Raga of the Dry Branch

10: And so in the end, it goes away (4)

“This is a person I haven’t seen before, Diaz. There is no person that I don’t know on the guest list, so is this some kind of mistake? It seems like we need to replace the water which was touched with a new one.”

“Diana!”

The man strongly yelled out the girl’s name in an admonishing way, but the child didn’t seem to care.

“Looking at the way he is dressed, I don’t think there is even a need to know who he is. Ugh.”

“Unnie!” [T/N: Older sister]

“And how could someone enter secretly, the manager won’t like it if we do this. She wasn’t meaning to be bad, but that joke went too far.”

“Ugh!”

With a fan, the elder one looked down at her younger one, who was shorter than her, and then bowed to me.

“I apologize. My younger sister made a mistake. It is because she is still young, could you please let this slide?”

“… it is fine.”

There was nothing to be offended since I have been going through this for a long while. Rather, I was more surprised by the fact that she, who appeared to be a noble, was apologizing to me.

“Then you are fine?”

“I wasn’t offended at all, so you don’t have to worry.”

In response to my answer, she smiled shyly as he touched her braided indigo hair. Until a while ago, she looked so stiff that I thought she was promised to a man, but now she appeared to be young, like me.

“Then, if you please excuse me. Have a good time.”

I said I was going to wash my hands, but if it got too late the others would worry, so I tried to hurry. But then my hands were caught.

“I have another question!”

The shy young man who has his eyes on Shang-di, he still had a lot to ask.

“E-excuse me!”

I didn’t understand why he was going, but he looked like a girl who was holding onto last hope.

“I am sorry, but I have a part…!”

“Al, is there some problem?”

At the end of the path, he appeared.

With a dazzling halo appeared Fay close to me, and held me by my shoulders.

And I saw the woman who was hiding behind the wall looking at this scene, paying attention to the splendid appearance of this man who attracted a lot of attention.

“I was worried. Did something happen?”

Fay’s indigo blue eyes were cold as he stared at Mayer and his companions. They looked at me and then at Fay in shock, not knowing what to do.

“It was nothing, Fay. Sir Myers, can I call you that way?”

“… ugh, sure.”

His eyes seemed different from before. It was like he was surprised by something.

“I would like to tell you about her, but you see we are leaving tomorrow, so what you are expecting is not possible. Could you understand that?”

“… of course. I think I was rude at that moment. I am sorry.”

The face of the man who apologized looked powerless, to think he was so upset over something like this was clear that he cared to know Shang-di.

Still, we talked. And wasn’t this enough for us to understand? Fay, who watched our conversation till then, seemed to grasp what was going to happen and looked back at the people. He nodded and walked back together.

“But, the person next to you, isn’t he Van Eucliere, the captain of Guards?”

Behind us, Sir Myers caught us, and this time he spoke to Fay, not me.

“I am Myers Van Fichte, a member of the Heiden Knights of Bishatsur Kingdom.’

“…Fichte?”

Without realizing I repeated the name.

If it was Fichte, then it had to be the upper class nobles of Bishatsur, which we will go from here. The power of the noble was indicated by the title attached to the name.

On the western and northern continent closest to it, its groups were grouped together apart from the king.

‘La’ for the royal family, ‘Ah’ for the great nobles ‘JIn’ for the central based nobles.

‘Van’ for the knights and captains, ‘Ma’ for the magicians and sorcerers, the 3rd class nobles were ‘Min’, normal knights had ‘Khan’, and non-nobles with powers were ‘On’ and those who were commoners had ‘Ha’. And wanderers or slaves didn’t have titles.

Like ‘Wyndham’, the Heiden Knights, can be called as the face of the Bishatsur, were known as the Golden Lions and were famous throughout the continent. And it was known that not anyone can just join them.

What was the reason for a member of such a knight’s group and a man from a great noble family, with the title of ‘Jin’ calling for Fay with such excitement? Fay wasn’t even in Wyndham, he was just one of the four knight’s captains of the palace.

‘Eucliere’ wasn’t a great family, and I didn’t even remember it. But I knew that from the title of ‘Van’ in Myers name, it indicates he is strong.

However, thinking that, Fay was a demigod.

And slowly I was turning curious about Fay, and as I looked at him Fay had an expressionless face, he shook his head as he opened his mouth.

“I don’t remember. Did we meet?”

“Last year, I visited Cheiva as a member of the envoy.”

“I never forgot a face I saw.”

The man smiled.

“It isn’t easy to remember everything. And moreover…”

The two eyes looking at Fay were gleaming. It wasn’t the kind of eyes which men had for Shang-di, this was more of passion, yearning, and respect for the man in front of him.

“How can one easily forget the person who was given the title of ‘King’ in the path of warriors.”

“…”

“Isn’t that right, Spear Knight?”

“Oh my god!!”

Next to the man, the two sisters exclaimed close to a scream. In the midst of tht, Fay didn’t seem a bit fazed.

Rather, it looked like he was flustered by it. Shocked. It was more like he was embarrassed that him being the Spear King was found out.

Of course, even I knew what the title of ‘king’ meant. It meant a person who reached the peak of arts, but honestly it was meant to be legendary so this didn’t even feel real.

I have been taking knights classes since I was a beginner. So this story was more like a floating cloud to me, especially since I had no interest in being a knight.

I knew about the realm of Sword Master, where the body can age back, and that was the dream most people had.

That itself was the best for one to attain, but I heard that there is a level about it, ‘Monarch’ and a level above that is ‘King’, being a king meant being a half-god, a demigod, like the famous warriors in the Chrom Kingdom.

No, maybe that person wasn’t a human either. In fact, I know that only the captain of the Heiden Knight was the only human to attain the status of ‘King’.

Fay was a Vina tribe, a demigod. So this seemed normal, what surprised me was he seemed embarrassed.

“But why are you here? There is going to be a meeting of the warriors in Cheiva in a while.”

“…”

“…”

Next to Fay, I stayed silent. The scene seemed too weird. I knew about the resignation letter he gave as he walked away.

“Al, would you like to head back first? I have something to take care of.”

As I nodded my head, Fay gestured to the man.

“Can I see you for a moment?”

Fay took the man away. The two sisters seemed to want to ask me something about Fay, but I turned around and left right away.

And as I stepped into the hall.

“Alkeris.”

I didn’t realize as my body turned around. As I looked at the person behind, I felt a chill run down my spine.