The Crown I Will Take From You - Chapter 126

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Chapter 126

 

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“Sister, what’s wrong?”

 

Saya, who had been looking down from beside Neryl, turned around at the sound.

 

“There was lint on you.”

 

“Ah.”

 

Saya turned back around. All her attention was focused on the rebel forces below the city walls.

 

Everyone was shocked by the sudden appearance of the boy who had severed the leader’s head.

 

The rebel side was in complete chaos.

 

“To kill the leader! Theo, you traitor! You were a spy for the royal palace!”

 

The mercenaries Horolls had brought rushed forward to kill Theo. However, the common folk blocked them.

 

“How hard Theo worked for us! There’s no way he’d kill the leader for no reason, or shout about a fake rebellion without cause!”

 

“Didn’t you hear what Theo just shouted? He said the spy was the leader who received the Regent’s money! We need to find out the truth about that first!”

 

The rebel forces split into two factions, evenly divided.

 

The situation atop the city walls was equally chaotic.

 

“Regent, what did that person just say?”

 

“You planned this? A fake rebellion?”

 

The court officials turned to the Regent with questions.

 

A rebel had killed his own leader while denouncing the Regent by name. Wasn’t the situation extremely suspicious?

 

“…It’s, it’s a frame-up. They’re trying to fr-, fra- frame me-”

 

The Regent, pale as death, stammered as he barely managed to speak,

 

Thud thud thud thud.

 

A commotion could be heard in the distance. The urgent sound of hoofbeats thundered across the ground.

 

“Ahhhhh!”

 

“What, what is it!”

 

Soldiers suddenly poured out from a village located not far from the rebel forces.

 

It was Jason’s secret unit, driven out by a sudden surprise attack.

 

Then Gilliphos’s booming shout echoed through the air.

 

“Capture them! Don’t let a single one escape!”

 

He and Diangel’s Agema drove Jason’s unit toward the rebel forces like herding mice.

 

As if Jason’s unit was also allies working together with the rebels.

 

“They had reinforcements hidden there too! They even look like elite troops!”

 

The people in the castle were shocked that the rebels had prepared so thoroughly with multiple layers of backup plans.

 

But the rebels themselves had never seen the soldiers fleeing toward them before.

 

“Who are those people? We’ve never seen them before!”

 

They looked at each other with confused faces.

 

“Aren’t they ambush troops the royal family hid to suppress us?!”

 

“They’re royal palace soldiers! They’re enemies!”

 

Someone’s question eventually turned into speculation.

 

Gilliphos swung his war hammer once more and shouted threateningly.

 

“Even corpses will do! Execute all the wicked ones who dared set foot on Valdina’s land!”

 

“We’re going to die! Run!”

 

He was referring to Jason’s unit, but the rebels thought he meant them and began fleeing in terror.

 

Already confused by their leader’s death, they had neither the composure nor the wit to discern the current truth.

 

“What are you doing? Fight! You have to fight! Are you going to die like dogs without even making a sound?!”

 

The mercenaries urgently shouted at the rebel forces scattering aimlessly in all directions.

 

Their voices were so loud they even woke the unconscious Virna.

 

“Ugh, mmm…”

 

Virna opened her eyes as she regained consciousness. Her neck was throbbing, and her vision was hazy with dusty dirt.

 

She had safely escaped through the royal palace’s secret passage and saw white light… That was Virna’s last memory.

 

“Ahhh! What is this…!”

 

Soon she realized she was in the middle of enemy territory and was horrified.

 

Surrounded by soldiers with deadly weapons, her arms were bound, and there were even bright red bloodstains in front of her.

 

“Ahhhhhhh!”

 

Virna was terrified when she discovered the leader’s severed head. A piercing scream echoed across the plain.

 

“Where is everyone! Mom! Dad! Save me! This place is insane!”

 

Tears streamed down her fair face. She screamed and struggled desperately.

 

She couldn’t believe she was left alone among these rebels.

 

Only then did she realize why her father had told only Medeia about the secret passage.

 

It was to hand Medeia over to the rebels.

 

Medeia should be standing here now. Not her!

 

“Medeia, I’m going to kill youuuuu!”

 

A vicious curse flowed out, but unfortunately she had neither the situation nor the leisure to make it reality.

 

There was no one beside Virna now. No one to rescue her from this chaos and take her back to the royal palace.

 

She frantically looked around.

 

‘That knight! Where is our family’s knight?’

 

But she couldn’t find him anywhere.

 

Virna despaired at being truly thrown here with nothing.

 

But it seemed God had not yet abandoned her.

 

“Your Excellency! Duke Castulo!”

 

She spotted Jason in the distance, running as if fleeing.

 

Though he wore a helmet, Virna immediately recognized the horse he rode and his armor.

 

“Your Excellency! Please save me!”

 

Virna waved her wrists back and forth.

 

Was it because of her urgency to escape this place and get to the Duke as quickly as possible, or was it because Theo had made a slight cut in the rope?

 

The rope binding her wrists snapped, and Virna quickly became free.

 

She threw off the rope and rushed into the midst of the ongoing battle.

 

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A little earlier, from Jason’s perspective.

 

It was when the royal palace soldiers and rebels were facing off, engaged in a war of words.

 

“We’ve captured the fake princess!”

 

When Horolls’s shout shook the earth and sky, Jason quietly revealed himself.

 

‘The time has come.’

 

Though Gilliphos’s sudden appearance had temporarily halted the rebels’ advance, Jason knew well that reality doesn’t always flow according to plan.

 

The princess with a sack over her head was dragged onto the platform by the leader.

 

Jason frowned at seeing the rebels handle her so roughly.

 

‘How dare they treat her so carelessly.’

 

As expected from rotten ex-pirates, they knew neither courtesy nor shame.

 

“Are you ready? We’ll soon charge over there to rescue the princess. You sweep away those vulgar ones as planned.”

 

“Yes, Your Excellency.”

 

Even his shadows were with him by his side.

 

However, when the sack was actually removed, Jason couldn’t hide his surprise.

 

Wide-open eyes and a mouth that wouldn’t close.

 

“Why, why is it… not the princess but the lady who’s there…!”

 

Before he could sort out his confused thoughts, something even more shocking happened, as if everything so far had been nothing.

 

“I have executed the traitor! Prince Claudio, the Regent! Your plan has been exposed! This fake rebellion ends here!”

 

Jason’s eyes looked ready to pop out.

 

‘What’s going on? Who is that person?!’

 

Weren’t all the rebels firmly under the Regent’s control?

 

What happens if the leader dies?

 

Just then, Suha came running urgently.

 

“Your Highness, we’re in trouble. Our position has been exposed.”

 

“What? What do you mean-”

 

“Aaaahhh!”

 

Jason quickly turned his head.

 

A large and sturdy cavalry unit was charging into the village where they had been hiding, destroying everything in sight.

 

As they ransacked with their weapons and searched them out, the soldiers who had been hiding could no longer endure and had no choice but to fight back.

 

‘How did they know we were here?!’

 

They ambushed Jason’s unit as if they had been waiting.

 

“Please take cover. Their strength is no ordinary matter.”

 

Nord, one of the secret guards who always protected Jason by his side, whispered a warning. He was the first to notice the exceptional skill of those who had just ambushed them.

 

Jason frantically looked around.

 

His soldiers were dying silently under the spears and swords of the Valdina knights.

 

They were on a completely different level from Gilliphos’s soldiers who had been barely holding their ground against the rebels just moments ago.

 

Thud, thump. Crash.

 

The sound of his allies being struck by Valdina swords and tumbling from their horses hit Jason’s ears louder and heavier than ever before.

 

“Your Highness, this won’t do. I’ll prepare an escape route, so please withdraw quickly.”

 

“No! At this rate, we’ll be annihilated! Everyone retreat! Get out of here and scatter!”

 

Jason screamed with bloodshot eyes.

 

The name of this shadow unit was Barangians. They were the ones left behind by his father, the Former Emperor, before he died.

 

Raised away from his uncle’s eyes, they were essentially the ultimate weapon that could stand against him. These were not people to be lost so futilely in this place.

 

Then, whoosh-!

 

An arrow came flying.

 

“Your Highness! Be careful!”

 

At the same time as the guard’s cry, Jason reflexively swung his sword. But the arrow wasn’t aimed at him.

 

“Gah-!”

 

Nord clutched his throat where the arrow had struck and fell from his horse. Blood droplets splattered over his helmet decorated with laurel leaf ornaments.

 

“Nord!”

 

When Jason rushed over, he was already dead with his eyes wide open.

 

“Who is it! Where did that come from!”

 

Jason frantically searched the surroundings, but couldn’t tell which direction the arrow had come from.

 

Before he could collect his stunned thoughts, the deadly sound of cutting through air struck his ears again in rapid succession.

 

“Ugh-!”

 

“Hah”

 

Sud and West, who had been to Jason’s left and right, collapsed.

 

They had suffered fatal wounds with arrows piercing through their necks and chests.

 

“Wh-what is this…”

 

Several more arrows came flying.

 

The rapid fire that happened in the blink of an eye pierced through them as if to ensure the death of the guards.

 

In an instant, three of Jason’s four secret guards had died. Having become arrow targets.

 

Jason froze. Chills rose up his spine.

 

“Aaaahhh!”

 

A rough, beast-like metallic roar echoed.

 

Jason could no longer pretend to be calm.

 

His face, twisted like a demon, was unrecognizable as the usually gentle Duke Castulo.

 

“Who is it, who is it! Who is targeting me!”

 

Nord. Sud. West. And Ost.

 

These four guards were secret protectors who guarded the direct lineage of the Kazen Royal Family.

 

Those who existed in hiding in the shadows, yet simultaneously did not exist.

 

Throughout hundreds of years of history, even as the guards changed, their names were always the same.

 

They had protected that bloodline with blind loyalty to the pure blood of the royal family.

 

They never interfered in any political matters and were only responsible for preserving the bloodline.

 

“Jason, they will not make you honorable or great, but they will keep your life safe.”

 

Jason’s father, the Former Emperor, had told him about the existence of these four people when he handed over the Barangian unit before his death.

 

The reason Jason had survived safely until now, despite his uncle Perdickas II trying to eliminate his troublesome nephew, was largely due to their efforts.

 

Since Perdickas II, who was not of direct lineage, didn’t even know of their existence.

 

They had also accompanied him silently like shadows on this journey to Valdina.

 

Even though they didn’t lend their strength to inciting rebellion with the Regent, they still guarded his side disguised as ordinary soldiers for Jason’s protection.

 

But the fact that someone knew of their existence and selectively eliminated only these hidden ones…

 

‘It’s a trap. This isn’t targeting the Regent, it’s a trap targeting me!’

 

Jason finally realized.

 

The mastermind behind this situation was someone who knew him and the Kazen Royal Family very well.

 

His face turned pale.

 

But the realization came too late, and the cruel reality was unfolding before his eyes.

 

“Ost! We need to get out of here right now!”

 

Without even time to mourn the death of his guards, as he frantically rode his horse to flee in order to protect at least the one remaining guard.

 

“Prince Castulo! Please save me!”

 

The piercing scream of a girl was heard.

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