XLVII. Balzac Joins (II)

Balzac stood quietly on the shore, looking at the white sails on the sea. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The sun's rays fell on his bald head, causing a reflection.

"A vibrant city, isn't it?" said the man suddenly.

Behind him was Van der Almac, who was sneaking around, standing on tiptoe, trying to get closer.

"?!?!" The duke, who originally wanted to scare the mercenaries, was taken aback himself.

"Balzac!!, why did you know I was coming, even though you didn't look back?"

"Hmph, yes, why?"

The tall mercenary smiled, turned around, and came to Fan.

"What's the matter, my little duke, have you come to patrol your territory?"

"Good...... It's so high!!" The sunlight was completely obscured by the tall figure, so that Fan had to raise his head in order to form a dialogue with Balzac.

"It's very sore to talk like this, Balzac, can you squat down?"

"Hehe, that's really rude, come on, my little duke. ”

The mercenary stretched out his hand and hugged Fan directly, and then he put Fan on his shoulder.

"Oh oh !! so tall and so tall!!" Fan did not look scared or surprised at all, he sat firmly on Balzac's shoulder, and said with great interest: "Is this the vision that a tall person can usually see?

"Someday you will grow up, my lord, and that day may not be far off. ”

"Grow up......"

Having said that, sitting on Balzac's shoulders and holding his head with both hands, Fan suddenly changed the subject: "By the way, Balzac, I heard that you are leaving?

"Yes. Balzac calmly admitted: "Now that the work has been completed and the remuneration has been paid, as a mercenary, chasing war is the right way, and it is impossible to always rely on such a peaceful place, no one here will hire me." ”

"I don't want you to go, Balzac, stay, like Leon, to be my knight!!"

Fan said straight to the point, this is his style all along.

Hearing Van's words, Balzac paused.

As if remembering something, he gently closed his eyes.

"Little Duke, let me tell you a story. ”

"Story, story about you running to slay dragons?"

"Hehehe, I can't do such an amazing feat as an unsuccessful man, maybe the knight who is loyal to you can, he is the protagonist of that kind of legend. ”

"My story is very ordinary, even a little boring, it's not an interesting story, how about it, do you want to listen to it?"

"Listen!!"

"Okay. Balzac sighed, unable to move his head and upper body, for that would cause the Duke to fall directly off of him, so he stiffened himself and began to tell the story.

Where to start, well, let's start with a stupid man who easily became a knight. ”

"There was a man, born into a family of knights, who from an early age wished to be a loyal knight and swore allegiance to his monarch. ”

"He has very good qualifications, and his family is quite powerful, so he became a knight when he became an adult. ”

"At that time, in the knightly kingdom, the king was already old, and there were three princes under him who had the right to inherit. ”

The knight, who knew the height of the heavens, took a fancy to one of the princes, and thought that he was worthy of being a wise king, so he easily swore allegiance to the prince. ”

After that, the knight continued to make achievements, participated in wars, and offered his victories again and again to the prince to whom he was loyal, and the prince, through the prestige accumulated by victory after victory, overwhelmed the remaining two princes in one fell swoop, and became the highest in line of succession. ”

The remaining two princes were not going to compromise, and they kept sending people to challenge and even assassinate the knight, but the knight was very powerful, and he easily solved the plots, and in turn embarrassed the two princes. ”

In this way, the prince to whom the knight was loyal eventually became king, and the knight became one of the most prestigious generals in the country. ”

"It was like a dream, a wise monarch, a happy family, a beautiful wife and a newborn son, everything was so beautiful, and the knight thanked the gods from the bottom of his heart for making him have such a good life. ”

"Maybe it wouldn't be bad if the story ended like this......" Balzac closed his eyes and sighed deeply.

"But ......"

"Has the knight's wife been snatched away? just like Ellie?" Fan, who was sitting on the mercenary's shoulder listening to the story, suddenly interjected: "It was the king who snatched the knight's wife, he had been spying on that wife's beauty for a long time, but as a prince, he couldn't go too far, and he still needed the help of the knight, so he had to endure until he became the king, and he could finally mess around unscrupulously." ”

"Knowing that the enemy was the king, the enraged knight led his army and rushed into the palace in one go, and after the two of them had experienced a battle of life and death, the knight killed the king, and then left the country, became a mercenary, and finally appeared in front of me. ”

"Isn't that so, Balzac?"

"Hehe......" Balzac smiled bitterly: "Although the result is correct, the process is not so ......"

"Because that knight is a stupid incorrigible fool bound by a so-called oath. ”

Then, Balzac's story opens again.

After the king ascended the throne, he began to be suspicious of knights with high prestige, and he deeply understood that the reason why he was able to become king was not by his own talents, but by the assistance of knights, and because of this, he deliberately wanted to eliminate the influence of knights on the country. ”

So, in the midst of a war to destroy the rebellion, the knight was sent to command the battle, and when the knight had destroyed all the enemies and returned to the royal city, he was waiting not for flowers and wine, but for swords from friendly troops. ”

"It turned out that the knights were not rebels at all, but regular troops sent by the king to carry out their missions. ”

"It turns out that among the army that was wiped out by the knights, there were a large number of nobles of the second and third generations of the state, most of whom were subordinates of the other two princes, and the death of these people made the great men behind them angry. ”

"It turned out that everything was a trap deliberately set by the king, and with false orders and intelligence, step by step, the knight was led into the abyss. ”

"The knight, even if he was stupid, understood all this, but he chose to be silent, he could not betray the monarch to whom he was allegiated. ”

So the knight was called a traitor, his men were wronged, and his family, his beautiful wife and lovely children were victimized and imprisoned. ”

Saying this, Fan found that Balzac's muscles were already tense, as if he was desperately enduring something.

Van gently touched Balzac's slick head.

"And then it's very old-fashioned. Balzac whispered: "After seeing the corpses of his wife and children, the knight finally could not bear it anymore, he gained the power that he did not have before, but it was too late, everything had changed, everything that the knight insisted on, became meaningless. ”

"The things that the knights believed in, the so-called loyalty and trust, were gone from the beginning, and the things that the knights wanted to protect, whether it was the monarch they were loyal to, the beautiful wives, the lovely children, the family behind them, also no longer existed. ”

"The knight lost everything. ”

So the knight became a mercenary, wandered around the continent, and finally came to this place, as you said, Lord Duke. ”

“......”

The story is over, but Danfan doesn't speak immediately.

"Hehe, it's a stuffy story...... Balzac smiled self-deprecatingly.

"Balzac, the king, did you kill him?"

"......" Balzac was silent for a moment, and sighed softly.

"Tsk, it's unpleasant, it's so unpleasant, it's so unpleasant, I'm so angry!!"

Where broke out.

"Balzac, you are such a good person, if it were me, I must strip that bastard and put him in a cage, write the identity and status of that bastard on the cage, and then put it at the city gate for people to see, and the viewing fee will be set at a copper!!Tell me who that bastard is, I will declare war on him, and that bastard should be killed fiercely!!"

"The knight Balzac has long ceased to exist, what is the point of talking about this now......" Balzac said lightly: "My little duke, after listening to this story, do you think that the stupid knight in the story will trust others again, and will he swear loyalty to others again?"

"I don't want you to trust me, and I don't want you to swear allegiance to me. ”

Van spoke.

He sat on Balzac's shoulder, and the sun shone on his face, making his body seem to shine.

"Balzac, this time I will trust you, and I will swear allegiance to you!"

"I believe that you will not betray me, that you will protect me in times of danger, and I, Van der Almac, hereby swear allegiance to Balzac, and will never betray you under any circumstances!!"

“......”

Balzac was silent.

Then, he chuckled softly.

The laughter grew louder and louder, so much so that his body kept vibrating.

Now Van, who sat on his shoulder, suffered enough, and he had to hold Balzac's head tightly so that it would not fall.

"Hahahaha, only knights have always sworn to the duke in the world, how can there be a reason for the duke to swear to the knight, it is simply inexplicable, the same is true of the fire before, you little ghost, it seems that you are very good at doing something unexpected. ”

He rubbed Fan's head vigorously, making a mess of his hair.

"I really want to see what kind of person you will become when you grow up......

"Then you stay, Balzac. Fan said with his head covered.

Balzac fell into a long silence.

After a long time, he spoke:

"The mercenary's life is upside down, and he doesn't know if he will die in the next war. ”

"I'm a little tired from wandering around. ”

"Let's take a break in this country......

"That's it...... Stay!!" Van looked at the mercenary with wide eyes.

"Don't be too happy, little duke," Balzac smiled faintly: "I will not be loyal to you easily, in the future, I will still stay in your territory as a mercenary, if you want me to contribute, just take out the commission, if you are a regular customer, you can give you a discount." ”

"No problem!!" Fan said categorically: "I'm super rich now, how much commission or something, Balzac, as long as you stay, one day, I will definitely make you my knight!!"

"It's good to have confidence, but not everything will work out that way. ”

The mercenary said lightly.

Fan had a big smile on his face, and that bright smile could almost compete with the sun in the sky.

"Then I'll wait and see, Balzac!!"

A QQ group was established

Group number: 6-8-5-2-2-8-5-4

Validation: Whatever

Harmonious pictures and harmonious speech are forbidden, and it is said that this is how the last group exploded......