Chapter 5 - Chapter 1: Entry #4 (1/2)
Chapter 5 - Chapter 1: Entry #4
”No, if it so important, why didn’t you tell me until now?”
”You didn’t ask and I thought you remembered.”
He didn’t ask.
Yes, he certainly didn’t ask. Carack’s reaction was natural. His actions were normal if In-gong had actually remembered!
In-gong sighed and acted rationally instead of bothering Carack about it.
“When is it happening today?”
It was still morning, so it was okay if it was a little ‘late’. There was still time if the meeting occurred late in the afternoon or evening.
Carack scratched his chin again and replied.
“Eh... It was decided to do it before lunch, so the meeting is at 11 o’clock.”
Rather than thinking about the unit of time in Knight Saga, he zoomed in on the mini-map that had a clock function next to it. It was 9:52 a.m.
'It is one hour away!’
Dammit! Why was he only told just before the meeting?
“Where?”
In-gong asked reflexively and Carack pointed beyond the mountains.
“We decided to do it at Princess Caitlin’s location. It is time to go so you should be prepared.”
It was already like this, so it was impossible to prepare properly.
In-gong calmed his heart and started thinking rationally. What he needed now wasn’t swearing or lamentation.
Information. He had to have information.
”Hey, Carack. Do you remember that I’m a little confused because of the fever?”
”Is Prince really okay?”
Carack looked worried again. Despite being a bit clumsy, he didn’t seem like a bad guy.
“I’m okay. Anyway, can you tell me about Chris and Caitlin? For example, what I call them.”
The honorifics.
When just looking at age, it was natural to call Caitlin by noona and Chris by hyung (Noona= what males use for older females. Hyung= what males use for men older than them). But Shutra, Caitlin and Chris were all part of the royal family.
‘I don’t think I would call them by Hyung or Noona.’
Carack stared at In-gong before saying in a decisive voice.
”I don’t know.”
”You should have seen it at the meeting!”
”Today is the first meeting. I told you, I only met Prince yesterday.”
It was perfect logic. In the end, In-gong lost to the orc’s logic and sprang up.
”Okay, let’s prepare to depart.”
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In fact, nothing special was needed to be prepared for the departure. He just needed to wear different clothes.
'This is due to the fever.’
They might think it was strange but he would continue to push the idea.
‘I just need to seem okay.’
Of course, there would be some doubts but what could they do? He had Shutra’s body!
Carack hadn’t moved past In-gong’s actions simply because he was an orc.
'Yes, maybe they will just be worried like Carack.’
The crucial part was that Shutra, Chris and Caitlin weren’t close friends. They might be worried but not suspicious.
'Or they might not be worried at all.’
In-gong nodded and looked around for a while. Carack was at the front with orcs walking on either side of him.
'Let me think. I will try to reason it out.’
He had cleared Knight Saga from Zephyr’s point of view. Therefore, he didn’t know the nuances of the relationship between Shutra, Chris and Caitlin.
However, it was possible to reason things out to a certain degree.
Zephyr had little contact with Shutra, Chris and Caitlin as a child. The reasons were different but in Shutra’s case, he had always stayed in a corner while Chris and Caitlin barely spent any time at the palace.
Unlike the other queens, Elaine Moonlight, queen of the lycanthropes and mother of Chris and Caitlin, didn’t have any ambitions to make her children the Demon King. Chris and Caitlin were educated at the royal palace of the lycanthropes.
Therefore, the two of them spend most of their childhood in the land of the lycanthropes rather than the Demon King’s Palace.
‘In other words, Shutra should have had almost no contact with Chris and Caitlin.’
This was probably not the first meeting but there was a high possibility that they hadn’t had a conversation before.
'Okay, I will just push forward. I won’t care about acting different.’
He had a severe fever and couldn’t remember anything. He seemed to have acquired a partial memory loss.
In-gong nodded with a determined expression but he soon found it tough to breathe.