Quest: Book 2

12

  It's kind of peaceful under the city gate, and the conflicting views are heating up immediately. We all know that we will lose something, even though we don't need to be dead this time. It even shocked to Your Majesty there, and it seems like that Your Majesty is very angry too...

  "You did it?" some "officers" begin to bring out the pens to question the infantry.

  "No! I have not had a fight!" nobody is a stupid head.

  "What about you! Be honestly!" asking nothing out, the officers become to get their noses up to the sky.

  "Sir! My name is Moody! I was not in the fight!" this is a veteran, his refusing is the first class.

  "What happens to your face?" one officer asks.

  "Sir! It was dark! I fell to the ground!" the infantry A answers.

  "What happens to your forehead?" another officer asks.

  "Sir! It was dark! I hit the wall!" the infantry B answers.

  "Then? You're covering your private part, what's going on?" one more office asks.

  "Sir! It was dark! Urine suppress!" the infantry C answers.

  "What the relation it has with the darkness?"

  ............

  Finally, after all the officers raise their hands to vote, they decide to take me and the guards away. Well, the other party, as long as they don't wear any armors, they are a pan of stewed meat!

  "Our Empire's armed forces and nobles are more and more prospect! Your Majesty Krimer is walking back and forth slowly in front of the Palace square, incredibly he still has smile on his face, "not only just fight in the city gate of the Saint Capital, but also carry the whole Saint Capital on its feet. Very good! But how are you going to deal with it?"

  We twenty something men stand on the right side of the square, some with black eyes, some with cracked teeth, almost everyone has some "colors" on. On our left, it's all the infantries with no armors on, like a cloud, there are at lest three, or four hundred of them. Most of them standing, some are carried to the square lying on the stretchers. The small captain who is still in coma is also lift to here, his naked body is wrapped with the white sheets which nobody knows where to get them from, the miserable way makes him look like a tender girl that just got insulted by hundreds of big fellows...

  A huge group of ministers are saying some nonsense, they are afraid that the fire will burn to them. My father is standing in there as well, his face is same as usual, he does not have any expression on his face.

  "So," Your Majesty krimer packs up the smile, "viceroy Kone Cada! You tell me first that what was going on."

  "Good evening, Your Majesty. The thing is happening like this," my face gets hit several times, it's a bit unnatural when I speak, "I've chosen the site for the Darkness city, so I was anxious to come back here to report to Your Majesty. After days of non-stop, we get back to the Saint Capital, but the gate infantries just didn't allow us to get into the city."

  "And then?"

  "We argue with the reasons, this guy said that it's alright to let us into the city, but he wanted me to give him five silver coins each according to the number!" under the training of my former life, I breathe smoothly and my heartbeat is normal while I'm telling the lies, "I didn't want to give him, it became to a fight from a quarrel! And then they pull the rope and set off the alarming bell."

  After I finish my words, the ministers stare at each other, they give out some cries. A small infantry captain incredibly dare to blackmail a viceroy! Some people proposed to put the whole infantry team to "crunch" right away.

  "There is such a thing like this?" Your Majesty Krimer is in the perfect setting, he asks the officials of the department of the city defense, "tell me what you think."

  "Your Majesty!" the on duty officer of the department of the city defense is one of the first to get there, "I arrived there first after I heard the alarming bell sound, I just only saw that viceroy Kone is beating the naked infantry captain who is hung upside down on the city gate. I don't know anything about what viceroy Kone said, I want to stop them, viceroy Kone even beat me up as well."

  "That's not right! We didn't fight! Our captain did not let them to enter the city because it's time to shut the city gate up!"

  "Your Majesty! We the infantries of the city defense will not do it like that!"

  "Why can't it be? What else can't they do? They even dare to beat up the nobles."

  "Yeah, viceroy Kone," obviously, the Prime Minister thinks of something, "even if it is like what you said earlier, but why would you fight with the on duty city defense officers?"

  "My dear Prime Minister," I ask with the sincere attitude, "you think that I am like a insane man?"

  "Ah?" the Prime Minister does not know what I want to do, he does not come over with the responsibility, he shakes his head at a loss.

  "Since you admit that I'm not nervous disorder, if it's possible not to fight," then I keep talking, "why would I want to fight with hundreds of people? My indigestion needs some movements? The first person to come over start the fight."

  "But viceroy Kone!" one of the ministers asks, "how do you prove that the infantry captain blackmails you?"

  "How to prove?" I stroke my chin, assembling the anger, "I'm a nobleman, and I'm a viceroy. You don't believe in what I said, what else I can say? No proof!"

  "Viceroy Kone," Your Majesty speaks to me, "don't do it like that, have the words, say it well."

  "Your majesty! It was like this so at the first place, we were compelled helpless to begin to fight." I seriously start to put on the innocent, poor, grace, and clever, "now you ask me for evidences, how and where do I get it? besides us, it's them in the gate, of cause they will say whatever they want to say!"

  "You don't get worry first." Your Majesty comforts me in a very right way, "the truth can be found out one day."

  Your Majesty turns slightly to look at the cavalry general who stations outside of the city, "you say, what did you see?"

  "Your Majesty!" the cavalry general stands his body straight, "I also don't know the things what happen earlier! When I got to the gate, I saw that hundreds of infantries and twenty some people fight in the gate aisle."

  "Nothing else?"

  "None!"

  "Well..." Your Majesty speaks to the ministers, "how do you see about this?"

  "Your Majesty!" it's the Prime Minister to speak first, "normally, the city defense infantry would never blackmail a noble, please Your Majesty be aware of this point."

  "Not necessarily?" my father finally opens his mouth, "Your Majesty, if the infantry did not blackmail Kone, then why Kone will fight with hundreds of people with only twenty some guards? And, when the city defense officers arrived, they not only did not stop the fight, but also make the scene more chaos. This tells us, at least, even if the city defense infantry did not blackmail Kone, the control ability of the city defense officers is very poor! What kind of officers will have what kind of soldiers, that mere twenty some people makes them to ring the alarming bell, it cause the whole Saint Capital in panic. Hundreds can't defeat twenty some, it simply is the incompetent to the fullest!"

  With no expression on my face, but the joy in my heart blooms. My father is my father, it's not that simple to give a shot for him. But Papa, it's not a very easy job to fight against hundreds, can you hurry up? Don't you see? It's painful for me to stand in here for this long.

  "Your Majesty!" an infantry who knows it all is pushed to the front by his officer, "to pull the alarming bells is because they rush across the gate. Can't defeat them is because the gate is too narrow, we only can have dozens to fight against them face to face at one time."

  "We rush across the gate?" I ask loudly for the petition, "tens of thousand pairs eyes saw that we are in the city gate tunnel! Your Majesty, these guys are still playing fast and loose!"

  "We don't talk about whether playing fast and loose first. The gate is narrow? Do you want me to give the order to make it lager, then you can have a fight over there freely a
gain! Fool!" Your Majesty's left pinky fondles on the gem ring on the right ring finger, "having none of the penitent consciousness! Bring this infantry down to give him thirty army sticks."

  "Your Majesty!" it looks like that the Prime Minister is very nervous, "I think that it is not that serious, please give him some lighter punishments instead."

  "Not that serious?" Your Majesty yells at him, "the alarming bells rang, everyone feels in the crisis in the Saint Capital! You Prime Minister lives like in the old age!"

  "I clearly know about this matter in general!" Your Majesty stops the ones who also want to talk, "since when the city defense people become so incompetent? What are they doing the whole day long? They can pull the alarming bells for a tiny thing! Hundreds of people can't defeat twenty some people. What if the other party is the real incoming enemy to attack the city? I'll count on such these people to guard the Saint Capital?"

  "In consideration of the inability of the department of the city defense, all the senior officers of the department of the city defense are suspended from now on! It will be taken over by the Palace guards. The normal infantry and junior officers who are participate in this fight get twenty army sticks each. All moved out! Viceroy Kone Cada, your character is too impulsive. Even it is another party's fault, you can't fight that casually with your identity! Go home to have a self-examination for three days, no pay for half year!" looking at the slopping dressed us, Your Majesty continues to say, "all get out of here for me. Vassel stays! See what a good son you teach!"

  ............

  "Three days self-examination, half year no pay." my father speaks happily to me, "look at this no pain no itch punishment, the Prime Minister's lung are going to explode!"

  "Half year no pay! Papa!" I say, "that's a lot of money!"

  "Never mind!" my father says, "Your Majesty is very happy, you made the thing out, it lets us have an excuse to replace the city defense officers. In order to let you to keep the energetic energy, Your Majesty batches five hundred thousand gold coins to you to build your city!"

  "Really??" so much money! I thought that it will be great to get about two or three at most originally.

  "Hey hey!" my father sways a piece of paper in his hand, "see that? This is the instruction! You can immediately get the money from the finance minister there!"

  "Jack!" I grab that from my father's hand and begin to shout loudly.

  "Boss! What's the matter?"

  "You and uncle Meza immediately go to the finance minister there to take out the money!"

  "Yes!"

  "Wait! Jack," my father goes after him, "let me teach you how to transfer the money!"

  ............

  I lie on the bed elatedly, after we have this five hundred thousand gold coins, with the helps of my brothers, I can have an exhibition!

  "Boss!' Jack's voice rings up in the ears, "it's not good!"

  "Your boss is frightfully good right here!" I say, "where's the money?"

  "Boss!" Jack has the sweat all over his face, followed with the angry uncle Meza, "our money is detained!"