Volume 4 - CH 50

Act 4-50: Last Compassion(Side: Gilbert Loto Amelia)

――――Private Room of A Certain High-End Residential Area In The North of Babel

「Has the report of Somni and the incompetent’s execution arrived?」

The 1st prince of Amelia kingdom, Gilbert Loto Amelia, asked a guardian knight with loach beard, the top dog of his guardian knights, in an irritated voice.

「Though we’ve yet to receive the report, I do understand your worry. We were different from all of your previous untalented senior knights.」

Watching the guardian knight straightened his posture, replying so while pinching his prided loach beard,

「Naturally! I’ve paid exorbitant amount of money for your service after all! I’ll be in trouble if you’re not worth the price!」

The guardian knights smiled. Their figure was overflowed with confidence, they did have the ability to support their pride, and unshakable belief that their side would be the final winner.

All of them were martial art masters scouted by Gilbert from all over the world, and offered their service after being promised to be paid handsomely. Hunters, mercenaries, even people from underworld. Every single one of them was a one man army.

Until now, only a senior knight with certain amount of military exploit could become guardian knight. But, Gilbert decided to change them, prioritizing real ability over everything after witnessing Somni’s immaturity and Tamri’s timidness, which caused his defeat to an incompetent.

「Yeah, You’ll see just how useful we are.」

「Spare me your lip service. Show it with your actions!」

「That’s our intention.」

And as expected, the guardian knight’s loach bearded leader replied so while maintaining a smile on his face.

「So, what’s the explanation that you prepared after the disposal of the two?」

Gilbert sat in the most luxurious chair in the center of the room, heaved a sigh and then asked.

「The incompetent hired Tokotsu to kill Somni. Though Somni managed to kill the incompetent right before he died, Tamri, who fought Tokotsu, ended up killed in action. That’s the scenario we’re going to use.

Tamri is useless, as the former leader of Your Highness’s guardian knight, he actually lost to an incompetent, resulting in your humiliation.」

「That’s good enough. But, are you sure that there really is no problem in there?」

「Yes, we received information from vice headmaster that they’ve already disposed the incompetent. They’ve confirmed the corpse of that pitiful silkpants called Somni too.」

「I see…」

Maybe because the report he wanted to hear already  reached his ears, Gilbert sat back in his chair with a relieved look on his face.

With this, he managed to execute the incompetent who was ignorant of his status and dared to humiliate Gilbert, a royalty. In addition, Gilbert had already disposed Somni and Tamri who proven to be useless. He also used this chance to deal with the incompetent apprentice knight. After this, the power of Gilbert’s new guardian knights were greatly augmented.

The death of the incompetent would mean the death of Rose’s royal guard too.

In crown contest, royal guard and royalty has inseparable relationship, like head and body. The death of one’s royal guard wasn’t a simple matter. It would be followed by a huge penalty, which would make winning crown contest close to impossible.

「Will Rose drop out of competition after this?」

The moment Gilbert beamed delightfully, the entire building shook with deafening sound.

「W-What the hell is that!?」

Seeing Gilbert rise from his chair as he asked loudly, the loach bearded guardian knight raised his vigilance at once, and signaled to his subordinates, the man with lizard tattoo on his right cheek, to check the situation outside.

「…」

The man with lizard tattoo drew closer in the entrance at once as he unsheathed the knife from its sheath on his waist. When he was about to reach the entrance――

「Uhm?」

The man with lizard tattoo frowned upon seeing several lines on the gate. The next moment, the door broke to pieces along with the man.

「DRAW YOUR WEAPONS! PROTECT THE PRINCE!」

After the loach beard’s order, the guardian knights unsheathed their weapons, and moved forward to protect Gilbert.

Standing in front of the sliced door a black-haired youth.

「H-HOW DID THE INCOMPETENT!!?」

Gilbert screamed in shock. That was natural. A baby-faced youth with medium build wearing a foreign attire. That was the description of Kai Heineman supposed to die in the report.

「KILL.」

The moment the head guardian knight gave such order, the tall and muscular red-haired man with crew cut leapt toward Kai Heineman in a flash, and brandished his greatsword toward the latter’s neck.

The greatsword was repelled much easily with the wooden sword in Kai Heineman’s right hand, the next moment, body of the red-haired had already been sliced to pieces, and plopped on the ground.

「I-impossible…」

The Head knight barely managed to squeeze that word.

「That idiot prince over there, follow me like a good kid. Denial or resistance is futile, this is an order.」

Kai Heineman ordered Gilbert with in extremely arrogant attitude, as if the man with loach beard wasn’t even worth his attention.

「HOW DARE YOU, A LOWLY NOBLE ORDER ME! KILL HIM!」

Gilbert ordered the guardian knights around him but,

「…」

Every single one of them trembled in their place.

「WHAT’S MATTER! THIS IS MY, A PRINCE ORDER!」

None of them flinched no matter how much he screamed at them.

「It’s futile. Their eyes’ are that of losers.」

As soon as Kai Heineman said those words,

「WHAT ARE YOU DOING! KILL HIM!」

Gilbert shouted again to the point that his throat was about to rupture.

「Impossible… We can’t win against THAT.」

The captain who showed composed face until now barely squeezed those words.

「DON’T MESS WITH ME! JUST HOW MUCH I PAY YOU GUYS TO USE YOUR SERVICE!?」

Hearing Gilbert’s rambling, Kai Heineman frowned in displeasure, then threw something wrapped in clothes in his left hand,

「Humph. Yeah. Maybe you’ve to realize your current situation first. Open that cloth wrap. That’s the idiot to whom you entrusted that plan.」

And ordered Gilbert with a forceful tone that didn’t allow any refusal. Gilbert who felt humiliated by the way Kai Heineman spoke to him,

「You cur, who do yo――」

Was about to curse at the latter but, his line of sight suddenly spun few times before his face slammed right on the wooden floor.

「GIGHU!?」

Gilbert, who felt the intense pain in his nose then noticed than his hair had already been grabbed by Kai Heineman.

「Hey, you’ve to at least confirm it with your own hands. This is the end of the man who died because of your foolish actions, after all.」

Kai Heineman ordered with a voice that sent a chill running down into Gilbert’s spine as he threw the item wrapped in a cloth bag in front of the latter.

「S-SAPHE, MHE!」

Though he ordered his guardian knights as he raised his upper-half, none of them dare to make a move.

「You really are an idiot with zero learning ability, eh.」

As soon as Kai Heineman spoke in a somewhat dumbfounded tone, Gilbert saw another sea of stars. It then followed by intense pain a second later.

「I said, open-the-cloth-bag.」

「Hwow dwarhe y――GUH!」

Naturally, his face was slammed onto the wooden floor again. The next moment, he felt unbearable pain. What came later,

「I-I KNOW! I’LL OPEN IT!」

The moment he said so, the grip on his hair loosened and he frantically opened the cloth bundle before him. And then, when the content of the bundle was revealed to his dimming eyes――

「HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!?」

He threw the bundle from his hands. The content of that bundle of cloth was, an old man’s head. And Gilbert was familiar with the old man’s face. It was the head of the vice headmaster of Babel to whom Gilbert made the request to kill Kai Heineman.

Seeing the dead head’s eyes wide open and face filled with fear in the last moment of his life sent an unspeakable terror into Gilbert’s whole being. And then, he was assailed by intense nauseating feeling――

「GEH!」

And vomited on the floor.

「Shocked with just this eh. To begin with, you should’ve at least committed dozens of such atrocities, right?」

Kai Heineman asked so with a bone chilling voice while looking down at the crying Gilbert, as if the latter was an existence even lower than an insect.

Gilbert couldn’t answer that question as he vomited, yet again.

「Properly speaking, I’m going to send Beelze to deal with you too. But, someone made a plea to me, to spare a trash like you. And it was none other than the one you wanted to eliminate on top of that. So, you can rest assured, Rose isn’t the one who pleaded for your life. Even if she did so, I won’t change my decision since she is still your relative.」

Kai Heineman then paused, and turned around,

「Take him to the aforementioned place.」

And gave such order to androgynous beauty clad in foreign attire with monocle on her eyes.

「Roger. What are you going to do about these people?」

「These guys are…」

「Uwa…」

A single glance from Kai Heineman was enough to scare Gilbert’s guardian knights, they abandoned their master at once.

「Fools. I’ve no intention to spare the lowly trash who killed children so brazenly.」

Kai Heineman’s figure blurred for a moment. The next moment, the head of few guardian knights who ran toward the door was already separated from their necks, their bodies tumbling down on the floor like puppets with its strings cut off.

And then, the figure of Kai Heineman appeared again at the entrance, holding bloodstained wooden sword in his right hand.

「We surrender.」

「Rejected. You guys had already crossed the line. Your fate had already been decided the moment you guys tried to harm those innocence children.」

「GUH!」

Color drained from the face of the head guardian knight as he retreated a few of his steps,

「This is my last mercy for you! I’ll at least let you to die as a swordsman. So fight me with everything you have!」

When Kai Heineman shouted so with wide grin on his face,

「DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!」

The man with loach beard raised a despaired roar and rushed toward Kai Heineman. Kai Heineman calmly raised his wooden sword to upper head stance.

The next moment, crimson lines ran through the body of the man, his body cut into pieces and fell on the floor.

The only thing left in the room was―― a Pool of blood, and pieces of meat lost in shape.

「HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!」

In the blink of an eye, the gathering of strong warriors, which supposed to be the strongest group of guardian knights until now, screamed in despair upon seeing their peers turning into minced meat without any resistance whatsoever.

――Terrifying.

Kai Heineman’s strength was unfathomable!

――Too terrifying!

As if Kai Heineman’s act of murder was something akin to breathing for him!

In Gilbert eyes, the Kai Heineman in front of him had already transformed into a monster in human skin. He tried to escape but, his body refused to move.

「Let Babel deal with the aftermath.」

When Kai Heineman muttered that soliloquy, the androgynous beauty with monocle then grabbed Gilbert by the nape of his neck. The next moment, GIlbert’s consciousness descended into darkness.

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