When the Main Protagonists Broke Up

For several days Hagus was quiet.

After getting a back attack from Clayton that day, he seemed to have faltered.

Today, the prince called everyone to the command and control room.

As soon as I finished getting ready and came out of the room, Aiden was standing at the door.

“Aiden?”

“Belita.”

“What happen?”

“I came to go with you.”

Saying that you want to go with me felt like listening to a beautiful song, so I felt better. “Oh, I see. Song.”

We walked side by side

“Fortress Hagus is quiet.”

“Yes, but you must not relax because you do not know when they will attack again.”

“That’s right. But I’ve recovered enough, so I’ll be able to fight properly next time.”

“You put a heavy burden on Belita every time.”

“Ah, where is that word? I will fight with all my might as long as no one is hurt or killed because of me.”

“….”

Suddenly, Aiden stopped walking.

When the person I was walking with stopped, I looked at him with a puzzled face.

“As expected, you….”

He was looking at me with an ecstatic smile on his face without finishing his words.

I don’t know what he was trying to say to me, but I smiled broadly at him as well.

Perhaps he meant to be sweet or kind.

I remembered the compliments he had given me many times.

We walked forward side by side again. Upon arriving at the command and control room, Kane had arrived first.

“Princess Heitz.”

And as soon as he saw it, he greeted me.

“How were you? I heard that the princess did a great job. After all, the gongnyeo is amazing.”

When Aiden praised me, I felt just fine, but when Kane praised me, it wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t good either.

“Ah, yes, thank you.”

I answered without much emotion.

“By the way, you said you almost got into trouble a few days ago, are you feeling okay? I heard the news of the princess later. If I had made the antidote quickly, the princess would not have been in danger, but I was too late.”

“I’m fine now.”

By the way, can’t it be that Kane is here?

“If…?”

Kane smiled triumphantly and nodded, apparently realizing what I meant.

‘And.’

Unknowingly, I let out an exclamation inwardly.

And for the first time since I knew Kane, I was looking at him positively.

‘Am I also a water family?’ No.

Perhaps this is Kane’s ability.

No matter how much the water family was, they couldn’t make it until now.

But that doesn’t mean I didn’t want to say that I thought much of him or praised him.

So I quickly organized my expression in case I was surprised.

Then I went to my seat and was about to sit down, but Clayton was sitting across from me.

I was happy to see him and greeted him with a smile.

After that, I approached him right away to talk to him, and just then the prince came inside.

We all got up from our seats and bowed to the crown prince.

“Meet Your Highness, Crown Prince Ediel Winston Baltheus, the brilliant little sun of Baltheus.”

“Goodbye. Everyone, take your seats.”

“Thank you, Your Highness.”

When the prince sat down at the table of honor, all the nobles took their seats.

“Today I bring you very good news.”

I guessed what he was trying to say.

“Duke Maxius has finally made an antidote.”

“Is that true?”

“As expected, you answer, Duke Maxius!”

“I knew the duke would succeed.”

The nobles spat out words praising Kane and were happy as if it were their own work.

Hundreds of people have died of poison from fighting Hagus so far.

In the meantime, there was no antidote, so I had to focus on defense and be passive in attack.

However, everyone was delighted at the thought that Kane had created an antidote and escaped the danger of being poisoned. “So we’d like to discuss how to face Hagus from now on.”

When the prince asked them to express their opinions freely, various opinions came out.

“At this point, why don’t we push to their base?”

“I agree too.”

“With the antidote, our forces are sufficient to drive Hagus.”

“You’re right.”

More than half of the people here suggested not just siege warfare, but going out of bounds and wiping out Hagus.

“However, we have yet to figure out exactly how many of them there are. If you do it wrong, you can be very angry.”

“I think it’s better to just keep Hagus out of bounds for a while.”

On the other hand, there was also an opinion that we should not overdo it and only achieve the original purpose.

“Uh huh, isn’t everyone’s liver too small?”

“Right. Dude, you are too cowardly.”

“What are you talking about? Even if there is an antidote, there is a contingency!”

“Are you sure you don’t know that if you infest the monsters, they will cause more chaos!”

Their opinions were fiercely opposed.

The prince, who had been quietly watching the people raising their voices in front of him, suddenly raised his hand.

Then the nobles stopped talking.

The room became quiet.

“What do you think, Princess Heitz?”

After quieting the surroundings, the prince immediately asked me for my opinion.

Everyone’s attention was focused on me.

After sorting out the thoughts in my head for a while, I carefully opened my mouth.

“With Hagus rampaging periodically, the Imperials of the northern borders live in constant anxiety.”

“That’s right.”

The prince agreed with my words.

“The reason we’ve allowed them to invade our borders for the past 400 years is that we didn’t have the power to wipe them out. But now we have an antidote created by Duke Maxius. That’s why I don’t think there’s any need to let them invade the empire in the future.”

“But Princess Heitz, I didn’t even know how many they were, so what if I go blindly and end up getting hurt? There were too many of them in our ancestors in the past, so it may not be that they didn’t deal with them.”

Count Marcus, who had been against the idea of crossing the border from earlier, refuted my words.

“You’re right. It’s not that our ancestors didn’t do it, it’s that they couldn’t. Then, Count Marcus, if their numbers are high, would you agree to wipe them out?”

“Uh, how….”

“I will do it. I have the ability to detect heat. Just get close enough to detect them and you’ll be able to pinpoint their numbers. But….”

“But what?”

“During the last battle, I roughly figured out the number of them, but it was well over 1,000. But they may not be all. Probably more than twice as many.”

“A few thousand is too many.”

Another person who agreed with Count Macas raised his voice.

“But we have 100,000 soldiers. Enough.”

“100,000 seem like a lot, but they are monsters. It’s too strong for us humans to handle. Right now, it is advantageous to conduct siege warfare within the castle, but fighting in a wide field is too disadvantageous.”

Once again, the command and control room heated up as they voiced their opinions.

“What is Duke Maxius’ opinion?”

The prince asked Kane the same question he asked me.

In fact, the most important people here were me, Kane, Aiden, and Clayton.

If even one of the four of us refused to go, it would have been a battle that would not have been concluded anyway.

“I also agree with Princess Heitz. I made the antidote difficult, so I want to use it properly for the comfort of the people of the empire.”

“Okay. Then how about Confucius Baian?”

“I also agree with Princess Heitz. The opportunity to completely oust Hagus from his vigilance has arrived, and I don’t think we can afford to miss it.”

“All right. Then what do you think of Prince Luden?”

“Your Highness, the interest has not yet been restored. It’s unpleasant to be in a place like this, but Confucius!”

A nobleman complained about the Crown Prince’s attitude towards Clayton.

“You’re right. No matter how much the family has the power of the wind, it is currently a ruined family that is nothing. So, the title Confucius is not right.”

“Exactly. I was wrong. Not Confucius.”

“That’s right, Your Highness.”

“Not Confucius, but Duke Clayton Louden.”

“Yes? majesty!”

Everyone was surprised at the prince’s unconventional move and made absurd faces.

Yesterday I overheard what he thought of Clayton, but I was equally surprised.

“Is there anyone out there who has greater strength than this person?”

The prince pointed to me and the other nobles except Kane and Aiden and said.

The nobles were speechless at the prince’s words, like mutes who had eaten honey.

“Now this is a battlefield. What is most needed on the battlefield is the power to win. Am I wrong?”

The nobles still kept their mouths shut.

“His Majesty the Emperor will take care of the Luden family after returning to the capital. I’m just doing my job here. And my job is to ensure the safety of the Empire from Hagus.”

“….”

“So, as of today, I will seal Clayton Louden here as a temporary duke.”

“Majesty!”

“Your Highness, it is….”

Despite the crown prince’s remarks, the opposition from the nobles did not diminish.

It was foreseeable.

Even the emperor couldn’t use that much power, so he wouldn’t be able to do anything special with the crown prince.

So I watched them for a while and then slowly opened my mouth.

Not because he wanted to help the crown prince, but because he wanted to help Clayton.

“I also agree with His Highness the Crown Prince. The most important thing for us right now is to protect the Empire from Hagus. If I, Prince Bayen, and Duke Maxius and Duke Luden join us, we will achieve a faster victory. If you suspect Duke Luden, I will keep an eye on him until I return to the capital.”

I don’t know what Clayton, who has regained his memory, is thinking.

But I trusted him.

No, to be precise, I believed in Lian, whom I cherished, who remained in the corner of his heart.

“I also agree with His Highness, the Crown Prince.”

Scared to finish my words, Aiden immediately agreed. “I will also follow the will of His Highness the Crown Prince.” It was the same with Kane.

As the three duchy families gave power to the crown prince, the nobles began to notice each other.

Then you and I spat out the words that we agreed with each other.

“Go, if the princess and the two of you are like that too, then I have nothing more to say….”

“Yeah, what am I….”

“I will follow the will of His Highness the Crown Prince.” It seemed that this was over here.

I scrutinized the prince’s face with a sidelong glance.

He wasn’t happy even though it went his way, and he had a strange expression on his face.

It seemed like he knew what that meant even if he didn’t say it.

‘They will feel their own powerlessness.’

There was a high possibility that he would feel a sense of contempt when he saw nobles who followed the will of the ducal family rather than the crown prince.

If there was no damage to the family, I didn’t want to pay close attention to his feelings.

“…Then you will know that the balls follow that way.”

“Yes, I understand, Your Highness.”

“Then, erasing Hagus is also agreed upon by all of your duchy? What do you think, Duke Luden?”

Clayton’s expression hardened as he had left himself alone and said this and that.

I looked at Clayton.

Then, as if feeling my gaze, Clayton also made eye contact with me.

I looked into his green eyes and smiled.

He nodded softly, as if he understood the meaning of my smile.

At the same time, he straightened his back, lifted his head, and fixed his expression.

Then I was able to see a dignified figure as an aristocrat that I had never seen in him before.

He was no longer a low-ranking knight, but a full-fledged aristocrat.

“If I dare to use my skills, I would also like to contribute to the safety of the Empire and its people.”

“Then your duchy all said yes, what will the dukes do?”

“…I agree.”

“If the duke family agrees, will it matter?”

Those who were against it quickly changed their mind.

“Okay, then let’s plan what to do.”

After that, the meeting went beyond defending Agger Castle and talked about what to do outside the boundaries.

And the first mission of the operation was given to me.

The day after the meeting, I was fully prepared and checked to see if I had missed anything.

Then someone knocked on the door.

Smart-.

“Who is it?”

“I’ll go out and see.”

“Huh.”

Mary opened the door, checked the person outside, and opened the door with an urgent gesture.

Kane stood at the door.

“Gongnyeo.”

“What are you doing?”

“I heard that you will be leaving soon.”

“Yes, I am going now.”

“Did you take the antidote I made?”

Kane spoke to me, emphasizing the word ‘Made by himself’.

“Yes, I got it.”

Now, in the battle against Hagus, Kane’s antidote was essential.

However, it was not mass-produced yet, so the quantity was small, and some of them were with me.

“Good job. If you’re not busy, I wanted to go with you, but it’s a pity.”

I didn’t feel sorry at all, so I put on a face that wasn’t particularly impressed.

“The Duke just needs to do his best to produce as much antidote as possible.”

“…All right.”

“I think I need to go. Is there anything else you want to tell me?”

“I’m just spying on you, but you still need to be careful because it’s something you don’t know about.”

“Thank you for caring me.”

I didn’t appreciate it that much, but anyway, it wasn’t soggy on me like before, so I was also able to relax.

So I smiled and thanked him.

Then he gave me a slightly surprised expression, perhaps not knowing I would react that way, and smiled after me.

‘I laughed for no reason.’

I also couldn’t see any gaps.

Judging by the look on his face, he seemed to have made his own interpretation, but I shook my head inwardly.

After Kane went back, I spurred on my preparations again.

“Miss….”

But Mary’s expression, watching me from the side, was full of worry and anxiety.

“It’s too dangerous, ma’am.”

“But it’s something only I can do. And I said I would.”

“But in broad daylight like this….”

“Mary, don’t worry too much. Monsters are strongest at night and relatively weak during the day. That’s why I have to go more during the day.”

“Ha, please be careful.”

“Okay.”

I held Mary in my arms, still restless with my worries.

And after comforting her, I opened the door and left the room.

But Clayton was standing at the door.

He was just reaching out to knock on the door.

“Uh? What did you come here for?”

Now that I’ve done it a few times, I raised my words to him without feeling awkward.

“Are you leaving now?”

After becoming the temporary duke, Clayton seemed to accept it well without hesitation.

Well, he wasn’t a person with no memory, and he was a noble from the beginning, so it wasn’t that difficult.

“Yes, I am going now.”

At that time, Mary, who had followed me, greeted Clayton.

“Lian- Oh, no. Sorry. I made a mistake because I was distracted, Duke Luden.”

Mary bowed her head and begged forgiveness for her stretching mistake.

“Mary, I am fine.”

As if I was wrong in thinking that he was accepting it well, Clayton answered Mary the same way he treated Mary when he was Lian. “You can’t call me that anymore! Please keep your voice down.”

Then Mary put on an expression bordering on astonishment and was at a loss for what to do.

“That’s right, Duke. Although temporary, he is the duke of the Luden family, so you shouldn’t speak highly of those of a lower status now.”

I once again instilled in him who he is.

“…I’ll try my best.”

When he said he would try, I said nothing more.

“Are you looking for me anyway?”

“Yes, I came because I wanted to go with you where you are going now.”

“Are you coming with me?”

“Yes.”

“Well, I have already selected the knights who will come with me.”

When I figured out the number of them, I’ve already selected four knights to cover me as I am defenseless.

They were supposed to be waiting for me at the gates now.

“I will go with you. Can’t we have at least one more person?”

“Um, yes, then.”

Since I wasn’t going to fight Hagus anyway, there was nothing particularly dangerous.

So I thought it wouldn’t matter if I took him.

Above all, Clayton’s expression was so solemn and determined that it was not easy to refuse.

I decided that it would be better to take them rather than pass the time.

I went to the gate with him.

But before reaching the gate, he ran into Aiden.

“Belita.”

“Aiden?”

“Are you leaving now?”

“Yes, I will be back soon.”

I answered with a light smile.

But unlike me, Aiden’s face showed concern.

‘I’m not going to fight alone, so why is everyone like this?’ Anyway, even if everyone was worried about me, it was too much.

I didn’t feel too bad about that reaction, though.

Especially since that opponent was Aiden, I was quite happy.

“Me too-.”

Then I felt him suddenly cut off what he was trying to say to me and look at Clayton next to me.

Then, after a while, turning his head back to me, Aiden smiled weakly and said,

“No. Be careful.”

‘What?’

Words other than what he expected to say to me came out of his mouth.

“Oh, yes. I’ll be back.”

He didn’t necessarily ask me to go with him, but somehow he seemed like he would ask me to go with him.

Thinking that way, I was seized with a little strange feeling.

Aiden passed me.

I stared at his back for a while.

And I looked back to see if Aiden felt my gaze.

Our gazes intertwined for an instant, and I read an inexplicable resignation in his eyes.

But it was only a moment, so I could have been mistaken.

“Aiden!”

I called him as he unknowingly drifted away.

Aiden looked back at me once again.

But I couldn’t read anything in his eyes anymore.

‘Did I see it wrong?’

“I’ll be waiting for you when you get back, Belita.”

A moment of relief came when he said he would wait for me.

I answered him with a bright smile.

“I’ll be right back. I’m waiting now.”

He also responded with a smile.

When I went in front of the castle gate, there were four knights who were going to scout with me today.

“Let’s go.”

At the same time as I said, the castle gate went down.

The huge gates served as bridges across the wide river.

We ran over it and crossed the boundary.

As soon as we crossed the river, the gates were immediately closed.

“For a moment.”

I closed my eyes and focused on my eyes.

Then I opened my eyes and looked around.

The range I could detect as heat was about 1 league.

“There is nothing within a radius of one league.”

“Then let’s go inside.”

“Let it be.”

We entered the forest where Hagus lived carefully.

The forest was quiet.

Perhaps it was the place where monsters lived, so I couldn’t even hear the common chirping of birds.

So I had to be more careful.

When I left the point I searched for earlier, I started sensing again.

“Doesn’t exist. Let’s go further.”

“Yes.”

It was the moment when I went one more league and opened my eyes to sense.

Suddenly, a great amount of heat began to be sensed from all sides.

“Shh!”

I told Clayton and the knights to be quiet.

“There are guys ahead. So hold on.”

At my words, five men took up defensive positions with me in the middle.

I concentrated and started counting them.

Certainly, the number was far greater than in the first battle.

In the last battle we killed hundreds of them.

Still, there are still groups like this. I couldn’t contain my astonishment.

One, two, three….

Quite a bit of time has passed.

We cautiously moved to another area.

After moving around so many times, I was able to roughly figure out the number of them.

“Ha….”

It’s finally over.

Apart from fighting, this made me feel another fatigue.

I sighed deeply and spoke in a low voice.

“Let’s go back.”

“Are you done?”

Clayton turned around and asked me.

“Yes, it is over. Song.”

So we moved quickly, but stealthily, to return to the castle.

The way back was quite long because we had come quite deep.

Still, I was almost there and arrived at a distance that I had to go about 10 more minutes.

But one of the knights suddenly started sniffing.

“I can’t stand it because my nose is itchy…Acquire!”

In the middle of the silent forest, the sound of sneezing echoed in all directions.

I was so shocked that I forgot to breathe for a moment.

“What if I sneeze here!”

One article rebuked the article for sneezing.

“Sorry. I just can’t stand it…Acquire!”

Again the sound of sneezing spread out.

I quickly sensed the heat around me.

‘Ah….’

The guys who had been quiet until just now were flocking here.

“Run.”

“Yes?”

“Run!”

We shouted at them to run, and at the same time we ran at full speed towards the castle.

At that moment, the ground shook like an earthquake.

I could feel them getting closer.

“Kyaaaaaagh!”

Their cries began to be heard clearly in my ears.

“Run faster!”

Agger Castle appeared in front of me.

I had to get in there before they caught me.

“Open the gates!”

I shouted at the knights standing guard on the wall with the loudest voice I could.

Luckily they looked at us.

“Open the door!”

In case they couldn’t hear me, I shouted again.

The knights quickly lowered the gate.

But it took more time for the door to reach across the river.

“Kyaaaagh!”

Hagus came right in front of me.

If the distance was further narrowed here, we could have followed Hagus into the castle. Better to shut the gates than to take such a risk.

“Faster!”

The gate reached the other end of the river.

Now all you have to do is go in there.

More, more, a little more!

I barely reached the door.

“Close the door!”

Time was running out to wait for us to go inside.

I immediately ordered the door closed.

The knights started closing the door.

When the door fell from the floor, the body leaning against it tilted. “Uh, uh!”

Thud-!

The knights tumbled to the floor one after another.

Leaning on the rope attached to the door, I quickly started a fire with one hand.

Then, through the gap in the door, they set fire to the other side of the river.

It was to prevent Hagus from approaching any further.

But for some reason, the fire suddenly started to burn more roaring than I had made.

‘What?’

I didn’t know why, so I looked around, and at that moment I felt the wind sweeping my whole body.

I looked at Clayton.

He used the wind to make the fire bigger.

The other side of the river quickly became a sea of fire.

It was midday, so Hagus was very weak.

The flames were stronger than before, and they were screaming in front of them, not thinking about breaking through the flames like last time.

“Kyaaaaaagh!”

As soon as the gates were closed, I immediately went up to the walls.

“Everyone in defensive posture!”

“All right.”

We kept a close eye on Hagus outside the castle.

They couldn’t even dare to approach because of the fierce fire.

Clayton stood next to me, looking at them.

“That was a good idea.”

Smiled and told him

He knew that fire and wind, when the two meet, create tremendous synergy.

At my words, he smiled softly.

In the end, Hagus returned to the forest without doing anything.

After confirming that they were completely gone, I headed to the command and control room.

And I told the crown prince exactly the number of guys I saw.

“About 10,000?”

“Yes, that was about that.”

“Ten thousand people…. It’s more than you think.”

My thoughts were the same as the prince’s.

“Do you think we can beat them?”

The prince suddenly asked me about the possibility of victory.

“There are a lot more than I thought, but since I decided to do it, I have to try as much as I can.”

I never thought we would lose.

So he answered in a confident voice.

“Okay. All right.”

With that said, I came out of the command and control room.

And on the way back to my room, I realized I hadn’t seen Aiden yet.

Though he said he would wait for me, the thought that he hadn’t even come to meet me made me feel a bit sad. ‘He always came to my room, but this time should I go?’

Well, the sad person should go.

I wanted to see him right now.

I turned and headed for his room.

Smart-.

I knocked on the door in front of Aiden’s room.

I couldn’t hear anything from inside, so I was about to knock on the door again, but it suddenly opened and Aiden appeared.

“Belita?”

His eyes doubled in surprise.

“What?”

As soon as I saw Aiden, I immediately asked him.

“Yes?”

I asked back if he didn’t understand my question.

“You said you were waiting for me.”

I answered him like a grumble.

“Ah…I’m sorry.”

“What’s wrong?”

Somehow he didn’t seem to be in a good mood.

Rather than being angry or annoyed, he seemed rather dark and subdued.

“You feel bad? What’s up? Shall I just go?”

“No. Please don’t go.”

It seemed that they didn’t welcome me very much, so I felt down as well.

So when I said he was leaving, he hurriedly grabbed me.

His behavior made me feel good again.

“Great.”

I replied with a patronizing smile.

Aiden stared at me like that.

“What’s really going on?”

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