chapter 42
42 – Episode 42 What is lost will not come back
The Minister and I drank enough to make our noses crooked right there.
The two of us drink quite a bit, but we drink so much that no matter how much we
drink, it never ends.
It’s like pouring alcohol into a graveyard. The amount of pouring was about the
size of a single ditch. A small water stream made of alcohol gurgles.
Drinking like this, suddenly all departments of the Ministry of Magic.
The Royal Guard came to mind.
There were graves of almost all public officials who died while working here.
So, of course, there is also the graveyard of the Royal Guard.
It’s a place where you go beyond one district from here… but the minister and
I didn’t bother to go.
I wanted to give those men a drink as well, but unfortunately their bodies could
not be recovered. Because I couldn’t fix a single thing.
The Royal Guard graveyards here were all empty graves with no bodies.
A cemetery created ceremonially by the empire.
So I just open the bottle for them.
I did not go to the cemetery separately to pray.
gulp. gulp.
I poured a whole bottle of wine.
“Anyway, Minister. What are you going to do from now on?”
The Ministry of Magic was disbanded. The minister is over 1,000 years old, so
it’s time for him to retire, but there’s no way he can retire.
The minister took out a plaque from his bosom. A golden plaque inlaid with the
imperial family’s pattern.
Defeated by the Royal Guard.
“This time, the emperor said to make the bodyguards, the captain of the
bodyguards should do it.”
At first, Lane suggested becoming the leader of the Imperial Knights, but the
resistance from the nobles was stronger than expected.
The Imperial Knight Commander is the highest among the knights who manage all
knights in the Imperial Family.
He is a knight commander among knight commanders.
It was only natural that the nobles would strongly oppose it when they suddenly
tried to put Glaya in such a place.
His emperor took the odds.
He just appointed Glaya as the new head of the SS.
Even though this Royal Guard was newly founded, modeled after the Royal Guard,
and with the emperor’s overwhelming support, it would become the most powerful
knightly order in the imperial family… the nobles could not stop its creation.
The nobles just clicked their tongues for not being able to stop the creation of
the SS.
I couldn’t even bring up the topic of ‘Does this person dare to be the leader of
the SS?!
Berserker, Glaya on Frasilant.
The name is heavy.
Also huge.
“So you don’t have to call me Minister from now on?”
“Okay. Call it what you want.”
“Then Glaya.”
“Is this just speaking informally?”
“Didn’t Glaya just tell you to call it whatever you want? You’re not going to
change the language now, are you?”
Glaya threw the champagne bottle she was holding in her hand.
“Call me the captain like before.”
“Okay. Captain Glaya. Don’t throw the bottle.”
I feel a strange smell.
you’re the leader
Every single word that rolls in your mouth brings back memories.
As if piercing the skin with a needle and stimulating the nerves.
Each word weighed down the memories called memories.
So I was silent for a while. He quietly brings the wine to his mouth.
I guess I wasn’t the only one like that.
Glaya took out a new bottle of champagne to shake off her thoughts.
“…S0 what are you going to do now?”
“You can’t retire, right?”
It seems like retirement is possible, but Director Glaya will probably stop it.
But the answer that came back was unexpected.
“What are you going to do after retirement?”
“Well, maybe… I might do some of the things I’ve been thinking about doing.”
Glaya purses her lips and then looks up at the distant sky.
“You haven’t forgotten yet.”
It’s a bit confusing, but I understand. So, I answered.
“Captain. I can’t forget. And you can’t either.”
Glaya can retire. Although the emperor held on to her, if he insisted, Rein
would eventually let go of her old friend.
But he is not retiring. he doesn’t rest My body was still moving to rest. There
was a lot to do.
His body is harder than that of younger knights. So he hadn’t come to rest yet.
Glaya thinks.
‘If someday it’s time for me to rest…’
It will probably be the last moment of your life.
That’s how he decided his end.
From the moment the family was destroyed by the black magician, the villagers
burned, and the family melted away.
I have been running non-stop all my life.
Glaya looks at the young wizard in front of her with mysterious eyes.
But even if he lived that life.
I wanted to stop anyone who was trying to live a life similar to mine.
I can’t say anything because I know he doesn’t deserve it.
Glaya just wanted to do that.
“You can’t forget, right?”
I know it was a presumptuous comment, but I said it anyway.
The wizard chants.
“Even if we brought down the marquis, beheaded the warlocks, and killed the
nobles.”
blood on your hands
Even if all the culprits are eliminated.
“Because what is lost does not come back.”
As if spilled water can’t be undone like before.
Because once lost, it can never come back.
“I can’t forget.”
he can’t forget
A young wizard, when he was younger than he is now.
there was something lost
With a vengeance against him, he opened the door to a bloody history.
The wizard’s voice contained resentment.
Although it has long been forgotten now, the remaining emotions, like deep
scars, inform him from time to time.
‘This is the feeling you forgot.’
‘This is how you felt when you swore for the first time.’
‘This is the path you have chosen.’
Glaya decided.
“As expected… I’ll have to postpone your retirement.”
“That’s the answer.”
I don’t know what I will do when I retire.
You could just rush into the abyss and try to sweep away the schools.
I could have burned the rest of my life to catch greed.
Glaya slapped the wizard on the back.
Fain!
“Ah! Captain! It hurts!”
“It’s tough.”
Her bent back straightened, and Glaya spoke.
“First, have a good night of truth and then decide what to do next.”
Then he adds.
“I’ll support you in anything that doesn’t involve warlocks, so do something
first.”
“What do I do?”
“Listen to your boss when he’s talking, man.”
Glaya, who said some unreasonable words of support, lay down on the wet grass.
“It’s wet with alcohol. There.”
Her clothes were gradually soaked with alcohol, but Glaya didn’t care.
He looked up at the sky. It looks infinitely peaceful when you look at it from
there… but the empire is not peaceful.
Countless ties come to his mind and then disappear.
‘Generation change is fast, so it’s hard to talk.’
If all the seniors hadn’t died, there would have been no way for the young
wizard to rise to the high-level position of vice minister.
And if the boss hadn’t died, the Vice Minister of Information, Leone would still
be the Vice Minister.
Times change.
Glaya felt it.
“It’s okay.”
Glaya straightened her upper body. Water drips out.
“Let’s get rid of the bottles.”
“So be it.”
The sun has already gone down and is making a glow. It’s late afternoon to
night, so it’s time to go soon.
There are too many wine bottles for the people who manage the cemetery to clean
up, so me and Captain Glaya.
The two of them put away all the bottles and cakes.
The cemetery, which had been a mess, became clean in an instant.
x kw
The next day came.
“Hyung woke up… uh, smells like alcohol. How much did you drink?”
My younger brother, who stayed at my house while in Jedo, covered his nose.
I sniffed and sniffed, but the smell of alcohol is no joke.
My head also throbs and hurts, probably from the aftermath of yesterday’s
reception.
I smoked magic weed to get rid of the shattering pain in my skull.
Magic candle does not have a dissolution effect, but instead has a mental
awakening effect and an anesthetic effect at the same time.
profit-
As the smoke burns, the headache goes away. My brother was beaten up next to me.
“Hyung. You seem to be having a hard time with a hangover. Can I smoke magic
vinegar?”
I was at a loss for words, so I changed the subject.
“Did you eat breakfast?”
“no . n
Yohane answered no, of course. In the first place, he also had just woken up and
was about to wake up his brother to eat.
“TI see.”
After hearing my brother’s words, I grabbed the doorknob.
“Then I’ll cook for you, so let’s go.”
“Aren’t you eating outside?”
“It’s expensive if you order it, man.”
Yohane followed his older brother out of the room. The place he arrives at is
the kitchen. Even though I noticed it from the time I said that I would cook for
you.
‘Brother’s cooking.’
Yohane, who had never seen his older brother cook, felt curious and ominous.
If that’s the case, brother.
Burnt food is also ‘Let’s just eat it like this.’ Since he was a person who ate
while doing this, a feeling of insecurity naturally dominated his five senses.
Then a guest came.
The identity of the guest was revealed to be Princess Stella, who lives in the
largest and most luxurious palace in the world, which does not fit into such a
small house.
She looked at the house where Cadian lived and looked at her with surprise.
“You live in a fairly small house.”
A small single-family house with no occupants was the residence of Cadian.
Even considering the high cost of housing in the system, it is a house that can
be used by the wealthy among the common people. Stella was curious.
There were no occupants in the house either.
“Hoh. It’s amazing.”
Watching Her Highness’s reaction, I wondered if this was such a strange thing…
but I kept my mouth shut when I realized that my case was very special.
I had a house that I received as a Royal Guard, but I got it after I sold it
because it became inconvenient to live alone in a large house.
In the days of the previous house, the Royal Guard, the house had quite a few
servants, but in a small house like this, servants were not needed.
“What are you here for?”
I asked the business.
“I came because of the invitation to the night of truth.”
Besides that, he came because he was curious about what Cadian’s house looked
like.
The biggest reason was the delivery of invitations, so Stella only half-truthed.
Reluctantly, I received an invitation.
‘This… I’d have to ask an attendant…’
Why is the princess herself coming? The question was firmly put in.
Anyway, Her Highness Princess Stella’s eccentricity did not last for a day or
two.
Being farsighted, I took her into the house.
“Come in.”
As Stella tries to enter, Lord Crimson, who was escorting her, follows along.
“hmm?”
Stella opened her eyes wide. As soon as you enter the house, you can smell the
food.
“Were you cooking?”
“I’m doing it now.”
Curiosity flared up again. What level is Cadian’s cuisine?
she asked.
“Can you make one for her too?”
“You mean Her Highness’s too?”
“Of course, I don’t ask for it to be made with konk. I’ll pay you 10 gold coins.
I think this is enough.”
It’s too much money to refuse.
Ten gold coins.
The amount was enough to eat dozens of meals at a fairly high-end restaurant.
And it’s about rice. You just need to put a spoon on it.
could give anything
It’s just… I don’t know if that will suit Her Highness’ tastes.