Swordmaster of the Red Light District

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“The sacrifice of David-sama, who died famous while fending off the great evil of Locust…?”

Rei didn’t speak and looked down.

Luna, who was gently rubbing her face in her arms, suddenly reached out her hands and covered Rey’s head.

Ray, who blinked wondering why he was like this, secretly looked back and was terrified.

“Isi! Aunt! Put down the potion bottle! Potion bottle!!”

Seria, who had grown pale, murmured.

“Healing, I need to…”

“How can a potion blow in the head be cured?!”

“It works well…”

It was a proven treatment for 10 years in the labyrinth.

Seria was displeased with the world and put the potion back in.

Rey kept her eyes fixed on Seria and continued to tease her.

“He, David-sama will be remembered in our hearts as a hero of the Empire.”

“Lay.”

Slowly, the knights also sensed a strange atmosphere.

Didier squeezed his injured shoulder and narrowed his eyes.

“David-sama died?”

“Yes?”

“Then where’s the body?”

“Oh, you mean the corpse?”

Rey flicked a finger and pointed somewhere in the mountains.

“It was such a fierce battlefield, so I moved to a safe place for fear that the body might be damaged. Haven’t you all seen it? Hahaha.”

The gathered knights gently touched the hilt of the sword.

Seria also slowly moved to the side and put her hand back into her arms.

Rey hurriedly shouted while holding Luna close to her body.

“Come back at once! You’ll have to take Luna with you too.”

*

As they descended the mountain range, the Countess was noisy as a whole.

Because the battle was so intense, the ground rumbled to the vicinity of the Countess, and the lights flashed.

Young Ji-min, who was trembling in fear, was relieved only when the count returned safely and showed his face.

“Ray is back!”

After seeing Rey’s face from afar, the children of the nursery school poured out of the building.

Ray entered the nursery with a tired face, holding Luna in her arms.

Karen, whose eyes were dyed red, stood among the children.

Rey lowered Luna to the ground.

“Karen…”

Luna looked at Karen and started to cry.

After hesitating for a moment, Luna carefully took a step forward.

“…Karen, I’m back.”

“…”

Karen didn’t push Luna away, but she didn’t welcome her either.

Seeing Karen frowned without saying a word, Luna gave her courage.

Luna slowly approached Karen and stretched out her arms.

“Karen…!”

Wow!

Luna hugged Karen.

Karen’s stiff arm twitched for a moment, then turned downward again.

Karen didn’t want to forgive Luna so easily.

Karen exclaimed in a squeezing voice.

“Luna is different from us? There’s a mother and a father too… You said you won’t play with me in the future?”

Betrayed by a trusted friend

The hand that had been stretched out in spite of shame was rejected.

The more I remembered, the more tears flowed out.

I wanted to resent Luna. Because of you, my heart hurt a lot, and I wanted to shoot.

However, the mouth did not come off.

Luna hugged Karen more strongly.

“I’m sorry, Karen.”

“Leave this. I don’t have Mom or Dad, so Luna go away with Mom and Dad!”

Karen’s fists trembled.

Luna was also heartbroken that she had hurt her friend and confessed frankly.

“…I’m not here anymore.”

“…yes?”

“Now I have neither mom nor dad.”

Luna raised her head and smiled brightly with red tears in her eyes.

“Now I’m just like Karen.”

Karen opened her eyes wide and asked.

“Really? Luna doesn’t have mom and dad anymore?”

“Yeah. I don’t have a mom and I don’t have a dad. I’m a real orphan now. So it’s okay now. You can stay with Karen.”

“Ugh!”

Karen burst into tears and hugged Luna.

“If you betray me again, I’ll never forgive you! I’ll cut you off forever!”

“Yeah, sorry.”

“Huh! You idiot! I was afraid I’d never see you again!”

“I was scared too. Heh, heh heh! Thank you for forgiving me.”

The children of the orphanage rushed to the two of them, hugging them and crying.

Ray wiped his nose and smiled happily.

“This is a very warm sight.”

Jimmy frowned and said something.

“You idiot, the content of the conversation is not warm at all.”

“No, what’s wrong?”

“Are you proud that Mom and Dad are dead?”

“Not all parents are parents. Sometimes it’s better to have nothing than to have.”

“If you don’t have parents at an age where you can’t even earn a living, who will raise them?”

Rey grinned and held out a fist at Jimmy.

“Who makes them, who raises them? We raise them.”

“Real dogs are you.”

Jimmy, who met his fists, pondered for a moment and then frowned.

“But what about David?”

“ah.”

Rey grabbed the back of her nose.

*

The fourteen soldiers who had killed the Locust began to climb the mountain again.

Rey, who was walking in the front, being wary of Seria’s potion bottle, opened her mouth first as the silence of the party grew longer.

“Count, who the hell is ‘Titty’?”

Reido Titi knew what an elf looked like.

He was directly involved in the rescue operation.

He was an elf that couldn’t find a special assortment except for looking a little stupid.

However, looking at the fact that the Count directly led the knights to the battle to secure Titty’s recruits, he was by no means an ordinary elf.

The Count groaned slightly and opened his mouth.

“It’s a secret that should never be leaked to anyone outside the family, but I’ll have to tell you about her in the future if I’m going to ask you for your cooperation.”

“I don’t really want to ask the Count’s secret.”

“You have already entered into the family secret through this incident. First, I will tell you one thing. Titty is an elf who is related by blood to Resina-sama.”

“Resina? Elf Resina? Are you talking about a great hero 600 years ago?”

Ray was familiar with the names of the heroes 600 years ago because he had been looking through various books to find out about Harsia.

In fact, until recently, Rey was only indifferent, but the story of heroes 600 years ago was a popular myth that commoners knew well.

The Count nodded with a sigh.

“That Resina is right.”

“No, why are humans sitting there protecting the blood and blood of the great elf hero?”

“We’ll talk more about it later. I’d like to see David’s face first.”

“Oh, I have to show you. Our David-sama, who was fiercely killed in the battle against the Locust, is kept over there.”

Meanwhile, Jimmy, who was chasing Ray without thinking, noticed.

This direction was towards the ‘Kenya Vault’.

Jimmy glared at Rey’s back with no doubt.

‘Maybe not. Probably not.’

However, from the past to the present.

Ray never betrayed Jimmy’s expectations.

“He’s right here.”

Ray entered the Kenyan morgue and grunted and dragged David’s body out.

Due to the low temperature and moderate humidity, the body managed to keep its shape.

Of course, it is impossible to completely prevent corruption, so the stench of rotting corpses emanated from the storage room.

“David fought the Locust honorably to the last minute.”

“…?”

Rei teased his mouth carefreely towards the Count who tilted his head.

“How about erecting a large memorial at the battlefield with the Locust? The phrase [in honor of the noble sacrifice of the imperial hero David-sama] would be good.”

sulleung

The Count’s sword was pulled out.

Rey pretended to be terrified and took a step back.

“Bae, Count? Why are you doing this all of a sudden?”

Meanwhile, Mohammed, who looked at David’s body, reported with a sick voice.

“Count, David is right.”

👌👌👌👌

All the knights drew their swords and aimed at Ray.

Ray looked around, but eventually gave up and confessed frankly.

“I did kill you. I killed David.”

The Count raised his doubts.

“Kill David? You killed David?”

“Yeah, well. I killed…”

“Ray, there’s no way you could have harmed David alone.”

The knights who understood what the count was trying to say turned their swords backwards and aimed at Jimmy and Matthew.

Jimmy immediately knelt down and cried out for his neck to be ripped.

“Count!! I’m embarrassed!! I didn’t know anything!! This is what that devil bastard did alone!! Please save me, Count!!”

At Jimmy’s quick stoppage, Rey snorted and frankly blew.

“You’re right that I killed myself. Jimmy and Matthew have nothing to do with it.”

“No, what the hell…”

The Count, who had expressed his dismayed feelings, barely regained his composure and asked.

“Why did you kill David…?”

“Do you remember when David came to the orphanage to find Alessia?”

“I remember.”

“David ran into Luna that day. He openly coveted Luna, and a few days later, on a rainy day, broke into the nursery and tried to kidnap Luna.”

“If you want to make a disciple or something like that…”

“I boasted in front of me that I would pull out Luna’s heart and turn it into an artifact. So I killed it.”

“It’s possible that David could do such a terrible thing…but…”

The motive for the murder was understandable.

The knights also looked at each other and nodded.

You said you were going to pull out a human heart and turn it into an artifact? If you’re a bunch of tough wizards, that might be enough.

The knights’ distrust of wizards was quite deep-rooted.

But the real question is, how did you kill David?

“Ray, David is a high-ranking wizard. No matter how brilliant you are… I don’t understand. You killed David by yourself?”

“Of course, I almost died too.”

“Speak accurately.”

“Okay. So… I was pretending to be a child.”

“Ray, you are a child.”

“I was pretending to be an ordinary child.”

Ray, who corrected his words, roughly explained the situation at the time.

“…and that’s how I was able to kill it thanks to the mortal wound to the circle on the first strike.”

Jimmy, who was listening to the story, banged his head on the dirt floor.

It was only then that I realized the real reason for Ray’s refusal to treat the scar not long ago, saying he had a nice scar.

“Hey, you bastard!! You almost burned the whole nursery school and hid what you bought from me?!”

“Because it wasn’t a question of getting an answer just by telling others. Besides, Jimmy and Matthew could overwrite their sins if they did it wrong.”

Rey shrugged and faced the Count.

“Count, this… how can you give me a cover?”

“cover?”

“Can you bury David’s death by properly tying it up with this incident?”

Ray asked frankly.

A high-ranking wizard is dead.

Just throwing David’s neck roughly in a plausible place doesn’t finish the job.

This was an issue that could be passed without being caught off guard by a person in power, about the Earl of Phillips, who had to step out and decorate the painting and pay attention to the finish.

What if the Earl of Phillips turns down Ray’s request?

I couldn’t help it. I just have no choice but to quietly stick my neck out and die.

“Please also consider David-sama’s honor. If it was rumored that a high-ranking wizard was stabbed to death by a nine-year-old, how would he be embarrassed even if he died?”

“Ray, you get it, shut your mouth.”

The count sighed and looked back at the knights.

All of these were loyal knights who fought without sparing their lives at the Count’s command.

The Count was worried.

It didn’t seem like Ray was lying.

As I listened to Ray, the abnormal behavior of Ray and David before and after the incident was put together like a puzzle.

From a pragmatic standpoint, it was in the Count’s interest to contend that David was killed in the battle with the Locust rather than revealing that he was dead to a nine-year-old child.

However, in order to cover up David’s death, the knights must be perjured.

This was dishonorable to both the count and the knights.

The count, who had been silent for a while, looked around the knights.

“I should make a disgraceful and chivalric request to the lords. It’s not forcing you. It’s okay not to listen.”

Mohammed knelt down on one knee toward the Count, who looked complicated.

“Do not mind. I am the Count’s sword. I will accept any orders.”

The other knights also knelt on one knee and shouted.

“I will accept any name!”

“…thank you all.”

The count patted the knights on the shoulder once while suppressing the overwhelming emotions.

As the story seemed to be getting better, Ray, who had lost the tension, stumbled in place and sat down.

“I’m sorry, Count. But then I didn’t have a choice either.”

“Ray, if you have any more purchases, please tell me now.”

“Uh… In the process of chasing down the Warlock, I killed some gangs in the Dinar area with a sword. The Georgian family. The only witness was Pietro-sama.”

“It doesn’t matter.”

“Well… then there won’t be any more. Maybe.”

“For now, I’ll try my best to grant you your request.”

“Thank you. Ha… I think things are finally coming to an end.”

Rey’s shoulders shook from side to side.

Rey muttered, feeling the consciousness being cut off.

“Oh, that was too much.”

At the same time as those words, Rey’s vision darkened.

*

“?”

Ray looked up at the ceiling and blinked.

It felt like I closed my eyes for a moment and then opened it, but everything was different.

He was obviously facing the Count in the mountains, but now he was lying alone in bed.

Looking up at the unfamiliar ceiling, Ray realized he had fainted.

It took a while for the hardened hair to come back.

“Fortunately… not in prison.”

He confessed that he killed David.

If the Count didn’t want to take care of it, Rey would have been imprisoned now.

“Is this the complete solution to David’s problem? I’m glad… Oh, my body aches.”

Rey got up from the bed moaning and realized later that bandages were wrapped around her elbows and knees.

“Oh, the joint was smashed.”

Rey, who was quietly lying on the bed again, involuntarily turned her head and was startled.

A beautiful, well-dressed woman was sitting on a chair opposite the bed, staring intently at Ray.

Rey panicked and looked out the window. The sun was still high.

Ray, who was riding the parent ear, barely spoke a word.

“Uh, Mom? Why aren’t you sleeping at this hour?”

After a long sigh, the woman opened her mouth .