Knights, Let’s Smash Them - Chapter 146



146 – How to break the Marquess (2)

‘I almost got f*cked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!’

I left the mansion without even having time to think. No, why is the saintess who should be stuck in the Great Joint Strarum coming out of there…… ?

I hesitated for a while because it was a woman when I suddenly attacked her.

It’s a pity that Katrin ran away right before she released her holy power.

Since he was wearing the hood deeply, he probably couldn’t see his face, but if he was caught, it would be quite difficult.

It is the position that the mansion is plastered with all kinds of devilish symbols and anti-imperialist symbols.

We weren’t close friends from the beginning, and even if we managed to clear up the misunderstanding somehow, just knowing that I used a ruse to gulp the Marquis Spirit would end up being caught with a fatal weakness.

‘If I end up kidnapping you to the real administrative office of the Supreme Court, you will be re-scheduled for a job in a black company!!’

I’d rather give up the marquess. Let’s be satisfied with revenge just by killing the warlock in addition to acting as the goddamn lord.

Like a sergeant trying not to get caught by a hair test right before my final vacation, I cast cover.

To get out of the mansion, he didn’t spare the stealth steps handed down from Alroy’s vision, which would make his body tired after using it once.

If you were a paladin who would be mobilized to escort Saint Catherine, there was a high possibility that you would be quickly pursued.

So finally.

I returned to the stable where I left my horse for a while, and left the city immediately, leaving behind three silver coins.

It was still in the middle of dawn, far before sunrise, but now was not the time to worry about beasts, thieves, and monsters that would come out of the mountains.

I didn’t know that as a red-handed criminal of ‘blasphemy’ right away, the earthenware pot would be broken by the vicious mace, or I might get caught in a weak spot and do ‘service’ that I didn’t want.

After running for hours like that, I finally arrived at Strarum and moved to the inn where Xiane was staying.

The sky was already bright.

Since there were people sneaking around, I had to go inside before anyone noticed.

If I had been suspicious that I had been wandering around for no reason, I could have caught a clue about his whereabouts.

I haven’t seen my face for almost all day yesterday. Even if you win, you’re too suspicious.

‘But I can’t go into my room?’

Come to think of it, in Strarum, the men’s quarters were shared in the restaurant in the center, and the women stayed in the Merchant Guild building.

It was a scene that unfolded as reinforcements were added to the already narrow village.

It is also true that there is no particular problem in living, but there is nothing better to arouse suspicion than a situation in which an administrative officer who has not shown his face all night suddenly appears in the early morning.

I had a history of being attracted to aggro a few times, so I had no choice but to be more cautious.

So I finally decided to take extreme measures.

“Kyaaak!!! Who, who—!?!”

“It’s me, Xianne!”

“Lubern Eilroy Administrator…… ?”

“I was with Xianne here today? You know!!?”

“Yes? Yes!?! What is this all of a sudden!!”

Sianne had a habit of not locking the windows when sleeping.

In addition to that, she has been assigned her own private room as a privilege as the leader of the knights.

There is no better place to avoid staring in the first place.

As if she had just woken up, Xianne, who was defenseless in her pajamas, saw me and hurriedly crawled into the futon.

Her blonde hair was clinging to her face as if she had drool and slept.

A face without humiliation even in the midst of that.

If only she had a personality that jumps around a few times a day and suddenly babbles unnecessarily, she would be a true girl in the world.

“Did you really go to the Marquis’s Territory?”

“Yes.”

I gave a clear answer to Xianne with a dumbfounded expression.

“I must be crazy!! What else are you decorating!!”

“How long will Rupel be satisfied with the county? To be honest, Yeongji played a big role in the grand expedition, but didn’t he receive nothing from the imperial family and get hit?”

He participated in the war with a large army, but one defeat shattered Count Dionaos Rupel’s dream.

“A monarch who serves Young Ji-min wholeheartedly. If Count Rupell truly dreams of becoming such a monarch, then I must make that dream come true.”

“Ah! Really! I! Testimony!!”

Slap slap, Xianne bit her lip and slapped me on the shoulder. As expected, the taste of the hand was very spicy.

“If something goes wrong, how are you going to fix it!”

“Oh, that’s okay, I’ve already done the warlock.”

“Yes…… ?”

Xianne hesitated as if something was broken, then lay down on the pick bed as if her head was spinning.

“I don’t know! It was done by the administrator, so now the administrator takes care of it!”

“No, it’s really okay? There really won’t be any problems. Even the imperial family will move on without saying anything…….”

“Do you have to take responsibility for that?”

“Captain Xianne, I will go in.”

Kikiiik.

Kung.

It was then that the closed door opened. Vice-captain Emain Lua strode into the room, and our eyes met.

She looked back and forth between Xian Ne and me, who were peeking out only her face from under her blanket.

“Oops.”

With meaningful eyes, he shrugged his eyebrows three times, then turned around and left the room.

In the meantime, the lines he muttered were even more spectacle.

“Lucy will like it.”

Anyway, the misunderstanding with the Snow Leopard Knights seemed to be deepening.

***

A series of incidents that occurred in the Marquis of Karahan were immediately reported to the Imperial Family and the Imperial Court.

In addition to the report on the plague that has already occurred in Rupel Manor, in addition to the letter Lubern has delivered in advance.

When all of the ‘conclusive evidence’ secured by the saintess herself was delivered, the Imperial Office of Inspection and the Office of Heresy Judgment fell on fire.

No matter how much the empire lives in an era of peace, the bureaucrats are corrupt as a result.

The era of turmoil, which was dangerous just a few years ago, has not yet been forgotten in people’s memories.

The war with the barbarians in the northwest ended only after the reign of the current emperor, Iros van Kar of Labetua.

Based on their excellent navigation and shipbuilding skills, they plundered every day from the coast of the empire, and at one time, even some territories were occupied.

The imperial family, especially the Inspection Department, was very sensitive to the ‘anti-imperialists’ or the ‘barbarians’ in question.

Even if there is even the slightest hint of entanglement, it’s normal to go out and have a blast.

If you were unlucky, you could get summarily punished on the spot without any trial.

But what?

Is this really skinny?

The mansion was full of all sorts of unclean things, as well as the corpses of undisposed victims.

The survivors safely rescued by Alroy of Luvern conclusively proved that Erha—that is, Phillips, the senior advisor to Farneri Karahan, the current lord’s agent—was a black magician affiliated with the Blue Cross.

Of course, the whereabouts of the person who saved them was unknown.

“Have you ever met the saintess?”

“…… I don’t want to think much of that night.”

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When the Imperial Family Inspection Department and the Imperial Office of Heresy Judgment arrived, Saint Catherine said that her role was over, and she left her Marquisate as if she were running away.

The heresy judges judged that Phillips had done something that would frighten even the saintess who never lost her composure.

“This ungodly man!!!”

“Burn it!”

“Aww!!!!”

She was burned at the stake without going through a proper trial. She was fortunate for Lubern Eilroy.

‘Because this is expected to some extent.’

Her identity has already been exposed, and her belonging to the Blue Cross Society has also been identified. She’s sucked up all the information to suck, so it’s no wonder it’s not worth keeping alive, right?

And Phillips wasn’t the only one who was put in as fuel for the splendid campfire of the Bureau of Heresy.

The knights and squires of the marquis family who had a friendly relationship with Phillips or who further cooperated. His lower officials were among them.

With a total of 20 people on board, the smell of squid lingered throughout the day in the capital of the Marquis Territory.

That doesn’t mean that everyone involved in this case was burned at the stake.

The high-ranking officials were spared their lives, but in fact, they were stripped of all their offices and exiled according to imperial law.

“It’s true that I stuck with the warlock! I didn’t know that damn bastard was an anti-imperialist!!”

“No, the mansion is decorated like that, how could I not know? Do you think that makes sense?”

“Really! Just a few days ago, there were no such blasphemous symbols in the mansion!!”

“Shut up, traitors! Imperial law saved your heinous lives, but are you still talking nonsense!!”

They insisted on leniency in their own way.

There was no way the imperial inspectors would just listen to those words as they were already attached to the warlock.

Besides, was Lubern Alroy an ordinary person?

I’ve already decided to boil the fearless barking Marquis to make delicious Yeongji Poshintang.

After detailed reports on high-ranking officials and their behavior were also delivered directly to the Imperial Inspection Department.

The lies and the truth are cleverly intertwined, and the interior of the mansion is also clear.

It was also true that there was no way to prove it, even in a really unfair situation.

In the end, the high-ranking officials head to the capital, Constantina, and are beheaded, or even take their lives and disappear to a faraway country—. In fact, I had no choice but to choose one option.

And the situation in the parish of the Marquis of Karahan, which was as corrupt as the high-ranking officials, was no different.

“How dare you abandon the will of the light and walk into the darkness with your own feet. Can you truly be called a shepherd!”

“The divine punishment will fall!!”

Priests and monks who had direct contact with Phillips were transported to Laterano by ropes as they were treated with exceptional legal rights.

According to the principle, all the priests and nuns in the parish in charge had to be punished by guilt-by-association all at once.

Through Catherine Sisela’s creed, those who were unable to exercise the right to veto the orders of indirect or high-ranking priests were barely able to obtain indulgences.

Since it went over to the Heretic Inquisition anyway, even if you go to Laterano, you won’t have a very good end.

At the time when the Marquis of Karahan was crowded with people flocking to investigate and enforce the law.

I faced another crisis.

“Oh sh*t.”

“What? What did you say now?”

“I didn’t say anything. I just said ten. The number of knights brought back is exactly ten.”

Ax eyes that made me want to eat just by looking at them were staring at me.

Her hair color is needlessly the same as Xian Ne’s, so it’s a look that could be mistaken for from a distance.

More than anything else, compared to Xian Ne, the size of her breasts and the quality of her personality are as different as the inner core of the earth and the universe, a f*cking woman.

“I thought I would send a few knights at best, but I never thought that Captain Levia would come personally.”

As I slowly scratched my insides and sarcastically, the old man’s expression, which I roughly understood, was rotting in real time.

Levia Irtarte.

The golden lion of the Black Lion Knights.

‘I guess the brute force is not good.’

I had to resist the urge to blow my middle finger in the face.

Dealing with Levia was far more difficult than devouring her Marquis Karahan anima.