Volume 7 Chapter 77: We Should Fight!
<span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-weight:400">Volume 7 Chapter 77: We Should Fight!
<span style="font-weight:400">"Miss, it has been so long!" Sterling''s expression brightened as he saw her. Krystal shook her head, "I''m d that I met you. But you should do something about that first." Did he forget about the guy under him?
<span style="font-weight:400">"Oh, yeah." Sterling grabbed the guy and picked him up, "Hand the bag over."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Here!" The mugger didn''t hesitate as he handed the bag to him.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Good. Now run off. And here." In Sterling''s hands were a couple of bronze coins.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Eh?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"These days have been horrible without the grand duke. However, wait it out. He will return and make this ce great."
<span style="font-weight:400">"...Mmhmm." The snatcher took the coins and quickly ran away from there.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Are you sure you should have let him go?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"I can''t me him for doing something to live." Sterling sighed, "Most of the lives in Duchy have changed thesest few months."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Sterling."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Young Miss, we should go. I don''t think we should talk here." A crowd of people was slowly forming around the three. Sterling quickly returned the bag and headed off with the two.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Where are we going?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"We''re going to our home." When they arrived at the location, Keith realized something.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Slums. This ce had slums as well.
<span style="font-weight:400">Not surprising.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"You live here?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"I''m not the only one. There''s also Eren, Ricko, and some other knights."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"They''re all here?!" Krystal''s expression changed.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Here is our base."
<span style="font-weight:400">"...You guys live in that?" Krystal was in disbelief as she stared at the home before her. This home was a shack. Riddle with holes everywhere; it was close to falling apart any second. It was worrying that Sterling and the rest lived here.
<span style="font-weight:400">"It may look like that on the outside, Young Miss. But the inside is quite cozy. We had fixed it up quite a lot." Sterling chuckled as he opened the door. And when the three entered, a couple of burly people came to greet them!
<span style="font-weight:400">"Young Lady!"
<span style="font-weight:400">"Everyone!" Krystal''s expression brightened as she saw them. She was d to see everyone here.
<span style="font-weight:400">"How are all of you?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"We''re doing good!" "We''ve been working out as well." The knights flexed their muscles.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Quit showing off." Sterling smacked them in the head, "Forgive them, Miss. They''re just d to meet you."
<span style="font-weight:400">"I''m d to see you all like this." Krystal nodded, "But why are you guys all here?" Krystal was still out of the loop with all of this. From Rodrick''s dark expression, it seemed something terrible had transpired.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Ah," The other knights scratched their heads as they turned to Sterling; this man had to be the one to exin what urred.
<span style="font-weight:400">"...I punched the brat."
<span style="font-weight:400">"What?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"I punched that bastard''s son," Sterling exined.
<span style="font-weight:400">No wonder he looked so stupid. Keith remembered Arnie. More specifically, his face and his left cheek bulged red. And there seemed to be a tooth gone as well.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I couldn''t help it. He was talking down about the duchess."
<span style="font-weight:400">"...What did he say?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"He called her a fool and said that she should continue to stay in bed and not think about being the head." That angered Sterling. He couldn''t control it and decked the brat right across the face. It sent him flying across the barracks.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"I shouldn''t have done that. Now, I let the madam all alone." Just utter regret. What he did had given Rodrick an opening to take over as Grand Duke. Violet was left in the open as well.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Mother is alright."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Eh?"
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Mother is awake now."
<span style="font-weight:400">"That''s great!" Sterling and the other knights sighed in relief.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I take it that Dolus was appointed to be themander of the knights after you left?" Keith asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">"...Yes. Dolus was the 5th inmand. He never should have been in the running formander of the knights. However, he decided to suck up to Rodrick. The one who should be the nextmander is Lnd." Sterling groaned.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I see."
<span style="font-weight:400">"That fool is causing so much trouble."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Indeed he is." Keith nodded.
<span style="font-weight:400">"By the way, Miss. Who is this person?" Out of nowhere, everyone was now surrounding Keith. But the boy remained calm. He answered, "Hello, my name is Keith. I''m friends with Krystal at the academy."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"…Are you strong?"
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<span style="font-weight:400">"I''m alright."
<span style="font-weight:400">"We did note here to spar." Krystal groaned, "We must deal with Rodrick and how he took over."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Young Miss, we already have a n."
<span style="font-weight:400">"You do?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"We''re going to rush in there and take everything back."
<span style="font-weight:400">"No! Don''t do that." Krystal quickly denied it, "Do you know the consequences of attacking them?" Execution was definitely on the table.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Young Lady, I have seen your father take care of the duchy with all his might, and I refuse to let it go down the drain because of the fool. If it means getting executed, then I''m prepared."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Yeah!" "We have to fight!"
<span style="font-weight:400">The other knights also agreed. Having Rodrick there would only cause problems.
<span style="font-weight:400">"That''s some good spirit."
<span style="font-weight:400">"That''s the spirit of the Rustchil Knights." Sterling grinned.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Keith," Krystal looked at Keith with pleading eyes. She was asking him to do something about this.
<span style="font-weight:400">"What? I agree with what they''re doing."