Vol 2 Chapter 11 (1/2)

Chapter 11: Number 11, Judgement – translated by Doza

Silvie stared at the blade that was being thrust towards him, with eyes still as wide as before. It wasn’t that he was unafraid, just that his life was threatened nearly every day. For example, he had fallen down a cliff, been chased by a large swarm of bees, nearly been bitten by a viper, and so on. He had long since formed a habit of not shutting his eyes no matter how dangerous it was, so that he could react in time… and give OhmyG.o.d time to save him.

The only difference right now was that OhmyG.o.d wasn’t on his person.

Why hasn’t Carol arrived yet?

He was really going to die…

The blade reached his chest, and Silvie’s last thought was of whether he would be able to meet Teacher L.L.

He finally closed his eyes.

“Thump!”

…Why doesn’t it hurt? The sound also seems odd, and my chest feels a bit heavier?

Silvie opened his eyes and saw a golden colored, transparent object stuck on his chest. Its tail was tightly wrapped around the blade, not letting it move another half-inch closer.

“OhmyG.o.d!”

OhmyG.o.d has arrived, that means… Carol has also arrived! Silvie immediately turned his head and glanced around as he yelled, “Carol, Carol!”

“I’ve heard you, and I’m going deaf from all your shouting!”

Silvie’s shouts instantly stopped, while Cale was startled. At that moment, the wall with a window suddenly made a cracking noise, and cracks started appearing. They ran from the upper right corner down to the bottom left corner, and ran from the upper left corner to the bottom right corner. A giant X had actually formed on the face of the wall…

“Bang!”

The entire wall flew apart from the center, creating a giant hole. Through the thick cloud of dust and smoke, he faintly saw a person’s shadow…

But when the smoke and dust cleared, there were many more people outside the hole. The foremost person was Carol, and behind her was Halfleaf looking stunned. There were also some people by the side that Silvie and Cale did not recognize at all, and their expressions were even more dumbfounded than Halfleaf’s.

Carol was wielding two gigantic blades. She usually only held a blade in her right hand, but this time even her left hand was holding a blade, and it was even bigger than the one in her right hand. The contrast was even more obvious seeing them held in her slim hands. It was simply unbelievable that she could actually wield those weapons!

“Wh-Who are you?” The woman finally returned to her senses and shrieked.

“Who I am is not important.” Carol said coldly, “But the ones behind me are the city lord’s subordinates. They’ve already heard what you guys just said.”

What we just said… When the woman recalled what she had previously said, her entire face instantly turned pale.

“It was her, it was all her doing!” The man by her side suddenly shouted, “She murdered my brother with poison!”

The woman turned back and stared at the man beside her incredulously. She stuttered, “You, you… I didn’t do it! He put the poison in the soup. I merely pa.s.sed it on to my husband to drink!”

The two of them pushed the blame back and forth. One moment he said she had bought the poison, the next moment she said he had come up with the scheme. Unknowingly, the two of them had given a full account of what had happened.

Cale was furious when he heard it and couldn’t restrain himself from charging forward. However, Carol was faster and with a single leap, she dashed between Cale and the other three people. Even though her back was facing Cale, which was a disadvantageous position not suitable for offense, Cale knew that he definitely could not break through this wall.

He halted his steps, not knowing how to release the rage in his heart.

“Compared to killing them,” Carol shot a glance back at Cale as she spoke, “It should be even more agonizing for them to let everyone know about their terrible act and let them be locked up in the city lord’s dungeons to await judgment. This way of payback is also more right and proper, isn’t it?”

“Did, Didn’t you not want to help me?” Confused, Cale asked, “At the start, when Silvie wanted you to help Halfleaf and me, you briefly looked at Halfleaf, but you frowned at me…”

“Did I? I frowned?” Carol said flatly, “I only felt that your problem was harder to handle. Halfleaf wanted to save his brother. Saving people isn’t difficult. However, without any proof or evidence for your case, it wouldn’t be easy to convict somebody of a crime.”

Oh I see… Cale raised his head and looked at Carol. He suddenly felt his eyes warm and hastily bowed his head. “I’m sorry, I misunderstood you.”

Carol didn’t answer him. Instead, she turned her head, yelling, “Silvie!”

Silvie jumped in shock from having his name called suddenly, and promptly asked, “What’s the matter?”

“We should go.”

Carol sheathed her blades, turned around, and left. When she pa.s.sed the city lord’s subordinates, she coldly snapped out a command, “Don’t let me hear of any unreasonable sentence, got it?”

Instantly, those subordinates replied nervously, “Yes!”

Seeing that Carol was leaving, Silvie quickly grabbed Cale with his left hand, gripped Halfleaf with his right hand, and then chased after her.

“Carol, wait for us!”

They walked straight out of the city. Even though the city gates were closed in the middle of the night, the moment Carol took out an insignia and flashed it, the guardsmen at the city gates obediently opened the gates. It was just like previously when the city lord had seen this insignia and obediently dispatched his subordinates to follow Carol and eavesdrop.

But in fact, this insignia didn’t belong to Carol. It was the white rose insignia that Silvie had inherited from his teacher, the insignia that the Holy King had personally issued to L.L., to bestow upon him the t.i.tle as the king’s wandering bard.

After walking a short distance outside the city, Carol found a clean and open s.p.a.ce to sit down. In a commanding tone, she said, “Silvie, cook some food! Don’t do it slowly; cook a bit faster. I’m starving.”

Although there were provisions in Halfleaf’s cloth-wrapped bundle, after getting used to eating Silvie’s hand-cooked food, she naturally wouldn’t eat those dry provisions if she could avoid it.

“Oh, okay!”

Silvie started to get busy. He chopped up food in preparation for boiling soup, requested Halfleaf to gather dry twigs for a fire, and then handed the job of roasting meat to Cale. As people were helping him, his speed naturally increased a lot, and before long, they could begin eating.