“I will be the bait.”
There was silence for a moment among those who heard Rudiot’s declaration.
And soon, puzzled voices began to emerge simultaneously.
Rinoa and Hamel were no exception. They looked at Rudeat with puzzled expressions.
“Your Highness the Prince? What is that all of a sudden….”
“I heard the whole story. Wasn’t it said that in order to capture Lariette Sebes alive, someone had to deal with her?”
“Yeah, but…”
Rudyard’s always gentle face was filled with determination.
He gritted his teeth and shouted again.
“Send me to Lariette. I will save Lariette with my life!”
“majesty…….”
Due to the will in his voice, no one was hasty to open their mouth.
Finally, someone asked.
“Why are you risking your life?”
Rudyard responded to that voice.
“It was like that before, so it goes without saying that this time too.”
A remorseful smile appeared on his lips at first glance, but then it slowly disappeared.
“Is your Majesty Rudeat alright?”
I asked Klaus cautiously.
“He’s an adult too. He’ll make his own decisions.”
“Yes, but…”
“Are you worried?”
“The last time I saw you, I felt like I had almost recovered my memories.”
Rudiate, who met Lariat shortly after her disappearance, seemed to have almost figured out the cause of her strange sense of déjà vu.
Rudyard came up to me with a face that looked like he was about to die, held my hand tightly and asked.
‘Lady Elena Seves.’
‘Yes, Your Majesty.’
‘You didn’t do the same thing as last time, did you?’
‘Last time?’
‘Didn’t the young lady summon a demon?’
what?
It was a conversation I felt like I had heard before.
I looked at Rudiot’s eyes and insisted on my innocence.
‘I didn’t do anything.’
At my firm answer, Rudiate nodded with an even more gloomy expression.
‘I see, sorry.’
‘What did you just say? ‘I summoned a demon?’
‘no. ‘I think I was confused because I just had a dream.’
no!
It wasn’t a dream, I had called on a demon in my previous life before the world returned!
‘Could it be that Rudeat also regained his memories before returning?’
If not, did you hear about it while talking with Lariette?
However, the sullen Rudyard did not give me a chance to question him back, and repeatedly lowered his head and muttered an apology.
‘just… … It’s hard for her to admit that I couldn’t protect her again… … .”
‘Again?’
‘… … no. For you, my lady, to hear this is nothing more than a crazy person’s nonsense.’
‘No, over there. Wait. Have you by any chance regained her memories of saving Lariette in her past life?
‘It seems it was just a dream. If I can’t save it this time, it’s meaningless.’
After saying that Zen question, Rudyard walked past me with a pale face.
“What is the possibility that Lariette Sebes told you?”
“If nothing else, he said he wouldn’t tell me that Rudyard died trying to protect him.”
Because that was Lariette’s distaste and hurt.
Lariat’s voice flashed through my mind as she said she hoped His Highness Rudyatt would only remember the happy times that had happened with her.
“Then, knowing that fact, I guess we can assume that Rudeat has regained some of his memories.”
“I am worried that His Highness Rudyard, who has regained his pre-reversion memories, will make a dangerous choice.”
Rudiot and Lariat loved each other.
Rudiate sacrificed his life to protect Lariette, and Lariette tried to sacrifice everything to save Rudeat.
When the time returned, Lariette recognized Rudiate, but Rudeat did not remember Lariette and even suspected that she had colluded with the demons.
In this situation, if memories of the past came back to Rudeat, he might have made an extreme choice.
Klaus let out a long sigh.
“Maybe so.”
“Then shouldn’t I stop you?”
“But what can I do?”
A heavy voice spoke low.
“It’s Rudiot’s choice. If it’s a life-threatening choice, it’s not my place to argue.”
“but…….”
“He has a stubborn side, but he is a more loyal knight than anyone else.”
Klaus slowly shook his head and declared.
“It is an example for a knight to throw everything away to save someone who has sacrificed his honor.”
There was a hint of affection for his younger brother in his blurry gaze, but soon Klaus closed his eyes and erased even that.
I could only hope that Rudiate and Lariette were both safe.
“Somehow it ended up looking like Daejangjeon.”
Rinoa muttered on the castle wall.
Hamel, who was preparing to compete behind the scenes, let out a long sigh.
“I think it’s the best way, but I’m not at peace.”
“Me too.”
At the spot where Rinoa’s shaking eyes met, Lariette Sebes, wearing a black helmet and armor with gold decorations, was riding a black horse and staring straight ahead.
And Rudyard’s brown horse slowly approached the black blade she was holding.
“You must have been prepared to risk your life.”
“Yes. If you don’t risk your life… it will be an impossible fight.”
“Aiming for the moment when you are deliberately stabbed by the enemy and cannot use your weapon… I never imagined that you would come with such a strategy.”
Rinoa bit her lip.
They fight back with all their might, exhausting their stamina, and when Lariette is about to use her last strength to deliver a fatal blow, she deliberately hits the attack.
When the sword strike penetrates the flesh and Lariette is momentarily unable to use the weapon, the ambushed guards rush in and neutralize Lariette.
Rudyatt argued that it was the only way to maximize his own damage and minimize damage to other guards.
“It scares me to think that might be the only solution.”
Hamel muttered sadly.
No matter how good it was, the plan was to capture Lariat alive in exchange for Rudiott’s life.
“……We are all similar.”
Rinoa also looked at the distant sky and muttered.
At that moment, two knights who met in the wilderness jumped off their horses and began clashing swords.
visor!
The sound of blades clashing fiercely hurt my ears.
Rudeat laughed bitterly as he pushed her to the point where her wrists became stiff.
I thought we had crossed swords together several times at the training ground, but Lariette had already reached a distant point.
He confidently said that he would exhaust Lariette’s stamina so that he could be captured alive, but if he continued like this, he would get tired first.
‘okay. Lariette Sebes was such a shining knight even in her previous life.’
Rudiot smiled faintly as he looked back on memories that were blurry like a dream.
“Lariette.”
Cheaeng!
Instead of answering the call, Lariette swung her sword once again with unfocused eyes.
Although he thought that stepping back and dodging would be more effective in allocating his stamina, Rudiot closed the distance by crossing swords with Lariat instead of dodging.
The blue eyes that had always shined brightly had become cloudy and reflected me like a mirror that did not transmit anything.
“Lariette.”
Whick!
The sword Lariat was holding moved fluidly and pushed away Rudiate’s sword.
The movements of the sword body were as fluid as before, and Rudyard smiled bitterly.
I should have cherished every moment of training together more when we returned.
I was foolish for making such an absurd misunderstanding.
“How happy it was to clash swords with you like this.”
“…….”
“I didn’t know then, but I know now.”
Cough!
Sword and sword clashed painfully.
Even though Rudiate was a great swordsman, he was inevitably defeated by the sword of Lariat, who was not afraid of death.
Lariat was gradually driving Rudeat to his death.
Even though he knew that Lariat’s driving force was unusual, Rudiott’s heart only sank coldly and quietly.
The belated self-reproach that I might have been the reason why the light disappeared from her eyes that were like the blue sky, and the fleeting hope that I might be able to return her light if I sacrificed my life filled my heart with a tightness.
“I’m sorry I didn’t fully appreciate the opportunity you gave me again.”
Sarah.
Lariat’s sword blade, which had lost its soul, tore through Rudiate’s armor and even grazed the raw flesh inside.
The arm holding the sword lost strength and blood dripped onto the ground, but Rudiot looked straight at Lariette as if he could not feel pain.
“But both in my last life and in this life, I gave up my life to protect you.”
death.
The moment when Lariat’s sword, which contained only death, rose straight into the sky and was about to plunge into the heart of Rudiate, who could no longer lift the sword.
“I think it could be a happy ending for me.”
Kaang!
The sound of the blade piercing the iron armor painfully struck my ears, and at the same time, the lariat’s movements stopped.
“…….”
Her trembling was faintly transmitted through Lariat’s sword body.
“……roo…….”
Rudeat’s body lost strength.
The body of the knight who had given his all slowly fell towards the floor.
“……dieot.”
Before the small, weak voice could spread through the bloody smell.
“Yaaaa!”
“His Majesty Rudeat’s sacrifice!”
“Don’t do it in vain!”
The pouring shouts drowned out all the sounds of the battlefield.
The Western Guard, who had been in ambush, advanced and captured Lariette.
Lariat’s fallen sword cast a lonely shadow next to Rudiate.
