How the Shadow of the Marquis Lives

Chapter 156

Wild boar meat is being cooked in a bonfire in the clearing.

Shan had dismantled the boars he had caught and was grilling some of them.

Eventually, when the meat was perfectly cooked, Shan handed Xian the branch with the meat on it.

“Here you go.”

“I will eat well.”

It was pork I hadn’t seen in a long time. Although it was a wild boar, it tasted much more familiar than the unidentified meats eaten in the hell world.

I didn’t really starve in hell, but after eating this, I felt like I was really back.

“I didn’t expect to see Master here!”

Shan spoke in a raised tone, as if excited.

Xian didn’t know either. I never thought that the passage opened by the Dragon King would lead to Jakarta, the Kingdom of Beasts.

“How much is it?”

“It’s the first time since we broke up at the academy… … It must have been almost two years.”

Well, the time I spent in hell was over a year.

Xian looked at Shan in front of him with new eyes.

“You’ve grown a lot.”

In two years, Shan had grown quite a bit.

He was still shorter than himself, but as he grew taller and bigger, a lot of his weak image in the past had disappeared.

In addition, seeing him wearing the traditional attire of the Beast tribe rather than the usual attire seen at the academy made him look more mature.

“Ah, it is very big. It was still a long way off. I think Master’s side has rather grown up?”

“I?”

“yes. I’m tall, so what? … The atmosphere seems to have changed a bit.”

Shan looked at Xian in every detail and spoke.

Xian looked down at himself with a strange expression.

I saw my reflection in the water every time I washed my face, or saw my reflection in primitive magic almost every day, but I never thought that I had grown up.

It’s probably because you see yourself every day, but when others see you, you look different.

“How have you been? I know you got out of Everwhale safely, but there was no news after that.”

“I went east to see if there were any more giants left.”

“East? Graves of giants?”

“I stepped on the eastern end once, and after that, something happened and I went to the glacial Baengnyeong side. But there.”

Xian slightly narrowed one eye.

“I mean, someone ate a room. I just came out after being isolated somewhere and working hard on training.”

Garcia, Queen of Glacier White Spirit. He was sealed by that woman and escaped to hell.

He planned to return to the present world in search of the lord of the palace, Haeryung, but he unexpectedly encountered the Demon Dragon King and was able to return somehow.

‘It was long.’

It’s short in words, but it was a longer journey than I thought.

It was a long time since Psyche recovered her strength, thinking that she couldn’t stand up to the King Haeryung, and she also met and learned from the demon.

“You gave Master a shot? her… … What kind of guy are you? Could it be the Knight Commander of the Guardian Castle?”

“Queen.”

It wasn’t something to hide, so Xi’an answered naturally.

But even listening to Shan couldn’t be natural.

“… … yes? Queen?”

“uh. Queen Garcia. Why did we end up fighting?”

“What on earth must happen to fight a country’s queen… … .”

“It’s a secret.”

Shan stuck out his tongue and expressed his doubts, but he couldn’t say that much.

To talk about that, I had to tell you about the King of Giants.

‘The giant king… … must be dead Or it was sealed again.’

Either way, it wouldn’t be normal.

Did Hector escape well? That also bothered me.

I wasn’t particularly loyal to him, but I hoped that he would be safe.

‘If he was going to die anyway, he would have run away to hell.’

Well, he only borrowed Hector’s body for a while, but since he was actually a devil, it wasn’t something to worry about.

[draft! What will Seol-ah do? Seol-ah! I have to go back soon!]

‘Yes, yes.’

As I was talking about that time, Psyche urged me once more.

He had kept quiet until now out of consideration for his meeting with Shan, but it seemed that he couldn’t hold back his worries when he heard about the queen.

For now, the immediate goal is to return to Glacier Baengnyeong.

Xian looked at Shan and asked.

“How was the war? I heard at first glance that it was in a lull.”

“Ah, yes that’s right. I don’t know what happened, but the empire lost a lot of giants on the glacier Baengnyeong side. So it seems that there is an imbalance in power and the war can no longer continue.”

Perhaps it was because of himself. It was because he was hired by the queen in Glacier Baengnyeong and killed a lot of giants.

Sian asked, not bothering to express himself.

“okay? So are you completely done?”

“The declaration of the end of the war has not yet been issued… … First of all, the Empire, the Glacier Baengnyeong, and all of us decided to come together and make a three-way agreement.”

At this point, it can be said that it is not a lull, but it is over.

For once, I was happy.

Of course, when the war is over, Marquis Agrid will have some time to spare, and it is possible that he will focus on chasing him.

But now, the pursuers of the Marquis of Xian didn’t worry too much.

As long as the Marquis himself doesn’t come, there’s no way he’ll get caught.

‘It’s a three-way agreement… … .’

Anyway, the immediate goal was important. The way back to Glacier Baengnyeong.

“Are your families also going to the meeting place?”

“sure. We are also one of the representatives.”

Shan shrugged proudly.

“It’s just fine. I have to go back to Glacier Baengnyeong, but it’s okay even halfway through, so can I follow you?”

“of course. come, come I will tell my father well.”

“thanks. Oh, come to think of it, where is the place of the agreement?”

Since it was a war of aggression initiated by the empire, I don’t think it will be fought by the empire.

At that question, Shan answered with a slightly wry smile.

“Everway.”

It was the city where the academy was once enjoying a peaceful life.

* * *

Shan packed the remaining pile of meat into a sack and escorted Xian home.

After running through the dense jungle for a couple of hours, before long, a city began to appear.

“My father is probably at home. My sister is going hunting for a while and will be back in a few days.”

“okay?”

“Because of post-war recovery, everyone is busy these days. My sister and I are not dexterous in other things, so we go hunting hard.”

It seems that the reason why he came to catch that big wild boar was to share it with the local people.

As expected, as we got closer to the city, we saw a noisy scene in the midst of restoration.

A city that is more than half destroyed.

However, perhaps thanks to the thought that the war was over, the faces of the prisoners were not dark.

“Did the city suffer this much even though your father was there?”

Gen Asla. He is the head of the Asura family that rules this city, and he is one of the top three high masters on the continent.

To think that a city guarded by such a person would be destroyed like this.

“Oh that… … .”

Shan laughed bitterly at Xian’s question.

His explanation was not long.

It was said that the great general had come from the Empire.

“The general himself?”

“yes. We can’t continue to invade Jakarta without breaking through our family line. So, I guess I came here to try something.”

The position of the Asla family is biased toward the Empire even within Jakarta.

The kingdom’s fortress that will reliably block them even if they invade.

“At that time, I thought it would be really… … Fortunately, my father won! The match between the two didn’t come out, but the imperial army was defeated while the two were fighting.”

Shan said this time with an expression full of pride.

He is like a young son who is proud of his father whom he respects.

Well, I’m actually a kid.

‘Anyway, it seems the results weren’t bad.’

After that incident, the empire stabbed Asla several more times, but in the end it was said that they couldn’t penetrate it and went back as it was.

In the meantime, many giants were lost on the side of Glacier Baengnyeong, and the empire lost the ability to continue the war.

It would be a very bad result from the Empire’s point of view, but it could not be helped.

They were the ones who started the war of aggression in the first place, so shouldn’t they be responsible for the defeat?

To talk about that responsibility, it is a three-party agreement that will be held in Everwhale some time later.

‘To be able to go back there like this.’

I felt something strange.

The place where he, who was confined in Agrid’s villa, first settled down in the world.

However, there was no choice but to run away from the threat of the Empire and its general, Roderick.

I thought about going back after the war. There’s also something about the primitive magic entrusted to you by President Zerech.

However, I never thought that an agreement to end the war would be made there.

“I’m here.”

After thinking about this and that, I arrived at the Asla family before I knew it.

It was smaller than I thought to be a family that ruled the city.

There were no guards, and it just felt like a big mansion.

After passing the fence following Shan, what I immediately see is a wide open training ground.

There, I could see other prisoners training freely or sparring.

“young master! Are you back?”

“Is the hunt successful? Sniff, I think it smells like meat.”

Upon seeing Shan’s arrival, several beastmen gathered.

A very friendly look. As I looked at them, Shan spoke to Yurik in small words.

“They are students. I am learning martial arts from my father.”

indeed. It seems that they are disciples of the head of the family, not knights who protect the family.

“what? Who is behind?”

“Aren’t you a prisoner?”

They also found Xian and questioned Shan.

Then Shan proudly spread his chest and spoke.

“He is my master.”

“If it’s Master, that… … .”

“I heard you’re a close friend of the lady?”

They looked at Xian with new eyes and started to giggle.

For some reason, Shan shrugged and talked about Xian receiving attention.

“I have to go see my father. I’ll go.”

“Ah, yes. If it’s the head of the house, he’ll be in the training ground in the back.”

“thank you.”

After waving to them, Shan headed to the training ground they told them about.

Xian also followed suit.

The wide one was correct, but it was smaller than the castle of the marquis or the fortress of the Confucian family, so the two were able to reach the training ground in no time.

And what Xian saw was a very messy training ground.

far from well-organized. Trees and rocks were indiscriminately destroyed everywhere, and the ground was also very uneven because there was no place that was not pitted.

It was a very different sight considering that the floor is usually evenly leveled no matter how messy the training ground is.

Rather than a training ground, it seemed as if he had just gone through a real battle.

there he was

One of the High Masters of the Three Rivers, Gen Asla, the Mountain Commander of the Howe Tribe.

“Come here, Shan. Are you a guest in the back?”

Shan said, stepping aside.

“This is my master. We talked about it before.”

“Hoo?”

Genn’s eyes flashed a little dangerously.

Even if Shan brushed it off, he still remembered.

The day when Shan, a young boy, went outside and came back beaten up.

Wasn’t the main character the one Shan called his teacher?

“You are Xian. Of that Agrid.”

“Yes, nice to meet you. Gen Asla.”

“Nice to meet you. I’m very happy too.”

He glanced at Xian.

“indeed.”

Then he nodded to himself what he had seen and began to understand.

“He said he had an affair before, but he seems to be getting along well with Shan now.”

“I’m just grateful for Shan who follows me well.”

“It seems like Shan has also been brushed off, and it’s common for people to quarrel on the road, so I thought I’d just move on.”

he held out his hand Seeing this, Xian slightly narrowed his eyes.

On the surface, it looks like a normal handshake.

But no one will see this as an ordinary handshake request.

If you look at Gen Aslar, who is exuding a speculation that makes it difficult to breathe, without even thinking about hiding it.

“Seeing you makes me very interested. how about Don’t you think of anything when you see me?”

Xian looked at his hand.

Then.

“Perhaps he has thoughts similar to yours.”

I held his hand without hesitation.