The Knight Wants To Be in a Relationship

8. Permission

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“What? Do you have to leave tomorrow right away?”

“Yes!”

“You can’t say that at this hour. How do you prepare all those supplies at dawn?”

“How can I not?”

“—As everyone would say, this body. If it’s the target, Pickerhead, it’s possible.”

I succeeded in purchasing a wagon to go back tomorrow and a week’s worth of supplies for the men and women, and I went back to my inn with a smile on my face.

To let you know that you’ve accomplished this difficult task.

“Seolhyang, what you asked for… ….”

After entering the inn, I hesitated as I saw the unlocked door, the empty room, and the broken window frame.

“…… Mr. Seolhyang?”

She disappeared.

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“Please, only the children… ….”

Pooh Woo-wook! A woman who has become a corpse collapses.

Seolhyang, emotionlessly pulling her dagger from the nape of her neck, chewed the cud over the tragedy she had created. She mercilessly murders a servant and her entire family who have done nothing. If others saw her, they would accuse her of being a brutal killer.

‘…… I don’t feel anything.’

After seolhyang casually brushed off her blood, she wandered around her mansion in search of Cyrus, whom she had not yet found. Cyrus, whom she couldn’t find even after wandering around for a long time, was found outside her mansion, not inside.

On the terrace of her garden, where she and her first met her face.

She “Thought he would come.”

“…… Cyrus.”

Seolhyang turned her head at the sound of her voice coming from her garden. There is something there. It can’t be seen or felt, but it’s definitely there.

Her enemy, Cyrus.

“Yes. Where did you say who lives?”

“Do names matter? The time for revenge has come. Cyrus.”

“Everyone who came to me said that. And the endings are all the same. Be like their family.”

Seolhyang bit her lip at Cyrus’s words. I can still vividly remember her ten years ago. Seolhyang, who was the daughter of a high-ranking family head, was favored by her family. Everyone in her admired her.

The heavenly days came to an end one day when a man with a sword abruptly asked the head of household to break the seal.

On that day, Seolhyang, she still remembered everything she saw and heard that day, even after well over ten years.

“Revenge of the Family. I will end it here.”

“Ah– I can barely remember hearing that voice. You must have been a man with an empty head in the middle, right?”

Recalling Seolhyang’s family name, Cyrus burst out laughing at her and then pointed out what she didn’t say about her.

“You may not have known that because you were young at the time, but I was giving off a signal that anyone could see that I was going to call you. If he didn’t feel the signal, then the old man didn’t deserve to call himself a prosecutor, and if he felt it and couldn’t avoid it, he didn’t have the skills. Either way deserved to die.”

“…… The Lord responded. He only lost his life by the witchcraft you used.”

Seolhyang’s father, that is to say, the head of the Seol family, reacted without much panic to the sudden surprise attack and blocked Cyrus’s sword attack. Yes, it would have been like that originally.

However, for some reason, Cyrus’s sword passed through his father’s sword, and the fight began as the cut family fell.

The warriors of the family, who lost their focal point, were unable to stop the attacker, Cyrus, and everyone in the family lost their lives.

At that time, everyone except Seolhyang, the only one who survived.

Even she didn’t survive intact. Because Cyrus took her sight instead of her life.

“You treat my parents, siblings, servants and everyone who works in the family…… Killed all innocent people. —That’s why they suffer the same way. How do you feel?”

“…… Khuup, cuup, cuuu.”

“…… What’s so funny?”

“Ha ha ha! Do you seriously think so? You think they’re my family? So now that they’re dead, I’m going to be very sad?”

Cyrus grinned and revealed the identity of his family.

“It can’t be.”

“What is that…….”

“Do you think guys like you came once or twice? No. I’ve been here several times, over ten times. And every time he killed my servants. And he knows he’s got his revenge. ─That’s not it.”

Seolhyang’s hands begin to tremble. Her visceral realization that she shouldn’t listen to her next came over her. Seolhyang, who gave her body to that realization, quickly jumped out in front of her, but Cyrus casually blocked her dagger and opened her mouth.

“What you killed was bait. The children are the orphans picked up from the orphanage, and the girl is the single mother who roamed her back alley. I thought you were my family- but you just killed ordinary people who had nothing to do with it.”

“That’s a lie. It is a lie!”

Something was strange. It was too unguarded for Cyrus’ house. As if anyone could come into the house at any time and attack him.

“Does it sound like a lie? Why don’t you ask the little girl who came with you this morning? Since he has eyes, he must have noticed it roughly.”

And the fact that Seolhyang, who does not have her eyes, did not notice.

“Are those really like my children?”

That the children’s faces do not resemble Cyrus at all. From the color of her hair to the location of her eyes, nose and mouth, all of that was an appearance that couldn’t be thought of as a child of Cyrus.

Upon hearing that, Seolhyang faced the fact that she had killed unrelated people—she had become no different from the men in front of her.

Seolhyang, biting her teeth, glared at Cyrus in front of her with pure white pupils.

Blue demonic spirits shimmered in her eyes.

“Yes, even- it doesn’t matter.”

I will repent for the rest of my life.

However, that does not take precedence over revenge.

Seolhyang let go of her dagger and immediately took out her longsword from her waist and swung it.

The snow flake sword that comes down to the Seol family passes by, scattering long snowflakes. Cyrus burst into admiration as he watched it.

“It’s a nice sword, I want one.”

“Huh-!”

“Oh, one more. Why did I take these orphans and raise them?”

“Noisy!”

“Because when guys like you come along, they can legally kill.”

The moment she finished her words, Seolhyang felt the pain as if her wrist had been cut off. She couldn’t be. It was because Cyrus’s sword and hers were in a tight binding.

Unless she’s a ghost, I can’t ignore my sword and slash her wrists, but what’s even weirder is that her wrists are still clinging together even though it feels so painful.

“Keuheueuuk…… !?”

“Oh, great. I cut a tendon in my wrist, but you don’t scream?”

“What is this…….”

“Did you come here without knowing who I am?”

A ray of disappointed light passed through Cyrus’s eyes. Seolhyang couldn’t see his face, but he could feel the disappointment in his voice.

And Seolhyang, who had been chasing Cyrus for over ten years, knew very well what he was and what he was called.

“Sword Demon… ….”

I thought it was just a rumor. I thought that the reason why the head of the family and the warriors lost was because he made a cowardly surprise attack, and at the same time, he used mysterious magic.

If you are yourself- If you are the only survivor of the Seol family and have great talent, you will be able to defeat him.

The reality was not like that.

“Even though you knew—you attacked with such poor skills?”

“Keuk-!”

The blade of Cyrus cuts through her limbs again. There was no bleeding or wounds this time either. However, Seolhyang realized that the tendons in her limbs had been severed, and as a result, her limbs could not move.

“It’s been a while since I’ve had a guest. Make it a little more fun.”

Saying that, Cyrus swung her sword at her as she lay on the floor. Seolhyang, her limbs immobilized, evaded the sword by rolling on her floor.

Her fair skin and jewel-like hair began to turn dirty with dirt and dust, and Cyrus, seeing her rolling on the floor to live like a bug, burst into laughter as if she was having fun.

But soon the limit comes. Seolhyang, unable to avoid the sword, cut her heart. The severed heart slowly begins to stop.

‘Oh no. Here like this…….’

I have to kill that man.

Revenge must be completed…….

‘I should have brought it, did I… ….’

Evan comes to mind in Seolhyang’s mind. A little boy who doesn’t know his skills. I left it thinking that it would not be of any help to her trying to kill her people…… Should she have been brought along somehow?

But it was too late. She was already dying, and Evan had been running difficult errands that she couldn’t find even if she had been scrambling all night.

Looking at the painfully dying Seolhyang, Cyrus vomited her regret.

“Shouldn’t you have come a little stronger?”

Saying that, Cyrus slowly approached to harvest Seolhyang’s life, like a farmer harvesting crops during the harvest season. The sound of death grew louder and louder in proportion to Cyrus’ footsteps.

The body stopped supplying oxygen because the heart stopped beating. Her limbs go numb and she stops breathing. Her head goes blank and a static, cold death approaches.

“Goodbye.”

Cyrus’ sword was struck, and at the same time, an intense thumping sound hit Seolhyang’s ears hard.

“—Mr. Seolhyang. Are you okay?”

Slightly young boy’s voice.

The voice of Evan, who thought he would not be able to come, tickles Seolhyang’s ears.

At that voice, Seolhyang reflexively opened her mouth.

“Eh, Mr. Evan…… How are you…….”

“Seolhyang, let me ask you one thing.”

Evan, who promised not to make the same mistake as last time, asked just in case.

“—That guy, can he be cut?”

The moment Seolhyang nodded, Evan drew his sword and swung it.