The Old Knight of a Frontier District

6.

The next morning, Bardo entered the royal palace as he was told.

Already the king capital was filled with the air of parades celebrating the victory.

The boulevard in the Special Administrative Region (Isanel) is also being prepared.

It would have been hard to reach the Royal Palace if we had left a little later.

It is a unique privilege for an active general to creep through the main entrance of the Royal Palace while riding a horse.

This is quite refreshing and I'm a little rusty that I can't do this if I stop being a general.

When I go home, I'm not a general anymore.

I was quiet in the spare holding room, but I was quite bored.

But I don't know where to walk, nor can I walk around this complex royal palace without guidance in the first place.

Spent a little time drinking.

A rather luxurious meal was delivered at night.

The next day I let my surname show me around the garden.

Idra would have been delighted to see it.

Great garden.

I went and met with some nobles along the way.

Although Bardo's attire is not very splendid, he seems to have a good idea that he is a military man of considerable standing because he walks with his sword in armor near the heart of the royal palace.

Besides, Baldo's leading lowercase doesn't give way.

Baldo shows that he's better off.

As a matter of fact, the Zhongjun General is given a comparable seat in the Senior Marquis family, so he rarely gives way to his opponents.

They gave way to the cover-up and thanked Bardo for his mistake.

Tea and confectionery were served at noon.

I felt it was delicious but it didn't extend to Camlar's.

Jules Rant seems to have entered the royal palace in the evening.

The call to Baldo was only made the next morning when the sun had just risen.

7

It was not the large hall or the formal drawing room that guided him, but the azure of the garden.

Soon Jules Rant arrived and ordered the knights of the escort to take their seats off.

The escorts left.

Even so, I'm just pretending not to listen to you pull to a few dozen steps away.

Jules Rant also ordered the Heavenly Historian to stop recording.

This means that the conversations that are going to take place are private, not official.

Except they have an amazing memory, and all the conversations are engraved in the back of their brains.

And probably in a diary the clan keeps secretly, later.

And that is why they can say unto the former king, when he is asked, who hath promised him a bounty, and so on, what month, and what day, and where?

"Okay.

Now I can talk with ease.

Both Cars and Jurchaga are relieved of their duties.

Thank you for your hard work.

I need you to talk to me here.

Shit.

These two are amazing.

Without these two, this expedition would have been outrageous.

I wouldn't have made it home alive either. "

And suddenly Jules Rant said...

What the hell happened, Bardo asked.

"Fargo and Ejite, who had this revolt, were both leading cities in the former Kalisau country.

Since Kalisau's royal family was cut off, these two cities have essentially been the rulers of the country.

It was also these two cities that tormented our country to the end.

His Majesty the King sent it down and incorporated it into the prints of Our Parzam, so that the kingdom of Kalisau was extinguished.

However, the two cities had a high temper and had made some high-speed demands.

This revolt was old-fashioned, clearly specifying the date, time and place of the war, and it seemed that he wanted to boast of his martial authority in order to pass the demands.

They've even notified us of the number of horseback rides.

This one has to match the same number of horseback rides.

That means we can't even fight our king's army in a good way.

However, there was some information that the Sinkai Nation had made strange moves in recent times, so it was mobilized to the leading neighbors just in case.

I've taken all the generals who can move the direct army.

My king's army entered the city of Cassese with a lot of leeway on the day and time of war.

From there, an advance party was to be dispatched to see what the battlefield would look like and make sure there was no strange movement before moving the main unit.

But the arrow tip, Jurchaga, said something strange.

Tired.

From here, Jurchaga speaks. "

and Julelant said while drinking water.

"Ho.

No, it's not much this way.

Come on, I walked into the city of Cassese and walked the market and the street, pretending to be nothing.

You're unfamiliar with little money.

Then the evil ones ate it.

Suri and tears.

Prince Wang had a handsome squire attached to him, so he tied them up.

So, I paid for the information.

Then I found out something funny.

The amount of groceries being transported to Grismo has increased dramatically over the past two years. "

Julelant's supplement came in here.

"Grismo is a small but robust city.

Originally, it belonged to the State of Carisau, as did Fargo and Ejite.

But Viscount Grismo returned to our country very early.

His Majesty the King was pleased with this, and carried forward the title of Viscount Grismo to the Count to fulfill his praise.

Count Grismo has been loyal to our country ever since.

That's why I wasn't worried about Grismo's rebellion.

Even if you flipped the anti-flag, it's not Grismo's power or anything like that.

That's why when Jurchaga said he was going to check on Grismo, he gave it up.

Waste in this busy time. "

"Well, you still forgave me, so I went to the heck of a Grismo.

I don't have time to take a moment to find out, so I'm looking for the parent of the pickup shop. "

There are a small number of people and horses in Wangdu.

The amount of excrement is also considerable.

In Upper Street (Frahe) and Lower Street (Eue), dirt is scattered along the roads and beside them, but picking it up and using it is a privilege only allowed to the lower civilian population.

In addition, it is forbidden in the Special Zone (Isanel) to allow horses to excrete and leave them on the road, and lower layers of civilians are used for the treatment of horse manure.

They call it to the mansion, or they pay a stop on the road to let them handle the horse shit.

The resulting horse manure is used as fuel by the lower civilian population.

When I first saw the thin dirty children picking up horse shit so hard, it was a big surprise.

More surprising than that is the handling of piss.

At the border, it is decided to wash clothes with water.

Remove any dirt that is hard to fall by rubbing the udo fruit, etc., or soaking it in ash.

But in Nakahara, where water is much more precious, wash it in a hell of a way.

Soak it in the piss, step on it with your feet, remove the dirt, and then rinse it with water.

It seems that royal palaces and wealthy aristocrats use special soil or some kind of wood-burning ash that they let carry from afar, but generally laundry is done by pissing.

That's why launderers are the profession of the lowest class of people.

When washing leather armor, etc., store piss and use rotten ones.

That works amazingly well.

Besides, the right to mow the lawns of the mountains near the Wang capital is granted only to the less affluent civilians.

These systems of poverty relief have existed for a long time, but they are said to have finally been able to operate in a stable manner since large quantities of green flame stones were obtained from the Mount Mordos system.

Nor is this Parzam's own system, but in fuel-poor Nakahara cities, "pickers" have long handled horse manure and other things.

Picking up shit and buying and selling again are pretty low-status, young civilians.

They are six or seven, many from two or three, each with a territory to collect shit from.

But the truth is that there is something on top of them that should be called former tightening, and Bardo is also a knowledge previously taught by Jurchaga.

He said it was because if there were no one to oversee, the pick-up fee would collapse, or people would come out who could not live with the territory taken.

"The parent of Grismo's pickup shop is Ben.

I was surprised to find out that you were the cousin of the Red Nose Marks in Wangdu.

He taught me a lot. "

I also wanted to ask who that Marks was and when he had done it with his brother, but I decided to do so later and encouraged him to continue the conversation.

Jurchaga waved reasonably well through the contents of the water bottle he raised on his hips.

"Huh.

Mm.

You'll come back to life.

Yeah, so be it.

Speaking of which, it turns out that the amount of horse manure leaving the castle has increased fivefold in two years, right?

Seems like he was dispersing all sorts of pickups to pick them up, but the parents know the whole thing. "

The rest of the explanation from there was retrieved by Jules Rant.

"It seems from this one that Grismo now has two hundred and fifty knights instead of fifty, the report came precisely when the main unit tried to leave.

Jurchaga rushed faster than a horse to bring us this information.

Shit.

Do you know how I felt then?

You have to pass near Grismo to get to the battlefield.

If they were attacked from the horizontal belly, the main unit would have been devastated "

Two to four squire, or infantry, usually obey a knight riding a horse or a man of equivalent strength.

In other words, the power of two hundred and fifty horsemen, if converted to the number of soldiers, falls from seven hundred and fifty to one thousand two hundred and fifty.

In this case, I can imagine that it would be a horse-riding centric organization with the main focus on high-speed manoeuvre, but in short, it is a force capable of fighting a thousand troops.

"I ordered the troops I was planning to leave in Kasse to follow them at a good distance, and set off.

As soon as we passed Grismo, the castle gate opened and more than two hundred horseback riders stormed in.

We immediately fled west.

Eventually, a late unit arrived and attacked them in the form of a sandwich.

We just took control of the obvious enemy, and an expedition from the advance party arrived.

The two armies, Fargo and Edythe, said, had come under attack several times the size of their promises.

They didn't want to protect the date, the place or the number of people from the beginning.

Its combined strength exceeds four hundred horsemen.

Close to each other in comparison to a simple number, but this one is exhausted and has no good attitude.

Deciding it was impossible to go back to Casse, I gave instructions to run into Grismo.

While the Lower Army Orthodox Army, which was putting out to the advance party, held down the enemy along with the Central Army Orthodox Army, let them secure the castle gate.

After the castle gate was secured, I tried to run into Grismo, but at this point I was completely deeply into the enemy, and many times the enemy knight approached me just before me.

It was Cars who worked for me then.

On three occasions, Cars slashed and tore down every enemy knight he had stormed.

Your enemies and allies were surprised to look away.

I managed to escape into the castle and eventually the armies of the Hordes arrived and inflicted pain on the enemy.

The pain received by my direct command is not small.

Above all, it hurt to lose two generals.

But it turned out to be the same thing that he wanted to bring out the enemy army.

Fargo and Ejite were rewarded for their cowardly behavior.

In the end, we re-established a much more favourable agreement for the royal side than before.

Also, my position was greatly strengthened by the brilliant spotting of an enemy ambush that no one could spot and giving it a counterattack "

Bardo was surprised to hear of the power of more than four hundred rides in the two cities.

It was beyond Bardo's imagination that as many as two hundred knights could be raised in a single city.

But later I realized that there was also a Baldo mistake in this.

In many countries in the Middle Plains, starting with the former Kalisau country, about half of the horseback riding power is usually at the local level engaged in farming and livestock.

"I'm relieved to think what would have happened if it weren't for Cars and Jurchaga.

That's why I need you to give me Cars and Jurchaga. "

Give it to me, that means give it to me, and I officially hold it as a king's minister.

Normally, it's a great glory, and I'm just about to say yes to it by surprise.

But the two are neither under Bardo's command nor possessions.

It depends on the will of the two of us.

I saw Jurchaga.

He's shaking his head to the side.

I saw Cars.

He's shaking his head to the side.

Bardo turned to Julelant and shook his neck to the side.

"Damn.

Shit! Shit! Shit!

Suddenly Jules Rant yelled.

What the hell is wrong with you?

"Don't you think it's sloppy to have Cars and Jurchaga to yourself?

Even just one of the two is talented enough to get his hands out of every monarch's throat.

How much I think I'm suffering from a shortage of people right now.

I didn't know you were going to keep these two to yourself, just to make them a vagabond!

If you do that, the heavenly punishment will fall. "

It is no longer a branch rupture.

Jules Rant must be tired too.

It's sweet on Baldo.

Then you have to hit him on the back.

Baldo inhaled,

Jules!

No matter how sweet it is.

and drank heavily.

The royal ministers nearby trembled.

Julelant opened his eyes a little, then took a slow breath and threw up,

"No.

It's true that I'm jealous of you.

How do we get people like this together?

If you have a secret, I want you to tell me.

Well, it's been awhile since I've been snuggled up and energized.

Thank you. "

That's what I said, then I drank the water and stood up,

"I've got some important meetings coming up.

I think we'll talk again when that's done.

Go home once today and get some rest.

Tomorrow or the day after. "

I said and almost walked away.

But he stopped his leg and looked back and said:

"Looks like you've got a lot of handles up east.

Instead of being relieved, we have to give him a prize.

But I don't want to give you the title. "

That means that I will not treat you as a minister of the Kingdom of Parzam, in other words, that you will not bind Bardo.

"If you're willing to give me some territory, I hope so.

But you've decided not to have territory anymore?

Then I closed my eyes for a while to say what I thought.

"When Lord Hydra talked about the Zariza silver mine on the territory, were you willing to take it?

Lord Vora regretted that time until his death.

He said his stupid behavior had driven his mother's life crazy. "

Bardo dropped off the back of Julelant as he finished saying and walked away without words.

8

It was a shocking word.

But if you ask me, it must be.

At that time.

Baldo was twenty-nine, that spring.

Hydra, the head of the Tercian family, told me to receive the Zariza silver mine as a territory.

The Zariza Silver Mine is a good source of income for the Tercians as a lifeline.

It is impossible to give it to another.

Impossibly, the Tercians mean they trust Bardo, and they think it's safe to keep it with Bardo and his descendants.

And this offer has another meaning.

Idra was turning fifteen and the glowing beauty was becoming a reputation in the neighborhood.

I'm not too old for marriage anymore.

If you give him the Zariza Silver Mine, Bardo will surely sign up for marriage with Idra, and this misguided princess will get away with it.

Bardo completed his assignment at the fort three months earlier and returned to Pacra with his heart set.

So what I heard was the news that Idra had decided to marry Cardos Coendella.

Bardo went mad when he heard about the situation.

When the sign-up envoy arrived, it was unusual for our Lord Hydra to be away.

Instead it was Vora, the eldest son of Hydra and brother of Idra, who responded to the messenger.

Vora said to the messenger, shallow, let him decide, and called Idra.

Idra, who heard the story, will marry Coendella, and she answered at the same time.

Vora assumed that Idra loved Bardo, so she refused to talk to him about the frivolity from Coendella.

Oh, my God, what a fool.

Why not?

Why did you let the person make the choice?

My brother, Vora, had no idea of Idra's temperament.

I had no idea how heartbroken Idra had been by the way the Tercian knights suffered from the harassment of the Coendella family.

If I pressed for such a choice, only my brother Vora didn't know that there could be no other answer than to get married.

Bardo was angry, hated, and mourned.

But he never put his rough heart on the table.

That would betray the great-great Elzella Tercia.

You will betray Hydra, Elzella's son and Bardo, for putting even more love into your real child.

So I have stood still, hidden my despair, and served the House of Tercia as a loyal knight.

I have tried to erase my resentment of Vora and to love her.

I thought that was working.

Then there was talk of territorial devolution, both from Hydra and after Vora became lord, but all said no.

Because we don't need to have territory anymore.

And after two years of Vaura's death, he offered to serve and embarked on a wandering journey.

Not a single cloud in his life as a knight, Bardo has thought.

Although.

But, oh.

Isn't that how your attitude tormented Vora?

Is there something about my anger, my despair, that I don't realize that acute Vora?

The more you dedicate yourself as a minister of loyalty, didn't the deed sharply slash and tear Vora's heart apart?

Bardo trembled at the gravity of the sins he had committed.

9

I took Cars and Jurchaga home to the Toad family.

Dinner was great but I felt unsavory.

Eventually Bari Toad returned home.

Bardo asked me if I could ask if I could take the Teaching (Spartan), sorry for my tiredness.

Bari Toad undertook comfortably, placing one leg of the chair sideways and sitting in the chair he placed on the other side of it.

Bardo clutched his fists in both hands together and put them on his forehead, stuck them against a chair placed in front of him.

Put both knees on the floor.

And I stated the sins I had committed.

The story began when I was ten years old when I was picked up by the Tercia family, and extended to when I was fifty-eight years old when I retired and went on a journey.

The senior priest heard a long and long confession in silence.

And finally Bardo asked how he could make amends for his sins.

The senior priest told Bardo after often offering his prayers to God.

"The idea is wrong.

You may do so before you atone for your sins. "

Bardo asked what it was.

"Forgive Lord Vora."

To the words of the senior priest, Bardo, surprised, said:

There is neither forgiveness nor forgiveness.

I don't deserve to blame Lady Vora in the first place.

"That's because I think at my own convenience.

All right?

You want to atone for your sins because you want to be forgiven, because you want to be easier, and you end up acting for yourself.

Stop thinking about yourself.

You think about the other person first.

If you can really think and move for the other person, make sure the gods are good about yourself.

Then when it comes to what Lord Vora wants, it is to be forgiven by you and Princess Idra.

It's about being forgiven and unleashed.

It doesn't matter whether you qualify for it or not.

Now, forgive me!

When you forgive Vora Tercia with your whole body and spirit, you proclaim to the gods!

Swallow the word took a while.

And Bardo tried to say, I forgive Vora Tercia.

But I couldn't.

I tried to force myself to say it.

Then I heard this voice from my heart.

Why should I forgive you?

Why should I forgive Vora Tercia for her mistakes?

The resistance of the mind was strong, and Bardo remembered that in the depths of his heart he kept blaming Lady Vora, saying that in his mouth he did not deserve to blame.

Bardo asked himself why he should not forgive.

Then there was the answer.

If I forgive you, what will happen to Idra for thirty years?

Thirty years I had to live as a shader, what happens.

What will become of my thirty years of suffering?

Bye.

Bye.

Don't you feel sorry for me, Idra?

When he arrived at the answer, Bardo was so good that I had to forgive Lady Vora.

And he deceived, touched, and preached his own heart.

It took a long time.

Eventually Bardo said, "I forgive Vora Tercia," as he squeezed in his little voice.

Even louder, he repeated the same words.

And I raised my face a third time, and cried out with a resounding cry, I forgive Vora Tercia, I forgive from the bottom of my heart.

The senior priest gently enveloped Bardo's head and preached the Word of Blessing.

"Valdo Lowen, beloved son of God.

Your vows have been heard by the gods.

Well done. I forgive you.

Good for you. I love you.

Bless you. "

When Baldo woke up the next morning, the morning light that popped into his eyes was endlessly beautiful, and the atmosphere that inhaled through his nose was sweet and softly clean itself.

In an unprecedented and tremendous awakening, Bardo learned that he had already been forgiven.

Then I looked back at yesterday and realized one thing.

In that way, Jules Rant probably doesn't know the last secret between Bardo and Idra.

Should I teach?

I thought for a while and came to the conclusion that I shouldn't.

Those who know about it, besides the gods, are just Idra and Bardo, and Idra left the world without telling them anything.

Then let's do the same for ourselves.

Just because I taught Jules Rant, it wouldn't have any other consequences than to suffer.

and.

Though they could not live together, they thought that they could be forgiven enough to keep only one secret together.

Then again, I remembered the way home from the fort that year.

I couldn't think of a way to convey my mind, and I was thinking about singing a love song under the window.

What Idra looked like listening to her own nasty love song.

Bardo thought it was a little heartbreaking to see it.