"Sister, why are you like that?"
Saya, who had been looking down from next to Neril, turned her back at the sound.
"Because it has fluff on it."
“Ah.”
Saya turned around again, all her attention focused on the rebels beneath the walls.
Everyone was shocked by the sudden appearance of the boy who had cut off the leader's head.
It was chaos on the rebel side.
"Killing the leader! Theo, you traitor! You were the King's scapegoat!"
The mercenaries brought by HoroIs rushed to kill Theo, but the others stopped them.
"Theo has worked so hard for us! He would never kill the leader for no reason nor would he shout that it was a fake rebellion!"
"Didn't you hear what Theo just shouted? That guy is the head of the household who received money from the Regent! We need to find out for sure about that first!"
The rebels were split evenly in two.
The situation on the wall was equally chaotic.
"Your Highness, what did the rebel just say?"
"You planned it? A fake rebellion?"
The ministers looked back at the Regent and questioned him.
The name of the Regent who was accused of killing the leader of his own faction by one of the rebels. Doesn't the situation seem extremely suspicious?
"Oh, my. You're trying to, h- hate me-"
When the Regent, who had become lost in thought, opened his mouth and barely managed to speak.
Doo doo doo doo.
A commotion was heard in the distance. The sound of urgent horse hooves shook the ground.
"Ugh!"
"What, what is it!"
Soldiers suddenly poured out of a village not far from the rebels.
It was Jason's secret force that was chased away by a sudden surprise attack.
Then the thunderous shout of Gilliforth rang out.
"Catch them! Catch them all! Don't let a single one slip away!"
He and D'Angel's Agemas drove Jason's troops towards the rebels like a herd of mice.
It is as if Jason's troops also share the same views as the rebels.
"You're saying there's more reinforcements hidden there? They even look like elites!"
The people of the castle were astonished at the fact that the rebels had prepared so many layers of preparations.
But the rebels were completely new to the soldiers running towards them.
"Who are they? I've never seen them before!"
They looked at each other with bewildered faces.
"Isn't this an ambush hidden by the royal family to suppress us?!"
"It's the imperial army! It was the enemy!"
Someone's question eventually grew into speculation.
Gilliforth swung his hammer again and shouted menacingly.
"Even corpses are fine! Kill all the evildoers who dare to set foot on Valdina's land!"
He was talking about Jason's troops, but the rebels thought he was talking about them and started to run away in fear.
They were already confused by the death of their leader, and they did not have the leisure or brains to find out the truth.
"What are you guys doing? Fight! We have to fight! Are you just going to die like a dog without even being able to squeak?!"
The mercenaries shouted urgently as they watched the rebels disintegrating here and there.
The sound was so loud that it even woke up Birna who had fainted.
“Uh, uhm..."
Birna came to her senses and opened her eyes. The back of her neck was cold and her vision was hazy due to the smoky dust.
After safely escaping the secret passage of the palace and seeing a white light... that was Virna's last memory.
"Ahhh! What the heck!"
Soon she realized, to her horror, that she was in the middle of enemy territory.
Surrounded by soldiers with deadly weapons, her arms were tied, and even in front of her was a trail of blood.
“Ahhhhh!”
Birna was terrified when she discovered the chieftain's severed head. A tearing scream echoed through the plains.
"Where is everyone! Mom! Dad! Save me! It's crazy here!"
Tears streamed down her beautiful face. She flailed her feet and cried.
She couldn't believe that she was left alone in this rebel army.
Only then did she realize why her father had told only Medea about the secret passage.
It was to hand Medea over to the rebels.
Medea should be standing here now, not me!
"Medea, I'm going to kill you!"
A vicious curse was unleashed, but unfortunately, she had neither the time nor the opportunity to realize it.
Because there was no one by Birna's side right now. Someone who could save her from this chaos and take her back to the palace.
She looked around hastily.
"That knight! Where is the knight of our family?"
But it was nowhere to be found.
Birna was devastated at being thrown here so naked.
But it seemed that God had not yet abandoned her.
"Your Highness the Grand Duke! Your Highness the Grand Duke Castulo!"
It was because she discovered Jason running towards her from afar. Although he was wearing a helmet, Birna immediately recognized the horse he rode and the armor he wore.
"Your Highness! Please save me!"
Birna waved her wrists back and forth.
Was it because of the impatience to get out of here and get to the Grand Duke as soon as possible, or was it because Theo had made a slight cut in the rope?
The ropes binding her wrists snapped, and Birna was quickly freed.
She threw off the rope and jumped into the midst of the fight.
***
A little while ago, Jason's point of view.
It was at a time when the soldiers of the royal family and the rebels were facing off and arguing.
"I caught the fake Princess!"
As Horol's shout echoed through the earth and sky. Jason appeared stealthily.
'The time has come."
Although the sudden appearance of Gilliforth temporarily halted the rebel advance, Jason knew that reality did not always go according to plan.
The Princess, wearing a sack on her head, was led by the chieftain's hand onto the stage.
Jason frowned as he saw the rebels treating her so cruelly.
How dare you treat her so carelessly.
As expected, he was a former pirate who knew neither manners nor shame.
"Are you ready? Run over there right away and rescue the Princess. You just sweep away those vulgar people."
"Yes, Your Highness."
There were even shadows following him.
But when the sack was actually removed, Jason could not help but be surprised.
Wide open eyes and a mouth that doesn't close.
"Why, why why. It's not the Princess but the Duke's daughter over there..."
Before he could even sort out his confused thoughts, something even more shocking happened as if the events up until then had been nothing.
"The rebels have been defeated! Regent Claudio! Your plans have been exposed! The fake rebellion ends here!"
Jason's eyes looked like they were going to pop out.
'What happened? Who is he again?'
Weren't all the rebels held tightly in the Regent's grasp?
What happens when the leader dies?
At that moment, the subordinate came running urgently.
"Your Highness, we are in trouble. Our location has been exposed."
"What? What is that-"
"Ugh!"
Jason suddenly turned his head.
A large, sturdy cavalry force was charging into the village where they were hiding, destroying everything in its path.
As they were being searched out by poking them with weapons, the unit members who had been hiding could no longer endure it and had no choice but to fight back.
'How did you know we were here?!'
They abruptly attacked Jason's troops as if they had been waiting for it.
"Avoid it. The power is not normal."
Nord, one of the secret guards that always guards Jason, had warned him. This was because he had noticed the special nature of the men who had just made a surprise attack.
Jason looked around anxiously.
His soldiers were being killed silently by the spears and swords of the Valdina knights.
It was a completely different story from the soldiers of Gilliforth who had been fighting the rebels just a little while ago.
Thud, boom. Kwung.
The sound of his comrades falling from their horses after being struck by Valdina's sword struck Jason's ears louder and more heavily than ever before.
"Your Highness, that won't do. I will prepare a retreat route, so please leave quickly."
"Nol If we continue like this, we will all be annihilated! Everyone, retreat! Get out of here and disperse!"
Jason squealed with bloodshot eyes.
The name of this shadow unit is Varangian. They are the ones left behind by the Emperor, his father before he died.
He was raised to avoid his uncle's eyes, so he was like the ultimate weapon against him. He was not one to lose so vainly here.
Then, phew-!
An arrow flew.
"Your Highness! Be careful!"
At the shout of the guard. Jason reflexively swung his sword. But the arrow was not aimed at him.
"Ugh-!"
Nord fell from his horse, clutching his arrow-studded neck. Blood spurted onto his laurel-leafed helmet.
“Nord!”
When Jason ran to him, he was already dead, his eyes wide open.
"Who are you! Where did you come from!"
Jason looked around frantically, but he could not tell where the arrow had come from.
Before he could even come to his senses, the murderous sound of the wind cutting through his ears struck him again.
"Ugh-!"
"Ah!"
Sud and West, who were on Jason's left and right, fell.
They were mortally wounded by arrows piercing his neck and chest.
"What, what is this... "
Again several arrows flew.
The rapid fire that occurred in the blink of an eye pierced through them as if to ensure the deaths of the escorts.
In an instant, three of Jason's four secret guards were dead, shot as arrows.
Jason froze. A chill ran down his spine.
“Ahhhhh!”
A roar like the roar of a wild beast rang out.
Jason could no longer pretend to be calm.
His face was distorted like a demon's, making it impossible for anyone to recall the usually gentle Grand Duke of Castullo.
"Who is it, who is it! Who is after me!"
Nord. South, West, And East.
These four guards were the secret guards protecting the direct line of the Katzen Imperial Family.
Those who exist in the shadows yet at the same time do not exist.
Even though the escorts changed over hundreds of years of history, their names were always the same. They have kept their blood until now with blind loyalty to the pure blood of the imperial family.
They did not interfere in any political affairs and were solely responsible for the preservation of his bloodline.
"Jason, they will not make you honorable or great, but they will make your life safe."
Before Jason's father, the Emperor died, he handed over the Varangian army and also told him about the existence of these four people.
It was largely thanks to these men that Jason had survived to this day, despite his uncle Perdiccas II's attempts to get rid of his nephew, who was an eyesore. Perdiccas II, who was not a direct descendant of them, did not even know of their existence.
They accompanied Jason on this trip to Valdina as well, silently, like shadows.
Although they did not help in encouraging the regency and rebellion, they still remained by Jason's side as a mere soldier to protect him.
But the fact that they knew of their existence and only eliminated the hermits...
'It's a trap. This isn't a trap for the Regent, it's a trap for me!'
Only then did Jason realize.
The person behind this situation is someone who knows him and the Katzen royal family very well.
His face turned pale.
But the realization came too late and the cruel reality was unfolding before his eyes.
"Ost! We have to get out of here right now!"
Without even having time to mourn the deaths of the escorts, he ran away on horseback in a frenzy to protect the one remaining escort.
"Your Highness the Grand Duke of Castulo! Please save me!"
The girl's piercing scream was heard.
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