In This Life, I Will Be The Lord - Chapter 202
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This Life, I Will Become the Clan Head Episode 202
Goosebumps rose all over his body.
Stumble, stumble.
Astana staggered backward.
Though he had been wandering the forest in fear of monsters, what he should have feared most wasn’t some unseen beast, but Peres.
The red protective gear, drenched in green blood, gleamed ominously.
Whoosh.
The sword Peres casually swung while glaring at Astana made a terrifying sound.
Blue fluid clinging to the blade scattered across the ground.
“I should have warned you.”
Peres spoke in a low voice.
“To stay out of my sight.”
“W-wait!”
Astana shouted, but it was already too late.
Peres, sword in hand, was striding toward Astana.
“S-stop him!”
Astana cried out belatedly.
“Second Prince!”
“Please stop!”
The retainers who had been hesitating nearby all rushed forward at once.
“Hey now, Your Highness!”
“Hold back, hold back!”
“If you kill him so easily here, you’ll regret it later!”
The Academy Trio, who had been guarding Peres’s back, also quickly approached to restrain him.
“Ugh, urgh…”
Astana trembled violently.
Peres’s red eyes seemed to be strangling his throat.
Those eyes had always been unsettling to look at directly, but today was different.
In those unblinking eyes that stared straight at Astana, the dark aura of the forest seemed to ripple.
“Your Highness!”
Lignite grabbed Peres’s shoulder and shouted.
“…”
Only then did Peres stop walking.
But his eyes looking down at Astana remained unchanged.
“Here, drink this!”
Tedro brought something from the pack horse’s side.
It was a canteen made of black leather.
Several more canteens of the same shape were tied to the horse carrying Peres’s group’s supplies.
“It’s because of the magic! The magic is making your head go crazy!”
Everyone present heard Tedro’s words.
“You have to drink this medicine bit by bit to stay safe!”
Tedro urged as he pressed the canteen into Peres’s hand.
Gulp.
Peres swallowed a mouthful of the liquid in the canteen and roughly wiped his mouth with his sleeve.
Though his red eyes remained the same, the murderous intent had disappeared.
“So magic really does drive people mad…”
“It wasn’t called the Forest of the Mad for nothing.”
Astana’s retainers muttered in terror.
Then loud sounds erupted in succession.
Bang! Boom-! Bang!
Finally, three people had set off signal flares.
As Peres backed away, Astana, who felt somewhat safer, glared at them.
“S-sorry, Your Highness. But this forest is too dangerous…”
“That’s right. Your Highness should also return to safety with us…”
They hurriedly made their excuses.
But surprisingly, Astana didn’t scold or berate them.
Rather, he was momentarily tempted.
‘Should I leave with them too?’
That desire burned within him.
It was the moment his hand unconsciously reached for a signal flare.
“Like master, like dogs.”
Peres sneered coldly.
“What?”
“If all of you had attacked together, you could have easily dealt with a monster of that level.”
Peres pointed with his chin at the monster’s corpse lying on the ground.
At the same time, everyone’s gaze turned there.
“That can’t be.”
“Was it that small?”
It had definitely been a huge monster.
Its footsteps had shaken the ground with each step.
But the size of the monster lying on the ground was only that of an adult man.
Though its muscular build looked terrifying, Peres was right.
If everyone had attacked together, it would have been manageable enough.
“Kekeke. To be so scared of something like that!”
“All the nobles living in the Imperial Capital must be this pathetic, right?”
“If you call yourself someone who holds a sword, you should have at least tried swinging it! Tsk tsk.”
The Academy Trio giggled loudly for everyone to hear.
“Let’s go.”
Peres said, turning his back.
“Even if I don’t deal with you, you’ll die in the forest anyway.”
Saying that, Peres walked away and checked the pack horse’s side.
Soon, a satisfied smile faintly crossed his face.
* * *
Evening had arrived.
Those who had finished hunting were returning to the forest entrance one by one.
“Ooh, that guy got three!”
“That one over there got five!”
“Hey, but those are small ones, aren’t they? Surely the bigger monsters get more points!”
The nobles who had been killing time playing card games each commented on the participants’ hunting results.
Then Second Prince Peres appeared.
“Wow, seven!”
“First place so far!”
The nobles’ reaction was enthusiastic.
Meanwhile, Crown Prince Astana.
“Hmm, empty-handed.”
“Wasn’t he competing with Second Prince?”
Everyone tried to hide their snickers at Astana’s pitiful performance.
Most of them kept their lips tightly sealed to avoid unconsciously uttering mocking words.
“Wait, who is that!”
Someone pointed at a person who had just emerged from the entrance.
“It’s Sir Ramona Brown!”
It was Ramona who appeared wearing blue armor that contrasted with her red hair.
Walking in with slightly tired steps, Ramona’s pack horse had something enormous hanging from it.
“A monster’s head?”
“To think she caught such a large monster…”
“Isn’t that harder than ten small ones?”
Unlike the others who usually brought back a monster’s ear or arm, Ramona had cleanly severed the monster’s head.
Since there were no set rules, Ramona, who had thoughtlessly brought back the head, looked a bit sheepish seeing the other participants.
“Haha, truly a Brown!”
Mentions of the Brown family were frequently heard.
“So it’s ultimately a showdown between the Second Prince and Sir Brown?”
“Still, the Second Prince will win!”
No one mentioned Astana.
Astana’s existence had been completely forgotten in the competition.
“Damn it.”
The hunting competition between the Crown Prince and Second Prince had somehow become muddled.
Astana could feel Emperor Yobanes’s gaze glaring at him from afar.
And he could also sense the blatant displeasure mixed within it, along with the look that said ‘I knew you’d be like this.’
Finally, Yobanes opened his mouth toward only one of the two approaching princes—Peres.
“Second Prince.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“Well done. Very impressive indeed.”
“Thank you, Your Majesty.”
However, there were no pleasantries for Astana.
Just a single clicking sound of disapproval.
“Um, Your Highness.”
At that moment, Belesack stealthily held out something from behind.
“From tomorrow’s hunt, try drinking this while you’re at it.”
“What is this?”
“When we encountered the Second Prince’s group in the forest, I secretly snatched one of the canteens they were drinking from while talking about magic energy.”
“What?”
Astana’s eyes sparkled.
“I wanted to steal more if possible, but I was afraid of getting caught, so I only took one…”
“If you had something like this, you should have told me earlier!”
Astana quickly snatched the canteen.
“Right, with just this…”
The monsters in the forest weren’t particularly frightening creatures.
Just looking at the monster Peres killed in one strike, it wouldn’t be impossible to catch if about ten people attacked it at once.
However, he was still afraid to enter the forest because of the magic energy that was said to drive people mad.
“No more auditory hallucinations or visual hallucinations, right?”
Astana smiled.
It felt like he had gained a mighty army.
“Well done, Belesack.”
Astana’s hand rested on Belesack’s shoulder.
“Th-thank you, Your Highness!”
Belesack was beside himself with joy at the brief praise.
“We’re going back into the forest.”
Astana said after giving Peres one last glare.
“Y-Your Highness!”
Belesack panicked and followed behind Astana, trying to stop him.
“It’s too dangerous at night!”
“Who said anything about staying until night? There’s still about an hour or two before the sun completely sets, so I’m going to hunt more. Everyone follow me.”
Eventually, those with grim expressions stealthily headed back toward the forest.
“Oh my, I think we should stop them!”
Sir Sloan, who was serving as the Emperor’s guard today, shouted in panic.
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