A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius

201 – At That Time, an Imperial Assassin Appeared (3)

Lembury Camp, lunch on the second day.

“How has the diet improved?”

“Not at all.”

I went outside for a moment and met a white-haired international student from the Empire.

“How is the princess doing?”

“I’m doing well even though the special room is a little uncomfortable. At least compared to the camp spread out here in the open air.”

“Then that’s a good thing. It’s really uncomfortable here.”

Scarlett, a second-year Imperial international student and owner of room 305 of the international student dormitory, pretended to pat her lower back and complained of her discomfort.

“I feel like I want to sleep in the bed at the Shadow Training Center.”

“That much?”

“Yes. The chill rises from the floor, the tent is thin and has many holes, so monsoon winds come in, and the blanket and mattress are extremely thin, as if they were for summer.”

“…”

“Coincidentally, our team is made up of nobles from the kingdom, and the Baroness who slept with me last night hugged me and slept with me under a blanket.”

“When it’s cold, there are times when you can endure it based on people’s warmth. It’s a little… Severe.”

No matter how well you level and level the ground, if you have an inadequate place to lie on it, you won’t be able to sleep well.

“Can you hold on for one more day? ‘It’ is supposed to come on the third day.”

“I don’t know what it is, but I just hope it’s good news for us.”

“It’s probably good news. Naturally, our hearts are drawn to helping people when they are in the most difficult times.”

“…”

Scarlett looked expectant, her eyes sparkling.

It seems to be really cold and hard to bear, but it will definitely arrive tomorrow morning – the ‘Golden Carriage’ will be a great help to not only Scarlett but all students to at least sleep comfortably.

“What about breakfast?”

“I ate it. It was hard bread and soup.”

“What are the students’ reactions?”

“The noble students were openly disgusted, but the commoner students looked familiar. Instead, they taught us how to eat bread that looked like it had been mixed with sawdust and soaked it in soup.”

“The soup would have been closer to a clear soup rather than a thick one. It was a lot of hard work.”

“What… “

While I, Astasia, Noir, and Wednesday were lying flat on the sofa in the special room that was kept warm by the warming spell and eating preserved food in the refrigerator for breakfast, the students were really having a hard time.

“What about lunch?”

“…Princess Naria said that this too would be hardship. When there is a plague and famine in the country, food like this could possibly become a luxury.”

“You have shown yourself to lead by example.”

“Yes. And if you don’t lose hope, tomorrow will be different. I will eat breakfast and lunch as given today, and then go to the professor immediately and demand an improvement in my living environment.”

“He shows his will to improve the problem through his actions his, not just his words his. Good. He’s doing his best his to increase the students’ favorability.”

If you just sit back and receive what you give, if you get sick, you don’t get sick thinking ‘this too will be an ordeal’ and move on.

Even if today is difficult, tomorrow will be different.

Based on that glimmer of hope, students will endure the problems facing them.

If nothing changes tomorrow like today, then it will be a hellish time.

“Thank you for confirming. Was the afternoon training over there a marching exercise?”

“Yes. The instructor said he would return late in the evening.”

“Make sure you don’t leave midway and return to camp.”

“…?”

“If you return to the camp, you could get involved in the wrong things and become dangerous. Or, you can alienate the person you want to put in danger and send him to the camp.”

The time is 1:30 PM.

It’s time for the sun to be high in the sky, but today there are particularly dark clouds in the sky.

“There will be a bloody storm in the camp. The opponents are crazy people who fight day and night.”

* * *

PM, 2 o’clock.

“Pack your weapons and baggage! Line up with Wu and march through the forest to the border of the Marquis of Roland!”

“Don’t disorganize your ranks! Move according to the gap between the front and back!”

“If you are a good son of Nostrum, you can do it! Be strong! Anyone who falls along the way will be chosen as a loser and will later return to the academy and march the Light Ryongjang track according to the distance covered!! “

The students were in tears at the instructors’ shouts.

I was hungry and couldn’t eat proper food.

“Ugh…”

However, the ’20km’ march, which had already spread among students, was too difficult to march with only will and spirit. Some students were literally on the verge of death.

“Should I rather fall in? I heard Lady Adria over there said she had to fall in because her leg hurts.”

“It’s all a trick. Do you think the knights took it out because they didn’t know? They took it out knowingly.”

“Then can we be left out too?”

“I will give you a lot of money. I am taking it away because I am afraid that if the noble lady gets hurt more seriously, the noble family will criticize me.”

“Tch, if only we had a second party…”

Some people grumble and join the ranks, while others leave the ranks for various reasons.

Out of 600 students, about 540 participated in the march.

Although 1/10 of the students started missing training in the afternoon of the second day, it was not that much compared to the number of instructors missing.

“Hey. Don’t you think the instructors’ faces have changed?”

“I’m not sure because I’m wearing a helmet and face mask.”

“No. Their voices are different. Especially those from the Knights of Golden Dawn.”

“It’s the Royal Knights. Well, they must be busy serving His Majesty the King. Or maybe they’ve been replaced.”

“I guess so? There was a strange rumor last night…”

“Rumors?”

“Uh. There were some ladies who went to the castle of Viscount Gunther Lembourg after being summoned by the knights. When they got there, they told them to go back without anything prepared. I heard that Viscount Gunther Lembourg’s face turned red?”

“…Write it. It’s a story that smells like something.”

The training itself is very difficult, and it gets boring while marching.

The march itself wasn’t very fast, so the students started talking one by one.

“Student President. The students’ atmosphere is unusual.”

“I know too.”

Naria walked at the head of the march, holding a spear with Orosol Academy’s school flag on it, and continued walking while looking ahead.

“Not only the students, but the entire Orosol Academy is in an unusual situation.”

“Yes?”

“Sir Roland. Don’t you see the difference between yesterday and today?”

“Yesterday and today… The rice has become so tasteless?”

Falwood Roland scratched his head and smiled faintly.

“Again.”

“If you want to talk about changes in the articles, it would be best to be careful first.”

“Why?”

“Golden Dawn is not on the side of the student council president…” ” The princess? I don’t know what they came here for, but they definitely don’t have good intentions.”

“…Hmm.”

Naria nodded her head lightly at her Falwood’s words her her her her.

“But at least the target won’t be ‘this side.'”

“Princess?”

“Even if you walk for at least 2 hours by marching, the distance will be 8km at most… No, 10km. Although there is a mix of men and women and they are students in their late teens, they all have some level of physical strength.”

It’s a march, but for some it can be said to be an outing on foot at a slightly faster pace.

“Rather, Lord Falwood.”

“You may call me Sir Roland.”

“You are on alert, but you are going home. How do you feel?”

“Even if it’s my hometown, it’s quite a distance to the Marquis Castle, princess.”

“I believe there is a village called ‘Aviles’ on the border we are going to.”

“…Princess?”

Falwood Roland’s expression hardened, but Naria continued to speak, looking straight ahead.

“Do whatever you want. But keep this in mind. When I ascend to the throne, I will choose people selectively.”

“If you say you’re covering it…”

“I’m saying I won’t do it like the current king.”

At Naria’s words her her her, the expressions of not only Falwood but also some of those behind him hardened.

“Wouldn’t it be necessary to shove bread mixed with sawdust into people who think they are really noble and act recklessly just because they were born nobles to come to their senses?”

“Uh, student council president?”

“If you are a noble and are in charge of a task, you should show responsibility and ability for it. Isn’t that right?”

“Well, that is.”

“The bread is dry, the meat is rotten and they are trying to cover it up with spices, and the vegetables are wild and not in the right amount. Even the water wouldn’t have been drinkable if it weren’t for a wizard student who knows how to use purification magic.”

“…”

“The Academy says they will rush it in, but we don’t know what tomorrow will bring. Remember that, Sir Roland.”

Naria gripped her spear tightly.

“I won’t forget the stone bread I chewed for lunch today.”

* * *

After meeting Scarlett and returning straight to the special compartment of the train.

“So, Noir. How is your swordsmanship training going these days?”

“Huh…?”

Noir, who was about to put an imperial madeleine in his mouth, looks at me in confusion.

“Ho, are you saying that we should practice?”

“Whether you put it in your mouth or not, how about making sure you do it before speaking?”

“Eup.”

Noir placed the madeleine in front of his mouth back in the bowl, sighed, and stood in the aisle.

“I thought it would be like this, but I never thought it would be like this on the second day.”

“What?”

“Okay, bro. If you don’t want to go out, I’ll show you my full strength here.”

Noir puts his hand on the sword on his waist.

I laughed for a moment at the look in his eyes full of his unique competitive spirit, saying that even if he couldn’t beat me, he would try to prove himself somehow, but Noir’s eyebrows furrowed, as if he recognized my empty laughter as ridicule

“I don’t confirm.”

“Huh?”

“If you wanted to check, you would have checked from outside. You’re cutting with Astasia and Wednesday next to you? What are you talking about that’s dangerous?”

“…Wasn’t it?”

“No.”

I stood up with my cane.

“What I wanted to say was, can you protect yourself no matter what enemy comes your way?”

“Of course. You can protect not only me, but also Wednesday!”

“Really? In that case, take Astasia and Wednesday inside there.”

“…Brother?”

Noir’s expression hardens when he sees the place I pointed to, a place that looks like a ‘safe room’ to anyone.

“Brother, could it be…” ” “

“It’s the perfect environment for imperial assassins. All the knights, including Chancellor Winchester, marched out with the students, and only the injured students remained in the camp…”

Thump thump thump.

Outside, a harsh knocking sound rings out.

“Brother, I-“

“No. He is a guest who came to visit me.”

I pushed Noir’s shoulder as he tried to leave and opened the door to the special room.

“Who is it?”

“Oh, my stomach, my stomach…!”

A female student in uniform clutching her abdomen.

“Your name is…Adria?”

“Save me…Lord…!”

“Please save me.”

I held Adria’s hand towards my abdomen.

“I guess I have to die for you to live or something, so let me tell you one thing.”

“Ik…!!”

Lady Adria, what used to be is revealing her life to me.

“If you’re going to assassinate, make sure you do it more clearly.”

Per-eok.

I stuck the cane into the assassin’s solar plexus, knocked him unconscious, and then turned my attention to Noir.

“Noir. I guess I need to pick up a sword.”

“Tongue, bro…!”

“Be careful of the glass.”

As soon as I finished speaking.

Wow!!

The window of the special room was broken, and men wearing clothes painted in a camouflage color similar to the color of the forest attacked the special room.

“…!”

“This is true. Actually, I like that saying too.”

I pulled the tip of the staff and pulled out the sword.

“If you don’t get caught, you’ll be assassinated. Hmm.”

“Kill it——!”

It’s not unfair.

If you look at it, I did it first.

But.

‘The only thing is that they are trying to kill me without me being caught.’

Their principle of action does not include ‘revenge on those who killed our Knights of the Golden Dawn’.

‘Are you guys also impersonators?’

The Knights of Golden Dawn impersonate Imperial Assassins and try to kill Gray Gibraltar.

A chain of assassinations following impersonation and impersonation.

“Okay. Let’s go to the end.”

Phu-uuk.

“I don’t avoid a fight that comes my way.”

I stabbed the assassin who was running towards me and plunged the knife right into his heart.