Chapter 85.2: What I Wish for Spring (1)
“And if, as you say, Ross is truly siding with the elves, then he must be eliminated.”
“Like how you just did?”
He laughed again.
To Cain, it no longer looked like the gentle smile of a kind grandfather. It was more like the twisted grin of an old monster, flashing its chilling fangs.
━If anyone is caught colluding with the elves, they will bear full responsibility and be eliminated.
Princess Olivia’s words from their encounter at Mainus Grand Central Station flashed through his mind.
‘Use them until they’re no longer useful, then discard them. Both McLoud and his granddaughter sure are good at that.’
Cain was once again reminded that Olivia was the granddaughter of this skinny old man standing before him.
Click━.
Marquis McLoud snapped his fingers.
With that sound, the body of the knight, who had been writhing on the floor, went limp.
“Since my future grandson-in-law is objecting, I’ll postpone the execution.”
Looking at McLoud, who spoke as if he were doing him a favor, Cain lifted the corners of his lips.
It was a sneer directed at his enemy.
“As if you weren’t going to execute him in the first place. It was just a show.”
“Are you saying I’m lying? And what reason would I have for that?”
McLoud deliberately tilted his head back and pointed at his own chest, asking.
It was a subtly annoying act, as if he was expecting a more elaborate answer from Cain or even mocking him for not knowing.
“I don’t know your reason.”
Cain flatly replied.
However, at his words, Marquis McLoud’s expression became even more expectant.
He gestured with his hands, urging Cain to continue.
“But someone like you wouldn’t kill so easily. At the very least, you’d extract information about who he was connected to and what he had divulged before getting rid of him.”
Clap━, Clap━.
Marquis McLoud slowly clapped his hands with a powerful sound and nodded.
“That’s the answer, Cain Ethelred. I wonder how someone like you could be born from that stiff Edmund. Then let me ask you one more thing. Was I wrong?”
Like a well-scripted play, the excited atmosphere calmed down.
The wrinkled face of Marquis McLoud, which had been changing like an actor’s mask, slowly hardened.
It became the face of the one who carried the weight of ‘McLoud’ in Airian.
Cain met his gaze head-on.
“You weren’t wrong.”
“Then am I right?”
“You weren’t right either.”
McLoud frowned at Cain’s answer.
“What do you mean, neither wrong nor right?”
“You weren’t wrong because you didn’t forcefully curse them, nor did you secretly collude with the elves……”
Thud━.
Cain stepped forward with his left foot and rested his hand on Agweska’s hilt.
Shing━!
At the same time, the eleven knights drew their weapons and aimed them at Cain.
As if all of McLoud’s elite had been gathered, all eleven were at least Expert Intermediate level.
The dark clouds seemed to have cleared somewhat, and bright white sunlight streamed in through the train window.
The sunlight reflected off the knights’ weapons, blurring and glistening as it illuminated the carriage.
And in the midst of it all.
Cain slowly opened his mouth.
“I don’t like it. Your arrogant attitude, as if you’re looking down on Marquis Ross, is pathetic.”
“……!”
Marquis McLoud gaped at Cain’s words.
“And your paranoia, forcing curses on your knights because you can’t even earn their loyalty, makes me want to tear you apart.”
He didn’t hold back.
Cain, feeling refreshed after saying everything he wanted to say, brushed back his black hair and smirked.
Marquis McLoud stared blankly at Cain, then muttered a single word.
“Crazy bastard.”
“I hear that a lot.”
“Well, my grandson-in-law needs to be at least this interesting to even meet my granddaughter. Everyone, put your swords away.”
Clank━.
The knights sheathed their weapons.
Stroking his chin, Marquis McLoud looked Cain up and down once more.
“I really like you.”
“I won’t accept your curse.”
“I wouldn’t be able to curse a Sword Master even if I wanted to.”
“And I will make Oleciren the king.”
“Make Oleciren the king, and then marry my granddaughter Olivia.”
“…….”
Although he didn’t say it out loud, Cain felt McLoud’s words rise to his throat before he swallowed them down.
The marquis continued in a slightly more serious tone, as if he weren’t joking.
“I want to be king. I craved the power that the king wields. But now, there’s something I desire even more.”
“I’m not interested in you, old man.”
“That’s how it starts.”
Cain inwardly sighed, looking at Marquis McLoud, who was teasing him playfully.
The image of Marquis McLoud that he had vaguely imagined and the actual image were too far apart.
Marquis McLoud pointed in the direction the train was heading.
“I’ll stop by Lindbloom briefly and then head back up to Marquis Belt.”
“Safe travels.”
“You’ll meet with Hybolt and try to persuade him, won’t you? He’s the only one who can overturn Olivia becoming commander-in-chief.”
From the mere fact that Cain and Oleciren were on the train together, McLoud had grasped the situation perfectly.
“Will you stop me?”
Cain gripped Agweska again, but McLoud shrugged his shoulders.
“Not at all. There’s no need for me to do that. How can you possibly sway someone whose heart is already dead?”
“Whose heart is dead……?”
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