"Everything Is Ready"

"Is that you!?"

At that moment, Salilo's reaction could not have been more extreme.

He couldn't help it.

He simply could not believe that the mysterious powerhouse who had destroyed House Laifirut and forced him back at House Bigusle was such a young noble of the kingdom.

Salilo's eyes widened, and a trace of unavoidable shock appeared on his face.

Still wearing that half-smile, Shien suddenly vanished from the driver's seat of the carriage.

"...!"

Salilo's entire body tensed as he was about to move.

Unfortunately, he was still too slow.

Slap!

Amid a crisp smack, Shien's palm landed on Salilo's shoulder.

He had appeared soundlessly before Salilo, pressing down on his shoulder. Just as when he had forced Salilo back before, he smiled at Salilo's abruptly changing expression.

"It seems the vice commander hasn't learned his lesson."

Shien patted Salilo's shoulder and spoke with extreme friendliness, as though he were offering sincere advice.

"You'd better remember my voice and face this time, so you don't come looking to die in front of me again. Understand?"

Shien's seemingly well-intentioned words made Salilo's expression turn extremely ugly.

By then, the people around them had recovered their senses as well.

"Ahhh!"

Geno, who stood closest to Salilo, had been scared out of his wits. Seeing Shien suddenly appear, he screamed as he tried to retreat, only to stumble and fall to the ground in a pathetic heap.

Boom!

The Imperial knights around them were all greatly alarmed. Seeing Salilo restrained by Shien, they almost instinctively surrounded him and pointed their weapons at Shien.

"Stop!"

Salilo hurriedly called out to the Imperial knights.

He knew that, with the strength of these knights, they could not possibly do anything to Shien.

Leaving aside everything else, that ghostly ability resembling Teleportation alone ensured that none