< Chapter 14 - Fantasy Couple >
* There have been some changes made to the previous episode. In order to match the context, the scene where the soldiers are killed by Shishiot has been changed to a scene where they are so scared that they can’t move. I ask for your understanding, readers.
Chapter 14 – The Fantasy Couple
The story after defeating Shishiot proceeded as Yuder had expected.
First of all, the reason why the Holy Cross Guardians and Count Hresvelg are here.
The Holy Cross Guardians sensed the awakening of the demons and dispatched troops, and the Count of Hresvelg was the second force dispatched after the first batch of rangers were annihilated as expected by Uder.
“I went into Frost Anvil to get the Sunflower and was attacked by the Hand of the Demon. And I was able to obtain the Demon’s true name and binding spell from them. These are the things they had in order to control the Demon.”
When Joan asked him how he knew the true name and the binding spell, Yuder answered smoothly and didn’t forget Count Hresvelg either.
“I am sorry for causing trouble to Count Hresvelg in one way or another. Since I was able to obtain the sun flower and cure my illness, I plan to personally visit Count Hresvelg and tell him about what happened and ask for his forgiveness.”
This time, Phil Reiner simply nodded at the story that was similar to Cheongsanyusu.
Because there was nothing in particular to talk about.
‘It must have been another knight who was looking for Cordelia and me in the first place.’
From Phil’s perspective, Uther and Cordelia were benefactors who suddenly appeared and saved them. He was grateful, but he had no particular regrets.
So I just wanted to wrap things up and return to Thunderdoom, and I didn’t really have any plans on what to do with Uther.
But Joan seemed to think differently.
“Prince Yude, will you come with us?”
An invitation to the Order of the Holy Cross.
In the original, this was an event that occurred several times when you got involved with the Holy Cross Guardians, but Yuder just shook his head.
‘The Holy Cross Guardians are good, but I need to figure out how to handle the Northern Barbarian event first.’
Lena had to be saved too.
“I think I should first visit Count Hresvelg. I will hand over the binding spell I obtained, so I would like to postpone my visit to the Order of the Holy Cross until later.”
“···Okay, we will contact you again.”
When Joan spoke with a regretful expression, the matter was somewhat settled.
“Then I will go back to look after my fiancée, Miss Cordelia. You said we will leave the day after tomorrow morning, right?”
“Yes, we plan to do that. There are some things you’ve already mentioned, but… we still need to investigate it ourselves.”
“I understand. Then I will leave. Good night.”
After finishing his speech with a bright smile, Yuder left Phil’s barracks.
‘Um… It’s tomorrow morning.’
It wasn’t bad. No, it was just the right timing.
Yuder nodded alone and looked around the inside of the shrine for a moment.
One new tent was added to the several large tents that were already there.
‘Still, that’s fortunate.’
Because there were no dead among the soldiers.
Although there were casualties among the Holy Cross Defenders, it was a situation where, to put it bluntly, it could be said that they did a great job of preventing the situation.
Of course, if you listen to the story, the sacrifices have already been considerable.
Especially in the case of the Holy Cross Guardians, there were many deaths even during the initial blocking of Shishiot’s movements, so looking at the results alone, six out of nine died and only three survived.
But I couldn’t help but say that I was still thankful.
In the original, when Shishiot ran wild, dozens of Holy Cross Guardians and close to a hundred soldiers were killed.
“Phew.”
But counting human lives in numbers was still a bitter experience.
After a moment of reminiscing about the past, Uther let out a sigh and headed towards the tent where Cordelia was waiting.
“Dad, are you here?”
As soon as I entered the tent, I heard Cordelia’s cute voice.
He was lying on a cot, his eyes bandaged.
Yuder looked around reflexively and spoke in a small voice.
“Hey, what are you going to do if it’s not me?”
“What can I do? I’ll get rumored to be a pervert who makes his fiancée call him ‘daddy.’”
“Hey, wouldn’t that be bad for each other’s honor?”
“I’m joking, I’m joking. I knew it was you.”
“how?”
“Uh… Just by feeling?”
“What comforting words.”
Cordelia burst into laughter as Uther spoke with a sullen face.
“Anyway, did you have a good conversation?”
“Good job. Is that better than that?”
“It’s okay. It’ll be okay. The Holy Cross Guardians looked after it earlier, but it’s just that it was a bit too much.”
The eyes of a white snake.
Cordelia’s newfound power in Frost Anvil.
Although it was a low-level power, it was powerful enough to subdue a demon that was running wild.
‘But still······.’
Even if it was possible to use it without difficulty later when Cordelia’s magical powers became stronger, it was impossible for now.
Moreover, I couldn’t help but be worried because it was a technique that put a strain on the eyes, not just anywhere else.
“Don’t abuse it too much.”
“Oh my, are you worried?”
“You’re right to be worried.”
As Uther’s voice became serious, Cordelia pursed her lips for a moment and then snorted.
“Huh, the sun will rise in the west tomorrow.”
“Hey, your face is red right now?”
“No, it’s not red at all.”
Cordelia said that while sneakily touching her cheek.
Uther smiled again and approached Cordelia. Sensing the presence of someone, Cordelia suddenly sat up and spoke, feeling the air.
“Hey, it’s Yuder.”
“huh?”
“Come here and hold my hand.”
“Your hand?”
“Oh, hand.”
What’s happening all of a sudden?
But since Cordelia’s expression was quite serious, Uther approached her without saying a word and grabbed her hand.
“I got it.”
“Yeah, I got you. This guy.”
Cordelia suddenly raised her voice, grabbed Uther’s hand, and began to beat him violently with her free left hand.
“Hey hey! It hurts! It hurts!”
“You’re hitting me because it hurts? Hey, did you think I didn’t know? You were the one who hit the last one, right? Huh?”
“Oh, that’s not it!”
“No way!”
Even though she couldn’t see, Cordelia still had a sense of battle and struck the exact same spot.
“Uh, how?”
“I had an ambiguous feeling.”
“persimmon?”
“Oh, there’s a special feel to the final blow, but that wasn’t there.”
At Cordelia’s words, Uther’s face became blank.
Oh, my.
I noticed it because it didn’t have that unique feel when I hit the last shot.
“Cordelia, you.”
“Me what.”
“Are you a beast? Not a human?”
“Woof, woof!”
Cordelia barked and hit Uther more, and Uther was sure of it. If nothing else, Cordelia was truly a beast when it came to her feelings.
“Ha, anyway. There’s one thing I want to say.”
Cordelia, who seemed tired from beating him for a long time, let go of Uther’s hand and said, her shoulders slightly drooping.
Yuder reflexively pulled his hand away and asked.
“What is it?”
“Don’t do that again. And don’t even think about giving up the final blow.”
“Cordelia?”
“Because this is a real fight where lives are at stake. Defeating the enemy for sure is the most important thing. Got it?”
“···Okay, I understand.”
Cordelia smiled again as Yuder nodded at her unexpected maturity.
“Of course, I don’t intend to lose the final blow. I will win it with my own hands.”
The sight of him grinning and clenching his fists was very attractive.
As Uther stared blankly without realizing it, Cordelia, perhaps with her unique intuition, noticed it again and spoke as if she had been paying attention.
“Why? Do you think I’ll fall in love again?”
“No, I never had a crush on you in the first place.”
“Yes, Dad. I guess so.”
Cordelia laughed out loud and continued talking after lying down.
“Anyway, how was your trip?”
“They said they were leaving the day after tomorrow morning.”
“Then I guess I’ll have to jump out by tomorrow night at the latest?”
“That’s it.”
I had been sweet-talking Phil in front of him, but I couldn’t go back to Count Hresvelg’s house now.
‘The great invasion of the northern barbarians······.’
There were still a couple of months left until the start of Uther’s main scenario, but it was too late to wait until then.
Uther and Cordelia were planning to fundamentally overturn Uther’s main scenario, the great invasion of the northern barbarians.
‘I can do it.’
At this point, intervention was still possible.
The original story developed as follows.
A savage land that exists beyond the border guarded by crows.
The barbarians who settled there were in fact not one.
They were divided into dozens of large and small tribes, among which was a tribe called the Angry Hornbill.
A tribe with power that is neither particularly weak nor particularly strong, but just in the middle.
One day during a blizzard a raging prophet visited the Angry Horn tribe and said:
“A great king will come from the angry horn. He who will be king, receive the power of the great one and sweep over the world.”
The chieftain of the Angry Horn tribe, who believed the words of the prophet with mystical powers were correct, prepared a ritual as the prophet requested and accepted the power of the Great One.
“It was a story about the Angry Horn Tribe becoming so strong that they united the barbarians and then pushed them down?”
“That’s right, the prophet was a follower of the devil, and starting with the Angry Horn tribe, all the northern barbarians fell to the devil’s power… That’s the story.”
Even looking at the entirety of Hero Chronicles 2, it was a very important event.
This invasion not only caused the collapse of the northern border of Seilun, causing countless deaths, but also caused demon followers to spread throughout the world.
“The devil’s eyes.”
A group of demon followers behind the Prophet.
If the Devil’s Hand served Asmodeus, the overlord of lust, then the Devil’s Eye served Belial, the overlord of corruption.
“I’ve been thinking about it for a while, but don’t you think the organization’s name is too hasty?”
“I don’t really feel that way, though.”
Because it wasn’t just the devil’s hands and eyes.
Among the demon followers that would appear in the future were the Devil’s Mouth and the Devil’s Horns.
“In any case, the best way is to prevent the invasion itself. That is-.”
“You’re preventing the unification of the barbarians?”
“Yes, that’s it.”
First, the barbarians had to be unified before an invasion could take place.
And the way to stop the barbarian invasion was simple.
“I’m building a counter-horse to fight against the Angry Horn Tribe.”
“It would be quite simple.”
“Well, if we start from scratch, it would be difficult to even attempt it, but you know what? There are unfortunate heroes.”
“Father of the Red Wind.”
Red Wind, the only barbarian among the playable characters.
Her father, Red Storm, the chieftain of the Great Storm Tribe, was an outstanding hero who never fell into corruption even after being tempted by demons.
He, who met an unfortunate death in the original, was still alive.
So keep him alive.
Make him stand tall as a barbarian hero who can stand against the corrupted barbarians.
“If successful, it could significantly change the flow of the original work.”
“I’m excited.”
It was fun just to imagine.
Moreover, this time there was a rather desperate reason attached to it.
‘If it were as it was in the original, both my father and my father would have died during the great invasion.’
Count Bayer and Count Chase.
For a moment, Uder clenched his fists as he thought of the faces of the two people – especially Count Chase.
“We must save him.”
“That’s right, we have to save him. I can save him.”
As Cordelia nodded with a bright face, Uther suddenly grabbed Cordelia’s hand again.
“There is something absolutely necessary for that to happen.”
“What, what is it? Is it something that requires holding hands?”
“No, that’s not it.”
Yuder let go of her hand again and spoke, bringing his face closer as if he were her substitute.
“To save the Red Storm, we must go across the border into the land of the barbarians.”
“I know, for that to happen I have to meet the Red Wind who came down secretly in search of medicine to cure the Red Storm’s illness.”
As Cordelia tilted her head back slightly and answered, Uther immediately continued speaking.
“Yeah, to do that, I have to get out of here first.”
At this point, Cordelia couldn’t help but notice.
What Uder is trying to say.
No, I’m arguing that we need Yuder now.
“Wait, wait, wait, wait.”
“Oh, wait a minute.”
“You need a letter now?”
“You can’t just disappear like that, right? You have to leave behind at least a story about how you became healthy after eating sunflowers.”
“Okay, fine. I understand that much. So this time, I don’t have to leave it behind, right?”
“Um, that······.”
“If I do something like that again, I’ll be left behind?”
“Ahem, it is as you said, Madam.”
As Cordelia said, there was no need for Cordelia to leave a letter.
“It has already become almost a done deal.”
“Huh? What?”
“No, nothing.”
Uder, with a faint smile on his face, spoke to Cordelia, who tilted her head.
“Anyway, should I write it this time?”
“Okay, you write it. You have to write it. Got it?”
“Well… then. I’ll write it this time.”
“Hehe, this is exciting.”
You should try it too.
Cordelia smiled so brightly, and Uther shrugged his shoulders with an incomprehensible expression on his face.
And the day after tomorrow at dawn.
The two people who left Count Hresvelg’s camp as planned stopped for a moment on a deserted snowy field.
“Okay, okay. I guess people will find the letter soon?”
“I will do it.”
A letter written by Yuder.
The content was as follows.
“Dear Prince Lucas, I will continue my honeymoon with Miss Cordelia, whom I love more than life itself. I have also become healthy after eating the sun flower, so don’t worry too much. I am truly sorry for causing trouble to Count Hresvelg due to my selfish behavior. P.S. I am truly happy now.”
As Uther recited the contents of the letter with a miserable face, Cordelia jumped up and down in her seat.
“It’s so good, it’s so good I could die.”
“You like it that much?”
“I like it that way!”
“Well, I didn’t know you’d like me that much······.”
“What is that crazy guy talking about?”
“Well, anyway. If you are satisfied, I will be happy. You have a long way to go, so hurry up.”
After saying this, Yuder took the lead after showing off his cool theatrical skills.
And Cordelia thought as she looked at the back of Uther.
“Something is not right.”
What Cordelia herself expected.
“Not coming?”
“go!”
Cordelia shouted at Uther, who was already far ahead, pursed her lips once and hurried her steps.
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< Chapter 14 - Fantasy Couple > End
