“Your Majesty! You must go with me!”
Although Ruskun Weimar was Kaiden’s comrade-in-arms, he was injured and could not work long as an unmanned soldier. That’s why it was difficult for him to follow Kaiden.
“Your Majesty!”
But Kaiden couldn’t hear Ruskun. He drove his horse like a madman and headed straight to Veron. He could not feel any emotion as he was running out of the castle through the road where he rode with Evelina.
His heart had a warm yet cold ambivalence. The indescribable anger and misery were sinking him like a blue flame.
Kaiden met Evelina a long time ago. It reminded him of when he was a 10-year-old mercenary who was kicked out of the palace.
At that time, he was kicked out of the palace because he was suspected of not being of the Emperor’s blood. He was only ten years old when he was kicked out of the palace. The 10-year-old was demoted to a commoner and dumped in the streets for just a few clothes and a few dimes from the royal family.
There weren’t many ways he could live.
“A pretty child like you would be liked by mercenaries.”
“How much do they pay?”
“You can’t get any if you’re an apprentice, you get it when you can properly function as one. If you receive it, 1 silver per month in the first year.”
The mercenary general did not have much hope for Kaiden. In general, the reason for hiring children in the mercenary corps was to teach them how to use swordsmanship. There was more to be done by mercenaries.
“Are you in need of money?”
Realizing that the mercenary leader’s expression was strange, Kaiden looked at him frowning involuntarily.
“If you go to a starter that even takes care of the special pay at night, it’s 1 silver a week.”
“…”
“What do you think?”
Kaiden looked at him with a contemptuous expression because he knew what it meant.
“Tell me if you change your mind.”
“It won’t change.”
“There are people who go crazy if they’re pretty like you.”
“I don’t need it.”
“Even though it’s one silver a day?”
Kaiden glared at the mercenary general with frightening eyes. Perhaps he liked his spirit, so the mercenary general hired Kaiden as a starter.
~~~~
Kindness was the generosity of the good.
That’s what Kaiden thought. All he has done since joining the mercenary corps was have a hard time. He said that he served on an old nobleman or called him as an escort, but he had other intentions. He was tired of it all.
“That wretched brat.”
“Don’t stick with him.”
“All those bastards who kicked that bastard into the ring are dead.”
At some point, the mercenaries were reluctant to use Kaiden. Every mercenary who accepted him as a starter faced a strange death. Most of the people that took him were mercenaries, who were generous and could be seen as eccentric.
But it wasn’t Kaiden who drove them to death. The Marquis of Logias, who drove him out of the palace and was dying to kill him.
‘A bug like you should die.’
‘What did I do wrong?’
‘You’re guilty of being alive.’
The words that Kaiden heard when he encountered the Marquis of Logias himself came to mind.
He knew that the reason why Marquis Logias’ daughter became sick was because of his late mother. She gave the daughter of Marquis Logias a dessert she shouldn’t have. There was something strange in the dessert.
‘Mother made it that way. The daughter of the Marquis of Logias. She brought me into the Emperor’s eyes.’
The words that Kaiden heard from his mother just before her execution were so heavy. She sunk him miserably and made it impossible to rise further.
“Hey, devil.”
Kaiden was also familiar with the ridicule of mercenaries who called him that.
“Shall I take you as a civil servant?”
Kaiden was getting speechless, just staring at the mercenary he knew only by his face as he reached out to me.
“Instead, I’ll accept you if you come as a special civil servant.”
“If you want to die too, do it.”
“You punk!”
Kaiden was dragged out like that and beaten to the ground. But even so, he didn’t want to live such a life.
~~~~
11-year-old Kaiden was treated with contempt as a civil servant, but on the other hand, he was recognized little by little and began to learn the sword because he showed outstanding ability.
“This tough guy.”
“Who would know that he was like that?”
“If he goes to war, he’ll be destroyed anyway.”
Despite the ridicule of the mercenaries, Kaiden did not let go of learning the sword. Even when he was young, guns were not weapons that knights could handle. It was before it became popular.
“Never mind. They say he’s going to be a meat shield.”
“Oh, that.”
“I’d like him to take my meat.”
“Whew, you filthy bastard.”
He lived with bruises all over his body, but he didn’t want to die. He was often beaten by mercenaries, but as his body grew and he started training, the number of times he was beaten decreased.
“Hey, eat this.”
Kaiden looked at the food served to him.
“Thank you for leaving me that. Beggar prince.”
The mercenary who delivered the food giggled and laughed. There was a rumor that he looked similar to the ousted prince, so such ridicule was made. No one thought it was true.
But for Kaiden to live. He was so desperate that he ate even the leftovers of the mercenaries.
At that time, he endured everything with just one determination to get revenge. There was no warmth in the world, no one pitied him, and no one welcomed him.
When he realized it, he wanted to take his revenge only once, before letting go of his life.
‘I never loved you.’
He knew his mother didn’t love him. Even a child would know.
‘If I didn’t have you, I’d be happy with him. If only the Emperor hadn’t heard of me!’
There were many cruel cases of a woman who was forced to bear a child. Few of the women raped by the Emperor were willing.
But it was the only warmth for him. He believed he could get it.
“Thank you, no?”
“Thank you.”
He said that and took the trashy food he received and chewed it up.
Solely for revenge.
~~~~
At the age of 12, he had to go to war to avoid Marquis Logias, who was trying to kill him again. He was only at the rear.
“Isn’t this… something Lord Vishanti had?”
“Oh, right. If you want it too, sneak out and take it.”
Even in the rear, the battlefield was a battlefield. Stealing from the bodies of dead mercenaries was frequent.
“They don’t even give out food properly, so I should at least take this.”
He didn’t know the name of the child who said so until the end. Because he went to rob the body and died on the spot.
On his way back, Kaiden only recognized his clothes, which he saw again as a body.
Once in a barracks on the way back to the Abelard Empire from the battlefield.
“Shall we meet over there for a bit?”
Kaiden had to walk along Ivanos, who had him as a civil servant, to a remote place in the forest, and also near a cliff.
“Don’t blame me too much.”
“Ugh!”
Kaiden glared at Ivanos, who pointed the gun at him. The reason for choosing this place was obvious. If he shot and pushed him behind the waterfall, he can dismiss him as missing.
“Since I have affection for you, should I blow your head off?”
“You little bastard.”
“Okay, I’ll blow your head off.”
“…”
“Not me, but the Marquis of Logias made me do it. So, let your grudges go that way in the afterlife.”
As soon as the words were over, a bullet flew near Kaiden’s head with a ‘bang!’ sound.
“Oh, my God. It’s bad luck.”
While avoiding Ivanos’ shot, Kaiden fell down a cliff. But.
He managed to come back alive.
At the age of 13.
“Argh, kuh!”
“You’re really unlucky.”
After sneaking into Ivanos’ bedroom and inadvertently slitting his neck, Kaiden said so.
~~~~
At 13, he became a mercenary even at a young age.
Kaiden’s skills were not something a 13-year-old could produce.
He was an excellent swordsman. And yet, how well he shoots. He wasn’t even a 13-year-old. Who would have seen him as a thirteen-year-old with an abnormally large body?
He was already over 170 centimeters tall by this time. He grew taller every time he woke up from sleep. Perhaps because of the sense of crisis that he might die, he grew bigger and bigger.
“I, I don’t know anything!”
Kaiden was now tired of recognizing the people who kept following him. As the body grew bigger, it was not difficult to stop the assassins.
Even so, he was stronger than a 13-year-old just normal compared to other mercenaries.
“The Marquis of Logias sent…”
“Haha!”
Before Kaiden’s words were over, the student tried to insert a dagger toward Kaiden’s neck. The assassin was laughing at the feeling of being stabbed.
“Shxt!”
*TN: It was censored here for some reason
The knife was stuck in Kaiden’s fist.
The moment the assassin realized that his neck fell to the ground.
~~~~
At the age of 14, he still lived only for revenge. The first murder was at 12 years old. And the 13-year-old had received more visitors.
There have also been several poisoning cases.
He was now so resistant to poison that he wouldn’t die of it. Even if he drank poison, he became resistant to death.
He didn’t want to let go of his life, though he didn’t know when he’d get water to drink, food to eat, and when he’d be stabbed while sleeping.
When he fell asleep, he saw his mother who resented him and didn’t even give him any love.
‘He loved me. We’d be happy if it wasn’t for you.’
The mother was smiling as if she felt liberated the moment she died.
He didn’t wake up to the dream as if his emotions were gradually disappearing.
He gradually dried up Unlike the body getting bigger and stronger, emotions became dry like sand in the desert. Nothing could make him happy, and he felt no warmth anywhere.
Everyone running at him was just hyenas, who wished for something.
“Help me!”
He was careless and hurt at this time.
“Please! My leg is broken!”
It was because it was a woman who asked Kaiden for help. A woman who looked about 20 at best. When she reached out to help her fall, Kaiden inadvertently took his hand.
At that moment.
– Bang!
“What’s so difficult about this?”
He was shot in the shoulder.
And that day, Kaiden met Evelina. The only warmth of his life.
