In This Life, I Will Be The Lord - Chapter 221

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This Life, I Will Become the Clan Head Episode 221

As Violet was being dragged away helplessly, she spotted a familiar silhouette behind the warehouse building.

Though his face wasn’t visible under the deeply pulled hood, Violet could tell it was Cleribane.

As Violet was being dragged away by the guards, Cleribane was about to step out from behind the warehouse where he had been hiding.

‘No!’

Violet looked at Cleribane and shook her head firmly.

She didn’t know exactly what was happening, but the Imperial Guards were turning the trading company upside down searching for Cleribane.

She could instinctively tell it was dangerous.

‘Don’t come out, no matter what!’

When Violet gave him another meaningful look, Cleribane hesitated in place.

That was the last scene Violet saw before being dragged back into her office.

Meanwhile, Cleribane hid himself in the corner again and ground his teeth.

Fortunately, the message and robe that Beit had urgently sent through an informant planted within Pellet Trading Company had arrived just in time.

[Danger. Both trading company and manor under attack. Empress. Be careful.]

If not for this hastily scrawled note, it would have been Cleribane, not Violet, who was captured now.

He wanted to rush toward Violet, but there was no way he could defeat the Imperial Guards with force.

Cleribane leaned against the cold warehouse wall, trying to cool his heated head.

And after a moment, he quietly began to escape from the Pellet Trading Company grounds.

Though it was a massive complex with dozens of buildings, it was a place all too familiar to Cleribane.

Getting out of here was the immediate priority.

There were several close calls where he almost encountered Imperial soldiers, but fortunately Cleribane was able to safely escape the Pellet Trading Company.

Standing in a deserted alley to catch his breath, Cleribane thought.

“Where should I go now?”

He couldn’t return home since the manor had also been attacked.

The first person who came to mind was, of course, Pirenthia.

But Cleribane soon shook his head.

If what they were framing him for was related to treason.

“I can’t drag Lady Pirenthia into this too.”

That’s when it happened.

“Hey, you there. Show me your face.”

An Imperial Guard walking toward the Pellet Trading Company called out to Cleribane.

“Damn it.”

Cleribane slowly turned around as if he hadn’t heard them.

And walked as quickly as possible around the corner of the alley.

“Hey? Stop right there! You!”

But the guard didn’t give up and persistently followed.

Both Cleribane’s footsteps and those of the pursuing guard gradually quickened.

Finally, Cleribane began to run.

“It’s an order! Stop!”

The guard, sensing something was amiss, began chasing while shouting at the top of his lungs.

“Huff, huff!”

Ragged breathing burst from Cleribane’s mouth.

But he couldn’t stop.

He needed to hide in the crowd.

Just as Cleribane was thinking this and emerging from the alley onto the main street.

“Lord Pellet!”

A familiar voice called out from somewhere.

Cleribane hurriedly looked in that direction.

“Second Prince… Your Highness?”

He never expected this at all.

But it was definitely Peres riding his horse toward Cleribane.

“Got you!”

“Oh no!”

Stopping in surprise at seeing Peres had been his mistake.

The guard who had been chasing caught up and grabbed Cleribane by the scruff of his neck.

“You! Huff, Cleribane, hah, Pellet, right!”

The Imperial Guard smiled at Cleribane as if he had caught a big fish.

Then he spoke with considerable arrogance.

“Cleribane Pellet, you are under arrest on suspicion of conspiracy in the attempted assassination of His Majesty the Emperor… Gah!”

The guard couldn’t finish his words as his body went flying and crashed backward.

As Cleribane watched the guard rolling on the ground in shock, he heard Peres’s voice much closer now.

“Hurry.”

Peres was extending his hand to Cleribane as if telling him to mount the horse.

In his other hand was a sword still in its sheath, apparently used to strike the guard.

Cleribane hesitated for a moment.

But soon grasped that hand firmly.

“Thank you.”

Peres pulled Cleribane up strongly with one arm.

Cleribane’s body was lifted up and settled on the horse in no time.

“Ugh, uhhh. What!”

The guard who had been knocked down finally came to his senses and shot up from his position.

Then he tried to draw the sword at his waist while shouting.

“Who dares assault an Imperial Guard…!”

“Stop.”

Peres once again pointed his undrawn sword at the guard’s face.

“S-Second Prince Your Highness?”

The guard, recognizing Peres, froze in shock and could only blink.

“If you draw your sword against me, I’ll execute you immediately for treason.”

“Uh, uhh…”

The guard was caught in a dilemma.

Only after Peres kicked his horse’s flanks hard and began galloping away did the guard shout loudly.

“There he is! Cleribane Pellet is over there!”

Hoping his colleagues who would be searching every corner of Lombardy like him would hear.

And it was pure coincidence that Idan Clus, who happened to be walking around the outskirts of Pellet Trading Company, heard that shout.

Hearing that distant sound, Idan Clus reacted like a nimble hunting dog.

He quickly mounted his horse and whistled loudly to gather the nearby guards.

“That way!”

The gray warhorse that Idan Clus rode charged forward first.

Behind him, one Angenas guard and two Imperial Guards followed at a distance.

Thud-thud, thud-thud!

Following its master’s lead, Idan Clus’s horse galloped roughly down Lombardy Boulevard.

“Kyaah!”

“Get out of the way!”

Startled citizens of Lombardy screamed as they dodged the horse running at tremendous speed.

“Wahhh!”

However, a boy who couldn’t dodge in time and fell in the middle of the road remained, along with a woman holding the boy’s hand.

The woman, watching the approaching horse with fearful eyes, embraced the boy tightly with a resigned expression.

And.

Neigh-!

Idan Clus pulled hard on the horse’s reins.

The horse leaped cleanly over the woman and boy.

Thud-thud, thud-thud!

Glancing at them from the corner of his eye, Idan Clus continued galloping relentlessly.

And finally, he could see the horse carrying two people ahead.

“Hyah!”

Idan Clus kicked the horse’s flanks once more.

Thud-thud, thud-thud, thud-thud!

The horse began to pick up speed again.

“Faster! Faster!”

Confirming that Idan Clus was closing the distance, Peres urged his horse forward.

However, there was no way a horse that normally pulled carriages could outrun a warhorse.

“Cleribane Pellet!”

Idan Clus called out to Cleribane in a booming voice.

Sensing he was about to be caught, Cleribane gritted his teeth.

That’s when it happened.

“We’re here!”

At Peres’s shout, Cleribane’s head snapped up.

Before the two men, the Lombardi estate came into view.

“This place is…?”

Cleribane was momentarily confused.

However, Peres gripped the reins tightly and pushed for maximum speed.

Thud-thud, thud-thud!

Just as Idan Clus’s horse began to gain even more speed.

“We made it!”

Peres shouted as they crossed the boundary of the Lombardi estate.

At that same moment, the Lombardi Knights standing before the estate’s iron gates began to move.

Clank, clank!

Fully armed and armored, they blocked the entrance to the Lombardi manor.

Though Idan Clus’s horse was charging toward them at a frightening speed, they didn’t budge an inch.

Neigh!

Finally, Idan Clus’s horse came to an abrupt halt and whinnied loudly once more.

“Graaah!”

Watching the retreating figures of Peres and Cleribane, Idan Clus screamed in rage.

“Move aside!”

Then, the Imperial Guards who had been chasing Idan Clus shouted.

“We’ve come to arrest criminals involved in treason! Stand aside immediately!”

“That is not possible.”

The Lombardi Knight Commander standing at the front spoke curtly.

“Who dares to block the path of the Imperial Knights!”

“I am Lambert Lombardi, Knight Commander of Lombardi.”

“Lo, Lombardi…”

The nephew of the current family head Rulak Lombardi and Knight Commander of Lombardi.

It was a name the Imperial Guards knew well.

“Lord Lombardi! If you don’t step aside immediately, we’ll consider this aiding treason…!”

“I said it’s not possible.”

Lambert Lombardi spoke in a low voice.

“According to the covenant made between the first Emperor and the first Lombardi family head.”

Lambert’s brown eyes gleamed fiercely.

“Imperial forces cannot enter the Lombardi estate.”

And looking at Idan Clus, who was still glaring in the direction where Peres and Cleribane had disappeared, he added.

“Needless to say, Angenas’s hunting dogs either.”

Heh.

It was a remark laced with mockery.

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