“An individual is caught!” The assistant swatted his hand and squeaked. Uncomfortable with harsh respiratory and foggy eyes, he coughed and stepped again.

There was a commotion in all places. Those that have been lined up in the back and front trembled at the truth that there was a crowd. Ultimately, the gate guards approached within the commotion.

The gate guards have been toiling to rescue the wretched coachman and dismount the horses. Luckily, the coachman survived, however his face was crushed and his shins have been pale and sharp bones protruded.

In a horrendous means, the aide coated his mouth along with his handkerchief and vomited in disgust. His abdomen was churning.

A knight with a bunch of troopers approached him subsequent to him. He was the captain of the Western Gate Guard.

“What are you doing!”

“Sure?” The assistant requested, placing a handkerchief in his interior pocket. The eyes of the guard captain along with his wealthy beard have been bitter.

“I noticed you do issues with that previous coachman! I assumed you have been fixing the wagon… If you happen to dare commit a homicide in entrance of the guards, don’t take into consideration escaping gracefully.”

“No, not like that! Why would you say that?”

The guard’s eyebrows twitched because the assistant waved his hand. “Arrest them now!”

“Oh no, there…!”

“It was what I ordered. If you wish to maintain somebody accountable, maintain me.”

The commander of the guard rotated on the chilly voice. The troopers who rushed in the direction of the aide and the mercenaries additionally stopped standing tall.

There stood a snake-like man along with his silver hair curled in order that his head was uncovered.

Everybody knew who he was. The slitted eyes have been mounted as in the event that they have been capturing on the captain of the guard.

“This previous man known as Shylock Isles. Sir Edgar Lewis, Captain of the Guard on the Western Gateway to Arcadia.”

Edgar visibly flinched. Realizing that he was already beneath his momentum, he folded his arms and checked out Shylock. “Shylock Isles. I do know who you’re. From right here on, it’s Arcadia. You’d higher cease serious about going out with a bribe.”

Shylock tapped the ground with a black wand gilded on his deal with. He slowly turned his head to scan the group round him.

Apart from some curiosity, it was a glance of contempt. Particularly, this was the case with knights whose bloodline appeared to be fairly valuable.

Shylock appeared again at Edgar.

“How is the development of the woman’s lung illness?”

“…”

“As soon as she begins bleeding, there will likely be no different means it doesn’t matter what you do… It’s actually unlucky that the illness is barely getting worse.”

Edgar’s eyes fluttered open. He held a breath as if he had been strangled by Shylock. Shylock wasn’t going to overlook that hole.

“My daughter additionally misplaced her mom to the identical sickness a very long time in the past. Lily… no.” Shylock’s expression turned chilly. He stared at Edgar unblinkingly. “The Duchess of Winter, too.”

A tense silence descended.

The assistant’s coronary heart raced with thrilling anticipation. With simply that one phrase, the momentum fully was on his boss’s facet.

Even the captain of the guard wouldn’t have recognized that Shylock Isles was the monarch’s in-law. He pushed that reality in entrance of his eyes and appeared away. It was already a victory for Shylock.

“I used to be interested in how competent the folks accountable for my daughter’s security have been. Would you want a favor, Captain?”

Edgar’s eyebrows twitched incessantly. After hesitating for some time, he muttered, “…I’ll hear and determine.”

“The de Winter Knights are adept at gunpowder, so in comparison with the ‘actual’ knights, it’s stated that they haven’t any energy. Is it true?”

The faces of the troopers round them, together with the commander of the guard, have been wrinkled.

“What impolite…”

“Show to me it’s not true.”

Shylock slowly raised his cane. Then, he pointed to the 2 troopers in entrance of him in flip.

“The 2 of you may make fist fights with one another. Till one in all them falls. Can’t you examine all of your stamina and energy?”

Ultimately, a bulge of veins stood on the guard captain’s brow. Nobody might have seen what he was going to do. Nevertheless, Shylock’s remarks have been one beat sooner than his phrases.

“100 million for the winner. 50 million for the loser. Additionally, to the captain of the guard who calmed the curiosity and anxiousness of this insignificant previous man…” Shylock lowered his cane slowly. “I provides you with drugs to forestall the worsening of lung illness. Till your younger daughter is healed. Preserve going.”

“…”

Whereas the primary soldier hesitated, the second soldier raised his voice, “How dare a lowly tradesman attempt to trick folks with cash! That cheeky man who doesn’t know the topic should be arrested, Captain!”

“…”

“B-boss. Why don’t you say something, no means…”

Edgar’s eyes belonged to these whose souls had already been slain.

He had misplaced his spouse a very long time in the past, and his solely daughter had lately began affected by lung illness. He was spending some huge cash on medical bills, which he couldn’t afford even along with his wage.

Edgar’s chest trembled because the breath he had been holding again slowly returned. Taking an irregular breath, he lastly broke. “…Make room.”

“Chief!”

“It’s an order.”

“… ”

“Hurry!”

A merciless wind blew. A crowd gathered in a circle within the empty lot subsequent to the lengthy line.

So Shylock Isles made the western gateway of Arcadia right into a preventing enviornment. After a grotesque due, he awarded the prize in money on the spot by his aide.

Shylock Isles, watching the three males settle for the prize, was the king who dominated them at that second.