<Episode 30>
He couldn’t bear to kill him because of the Empress’s will, but it didn’t mean that…
A child born after eating his beloved wife.
A mutant born with the blessing of ice into the Ruairi royal family, which was blessed with fire.
More than anything else, he was born with the attributes of darkness… It was like a sign of disasters to come to Roshan.
With a mixture of hatred and resentment, the Emperor looked down at his son’s unfocused eyes even at this moment as he had these last thoughts.
‘I can never acknowledge you as my child.
However, I can’t even kill you because you inherited Elijah’s blood, so just live as if you were dead.
This is the last kindness I can give you.’
The Emperor closed the door tightly.
So, when he was only four years old, Ashamed was imprisoned alone in a cold castle.
Every moment was cold, without a trace of warmth.
He couldn’t even take a single step outside the castle.
After the name and existence of Ashamed were buried and imprisoned, the imperial palace enjoyed several years of peace.
He learned that even the second prince, Handel haul Ruairi, was just an ordinary human being who had not received any blessings, but the Emperor considered it fortunate.
Even if it meant deceiving all the people of the Empire and the world, it didn’t matter.
The Emperor decided to pass on the throne to his first son, Valerian, whom he loved.
Why did it mattered that the Empress’s son was nothing more than an ordinary human being?
Even if Handel Haul Ruairi was born with great power, he never had the slightest intention of handing over the throne to a son who was not Elijah’s child.
In this way, the Emperor gradually stopped thinking about his imprisoned son.
However, there was one truth that the Emperor overlooked.
Ashamed was so crazy that the crumbling Ruairi royal family couldnot handle it.
“…I’m going to kill you.”
It was true that he was a spiritist who was loved by Frincher and was born with great power.
***
Ashamed was an alienated child.
He could not mix with the world, and his world was always one that was far from everything.
However, the imprisonment that began along with the Emperor’s verbal abuse began to break down the solid gray wall surrounding Ashamed’s world.
[Ashamed, this is wrong.]
Spiritists are strongly influenced by the spirits that bless them.
The effect was stronger for spiritual1Spiritual spirits are the spirit named after emotions spirits.
Those blessed by positive spiritual spirits were born with a welcoming nature and a good heart, but the opposite was true for negative spirit spirits.
[No matter how much he is the Emperor, he has no right to imprison you like this.]
[This is wrong. You should hate the Emperor and the princes who carelessly enjoy everything you should have enjoyed.]
Tregard, the spirit of hatred, continued to whisper to Ashamed.
He led Ashamed to sprout the seeds of hatred he harbored.
Ashamed accepted the world through his hatred of the Emperor.
Only then was the empty child able to have normal emotional reactions and thoughts.
Since its source was hate, not love, it was actually close to imitating human emotions.
“Please, save me, please… ehugh… Hugh…”
“Can’t you stop!”
The first thing Ashamed did when he ran away from the imprisoned castle was to take the lives of his brothers.
Buh-
“Something like you is a scum, worse than an animal….”
Peace was broken.
The Emperor hated Ashamed even more and strengthened his confinement.
But Ashamed did not stop running away from the abandoned castle.
As the attempts piled up several times, the Emperor’s hand toward Ashamed gradually began to become stained with cruelty.
After being hit by the Emperor, his whole body hurt like it was torn apart.
“…It hurts so much that I could die.”
Every day, or three to four times a week.
After being hit by the emperor, his whole body hurt as if it would be torn apart.
It was a wound that would have already killed him if it weren’t for the amazing healing power he was born with.
But Ashamed did not stop running out of the his imprisonment in the castle.
He couldn’t quit.
The child, who for the first time in his life felt an intensely throbbing ’emotion’ in his heart, could not easily let go of that strong stimulus.
Ashamed’s only source of emotion was hatred.
Therefore, Ashamed hated everything that existed in this world.
Among them, the person he hated the most was the Emperor who imprisoned him.
The one he hated second…
“Oswald. Still, he’s your son. Don’t be like that.”
The person who helped elevate such an Emperor to the throne was Archduke Roberick Arne Heilian.
The Duke of Heilian, the Emperor’s most reliable friend and loyal subject, who never acknowledges and blatantly detests Ashamed even though he was his biological son.
He was one of the few people who knew of Ashamed’s existence, and was present several times when the emperor punished Ashamed.
Each time, he repeated the same exact sentence, that did not completely protect Ashamed, nor does he leave him alone.
Trying to stop the Emperor… made him fell even more disgusted towards Ashamed.
“How long on earth do I have to do this… What is the identity of this little boy in here?”
“Shh! Don’t you know that? The maid from before tried to find out the identity of that little boy, but her tongue and hands were cut off and she was kicked out!”
“……okay. What would I do if I found out?”
It was truly by chance that he heard the news from a maid who had minimally waited on him and brought him meals and various daily necessities.
“By the way, did you hear that story? It is about the hidden biological daughter of His Excellency the Heilian Archduke!”
“I heard he doted on this daughter a lot. He even threw away his stepdaughter, whom he had cherished so much, and was only looking after his biological daughter all day.”
“So, His Majesty the Emperor must have called her because he was curious about how pretty she was, was it tomorrow? Or day after tomorrow?”
“They said she would come tomorrow. The Emperor’s palace is in chaos.”
Grand Duke Hailian’s biological daughter?
Ashamed, who was lying helpless, removed his arm that was covering his eyes.
And listened to the story outside.
“Ah… I heard that she is the child of Duke Bastevan’s daughter who was kicked out. I didn’t realise his Excellence was someone like this, was he secretly an indecent person? He had a child from the fiancée he abandoned.”
The maids’ voices became distant.
Ashamed slowly stood up.
It was said that Grand Duke Hailian had a biological daughter.
And it was said that Grand Duke Hailian absolutely loved this daughter.
What if, what if.
What if Archduke Hailian ended up hating his own daughter, whom he loved so much, for no reason?
…How fun will it be?
Ashamed smiled with joy.
Tregard, the spirit of hatred who blessed Ashamed, had many useful powers.
One of them was the power to curse the person who gave permission to use their name so that everyone in the world would hate them.
How exciting would it be if Archduke Hailian’s own daughter died lonely while being ostracized by all humans, including her father who loved her?
And how terrible will Archduke Hailian feel, should he be free from the curse only after his own daughter dies?
It was a good opportunity to relieve boredom.
On the day that Archduke Hailian’s biological daughter came to the imperial palace, Ashamed used the power of the spirit of fear, Wheelkassel, to cause confusion in the mind of the maid who was preparing the meal, and escaped from the castle.
And as always, he created a huge ice wall and attacked the Prince’s Palace without summoning the Frincher.
“Naiad, why is Frincher…”
And Ashamed found her.
Daughter of Roberick Arne Hailian.
Ashamed was filled with joy and walked up behind the little girl.
“!”
Because of the use of the power of ice, a cold chill surrounded Ashamed, and the little girl seemed to sense the abnormal coldness and quickly turned around.
Ashamed reached for the girl’s neck.
The slender neck was so easily caught.
Red eyes that looked just like those of Archduke Heilian were shaking slightly, taking in Ashamed’s image.
The light purple hair fluttering in front of his nose resembled an unknown flower he had briefly seen as a child.
Ashamed quietly looked at the girl.
“Who…”
Ashamed couldn’t bear it any longer and smiled.
The child asked in a dazed voice.
“You…….”
The boy whispered quietly, feeling the pulse beating vividly in his grasp.
“You are Hailian’s daughter?”
***
When I threatened her with the life of the crown prince and other humans, the stupid child immediately shouted her own name.
It was a mistake that a spiritist who knew about Tregard would never make.
“Show me the Heilian Grand Duke’s residence.”
Ashamed borrowed Tregard’s power and went outside as a mental body.
The feeling of hatred was everywhere in the world.
Therefore, there was no place that Ashamed, who had received Tregard’s blessing, could not go as a human being.
This power had a fatal flaw that it could not be overused, as each time the power was used, he would be drained of energy to the point of almost death.
“Roberick, what is going on? Why do accidents like this happen in the imperial palace? Not just once, but several times already…!”
“……Sorry. I should have taken more care of Allea. This won’t happen next time. I think His Majesty the Emperor will make a decision now.”
A familiar voice was heard.
It was Archduke Hailian.
Ashamed looked around carefully at the scenery of the Archduchy’s residence, which he was seeing for the first time.
Edith Ronen Heilian.
The girl was standing quietly next to Roberick Arne Heilian.
However, Ashamed felt puzzled as she looked around Edith.
They said she was definitely Grand Duke Hailian’s beloved daughter.
Everyone was focused on the girl the Grand Duchess was holding in her arms, and no one was watching Edith’s well-being.
Ashamed felt puzzled by the sight.
However, Edith seemed to be used to that reaction and quietly walked away from the Archduke’s family and put her feet up on the stairs.
“I have something I would like to ask princess Edith.”
At that moment, a man with green hair suddenly intervened.
“Pri…”
“Today.”
Roberick Arne Hailian tried to intervene, but the man spoke faster.
“I heard that you had a meeting with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Second Prince along with princess Allea.”
“yes..”
Edith answered hesitantly.
“But you suddenly left.”
It was about time that I felt something strange about the air current flowing through the quiet hall.
“Perion, what are you trying to say now…”
“And just when princess Edith was away, a huge, unidentified ice wall attacked the place where princess Allea was.”
……..!
Ashamed was taken aback by the unexpected turn of events.
***
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Next update will be on Tuesday 6/2
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