Solo Swordmaster

#563. Yes, teacher.

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Disheveled outfit.

dusty white hair.

to the wounded body.

That look is really messed up.

It wouldn’t be surprising if he collapsed right away.

Nevertheless, her golden eyes are infinitely calm, and the hand holding the sword does not shake.

After inadvertently taking a step back.

Joan of Arc opened her mouth.

“…how are the two juniors?”

“At least I won’t be able to come to help you right away.”

Perplexity question guess.

After thinking about various lights in her blue eyes, Joan of Arc finally sighed lightly.

“I have underestimated you so much.”

“It wouldn’t have been an understatement. It was actually pretty close.”

If Billy hadn’t created a mess by uselessly using Orbital Bombardment, he wouldn’t have been able to pull himself out so easily.

Limon calmly acknowledged it and continued.

“Rather, I underestimated you. I really didn’t know that with only such a ragtag man, I could destroy the Seokbyeong Eight Gates Golden Dash so quickly.”

“Whoops, then you’re going to draw?”

“It’s a draw…”

For some reason.

After thinking over those words.

Limon asked quietly.

“Do you really mean that?”

“Are you saying we want to end it here?”

“If you want to go back even now, it means that you don’t have the heart to fight to the death.”

“Are you saying that after you cheated on your identity before and even made an ambush?”

“Because things are different now than then.”

“Whoops… is that so?”

after a brief silence.

Joan of Arc shook her head.

“If you want the fight to end like this, I don’t mind.”

Ina Limon got messed up in a fight with two disciples.

Her nun’s uniform was burnt and tattered, revealing red-hot flesh in places.

As serious as the condition is.

In that sense, ending the fight at this point was definitely one way.

As much as Limon had to protect Cairo, her burden of dealing with Limon alone was just as great.

“Instead, if the teacher would listen to my one small request.”

“ask?”

“yes.”

After nodding slowly.

Joan of Arc smiled and continued.

“Help me destroy England.”

“…do you think I’ll agree to such absurd conditions?”

“No, but I was wondering if you could acquiesce if I weighed it against the fall of Egypt.”

“…”

With a kind smile.

in a soft voice.

It sounds like you are asking for some help with the field work.

Limon closed his eyes as he gazed at Joan of Arc, who casually talked about the destruction of a country.

It was because he could know his name as a teacher.

That she wasn’t trying to tease or provoke herself, but that she was speaking with perfect sincerity.

The fact that Joan of Arc went to war so aggressively was in order to eventually borrow the power of the World Federation to destroy England.

Because I understand that fact.

Limon opened his mouth.

“glass.”

“Yes, teacher.”

“There is a message from the Sword King.”

“…what do you mean?”

“It literally means that my friend, who was in the middle of my personality, asked me to tell you one last thing.”

“…”

It was an instant.

The reason why the smile disappeared from Joan of Arc’s face.

As if it was a lie that he did not lose his smile even while facing Limon, who had attacked him.

Seeing her expressionless face and icy eyes, Limon felt bitter.

Was it because the liberation brigade predicted this situation based on what they saw and heard, or was it because it was also one of the last few days.

Before the resurrected Richard disappears.

listen to the last words

Limon thought to himself.

Please, I wish I had nothing to say.

Having to tell him meant the worst for him.

But in the end, the brutality of the Liberation Brigade brought about the worst situation, and now it’s time to say this.

Limon quietly opened his mouth.

“He said he was sorry.”

“Sorry…? Is he me?”

“It’s because of that guy’s karma that you ended up like this.”

about 600 years ago.

March in madness.

The massacre of British citizens.

It was Joan of Arc who killed Richard the Sword King who tried to stop it.

The fact that the sword king who died like that left an apology to the woman who killed him was something that would be strange to those who didn’t know the circumstances.

But Limon could understand.

What did Richard apologize for?

what else did you regret?

“At that time, even though you were a sword master, you had to undergo a lot of persecution.”

“…”

“I started a revolution because I found out that the reason was because of the secret pact between the Sword King and Charles VII.”

can’t know

The last cause of Joan of Arc’s runaway in despair and betrayal, and eventually marching towards madness.

It was because she found out that the King of France, whom she loved, had teamed up with Richard to banish her.

“But there is some misunderstanding of what you know.”

“…a misunderstanding?”

“okay.”

A secret that even she didn’t know.

After the death of Joan of Arc and Richard.

The fact that he learned because he personally investigated each of the royal subjects and the royal family, even pushing the blade to the edge.

Limon said bitterly.

“That secret pact was not made by the Sword King by force on Charles VII, but by Charles VII by threatening the Sword King.”

* * *

Charles VII.

As the King of France some 600 years ago, he was clearly quite capable politically.

problem five.

First, his ancestors made a pact to support the great grandson son of the sword king’s crusade.

Second, because of the failure to keep the pact, the country suffered from the British Empire for nearly a hundred years.

Whether or not to help the third expedition, it was obvious that the country would be ruined as it is.

Fourth, he was suspicious and ambitious, befitting a king of a country.

Fifth, the fact that an outstanding hero named Joan of Arc was born in his era.

Of course, I didn’t know anything else, but the last problem was something that an ordinary person would consider a lucky and a blessing.

But not Charles VII.

How to judge people based on themselves.

While being an absolute Sword Master.

Not greedy for wealth and power.

Rolling through a tough battlefield.

Charles VII, who used Joan of Arc, who genuinely loved the country, and kept his power by taking advantage of even his subjects and slandering them, did not understand.

So he was suspicious.

Her patriotism is nothing but hypocrisy.

His true purpose is to build a reputation as a hero and one day obtain the throne.

Charles VII himself would have done so.

The more Joan of Arc worked, the more his doubts became certain.

Suffering from anxiety that the throne might be usurped by the sword master, he finally made a decision.

He secretly contacted the Sword King and proposed a deal.

“Charles VII suggested.”

“I will sell you the cup, so please promise me your royal title and eternal prosperity for France.”

“If you don’t, I will lead you in the invasion of the British Empire.”

When you think in terms of common sense.

It was an incoherent proposal and threat.

However, Charles VII was politically competent to the point of being useless, so he believed in human desire rather than common sense.

The benefit and greed of being able to reap the sword master.

The loss and justification of having to fight the sword master.

Through those two options, he tried to drive the sword king of the world into an alternative path.

Of course, the sword king is the absolute.

It was possible to ignore the threat.

“But Richard was a king before he was a swordsman.”

“That’s why I couldn’t refuse an offer that was clearly beneficial to the country.”

“So we finally made a pact.”

If Joan of Arc had quietly left France and became a naturalized citizen of the British Empire.

The Sword King establishes an immortal empire.

Charles VII retains the throne.

She enjoys wealth and glory.

It could have resulted in a happy ending for everyone.

But…

“What he didn’t expect was that you loved France so much.”

“And you probably didn’t know Charles VII would run rampant like that.”

The more Joan of Arc steadfastly defends France despite severe persecution.

Charles VII’s suspicion grew stronger.

In addition, being chased by the secret pact he made with the Sword King himself, he even developed a paranoid obsession that he had to expel Joan of Arc from the country somehow.

The persecution of Joan of Arc also intensified.

…Without even knowing that a tragedy no one expected would happen as a result.

“He regretted it only then.”

“…”

“I should have held up my sword and confronted you long ago rather than committing such a trick against a friend’s apprentice under the pretext of doing it for the sake of the country.”

“…”

“So…”

“You mean you left me a message saying you’re sorry.”

lowly.

What Limon said.

Joan of Arc hung up.

“By the way, sir.”

and.

What comes to mind is a smile.

“What do you mean by that?”

“….”

“If I accept the apology, will the two brothers killed by the British return?”

Is the dead family alive by the British soldier who he showed mercy and sent back after being treated?

“Is my sister who was raped and killed by a British officer alive?”

Wasn’t it a crime to hurt her sister as revenge for being demoted after being defeated by herself?

“Does the fact that my parents and older brother were stoned to death because a British spy spread the false accusation that they were growing devil crops go away?”

What was wrong with her daughter caring for and diligently raising the crops her brother brought from a distant land?

“What about my comrades who starved to death on the battlefield because all the potatoes in the warehouse were burned?”

Even after winning a hundred victories.

The Doubts and Envy of Charles VII.

And will the pain of the friends who died in the most terrible suffering in the world disappear because the supply was cut off due to the British army’s maneuver?

“Isn’t it true that it was a crime for a girl from a farming family with no noble blood to become a sword master?”

At the end of asking and asking and asking.

Joan of Arc laughed.

“It’s already late, sir.”

very kind

It’s like it’s going to disappear.

So, with a more beautiful smile.

“This is blood.”

destroy England.

Until you annihilate the British.

he never stops

Looking at Joan of Arc who speaks softly.

Limon was silent.

If she had personally cut off Charles VII’s head, she would not have known.

Most of the tragedies she encountered were orchestrated by Charles VII, and that the English were only used as tools.

It was a reason everyone could understand that she, the hero who defeated the British, was being avenged by the British.

But I love France.

Because I still love you madly.

I can’t bear to destroy my beloved homeland.

Instead, they resent and curse the enemy country that caused everything.

Even if you want to stop yourself, you can’t stop until you destroy it.

After looking at the disciple who had gone mad the most mildly, he finally opened his mouth quietly.

“Then there is nothing you can do about it.”

distant past.

Just like when he tore the sword king’s corpse into shreds and hung it up on a flagpole, aiming his sword at her laughing.

quietly holding out his sword.

“Come.”

against him.

Raise a sword and set an example.

Joan of Arc chuckled.

A more distant past than that.

He was scolded for learning the sword from Limon at the Sword Tower, secretly growing potatoes and forgetting them, and breaking into the bath to push his back.

Recalling the happiest times of my life.

“Yes, teacher.”

like that.

With the owner of the sword tower.

of his first disciple.

The final fight has begun.