Master of the brave.

"Well..."

Speaking from a used Neumann, Jade turns back to Wynn.

"Remember? When you and I first met."

"When we first met?

When Wynn and Jade first met each other, it was at the Knights of Simurgh School's entrance ceremony.

When Jade suppressed the surrounding boys involved in Wynn, he smiled superficially and shook hands.

But the smile on that face was made. My eyes weren't laughing, they were full of arrogance, and I looked down at Winn.

And here's what I said.

'This traditional Shimrug Knights School is not a good place to have civilians like you. Get to know yourself. "

Jade sighed loudly.

"A civilian like you attends a traditional knight's school and is like me. Just that one point is only a disgrace to me. All that, you stand in the midst of a sight that should be forgiven only by this noble lineage."

"I just wanted to be a knight. And the people around me push me up like that, and now I'm standing right in front of you."

Jade laughs with his little nose when he hears Winn's response.

"Surrender, Jade. Your knights of the dead are contained by the Kingsguard knights. Your side will never rush here again."

"Surrender, huh? That's what the winner tells the loser. But my ambitions haven't all been crushed yet."

"What have you done over this period..."

"Play one-on-one with me, Wynn"

Jade held a shield in his left hand and a sword in his right.

"Compete!?

Win is confused when Jade sticks his sword tip to his nose.

"His Royal Highness Prince Cliffdorf. You're free to compete with Winn, but even if you win, there's no escape for you at the earliest, right?

"How about that?

Jade looked sparingly at Kelvin as he entered the room about the tail.

"Kelvin, deputy chief of the squad... you used to be the man who served as a thousand horsemen under Zaunas"

"He's ten horsemen now, though."

"The ambition to be ruler of the empire is apparently so far, but I still have another purpose"

"Another purpose......?

"It's revenge against the empire itself, which took my mother's life and her country!

At the same time as he screamed, Jade was slashed to the win.

Jade's sword arm is so inferior that Winn can't compare compared to Leticia, Raul and Mito, who have crossed swords so far. But there was nothing less to them than temper.

Jade's arm strength, reinforced by magic, outweighs Win, so he pulls one step without matching his sword and flaunts his sword. And in an attempt to knock Jade's sword off, he waved his own sword at the root of the sword.

Jade has stepped in to avoid the slaughter.

Take Winn's sword with the shield of his left arm in front of him and push it back so that it sticks out full of force.

Winn was flown backwards to be played by Jade, who beat him by force.

"Win!"

"It's okay."

Shouting back like that to the rock I spoke to, I immediately set up my sword.

"I miss you, civilians. Me and you, we've seen this once."

"When you first taught mock warfare classes at the Knights School?

"In that game, for the first time in my life, I tasted the humiliation of losing to others. Let me pay you back what I owe you then!

Jade sticks out his sword again.

"Brother!

"Get out of my way, brave man!

"Letty! Don't get your hands on me! I'll deal with him alone!

Quickly judging Jade's protruding blade, Winn tries to pack a pause, but let him and Jade masterfully manipulate the shield to distance himself from Winn.

"I, know the reason for fire, wear it as a flame bullet!

In addition, several fireballs are created near the ceiling to hit Winn's head. Not only did Winn give up the pursuit for that attack, but he also took the time wide once.

Again, Jade kneels his left arm shield toward Winn and sets his sword.

The two stopped moving.

"I can't believe Jade is... so strong"

The moment the breath-taking offense stopped once, a howling, breath-taking rock murmured in a voice that couldn't hide its surprise.

"Sure, Knights School. Then Jade was the chairman..."

Always Chairman at the Knights School. And I thought Jade's grades as a flying knight might have been mixed by his status as the Marquis, but seeing how Jade fights now, I realized that wasn't the case.

Sure, there may have been some shyness, but Jade was a bearer of strength not ashamed enough as chairman.

"Was that a surprise? That I won't be lightly defeated by civilians."

You heard Rock whining, and Jade said so and sent a mocking gaze.

"Do you have any idea how long I've been remembering the moment I tasted that defeat? That's when his, civilian sword muscle burned to my head and I couldn't get away!

Jade rushed into Winn with every shield as he devoured his teeth. It's like hitting a win-win on every body. Then Win flips herself to move ahead, sticking his sword sharply out of the shadow of the shield. But the blade just scratched Winn's hair.

"Damn."

Jade smacks his tongue small.

And then he put his shield forward again, relative to Wynn from the front.

Leticia looked worried about Winn, who was attacking her, staring at her to eat in.

When he sees the side of it, Kelvin realizes Jade's true aim.

(Well... was that what happened?)

That's what Kelvin heard when he had dinner with Lloyds.

When Alfred was there, he asked Lloyds what he could do to beat Leticia.

That's when Lloyds says he replied that he would do nothing.

If we do nothing, any more than brave men will die -.

And the other thing is, if you can't wait, you were disclosing the next best thing to Alfred.

If you take away the stronghold of your heart, kill it spiritually, and make them think you've earned the real deal on it, they'll later die of suicide or something on their own - and so on.

If one of Jade's purposes is to avenge the Empire, and there's still a way to fulfill his wishes in this packed situation, it's to kill Winn in this battle.

In other words, it takes away the home of Leticia's heart.

Even from Kelvin's eyes, Leticia relies on Wynn for her whole body and spirit.

Kill Winn, and Jade will be killed at Leticia's hands, even soon. But would just fulfilling and killing Jade accommodate Leticia's anger and hatred?

Leticia's fiercely burning spearhead of anger and hatred, which has lost its base of mind, may also be directed at the empire that caused its death.

In that case, the empire will perish without the art of exchange.

Kelvin was captured by the frightening thoughts when he came to the thought.

He opens his thin eyes and unexpectedly sees Leticia staring at the state of war beside him.

"It's okay, your brother won't lose"

That's when Leticia shrugged as if she'd read Kelvin's thoughts.

"Your brother can't lose."

"Yeah, Winn, you're gonna win."

Cornelia squeaks that way, too, with her hands together in a prayerful way in front of her chest.

The gaze of two of the most noble girls in the empire is single-mindedly poured on Wynn.

"Brother. Two girls believe in your brother's victory, but you can't lose, can you?

Winn raised his temper voice as if to answer Leticia's grunt.

And then kick the floor and rush towards Jade.

"I didn't know you were coming in from the front!

Jade tries to flush Winn's slaughter with a shield on his left arm. Then I was going to stick my sword out as a counterattack.

Check the position of Winn's sword, and predict the blade orbit that's supposed to come and put the shield on that orbit. Jade's behavior was performed without precipitation in the flow. Jade's gaze was blocked by his own moving shield for only a few moments during the motion.

And -.

(Wynn not here!?

Jade was losing sight of Winn when his vision returned from behind the shield.

I didn't have time to look for it, and Winn's blade burst sharply from the right hand side and pierced Jade's belly.

"Ugh..."

My chest first gets hotter than the pain pierced through my stomach, and the taste of iron rust spreads through my mouth. And Jade threw up a lot of blood with Govoli.

One step, two steps and letting go without force, tried to give up falling with the sword instead of the cane, but could not do so either and kneel on the spot.

And when he coughed more than once, a mass of blood smeared between his eyes each time.

"Again... my loss..."

"Jade......"

Growling in a rough breath, Jade fell asleep on his back.

I see Winn looking down at himself with a bewildered look.

"Perhaps... your father... won't win. Civilians...... no, winn... you were. Against the Devil... with the dissolution of the Continental Alliance... nations have lost a place to turn the power they can have. War scatters destruction, but it also has the aspect of creating enormous wealth"

"Hey, Jade. Don't talk."

Cornelia crouches next to it, which Winn calls out, trying to hang the magic of healing.

But Jade refused healing magic when he grabbed that hand.

"Now to gain wealth… nations will unleash the power they can have. The world is wrapped up in war again. To the Empire, Petersia would come first. In the Great Army the claw marks of this disturbance are not healing...... I don't know how to fight with the power of an exhausted empire... what you will do... even if I die..."

Jade, weakly coughed up, laughed trying to keep his lips small and distorted -.

"Ha... ha... yeah..."

A voice so slight that you can't hear it unless you have your ear in your mouth.

That became Jade's last word.

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Jade, who was seen as one of the masterminds of this civil unrest, took his breath away.

In the end of Jade, Winn and the others, more or less each remembering the shock, were almost forgotten by all who had just one person on the spot.

It is Neumann.

"How can I...... I'm going to..., what do I do..."

There is no one on this occasion who will answer that question.

Even though he had only used himself so far, Jade was still dead, thinking of one thing to do after another.

No one can tell Neumann what to do in this place anymore.

However, what Neumann's head knew was that, as the person who caused this civil unrest, if he was taken out in front of Alfred like this, he would undoubtedly be given death.

(Yes... Father. If you treat me as your father, or...)

For Neumann, who has killed Jade and lost his back shield, the last means to live forever is to ask his father, Alexei, the emperor, to take Alfred in.

(I'm not bad. Yes! I was just being deceived. They tricked Alfred into causing this civil unrest. I'm not bad! The bad news is you tricked me, Jade - Lord Cliffdorf! Let's say that to your father and have Alfred tell him so. I'm not bad. Talk to me like that and you'll see!

Still, we sneak our footsteps and approach the throne staircase one by one to avoid the Wins surrounding Jade's remains noticing.

Behind the throne is a hallway leading to the Emperor's chamber.

Only a limited number of people can get in there.

Cornelia is the only one qualified to go through there on this occasion.

(For the time being, let's have it hidden in your father's place. If it's just Cornelia, anything)

I thought so, and for a moment when I took a step to the stairs to escape this scene...

"Don't step out any further, Neumann. You have no right to step on the stairs to this throne."

Its low and powerful voice echoes throughout the sight.

How long have you been there?

Neumann, and Winn and the others raised their gaze in surprise at the voice.

In the deepest part of the sight, the throne decorated with gold and treasure balls, sat Alexei Lau Route Lemursil, the seventeenth emperor of the Lemursil Empire, overlooking them all.