Even in the midst of the dire situation, Killian thought of Emily.
Even though they had only seen each other for a day, it felt like they had been apart for a long time.
If you just kill the Emperor, it's over. If you just kill the Emperor.
“Giovanni, are you ready?”
"Yes."
At Killian's signal, Giovanni pulled a grenade from his back.
The explosive power of a grenade varies depending on the magic power of the user, and is especially dangerous when used by someone with a B-class magic power or lower, as the explosive power is uneven.
And once ignited, it had to be thrown within 5 seconds, which was one of the factors that made handling grenades difficult.
Giovanni was given this mission because he possessed A-class magical power and was one of the few who excelled at throwing things at precisely targeted locations.
Killian winked at Giovanni.
“Everyone, bow down!”
Giovanni pulled the safety pin and threw the grenade right out the entrance.
A huge explosion erupted, and the ground shook for a moment.
It was like a signal announcing a full-scale coup.
“Wow! This is killing me.”
Knox cheered and whistled.
As the entrance to the castle was completely destroyed, the sound of soldiers rushing in after hearing the noise was heard.
“Good luck to you all.”
The Marquis of Huppert was the first to draw his sword and prepare to face the oncoming soldiers.
Following the Marquis, his knights also drew their swords and formed ranks.
The next step was for Killian and Messina's men to enter the main palace.
The knights led by Prince Kite also arrived in the Vancent Empire.
They were able to reach the imperial palace without much difficulty, taking advantage of the lax border security caused by Charles's visit to the capital at the Emperor's summons.
Arriving at the entrance to the castle, Kite exchanged greetings with Duke Howard, who was guarding the outside of the castle walls.
“You have arrived safely, Your Highness.”
“Did Marquis Starr succeed in entering?”
“Yes, I just contacted him through the communication channel.”
Duke Howard showed Kite the passageway that would lead inside.
“Your Highness, please enter through this door.”
It was a door that had been unlocked by the private soldiers of the Marquis of Huppert, who had successfully entered the palace.
“Thank you, Duke Howard.”
Kite thanked the Duke and shouted to the soldiers standing behind him.
"We will enter! I command you once again: looting and killing civilians are strictly prohibited!"
The knights followed Kite's words and clapped their fists against their left chests in oath.
Prince Kite entered the palace in an atmosphere even more solid and determined than before.
Meanwhile, at that time, Killian and his organization were engaged in a fierce battle with the 2nd Knights Division, which was in charge of guarding the imperial palace.
Seeing as the 1st Knight Division, in charge of protecting the imperial family, was nowhere to be seen, it was highly likely that the imperial family was on another floor or not in the imperial palace.
“You already noticed and ran away.”
Killian clicked his tongue and ordered Giovanni.
“You go up to the second floor while I take care of this.”
"All right!"
Messina, who was dealing with the enemy on the other side, quickly cut down the enemy approaching him and approached Killian.
"Killian, you too, quickly find the Emperor. Leave this place to the Rezetta family."
She also seemed to have noticed that the Emperor was not here.
Killian quickly scanned his surroundings.
This number wasn't bad. It was more than enough for the Rezzetta family.
“Then I’ll leave this to you.”
"Yes."
It was when Killian was trying to escape the Imperial Palace with his organization members.
“Where are you going!”
At that moment, Viscount Lenave appeared between the two knights.
“Fortunately, His Majesty summoned us; we would have been helpless against you.”
Although Lenave was a member of the Imperial Household, he was trained as a knight, as the Touche family had been a family that used swords for generations.
He thought that he had to somehow achieve something this time and receive a title, so he ignored his father, the Marquis Touche, and showed up by himself, accompanied by knights.
Besides, now that Duke Sadie was gone, it was a golden opportunity.
To him, Killian was just a commoner who had never even received knight training, so it didn't matter whether he was one of the four major mafias of the empire or not.
Above all, the knights he brought with him weren't ordinary knights, but special forces from the imperial palace. Killian had no reason to fear.
“Your face looks familiar?”
Killian muttered as he looked at Lenave's appearance, which seemed familiar.
“I am Lenave of the Marquis Touche family! Don’t you remember?”
Lenave was furious at Killian's remarks that ignored his presence.
“Ah, that’s the guy who fell off the horseback then.”
“Th-Those kinds of memories should be erased from your mind!”
Viscount Lenave shouted, his face flushed with shame.
“I knew it then. Killian, you bastard, you’d cause something like this one day!”
Knox, who was with Killian, frowned and rubbed his ears.
“You’ve been making such a fuss since earlier. Stop talking and attacking me.”
“You guys are so shallow.”
Lenave waved his arms and shouted at the knights who had come with him.
"Load!"
At Lenave's call, he took a stance to fire a magic bullet at the enemy lines.
"Firing!"
As the magic bullet flew in, everyone quickly hid behind pillars or fallen stone statues.
Despite the sudden reinforcements, Killian remained calm and met Messina's eyes.
Messina nodded as if she understood.
Since it took time to reload the magic bullets, they immediately took up their weapons and charged towards the enemy lines to avoid giving them any openings.
Killian fired a magic bullet at the enemy rushing towards him, then immediately changed his stance and stabbed Lenave in the arm while holding the barrel tightly.
Lenave let go of the sword he was holding and screamed as the dagger at the end of the gun plunged deep into his forearm.
Lenave fainted in pain without even being able to use the swordsmanship of the Touche family, which he had been so proud of.
Meanwhile, Knox rolled forward, avoiding the knight's fierce attack.
“Chambers! Are you alive?”
Chambers easily subdued two men and was immediately engaged by the next enemy who charged forward.
“Yes! What about Mr. Knox?”
“Whoa, f*ck! I almost died!”
Fortunately, Giovanni and his crew, who had gone up to the second floor, heard the noise from below and began firing magic bullets at the enemy from the railing.
The enemy who was aiming for Knox's back was hit by Giovanni's magic bullet and fell.
“Thank you, Giovanni!”
“Now that the greetings are over, take a look around you!”
Giovanni, who was responding annoyedly to Knox's words, discovered Prince Kite's troops entering the imperial palace.
“Boss! Prince Kite has arrived!”
Meanwhile, Emily and the Starr family discover that they are in the Crown Prince's Palace.
Of all places, it had to be the Crown Prince's palace. Within the Starr organization, the Crown Prince was the number one target for purge.
'Just show up, and I'll kill you right now.'
The three men, Alvin, Mayo, and Ivan, looked around with a menacing air.
They were heading towards the meeting room by hiding in an empty room and moving when there was no one in the hallway.
This time, they were trying to escape the room again, taking advantage of the opportunity, when they heard a small noise nearby.
"Shhh."
Alvin signaled for silence with his index finger.
It sounded like the knights were moving. It wasn't just one or two people, he's sure.
After a while, silence fell outside again.
As people looked at Alvin, he carefully opened the door.
“Who’s there!”
Alvin flinched and immediately closed the door, but the enemy had already discovered him.
Cezanne cursed and quickly ran to the window to look outside.
“Let’s put up a barricade first!”
They moved everything that could be moved, including chairs, desks, and closets, and blocked the door.
“Come out now!”
The knights who came running knocked on the door, but when they couldn't get through, they started to break it down.
“Come here quickly!”
They roughly built a barricade and escaped through the windows one by one.
“Priest, please come out first.”
Cezanne, who came out first, looked around cautiously and spoke.
After sending Priest Franz out, Cezanne gestured to Emily.
“Madam, come quickly!”
“I’ll be leaving last, so Chili and Roxy leave first.”
Emily pulled out her gun and loaded it with magic bullets.
After thinking for a moment, Chili and Roxy nodded and put their feet on the windowsill.
Among these members, no one was better at shooting magic bullets than Emily.
Because she was the type of person who could fire magic bullets in succession without needing to reload.
After that, Mayo, Ivan, and Alvin escaped safely, and the moment Emily was about to escape last, there was a loud noise, and the door broke apart.
Fortunately, the barricades prevented the knights from entering right away.
Emily fired her gun at the shoulder of the knight at the very front.
After that, she fired her magic bullets without hesitation in succession, “bang, bang,” at the two knights who were trying to clear the barricade and enter.
"Wow."
To Ivan and Mayo's admiration, Emily nimbly jumped out the window and said.
“There’s no time to be amazed. Let’s move on to the next location quickly.”
As the knights who heard the commotion were rushing in this direction, Emily took them and hid right inside the maze garden.
“Madam, you’re not trying to move through the maze garden, are you?”
“That’s right. We’ll move through the maze garden.”
“Yes? But the roads here are so complicated that it’s impossible to find the meeting room through here...”
“Don’t worry. I know the way.”
There was a bad custom during the social initiation ceremony where newcomers were forced into this maze garden and had to escape within the time limit to be accepted into the gathering.
Because of that, Emily and Marlene sneaked in here a few days before the initiation ceremony and spent the whole day learning the maze over and over again.
It seemed like the efforts made back then were finally paying off.
Even though they had only seen each other for a day, it felt like they had been apart for a long time.
If you just kill the Emperor, it's over. If you just kill the Emperor.
“Giovanni, are you ready?”
"Yes."
At Killian's signal, Giovanni pulled a grenade from his back.
The explosive power of a grenade varies depending on the magic power of the user, and is especially dangerous when used by someone with a B-class magic power or lower, as the explosive power is uneven.
And once ignited, it had to be thrown within 5 seconds, which was one of the factors that made handling grenades difficult.
Giovanni was given this mission because he possessed A-class magical power and was one of the few who excelled at throwing things at precisely targeted locations.
Killian winked at Giovanni.
“Everyone, bow down!”
Giovanni pulled the safety pin and threw the grenade right out the entrance.
A huge explosion erupted, and the ground shook for a moment.
It was like a signal announcing a full-scale coup.
“Wow! This is killing me.”
Knox cheered and whistled.
As the entrance to the castle was completely destroyed, the sound of soldiers rushing in after hearing the noise was heard.
“Good luck to you all.”
The Marquis of Huppert was the first to draw his sword and prepare to face the oncoming soldiers.
Following the Marquis, his knights also drew their swords and formed ranks.
The next step was for Killian and Messina's men to enter the main palace.
***
The knights led by Prince Kite also arrived in the Vancent Empire.
They were able to reach the imperial palace without much difficulty, taking advantage of the lax border security caused by Charles's visit to the capital at the Emperor's summons.
Arriving at the entrance to the castle, Kite exchanged greetings with Duke Howard, who was guarding the outside of the castle walls.
“You have arrived safely, Your Highness.”
“Did Marquis Starr succeed in entering?”
“Yes, I just contacted him through the communication channel.”
Duke Howard showed Kite the passageway that would lead inside.
“Your Highness, please enter through this door.”
It was a door that had been unlocked by the private soldiers of the Marquis of Huppert, who had successfully entered the palace.
“Thank you, Duke Howard.”
Kite thanked the Duke and shouted to the soldiers standing behind him.
"We will enter! I command you once again: looting and killing civilians are strictly prohibited!"
The knights followed Kite's words and clapped their fists against their left chests in oath.
Prince Kite entered the palace in an atmosphere even more solid and determined than before.
Meanwhile, at that time, Killian and his organization were engaged in a fierce battle with the 2nd Knights Division, which was in charge of guarding the imperial palace.
Seeing as the 1st Knight Division, in charge of protecting the imperial family, was nowhere to be seen, it was highly likely that the imperial family was on another floor or not in the imperial palace.
“You already noticed and ran away.”
Killian clicked his tongue and ordered Giovanni.
“You go up to the second floor while I take care of this.”
"All right!"
Messina, who was dealing with the enemy on the other side, quickly cut down the enemy approaching him and approached Killian.
"Killian, you too, quickly find the Emperor. Leave this place to the Rezetta family."
She also seemed to have noticed that the Emperor was not here.
Killian quickly scanned his surroundings.
This number wasn't bad. It was more than enough for the Rezzetta family.
“Then I’ll leave this to you.”
"Yes."
It was when Killian was trying to escape the Imperial Palace with his organization members.
“Where are you going!”
At that moment, Viscount Lenave appeared between the two knights.
“Fortunately, His Majesty summoned us; we would have been helpless against you.”
Although Lenave was a member of the Imperial Household, he was trained as a knight, as the Touche family had been a family that used swords for generations.
He thought that he had to somehow achieve something this time and receive a title, so he ignored his father, the Marquis Touche, and showed up by himself, accompanied by knights.
Besides, now that Duke Sadie was gone, it was a golden opportunity.
To him, Killian was just a commoner who had never even received knight training, so it didn't matter whether he was one of the four major mafias of the empire or not.
Above all, the knights he brought with him weren't ordinary knights, but special forces from the imperial palace. Killian had no reason to fear.
“Your face looks familiar?”
Killian muttered as he looked at Lenave's appearance, which seemed familiar.
“I am Lenave of the Marquis Touche family! Don’t you remember?”
Lenave was furious at Killian's remarks that ignored his presence.
“Ah, that’s the guy who fell off the horseback then.”
“Th-Those kinds of memories should be erased from your mind!”
Viscount Lenave shouted, his face flushed with shame.
“I knew it then. Killian, you bastard, you’d cause something like this one day!”
Knox, who was with Killian, frowned and rubbed his ears.
“You’ve been making such a fuss since earlier. Stop talking and attacking me.”
“You guys are so shallow.”
Lenave waved his arms and shouted at the knights who had come with him.
"Load!"
At Lenave's call, he took a stance to fire a magic bullet at the enemy lines.
"Firing!"
As the magic bullet flew in, everyone quickly hid behind pillars or fallen stone statues.
Despite the sudden reinforcements, Killian remained calm and met Messina's eyes.
Messina nodded as if she understood.
Since it took time to reload the magic bullets, they immediately took up their weapons and charged towards the enemy lines to avoid giving them any openings.
Killian fired a magic bullet at the enemy rushing towards him, then immediately changed his stance and stabbed Lenave in the arm while holding the barrel tightly.
Lenave let go of the sword he was holding and screamed as the dagger at the end of the gun plunged deep into his forearm.
Lenave fainted in pain without even being able to use the swordsmanship of the Touche family, which he had been so proud of.
Meanwhile, Knox rolled forward, avoiding the knight's fierce attack.
“Chambers! Are you alive?”
Chambers easily subdued two men and was immediately engaged by the next enemy who charged forward.
“Yes! What about Mr. Knox?”
“Whoa, f*ck! I almost died!”
Fortunately, Giovanni and his crew, who had gone up to the second floor, heard the noise from below and began firing magic bullets at the enemy from the railing.
The enemy who was aiming for Knox's back was hit by Giovanni's magic bullet and fell.
“Thank you, Giovanni!”
“Now that the greetings are over, take a look around you!”
Giovanni, who was responding annoyedly to Knox's words, discovered Prince Kite's troops entering the imperial palace.
“Boss! Prince Kite has arrived!”
***
Meanwhile, Emily and the Starr family discover that they are in the Crown Prince's Palace.
Of all places, it had to be the Crown Prince's palace. Within the Starr organization, the Crown Prince was the number one target for purge.
'Just show up, and I'll kill you right now.'
The three men, Alvin, Mayo, and Ivan, looked around with a menacing air.
They were heading towards the meeting room by hiding in an empty room and moving when there was no one in the hallway.
This time, they were trying to escape the room again, taking advantage of the opportunity, when they heard a small noise nearby.
"Shhh."
Alvin signaled for silence with his index finger.
It sounded like the knights were moving. It wasn't just one or two people, he's sure.
After a while, silence fell outside again.
As people looked at Alvin, he carefully opened the door.
“Who’s there!”
Alvin flinched and immediately closed the door, but the enemy had already discovered him.
Cezanne cursed and quickly ran to the window to look outside.
“Let’s put up a barricade first!”
They moved everything that could be moved, including chairs, desks, and closets, and blocked the door.
“Come out now!”
The knights who came running knocked on the door, but when they couldn't get through, they started to break it down.
“Come here quickly!”
They roughly built a barricade and escaped through the windows one by one.
“Priest, please come out first.”
Cezanne, who came out first, looked around cautiously and spoke.
After sending Priest Franz out, Cezanne gestured to Emily.
“Madam, come quickly!”
“I’ll be leaving last, so Chili and Roxy leave first.”
Emily pulled out her gun and loaded it with magic bullets.
After thinking for a moment, Chili and Roxy nodded and put their feet on the windowsill.
Among these members, no one was better at shooting magic bullets than Emily.
Because she was the type of person who could fire magic bullets in succession without needing to reload.
After that, Mayo, Ivan, and Alvin escaped safely, and the moment Emily was about to escape last, there was a loud noise, and the door broke apart.
Fortunately, the barricades prevented the knights from entering right away.
Emily fired her gun at the shoulder of the knight at the very front.
After that, she fired her magic bullets without hesitation in succession, “bang, bang,” at the two knights who were trying to clear the barricade and enter.
"Wow."
To Ivan and Mayo's admiration, Emily nimbly jumped out the window and said.
“There’s no time to be amazed. Let’s move on to the next location quickly.”
As the knights who heard the commotion were rushing in this direction, Emily took them and hid right inside the maze garden.
“Madam, you’re not trying to move through the maze garden, are you?”
“That’s right. We’ll move through the maze garden.”
“Yes? But the roads here are so complicated that it’s impossible to find the meeting room through here...”
“Don’t worry. I know the way.”
There was a bad custom during the social initiation ceremony where newcomers were forced into this maze garden and had to escape within the time limit to be accepted into the gathering.
Because of that, Emily and Marlene sneaked in here a few days before the initiation ceremony and spent the whole day learning the maze over and over again.
It seemed like the efforts made back then were finally paying off.
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