!!Bonus Chapter!!
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Zeff immediately went to the city.
Without a second thought, Zeff attacked the baron's residence that the merchant had told him about.
Many soldiers blocked his way.
"What the hell are you doing?"
Zeff just waved his blade around and didn't say anything.
Thirty soldiers were guarding the mansion.
"Call for backup now!"
The time it would take for the Territorial Army to arrive.
Zeff did not have the ability to calculate it, but he was confident that his speed was second to none.
Destroying everything, Zeff broke into the house and finally found Miri.
It had been a long time, but he recognized her at a glance.
The moment he found Miri, a single tear spilled from his eye.
He didn't care what happened to him.
However, he couldn't stand the thought of how many hellish days she had spent.
"Zeff?"
Tears welled up in Miri's eyes at the reunion with Zeff that she had dreamed of.
The reason she had endured three years of wanting to die was because she had something she wanted to tell Zeff one day.
She thought that she no longer had the right to ask for anything more from him.
The words she wanted to say but couldn't.
I like you....
I love you.
I'm sure you'll be happy to hear that.
You will find a lot of things that you can do to make your life easier.
Zeff gripped Miri's hand tightly.
"Let's run, Miri!"
Then he slipped out of the city.
The Territorial Army started to move late, but Zeff, with Miri on his stolen horse, pushed forward without looking behind.
He repeatedly shook off the pursuing troops and fled from the city to the farthest border town.
He had heard rumours that there was a town near the border where people who had lost their livelihoods due to the war lived together.
On the way here, Miri had tried to die many times.
But Zeff never left her side and kept trying to convince her to live with him.
"I can't live without you, if you take your life I will follow you to the afterlife so we can continue to be together."
Hearing those words from Zeff, Miri stopped thinking about giving up her life.
A quiet town on the border where people who have lost their livelihoods lived, Zeff and Miri lived quietly there while running a farming business.
They ate only one meal a day but two of them were happy even with such a life.
Before long, Miri regained her old smile.
But once again, they were faced with a challenge, the king had changed.
The king who had maintained the peace policy died, and a young king full of ambition ascended to the throne.
A general mobilization order was issued, and ruthless conscription began in many places.
The border towns where the poor lived were naturally not spared from this draft.
"Zeff, have a good day, I'll be here waiting for you. I'll wait for you no matter what. I know you won't die in a war, I believe that. Zeff is strong. So let's not run away anymore, okay?"
Eventually, with those words, Zeff became a soldier in the Visigoth Kingdom army.
And he soon became a discarded pawn in a scouting party.
The ring was a token of love given to him by Miri.
That ring was the second most important thing in the world to Zeff.
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"....That ring is more important to me than my life. Can you really get it back?"
When he finished telling me what had happened, Zeff looked up at me.
"I'm sure there are a lot of guys out there who have had that happen to them, but not all of them have been as close to their loved ones as you were...You're crazy, or maybe amazing."
Yes, a crazy guy, that was my honest feeling.
Not in a bad way, it's just that he has extraordinary willpower.
Love is blind, I guess.
It made me want Zeff even more.
It's not that easy to find someone like him.
At the age of 21, he has 93 power level, unlimited growth potential and a straightforward personality.
The more I learned about this guy, the more I wanted to get my hands on him, unlike Randall, who, though strong, had too much ego for me to want him at all.
"Then.... It's normal to want to live more. I think you should pretend to surrender and run away to her, or somehow come up with a plan to survive. I don't understand what you are doing right now."
Yes.
If someone is that important to you, it's natural to struggle to live, but Zeff's reaction was not that way.
"The new king of Visigoth has declared that we must slay as many of our enemies as possible before we are captured and die. If we are taken prisoners in vain and return alive, our family will die."
A prisoner of war is a risk of leaking information.
Well, before that, the King of Visigoth is certainly such a person.
He was an ambitious king who ran his country with powerful royal authority.
He would not allow his soldiers to be taken prisoner.
He hated losing a war so much that he would give their family gold, silver, and treasures if they died in a fierce battle and kill them if they begged for their lives in vain.
Of course, some put their own lives before their families, one of the men I captured was like that.
The craving for life is a natural part of being human, but Zeff was the complete opposite.
"Of course, I was confident, confident that no one could beat me. I was confident that I could fight with impunity and come home victorious. But now you've got me. So I can't go home. I have to die, that way Miri won't be affected. Even if I escaped with her, I'd have to live in hiding for the rest of my life. I don't want Miri to live in fear any longer."
The King of Visigoth manipulated the emotions of his people to make them suspect each other.
He had a policy of bestowing people with gold, silver, and treasure if they accused someone of any actions that went against his policies.
In other words, it was a policy to make them watch each other and if someone would definitely make an accusation, there would be no peace.
Zeff seemed to be extremely reluctant to let his woman be hunted again, even if it meant his death.
Does he really want this Miri woman to settle down in that town and live in peace?