3 – Loyalty
“You insulted me? What do you mean by that?”
How could a lord be interested in a low-level adventurer like me in the first place?
The place where I was was close to the border city located at the end of the continent, but more adventurers gathered because of that.
It was because of the obvious principle that the farther away from the center of the kingdom, the greater the danger of monsters, and the greater the danger of monsters, the more jobs for adventurers.
Among the adventurers who come and go on average in the hundreds or thousands at most, it would be impossible to remember one person and use insulting words.
Moreover, I didn’t do anything particularly noticeable because I was looking for dragons. It was even questionable whether the lord knew the human being I was.
Besides, even if he knew me, there was no reason to go against the heart of the royal 1st Knight Commander, who was dispatched in response to a request for assistance in an emergency when a dragon appeared out of nowhere.
Or, did you say something with the feeling that you don’t know why there are trash like low-level adventurers?
“They greeted me and mocked me, saying, ‘It’s an honor to be helped by the Royal Knights Commander serving His Majesty the King.’ My lord is only one. But to dare to serve that bitch was an insult I couldn’t stand. It was a word that insulted me and the lord I serve at the same time. so i cut it In my mind, I wanted to rip open its jaws and cut its body into small pieces, but my lord had ordered it.”
“… … It’s okay to just skip that kind of thing—wait a second. What did you just say, Serena? cut?”
“That’s right.”
“What?”
“This is the mansion where the lord used to be.”
“…”
As soon as I heard that, I expressed my condolences to the lord in my heart. I thought I had fixed my habit, but I didn’t.
Since Serena belonged to the royal knights, it was clear that the lord would have thought that Serena served the king. The loyalty of the Royal Knights to Charlotte is truly enormous.
If there was a problem, it was the fact that Serena was far from the typical royal knights.
There was even a side of him that was morbidly loyal to me. So, for a moment, I must have rolled my eyes and did this.
Being the 1st Knight Commander of the Royal Knights, his position was higher than that of most nobles, so it was not strange at all to think that the lord was trying to be polite in his own way.
It was said that a lot of adventurers came and went, but in the end, it was a difference that was not even worth comparing with the lord of a city that was just on the outskirts.
Youngju felt sorry for him. It’s an honor for the Royal Knights Commander to come and not use unnecessary rhetoric.
If Serena had known how disgusted and disgusted Serena was to have the word ‘serving the King’ attached to herself, she would never have made that mistake.
“Yes, they destroyed the manor house.”
“Is there something wrong, lord?”
“… … How did you break it?”
“It was nothing. I just split the mansion in half with Sky Slic.”
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Just confirmed by conversation. Serena had no awareness of what she had done.
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Just as she questioned the behavior of pointing out that she had stepped on weeds on the road, Serena also sincerely questioned the behavior of pointing out that the mansion was cut in half.
It’s strange, did I raise this far without common sense?
“Has anyone died or been injured?”
“I killed a few people who jumped at me without even knowing the subject, so they didn’t come at me.”
… … Well, even so, it’s pretty decent.
Once the line was not crossed. The mansion is cut to pieces like tofu, and the knights have their limbs cut off, and it is better than ending up stuck in the ground with their weapons piercing their bodies.
I felt sorry for the few people who died, but what can I do? Considering Serena’s former personality, it’s to the point where we should be glad that only a few people died.
If it were Serena of the past, after killing the lord without questioning and answering questions, she would have brought blood to the city after slashing all those who were holding weapons, regardless of whether they attacked her or not.
Even if they were to be reprimanded for this, to Serena, the position of Knight Commander was only a semblance of a shell that could be thrown away at any time.
Even now, I’m only looking for an opportunity to beat the knight commander and follow me around. Rather, Serena will welcome her with open arms.
That said, it was questionable whether Serena would be caught obediently when the guards were killed and arrested for destroying the mansion.
“Well, it’s better to split the sky. What would I have done if you were mad and used dimension cutting—”
“no.”
“—What?”
“Dimension cutting was never used.”
Serena cut me off and raised her head and met my eyes in an unprecedented situation.
Serena is the type to cut her own throat without batting an eye when I order her to die, not the type to say something like this.
I did not avoid the gaze that was directed at me, but met it. I could feel the sadness and intensity flowing from Serena’s eyes.
“Dimension cutting is only for the master’s lifelong wish. It’s not a good technique even if you dare to use it on such a lowly person. Please, do not doubt my loyalty. It wasn’t a dimensional cut, it was just a simple sky slicing.”
I just mentioned it as a joke, but Serena was very serious about her feelings. This was clearly my mistake.
dimensional cutting.
A technique that is so difficult that even Charlotte is not sure if she can use it, literally cutting through the dimension itself.
Armor and helmets covered with mana could not even function as protective gear, there was no defensive magic, and it was possible to tear apart even the highest level of dust in a single blow.
Since it is a technique that cuts down the dimension itself, the only way to stop this is to use magic that interferes with the dimension itself.
Or just hit and play like me.
The name is definitely grandiose and the casting method is indescribably complicated, but it didn’t work for me. After the first attempt failed, the same was true even after several more hits.
This damn body, which must have been swept away by the splintering dimension, was perfectly restored as usual in a matter of seconds.
Although it ended up failing, dimensional cutting was a technique Serena created herself to kill me. So I thought I would have an attachment, but I didn’t know it would be to this extent.
After it was confirmed that he couldn’t kill me, he didn’t bother mentioning it.
“Yes, this was my mistake.”
“No, my lord. It’s my fault for not confirming my loyalty to my lord more. sorry.”
Serena bowed her head once more. Looking at it, he let out a small sigh. Did you leave Serena alone for too long? My emotions were somehow more unstable than before.
“Stand up, Serena.”
“All right.”
Serena quickly stood up. Her face had returned to an expressionless expression, like the usual Serena.
He gently placed his hand on his head. Serena’s body trembled lightly as if she was startled by my actions. But I didn’t push my hand away or anything.
“Lord, Lord?”
“Stay still. It’s an order.”
Serena stiffened at the word command. He seemed to be unwilling to move even as he was commanded to stay still.
Having lost my sense of humor, I clenched my fists and lightly fed them honey chestnuts.
“Hey?!”
“Don’t stay still like that. Just do it naturally, naturally.”
Anyway, even if I feed honey chestnuts, my hand hurts even more.
After confirming that Serena had lost some strength in her body, she stroked her hair here and there and tousled her hair. Serena’s expression softened.
Saying sorry to each other here is nothing more than self-defeating. And, sometimes an action speaks louder than a thousand words.
While searching for a suitable topic without stopping, thinking that I should just change the subject, I came up with an appropriate one.
“Didn’t you say you came to pick me up? After all, I was planning to return to the palace sooner or later. It just went well.”
“Are you sure, lord?”
“Then it’s natural. Why would I lie?”
“sorry. It definitely didn’t mean that I didn’t believe the words of my lord.”
“Sorry, that was just what I said.”
“Is that so. I’m sorry I didn’t understand your master’s intentions properly—”
“Anyway.”
Again, it seemed like Serena would say she was sorry, so I hit the ball. Serena immediately shut up when I interrupted.
“I really wanted to go back to the palace. Now, as you can see, I didn’t die this time either.”
My finger pointed to a large pit right next to it. Serena’s blue eyes turned to my fingertips. They couldn’t die this time either, and the words about going back to the palace were both real.
Instead, there are just things to do before that.
We’ll have to go back to the city and fix what Serena did. I would have been completely upset. Also, stop by the Adventurer’s Guild and tell them that the request has failed.
After all, he was a low-level adventurer, so his reputation could not be lowered here. It’s just a failure, the sentiment would be all.
“Before that, let’s take a walk.”
I’m thinking about what to make an excuse for.
