The Old Knight of a Frontier District

1

Bardo is still here today by the Great Ova.

I don't wear leather armor, I don't wear a hat.

There's Stabolos by my side.

A cold breeze that blows without rest wipes out long stretched hair and beard.

Bardo was remembering what happened at Coendella's castle.

Why have I been so angry?

Originally, I didn't mean to kill Cardos.

That's what I used to tell myself a lot before I got in.

If you kill Cardos now, the peace you were born with will be broken.

It develops into a battle to wash blood with blood, and the people suffer.

Tercia will also suffer considerable damage and will also allow the ravages of the Warcraft.

As a result, Coendella will be greatly weakened, divisive and may eventually disappear.

But the peace of mind of men is more important than making Coendella receive the reward of sin.

It is better to let Cardos continue with his great lord in his grip of weakness, so that he can remain at peace.

Of course, if King Wendeland punishes Cardos and Coendella, then there is nothing different about it.

Even if Coendera defies the kingdom of Parzam, he has a matrix that just doesn't involve Tercia.

Cardos thought it was sentimental that King Wendeland was trying to summon a son with Princess Idra, not being given the right to inherit the throne or anything from his bloodstream.

But that's not true.

King Wendeland is now forty-nine years old, but he has no children but Jullan.

The stability of the royal power required the finalization of the successor, and the truth is that in the Senate meeting, which makes the selection of the next king, it was considered problematic that Prince Wendeland had no son.

At that time, an elder remarked:

Prince Wendeland has married his wife in the past through a formal wedding, and has the son of a man who is now twenty-eight years old.

Moreover, his son is the owner of a fingerprint similar to that of the first king.

And he showed the object of his fingerprints.

This gave a big boost to Wendelland's nomination for king.

So, unofficially, Jullan is already regarded as a leading candidate for successor to the throne in the Senate.

Because her mother is from the border, she can be seen as low, because it's not right.

Surprisingly, the Parzam kingdom has been told that the role of guarding the cleavage of the Great Barrier was ordered by the First King to his friends in Mozambique (Bukyaku).

Hearing that she was the princess of the Tercia family who stood up and continued to prevent the invasion of the Warcraft, the heavy ministers seemed impressed.

It is also convenient, on the contrary, for the Tercians not to have a title, an understanding already made in the Senate that they regard it as a marquis equivalent.

The marriage of King Wendellant and Princess Idra was due process when Prince Wendellant returned home from the border, open to a monk, an academic teacher and best friend.

Even though the bride remained absent, she also performed the ritual of vows.

When it comes to strength, it is said that three qualified persons signed it as a witness and that the documents are official and undisputed.

However, it was kept secret from the political situation.

This explanation, along with the evidence, showed that the House of Lords had granted Prince Wendeland's marriage.

Bardo heard about this from the monk himself, or Priest Bari Toad, that he had proceeded to marry the two.

The priesthood is also temporary, and he says if he returns to the country, he will be entrusted to the Privy Counsel.

So Jules Run gets a much higher status than Cardos expected.

I don't see how stable that is.

King Wendeland's health and life expectancy also change the future.

But for the time being, I'm fine.

Coendella can rarely do it either.

Because of this, a great lord was born in this land.

I don't even crush it.

Bardo prayed that a good path would open up ahead.

2.

So Bardo doesn't have to think about it.

More than that, why did I feel so strongly angry?

That's the problem, Bardo thought.

In the end, my hatred for Cardos was outraged because of my love for Princess Idra?

Are all my moves out of personal grievances this time?

Bardo thought, thought, thought.

And here's what I concluded.

I also have mixed personal grievances.

To Princess Idra, to the Tercians, what he did should be punished.

At least, fraud must be punished.

But that's not all.

An innocent people without power could not be allowed to be trampled by those who abuse their power.

That's why I fought them with anger.

It has to be.

That is why the princess's honor is preserved.

The knight of the princess can make the princess proud that she has kept her vows.

If it was just personal, I should have killed him.

There is no more vengeance.

It wasn't for the people, for the peace of the land, who kept him alive by suppressing resentment.

Not to accompany the princess's true wishes.

It has to be.

That's good to hear, Princess.

That's when I felt like I heard Idra singing across the river.

This song is Knight of the Pilgrimage.

Once taught by a vagrant knight, Bardo taught Princess Idra, an old song.

Oh, the princess was delighted with what I did.

And Bardo thought.

3

In a separate mansion by the lake, after a secret conversation with Priest Bari Toad, Bardo wrote three letters, one to the priest, and two to the Jurchaga.

One was addressed to King Wendeland.

Explained how it happened from Bardo's point of view.

As evidence, it was accompanied by a knife with a stamp on it.

One was addressed to Jules Run.

He explained the circumstances and wrote to take all fingerprints of both hands and sign them and give them to Jurchaga.

One copy was addressed to Uncle Linz.

Requested that Jullan's fingerprints be delivered to King Wendeland through the Border Marquis.

Jurchaga had arrived at Uncle Linz a week after leaving Baldo's former.

Take Jules Run's letter.

Dolba and Pakura are doing what they're supposed to do, so it has to be called a terrible speed.

It's incredible that you didn't use a horse.

After leaving the castle of Coendella, Bardo ended up not stopping by Pakla, but came to Linz.

I came to Linz to give my horse back to Uncle Linz.

I didn't stop by Pakla because I couldn't decide how to shake myself from now on.

But we need to report this to the Tercia family.

When I came to Linz, Jurchaga was there, so I asked for a message saying this was fortunate.

At first I wanted to write a letter, but my right hand didn't move as I thought.

Jurchaga is the owner of excellent memory, and I already know roughly how.

I only wrote to this person to ask him, and then verbally communicated the report to Jurchaga.

Has Priest Bari Toad already returned to the king's capital and made a report to the king?

A new pick up will visit Jullan, who will meet King Wendeland.

What awaits Jules Run from then on is not just honor or status.

But Jules Run would be fine, Bardo thought.

And I thought.

I don't know what to do now.

It may be said that the reason for leaving Pakla and embarking on the journey is no longer there.

There's nothing wrong with it now, I can go home to Pakla.

I can go home.

Bardo flashed his face, trying to get his right hand in his nostrils.

Since his impotence in the castle of Coendella, his right shoulder has been stiff and painful as it was shackled.

I still have difficulty giving it above my shoulder.

I took out a letter from Idra in pain and read it again.

It looks like an idler, and the soy sauce paper is used.

Idra hated the stinky skin paper and preferred the satsumi paper.

I miss you, Master Bardo Lowen.

First of all, let me congratulate you.

Finally, you've been popped out into the wider world.

With a strange triumph, thou shalt serve the House of Tercia, and rest the people of the land with a heart of red, mercy and courage.

No one knows your martial arts and your temperament.

But the real you, you must not be locked in a cage, like a free bird.

Somewhere in my heart, I was always scorched in the sky high and far away.

Remember that little table in the garden, right?

You, me, Jules and.

You talked about forests, mountains and warcraft.

Talk about the fight, a lot, a lot.

Unusual food stories, etc., are also a little bit.

For you, battle and strange food were adventures.

Your story was always filled with the joy of discovering something new.

I was on an adventure in my heart, listening.

Oh!

I really enjoyed it.

Would we have looked as if we were one family to talk about in that hiatus garden?

Now is the time for you to be free.

Let the wings contain the wind, and do not go anywhere, anywhere, to a distant world.

And sometimes it's cool, so let me know in your letter what rare landscape you saw and what delicious food you ate, and I'll have no more joy.

Please, stay well forever.

Always the same friendship.

Idra

You can go back, but don't worry about the Tercia family anymore.

I don't know what the problem is.

Should we move on?

Should I go back?

Bardo looked up at the sky.

The sky washed by the cold wind is deep and deep clear everywhere.

It's as if it reflected Bardo's mind as it was.

It became clear that it had been hanging in my mind for many years, and the distortion was (just) twitched.

There was also a huge outburst in the damned Castle of Coendella.

Bardo's heart was so free as sunshine that he did not remember it once.

Hmm.

Again, let's make a journey.

Combining everything from Pacra territory to this Linz territory, it is only a very small part of the eastern border of the continent.

The border is vast, and the part where people live is like a bean grain.

Even that bean-grain-like part has the breadth that a person can't walk through in a lifetime.

Let's go on a journey.

Right.

Bye-bye.

My return to the Tercia family means I'm in Cardos' sight.

People fear what they cannot see more than what they can see.

As far as I can tell, he can't be evil.

Even if he dies in the sky of the journey, if he doesn't know it, he'll always be afraid of my eyes.

Your debt to the Tercian family will not disappear, but let it go.

I don't care what I say, but I served for many years.

Even if you let me spend the rest of my life at will, I won't be able to hit you.

Hmm.

Let's still go on a journey.

Go where you've never been and see things you've never seen before.

Eat something rare, something good.

I don't think so, but let's not tie ourselves to anything, take an easygoing and funny journey, live but live and die.

Bardo, so determined his mind, smashed the letter from Idra and put it on a blowing wind.

The pieces of paper flickered and danced over the Great Ova, eventually disappearing into nowhere.

I can't see it from here, but far upstream of Ova is the spiritual peak fuzzy.

He says that if a man dies, his soul will gather in Fusa and, guided by the divine Spirit, ascend to the garden of God.

I wonder if the princess's soul will sit in the wind in the fuzz.

Hmm.

Suppose we go north?

Aim for the fuzz.

I hear it's a distance you won't get in a year if you walk but it's not a quick trip.

Rare landscapes and good food to hang out with.

Once you get to the fuzz and you're alive, you can think about the rest then.

Stabolos seemed happy to see Baldo on the side of the journey.

The old knight's, the journey begins.

(Completion of the preamble "Travel")