条顿骑士

Year 3392. - Lonely Shadow - 1

The Capital of Lonsbrough Kingdom -     A young woman had passed away on cold stone road.  The body of women had been ripped from shoulder to center of her body. Blood floated on stone road.  Grunwald, standing beside of dead body, was looking into the face of woman.  Blood over floating from woman's mouth, was shining clearly in the darkness of the night.  Grunwald stood there for a while. Black hood was hiding his expression.  After a while, a man with black clothes disappeared as ghost.  There was no moonshine.        - In the Castle of Blownhide -     “...So what?”  The word of prince froze the air of the room.  Face of Grunwald showed no expressions at all as it is actually frozen.  “The tragedy occurred in capital city, is now fearing our subjects....So please...Please...”  Sir Gaius, who served for kingdom with royalty, lost his ward at the end.     This young prince, Grunwald is ruling Lonsbrough Kingdom as proxy of the illness old king. Now the proxy of the king accused of murder by one of the servant.  No one ever had heard situation like this in the history of Lonsbrough Kingdom.     There were two elder brothers of Grunwald. However, they both passed away in young.  Grunwald came back to kingdom a couple years ago, after been ejected by the king.  His strange personality and behavior caused himself of ejection.  Since childhood, he corrected dead animals. He buried them under the ground, and took bones out to use it as ornament in his room. He also wanted to have executed prisoner body.  Servants in castle gossiped about him, saying that he is cursed child. No one even wanted to get close to him. He never stopped his strange behavior even after being rebuked by his brother or the king.  He ejected by the king when he was 14 years old. Many of dead body, assumed to be victims of the weird prince, found in cellar.  At the day of ejection, the king asked many times about the reason why he killed people and the reason why he does such a strange behaviors. Grunwald totally ignored the king. That is how Grunwald ejected.     “I will have to report this to the king. Sir”  Sir Gaius said in distress tone. Sir Gaius believed that years of ejection had not changed weird prince at all.  “Excuse me. May I join?”  Rofen, an old scholar served kingdom for long time, came in to strained room.  His eyes still remains a visage of being world famous engineer; even he is at the age of 80.  “We are all in anxiety. What Sir. Gaius saying is, “quit your weird behavior.” ”  Because of Rofen served kingdom from two generations back, he is allowed to speak to the king or prince in personal way.  “Rumor that Granddillenia raising its army reached to this capital city. There are lots of schemes going around from nation to nation.”  “Now is the time of change. The world has released from the wheel of Chaos. Each nation will start to raise their army. The fire of the war will cover the entire nations, so as our nation will be.”  Rofen took deep bless and looked around servants.  “Please understand their royalty.”     The expression of Grunwald was still freezing even after hearing Rofen's word.  Servants started to step out from in front of the prince with disconsolately expression. They could not stand to be in the room anymore.  Rofen, the last one to leave the room, whispered.  “The light and shadow...It clearly show up under the blight sunlight, doesn't it.”        - Back Alley -     Grunwald sneaked out from castle during night.  It was not hard for him to do because he knew about all of the secret passage to the town. Hidden passage or underground prison was the peaceful place of lonely prince back in his childhood.  Grunwald sensed a desire, desire of [something], rankles deep inside of him when he inhaled moisten night air. He closed his eyes for a while to have a taste of that desire.  Then he put his hood on.     He leaned against the wall in shadow, when he came to street where the bars and prostitutes are gathering. He started to gaze at street. Sometime drunken prostitute and her companion passed in front Grunwald, however, he had ever being noticed.  He waited for the time in quiet. Then he saw a woman coming out from bar walking to the other side of street. Grunwald slowly gets out from alley and started to sneak after that woman.     As turning away from the lights of main streets, she walked into dark alley where the light of town barely shines.  The dark shadow appeared and started to sneak after her as soon as she walked into dark ally.  She did not notice it at all. Shadow was getting closer and closer. Yet, she still does not notice it. The shadow made its attacking position when it reached the back of woman. Poor women still does not know what is going to be happened to her.  The shadow brought sword up, and swung sword down.  A sound of metallic collision occurred.  After metallic sound, sword of shadow was on the ground. Two shadows were facing each other.  Finally, the woman noticed the shadow. She screamed once and started to run away.     Standing shadow was Grunwald, with sword.  The man attempted to attack woman jumped away to avoid secondary attack.  They both seem to have the same height, and they both were wearing the same cloth.  “I was looking for you.” Grunwald said to the man.  The man noticed his opponent is the weird prince. The man, in fighting position, put his hand on to button of his upper cloth. By looking at his movement, Grunwald could easily tell the man had been well trained.  “Before you pull out anything, think about...”  Grunwald spoke to the man.  “What is your desire?”  The man ignored that question.  He took away his upper cloth and pulled about gun.  Before the man fires his gun his head came off from his body by the beauty of Grunwald's sword skill. Remain body of the man fell down. It was still holding a gun in the hand. Fresh blood covered the ground. Grunwald had instant smile on his face.  The peaceful silence of the night had come back.  Grunwarld stands up with head of the man, folded with his cloth, in his hand        - In the Basement -     Light was shining through the door. Grunwald opened the door vigorously.  Then he saw Rofen sits down with many of weird machines.  “Well...Well. This is a sudden visit.”  Old wise man raised his head from huge magnifying glass.  “Have question to this one.”  Grunwald put the head of a man on a messy table.  “Ah...You are going to do that again? It will bring back my old memories.”  Ominous vigor showed up in Rofen's eyes.  “This is not for your experimentation. This is murderer.”  “Oh. Is that so? Hmm. So which means that murder was not done by you, huh? Well, this is unexpected.”  Old man slowly stood up.  “Stop making stupid jokes. Hurry up. Head's going to be rotten.”  “I know. I know...well where did I put it?”  Rofan started pushing his piled up books and weird machines aside.  Grunwald slapped out junks on the long chair and sat on it.  Then he started thinking in deep to figure out how to solve this situation.