Unnamed Memory

The news brought to the bedroom before nightfall was enough to wake Ruth up.

He heads to the office with his jacket in his feathers, where he hears more from his men.

- A report that someone set fire to a meadow outside the walls.

That would be tantamount to a threat directed against this castle itself.

Fortunately, although the watch quickly noticed and turned it off, sometimes the air was dry, and the green in front of the castle gate almost disappeared, he said. In conjunction with the water used to extinguish the fire, Ruth looked disgusted that the rat would have blue muscles, but after hearing more angry reports, he revealed his anger.

A letter that he was being thrown inside the castle gate.

It was written to her, though Celedia's name was not there.

'If the child's life is spared, come outside'.

"That kid..."

Celedia, who was shown the letter, was cut off from saying so. White skin becomes pale.

"Do you have any idea?

"Probably Zaus'... deceased son."

"Oh."

That would be a businesslike thing for her. He is about to take his life from his father to his son.

Ruth looked around at his men assembled in the office as he saw a shivering thin finger squeeze the letter.

"Well, it seems you've done something quite fancy over there."

"It's like war. Let me remind you what castle you're fighting about."

"The fact that the other side is not named would mean that it is moving in private and in secret. If so, I wonder if a little counterattack is necessary"

Lanoma and Ill, who were letting their opinions fight yesterday, are showing all their will today. That would mean, for one thing, that there has been financial damage.

While many others support counter-attacks, only Vernon speaks out cautiously.

"But even if we can punish those who set fire to it, I don't think they'll give up on it. I wonder if you can either restrain the man who did this, or send Miss Celedia to the King's capital, or you can exchange them."

"Sure."

I don't even think the General himself, who is heavily used in other countries, is here. It's probably his subordination watching what's going on around the castle.

Then it would be impossible to withdraw from the subordination if the other person sent in additional personnel. Ruth looks at Celedia as she turns her mind around.

Having lived a privileged life, maybe she's not used to getting angry. He was eating his teeth and shaking his shoulders as if he could not successfully represent the rage swirling through his heart. The man asks the side of it.

"You're not going to abandon your child?

"No!

"Okay."

That's all Ruth says and gets up. He looked around at his men in turn and finally stopped his gaze over Celedia.

"You heard yesterday. I thought we should forget our grudges and live in peace, or we should fight."

"... Yep"

"The answer is not easy. I've been worried about you for three years."

Celedia is silent as if she had been poked in the void. Some of my men changed their expressions and some turned out to be suspicious. Rig looks up at her husband.

"So let's give you time to worry too. Do you forget about vengeance or avenge it?"

"Give me some time?

"It's an easy thing, Celedia. But it will be difficult. - Are you ready to stand on the battlefield?

She didn't know if it was herself who took a breath of tension.

However, when Celedia gazed at Ruth with her open eyes, she nodded to the question without hesitation.

A division that leads from street to castle.

The man watching the road with a binoculars from the watchtower on the wall laughed as he raised his face. Tell the colleague next door what you saw.

"You're about to have fifty horsemen. I'm not wearing anything that the country would know. Sounds like you don't want it to be a problem between countries over there either. Implicit understandings."

"Set fire to the gardens of people's houses and say it often. Let's kill them all."

"Then it makes no sense. Just call the shooter. We don't have much time."

"Okay."

Looking around to panic, the man flaunts his shoulder.

And he focuses again on the cavalry that approaches him when he sets up his binoculars... and when he finds the boy tied up in them, he spits uncomfortably away.

The task ordered is to bring home one daughter alive.

The captain of the unit, who had even prepared the hostages for this purpose, smiled unexpectedly, confirming that he had opened the castle gate from the other side at the time he had promised. Retain the troops that have proceeded while measuring the distance.

Seredia, who has walked out of the castle gate, is followed by as many cavalry as their troops. Perhaps the promise of handing over the hostages will really be kept, which also means intimidation.

before them. When the man looked back at one of his men, he instructed the hostages to stand forward with their jaws.

The boy tied with a rope, full of creativity, stares at Ceredia with a vain eye when he is pulled up. I let my mouth open and close small, but the item dripped as it appeared to be voiceless.

My daughter looked at the condition and seemed to tremble in anger. Comes out a step forward.

"Let that child go!

"Then you come here first, my lady."

"No! Untie that child first!

A man riding next to Celedia stands. The troop leader whispered a small tongue in his mouth when he guessed who it was.

The king brother of the land of Lisai and lord of the castle of Willidis - a man who binds the soldiers who guard the streets, not a glimmer.

Ruth, who has pulled out his sword, looks to uninvited visitors with cold eyes.

The troop leader, who nearly noticed the glare, strayed his gaze from Ruth when he noticed his own fright.

"Avoid trouble..."

I originally set fire to the outside of the castle because of a threat, but if I were to take this castle from the front, fifty horsemen would not be enough. You'll need at least a few thousand.

He cut the boy's rope when he glanced at his men. Before Celedia, slap the boy on the back.

"Okay, let me walk this guy over there. You come here at the same time. All right?"

"Okay."

The boy resisted for the first time in his hand trying to push him forward, but when he was thrust wide, he rolled straight on the road. Celedia screams.

"Stop!

"If you think so, come quickly."

She looked back at Ruth only once and ran over to the fallen and lying boy. On her knees, on Seredia's back trying to help, but two soldiers walk over to take her.

Ruth doesn't move.

It was another person who moved. Two men, who were about to grab Celedia's arm up, glance up one short voice after another.

"What!?

"- An arrow!

Two arrows shot from the walls. It was plundering the arms and shoulders of two men, respectively.

What are you going to do? The troop leader stares at Ruth as he pulls out his sword.

But apart from that, having suffered an arrow wound, when they pressed the voice of pain to death, they reached out to Celedia in frustration. I try to keep my daughter, who is my goal, in my hands.

But the hand never touched her.

The men, who were only plundered and wounded, crawled four on the spot when they changed their faces to earthy while they saw. When he vomits blood hard, he falls to the dry ground without a voice.

Someone realized what that meant and shouted up as soon as possible.

"Poison arrow!? cowardly!"

"Which is more cowardly."

The mocking voice belongs to Ruth.

The troop leader kicks the horse's belly when he teeth to the smell of things.

From the beginning, I guess Ruth didn't even intend to give Celedia away.

They even shot poison arrows. At the expense of the hostages. But you must be willing to impose sanctions on them.

But they, too, just get Celedia, that's fine.

When the man shook up the sword he pulled out, he headed straight for Celedia. Slashed by a boy trying to shelter her.

But that's exactly when I tried to wave my sword down, something black jumped from side to side. With a strong shock, the man falls off the horse. He was slammed to the ground and his sword moved away from his hand.

"Damn......"

Rigg, who had the man down, raised a low voice of intimidation as he jumped over it like he was dancing on it. The man reaches out to pick up his sword with all the pain in his body.

Before that, Celedia stood.

"How dare you get Zaus...!

A grunt full of hate. Pull out the dagger the woman's hand had hidden. When he saw the blade, which was black and discolored, the man changed his complexion.

- It's a poison blade.

The effect is obvious if you were looking at an earlier subordinate.

The man held the woman's wrist aggressively avoiding the dagger protruded. Keep rubbing them hard.

It was like a hilarious dance, a struggle with too many differences in power, but without having to wait for the intervention of others, ended with a small scream of a woman.

Celedia, who cut off her arm with the dagger she had, spasms her body greatly.

A face that gets earthy. As she squatted on the dirt as it was, she coughed hard. Vibrant blood spits over the soil.

"Dear Seredia!

In the boy's arms trying to hold her, the woman shook her body to freeze. Raise your arms to a man who stands up to his faults.

A discolored finger pointed at him - but soon he lost his power and fell.

"Dear Seredia! Stay with me!

She shakes, but she doesn't open her eyes anymore.

The man turned himself in to see the mission fail. When he jumps on his own horse, he orders him to retreat.

At that time, heavy arrow rain had already fallen on the troops led by the man. Avoid one man after another falling off the horse and stopping moving, and the man lifts up his voice.

"Retreat! My daughter is dead! Retreat!"

I've lost my goal, but I can't even look at it when it comes to getting into full-scale combat with the army of Lisai on this one. The fact that Celedia is dead is painful, but it also means that if you return the back, the person who knows the evil deeds of the superior officer disappeared. There are still as many others as there are noble daughters. The man drove his horse with all his might when he excused himself so heartily. Escape the streets to the border.

What's left is about twenty corpses and a boy's sobbing.

Ruth kneels as she walks over to him, holding the woman's body and weeping. That's how he lifted the woman out of the boy's arms, and he spoke in a naive voice.

"Enough, Celedia"

"Huh...?

Before the startling boy looked up, the woman slowly opened her eyes.

She looked at her hands, which turned earthy - "This herb is really amazing," she exclaimed in surprise.

It is naturally the Nez who has become the angriest mind to be set on fire to the meadow.

When he heard this story from his husband, he fried two kinds of grass and gave it to him.

One of them is poison. of immediate effect, causing people to die as soon as they enter through the wound.

And the other is - it was just a harmless herb that temporarily discolored a person's skin tone.

"Damn, I wanted to get more flashy."

"Don't say that. And then there's trouble."

Ten days after it was all over, Ruth stood outside the castle gate with Lanoma.

In front of them stops a carriage of carriages in front of them, in which a coffin is carried. Not only that, but when she began to eat enough food for ten days, and the semblance of the journey was loaded by the human hand of the castle, Celedia returned before Ruth and bowed her head. "Thank you so much for your help," he says in apology.

"Is there anything missing? He said he'd pick you up, so maybe he'll be okay."

"It's too much. Thank you for everything."

That's what I said and laughed at her, but she also seemed to have a slightly bitter smile.

In my country, a woman who was to die. That's how she secretly goes to her uncle, and I guess she'll bore to spend the respite she's about to be given.

- Forgetfulness or revenge.

I don't know when that answer will come out. Ruth drops her eyes on the little ring she is fitting.

"Don't lose it."

"Yes, because this is the only thing that proves who I am."

If she intends to return to the country in the future to prove herself, then this ring will have power.

The mark of the Lord passed down to her house from generation to generation. It's what the man who tried to get her, he finally didn't get.

Ruth looks down with serene eyes at Celedia, who holds the ring dear as if it were her father's shape.

"I chose the men of arms for my escort. Don't worry, I'll take care of it."

"Thank you, Your Highness"

She left in front of the man when she bowed her head again. Go up to the carriage carriage carriage with the samurai. A boy sat on your stand. Ten cavalry rides defending that carriage, each turning his horse's head. The boy of your lord pulled his reins as he bowed to Ruth.

A slow moving carriage. Lanoma looks bored to drop off the shadows that keep the streets away. When he made a big stretch, he slapped his usual light mouth toward his husband.

"Totally. Your Highness would have loved to go with you. That would have made it more interesting."

I don't want to rub it with the king.

A rig follows him like a shadow under the foot of a man with his heel back. Towards that back Lanoma shrugged.

"But you're a man who can't hang his head on a king."

A castle getting smaller. Celedia sighed softly as she stared at the figure from the carriage carrier.

A samurai sitting next to her looks worried when she hears it.

"Dear Celedia, how are you doing..."

"Oh, it's nothing. I just remembered a little."

"Reminded me?

- That's that view I saw on the moon and night.

I couldn't help but be scared of the moonlight. Underneath it everything is dyed vividly.

But only then, in front of them alone, did it look terribly beautiful.

Celedia remembers the figure of a powerful man and the shadow that seems to lean on him, breathing another. The path he once took as well. It is up to you to decide what future you will have as you walk there.

But no matter what path you choose, you will have no remorse there.

When Celedia carved it into her heart, she turned her back on the castle she was leaving and looked across the street.