A Failed Knight Who Went to the Academy To Get Married

073. worst choice

Drago and Ally only pretended to leave immediately after firing threatening shots at the strangers and did not go far.

They were currently hiding behind a nearby tree, keeping an eye on three stranger women.

“Please go home quietly…”

The women talked seriously among themselves for a while,

Soon, one person spoke in a loud voice, as if deliberately asking people to listen.

“Okay! Then first, let’s wait patiently until the airship returns at 18:00 and then go back.”

Only then did Drago relax and speak.

“Whew. I’m glad we don’t have to fight.”

Allie made a gesture with a somewhat worried expression.

“Huh? Ah… I see, since you recognize me, you might be an acquaintance of mine.”

However, Drago smiled calmly as if it was no big deal.

“It’s okay. The present is more important than the past that I can’t even remember.”

Allie smiled bitterly at those words.

“Okay then, let’s quickly go back to the village and report.”

When the two returned to the village together, an old woman came out to meet them.

“Have they gone back?”

“They say they will take the airship back in the evening when it comes to meet them.”

“Aren’t they the ones who came looking for you?”

“Maybe so.”

“Have you ever thought about going back?”

The reason this old woman sent only Drago and Ally must have been to test Drago.

If Drago showed signs of wanting to go back, not only Drago but also the opponent would have been killed.

But Drago answered without any hesitation.

“Not at all. I already don’t even know who that person is.”

“You know the rules of this village, right?”

“I know. I have no intention of running away and abandoning Allie, my lifesaver.”

Before that, it was impossible to sneak in or out due to the barrier around the village.

Drago went straight to his house and lay down on the bed.

“It’s such an annoying rule.”

The rule is that once a person enters a village, he must never leave again.

It may seem a bit cruel, but there was a good reason for it.

The devils in this town are those who hide from the eyes of God.

Therefore, even if the existence of the village becomes known to the outside world, everyone’s lives are at risk.

“…the land of the forgotten and forgotten.”

Drago looked around and reopened the note he had hidden under his desk.

A long text about Snow Lavender and the identity of Bonghwa.

However, the old woman already taught everything to Drago after he lost his memory.

I felt sorry for my past self, but all I could think was that he had done something stupid.

… It was just that one particularly emphasized word at the end of the note bothered me.

‘Don’t forget that I have people to save.’

Drago muttered, flapping the note.

“It seems like there’s a story behind it, but I can’t help but forget it.”

If you don’t have memories, you are already a different person.

Besides, it’s not a lie that I have no intention of leaving the village, even for Ally’s sake.

Anyway, if she hadn’t saved Drago from the bear trap, she would have died a long time ago.

That’s why Drago tried to tear up the note,

After a little hesitation, I hid it back under the desk leg, just in case.

***

That evening, when the snowstorm finally stopped completely.

Indeed, the airship I saw in the morning has returned again.

Drago went out scouting again with Ally to make sure they were leaving.

It was quite noisy as I hid and watched from afar.

“You can’t use magic here! Try lowering a rope or something!”

As a woman dressed as an instructor shouted, a hatch opened on the airship floating overhead, and another woman shouted.

“It’s so far away that the rope can’t reach!”

“Then come down a little further!”

“It’s not possible here! I think we should move to a safer place!”

“Then read this first!”

A woman dressed as an instructor fired an arrow with a note attached.

While the woman on the airship went back inside for a moment with the arrow, Drago muttered.

“She probably wasn’t holding a bow or anything like that, so she improvised it here? That’s amazing.”

Before long, the woman stuck her head out from the airship again and shouted.

“Okay! Come up to the southern peak and I’ll give you a ride there!”

In the end, the airship left the spot,

The women on the ground also began to head south.

As Drago stared at the airship moving away, Ally pulled his sleeve and gestured for him to go back.

“…No. Something is suspicious. Let’s wait a little longer.”

A note I had just prepared and fired with a bow.

Women give up so easily and try to go back.

Moreover, for some reason, I was convinced that they had something up to do.

In the end, Drago even took out a telescope and stared at the departing airship until the end.

After watching like that for about ten minutes…

“Huh? The airship suddenly disappeared?”

Indeed, the airship suddenly disappeared in thin air.

The sun hasn’t completely set yet and the weather is clear, so I can’t have seen anything wrong.

“…and it looks like someone was boasting that their airship had stealth capabilities.”

At that time, Allie made a gesture, pulling Drago’s sleeve.

“What? Those women just went in the wrong direction instead of going south?”

Drago thought for a moment and then spoke urgently.

“Aren’t they trying to go near the beacon again without them knowing?”

Allie nodded.

“Damn it! It’s too late to go all the way to the village and report it! Let’s go to the beacon fire ourselves!”

Fortunately, Drago and Ally succeeded in arriving at the beacon before their opponents.

Drago climbed the beacon tower, took out his bow, and muttered.

“If you see even the slightest suspicious shadow, shoot immediately. If you see an airship, activate the beacon.”

When Allie seemed a little hesitant, Drago spoke calmly.

“We definitely warned them. So you can kill them.”

However, Allie still hesitated to take out the bow.

… It’s that look again.

guilty.

Drago took a deep breath and spoke to her.

“I will tell you clearly right now.”

Allie stiffened slightly at Drago’s suddenly cold tone.

“I know you erased my memory. And you certainly didn’t save me with good intentions alone.”

Allie lowered her head slightly.

“But I definitely owe you a debt of gratitude for taking care of me when I was injured for a few days and teaching me how to bow.”

Only then did I see Allie smiling slightly.

“So I promise you, no matter what happens in the future, I will never blame you.”

… No matter what happens in the future.

That was one word that contained a lot of meaning.

Ally must have realized that, too, as she looked somewhat angry.

But I couldn’t say anything.

Even if she could speak, she certainly wouldn’t have been able to say anything at this moment.

Drago smiled sweetly and placed his hand on Ally’s shoulder.

“So don’t make that face in front of me. I don’t want you to be unhappy because of me.”

“I think you’re misunderstanding who you’re talking to?”

Drago and Allie quickly aimed their bows at the sudden cold voice.

The three women who pretended to head south earlier.

Before I knew it, they were already right next to Krystal.

“Damn it! When did it come up?”

A woman dressed as an instructor scratched her head and sneered.

“Aren’t you really Trine? If you were a normal person, you would have noticed it sooner.”

The red-haired woman aimed her greatsword at Crystal.

“If you can’t use this, you won’t be able to summon monsters, right?”

Drago was very embarrassed and aimed his bow at the woman.

“Wait, wait, wait! If you break it, it’ll explode!”

Then the black-haired woman stopped him and spoke softly.

“I’m glad you’re safe.”

“Huh? Ah, yes…”

“Aren’t you going to follow along quietly?”

Drago answered that question with a forced smile.

“It’s a rule that once you become a resident, you can’t leave.”

“Don’t be ridiculous. It wasn’t about discipline, I was just asking what you wanted to do.”

Drago hesitated in answering those firm yet somehow heart-rending words.

Then Allie stepped in front of Drago and aimed her bow at the black-haired woman.

“…I don’t know what your relationship is, but won’t you just give up? That girl is already about to get married.”

At those unexpected words, Allie made a strange expression for a moment and lowered her bow a little.

It’s like, ‘It’s not that kind of relationship, but it’s marriage? really?’ It seemed like he wanted to say.

Then, a woman dressed as an instructor noticed the delicate atmosphere and intervened.

“For your information, the guy behind you is planning to marry five people and form a harem. No, was it six?”

Ally eventually looked back at Drago and made a disgusted expression.

Then Drago shouted with an expression of resentment.

“Just by looking at it, it’s a lie! Where can you find a man who is such a scum of the earth!”

At that time, the instructor looked overhead and muttered.

“Oh my. The first bride came in person.”

Suddenly, an airship appeared overhead.

And then a girl with yellow hair jumped out.

She asked, pulling out her sword and pointing at Trine.

“Who are you?”

“That’s what I wanted to ask.”

I felt the arms of the girl holding the sword tremble slightly.

However, he soon calmly glared at Drago and spoke.

“I’d like to negotiate.”

“What negotiation?”

The girl pointed at Allie with the tip of her sword.

“If you follow us quietly, I won’t kill that woman.”

“…Allie has nothing to do with it. If you even lay a finger on her, I will kill you all.”

Then the girl got angry.

“The person you need to save is Yuril, not her!”

Trine’s pupils shook greatly at those words.

A line written at the end of the letter I wrote to myself suddenly came to mind.

‘Don’t forget that I have people to save.’

“Senpai, you’re not this kind of person! Was it such a useless oath that you could easily throw it away just because you lost a little bit of memory?”

… vow.

A strong emotion began to surge deep within Drago’s heart.

But no matter how hard I try, I can’t remember.

It was so painful.

I realized that hesitating because it was painful was the last thing I should do.

“I know… that it was a bad choice.”

Drago eventually aimed his bow at the girl.

“I just want the people around me to be happy. And the people around me right now are here, not you.”

“Do you know who taught you what you just said?”

“I don’t know. I’m sorry, but I’m not the person you already knew.”

The girl finally seemed to have given up on the conversation and adjusted her grip on her sword.

“I will do my best to take you away, even if it means using force.”

“If you do something like that, I’ll kill everyone in the village.”

“It doesn’t matter. I was planning on going to war to save my senior from the beginning.”

It seemed like he had no intention of backing down.

Even other people around him took a step closer with their swords drawn.

A moment of silence that feels as if a stabbing could occur if one is not careful.

… But what broke the silence was an odd voice.

“You insignificant mortals! How dare you think you would get away with dishonoring this body!”

Suddenly, a huge red dragon appeared above the airship.

Thanks to this, everyone in the room looked above their heads with puzzled expressions.

The dragon glared at Drago and shouted with all his might.

“How dare you take my scales off! They deserve heavenly punishment!”

Then the surrounding eyes focused on Trine.

“Trine, what have you done?”

“Could it be that those things on your back are dragon scales?”

“You’re really causing all kinds of accidents.”

Then, Drago was very embarrassed and only then took off the dragon scales hanging from his back.

“Were these dragon scales?!”

Then the dragon looked pitiful and spoke to himself.

“Tsk, tsk, it looks like you really lost your memory. What should I do now?”

Then he mumbled a few words as if he was talking to someone inside him,

He immediately cleared his throat and shouted to everyone again.

“It doesn’t matter! I am the dragon of terror that announces the end of the world! I will kill you all like this!”