A Tale of Strategies For the Throne

When Fataya walked out of the dilapidated cabin, she looked up. There are tattered cloths spread out everywhere in the slums, and there are horizontal and vertical barriers. The sun cannot shine here, and the whole place looks very dark.

Staying in such a place for a long time will indeed make you feel bad.

She thought, and then she realized that the child hadn't come out yet. When she turned around, she saw that the child was putting the large piece of malachite into a bag, and it seemed that he planned to take it away.

The young man stood aside and watched, his lips moved slightly, but in the end he said nothing and lowered his head with a sad look on his face.

"The kid did this to protect you."

Fataya stood at the door and said, "Such a valuable thing, even if the fragments are left here, if those people see it when they come back, you and your mother will be dead."

"...I know." The young man lowered his head deeply and said, "I'm really sorry."

Gallan glanced at him and said, "As promised, once your mother recovers from her illness, you will go to the City Guards Office yourself."

After saying that, he ran to Fataya with the small bag and handed it to her.

"Sister, here it is, hold it for me."

Fataya hummed, touched his head, and took the bag containing the malachite fragments. Then, she took the child with one hand and left the dilapidated house, whose wooden fence was almost smashed.

Not far away, Fataya couldn't help but ask.

"Aren't you afraid that he will run away?"

Garlan shook his head.

"His mother's illness is very serious. If he risked his life to steal things for his mother, he would definitely not leave his mother and run away."

"That's right."

The female knight nodded.

The child who was holding her hand lowered his head in thought, then raised his head and looked around. In the slums shrouded in shadow, his golden eyes looked particularly bright.

Then, Garlan raised his head and pulled Fataya's hand.

"big sister."

The child's voice was soft, waxy and sweet. Upon hearing this, the female knight smiled and squatted in front of him.

"Huh? What's wrong? Are you hungry? Sister, can you take you to eat something delicious~"

"Are you free right now?"

"Yes, of course~"

"Then can you accompany me for a walk here?"

"ha?"

"I want to ask more to see if this is the case with other people."

"Huh? But..."

"No?"

The child's beautiful big amber eyes looked at her flickeringly, with an expectant expression on his face. That look was so lethal that Fataya couldn't bear it.

She sighed.

"May I have your name?"

"Gall."

"Gall, do you feel sorry for them and want to help them?"

"Yeah." Garlan nodded, "King Camos... uh..." He almost said the word 'brother', but he choked before continuing.

"Obviously, such an order was issued to help these poor people, but the result was that they suffered even worse. It must be because some people did something wrong." He said, "If something is wrong, we must find ways to correct it."

"Gall, you are a good boy."

Fataya said, touching Garlan's head, "But you are still young and don't know how powerful those who do wrong are. Even if you know the facts, you can't do anything."

Just like her, even if she knew, there was nothing she could do about it.

What's more...

"Besides, those people are just pariahs."

The female knight said, in an understatement, as a matter of course.

If slaves, as the private property of the nobles, would still allow the nobles to protect them, then no one among the untouchables would care about their lives or lives.

Untouchables are humble, as lowly as weeds in this country.

They were born with sin and were punished by the gods to be born as untouchables.

Garlan smiled, and his crescent-shaped eyes made the child's baby-fat face look even more adorable.

"Very interesting."

He said with a smile, "I have never met a pariah before. Big sister, can you play with me here for a while? I don't dare to play here alone."

The child tilted his head to look at her, took her hand and shook it gently, as if he was being coquettish.

The way he looked at her with his little head raised and his big eyes wide open, and the little hand holding her, were so cute, it instantly made Fataya's heart melt.

Who can resist the coquettishness of such a cute child?

never mind.

she thinks.

What do children know? They probably have never encountered such thrilling things before and find it fun. They have never encountered untouchables who are a little curious about their lives. Just go shopping with them by yourself.

Thinking of this, Fataya nodded.

Next, she was dragged around by the child and walked around in the slums. Gallan was like a wild deer, running around, leading her from time to time into dilapidated houses that looked poor or that had been smashed recently, and looked at her curiously. People in the house asked this and that.

Most of the poor untouchables were timid and cowardly. Seeing that Garlan was followed by a city guard chief, they were all very frightened. Garlan just said whatever he asked, so honestly that he didn't even dare to say a word. , Dare not hide anything.

It didn't take long for Garlan to find out some important things.

Fataya sometimes couldn't help but ask more questions when she was nearby. Although she felt that these people were untouchables and didn't need to be taken care of, the tragic experiences of these people still made her naturally compassionate as a woman.

She couldn't help but sigh when she thought about what would happen to these untouchables in the future.

Although the untouchables live in embarrassment and hardship, they are still free. Once this place is renovated, and those powerful people instruct thugs to come over to collect debts, I am afraid that all the untouchables here will have their families broken up and their families will be destroyed, and they will become slaves whose life and death are controlled by others.

The female knight, who was sighing in her heart, did not notice the thoughtful look on the child who was walking by her hand.

I need to collect more information before I can go back and tell Brother Wang.

Garlan thought so.

Fataya also didn't notice that her and Garlan's inquiring behavior also fell into the eyes of some thoughtful people.

In a dark corner, the tall man who broke into the boy's home not long ago stared at Fataya with cold, lizard-like eyes.

Naturally, he wouldn't care about the child. In his opinion, this matter was led by the female knight. She was asking around, not knowing what she wanted to do.

"Go and report to the master that the female knight Fataya has been inquiring about information in the slums."

After the man finished speaking, a strong man following him nodded, turned around and left quickly.

Soon, the news spread to Kabei Money Bank. Of course, the real powerful person behind the scenes would not show up easily. Therefore, when a lower-level nobleman, who was the behind-the-scenes controller of Kabei Money Bank and a distant relative of the chief director, received the news, he became furious.

"Who without eyes dares to go against us?"

You know, it was not only the chief director who participated in this feast, but also several very powerful beings in the royal city.

They intertwined into a spider web, deceived the superiors and concealed the inferiors, and joined hands to block the sight of the king and those around him, hoping to eat the fat together.

How dare a small city gate guard to meddle in such nosy affairs - he was so bold!

That woman must be taught a severe lesson!

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It was approaching evening, and the slums were extremely dark even at noon. At this time, it became even darker.

The winding path was like an open spider web, extremely cold, the ends of each place were blurred, and only endless darkness could be seen.

The skinny untouchables huddled in the corner silently, while some ruffians made unscrupulous noises here and bullied the timid ones.

At this moment, a dark boot stepped onto the muddy road.

The black-haired boy looked around, feeling the stench of garbage piled up everywhere in the air.

"...It smells really familiar."

Heimos murmured under his breath.

This smell, this place, this atmosphere where garbage gathers is like a stinking ditch where only rats and bed bugs gather, exuding a rotten and fishy smell.

He grew up in this smelly ditch, and now he's back here again.

However, that child is not suitable to stay in such a dirty place.

Heimos thought.

He had to find Garlan as soon as possible.

Just when he realized that Garlan was missing, the little fat man who wanted to ask for help from the female officer or knight also ran back, and the two of them bumped into each other. The little fat man who was stared at by Heimos was frightened to death and quickly told everything. Without saying a word, Heimos decided to go out and find Garlan himself.

In order to prevent Garlan from being known about sneaking out of the palace and being punished, he also asked the little fat man to continue pretending to be Garlan and lie on the bed.

Therefore, he had to take Garlan back before dinner.

With this thought in mind, the young man cast his eyes on the few little ruffians who were laughing not far away.

In the stinking ditch, the most well-informed people are naturally the rats living here.

Those scoundrel young people who looked like they were not good guys were looking at this stranger who suddenly entered the slums. Their eyes swept over his fairly good clothes and some scattered accessories. It's full of greed and calculation.

Seeing the young man's eyes turning towards them, they no longer tried to hide it, and walked towards the fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered in their eyes with a smile.

"Little one, this is not a place for young masters like you to come and play house."

The leader laughed and said, "Come on, be sensible, this is my territory, little brother, if you pay me enough protection money, I will let you go, otherwise..."

He heyed twice, and several people around him who also showed malicious smiles had already surrounded Heimos.

"Give me the money bag, and this, and this."

The man pointed to Heimos' golden yellow fluorite earrings and the beautifully carved sterling silver armband on his arm, and motioned to his companions to peel off these valuable ornaments. Although it is not a very valuable thing, it can still be exchanged for some money and items for them to have fun for a while.

"Hey, young master, if you don't want to suffer, you'd better listen to our boss."

The man standing on the left side of Heimos smiled strangely and stretched out his hand to grab him.

The man's outstretched hand was caught before Heimos could even touch it.

"Hey, you're a little brat, why do you still want to resist?"

Seeing that the young man dared to resist, the leader became angry. He wanted to threaten the young man, but suddenly he heard a shrill scream from his companion.

Accompanying the screams was the sound of cracking bones.

The boy who looked to be only thirteen or fourteen years old actually crushed his companion's wrist with his hands right in front of them.

Everyone was shocked and then angry.

"How dare you fucking fight back!"

"I will kill you——"

They waved their fists and rushed towards the young man.

At this moment, the young man raised his eyes and glanced at the leading young man with his golden-red eyes.

The man was so excited that he suddenly shouted.

"stop!"

He stopped his companion who was about to take action, and then bent down and said to Heimos with a smile: "Misunderstandings are all misunderstandings. I didn't know that you were one of our own, otherwise we would not dare to do this." Let’s do something.”

"I want you to help me find out if a female city guard came here with a child this afternoon. Where are they now?"

The young man said that no matter whether the young man behaved fiercely at the beginning or when he behaved grovelingly now, his expression was calm and there was no emotion at all.

After speaking, he threw a silver piece to the leader.

"This is the deposit. Once I find the person, I'll give you the rest."

"No problem, leave it to our brothers and we'll find it for you right away!"

The man said with a smile, holding the silver piece in his hand, watching the young man take off his feet and leave quickly, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

But his companion was not convinced.

"Boss, what are you talking about, one of our own?"

"Yeah, why let that kid go? He's a fat sheep."

"My hands were broken by that brat——"

"Okay, it's just a broken arm. It's good to be able to save my life."

Interrupting the complaints of his companions, the man whispered, "That kid... don't look at him, his eyes... his eyes..."

He paused, remembering the way the young man looked at him just now, like the cold vertical pupils of a poisonous snake lurking in the darkness.

Just one look at it is chilling.

Those are the eyes that only people who have survived in the dark world can have. They are not something that little ruffians and hooligans like them can provoke.

"...Damn it, I've provoked an evil star." He irritably slapped his companion who was approaching him away, and said, "Go find someone quickly, contact more people, and go find him."

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Although he felt that the collection was not enough, looking at the sky, Garlan could only regretfully drag the female knight away first.

After all, if he delays it any longer and his escape is exposed, the palace may become chaotic. I just hope that Tal can help him hide it well before he goes back.

Then he started thinking again.

How to get rid of this female knight who said she wanted to send him back was another big problem.

While he was thinking about it, he followed the female knight back to the entrance where he first came. The tied horse was still standing there obediently. He snorted when he saw the owner coming over.

Fataya touched the horse's neck, untied the reins, and was about to turn around and put Gallan on the horse's back when suddenly there was a sound of horse hooves, and a group of people came from the front and surrounded her.

The leader was a young man on horseback, with raised eyebrows. He always seemed to be looking down from above when looking at people, his chin was slightly raised, and he had a domineering aura.

The clothes are gorgeous, with a golden waistband and a delicately embroidered fringed shawl.

"Fataya." He pointed the horsewhip embroidered with gold unceremoniously at the female knight and shouted her name, "What are you doing here?"

"Gore." Fataya replied with a frown, "You don't have the right to care where I go, do you?"

Gore sneered.

"Of course I'm not interested in where you go, but if you want to cause me trouble and cut off my money, I'll naturally have to take care of it."

Destroying someone's wealth is like killing one's parents.

The major forces above have joined forces to cover up what happened in the slums. If they are exposed, their financial path will be cut off.

Therefore, they will never allow any possibility of this matter to be leaked.

"Fataya, seeing as we have known each other for so long, I warn you, don't meddle in other people's business, or you will seek death."

"Gore, you are just a small character."

The female knight said angrily.

This Gore was a lower-level aristocrat with a family similar to hers, and he actually dared to put on such a commanding appearance in front of her.

"Are you afraid that others will tell you if you do such a dirty thing?"

"Hmph, there is an adult standing behind my little character, don't you know?"

Gore sneered, "Do you have the guts to offend that adult?"

Fataya looked ugly, but did not retort.

So Gore laughed more and more wildly. Ever since his parents took refuge in that adult to work for him, not to mention ordinary nobles, even nobles with some status did not dare to offend their family easily.

Being held high by everyone, his mentality has already expanded infinitely, and naturally he will not take Fataya, who is just the chief of the city gate guard, in his eyes.

"Fataya, I'm here today to teach you a lesson. You'd better be wiser, guard your city gates, and leave irrelevant things alone. Otherwise, it won't be something that can be solved with just a beating next time. .”

Gore finished speaking threateningly, and then waved the riding crop in his hand.

"Come on, teach her a lesson." He said coldly, "I will bear all the consequences!"

The group of family guards he brought rushed forward on horseback and swarmed forward. The person at the front stabbed Fataya with a single shot.

Fataya's expression suddenly changed. He raised his hand and pulled out the two short barrels on his back. With a click, the two short barrels were put together to become a silver gun.

With a clang, she braced the spear that was thrust toward her, then raised it with her backhand, knocking the guard off his horse in one fell swoop.

She danced her silver spear like water, and instantly drove back three or four more cavalrymen.

To be able to secure the position of captain of the city gate as a female knight, the female knight's martial arts skills are naturally very strong. But it was hard for her to fight with two fists, and it was already very difficult to be surrounded by everyone. She also had to protect the children around her, and for a while, she couldn't use her hands and feet at all.

Opposite, Gore was riding a horse and proudly looked at Fataya's embarrassment, feeling extremely good. He has long disliked this woman. Women should serve men honestly. Why should they learn martial arts? Gee, he actually got the official position of military commander.

Gallan, who was protected by Fataya, was in a terrible mood. The young man in front of him was probably one of the lackeys behind the scenes.

This guy had to jump out at this moment. He definitely wouldn't be able to get back in time.

Just wait for me.

The little prince thought gloomily.

When I get back, I'll find Brother Wang and arrest you.

Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly saw a long spear diagonally piercing the female knight's thigh out of the corner of his eye.

However, the female knight was gritting her teeth and holding on to the two people in front of her, and had no time to pay attention to this side.

Seeing that the tip of the spear was about to pierce Fataya's thigh, Garlan suddenly pulled out the dagger hidden in his boots.

With a clang, the tip of the gun hit the snow-white dagger blade hard, sparking a series of sparks.

Garlan felt that his arms were numb from the shock. If he hadn't used the force-relieving technique that Shermuel taught him, he would have been unable to withstand the blow with the strength of a child.

However, just as he breathed a sigh of relief, the man on the horse saw that his gun was blocked by a child. He suddenly became angry and raised his spear and waved it hard at Garlan.

Although it was not the tip of the gun, the barrel of the gun hit Garlan hard, instantly sending the small body flying out and hitting the wall behind him.

"Gal!"

The female knight was so angry that she lost control and cursed.

"A man as big as you actually attacks a child! Has his face been bitten by a dog?"

She tried her best to hit the person next to her, and stabbed the person's thigh hard with her backhand, causing blood to splash everywhere.

Then, she violently knocked away the people around her, rushed over to pick up Garlan, quickly jumped onto her horse, and was beaten several more times, but she still lowered her head tightly to protect the child in her arms, just like that Rushed out of the crowd.

"Chasing them all for me——"

Gore shouted, pulling the reins and chasing after him.

"I must let her know the consequences of offending me today."

The fight at the entrance to the slum finally stopped, and the people around him had already hid far away, shivering and not daring to get close.

In the far corner, a dirty big boy watched the group of people go away, and immediately turned around and quickly got into the alley, planning to report the news.

Found it, the female knight brought a blond child.

he thought happily.

That bonus is his.