<Episode 21>
“……….”
All became quiet.
Everyone was so dishonest that they couldn’t say a single word.
I leaned my staggering body against Naiad and looked up at the two Spirit Kings beside me.
Olied’s appearance clearly proved that today’s accident was not my fault.
My attributes revealed through this were life, water, and earth.
However, Perion, the person responsible for causing this uproar, looked angry and did not utter a single word.
Rather, isn’t he glaring at me with a look like soggy spinach?
[T/N: the audacity! Can anyone give me a gun, I think I am gonna be a murderer.]I was shocked and glared at Perion.
“[…Sil.]”
Roberick summoned the wind spirit and dried his body.
He walked towards Perion, who was kneeling on the floor with a neat appearance, and quietly muttered.
“Edith’s attributes are life, water, and earth. This reveals that ice attribute is not included.”
Perion’s face, which was full of anger, began to shake at Roberick’s frosty voice.
“Perion Mikhail Haldevart. You will have to take responsibility for your words.”
Perion wet his lips, but Roberick turned his back faster.
“From today onwards, Perion Mikhail Haldevart is suspended from office. The act of trying to bring down the honor of the princess was tantamount to an unspeakable crime. Detain the criminal in jail right now.”
“Roberick!”
Chastia, who was sitting on the floor holding Allea, was startled and called out to Roberick.
“………”
But Roberick just looked down at Chastia coldly and then withdrew his gaze.
“………!”
Without a single soothing word as he usually does.
Chastia looked as if she had lost everything, just staring at Roberick’s back in confusion as he walked away from her.
“Edith, are you okay?”
Roberick came up to me and asked in a kind tone.
“………”
I didn’t answer.
Roberick sighed and held my hand carefully.
“You must be very tired. Let’s go up to your room.”
There was no reason to refuse.
Is there anyone who doesn’t want to get out of this place right now?
I followed Roberick up the stairs. Olied and Naiad did not leave, but followed me.
Suddenly, I became curious about the faces of those watching this scene, so I looked back.
Chastia was still looking up at Roberick in confusion with an expression of shock that had not gone away.
Allea was held in her arms…
“………!”
was looking at me
The little girl with an expressionless face did not show any reaction even though she made eye contact with me.
[T/L: scary, how old was she again…]The innocent pink eyes, like life that had just opened a flower bud, looked eerie for no reason.
Strangely enough, an uneasy feeling of foreboding crept up on me.
I quickly looked ahead.
It was obviously resolved well…
***
A little boy was thrown to the ice-covered floor.
“egn……”
The boy lifted his hand and wiped the corner of his mouth where blood had burst.
A harsh fire clearly reflected in his eyes.
“Something like dirt.”
Unlike the bright smile he had shown in the throne room that day, the young emperor muttered with a cold face.
[T/L: I swear finding a good Emperor is like finding a needle in a hay bundle.]The large, desolate room was icy cold even in the middle of spring.
The emperor muttered as he trotted into the room where the boy had been pushed.
“You went outside without permission today and not only harmed the crown prince and the second prince, but you also tried to kill princess Allea.”
Even as the emperor continued speaking, he looked down at the boy who was sitting on the floor and glaring at him with eyes filled with eerie anger.
“This makes it clear once again. You are truly an animal that cannot be educated in any way.”
“That… why is it wrong?”
At that moment, the emperor frowned at what the boy said.
The boy raised his bright blue eyes and stared at the emperor.
There was not a single trace of fear on his face.
Blue eyes that captured the flames fluttering around the Emperor.
“There aren’t many days left before you can’t keep me locked up here anymore.”
The boy laughed, twisting the corner of his mouth.
“Because the son you cherish is nothing more than a pathetic failure who did not receive any spirit’s blessing.”
Quang!
The emperor could not contain his rage and swung his whip roughly towards the side of the ice-covered room.
“Bah…… Haha!”
Pure white snowflakes scattered, coloring the dark room like a snowy field.
The boy laughed happily.
The child’s chattering laughter and the red blood droplets at the corner of his mouth were mixed together in a heterogeneous manner.
The emperor stared at that figure with disdain and pondered.
“Even if my two sons are mere humans without any blessings, it is a much better decision than passing the throne to someone like you.”
The Emperor, who was chewing his lips and turning around, suddenly stopped and quietly muttered.
“If you crawl out of this room again, I could kill you.”
He left the room without looking back.
Kggung-
The heavy door, which seemed to reach the sky and stretched all the way to the ceiling, closed with a huge ringing sound.
The boy was left alone in the cold room.
Even though he was panting hotly, the boy was not distressed.
Instead, he lay down on the floor with the corners of his mouth raised, staring at the ceiling filled with white frost.
What flowed from his small lips was a summoning spell.
Red lips drenched in blood opened quietly.
“You, children of indestructible life.”
“Answer the call of him whom you have blessed with an immortal heart.”
The boy with blue eyes shining like stars in the distant North Sea muttered in a whisper.
“[Tregard].”
The moment the name flowed out of his mouth.
[Ashmed.]A black fog rose quietly from the boy’s bedside.
The spirit, unable to even properly face the black, disfigured figure, bent down and gently wiped the corner of the child’s bloody mouth and whispered softly.
Ashmed.
It was the boy’s name that no one had ever called before.
“Come on. I want to ask you something.”
Ashmed quietly closed his blue eyes and chanted.
“Show me the Heilian Grand Duke’s residence.”
***
After another unexplained incident occurred in the imperial palace, the Grand Duke resident was in turmoil every day.
“My goodness, princess Edith has received the Spirit King’s blessings in all three attributes.”
“Who would have guessed? I wouldn’t have guessed that Mariette Bastevan’s daughter would have inherited His Excellency Archduke Heilian’s blood so deeply.”
“The Spirit King of Life, Water, and Earth has blessed princess Edith. Does this make sense? Do spirits have no concept of good and evil?”
“…I think I have been too rude to the princess. I have to look good from now on…”
“hey! Still, I have loyalty to the Grand Duchess and princess Allea.”
“Hah, Grand Duchess? Princess? What’s the use of all that? Did you forget that the Grand Duky of Heilian is passed down to a powerful spiritist first? So, during the previous generation….”
This was all because the surprising fact that Grand Princess Edith Ronen Heilian, who had been openly ostracized and treated as a stepping stone, had received the blessings of the three Spirit Kings and had a genius talent.
With this, another outstanding spiritist was born in the Roshan Empire.
This was by no means an issue to be ignored.
It was not only the employees of the Great Duky who were troubled by their own anxiety and greed.
“Did you hear the news? That a great spirit master has appeared in our empire again!”
“That’s fortunate! Doesn’t that mean that a new defender of the empire has appeared to protect us, following in the footsteps of His Excellency Roberick Arne Heilian?”
“Our Roshan will prosper forever!”
The people of the Roshan Empire also happily shared the news that the newly appeared second Grand Princess of Hailian was a precious child who was loved by the Spirit Kings, following in the footsteps of the great spiritist Roberick Arne Hailian.
Under that good news, the fact that Grand Princess Edith Ronen Heilian’s biological mother was the publicly criticized evil woman Mariette Aydin Bastevan was quickly buried and no one paid any attention to it.
“All three attributes received the Spirit King’s blessing. This is a miracle that occurs once every hundreds of years. It is extremely unusual for these traits to be expressed in children as well as parents…”
And the innermost places of the imperial palace were also noisy.
The emperor, who was listening intently to the famous animist’s exclamatory report, asked:
“So, is there a high probability that those excellent traits will be expressed in the next generation?”
The old scholar blinked and looked up at the young emperor.
“…Probably with a high possibility, yes.”
The voice continued, but the scholar’s words no longer reached the emperor’s ears.
“okay……..”
The emperor gently lifted his elegant lips and smiled.
[TL: ugh! Don’t think about it old man.]
***
I was slowly waking up from my dream, still shaking.
‘You… are Heilian’s daughter?’
An unknown boy suddenly appeared and grabbed me by the neck menacingly, as if he was going to strangle me at any moment.
‘Tell me your name. Tell me, and I’ll remove all that ice.’
And then an unexpected request followed.
As soon as I urgently said my name, everything truly stopped.
‘……uh?’
A shadow that disappeared in a split second.
“Hmm.”
What happened that day was eerie and strange.
“…It’s not some kind of ghost story.”
All sleep ran away.
I stared into the dark room, muttered something like a grunt, and lay down on the bed again.
The room given to me in the Grand Duke’s residence is vast and spacious.
As night came, a feeling of loneliness inevitably permeated me.
Still, I was promised by Roberick that I would meet my grandfather after the title ceremony.
I took that as comfort and tried to get to sleep.
When I sent a letter, a reply came back quickly.
My grandfather said that he did not go back to the small village we used to live in, but made a new home in Therma City.
Why was he staying in that city?
…It’s a place I don’t have any good memories of.
As I thought about my grandfather, I felt an uncontrollable longing for him.
I closed my eyes tightly and tried to sleep, forcing out the thoughts that came to my mind.
***
T/N:
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