Chapter 49: Sky Throne (part five)
Louis’ dragon, Silvetica was speeding towards King Ignitia as if tearing up the sky.
The King and Queen immediately tried to call back their escort dragons.
With a moment’s delay, soldiers, knights, and the aristocrats moved to protect the King.
However, several people including me were already moving with different intentions.
At first I thought that it was just a bluff.
There were many mages of Harvan in this place.
The assassination of King Ignitia wouldn’t succeed.
In the first place, it was odd to take the trouble to shout the order because it was possible to manipulate the dragon just by thinking about it.
Louis’ skill with the dragons was a sham, but his competence in battle that he was on par with Auguste was genuine.
He wouldn’t make a mistake in judgement like I would.
I would make a conclusion first and added the reason later, I pulled out the Wand of Hold from the wand holder.
Louis ran towards me who was isolated from other people.
In his hand was a single sword taken from a soldier.
Why?
For certain, his means of survival was here.
Perhaps by making me a hostage.
Kicking my shoulder, Palug jumped out in front of Louis.
The former beast, which was only a kitten right now, was easily dismissed by Louis.
However, it gave me a chance to swing the wand.
At the same time with me shaking the wand, Louis stepped half a step diagonally.
As if avoiding the effect range of my released Hold.
I overlooked this.
Perhaps it was due to the dynamic vision of the dragon knights, or because he had seen Onii-sama’s Hold once.
While trembling, I was about to raise the wand once again.
A time less than one second felt like a long time.
Auguste and Eduart-oniisama seemed to notice Louis’ intention quickly.
However, it was still too late.
Silvetica who made a pretense to go to the King turned and broke Onii-sama’s wand and restrained Goldberry.
It was too late.
Louis grabbed my wrist and twisted it behind me.
I reflexively chewed my lip to stifle my cry of pain.
The wand fell down from my hand.
Louis kept twisting my arm and stuck the robbed sword against my neck.
“The situation has reversed, Eduart!
How do you feel like being robbed of your important things!?”
The purple dragon Silvetica landed on the shoulder of Louis’ who was raising a voice full of smug satisfaction.
I was struggling to extract my arm from his hold, but it was no use.
I stepped on his foot exactly with the heel of my shoes, but it was useless since he was wearing a hard armor.
How troublesome.
How did it come to this situation?
No, I wouldn’t be killed while I had my worth as a hostage, right?
“Oops, do not move, Eduart, and also Sir Ernst.
If this girl is important, take your hands off from your wands.
Both of you too, Henry and Auguste.
You should make your dragons as quiet as possible.”
Onii-sama and Otou-sama dropped the wands that had been pulled out, and Auguste also stopped the dragons.
King Ignitia ordered other soldiers and nobles to halt the attack.
My eyes met with Palug’s who was hiding under the wing of a lying dragon, but I shook my head.
She might be able to stop both Louis and Silvetica’s movements in the blink of an eye.
But the price was her life.
I had saved her life with great pains, so I couldn’t let such a thing happened.
While Louis was shouting for his requests, I took a deep breath.
Alright. What could I do?
I hadn’t been hurt yet.
I couldn’t move my right arm, but my left arm was free.
The only wands that I had were the dangerous ones to use against people, but I could pull them out.
My right arm was restrained by Louis, while my left arm was blocked by his sword.
His line of sight was looking towards the King and the others.
The problem was Silvetica.
Silvetica was glancing this way with the corner of her eyes repeatedly.
If I tried to pull out a wand I would definitely be attacked.
Perhaps, even if the hostage was injured in one arm, it didn’t matter to Louis.
Even if I got lucky and made Louis stumbles for a moment, I couldn’t stop Silvetica.
Silvetica seemed unable to be controlled under Auguste’s strong telepathic power.
By the way, Silvetica and Camellia were not joining the dance of the dragons.
Surely, the dragons that had been driven by the Cursed Nails would be outside the application of Ignitia’s ability.
“I understand. Let’s arrange for an oceanic ship to Karkinos in Aurelia.
I will be the navigator.”
“It’s useless if it’s you, Eduart.”
“Even if I’m unarmed? Louis, are you scared of me?”
“I’m not going to fall for that trick, Eduart.
Arrange for a female navigator.
If that is impossible, arrange for a navigator as old as a dead tree.”
“I understand. Give me some time.”
“The deadline is until sunset. If it passes even for a moment—”
While saying so, Louis pressed the blade against my neck.
Although the sword was sharp, the angle was not right, so the blade didn’t cut my skin.
The carotid artery would be cut if I moved even a little.
As long as I moved.
Aah, I should move, huh.
I grabbed the left wrist of Louis with my left hand, aiming at the moment when the feeling of pressure of the sword against my neck was relaxed.
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