My Lord Who Is Being Prudent! [EN]: Chapter 202

202 – Elanoodur’s Secret Funds (2)

Cyan’s steps halted abruptly.

He stopped and looked at Amelia.

Amelia was looking at Cyan with determined eyes.

Her eyes, visible through her long, red hair, held a certain resolve.

“You’re going to find Soren, right?”

Cyan nodded slowly.

To be precise, it was to obtain Elanoodur’s secret funds.

But when you think about it, there wasn’t much difference.

“Please take me with you. No, I want to go, too.”

Amelia clenched her slender fists and spoke.

Cyan quietly stared at Amelia.

A moment of silence.

“Lady Amelia… are you sure about this?”

Hans stepped forward and asked Amelia.

Amelia nodded once and continued speaking.

“Yes. I want to meet Soren in person and ask him why he had to betray my father. What on earth made him do it? I really want to ask.”

Amelia’s head was slightly lowered.

Amelia’s red lower lip was slightly bitten.

Cyan could only stare at Amelia’s appearance.

He could only stare quietly.

Soren, the mastermind behind betraying and ruining the Brahe family.

To Amelia, Soren was nothing short of a mortal enemy.

But Amelia’s words now…

“I want to know… why Soren had to do that.”

Amelia thought there must be a reason why Soren had to do that.

An unavoidable reason.

The reason why Soren had no choice but to betray her father and Amelia.

Whether she wanted to believe it.

Or whether she still believed it.

Or if there was an inevitable reason.

If there was an unavoidable reason why Soren had to do that.

Whether she could forgive Soren even a little.

The Brahe Merchantry had always treated people with trust.

Even after the fall of Brahe, Amelia had been leading the merchantry alone.

The merchantry’s name was the Truth Merchantry.

Amelia named the merchantry with the mindset of treating people truthfully.

Is Brahe still Brahe?

Or was this the reason why Brahe had no choice but to fall?

“It’s not that I’m trying to do anything now. It’s not that I want to reveal the truth and rebuild the family. But…”

Amelia clenched her fists tightly.

“I want to hear that reason… I want to hear it directly.”

Amelia finally lowered her head deeply.

“But… Lady Amelia, it’s too dangerous.”

Hans expressed his concern to Amelia.

And as Hans said, it was quite dangerous.

It could be thought of as simply finding Soren.

But what was entangled in this matter was none other than Elanoodur.

Of course, what would be the problem in a situation where they were already at odds with Elanoodur?

The problem was that ‘being at odds’ was the problem.

That’s because the place where Soren was currently suspected to be.

Ammsberg, located in the southern part of the Empire.

That was none other than the Aveneu family’s territory.

Isabel’s main family, the Aveneu family.

The Ammsberg they were going to now could be said to be Isabel’s territory.

It was no different from walking into the heart of Elanoodur.

It was literally the heart of the enemy.

It was a dangerous area where they could be isolated if things went wrong.

As Hans, he had no choice but to express his concern.

And Amelia was wise.

She wasn’t foolish enough not to know her own position.

“I know… I’ll be a hindrance. But… but…”

Amelia couldn’t finish her sentence.

Hans couldn’t say anything more at Amelia’s appearance.

Amelia’s slender fists were still clenched.

“You’re not a hindrance.”

Cyan opened his mouth only then.

Amelia raised her head at Cyan’s words.

Her eyes, like a cat looking up, had something transparent slightly forming.

It wasn’t that Cyan didn’t know.

In terms of martial prowess, Amelia couldn’t play a big role.

If things went wrong and they were isolated, Amelia wouldn’t be of much help.

But he couldn’t agree with the word hindrance.

What was he supposed to do in the first place?

Of course, he would have to take two steps instead of one.

He would have to do twice or three times what he could do in one go.

But that was all he had to do was move a little more.

He just had to be a little more diligent, a little busier.

Wasn’t that the role a lord should play?

Each person’s role and ability were just different.

Helping and protecting them so that they could fully demonstrate their abilities in that role.

Wasn’t that the reason why Cyan was in the position of lord?

At least.

“We have to go to the south, so prepare thoroughly.”

To Cyan, the lord was such a position.

Cyan turned around slowly after finishing those words.

And behind Cyan’s back.

“Yes!!”

Amelia’s energetic voice was heard.

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Well, he told Amelia to prepare thoroughly.

But in fact, there was nothing much to prepare.

To be exact, it was that they couldn’t prepare much.

They were moving as quickly as possible.

More than anything, they had to move secretly.

If they moved with Ruben’s forces, it was clear that Soren would notice.

That he would realize that someone was chasing him.

Then he would disappear without looking back.

They had to move secretly with the minimum number of people.

In that sense, Lucas couldn’t come along either.

Lucas, a knight of the Brahe family and a knight who stayed by Amelia’s side until the end.

Although he was currently serving as the captain of Ruben’s guard.

Lucas still had loyalty to Brahe.

That’s why Lucas also wanted to go with them.

But Cyan stopped Lucas.

Again, the fewer people moving, the better.

No matter what, Ruben’s guard captain couldn’t leave his post.

Of course, monsters were no longer a big concern.

But.

‘Elanoodur might pull something at any time.’

He didn’t know when Elanoodur would move.

To be exact, he didn’t know what kind of trickery he would pull.

So Ruben’s forces had to be preserved as much as possible.

So Lucas also seemed to fully understand Cyan’s thoughts.

“If it’s you, Lord… you will definitely protect the young lady. I understand. I will stay here and protect Ruben.”

He stayed in Ruben without any other objections.

So Cyan left everyone in Ruben, including Lucas, Ruben’s knights, and soldiers.

Even Kendrick was left in Ruben.

Only five people left Ruben like that.

Cyan and Amelia.

Hans and Hugo.

Lastly, Grayson, a hunter from Ruben.

In the carriage heading to Ammsberg in the southern part of the Empire.

“To think that the young lady of the Brahe family was alive…”

Hugo muttered quietly, looking at Amelia, who was sitting next to Cyan.

But was his voice a little too loud?

“Hugo… was it?”

Amelia raised her eyes and asked Hugo.

Hugo bowed his head slightly and said.

“I’m sorry. I did it without realizing it…”

“It’s okay. It’s not like you were slandering me.”

Amelia shook her head with a small smile.

“I remember hearing that my father commissioned Hugo in the past.”

“That’s right. Lord Brahe commissioned me to find Soren. But in the end… I couldn’t find him.”

Hugo swallowed the last words and lowered his gaze.

“I’m sorry. If I had found him back then…”

And Hugo’s words were heard quietly.

Amelia shook her hand as if that wasn’t the case at all and replied.

“No. Why should Hugo be sorry? At the time, my father didn’t spare his gratitude for Hugo’s hard work.”

“Did Lord Brahe say that?”

“Yes. And… there was a reason why you couldn’t find Soren.”

Cyan, who had been listening to the story quietly from the side, nodded inwardly at those words.

That’s because no matter how much Hugo was the King of Mercenaries.

It wasn’t easy to find Soren at the time.

It was right to say that he couldn’t find him as Amelia said.

The truth that was revealed only now.

Elanoodur was involved in the fall of Brahe.

To be exact, the Aveneu family was involved.

But even though it was the Aveneu family, it was virtually Isabel who was involved.

In the end, it was no different from Elanoodur’s involvement.

‘So I couldn’t catch him.’

I wondered if it was strange.

The funds of the Brahe Merchantry that disappeared at the time were approximately 340 million gold.

It didn’t make sense that they couldn’t track that enormous amount of funds.

It would be understandable if they were just standing still.

It didn’t make sense that no one had been able to dig up the truth during that time.

And Amelia’s father.

‘Amelia, there are things in the world that you can’t buy with money. Power that transcends money. I don’t regret trusting people even now… But I regret not achieving power and influence too much…'”

Why Lord Brahe said those words and couldn’t return.

Now the puzzle pieces fit together.

“So Hugo doesn’t have to feel sorry at all.”

“Thank you for saying that.”

Hugo bowed his head lightly at Amelia’s words.

Soon, silence fell.

The atmosphere in the carriage became gloomy for no reason.

“By the way…”

Cyan opened his mouth to change the atmosphere.

“Hugo, is there a way to find Soren?”

Of course, he could specify that Soren was in Ammsberg.

But he didn’t know exactly where in Ammsberg he was.

Ammsberg was under the jurisdiction of the Count of Aveneu.

Among them, it was a large territory where the Count’s Castle was located.

In a word, it was too wide.

Of course, there were also many people, and it wasn’t easy to find Soren among them.

It was no different from finding a tree in a forest, so he couldn’t help but worry.

“I sent a message to my colleagues in advance before departure, but…”

As expected, Hugo was also expressing concern about that part.

“It seems it will take some time to find him.”

“Everyone is old now, so they are not like before.”

Hans chimed in at Hugo’s words.

And Hans’s one more word that followed.

“But there won’t be a big problem since Grayson is with us.”

Grayson was Ruben’s healer, Ellie’s father.

He was a veteran hunter who had lived in the Dark Forest for decades.

A hunter who had lived for decades chasing the traces of monsters in the Dark Forest.

Because of that, Grayson’s tracking skills were unparalleled.

“I don’t know if I can be of help.”

Grayson spoke modestly, but there probably wouldn’t be a big problem in finding him.

Of course, even Grayson would have a hard time finding a tree in a vast forest.

But if he could narrow down a few suspects.

It was enough if he knew what the tree looked like.

And I heard that Hans’s old colleagues had already narrowed down the suspects.

Cyan’s thoughts flowed in a different direction.

Hans’s old colleagues.

I knew they weren’t ordinary, but…

“The Gale Mercenary Group… was it?”

“If you’re talking about the mercenary group I used to be in, that’s right.”

Hans nodded slowly at Cyan’s words.

“Hans was the leader of the Gale Mercenary Group.”

“That’s all old stories.”

The Gale Mercenary Group.

Cyan had never heard of that name.

In the first place, it was a mercenary group that was active before Cyan was even born, so he couldn’t know.

“Hans and I fought a lot back then. I lost most of the time, though.”

Hugo was one of the members of that Gale Mercenary Group.

He was the one currently called the King of Mercenaries.

“Was it that much?”

“Don’t even mention it. His personality is so terrible. Once…”

Then Hugo brought up a story from a long time ago.

His tone was also a little more comfortable, and it seemed that the story of the past was quite enjoyable.

“At that time, Hans said that a mercenary who can’t drink alcohol is not a mercenary, and he poured alcohol into my mouth…”

I wondered if the old man was an old man.

“Still, Hans’s skills were the real deal. The image of the Gale Mercenary Group, which had no requests that they couldn’t solve, was actually created by Hans.”

“That’s all old stories. And memories are usually beautified and exaggerated, so stop being so nosy, Hugo.”

“Nosy? I’m telling the truth.”

“It wasn’t nosy, it was senile.”

“What?”

Then Hans and Hugo started bickering.

They were two old men with wrinkled faces and gray hair.

“I remember clearly that you charged me for all the alcohol back then, so I’m fine!”

“It’s definitely senile to forget that I paid half of it later.”

Somehow, bickering was no different from young children.

“They say that time doesn’t matter when you meet friends. I guess that’s true.”

“I guess so.”

Amelia smiled softly.

Cyan shrugged his shoulders once.

Then suddenly, one question arose.

“Then Hans, why did you suddenly leave such a mercenary group?”

Cyan had been with Hans since he was born.

To be exact, Hans had been by his side since Cyan remembered the past.

So he took that fact for granted.

Listening to this, Hans had no reason to be in Elanoodur.

More than anything, there was no reason to be next to Cyan’s mother, Cecil.

Well, he had heard that he had received some great favor from Cecil…

He hadn’t heard anything more than that.

Because he didn’t talk about himself, Cyan didn’t know what that favor was.

Even if he asked Cecil, she would just smile.

She didn’t say anything.

“Huh? Doesn’t Lord know?”

Then Hugo tilted his head.

“Hans, didn’t you tell Lord?”

“What’s the point of telling such a boring story?”

“Oh ho, is that so?”

Hugo smiled.

“That’s because of a woman, Lord.”

“A woman?”

Cyan tilted his head without realizing it.

Hans left the Gale Mercenary Group because of a woman?

“Come to think of it…”

When was it?

Cyan had heard that Hans had been married.

Maybe… it was when he first came to Ruben.

He seemed to have heard a related story before meeting the goblins.

And at that time, Cyan learned for the first time that Hans was married.

Of course, Cyan had never seen Hans’s wife.

“What on earth happened?”

Suddenly, he became interested.

Amelia also leaned forward slightly, as if she was also interested.

“That’s…”

Hugo’s words continued.

Right then.

“Lords, we have arrived in Ammsberg.”

The coachman’s voice was heard from the front.

Hans prepared to get up and said to Cyan.

“It seems we have arrived at our destination.”

“I guess so.”

Cyan nodded roughly.

Then he looked at Hugo as if to tell him to continue.

But.

“Come along. We have to go meet our colleagues right away.”

“Huh? Wait, Hans.”

But because Hans forcibly dragged Hugo and got him off the carriage, he couldn’t hear the story.

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The place where the carriage arrived was not strictly Ammsberg.

To be exact, it was a place where Ammsberg could be seen.

It was an area near Ammsberg.

And the reason why the carriage stopped here, not Ammsberg.

It was simple.

“Hans? Is that really Hans?”

Because he was supposed to meet Hans’s colleagues here.

The voice was heard as soon as he got off the carriage.

There was an old man with gray hair approaching this way.

To be exact, he was approaching Hans.

And after checking up close.

It was a woman.

And she looked quite young.

So she didn’t seem to be the same age as Hans and Hugo.

Her gray hair and face showed traces of time.

But there were no wrinkles like Hans and Hugo.

On the outside, she had the appearance of someone in her 40s.

And although the light had faded in the years, she seemed to have been quite a beauty in the past.

“Long time no see, Bonita. How have you been?”

“Wow! It’s really Hans!”

Bonita clapped her hands and widened her eyes.

“When Hugo told me, I thought he was senile…”

“These guys are real! I’m not senile!”

Hugo chimed in from the side, but Bonita lightly ignored him.

“How long has it been, Hans? 20 years? 30 years? I can’t even remember.”

Bonita folded a few fingers as if counting the dates, then shook her head.

“What’s important about that? It just makes me look older. By the way…”

Soon, Bonita’s gaze turned to where Cyan was.

“Who is this?”

“Ah, let me introduce you. This is Lord Cyan.”

“Lord Cyan…?”

Bonita tilted her head for a moment.

She seemed to be thinking about the name Cyan and what Hans called him.

But that was only for a moment.

“Ah! The one who recently emerged as the new star of the Empire?”

Bonita was able to quickly recognize Cyan’s identity.

It would have been different in the past.

Currently, there is almost no one in the Empire who doesn’t know Cyan’s name.

“I greet you, Lord. My name is Bonita.”

Soon, Bonita bowed her head to Cyan.

Cyan lightly responded to such Bonita.

“Nice to meet you. My name is Cyan. I’ve heard a lot about you from Hans.”

“Oh my. Did Hans talk about me?”

Then Bonita raised her eyes and asked Cyan.

Her reaction was unusual, with a strange smile.

“More than that, are you alone, Bonita? What about Maxim and Thomas?”

Hans asked Bonita in an instant.

Bonita made a slightly disappointed expression, then quickly replied.

“Those two are inside Ammsberg right now.”

“Inside Ammsberg? Why didn’t they come out with you?”

“They were together until just now, but they said they found Soren and hurriedly ran into Ammsberg?”

They really do whatever they want.

Bonita muttered the last words and shook her head.

But.

“… Huh?”

“… Huh?”

“… What?”

The others who heard those words were not.

And of course, Cyan was listening to the story.

He wondered how he would find Soren in this vast Ammsberg.

“Where is it?”

Somehow, it seemed like the work was over as soon as he arrived.