At the same time, Knights of the West. Ivan was resting quietly on the bed when the phone next to him rang.
"Hey, kid, how are you doing lately?" Kai's voice came from the other end of the phone, "There's not much time left. I'll start tomorrow. Do you want to come with me?"
"I'm just waiting for your words." Ivan said. He had already made up his mind to assassinate Gunther. Even if he was the only one, he would do it. But he knew that if he did it alone, the chance of success would be infinitely small. Now Kai
I finally contacted him, which was of course a great thing that I could only hope for.
ten minutes later.
"Well, is that so?" Aoyun started the engine of the cavalry, "Come up here. I am only responsible for taking you to Sir Kai. I don't care what you do after that."
"Thanks, Aoyun." Ivan jumped on the cavalry and sat behind Aoyun. The door of the machinery warehouse opened, and Aoyun's cavalry roared out.
"By the way, who is this Gangser, and why do you two want to kill him so solemnly?" Aoyun drove his iron cavalry and looked at the night around him.
"That's... a person who threatens Arthur's life." Ivan said. He thought to himself, he couldn't tell Aoyun that he was Arthur's brother.
"To kill people for your [King]... is stupid enough." Aoyun replied absently, "Your [King] will definitely not want you to do such a stupid thing."
When Yiwen was told this, he became angry: "If there is a person who can threaten dad's life, Aoyun, will you find a way to kill him?"
"...That's a good question." Aoyun said calmly, "First of all, the person who can threaten dad's life must be a very powerful guy, and I will definitely not be able to defeat him with my ability. I am the most sensible person in this situation.
The solution is to run away with dad instead of confronting that kind of monster head-on."
"Oh hehe------" Ivan laughed sarcastically.
"Secondly," Aoyun ignored his brother's sarcasm and continued, "it depends on what kind of person he is. If he is an evil heretic, it is not impossible to kill him. But what if he is a good person? Kill him casually.
Wouldn't it be against the knight's creed to lose the opponent?"
"It's the Knight's Creed again, quite rigid." Ivan sneered disdainfully.
"We don't fight because we like fighting. When we knights fight, we must have a reason. Otherwise we are just murderers." Aoyun said, "Ivan, first understand your opponent and see what kind of person he is.
.Before you can judge things according to your own conscience, do not kill casually. What I am saying is not to ask you to follow the knight's creed, but to ask you to act in accordance with your own conscience. I don't want to see my brother change.
Becoming a lawless murderer, do you understand?"
"...I know." Ivan looked at the back of his brother, who was almost ten years older than him, and didn't know how to refute for a moment.
He had never known what kind of person Gunther was. He knew too little about this enemy, and Kai was unwilling to explain the matter in depth.
Tonight, he wanted to ask Kai properly.
...Then, use your conscience to judge whether this [Gunther] is worth killing.
When he arrived at the hotel, he saw Kai and the three leopard men and their son.
"What are you doing...forget it, Kai, I have something to tell you." Ivan said, gesturing to Kai to go outside and talk.
The Leopard Man shrugged at Kai and continued to arrange his weapons at the table.
"What's wrong?" Kai asked after following Ivan to the back alley of the hotel.
"I want to know more about this guy named Gunther." Ivan stood in a dark corner of the alley, leaning against the wall. "You only said that he was Arthur's brother, but what did he do to make Arthur...
Se is so afraid of him? Is this Gang Se really a bad person?"
"...Do you really want to know?" Kai said in a low voice. He sat down on the steps of the back door of the hotel and tried to make himself as comfortable as possible. "This may not be good for Arthur.
If possible, I still don't want to reveal Arthur's life experience."
"Please. I need to know." Ivan half begged and half persuaded, "I am planning to kill this person, but I need to know whether this person is worth killing. I can't let my hands get involved without knowing it."
Blood on it."
"Oh, you kid still talks like this? Did you come up with it yourself or did your brother Aoyun teach you?" Kai said disdainfully.
"Kay!"
"...I know, I'll just tell you." Kai looked around.
It was a quiet night, with dark moon and high wind. This was also a quiet small village. There was no sound of people in the village. In rural life, people tend to go to bed early.
Kai confirmed that no one was eavesdropping (but he did not confirm that the leopard boy Seifer was squatting at the back door of the hotel) before speaking:
"If you're worried that Gunther is a good guy and you can't kill him, your worries are unnecessary. That guy is a bad guy, a scumbag, a villain with a vicious heart."
"...Really?" Ivan replied coldly. He was not satisfied with this answer. It was just Kai's subjective opinion and lacked circumstantial evidence and evidence.
"...Well, if this is not enough to convince you--" Kai continued, he took a deep breath, the fresh air of the country night stimulated his lungs and gave him courage.
: "The Kai I'm talking about is actually not exactly Arthur's brother, or rather, he is Arthur's half-brother.
Arthur's father was a knight from a distinguished family. When he had a wife, he fell in love with a maid in the family. Arthur's mother was this humble maid. Arthur was the knight from a distinguished family.
The bastard son of a knight."
"As expected..." Ivan whispered. He finally found the common ground between Arthur and himself, and finally understood the reason why Arthur helped him like this in the first place. Arthur was just projecting his past.
In the case of Ivan, he wanted to redeem his soul by helping Ivan.
Despicable guy.
"Ivan, you are lucky to have a good brother." Kai's face showed vague sadness and anger under the dim moonlight, "But Arthur did not have that luck. His brother had just
Se was so bad. His aunt, the wife of the knight with a distinguished family background... She was also bad. They not only used various methods to torture the maid who had an affair with the knight, but also used all kinds of methods to torture the maid who had an affair with the knight.
He used various means to torture this innocent little boy.
The most terrible thing is that the little boy has had amazing recovery ability since he was a child. No matter how serious the injury is, he will recover quickly within a day. And then... of course, this bastard Gunser is doing that every day
A little boy was tortured to death. In the morning, his legs were broken, and in the evening, the flesh of his arms was cut out with a knife------"
"Stop talking!" Ivan quickly stopped him.
"...In short, Gunther used all cruel methods to treat his younger brother. No. He did not regard Arthur as his younger brother at all. In his eyes, this Arthur was just his father and
Even if the bastard born by the servant was killed casually, there would be no problem... He didn't kill Arthur just because he wasn't cruel enough and Arthur could recover on his own.
."
"...Where is that knight from a distinguished family? When he saw his son being treated like that, he didn't care about anything?" Ivan suppressed his anger and asked in a low voice.
"Hmph, that knight was busy with official duties and left early and came home late. When he returned, it happened to be when Arthur was recovering from the torture. How could the knight see it? The knight's wife has great power in the family. She wants to
Covering this up was easy."
"But------!"
"Oh, your guess is absolutely correct. This matter was eventually exposed, and it developed in the worst direction." Kai whispered, "Gunther went too far. How could he not kill him?"
Arthur became rampant. He pierced the heart of Arthur, who was only six years old, with a red-hot steel nail. This time, Arthur did not recover."
Ivan's eyes widened. His eyes glowed cyan under the moonlight.
"It's hard to imagine, isn't it?" Kai suppressed his anger and said, "Gonser, who was only sixteen years old at the time, used the most vicious method to kill his six-year-old half-brother. His name was Igraine.
When the maid arrived, Arthur was already dying. Igraine, who had been indifferent no matter how she was bullied or insulted before, looked at her son's cold body, and her anger broke out.
She was originally a succubus. Because she fell in love with the knight, she turned into a human form and sneaked into the knight's house as a maid... This witch should have left early and disappeared from the world, but
She really loved that knight and could never leave him.
Her foolish infatuation led to Arthur's tragedy, and also to Igraine's own tragedy.
She returned to her original form as a succubus, and in the rage of losing her son, she killed Gunther, and... the Grand Duchess of Pantorakon. Even the dozens of servants who stepped forward to stop her were killed.
and killed.
When the knight returned home at night, all he saw were the cold corpses of his two sons, the corpse of his wife, and the corpses of dozens of domestic servants. And Igraine was accused of being the original culprit of this massacre, and finally
Being tied to the stake and burned to ashes. This is the whole story of Arthur and Gunther."
Ivan was frightened when he heard this. He finally came back to his senses and asked in a low voice: "...This is unreasonable. Shouldn't Arthur be dead? Why is he still alive? Where is Gunther?"
"I don't know. This is the only part I know." Kai said, "The dying Arthur, I guess it was Igraine who begged one of her succubus daughters to save him. How did Gunther come back to life?"
, I just can’t understand it at all."
"That's why I said Gunther is a monster." Kai's face was pale in the moonlight, "He was a person who died more than ten years ago. He can no longer survive in this world."
Ivan was silent for a while. The person he was going to kill turned out to be a person who died ten years ago. Was he an undead from the past?
But, just right.
"I don't care if he is a dead person or not." Ivan muttered in a low voice, "He is the past, he is evil. He should not appear in front of Arthur again and interfere with the lives of living people. I decided to
Kill him. No matter if he is an undead or a succubus, or if he is stronger than me, you must kill him. Arthur has helped me, and this time it is my turn to repay this debt of gratitude."
"Well said, young man!" Kai showed a satisfied smile under the moonlight. He stretched out his hand, "I'll leave it to you to fight tomorrow."
"Yeah." Ivan also stretched out his hand and held Kai's hand tightly.
At the same time, the leopard boy Seifer, who was hiding behind the door, was crying, but he also quietly made a decision.
One is a half-giant, half-human boy who grew up in a slum; the other is a half-human, half-dragon boy created by a heavenly knight and a dragon; and the third one grew up with a tragic fate, but life finally smiled on him a little.
The leopard boy.
These three strangers, who were originally completely unrelated, should not have had any intersection in their lives.
But now, under the guidance of fate, they have come together and work hard to protect the same person.
There are all kinds of miracles in the world, and this is one of them.
There is only one day left until the day when fate stops.