Chapter 46

Chapter 46

One Who Received the Grand Duke’s Recognition

The crow quietly prostrated.

In front Galahad was quietly standing and smoking a cigarette.

The crow did not open his mouth first and quietly waited.

Soon as if thoughts ended Galahad opened his mouth.

“Can you contact Dawn?”

“Dawn unilaterally sends contact from that side. This side cannot put in contact first.”

“Hmm—.”

At the man’s groan the crow swallowed dry saliva.

“If the Society Head?”

“......Probably there will be a connection with Dawn. However, the Society Head will not step forward from now on.”

“I see, go to the branch in the 5th Battalion, there if you mention my name to Cortn it will do.”

“Yes.”

The crow who nodded for now suddenly had a question.

‘How does he know the deputy branch head of the 5th Battalion branch?’

No, looking at the speaking it seemed not simply knowing level. Exactly the feeling of having under.

How long since coming to the North already—. The crow tightly swallowed the question that rose to the tip of the mouth.

“This is the magic circle of the magic beast trainer I revised. It will be more effective than what you guys use.”

Galahad held out something. It was parchment with the magic circle finely drawn. Even annotations and explanations were attached beside it.

‘No, why the magic circle of the magic beast trainer...’

A question rose again, but the crow tightly swallowed.

In front of this man the fewer words the better.

“Yes.”

“If you put that above contact will come. Probably the Society Head will also be anxious. Isn’t it?”

The crow nodded again.

It was correct words. What the Black Magic Society invested in the 7th Battalion was not small.

No, rather it was a lot.

Yet it was blocked emptily, so the Black Magic Society would also clearly stagger.

It was not to the extent of collapsing though—.

“One cannot give up the Magic Realm.”

At Galahad’s words the crow sighed softly.

‘So he left the Magic Realm.’

It was a question why Galahad bothered to leave the Magic Realm, and now it was solved.

Closing the Magic Realm would be harder than opening, but it did not seem Galahad could not do it.

Yet it was a question why he did not close it.

‘It was bait to fish the Society Head.’

If the Magic Realm was completely closed, the Society Head would have hidden.

Because a careful man he would have gone deeper.

The plan failed but the Magic Realm remained. It was a state where the plan half succeeded.

With this degree the Society Head would also put contact into Dawn and somehow—,

‘It was aiming at Dawn.’

Thinking about it Galahad had talked about Dawn from the beginning.

Even this incident where the Grand Duke and Adrianne moved was a stair to this man.

The crow bowed his head deeper.

“If contact comes inform me, if this time also late or insufficient one might really be disappointed.”

“Yes.”

The crow answered hurriedly. The man’s voice was still leisurely and peaceful, but because of that it was rather more fearful.

“Because you worked hard it is time for you to also rise.”

It was an unexpected word.

The crow’s head spun tightly.

‘It is a state of eating the 5th Battalion branch, yet he told me to go there. What he aims is Dawn—, to approach Dawn the Society Head—. Yet rising?’

Ah.

The crow sighed softly.

‘He is thinking of eating the Black Magic Society completely.’

It was not simply the Black Magic Society as the purpose. Only a means to go to Dawn—.

Galahad was thinking of setting the crow as Society Head, and catching Dawn.

‘How much gain is he thinking of taking with only one Magic Realm?’

Then he suddenly thought of Galahad’s words.

If rising—.

‘Then I become the Society Head...?’

The crow bowed his head more.

“Thank you!”

This time it was sincere.

“Then I will go, I am late for the meeting.”

It was a leisurely voice to the extent unbelievable that he just said the plan of eating the Black Magic Society.

Exactly, as if this was also nothing to him—.

‘Work hard!’

The crow trembled his body and resolved.

****

‘Why am I among these big shots—.’

7th Battalion company captain Hines slowly exhaled heavy breath.

It was Hines who rose to the company captain position as the company captain seat became vacant this time. Personnel according to the overnight disturbance.

Other company captains also had uncomfortable signs prevalent like Hines.

That was because the names of those in the meeting hall were too heavy.

Starting from Sir Gilbert to Belogrim, even to Adrianne—.

It was too heavy ones for Hines who was a platoon leader until just now to sit together.

It was a meeting where such ones were gathered, yet the start did not happen. Everyone was sitting quietly as if waiting for someone.

‘Who on earth?’

He muttered softly while looking at the empty upper seat.

Then, the door opened gently and a neat man entered. It was a man where the word noble rather than North suited.

“Ah, everyone was gathered.”

The man who said lightly naturally went to the upper seat and sat.

“......What do you do if the one who convened is the latest.”

Sir Gilbert stood behind the man and scolded softly.

‘That man is the Special Mission Unit Captain.’

He already knew by hearing rumors.

‘One who received the Grand Duke’s recognition.’

Hines slightly shuddered. The Grand Duke’s recognition was an anecdote that came down like a legend in the North.

Those called heroes in the North were all ones who received the Grand Duke’s cup once each.

However, among them there was no one who drank the cup.

No, there was no one who drank and survived.

Yet that man drank that cup.

He received the Grand Duke’s recognition.

That was a tremendous meaning.

Along with that—.

‘One who received the Grand Duke’s recognition, and marries Adrianne!’

Hines’s eyes sparkled.

It was a figure others would wait for.

“How much is the damage the 7th Battalion received?”

“Company captains were all replaced except two, and soldiers remain eighty percent.”

Belogrim naturally reported.

“I see, is it a level that can maintain the front line guard?”

“Yes, but because the damage to the inner castle part is large there will be disruption in supply of materials.”

“Do not worry about that. I told the 5th Battalion Captain. Support will come soon.”

The man answered as if the 5th Battalion was his own.

At that Hines had a question but—.

‘One who received the Grand Duke’s recognition!’

He looked even greater.

“Then is front line maintenance possible?”

“Yes, it will be a bit hard, but it will turn. Because His Grace the Grand Duke saw, additional forces will come soon.”

“I see, then now moving to the Magic Realm training ground—.”

At the word Magic Realm training ground everyone gulped saliva.

It was already the most topical story recently in the 7th Battalion.

Bizarre ash settled in the place where the inner castle should be.

They called that unpleasant like hell the Magic Realm.

A place where demon races are. Yet making a training ground with that.

As expected that vessel was different from others. The company captains could not hold back and admired. Everyone’s eyes sparkled.

“The magic beasts to enter the Magic Realm are prepared. That defense is also gradually finishing stage.”

At the gaze of the one who received the Grand Duke’s recognition everyone firmly nodded.

“I think you who survived in this serious situation where the Magic Realm opened are really amazing. It is a part one can know how hard the 7th Battalion usually trained.”

The one who received the Grand Duke’s recognition stood from the seat and clapped.

The applause of the one who received the Grand Duke’s recognition—!

Hines’s tears welled up—.

“It is sincere. Unlike the 1st Battalion on the front line there was no opportunity to contact the Magic Realm, yet to think of doing such excellent response. I truly admired.”

The recognition of the one who received the Grand Duke’s recognition!

Hines tightly chewed his lips. Otherwise cheers seemed to burst.

“I saw possibility from you. The reason I pushed the Magic Realm training ground. Because there are warriors who survived against magic beasts even in the Magic Realm here! Come, clap Sir Gilbert,”

Gilbert belatedly clapped. Clap clap clap.

Then, even Adrianne joined.

Not only the one who received the Grand Duke’s recognition, but receiving applause even from the North’s hero Adrianne.

It was hard to maintain spirit in overflowing emotion.

This—.

‘.......We are amazing?’

Hines soon realized.

That he himself was amazing.

“Because I believe you I opened the Magic Realm training ground. Think well. Haven’t we only blocked until now. Magic beasts too! Demon race too! Always silently guarded!”

Yes! At some point they were standing. All answered in one voice.

“But by guarding one cannot end the war. Someday one has to cross the wall and advance. And the Magic Realm training ground will be the prologue of that reversal. I guarantee.”

Prologue of reversal! At some cool word Hines gulped saliva.

Is it okay for himself who was a platoon leader until yesterday to hear such grand words! Is it okay to receive the recognition of the one who received the Grand Duke’s recognition!

“Company captains of other battalions, even captains will come and receive training from you. The 7th Battalion becomes the center of the North! Not a corner but the center!”

Center! It was a truly thrilling word for the 7th Battalion that was always treated as outskirts.

“You are no longer mere soldiers. Warriors who will end the war.”

The one who received the Grand Duke’s recognition looked around the seats. As befitting one who received the Grand Duke’s recognition there was power in that voice.

Everyone held their breath and waited for his next words.

“Come! Warriors, are you prepared?”

Warriors. It was a subtly itchy word.

The one who received the Grand Duke’s recognition calling warriors.

The company captains stood up abruptly.

Yes!!

“Come, warriors follow!”

Galahad realized again that Northern guys were easier than thought.

****

“......Is it okay to shove into the Magic Realm like that?”

Gilbert squinted his eyes at the soldiers charging into the Magic Realm while shouting.

Of course, there is nothing like magic beasts inside, but the Magic Realm was dangerous as the Magic Realm itself.

It created an environment hard to breathe and instinctive fear where one cannot see an inch ahead.

Entering holding only one sword—.

‘Similar to the knight training process.’

Galahad tapped the cigarette.

“How does one become a knight in the North?”

“Yes? Experiencing actual combat and realizing belief one becomes a knight.”

Truly an ignorant method. Because of that the quality of knights would be higher than the central but—.

“If one dips and pulls out a few times it will be fine. Aren’t everyone brave?”

Galahad answered while tapping the cigarette.

The heat that was comforting the soldiers in front of the Magic Realm until just now was not seen at all.

“Northern men are really easy to handle.”

“...Not all are like that.”

At Galahad’s muttering Gilbert answered sharply.

“Is that so? Well you are there.”

“Yes.”

“Ah, do you know that. If one trains the sword in the Magic Realm the effect is better. Dense mana concentration affects the body.”

“Why are you saying that now!”

Gilbert drew the sword and ran to the Magic Realm.

“Enter! Warriors! The future of the North depends on you!”

“Ack!!”

Shouts and shouts driven by evil continuously rang.

There was nothing for Galahad to touch. Just laying the board they started training among themselves.

‘Is there another good training environment like this.’

The Magic Realm was a place where that concentration was dense to a degree hard to compare with other places.

Putting in and taking out there, there was no way there would be no effect.

Of course, it would be quite painful, but originally the correct answer was always on the hard path.

‘Thinking about it it is the method that guy did.’

Galahad squinted his eyes at the guy who suddenly came to mind.

There was a bizarre guy who bothered only when seeing Galahad.

Originally a knight guy. Yet suddenly seeing Galahad he declared he would learn magic.

And actually learned magic.

He did not reach Galahad, but was more usable than other mages.

What the guy chattered was that.

Training in high mana concentration so became stronger faster—.

It was an ignorant method, but looking at the guy the effect seemed certain.

Yet.

‘What was that guy’s name.’

Because it was not that important, Galahad tapped the cigarette.

****

Handsome of the Intelligence Bureau safehouse in the Grand Duke’s castle tapped the dust-full hands with a tak tak—.

Now the new safehouse organization was finished.

‘Slowly it is time for supplementary personnel to come—.’

Handsome reported that Rose died to the demon race according to Galahad’s advice.

There was also for Handsome to live, but because that way Rose’s honor was protected.

He had not seen Rose, but it was one who guarded the safehouse in the end of the empire the North.

He hoped the honor of her who died in the cool loneliness was protected.

Then, the safehouse door roughly shook.

Handsome held the sword hilt and stood from the seat.

He confirmed outside with the device beside the door. It was a bulky man with a greasy appearance and a woman with a cold impression.

Soon the door opened.

The door opening meant personnel sent from the Intelligence Bureau. However, Handsome who had been hit did not let go of the sword hilt.

The greasy looking man entered first. That yellow eyebrow was exactly like a caterpillar.

“Oh— you must be Handsome.”

“Reveal your identity.”

Handsome’s sword was already aiming at the man’s neck. The man slightly lowered his eyes. That moment—.

Ting!

Handsome’s sword roughly bounced. Water wavered in the man’s hand. It was magic. No—.

“It is First. Supplementary personnel for the safehouse.”

‘......Aura?’

Handsome doubted his own eyes. Clearly it was magic, but aura was seen.

Only then he realized the man’s identity.

“Magic knight First—!”

Handsome’s eyes became large as if tearing. If First it was a famous agent in the Intelligence Bureau. It was not a figure to be extracted to such a Northern safehouse.

“Hmm hmm, correct. I am that magic knight.”

“Stop the useless talk. First.”

The woman with a cold impression who was behind the man said sharply. At that the man laughed hehe and entered inside.

Handsome slightly stepped aside.

The man naturally sat on the chair. The chair screamed small at that build. The man put a thick cigarette in his mouth.

Subsequently he lit fire on the finger and attached it to the cigarette. A wet wood smell spread.

‘Somehow similar to Galahad.’

Handsome recalled Galahad. Somewhere the two’s actions were similar.

Galahad was natural. Compared to that the man had a feeling of somehow decorated.

‘Is he following Galahad?’

When the man exhaled smoke long, the woman squinted her eyes and held her own nose.

“Bring all of Galahad’s information.”

The man said while looking at Handsome. At that Handsome slightly chewed his lips.

Galahad had not said to hide his own information. However, Galahad was a benefactor. The benefactor’s information—.

“Bring it. Are you not hearing my words?”

The man squinted his eyes while looking at Handsome. Tension fully rose. Handsome tapped the sword hilt with a tok tok.

Then—.

“You, the shoulder is stiff.”

Lightning grazed.

No, it was a sword with lightning.

“Hmm, you traveled flashily, as expected Galahad.”

First nodded while looking at the report held in the hand.

“Shall I handle?”

The woman asked while aiming the sword at Handsome’s neck.

“Not being able to praise a loyal knight and handling—, Pumpkin, because you are like that you still cannot marry.”

“Shall I handle?”

“It is a joke.”

First lowered his gaze to the report held in the hand.

“It is written here too.”

“What is it?”

“That Galahad marries the Grand Duke’s daughter.”

First shook the report.

“If one knows that fact there will be an uproar? The princess too, her too—.”

“Everyone will think like me. Mission, or the bizarre acts the guy sometimes does. The truth will also be that.”

First tapped the cigarette and squinted his eyes.

Below that Galahad’s actions were written. It was First who knew Galahad better than anyone.

First could grasp the guy’s intention while reading that.

Galahad—.

“This.”

At First’s muttering Pumpkin squinted her eyes. That was the action seen before First goes crazy.

First was a really okay superior and person at other times.

Yet when only related to Galahad he became a guy with a hole in the head.

Like now.

“...What is it.”

“Galahad! The guy is thinking of marrying the Grand Duke’s daughter!”

That voice was serious unlike until now. Starting to go crazy. Pumpkin sighed softly.

“Even if deceiving others I cannot deceive! Galahad! He hid in the North and prepared the decisive number!”

“Damn, the head is pierced.”

Probably thinking if Galahad marries first he loses. A bizarre logic, but when only related to Galahad that craziness came.

“Like this defeat! Emergency!”

First trembled his body.

First who saw Pumpkin sighed softly.

That hot gaze—.

Pumpkin was afraid of what craziness would come out.

A moment of silence.

“Pumpkin— you, unmarried?”

“Damn! Really!”

At First kneeling as if proposing Pumpkin could not hold back and burst a curse.