Chapter 13 (1/2)

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An armored soldier was running frantically and come to a stop in front of a huge stone castle. Sweat dripping from his forehead, standing up straight even though his shoulders are raising up and down indicating he is out of breath.

「What’s the matter?」

When the soldier who guards the gate speaks, he replied while breathing roughly.

「Con, conveying. At the sky, a mysterious object is flying…… it, it’s heading, in this direction……!」

「Mysterious object? What on earth are you talking about?」

「Enough of that, hurry, report it to the high ministry! It’s already approaching close to Beesh City!」

Seeing the soldier’s serious expression, the gatekeeper turns his back in a hurry.

He barges inside the castle and hastened his pace through the dark green carpet. While everyone turns their head to the gatekeeper, he proceeds to the second floor and addresses the person who is standing in the back of the aisle. He then raises his voice.

「Excuse me, Riggan-sama!」

The man called Riggan turned around and knitted his brows to the state of the disorganized soldier who left his gate watch duty in a hurry.

He is a well-built man of about forty years old. He has a neatly trimmed mustache, and sharp eyes that glint occasionally.

The soldier who arrived in front of Riggan opened his mouth while looking directly at Riggan.

「A message, sir. I was informed that a mysterious object is flying above the Beesh City in the south, sir. He said, it is heading towards this direction.」

「A mysterious object? No way, this isn’t a big dragon by any chance is it?」

As Riggan asks the questions in a low voice, the soldiers reflexively turns his eyes away.

「I, I do not know. However, with all due respect, sir, I think they will not mistaken a dragon with a mysterious object……」

When the soldier tells that, Riggan keeps silent while narrowing his eyes. The sweat on the soldier’s cheek starts to fall and drip from beneath his chin.

Riggan who was contemplating nodded and raised his face.

「I understand, leave.」

「Yes, sir!」

Riggan turned his back to the soldier and headed towards the back of the aisle and went upstairs.

Going up the stairs, two soldiers were standing guard.

「I wish to seek an audience.」

When Riggan says no more than that, one of the soldiers quickly walked through the aisle and stopped in front of the big door.

A short time later after the soldier left, he came back again.

「Please.」

As soon as he heard that word, Riggan moved in front of the big door. The door is already opened, and a woman in a maid dress is holding one of the doors with both hands.

「Excuse me.」

Riggan said so as he entered, where in there was a big desk in the dim room laid out with a thick carpet and a man with long white hair was sitting still.

He’s a man with oval-faced whose cheeks are thin enough that it becomes hollow. He is almost or past 60 years old. The hollow around his somewhat droopy eyes resembles a skeleton.

That man sat on a big luxurious chair with a backrest, placed his hands on the desk and raised his face.

「What’s the matter?」

The man spoke, his voice was hoarse.

「It is a unique one, but there was a report of a flying object in the sky currently approaching towards this direction from the south, I will report it just in case.」

「A flying object in the sky…」

The man narrows his eyes on Riggan’s report.

「……Do you have any idea?」

「… No, nothing at all」