Chapter 93
Jeremiah wanted to cut down the soldiers guarding the gate out of sheer disgust, but it still wasn’t the time.
Unless it was a time when Karnan’s Crown Prince was hanging himself on Ibella, if he did something like that now, there was a high chance he would be driven out before the Crown Prince even got to check his match rate with Ibella.
Holding back his rage, he looked at the noble who had come out to receive him. It seemed the imperial family had realized belatedly that a problem had arisen and had sent a Transcendent.
‘An S-Class just like me…’
Marquis Raysel Orleans.
It was a name he had heard before. The Karnan Empire had eight S-Class Transcendents, but since three of them were in their teens, only the remaining five stood on the battlefield.
Among them, Marquis Orleans was a swordmaster comparable to Duke Lanas, said to be the second strongest in the Karnan Empire. From Jeremiah’s position as an Crown Prince, he was an undeniably desirable talent.
‘Arrogant, though.’
“I believe the explanation has been given. Is there anything else you wish to hear?”
The one who had flusteredly made excuses was the side that managed the soldiers. In a way, it seemed they had sent Marquis Orleans, an S-Class Transcendent, to receive them, but judging by the way they were treating them, it also looked like they had attached a watcher to prevent this side from harming their own people.
“Is that the attitude of someone apologizing! The insolence of daring to block His Highness’s path, it wouldn’t be enough even if you repaid it with death! Yet you hold your head up so stiffly!”
“Today’s matter is nothing more than a minor incident caused by the schedule mismatch between Nabel Empire’s enthusiasm and the agreed-upon route. If you feel wronged, why don’t you lodge a protest sent to your own side?”
“Why is this the Nabel Empire’s fault! The ones who committed the insolence are…!”
As it looked like the argument would drag on, Jeremiah, irritated, raised one hand and cut off the Nabel Empire knight’s words.
“Enough. Let’s go in.”
“Your Highness…”
Jeremiah brushed past Raysel’s side and glared at him.
“Did you say you’re Marquis Orleans? I’ll remember your name.”
Even with that warning, Raysel looked like he didn’t care. After all, his rank was S-Class, and threats didn’t tend to work on Transcendents of that level.
Jeremiah was furious, but he returned to the carriage. To be insulted like this from the very start. His insides boiled, but it still wasn’t the time.
Ibella, who had been silently holding her breath in a corner of the carriage, couldn’t even meet his eyes and turned her head toward the window.
“Move out!”
At the Crown Prince’s order, his escort knight urged the other knights on in an angry voice. As they entered through the gate, Raysel also mounted his horse and began to move along with their procession.
The North Gate soldiers who had closed the gate under orders wiped cold sweat and muttered among themselves.
“Is it really okay to do this? We’re not going to get struck by lightning later, right?”
“We just did what we were told. And Marquis Orleans even came out like that…”
“Even if it’s the Nabel Empire, is it okay to treat them like that?”
It wasn’t that Raysel Orleans had received separate instructions and treated Jeremiah that way. Even originally, the people of the Karnan Empire and the people of the Nabel Empire didn’t get along, but for a Transcendent, it was hard to view the Nabel Empire favorably.
Even in the Karnan Empire, many B-Class and below Transcendents had abandoned their country, believing promises that they would be matched with Guides or given better opportunities, and after they went to the Nabel Empire, contact was lost.
At first, they considered it simply the countries growing distant, but as that piled up over decades, suspicion gathered. The suspicion that the Transcendents had been murdered.
In fact, a Transcendent who survived human experimentation and escaped the Nabel Empire revealed that the suspicion was true, and only then did the Nabel Empire’s atrocities finally become known to the world.
Now, as they began to lack B-Class to D-Class Transcendents, they had even reached the point of kidnapping Transcendents from other countries to supply them.
With things like this, even an S-Class Transcendent couldn’t look kindly on them. In an S-Class Transcendent’s unit, Transcendents of lower rank were naturally assigned as subordinates.
Raysel had also lost a knight that way.
‘No matter how lacking they are in Guides, a Princess of the Nabel Empire…’
If he had known it would be like this, he wouldn’t have refused Duchess Lanas’s suggestion. When the Duchess had spoken, he had replied like this.
‘Wouldn’t it be better to give the Crown Prince time, rather than provoking that side right now?’
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