Chapter 471 – The Banquet and the Squire’s Resolution

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In the plains of the eastern part of the country, as if the events of the day were lies, when the sun goes down and the moon rises, there is stillness, and even the sound of the wind blows is not heard.

What surrounded and spread the site where the ruins were excavated was a barrier to prevent intruders that Cleon and Layla worked together to develop.

The two of them knew best about the effect of this barrier, which they had been beholden to since they were in the mansion of the gold spectator.

Not only people, but even monsters and wild beasts would not come close.

However, there was still uneasiness, so until just before sunset, Artis and his assistants all surrounded the entrance to the ruins and spread a fence.

“Will this work?”

Layla talks while looking at the fence being made, but Cleon just shrugs her shoulders.

However, for them, who are the ones who have to investigate this place from now on, it must be that the visible fence is a little more dependable than the transparently spread barrier.

Cleon agreed to that, but as soon as he came out, he looked at the survey crew who were immediately put into manual labor without time to rest, and Cleon quietly expressed his sympathy for them.

Of course, after seeing Artis looking at Cleon with a soft look, he also took the hammer.

However, after such physical labor was over, I felt as if the cool night breeze brushed through my dripping sweat, blowing away the fatigue from the day’s work.

So, the excavation of the ruins was completed once.

After this, young investigators will rummage through the safe ruins and investigate what remains.

As for the airship, since you said you were trying to find a way to move it, the day might come when you’ll be able to fly out of the hangar and fly in the sky of the East – no, the continent.

Okay, let’s put all that talk aside for now.

After a long day, the group finally returns to the wilderness campsite.

After each of them quickly washed their bodies covered in sand, wind, and sweat with a shower, they all gathered at the main camp in response to Artis’ call.

No matter when, when all the equipment was headed to the corner of the camp, only the large table and chairs in the middle remained, with Artis sitting at the top of the table and looking back at the group.

“Whoops!”

What is the meaning of the smile, if you look at Artis’ smile with half fear, including the members of the investigation team-

Artis picks up the box hidden next to her.

“Tada! You all did a great job today, so it’s a party today!”

At first glance, what was contained in the box were enough bottles of alcohol for all the people gathered here to drink one bottle at a time.

From sake produced only in the Eastern countries to popular sake popular in the kingdom.

“Artis… Do you like alcohol as well as cigarettes?”

When Lyla talks to her in awe, Artis responds by blowing her whistle.

“It’s my rule of thumb not to drink while I’m at work. I’ve overlooked the big business. Besides, two people came to visit while we were inside, so I’ll have to treat them.”

As Attis said, what he saw were Fleur and Kshat.

Fleur does n’t know what to do and looks around wearing a mask, but Kshat smiles bitterly and puts his hand on his chest her.

“Thank you for your hospitality, Miss Artis. But, since Fleur-sama doesn’t drink well… ”

“What did you do? Then, what about Kshat?”

“I, too, will decline today. The injury on the body has not yet completely healed.”

When Cleon glances at Kshat saying that, the two accidentally meet their eyes.

Kshat looked at Cleon’s face for a moment and then smiled.

Considering what would happen after this banquet, she seemed to have no worries about it.

“If you’re sick, there’s nothing we can do. Then, Cleon will drink even the share of the two of you.”

“What? Why did I…”

“It’s called the Black Knight. That’s exactly what Cleon said. The Black Knight.”

Artis laughed and made Cleon sit right next to her.

Layla looked at Attis and tried to sit next to Cleon as her tendons sprouted from her forehead-

Suddenly, Amelia, who was standing next to her, sits next to Cleon.

“Amelia, keep an eye on Cleon to make sure he doesn’t drink too much.”

“… I see!”

When Amelia looked at Cleon while nodding her head at Layla’s words, Cleon looked back at the two of them with her somewhat unfair lower face of her.

“I don’t plan on drinking much in the first place.”

“Then I’ll keep an eye on Artis as well.”

At Amelia saying that, Cleon smiled and turned to Attis.

“Is that so?”
“It’s okay, it’s okay. I don’t intend to make you drink that much. All you have to do is drink 5 bottles of the largest bottle here, together with the two of you.”

“There aren’t many places…”

Cleon quietly complained at her words, which she spoke on a weekly basis as if it was natural.

─However, when the after-party begins in earnest, despite his complaints of his, Artis, who is most excited, blows the bottle into the bottle, and Cleon sits right next to him-

Then, he pours endless amounts of alcohol into Quon’s cup sitting across from him.

“Ahahahaha!”

When she tilts her bottle, smiling in her good spirits, if her glass her is n’t empty, as soon as-

“Cle-on-. What is it, the glass isn’t empty! What are you doing without drinking the drink I poured you earlier? Are you saying you can’t drink the drink I gave you?”

“Ears… Troublesome bastard…!”

Cleon couldn’t help but get tired of the indecent behavior right away.

However, all the assistants around me seem to be used to this kind of place, and don’t they mix and drink among themselves.

Quon and Cleon were desperately guarding Amelia so that the alcohol wouldn’t go away.

Lila’s face her was a little red, probably because of the alcohol.

Sasha is-

“This fruit wine is delicious…!”

They were taking turns tasting alcohol with a fairly high alcohol content.

Even so, he doesn’t show any signs of being drunk, so it’s definitely the number one party.

No, since she never finds her own drink and drinks it, should I call her ‘Zuho’?

Anyway, Cleon, feeling a sense of crisis that if he gulps down the pouring liquor and drinks it like this, he might topple over on his desk her, clears his throat once and tells Artis.

“Now, what are we going to do with the ruins?”

“Huh? Ah- that’s right… First of all, there are still a lot of missing data in the ruins. I’ll have to do a little research with my assistants. Then, put it together as a report and take it to Asteris…”

Artis twirls his hair with his fingers.

Soon, after she finishes her words there, she talks in a slightly quiet tone.

“Finally, you’ll be able to investigate the Dead Dragon Mountains.”

“…I see. In the end, I found out that the huge mechanical weapon buried under the Dead Dragon Mountains was a Leviathan.”

At Cleon’s words, Artis nodded her head, but then raised the corner of her mouth.

“Because Cleon is trusted by Beauty Painter. Later, when I persuade him, won’t you take my side?”

“He doesn’t show favoritism or favoritism. No matter how much he trusts me, the important thing is that you have to convince the hairdresser.”

“Cheet. It’s picky.”

Artis pouted as if she did n’t like Cleon’s stern answer her.

“…I didn’t say I wouldn’t take sides.”

“…Five?”

However, as if surprised by Cleon’s words that followed, he looked at Cleon again.

“…Why do you look so surprised after you asked?”

“No what. I thought you were a human being who treated things like this fairly…”

It didn’t make much sense to Cleon, and it was hard to imagine what Cleon was like in Artis’s imagination, but Cleon shrugs his shoulders.

“If you act for revenge, I have no reason to stop it or deny it. Rather, if that’s your purpose, I think I want to help.”

“Revenge… I mean.”

“Am I wrong?”

Her purpose her, which she heard from her, is to continue what he was trying to find based on the records left by her father her.

And, a blow to those who treated his father’s discovery as his nonsense.

Lastly- if the regressors were involved in my father’s death—

“Whoops.”

Artis briefly laughed at Cleon’s question of her.

Thinking that her glasses-wearing eyes were shining, she spoke soon.

“It’s like a demon. A demon who whispers vengeance to people.”

“…”

“Cleon is not a demon.”

At that time, when Amelia, who was quietly listening by her side of her, frowned at her, Artis tilted her head.

“Is it really so? Maybe it’s an incubus? Whoa whoops.”

“Incubus…The male version of a succubus. …I know from fighting dream demons a lot, but at least Cleon doesn’t appear in other people’s dreams…”

As Amelia talked, she saw him in a previous dream, and she remembered herself mingling with him, and then she blushed and shut her mouth.

“Oh”

Attis looked at Cleon with admiration, but he only sighed and shook his head, as it was a story that Cleon had no memory of.

“Well. I know. It is God, not the devil, who whispers vengeance.”

As if he didn’t feel like teasing Cleon anymore, Artis muttered that.

“Many avengers take an oath in the name of a god that their vengeance is just. Being a human being like that tries to justify one’s actions through another being. And revenge, in that sense, is not a god or someone to justify oneself. Is this an act without this?”

Attis’ words, Cleon thinks for a moment, but immediately shakes his head.

“It will depend on the person. The important thing is, if you decide to take revenge, just believe that you are right until the end and not doubt it. Even after it’s over. If you don’t, ‘regret’ will weigh down your heart.”

“Huh. Is that so?”

Artis listens to Cleon talking like an experienced person and nods as if he understands.

“If we investigate the Dragon Mountains. Of course, Cleon will go with us, right?”

“Because we have to stop the returners. That’s how it will be.”

Besides, the reason was that he wanted to see with his own eyes what Leviathan was like.

For some reason, when I hear that name, one part of my heart feels uneasy, and I can’t stay still.

It was a name that was not in Cleon’s memory of his, so it might be a remnant of the memory of the Demonic Sword Emperor.

“Then. Cleon will see my revenge right in front of his eyes.”

“…”

Cleon shuts up for a moment at her words her, then nods at her.

“Then. Take good care of me then. Bae.”

“Who is the senpai? If you’re an educator at the academy, I should call you senpai.”

“Huh? How does that happen? Ahahaha!”

At Cleon’s answer, she smiles like she just ate a punch.

He sighed at the sight of Attis and shook her head, then looked back at Amelia.

“Are you okay Amelia? If you can’t be in a noisy place like this, you can go back to the tent first.”

“Oh, no. It’s okay.”

Cleon knew very well why she was talking to herself like that.

Amelia must have heard from her Layla her that she had awakened her new powers her in her ruins her.

Even so, until Cleon saw it with her own eyes, Amelia was the object Cleon needed to protect and protect.

Although it wasn’t that he hated being thought of like that by Cleon.

Looking at Amelia, who had a slightly dissatisfied expression like Attis before, Cleon was about to wonder if she had done something wrong.

“Cleon-nim. Will you be okay for a while?”

At the sound of her kshat’s voice her, who had left her Fleur’s side her and came up behind her own her, she looked back at her.

“…Ah. It’s okay.”

“About ‘that story’… I want to talk to you for a moment.”

At the words of Kshat, who cautiously brings up the story while examining the surroundings, Cleon nods and gets up from his seat her. Attis and Amelia look at him at the same time.

“Wait. Where are you going?”

“What’s the story…?”

As Artis looks at her with curiosity and Amelia with her slightly anxious eyes, Cleon shuts her mouth for a moment, then meets Quon’s her eyes and her eyes her.

Then, Quon sighs and talks to Attis and Amelia.

“I said there was an accident during the day!

“I see…”

“Has Cleon ever hurt Lady Fleur?”

“!?”

Fleur jumps up and shakes her head.

Even though she’s a bit distant, it seems to have sounded good to her as well.

“…Anyway. I’ll wake up first. I’m sorry, but Kuon. Take care of me later.”

“Okay. Don’t overdo it, okay?”

Is the ‘crowd’ talking about Cleon or Kshat?

While receiving the gaze of women who seem to express the word ‘suspicious’ with their eyes, Cleon and Kshat escape the main camp where the banquet is in full swing.

“It was okay to open it after Fleur was asleep.”

“Yes… But it’s not known how long the banquet will last. If that happens, I’m sorry to Cleon-sama too.”

Cleon looked at Kshat for a moment as he said so.

She is tall enough to be similar to her own her, and her body her is strong enough that even if her characteristics her as a fisherman are not expressed as before, her wide shoulders can be seen as plain clothes.

Perhaps because she was now wearing the casual clothes she brought as a spare instead of the housemaid’s uniform, her characteristics her stood out even more.

That said, if she were to ask if she was a rambunctious woman, that’s another story-

It stands out that the well-arranged balance of her eyes, nose and mouth is the beauty of a mature woman.

In particular, if you look at the eyes that are quiet enough to resemble a calm sea, it is as if you are slowly being sucked into it.

Well-groomed blue hair, and flawless, smooth skin.

If you quietly meet her eyes her, she is a charming woman who can be believed enough even if she is not a fish-man, but a mermaid in her legend her.

Kshat cautiously opens her mouth to talk to Cleon.

“Is Laplace really dead?”

“…Ah. I took care of it.”

When Cleon says that, she cautiously nods her head.

“…Thank you, Mr. Cleon.”

Saying that, Cleon scratches her head as she puts her hands together and looks at her coming her with her head bowed.

“To be honest, I thought he would be mad at me for not taking care of it with my own hands.”

“No. That’s not… No. As long as I’m a body made by him, I wouldn’t have been able to damage his body if I didn’t do something about the pattern on this body. … There was a possibility that I was defeated because of my lack of skills.”

However, as if Cleon’s worries were unfounded, Kshat clearly admits the matter and expresses his gratitude to Cleon.

“But. I still need to completely sever the connection between the regressors and my body in order to protect her.”

“…”

As Kshat said, she carefully took Cleon’s hand her and led it to her face her.

A soft, moist texture wrapped around Cleon’s hand hers.

“… For the sake of my lady, I am ready to sacrifice my body her.”

“Okay. Then, let’s go to our tent. The others won’t come back for a while either.”

Just like that, the two of them left behind the light from the banquet hall and disappeared into the darkness of the wilderness.

And-

“…”

Following Kshat and Cleon, someone came out of the banquet hall and looked behind them.

It was to follow the two of them quietly and unnoticed.