Chapter 78 – Foir (14)
“Simply put, even if you can’t become a Knight of the Kingdom, you can become a Knight of another family.”
After we finished our bath passionately, we changed our clothes and gathered in Alice’s room. Alice continued to explain to us in a serious tone, as if she had thought a lot about Lorena’s future. At that time, she was wearing a thin dress like someone going on a spring outing, and whenever she moved, the silhouette of her beautiful legs was peeking out, which made people excited.
“A knight from another family?”
Alice didn’t seem to mind how lewd the dress she was wearing, and Lorena was also interested in the knowledge Alice told her. Said Alice.
“Sure, Uncle Jack is framed, but on paper he was demoted anyway for bribery. Because of this, most families won’t want to hire you as a knight. They won’t even give you a chance to test it. Unless it’s from a family that knows the inside story of your character or false accusations.”
Lorena raised her head, full of her disappointment. Alice and I had heard a few things from Jack before bringing this up to Lorena. It wasn’t just because Jack was a bribed knight that until now Lorena hadn’t received offers despite her talent.
Because he was demoted as an example for trying to touch the private parts of the warriors, it was because getting involved with Jack’s family was an enormous burden. She’s talented, but she’s a bombshell that doesn’t need to be used.
Lorena did so and without her knowledge she was put on the watch list, and she quietly rolled into this ranch.
“So, can’t you?”
Lorena’s face was full of disappointment. Both Alice and I found Lorena’s ever-changing expressions cute, so she laughed and shook her head. Said Alice.
“Of course, that’s only if Jack’s daughter, Lorena, wants to become a knight of another house. For example, she’s a country girl who grew up in the village and wants to be a knight, but the government doesn’t pay attention. A knight from a noble family is usually supported by a lot of famous or powerful people in the area.”
Lorena didn’t seem to understand what Alice was saying. Tilting her head and pondering, she asked cautiously.
“What does that mean?”
Alice scratched her head, looked out the window, then back at Lorena.
“You. Do you want to become a knight?”
“Yes.”
Lorena nodded her head. Said Alice.
“I am Alice of the Plancian family. My mother, Plancia Isabel, is now married and is running her own household out of her home. So, my mother and I have a reason to use one or two Templars to escort us separately?”
Knights of noble families are very strict and skilled elites.
However, this was a story only applicable to the ‘home’. In the case of children from the family or families living separately because the scale was so large, there were times when they organized and operated their own knights separate from the main family.
Alice intended to make Lorena a knight of our family in this way. The mansion where Alice and Isabelle lived was in a remote area where knights were needed, and it was uncomfortable for both of them to request knights from their home.
Alice examined Lorena’s body and said.
“So… I’d like to recommend you as a knight in my family, as long as you’re okay. What do you think about it?”
Lorena looked surprised even as she expected her Alice’s words. The futility and bewilderment that the possibility of becoming her knight had opened so easily seemed to dominate her mind. Lorena asked, stiffening her body.
“Hey, knight? Eh, so suddenly?”
Said Alice.
“Of course, it is not possible to immediately hire a driver. Still, you have to prove your skills, and you have to prove what kind of experience you have. First, if you want, you’ll have to go with me to Ithaca and act as my bodyguard temporarily.”
“A bodyguard? Oh I know what that is When nobles come, they wear armor next to them… That’s a knight.”
I couldn’t help laughing. Lorena excitedly tried to explain, but she realized that what she was trying to explain was that she was a knight after all, and she took on a sharply somber expression. As I laughed, Lorena patted me with her fist and cried.
“Eh, Evan, don’t laugh! Me, I know what a bodyguard is! Anyway, you’re the one who protects me! You frown on your face like this! I saw it a few times when I lived in Ithaca! Big people with tattoos and grimace next to little people.”
“…Isn’t that a bodyguard?”
Alice and I also remembered that figure. Apparently Lorena had met a moneylender or criminal who was roaming Ithaca at the time. Alice corrected the strange direction of the story.
“Anyway, you will work as a bodyguard with me. After building a career with it and making some fake papers to submit to the Florentine family, I will put a girl from Poire as a bodyguard, and she has a good personality and good skills, so I’m going to put it in as my house wants to use it as a knight. And there you will find out! If you do, it ends there.”
“Yeah, but isn’t that a lie?”
Saying that, Lorena looked at Alice. In her anxious face, she also expressed her concern for Alice. Alice nodded at Lorena’s question.
“It’s a lie, but you can’t write articles without that. It’s not a matter of skill, it’s because the country is dirty.”
All the dirty things that happen in the country have also come to Foire. But Lorena was still hesitant. The words that she couldn’t become a knight imprinted a sense of urgency on her face for a moment, but that feeling soon faded.
“I see…”
Lorena bowed her head again, grim. She must be having complicated thoughts. Her guilt that she lied to Alice and her helplessness that she could only become a knight by doing this. And, even so, the desire to be with me and Alice.
“Don’t you want revenge?”
I whispered to Lorena. Lorena said she heard my voice and looked at me with her head turned. I was laughing, and Alice was leaning against her desk. We continued to look at Lorena.
“Lets think. If you don’t become a knight, you can’t change anything after all. You know that Uncle Jack suffered from a ridiculous false accusation.”
“Yeah, but… If you still lie…”
Lorena was hesitating. Her morals raced in her mind to find an objection to our words. Said Alice.
“Lorena. You must have the power to change it. If there is nothing, nothing can be done. Lorena. My goal is to change this dirty world. To get revenge on the Plancia family who abandoned my mother, to make my mother and her father live happily, and to change the world for a better place.”
Lorena was a little shaken by the word revenge. No matter how docile she pretended to be, anger still existed in her heart. No wonder her efforts to not cross her line contain uncontrollable rage. Lorena’s lips repeated the word ‘revenge’, and we echoed in her head.
“Lorena. I want you to participate in the revenge play with me. You feel like you’re wrong too. Isn’t it funny that all the people in the world point fingers at your father, and the people who really should be pointed at are eating well and living well in the capital?”
“There is a saying that history repeats itself. It will happen no matter how many times a righteous person pursues a hero and the hero eliminates that person. Like you, someone must have lost their dreams and are crying. How long do we have to watch that vicious cycle?”
“Lorena. I need you.”
“Lorena. Let’s get revenge together.”
The words we spoke at the same time seemed to create ripples in Lorena’s heart. She was looking at us with her eyes wide open. Her heartbeat seemed to be heard, and her flushed face and heavy breathing seemed to suggest an answer.
I said.
“You seek your father’s honor, Alice devours the Florentine family, and I return love and justice to the world.”
“And we all live happily ever after. We go on picnics together and learn to ride horses.”
Alice seemed to really want to learn how to ride a horse. I laughed one more time at Alice’s personal desire, and then told Lorena.
“Let’s get revenge. Lorena.”
Lorena raised her hand. She tapped her fingers with her long outstretched hand, as if describing her branch, and then her palms met.
“Huh.”
Lorena’s face was burning with justice and enthusiasm. Alice and I both nodded at her motivated look.