Hannoic War
Pieces Two (part 23)

"There is a goat with a big horn among the flock of sheep and goats that can kill you"

lem Lemoncloak

Pieces Two

*Tik*Tik*Tik*Tik*

The sound of water falling downwards was heard.

Dark and rotten, that was all Hasteinn could explain to the secret passageway under his castle.

*Busssshhh*Basssh*

Hasteinn's footsteps were heavy here because the water was gulping down his legs. Rain falls more often lately making water flood this underground passageway.

"Ah shit some food that I brought from the drowning earlier in the back" said Glent who lifted his bag that looked wet.

"Get rid of the food, keep the bag" said Hasteinn, holding a lantern in his hand for lighting.

"The problem is it's hard to fuck off the food right now, because one of my hands is carrying a lantern while the other one's carrying this wet bag" Glent said.

"The grip of the iron handle part of the lantern is stupid" Hasteinn said.

"Oh yes" said Glent directly bit the handle of his lantern and threw wet food out of his bag.

The two of them then continued on their way under this underground chamber.

It was Hasteinn and Glent who discovered this underground passage. This road was a sewerage road decades ago, but then a new underground dump was built. Make this underground passage stranded and forgotten.

But when they were both little Hasteinn and Glent while playing in this castle, they both found a hole and entered it.

Hasteinn remembers not finding Glent while playing hide-and-seek when they were kids. Turns out Glent was hiding in this underground hole.

They then made this place as their diving place to get out and enter from this castle.

"Ah the light has appeared" said Hasteinn.

Then the light from outside is visible.

In front of the two of them was a hole connected from underground to climb up the castle.

This hole was only empty with no stairs or tools that they could climb. But there's a way they can go up.

*Tuk*Tuk*Tuk*

Hasteinn then knocked on the wall of this room.

*Tuk*Tuk*Tuk*Tuk*

Tap Hasteinn again a few times.

The sound of someone's footsteps rang out and a man's head appeared.

"My gentlemen" said the man.

"The rope" said Hasteinn.

Then the man inserted a long rope into the hole.

Hold Hasteinn then the rope and climb it.

Hasteinn then climbed up the rope.

*Tak*Tak*Tak*

Climb Hasteinn with his foot against the wall of the hole as he climbs.

Hasteinn then bit his lantern grip and managed to climb up the hole.

Another forgotten room in his castle is seen. That's because this forgotten drain line is connected to the part of the warehouse in his castle that is also forgotten.

Dark and dusty and forgotten, again that was all Hasteinn could explain to the room he saw when coming out of the hole.

Some boxes of goods look, but they look very dusty and old. There was a ceramic but it had broken with spider webs surrounding it.

Myths surround this forgotten room. Starting from it is said that the baby Geralda people were buried alive here when the Victa conquered Geralda, until a daughter of the noble Geralda raped Victa's troops in this place.

And the spirits of the babies and the spirits of the noble daughters are still not calm and then roam this place.

Hasteinn himself was a Geralda man, but did not care much about the myth.

Even so 'every lie and myth sometimes there is a thread of truth in it'.

Victa is known to commit hundreds of crimes and atrocities when conquering Geralda, hundreds of legends and stories are written not to forget it. Some are genuine and some are fake, his father said.

*Takk*Tukk*Tukk*

It seemed Glent's turn to climb up and he quickly managed to climb up as well.

"Why did you use the rope in Geoff's kitchen?" said Hasteinn, asking the man next to him who helped them both.

Geoff's name, he was the servant who took care of this forgotten part of the castle room for many years.

"I'm sorry, my lord, the rope in the warehouse is gone" Geoff said.

"It's gone?" said Hasteinn.

"After that we can buy a new rope, which is important you also quickly go to the castle and change clothes" said Glent who emerged from the underground hole.

"Yes, you have to be quick too. Don't get caught by my father" Hasteinn said.

"He can try to catch me and he won't have any more legs" Glent smiled.

Hasteinn then smiled and walked out of this old room.

The two of them then split up in the forgotten room.

While his servant Geoff followed Hasteinn behind.

Hasteinn walked in a dark and dusty hallway

Hasteinn then walked out of the forgotten warehouse through an old wooden door.

In front of him is a field in his family's castle where he has hundreds of childhood memories.

But this castle field was not empty he saw some soldiers as well as servants pacing around like preparing something.

"What happened to Geoff?" Hasteinn asked Geoff.

"There is a gathering of nobles all over Geralda for a few more days, my lord" Geoff said.

"Ohhh.there is a meeting.." ' said Hasteinn.

*Glent must love it, she likes to see noble ladies coming to parties and pretty whores...She loved the party and the drinks and food in it*, thought Hasteinn with a smile thinking about how happy Hasteinn was to hear this.

Hasteinn thought of where Glent was at this moment. Glent usually goes to bed near the stable where he and his father usually sleep.

Hasteinn then entered the castle quickly. He climbed the stairs and walked through the dark castle walls.

Some of the soldiers he passed by and some looked down politely when they saw him they already knew he was sneaking out. All of the soldiers were cooperating with Hasteinn.

Hasteinn had arranged the supervision schedule of several soldiers in this castle to help sneak in and out of this castle.

Hasteinn usually went out to look at the situation outside his castle and see how the people he would lead as dukes were, not just to play around.

He got a lot of experience this time because he often sneaked out of the castle. Know about how rumors and wind work and people's opinions about his family.

*Bathroom.*, said Hasteinn.

He walked in the palace hallway and saw a door where he usually changed his clothes after coming out of the castle.

Enter Hasteinn into the bathroom and immediately change his clothes.

Geoff was waiting in front of the toilet.

*Today I hope my father sleeps in his bed as usual, or takes care of some of his affairs as Duke*, thought Hasteinn in the bathroom.

He then took his clothes which he put on the sidelines of the cloth in the bathroom.

He quickly put on his clothes.

*It doesn't seem like my clothes are missing like a rope, did you know that I often come out like this?* ,thought Hasteinn who was a little scared.

For a moment, Hasteinn's mind was filled with fear, fear that his father would have known that he had come out of this castle. The fear that his father would hang Glent and Geoff and hundreds of other subordinates helped him get out of the castle.

Then the sound of footsteps rang out from outside the door, someone approached the bathroom.

*Tak*Tak*Tak*Tak*Tak*

A soldier with armour stepped in front of the toilet door, where Geoff was standing.

"Oh Geoff? What else?" asked the soldier.

"I-I'm waiting for you to be toileted" Geoff stammered a little awkwardly.

"Ahhh..he slipped out again from the castle again..yes, now it is dangerous anyway if he was caught from the lord of Kyrah" said the soldier, "Ah forgive me, I go first yes" , ' ' ' ' said" ,he said while stepping away.

"Ah i-iya" Geoff said.

The soldier then walked away.

Time went by and the night started to get darker. The waiter had already installed hundreds of candles and torches everywhere.

A few minutes later Hasteinn came out.

*Trreekkktt*

The sound of the door opening sounded.

Hasral came out of the toilet in a more tidy and luxurious outfit.

She wears fancy clothes with a slightly brown and white pattern.

"There seems to be some wet parts but it seems to be fine" Hasteinn said, looking at the clothes he was wearing on his body, "ayo Geoff."

"Y-yes my lord" Geoff said.

They walked down the hallway and Hasteinn accosted several soldiers as well as his family subordinates.

It also appears to be some guests from other families whose father welcomed her to the castle. Some nobles were seen walking around and chatting here.

There were some noble women chatting about handsome men and legends.

Men drink beer and chat with jokes.

He climbed the stairs and saw his sister's door.

The door to his sister's room was sealed shut with a sign on the doorstep.

"Ah..Kiara seemed to lock herself up again." Hasteinn smiled and continued walking.

Shortly thereafter, he arrived in front of his room. Not far from his sister's room.

"Geoff see you tomorrow morning" Hasteinn said.

"Yes, sir" said Geoff, then retreating and leaving Hasteinn.

Hasteinn then opened the lock of his room door with a key.

*Trreekkkttt*

The sound of the door opening shifted audibly.

Then he saw an old man who had only one leg sitting in his room.

Her hair was mixed with black and grayish white.

There was a scar on his old face.

While he has an old body but the muscles in his thigh and hand are very strong.

His hands even had many scars.

"Welcome home" said the old man without a smile and with a heavy voice.

"A-dad?" said Hasteinn in surprise and thought of what had happened.

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"Well, my student is right~!" , said Jean in a tone full of happiness.

While Hanno just silence and while opening one by one thick book sheet.

In the room of an inn they sat.

The inn that Ohara's family owned in this town and only four of them saw on this floor.

Hanno sat near a large table with dozens of thick books piled up beside her.

Jean smiled and looked as bright as ever.

Charla sat at the end of the room drinking a glass of water.

Filda's father sat quite close to her.

Filda and Charla's father then looked at each other.

I wonder why they are here.

Filda's father then turned his gaze to the window.

"You're afraid of royalty, it seems you have trauma or fear" Charla said.

"I'm not afraid of nobles." said Father Filda.

"Why did you try to run away from us?" said Charla.

"I'm just afraid of what the nobles are doing to us" said Father Filda.

"Yes, you're right, you're just afraid of what the nobility will do to your family all the lower classes are so. You look very relaxed and rude to my sister who comes from a small family" Charla said.

"The Berrau family were not originally nobles, only ironmen who were then rewarded with land for making a good sword for a king" Filda's father said in a casual insult.

"We are all not concerned with where we all come from, we Ohara family themselves claim to be descendants of the god of nature" Charla said while taking a bag of spelled water glasses.

"God's descendants? Heh, if you are a descendant of a god then you are immortal and throw magic power everywhere" said Father Filda harshly.

"Yes, maybe the legend is not true" Charla admitted.

Then Filda's father turned to Jean. But then Jean watched and turned back to Filda's father.

"Why uncle~?" , said Jean in his cheerful tone.

Filda's father then replied with a face that felt disgusted.

"Don't be so boring uncle~" said Jean in a cheerful tone and quickly Jean returned to Hanno.

"You seem uncomfortable with women" Charla said, drinking water.

"The woman I'm only comfortable seeing is my wife" Filda's father said.

"If it's your daughter?" asked Charla.

"If it's my daughter, I've been disgusted to see her ever since she turned into a freak fanatic. But sometimes I can see it without disgust if I imagine her still cute as a child" said Father Filda.

"Yes sometimes if the people closest to us grow into something we don't like, we even start to be disgusted to see them" Charla said.

"I think you've felt it too." - Filda's father.

"Yes, I've felt it too, how my loved one turned into something I didn't like." said Charla, drinking water once more from the bag.

"By the way do you know my daughter?" said Father Filda.

"From my sister" said Charla.

"Fuckin' woman" said Father Filda.

"Look, uncle, I'm not going to do anything to your family, I don't like hurting farmers or innocent people" Charla said.

"I've heard that from hundreds of times the faces of the nobles I last met, but what? Many of them had some peasants walled in their castles" said Father Filda.

"Have any nobles in the past hurt your family?" said Charla with a bit of curiosity.

"You think I want to tell you about my past here? In front of all of you, the nobles of the ward*t" said Father Filda harshly.

"Hanno is not a noble" Charla said calmly, "as far as my brother and I know, but judging from his skin and physical appearance he really is like a noble"

"That doesn't change my mind" Filda's father said.

"Let's tell me~" ' said Jean who suddenly sat near Filda's father.

Neither Filda's father nor Charla heard how he moved.

"News! The story! Story!" said Jean in cheers while clapping her hands.

Jean smiled very happily in front of Filda's father.

"Come uncle! The story! The story! Story!" said Jean with more cheer.

Filda's father then turned to Hanno.

Filda's father then looked at Hanno with a sign, *Let's help me Hanno, please keep this goddamn teacher away from me*

"Filda said; if uncle is usually more passionate in telling stories if drinking wine" Hanno said coldly and calmly.

*Fucking kid!* ,thought Father Filda in his heart.

"Mm?" , Jean then presented Filda's father with a bag of water filled with wine.

He smiled and offered wine to Filda's father.

"Yes! Aye! I'm the fucking story!" said Father Filda while taking the bag of wine.

Then take a few drops of wine.

Filda's father was seen gulping down a lot of wine and kept sipping for quite a while.

And unknowingly the bag of wine was only half of its contents.

*I've forgotten a little bit of the pain of losing my wife, if I tell her too I don't really have much trouble, although there is pain and sadness left, but all that doesn't matter* ,thought Father Filda in his heart.

"So how do I start?" said Father Filda after sipping the wine, "ah...Jermarr City"

"Jeramarr City?" said Charla who then became more serious and curious to hear the story of Father Filda.

"Yes Jeramarr City, I was with Mother Filda planning to visit the buyer of our goods in Jeramarr City, at that time Filda was only 4 years old and we left her with my wife who we could trust" ,said Father Filda.

"Jeramarr city.the city has been destroyed since 9 years ago." said Charla.

"Yes.it was destroyed and plundered by the Dwarves" Jean said.

Hanno then decided to join the conversation, "if Filda was 4 years old then-"

"It was about 11 years ago but I remember a lot.about 4 years before the city of Jeramarr was destroyed" said Father Filda cut Hanno's speech.

Then Filda's father sipped back a lot of wine.

"Continue" Charla said.

"Say I was drinking" said Father Filda, licking a few drops of water on her lips, "when we were there, we managed to sell our stuff and the thousands of coins we got and back then we both had a real fun time thinking about the future without any trouble"

"But then when we came home, we met a homeless man and Mother Filda planned to donate some of her money.but it turned out to be a disaster.." ' said Father Filda continued and spoke with her slightly heavy tone.

Then he gulped down the wine quickly until the bag of wine ran out in a few gulps.

"Can I ask you again?" said Filda's father.

"Nih" said Jean, giving him a bag of wine, "this is the last wine."

"Good." said Father Filda, and again sipped some wine.

"The sight turned out to be a heavy affair with one of the nobles of the great family" said Father Filda.

"Grandson of the big family? Which big family? A gard? A garius? The basileus? Betarrus? Or my family Ohara?" said Charla.

"Betarrus and his subordinates.if the surname of his subordinates I do not remember.but importantly Mother Filda tried to interfere and protect the homeless" said Father Filda.

"I tried to pull it but Mother Filda continued to fight the nobility and even insult her and her subordinate knights" Filda's father continued.

"It was a mistake, I should have pulled it harder, then my grip came off. He involuntarily pushed the great nobleman to the ground." - Filda's father stared at the floor with emotionless empty eyes.

Then Filda's father fell silent.

"What happens next?" asked Charla.

Filda's father turned to Charles with his empty eyes. His eyes were emotionless and empty.

"The noble bodyguard knight reflexively cut Mother Filda in half and everyone around was looking at it. Mother Filda only encouraged the noble Betarrus and did not hurt him too much, but no one defended even the common people or the peasants around me" said Father Filda.

"Everyone is too scared and doesn't care about us much, nobody wants to interfere. In the end the nobleman returned home as well as the knight brought him the homeless man, while I myself survived with my money" said Father Filda continued.

"And you came home safely...with your money..but where are the money? And how did you spend that money? You should be able to build a bigger house with that money, right?" Jean said curiously.

"I tried to hire a witch to bring Mother Filda back from her death, but it turned out that they were just fraudsters and a lot of coins that I had spent....I'm really stupid how I believe the dead can come back to life." ' said Father Filda, whose face became dark.

While Filda's father continued to be silent, this entire room also fell silent.

Jean, Charles, and Hanno were silent without saying anything.

The sadness of losing someone cannot be lost by the words of others.

Someone then stood up.

*Trekk*

The sound of the chair shifting sounded.

It was not the father of Filda, Charles, nor Jean who stood but Hanno who stood.

"Jean, can you accompany me? I want to buy something in the market" said Hanno calmly.

"Eh? You bought something?" Jean said in surprise.

"Yes, there's something I want to buy" Hanno said.

"Wah~~" , said Jean as she let out a glowing eye, "let's go! Want to come with Charla?" Jean called Charla.

"Ah.." said Charla while looking at Filda's father.

But Father Filda did not look back and saw Father Filda still lamenting and contemplating.

"I'm coming" said Charla, who then stood up.

"Come on~!" , said Jean happily.