I Am the Monarch – Chapter 35 : Relations (3)

 

 

“Right . Then let’s leave it at that . ”

Roan raised his cup of beer with a calm expression .

“Ah, no I just…… . ”

Pierce stammered with a perplexed expression .

“I know that you were joking . ”

Roan smirked and shook his hands .
Only then did Pierce let out a sigh of relief .

“Whew . I got surprised . ”
“I was also joking . I will teach you, so don’t worry . ”

As soon as he finished those words, Pierce got up of his seat .

“Let’s go out . ”
“Huh? To where?”
“You said that you were going to teach me . Roan’s spearmanship . ”

At those words, Roan put on an absent-minded expression .

“You want me to teach you now? We are in the middle of drinking . ”

And as soon as he said that, Pierce grabbed his cup of beer .

Gulp . Gulp .

His adam’s apple shook up and down .

“Burp . We can go now, right?”

Pierce burped and put down the cup of beer .
Roan looked at the emptied cup and smacked his lips .

“Sir adjutant Roan . ”

Pierce urged with an earnest expression .
Roan took in a deep breath and stood up .

“Okay . Let’s go . Go . ”

However, his eyes kept looking at the cup of beer .

‘It was beer I drank in a long while……’

A feeling of only having wetted his lips .
Even so, as he saw the heated up Pierce, he felt a gratified expression .

‘Then . Shall I teach Pierce’s spearmanship to the genius spearman Pierce, no, Roan’s spearmanship?’

A smile appeared on his face .
Roan hit Pierce’s shoulder and left the bar one step ahead of him .
Pierce hurriedly chased his back .
The two people went outside Beno castle .
They had consumed alcohol so the soft spring wind made their tongues feel sweet .
As they got out of the northern gate and walked for a bit, they saw a wide plain .

‘This much will be good . ’

A place better than anywhere to train on the spear .
Roan lightly warmed up and looked at the western sky .
He saw the bright sunset above the mountains .

‘Beautiful . ’

Could leisure have appeared in his heart?
It was the first time he thought that the sunset was beautiful since he was born .
Then, Pierce’s voice was heard .

“Sir adjutant Roan . Let’s start immediately . ”

An urging sound .
Roan smirked and nodded .

“Okay . Shall we…… . . ”

The moment he was about to take off his sight from the sunset .
He saw an object running hurriedly on the western plains .

‘What is it?’

Roan concentrated his sight towards the really small and faint object that was far away .
At that instant, the scene got sucked in along his sight .
The object which he couldn’t see because it was faint now seemed so clear like it was right in front of him .

“Huh?”

Roan frowned .
He hurriedly raised his spear and yelled towards Pierce .

“Pierce . It seems like we will have to run . ”
“Yes? What are you saying so suddenly?”

Pierce asked back with a dumbfounded expression .
Roan charged to the front instead of replying .

Tat!

“Someone is being chased . ”

An urgent voice was heard from the place he left .
Pierce chased after Roan a bit late .
“Who are you talking about?”

At the question being asked in a loud voice, a reply came soon .

“A young man . ”

*****

“Pant . Pant . Pant . ”

His breath rose to his chin .
However, he couldn’t stop his feet .

‘Kugh . Damn . Because I did something I usually didn’t, it seems like I will die alone . ’

Chris gritted his teeth .
His right arm hurt .

‘Fortunately, it doesn’t seem deep…… . . ’

Between the sloppily torn clothes, the wound could be seen .
Although it wasn’t that deep of an injury, blood still flowed out .

‘Why did I have to sneeze there, **** it . ’

Chris looked at the black book he was holding with his left arm .
It was the size of a palm and had a thickness of **** .

<Account book . >

‘Crazy **** . To even make an account book while selling people . ’

Chris slightly glanced back .

Dudududu

Two people who looked dangerous were riding their horses like crazy .

‘Damn . It seems like I’ll get caught . ’

Even if he was fast, he couldn’t be as fast as horses .
Chris first chose to run towards the woods in the northeast .
It was a decision to lower the speed of the horses by even a little .

‘I should just have earned money in Miller . ’

Regret came late .
It was a problem of having stepped out because a daughter of a countryside couple had gotten kidnapped .

‘Although it would be meaningless to regret it now . ’

The choice was made by him anyways .
It was the right thing to do to blame it on him on whatever results happened .
It was the right thing to do, he would be blamed for whatever happened as a result .

‘Good! It’s the woods now!’

It was when he was about to get in .
A heavy sound was heard .

Papapapapang

Chris didn’t look back .
He thought that he could guess the identity of the object .

‘Volley!’
A throwing weapon that was a rope with two weights at the end .
Rather than damaging the opponent, it was a weapon used to catch the body or the legs and make them unable to move .
Chris gritted his teeth and moved to his right .

Tung!

The volley fell right next to him .

‘Good! I dodg…… . !’

When he was busy celebrating… .

Papapapapang

The volley certainly had fallen to the ground but he could still hear a noise .

‘Damn . There’s one more!’

He tried to dodge it, but he was too late and he felt a heavy shock below his knees .

The volley circled the leg and wrapped it .

Boom!

Chris fell to the ground and rolled .

“Ughh . ”

It was a pain similar to his bones breaking .
But even so Chris quickly raised his body .

‘I have to untie this . ’

The volley that tied his legs tightly .
His hands urgently tried to untie the rope .
And then a black shadow covered him .

“We finally caught you . ”

A cold voice .
Chris gulped dry saliva and raised his head .
At that moment he saw a huge foot .

Pagak!

“Kugh . ”

Chris rolled quite a few times with only one kick .

‘Damn . My handsome face will get messed up . ’

A useless thought .
Then a vicious conversation was heard .

“And the account book?”

A question asked by a man with a pointy chin and thin eyes .
The man with a twisted nose pointed at Chris .

“Fortunately that **** has it . ”
“Really? Then take it away from him and kill him quickly . ”
“Okay . ”

The man with the twisted nose grabbed Chris’s shoulders with a casual expression .

‘I can’t die like this . ’

Chris bit his lower lip and threw away the account book he had in his hand with all of his strength .

The account book showed the white pages and disappeared in the grass .

“This crazy bastard!”

The man with the twisted nose cursed and hurriedly ran towards the account book .
Then, Chris stood up from the place abruptly .
His legs, which were previously tied with the volley, were cleanly untied .

‘I thought that I was going to die for untying it without them noticing . ’

Then, he quickly flung his body to a side .
However, he couldn’t make more than three steps .

Pagak!

The hard and sharp tip of the foot hit his side .

“Kugh!”

He felt the wind get knocked out of his lungs .
Chris grabbed his side and fell .

“Son of a **** . You throw it without even knowing how much it’s worth . Twet!”

The thin eyed man spat and got annoyed .
Meanwhile, the man with the twisted nose hurriedly ran and grabbed the account book that was on the ground .

“Steve! The account book is fine!”

A loud yell .

“Then come quickly and cut off the neck of this **** . ”

The man with thin eyes, Steve, talked back annoyedly and got on his horse .

Srung

The man with the twisted nose approached slowly and unsheathed his sword .

“You dare to put your hands on an object of our JoyLuce . First I will cut off that bad-mannered hand of yours . ”

Even Chris realized that the situation had turned out to be quite difficult .

‘Damn . I couldn’t even fulfill my dream of running a travel agency and will die like this . ’

He felt that it was kind of unfair .
He was only a teen that was on his 22nd year .
It was too early for him to die like this .
The man with the twisted nose raised his right hand into the air .
The sharp blade of the sword shone brightly .

‘If I knew this was going to happen I would have eaten a lot of meat last night……’

When he was thinking about that .

Sweeeee!

A sharp noise hit their ears .
Everybody’s sight moved to the place the noise was heard .
A sharp object came flying over while cutting through the air .
That was certainly a spear .
The spear precisely separated Chris and Steve .

Puk!

A heavy noise .
The spear that got stuck deep in the earth trembled .

“Huk! Wha, what is it!”

The man with the twisted nose was surprised and looked towards the direction the spear came flying from .

Pshhh

Then, the grass started to move roughly and was separated by the sides .

“Stop right there . Nobody move . ”

A childish voice but with strength .
The person that came out of the grass was Roan .
Following him, Pierce appeared .
He was looking a bit nervous .
Contrary to him, Roan had a really calm expression and moved to pull out the spear stuck in the ground .
The tip of the spear was pointed at Steve .

“I’m adjutant Roan of Rrose troop from the 7th corps . Reveal your identities . ”

At that moment, Steve’s hand was frozen stiff .

‘Damn . To meet people from the kingdom here . ’

His eyes rolled to the sides quickly .
Then, Chris’s voice was heard .

“Those **** are slave merchants!”

Right after he finished saying that .

“Fuck! Norman! Run!”

Steve yelled and grabbed the reins .

Hihihihing!

The horse cried loudly and raised its front legs .

‘Die!’

Steve was planning to stamp down Roan .
However, Roan had already read Steve’s intentions .
Roan twisted his body and took three steps to the right .
He saw the rough movements of the horse slowly and clearly .

‘He’s full of weak points . ’

There were tens of places where he could stab the spear .

‘But my movements don’t follow me . ’

He tasted bitterness in his mouth .
However Pierce, that couldn’t know of this at all, judged that Roan was in an urgent situation .
He quickly stabbed out the spear .

Stab

The spear pierced the body of the horse deeply .

Hihihihing!

The horse moved its body here and there with rough movements .

“Huh?!”
“Uhhhhhh . ”

It was obvious for Steve, but even Pierce couldn’t move properly because he was perplexed .
However Roan could see all of these things slowly and clearly .

Spat!

Roan’s spear slashed through the air .

Paat!

The spear passed next to Steve’s neck .

‘It missed!’

Steve was happy and once again tried to pull the reins .
And then, the spear that was behind him was pulled and hit the back of his head .

“Ugh!”

Amazing strength .
His chest got stuck to the horse .

“Hmph . ”

Roan snorted and after twisting his wrist, he pulled the spear .

Pat!

At that moment Steve, that was balancing sloppily, fell down from the horse .

“Kugh . ”

A heavy shock felt coursed through his back and waist .
Steve frowned and twisted his body .
Roan quickly raised his spear upside down and smashed it into the stomach of the man .

Puk!

“Kugh!”

A pain that cuts his breath .
Steve lost consciousness and fell to the ground .

Dudududu

Then, he heard noisy horse steps .
It was Norman .
He quickly got out of the forest while Steve was making that fuss .
Although Roan tried to chase him, there was a big difference between their speeds .
The horse Steve was riding couldn’t move anymore because of Pierce’s attack .
Meanwhile, Norman disappeared far away .

‘Can’t do anything . ’

He decided to be satisfied on having saved the life of this person .

“Are you okay?”

At Roan’s question, Chris nodded .

“Yes . I’m fine . Thank you for having saved me . ”

It seemed unshapely, but he was gentle and respectful .
Roan looked at Chris’s face .

‘I think I have seen him somewhere…… . ’

He was about to remember but couldn’t .
Then, Chris touched his face and tilted his head .

“Is there something on my face?”

Roan laughed awkwardly and said .

“No . You just seem familiar . Did we meet somewhere else before?”

At those words, Chris shook his head .

“No . Not in my memories . I’m not from over here but from the capital of Miller . I ran errands over there . ”
“Ah… . . ”

At that moment, a low exclamation flowed out from Roan’s mouth .
Errand runner Chris, from the capital of Miller .
There was only one person in his past life that had this characteristics .

‘Chris . Chris Drain!’

He startled awake .
Roan looked at Chris with composed eyes .

‘To meet Chris here……’

Chris .
As it was before he got a title of nobility, he still didn’t have the last name of Drain .

‘The one in charge of Ian Philip’s information agency . ’

The man that would grasp every piece of information regarding Rinse kingdom 10 years from now on and of course on the continent was standing in front of him .

‘It wasn’t enough with meeting Ian Phillips, but I even met Chris . ’

These were all things that didn’t happen in his past life .

‘On top of that, Chris said that he hadn’t left the capital of Miller until he met Ian Phillips . ’

That Chris was at the eastern part of the kingdom, and on top of that appeared near the border .
Roan asked with a careful voice .

“What are you doing all the way here when you are from Miller?”

At those words Chris bit his lower lip .

“This is all because of the slave merchants . There is this group called JoyLuce . ”
“JoyLuce group?”

Roan was surprised once more .

‘If it’s the JoyLuce group…… . . ’

A really familiar name .

‘The slave merchants we captured while we were moving to Pedian’s plain were certainly called JoyLuce . ’

‘Did the future change because I captured the guys of JoyLuce?’

< Relations (3) > End

 

Translator’s note: Thanks for reading!

Previous chapter has been fixed .

Translator : Subak