Heavenly Inquisition Sword

Episode 1376. It seems there is someone else to kill

. Skull Corps Headquarters.

As Count Elio Lagoa and his party approached, a soldier cautiously asked,

“Your Excellency Count. How did you get here?”

Elio, who had been silently watching the soldiers, spoke in a cold tone.

“Tell the corps commander to come out.”

“yes?”

When the soldier asked back at the unexpected answer, Elio let out a growl.

“Brigade commander! Tell them to pop out right now! ”

“Hick! Yes Yes…”

The soldier hurriedly ran to the headquarters.

As the entrance became noisy, the knights passing by gathered one by one.

Commander’s Office.

Staff Baron Roving Byron hurriedly ran into the quiet corps commander’s office.

“Brigade commander!”

Corps commander Dipon Cornelia, who was looking at the operation map, jumped up from his seat.

“Did the Imperial Army move?”

“no! Rather… Count Lagoa and his companions have returned.”

“okay? But why are you looking so surprised?”

“Count Lagoa is looking for the corps commander at the entrance.”

“me?”

“Yes, but the atmosphere is unusual.”

Corps commander Dipon Cornelia, who was preparing to meet him, hesitated.

“What do you mean? Isn’t it unusual because of the atmosphere?”

“According to the report of the soldier guarding the main gate of the headquarters, embarrassingly… he cursed at the corps commander and told him to come out immediately.”

Dipon Cornelia, the commander of the corps who had committed the crime, was as hard as a stone statue.

‘Could it be that the two-headed operation leaked out?’

The only people who knew the inside story of the operation were the commander of the corps and the chief of staff, but the chief of staff followed the route.

Apparently, something happened at the joint cemetery.

Belatedly, I regretted that I should have sent a staff member instead of the chief of staff.

On the other hand, I also think that ‘there may be other problems’.

It was the chief of staff who came up with the double-headed plan, but there was no way he would have confessed it with his own mouth.

I don’t know what caused it, but it was frustrating to hear that he even cursed at me.

Unlike the Imperial Army, the Skull Corps has no means to deal with the Grand Master.

Count Dipon Cornelia, who had been thinking for a while, decided to meet Count Lagoa first.

When Dipon Cornelia Corps Commander and his staff came out of the headquarters building, the knights who were watching gathered around the Corps commander one by one.

As the knights joined in, Dipon Cornelia’s eyes calmed down a bit.

He made his way towards Count Lagoa with a calm face.

“Have you been to the park? I hurriedly came out because His Excellency Count Lagoa was looking for me. What are you doing?”

Elio stared at the corps commander with indifferent eyes and said.

“The chief of staff said so. The corps commander ordered the killing of Baron Sofia Orlova, and that’s why Operation Double Headed was created.”

“…”

A strange silence fell for a moment.

The staff who lost their comrades in Operation Two-headed Soldiers paid attention to the mouth of the corps commander with surprised eyes.

Even the knights were shocked.

It was because the staff members were not the only ones who were mobilized for Operation Two Heads.

But the operation was to kill Baron Sofia Orlova!

Corps Commander Dipon Cornelia’s face flushed, but he didn’t deny it.

Rather, he thought that what was to come had come.

It was a plan he was against at first.

I should have opposed it to the end, but I eventually gave in to the words of the messenger sent by the prime minister.

If the chief of staff had objected, he might have endured.

However, the chief of staff raised the lion’s hand, saying it was for the future of the kingdom.

The double-headed operation, which he approved with a bitter heart, was the biggest stain in his life.

Earl Dipon Cornelia’s mouth, which had been closed like a clam, opened.

“Right. I fell for the sweet words ‘for the future of the kingdom’… and did that. I feel sorry for those who died in Operation Two-Headed Death. I apologize to Baron Cloud as well.”

“Is it okay if I apologize?”

“I intend to take responsibility for my mistakes.”

“how?”

When Count Helio Lagoa asked, Chief of Staff Dipon Cornelia answered in a determined tone.

“I will accept any punishment.”

“Are you going to hide behind the law of the kingdom?”

“It is natural to be punished according to the laws of the kingdom. In addition, I will accept the punishment of Count Lagoa.”

Elio looked at the corps commander with new eyes.

The corps commander was different from the chief of staff who left all responsibility to his superior.

But it’s still just talk.

Whether that is his sincerity remains to be seen.

“Then things will be easy. The chief of staff summarily executed me in front of the joint graveyard. I will punish you, the corps commander, in this spot.”

After a while, Elio looked around at the Knights and staff of the Skull Corps and said.

“Did you all hear the corps commander’s confession? Operation Two-Headed Soldier was created by the corps commander and chief of staff to kill Baron Sophia. Even innocent staff and knights were sacrificed to avoid suspicion of Baron Sophia’s warriors. In response, I, Count Elio Lagoa, intend to ask the corps commander for the crime. If there are any objections, speak up.”

But no one dared to step out.

They are also disappointed with the behavior of the corps commander and chief of staff, but above all, it is because the opponent is a grand master.

No one had the courage to stake their claim on the Grand Master’s revenge.

“No one. Then I will judge.”

At that moment, one of the staff members, Baron Sharon Glenn, carefully raised her hand.

Elio gestured at her as if to speak.

“I am Baron Sharon Glenn, Legion Chief of Staff. We now know that there was such a conspiracy behind Operation Two-Headed Warrior. But… it is also true that the southern kingdom forces in the rear wanted accurate information, so staff were needed at the Dera base.”

“What do you mean?”

“I just wanted to tell you that Operation Two Heads wasn’t created just to kill Baron Sophia. Rather, it was that Baron Sophia was pushed into an extremely dangerous but necessary operation… So, the other staff and knights did not die because of Baron Sophia. Forgive me if I was presumptuous.”

Elio’s eyes widened at the unexpected remark.

To be honest, until now, I had only thought of Operation Two-Headed Soldier as a trap disguised as an operation.

However, from what the staff said, it seems that this was not necessarily the case.

‘Extremely dangerous, but pushed into a necessary operation…’

At that moment, several thoughts rushed into my mind at once.

Eventually, Elio, who woke up from his thoughts, spoke to the corps commander.

“Count Dipon Cornelia, you sent her to death in Operation Double Headed to kill Baron Sophia. No matter how necessary the operation was, the purpose was… Fuck!”

Elio groaned out in frustration.

If he was like Namgung-yeon, he would have said something cool that everyone could understand, but he couldn’t because his hands and feet were sore.

“I want to beat him to death, but I hold back. Countess Cornelia, you should resign your corps commander immediately and go to Krasion to be judged. okay?”

Then Earl Dipon Cornelia answered quickly with a face that came back to life.

“I will do as you say.”

Hearing the corps commander’s answer, Elio turned around with a depressed face.

“Let’s go Fabian. It seems there is someone else to kill.”

“yes.”

After a while, as Elio and the others left the headquarters of the Skull Corps, the staff of the Corps hurriedly sent a magic message to Krasion.

***

Royal Krasion.

The royal palace was turned upside down by the magic communication sent from the frontline Feromuros.

―It is revealed that the Skull Corps commander and chief of staff killed Baron Sofia Orlova at the direction of the Prime Minister. Count Elio Lagoa summarily executes the chief of staff and orders the corps commander to go to Krasion for trial. Count Elio Lagoa and his party are on their way to Krasion.

The Chancellor and King Raoul Brosnan put everything aside and clung to countermeasures.

king’s office.

The Chancellor, Marquis Carloman Blas, said with a bloodless face.

“Your Highness, it is difficult to smoothly resolve this matter with the power of our Adria kingdom alone. Ask the kingdoms around you for help.”

“Would you help the neighboring kingdoms ask for help?”

“We will help if you give us the iron golems our kingdom has.”

“You mean to give it away in exchange for participating in the war, and there is not much left?”

“The steel golem can be excavated again in the Abyss. If it’s not an iron golem, the surrounding kingdoms will surely be in jeopardy across the river.”

“Grunt!”

A groan escaped from King Raoul Brosnan’s mouth.

In fact, he knew too.

It was obvious that the surrounding kingdoms wouldn’t budge if it wasn’t for the steel golem.

“In five days at the latest, Count Lagoa will arrive in Krasion. We must summon the kings, even by mobilizing airships. If we are late, Your Highness and I may be in danger.”

Marquis Carlo Roman Blas hung on the king.

He sincerely did not intend to die alone.

The final decision maker is the king, so why should he take all the responsibility himself!

The chancellor’s feelings were conveyed to King Raoul Brosnan.

‘He’s trying to drag me in too.’

I was annoyed, but as far as this incident was concerned, the chancellor and myself had a common destiny.

‘If I knew it would be like this, I would oppose it until the end…’

It was wrong to fall for the words that if Baron Sophia dies, Baron Cloud would also like it in his heart, or that this deal must be concluded in order to be reorganized as a gunman.

“ha! As time is running out, send envoys to the kingdoms adjacent to ours. You can use airships if necessary.”

King Raoul Brosnan even allowed the use of the Royal Airship.

If he had a new weapon like the Empire, he would have gone out confidently, but what should he do?

***

Around sundown.

Three stagecoaches, speeding along the forest road, stopped one after another in a large clearing.

Since they do not have permission, they want to become homeless.

After a while, guests poured in from three stagecoaches.

Homelessness in the South did not have as many things to prepare as in the North or Central.

Because the weather was warm—unless it rained—they didn’t pitch a tent.

It was all that the accompanying chef simply cooked and distributed.

Elio, who was eating the rationed food, said in passing.

“Still, thanks to Count Omar, I’ve come to know what I was able to overlook.”

“you’re right.”

“You are amazing.”

Howard and Crea threw words one by one with admiring faces.

At the sudden praise, Count Larva Omar shook his head excitedly.

“It’s not a big deal. It’s a tactic that great nobles often use to get rid of static. If there is even the slightest suspicion, don’t throw it away.”

“Which part were you suspicious of?”

Howard looked at Count Omar with a curious look on his face.

“Sending Baron Sophia to the front line is not normal.”

“ah! I only thought that the situation of the Southern Kingdom army was not good.”

“They took advantage of their situation. It must have come from the chancellor’s head.”

Fabian blankly listened to the people’s stories.

After the meal, Elio touched his leg with his knee.

“what’s the matter?”

Only then did Fabian come to his senses and muttered,

“I’m pathetic.”

“what?”

“It was a bit strange for me too that Baron Sophia returned to the Skull Corps.”

“however?”

“I didn’t doubt it. Rather, it seemed that all the tangled knots were untied…”

Fabian, who could not bear to say anything out of conscience, lowered his head.