Chapter 399 – Casanova (4)
The members of the Knights Templar had pale complexions today as well. They licked their lips tightly together, spraying frost with their gazes, as if they had just welcomed an early winter. Even I felt like my body temperature would go down if I met their sharp gaze, so I cautiously walked inside the knights to avoid them.
Compared to the atmosphere, the number of people was very weak, so they only roughly checked my identity and let me in right away. After handing in my weapon at the entrance, I shook my hands and peeked inside. As I was sitting in the visiting room, an attendant approached me and asked.
“Yes. Who are you looking for?”
“I came because I wanted to see Felix Karin. Could you let me meet you?”
“Are you talking about Miss Karin? Yes. All right.”
The attendant said so in a calm tone. He was a middle-aged man with a bun and white curly hair. Her hunched back his trembled like a metronome, and her gait her trembled as if she were alone in the middle of a concert. He was a man who really enjoyed his job. I watched him and tickled his fingers.
The attendant approached the knight guarding the meeting room. When the knight saluted, he nodded his head and accepted the greeting. Then, he came back with a smile on his face and asked me.
“Would you like a cup of tea while we wait?”
“Tea, that’s good. Do you have any? Since I live far from the capital, I don’t know the types of tea very well.”
“Do not worry. The knights here are coffee and tea. It only handles two things.”
“Then tea, please.”
The coffee here was a bit bitter for my taste. It was good to eat with snacks, but not good to eat while waiting for guests. It was especially not good in front of customers who had to make a mild expression. I saw the man who took the order bring coffee again. The place to make coffee was in the corner of the meeting room, and as if knights often used it, you could see armor with huge bodies carefully drinking coffee with one hand the size of a pot lid.
It was a sight that made me laugh as if I was watching an adult man trying to cook with a playing house cup. Next to the driver who was whining and riding, he skillfully got into the car and handed it over. The knight was startled to see him, bowed his head, and disappeared with a trot.
He smiled and handed me the car. I gave him a rough compliment as I smelled the tea.
“You drive well. It smells very good.”
“Oh my, words of praise.”
And he took a seat in front of me and sat down. His attire was a bit flashy for an attendant. It was modest if sober, but it wasn’t the kind of clothing that a servant would wear. I belatedly checked the other attendants running around the knight. They were wearing a kind of uniform that conformed to the internal regulations of the Knights Templar. However, the middle-aged man in front of him was being saluted by the other knights. The skeleton of the body walking smoothly was unusual, and I could see that the knights around us were glancing at us. I looked around and asked him.
“Who are you? Now that I see it, I am not a person here.”
“Hey, this is a person. You have a terrible misunderstanding.”
“Did you know who I am?”
I thought I was delusional even after I said it. Because that was impossible. It was today that I arrived in the capital. I was about to come here using a teleport, not an official route. It was impossible for me to come to you in advance after hearing the news of my arrival. The man shook his head and said.
“It’s a coincidence. It was just a coincidence. I came to see my daughter, and on the way back, I see her face like this. So I came here to talk to you.”
Daughter? She seemed to have said something similarly jarring in her ear her before. I looked back at my memory of her.
[“Are you talking about Miss Karin? Yes. All right.”]
I furrowed my eyebrows and secretly checked the status window.
Name: Felix Rayman
Affiliation: Head of the Felix family
Level: 54
Strength: 145
Agility: 100
Intelligence: 100
Luck: 130
Characteristic
Coolness
While not taking damage, all attacks become critical.
Slayer
The longer the battle, the higher the stats. Up to 50% stat increase
General
Overwhelming fighting ability will bring fear to your enemies.
Damage taken is reduced by 25%.
“You are the head of the Felix family. I’m sorry I didn’t know about this before.”
Rayman grinned even louder as I recognized him. He was the one who gave the impression of Hahoetal as his eyes were curved very round when he laughed. Smiling, he asked me.
“How did you know?”
Actually I didn’t know who this bastard was. It was because I had no interest in him other than the fact that he was my prospective father-in-law and his name. However, judging from the expression ‘people here’ and those characteristics specialized in combat, I was able to gloss over it like this.
“Who doesn’t know Felix Rayman, the great master? It’s just embarrassing to think of it belatedly because I wasn’t in a hurry.”
“Heh heh, even if it’s an appendix, it’s just new blood compared to the hero who saved the continent and our lord Peta Lucius. I’m old and I’m not the same as before. It seems that the sword is getting dull day by day.”
Saying that, Rayman glanced at me. There was a strange cruelty in those eyes, but I didn’t show it. I asked while drinking tea.
“So, what was your reason for talking? You wouldn’t have talked to me like this just to get a ride.”
“Isn’t there a lot to talk about? These days, our Karin rarely talks about men. Speaking of who the opponent is, the hero who dominates this continent. He is called Lord Peta Lucius. I was a child who was ignorant about the item of love, let alone a man all my life. It was the first time I heard him talk about a man with such a bright face.”
“Interesting. Did you tell me my story What were you talking about?”
Rayman said.
“They were very excited to talk about it. The other day, they said they had a meal together in the park, and they kept repeating the story all day. Thanks to you, I know what kind of conversation Lord Lucius had with my daughter when he entered, and what kind of menu he ate.”
It seemed like it was a lot more detailed than I thought. Imagining her telling such a story with her excited face her, I could n’t help but get excited too. I took a deep breath, calmed my excitement, and spoke to Rayman again.
“It’s a really strange story.”
“Do you like my daughter?”
“I like it very much. I want to make her my wife her.”
To be precise, I wanted to commit an affair, but since Rayman came forward and brought up this story, there was no reason for me to refuse. When I thought about it calmly, I thought, ‘No. I want to have an affair with Miss Karin, I don’t want to move on to a healthy relationship.’
“It’s nothing to be sad about, that a daughter of the Felix family isn’t even the master of the master bedroom, and she’s degraded to a third wife at best.”
Yves, Sieri, Arty, Elsie, A.A., Soya, Leica, Theoter. To be precise, Karin would have been her ninth wife her, but I chose not to point this out either. I chimed in with a smile.
“Heroes naturally like beautiful women. I have never neglected my wives. It will be so in the future. If Miss Karin marries me, as the wife of a hero, she will enjoy all the luxuries and honors.”
“Haha…”
Ray Man laughed, stroking her own chin. Her eyes weren’t smiling this time. His eyes were scrutinizing my whole body as if he were judging me. It was a habit often exhibited by skilled brawlers before he fought. I said, shaking his head slightly.
“Looks like you have more to say.”
Ray Man said, sticking his head forward as if he had been waiting for this moment.
“In fact, isn’t human nature something that cannot be explained in words? People like me who live on kalbab know that. The true nature of man is not words. That he comes from the sword. One Dongsae that he habitually wields, and one that unconsciously looks at the opponent. In all of these we identify people. Lord Peta Lucius. Don’t you have any idea what I’m trying to say?”
“It means to fight. Lightly.”
It seemed that her daughter had intervened in the excuse of her sympathy for the strong. Ray Mann nodded her head when I figured it out and laughed out loud again. When Rayman suddenly laughed, the knights around him stood up in amazement. I looked at the door of the meeting room and slightly frowned. Why isn’t Karin coming?
While the troubles were deepening, the arena was being built quickly. As if they had expected a fight, the knights were coming in droves.
“Dalian! A battle between Lord Peta Lucius and former Instructor Rayman!”
I was pushed out of the crowd into the middle of the arena. A small attendant gave me my weapon. Rayman also pulled out the knife handed to him by the attendant and stabbed it on the floor like a staff. That action alone made people start to mutter.
From the new knights who had flocked to hear the name Felix Rayman, to the middle-aged high-ranking knights, all of them stood silently surrounding us. In the midst of the truly uncomfortable silence, I raised my mace and looked at Felix Rayman. Ray Mann stretched his sword down, moving his body with his dancing steps.
“You don’t have to fight, do you? Sir Rayman. You may be seriously injured.”
“Don’t worry. Even if you look at it like this, it is a body that has been rolling for a long time on the battlefield.”
In fact, when I overheard the knights betting on each other, there were quite a few knights betting on my defeat. I felt bad about that fact, but I was rolling my head in a complicated way. Now, Rayman’s body movements could be said to be masters. But it was too slow.
If you hit him with the intention of killing him, Rayman would surely die without even lifting that knife that was hanging on the floor. But there was no reason. After all, Rayman was my father-in-law, and it was the role of a son-in-law to save his father-in-law’s face. But even so, it didn’t make sense to lose here.
What do we do?
A large middle-aged knight who pretended to be the referee bowed his head to Rayman. Then he looked at me, lowered his head again, and spoke in a low voice.
“Please kill me.”
He seemed to believe that Reyman would be defeated. I was also convinced of Rayman’s defeat. There was only one problem. How much should I watch?
