The Gap Between You and Me - Chapter 138

“If only you had gone out to meet her properly.”

“…….”

“She wouldn’t have died in such a ridiculous way.”

The voice was full of sadness. It was like he was mourning something.

Bernard’s eyes widened. He thought the Black Knight was simply attacking himself to get rid of the country’s prince. But now, he felt more than hostility from that Black Knight who pointed his sword at Bernard.

“What were you doing when she was attacked by them?”

“What do you mean by that?”

“Where and what the hell were you doing while her body was hacked up and grew cold!”

The Black Knight raised his voice abruptly. The tip of the sword aimed at Bernard’s neck was trembling faintly.

Bernard looked at the menacing tip of the sword, then raised his gaze back to the Black Knight. He opened his mouth slowly.

“Do you…… know me?”

The head of an enemy country and the prince of a belligerent country. Something more than that boring relationship.

“How could I not know?”

The Black Knight, who understood the meaning of Bernard’s words, smiled coldly.

“Bernard Cenchilla Shane Pascourt.”

The Black Knight repeated Bernard’s name once again. Perhaps he was suppressing the boiling emotions, he said Bernard’s name one syllable at a time.

The Black Knight’s hand holding the sword slowly rose.

“Everyone who took her from me, including you, and caused her to die in the end.”

The Black Knight paused his words for a moment. Then he saw Bernard lying at his feet.

He was the one who had the opportunity to get what he really wanted without much effort.

He was the one who lost that opportunity, but in the end didn’t even know what it was.

To Edwin, she was like a unique jewel in the world. However, to Bernard in front of him, she would have been nothing more than a mere stone rolling on the street.

The blue eyes in the black helmet froze as cold as ice.

“I hate and curse deeply.”

The Black Knight’s sword moved down quickly.

* * *

“Please come this way.”

The knight called Maxwell guided Herietta into the fortress.

“Miss Herietta. Come on.”

Seeing Herietta hesitating, Maxwell urged. It seemed that he didn’t have much patience left because of the situation. After hesitating for a moment, Herietta let out a small sigh and followed him.

As she walked along with Maxwell, Herietta fell into deep thought.

‘Even if you don’t, I’m afraid.’

What Bernard said to her seemed to echo in her ears.

‘But please. Please follow my will this time.’

If Bernard had insisted on saying no, she too would have insisted on fighting with him to the end.

But at the last moment he asked her for a favor, not a command. With eyes so earnest. Seeing him like that, she couldn’t bear to be stubborn any longer.

‘I’m sure he can come back.’

Herietta took a slow, deep breath.

‘I’m sure he’ll be able to come back here safely.’

Like being swept away by a rapid current, Bernard’s back as he headed outside the castle wall surrounded by soldiers came to mind. That was the last time she saw him.

He suddenly decided to leave for the sake of the collapsed wall’s repair. So it seemed that neither Bernard nor his soldiers were fully prepared. They seemed sloppy and unstable.

Herietta bit her lower lip. Come to think of it, she couldn’t even wish him luck.

‘Because His Highness is strong.’

Herietta tried to erase her sinister thoughts.

‘He said that with his own mouth. He was called a master of swordsmanship when he was young.’

It was at that time that she was trying to force herself to think positively, recalling his words.

WAAAAAAA–

The cheers and exclamations of soldiers could be heard from beyond the walls. The sound of shields and swords, or spears colliding with each other, followed by chaotic and raucous sounds.

Whether it was the Velician soldiers, the Kustan soldiers, or both, she did not know.

Herietta stopped abruptly. Her heart started pounding.

“Miss Herietta!”

Maxwell, who was holding the arched door for Herietta, called her urgently.

“Miss Herietta, hurry up!”

Maxwell, standing on the steps, motioned for Herietta to come quickly. Herietta looked up at him blankly. Hearing the shouts, her expression darkened.

Her eyes looked much more anxious than before, as if the enemy might come over the wall at any moment.

‘His Highness Bernard!’

Bernard’s face passed before her eyes like a dream.

Herietta turned her body and started running toward the wall.

“Miss Herietta!”

She heard Maxwell’s voice calling her from behind, but she didn’t turn around. She was out of breath, and she almost fell in the middle, but she didn’t stop.

Herietta climbed up the wall at once. Then she hurriedly looked out of the fortress walls.

A vast expanse of wilderness. More than 10,000 troops gathered like a swarm of ants. The gap was so dense that it was impossible to tell who was on whose side at first glance. But even so, she found who she was looking for right away.

“!”

Herietta widened her eyes.

Somewhere close to the fortress, the soldiers of the two countries were entangled. And in the middle of the space, two knights on horseback were exchanging swords. Every time their swords clashed, exclamations and sighs erupted from the surroundings at the same time. Everyone seemed to be cheering for their own side to win.

The armor of one of the two knights was pitch black. She couldn’t see the details, but Herietta could tell at a glance. That he was the commander of the Kustan army, whom she had met several times before.

If so, that meant only one thing. Herietta’s eyes turned to the knight the Black Knight was fighting with. The knight in silver armor who was receiving the attack from the Black Knight was none other than Bernard.

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