Chapter 78: A heated argument

Last chapter here in webnovl. I have already uploaded all chapters on patre.on so check out there.

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(Einar's POV)

It had been a month since Lancelot and Guinevere fled back to France. I even confirmed their safety as I received a magic message that they were safe.

My plan was a success.

Although I was the executioner, the idea was proposed and shared by Merlin and Artoria together. I didn't know what happened to Merlin but he seemed a little bit kinder than before. He stopped talking about prophecies or manipulating Artoria and me.

In short, he had realized his mistake but it was too late.

Anyway, the news that Lancelot eloped with Guinevere never appeared as I transformed a woman's dead body to look like Guinevere and showed the public that she was dead.

Who dared to question me?

I and other knights have already cleared the moles working for Agravain and his death along with his crimes were also made in public.

In short, only Lancelot appeared to be on the wanted list.

Why didn't I also do that with Lancelot?

I had a feeling that he would show himself to help me or Artoria at some point in the future, considering how persistent he is with his knightly duty.

So all in all, the drama Agravain created by exposing Guinevere was cleared with his own death along with his crimes.

The reason I didn't kill him at first was that I didn't want to appear dirty in public. No one would question me but a knight killing another for no reason doesn't appear to be a simple matter.

As such, everything was settled and peace returned for the time being at Camelot until one day I made my decision to confront crazy King Arthur, to confess mistakes but for making another idiotic mistake.

One day, a knight was about to take a journey when I stopped him and asked him to take the letter out.

"My friend, my pride, my ideal knight. If you had seen fit to commit such actions, they must have good cause. I believe in their justness. Therefore I bless"

When I read the message, my veins popped out from my eyes due to sheer anger.

It was Artoria's message to Lancelot.

I didn't know if her brain was even working properly.

Lancelot is a knight with pride greater than anything else and the fact that he didn't receive any punishment was enough to make him suffer for a lifetime but now she wants to give her blessing to him and what's more, she considered his actions just?!!!

It would drive him mad and eventually destroying the remaining will he had left to live.

In short, if you are forever right but made a mistake and do something wrong, it doesn't make it right in the end.

I made up my mind that what she did to me was not right. I then decided to face her not to reconcile but put some sense in her.

10 minutes later.

Artoria was working in her study when I entered the room and walked towards her desk and slammed the letter.

"What the hell is this, Artoria?!"

"Einar…" She blinked and called me directly. Must be because I addressed her as Artoria and not King Arthur but anger had taken over my rationality. "It is the letter that I send to Sir Lancelot… Is… is something wrong?" She asked with a shaken voice.

She was a little taken back by my sudden confrontation with visible anger in my eyes.

"Of course it is!!!" I roared and smashed the desk destroying it from the middle.

My anger fluctuated in the atmosphere and made her more uncomfortable. She then calmly came closer and held my hand.

"Einar, I don't know if I can call you directly but please tell me if I was wrong."

"Yes, you are wrong! You were wrong from the beginning!!" I shook away her soft yet firm hands.

I then glared at her and asked, "Tell me Artoria, what have I ever done anything wrong to you?! Were your intentions just to take advantage of me all along?!"

"Ngh…" She was taken back and lost words to reply.

"Tell me Artoria, when I ask for your hands for simple marriage and live a life like other humans, were you planning on cheating on my back all along?! Tell me Artoria, if I cheat on your back, can you forgive my actions?!"

Questions after questions but she was not able to reply with a single reason. She then widened her eyes when she realized what I was talking about.

"If you have rejected me early on, I would have taken my leave not to appear in front of your eyes. I have never laid my hands on any woman neither have I done something to hurt you. I remembered your life was not colorful enough so I did everything to make you happy but you on other hand, not only marry a woman but also another step further to make a child. Do you think I would never find out?!"

I revealed the information, her lungs clenched and she widened her eyes.

"Artoria tell me something, were you this dishonest from the beginning?! Am I that big of a sinner for just confessing to you?"

It was then she gritted her teeth and stated her reason with tears in her eyes.

"No! Absolutely not Einar! You were precious to me even more than my life! After you left, I thought that… I could somehow make this country better by just leaving an heir but everything turned against me-"

"I can't believe a single word coming from your damn mouth! Everything is a lie-"

"It is true! I just wanted to make this land a place where children can smile and live in peace. I just want to be the person you can be proud of. I can be the person to do something for you so that we could live peacefully! I can be the king that you will be proud of!"

"Lie! Lie! And complete lie! You knew from the beginning that it was not possible when you drew the sword! You knew that you would suffer just to make these ugly people happy! You knew that you would not only make a doom for yourself but also me! Did you ever think about the future? Did you think that you could make everything right just by doing some paltry hard works?!"

"Khh… I know that! It's just… I was not able to abandon the people that I was made for…" She then began to struggle to speak when I put all those real facts.

"Artoria… I get it. In the end, I was just a fool. My only sin is to give my heart to a heartless woman like you only…" I gritted my teeth and tried hard to hold my tears.

I was facing the reality that I never wanted to face.

She then came near me and asked with tears in her eyes, "Tell me then what should I do?! I… I know I have done sins unforgivable but then tell me just what should I do?!" She then removed her chest plate and showed her a little bit of cleavage. "If you want my body-"

Slap*

First time in my life that I raised my hand and slapped her face. She teared up my feelings like paper. It was enough for me.

"You bitch! Do you fucking think that I was with you just to pleasure upon your body?!"

Drip, drip, I couldn't hold my tears any longer as my eyes became wet from the sadness and complete defeat.

But before I could speak any further, I saw a sword pointed at my neck and Artoria on the opposite end with bangs covering her eyes.

"Sir Einar Sirius, please leave or I would have to force myself to take another nasty decision to fight you."

I widened my eyes and from the shakiness of her sword, I knew that she had also lost all hope just like me.

Everything finally ended.

I turned around and stormed my way out of her room.

My heart was filled with loathness and hate for her but more than shame for my own weakness.

"Te- Sir Einar, what happened…?"

At my worst time, I encountered the last person I wanted to see. It was Mordred.

"Get lost, you fucking filth!" I yelled and raised my hand and smashed her head. My sheer power enforced with my anger broke her helmet as she stumbled a meter away.

Without even thinking about what I have done, I left the avenue to leave this land forever.

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(Mordred's POV)

I had taken many beatings from Teach but never in my life he showed me that much hate and despise in his eyes.

I was on my way when I heard some noises from King Arthur's room but when I reached, I saw the king I looked up so much pointing his sword at my Teach.

I didn't know what was happening but I noticed that both of them had tears in their eyes. It was my first time that I saw both of them so sad.

When Teach came out, the look on his face and then his slap bestowed a terrible fear in my heart.

"Sniff* Teach… what I have done anything wrong…?"

My heart was not able to handle the sadness at that time as I ran away from there.

Teach was an existence that made me live and I was about to confess that I am a girl and not a man to make him proud but that incident made me unable to continue.

Teach was the last person I ever wanted to hear the word 'filth'. At that moment, something possessed my heart and I began to think properly.

His hatred was anything but a living hell. I can endure everything but I was not able to see his hate for me.

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(3rd person's POV)

A girl was watching Mordred leave with black miasma leaking from her body.

" 'Instructions' have been put to King Arthur's son. Thanks to the bug, now the final face is here."

Alaya spoke with a smile closer to a smirk then vanished.

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