Iron Blood Earl Riccianne

I could think of something I'd rather be interrogated about. But they did nothing. He neither talks nor protects. I just lock him up and bring him something to eat when he wants.

Of course, I didn't just spend my time dazed doing nothing. To escape, there's nothing I haven't done to uncover their identity. I did everything I could, but nothing worked for them.

And now, fear of going really crazy sometimes comes to me.

Krietz takes a deep breath and organizes his thoughts.

At a time when it was unknown, Krietz and his crew suddenly tracked the mercenaries behind the scenes to Mount Roquesne in the middle of Bren Kingdom.

And a faint trace we've only found. Critz and his crew, who were relentlessly pursuing it, were forced to scatter to chase the cracked trail.

I knew it was dangerous and bad judgment, but I had no choice at the time. Nothing was certain.

However, it was difficult to track them one by one. The traces spread too far, wasting too much time.

And that was a crucial mistake. That's how I got caught up in the distance. No matter how much time it took, everyone had to travel together.

What happened to the others? Where's Holden? ’

Krietz grips his bony mistake as he thinks of his crew.

It was then.

Jubbuck, Jubbuck.

You hear someone coming this way. I just brought you something to eat. You can't be here to feed me again.

You're finally going to do something? ’

Creetz's eyes gleam and breathes quickly. Because once you've made a change over there, it's obvious that there will be a change, and that change will give Creetz an opportunity.

And a man in a mask stands in front of Krietz with his iron bars between his legs.

“Does it bother you? ”

Creetz claps his mouth shut toward the man with a polite tone. I just stare into the eyes of the man who was exposed from the mask with his sharp eyes.

“You don't want to talk? ”

Creetz still hasn't answered. And the man in the mask also no longer opened his mouth.

Pretty long static.

‘He's not worth it. ’

Critz decided to accept the situation as it is. You have to endure it without speaking in this situation. You're the one who's going to lose money. You had to tell me something to get a clue about them, or you wouldn't have had the chance.

“Who are you?”

The masked man who was holding his mouth to Krietz's words replied.

“Don't you think you wouldn't be wearing a mask if you were going to tell me that? You might want to ask yourself some questions. ”

The masked man is right. Critz ponders for a long time and asks again.

“Why are you keeping me here? I don't think I have a purpose. ”

“Precisely. We want nothing from you. ”

“Then why? Wouldn't it be easier to kill him? It must bother you to bring food like this. ”

Considering the nature of the sounding cave, I used to listen to what I thought I might hear while I was breathless. But there was no sound. That means that the place where you are trapped and where they are is a completely different place.

The footsteps you hear when you bring a meal also started quite far away.

Kritz has no reason to do such a bothersome thing without a purpose. They must have had a purpose. That explains the reason for repeating such a bothersome work.

“Hehehehe!”

The masked man's laughter echoes through an empty cave. And by the time the echo fades, it is a horse.

“Seeing that you're still sane, you don't seem like a decent person. ”

“Excuse me?”

“Hehe, more time will pass. If we stay sane, we won't get what we want. ”

“What the……. ”

“Don't worry. Because if you keep doing the same thing over and over again, you're going to have to slowly go crazy. ”

Finally, the masked man slowly walked somewhere.

What the hell are they doing? ’

Creetz wrinkles his forehead. He squeezes his fist and mutters.

“I guess we have to stay as conscious as possible. ”

It seemed like they were going to do the same thing over and over again. So all we could do was try to stay as sane as possible and figure out how to escape.

“Phew!”

A long walk away, Seron takes off his mask and breathes.

The other man, Byzen, who was waiting for him, asked curiously.

“What do you think?”

“I don't know. I guess I'll have to wait a little longer. ”

“I didn't know the informant promotor was so stupid. ”

Seron was a knight of Earl Prokers, and Byzen was a guild member of the Artroom Guild.

Seron shrugs.

“Rather than that, the sudden circumstance must have prevented you from thinking. ”

“Then it's a good thing... but we have to get him out of here before he does, right?" ”

Byzen said with a bored expression. It gives Seron a big nod, perhaps the same idea.

“I see. ”

Lycaen was behind the scenes of mercenaries all over the continent.

Lycaen and Anton were secretly looking for ways to raise troops beyond the Territory, one of which was a mercenary. Among the Knights of Earl Prokers, they chose reliable and loyal men and made them mercenaries.

Of course, there were those who doubted the disappearances, but it was simply solved by telling them that the knight training itself had been difficult, giving up and running away.

The mercenaries that were created were roughly two, 30, scattered across the continent. Lycaen has funded them to recruit mercenaries and train them to increase their forces. Of course, the recruited mercenaries didn't know where they belonged.

Then you begin to gather the scattered troops for the war against Circus.

It was natural to get someone's attention in the process, and I worked with the guild members of the Artroom Guild to resolve it.

After luring the missing mercenaries to Mount Roquesne, you dug several layers of traps in the fake trail. After capturing the one who appeared to be the head of the group, he was able to use the medicine to render him unconscious, and then he was trapped in a cave in a remote mountain in two states or far away.

The problem was then.

I have a way to get out of the prison that I have locked up, but Chritz can't find it.

The method was in a cage. One of the bars of steel moves up and down, making it possible to pull it out if it moves repeatedly.

The ultimate goal was for Creetz to remember the mountain he was trapped in, and to have him scavenge back this way. I'm trying to keep my eyes on the Informants somewhere else.

Of course, it was not a way to last very long. But he could make at least a couple of months, and that time, Lycaen was able to move enough of his secret troops.

The question was when Krietz realized the secret of the shackle and escaped.

* * *

Caith and Anness' wedding is so small it can't be considered a nobleman's wedding. Since Caisna and the king had not established much friendship with the usual lords around him, he had few people to invite after he had wished for them.

It was a natural result because the size had to be smaller, and the Marquis Caith and Dovern didn't even enjoy the splendor.

But inside the rustic wedding, Caith's tears were hidden. It was clear that Caith didn't like the glamour. But he tried to have the most sacred wedding in the world for his beloved Anness. The guests invited were few, but I wanted to open the festival by decorating the entire Castle Gronst with flowers and receiving the blessings of the colonists for a few days. I wanted to give Annes an unforgettable wedding.

But all of a sudden, he had to give them all up.

It was the great movement of Circus.

In a situation where they didn't know when or what they would do, they couldn't hold a festival for days to come. I had to finish the wedding a little earlier and prepare for their movements.

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