NOVEL NEXT Side Story 34 - 5 Years Later
Side Story Chapter 34
Chapter 3: 5 years later
Irdan Magzier, the young duke of the Kingdom of Viroz, climbed the fortress and silently looked down.
His dark brown eyes gave him a gentle reminder of the past.
Seven years ago.
The Queen and her people, who had been tyrannical, died at once and there were many changes in the kingdom.
It was Irdan, the man who made most of the changes.
He cleaned up the garbage collection that was attached to the Queen and committed corruption and corrected the collapsed royal palace system.
He caught the plague caused by poverty, wiped out crimes, and released the national treasury to stabilize people's lives.
He fixed, overhauled, supplemented, and changed many other broken and ruined things.
It took seven years to do so.
And finally, the last one.
All he has to do is install a new ruler in the kingdom where he founded himself.
The new ruler has been appointed.
Tomorrow is the day of the coronation.
Irdan fixed his eyes under the fortress without saying a word.
“Captain, what are you doing there?”
Then there was a voice calling for Irdan.
“Thinking? Like that?”
Irdan was accustomed to correcting his opponent's words.
“This is not a battlefield. I told you to call me the Duke. Count Ethan.”
“Yes, Duke.”
A young man called Count Ethan replied insincerely.
“But what are you really doing standing here?”
“Just, I have something to think about.”
“If someone pushes you while thinking, you'll fall and end your life right away.”
“………Are you coming here because you have plenty of time on your schedule?”
This means that he had time to come and start a quarrel with him. Count Ethan shrugged and asked again.
“Are you worried?
“…….”
“Well, he'll do well. Don't worry. Honestly, have you seen anyone as much of a holy grail as he is? I couldn’t find one. I think the king has a constitution……”
“I'm not worried about that.”
“What?”
Count Ethan blinked foolishly.
“Then?”
Weren't they supposed to do the coronation here tomorrow? Isn’t that why he’s being like this?
His innermost thoughts were revealed through his facial expression. Irdan sighed briefly and said.
“Who do you think picked this guy, I'm sure he'll do well on his own. I'm not worried about that. It's just….”
“…….”
“Do you know that the dead queen has one more daughter?”
“Yes, of course. Don't you know? Who caught the queen six years ago? Oh, she's our, khm, benefactor.”
“Are you relieved?”
“What?”
“She is the daughter of the dead queen. Can you be relieved?”
“It's……”
The expression of Count Ethan, who realized what Irdan was trying to say, became subtle.
“Of course she's a good man. She killed the queen.”
“If you look at it differently, she’s a tough guy. Enough to kill the woman who gave birth to her.”
“…….Was the queen an ordinary mother? She was a cheap woman to die.”
“I'm not trying to say anything about the results. I also think it was a blessing for her to kill the queen.”
But this is a different story from that. The nailed Irdan continued his words.
“Historically, blood was thicker than water. That's a plain fact.”
“So? Even so, what are you going to do?”
“Tomorrow, after the coronation ceremony, I will go to the Empire.”
“Pardon?”
Count Ethan cried out in astonishment. Irdan never blinked.
“I will judge it by looking at her with my own eyes. Whether or not she will harm the kingdom that has finally managed to find its place.”
“What's so sudden……….”
“Just know that I’m going alone.”
It was a notification. Count Ethan wrinkled his proud firm brow and asked immediately.
“……what if she looks like she's harmful? What if you meet her and make a judgement like that?”
“I can't help it then.”
“That means….”
In the tension, Count Ethan swallowed with a serious face. He and Irdan's mouth opened at the same time.
“Remove….”
“I'll get a pledge from her to give up the throne.”
“…….”
The eyes of the two men were met in the air.
Irdan opened his mouth first.
“Why do you get rid of such a good person? Count Ethan, is that your hobby?”
“No, it’s not a hobby! What's wrong with you, Captain? Why does that word pop up in this flow? Are you kidding me?”
“Duke.”
“Oh, Captain or Duke!”
“Hmm…… Count Ethan.”
Irdan calmly opened his mouth to the giant man who was running wild.
“I don't care much about her personality if she lives quietly in the Empire. It doesn't matter because she’s a replica of the dead queen.”
“…….”
“What matters is whether she would come to the kingdom and try to find the throne.”
Irdan's voice was calm.
“There are many old people in the kingdom who have not yet abandoned their hostility.”
“…….”
“Surprisingly, tyranny or not, they choose bloodline more than anything. The moment she tries to regain the throne, the kingdom will inevitably split.”
“……so to prevent that from happening, You'll go to the Empire and meet her and You'll get a memorandum of renunciation of the throne?”
“Yes.”
“Are you kidding, too? What's that? Come and find her after 7 years later, would she write a memorandum? Even if she writes one, would she keep her promise?”
“If she doesn't keep her promise, I'll go get rid of her then.”
Count Ethan paused.
“It's up to me to get the memorandum. It's up to me to remove the object when the memorandum is not followed.”
“……..”
“Do you have any objections?”
Count Ethan recalled the stench of his boss.
Even if he does, he won't listen to them anyway.
He finally sighed deeply and opened his mouth.
“Have a safe trip.”
***
Was her five? At a glance, a young girl flapped her dress and jumped on the dirt ground.
Whenever the dress skirt fluttered, the hem of the pants carefully dressed in it could be seen.
“Miss!”
“Please stop, Miss!”
Two people gasped after the girl.
The child turned her head and checked the distance and clicked her tongue.
“Slow.”
“Miss, hyukk, it's so fast!”
“Yes, that's it!”
“We're not the one that slow!” The two shouted desperately, but the girl was unconcerned.
“No, from my point of view, you guys just lack training.”
“…….!”
“Follow me properly. If you get further than this from me, I’ll tell my dad.”
“Oh, no!”
“Please don't do that!”
The two people turned pale. Leaving those two behind, the girl began to run again.
“…….”
I sat a little apart and watched silently.
I was doing that, but a cup popped up next to me.
“Madam.”
“Oh, Bessie.”
“Are you looking at Ollie?”
Bessie looked straight ahead like me and said.
“You are still watching her playing keenly today. Our Miss”
I took the cup to my mouth without saying a word.
As Bessie said, the girl I am busy watching now is Ollie.
The one who won’t get hurt even I let my sight for her for a while, my daughter, Ollie Widgreen.
And those two who are dying to chase Ollie desperately are knights who just joined the Dukedom.
In other words, he was playing “catch me” with two new knights at the training field.
Ollie is the one who ran away. The two knights are on the one who ran after her.
Bessie, who had been keeping an eye on the situation in the training field, said.
“Well, they're going to be sick tonight.”
“……..”
“They’re going to suffer from muscle pain for a while. Well, it's better than last time.”
“Last time?”
“Yes, at the time Miss was not the one running away, Miss was the one who was catching…… and two knights cried that day.”
“Well, that's right.”
She did indeed.
I remembered that Ollie had been chasing two knights like a runaway locomotive at the train station last week and had both of them.
Two guys in their early 20s cried asking if they could stop because they were scared.
The 5 years old Ollie.
I tilted the cup silently.
‘She’s healthy, too.’
As expected, our Ollie.
She's pretty much like her dad.
It feels somewhat new, but Ollie resembles Ash a lot.
In particular, he stood out in terms of physical strength as seen now.
Who would have imagined it? A five-year-old girl who can't get caught at all playing catch games with knights, but instead kicks her tongue at the knights because they’re so slow.
I didn't expect it either. Ollie is Ash's daughter, but she was also my daughter. I didn't think it was this level.
‘Well, that's a good thing to be healthy.’
I laughed happily as I passed the juice from the cup to my throat.
Anyway, Ollie. How can she even run so prettily?
I can't help but bear the heart of helping the knights in thought that they might lack training
There was a faint cry of conscience on one side of the mind to listen to the knights' opinions, but I ignored it and tilted the cup again.
But this is good.
“Bessie, this juice is delicious. What did you put in?”
“Carrots and this and that…”
“This and that?”
“It was made by Vasilis.”
I blinked and bit back.
“Val?”
Here's one fact.
Bessie announced the news of her pregnancy after I gave birth to Ollie.
‘Alex should be hit by some stones.'
Because it was before Alex had a ceremony with Bessie.
Anyway, it happened and the two immediately got married, and Bessie gave birth safely the following year.
Everyone was a little worried because of Bessie's age, but fortunately, Bessie and her child were very healthy.
The child was born as a son, and Alex named the child Vasilis in delight.
Which ancient mythical hero's name?