I Became A Thief Who Steals Overpowered Skills - Chapter 85

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Chapter 85. My Sister, the Princess, and the Old Codger

Krash’s warning set the Nokae Knight Order soldiers seething with fury.

Just as they were about to shout something back at him,

“What’s all this commotion?”

A figure stepped in, cutting off their words.

A uniform of black tinged with green.

The man wore a distinctive black mustache, a scar bisecting the bridge of his nose.

He pulled his beret low, and his expression made it clear he found the current situation most disagreeable.

It was Lexus Vilter, the Nokae Knight Order’s commander.

He glanced back and forth between the Nokae knight who’d taken a blow from Krash and Krash himself, then his brow furrowed sharply.

“Did you lay hands on one of my order?”

Krash’s expression remained indifferent.

At that, Lexus’s frown deepened.

“What possessed you to do such a thing? You’d better explain yourself, or I’ll see you punished harshly.”

In the distance, he saw Leblian running toward them.

And behind him came another figure.

His face had gone deathly pale—it was Vega, commander of the Cheonghae Knights.

Krash felt a pang of guilt toward the two of them, but it couldn’t be helped.

The line should never have been crossed.

“Lexus! Commander Lexus!”
“Commander Vega?”

As Vega called out urgently, Lexus looked puzzled.

Though this was merely a dispute among knights, Vega’s alarm struck him as odd.

“Wait, wait—let me speak with you.”

Vega pulled at Lexus’s jacket, emphasizing his urgency.

Seeing this, Lexus furrowed his brow again and turned back to Krash.

“Since there’s business between commanders, I’ll set this aside for now. But don’t think you’ll escape punishment if you don’t explain yourself clearly.”
“Commander Lexus! Please, stop—I’m begging you!”

Vega’s expression had become almost tearful as he pressed Lexus urgently.

In the end, Lexus left the scene with Vega, both his expression and his tone conveying complete bewilderment.

“Everyone, return to your posts.”

In the interim, Leblian scattered the Cheonghae Knights and Nokae Knight members.

The Nokae Knights wore expressions of clear displeasure.

But none dared to openly question Leblian, a nobleman and vice-commander of the Cheonghae Knights.

“Krash.”

As Krash moved to follow the group, Bianca suddenly took his hand and looked up at him.

She gazed up with wide eyes for a moment, then began fidgeting with his hand as she spoke.

“I thought you were hiding your identity.”
“That was secondary. I won’t let you take the blame for it.”

Krash understood well enough that Bianca had also tried to slip away from the situation.

She didn’t want to be a stumbling block that would cause him trouble.

But Krash had no intention of hiding his identity if it meant Bianca would face criticism for it.

It was as simple as keeping people’s mouths shut.

This was precisely what his position was for.

It was no accident that Krash had retaken the Direct Lineage trials of Balheim with full strength.

Understanding his words, Bianca gripped his hand more firmly.

Her mood seemed to have lifted noticeably from before.

“Everyone’s assembled now.”

In that moment, a single voice echoed softly through the space.

The restless atmosphere of moments before dissipated at once, and the tension throughout the gathering spiked sharply.

The knights straightened their posture and held their breath.

As one, they cleared the path as she passed.

Between the ranks the knights had formed.

Hair distinctive to Balheim—black base with a faint blue tint—caught the eye.

Between a cloak, magically treated to remain comfortable regardless of temperature even in summer.

Long hair, bound at the ends of a short cut, drifted slowly in the air.

She bore Balheim’s characteristic sharp gaze, and the colors of the Jujan Knight Order were embroidered into her cloak, while her striking figure was all the more prominent in her uniform.

Yet despite such beauty, no one present dared to appraise her appearance.

Lilish Balheim.

She was Krash’s second sister.

The Balheim Direct Lineage held an absolutely dominant position within the Balheim Knight Order.

She was even the commander of the Jujan Knight Order, no less.

And she had earned that position purely through her own strength—more than capable enough to claim it on merit alone.

The moment she appeared, everyone’s discipline tightened visibly.

Lilish paid no mind to the gazes converging on her, moving forward with steady, deliberate strides.

Behind her back, the members of the Jujan Knight Order followed in formation alongside their vice-commander.

The aura that emanated from their synchronized advance was unmistakably that of true masters.

Every one of them stood at least at the Master Beginner level—the Jujan Knight Order existed on an entirely different plane than the Cheonghae and Nokae orders.

Even the Nokae Knight Order members found themselves instinctively intimidated in their presence.

Yet, just as with the Cheonghae Knights, none dared so much as speak to them.

Heaven cannot be touched, and that is precisely why it remains heaven.

As Lilish passed in front of Krash, her attention shifted.

For just a moment, her blue eyes turned toward him.

Thud—

In that instant, her footsteps came to an abrupt halt.

The members of the Jujan Knight Order, unprepared for her sudden stop, all ceased walking at once.

Lilish’s gaze turned slowly toward Krash.

‘Could it be—’

Had she seen through Darling’s drug and noticed?

There was no real need to hide his secret entry into the order from Lilish.

But revealing his identity here, in front of everyone, felt complicated.

He’d made a promise with the First Prince, after all.

“A child?”

But it was not Krash that Lilish was observing—it was Bianca.

The girl, visibly quite young, was holding Krash’s hand while standing among the knights, and Lilish had taken notice.

“She’s my younger sister.”

Krash opened his mouth on Bianca’s behalf, now certain that Lilish had not actually seen through him.

She glanced at him briefly, then reached into her pocket.

To his surprise, what she withdrew was a piece of candy wrapped in paper.

She handed it directly to Bianca.

“Have some candy.”

Bianca glanced up at Krash.

She was asking for permission.

Krash nodded.

At his approval, Bianca took the candy and bowed to Lilish Balheim.

“Thank you.”

Lilish gave a brief nod and resumed walking.

Krash watched her retreating figure with a puzzled expression.

‘……Did she always like children?’

The fact that she carried candy with her was something Krash had never imagined, leaving him bewildered.

They’d barely ever spoken—how would he know?

All he’d ever done was see her from a distance.

“Krash. That person…”
“Yeah.”

He nodded lightly at Bianca’s question.

“She seems like a good person.”

With that, Bianca unwrapped the candy Lilish had given her and popped it into her mouth.

Despite every eye turning toward them when Lilish handed over the candy, she remained composed—true to her nature.

“And the atmosphere around her is different from that other lady too.”

The other woman Bianca mentioned was undoubtedly Charlotte.

Lilish’s presence was certainly quite different from Charlotte’s.

Charlotte was fiery and free-spirited.

Lilish, by contrast, was quiet and moved with disciplined precision.

‘Yet they share the same bloodline.’

It seemed people could be this different after all.

“The commanders.”
“We’re here.”

The moment Lilish appeared, Lexus Vilter of the Nokae Knight Order and Vega of the Cheonghae Knights hurried before her.

She was serving as today’s commander.

“You’ve confirmed the headcount?”
“Yes, you may enter whenever you’re ready.”
“Let’s go. D-free.”

She didn’t bother with lengthy words, and instead summoned a mage belonging to Balheim.

At the summons, the Space Magic circle that lay before her began to glow.

Beyond half the circle, a hazy silhouette flickering into view showed that the two spaces were now connected.

“Follow me through, one after another.”

The moment Lilish Balheim, who stood at the very front, stepped through, the vice-captain of the Balheim Knight Order and his knights swiftly followed in her wake.

“Vice-Captain Leblian.”

As the Nokae Knight Order members also moved to follow,

Krash approached Leblian.

Then he spoke quietly to him as he inclined an ear to listen.

“Tell her later that I’m still here, would you?”

She probably wouldn’t mind much either way,

but since she’s the commander of this support operation, she shouldn’t be left in the dark.

“Of course, sir.”
“Thanks.”

After passing the message on to him, Krash stepped back.

“Krash, you… will you be all right?”

Colin, his fellow Cheonghae Knight, spoke up with concern.

The same worry reflected in the faces of the other knights as well.

He’d not only knocked out a Nokae Knight with his fists, but had been marked directly by the Nokae Knight captain.

Naturally, the implication was that trouble would follow.

As if answering that unspoken worry, Krash glanced toward the Nokae Knight captain.

The moment their eyes met, the man’s whole body jolted visibly, and he bowed his head.

It seemed he’d received a full explanation from Vega, his fellow captain.

It was better that captains understood the situation on both sides, after all.

“I’m fine.”

So Krash spoke without concern.

At least while he remained, the Nokae Knight Order wouldn’t press the issue with them.

Not unless the Nokae Knight captain wanted to abandon all responsibility.

“Cheonghae Knights, we move as well.”

Soon after the Nokae Knight Order had finished their transit, the Cheonghae Knights began theirs.

It was the aftereffect of Space Magic.

“Ugh.”

Perhaps it was Bianca’s first time experiencing Space Magic.

Her body swayed with a distinctly queasy expression.

“Are you all right?”

When Krash hurried to catch Bianca in his arms, she screwed up her face and breathed slowly through the discomfort.

A little rest and she’d be fine.

As he patted her back, Krash’s eyes took in the surrounding landscape.

Beyond the endless expanse of barren grassland, devoid of even a single tuft of grass.

A massive wall rose up before them, stretching all the way to the horizon.

Yet there was one thing that set it apart: the sky beyond that wall.

Beyond the wall, the sky blazed with a vivid violet light, marked by the wall as a boundary.

This was Ma-gyeong, one of the Forbidden Zones.

A Forbidden Zone under the direct management of the Sephira Family, given its distance from both Empire and Kingdom.

“Oh my, the Balheim people have arrived!”

Yet Krash’s gaze had fixed not on Ma-gyeong itself, but on a single figure.

She wore a veil that concealed her eyes entirely, revealing only lips the color of cherries, and her smile was radiant with cheerfulness.

And beside her stood an expressionless guard—another figure that caught his eye.

The moment her peach-toned hair gleamed, Krash exhaled silently to himself.

‘Seirang Sephira.’

The Sephira Family’s first-rank official’s daughter. A princess.

And beside her, a man with distinctly black hair caught Krash’s eye.

‘An ancient monster.’

A figure who had lived from the previous generation to the present, and one who would normally be thought long dead by now, his lifespan exhausted.

The Tengu Star.

Blavi.

Born under the Celestial Killing Star, engulfed by murderous impulses and hatred for the world.

Yet through the grace of the Sephira Family’s astrology, he had escaped his fated star and remained a loyal hound to the Sephira to this day.

The problem was that, save for those in the Sephira’s inner circle, he concealed his true identity.

‘Who could have known he would undergo the Return of Youth.’

And the reason Krash found Blavi so distasteful was straightforward.

‘Seirang Sephira is killed by a World Corruptor.’

And with Seirang’s death, Blavi lost control of the Celestial Killing Star.

As a result, his murderous intent turned toward hunting World Corruptors.

Countless World Corruptors fell by his hand, and ultimately it was this that drove the World Corruptor to draw the extreme card of war.

That was none other than the Tengu Star before them.

Blavi the Forsaken.

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