Chapter 405 – My Name Is Leica (1)
A wagon was running across a meadow filled with dense dry grass. Laika held on to her rucksack and hummed to her as they rode along the unpaved road. Her peddling her to take her her to her her Countess Lionel did n’t know why she was in such a good mood.
“What makes you smile so much?”
The merchant smiled kindly and handed over the beef jerky. Currently, merchants entering and leaving the eastern provinces were friendly to prisoners because they did not have a history of slave trade. Said Laika as she took the jerky from her vendor her.
“I am going to see someone who is married.”
“Marriage? Oh, I heard that the nephew of the elderly Count Lionel is getting married in the capital this time. Is that you?”
“No. It is Aunt Mila who is marrying that person. I am marrying a man named Peta Lucius.”
“Peta Lucy… Ah? That, that person? That mermaid lover!”
When Laika heard Lucius calling her a mermaid, she frowned. It was because she felt it was wrong for her to only express that she was a mermaid in front of Soo-in.
“I am not a mermaid lover. Suin is someone I like too!”
“Ah, that’s right. Excuse me. I am sorry.”
The merchant saw her Leica’s furious reaction to her and gave her a hurried nod. There was no need to touch the planting of the party who would face her all along this road. Laika nodded and grinned again as her merchant quickly apologized. She was quick to get angry, but she was just as quick to cool down.
“What kind of person is Count Lionel?”
“He is a very nice man. The fact that we can make a deal with the meadow here, and that you can go see Lord Peta Lucius right now, are all possible because of his consideration of him.”
“Then. I guess that means he’s an incredibly good person.”
“Nothing. He said he’s been busy with internal affairs since the Eastern War, but he should have no problem preparing a carriage to send you to the capital. I can’t go with you because I have to go around the eastern manor and sell the things I got from the meadow.”
“It’s okay. Thank you for just taking me to the Eastern Manor.”
Laika bowed her head once more. She said that according to the books she read, it is etiquette between humans to bow like this. The merchant looked at Leica with her happy face her. She was because he also had a daughter in her hometown. After the merchant wandered around the country, her daughters would run to his arms like puppies chasing after their mother his.
“What kind of person is he?”
“Peta Lucius-sama?”
“Oh, yes. I’ve only heard rumors, but since I’ve never met him properly. I want to hear your story from what I saw firsthand.”
The Peta Lucius the merchant knew was a man who led his fans and enemies alike. People who liked him praised him as a hero who saved the country from crisis with a hero several times, and people who hated him took issue with his terrible circumstance with women.
“This is a good person. We caught the evil villains who ran amok in our plains.”
To Laika, Peta Lucius was both her husband and benefactor of the entire plains. Because of him, the conspiracy of Sarangkyo in the eastern plains could be revealed, and the compatriots who had been deceived by Sarangkyo could be buried safely.
“I see.”
The merchant nodded his head. He saw a wooden fence leading to the estate of Earl Lyonill in the distance. In front of the wooden fence, the guards were leisurely avoiding the sharp parts, leaning on his chin and looking at the meadow. Their daily routine was all about watching the windy meadow and praying that time would pass quickly.
“You are suffering.”
The guard, who was waving nonchalantly at the merchant’s cry, found Laika riding in the merchant’s cart and narrowed his eyes. Then, picking up the spear placed next to him, he said to the merchant.
“Mister. You can’t just bring the prisoners over there. If you bring this without permission, you will be misunderstood as a slave trader and you will be arrested?”
“Well, you have to listen to the story and find out. Look. This lady made a promise to Count Lionel.”
“Promise?”
The guard looked at Laika. Then he asked his senior his, who was lying flat and sleeping in one corner of him.
“Sergeant Ahiman. What message did we have? A prisoner came to see our count, but there was no such information in the handover notice I received earlier.”
“What? What?”
The sergeant, who had just woken up in the grass, put a piece of reed chaff in his mouth and inhaled. He frowned at the stinky stems in his mouth and brushed the dirt off his cheeks. The sergeant blinked his eyes and looked around, and Soo-in found Laika and stood up. Then, with an exclamation of ah, he nodded his head and said.
“Oh, right. Right. That’s what the driver said earlier. If there is a prisoner claiming to have been looking for you, send it right away. Hey i’ll be here Take it with you and take it over to our headquarters.”
“Yes. All right.”
The soldier looked at Laika and said.
“Then follow me. The knight will now lead you to Lionel Mansion. Uncle has suffered too.”
“No what. She thought of her daughter her, so I liked it too. Shall I go then?”
“Yes. Have a good trip.”
Laika followed the soldier and stumbled. The soldier was curiously looking at her Leica’s hair, her fuzzy feet. She was envious of not wearing her shoes like a Suin. The boots her soldiers were wearing her were so tough and stuffy that the smell of her leather her wafted from between her toes her when she stood for long periods of time.
“Why, why?”
“Oh, no. It’s nothing.”
The soldier shook her head and walked towards the camp. In the military camp, two knights were chatting across a table. It was a waiting group to rest while other knights were patrolling. They stopped talking when they saw a soldier walking in the distance. The soldier saluted as soon as his eyes met the knights, and then slowly walked back in. The knights frowned at the soldier, then relaxed her expression when they saw Laika following her.
“Knight! I have come to take over the prisoner that Count Lionel asked me to bring.”
“Oh, yes. Thank you. Good work. Just go back.”
“Yes! All right!”
The soldier said goodbye to Laika and walked away again slowly. The knight spoke very politely to Laika.
“I had a hard time coming a long way. Suin lady. Wasn’t that soldier being rude on the way?”
“It wasn’t rude. The soldiers were all kind.”
Laika shook her head and said so. The knight nodded his head with a satisfied expression. And he glanced at the Leica.
“Were the two of you well guarded? Weren’t you sleeping or rolling around in the grass?”
“They were both standing. I was standing hard, sweating profusely. It’s to the point where I’m terrified when I come and stand guard.”
Laika knew that the soldiers had been neglecting their vigilance, but since she kindly transferred herself, she decided to cover their faults this time. The knight looked in the direction where the soldier had disappeared and nodded. And he called her army chariot to pick her up.
“Let’s go to Count Lionel’s house. We have guests.”
“All right.”
Laika felt her heart swell. The first time she left the meadow, it was because her kind people her were everywhere. She clutched at her rucksack and hummed her tune. The knight asked.
“What’s in your backpack?”
“I have prepared a gift for my love. A necklace of wolf teeth and a hat made of bear fur. It folds well so it doesn’t crease.”
“Wolf tooth necklace?”
Laika opens her bag and reveals her necklace with sharp teeth protruding from it. Startled, the knight threw her body her back, then she nodded her head again. He said.
“At the mansion, the backpack will have to be left with the servants for a while. Humans don’t trust people with sharp objects very much.”
“All right!”
Laika put her necklace back into her backpack and fastened it tightly. As soon as the mansion came into view, she grabbed her handle to open the door. As soon as her words her stopped, Laika opened the door and knocked on the front door of her mansion, along with her knight who hurriedly disembarked after her.
“What are you doing?”
A butler with a beard pushed out the barbed wire at the front door and checked his identity. Laika shouted in a bright voice.
“This is Leica!”
“Leica?”
“Letter. Have sent On my way to meet my love. He said he would help.”
“You mean the Count?”
“Yes. That’s right. There is a valuable item in the bag here, but that article said to leave it here. Can I give it to you?”
“Ah, wait.”
The butler went back through the door. Laika was stomping her feet, her backpack her clutched in her hand her. The knight said to reassure her Leica.
“I will be right back.”
As he said, the knight opened the door again and came out and opened the barricade. And she said to the knight.
“Knight. You worked hard during your mission. Come on, Ms. Laika. You are resting in the parlor first.”
“Yes! Thank you!”
Laika ran towards the wide open front door. From the window on the second floor, Earl Lyonill sighed and shook his head. It was because when he received Laika’s letter from her, unimaginable things were happening one after another in the capital.
His nephew, Lionel James, resigned from the Templars and staged protests in the capital. His brother his, the Knight Commander Lionel, was shocked by his son’s escapade and lay sick. Earl Lyonill felt his head hurt when he saw the rapidly changing situation in the capital in the meantime. Is it right to send that prisoner to the capital now?
If that prisoner goes to Lionel’s home, wouldn’t it cause sparks for himself? I just couldn’t send it back. Lionel really thought about how to deal with the rapidly changing situation with Leica.
“Butler. Whose wife was that beast named Laika?”
“She is said to be the wife of Peta Lucius.”
“Then can’t we just send it to Peta Manor?”
“I seem to be hoping to meet that prisoner named Mila in the capital…”
It was something that even Count Lionel knew. Mila was the reason why Laika wanted to go through the capital instead of going directly to Peta Mansion.
“… Then let’s do this. Don’t send it to Lionel’s home. I’ll send it to Marquis Rosaline Barba. Has her granddaughter entered the Peta estate as her daughter-in-law her? What are you going to do there?”
