17.
“Why are you here when you should be on the sea?”
Erica didn’t hide her annoyance. When she saw his face, which had been twirling around everything, turned gray, she thought she knew without telling him. He had a burning face.
“I’ll go myself.”
“If the Lord knows, won’t you be fired this time? Only I, the First Knights, and the Third Knights were called by the owner. Mr. Kano, please return to your seat immediately.”
It meant, “Those who have not been called by the Lord should go away.”
“As you know, it is safest for you to go. And you will have a face that won’t be strange, even if you collapse soon.”
Kano said as he put his hand on his chest and moved closer to the desk. Erica openly frowned at his confident, impudent demeanor.
After all, Kano was Romdak’s co-representative and Erica’s boss. Erica was occasionally disrespectful because Kano had no intention of elevating himself as her superior.
“In addition, because it is directly connected to the owner, this is strictly confidential; must you inspect my information network? This is an absolute summary conviction.”
“… Looking at you, it looks like Aisa is safe. I couldn’t figure out the ciphertext. Be thorough anyway. Where is Aisa now?”
Kano seemed relieved at last, and in the midst of it, without blinking an eye, he shamelessly cracked the code and shuddered.
“You call the Lord. Why do you pretend to be friendly and say her name carelessly? By the way, you’re here at this hour, did you jump off the ship to the Nectar Kingdom? I believe you didn’t turn the boat over, did you, Mr. Kano?”
Erica said with a straight face, it was nice to pretend to be smirking at the subject, who was shocked to hear the news of the kidnapping of the family head and ran all the way here.
In the meantime, she thought that human beings could jump off the ship for Aisa.
“Do you believe pirates are seals? There’s a naive side to it. Pirates don’t throw themselves in the middle of the sea. Of course, I turned the boat around.”
Kano shrugged and spoke in a triumphant tone. All the women cheered, shouting “Kano! Kano!” as the rippling muscles moved together.
“The head of the family must be very happy. The penalty will have to be paid at Mr. Kano’s own expense.”
Erica calmly responded, feeling a lava crater exploding in her head. The opponent was an ally of McFoy, a business partner of the country.
“Of course. I’ve already made up my mind to be beaten by Aisa. The advance team must be Sir Dogman, right?”
“Yes, and since the first team has already left, would not it be better for you to do what you have done quietly?”
So, go away back to the sea, the words were only in her heart.
“Already? Oh, my God, you’re so competent.”
“The Lord called the First and Third Knights as an escort and asked for the Holy Knights separately instead. Therefore, even if you go, you will get slapped on the back by the Lord.”
Erica wanted Kano to return to the sea as much as possible. Even though that person had been in piracy all his life and had given away manners, etiquette, and morals, he was surprisingly resourceful. In particular, there was nothing that Kano did not succeed in with trading outside the empire.
Exporting matt to the Nectar Kingdom this time was something Aisa had been thinking about for quite some time. If you succeeded, you would make huge profits.
However, she was frustrated because she was throwing away the work that the Lord asked her to do, and she was living here.
“What? The Holy Knights? The Lord hates the Great Temple. Why the Holy Knights?”
“Nyx, doesn’t that son of a bitch use black magic? They have to deal with the holy power to catch him. So Mr. Kano is even more useless. You can’t catch Nyx with swordsmanship. Oh, you know the kidnapper is Nyx, right? How much do you know?”
Erica narrowed her eyes to gauge the size of Kano’s information network.
“The fact that it was Nyx who kidnapped Lord McFoy at the Confederacy was rumored throughout the empire. Nyx was begging to be recognized, so I didn’t even need to use the intelligence network. And I’m not going to catch that paper bastard.”
Kano’s face was clearly disfigured within a few days. That face seemed to tell her that after hearing the news of the Lord’s abduction, he had come running all the way from the ship without a break.
Above all, Kano used to laugh so pretentiously when he was really angry.
“Aisa, we are going to find our little master.”
“…”
‘He doesn’t even want to hide it anymore. Does that bastard know what his face looks like now?’
Erica thought to herself as she clicked her tongue.
“… Please don’t say her name.”
“Actually, you’d be more comfortable if I went as an escort.”
“I know Mr. Kano’s sword skills. Aren’t you using that force to act as the king of the sea?”
Erica was quick to admit. Kano wasn’t just a pirate. The sea was in Kano’s palm. All of that power came from his overwhelming force.
“The reason I joined hands with McFoy is because of the Lord. Continuing the alliance with McFoy depends on the family’s survival. I have to see with my own two eyes that Lord McFoy is alive.”
Kano chanted without hiding his displeasure. At least it was because he was in front of Erica, whom Aisa cared about, so he hid his menacing appearance, but his patience was now at its limit.
Erica let out a small sigh. She soon squinted her eyes and glanced at Kano.
Well, her master was a particularly noble bloodline, so Kano’s bloodline was a little disappointing, but it wasn’t as bad as the “love object” of the head of the household.
He was a pirate, so he was tanned, but he was a handsome man who was famous for being followed by women wherever he went.
Burning red hair with coolly stretched features. He was a man who was tall enough to feel gigantic and had muscles that seemed to explode, attracting the hot eyes of many women. Two of Aisa could easily be covered by that body. [T/N: Big boy?]
Ugh, Erica frowned at his body, which made her feel dizzy just looking at it again.
To put it mildly, Kano was born of noble blood. It’s because he’s the illegitimate son of a fallen dynasty.
The reason she came in contact with him was that the previous family head of McFoy entrusted her and her mother to him. Kano was born noble and spent his whole life in piracy, but he rarely returned the favor and helped rebuild McFoy. There were some pitfalls, though.
In any case, the foreign status was also aristocratic. Kano bought a local aristocratic family in the west and took on a false identity. Externally, he was the second-in-command of the guild in charge of the sea route of the Romdak guild and a vassal of Mcfoy.
‘Though everyone in the country knows he’s a pirate.’
Erica thought that this was not bad enough to be McFoy’s lover.
“I heard that the owner is not hurt at all, but it would be better to go to Master Archie to get your score.”
Kano added a tip with the thought, ‘Well, the head of household will take care of it.’ But Kano was stubborn. He insisted on checking with his own two eyes to see if Aisa was fine.
Erica also had no desire to fight Kano. She changed the subject to the idea of doing as you, please.
“By the way, did you come alone?”
Kano said yes and laughed.
‘You really don’t care.’
Erica covered her forehead.
“Miss Seymour! Urgent!”
It was then that Erica’s assistant called her in an urgent voice.
“Someone came from the Great Temple, but the Diazi Knights accompanied them. They also brought the high priest’s handwritten letter with them.”
The secretary said, handing the letter over to Erica with a bewildered face.
No matter how much the Great War was put at the forefront, it could be seen as a provocation for a knight from another family to enter someone else’s territory without prior permission. Kano openly frowned.
“Mr. Kano, are you armed in the sacred Lord’s office now? You must have two necks.”
Seeing that Kano’s hand naturally went toward the sword, Erika scolded him.
“Hmm, I didn’t have the mind to disarm. I was in too much of a hurry. But I think I brought it well, too.”
Kano stared out the window and murmured. Erica quickly read the document, leaving aside the spoiled Kano for a moment.
“What’s the matter?”
“Why is Diazi… How does he know?”
If I made a hasty move, it would be perfect for me to become a strange person.
“Aide Seymour, shall we invite them in?”
The secretary, who was watching, asked.
“… Let them in right now.”
Erica said with a frown.
The High Priest did not send the letter. It was sent by the Diazi family, Nicolas Diazi.
Erica Seymour received a message from the family head through direct contact. She probably got the news faster than anyone else.
Even if the Temple was closer to Katam, where Aisa was located, if they were contacted at a similar time, they would have received it, but not late.
Judging from the current situation, it means that someone informed the Great Temple and the Diazi family of Nyx’s base faster than Aisa…
“What’s going on?”
Erica Seymour looked out the window, frowning. From her office, high up in the main castle, she could see the drawbridge going down.
***
“Oh, my lord! Did you wake up? Was the bed comfortable?”
As soon as I opened the door, the maid whom Ektra had attached greeted me with a smile.
“Yes, I’m hungry. I’m going to eat in the room. Firstly, Mrs. Stain first, and before bringing me the meal.”
“Yes, my lord.”
I came back into the room, watching the maid disappear across the hallway.
It’s been a while since I had a soft bed. The luxury inn in the center of Katam was, of course, inferior to McFoy’s original rooms, but compared to the dirt floor, it was heaven. Above all, how comfortable it is to have someone to take care of.
“…”
‘Come to think of it, there was no one to take care of.’
Since I treated the precious Lord of Diazi like a servant, the senile elders of Diazi would finally try to kill me if they found out.
I giggled, then suddenly straightened up, raised my hand, and began folding my fingers one by one.
“Firstly, Erica and the Temple contacted each other. I split up the knights here and sent them on reconnaissance. I made a request for the Great Temple, but I’m looking for another person with high holy power…”
I was obsessively fumbling with the plan because I was anxious that I didn’t do this.
“Okay. Okay. It’s still as planned.”
I murmured sadly and naturally stood in front of the window. The chatter of the people carried in the late summer breeze. A warm wind hit my face.
I looked at the scenery where the warm sunlight glistened all over Katam.
Peaceful.
“It’s a filthy beautiful world.”
Aisa McFoy said, “The world that should have been destroyed was insanely blinding and beautiful.”
Then, knocking, someone knocked on the door and broke my imagination.
“Mrs. Stain, come in.”
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