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“No matter how I look at it, I look like a normal person. ”

“What are you talking about? ”

“Did you really use that body to twist the wire? I've heard of it because I have ears. ”

“Are you here to make trouble? ”

“No."

Canneruck shakes his head. And I took a deep breath. And it was a horse.

“Are you really the bastard of the Fallen Knights? ”

“Have you been drinking? ”

“I'm not even going to drink anymore. ”

He would, if he did. It doesn't look like he's actually drunk.

“My parents are alive and working hard on the land. ”

Canneruck nods quietly and says what I have to say.

“Lord Whelken summons me to his service. ”

What do you want me to do? Let's see what he has to say.

“What are you going to do? ”

Do you think my choices will change? A white captain from the Knights.

That was the first canoe I ever saw.

And now the Canneruck has become a soldier who refused the knight.

It wouldn't be bad for him to become a professional soldier on this one.

Scratch.

I scratched my head once and looked up at the night sky.

The stars that had embroidered the sky were spread out.

“Whoa."

He breathed out loud and became drunk.

“Will you come back later? ”

Let's cut back and forth and get to the point. There is no need to use words to measure your mind's intentions.

Canneruck's eyes still have feelings beyond trust for me.

He replied quietly.

“Anytime.”

It was a short answer, but it had everything in it.

He will be my knight. Not now, but whenever I call, it will always be my sword.

“At that time, I want to have a different relationship with you. ”

Canneruck turns around and leaves.

Seeing him leave, I thought, If I look in the mirror now, my face will be full of smiles.

I pretended to be naive, but I expected a certain amount.

Canneruck is a blood-boiling, unmanned man, and his true wish will not be the knight's honor and status.

Among its abilities and knights, the wick is firm.

Ronan would never have met me here had it not been for the Baron's sake.

What he wants is a place to use his sword.

He is the one who seeks the owner, the one who will sacrifice the sword. So, his wish was not to become a knight again, but to find someone who would be loyal. “That's funny.”

Yeah, life is fun. And to be honest, half expected.

It reminds me of my time as a mercenary. At that time, I made friends with everyone around me to live.

It made me feel good to protect myself. I learned to move people's minds in order to live.

Is it different now?

Different. Used to be a mercenary and now I'm an apprentice knight.

He is also a hero and saint of the battlefield.

As I set my mind to the barracks, another one of my seeds was waiting for me.

Second place after Canneruck?

“How's the arm? ”

A big fella with a bandage around his broken arm.

Luckily, I didn't have to cut off my arm. We need to rest in peace for a while.

“Are you drunk?”

Not drunk.

“No."

I drank a little, but I'm not crazy. I'm not normal yet, and I'm not going to throw myself out on a bender.

“I have something to tell you. ”

I saw Digo, and I knew. I've been waiting for this, too, just like I've been waiting for Canneruck.

I realized that I had taken care of Digo for this and left him by my side.

‘It was instinctive.'

It was not intentional at first, but it was okay to think about it now, even if the intention involved everything.

“Do it."

“I want to ask you where you're going. ”

“I'm heading to the barracks now. ”

“No kidding. ”

Digo looks at you ferociously. Don't look at people like that on the street. I'm scared, man.

Yeah, no kidding.

Where I want to go, where I want to go, what I have to become.

Digo is the same as Canneruck but different. If the canoe is already complete and the sword has been raised to this day.

Digo is just tapping metal.

And that lump of metal is now on top of the anvil, wanting to hammer me.

What should you be?

I felt a look of worrying.

I felt a slight hangover and held my finger vertically up. It is the tip of the sword pointing to the sky.

“Top.”

“... do you intend to become a nobleman? ”

No, you're wrong. I don't want to be just a nobleman, a servant of the king, or a scarecrow that suppresses power.

It's a world I've lived in for 39 years.

I did everything I could to survive. In the meantime, dreams are not small.

“Higher. ”

I looked him in the eye and said, Digo didn't ask for an answer. Digo takes a step back.

What do you think? Digo didn't think about it.

He shrunk. One knee touches the ground and heads down to get into position.

Then I opened my mouth.

“He is a humble body with no name and no last name, but he wants to be useful. ”

If you've followed the storyteller who visited the town as a child, you may have heard of him.

Knight's oaths, pledges of allegiance, and words seem powerless, but sometimes they just spit them out to bind people and exert their power.

That's what an oath is. And now he bows his head and recites the oath in front of me.

“I'm not a knight, but I've met someone I want to follow my whole life, so I swear. ”

Are only knights sworn to the Lord noble?

I don't think so.

“I want to spend the rest of my life with him. ”

Digo's attitude has changed. He truly wanted to be the spear of a man.

He's not a knight, and I'm not a monarch.

His vows were noble, and his vows made my heart beat. I forgot to breathe, and then I heard the oath, and I just looked Diego in the eye.

The flame in his eyes speaks to me.

He wants to protect me even if I die.

Son of a bitch.

“Get up."

“If you'll have me.”

You open your mouth with a little intoxication as a shield.

“You will be my shield and spear, and I will let you lay down your life for me. Your vows are the first I've received, and this will be the first page of my life. ”

You can't die in your right mind.

Digo slowly rises up.

I wanted to keep him by my side as soon as I saw his power. A habit that has been passed down from his past life has kept him by his side.

I made him into my own man.

So this was a predictable outcome.

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“Ooh, I think I'm going to break my head. ”

“Week!”

Soldiers who had rested for two days and had eaten and drank were intoxicated.

So why don't you have a drink?

After a long rest, we closed our tents and headed for the city.

The march is not fast. Even after two days of rest, my body did not fully recover.

"This is crazy."

I needed to rest for a while.

“Hey, Knight. ”

“We're still working on it. ”

How the hell did the rumors get out?

“You're the grandson of the Holy Father, right? ”

“I'm not.”

No, I have never seen the Holy Father. The grandson of the great Holy City State King.

And I don't have him. How can you have grandchildren?

The king of that country does not have children for generations. He continues the throne with all his units cut off to avoid detergents.

When I woke up, I saw myself riding a horse, and I remembered the same white captain who was distant.

It was a misleading look about me.

Among the soldiers of Earl Ludwig's army, there were two rumors about me:

One, the grandson of the Holy King, born of a sacred thing that cannot be invaded by the curse.

Of course it's a dog grazing story. I'm an atheist.

Two, the hidden child of Earl Ludwig. If you don't, you won't be able to qualify the civilians for the Probation Knight.

He's good with horses, too. He's been teaching knights since he was a kid.

Hahahaha. Crazy people. That's him out front.

The rumor is that the Hülken behind the Earl has his eyes wide open.

It was originally rumored to be the Earl's bastard, so it wasn't strange that the protagonist would become me.

Most of the higher-ups, including the Earl and the Servants, know about it, so there won't be any trouble.

For this reason, the soldiers admired me and were difficult.

I didn't think I would believe it until I said no a hundred times, so I ignored it neatly.

“Isn't it true? ”

After the oath, Digo changed his mind.

“You don't sound right. ”

Trott mutters. Everyone asks why, but Digo says it's convenient to end everyone's doubts.

Well, it's a life of its own. I didn't pay much attention to it.

Lind said to me,

“Was there a secret birth that I didn't even know existed when I was a kid and was only a week apart from the date I was born 15 years ago?"

“Nothing.”

Actually, Lynd has the secret to being born, not me. Oh, it's not a secret, it's a matter of birth.

“Just. There's a rumor going around. Earlier, there were rumors of wings spreading from your back. ”

It's a rumor. It'll be gone soon. I didn't care much.

But the wings are too heavy, aren't they?

As we talked small, we kept walking and we began to see the destination.

If you go through the Zayturas Forest or go around it, you'll find a tall, long wall boasting Sercado.

It is the proud wall of Earl Ludwig and has been piled up for three generations.

The walls that are curved along the hills are so high that they cannot be jumped and so long that the ends and ends cannot be seen at a glance.

After that, the sun set and the wall seemed to cover the sun as it set.

It was a vast wall that could not even cross the sunset.

The name of the wall meant Sunset Hyde and the hiding place of the sunset.

From the position of the arm gate, it appeared as a wall that hides the sun, and its magnificence would be truly great.

“... I can't even see where it ends. ”

I admire Digo. The axe glitters with small eyes, and Lynd turns his head to the left and to the right.

“Is this your first time here? ”

A white commander passing by. He looks at Lind and asks.

“I've never left a village I grew up in. ”

Lind replies, while Elongated Eyes cover every inch of the wall. I want to be more visible when the sun sets.

Everything I could see was magical.

I understood Linds and Digo, and those who first saw Sunset Hyde. I'm not as impressed by what I've seen so many times.

I just look at it like it's beautiful.

At sunset, this wall is beautiful at any time. It really looks like it's hiding the sun.

“... built over three generations. ”

Whether you're from around here or a white blacksmith, you rob Lind and Digo of their backs.

I explained it for a long time, but I listened with one ear and spilled it.

He talks and looks at me and mutters.

“I knew it.”

... Damn it. I should have pretended not to know. I ignored them because I already knew.

It seemed to add weight to the rumors.

Word travels fast.

“Walk hard! We're going into the city before sundown! ”

A knight leading the march from the front shouts.

Sunset Hyde, after which the sun sleeps.

David, behind the walls was the city, the center of the Earl Ludwig, and the Earl's castle.

We were able to enter the city by the time the sun went down.

The townspeople admiring the high gates beneath the walls saw the city surrounded by torches.

“Oh.”

“Awesome. Look at the stable. It's huge.”

“There's a bar! ”

The experienced soldiers who saw it chuckle.

It was a new world for soldiers who came here from a rural village.

“Come with me without a glance. ”

The knights and commanders have encouraged the soldiers.

‘I want to rest. ’

The aftermath of the battle that guarded the front did not pass.

“Stay in this reserve barracks until the dressing is done. ”

The commander with the first look on his face said and approached me.

“Well, the Chris has a separate lodging in the Apprentice Knights, if you want. ”

“No, thank you. I like it here. ”

I knew you were a gangster. The commander, who looked at me with embarrassing eyes, stepped back.

What good is it to go to that place?

There's gonna be a lot of people out there who'll be jealous and harassing me.

I didn't get the status of this Apprentice Knight just now.

I was going to use every ten minutes I could.

For now.

‘Go to sleep.'

The assigned barracks had clean cloths and beds. My place is still a senior commander's rank. It was private.

When I threw myself and closed my eyes, fatigue and horseback riding came at me holding hands.

The battle, the banquet and the procession behind it are all burdensome.

Tomorrow's work was postponed by me and I fell asleep.