chapter 16

That evening, Iris and I prepared to go see the lord. We had originally planned to go the next morning, but he had sent his servant to tell us to come now.

Iris wore a white sleeveless top and dolphin pants as usual, and I wore a plain cloth outfit. It was really fortunate that the men's clothes had not changed.

"Do you understand? Don't act like you're doing anything, and if he asks you any questions, just keep your mouth shut and stay still. I'll answer them for you."

"Okay. How many times has that happened?"

"I'm saying this because it's not excessive no matter how I repeat it. Remember, you don't know how he'll treat you or what he'll find fault with. This means you absolutely must remain quiet."

All along the ride to the lord's mansion, Iris repeated her own advice over and over again. It wasn't advice that made much sense.

If he really wanted to find fault with me, then such advice would be of no use, and moreover, I knew much more about the lord.

The rest of the knight commanders, including Iris, were simply suffering from the evil. However, I was someone who had experienced killing the bastard in all sorts of ways while playing the game.

If I were to cut off his balls right from the first time we met, things would be very difficult afterwards, so I couldn't do that here, but I was confident that I could deal with him without any problems in two weeks, including the preparation process.

"think."

After riding into the city center for some time, Iris stopped in front of a magnificent mansion.

It was a mansion of such an absurd size that I was dumbfounded. It was much larger than the mansion in the game I remembered, so I was speechless for a moment and just stared at it blankly.

The setting was that he still couldn't let go of his vanity because he was a descendant of the imperial family. It would have been believable even if he had said that it was the mansion where the emperor resided.

'Come to think of it, the emperor is a woman too, right?'

In the NPC appearance retouching mode, even the emperor was a woman.

No, it would be more accurate to think that in the appearance change mode, all the human-type bosses were simply changed into women. In fact, it was rare for a boss to remain male.

My head is getting complicated. Yeah, it was probably a girl. I hope her personality hasn't changed either.

"Stop, stop!"

The knight standing in front of the gate leading to the mansion shouted nervously after checking us out. It was a world of difference from the manners with which the guards guarding the entrance to the city treated us.

His posture was slouched, his face was filled with annoyance, and his speech was blunt. In terms of skill alone, he was no match for Iris, but it seemed he trusted Young-ju and acted like that.

"Why did you come?"

A question suddenly popped out without even the bare minimum of courtesy. I was watching from the sidelines and was at a loss for words, but Iris spoke with an indifferent expression and tone of voice as if she was used to such treatment.

"I came to report on my request to be dispatched to prison."

"Oh, really? Then go in as you please. Leave the words alone."

Now, instead of gesturing with his hand, he was pointing inside with his chin, telling me to go in.

Iris motioned for me to be patient and got off her horse. I got off my horse as well and walked past the knight.

"Wait a minute, who's next to you?"

I thought he was just passing by, but this time he pointed at me with his chin and asked me a rude question.

"I'm new."

"Newbie? Phew, you're going to get kicked out in one day again? Are you incapable of learning?"

The knight laughed heartily, and Iris silently tied the reins to the tree. As we crossed the garden and moved far enough away that the knight could no longer hear me, I whispered in his ear.

"Is that normal?"

Even in the game, when you talk to the knights in the mansion when the story hasn't progressed much, you'll usually get rude and snarky responses. But it wasn't that serious.

"You should get used to it. The longer you stay in our Order without being kicked out, the more you'll hear things like that."

Iris answered blandly. Her tone was closer to resignation than irritation or anger.

From then until I entered the lord's mansion and was told to wait in the reception room, I felt to my bones how the Knights of the Silver Dawn had been treated so poorly.

I don't know what the problem was, but it was definitely worse than in the game.

In the game, the servants looked down on the players, but it felt like they were still doing their part, but now it felt like they were looking down on us and not even doing their bare minimum.

After waiting for some time, practically thrown into the waiting room, a group of women dressed in maid outfits suddenly came in and laid out all kinds of refreshments on the empty tables.

"Your Majesty is coming in."

Of course, these were not for us, but for the author who was about to come in. What are you going to eat after leaving us behind to eat dinner?

When I heard someone coming in, I finally raised my head to see their face.

'… … Wow, what the hell.'

And I was shocked by the visuals that were even more evil than I had imagined.

As if the fat wasn't enough to cover his entire body, the fat even lingered on his face, making his facial features look sunken in. His entire body was so large that it made you wonder how he could even walk with that body.

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This is the first time in my life I've seen a human whose length and width appear to be almost the same.

I wanted to applaud the fact that he got up on his own two feet and walked in instead of rolling on the floor. How can he walk like that and still have fine knee joints?

'I was fat in the game too, but not to that extent.'

Yeongju came in unsteadily, let out a deep breath, and sat down on the sofa. The seat he was sitting on sank down. The first thing he did after sitting down was to eat the snacks on the table.

After a long squeaking sound, the lord opened his mouth and let out a long groan.

"Yeah, you're back, Iris."

"… … Yes, as you said, I searched the prison."

Even though she looked like that, perhaps because she was of royal blood, Iris was using extremely respectful language towards the lord. However, her own face, which was using respectful language, was unusually distorted.

"Report."

"All the people inside the prison, including the prisoners and guards, except for one, were attacked by the monsters. When I got there, the situation had already started, so there was no time to do anything."

"Tsk, that's why I told you to prepare well. I wonder why you didn't listen to me."

Well, that monster, you lured it, right?

I knew the whole story, so I snorted inwardly. He had people lure human slaughterers into the prison and then pretended to have foresight. That was the most ridiculous thing ever.

"Is that guy next to you the only survivor in the prison?"

Still, it seemed like he had quite a bit of experience doing politics in the palace, so he glanced at me and immediately recognized my identity. Iris nodded.

"Yes."

The lord seemed to be thinking deeply about something, then he picked up a handful of snacks on the table, munched on them, looked at Iris, and motioned for her to leave. Iris was greatly embarrassed.

"You stay out, Iris."

"Yes? But-"

"I told you to stay out. Are you going to disobey my orders?"

"...."

Iris looked at me with anxious eyes, but she didn't say anything. She bit her lip once, lowered her head roughly, and went out, closing the door behind her.

It was unexpected that we would find ourselves in this situation from our first meeting.

Well, from my perspective, it didn't really matter. It was an event that had to be completed at least once in order to eliminate the lord without any trouble.

In the game, you can have a private conversation with the lord starting from the third meeting, but since they give you this much progress from the first meeting, I was actually thankful for it since I wanted to deal with it as quickly as possible.

When the two of us were left alone, the lord swung his arms haughtily over the back of the sofa and even put his feet up on the table. He was utterly ignoring me.

Well, from the lord's perspective, I was a prisoner in prison, so I would think that such behavior was natural. Would someone who looked down on even the commander of the knights care about a mere prisoner?

In fact, considering that the personalities of the people in the mansion have changed significantly compared to the game, it wouldn't have been strange if he had crossed the line a long time ago.

"Hey, you."

"Yes, my lord."

"You said you were in prison?"

"Yes."

"You barely survived after meeting Iris?"

"That too."

"Have you ever had any trouble with the Knights Templar in the meantime, or fought with one of their commanders?"

"doesn't exist."

Thinking about the choices that appeared in the game, I chose only the answers that the lord would suggest to me. The lord nodded knowingly and thought about something for a long time.

"Why were you locked up in prison?"

yes.

I laughed inwardly when I saw that he was asking exactly the question I had expected. It seemed like things were going to work out pretty well.

"Why would you be locked up in a place like that? It probably wouldn't be much different from the crime you're thinking of, my lord."

"Hmm, yeah, that's right… … ."

I deliberately made my smile look as mean as possible.

If you've come this far, you can say that the grave digging is almost done. Now, all you have to do is prepare the grave goods to put inside, and when this guy sees them, he walks into the grave on his own two feet.

The lord, who had been lost in thought for a while, finally opened his mouth.

"Are you interested in girls?"