53 Episode 52: Dragnaut Dukes (1/2)

The Kingdom of Canary is a small country that is less than one-third of the Adastella Empire in the east when viewed only on its land.

Its territory has habitats for monsters such as the forest of Titis, the Skim Mountain and the Catalan Desert, and its damage is endless.

However.

Nevertheless, the capital city of Horus was visited by many people, and the vigor was not extinct.

Of course there is a reason for this.

Despite the fact that monsters are often damaged, it is only on the outskirts. Cities such as Ishka and Persia have minimized the penetration of beasts, so that they can see no shadows as long as they live inside the walls.

Merchants who travel from city to city know that they won't be so dangerous as long as they follow regular roads.

The Canary Kingdom faces the sea to the north and the desert to the west, so the only neighboring countries are the Adastella Empire in the east and the Holy Kingdom of Clalus in the south. In recent years, the relationship between the two countries has been good and there is no danger of another country invading.

After all, the capital city of Horus was prosperous.

However, it is reasonable that the shadows become darker when the light is strong, and there are places where dark shadows are creeping into the thriving royal capital.

One of them was the House of the Duke of Dragnaut, located in the center of the royal city.

The Duke of Dragnaut is a prestigious family that has continued from the founding of Canary, the largest noble in the kingdom, and a royal family.

No single person in the Kingdom of Canary knows the name of Dragnaut.

The name of Pascal, the current head of the throne, is high, and the name of “”, who leads the Knights of the Dragoon, has proliferated to other countries.

Pascal had two daughters. The eldest daughter is Astrid and the second daughter is Claudia.

His eldest daughter, Astrid, is a great dragon knight and is the Deputy Chief of the dragon knights. Around this time, his father, who was relocating his activities to the Royal Palace, was increasingly called ”Raiko”.

The Astrid is now back and forth at the front door with a grueling look.

After a while, a carriage stops at the gate of the Duke's mansion. Pascal's father has returned from the Royal Palace.

Astrid rushed fast, and as he saw his father's face as he got off the carriage, he saw everything and looked down with a dark face.

”... Father, right?”

”Oh ... I was immediately sent by His Majesty. His engagement with His Highness Hazard and Klaus will be returned to blank.”

Estimate: ”That's where he finally stopped poisoning! If we take a little more time, I'm sure!”

”I said so, but ... I waited a year, saying I can't wait any longer.”

”but!”

”In addition, even if the poison escapes, let's say that you can't be a child unless the curse is released ...”

”It's ...”

Astrid grabbed his fist with his father's words.

Claudia Dragnaut, Astrid's sister and fiancé of Prince Hazard, is now under curse of unknown cause.

A panacea A curse that can be painful throughout the body, anytime, anywhere. Neither magic nor miracles were effective, and antidote, remedy, and even painstakingly ordered, had no effect.

--No, to be precise, it didn't have no effect. The pain could be temporarily removed.

But over time, the curse recurred. Any number of times, dozens of times.

Claudia was a bright, lucid, active girl. When her mother died, she was still young, but she was bitter enough to bite her lips to keep her from worrying about her surroundings and shed tears.

So, at first, I showed him a curse. I smiled so hard at my worried father and sister that I was so sloppy.

However, the curse was strengthened little by little, laughing at Claudia.

If you endure one pain, two pains. If you avoid the second pain, you have given the third pain.

Three, four, five, six ... the curse gradually increased as she struck a young girl, and it did not stop even after Claudia began to scream.

The father and sister had to make a decision after seeing Claudia succumbing to the pain, breaking her heart, and eventually tearfully complaining of ”kill and kill.”

To release Claudia from pain, he used painkillers made of Tanassian grass.

This painkiller was powerful, but it put a heavy burden on the body. To put it bluntly, it was a medicine for seriously injured and seriously ill people who could not avoid death.

Even if you make a mistake, it should not be used for twelve or three year old girls.

But Claudia, where all the other drugs had stopped working, would have been painfully killed if left alone. There was no other hand.