Suddenly Nobles

Heartbroken

Although the sun should have risen to the top of the head, because Brodsway is also being hit by winter, the sky until now still looks dark. Along the corner of the building round lights appear neatly installed to increase visibility. Fortunately, the winter had just begun there so the ships could still sail without worrying about the sea already turning into a frozen floor.

Eve tied her hair back to wear an iron headgear complete with a thick armor of sheep's hair on the shoulders. After removing the rope, he led the horse out of the ferry. Eve has arrived at Brodsway. The place where the Nyx Knights gathered as well as the battlefield to face.

Those blue eyes swept around him. Although cold, not a few people who choose to move around here. On the right there are many cheap wine sellers accompanied by an outburst of uncontrolled emotions from their customers. Brodsway's harbor looks very relaxed just like any ordinary day. Don't know if today their government will be replaced.

"Where are you from, sir."

Eve turned her head as soon as she noticed the presence of a short man giving a fierce look to her. Just look at it, Eve already knew that this person had bad intentions towards her.

"Island opposite. I'm here to see my sister, "his alibi's good.

The man nodded in confidence. She still thinks that Eve is the man from the way she dresses.

"Your clothes are too good. Are you ... nobleman?"

Eve answered him on a whim. "What if the answer is yes?"

"Please forgive me!" Suddenly the man kowtowed before Eve's feet with a trembling body.

Seeing the exaggerated response, Eve was of course surprised. Especially after that person bowed down to him. Suddenly a question flashed through his brain.

Are the nobles at Brodsway so arbitrary to the common people that when they meet the nobles only they have to prostrate?

"Geez, I'm not God." Although her tone was calm, Eve actually could not relieve her racing heart.

Thanks to Declan's teachings that talk anything is always flat, this time he can practice it on Brodsway to look like a real noble.

"Stand up!" order Eve again with a heavily-membered voice.

"B-well!" The man just stood up, but still lowered his head.

"What's your name."

"J-joule, My Lord."

"Your name will remember. Now scram—"

"Ah, you've come apparently."

Everyone watching turned their attention towards someone who had just arrived with his brown horse. All the more trembling, let alone the man who had just been troubled.

"General Nicholas?" muttered Eve astonished. Didn't he send a letter saying he would deal with the Sasanian rebels. Then why is he suddenly on Brodsway?

"Old friend, why not head straight for the mansion instead. We've been waiting a long time, you know." Nicholas approached and clasped his shoulders, just like an old friend.

"I just arrived." Eve sighed. Forgetting the general's familiar embrace, he again led his horse all the way to the main road.

Along with his heavy steps due to the thick clothes he was wearing, Eve's sneers heard a scathing slur that she believed came from General Nicholas. Eve turned her head, and she saw that the man who wanted to do evil to her had already prostrated himself back on the snow-covered ground.

General Nicholas who had just realized that Eve had gone far away, finally blinked. "Eh, wait!"

Ignoring Nicholas who ran behind her, Eve has now reached the main road. Different from the port that looks crowded, here it looks empty. Even the city was as desolate as a dead city.

"Lately people rarely move on the main road," said Nicholas as if he could read the contents of the mind of the lady.

"Why? Something happened?"

"Same as almost happened to you earlier. Usurpers. They run everywhere."

"Repropriers?" Eve laughed at hearing that. "Which hijacker knows so well that he faces nobility, just directly prostrate to beg for mercy? It should be his chance to get more property than to take the property of the common people, right."

"Here, the nobility are very much protected by the kingdom," explains Nicholas. A little embarrassed to say it. "If the nobleman has reported, within hours the usurper will be found and put to death in the square so that everyone can watch. Different from ordinary people, despite reporting a thousand times, there would be no good response to them."

"The justice here is already very severe." Eve rested her feet on the footing of her horse, and in one experiment she was able to ride and sit quietly on the black horse. "It's time for Brodsway to join Sasania. General, as a Brodsway native, are you as thoughtful as I am?"

"King and prince who now had nothing to hope for. Rather than them, I trust Crown Prince Lucas more. So what can I do?" General Nicholas rode on his horse and walked ahead to determine the direction.

"Follow me, lady."

Eve nodded. Their journey begins when General Nicholas pulls the reins of his horse to run through the cold air that envelops Brodsway, along with Eve who is tailing behind.

Knowing Brodsway's temperature was always below zero degrees, Eve decided to bring Lucas' Friesian horse that could stand running in extreme temperatures. Even so, Eve still put a thick saddle so that Friesian can feel a little warmth. The black color of the fur is so contrasting when running under a mash of clean white snow particles that are not too dense.

After an hour of non-stop travel, they finally arrived at a camp set up behind a mountain so that no one would be aware of the presence of the Nyx knights as uninvited guests at Brodsway. After leaving the horse, Nicholas drove it to the largest tent and was located in the middle of the camp formation.

Actually when they met at the port, there were already many things that Nicholas wanted to ask the girl. Like, why would he prefer Lucas. How they met, and so on. The news of the crown prince's sudden love affair was of course shocking to him. Moreover, the woman the Crown Prince was after was the same girl he had liked up until this very second.

Sick? Ah, not really. To be honest, Nicholas was much more relieved that Eve was with Lucas than to have to marry Prince Julius. At least the girl will be safe, even if not with him.

"Eve, you're finally here. Sorry, can't pick you up at the harbor."

Lucas that Nicholas had just talked about in his heart was —entah just a coincidence or indeed had been waiting since last— just suddenly came out of the tent with a warm smile, especially for his Eve. Regardless of Nicholas, he approached Eve. Removing the headgear worn, then stroking his head with caution.

"Gee, your hairstyle is quite unique," he commented with wide-eyed eyes.

Hearing the tone of ridicule, Eve did not hesitate to slap her shoulder to vent her frustration. Lucas complained, but actually the slap didn't hurt at all.

"I see, yes, the way you welcomed me."

"Eh?" Lucas, realizing that Eve was really upset, finally pulled the woman's hand to warm up in the bag of her thicker coat. "Your hands are so cold. Because the weather is always like this, it must be very difficult to get here, yes, let alone alone. Where is Eris? Did he leave you. That kid, it looks like he should be taught a lesson to let him know what it's like to play around with you" Lucas fumed.

The two men walked side by side into the tent, leaving Nicholas who was still at home standing in place adorned with flat gazes, difficult to decipher.

Why does loving someone have to be this difficult?