Chapter 21 - {I Smashed the Male Lead’s Teeth Out in a Romance Fantasy}
{I Smashed the Male Lead’s Teeth Out in a Romance Fantasy}
Translator : Elizabeth
A cold north wind raged, but Kang Jin-ho didn't even fasten a single collar button.
The pure white Frost Wolf's Coat he wore emitted a mysterious silver radiance even in the blizzard.
In the first place, his body had transcended cold and heat.
"This is far enough."
Kang Jin-ho said indifferently.
After a brief rest, the Sage Time ended.
Now, as he was about to leave this place, the North, Frederica was walking side by side with him.
She wasn't the usual confident and arrogant eldest daughter of the Northern Grand Duchy.
She looked full of regret, like a woman sending off a beloved lover.
"It's a shame."
Frederica whispered in a low voice while tidying Kang Jin-ho's clothes.
In her touch, along with regret, deep awe for Kang Jin-ho was imbued.
The intense time in the treasure warehouse just now had relieved not only her body but also the thirst stuck deep in her soul.
She felt alive only now.
"It must be quite far to get to the capital."
"Forget it. Running through the air is faster."
"I suppose so."
Frederica smirked.
He is a monster who flew carrying Mammoth Prime.
Running through the air wouldn't be difficult.
She didn't try to bind Kang Jin-ho.
Just as the wind cannot be confined, she knew well that a man like Kang Jin-ho couldn't be tied down in the North.
Instead, she whispered in a very low posture, with a voice almost close to begging.
"Even later…."
She held Kang Jin-ho's hand.
"If you have time by any chance, even very occasionally is fine, please call me anytime. If you call, I will run even to the ends of hell."
It was a vow laying down all her pride as the eldest daughter of the Winter family.
She, the power holder of the North, had given her heart deeply to a single man.
But Kang Jin-ho was neither particularly pleased nor burdened by that vow.
He just nodded as if it were natural.
"Right. I'll call if I think of you."
A short and dry answer.
But for Frederica, that was enough.
"Haha, decisive. There were quite a few men anxious to catch my eye, you know."
"Because I'm different from them."
"Right, you are different."
Even at Frederica nodding, Kang Jin-ho moved his steps without lingering attachment.
Stepping on the white snow, he walked slowly aiming for outside the castle gate.
It was then.
Clack— Clack— Clack—.
The sound of regular military boots stepping on snow was heard.
Kang Jin-ho's steps stopped.
Right in front of the castle gate, there was a group blocking the end of the bridge.
"The way out will be a bit noisy."
Kang Jin-ho frowned.
There stood the owner of this North, the Head of the Winter Grand Duchy, Kalian de Winter.
Behind him, the Winter Knights, called the elite of the Winter Knights, were lined up like an iron wall.
The spirit emitted by dozens of knights was fierce.
But the eyes of Kalian standing at the center were the sharpest.
"Fist Emperor."
Kalian called with a low-pitched voice.
His hand was already tightly gripping the handle of the Winter Grand Duchy's famous sword, Winter Heart, hanging from his waist.
"Did you think you could just leave?"
Kang Jin-ho yawned widely.
"If I received money, received goods, and even received service, leaving is the order. Is there something more to give? It's a bit savage for a send-off."
"Watch your mouth!"
Kalian shouted abruptly.
His handsome face was distorted with anger, shame, and grim determination.
"I know what you did. In the treasure warehouse… what you dared to do in the heart of the sacred family!"
His gaze lingered on Frederica standing next to Kang Jin-ho for a moment, then fixed on Kang Jin-ho again.
His sister's disheveled appearance.
Even if not for that, the appearances visible now were enough.
It was enough to snap Kalian's reason.
"That place is where the treasures of the Winter family, which my loyal subject and sister's husband Hart protected with his whole life, are gathered! To violate his wife in such a place? Do you have not even minimal morality or business ethics!"
Kalian's cry close to screaming echoed in the snowfield.
The knights standing behind were also filled with righteous indignation and fingered their sword hilts.
They were resonating with their lord's anger.
But Kang Jin-ho scoffed.
"Ha."
He was dumbfounded.
Morality? Business ethics?
Who is preaching to whom.
"Hey, Grand Duke."
Kang Jin-ho stood crookedly and asked.
"Let's get the words straight. I violated her? No."
He pointed to Frederica next to him with his chin.
"I just granted the desperate request of the older sister here?"
"What…?"
"Didn't you hear? The woman begged to do it first. I'm of the principle not to refuse, so I just provided some service. We had a good time under mutual agreement, so why are you holding only me accountable?"
At Kang Jin-ho's sarcasm, Kalian's face turned red and blue.
He trembled as if he didn't want to believe Kang Jin-ho's words, no, as if he couldn't believe them.
"Don't lie! No matter how dissatisfied Sister is with the family, there is no way she would suggest such a shameless act first…!"
"Shameless?"
Kang Jin-ho's eyes cooled coldly.
"Hey, shamelessness was done by your family, did I do it?"
"What do you mean!"
"Your father forced a woman who didn't want to marry, and you left her neglected next to a vegetable husband for 3 years. That is shameless. Tying a living person next to a corpse and forcing honor and chastity. Isn't that torture indeed?"
Kang Jin-ho took a step closer.
"What a truly noble and fair Grand Duke you are. Sacrificing a living sister's life to protect a dead guy's honor. Is that all your precious chivalry amounts to?"
Kalian's pupils shook violently.
That was the truth he had tried hard to ignore, and the shame of the Winter family.
But that was something he had to bear, not something for an outsider to mention.
"Shut up! What do you know about the circumstances of the North to blabber!"
"I don't even want to know. But since you block my path and spout bullshit, it's annoying, that's why."
Kang Jin-ho picked his ear and said.
"So, what do you want? Apology? Or life?"
"Apologize."
Kalian gritted his teeth and spoke.
"Kneel before Hart and apologize. And swear never to appear before Sister again. If you do… I swear on my life. Then I will let this matter pass. Then I will remember you only as the benefactor of the family."
That was the last mercy and compromise Kalian could offer.
But to Kang Jin-ho, that was the most disgusting hypocrisy.
"Crazy bastard. Can't even argue with his own sister, but talks big only to me?"
Kang Jin-ho let out a hollow laugh.
"I refuse?"
"You…!"
It was the moment Kalian tried to draw his sword.
"Stop it, Kalian."
A cold voice intervened.
It was Frederica.
She blocked Kang Jin-ho's front and looked down at her brother coldly.
"How ugly. To drag me into your useless self-satisfaction."
"Sister! Move! This is a matter involving Sister's honor!"
"I take care of my own honor. And don't be mistaken."
Frederica's eyes shone fiercely.
"That man is right. I requested first, and I begged first. The one who was hungry was me, and that man is just a precious guest who filled my thirst."
"S-Sister… how can you say such vulgar words…."
"Vulgar? Ha! Is it more vulgar than my situation, which is no different from a chastity belt forcibly put on by you and the family?"
Frederica put her hand on her waist.
She was also a strong person who reached the realm of Sword Master.
No, rather, in terms of skill, she was still far above Kalian.
The spirit emanating from her body collided with Kalian's spirit and created sparks.
"Send the guest away. If you lay even a finger on that man, my sword will not forgive you."
"Move! I will cut even you, Sister!"
The siblings' confrontation reached its peak.
The knights didn't know what to do and were flustered.
A fight between the Head of the Family and the eldest daughter, his sister.
If this continued, a civil war within the Winter family was about to happen.
Tap.
At that time, someone lightly tapped Frederica's shoulder.
"Huh?"
When Frederica looked back, Kang Jin-ho was standing with an annoyed expression.
"Move, Frederica."
"But…."
"No need for you to step up annoyingly. I'm sick of watching family fights too."
Kang Jin-ho pushed Frederica aside lightly.
And took his hands out of his pockets and walked forward.
"Talking to such blocked-up guys only hurts my mouth."
Crack.
Kang Jin-ho cracked his neck.
"That conversation with fists is the fastest is the truth of the world I learned."
At his appearance, Kalian's gaze fixed on Kang Jin-ho again.
As if waiting, Kalian drew Winter Heart with a grim expression.
Shwing—.
The sound of the famous sword made of Mithril being drawn rang out clearly.
Blue Aura wrapped around the blade and hummed.
Sharp killing intent as if to cut space rushed toward Kang Jin-ho.
"Fist Emperor. I know you are strong. That power that made even Mammoth Prime succumb, I alone cannot handle it."
Kalian was grim.
He knew he would lose.
But he couldn't back down.
That was the spirit of the North he thought of.
"But! Even if I die here!"
Kalian raised his sword high.
The blizzard made his cape flutter.
It looked as if trying to direct the end of a tragic hero.
He was truly prepared for death right now.
"I will show the pride of the North that does not compromise with injustice! If my blood can wash the honor of Winter, I will gladly offer this life!"