bloodline is certain.”
“That’s correct...”
If it wasn’t intentional, it would be really dramatic, and if it was intentional, ironically, the pressure eventually led my father to Etisel, so it could be said that it was the result of him being so focused on directing that he didn’t see the actors.
“I don’t know if it’s because my father is great or because Radan is great for giving such a generous evaluation to someone who isn’t even an Auror user.”
“Well, I’m not saying this because I’m a Ladan, but wouldn’t it be both?”
Regardless, the biggest person in charge is smiling calmly as if he is talking about someone else’s business, so the sense of dissonance is huge.
“Is this the time for you to laugh? From the beginning, just listening to the story, I don’t understand why you had to come all the way here. After all, those people are loyalists, right? Why on earth are you not moving when the prince is in danger?”
There is no other successor, he is the only successor. It is not that he is not interested in whether I leave home or not, and he is pretending not to know. If you look at the fact that he has been looking for me for several years, it is clear that even if the circumstances do not match, it does not match at all.
But it’s also ambiguous to suspect that Jin is lying to me right now. There’s no reason for him to lie.
Only after I revealed my doubts did Jin’s face, which had been full of smiles until just a moment ago, become slightly shadowed.
“Because I don’t even know who is threatening me and I don’t even realize that I am being threatened.”
Jin, who had said that, closed his mouth for a moment. It was not because the past was painful, but it seemed that it was just taking a little time to bring up old memories. Jin, who had been looking at the fire for a moment to collect his thoughts, slowly began to list past events as if he was carefully building a tower with matchsticks.
“It started with people seeing me in places I hadn’t been. Soon, they were saying I did things I hadn’t done. And as it became more frequent, strange incidents started to occur. Mostly... life-threatening.”
The floor that was perfectly fine collapsed, a flower pot fell on his head, or the shears that the gardener had put down for a moment suddenly collided with a bird that had fallen from the sky and flew towards him. Just hearing about them brought back memories of movies from his past life. Malicious thoughts struck Jin.
No matter how coolly you judge it, it is a situation that cannot be explained by the word misfortune, and you cannot help but think that someone tried to curse. That alone was a big enough problem, but the real problem was the truth that was seen in a completely different place than the one mentioned first.
“When I told them about the incident where I almost got stabbed to death by a pair of garden shears, they asked if I was drinking tea in my room. When I told them about the floor collapsing, they asked if I had just passed by and when I discovered it. At first, I thought I was crazy.”
This is a situation that cannot be understood unless someone has cast a hallucination and curse on the entire palace, or the vast majority of the courtiers staying in the palace are acting in rebellion against the royal family.
It’s really difficult to say whether it’s unfortunate or fortunate, but the situation was closer to the former.
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