Chapter 218 – The Assassin (1)

With Do-jin as her escort her, the princess went straight to the royal party aristocrats in the dungeon territory.

“Wow, Princess!? Are you alive!?”
“Yes. Count.”

However, it seemed that most of them did not welcome the existence of her princess her. That’s also true, because most of those who were royalists were purged when the king went mad, and those who remained fled the capital and didn’t have very good feelings for the king.

“This is not the time! Hurry up and share this news with others….”
“Are you saying there are more royal factions left!”
“Of course, it has become a republic now, but there are still many people who miss His Majesty the King.”

Saying that, the count left the room for a while. After a while, Do-jin opened her mouth as she watched the princess fall in joy as she saved her tea.

“I think you’d better run away.”

“Yes? Didn’t the Count ask you to wait?”

“Well… Well, it would be better to see for yourself.”

As the princess tilted her head, her Dojin quietly stood up and gripped the hilt of her sword. And the next moment, the clanking of iron boots began to echo.

Coo-! The count’s privates, who came in forcefully through the door, surrounded the princess in an instant.

The Count, who came in belatedly, spread his arms and shouted.

“Wicked princess, listen! The lineage of the crazy king! With what kind of face did you come to see me when it comes to dirty blood that disturbs the country!”

I will sacrifice her princess and return to her republic—thought so, the Count ordered his soldiers to arrest her princess.

As if the princess couldn’t believe it, she muttered to the count.

“… Count, how could you— how could you—”
“My life as an aristocrat has been ruined since the goddamned king flirted with the aristocrats! It’s just that now I’ve barely had a chance to go back!”
“I was counting on you!”
“Yes, and we believed in that idiot king, too. What are you doing! Hurry up and don’t subdue-!”

Saying so, the count ordered his soldiers to quickly arrest the princess and her party her. Sending them alive would receive a better evaluation than killing them and sending them their heads alone.

The Count, who saw the nanny stance against his soldiers, sneered and preached the greatness of his soldiers.

“Huh! These soldiers are all trained to level 2… !”

“Did I tell you to run away?”

At that moment, Do-jin pulled out his sword.
Then all the soldiers fell.

“…… Uh?”

“Don’t worry, no one is dead.”

It was so fast that even the countess, who had no knowledge in martial arts, could not even see the princess or the nanny.

It wasn’t very easy to control one’s spirits and swing a magic sword that was no different than a bladeless club to knock out dozens of people by targeting only their jaws.

Even so, even after Dojin had done the job, he was digging his ears in a non-trivial way.

“Count, to think you betrayed us… The Loyalists will remember this.”

“Eh, what is this….”

“Go, escort, nanny.”

The princess said that and rose from her seat her. It is her her Do-jin who showed her calmness without showing any reaction until she got out of her mansion and burst into her exclamation her in her mind her, but by the time she could n’t see her mansion her , she suddenly hesitated on her road. I sat down and started half-crying.

“Huh-! What, what! That! Why did the count betray us!”
“My lady, that loyal count is like that, maybe others too….”
“I know! I know! But, but- how can everyone do that all at once….”

They were the ones who bought the King’s favor by using all sorts of rhetoric, saying that they could sacrifice their lives and families for the King.

In fact, some people offered rare treasures to prove their loyalty, or arrested those who disturbed the country.

“All of them were people who followed my father so much….”

“You still don’t know if the others betrayed you or not, right?”

“… The Count is the most loyal person. If he betrayed him, it would be obvious that others wouldn’t even see-.”

“Then the Count isn’t very loyal, he just seemed that way.”

“…… Yes?”

At Do-jin’s words, the princess tilted her head. However, Dojin replied to her princess as if she didn’t know that.

“When the king is alive- it must have been beneficial to look good to the king. So he would have said something pleasing to the king, and he would have offered the king all kinds of gin goods.”

“…… Yes that’s right.”

“By the way, true loyalists don’t always say good things.”

It was the same on Earth. Those who only spoke pleasant words were vassals who used the king for their own gain, and of course, those vassals were favored by the king and were easy to get ahead in the world.

She’s a princess. She doesn’t know what’s inside and only knows what she looks like on the outside, so it was quite possible for her to think that the count was a loyal person.

“Once, try listening to other nobles, and if there is no spiritual achievement, then….”
“At that time?”
“Well, I’ll have to run away for the rest of my life.”

Upon hearing Dojin’s words, the princess’ expression rotted.

* * *

Heading to another aristocrat’s mansion, Do-jin asked the princess, who had no reaction to his actions of her.

“By the way, why are there no exclamations?”
“Yes? What?”
“No, I defeated the soldiers in one shot… There is no inspiration.”
“Uh… That’s a platinum escort for one night, right? I knew I could do that.”
“It is, but….”

Even getting too much credit was a problem. I think I should know how to do that, and I don’t see any reaction.

When Do-jin was slightly depressed at the reaction her different from the female party who usually praised her for doing anything, the nanny tuk-tuk touched Do-jin’s shoulder to her.

“I thought it was great.”
“Ah, yes. Thank you.”
“It was nothing.”

After bowing down, Do-jin headed to the next royal party aristocratic mansion with her princess.

* * *

There was a reason why the Royalist nobles in the Dungeon Command, who should have been in the Royal Capital, fled to the Dungeon Command without me knowing after the incident broke out, and why they still couldn’t return.

“Well, why don’t you just prepare for life as a fugitive from now on? I can’t return the necklace, but I can return the money.”

“… I told you, the Count was at least a very loyal person.”

Among the many nobles, there was no one who did not betray the princess. If you think about it carefully, you can’t help but run away from the king to the dungeon territory, which means that you have done something to be purged by the king.

The nobles said that the king went crazy and beheaded nobles, but that was not the case.

‘I beheaded the aristocrats who had many sins in their own way first.’

Since it was the saintess who ordered the beheading, Dojin was well aware of what criteria the king used to dismiss the nobles.

“Come to think of it.”

Only then did Dojin realize something was strange and looked at the princess. The fact that he had never seen her princess her.

“Where were you when the castle was destroyed?”
“Yes? What is that all of a sudden…”
“No, the royal castle was destroyed once, right? At that time, I wondered how he would have escaped now if he was in the royal castle.”
“Ah… I was abroad at the time. Studying various things.”

Since it was her study her abroad, Do-jin nodded her head and understood why he had n’t seen her. If she had been in her kingdom her at the time, she would have seen her face her once when she tried to get Kahi back.

If she had been out of the country at all, I wouldn’t have seen her.

However, after hearing Do-jin’s words of her, the princess also had her own doubts of her. How the hell does Dojin, a resident of this city, know that the royal castle has been destroyed?

For the princess, her curiosity was not something she kept inside. She comes right out through her mouth her.

“How do you know that, Howie?”
“What?”
“The royal castle has been destroyed.”
“Because I was in the royal capital at the time.”

You were in the royal capital- Upon hearing that, the princess began to scan Dojin up and down. An unidentified strong man, also from the royal capital?

“… Or, were you a member of the Royal Guard?”
“What?”
“He’s from the royal capital, and that’s how strong he is. I thought it might have been the royal guard, the shield that protects my father.”
“No, I stopped by for a while because of my travels, and I quickly got out of the capital around the time the king killed all the nobles.”

After hearing Dojin’s words, the princess knew that he was an eyewitness to the king’s misery on the spot.

The princess, who stopped for a moment, looked at Dojin and opened her mouth.

She wanted to ask him. Was my father really crazy? Was he really, as the others say, a crazy king? Do.

“What are you doing?”
“… It’s nothing.”
“Yeah- first of all, the sun is over today, so go back home and do it again tomorrow-.”

Just-.

The sound of a stick touching the ground echoes. It wasn’t a sound you’d hear at night.

Dojin felt uneasy and looked back at her. In the distance, a blind old man and a young girl supporting him were walking.

‘A child and an old man….’

Seeing that combination that could never be dangerous, Dojin let out a sigh of relief. And the moment he was about to talk to the princess again, lightning flashed in his head.

─ Wen blind her grandfather and a little girl together…….
─Make women’s clothes drool and just go…….

At that time, I just thought so. But now that I think about it, there is something strange about it.

The two said that the blind old man handed over the object he was pointing to- How the hell does the blind old man point at the object?

‘A blind old man – and a young girl.’

Do-jin’s eyes search for the two. The movement of an old man who is limp and uses a cane, it looks like he is really old enough to use a cane, but that was smoke.

Rather, the girl who was stumbling beside him and supporting the old man, this one had something wrong with her limbs her, so she couldn’t walk properly.

At that moment, the old man strokes the girl’s head with her right hand. He seems to be giving praise to the child who is working hard for him, but the reality is different.

“182, 165, 163. Fifteen meters.”

A small murmur that even Do-jin could hear, and the next moment, an old man with a cane strangely stepped out.

No, that wasn’t a strange posture. Do-jin, who handles the sword, was able to recognize that posture.

A near-perfect sword art. An assassination sword equipped with silent speed.

“Behind me.”
“Yes? What is that…”

The next moment- the old man’s body was shot like a bullet and flew away. Chae Ae-Aeng! The princess and the nanny did not even grasp the existence of the old man until Do-jin pulled out the sword and blocked it.

“Kyaaak!?”
“What-!”

The old man felt the trembling sword and smiled while showing his teeth.

Hehe- A fun opponent after a long time—.”

Poo-!

Dojin held out the other hand that did not hold the sword and turned the old man’s chin.

Seeing the old man fainting, Dojin scratched his cheek as if embarrassed.

“… He was really blind.”