The Mad Dog of the Dukes House - Chapter 90



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Episode 90 27. The train goes (3)

5.

It’s been four days since Caron and Utula crossed the border.

“… … Is this a country?”

“Of course! This is the Kingdom of Zion! A country for humans!”

“That’s not what I was asking now!”

“Well, is that so?”

Current record: 12 wins, 0 losses.

All of these victories were achieved against the bandits that had attacked by Caron and Utula.

Caron let out a deep sigh as he looked at the ‘bandit’ lying foaming at the mouth right in front of him.

‘Bandits’ who attacked with farming tools.

If they were just ordinary bandits, I would have just cut off their heads without a second thought, but the problem was that they were not ordinary bandits.

“Why is a guy who has never even held a weapon properly committing banditry?”

Caron lifted the collar of the bandit who had passed out before his eyes.

And then he lightly slapped her cheek with his magic power.

Then the bandit opened his eyes, shivered, and immediately screamed.

“Please, save me!”

I don’t even know how many times this has happened.

Those who looked like they had never killed a person before came running at me trembling in fear, and after getting hit a few times, they begged for their lives.

“I, I was trying to kill you… … .”

“… … I didn’t mean to kill you. I had no choice but to get you food… … . Right?”

“child…….”

“… … The children are starving. Is that right?”

“Uh, how?”

“Haaah.”

Caron sighed and let go of the ‘bandit’, or rather the farmer’s collar.

Then he took out a piece of jerky from his bosom and threw it to the farmer, saying:

“If I see you again, I’ll kill you, so take this and get out. Understood?”

Then the man grabbed the jerky with his hands and said, tears streaming down his face.

“Thank you! Thank you so much!”

The man carrying the jerky in his bosom ran away without looking back.

Caron looked at his back and sighed deeply.

I had a rough idea of ​​what was going on in the Southern Kingdom, but what I actually faced was even more dire.

In the granary regions we had passed through over the past four days, crops were failing and there was no village left untouched.

A situation where only the elderly, women, and children remained as young men were conscripted.

There were many cases where people went into the village to get food, but ended up giving food back instead.

“Are you going to spare my life this time too?”

Utula asked Charon with his arms crossed, and Charon sighed and nodded.

“Then kill me?”

“No, that would be dishonorable.”

We’ve already been attacked twelve times so far.

The problem is that they all rushed in with trembling hands.

The eyes of those who rush forward despite knowing they will die.

Caron frowned as he recalled their gazes.

“If it were a piece of trash like Leandro, I wouldn’t have felt any pangs of conscience.”

I heard the rumor.

The story goes that anyone who can hold a weapon becomes either a soldier or a thief.

The long war has taken so much from the people who live here.

Caron bit his lip as he recalled what his father, Pale, had said to him.

“A good warrior does not starve his tribe. Without food, the tribe will disappear. Therefore, the battle cannot take precedence over the tribe. If the tribe disappears, who on earth should the warriors fight for?”

Utula said, looking at the back of the attacker who had now moved away.

“There is no honor here. Dying here is an dishonorable death.”

At those words, Caron nodded in agreement.

“Yes, this is a land where even honor has died. This is a really fucked up place.”

Charon spat out a curse and put the guillotine back into its scabbard.

At this rate, it would take four more days to reach the Kingdom of Keas.

It would have been nice to have access to a horse or carriage, but unfortunately there was no place to rent one.

“If I had known this would happen, I would have borrowed a horse from Leven.”

Urtula expressed his discomfort at Charon’s complaint.

“There was no horse in Leben that could carry me, Charon.”

“You have to run. And even if you borrowed a horse, you wouldn’t have any hay to feed it.”

A country that pours most of its national power into maintaining its military forces.

As a result, the internal affairs were ruined and the country’s public security was in shambles.

The problem is that other kingdoms are not much different from the Kingdom of Zion.

At this rate, it seemed like it would take another two weeks to reach our destination.

Of course, that was assuming that no accidents occurred.

“Now even finding food is a job.”

Caron looked annoyed as he checked the food remaining in his pockets.

“Well, it was Caron’s idea to share the food.”

“You just need to eat less.”

“……sorry.”

“We should hunt on the way, you know.”

“I, Utula! I am the best hunter in our tribe. Leave the hunting to me.”

Utula spoke, pounding his chest, and Charon shook his head.

If the situation was similar elsewhere, it might have been difficult to even find animals to prey on.

“Let’s go. We have a long way to go.”

“good night.”

“If you see an animal on the way, catch it and bring it back to me. Do you know how to slaughter it?”

“Don’t worry, I’ve even slaughtered orcs before.”

“Why the orc… … No. No.”

The two began running south again.

It was an unpleasant and bitter journey.

6.

Same time.

Near the Southern Great Forest, located in the southeastern part of the Kingdom of Keas.

“Sister Leon! You said you sent support from Cheonghaesung?”

A young man was swinging a sword while covered in demon blood all over his body.

A dog-like monster rushed toward the young man, and the young man mercilessly swung his thin sword and cut off the monster’s neck with a single stroke.

“No, at this rate, when are we going to find the source and destroy it?”

But the monsters keep coming.

I don’t know how many I killed in this battle.

The blond youth, Leo Reston, raised his sword again with a scream.

After a while, a high-pitched voice rang out from far away.

“You’re going to be an adult soon, so why do you keep nagging like that? You never talked back when you were next to Caron!”

“No, so when on earth is the support coming?”

Bam.

Leo shouted as he cut the monster’s neck again.

Then Leon replied with annoyance.

“You said you sent it a few days ago! From Cheonghae Castle to here? Is it a distance that can be reached in one day?”

“We’ll both die before you help, Sister!”

“If you keep whining, just die!”

Leon also dealt with the monsters while screaming.

The two of them fought off the monsters without rest for about 30 minutes, and were only able to rest after they had defeated the last monster.

“Ugh, ugh. Seriously… … I really feel like I’m going to die.”

There were corpses of monsters everywhere, but Leo paid no attention and stretched out his body on the ground.

I had long since gotten used to the pungent smell of blood.

If time permitted, I could even sleep among the corpses of monsters.

“Hey, drink some water.”

Leon threw the water bottle at Leo, who was lying down.

Leo took the water bottle while lying down, opened the cap, and drank the water.

gulp.

Leo let out a deep breath as he emptied his water bottle in an instant.

“Ha, I feel like I’m finally going to live. Really… … . I really feel like I’m going to die, Sister.”

“It’s okay. You won’t die from this.”

Leon answered vaguely and sat down next to Leo.

Her long blonde hair was already stained with the monster’s blood.

If they were an ordinary person, they would have died from the toxicity of the monster’s blood, but the two of them were unharmed.

This is because the direct bloodlines of the Duke of Reston were immune to dark magic.

“Want to eat some beef jerky?”

“yes.”

“ruler.”

A sweet rest after a battle.

Leo sighed as he chewed the jerky Leon handed him.

It’s already been a month since I came here.

The mission was to find and eliminate the source of the demon, but the two of them just couldn’t get any faster.

A hellish mission where most of the day, excluding sleeping time, is spent fighting monsters.

Leo glanced at Leon and asked.

“sister.”

“uh.”

“What is the size of the support force?”

“I only heard that they sent them according to the situation. But didn’t they send two squads?”

“During the fight, I kept feeling like something was stuck in my throat. Am I feeling a little unwell? I feel a little chilly… … .”

Leon responded to Leo’s words with a calm expression.

“I told you not to think about anything else during battle, right? If you do, you’ll get your throat ripped off by a monster. Since I’m the only one here, if you die, all I can do is bury your body roughly.”

“That’s what they say, that’s what they say. Ugh.”

Now Leo was starting to miss Cheonghaesung.

It’s already been two years since I’ve been to Cheonghae Castle.

Because I’m busy carrying out my mission without rest, I don’t hear news from Cheonghae Castle often.

I only contact my parents very occasionally.

Even that became difficult after being dispatched to the Southern Kingdom.

Because the communication device was not working properly for some unknown reason.

If it had been a solo mission, I probably would have gone crazy a long time ago.

While Leo was resting and thinking about this and that, Leon slapped his knee and said.

“Come to think of it, it’s already time.”

“Yes? When?”

“It’s been four years.”

“If you suddenly tell me that four years have passed, how can I… … .”

Leo finally realized why he had been feeling unwell for so long.

“… …Caron’s presence?”

“Yeah. I guess it’s over?”

“and.”

Has it already been four years since the mad dog of Cheonghae Castle was sealed in Cheonghae Castle?

Leo shuddered as he thought of his cousin.

“That’s why I felt bad.”

“You were really scared of Caron. The kid is good. I told you that he always gets along with me even when I bother him.”

“That’s not normal, even for you… … Oh, my. Don’t draw your sword. Anyway, it’s because you didn’t grow up with Karon. You’d know if you spent time with him when you were young, right?”

A more fearsome being than any monster we have ever faced.

That was what Leo thought Charon was.

Even if the monsters rush in with ignorance, that guy Charon is completely unpredictable.

Originally, that kind of guy was scarier.

“Could it be that Caron was sent from Cheonghae Castle?”

Leon said in a nonchalant tone.

Then Leo waved his hand violently.

“Hey, even so, would you send a guy like that to the South? I told you, that guy Karon could even start a war.”

The elders of the family will also have a general understanding of Caron.

The southern part of the continent is currently a powder keg on fire.

What would happen if we sprinkled the oil called Charon on it?

On that day, hell descends upon this world.

But Leon shrugged and said.

“If you think about it, there’s no support force as strong as Caron. He can move independently, and his power is reliable.”

“… … But Caron hasn’t had any real-world experience in four years… … He might have gotten weaker… … .”

“Do you really think so?”

“……no.”

Wouldn’t a monster be a monster if time passed?

It just becomes a more grown up monster.

“But are you going to throw the bomb out as soon as your guard duty is over?”

“The original principle was to dispose of explosives as quickly as possible.”

“Hey… … Really, hey… … .”

Leo quickly closed his mouth.

Because originally, words were meant to become seeds.

But unfortunately, those words had already become seeds.

The best bomb that Cheonghaesung boasted was already being delivered.

There’s a mad dog living in the duke’s house