CPEB Chapter 19

“I belong to the Knights of the Albert Empire. Let me check the quantity for a moment.”

It was the tallest man I’ve ever seen. Blue eyes were seen at first glance through the gap surrounding the whole body with dark colored robes.

… … I don’t know anyone with a voice like that and a height like that..

I was acquainted with them when they were just young boys, and thwy didn’t have a particularly strong voice.

However, I knew the person. It was definitely an acquaintance.

I don’t know exactly who it is, but I thought so.

Blue dog. I had a hunch that the title, which was unusual, was directed at that person.

“Where are you going?”

A fellow member caught me rushing out of the carriage.

I stammered out, opening the robe wrapped around me just in case.

“The bathroom.”

“……Go and come back soon.”

I was about to get out of the carriage as soon as I got permission, but I felt a hand holding me again.

A nervousness rose and looked back with a frown. By the way, it wasn’t the members who grabbed me.

It was the man I believed to be the ‘Blue dog’.
“Would you say that again?”

“…….”

“Did you not hear me? Say it again…….”

“Mo-na, tell him!”

The member urged deciding it was not good to antagonize as the defeated country.

But at that moment, the man’s blue eyes grew wide.

Eventually, the man’s robe was taken off and his face was revealed.

Curly hair reaching to his neck, an unrecognisable hard-lined face, blue eyes and hair.

A face that resembles mine.

Because I was so surprised, my robe came off without me realizing it.

The man spat out when he saw my face that was clearly revealed.

“Long time no see.”

And then I spat it out, too.

“Sith…”

Why is this guy here?

Why isn’t he stuck in the corner of his room and now knows how to do business in the middle of this battlefield…….

I was gaping in confusion, and Sith, who had grabbed my arm, suddenly dragged me out of the carriage.

“Oh, where are you going?”

“You have to run away.”

“……?”

What the hell is going on?

It’s a situation where I have to run away, but why does it seem like Sith is trying to help me.

I’m sure this guy still hates me.

“I’ll explain the details later. I don’t have time right now. I’ve got a horse ready, so go as far north as you can…….”

“Sir Heather, what’s the matter?”

Sith’s urgent steps stopped.

My steps also stopped. It was drawn by itself(?).

It was because I felt another familiar presence behind my back.

“Sir Heather?”

It was so low that I couldn’t imagine the boy I knew, but it was still a soft voice.

“Why is there no answer? I asked if something was wrong.”

As the voice approached, my heart beat violently as I felt a sense of crisis.

Someone who’ll kill me. I can’t help but don’t want to meet him.

You’re not supposed to be here, either. What the hell?

“Sir Ortega.”

Sith, who turned around to cover me, called Vin.

Vin won’t be able to see me because of Sith who has grown so tall that I don’t recognize him, but I could feel that he was staring at me because he felt something strange.

“Is there a problem?”

Vin’s voice, which came close, was filled with a sense of doubt.

You’re still a quick-witted fellow.

“It’s nothing. There was only minor confusion in the quantification.”

“Is that so?”

Fortunately, Vin was no longer trying to dig into his doubts, but only to moved away with a greeting to do well.

Only then did Vin’s footsteps stop as soon as he tried to take a breather.

“By the way, what is it?”

“…What?”

“That thing you’re hiding behind you.”

I thought it was too easy to back off like that.

There’s no way that this fox would just fall for it.

What should I do? I think it’s only a matter of time before I get caught…….

Sith said he had a horse ready. Should I sneak out on my own and find it?

Can I trust Sith who hates me in the first place?

He’s one of those people who’ll kill me someday.

While I was contemplating, I could hear Vin walking in.

I felt Sith’s urgent gesture and the moment later, a large shadow was cast before me.

“A band of bandits! The Knights of the Abert Empire must be on guard immediately!”

The footsteps did not continue further.

Instead, there was a sound of a sword being pulled out of the sheath, and then I felt a strange sense of popularity(?), and soon the friction between the sword and the sword rang in the air.

It seemed a band of bandits appeared and attacked us right away.

I didn’t miss the break and moved quickly.

“Where!”

I felt Vin chasing me as if I had found him on the day he got off Sith’s back.

But unlike Bean, who would have only sat on a horse in a high position, I, as a mercenary, had run directly on the rough Serum ground.

I felt that his speed of chasing was getting slower.

But I didn’t feel safe yet, and whenever I saw a bandit blocking my way, I grabbed him by the collar and threw him back.

There was no one, when I looked back after running for a long time.

It seems that the future chief engineer couldn’t help himself in front of the eyes and human obstacles that drag their feet with every step they took.

“Haaaaaaaa.”

Only then, even while taking a breather, did I not neglect my guard and looked around.

What should I do now?

It’s dangerous to run away believing in Sith, so all I have left is to run away alone.

The question is, how?

This is not Abert. In Abert, the main stage of <The Crown Prince’s Lover>, there was a lot of information, so I could find a means to escape, but this is not the case here in Serom, which is only mentioned in the past.

There’s no way right now.

A sigh broke out in a sense of hopelessness.

“Ha… damn it.”

“Did our young master have something upsetting? What a sigh… Oh, it was a lady, not a young master. What brings you to this bloody battlefield?”

“I guess you’re on your way to escape from love with the knights, brothers.”

Men who appeared to be a group of bandits swarmed in front of me.

What are these. The extras that don’t even appear in the novel are blocking my way.

I burst into laughter with a pique of ridiculousness.

“Brother. Is this lady laughing at us?”

“I guess the lady doesn’t know anything, but a woman pretending to be arrogant is not attractive.”

“That’s right. If you’re a girl, you should smile gently and act cute!”

“I think it’s you who don’t know anything.”

I twisted my hair which was slightly sticking out between my robes.

Then I added.

“Don’t you know me?”

The face of the bandit, who was staring at my index finger without thinking, turned as blue as the color of my hair.

They shouted at the same time.

“AH, th-the mad dog!”

If there are red or blue dogs in Abert, there is a ‘Mad dog’ here in Serom.

High-ranking people may not know that our mercenaries are directly involved in the war, but my reputation is quite good among the lower class.

It’s understandable, because I’m quite mad, too.

“What are you doing? If you lose, you should smile gently and ask for help while acting cute.”

I stepped on the body of a bandit that had easily surrendered and whispered softly.

“Guk-, help….”

Maybe he’s asking for forgiveness now, but one of them tried to get up quickly.

But the bandit’s body couldn’t get up, and his words stopped along the way.

This is because a sword that suddenly appeared after breaking the air took his life.

I could tell who the owner of this neat workmanship was without looking back.

I just couldn’t respond because I felt it late, but this familiar sign of popularity(?)…….

“Why did he cower?”

Vin Ortega.

“What’s your relationship with Lord Heather?”

The voice behind the back was deep and strong as if it were digging into the heart.

Even if I hadn’t seen his face yet, I could clearly feel that he had quite a male aura.

Obviously, I know it, but the voice I hear is not like the person I knew.

That different feeling stopped the circuit of my thoughts.

Until Vin, who couldn’t stand my silence, grabbed my shoulder and forced himself to turn…….

So, the moment we finally meet.

I couldn’t regard this “man” in front of me as the “boy” I knew.

“…….”

Neatly organized silver hair, elegant and sharp features still existed.

However, the jawline and nose, which had become quite sharp, did not remain like it was before.

He had become a mature adult male. The sense of boredom, which had always been written in his eyes since he was young, seemed to be especially stronger.

But… …at this moment I saw.

The moment when light shines in blue eyes that were only blurry like a rainy sky.

I’m in it.

“…….”

Like me, his circuit of thought stopped, and Vin could not speak even though he opened his mouth.

He just looked at my face and looked at it over and over and over again.

At this point, the circuit of my thoughts continued again. That’s how I realized it.

“I’m doomed!”

What do you mean you recognize me? When you look at this reaction, you must have realized it as soon as you saw my face.

It’s been 7 years. How do you know right away?

I don’t think I would have ever noticed it was Vin Ortega just by looking at his face.

“……Finally.”

Vin, who seemed to be still in a daze, opened his mouth, which had only been a line on his face.

Then he smiled the prettiest and brightest smile I had ever seen.

“I found you.”