Chapter 106
Allendo shrugged off the rather strong concern and adjusted his clothes.
“I should say I’m fully recovered.”
“Excuse me?”
“I should honestly say that I’m fully recovered, but I’m pretending to find the culprit behind it.”
“From the Holy Kingdom?”
The first aide, who had been expressionless the whole time, now wore a rather serious expression.
“Even so, that won’t stop them from investigating.”
It was a fact known even to children that no country on the continent was as stubborn as the Holy Kingdom.
Allendo nodded as if he already knew this.
“True. But what right do they have to investigate me?”
“Ah—”
“If I were about to die, it would make sense not to accept the Holy Kingdom’s help. But since I’m perfectly fine, what right do they have to investigate my body?”
“That’s correct. However, in the end, they’ll try to. And somehow, the House of Duke Dalton will find out as well.”
It had been four days since Velia and Carlton left.
“Let’s just hold on for about eleven more days.”
“Excuse me?”
Allendo furrowed his brows in frustration, sensing something unusual.
He had the strange feeling that Velia and Carlton might be behind the Holy Kingdom’s relic theft incident.
“Sigh, that’s why friends are important.”
Muttering an incomprehensible remark to himself, Allendo left the room.
After this matter was over, they had promised to fully share the information from the Misty Forest.
So:
“Everyone must play their part.”
“Please help Velia. That’s all I ask of Your Highness.”
Thinking of the woman’s words for no particular reason, Allendo quickly left the palace.
“Please rest.”
Danny, who had brought Velia and Rude to a barracks, stepped back with a polite bow.
“What should we do?”
“For now, treat them with utmost care.”
Fiddling with the bag hidden in his sleeve, Danny quickened his pace.
Even a few years ago, it was hard to believe this place was called Rebron.
Those who reflected on and repented for past mistakes were moving forward to live a new life.
Heard from afar, the laughter of children sounded like the world being reborn to Danny.
For Danny, born and raised here, it was both divine blessing and arrival.
Danny entered a building at the center of the village and walked briskly.
The further inside, the quieter and emptier it became.
Only Danny’s footsteps echoed through the hallway.
After walking for some time, he found the back of a man sitting alone in a silent hall, and Danny slowed to a halt.
“I pay my respects.”
“A guest has arrived?”
“Yes. As you mentioned before, a young lady who seems to have been raised with care, and a young knight have come here. However, two men with unusual appearances are not visible.”
“Is that so? Very well. You may leave.”
With the man’s leisurely tone, Danny pushed the questions forming in his mind aside and slowly withdrew.
For a man too great to even look up at, he was like a god in Danny’s eyes.
The man who changed Rebron, known for its lowliness.
The man who suddenly appeared one day and banished Rebron’s misfortune.
And the man who saved the dying temple in one fell swoop.
Once Danny completely disappeared from the hall without a word, the man slowly rose.
“Really…”
The composed light in the man’s face disappeared.
With a somewhat anxious demeanor, he quickly moved to a corner of the hall.
Opening a section of the white wall revealed a door.
Entering, he descended the dark stairs rapidly.
How far he went, he heard a clear singing voice in the distance.
“Hmm hmm hmm—”
Following the voice of a child, the man walked.
Soon, he saw a girl behind iron bars.
“Frey.”
He called the girl softly.
But the girl continued singing as if she couldn’t hear him.
The only thing the man knew about her was her name.
Frey.
He had never once thought of himself as bad.
He simply believed the world forced him to act badly.
Countless misfortunes had brought him to Rebron, and that day, misfortune upon misfortune nearly killed him.
Blood flowed, his mind went blank, and then he encountered this girl.
A very young girl saved him with a brilliant light.
Immediately, he realized that the light was something he had never seen before—holy power.
Frey.
The girl who could only speak her name, he thought, might be the first fortune he had faced in his life.
The luck that would lift his miserable life.
So, he used Frey to change his life.
In the city of Rebron.
Through Frey, he did good for the first time, received kindness, and earned respect.
And he became addicted to it.
Those who were on the brink of death sought him first, not Frey.
In their memories, Frey did not exist, so gradually, he became the god of Rebron.
Thus, he forgot the gratitude and desperation he had felt when he first met Frey.
Buried deep underground.
After all, Frey only spoke her name; it should be fine.
But recently, something remarkable happened.
“This time, everyone realized. So the guest will come.”
Her gaze on the temple was so clear it startled him.
Seeing that, Frey continued:
“A beautiful young lady, a loyal knight, and two people like you will come. The choice is yours. This time, not me.”
With that, Frey fell silent.
He asked her repeatedly, but she never spoke or showed such clear eyes again.
This had been only two weeks ago, yet the guest had truly arrived.
“Frey.”
“……”
Still no response.
His eyes shook violently, yet Frey acted as if she couldn’t hear anything.
“The guest has arrived.”
Still no reply.
Though frustrated, he also felt relieved at Frey’s unchanged nature.
Because it seemed his life would remain unchanged.
Leaving the unresponsive Frey, he turned away.
“Well, only four of them.”
Frey was his fortune.
Perhaps the warning given by luck for the temple, he thought, as he left the underground.
At that moment, where normally there would be light in the dim hall, not a single ray existed.
“Why—”
Before he could question the situation, his body tilted to one side.
From the darkness, a man appeared.
Under the faint light, the shadow of blonde hair soon disappeared into the dark underground.
“Wow—!”
Karin fully enjoyed the refreshing wind brushing against her face.
At that moment, the beast carrying Karin leapt high into the air.
“Eek!”
Carlton grabbed Karin, who nearly fell, and lightly tapped the beast’s back.
“Calm down.”
“Pff-.”
Vero expressed his strong dissatisfaction, snorting angrily.
“This is all for Velia. Hurry, we need to meet her.”
Despite Carlton’s coaxing, Vero still snorted and fussed.
Karin and Carlton barely escaped the forest and now tried to move as fast as possible using magic.
However, they were caught off guard by the magic restrictions at the border.
Moving while avoiding people was possible, but crossing a fairly wide border on foot alone required too much time and energy.
So, they thought of Vero.
A high-rank beast with an ego unlike ordinary beasts.
Vero could cross the border in a short time using just his size, without magic.
Only by using Velia’s name could they manage to climb onto Vero’s back.
Thanks to Vero, Karin and Carlton reached near Rebron in just one day and saw their destination in the distance.
“Already here. Thanks to you?”
“Grr—.”
Vero growled, showing his teeth at Karin’s pat.
“Yes, yes. I know you don’t like it, but we need to meet Velia. This is all to help her, you see?”
“Rrrr-!”
Carlton calmed the roaring Vero and looked ahead.
At that moment, his expression stiffened.
“Ah—.”
A chill ran down Carlton’s body, leaving him only able to utter a strangled exclamation.
Through his heightened senses, he recalled a familiar name.
“Oh—! Almost there! Carlton, look!”
Thanks to Vero running nonstop, they finally saw their destination in the distance.
At the same time, Carlton realized the person he had been frantically searching for was nearby.
“Huff—. Huff—.”
Carlton gasped for breath.
