The Automated King

A Royal Rescue

“Urgh.... Huackk..”

Reginald fell down to his knee, pressing his bowel to suppress the inflammatory pain received from the impact.

“No, Stop it!! You’re so cruel, Mr. Criminal!”

“Shut your silly trunk, Pathetic noble!! Your father is responsible to the plan, admit it!”

“Huh? I have no liability on what my dad has to do! Don’t blame his plan over me!”

Reginald, in his endeavor to get up on his feet, got himself assisted by the unknown elephant lady as his support.

“Ergh... what is this? Are you invisible or something, Rizo?”

“Cut it, bastards! How dare you call my first name, we don’t even know each other!”

“How do I call you, then, Mr. Nobody? Or should I phrase your name as Mr. Rogue?”

“Marney. It’s my surname, so stick your manner to it!”

The elephant-lady, in her trembles over the pressure of the attacker, intervening their rough discussion and stood amid the compromise of title and conduct of denomination

“Uhm, I am apologize to say this, gentleman. By the law and order of our country, my savior would be entitled to speak of the delinquent’s call by their forename.”

“Your last name wasn’t suit for a villain, Rizo. Marney? As a fellow writer of my group, I can’t bear the flabbergasted name such as one.”

“This is deeply wound my heart..... Agh!! Enough with this nonsense! I’ll decimate you both!”

“Stop it, Marney! Fritz wanted him alive, as well as the royals.”

George is lying back to the wall by his moment of courage, quivered by his own willpower to stand up.

“Brace the idealism to yourself, young lad!! Hey, why are you calling me by the surname? Are you mocking me?”

“No..... I just wanna inform this to you.... Remember our...”

George is losing his consciousness, eventually dropped down to the floor once more.

“Ill-fated conduct would never support yourself up, George. Have some rest and allow me to finish the job.”

Reginald held his vigilant stance, subsequently prompted to overcome the upcoming salvo of attacks off his transparent adversary.

“Haha, your self-awareness wouldn’t save yourself, buddy!”

As his last resort, Reginald is reloading his arsenal of oxygen inside his chest, brought about a trial to unleash the blast with full might.

“It’s useless, bud!!”

The bitter and cold strike laid rest to Reginald’s unprotected genitals, conveyed the world of suffer to his entire body in constant tremor.

“AAARRRGHHHH!!!”

“How is it, lad? Wanna get another shot of Mr. Grave?”

Reginald is groveling down to the ground, unable to respond.

“Enough of this torment! I’ll come along with your plan, Mr. Kidnapper.”

“Look, even my cute and adorable elephant-girl has succumbed to my will!! Your wholesome knighthood is useless to have a win.”

“Stop right there, you cheeky abductor! Your attempt on wrongdoing is over!”

The unexpected visitor is coming to Reginald’s aid with the pointed sword lying upfront.

“Another combatant, huh? Hey, you are not invited to this party!”

The elephant-lady felt bewildered to the unforeseen scenario. She appeared to know the upcoming party, someone that she recognized from somewhere.

“Is that you, Mr. Clerk of human stall?”

“Hmm? Ah, the fruit enthusiast!! So you’re actually pretty important in this country, after all.”

“Watch out, Mr. Clerk!!”

The clash between weapons, indispensable commotion towards the melee interaction. Simon’s opponent wielded two blades on his hand, enacted a surprise lay-down assault to the unsupervised combatant ahead.

“Haha, You are pretty agile, young man!”

“You are one honorable knight, I see. Wanna test my prowess on this sword by the edge of dual-wielding blades? Haha, it’s way too early for those petty chivalry.”

The invisible blademaster is swirling his double-handed blades counter-clockwise, promoted his long-term acquaintances with the weapon to his enemy.

“Yes, I am respecting your way of combat, Mr. Stranger. You are a blade sportsman, so It’s not a bad scheme to humiliate you with this.”

“Why are you still invisible then, mate?”

“That’s the shame, Mr. Sword-master. If you can’t assure victory by your sword, you can’t redeem your title as one of its master.”

The second flurry of blade attacks emerged afterwards, shoving the might of dual-weaponry to the one-handed wielder.

“Haha, feel my wrath, s***h-master wannabe!”

“Oops, this is troublesome.”

By his swift reaction, Simon is capable on taking down several s***h of the two blades. However, a few of them landed safely to the limbs, severely molds gashes to his skin.

“Damn it. This won’t end good. Ouch..”

“So, are you gonna give up? Or dying under my blades?”

“Well, your rash attitude won’t help you now. Regi!”

The blast of wind suddenly blasted Rizo up to the air, eventually brought him down to his own misery.

“You saved us all, Regi. Mr. LORD would be proud of you.”

“Oww, oww, my crotch must be swelling up...”

“Not to count on rescuing the damsel in distress, mate. I could hear lots of chiming golds pouring to your AoK right now.”

All of sudden, The elephant lady is weeping his tears. She is shaken with fear, trembled by the terrifying experience and stressful encounter.

“I am grateful, to both of you...... what should I do to pay my debt? This is too much for me to handle.”

Simon peeked towards his partner, awaited his request of something deep. However, no response were spurted from Reginald, as he fell down to the fantasy for some time.

“Hmmm...... I suppose you can start the deal with telling on that man’s purpose.”

Simon is pointing down to the blacked out combatants ahead of them.

“Did you heard our last conversation, if I may have to ask? Their effort on abducting me was on those sole aim.”

“I’m here not a moment ago, Miss Royal. I don’t hear a thing other than your weep.”

“My dad.... He plotted to arrange a skirmish to the Fishman kingdom. It’s for retaliation against the Ape kingdom, by which is under their protection in the time being.”

“Hmm, I am not in range of connection to those.... Please, Mr. Smart, any help would be commendable to do at this point.”

“....”

Reginald is leaning downwards, fell immobilized by the throbbing flame down his lap.

“Ah, he is knocked out... I wonder what might be the cause.”

“One of the kidnappers landed a fist under his waist... They are cruel and dishonest, for throwing a deceitful attack as such.”

“Hmm, in other words, the groin of his?”

The elephant-lady is moving her heads down, as if she is accepting the fact about Reginald’s bottom lane. As the expected response of Simon, he laughed in his own indulgence of respond.

“Such a fantastic clang, me ol’ cobber!! Ahem.... Sorry, burp of accent.”

Simon bit his lips to reduce his need to unleash the humor, and tried his best to extinguish the disheartened reaction of himself  to show manners in front of the elephant lady.

“Anyway, Who are you, Milady? I don’t recognize you that well, unless for being a customer, it is.”

“I am Princess Suntana, the heir of King Argona the first.”

“A true royalty is in front of me...... Pardon me for the insolence that you saw in prior of my emergence...”

Simon, as the chivalrous knight he was once fetched to his will, kneel down to the princess in his regards.

“Err, don’t be so courteous, Mr. Hero. I’m tired with all of those witty gestures.”

“Bear with it, Princess. He always role-playing as a knight in his liberty... It’s kind of his hobby, Ma’am.”

Reginald whispered loudly to the princess before falling back to his realm of unconsciousness.

“Uh-huh, I am hearing you out, Regi. Thank you for the reference.”

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On their way home, Reginald and Simon carried a bunch of keepsake from the palace as a remembrance to their exploit on rescuing the princess. Simon hauled most of their belongings, since Reginald’s pants were under fire of several lingering woes. On the panorama of their disembark, group of sentries and the creature of the night roaming down the vacant street. Neither of them were aware of what is within their own privacy, as they were stood in full concentration of their own duty.

“So cheery, this hour of the day.... It should be vacate, but the road were lively as ever.”

“Yeah, It goes the same with the man above, I think. Look at his jump of glee.”

Simon pointed his index finger to the silhouette of a person under the light of crescent moon. The night creeper, over his vigilance of the guards down below, sneaking and jumping over the roof tile to reach his ambition upwards.

“Hmm, is he a burglar? Why are we stand still on our feet like this?”

“Regi, you don’t have to be liable of everything in this universe. The label of ‘savior’ were not fancied that way, Mate.”

“Shine me some light to those matters, Simon. I am in doubt over your capacity to explicate something so complex.”

The mysterious person on the rooftop, after tried to do his bidding over the obstruction  on the top, slipped off the grid and sliding down to the ground in vain.

“That man, he is devoted to the job, I guess being a small-time thief. He is doing something in determined devotion, and probably skills to do it.”

“Uhm, yes, He is. Where’s the link to our task as being the savior?”

“By the honorific title of ‘savior,’ we are mandated to do our job in utmost competency and dedication. But, this doesn’t parallel to every sort of event passing through our life, mate.”

The aspiring burglar running in terror from the rhino-guardsman, who got himself attracted by the racket. In the scene of pursuit, the pace of rhino-guardsman outwitted the person on the trail, eventually leads his fate in shame.

“You were being implanted by the ‘savior’ terms, but doesn’t have to be the ‘savior’ of any living beings in our range. In other words, you would fail without the hand rail to grip on. Someone else, in the natural flow of time, will lend a hand to us like the guard right there.”

“Hey, is that too awful? Neglecting our empathy and unified resonance as a human? It’s imbecile and immoral to me.”

“You are definitely having a wrong connotation of ‘savior’ as the crew of Repugnare, Regi. Please, cite the laws for me.”

Reginald switched on the supportive gear on his wrist, entered the realm of Mr. LORD to find the requested terms in a hurry. On the different scene of the battle, the burglar tugged up in chain by the Rhino-guardsman to compensate with his crime.

“Do I have to read aloud?”

“Yes, it’s a fair share for your mind, too.”

‘A savior is the person, a human being that has to uphold their perseverance of preserving justice and safety of their objectives, in utmost assurance to complete the task embedded for the best benefits for our community. ‘

“There, Mr Veteran. clearly stated our duty and task of humanity.”

“Another perspective could be added to that entry. It is that you are being ensued to do the task considered as the ‘best benefits’ of humanity and put your whole preparedness and power to fulfill the requirements of that mission.”

“And defying your state as reliance to our race? Come on, it’s too scary for me.”

“That burglar is the best example for your consideration. If the well-advised person could be fall flat like those thief, what’s gonna happen to the multi-tasking superhuman?”

“They would prevail, I’ll assure of it.”