The Soldier Shouted Save - Chapter 57



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The soldier shouted save (57)

A red sword that cuts down stars.

A week has passed since the Red Inspector in the story appeared in the Red Tide.

“Ugh, sob sob sob… … .”

“How could this happen… … .”

Who can laugh at this disaster that has left dozens of inspectors dead?

A man covering a grave with a white cloth declares.

“We will now proceed with the memorial service. Everyone, please bow your heads.”

A memorial service honoring those who fell victim to the Red Inspector.

I could hear someone muttering in the back row.

“… … Haha, my close friend and the best blacksmith on the continent has left this world.”

Turn your gaze following the voice.

We see Galtarang with a bitter face and tears in his eyes.

“This shouldn’t have happened again… … . I’m sorry… .”

Galtarang could not properly commemorate Dave, who had massacred dozens of people.

A secret look down at his hammer, his heirloom, wrapped in cloth.

I turned my back on him and left the memorial service.

“… … Where are you going?”

“I have to go see the results of the trial.”

It was easy to find where the trial was taking place.

A place where there is a knight order with the imperial emblem engraved on it.

After showing the guards our identification badges and heading towards the largest mansion in Red Hare, we saw the culprit of the incident kneeling and bound.

“Does Lucas Vermouth admit to using the sea flower to kill citizen Layla and to making blacksmith Dave hold the magic sword?”

The palace judge looks down at Lucas and asks, but an older man quickly steps forward and raises his voice.

“It’s all just speculation! The sea flower was brought by the master’s subordinates by mistake! It was an unexpected accident! And on top of that, the charge of holding the demon sword? Who would have known that the red sword was the demon sword!”

A lawyer dispatched from the Vermouth family of the Black Swordsmen.

He glances at the judge and jury, who are focused on him, and continues his speech.

“Does it make sense that you killed your daughter and incited her to revenge to create a demon sword? What benefit does our young master gain from this?”

When the palace judge nodded as if he understood the appealing voice.

The lawyer who made eye contact with me raised the corners of his mouth and pointed in my direction.

“It was wrong to start this trial based solely on the absurd words of a wandering prosecutor! I strongly urge in the name of Vermouth to dismiss the trial!”

Ultimately, it is the nobles who preside over the trials.

“…What family are you from?”

“You seem like a commoner.”

“Oh my god, you really put the son of a blacksmith on trial after listening to the words of such a baseless person?”

The nobles who served on the jury looked at me and muttered.

A disgusting look that looks down on someone.

But I don’t need to open my mouth to protest that gaze.

“The one who confessed Lucas Vermouth’s crimes was not a nameless wandering swordsman.”

The ones who stood before the judge proudly were the great nobles who controlled the economy of the Gerard Continent.

“He is the blue flash of the story of ‘Walker’s Golden Grass’ and the knight commander responsible for the safety of our Walker family.”

The jury looks shocked and dumbfounded at Marie Walker’s words, who proudly reveals her face without a scar.

“Oh my, is that the blue flash in the story?”

“Somehow… they said that you have a different level of nobility for a commoner.”

“Ahem, you’re still single? Find out more about the author.”

The nobles who showed a 180 degree different appearance from before Marie Walker opened her mouth.

Hye-rin cringes and whispers at the sight of the nobles looking in her direction.

“There are so many people in the palace, is it really okay for us to be here?”

“You and I are both well-known faces in the palace anyway.”

“… … But I feel a little uneasy about standing up so confidently… .”

Hyelin and Croa have already become targets of the ‘Imperial Palace Guild’.

However, things are very different from before when they had no choice but to be chased to the palace.

“We are no longer adventurers wandering the continent.”

A family that can proudly stand tall even in front of the family of blacksmiths.

“The archmage and knight commander belonging to Walker.”

The accusation of Lucas’s crimes and his attendance at the trial were also done after consulting with Marie Walker, who had visited Red Hare with Croa.

A position that even the palace cannot easily handle.

With Marie’s authority at his back and the gaze of the nobles upon him, Vermouth’s lawyer raises his voice once again with a puzzled look on his face.

“Bah, nothing will change just because your identity as a wandering inspector has been proven! It was not you who brought the flowers, but your other subordinates who mistakenly thought of you… .”

The old lawyer who had made a hasty visit to Red Hare missed the information about me, but Marie Walker was thorough.

“When you say that the men who brought the flowers by mistake are referring to these two people?”

When Marie Walker points out the two men belonging to the Heavenly Sword quickly approach and kneel.

“We, we don’t know anything!”

“I just placed the bundle Lucas gave me in the forge!”

Cheon Seong-geom did not take the blame for Lucas.

‘Because I neglected Cheon Seong Geum, who had his limbs eaten by Stone Worm and lost all his equipment.’

I guess I lost trust in Lucas after what happened at the Archery.

“Hmm, so it’s true that you killed the citizen, Layla, with the sea flower.”

“You, you guys! Where did you lie? Tell the truth!”

Men who remain silent despite Attorney Vermouth’s words.

Marie Walker smiles at the sight and raises her voice to the judge.

“Your Honor, we have already secured the defendant’s circumstantial evidence and witness statements that stated that Blacksmith Dave should hand over the red metal when he visited Cheon Seong Geum.”

“Hmm, is that true?”

The members of Cheon Seong Geum step forward hesitantly at the judge’s words.

“…it’s all true.”

As the men who survived the Demon Sword thanks to me speak out, Marie Walker gains momentum and raises her voice to the Judge.

“Also, to solidify the truth, I swear the oath of truth of the Freya religion upon our knight commander… … .”

At Marie Walker’s words, which were meant to point at me, I hurriedly brought the party ring to my lips.

“I must not swear to the truth.”

As I muttered that through the microphone privilege, Marie Walker heard my voice and cleared her throat to correct herself.

“Ahem, in order to reveal the truth more clearly, I propose an oath of truth to Lucas Vermuth!”

An oath of truth that only priests can swear.

Only the elders of Freya could exercise that oath on ordinary people.

Of course, it was absurd for an elder to participate in a petty trial, but this time the situation was different.

“I permit the Elder to be summoned.”

An important trial to question the son of a blacksmith.

At the words of the judge calling for the elder, Marie Walker smiled and Vermouth’s lawyer bowed his head.

“Then let’s postpone the trial until the elder visits.”

The judge closes the book of laws, which symbolizes justice, and takes away the hammer, which symbolizes judgment.

The jurors and nobles were impatient to spread this surprising fact among themselves.

“It’s unfortunate that it didn’t go as far as a summary judgment.”

We asked Marie Walker, who reported the victory with a smile, what was most important in this incident.

“What happened to the red one?”

“… It’s a shame, but I think the palace will take it back.”

“What do I have?”

A broken red sword that has not yet been restored.

Marie Walker ponders, then smiles mischievously.

“I have to return it voluntarily, but I guess it’s okay since the palace didn’t find out?”

“What happens if I get caught?”

“Well? I’ll think about it later when I find out.”

As I was about to leave the mansion after having a small talk with Marie Walker.

Lucas was seen being taken away by the guards.

“Inspiration, where is father?”

“That, that’s because Youngji is busy with work… … .”

“Ha, that’s true. As expected, it wasn’t my father… … .”

“Oh, no, Your Majesty! He just couldn’t come because he had something to do, but inside he was very worried… … .”

The lawyer dealing with Lucas, who is sweating profusely and looking uncomfortable.

“You must go now.”

As the guard urges Lucas to walk faster, he whispers something in the lawyer’s ear.

“… … .”

A voice that cannot be heard muttering something.

“Sir, what’s wrong?”

I ask Marie as I watch the man being dragged away and disappear into the corner of my vision.

“Where is he while the trial is underway again?”

“He’s the son of a blacksmith, so he’ll probably be imprisoned in the mansion?”

“… …Can you tell me where the mansion I’m being held in is?”

“If you need Allen, I’ll find out.”

I nod at those words and resume my steps where I had stopped.

Hyelin asks, looking at my face.

“Do you smell something?”

The actions of this guy are a bit suspicious.

“If I was abandoned by my family, I wouldn’t want to be judged like this.”

When Hye-rin nodded as if she understood what I said, Mari shook her head with a puzzled look on her face.

“No, there’s no way that the son of the blacksmith would be abandoned. Isn’t it rumored in high society that the blacksmith cherishes his son?”

“It’s different from what I heard from the Information Guild.”

“… Information Guild? Allen, you can’t trust them.”

“Even if the price was inflated, wasn’t the information accurate?”

“That’s true for information that can be confirmed with certainty. On the other hand, if it’s information that’s difficult to confirm, there are people who make up plausible information and sell it.”

It was a story that shattered my trust in the Information Guild in my memories, but I nodded obediently.

Because the ones who knew about the Information Guild weren’t the commoners who entrusted them with small requests, but the nobles who tried to dig up the weaknesses of their rival families.

“Still, I’d like to check.”

Even if the rumor that Lucas and Kensei were estranged was a lie, I didn’t think he would stay still.

My first meeting with him.

Because I still vividly remember him trying to kill me under the pretext of training.

“If you’re that worried, I’ll look into it right away. Allen, you go back first.”

Marie headed towards the judges and the palace staff, and I turned around and left the mansion.

Hye-rin glances back at the place where the nobles were gathered and speaks with a relaxed expression.

“I guess you don’t really care, just like you said. I thought you’d come after me as soon as you saw my face… It must be all thanks to you being a Walker.”

There is no burden in catching and killing wandering other-worlders.

But it would be a huge burden on the palace to point a sword at Walker’s Archmage without any justification.

“If I had known from the beginning that it would be resolved this way, I wouldn’t have had to worry.”

There is no such thing as ‘from the beginning’.

Because the results that exceeded expectations were followed by good connections.

“It turned out like this because Walker did well.”

From top-tier weapons to magic and Freya’s religious rituals.

There was currently only one way to obtain the World Tree’s leaves, which were of omnipotent use.

Just making friends with Marie Walker.

As such, Marie Walker was popularizing not only the non-commercial World Tree Leaves but also Raoul Grass on the continent, so Walker’s influence was running high on the continent.

“It’s good to have connections.”

Hyelin, who had been walking briskly with a bright face, threw herself on the bed as soon as she arrived at the inn.

“Hye-rin, you shouldn’t lie down like that… Wash up first… .”

Croa, who was displeased with the sight, grabbed Hye-rin’s arm, but Hye-rin buried her face in the pillow and buried herself under the blanket.

“I don’t know, I don’t know, I’ll just leave it like this… .”

Croa sighs at the sight.

As I smile at the two of them, who have become quite close during the week they have stayed here, Croa looks up at me.

“Brother, are you feeling okay? You suddenly can’t move your body, or your heart hurts….”

“No? I’m fine.”

“……is it so?”

When Croa, whose smile had disappeared, tried to reach out his hand towards my heart as if to check my condition.

The sound of precious footsteps was heard outside the door.

“Allen, I found out where the son of the Black Sword is being held… Do you want to hear it now?”

Marie hesitates to speak as she looks back and forth between me and Croa, who had always had to be apart, and then walks out the door.

“When Hye-rin wakes up, tell her that I went to where Lucas is.”

“… Okay, brother.”

After leaving Croa’s subtle gaze behind and going down the hallway, Marie took out a piece of parchment from her bosom.

It was a map of the Red Tide.

“Originally, we planned to have him imprisoned in a mansion to the west of here, but his lawyer requested a change of location because the space was too small.”

“Where did it change to?”

“It’s the third floor of the mansion where the trial was held earlier.”

“Okay. I’ll check it now.”

As I was about to glance at the map and leave the inn, Marie Walker stopped me.

“I was going to give you this as a surprise gift when you get back to Walker, but since you might need it today, I’ll give it to you first.”

“…gift?”

Marie Walker shows me what she has been hiding behind her back.

“This is the Azure Dragon Sword that Allen returned to the store. I thought he liked it, so I bought it on my way here.”

A whopping 70 thousand gold coins.

I can’t help but laugh at Marie Walker’s words about how she had no problem paying gold coins that could buy even a small mine.

“You don’t have to worry. If it weren’t for Allen, Walker wouldn’t exist.”

Honestly, I couldn’t really hear what Marie was saying.

I couldn’t help but laugh when I saw the well-maintained Blue Dragon Sword.

“Honestly, at times like this, you act like a child.”

He does not deny that, throws the sword he had on his waist into the room, and leaves the inn.

Dark night.

As I walked past the heavily depressed people who seemed to still be attending the memorial service, the largest mansion in Red Hare came into view.

‘There doesn’t seem to be a problem.’

Guards who guard the mansion without fail.

‘Shall we watch from there?’

As I was about to take up position on the roof of the building across from the mansion and continue my surveillance, something passed by my sight.

‘What just happened?’

A hazy white object rising into the sky.

He ponders over its identity and draws up black magic with his eyes.

[The world of command is activated.]

A world where colors have disappeared, with only black and white existing.

A chill envelops my body as I realize the identity of the white object floating in the sky.

‘…How many people did you kill?’

Pure white spirits covering the mansion.

I immediately returned my vision to its original state and kicked the floor.

“Hey, wait a minute! Stop!”

“Catch that guy!”

Guards chasing me as I jump over the mansion’s wall.

But the guards had no choice but to stop after stepping inside the mansion.

“What the heck is this… … .”

Red blood flowing down the stairs.

I run up the stairs, looking at the corpses of guards strewn all over the place.

“… Hey, wait a minute!”

Easily get past the guards blocking you and go up to the third floor.

Then, someone’s voice is heard.

“Do, Do-ryeon… . T, you can’t do this… . Even now… .”

An old lawyer extending a trembling hand to dissuade someone.

I looked at the man’s face covered in blood.

“… … I was going to come find you, and you came?”

The son of the black sword who smiles at me.

“Is this your second time fighting swords?”

In his right hand he held a red sword.