Become Tyrant On My Own Way
Chapter 22 – IS ALBERT
I sometimes don't understand Albert's way of thinking.
I had absolutely no idea why he could look so desperate just because I entrusted Yasmin to escort me on this monster forest expedition mission instead of her.
He even ran to the fortress and immediately returned to the mansion with a young man who looked the same age as Leon with him.
“Master, introduce, this is Damian. He does look ordinary, but I can guarantee his ability. Not only in terms of fighting, but also in terms of leadership even though he is not a noble. We can entrust the defensive leadership of the fort to him, Master. So please, let me tag along with the Master to that expedition.”
Albert said so desperately.
Seeing him act stupid like that, my patience with him was exhausted and then I snapped at him.
“Hei, Albert. Do you think I'm an easy person?!”
“No, Master, that's impossible. Why can Master think like that to me.”.
“If you do respect me, why can't you follow my orders! Just because you said you believed him, then you thought I would also directly believe him?!”
“No, Master. That..”
“Listen, Albert. Maybe because I've been so good to you that you forget what kind of person I really am. I'm not the kind of person who trusts anyone easily. Who do you think you are to dare to interfere in my decision?!”
“Hiks hiks.”
Albert suddenly cried because of me. I did not expect at all that someone who was big and burly seemed to be crying just because I snapped a little.
I feel sorry for her. But if left this way, I could tell that the so-called possessive unkindness of assuming he was my only worthy bodyguard would eat away at Albert and this would obviously damage his mentality.
At least for now, I think I should be firm with her ignoring those tears.
But what Albert said next really kept me from expecting it.
“What is it because now the Master has found a better bodyguard than me, so now the Master is planning to dump me?”
“No, it's because the fort's defense needs your leadership!”
“Fuck with city security! All that matters to me is the security of the Master! Hiks hiks.”
Such was the strange remark made by Albert before he finally left the mansion just like that while running as fast as he could with his arms covering his eyes that were soaked by tears.
At that instant I thought, if I don't handle this carefully, then that trump card named Albert could have slipped out of my hand at any moment.
That twilight, I finally found Albert after my hard-earned search. However, what sight did I see, with his large body, he was cornered on one of the inside corners of the fortress wall with his face facing the wall.
It made all the soldiers around him uncomfortable. They wanted to greet the commander, but Albert's expression back then really showed hostility.
I walked slowly closer to him and patted him on the back.
It seemed that Albert immediately realized that it was me since I had an unusual mana flow. He immediately drowned his head between his legs.
Seeing that, I couldn't resist my frustration with him anymore. I then said,
“Albert, stand. Follow me. It's a command.”
Hearing the word of the command, unexpectedly, Albert immediately complied then followed me without a fight. Well, even though his head was still bowed and his expression was so grim.
I then poured the drink into a glass and gave it to Albert.
But Albert immediately prostrated himself before me saying that it was inappropriate for a person of lesser status like him to receive a cup of kafka from a noble great prince like myself.
But when I said that it was a command, he immediately accepted the glass and then treated it with great care as if what I had just given him was a sacred heirloom.
I also started to open up to him.
“You know, Albert, that you were my only friend when everyone suddenly left me after the appearance of the tyrant's prophecy. Only you dare to approach me and want to be my friend since the appearance of the tyrant's prophecy.”
“No, Master. It was precisely the Master who was very meritorious to me who had saved me from colossium back then. If the Master had not bought me as a slave, I would have died there long ago. For me, Master is everything.”
Said Albert who immediately his tears back pouring down.
Little bit, I can finally guess what's in Albert's way of thinking. The action I saved him at that time had really stuck in his mind so that it was imprinted in him that I was a hero to him.
Therefore, when I appointed him as my personal knight, how much he was happy about it.
One of the pride deeply ingrained in Albert that makes it meaningful in his life when he no longer has family in this world since all his family has been massacred on charges of treason against imperial family.
Albert was lucky to survive that time because he was considered still not old enough to face the guillotine based on imperial law.
I was the only one he could consider a family. And the relationship between employer and bodyguard is our only connection that can connect us as that family.
Maybe that's why when I told him that Yasmin would take her place escorting me on an expedition mission to the monster forest this time around, Albert became very unacceptable because his subconscious accepted it as the only disconnection that connected us all along as a family.
I really feel guilty for not realizing it and for waking Albert's trauma back up. Eleven years is a long time. But of course it was not enough for him to eliminate traumas like family deaths.
Gently, I said to him, too,
“I can be relieved to step forward on that expedition because I know there are people I can trust like Albert in this fortress to guard our home. Don't you also think that this Painfinn City has become our second home? Therefore, we will protect her no matter what happens, right?”
To Albert who was silent with no answer or rebuttal, I continued,
“Again, you're wearing this, right? The necklace I created when we were 12 years old from the first monster core you defeated that was mixed with a bit of my ice essence.”
I said as I pulled out a white necklace that wrapped around my neck that was originally covered by my clothes. I saw Albert following my movements by removing the same type of necklace from his collar.”
“In addition to being a backup tool or barrier where, this necklace has other skills. If this necklace is broken, then the other part of the necklace will immediately respond. With Albert's speed in running, I'm sure if I was in a dangerous situation even in the monster forest, you could immediately catch up with me there by running as fast as possible and then save me in time, right? So nothing to worry about.”
“Albert's current job is to guard the security of the fortress. But if I was in danger, Albert could have spared me there. So like what I said earlier, I can feel relieved because I know there is Albert by my side.”
I said while showing my smile to Albert.
“Master.”
Albert's face was still full of tears, but now it seemed no longer a frustrated tear, but a tear of happiness.
“Hiks. Master, I promise..I promise that for the rest of my life, I will protect Master, despite the life of the bet.”.
So I went back to making up with Albert.