Star-Embracing Swordmaster - Chapter 275

Quihano Side Story – The Frausen Family’s Bastard (1)

A prison in a mansion surrounded by dull gray bricks.

On a damp floor filled with moisture, Quihano, tied to a rope, was sitting with blank eyes.

“Ki Kihano.”

“huh.”

Quijano, who was sitting there, looked shabby, as if he had been treated quite harshly when he was brought in.

But even that shabby appearance was a blessing compared to the boy who was now singing Quijano in a strained voice.

“But why am I the only one hanging upside down?”

“Is that so…is that the tradition of the Turlek family here?”

“Then why is Mr. Kihano okay?”

“Is that… because I’m a noble?”

The sight of the boy tied up with rope as if he were a chrysalis looked pitiful.

However, despite the boy’s voice calling him, Kihano just looked at the ground and bit his nails as if he was anxious.

“Then, can you lift me up for a moment? “Blood rushed to my head.”

“Oh, we’re in big trouble. “I don’t think it will go smoothly this time.”

“It only takes a moment. “I feel like I’m going to faint.”

“If this gets to my brothers’ ears, I don’t think I’ll die well.”

“Hey, Mr. Kihano? Mr. Quijano?”

Despite the boy’s earnest call, Kihano did not easily raise his head.

No, my anxiety was getting worse as time went by, so much so that I had to get up from my seat and start pacing around.

“Young Master. Is there any way? “You’re a wizard.”

“…….”

Although it was a prison with only two people, Quijano started talking to himself as if there was someone else here.

“Still not charged? If we can, let’s at least break down the walls of our prison.”

Toward a corner of the prison where no one is present.

The sight of him crouching down and talking to himself seemed like he was out of his mind, but fortunately, there was someone who answered Quijano’s voice.

“Eh. This is why knights are not allowed. Do you know that magic is something that can be used just by pulling out a sword like you guys?”

A grayish old man’s voice came from an unoccupied corner of the prison.

A being in the dark begins to take steps with that sound.

“So why did you touch the baron’s daughter? “I told you not to do it, right?”

It’s a frog.

A frog smaller than a child’s palm.

A frog with a green back and a white belly started jumping out from the corner, clicking its tongue.

“Anyway, I can’t come to my senses when I see a woman because I’m afraid someone might think she’s Fraussen.”

“This is truly unfair. “We clearly reached an agreement?”

“……hey. Any of the two is fine. “Can you please let me down?”

A tall, brown-haired man.

A freckled boy tied to a rope and begging for help.

And even a frog wearing a small wizard hat and holding a cigarette in its mouth.

“Anyway, I have to get out of here now. “Before it gets to my brothers’ ears.”

“Hey Kihano.”

“So, let’s charge it quickly. bang! “And get out of here.”

“…What is that bang!?”

“Oh, I showed you something last time. “The sun goes down and hits you with a bang.”

“Look over there.”

“I can’t understand anything they’re saying. “I’m afraid someone might think he’s Fraussen, so he’s giving a crappy explanation.”

There were three people in the prison, but none of them could communicate with each other.

He was just talking about what he wanted to say.

However, the boy who was watching this whole situation began to scream at Quijano as if he could not stand it any longer.

“It’s here! “I don’t know who it is, but someone has come!”

“huh?”

Kihano only turned around when he heard the boy shouting loudly.

Outside the window I was looking at, there was an unfamiliar man who slowly lowered his hood while glaring at Quihano.

“……brother?”

He was tall, and his oiled, slicked-back hair was shiny.

The appearance of a nobleman who looks classy no matter who sees it.

But more than anything, what made the man’s impression stand out was the brilliant glow that emanated from his eyes.

“……You damn bastard.”

The 5th son of the Frausen family. Perez Frausen.

He was closing his left eye in contemplation as he looked at his younger brother, who was now called the worst son of a bitch in the family’s history.

“Bro bro! Let’s not use that! “I can explain everything!”

With closed eyes, I see my world, and with open eyes, I see this world on which I stand.

Seeing the sight that only a knight who had reached the level of skill could use, Quijano was frightened and began to press against the prison wall.

“Don’t explain. “Just search.”

“But there’s no need to use an Auror! “Don’t you feel sorry for your younger brother, who can’t even use Aurors?”

“I feel more pity for having a younger sibling like you.”

Pedro

opened the door with a key, as if the guard had told him to, and slowly began to enter the prison.

Quijano quickly begins to get into position as Pedro’s momentum fills the prison.

However, Pedro Frausen just coldly laughed at his brother’s foolish struggles.

“Will I just die halfway?”

Quad deuk!

As soon as Pedro’s smile ended, a loud sound like a wall collapsing began to spread throughout the prison.

Even the man’s screams echoed along with it.

The guards guarding the door also began to panic at the sudden pouring of dust from the ceiling, but they simply stood still following what had just been conveyed.

“Hey… you brats. “Are you going to let me off?”

A prison that vibrates violently every time Pedro swings his fist.

The boy, who was constantly shaking along with the vibrations like a cocoon, quietly called Frausen’s men, but everyone was so busy that no one answered the boy’s question.

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“big …….”

If you throw a rice cake together, will it look like this?

Looking at Quijano, who was crouched down and stuck to the prison floor, Pedro exhaled as if it was enough.

“Tell me what your father said when you left.”

Chiik –

The scent of Pedro’s cigarette was wafting out from the end of the roughly struck match.

“…….”

“He told me to be quiet. If possible, be invisible to others.”

The flames on the cigarette holder were turning red as I took a deep breath.

It was the only light that illuminated the dark prison in the deep night.

“Now that you are twenty years old, you know what your father meant by sending you out of the family.”

“I don’t know… Mr.”

Pedro’s eyebrows twitched as he looked at his younger brother, who still seemed angry and didn’t move a muscle.

However, the current rebellion is completely understandable.

No matter how cold-hearted Petro was, he could fully imagine how his younger brother felt when he hit a wall he couldn’t handle and was torn to pieces.

“I understand that you want to go on a rampage, but don’t forget that the Dragulia family’s anger has not yet subsided.”

“…….”

As the name Dragullia was spoken, Quijano, who was lying on the floor, began to squirm little by little.

However, Pedro pretended not to see that and just turned his head and continued talking.

“So let’s go further. Until they forget you.” With those words

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Pedro stood up and threw a small pouch at the fallen Quijano.

A pouch that falls down with a splash.

It was the familiar sound of a coin every time I heard it.

“…There’s no need for this.”

“It’s from your mother, so take it.”

Pedro threw the bag of gold coins and this time inserted a small piece of paper between the ropes of the boy who was tied tightly to the ceiling.

“And regardless of whether there was an agreement, it is true that you have caused trouble to the Turlek family, so you should take care of this.”

The boy, who had already fallen asleep because he was exhausted, was not able to wake up at all even when Pedro put him down.

Pedro puts the boy down on the floor and leaves the prison without saying a word.

Kihano, who was lying helplessly on the floor, began to stand up little by little as he watched his brother’s back slowly moving away.

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“This must be really difficult. “Pedro Frausen.”

“…….”

Since he was an uninvited guest, Pedro tried to leave quietly.

Someone was calling him out.

“As expected, because he is the son of the Frausen family, he has a lot of accidents.”

The man’s bald head was shining in the moonlight.

The man approaching with a sparkling smile was a knight of the Turlec family and also the person who had dragged Quijano to this place.

“what?”

“It’s nothing much… I still have unfinished business to do with Kihano-sama.”

The man who approached with a wide smile said as he gently extended his hand to Pedro.

“Didn’t you say it earlier? Perhaps because he inherited Frausen’s blood, he had a lot of accidents. “Maybe that’s why the money my younger brother borrowed from me is a bit large.”

Pedro’s eyebrows began to twitch when he heard the man say he had borrowed money.

“how much?”

“It’s about 20 gold.”

“……20 gold?”

The younger brother, known to the public, is the bastard of the Frausen family.

However, Pedro, who had been watching a man named Quijano for a long time, knew very well that his younger brother was not the kind of person who would borrow 20 gold for no reason.

“No, that’s it… Isn’t there a little boy that Kihano-sama is taking around right now? “They say his name is Jan.”

Although it was a long story, it was actually a short story.

There was a boy who worked on a farm alone without any parents.

However, what makes him different from other farm workers is that the boy’s parents died leaving him a huge debt.

Coincidentally, it was not surprising that the farm owner who had been working the boy was the owner of the debt.

This is because things like this often happen in the world when coincidences happen one way or another.

“……So my brother bought the child for 20 gold?”

“That’s right. And I lent that money.”

I was alone when I left home, but somehow I ended up with a tail attached to me.

Pedro, who had finally learned the identity of the boy who was hanging around, approached the man with a small smile.

“Then I have to give it to you. “20 gold.”

The favor received is with grace, and the grudge that must be repaid is with resentment.

It is the Fraussen family’s iron rule and a family motto that must never be forgotten that no matter what the situation, you must always pay a fair price.

“Pedro?”

Therefore, not a single gold coin had fallen to the man who was currently holding out his hand.

“Looking at you on the way here, it looks like you treated my younger brother pretty harshly.”

“…!”

Instead, what is resting on the man’s hand is Pedro’s grip.

The bald knight’s eyes were wide open, unable to even scream, as the hand held him as if he were going to crush his bones.

“Let’s take a listen.” “How much is your life worth?”

“Off…… “Turn it off.”

No matter how bad the family is, Frausen is Frausen.

The human family that shined even in the world of dragons was something that even Turlec could not touch.

“It should be at least more expensive than 20 gold.”

“Kwaaah!”

The older brother who twists the hands of others for the honor of the younger brother that no one recognizes.

And the younger brother who got beaten up by the older brother.

The moonlight shining between them was shining white today.

“…Consuegra.”

Today’s moonlight brightens even the dark prison.

The name of a city was written on the white paper that the light touched.

Consuegra is located at the far end of the Barony of Turlec.

The next destination was quietly flowing out from between Quijano’s bursting lips.