Don’t Run Away My Lord

67 – She Came (5)

“I have something to check.”

Liana looked at me for a moment and opened her mouth.

“You want to find out whether what I say is true.”

“That’s right.”

I had to deceive her, but it was obvious that Liana would have already seen my intention, so she answered the truth.

Liana sighed and smiled.

“Okay, let’s go. One way or another, if the lord does not trust my words, eventually our relationship will become a little different.”

Liana, who was getting up and changing her shoes, suddenly asked.

“My lord.”

“Why?”

“If what I say is true, what will you do then?”

“Well…”

“Are you going to help me get revenge? Or are you going to just think of it as a trivial emotional fight between insignificant people?”

Help me get revenge…

It’s not that I haven’t thought about it.

Whatever her intentions, Liana is the person who made me, who came to the continent with her bare body, into a count with a proper domain.

So, if possible, I want to give her what she wants.

However, this is a story about when you have the ability to stably manage a territory and integrate or operate multiple territories simultaneously.

If, as Liana wants, the current king and all the forces supporting him are destroyed to the ground, what happens next?

The kingdom will fall into great chaos, and it is obvious that all kinds of lords will rise up to try to make it big again.

Then in the end, it will have a negative impact on our territory as well.

Dragons have a habit of building nests.

There must be a place to lie down and collect precious things, and I chose this territory as the nest.

Maybe that’s why I don’t feel like helping or acting for Liana in her revenge.

That does not mean that Liana’s feelings are dismissed as trivial.

Moreover, although she is said to have been forty years, it has only been a few months since Liana left and entered Capel Top.

While leaving home for a short time to avoid being kidnapped by the cult, his family was massacred and he survived alone in this harsh world.

And she returned with her powerful companion called Dragon.

If I were Liana, I would probably act the same way.

But not now.

It is not because dragons have a different unit of counting time than humans.

If you search through the lords listed in Liana’s kill book now, you will get nothing.

“For now… Let’s go.”

“Yes.”

Liana, who sensed what I was thinking, answered in a slightly calm tone.

* * * * *

From the beginning, I had no intention of meeting the marquis after going through complicated procedures through the main gate of the castle.

Liana said, a marquis is not at the level where a baron or earl can just knock on the door and talk to her face to face.

In that case, we should use a method that omits all of the procedures.

“What…? Open a portal there…?!”

Keita refused to follow my orders and refused to do so.

“It’s too dangerous, my lord!”

“It’s okay. Do I really have to die?”

“No, I’m not talking about the lord, but the chamberlain!”

Keita looked at Liana standing next to me.

“The Chamberlain is a human being. You should not look at him the same way as the Lord.”

“Then we can do it like this.”

As soon as he picked up Liana, Keita jumped behind her with a strange sound like ‘Huh?!’

Although Liana was a little confused, she naturally raised her arms and hugged my neck.

Be careful, Chamberlain. “Hold on tight, my lord.”

“Yes, I will.”

Normally she would have responded stiffly, but now she smiled and responded favorably, with an expression of satisfaction and victory written on her face.

* * * * *

Keita’s portal is connected to the Marquis Aiwar Castle.

As soon as she stepped through her portal, she immediately saw the dome and spiers of the castle at her feet.

“Hold on tight, Liana.”

The rest of her fell straight down as she took off her feet.

“Huh…!”

Liana held her breath at her sudden descent and she gritted her teeth.

Just before she crashed into the tallest spire, she used some of her magic to stop her and landed lightly.

“Are you okay?”

“Yes. Still, it’s much better than when Erga-sama was caught by her front paws and was flying.”

“Then that’s good. Do I need to change my pants?”

“No!!”

Liana got off of me and looked around her.

“Umm… But… I came, but how do I get in?”

We are standing at the top of the tallest spire.

There was no visible entrance.

She got down on one knee and swept the floor, and it seemed that with a little bit of hard work she could create a new door.

“Step back, Liana.”

After seeing that Liana had retreated, she slammed her fist into the floor, causing the bricks to shatter, creating a hole large enough for two people to fit in.

“Go down.”

“There are absolutely no uninvited guests.”

Fortunately, there was a spiral staircase on the lower floor, so it was possible to walk down to the lower floor without causing any further damage to the building.

The people we met at the castle didn’t pay much attention to us.

In the first place, it seemed like walking around inside the castle meant that identity verification had already been completed at the main gate.

So we were able to go to the lord’s office without any interruption.

As I opened the door and entered, an elderly man sitting at the desk raised his head.

“Who are you?”

“Marquis Aiwar?”

“That’s right, who?”

After locking the door from the inside, a look of caution appeared on the Marquis Aiwar’s face.

“I came because I wanted to confirm something. Before that, first. Are you the Marquis who supported Duke Polk, who beheaded the King fifty years ago? Or are you the Marquis’ son?”

“What? Why did you come in here so suddenly…”

“This woman here is the daughter of the king who was beheaded at the time.”

The Marquis glanced at Liana with an expression as if he was listening to all the crazy things she said and narrowed her eyes.

“You came to the wrong place, but you came to the wrong place. I was a young man who had just come of age at the time, and the marquis you mentioned was probably my father.”

“Father? Where is the previous marquis?”

“He passed away a long time ago. The son is over 70 years old. Do you think the father is still alive?”

The Marquis answered irritably and pointed to the door with his finger.

“I don’t know what they are doing, but please leave immediately. If you just leave, I will pretend not to know.”

“Lancent Aiwar. Are you going to keep acting like a fool like this?”

Liana, who had been quiet, walked in front of her and opened her mouth.

“Is that right? Rasent Aiwar. The son of Apric Aiwar. He came to the capital fifty years ago when Duke Polk’s army entered the capital to take a position.”

“What kind of bullsh*t is this when you come all of a sudden?! Get out right now! If you don’t get out, I’ll call the soldiers… KaaaH!”

Liana drew her lightning dagger from an unknown place and plunged it into the back of her marquis’ hand.

“Keuuu…!”

The Marquis struggled in pain, but was unable to do anything about the dagger that was stuck in the old man’s body all the way to the desk.

The more he moved, the more the pain doubled, so the Marquis ended up drooling and shaking.

“Lancent Aiwar. Don’t you know me? I’m Kiosa. When you saw me during the lord’s meeting before, you teased me by saying you wanted to tie a rope to my nipple and lead me around like a rein.”

“Ki… Kiosa…!?”

“You’re getting old and now your mind is going back and forth? How many b*tches wear red hats like this and you get confused?”

Lyana smiled cruelly and waved the hilt of her dagger.

“Geugeukgeukgeuk…! How on earth… How…?”

“How can I still be the same as before? That’s none of my business. How does it feel to see me again?”

Foam began to flow from her marquise’s mouth.

The blood from her palm was already dripping onto the floor, soaking the desk.

Lancent spoke with difficulty through gritted teeth.

“Fifty years have passed… And now you’re going to take revenge…? Come to your senses, Chiosa…!”

“Is there anything you can’t do?”

“This is… A place where the weak are eliminated…! No matter how king… It is natural for the weak… To die…!”

“You’re right, Rancent. That’s why it’s your turn to die.”

I placed my hand on Liana’s shoulder.

“Liana. Pull out the knife and heal me.”

“What are you saying, my lord? We met again like this, but you’re not trying to tell us to break up without incident, are you?”

“If you kill the Marquis now, you probably don’t know how far the repercussions will go.”

Liana answered while holding the hilt of her dagger.

“I know, but it’s no problem. We don’t know who killed the Marquis. They’ll think it was an assassination.”

“I brought you here to confirm the truth of what you said, not to help you take revenge.”

“My lord… Are you really going to do this…?”

Liana looked like she was going to cry at any moment.

“You can’t just leave if you’ve already been there. Giving and taking away is a bad thing.”

“I didn’t give it to you. Pull out the knife and treat me.”

Liana, who was glaring at me, spoke to Marquis Aiwar.

“Listen carefully, Lancent. This person is Count Erga Goda, who recently occupied the County of Tregel. I am his chamberlain and I live under the name of Liana.”

“What are you doing?”

But she continued speaking regardless.

“I will spare you for now, but one day I will come back and sever your head. Starting with you, I will kill Lovern, Hammeik, Garyburn, and Ardulf one after another. As soon as this year’s harvest is over, I will destroy them one by one.”

“Liana…”

“So, if you survive today, you had better tell your friends as soon as possible. Sooner or later, Chiosa, who you thought was dead, might come to your bedroom one night. Of course, in the case of friends who are already old and dying, they cut off the heads of their sons and grandchildren. “I’ll walk you through it, just like I did for my family.”

Not only did they give us our identity information, but they even exposed our murder records.

Are you trying to make it impossible for me to kill you without killing you?