Chris's Faith of Fire

Knock~~knock~~

No one is there...

I cautiously put my ear to it and listened for a while.

Indeed, there was no movement inside. My hand rested uneasily on the door handle, and there was no padlock...

It was opened carefully, and the room inside was almost exactly the same as our guest room, except for an extra bookshelf.

It would be bad if I was discovered. I carefully brought the door to the door again. It seemed that I could hide people under the bed.

I glanced at the bookshelf on that side. Due to its small size, there were many books densely arranged.

"Faith of the Empire", "Holy Magic", "Callis Travels", "Dagger and Wolf Fang"

At a glance, there isn't much of value, and many of them are books I've read.

Indeed, important information may not necessarily be placed in this room.

I slowly flipped through the books on the bookshelf, feeling a sense of betrayal and nervousness urging me.

Then I found a piece of parchment inside some book.

what is this……

A map of where?

It doesn't look like it.

But which language is written underneath these twists and turns?

Da~~da~~da

The sound of footsteps came, and I hurriedly inserted the book back into place. However, I ran out of time and had to put the parchment back into my arms temporarily.

Let's hide under the bed first.

I bent down and curled up as much as possible so as not to attract the attention of anyone who came in.

The footsteps were not just one person, but three pairs...

Too bad, this feeling will be discovered.

Why did I come to search Miss Yvette's room on a whim!

With a bang, the door was opened.

The wooden door made a creaking sound.

It's two men and a woman.

The woman's long lace skirt almost covered her shoes...

It's Yvette.

As for those two men, they were neither Hagar nor Lian, nor Cardinal Zachary.

I thought of the two men who were the Cardinal's mercenaries, and how they came to be following Miss Yvette.

"Hey, are you letting us deal with it now?"

One of the men spoke.

deal with?

What kind of treatment he was talking about, could he be referring to us?

I became unable to calm down.

"There's nothing I can do about it. After all, it's been a whole day and night, and I don't want to do this..."

Yvette continued the man's words in a low voice, seemingly reluctantly.

"Then let's end this mess quickly."

What's going on, the man bent over.

My heart beat faster and faster, my breathing became rapid, and my nose was filled with the smell of blood.

Um?The smell of blood.

Speaking of which, my chest feels wet...

I touched it with my fingers and it was sticky.

From the outside light, only black and red can be seen.

I have a bad feeling, the same as when I first came here.

It seemed like something ominous was next to me.

I didn't dare to look, but my strong curiosity drove me to bend my neck.

What appeared in my eyes was the bloated middle-aged man.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."

Breathing almost stopped for a moment.

The Cardinal...his eyes were wide open, and there was blood on the corner of his mouth.

He looked at me like this, our eyes met, but his eyes didn't move at all.

"Ugh..."

Hold still, don't scream!

patience...

Hold back!

bear with it.

Please, don't pee.

It doesn't work anymore, I feel like my body is no longer my own and I am completely out of control.

The man had his face completely pressed to the floor.

Now I don't dare to look anywhere, I just lie on the floor.

"Gee, Miss Riprestel, we didn't hear there were two bodies to dispose of."

"Huh? How is it possible..."

Yvette's voice came.

The other man leaned forward, the adventurer's heavy boots so unsettling at this moment.

He lowered his head and touched my stiff body.

"Idiot, this isn't a corpse, it's a girl."

"Hehe~"

"Leave her to me. By the way, in order to prevent her from yelling, let's knock her out first."

Yvette's ruthless voice sounded completely different from how it used to sound.

There was nothing he could do to save himself, his voice was stuck in his throat and he couldn't come out.

Before I was dragged out of my coma, I slowly realized the terrible fact in front of me.

——This group of people killed the cardinal.

Chapter 68 68. Kingship and Dominance

For Latiya, there was only one experience of helplessness.

That was when she was seven or eight years old.

She had just joined the social world and still had long hair. She was expected to be a princess with extraordinary talents.

"Your Royal Highness, this is the first time we meet. This is Lairbal, who was awarded this title due to the favor of His Majesty the late King."

Ladia has already been taught the names and family coats of arms of these nobles. A lone wolf is embroidered on the button of Duke Leerbar. The wolf stands in front of the flames, which means that even if there is only one soldier left, The flame that protects Garnet.

"Hello, Duke Leerbar, I will continue to take care of you from now on."

The young Ladia spoke in an elegant manner. She stretched out her arm and let the Duke kiss her.

"Your Highness is extremely intelligent and so beautiful. He is truly blessed by the goddess."

Although she received praise from Duke Leerbal, Ladia did not like this man.

He was an important minister of the late king and his cousin. The two of them had worked together to defeat Gilkern's invading army and forced them to sign a peace agreement with a small victory over a large number. It can be said that the war in Eogard It has made a profound mark in history.

But this guy is looking down on our family...

Because of his seniority, he criticized his father. It was also reported that he once said that his father was not as good as the late king.

Ladia felt angry just by seeing him, and felt extremely humiliated when she took out her hand to kiss such a man.

But she endured it.

Ladia asked her father Kane after that.

"Father, why should we give preferential treatment to that kind of guy! If I become the king, I won't make it easy for him!"

The angry girl looked very cute, and her long hair trembled with her body. Such words made Princess Cecilia smile lightly, but King Kane could not laugh.

He knelt down and put his eyes at the same level as his eldest daughter.

"Ladia, what do you think is the royal way?"

"The king's way?" She was so young that she couldn't understand what her father meant.

"The way of kingship is to govern the world with benevolence and righteousness, and to appease the subjects with virtue..."

Ladia seemed to understand, but her doubts drove her to contradict her father.

"But Father! Do we have to use this kind of thing on that kind of guy? He is obviously a bad guy!"

Kane shook his head.

"There are no outright villains, Ladia...at least not for us humans."

"Hey?"

"What do you think is a bad person?"

"Of course he is against us! The one who makes father and mother sad!"

He was not surprised by his daughter's one-dimensional thinking. It was black and white. Everyone had this kind of thinking when they were young.

If it were the poor people below the city, perhaps this idea would be taken to their graves.

"Listen up Ladia, for the people below the city, especially the hungry and cold people... we are the biggest villains."

"Hey, how come? In this case, can't we save them?"

The girl was completely stunned. She had never thought about it from the perspective of the poor.

"Ladia, who are you going to save? Do you know the name of the person you want to save? Why do you want to save him? Maybe this person is already used to his own life. So, if you save him, what are you going to do? Where are the other people who also asked you for help?”

"I want to save them together! It doesn't matter if there are a hundred people or a thousand."

"So what if there are 1? What if there are fraudsters among them who are not poor but pretend to be poor?"

"Eh……"

Unable to answer, she fell silent, waiting for her father's next words.

"Our income is not only necessary to maintain the expenses of the royal family, but also to maintain the relationship with the nobles, and to ensure the strength of the army. If we are too poor, they will know that our strength has weakened and start to plan rebellion... The late king once That’s how we captured Garnet.”

"..."

"Although Duke Leerbal relies on his old age and is arrogant and unreasonable, he controls nearly [-]% of the nobles in the kingdom. If you make him unhappy, what do you think he will do?"

Facing her father's question, Ladia slowly opened her mouth.

"He will unite his forces to fight us..."

"This is why we want to treat him preferentially. Strength is the capital of dominance, so if we lack this, we must stick to the kingly way."

King Kane stood up again. His figure looked so tall at the moment that even Ladia felt it was too strenuous to look up.