Regressor Of The Fallen Family [EN]: Chapter 210

“What is all this?”

The King, who had been silent for a moment with a hardened expression, finally spoke, his voice slightly trembling.

“As I said, Your Majesty, these are the heads of the rebel leaders.”

“No, I understand what they are, but why…?”

The King, looking embarrassed, realized that everyone in the hall was watching him. He tightened his expression and, after clearing his throat, calmly continued, “You have worked hard in these difficult circumstances, Lord Logan.”

However…

“It was certainly difficult with the elites gone.”

Logan’s blunt words made the King flinch. The eyes of everyone in the hall turned back to Logan.

Everyone in the hall knew that the King had asked Maclane’s best soldiers to come to the capital.

They were even more amazed that the rebellion had been stopped without any problems, even though the best soldiers were gone.

The nobles held their breath, watching to see what Logan would do next.

Logan was so powerful at this moment, he could easily have taken over the kingdom.

But fortunately, that didn’t happen.

“Of course, such a thing should not happen again. Not for the sake of Your Majesty and the royal family. Never again.”

Everyone could hear the warning in his words to the King.

The King’s face flushed red, and a vein pulsed in his neck as he struggled to speak calmly. He forced a smile and praised Logan again, “Of course. It is very reassuring to have Lord Logan. You have truly worked hard.”

“As long as I am here,” Logan said, his voice clear and firm, “the kingdom will not see ‘any trouble’ again. You can relax, Your Majesty.”

The King’s smile, which was already fake, vanished completely as he looked into Logan’s cold red eyes. They were like chips of ice, and the King felt a chill despite the warmth of the hall.

The silence in the hall grew heavy, thick with unspoken words. Then, clapping suddenly broke the tension, like a sharp crack.

Clap. Clap. Clap.

“Isn’t this a place to celebrate Lord Logan’s achievement in stopping the rebels? Your Majesty, I will have those unsightly things removed quickly.”

It was Cleo, who had been bowing his head from below the King’s seat, who spoke.

Logan looked at him. ‘Was his name Cleo?’

At the middle-aged official’s words, the royal servants hurried over and collected the scattered heads.

That quiet commotion blew away the thick, uncomfortable silence that had filled the hall.

Watching the scene, the King nodded slightly and continued softly, “The Chief of the Royal Court is right. Also, I heard that Lord Logan, the pillar of our kingdom, has become the kingdom’s fourth transcendent. If that’s true, shouldn’t this be a place to celebrate that great event as well? Lord Logan, is that rumor true?”

“I was just lucky, Your Majesty,” Logan replied with a faint smile.

Exclamations burst out from all over the hall.

“As expected!”

“The Star of Grandia!”

“Truly amazing at that age.”

Logan could see the King’s grip tighten as he heard the praise. His eyes were stiff, unlike his mouth, which held a deep smile.

But the King spoke again in a soft voice.

“Indeed. Haha, it’s truly a national celebration. Lord Logan, how could you at such a young age… Well then,” the King announced, a little too loudly, “let’s have a big party to celebrate Lord Logan and our victory!”

As if trying to hide his clenched fist, or perhaps to hide the embarrassed expression he had just made, the King put his hands behind his back, stood up, looked at the officials in the hall, spread his arms wide, and shouted loudly.

Then, he slowly stepped down from the throne and firmly grasped Logan’s hand as if to show him off.

“Lord Logan, you have truly worked hard. If it weren’t for you, I don’t know what would have happened to this kingdom. Just imagining it makes me uneasy.”

‘Am I the one making you uneasy?’

“Thank you, Your Majesty.”

The eyes of the two men, who were outwardly smiling and looking at each other, were not smiling at all, and both of them knew it.

On the surface, it seemed as if the King and Logan had completely made up.

Seeing this, the nobles, who had been watching the two men’s expressions, finally began to approach Logan.

“Congratulations, Marquis!”

“Congratulations on the great event!”

“Congratulations, Your Excellency!”

The King watched it all with a soft smile, kept a quiet and serious face, and left the hall first.

As Logan watched him leave with an unreadable look, the middle-aged official Cleo quietly followed him with hurried steps.

Bang!

As soon as the doors of the hall closed, the King kicked a heavy clay flowerpot, painted with bright, cheerful flowers that now lay broken on the stone floor.

Seeing the knight next to him flinch, he realized his mistake.

“Hmm, the flowers are poor. Replace them.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

The King could not even manage a real smile. He quickly made up an excuse and walked faster.

Soon, when he reached a corridor where no one was present, the King quietly spoke to Cleo, who had been following him.

“Find it. Anything that could be a weakness for him.”

Grind.

The sound of teeth grinding.

Even if you just heard it, it was an unreasonable order.

Cleo’s expression hardened.

“Especially investigate the recent stopping of the rebels. Even if he has become a transcendent, he dealt with it too quickly. There must be something strange about it.”

In front of the King, who was angrily speaking with a cold face, he could only nod his head.

The party continued in the Great Hall.

By the time Logan barely escaped from the busy celebration, the sun had set and the moon was high in the sky.

Even the family’s knights had been sent back to the mansion.

Logan, trying to sort out his thoughts under the quiet moonlight as he left the royal castle, met someone he hadn’t seen for a while.

“Master.”

“I was late.”

“No, it’s only natural. I know you came from the border. I also know it was by His Majesty’s order.”

“Yes. It was.”

The Sword Master, wearing a bitter smile, had clothes full of dust. He rushed here fearing the worst. I thought… I thought you might have…

The clothes of the Grand Duke, the second-in-command of this country, were stained with dirt, and not even a servant was to be seen. It seemed that he had rushed over alone as soon as he heard the news.

“I’m sorry. While I was going to the border, I didn’t know that His Majesty would handle things that way. To take away all your men and tell you to deal with the rebels……”

“That’s all in the past. And I did it.”

Seeing his student’s proud smile, the Sword Master finally sighed in relief.

“Since there’s no great trouble, it seems that His Majesty is safe.”

“……Yes?”

“Ah, no. My worries were excessive. You must be tired, let’s go to my mansion. Stella has been looking for you a lot these days……”

Seeing his master smiling bitterly, Logan sighed quietly.

He could finally guess what worries his master had that made him rush over in such a state.

“Did you think I would harm His Majesty?”

“Honestly, I thought it was fifty-fifty.”

“Half?”

“It was enough to make you angry.”

“If I had intended to harm His Majesty, I wouldn’t have tried to put him on the throne in the first place.”

“The situation is different now than it was then, isn’t it?”

‘If I had attacked the King because of the changed situation, what would you have done, Master?’

Instead of saying the question that came to his mind, Logan quietly shook his head.

“It’s no different. The threat of the Empire is still there, and I have no intention of continuing troublesome conflicts because of it. Unless His Majesty tries to keep me in check, nothing will change.”

“……You’re still talking about that.”

“Yes?”

Logan asked back, feeling a negative feeling in his master’s tone, who had at least understood his words.

“Didn’t the Emperor of the Empire highly value you? The Emperor who hadn’t even started a local war for more than 10 years of his reign.”

“I became even more convinced after meeting him in person. The Emperor is not someone who will give up his greed.”

“Are you saying he would wage war with the kingdom to get you?”

“He will try to get the world, not me.”

Were Logan’s words unexpected?

The Sword Master’s expression hardened even more.

“……It wasn’t my intention, but I felt something while I was at the border. A lot of troops have been taken from our western border, that is, the eastern border of the Empire, and taxes on merchants have also been greatly reduced. Maybe it’s because of you, but they’ve turned to a pro-kingdom policy. Do you still think so?”

“Yes. It’s a trick.”

The Sword Master paused for a moment at the very confident tone, but Logan continued to speak, looking into his master’s eyes.

“Please don’t just look at what’s happening now, and think about how often the Empire waged war after the end of the imperial succession war. Didn’t you agree before?”

“Yes, it was. Huh…….”

“Master. So please stop His Majesty from keeping me in check. Now is not the time to cause trouble within the kingdom.”

“I really wish that were the case too.”

Looking at his master’s weak smile, Logan replied with a heavy expression.

“Master, please stop His Majesty’s rampage. This should never happen again. Even for the sake of the kingdom.”

‘So that I don’t really cross the line.’

Perhaps he guessed the words that Logan could not bring himself to say.

Or perhaps he read the determination in Logan’s eyes.

‘Huh. What should I do about this, what should I do?’

The Sword Master couldn’t say anything more.

And the day he had to make a choice came sooner than expected.

A few days later.

The capital was still buzzing with rumors about Logan and the stopping of the rebels, and Logan was about to return after reorganizing his troops.

The King called Logan and the Sword Master to see him.

“Greetings to the lords of Grandia.”

“Welcome, Lords.”

The King, who had left the Great Hall a few days ago with a pale face, seemed to have regained his energy and had an ambitious look.

And the reason for that ambitious look was revealed right away.

“Lord Logan. I was too upset a few days ago to notice, but there is a report that there was some problem with stopping the rebels.”

“Yes?”

Logan and the Sword Master both tilted their heads.

“I hear that most of the soldiers who were rebels are still alive. Under the protection of Maclane, that is.”

Logan’s expression hardened as he saw the King smiling at the Sword Master.

‘Why now?’

“Logan? What does that mean?”

As his master looked back at him after receiving the King’s gaze, Logan quickly thought and spoke.

“Ah, that’s… They are soldiers who realized they were wrong and immediately switched sides. Thanks to them, we were able to easily stop the rebels.”

He barely managed to give the answer he had prepared just in case.

“Who would believe that more than 7,000 soldiers switched sides at the same time? Lord Logan, you need to give a more believable answer. So that the Sword Master can also be convinced.”

The Sword Master and Logan could both see the King’s plan in his words, which came out as if he had been waiting for them.

‘He’s going to pressure me with my stubborn master as his support?’

A weak laugh came out.

Everyone in this place knew that the soldiers could only follow the orders of their leaders.

Also, nearly 7,000 soldiers are future knights and the kingdom’s strength.

It would be normal for a king to try to save them by making any excuse…

“It is normal to punish even those who are part of the rebel’s group. How can you leave the person involved alive?”

This king was different.

“Lord Logan. If you don’t plan to protect the rebels, shouldn’t you kill them all?”

‘Is he doing this again after only a few days?’

‘Are you really going to go this far, Your Majesty?’

The anger that started in Logan’s heart moved to his eyes.