Kill the Emperor Chapter 126 : Chapter 126

Translator: AkazaTL

Pr/Ed: Sol IX

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Chapter 126 : Foolish Days (1)

Clang!

The family sword that had been held in the left hand of I, Hein Reichart, until just a mont ago flew a long distance through the air and beca embedded in the training ground floor.

The axion in the right hand was sohow keeping its place, but it was just as lost in direction.

‘……With this, it’s the seventh ti.’

The strike just now was a sword attack I had launched with all my heart and soul in my own way.

However, this ti ‘as well’, Redin had neutralized with a single slash.

“……Pick up your sword.”

“No. This much is enough.”

Redin said he would give one more chance, but I shook my head.

Since I had already realized the enormous gap between myself and Redin, there was no need to deliberately go through one more failure.

Actually, I had thought that the gap with Redin would have narrowed to so extent.

I thought that while I had gained my own results recently, Redin, who must have had many complicated things on his mind, would not have been able to do so.

However, my sword, which had entered the realm of the 7th Star, was being helplessly blocked just like child play.

‘It was a complete miscalculation. The Forr Family Head has certainly beco stronger than before.’

The wounds Redin had to endure during the process of Zodiac being overturned were clearly imnse.

However, the sense of liberation from escaping the complicated situations that had tornted him for decades was greater than the wounds.

Discarding both the troubleso political gas and the duties as the Family Head.

Redin, who had decided to live the rest of his life as a single martial artist, seed to have finally crossed the wall that had blocked him for a long ti.

‘Good. It was worth confirming it with my own eyes.’

Redin’s boast that he was not yet broken was not a lie.

The famous sword of Zodiac t in an even sharper form.

And I could nod my head with a satisfied expression.

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“You’re saying you’ll leave tomorrow morning?”

“Yes. As I ntioned, since I am performing official duties, it seems I cannot stay here for long.”

“Are you planning not to tell the mbers that you ca by?”

“Yes. Because I don’t want to disturb my friends who are imrsed in their training. Father, please take good care of them.”

“Training them is the only thing I can do for this country right now. I will do my best to temper them as much as possible.”

“Thank you.”

That night, the Reichart father and son sat across from each other once again with teacups between them.

The two of them were still taciturn, and around the ti the silence settling between them beca tedious, Redin asked.

“Are you not going to ask how I handled Rishu’s remains?”

Actually, I was curious.

I wondered what had happened to the remnants of Rishu that were found at the Vispon mansion in Abysin and those that remained in the Reichart territory.

However, the question that I could not bring myself to ask for fear it would dig into Redin’s healing wounds ca out of Redin’s mouth first.

“……What happened to Grand Madam’s keepsakes?”

“I burned them. And I gathered the ashes together and buried them on the hill across from where Sophia is resting.”

Rishu’s body could not return here.

Since she was a serious criminal who conspired with the royal family and threw the country into chaos, she had to pay for her cris.

Her body would have turned to ash after being mixed with the crowd of many criminals and would have drifted sowhere in the sky of Abysin.

In the end, all that Rishu left in the Reichart land was the ash from burning a single outfit she wore in her final mont, which cherished her most dazzling mont.

However, I thought that Rishu would have been satisfied despite that.

The fact that Redin decorated her end would have been like a blessing for her, who had loved him even while risking her life.

“…….”

I turned my gaze out the window of Redin’s bedroom.

Then, I saw Sophia’s grave on a low hill not too far from Redin’s bedroom.

Although it is not visible from here now, if one approaches the window side and broadens the view a little more.

The place where Rishu’s keepsakes are buried, located on the hill across, would also co into Redin’s field of vision.

“Sophia liked wild chrysanthemums.”

“She did.”

“When the season cos for wild chrysanthemums to bloom, take so ti. Since Sophia will also want to see you when that ti cos.”

Before I knew it, Redin’s gaze was also directed out the window.

Is it Sophia that is touching Redin’s gaze right now?

Or is it Rishu?

After quietly burying this question that I could not dare to ask in my heart, I nodded my head.

“I will do so.”

***

“……♪♫”

The next morning.

Sherazade, who was preparing to leave, looked exceptionally happy.

“Did sothing good happen?”

“No.”

“But why are you so excited in the morning?”

“Hehe. That is……”

Sherazade, who said it was nothing at first, soon told the reason why she had been beaming the whole ti.

“Even though it’s been a while since I ca, Emily and the other kids rembered and welcod . You know, you know. The room I used was also really clean. When I asked, they said they were preparing it so the young lady could rest comfortably whenever she returned!”

“……Is that so?”

Was that such a joyful thing?

“Master, for a while, I thought the space by Master’s side was all I had. But……”

“But?”

“That wasn’t it! Having soone waiting for and having a place to return to is a really good thing.”

For Sherazade, who thought she had lost her hotown, the Reichart territory had beco a hotown, and she was imnsely happy about that fact.

If Sherazade said she was satisfied with that, I had no intention of nitpicking.

But…….

“By whose leave is the space by my side yours? I never gave permission.”

“By whose leave? By my leave, of course.”

Sherazade nodded her head with a nonchalant expression and quickly got on the horse saddle.

“Master, grill so at for dinner today. I want to eat at!”

“If the situation allows.”

“Hmm, then what happens if the situation doesn’t allow it?”

“What else? We’ll have to chew on the jerky we brought.”

After giving the jerky bag hanging on the horse saddle a tap, I pulled the reins.

“You’re an!”

Sherazade also finished preparations to dash off imdiately.

Neighhh!

A mont later, the black horses carrying the two of them stepped forward while letting out rough snorting sounds.

Soon, the figures of the two beca individual dots and disappeared across the long-stretched main road.

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Crunch.

At the crunching sound heard from behind my back, I stopped my steps.

And after scanning the surroundings.

I carefully took another step.

However……

Crunch.

In the end, I had to open my mouth.

“I won’t say anything about you eating candy.”

Crunch.

“But you don’t necessarily have to chew it while making that sound, do you?”

“S-Sorry!”

Sherazade flusteredly closed the candy bag, but in her bulging cheeks, hard candies that had not yet been broken were sticking out.

“This is the last place you can turn back. Wouldn’t it be better for you to go back to the lodging and wait?”

I gave her the last chance of choice, but Sherazade only shook her head from side to side this ti as well.

“Master, but why have you been making that expression since a while ago?”

“What’s wrong with my expression?”

“It’s very…… scary. Like a person who is definitely angry.”

“If it looks that way, you should also be on your guard a little. Because from now on, you might see very unpleasant sights.”

After announcing the final warning, I moved my steps again.

Since this is the 2nd basent floor now, ‘ugly remnants’ will slowly start to reveal themselves in earnest.

It was necessary to set my mind a bit firmly.

Thinking it would be okay to turn on a light since the light would not leak outside at this point, I shouted the incantation.

“Light.”

Soon, a sphere of light floated up and illuminated the hallway that was entirely pitch black.

Then, grotesque drawings engraved in relief and intaglio on the hallway ceiling and walls revealed themselves.

Beasts swallowing people, demons snickering while drinking human blood, humans tearing and eating each other’s flesh, and so on.

Sherazade, who saw the ugly sights difficult to describe in words, left a truly simple impression.

“Hee, they are really ugly!”

“…….”

“But Master, you said this is the Arias region. But why did we co here again? Didn’t you say you have work to do in a country located in the southeast of the continent? Is it okay to just drop by places like this instead of going there directly?”

The journey of the two, which started from Abysin and headed North, moved southward starting from the Reichart territory.

Sherazade thought that I would continue moving southeast like this and head toward Veradora.

However, around the ti they had moved halfway south.

I suddenly turned the direction West and headed for the ‘Arias’ region.

And on the second night of arriving at the Arias region.

The place where my steps were headed was none other than.

“Aigoo! Don’t even talk about it. Even though it was several years ago, even now, whenever I try to just pass by that vicinity, my hands and feet tremble so much I could die. Who would have known that such bad bastards were hiding there and doing terrible things to children……”

“Look here, young man. It’s best not even to dream of going to that vicinity. Even though the subjugation is over, the souls of those devilish bastards remain in that vicinity and try to eat the people passing by!”

A temple of a cult group serving the evil god ‘Kaltuara’, which was subjugated 6 years ago.

Because those bastards resisted so fiercely when the subjugation took place, the vicinity of the temple was literally a wasteland.

Having arrived at the ruins that were entirely desolate with no visitors thanks to those ominous rumors, I found the passage leading to the temple basent with familiar hand movents.

In the first place, because the cultists of Kaltuara were such thorough and cunning bastards, there was a basent passage that remained even amidst it becoming a wasteland.

And Sherazade, with a candy bag in her hand, followed behind with quick steps as I strode toward the basent passage.

Squeak!

At that mont, three giant mutant rats with hideous appearances pounced on the two.

Slice!

After cutting one horizontally and another vertically, I imdiately extended my sword backward.

Although they were rely mutant rats, because their size was so large, they were more threatening than ordinary monsters.

However……

“You! You! Where do you think this is!”

Squeak!

I didn’t necessarily need to take action for the last one.

Because it had run away while vomiting a miserable cry after being given a clubbing by Sherazade’s staff.

“Hmph! Trying to act tough!”

Looking at her with a proud expression, I realized anew that the staff held in Sherazade’s hand had a weight equivalent to about five or six spears of ordinary soldiers combined.

“H-Hmm. Why are you looking at like that?”

“……Have you ever thought that these things are gross or scary?”

“Huh? Why ?”

Why should I, a ‘Sub-Dragon’, be afraid of rats?

-I was convinced after seeing Sherazade’s expression which seed to be saying that.

The boldness that was completely different from her fragile and pure appearance, and the terrifying superhuman strength loaded into those slender wrists, all of it.

Whooooosh-

As we moved steps downward past the 3rd basent floor, a deeper chill and unpleasant energy crept up.

A dirty feeling that made feel like I would vomit imdiately if I let go of my mind even a little.

I bit my lip without realizing it.

‘Zephyros.’

Does unpleasant energy have the power to call forth unpleasant mories?

Before I knew it, my mories had returned to the ti when Alexar rescued Zephyros from this sacred ground of Kaltuara.

The reason why he kept Zephyros by his side was still unknown even now.

However, the clear fact was.

From the day they first t, Zephyros beca a very precious existence to Alexar.

For Zephyros, who had received severe ntal shock from the abuse inflicted by the Apostle bastards, Alexar stopped his training journey and went to a quiet rural village to spend a leisurely ti for a while.

And perhaps his efforts bore fruit, for Zephyros regained his senses not long after, and from a certain mont, he began to call Alexar ‘older brother’.

The two who beca ‘older brother’ and ‘younger brother’ like that before they knew it spent leisurely and happy days for a while.

When ti passed like that and it was the 6th month since Alexar t Zephyros.

Zephyros said while looking into Alexar’s eyes.

“Brother, can’t you teach magic too?”