Regressor Of The Fallen Family [EN]: Chapter 27

“The Baron lives!”

“Escape! We must escape and save the Baron!”

The soldiers and knights of Tesron were very upset by the death of Senior Knight Raul. It was a big loss. But they knew they had to protect their leader, the Baron, even though they were shocked and sad.

The Tesron knights who were still alive started to get organized. They knew they had to escape and quickly made a plan.

But McLane’s soldiers and Logan were not going to let them escape. They wanted to stop them.

“Surrender now!” Logan shouted. His voice was loud and strong, because he felt powerful again. It sounded like thunder across the battlefield. Everyone could feel his power.

Even though Logan was so strong and had already won many fights, some knights still did not believe it was over. They would not give up.

“You are talking nonsense, boy!” shouted a Tesron knight. He was very tall, much taller than Logan. He ran at Logan very fast, like lightning, with his big sword.

It was surprising how fast he was for such a big man. He was also very strong. He used his size and his big sword together to attack Logan again and again.

But then… *CRACK!* Logan’s sword hit the knight. The knight was cut in two with a horrible sound.

*THUD.*

“Give up now if you want your body to be in one piece when you die!” Logan shouted again. He was covered in the blood of the knight he had just cut down. He showed his teeth and roared.

Seeing Logan covered in red blood made his power seem even stronger to everyone watching the fight.

“The prince killed a knight with just one hit!” one allied knight whispered, his eyes wide.

“Has the young master always been this strong?” another asked, looking surprised.

Even the knights who were fighting with Logan were shocked. But the Tesron knights were even more scared. They felt a terrible fear.

“Damn it. Is he a Senior Knight?”

“Curse it! Where did such a monster come from?”

“Is this the end…?”

Logan looked like a monster. He was completely covered in blood, from his head to his feet. He ran forward, leading the McLane knights and all the other soldiers.

At the same time, Padrick was also fighting hard, even though he was hurt. He showed everyone he was still dangerous by defeating four strong knights.

Finally, after nine more knights who refused to give up were killed, the other thirty-two Tesron knights surrendered.

* * *

“Where is Baron Tesron?” Logan asked.

“We think he ran away,” someone answered.

“Did he?” Logan said. “Well, I know where he’s going.”

Logan looked at his father. He felt worried and confused. Padrick was sitting on the ground, with no tent to protect him, putting medicine on his cuts.

“Are you okay, Father?” Logan asked, kneeling down.

Padrick looked up and smiled, but it didn’t reach his eyes. “Perfectly fine! Never been better,” he said, but his voice was a little weak.

“I’m glad to hear that,” Logan said, but he didn’t look convinced.

“We can talk later,” Padrick said, waving his hand. “After we finish this war. I have many questions for you.”

Logan nodded slowly. He knew his father wanted to talk about what had happened on the battlefield, about his new strength.

“Good,” Padrick said, pushing himself up. “Let’s go finish this.”

His voice was light and cheerful, but Logan could see the pain in his eyes. He was trying to be strong.

But Logan knew this was not a good idea. His father was still hurt.

“Knights, get ready!” Padrick called out. “We are going to Tesron Castle now!”

Padrick was very eager to attack, which was brave, but Logan thought it was too soon.

*This is wrong,* Logan thought.

Logan knew his father would want to lead the attack. So, he quickly said what he had planned to say.

“Father, please don’t rush,” Logan said. “You need to heal properly before you fight again. Let me take the mercenaries to Tesron Castle first. I will finish the war.”

Luckily, Padrick didn’t seem to notice the real reason Logan wanted to go first.

“Hmm, okay,” Padrick said. He smiled and nodded, but Logan thought he looked tired. “Do what you think is best.”

“Then…” Logan said quickly. He felt like he needed to leave right away. He nodded to his father and turned to go.

“Logan,” his father called out softly.

Logan stopped and turned back. Padrick was sitting down again, looking tired. He looked at Logan, opened his mouth to speak, then stopped. He just waved his hand slowly.

“…No, it’s nothing. Go now.”

Logan frowned. He was confused by his father’s strange behavior. He turned to leave again.

“…Thank you,” Padrick whispered.

Logan stopped suddenly. He had heard his father’s quiet words.

It was so soft, anyone else might not have heard it. But Logan’s senses were very sharp now, because of his Force Core power. He heard it clearly.

A strange feeling filled his chest. It felt warm, but also tight.

It was like some old sadness from his past life was starting to disappear.

*No, I was wrong about everything before,* Logan thought.

He lowered his head, thinking about the mistakes he had made in his past life. A small, strange smile appeared on his face.

He had never felt like this when he thought about his past life before.

It was a strange feeling, but not bad.

His heart beat faster. He wanted to say so much, but he couldn’t find the words.

“…I’ll be back.”

All that escaped was a small voice, no louder than his father’s.

On the road to pursue Harman Tesron, a slightly relieved smile played on Logan’s lips as he rode at the head of the column.

* * *

*Thud thud thud.* A horse ran fast across the open land.

“Hyah!” the rider shouted. He was very worried and scared, and he whipped his tired horse again and again to make it go faster.

*Where did I go wrong?* Harman Tesron thought. His face was twisted with worry. His mind was full of confused and bad thoughts.

*I planned everything so well,* he thought.

He had spent three years getting ready for this war.

He had made the soldiers’ weapons better and trained all the soldiers, even the new ones.

He had even asked other rich people for help to get more knights, from seventy to one hundred.

And then, luckily, Raul, the knight commander, had become a Senior Knight just before the war.

When he saw how strong Raul was, he made a plan for this war to take over land. He was sure he would win.

But then, enemies he didn’t expect came, and all his plans were ruined.

*Those people! That cavalry destroyed everything. Especially those weapons!*

Arrows of death flew from crossbows he had never seen before.

They shot from so far away that no one could fight back. It was almost like cheating. Even if he had known about them, he didn’t think he could have stopped them, except maybe by sending all the knights.

*No, even then, could I have stopped them?* he wondered.

He had changed his clothes to look like a normal soldier and ran away from the battle. As he ran, he saw the red-haired man riding through the soldiers and killing a knight with his sword.

He realized that this man was the one shooting the crossbows from the front of the cavalry.

*If he is so strong, maybe the others are too…*

“No! That’s impossible!” Harman shouted, shaking his head to get rid of these bad thoughts.

He guessed that the red-haired man must be Padrick’s son.

There couldn’t be many people as strong and scary as him.

But even if there were, it didn’t matter anymore.

The war he had risked everything for was lost. His dream was broken.

But it wasn’t completely over yet.

*If I can just reach the castle, I can live. And if I can use what I know…*

Harman Tesron kept whipping his horse, trying to make it run faster to Tesron Castle.

Just as he arrived at the castle gates, the horse fell down. Maybe it was lucky, maybe unlucky. The horse coughed and blood came from its mouth.

*Neighhhhh!*

*Thud.*

Harman leaped off the collapsing horse, almost tumbling to the ground, and shouted towards the castle walls.

“Open the gates! Your lord has returned!”

Even though he was wearing old, dirty soldier clothes, luckily, one of the guards at the gate knew who he was.

He just got inside the castle when he heard someone shout in fear.

“Look! Something is coming!”

“I-I think it’s cavalry!”

Harman Tesron felt cold fear go through his body when he heard the soldiers.

“Close the gates! Defend the castle! No matter what!” he yelled.

“…Yes, sir?” a soldier answered, sounding confused.

Haman knew it was pointless to order the few soldiers at the castle gates to stop the enemy.

But he couldn’t think of any other order to give.

“Let no one pass through!”

Leaving behind those hopeless words, he ran towards the inner castle.

“Quick, hurry! Gather as much wealth as you can! Velua, where’s Velua? Get ready to run away now!”

The moment he entered the inner castle, Haman screamed like a crazy man.

Annoyed by the confused faces of the servants, he shoved them aside and ran to his office.

Even after running away from the battle and riding without rest, the enemy was still right behind him.

It felt like death itself was chasing him.

Driven by that scary feeling, Haman quickly entered his office and slammed the door shut.

He immediately looked for his secret compartment and opened the vault.

‘I must take at least the gold coins with me. I have to…….’

Haman quickly grabbed the gold, which was his last chance to survive, and shoved it into a shabby bag.

And at that moment, a panting servant rushed to tell him what was happening.

“T-the gate, the gate has been broken through!”

Haman’s face went white at the news, which meant he would die.

It was a journey of over five hours on horseback from the plains where the battle had taken place to Tesron Castle, even if they didn’t stop.

They rode very fast. They didn’t even let the horses rest. But they could only just see the enemy ahead.

The man who dashed through the closing castle gate wore simple clothes, but a common soldier would not receive such respectful treatment from another soldier.

“He made a quick escape, did he?”

Logan frowned, but he gave his order without hesitating.

“Take Tesron Castle and capture the Baron!”

“Yes!”

The soldiers visible on the castle walls numbered less than a hundred.

It was clear that the Tesron territory had used almost all its soldiers for the battle.

Therefore, no one objected even when he ordered an attack with only about 300 soldiers.

Logan took the lead and charged towards the castle.

“Tesron has fallen! Open the gates and welcome the true winner!”

His shout echoed loudly enough to be clearly heard by the soldiers on the castle walls, across the wide field.

Seeing the Tesron soldiers shrinking back at the sound, Logan gave a cold smile.

Only a few arrows flew towards him as he charged, so the mercenaries shooting to protect them was unnecessary.

Having charged alone in this manner, Logan kicked off from his horse right in front of the castle gate and jumped into the air.

Logan wore light leather armor now. He had taken off the heavy armor that was ruined in the fight. This made him move easily. With his strong body and Force, he lightly kicked off the wall and soared onto the castle walls immediately.

“Open the gate. Unless you all want to die.”

And right away, Logan’s sword was pointed at the neck of the squad leader guarding the Tesron castle walls.

With that alone, the gates of Tesron Castle opened far too easily.

“Let’s go! Find Haman Tesron!”

Finding where he was immediately.

The sight of the servants pointing the way before he even drew his sword showed that the fellow was not well-liked even normally.

The chief of staff of the inner castle quietly pointed to a gap in the bookshelf in the office, and Logan found the Baron hiding as if stuck to the wall in that gap.

“Eek!”

Haman Tesron had long given up any noble pride, trembling as if he had seen a ghost.

“Finally caught you.”

Gritting his teeth, Logan put all the regrets of his past and present lives into his actions.

‘Because of someone like that, my family was ruined in my past life…….’

But the moment he approached with an angry face.

“I-I surrender. According to the customs of war, I will pay money. Please, spare my life and the lives of my family.”

The fellow knelt down and drastically changed his attitude.

“According to custom?”

Logan was so surprised that he was about to laugh.

“You people suddenly started a war and invaded in just one day, and now you’re talking about customs to us…… Haman Tesron, do you even have a conscience?”

Logan calmly walked towards Haman, who had collapsed to the floor with a plop.

Haman’s reaction intensified at the deadly look in his eyes and his stubbornness.

“Protect the honor of the nobility! Prisoners captured in war are guaranteed life……”

“The honor of the nobility? Good. Our McLaine family respects honor, so we will also follow customs. Therefore, I will guarantee your life, Haman Tesron, and give you time to pack some wealth and your family and leave.”

“……Th-thank you.”

Haman let out a sigh of relief. But Logan’s deadly intent did not lessen.

“Why, why are you looking at me like that…….”

“Certainly, my father would have said this. He would accept the surrender without any conditions. Because he thinks honor is everything.”

“Aargh!”

As Logan took a step closer, the Baron, sensing something bad, screamed and scooted back on his bottom.

Logan ignored Haman and took out a fancy dagger, beautifully made with all sorts of jewels, from the open vault.

“……A pretty knife.”

“T-take it. Sepina, the kingdom’s best craftsman, personally crafted it…….”

Haman’s mouth moved non-stop, gripped by terrible fear.

But Logan slowly shook his head.

“No. It’s better for you to have this.”

“W-what?”

“Here…….”

Logan showed off the sharp and beautiful blade and pushed the dagger, drawn from its sheath, into the Baron’s hand.

Logan smiled brightly as he looked at the Baron’s confused face.

And…….

“Ugh!”

Moving the Baron’s clenched hand, he plunged the dagger into his stomach.

“Cough. Y-you said you’d spare me…….”

“I said my father would spare you.”

The dagger in his stomach went deeper even though the Baron tried to stop it and slowly moved downwards.

“Sorry, but I’m not him.”

Logan smiled savagely as he watched the Baron’s face twist.

‘I could stab him in the heart right away, but….’

He didn’t want to kill him so easily.

His cold eyes intensified the force on the blade.

“Kuhh. Th-the nobility’s…… honor…….”

“Ha! Do you even know how many people died because of your greed? The honor of the nobility? What about human conscience before that?!”

Even without bringing up the grudges of his past life, how many territory residents had died in this war?

“Just end that ugly life here.”

His stomach was completely torn open and his intestines spilled out, but the Baron with his distorted face couldn’t even scream.

His mouth wide open and his eyeballs about to pop out, his body trembling.

The Baron was quickly dying, looking as if he was feeling the worst pain.

“Consider yourself lucky that you can die this easily.”

If he had been caught running away in the fields instead of inside the castle, he would have been killed miserably in a much more terrible pain than this, at the very least.

However, there were many who had seen him entering the office.

He was only dealing with it in this troublesome way because he was a little concerned about the customs the fellow had mentioned.

Did he hear Logan’s words? The moment his wide-open eyes grew a little bigger, the faint breath that had been continuing stopped.

Watching Baron Haman Tesron die, Logan gave a bright smile.

It wasn’t that he felt pleasure from the enemy’s pain.

“Finally…….”

It was simply because of the sense of accomplishment that he had overcome one hurdle.

It was only then that it hit him. That he had overcome the family’s crisis once.

‘Ah. I have to clean up.’

Logan erased the smile from his face, keeping only the sense of fulfillment, and shouted outside.

“Baron Haman Tesron has attempted suicide!!”

That voice echoed throughout the entire castle and caused a great noise.

Baron Tesron, sad about losing the war, waited until no one was watching closely and cut open his own stomach.

Logan pretended to try and save him, even though he was covered in blood, but by the time the priest arrived, he had already died.

There were many who were confused by the story, but no one questioned Logan about the truth.

With this, Tesron Castle was completely captured by the McLaine family.