122. The Apostles’ Oath
“Hmm. greatness.”
I heard someone coughing. I turned my gaze towards it. Only then did Sephia step back.
The clearing cough was a man with a brown mustache. After that, there were a lot of guards standing there.
The sword stick he lent me was put to good use. I held out the sword stick to him.
“Thanks to you, I live.”
The gentleman took off his hat and said hello. He was wearing a half opera mask. I stared at the mask for a moment before he removed it.
“Ike, excuse me. You were still wearing a mask.”
Then he even removed his mustache.
What, the mustache was fake too?
The gentleman had a sharp impression overall. It was a half-elf with pointy ears, a handsome appearance and a stocky physique.
A few curious eyes naturally turned to him. Then the guard opened his mouth.
“Sorry to interrupt, but raid, where are all the raiders?”
“It was all swept away.”
“You swept everything? Are you saying that weapons are prohibited here? Then bare-handed… ?”
I snapped my fingers and summoned Runthar. As if seeing the spirit for the first time, a buzz spread among the guards.
I caught it with the help of Letea, but the reason why I showed Runtar was simple.
“that… , Are you a fire spirit?”
“As you can see, I’m a Elementalist. I accidentally burned it. Strictly speaking, it evaporated.”
The guards looked in disbelief, but nodded when they saw the ashes scattered all over the auction house.
“Thank you. Thanks to that, it seems that no major accidents have occurred.”
I nodded and turned my gaze to the gentleman. The gentleman smiled and looked over Tesha, Sepia, and me.
“nice to see you. everyone. I am Seian.”
oh
Seian. If you include the surname, it was Seian Ergé.
Seian was a person only known by name. As you can see from the surname Erjera, he was Tia’s uncle.
He was also the person in charge of the current royal family’s finances. Somehow he sneakily greeted Tesha with his eyes.
* * *
Milton’s office.
Milton raised his glasses slightly to hide his tension. I wanted to somehow resolve this incident.
Half of the participants in the auction fell unconscious after the bomb exploded, and many did not remember the situation itself.
It was intended to explain to the participants in the auction that it was a mistake made by a graduate student at the University of Magic in the next room.
A graduate student working part-time accidentally exploded a magic reagent while working, and it leaked into the auction house through the vent. Sorry for the confusion.
Instead, all participants in the auction will be given a three-year premium membership free of charge.
If it was a problem, it was the four people who remembered every situation.
In particular, the dark-haired young man handled all situations almost alone. I wanted to somehow negotiate with him and silence him.
And now Milton was facing Ethan.
“Miss Ethan, you are a premium customer of our North Barn auction house. First of all, I would like to thank you for this situation.”
“Yes… .”
Ethan gave a short answer. Milton slowly looked at Ethan.
“I would like to give a special lifetime membership to members.”
He strangely emphasized the word ‘special’. Even then, he promised compensation.
“And I want to give you 30 million ele as compensation. There is something I would like to ask of you instead.”
“Please? what is that?”
“I would like you to refrain from commenting on this matter to the outside world.”
“Hamgura… . No compensation is required.”
For a moment, a light flashed in Milton’s eyes. If the other party didn’t need compensation, it was a welcome thing from this side.
But it’s still too early to rejoice.
“Well, in that case… , Is there anything you want from us?”
“You don’t even need a lifetime membership. I almost died, and the auction house was raided. What do I believe and will use this auction house in the future?”
Milton pushed up his spectacles. The other party wanted something else.
“That is a reasonable enough statement. Is there anything you would like?”
“I would like you to transfer all the auction items I purchased for free.”
He quickly shook his head and calculated. The dark-haired young man alone had purchased about a dozen items. The loss was worse than 30 million ele.
Didn’t the teddy bear alone cost 20 million elegy?
“That, customer. That’s a bit troublesome.”
“Are you in trouble? By any chance, did I look clumsy?”
“Is that possible?”
For Edan, the opponent was disgusting. It was ridiculous that he begged for 30 million Ele and even wished for silence.
Aside from the attitude of not wanting to see losses even if they die, planting people in the auction house was unacceptable.
“You planted people in the auction house? If you raise the left glasses, raise the price. Just stroke the beard and that’s it.”
ah… . Milton realized that his trick had been exposed. His lips were soft, and he was silent for a long time.
Even so, I diligently thought of how to make an excuse. If logic doesn’t work, you have no choice but to make an emotional appeal.
First of all, apologize. talk like that such a conclusion was reached.
“… sorry. I really have nothing to say. But could you listen to me for a moment?”
Milton spoke in an appealing voice about the recent auction where the participants had agreed to deliberately refrain from asking for a price.
That is why the damage to the auction house was enormous. Ethan didn’t know.
“I understand. However, there are a lot of items I couldn’t buy because the organizers raised the price that way. It’s hard to even convert it into money.”
In fact, there were quite a few items that were missed that way.
“If you really want me to remain silent, please hand over the item I was going to purchase. Would you like to lose money? Or will you lose your credit? You think I’d rather lose money.”
The kid is threatening you.
Milton took a breath to calm his troubled mind. But in the end, he realized that there was only one thing he could do.
“… Okay. I will follow you.”
Sepia and Tesha did not purchase anything separately. Membership renewals were to be offered to them.
However, the other person added as if he knew that.
“Oh, and please provide compensation to the other three. Because they fought off the assailants too.”
Ethan left the office with the auction item and a lifetime membership. Lifetime memberships seemed like they would never be used for the rest of their lives anyway.
‘The North Barn Auction House will be ruined. There’s no way I’ll miss this opportunity at the Ergé Company.’
Even if it was caught, it was caught by Uncle Tia, so it will move from Erze’s group. It seemed that Ergé’s store would attract users to North Barn even if it required a large amount of money invested.
Even if Ethan himself remained silent, Seian Ergé would even accuse the organizers of the auction house of raising the price.
Then, the only future left for them was downfall.
‘Anyway, should I buy a sword stick too? It was very useful.’
Ethan thought as he left the door.
* * *
A gloomy laboratory in South Barn.
In the lab, a desk cluttered with magical items stood out. Daron, who was sitting on a desk chair, took off his horn-rimmed glasses and washed his face dry.
The thick book was full of difficult magic circles. It was a formula that hadn’t been solved yet, but it didn’t matter.
He had a longer time than anyone else.
He was an instructor at the Magic Tower. However, there was a different reason for infiltrating the Magic Tower. It was to find information about Mine.
It’s been three years since I set foot in the Magic Tower.
But today it was time to go back. He closed the thick magic book.
From the familiar scenery on the way back home to the familiar feeling of fatigue, such a sense of everyday life was precious to Daron.
“Are you here? It’s a bit late today.”
When I opened the front door, a kind voice spoke to me. Daron walked over to her and kissed her on the forehead and hugged her gently.
“You haven’t had dinner yet, have you?”
“I wanted to eat with you.”
Daron put the brown envelope under the table from his bosom. One by one, I set the table with what I took out of the envelope.
Mushroom soup with rye bread and sliced ham. All were things that his wife, Laura, liked.
Soon the two ate together.
“Hey, Darron. Please tell me something interesting.”
“Good. It’s an interesting story… .”
Daron told me a joke he heard at Mage Tower University today. It was a trivial story.
“It is a story of two couples. One day, my wife read in the newspaper that women speak twice as much language as men. That day, the wife triumphantly told her husband. ‘Women use twice as much language as men. This is proof that women have better language skills.’ Do you know what I said about my husband?”
“Well… , I do not know.”
Laura tilted her head as if she really didn’t know.
“What did you say just now?”
As the soup finished, my wife laughed with footsteps. Excited to see his wife laugh, Daron tells another joke.
“One day, two men were climbing a mountain. Then a bear appeared in front of them. It was a grizzly bear the size of a house. One man pretended to be dead right away, and the other tied his shoelaces. The man who pretended to be dead said dumbfounded. Hey, no matter how fast you run, you can’t go faster than the bear.”
The wife waited for Daron to say something with her eyes shining.
“Then he said, I just need to run faster than you?”
Trying to hold back a laugh, she bit her lip. The autumn night was deepening.
At dawn, Daron opened his eyes.
I couldn’t even hear the cries of grasshoppers outside the window.
The beating heart was beating. A very long time has passed since the queen lost her heart.
It was the first time in 300 years that my heart beat like this.
Instinctively he realized that Ashron had inherited the heart. And I knew that he was calling the apostles.
“ah… .”
Daron brushed his gray hair once. The voice seemed to flow directly into my head.
Keep your oath.
The Queen told them not to take revenge. However, he had sworn to recover the apostles and the lost heart.
His wife, who was lying next to him, turned over with a rustle.
Daron slowly raised his upper body. Even though I was careful, my wife slowly opened her eyes at the movement.
“Are you awake?”
“I’m sorry. It seems like you woke up because of me.”
Daron was silent for a moment. I couldn’t figure out how to explain this to my wife, Laura.
It was 300 years. It was a long enough time for faith to crumble and hope for light.
“I… that laura So… .”
I couldn’t speak for a long time even after taking my luck away. Laura smiled as if she understood everything. And hugged him and whispered.
“Is it something you must go to? How long does it take? 1 year? 2 years?”
“… … ”
Daron was silent because he couldn’t promise.
“If you must go, go. Instead, don’t leave me alone for too long. Please contact me often with a crystal ball.”
“I will.”
After making the promise, Daron put on his coat and ran outside.
He regained the queen’s heart after 300 years and was overflowing with power. It wasn’t a metaphor, it was actually like that.
The place where they arrived by following the electric sound was the remote outskirts of North Van.
There, a blue gate awaited him. Upon entering through the gate, a wide frozen ground spread out.
It was not the land where the struggle was discussed.
However, Ashron and several other apostles were there. Standing among them was a young man with black hair whom he had never seen before.
“I got back the Queen’s heart.”
The moonlight of the full moon was pouring down like autumn rain over the frozen land.
300 years have passed since the oath was lost and the queen sworn.
In that long period of time, there was also an apostle who became a mage of the Mage Tower.
In those distant years, there was an apostle who became an adventurer and wandered all over the continent.
There were also apostles who could not return to that distant light.
But they were all looking forward to this moment. It was the moment when an end was taken in that long journey.
Ashron placed his hand on the chest where the Queen’s heart was.
“Apostles. A new curtain has risen.”
“The Queen… for!”
All the apostles and members of the clan who were present knelt on one knee. The gray apostles formed a circle over the frozen ground.
The moonlight of the full moon was pouring down on the countless shades of gray.
