Lord of the Frontier Land - Chapter 150
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Episode 150 The knight who rolled in on his own feet
The first time I met Castol, who is now sitting in front of me with a proud look on his face, was more than ten years ago.
If Dwyer, who was working as a guard at the Bert family’s villa in Elton Tower, was my senior when I was a servant, Castol was my successor.
As Gareth’s talent was recognized within the duchy, his treatment began to change, and Castol was one of the additional servants at that time.
Of course, like Dwyer, I and I were close friends, like my older brother and younger brother.
“Then you two, please talk.”
“okay. “Go and see.”
When I returned, Masuk finished serving the guests and left to do his original work.
Anyway, it was the same for Mazuuk and I who had no time to rest.
“It’s been a long time since I last saw you. “Has it been five years?”
“is it? “Is the regenerated leg healed now?”
“yes. “Thanks to you, I’m fine.”
Castol even stood up and jumped in place a few times.
“I knew you were talented, but you still managed to become a knight despite what you went through.”
“what… “There is no other way for someone like me who doesn’t know how to use his brain to get ahead.”
“but.”
Castol chuckled as I unconsciously responded to those words.
“Brother, you are still the same. “If it were someone else, he might have comforted me by saying no.”
“Because there was no servant in the Berthe family who didn’t know that you were a stone head.”
“What a stone head… “Isn’t that a bit too much?”
“Well, that’s the same as becoming a knight. “I didn’t mean it in a particularly bad way.”
“That’s right. From servant to knight. When I think about it, those were not easy days… .”
As I looked at the guy reminiscing about the past with a wistful expression, I also remembered the guy from my past.
“You are the first ignorant bastard to have one of his legs chopped off after insisting on following him on an expedition even though it was not necessary. “At that time, he was honestly dizzy.”
At that time, it was not a time like now where you could easily get money if you wanted to.
At that time, I was also dependent on Gareth.
If it weren’t for the damn bastard, there wouldn’t be any nobles who would perform the < Rite of Rebirth> for their servants.
Castol smiled brightly despite my criticism.
“But didn’t it change my life?”
He really is a helpless guy.
This is why I can’t hate you.
“That’s right. “Because you were able to buy time by taking the assassin’s sword instead.”
When Gareth was not yet a duke, he went on various expeditions to strengthen his position within the dukedom.
At first, the eldest son, Crooks Werth, the second daughter, Meryl Werthe, and the third daughter, Hennessy Werthe, did not pay much attention to Gareth.
Because Gareth was an illegitimate son.
However, by the time the succession issue arose in earnest, Gareth’s reputation had grown to a level that could not be ignored.
To the extent that even within the duke’s family, one has to worry about a secret attack.
At the time, Gareth’s martial arts skills were incomparably superior to mine.
But he is also human.
I had to sleep.
And by that time, I had acquired quite a few characteristics, so I was slightly outside the category of human beings.
For example, there was no problem if I only slept for an hour or two.
?Carmine, the person I can trust the most is you.
Even though my skills were a bit lacking, it was natural that I was chosen to be Gareth’s close guard as I had been with him from the beginning.
However, at that time, it was before the actual collapse, so I had not yet completely shed the mindset of an ordinary person.
‘There were one or two raids… .’
As Gareth’s assassination continued to fail, a secret attack against me even began.
I couldn’t help but feel tired as this happened repeatedly even on expeditions.
At that time, I was still in my late teens.
It was the time when Gareth graduated from the military academy and began his expedition in earnest, so I did not have a body that was almost immortal like I do now.
So he missed the invasion of the assassin who was infiltrated as a soldier.
Castol noticed that and blocked it with his body.
Thanks to you, I lost one leg… .
?Run away quickly, brother!
The Castol guy earned my trust in a rare way.
“I was grateful at that time.”
“What. It was something that had to be done. “My brother took such good care of me.”
A lot of time has passed, but Castol’s eyes have not changed.
To be honest, there were many people whose trust rating was 100, but there weren’t that many people I trusted.
Because I didn’t even completely trust Gareth.
‘In some ways, it may be even more so because I am a reincarnated person… .’
I suddenly had a bad appetite.
Compared to my previous life, people in this life were relatively loyal.
It’s a world full of romance where you have nothing to say even if you get stabbed in passing if you commit fraud.
We have no choice but to be careful with each other.
That’s why even among nobles, justification is considered that way.
“Anyway, it was really good that I made a full recovery and was even awarded a knighthood. Congratulations.”
“haha. thank you “It’s all thanks to you, brother.”
“Thanks to me?”
“yes.”
Castol looked at me with bright eyes and said.
“Didn’t you teach me swordsmanship whenever you had time? At that time, I didn’t know that my brother was that busy, so I begged him… “I found out later that it really wasn’t that easy.”
I was a little taken aback by Castol’s words.
There are no computers or cell phones in this world.
Since I don’t really sleep well, I just played around because I was bored.
“Later, I paid tuition and learned swordsmanship from other knights, but there was no one who taught me with more passion than my brother.”
That’s right.
I did it to you to relieve stress, and those people did it to make money.
“Thanks to my brother who taught me the basics, I was able to quickly master the kingdom swordsmanship. thank you.”
“uh… okay.”
Castol thanked me sincerely, but when I thought back to the past where I only thought of it as a game, I felt a little sorry.
Still, if this guy had said he didn’t like me at that time, I would have dealt with him moderately, but I overcame him like a bully and had some fun playing him.
When that thought occurred to me, I was shocked.
‘Am I starting to resemble that bastard after hanging out with him?’
In my past life, I lived hard, but I did not care about my subordinates or successors.
It was frustrating to just have to do it, so I just did it myself.
But these days, when I see Mazuuk and Gallant showing their dissatisfaction often… .
‘I guess I’ll have to be a little careful.’
Just now, I could feel Mazuuk looking at me with resentment as he said he was leaving for work.
They told me to choose as many subordinates as I wanted, so I thought it would be okay for a while.
When I thought about it, Mazuuk had to take charge of this kind of work, so as the territory developed, the work increased and it seemed like it would be difficult to stop.
Even if we were to educate Ailee and Alice in kingdom etiquette, it would take several years.
‘It’s not easy to bring in someone who is as familiar with etiquette as Majuk… Hmm?’
“Why do you look at me like that?”
“Oh, no.”
for a moment.
The illegitimate son of a frontier lord and a wizard who graduated from the Imperial Academy.
A man who was more knowledgeable about etiquette than General Secretary Mazuuk was now sitting in front of me.
Unlike me, who was trained as a shaman, he learned proper etiquette from Herot Kasli, and is an servant who worked for the prominent Berthe family for a long time.
He even obtained a knighthood through a formal process.
‘Isn’t this like a pumpkin vine that rolled in on its own?’
okay.
If Gareth doesn’t want to give it to you, you can take it from him.
‘This guy… Trust was 100.’
I remember him clearly because he was the second person with a reliability rating of 100 after Gareth.
“Castor. Becoming a knight is entirely thanks to your talent and effort. Because what I taught you is only the basics. “There is no need to praise me too much.”
Actually, my swordsmanship has improved a lot recently, but at the time it wasn’t that great.
It was about imitating the shape of a god.
“no! Look at this. Thanks to you… .”
At that time, Castol suddenly pulled out his sword from its sheath and swung it at me.
Huh!
I felt the arcane swordsmanship being activated along with a powerful sound.
‘crazy.’
The problem was that I could barely see Castor draw his sword.
He and I were sitting across from each other at the table.
By the time I noticed the manifestation of the arcane swordsmanship, a huge diagonal < sword energy> had already arrived right in front of my nose.
“uh… older brother?”
… her.
I didn’t know they’d show off their special move so quickly?
* * *
I decided to take Castol on a tour of Haalun.
This was because the inside of the official residence was a mess due to the sword storm due to the guy’s sudden haste.
“sorry.”
“Okay. “It’s just a little messy.”
“Anyway, my brother, your swordsmanship has now reached a high level. “You block my < sword energy> without even drawing your sword.”
No, I didn’t pull out my sword and block it.
I momentarily opened a sub-space and injected sword energy into it.
-No, human. What are you doing now?
Thanks to this, I heard a shout from the demon sword, but it was better than holding on with my body.
I forgot about it for a while.
This guy is seriously my friend.
Because he took care of me and taught me various things since I was young, Castol tended to greatly overestimate me.
Should I say that I think of him as a big brother or father figure in the family?
‘As such, trust has also risen sharply.’
Just like a child bragging to his parents after getting 100 points on a test, he showed off his secret sword skills indoors.
Since the opponent was me, the best arcane swordsman in the Bert family, I thought I would stop him without any hesitation.
Of course, my face turned pale when I saw the aftereffects of that action.
After hearing the circumstances, it was said that it had not been long since he learned sword techniques.
In short, he wanted to show me that he had mastered < Sword Technique>.
‘It was the most brutal < sword technique> I’ve ever seen.’
It was not a normal < sword energy>, but a < sword energy> with monstrous destructive power accompanied by a sword wind that could not be swallowed up by subspace.
In other words, this was exactly the level of article I needed right now.
He is also a trustworthy talent, as an attachment relationship was formed with him from a young age when he had nothing.
There’s already no one worth using, but a knight who can use arcane swordsmanship has arrived?
‘There’s no harm in trying it out once.’
But I didn’t want to force a talented guy to stay in this remote area, so I asked him vaguely.
“So what’s going on this far west? “It’s not just to show that you have mastered < Sword Technique>.”
“What’s going on? He had been on a northern expedition, and when he heard that his brother had been crowned a baron, he took leave to congratulate him.”
I was dazed for a moment by those words.
“The vacation given after the expedition is only one month, right? “I heard you rode a horse all the way from Bardum?”
“yes. From Berd to Vardum we used the gate, and from there we hired horses.”
A warp gate does not mean that you can use it right away like a train or airplane.
There is a lot of waiting, so if you live in a remote area like me, you often have to wait several days even if you make a reservation in advance.
Unless there is a special purpose such as participating in a title award ceremony.
The Castol and Berth family would have taken care of it, so they wouldn’t have waited for a few days.
Still, it would have taken a day or two.
In addition, it takes two weeks to ride a horse back and forth between Bardum and Haalun.
“Is it okay to waste my golden vacation like that? Are you meeting any young ladies? “You’re almost at the right age to get married.”
The standard for adulthood in this world is 16.
Moreover, because it is a medieval fantasy world, humans are the workforce.
As soon as I became an adult, I was at the right age to get married.
Fortunately, knights generally married late, but still, in their early twenties, they were at an age when they should consider settling down.
It’s not for nothing that the Knights of Dawn take off their shirts every morning and run a canter, and the girls cheer when they see it.
“If you can use this powerful < sword technique>, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to join the Knights of Dawn. Why are you still a regular article?”
Gareth is also lacking talent in the first place.
I probably wouldn’t have hesitated to bring this guy into the Knights of Dawn.
“that is… “You know.”
“hmm?”
“Recently, expeditions have been happening non-stop. “It’s so hard.”
ah… This guy grew up watching and learning from me.
So, the modern concept of work-life balance was somehow installed.
‘I forgot.’
Castol sighed and started talking behind Gareth’s back.
I was the only one in the dukedom who dared to talk behind Gareth’s back, so I guess I couldn’t stand it anymore and ended up here.
“Is the director that frequent?”
“yes. I can’t even use my vacation properly after the expedition. I also have three months’ worth of vacation time left that I haven’t used yet. “I managed to get this vacation after some special consideration.”
“Hmm.”
Gareth is a bit strict, but not to the point where he has to cut off his holiday.
I recalled a story I recently heard from Marquis Anaid Leveron.
‘I heard that Baron Vardum and Hennessil were up to something. Is that why middle executives are disciplined?’
Perhaps there would be a major infighting in the Duke’s family.
Although Gareth ascended to the dukedom, being an illegitimate son was a major weakness.
As the faction supporting Hennesil was still not small, the ducal family could possibly be split into two.
In ‘Lord of the Frontier Land’, this is something that often happens whenever a title is inherited.
In fact, almost all of the land in the kingdom was consumed, but when the main character, the lord, died of old age, the land was distributed to his children and often ended up as sandfish.
In that case, the successor who becomes the new protagonist will have to start playing again from the divided territory.
To prevent such a thing from happening, there are also examples of having only one successor.
However, it often happened that the heir died and the main character, the lord, died suddenly, resulting in a game over.
Well, this is a game story.
Now that it has become reality, it will end when I die.
“So… “Can’t I work for that brother?”
“huh?”
“I looked around a lot on the way there. This village called Haalun is a very quiet place. “It has a similar atmosphere to the town I grew up in.”
“uh… “That’s right.”
“older brother. “I also want to return to farming.”
Castol’s pitiful eyes left me speechless.