Seirei Gensouki's
Chapter 138: Escape from Creia pt4
Although they were all supposed to die, it seemed that some of them barely maintained their lives.
They groaned in pain while holding the injured part in their body.
It was not a beautiful sight at all. Rio frowned while gnashing his teeth. But his frown disappeared in the next moment when he saw the knight captain.
「Kuh ................」.
Of course the knight captain headed in the opposite direction, he ran towards the city. He might be a coward for doing that to all his comrades without the slightest bit of hesitation.
Rio then threw the dagger in his right hand towards that knight captain.
「GUH」
The dagger stabbed into the right leg of the knight captain. Just like that he lost his balance and fell in an unsightly manner.
Rio readjusted his hood and then walked calmly towards the knight captain.
「WAIT! PLEASE HELP ME WITH MY LIFE! IF YOU WANT A RANSOM, I'LL GIVE YOU THE WAY YOU WANT! I'M SOMEONE FROM ALBO'S HOUSE AFTER ALL! 」
The knight captain frantically pleaded for his life. He showed a very pitiful condition of not being worthy of being an arrogant knight.
「………. . Someone from Albo's house, you say? 」
Rio half doubted that fact when his opponent proclaimed as someone from the mansion.
「I-That's right! I am the second son of Charles Albo! 」
Charles Albo's self-proclaimed son said so arrogantly on his face.
Speaking of Charles Albo, he was the one who tried to make Celia the 7th wife.
（This man is Celia-sensei's fiancee? ………. Well up to）
He had no leeway to confirm the truth of this person in the current situation. Rio decided to end his work as soon as possible.
He would let this person who had some sort of status know some false information about Christina.
「In that case, answer my question. Why did you go so far as to mobilize the royal army? 」
Rio asked her while pointing at the dagger. After which, the man showed a confused expression.
「A-What are you talking about? K-We're looking for Christina's kidnapped daughter. Did you cooperate with the culprit? 」
「A kidnapped daughter? I don't know about it but ................. I see, so yes 」....
After showing an expression as if this was the first time he heard about this news, Rio then showed an expression as if he understood the situation.
「A-What do you mean? And who are you? Where's Christina and Vanessa Emal's daughter? 」
Maybe because he was just a little chick or maybe because he himself was great, Rio admired the captain for being able to ask such a question so suddenly in his situation.
「Good. I'm not related to this problem. I have a more important question. Do you know about a man named Lucius? 」
Unperturbed by it, Rio tried to ask the information he had been investigating lately.
Although he asked Celia some time ago whether she knew about the man named Lucius or not, she knew nothing about Lucius.
「L-Lucius? ………. A-Are you referring to the heirs of the fallen house of L'orgueil? 」
Charles was startled and then asked in Rio in a timid voice.
「Home L'orgueil. I don't know about the old surname like that but, I heard that he was a swordsman until it almost became 『King Swords』. Are they the same person? 」
「Then there is no doubt about that, he is the person you are looking for! 」
Charles nodded at Rio's question.
「Do you know about his latest activity? 」
「K-Why are you asking such a question? 」
「Jawab only my question. Do you dare not ask back 」
「A-I don't know! I heard he became a mercenary and the last time he saw her was over a decade ago. Why did you suddenly ask for the info ………. C-CAN BE, YOU WORK FOR THAT MAN? Could he hate us for ruining his house? 」
「………. . Who knows"
Rio just coldly avoided answering Charles who asked with a bit of confusion.
It seems that Charles' house did something very unforgivable to Lucius' house in the past.
Although it made him want to ask Charles who knew about Lucius' past, unfortunately his time was up.
（..........
After judging so, Rio spilled more power into his left hand gripping the dagger.
「My bad, you have served your purpose」
「WAIT! DO YOU LOOK AT ME, THIS IS DIFFERENT FROM WHAT YOU SAID BEFORE! I ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS 」
Rio showed an evil smile to Charles who was desperately against his decision.
Rio has no obligation to keep his promise because It's not like Rio made a promise to save his life if he answers Rio's question.
But, since it was part of the scenario, he had to do his job.
When Rio casually raised his left hand that was holding a dagger,
「Hyiii! 」
Charles closed his eyes while screaming miserably.
Then Rio's feet moved quickly to spin back to Charles. He grasped Charles cranium and sent a surprise while pouring magical power in it.
「KUAA」<TAG1>
Charles fainted the next moment.
Rio took out a dagger that pierced through Charles' thigh. And gave her emergency care to prevent her from dying of blood loss.
Even though they had all fainted, it was easy for him to seal the wounds of the knights who managed to survive by using his spirit arts.
But then, in the end he made it seem like he was going to come out while attacking them, so it was nothing more than emergency treatment to seal their wounds.
Whether the rest of the knights, except Charles who had only suffered minor injuries could be saved or not depended entirely on how long it would take for their reinforcements to come.
「Why did you save their lives? 」
Suddenly Aisia stood behind him while asking that question
「I don't know」
Rio replied in a self-mocking tone without turning around to look at her.
Aisia did not ask any more questions and only secretly helped her to heal the knights.
And then, Rio sighed after the two of them finished their work in curing them.
「Then we go. Let's move from this place 」
"Good"
In the next moment, the two of them kicked the ground and left the place.
「Let's do our future planning, Aisia」
Rio said those words after running in their invisible condition for a while inside the forest.
「Uhn」
Nodding at her, Aisia stopped moving and then grabbed her hand.
"What's the problem? 」
Rio asked Aisia with a shocked face.
Aisia simply shook her head. He did not answer his question with words. He just clasped Rio's hand.
"I saw………… . . 」
Rio also timidly clasped his hand.
His hands feel comfortable and warm. He felt that his frozen heart was slowly warmed with a warm feeling transmitted from his hands.
「We can still overtake Celia-tachi now, right? 」
What are you gonna do? IsAisia looked into Rio's eyes.
「………. It's nothing, I'm just setting up a few people's worth of tools for the trip. I mean it's a must-have for travel on foot. Can I leave Sensei's safety to you? 」
"Good"
Rio was explaining his future plans and then Aisia nodded at him.
"Alright then–"
Rio reluctantly let go of Aisia's hand.
「――I will take different action from this point」
And then tell him so.
「Uhn」
After making sure that Aisia approved of her plan, Rio lightly kicked the ground. His body was wrapped in the wind and then towered high in the sky at the next moment. Aisia also flew like Rio in a different direction from her.
Their figures immediately disappeared behind the blue sky horizon before dawn.