The Old Knight of a Frontier District

1

While lying down and taking his eyes, Bardo couldn't sleep.

In my head, the words I have just heard come to mind repeatedly.

Van Fleur.

That's the name of the Devil's Sword that comes out of the fairy tale.

Nobles and civilians, if they are men, are one of the fairytales obsessed with childhood.

But.

But.

Tonight, I noticed.

Give me that word.

The name of Van Fleur, the Devil's Sword that everyone knows.

What happens if you pronounce it the old-fashioned way.

Ven Urrill.

Wouldn't it be?

It's not a coincidence or anything.

It can't happen to be anything like that.

Of course, no one thinks it's similar to "Van Fleur," etc., just because they heard the name of Ven Urrill.

I just realized it was similar, and I don't feel any sense in it.

But.

But.

If anyone is looking for Van Fleur with enough obsession to destroy the country, why not?

Will he not feel anything, when he heareth the name of Ven Uril?

No.

No.

You must feel it.

That's the voice that calls itself.

Come on, he said I was gonna be here.

If so, is the name Ven Urrill a trap that invites the General of Appetite?

Lure me out, what am I going to do?

Do you kill for revenge?

If you want to kill me, shouldn't I go this way?

I don't know.

But I don't see why you can leave this like this.

I wasn't willing to swoop into Cars' past.

If you want to talk from there, ask, but I wasn't willing to ask from here.

Then it contradicts having him throw away his name and unleash that man from his old vows.

But, but.

I feel like I need to ask you this right now.

Listen, I don't feel like I can handle what's about to happen.

And again.

I found out today about my mentor, who has hung in my heart for many years.

Perhaps, definitely.

The only person who can confirm that is Cars Lowen.

I feel like Cars is waiting for this one to hear it too.

Variously turning his thoughts around, Bardo eventually fell asleep.

2.

Baldo, who returned to the House of Toad, received news that the king's deduction had been postponed.

Prince Jules Rant has returned, apparently.

The Baldos got stuck with long rains along the way, so it's no wonder there's not so much time difference between them and Juleland's return.

There will be rush reports and consultations at the Royal Palace, and personal deductions will probably fall behind.

Bardo did not go out on this day, and left the care of Uytan to the user, spending time thinking in the room.

Different thoughts swept my chest and I couldn't organize.

I didn't even know why my chest was so stiff.

Destiny, they say, comes in some form.

Isn't it precisely now that destiny is about to come to you?

That's not a tiny story about the life and death of this old knight, etc.

It's a hunch about such an event that something more gigantic and far-reaching will determine how we're going to roll.

I heard a knock.

3

The servant who entered the room waiting for Bardo's reply told him that his son had arrived,

After a while I told him to let me through, Cars Lowen has been guided.

If you did your errands at the Goriola Empire and left, you would arrive fairly early.

But, well, whatever it is that makes it quick, it's this guy's physique.

Bardo told the samurai not to let anyone near this room for a while.

After the samurai lowered, Bardo sat Cars on the couch and was informed which was better: water or booze.

Cars answered, "Wine," so he gave Goblet the red wine from the kettle.

It is a wine that has been made easier to drink by dividing it with water.

When I took another goblet and soaked the wine for myself, I sat on the other couch with it.

Cars quickly drank the wine and when he stood up he went to pick up a pot of wine.

And when Nana soaked the wine in the goblet, she also placed a pot of wine on the side table where she placed the goblet.

The second cup drank up quickly, and now it looks like I took a breather.

The third cup started drinking slowly.

Bardo asked if Marquis Farren was well.

"Uhm.

I tried to return the Road Bank, but they didn't take it. "

And Cars said.

Then Bardo asked me if I had declined the invitation.

"No.

I put a scratch on it. "

That was the reply.

Well, I was relieved, and the word went on that I was going to flip.

"Uhm.

I said that a swordsman enough to defeat me would be eligible to meet my father, and Arflaburn has challenged me.

He was a pretty good swordsman, but I thoroughly beat him up just in case.

Marquis Farren said he could not beat Sir and would give up Lord Lowen's invitation "

What the hell has this man done in the Goriola Empire?

With a bad feeling, I asked him if he had visited anything other than the Farren family.

"I had a number of invitations, but I said no.

Then the Marquis asked me to go only to the Imperial Palace.

So I entered the country.

We ended up in for six days, but of course we never lost. "

The strange report that he entered for six days but never lost is clearly missing an important part.

It's missing, but I felt like I shouldn't ask any more, so I ended the conversation by saying I was having a hard time.

Either way, Bardo himself is a country he will never go to in his life.

It doesn't matter anymore if you didn't kill people or if this one was resentful enough to be killed.

More than that, we had something to talk about today.

Bardo asked.

Lord Cantoredda, what can it be for you?

Cars answered.

He said he was a big uncle.

It still was.

There's no way it's not.

How could I not have noticed it before?

The face of Cars.

The color of your hair, eyes or skin.

Body hair like tenderness that extends long on the back.

Standing and behaving.

Signs of existence.

Above all, sword moves.

Doesn't he look a lot like the vagrant knight who taught Bardo his sword?

Most of all, Bardo had seen his master's gesture, but he had never seen him struggle.

The master also manipulated the sword with both hands, but Cars is using the sword with one hand.

Still, if you realize it, there's something so similar that it just seems like the same genre.

And on that evening of the Feast of the Border Racing Martial Arts Association.

This one leans quietly at the cup.

"Lord Cars knew that song."

I thought you were nodding to the knight who asked.

I didn't tell him.

So where did this man find out about The Pilgrim Knight?

Cars is clearly a teacher's blood relative, a teacher's apprentice or peer.

It's also natural to be concerned about this bigoted man.

Without knowing it, Bardo was smelling his teacher on this man.

Maybe this guy smelled nostalgic for Bardo, too.

If so, it may have been the guidance of the master that Bardo and Cars met.

Bardo looked at Cars' face.

It's not the face of why I ask that.

Instead, it looks like you're finally interested in asking.

Cars began to talk about his origins and his steps, pompous.

Sometimes the story flies and makes it difficult to understand, Bardo asks a question.

4.

Until this time, Bardo thought his teacher's name was Cantor and his family name was Edda.

But it wasn't, and I found Cantor Edda to be his first name.

The name of the syllable is often derived from noble blood muscles.

The King's Sword doesn't have a family name.

Most of all, Cantor Edda herself often named her Cantor and preferred to be called that.

To the young Baldo, he named himself an official name.

Sometimes the Grand Duke of Zarban is born close to his ancestors, that is, to werewolves.

Even so, I don't even know if Cars really had a sub named Werewolf, etc.

It's just certain that sometimes people are born with characteristics in their eyes, hair, skin color, how their body hair grows, etc.

They have very good physical abilities, resilience and reflexes, and they live a terribly long life.

It is called ancestral return because its traits resemble those of a werewolf king.

The ancestors suddenly appear without any context.

And if Zalban be old, I will not set the fathers on the stage.

I'm not being humiliated.

On the contrary, he is revered and revered as the rebirth of the Werewolf King.

And when the king of werewolves died, he said, Become the sword of the king of rebirth, and defend his kingdom.

So those who return to their ancestors are called the Sword of the King, who hide their existence and manifest their work in a free position.

In the past, when the independence and tranquillity of the Zarban nation were spooked, the ancestral returnees always sifted their strength and withdrew their external enemies.

In the long history of the kingdom of the Werewolf King, two ancestral returnees have never appeared at the same time.

But Cars was born while Cantor was alive.

Cars was born at the same time from the same mother as Enisiliturg.

The two had the same form of bruising in the same place.

In other words, "separated child".

A cursed whistle supposedly stolen by an evil demon from the dark god Patarapoza.

The demon rings this whistle with a pregnant woman's dream pillow.

Then the curse divides the child into two parts.

This is the Divided Child.

"Separated children" are not like regular twins.

Ordinary twins lived two lives at the same time, but [the separated child] is forced to separate lives that were originally one.

Because you divide one life into two parts, the child who is born has only half the life force.

Only half the grace of the gods is also available.

Moreover, there is a curse upon him.

The only way to break the curse is to kill one.

Regardless of the third son of the common man, it is absolutely unacceptable that the eldest son of the noble house is the "separated son".

Kill one of them immediately, and it will be decided that there was no fact that the "separated child" was born.

But you couldn't have killed Cars.

Because he was clearly a returning ancestor.

You can't kill the rebirth of a werewolf king.

I can't even kill Enisiliturg because of it.

The ancestors cannot be on the table, so Enisiliturg must inherit the Grand Duke.

If you kill Enisiliturg by relying on your second son, who doesn't know if he will be born, the Grand Duke may perish.

Not so much as Cars was born, Cantor embarked on a wandering journey.

Then immediately, supposing he came to the eastern border and met Bardo, when Cars was one, Bardo would have been nine.

In other words, Cars will now be a little over fifty years old in the calculation.

I don't care what you think. I don't think I'm older than thirty.

Because the ancestors will live more than twice as long as men, it may be better to be twenty or twenty-five now.

After a year of teaching Bardo that as a sword and knight, Cantor returned to his journey.

I don't know where or what I did.

When Cars was fifteen, Cantor returned home and taught Cars the sword.

When invaded by national armies, Cars would have been a little over thirty.

Sinkai has attacked from the west, the Knights of the Temple of Mercano and Teula from the north, and Seion and Gainelia from the east.

The generals of Zarban intercepted this, and Cantor and Cars fought a powerful knight of the enemy as a guerrilla.

Cars defeated Sinkai's Fourth General.

Cantor showed the octagonal six-arm activity of defeating the masters and leading warlords of Mercano, Tula, Seion and Gainelia, respectively.

The ancestors, on the battlefield, wrap their bodies in black armor, and only name them "The King's Sword".

The enemy would have thought that the king's sword would fly through the battlefield even in the sky.

The king's sword also seemed to have retreated from the outside enemy.

But since General Appetite came forward, everything has changed.

First, Cars was defeated and critically wounded dying.

Cantor was defeated next.

The knights of Zarban were successively killed by the General of Appetite, and the invaders of the nations gained momentum.

And finally, Sinkai's army dropped the capital of Zarban, doing everything possible to plunder and atrocity.

Both the Grand Duke and his clan were debated one after the other, and it was no longer thought possible to perish.

Cars pushed his wounds to the line and broke into the Grand Duke's mansion to kick in the Sinkai soldiers who would do the mausoleum and slaughter, but fell as hard as he could.

When Cars woke up, he was among the knights of Seion, Andon Sibruni.

It was transported to the servants who took Cantor's life.

Andon was a knight Cantor knew during his wandering years, and he also kept secrets from the country to tease me of the cars.

Andon gave me two things, saying they were deposits from Cantor.

One is the Devil's Sword Van Fleur.

The other is a letter.

This is what the letter said.

Throw away revenge.

It's all over.

Killing enemies does not return people or countries.

Hatred or not, but forget as much as you can.

Continuing to grieve only afflicts my heart and causes new strife.

Brush your sword.

Let's turn to those who need the sword one day.

Be quiet and earthy.

I was happy to see you.

Let's cross swords again in the Gardens of the Gods.

By then, wear a sword that will cross me.

Looking forward to it.

Cars went around the countries of the Middle Plains after his wounds healed.

I was teasing in my heart, but I lived my only reliance on the word to polish my sword.

I challenged the duel when I heard rumors of an armed knight.

I also did a lot of unscrupulous things.

In doing so, I learned that the survivors of Zarban were everywhere in the Middle Plains.

They were all suffering.

Some were falling into slavery.

Cars threw away the name that Andron Sibruni had prepared for me, named him Ven Urrill, gave them assistance and made them head to Krask.

When did Lord Krask you to do this?

Anyway, I needed money, so I also undertook work like an assassin.

After spending more than a decade searching for the survivors of Zarban, I learned about Uncle Ryde's eldest son's marriage story.

The other princess says she doesn't know where she is.

But when it came to Uncle Ryde, Cars knew he was a knight who secretly protected Lady Trienta.

The unidentified princess of that identity may be one involved in Zarban.

Cars snuck into Uncle Ryde's mansion, named himself a benefactor to the Zarban royal family, and spoke to the princess.

The princess turned out to be Cars' niece.

I learned that she wanted to love and help Uncle Ryde's eldest son, and that she needed a lot of money to do that.

The other young man said he had never done business or anything else and had no prospect of getting millions of Gayles in a year.

Cars was determined to do a job that would get him a lot of money.

But if I do a job like getting a lot of money in Nakahara, I'll stand out.

There may be those who link that to the fact that the princess suddenly got a lot of money.

That's why I got a job at the border.

And he met Bardo.

5

I see, Bardo thought.

When I heard about Cars, I was good at a lot of things I've been wondering about.

First of all, that I wanted to go to the Goriola Empire myself, which I hated so much this time.

Cars didn't want to go to Saion.

Some people in Saion know Cars' face.

In the unlikely event that Cars becomes known to be the man who was coddled by Andon Sibruni at the time of Zarban's demise, his benefactor, Andon Sibruni, will perish.

Similarly, I did not want to go to Count Ryde's territory.

At least twice, Cars is visiting the land.

I don't think I snuck in and let someone see my face, but I'm sorry I couldn't help but see my face in a lodge, in a store or on the road.

If you find out who Cars is and what he does, of course it can be annoying to his niece and detrimental to Uncle Ryde.

Next thing I know, I didn't want to go to Krask.

Uncle Linz said he didn't want to go there when he found out Bardo was in Krask.

Also, after Gordon Zarkos returned to the territory and quelled the rebellion, Bardo accompanied Krask to Middle Zarkos, where he went to buy Corcordur, but Cars offered himself and remained in Maisian territory.

That would be so.

Anyway, the people Cars helped and sent to Krask naturally remember Cars' face.

The man who went through a lot of trouble and spent a lot of money to help the survivors of Zarban may be the subject of discussion in Krask.

And Huddle Zoráls, Krask's first lord, is one of the few people who clearly knows the face of The King's Sword.

If Cars goes to Krask, it'll be a fuss.

If the identity of Cars is widely known, Krask could be caught in the war.

But there were things I didn't understand.

One of them is the strength of the General of Appetite.

I can't think of Cantor and Cars not having teeth at all, no matter how much arms they have with General Appetite.

When asked about it, Cars said:

"That's not like a sword move.

I can't help it.

I wish I could get close, but I can't do that.

He's an unusually smart man, and he won't allow his enemies to approach him. "

I guess that's what Cars says.

But what kind of move is that?

The mystery only deepens.

Another is why General Appetite left behind a man named "Ven Urril".

To clap it off, Cars didn't know General Appetite was obsessed with the Devil's Sword Van Fleur.

And I wasn't even trying to avenge General Appetite.

Cars tried to live off the city well according to his great-uncle's will.

Why did you name the name of the Devil's Sword, which should also be the legend of the founding of the homeland, as your own name?

Perhaps Cars himself doesn't know that either.

People are things that live with contradictions.

Something I couldn't forget, and couldn't cut it off, made Cars name its name.

I don't think so.

Nevertheless.

Oh, nevertheless.

Has this man ever lived a whimsical life?

My country was peaceful and proud.

They were trampled and destroyed without any form of sin.

Beloved families and people were offended, taken, and killed.

In front of this man.

This man had rare strength and was defeated without fulfilling his role while having a mission to defend his homeland as the "King's Sword".

How much was that carelessness, that despair?

Bardo doesn't believe in curses or anything.

But it was understandable that this man would have had the thought that the fatherland would not have perished if a cursed man like himself had not even been born.

Besides, revenge was forbidden.

Though it was an order for this man to be happy.

The more you seal it up, the more hatred boils down in your belly.

Still, only a few missions were found.

To find and help the survivors, and to make a fortune for his niece.

When those two were over, this man lost his temper to resist nothingness.

At that time, it was precisely the will of heaven that drew this man to Baldo.

That's what Bardo thought.

But.

But.

I don't know.

Why was General Appetite so obsessed with the Devil's Sword (Van Fleur)?

If you were so obsessed, why did you leave Cars named after that demon sword?

It was about five years after the demise of Zarban that Ven Urril began to be named.

General Lust must have been gathering information on Nakahara.

A man named "Van Fleur", who was looking for him with his blood eyes, was making a scene in Nakahara.

You can't be unaware.

Did he die or fall ill?

No wonder it is.

He says it was eighty years ago that he attacked Yanga and killed King Kerdebaj.

Even if he was twenty at that time, he should be about eighty when he destroyed the Duchy of Zarban.

Sudden physical and mental decline can be found all over the place.

In any case, he would be dead by now.

You don't have to be scared of a hundred-year-old man, even if he's alive.

I don't think so.

What is this creepy hunch running around your chest?

Let your heart bell fast and sweat, where does this anxiety come from?

Not yet.

It's not over yet.

Coming up.

Something is about to happen.

Baldo's chest filled with a feeling close to certainty.

Illustration/Mr Matajiro