Goblin Knight - Chapter 317



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EP.317 24 Hours (Part 1)

Ella, who had been in this situation more often, was able to grasp the situation faster.

“Aha… Betrayal? They’re after us. It seems like we’ll be safer if we stay here?”

“I hope you don’t call it a betrayal. To be honest, this is too much for a powerless merchant like me to handle! Rather, it would be more correct to think that Sir Blanc owes me nothing!”

Gilan said, curling his lips.

“I saved you from a life-or-death situation once, and I also looked after Miss Annelie’s condition, although it didn’t end well. So now let’s end this deal by you saving me. Fairly.”

“… … I’m just asking, what can we do with this transparent wall?”

“With Ms. Ella’s strength… maybe if she uses all her might for a minute or so, she could break it. However, this is not an option I recommend. Those monsters will disappear by themselves by the time they get near here anyway, so why waste your strength before then?”

“That makes sense, you son of a bitch.”

Blanc sighed, understanding the whole situation.

“If you had honestly asked me to buy you some time, I would have gladly done so, since I owe you a lot of debt and it was partly my fault… … .”

“I think that’s probably the case. But I’m not 100% sure, so I had no choice but to take the more likely route. What can I do, merchants are all inherently distrustful of people?”

Gilan skillfully jumped onto the shoulders of the still standing Nicola and bowed his head politely to them.

“I hope to see you again soon. Good night, Sir Blanc. Nicolas, go.”

“──That’s not what it said, what? What is it? What’s going on, wait, what are those organisms doing!!”

Nicola, who had stopped a moment ago and then resumed, ran at incredible speed according to Gilan’s will without even being able to properly understand the situation.

In the blink of an eye, the figures of Nicola and Gilan were lost in the darkness.

And this time, for real.

– Krrrrrr… … .

– Giggle, geeheeheeggig… … .

A horde of monsters surrounded them from all sides.

In a complete siege with no escape in sight, only the isolation ward set up by Gilan allowed Blanc some respite.

Blanc asked in a gloomy voice.

“Ella. What do you think we can do about this situation?”

“If I were alone, I might be able to escape while the high-ranking Mama up there is tied up. But as far as the knight, Trasha, and Annely… … .”

“… … Is it true that even you can barely escape? Are you saying that you can escape alive on your own?”

“I don’t want to die.”

“shit.”

Blanc took out both swords and cursed briefly.

The rules of knighthood were something that he constantly recited in his head so as not to be overwhelmed by the enemy’s forces.

No matter how strong the enemy may be, do not doubt defeat and fight against evil. In no case do you turn a blind eye to good being persecuted by evil. Trust that the Lord will protect you and do what He has taught you… … .

But as if to mock them for their mistaken belief, the number of enemies surrounding them doubled with each blink of an eye.

It was actually worse that the fight was not happening because of the stationmaster. Since I couldn’t concentrate and clear my mind, I could only see the cruel reality.

Is there really no other way? Is there any way for the good cycle he led to intervene?

perhaps…….

Maybe, this time, I was wrong?

Should we have turned a blind eye to the conspiracy unfolding in Remen City? Did that damned Yaul leak some information so the Federation wouldn’t track us down?

Of course, if that had been the case, not only Noil, but also the Knights of the Holy Fire, the townspeople, and maybe even the city people, could have all died… but at least Trasha, Ella, and Anelli wouldn’t have been in such danger.

As Ella said, wasn’t the situation too big for a mere party of knights to interfere with?

“Open.”

As I was thinking about that.

A furry monster appeared, moving menacingly through the gaps between the monsters glaring at them.

It was a familiar face.

“It’s nice to see you again, isn’t it?”

“──Yaul!!”

Blanc, who was overcome with anger for a moment, forgot about the stationmaster’s presence and swung his silver sword at him.

Kakang!! The fierce sword strike stopped right in front of Yaul’s nose.

“I’m scared… Please look after me. But we were on the same side at one point, weren’t we?”

“Why… why!? Why did you betray us, Yaul!!”

That angry question must have had many meanings.

We fought for you, risking our lives. How could you betray that goodwill?

And what on earth did we do to you that you have such powerful monsters chasing us… … .

To all those questions, Yaul just shrugged his shoulders.

“Just tell him. Tell him that I’m grateful that Nico found a match for him, and that I’m really sorry things turned out this way. Don’t hate him too much. Not having him here was the best he could do.”

“That horned horse is fine! I’m asking you, Yowl!!”

“I told you already. All patriots are dogs… Man, if you do this one more time, I’ll be the first one to get my head chopped off by Miss Ella.”

“I know you well.”

Yaul laughed bitterly, not caring whether Ella spoke with sincere murderous intent or not.

“I did not know the hardships.”

“what?”

“But there is a limit to what an individual can do… The fact that I have personally shown myself to you now is my final expression of conscience.”

“Yah,” he said, letting out a sigh that smelled like an animal.

“Surrender, Goblin Knight.”

“……what?”

“Put aside everything you have been pursuing so far and submit to the will of the Federation. Become a member of the Demon Tribe.”

Blanc, who had been listening to his suggestion blankly, snorted.

“How ridiculous. Is that the advice of those who shot arrows bigger than spears at me the moment they first saw me?”

“That’s right. I wish you could recall who and where it was that was blowing the horn at the top of their lungs just before that.”

“What? That was back then-”

Blanc was about to ask whether that wasn’t the sound of an attack commencing, but he put that on hold for a moment.

Wasn’t it because of the sound of that horn that I was able to notice the arrow flying at the last minute?

“you…….”

“You were not the one who dodged the arrow of anyone else, but of our Centaur chief who assassinated you by sniping one of the Seven Swords. Then, I was the one who almost got my head pierced. Fortunately, it was covered up because it was revealed that this issue could not be resolved with force alone.”

“… … .”

“Do you feel like talking now? Continue-”

“… … Even if that is true, there is one thing I just don’t understand.”

Blanc asked in a voice that was clearly more composed than before, but still guarded.

“Whether you stopped me or not, you clearly intended to kill me from the beginning. But now that you’re in a situation where you could kill me at any time, you’re trying to recruit me.”

“Ugh.”

“Then… why on earth were you chasing me? Why didn’t you even try to talk to me from the beginning?”

It was a question that had been unresolved for a long time, and it was only now, in this desperate situation, that I was able to ask it.

Why on earth would they be chasing a goblin knight?

He may not know that he has done them a great wrong, and he is not a talent that can be recruited with the effort that I put in… … .

But instead of answering the question directly, Yaul hesitated with an extremely embarrassed look on his face.

“That’s exactly what I was going to say, but it’s… complicated. No, it’s actually simple, but it’s complicated to you. There’s no story more complicated than that.”

“… …Just get to the point.”

“Yeah. It’s better to just pull something out in a fit of anger.”

Yaul took a short deep breath and said.

“Surrender. The only condition for accepting you is that you hand Miss Annelie over to us.”

“이 개새끼가.”

Blanc, who was truly angry and on edge, showed the rage of a monster, forgetting for a moment even his mother’s teachings that he should always be a knight.

Yaul looked as if he had known this would happen, but he still had something to say as he wiggled his snout.

“Have you never really wondered even once?”

“… … what.”

“I heard you took Miss Annelie in as your seed. Then, have you ever wondered why an ordinary slave girl suddenly gained such powerful magic?”

Yaul continued speaking.

“Is that all? I can tell you exactly what you are wondering. She was clearly a young girl, but why did she grow up like that at some point? And how does she know so much?

Even if you’ve suffered a major injury that you can never fully recover from, you’ll feel yourself recovering to the point where you can move normally within a day or two, and your strength and instincts will grow stronger at a rate that you can’t even understand.

And above all, you must have felt at least once that your memory becomes hazy whenever you try to think about the matter?”

Blanc opened his mouth blankly.

How did this son of a bitch do that?

No, wait a minute… … .

“You guys.”

“The merchant who was with you earlier told me an interesting story. He said that His Majesty, who was blocking the scars up there, was negotiating a matter that would determine the survival of the race. But what was so important that he had to throw that away and come here… What do you think it could have been?”

“no way…….”

“Hey, Goblin Knight. You asked me why the Federation was after you? The answer I’ll give you is ‘No.’ You were more of a nuisance.”

Yaul looked at him with bitter eyes.

And then, he turned his gaze to Annelie, who was breathing heavily behind him.

“We came to get our dreams back.”

“… … It was a dream.”

“Yes. Our collective dream.

When all the demons fell into despair before that cursed gold… The only one who fought against gold and opened a path of retreat so that we could escape the North alive. The one who even survived.

Our only chance of victory in the coming war. Our last hope. He who walks through eternal winter. The most noble purple jewel… … .

… … Her name is not Annelly.”

Yaul said in a bitter voice.

“Nellivia Jenn Heinswerk. That is the name of our princess, and of the one who truly reigns over the demon race.”