Chapter 71: Phantom Thief Dauphin (15) - If You Lay a Hand on My Little Guard

#71화 Phantom Thief Dauphin (15) - If You Lay a Hand on My Little Guard

It clearly began as nothing more than a petty contest of pride between the two lords.

If only one side had backed down a little.

Or if the country had been run even a little more properly, and there had been someone to mediate between them, it would have ended easily as a trivial dispute.

But once blood started to flow, it demanded more blood, and as pride, vested interests, grudges, and everything else became tangled together, the two lords began running wild as if they knew nothing of brakes.

Young men were forcibly conscripted, taxes rose sharply under the pretense of war levies, and food supplies worsened to the point that a family could no longer get by without giving up one of its own.

The young men of two neighboring villages had to stand on opposite sides and point spears at people they used to laugh and talk with simply because the lords who ruled their lands were different, and those who protested that there was no reason for them to fight were beaten into silence by the lords' direct troops, or, in the worst cases, killed outright.

In their misery and pain, unable to go on living like this, the people approached 'him' as if grasping at a straw and knelt before him in supplication.

The knight at the lowest rank.

O true knight who fights for the people...