When we left the dungeon, we did not go directly to the person we wanted to see, but ran around after the soldiers found us on purpose.
We ran around there, sometimes knocking the soldiers out cold.
Finally, we were cornered at the main gate of the castle wall.
Soldiers surrounded us within a radius of about 15 meters from us.
Of course we were not in a desperate pinch …… with nowhere to run. This was my intention.
If a battle was to break out, a wide open space would be good.
I wanted to call “that guy” before that.
However, he seemed to be an impatient guy, and he showed up before I even had a chance to call him. I heard his sickening voice.
“Bwah-bwah-bwah, you can’t get away now, can you? I wonder where they got in from. I’ll have to give the soldiers a good spanking later.”
The soldiers around the entrance of the castle split in two, and a man over 50 years of age came striding out. He is a big man and looks like he eats a lot of good food. Gleaming eyes and thick lips. He didn’t look like he wanted me to come near him.
“You must be the lord of this place.”
“What is it, you? Don’t you know me? Indeed. I am Gutte Beauweil, lord of this region.”
He puffed up and smiled condescendingly at us.
This man is the one who set up the old lady. He is also the murderer of Nanalee’s parents.
Before he could order us to “catch” him, I pointed my finger at Gutte and shouted.
“Gutte, I am here to expose your evil.”
“What the hell?”
Gutte’s eyes scrutinized me as if he were offended.
“You got where you are by killing a number of your political opponents in what you faked to look like an accident.”
” What? Huh? Nonsense…… Where’s the proof?”
“That was seven years ago, on the day of the first snow!”
I read the information from his mind and explained it to him as if I had seen it, showing him the specific steps to be taken. Gutte turned pale at the sight of this information that only he could have known.
“Hmph, hmph. That’s ridiculous. I didn’t do that.”
Gutte was still trying to come clean, but I bombarded him with one revelation after another.
Gutte interrupted me and tried to order them to ‘capture’ me. But I anticipated this and followed.
“No, wait! I may have misremembered that.”
“Huh”
“Oh, I wasn’t wrong. Then next–”
“Noo!”
And so on.
I was careful not to interrupt the conversation by shaking him and sometimes making him argue with me.
“Well, then. In the fall of the year before last, you overcame the opposition of the local residents and cleared the mountain, didn’t you? I also know that you reported the landslide to the metropolitan government, blaming it on the opponents who had died at the time.”
But, well, there are so many.
There is no end to the stories of political failures. It’s hard to tell.
I can’t say them all, so I’ll just cut to the chase.
“Mother Earth knows everything you have done wrong. You must confess your sins in full and keep quiet in the dungeon until the officials from the capital come to arrest you.”
“…ugh……… ha! What are you doing, soldiers? Get him, quick!”
Gutte flapped his feet like a spoiled child and said, “Hurry up and catch him!” and “Don’t you dare jump on me!” as he shouted loudly.
However, the soldiers surrounding them hesitated.
They seemed to believe my story.
No wonder.
If one had seen Gutte’s bad behaviour on a regular basis, one would never think of him as someone worthy of trust.
They all thought, “Gutte Beauweil would have done it.”
But I didn’t confront them with the evidence.
The soldiers were hesitant, but they narrowed the siege, saying, “It’s an order, so we have no choice.”
And then…
“Hey, hey, what are you scared of? You’ re dealing with a kid, a woman, and an old lady, ain’t you?”
“……ugi, ugi, ugi, ugi ……”
With a clang of armor, a pair of strange men appeared. They push the soldiers away and advanced on Gutte.
One is in armor without a helmet. He is carrying a large sword on his shoulder and has an evil look on his face.
The other is a large man, perhaps over two meters tall. He is completely covered from head to toe in thick armor.
“Ha, I’ve been waiting for you. What have you been doing?”
Apparently, mercenaries hired by Gutte. They seem to be like bodyguards.
“Well, it took me a while to get my brother ready.”
“Ugigi……”
The man patted his giant armor and chuckled.
“Take care of those guys right away. But do not kill them. The old woman has her uses. As for the men, I have a lot of questions to ask him.”
“Mr. Beauweil, what about the women?
“Well, do as you please.”
At Gutte’s words, the man licked his tongue and looked at Nanalee and Liza.
“Ugigi……Children are Odeh’s property.” (T/N: Translating this single line was so hard T-T)
“Heh, you still have good taste, don’t you? That’s good. I don’t want the kid, so I’ll give it to you.”
“Ugigi.. Gotcha”
What are you deciding on your own?
“Oh, oh, oh! Even a crying child will shut up if we–bubbe!”
In the middle of the name-dropping, I got close to him and gave him a chop on the brain.