“Is this the mission to kill Sir Jackal the Stormsword?”
This mission, summarized by the mission name ‘Eye of the Storm’, was one of the top 5 worst choices Han Arin picked. Viola was also aware of the latest newsletter trends. Jackal had appeared in a column for several newsletters.
[Preferential treatment that drives winter nature must be eradicated. We respect the warriors of the Winter Castle, but this policy is wrong. The Duke of Bellato is going down the narrow and wrong path of fulfilling self-interest.]
The reason was that the ‘Golden Road’, a trade road connecting the central Monarch of the central continent to the winter castle, was announced extensively. In the process, Bellato’s youngest princess benefited from billions of dahlias. So, the Jackal’s claim was clearly valid.
[At the time, Bellato’s youngest princess was only seven years old. The people dumped there 200 million dahlias, which are hard to even touch in their lifetime. This is an illegal transaction using a borrowed name.]
The contents of the newsletter gave many people a sense of deprivation and loss. In addition, public opinion was formed that the Duke of Bellato was greedy for self-interest and increased their wealth in an illegal and wrong way.
Viola sighed and sighed.
“It’s different from the original, but similar.”
In the original story, Jackal fights for a different reason. And that’s three more years from now.
‘It’s faster than the original, and the content is different. But it’s the same as hanging on to the Duke’s family.’
The details have changed, but the big flow has not. The author’s setting did not seem to change at all.
“That’s right. Are you aware of the recent continental trends?”
“I know.”
“So I was ordered to kill Jackal.”
“Then your father will be pointed out as the culprit?”
“Does that matter?”
Medea tilted her head. In an instant, Viola quickly nodded her head.
“Of course it doesn’t matter.”
There is no physical evidence… It was clear that this was Medea’s idea.
‘Even though my older sister is on the charitable and warm side… I forgot that she was Bellato.”
One thing was important here.
‘There must be no physical evidence.’
Viola recalled the nature and properties of this world, which she had forgotten for a while.
‘Okay. let’s not forget this is the world of Bellato’s Shadow.’
Viola lay alone in bed, organizing her thoughts.
‘I never thought this would come this soon,’ she recalled about Jackal.
In the story, Jackal was represented as the proud head of the Storm Fortress. If Winter Castle was the northern shield that protects mankind from snow, the Storm Fortress was a defensive fortress that protected the empire from the savage canyon.
“He was famous for his stoat-like disposition that could be broken but was unbreakable.”
Once, a high-ranking official from the Empire came and tried to bribe his son into joining the Storm Fortress.
[“I do not accept illegal solicitations and bribes.”
“Are you ignoring my sincerity?”
“It’s not ignoring it, it’s just following the rules and principles. If you repeat the same words one more time, I will consider you to trample on my pride and the pride of Storm Fortress.”
“Tongue, are you threatening me?”
“This is a warning, not a threat. Please go back.”]
There was a statement that if it had not been for Selina, the Minister of the Empire, Jackal would have been greatly disadvantaged. Anyway, Jackal was expressed as a person who never tolerates injustice, despises acts that violate principles, and always disciplines and devotes himself.
‘Only once. Now is the time to throw away your beliefs in life.’
If the big trend is the same as the novel, now Jackal is not contributing a column of his own will. An outside force intervened. At this point, no one knew. However, Han Arin, who was a reader, knew it well.
The next morning the sun was bright. The sky was very high, and the sunlight was golden with richness.
Viola found the annex.
“Mister.”
“Huh? Why?”
Hickson was meditating. He continued to focus on meditation without opening his eyes.
“Are you familiar with Sir Jackal?”
“Yes.”
Hickson opened his eyes slowly.
“Why? Do you have to kill Jackal?”
“Will you give me such an assignment?”
Anyway, this mission was a top secret mission. At the very least, the fact that the ‘mission to kill Jackal’ existed had to be concealed unconditionally. Even if the opponent was Hickson.
“Your opponent is Sir Jackal, Storm Sword Jackal. How could a child like you kill Sir Jackal?”
Hickson sat cross-legged and looked at Viola. Hickson, who had become a completely different person from three years ago, looked at Viola for a long time.
“Looks like you have something to say.”
“I’ve been studying hard about Sir Jackal.”
“However?”
“I don’t think I’m the kind of person who would frame Winter Castle or persecute him by writing a column for a news magazine. He is not very interested in the continental situation or politics.”
“That’s something I don’t know. Because his personality is so eccentric.”
Viola opened the newsletter she was holding in her right hand.
There was a photo of Jackal along with a column he contributed.
“Just when I saw this picture, I thought of you.”
“Because I’m much more handsome?”
“Do you seriously think so?”
“Of course.”
“I heard that a martial artist should know himself. I guess uncle is not a man. His self-objectification has gone too far.”
“Are you serious about saying that?”
Hickson covered his eyes with an exaggerated gesture.
“Sad.”
Although joking around, Hickson was actually sad. Hickson was unaffected by what others say, but Viola was different. For Hickson, Viola was the daughter of his heart. It felt like being an ugly father being pointed out by his daughter.
“Anyway, if I were Sir Jackal. I don’t think I would have written a column like this.”
“Then?”
“I think he would have come to the Winter Castle with the Storm Troupe and made a formal protest. And he must have tried to find out the truth by confronting him with me, princess.”
Hickson thought of Jackal.
‘Hmm. Certainly if he is.’
This method was not Jackal-like. It was the Jackal’s method to directly interrogate and argue with the person at fault.
“It’s more like an agitation than a protest.”
“Hmm.”
“And Sir Jackal seems to know your father well.”
“Yes. Because he was a colleague who fought with his back to him. Although they didn’t like each other.”
“Would Sir Jackal think that my father was trying to make an illegal profit for only two billion dahlias?”
“Only two billion.”
Hickson chuckled and laughed.
Ordinary people couldn’t even touch 100 millions, so two billion dahlias is obviously a very large amount of money. However, Viola’s words were not wrong either.
‘It’s like Bellato.’
She was Bellato, the daughter of the mightiest Duke in the Empire. Bellato trembling at 2 billion dahlias was strange. Rather, it was much more Bellato-like when she expresses it as ‘only 2 billion’.
“Do you think Sir Jackal would have thought so?”
“No. I don’t think so.”
“It’s strange.”
Viola pointed at the photo in the newsletter with her index finger.
“Did you say you thought of me while looking at this picture?”
“Huh.”
“Sir Jackal also has a young son. Didn’t you say that?”
Hickson’s expression hardened.
* * *
Medea didn’t cheat. She even sent an official letter saying she would visit Storm Fortress. The official document sent by magic was approved in one day, and a visiting delegation led by Medea, her 1st princess, was formed.
Viola looked in the mirror and was lost in her thoughts.
‘I will officially visit and kill you.’
The first princess, Medea, was coming. Even Jackal of the storm sword couldn’t be ignorant of Bellato’s intentions.
‘Jackal who knows all about it but welcomes it.’
A sword that will stab you openly. And a shield to block it openly. It would be a battle between the two. It was like that in the original.
“It has to be stopped.”
Due to this incident, she had an affinity with the Jackal family, the Palail family. The Palail family was a rapidly growing family. The Palail family, led by Jeremy, who was one of the main supporting characters and was called the misogynist or the small storm, grew to a great extent and later became a great enemy of the Bellatu family.
‘Viola almost died several times.’
Even Medea, her 1st princess, almost died. Either way, it’s a very dangerous enemy. So it had to be stopped
‘I can’t let you ruin my rosy future!’
Knock, knock.
With a knocking sound, Zenon entered the room.
She saw Zenon’s figure in the mirror.
Zenon chuckled.
“The princess’s training is my responsibility, princess.”
“I know. But Zenon has his own medicine in action. Because he is wanted by the Empire.”
Viola designated Tundra as her own official attendant, along with Zenon, her butler. But Zenon didn’t seem to like it.
Viola turned around and met Zenon’s eyes. Zenon was still smiling, but he looked somehow uncomfortable.
“The Storm Fortress is different from the Winter Castle. Much closer to the heart of the Empire.”
Zenon is the one responsible for massacring twenty or so second-class knights of the Empire.
He was also a body wanted by the Empire. So, for this trip, Seiban, a masked magician and disguiser, needed help.
“No matter how much Lord Seivan’s help. Even he is not omnipotent.”
“…”
“It has nothing to do with me whether you recklessly step out and suffer any trouble.”
She let out a bunch of noises that she didn’t even want to hear. She got used to it a lot in 3 years.
“Either you do something wrong and disgrace my face. If my actions are restricted, I will slit your throat for that crime.”
“I am not afraid of having my throat cut, princess.”
‘Ah. Of course you would.’
This was Zenon who said before, ‘Shall I cut my throat?’ She remembered him being so sincere that it gave her goosebumps.
“I am afraid.”
“Yes?”
Zenon’s eyes trembled very slightly.
More Bellato than anyone else, the iron-blood princess’s light purple eyes were in Zenon’s eyes.
“I don’t want to lose my talented butler. So follow my orders.”
Zenon stood there blankly for a long time. He soon put his right hand on his left chest. He bowed his head and replied.
“I will obey the princess’s command.”
The next day, three carriages departed from the winter castle. The destination was south of Winter Castle. It was a storm fortress located between the canyons of savagery. Even after moving through the movement gateway, they had to run for a while.
In the carriage, Viola stared out the window.
‘This continent is wide.’
She just vaguely felt that it was very wide.
And a week later…
Bellato’s envoy led by Medea arrived at the Storm Fortress. The road was so narrow and rough that a single wagon could barely pass. A huge fortress located between the canyons of savagery. In front of them fluttered the flag of the golden lion, the symbol of the Duke of Bellato.
‘Whoa!’
A trumpet sounded, and the great iron gates began to slide open.
“Welcome visitants. 1st Princess Medea. And the 6th Princess Viola.”
A heavily armed man walked out of the iron gate alone, he was the leader of the Storm Fortress. Jackal.
A long sword was in Jackal’s hand, and there was a bluish spirit. The momentum was rather sharp.
Medea smiled and took out a huge sword from the subspace.
“Long time no see, Sir Jackal.”
The momentum of the two collided in the air, and a vortex began to form around them.
Viola swallowed inwardly.
‘What kind of sudden development is this!’
It looked like it was about to strike a knife.
‘My body would be torn to pieces just by being brushed by the momentum.’
The absolutes of this world met. Even the smallest mistake could lead to death.
‘I, on my own, have to do well.’
She had been doing well for the past 3 years. But she decided to do better today.
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