Chapter 706 : Abel the Captive I
Water Magician · Chapter 808 of 810
Chapter 0706 Abel the Captive I
Translator: Jay_Forestieri
Editor: Tseirp
“Abel, I have a feeling we’re heading south.”
“Ryo, what a coincidence, I think so too.”
“Abel, I think the kingdom is to the west.”
“Ryo, what a coincidence, I think so too.”
“Abel, we must be being taken away as slaves.”
“Ryo, I think that is not the case.”
The two of them were riding in a carriage.
It was a carriage arranged by Marquis Nyusha, and knights from the marquis’s house were guarding it on all sides.
“So we’re being moved because Marquis Nyusha said we should come to his residence, right?”
“That’s right. He said it was two days from Zaarash Fortress... no, from Zaarash Free City.”
Both Ryo and Abel were talking while looking out the window.
Since it was the second day of traveling by carriage, they would apparently arrive today.
“The marquis went back ahead of us to prepare the welcome and all that, but...”
“I don’t like being made such a big spectacle of.”
“That is because Abel charged straight into the meeting place.”
“No, that couldn’t be helped, could it?”
Abel countered Ryo’s words.
Of course, Ryo understood that too.
In that place, in that situation, Abel’s action had been the most correct one.
“What are we going to do if there are Union troops lined up in front of the mansion and Abel gets taken prisoner?”
“There’s no way that will happen.”
“What if they capture Abel and demand a ransom from the kingdom?”
“In that case, I would be abandoned.”
“...Eh?”
Abel answered with a shrug, and Ryo was shocked.
“The kingdom government would abandon Abel?”
“Of course. And on top of that, the premier duke who was captured with me would probably be cut loose too.”
“That is a problem! I could care less about Abel, but they must pay my ransom!”
“What a selfish premier duke.”
In the evening, Abel’s party arrived at the marquisate capital, Nansha.
There were more than ten thousand fully armed soldiers there....
“See! ”
“No, that can’t be...”
Ryo pointed it out, and Abel was astonished.
The flags lined up there were those of the Handal Union.
Of course, Marquis Nyusha was not a noble of the Union.
Nor was his territory part of the Union.
Geopolitically, it was certainly a region strongly influenced by the Union, but...
“We must have been handed over to the Union!”
“I don’t think that’s the case...”
“They are using us as bargaining chips, and Marquis Nyusha is trying to conclude a favorable treaty with the Union.”
“I don’t think that’s the case...”
Ryo stated it as a certainty, while Abel’s words lost force compared to at first, even though he himself thought it was probably wrong.
From the entrance to the capital, the carriage carrying Ryo and Abel slowly moved deeper into the city, between rows of Union knights standing along the roadside.
After proceeding for a while, they arrived in front of the marquis’s mansion.
“Your Majesty Abel, we have arrived.”
The carriage door opened, and a soldier from the Nyusha marquisate army who had been escorting the two called out to them.
The two got out of the carriage and were shown inside the mansion.
<<We have not been disarmed.>>
<<Disarmed?>>
<<Our weapons have not been taken away.>>
<<Ah, that’s what you mean. Well, I’m a king after all. If someone tried to take a king’s sword away, that would probably break the relationship, wouldn’t it?>>
Abel replied that it was only natural in response to Ryo’s observation.
<<But still, Abel is also known as a dangerous swordsman, right? He is a former A-rank swordsman.>>
<<You, more than me, Ryo.>>
<<I am, by both self and other recognition, a peace-oriented water-attribute magician.>>
<<I think the ‘self’ part is fine, but I don’t think the ‘other’ part is recognized.>>
It seems that perceptions differ from person to person.
The room the two were shown into was a rather spacious reception room.
Two men were seated on the sofa in the center of the room, but they stood up at the same time Ryo and Abel entered.
One of them was the master of the mansion and the man who had invited them, Marquis Nyusha.
His face seemed slightly tense.
The reason for that was probably the other man...
As for that other man, he was someone Abel also knew.
They had met four years ago... before the decisive battle with Djinn Garwin.
“No way...”
But it would be impossible to imagine that he would be here.
“It has been a long time, Your Majesty Abel.”
“I did not expect Lord Aubrey, the Union’s governor, to be here.”
Waiting for Ryo and Abel was Lord Aubrey, the Governor of the Handal Union.