159 the north (4) of the mountain range

Arthur caught Mietz by the collar and shook him, but he did not wake up again, and he spread it out.

Maybe he was reunited with someone who would rest easy and relaxed, making it easier for him to relax.

Mietzs, who sighed deeply, put a cello on one waist and Arthur on one waist, lifted him up and went up to the second floor. After leaving Rachel in Isiel's room and Arthur in his room with Clayo, Mietzs returned to the table where Clay was the only one left.

The pub owner cleaned all the dishes on his way home from work, and the empty hall was filled with the cloudy scarlet of a bonfire.

Clayo was tired too, but he didn't feel like falling asleep right now.

'I thought I was always there for you, but I didn't expect this to happen.’

Clayo explained to Mietzs on behalf of Arthur what happened during the final exam.

In the words of Arthur and Isiel's attitude and letter, Mietz also seemed to know all about Arthur's plans.

Judging to be a reliable person, he did not hide the collusion between Aslan and Pierce Klagen.

gurgling

Mietzs, who searched the cabinet of the bar and found a new bottle of liquor, hurriedly tore off the wax cap and filled his glass as if he was burning inside.

After emptying his drink without food, he stared at the bonfire and opened his mouth.

"What does Asher think about Pierce Klagen?"

"What can I do? I don't think I'm different from others."

"I've been to the capital city for over 20 years. What do people say about Captain Pierce Klagen these days?

"There's no one who says good things. They're all in power, overwhelmed by his position, unable to face it head on."

"He who pursues the world without honor or honor."

"He has no children to inherit power, and he is not going to live for thousands of years, and he just follows power without hesitation.’

When he gave the same comment from Dione, Mietz looked like he wanted to blow a sick bugle.

"In addition, the moustache doesn't go well with it, and it feeds on wax and raises it stiffly, so there are cartoons that often make fun of it."

"Oh, you're a very notorious person.”

"Yes, he's the one who usually gets angry with Professor Rosa Fehite. When Sodmaster, the driver, even used this type of painting to injure the student, the teacher pulled out the sword himself and stopped him. Oh, Rosa, what about you?.”

"I know, I know. He's the leader of the national convention. Whoo."

For a while, I could only hear Mietz pour the drink and put the bottle down.

The shaky bonfire cast a deep shadow over his face. The man's tight mouth, high nose, and deep inside were strangely familiar.

While Clayo recalled the source of familiarity he felt in the face of the first man, Mietz calmed down.

"Well, have you ever heard that he was a man of his own name?”

"I've never heard of it. Besides, his title is forgotten.”

"Jesus, yes. Then do you know why you look like that?"

After hearing Mietz's meaningful question, Clay felt intuitively.

"Mr. Imietzs is a noble or important person. Personally enough to know about Pierce Klagen.'

Schliemann Kishion was not a foolish person, not just an honest man. He is a human being brought in as his daughter's teacher, so there is everything.

His long hair was messy with a round head, his chin was roughly grown out of beard, and his robe was worn out, but it was a camouflage.

The man's rough hands were clean under his fingernails, and his table manners were as neat as a well-educated man.

'I don't know what's going on, but you can disguise your appearance, but you can't change your attitude completely.’

As you can see from the match between Arthur and Isiel during the final exam, they wrote the textbook in swordsmanship that seemed to be solidified by the human body.

It wasn't a posture that I could get used to by training for a day or two or a year or two.

In the first place, it was impossible for a person who could not use proper swordsmanship to pass on the knight's sword to his disciples. Clayo, whose sword performance was so close to failing, knew it.

"The teacher who taught them couldn't be a mercenary without a name or a knife. So what is this guy, and what else do you know about the Knights?’

In the last manuscript, Pierce Klagen was attached to Aslan at the crucial moment of the Second War.

The fact that the commander of the Capital Defense Corps was involved in the Second Prince's rebellion has dealt a severe blow to Albion.

'If this man could give you a clue to stop Pierce....’

Clayo was also determined to become blurred by the rise of drunkenness and fatigue. Then Mietz gave the answer he was waiting for.

"…maybe because of the prohibition of the covenant?”

The teacher's thick eyebrows wiggled. It was the response of the person who heard the answer that he had never imagined would be heard.

"Yeah. Everyone once knew Pierce Klagen's title, but now no one remembers his title and the records written have been destroyed. Wet, worn, torn. It happens before you know it, and you can't recover it with the restoration magic. What is the age of science and progress, we still have these geeks together."

with a gulp

"Student Asher, just one question. Did you make a promise with Arthur like Isiel?"

"No."

"You're clever. I'm telling you, I really stopped Isiel from trying to tie himself to such a thing. But once he made up his mind, he didn't listen to me."

The sanction of the covenant was weaker than the magic formula of the covenant or the 'Ether imprinting contract'. I don't ask for your life. However, Mietz treated the restriction as if it were a bad curse.

"Do you think the two will betray each other's covenant, or will they be forced to do so?"

All of a sudden.

in a huff

"Do you know when [the covenant] first appeared?"

"I learned that it comes from the oath of absolute loyalty that Leonid I received from the honorable knights of the Round Table."

Clayo recited what he heard in classical time.

When it came to a time when it was not directly described in the manuscript, Clay knew only as much as ordinary students in Albion.

At this point, Clayo thought there would have been a lot of difficulties if he hadn't pretended to be a student.

I didn't think of that when I read the manuscript, but when I came here, I thought there should be more free quality. I had a little idea what was going on when I went to school.'

"Loyalty? Honor? Call me a dick. At best, the essence of the covenant is the leash filled with ethers."

"Isn't it necessary for knights with external powers to live among those who don't have ether sensitivity and not cross the line?”

[Promise] was an essential component of a knight's book. The convention was praised as an honor. In a society of strict social status, honor was fundamentally a virtue of privilege.

Only noble or distinguished can have it.

'What's the name, knights and wizards can be controlled. I thought it was a smart design.'

"You think from the perspective of a hard-working magician and ordinary people. I understand why Arthur likes you... Have you ever wondered why the king should be the one who holds the reins of gold?"

No way.

"Jeong-jin" did not mean much, only not to Arthur because he was afraid that he would forget about his mother and brother.

Clayo had nothing to say, so he just stuck out a glass.

Mietzs, who filled the glass, continued slowly.

"The covenant is actually a variation of the curse. The King of Conquest did not give a round table to the retainer who refused the covenant, so the covenant would have been forced."

Those who have graduated from the Capital Defense College cannot avoid the pledge if they are appointed as prosecutors or wizards.

"Student, think about it. Even if the king he swore dies, the covenant will not be broken. It will be inherited from the king to the chosen legitimate heir. It's like treating the now-defunct slave class.”

"…I see. Contrary to public perception, [the covenant] is never a noble act."

"Leonid I, the king of conquest, was a cruel and cold-hearted person. That's the essence of the king who fought the evil of the beast with the knights, the first Sword Master, the knights."

The Kingdom of Albion was founded during the decline of the Horonos Holy Empire, which ruled the Dernier and Centrum continents from ancient to modern times.

Before Leonid I ascended to the throne, Albion was only one of several secular provinces of the Holy Empire and the Thames basin. From the south to the north of the land, which is now part of Albion, many kingdoms occupied it.

But the gates of Manemoshin were opened, and all the places were filled with evil spirits, and the empire was destroyed. The kingdoms collapsed and the people covered the road.

In that very turbulent period, Leonid I was born.

It took only 12 years for the heir of a barren secular state to overthrow Masu and conquer the entire western coast of the Dernier continent.

"And at last the king was a disaster. Because before there was Sodmaster in every country like now, there was no one to stop him. If he had lived five more years, historians would have unified the entire continent."

"Yes, I heard so."

"How noble would it be to have an ether gold medal created in anger at his knight who had an affair with his wife?"

"…an affair? It's really the first time I've heard that."

"This is strictly confidential, so few people know it. That's why Tristane is stuck in this corner. Because Lancelot Tristin coveted Queen Isalt, he had to prove his sincerity to King Leonid I until his death. He was bound by the covenant, so he could not leave the North for fear of gold.”

"Tristan and Isolde, Guinevere and Lancelot?" What's wrong with you, author?

"Morolt wasn't the only one in this rough a thousand years ago. There was also a black snake phyton, but there is a tradition that the Duke of Tristane was left in the North because he couldn't catch it.”

“!!!”

Clayo, who was trying to determine what Mietzs knew properly or if he was like an old man in this neighborhood, was able to straighten himself out.

'Pyton is the first number in the last manuscript. Flying reptiles... It's the boss mob that woke up in a thousand years and managed to kill Arthur Party.’

Clayo dramatically revised his assessment of Mietzs from an old man to a major NPC.

'So far, no one has appeared meaningless in 's development.'’

"…then, did you come here as soon as Mazu was subdued to stop Phyton?"

"What am I to stop it? I'm just here for the money."

I could see without this arrangement of late. Mietz is not a good liar, so the temperature difference between when he speaks the truth and when he imitates Walfa was huge.

"Anyway, it's been explained that there's been a lot of malice in politics, right? Don't you know why I stopped Isiel?"

"Yes, enough. And if she had heard all of this, she would have.”

"You must really be their friend. You know very well. The little ones are stubborn. [Promise] is not a violation, but a crime is committed even when you tell them that it works when they don't fulfill it!"

"The two of them will remain, but all the official articles in this country are written after the covenant. You know that, but you don't have an article that rejects the promise?”

"Most people didn't know the fear of gold.The knights of Absalom I were abandoned by the king himself, and he was the king of understanding. He did not inherit the covenant in the first place.”

"But there have been quite a few articles that have lost their memory since the rose fire."

" That's right. King Edward in the firstborn of the Roses because to death.”

Mietz's explanation was quite detailed.

The knights who betrayed Edward, the king of war, and chose Philip the current king, all lost their memory due to the prohibition of the covenant. But the memories that I lost were all different from person to person.

"There were a lot of minor oblivions, forgetting the names of their pets or losing interest in their cherished collections. It didn't even look like a big constraint.

That's when our generation of knights realized... Actually, a covenant is not an absolute bondage. They can change the king. The breakdown of the covenant does not take their lives."

"Isn't the Knights well maintained for that?"

As Clayo knows, the current knights were the ones who made a new covenant with King Philippe.

'If you don't inherit it, isn't it okay to write an article as a pledge once you become a king?'

Clayo's question was resolved in a second.

"It's not a good thing that the driver thinks of his covenant as a joke. Lord Pierce should act as if he doesn't know what loyalty is, and the Duke of Kruell should listen to the queen's orders instead of the king. This is very strange to the Albion people. Clay, I don't know if you've ever been born like that."

"To follow your instructions, there is no reason for the king to have the right to the covenant, so isn't it better to have the constraints weakened than in the past?"

"No, on the contrary, it might drive the drivers out of control. It's really dangerous. The effects of forgetfulness and memory loss are not immediately apparent. At first, it seems like only a small price....”

Mietzs told more stories about the banned articles he had interviewed.

Some people slowly lost the herbivores of swordsmanship. I had memorized it since I was five years old, but I couldn't remember anything. Some even forgot their names and parents.

"But because the oblivion slowly took place, and because there were many people who left the capital, the terrible ending was hidden. Now there's probably only a few knights in the Capital Defense Corps who joined Pierce in the conspiracy."

At this moment, there was only one emotion that dominated Clayo's mind.

'Wow, I'm so glad I didn't do that.’

"Before Count One, Pierce Klagen was the best and most just knight in the country. He was a man who could pretend to be a villain for the right choice. Isn't that amazing?"