The opposition was natural.
“Say something sensible! Are you going to start a war with the Empire now?”
“No, little Lord scion, please! Zorg saved your insane life, that dumb beast threw himself at them to save you! Aren’t you even a little sorry, yes?!”
Vendel was so upset that he threw the empty bag at Ozdin.
“Oh, I really am! Zorg……! You poor thing!”
He could barely hold back the desire to let go and cry bitterly. However, once again, Leshak’s army was chasing them.
It’s been said that some time ago he escaped because of his ridiculous luck, but you can’t hope for that kind of luck to hold out over and over again.
Especially if the lucky protagonist keeps talking nonsense like that.
“Lord, please. Come back to your senses. What are the three of us going to do now? The opponent is the entire Leshak Army!”
“Then leave it like that? Who knows what the Leshak Caliph will do to Radan!”
Vendel looked like he wanted to strike Ozdin.
“Is he the Unknown Assassin? He must have killed a lot of people, so he must have been prepared to die! No, and didn’t you just say it yourself? Didn’t you say it yourself, he was the lover of Leshak Caliph, that’s why he turned his attention to him and chased him down. Then he’ll treat him well, with kindness.”
“Yeah, that’s right!”
Ozdin cut Vendel off.
“That’s the problem! Damn it!”
“It’s……”
Vendel blinked his eyes for a moment at his intense and meaningful reaction.
“…… No, no, wait. What do you mean, that’s the problem…… So, now, the Lord must be…… You’re going to risk your life in a fight, for something like that……?”
Decker murmured as if it was absurd.
“You are insane, my Lord.”
Vendel couldn’t stand it and slapped Ozdin on the back.
“Are you deaf!? He’s the Unknown Assassin! You have no idea how many people he’s killed, do you? You have no one to fall in love with, so you have to fall for the Unknown Assassin!? Aren’t you even sorry for poor dead Zorg!?”
Ozdin didn’t avoid or confront or get angry.
“He’s lost his memory. Then the past doesn’t matter.”
“Will the sins of the crimes he’s committed, disappear too? And how can you believe it when the Unknown Assassin is the one saying it? Apologize right now, come on! Over the rainbow bridge that Zorg went to!”
“He asked me to take him somewhere far away. He left the past behind. He wanted to be a new person.”
“Shit, anyone can think like that,”
“If he’s with Leshak Caliph, he can’t do that. He’ll be treated like the Unknown Assassin again without the reward that comes from losing his memories. That’s too pitiful.”
Vendel stomped on his feet at the unspoken words.
“What do you mean pitiful, you are pitiful! Who the hell is pathetic, huh? Isn’t it even more pitiful to be the constant Lord who calls an assassin pitiful, huh? Zorg is dead, my Lord! It’s only a matter of time before we die!”
“It’s fate. It will be as prophesied.”
“Really, get a hold of yourself! Calm down, Master! Whether it’s a beautiful woman with sparkling eyes or not, women miss the successor Lord who chose lovers like a piece of meat in the market. At least he didn’t say that we should all die together like crazy people! If Zorg was still alive, he would have said the same thing to you!”
“It can’t be. Because Zorg cannot speak.”
“Lord! Are you saying that right now!?”
“And I never saw Zorg die. He’s small and quick enough to run away,”
“That’s your response, my Lord?”
Srung!-
Decker raised his sword, interrupting Ozdin’s words.
Even so, Vendel pretended to stop him.
“Oh, no…… So you want to kill me? Well then, the only thing I’ll feel is that I’ve got a hole in me, but that’s all…….”
Decker leaned in closer in the alley, carefully raising the blade.
“Who is coming.”
…… gasp–
Vendel put his hands in front of his chest.
Now everything was all wrong, and all he could do was to pray.
“I have no idea how many. If I can’t deal with them, strike him intensely.”
“What?”
“If you hit it right under the spleen he will be stunned, then surrender. That is the only way to survive.”
“Oh, damn it. Also…… “
“Shh.”
Decker intensified his blade-wielding stance, and then he took a step forward.
The tension took his breath away. Vendel clenched his fists tightly to strike Ozdin’s weak point at any time.
One, two, three.
It was the moment when Decker, who was counting inwardly, was about to sprint forward.
“Kiiik kik kack!”
Zorg flew towards them.
“Uh…… !”
Decker hurriedly withdrew his sword.
“This guy! You must have had a lot of trouble! Where the hell did you come from?”
“Kiik, Kiiick!”
Zorg climbed onto Vendel’s shoulder and kept babbling. Pointing to the empty bag and saying something, it was like he was trying to explain how he got out of it.
“What, Zorg?”
“Squeak-, Squeak-! Kik!”
“Well?”
Zorg kept pointing his finger somewhere,
and,
“…… Huh?”
When they looked, someone appeared in front of the group.
“Uh, what…… ?”
He was unfamiliar, but it was a person everyone in the party had seen before.
Today, Decker had hired an older blind man. Zorg gestured to him and nodded.
“Looks like I’ve come to the right place.”
The blind man spoke.
Tak- tak-.
He pounded the floor with the tip of his staff.
“This way.”
“…… Well?”
It was a very strange situation.
Decker, of course, hid all things about himself when he paid the blind man to get through the gates.
He hid all matters related to this side of things and made up something, as though he had another errand to attend to outside the city gates.
No clues were left for the blind, just in case. It would have been better for each other.
But a blind man came to them.
Also, in such a hidden place.
“What are you doing? Because this is the way, or are you going to stay here and be arrested?”
He even tried to show the way to Ozdin and the others.
For the blind, for those who are not blind.
“Do you have a purpose? Is it money?”
Ozdin asked the blind man. Instead of answering, the blind man tapped his staff again.
“It would be better to move as quickly as possible during this time. Follow me.”
“The more dire the situation, the more careful one has to be. Who the hell are you?”
The blind man was to guide the way as though that was his purpose, he pointed the direction with his staff and moved.
“I am the person you were supposed to meet today, going back from seven years ago. And you know what you want, and I know what you’re going to do.”
“What…… ?”
Ozdin pushed Vendel and ran forward and grabbed the blind man.
“No way….. Prophet Hadir?”
Hadir smiled briefly as he grabbed Ozdin’s arm and pulled it.
“Why not?”
“Oh my God! No, why didn’t I know? Where have you been in the last few days that we’ve been searching?”
“Why step forward in advance when we were going to meet like this anyway? Follow me.”
Ozdin asked.
“Where are you going?”
“There is a hole in the wall for people to go through. The Imperial Army hasn’t discovered it yet. We should use it before then.”
He was trying to get far away from there.
Ozdin shook his head.
“I can’t go.”
Decker and Vendel were jumping up and down at his words, but Ozdin was adamant.
“I met the precious man you spoke of. Leshak Caliph took him away a while ago, but I’m going to get him back. Did you not know that?”
“Not yet.”
Hadir lifted his wrinkled eyes. His pupils were grayish white, cloudy like a rotten fish. What Ozdin thought were wrinkles were actually burn marks that had distorted his skin.
The blind prophet was seeing what others could not see.
One of them was Ozdin’s future.
“A week later. We will meet again.”
“A week later?”
tak- tak-.
Hadir followed the road with his staff.
“To do that, you have to get out of here first. Follow me.”
Vendel and Decker looked lively.
Thanks to the prophecy of the Prophet Hadir, Ozdin met Radan.
If parting from here for a while, and then seeing each other again a week later was part of the prophecy, Ozdin could no longer be stubborn.
“After……. All right.”
An hour later, Ozdin and his party escaped the city of Attica safely, following in the footsteps of Prophet Hadir.
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2Just before dawn was the time of night with the darkest face.
Radan gauged the time by measuring the slightly changing temperature of the air with his cheek.
He was moved somewhere with a wall and a door. Recalling memories of walking upstairs for a long time, it seemed to be a very large mansion or castle. Radan did not know, but this was the Palace of the Caliph, closest to the city of Attica.
With the movement of Leshak’s forces, the frontline changed again. The front, which had extended beyond the Duchy of Flambard, retreated a distance of three days for no reason. This was also something that Radan did not know.
Both ankles were shackled. The same was true of his right wrist. Long chains hung from the shackles on his wrist and ankles and were connected to rings embedded in the wall. His eyes were covered with a blindfold.
It was possible to move as far as the chain could reach.
But walking a few steps wearing those shackles was meaningless.
Radan grabbed the chain with his left hand, his only free hand. It was absurdly heavy and cold.
He had to run away.
Radan dropped his head, which felt heavier than a chain, to the floor.
Really, he had to run away. Far away, to a place where no one would ever see him again.
That was one thing that Radan, who had lost his memory, knew.
He knew the moment he met Prince Leshak.
That it was Leshak, he was running away from.
Every time he heard Prince Leshak’s voice, his chest tightened.
It was scary and painful. He couldn’t stand it because he was afraid.
Creeeak-, Tong!-
Then the sound of the door opening broke his thoughts.
Radan reflexively raised his head.
“Did you sleep?”
“… …”
The person was Prince Leshak.
The footsteps touching the floor soon came closer.
Leshak also sat down in front of Radan, who was bent on the floor bound in chains, to be on eye level.
“No.”
…. All Radan could do was hold his breath.
Leshak reached out and lifted Radan’s chin.
Radan shook his chin in surprise at the body temperature that was hotter than expected.
“Did you think of an excuse?”
“…… No, Your Majesty.”
He felt uncomfortable with the answer, so his fingers were tense. Radan felt a brief pain under his chin and made a small frown.
He had no idea what kind of answer Leshak was hoping for.
Radan swallowed the non-existent saliva that made his throat sting like a knife.
“I…… don’t know what to say…… I don’t know, My Lord. I don’t remember anything. You said I was an assassin…… I don’t even know.”
“That’s the wrong answer, Radan.”
Leshak’s hand descended down his chin and gripped his neck.
Radan could tell he was scrutinizing his expression as though he was counting.
“I told you to make an excuse. How about stuttering first?”
Radan didn’t even know what excuse to make. He didn’t even know why he must stutter either.
“I……I can’t really remember anything,”
“Let’s start with this.”
Leshak touched a certain point on his neck with his fingertips.
Radan felt the pain that had withered to some extent, and the touch was reviving the pain at the same time.
“Did you sleep with him?”
“…… What?”
Radan was taken aback by the words he hadn’t thought of at all.
“It must have been only a few days since you met. And yet he called you his fiance. Someone who knows what kind of sin it is to attack me. Is it because you promised something worth it?”
“That’s something …… I do not know.”
“He said that without payment? Why?”
Radan couldn’t understand why Ozdin had done it either.
So he had no choice but to tell him what he had heard from him.
“He said …… It was fate. That it was just meant to be.”
“Alright? Did you believe that?”
“…… No. No, I don’t know. It may or may not be…… that’s the truth.”
“Is that the same thing?”
“Yes.”
Radan swallowed once more and nodded.
“He said he met me according to the prophecy. He already knew my name, which I couldn’t even remember. Therefore…… “
“So, are you engaged?”
“That…… Yes.”
Behind the blindfolded darkness, Leshak’s lips twisted.
“You seem to have a knack for attracting people. Just like you did me.”
“…… What?”
Again, a past he didn’t know popped up. It was a more embarrassing past than saying that he was an assassin.
“Your Majesty. What does that mean…… umm,”
Leshak suddenly pulled his waist and hugged him, and Radan twisted his shoulders in surprise. His head was tilted and his body stiffened. The nape of the neck was exposed in front of Leshak’s gaze.
Leshak bit his exposed skin with his mouth.
The spot where Ozdin had forced his mark was roughly sucked up by lips.
“Ah,”
Radan groaned and twisted his body.
It was as though the nape of the neck was being scorched with fire.
It was only after he had messed up his skin that Leshak opened his mouth.
He ran his fingers through the crook of the back of his neck.
It felt like the skin was uneven to the touch because it was swollen and scratched. Radan moaned, and Leshak’s expression softened for a moment as he heard it.
“Today, I will take this as a reward.”
Radan still didn’t understand what he was saying.
“The price you pay for the excuses you didn’t come up with.”
”… …”
Leshak said, looking out the door.
“Bring water to wash and prepare some scented oil.”
And Radan did not understand what the oil was used for, until then.
The opposition was natural.
“Say something sensible! Are you going to start a war with the Empire now?”
“No, little Lord scion, please! Zorg saved your insane life, that dumb beast threw himself at them to save you! Aren’t you even a little sorry, yes?!”
Vendel was so upset that he threw the empty bag at Ozdin.
“Oh, I really am! Zorg……! You poor thing!”
He could barely hold back the desire to let go and cry bitterly. However, once again, Leshak’s army was chasing them.
It’s been said that some time ago he escaped because of his ridiculous luck, but you can’t hope for that kind of luck to hold out over and over again.
Especially if the lucky protagonist keeps talking nonsense like that.
“Lord, please. Come back to your senses. What are the three of us going to do now? The opponent is the entire Leshak Army!”
“Then leave it like that? Who knows what the Leshak Caliph will do to Radan!”
Vendel looked like he wanted to strike Ozdin.
“Is he the Unknown Assassin? He must have killed a lot of people, so he must have been prepared to die! No, and didn’t you just say it yourself? Didn’t you say it yourself, he was the lover of Leshak Caliph, that’s why he turned his attention to him and chased him down. Then he’ll treat him well, with kindness.”
“Yeah, that’s right!”
Ozdin cut Vendel off.
“That’s the problem! Damn it!”
“It’s……”
Vendel blinked his eyes for a moment at his intense and meaningful reaction.
“…… No, no, wait. What do you mean, that’s the problem…… So, now, the Lord must be…… You’re going to risk your life in a fight, for something like that……?”
Decker murmured as if it was absurd.
“You are insane, my Lord.”
Vendel couldn’t stand it and slapped Ozdin on the back.
“Are you deaf!? He’s the Unknown Assassin! You have no idea how many people he’s killed, do you? You have no one to fall in love with, so you have to fall for the Unknown Assassin!? Aren’t you even sorry for poor dead Zorg!?”
Ozdin didn’t avoid or confront or get angry.
“He’s lost his memory. Then the past doesn’t matter.”
“Will the sins of the crimes he’s committed, disappear too? And how can you believe it when the Unknown Assassin is the one saying it? Apologize right now, come on! Over the rainbow bridge that Zorg went to!”
“He asked me to take him somewhere far away. He left the past behind. He wanted to be a new person.”
“Shit, anyone can think like that,”
“If he’s with Leshak Caliph, he can’t do that. He’ll be treated like the Unknown Assassin again without the reward that comes from losing his memories. That’s too pitiful.”
Vendel stomped on his feet at the unspoken words.
“What do you mean pitiful, you are pitiful! Who the hell is pathetic, huh? Isn’t it even more pitiful to be the constant Lord who calls an assassin pitiful, huh? Zorg is dead, my Lord! It’s only a matter of time before we die!”
“It’s fate. It will be as prophesied.”
“Really, get a hold of yourself! Calm down, Master! Whether it’s a beautiful woman with sparkling eyes or not, women miss the successor Lord who chose lovers like a piece of meat in the market. At least he didn’t say that we should all die together like crazy people! If Zorg was still alive, he would have said the same thing to you!”
“It can’t be. Because Zorg cannot speak.”
“Lord! Are you saying that right now!?”
“And I never saw Zorg die. He’s small and quick enough to run away,”
“That’s your response, my Lord?”
Srung!-
Decker raised his sword, interrupting Ozdin’s words.
Even so, Vendel pretended to stop him.
“Oh, no…… So you want to kill me? Well then, the only thing I’ll feel is that I’ve got a hole in me, but that’s all…….”
Decker leaned in closer in the alley, carefully raising the blade.
“Who is coming.”
…… gasp–
Vendel put his hands in front of his chest.
Now everything was all wrong, and all he could do was to pray.
“I have no idea how many. If I can’t deal with them, strike him intensely.”
“What?”
“If you hit it right under the spleen he will be stunned, then surrender. That is the only way to survive.”
“Oh, damn it. Also…… “
“Shh.”
Decker intensified his blade-wielding stance, and then he took a step forward.
The tension took his breath away. Vendel clenched his fists tightly to strike Ozdin’s weak point at any time.
One, two, three.
It was the moment when Decker, who was counting inwardly, was about to sprint forward.
“Kiiik kik kack!”
Zorg flew towards them.
“Uh…… !”
Decker hurriedly withdrew his sword.
“This guy! You must have had a lot of trouble! Where the hell did you come from?”
“Kiik, Kiiick!”
Zorg climbed onto Vendel’s shoulder and kept babbling. Pointing to the empty bag and saying something, it was like he was trying to explain how he got out of it.
“What, Zorg?”
“Squeak-, Squeak-! Kik!”
“Well?”
Zorg kept pointing his finger somewhere,
and,
“…… Huh?”
When they looked, someone appeared in front of the group.
“Uh, what…… ?”
He was unfamiliar, but it was a person everyone in the party had seen before.
Today, Decker had hired an older blind man. Zorg gestured to him and nodded.
“Looks like I’ve come to the right place.”
The blind man spoke.
Tak- tak-.
He pounded the floor with the tip of his staff.
“This way.”
“…… Well?”
It was a very strange situation.
Decker, of course, hid all things about himself when he paid the blind man to get through the gates.
He hid all matters related to this side of things and made up something, as though he had another errand to attend to outside the city gates.
No clues were left for the blind, just in case. It would have been better for each other.
But a blind man came to them.
Also, in such a hidden place.
“What are you doing? Because this is the way, or are you going to stay here and be arrested?”
He even tried to show the way to Ozdin and the others.
For the blind, for those who are not blind.
“Do you have a purpose? Is it money?”
Ozdin asked the blind man. Instead of answering, the blind man tapped his staff again.
“It would be better to move as quickly as possible during this time. Follow me.”
“The more dire the situation, the more careful one has to be. Who the hell are you?”
The blind man was to guide the way as though that was his purpose, he pointed the direction with his staff and moved.
“I am the person you were supposed to meet today, going back from seven years ago. And you know what you want, and I know what you’re going to do.”
“What…… ?”
Ozdin pushed Vendel and ran forward and grabbed the blind man.
“No way….. Prophet Hadir?”
Hadir smiled briefly as he grabbed Ozdin’s arm and pulled it.
“Why not?”
“Oh my God! No, why didn’t I know? Where have you been in the last few days that we’ve been searching?”
“Why step forward in advance when we were going to meet like this anyway? Follow me.”
Ozdin asked.
“Where are you going?”
“There is a hole in the wall for people to go through. The Imperial Army hasn’t discovered it yet. We should use it before then.”
He was trying to get far away from there.
Ozdin shook his head.
“I can’t go.”
Decker and Vendel were jumping up and down at his words, but Ozdin was adamant.
“I met the precious man you spoke of. Leshak Caliph took him away a while ago, but I’m going to get him back. Did you not know that?”
“Not yet.”
Hadir lifted his wrinkled eyes. His pupils were grayish white, cloudy like a rotten fish. What Ozdin thought were wrinkles were actually burn marks that had distorted his skin.
The blind prophet was seeing what others could not see.
One of them was Ozdin’s future.
“A week later. We will meet again.”
“A week later?”
tak- tak-.
Hadir followed the road with his staff.
“To do that, you have to get out of here first. Follow me.”
Vendel and Decker looked lively.
Thanks to the prophecy of the Prophet Hadir, Ozdin met Radan.
If parting from here for a while, and then seeing each other again a week later was part of the prophecy, Ozdin could no longer be stubborn.
“After……. All right.”
An hour later, Ozdin and his party escaped the city of Attica safely, following in the footsteps of Prophet Hadir.
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2Just before dawn was the time of night with the darkest face.
Radan gauged the time by measuring the slightly changing temperature of the air with his cheek.
He was moved somewhere with a wall and a door. Recalling memories of walking upstairs for a long time, it seemed to be a very large mansion or castle. Radan did not know, but this was the Palace of the Caliph, closest to the city of Attica.
With the movement of Leshak’s forces, the frontline changed again. The front, which had extended beyond the Duchy of Flambard, retreated a distance of three days for no reason. This was also something that Radan did not know.
Both ankles were shackled. The same was true of his right wrist. Long chains hung from the shackles on his wrist and ankles and were connected to rings embedded in the wall. His eyes were covered with a blindfold.
It was possible to move as far as the chain could reach.
But walking a few steps wearing those shackles was meaningless.
Radan grabbed the chain with his left hand, his only free hand. It was absurdly heavy and cold.
He had to run away.
Radan dropped his head, which felt heavier than a chain, to the floor.
Really, he had to run away. Far away, to a place where no one would ever see him again.
That was one thing that Radan, who had lost his memory, knew.
He knew the moment he met Prince Leshak.
That it was Leshak, he was running away from.
Every time he heard Prince Leshak’s voice, his chest tightened.
It was scary and painful. He couldn’t stand it because he was afraid.
Creeeak-, Tong!-
Then the sound of the door opening broke his thoughts.
Radan reflexively raised his head.
“Did you sleep?”
“… …”
The person was Prince Leshak.
The footsteps touching the floor soon came closer.
Leshak also sat down in front of Radan, who was bent on the floor bound in chains, to be on eye level.
“No.”
…. All Radan could do was hold his breath.
Leshak reached out and lifted Radan’s chin.
Radan shook his chin in surprise at the body temperature that was hotter than expected.
“Did you think of an excuse?”
“…… No, Your Majesty.”
He felt uncomfortable with the answer, so his fingers were tense. Radan felt a brief pain under his chin and made a small frown.
He had no idea what kind of answer Leshak was hoping for.
Radan swallowed the non-existent saliva that made his throat sting like a knife.
“I…… don’t know what to say…… I don’t know, My Lord. I don’t remember anything. You said I was an assassin…… I don’t even know.”
“That’s the wrong answer, Radan.”
Leshak’s hand descended down his chin and gripped his neck.
Radan could tell he was scrutinizing his expression as though he was counting.
“I told you to make an excuse. How about stuttering first?”
Radan didn’t even know what excuse to make. He didn’t even know why he must stutter either.
“I……I can’t really remember anything,”
“Let’s start with this.”
Leshak touched a certain point on his neck with his fingertips.
Radan felt the pain that had withered to some extent, and the touch was reviving the pain at the same time.
“Did you sleep with him?”
“…… What?”
Radan was taken aback by the words he hadn’t thought of at all.
“It must have been only a few days since you met. And yet he called you his fiance. Someone who knows what kind of sin it is to attack me. Is it because you promised something worth it?”
“That’s something …… I do not know.”
“He said that without payment? Why?”
Radan couldn’t understand why Ozdin had done it either.
So he had no choice but to tell him what he had heard from him.
“He said …… It was fate. That it was just meant to be.”
“Alright? Did you believe that?”
“…… No. No, I don’t know. It may or may not be…… that’s the truth.”
“Is that the same thing?”
“Yes.”
Radan swallowed once more and nodded.
“He said he met me according to the prophecy. He already knew my name, which I couldn’t even remember. Therefore…… “
“So, are you engaged?”
“That…… Yes.”
Behind the blindfolded darkness, Leshak’s lips twisted.
“You seem to have a knack for attracting people. Just like you did me.”
“…… What?”
Again, a past he didn’t know popped up. It was a more embarrassing past than saying that he was an assassin.
“Your Majesty. What does that mean…… umm,”
Leshak suddenly pulled his waist and hugged him, and Radan twisted his shoulders in surprise. His head was tilted and his body stiffened. The nape of the neck was exposed in front of Leshak’s gaze.
Leshak bit his exposed skin with his mouth.
The spot where Ozdin had forced his mark was roughly sucked up by lips.
“Ah,”
Radan groaned and twisted his body.
It was as though the nape of the neck was being scorched with fire.
It was only after he had messed up his skin that Leshak opened his mouth.
He ran his fingers through the crook of the back of his neck.
It felt like the skin was uneven to the touch because it was swollen and scratched. Radan moaned, and Leshak’s expression softened for a moment as he heard it.
“Today, I will take this as a reward.”
Radan still didn’t understand what he was saying.
“The price you pay for the excuses you didn’t come up with.”
”… …”
Leshak said, looking out the door.
“Bring water to wash and prepare some scented oil.”
And Radan did not understand what the oil was used for, until then.
