Chapter 51: Crossing Point (1) (2/2)
“After all, the Great Storm tribe were elves.”
The northern barbarians consisted of dozens of tribes, some of which, were made up of different races itself.
The Great Storm tribe was a tribe that inherited the blood of the Forest Elves, specifically, the Winter Elves.
“Because the early scenario of Red Wind was to run away from the slave auction house…are we helping her to escape then?”
Cordelia smiled happily at the thought of it as she talked, but Jude shook his head.
“No, we’re not going to do that.”
“Why are we not doing that? Are we not going to save Red Wind?”
“We have to save her. But as I said before, we have an urgent schedule. The reason why Red Wind was able to escape was because of the raid on the slave auction house, but we have to wait for another month for that event to happen.”
“Can’t we just sneak in ourselves and rescue her?”
“It won’t be easy. It’s going to be dangerous. The place where Red Wind is locked up is in the largest slave auction house in the north.”
“Then, what are we supposed to do?”
“Red Wind is a slave now.”
“She is a slave.”
“Yes, so why not buy her?”
“You won’t help Red Wind escape?”
“Yeah, let’s buy her with money peacefully. Without fighting.”
As if it was a clear solution, Jude even showed a bright smile, but Cordelia pouted her lips.
“There’s something I don’t like.”
“What is it?”
“It’s just…”
She had imagined the future of becoming Red Wind’s benefactor by punishing the vicious slaver.
On top of that, she found the situation itself, where Red Wind served as Jude’s slave, as somehow unpleasant.
“Come to think of it, there is one more thing that bothers me.”
“One more thing?”
“How are we going to get the money?”
As Cordelia had said, Red Wind was beautiful, so she would be priced very expensively.
The two had enough funds from resolving minor events that they encountered on the way, but that was only in terms of travel expenses.
Cordelia had remembered that Red Wind’s product rating was in the upper middle.
To buy such a woman, they simply needed a huge fortune.
But at Cordelia’s comment, Jude had an evil grin instead of being discouraged.
“Hehehe…if that’s the case, I’ve already prepared some measures, Madam.”
“W-what is it?”
Cordelia asked as she took a step back without realizing it, but Jude grabbed her wrist instead of answering.
“Follow me. You’ll find out right away.”
She wondered on what the hell was he talking about.
Cordelia then nodded with an anxious face.
And 20 minutes later…
In front of a luxurious and enormous building, Cordelia’s eyes blinked as she stood there with a blank face, and soon turned her head to Jude.
“Is this our means of making money?”
“It is.”
At Jude’s confident answer, Cordelia faced the front again, and read the letters on the large signboard.
Lankebuste Casino.
Where dreams and hopes come true.
She had nothing else to say. Cordelia turned around right away and began hitting Jude’s back mercilessly.
“It hurts! It hurts! That hurts more! It hurts more!”
Cordelia dragged Jude into an alley to avoid people’s eyes and yelled after hitting him a few more times.
“Hey, you fool! You brought me there to make money at a gambling house? Ha, I can’t believe you!”
“Heeyy…it’s okay though?”
“That okay is sh*t! Let’s break off our engagement! Break it off! Gambler is out!”
Cordelia opened her mouth as if to bite him, and Jude took a step back from her and then raised one hand forward like a trainer trying to calm an animal as he quickly said.
“It’s really okay. You know who I am, right?”
“A gambler?”
“…I’m Outboxer009. The indisputable 1st place in Legend of Heroes 2’s rankings.”
“I suddenly want to hit you more.”
“Anyway, trust me. Have you seen me talking nonsense?”
Jude earnestly spoke as he looked directly at her, and Cordelia seemed to scowl, before she eventually sighed, and her shoulders sank.
“Can you really do it?”
“I can do it.”
“Okay, I’ll believe in you.”
“Thank you, Madam. I’ll make you lightning-rich soon, so please look forward to it.”
“Don’t spend it all, don’t waste our money. If you do so, I’ll break off our engagement immediately. Do you understand, fiancé?”
“I understand. So come with me.”
Jude reached his hand out to Cordelia as if escorting her, and Cordelia held Jude’s hand with a dissatisfied look.
“Now then, shall we win the jackpot?”
“You can’t just win it like that.”
“Hey, don’t worry. And frankly…don’t you believe in me?”
Because he was Jude and not anyone else.
“Hmph, I do not?”
Cordelia snorted right away, but he could tell from her eyes.
After all, she would have opposed it to the very end if she didn’t believe in him in the first place.
“I will live up to your trust, my lady.”
“I didn’t say that.”
In the end, the two walked towards the casino side by side.
***
And at that same time.
A very important meeting was taking place in Bailon, the border city in the southernmost part of the northern region.
“I can no longer set it aside and wait and see.”
Speaking in a very serious tone was Count Bayer, Jude Bayer’s father and one of the ten swordmasters in the Sälen Kingdom.
“If the current situation continues, Count Hræsvelgr will have no choice but to put them in the wanted list. And that…that would be the worst situation.”
Three counts were searching all over the north to catch the two youths who have eloped despite the fact that their engagement was already recognized by both of their families.
There was nothing disgraceful about their relationship, yet the two did that.
Moreover, the movement of the Devil’s Hand weighed on his mind too. They had to secure the two before something really big happened.
“It would be nice if either you or I could move in person… but that would be impossible.”
At the words of Count Bayer, Count Chase nodded his head in silence.
Whether it was Count Bayer, who ruled Bailon, or Count Chase, who was in charge of the Red Dawn Tower, it was unreasonable for them to go all the way to the distant territory of Count Hræsvelgr.
They would most likely be away for more than a month.
“So I’m thinking of sending Gaël instead.”
Gaël Bayer.
The eldest son of Count Bayer and the older brother of Jude.
In fact, Count Chase nodded at the strongest hand that Count Bayer could take out.
“On my side, I’ll be sending Adelia.”
“Adelia? Isn’t she in the center now?”
Her situation was different from Gaël, who had stayed with Count Bayer to inherit the territory.
Count Chase’s eldest daughter was one of the seven heads of the Royal Guard Magic Corps.
“She came here to this faraway place after she took a vacation. She seemed to have a lot of complaints on what happened recently between Jude and Cordelia.”
Jude, that parasitic younger brother, it’s clear that he’s toying around with the kind, innocent, and angelic Cordelia! – Those were his eldest daughter’s words that Count Chase had omitted.
“Gaël and Adelia…should be enough.”
“They should be enough.”
“When will they depart?”
“It’s possible for him to do so right now.”
“This side too.”
They could no longer stand by and watch Jude and Cordelia cause trouble to Count Hræsvelgr.
Furthermore, they were fathers who were very worried about the safety of the two.
And an hour later.
Gaël Bayer and Adelia Chase left the border city of Bailon to arrest the crazy couple.