When the Main Protagonists Broke Up

Recalling what had happened a few days ago, I looked back at Aiden.

He always looked at me with the same eyes.

A warm, friendly gaze filled with trust and affection.

Because he was with me, I had nothing to fear.

When I came back to my senses, I told everyone the truth I had heard from Owen Est.

And when I had finished speaking, the Emperor asked Owen Est.

“Are you really Owen Est?”

When the Emperor called for Owen Est, who was next to me, I immediately came to my senses.

“Yes, Your Majesty the Emperor. I am Owen Est.”

“Are all the things Princess Heitz said true?”

“Yes, it is. There is no lie at all.”

As he said that, Owen Est pointed to the necklace around his neck.

“Because of this necklace, I have no choice but to do what Lady Adela told me to do.”

Owen Este unlinked the necklace.

And he spoke with a relieved expression.

“But Princess Heitz disabled this necklace. So I was able to live and come out here.”

When I met Owen Est at the mansion east of the capital, I had one more trust in him.

Whatever he said, never talk about Aiden.

Owen Est was keeping that promise very well.

“It’s all lies!”

But then the loud voice of the Duke of Bayern, filled with excitement and anger, was heard.

“The author is colluding with the Heitz family and tarnishing our family’s honor!”

“I’m not trying to tarnish the family’s honor, I’m trying to uncover the truth.”

“The truth is that Princess Heitz tried to kill our Adela!”

“I didn’t. Duke of Bayern, are you taking me as the culprit now that everything has been revealed? The carriage incident wasn’t something I did, it was Princess Bayern’s own play.”

I looked at Adela and said strongly.

Adela was also looking at me, and I could clearly see the anxiety and nervousness in her eyes.

“And there is no necklace like that in our family. The necklace imbued with iron power only controls the power of the ducal family, not manipulating people.”

The Duke of Bayern continued to lie.

I shook my head inwardly, thinking that I should take out another tile right away.

“Your Majesty, I have one more thing to tell you.”

“What is it?”

 

felt the Duke of Bayern glaring at me from the side.

But I didn’t care at all and opened my mouth right away.

“It is about the Luden family.”

“The Luden family?”

“I want to reveal the truth about the Luden family, which was destroyed long ago for treason here.”

“Truth, what do you mean?”

The emperor asked me in a displeased tone.

And when I said that I wanted to reveal the truth of the Luden family, the nobles who were watching my altercation with the Duke of Bayern became agitated and the conference hall became noisy again.

“What do you want the princess to say? Could it be that you want to say that the Luden family was unfairly framed?”

The emperor’s voice was filled with anger, but I answered with a face that was not at all intimidated.

“Yes, it is. And I’m sure the Bayern family is involved in that.”

“What the hell are you talking about! Your Majesty, the princess continues to speak nonsensical words without any evidence to insult our family!”

“It’s not nonsense. There are witnesses to this too, Your Majesty. Please allow another witness to come in here.”

“Who are you referring to as a witness?”

“This is a butler who worked for the Luden family and a knight who stood as a witness saying that the Luden family plotted treason at the time.”

t was two days ago.

I was still a bit nervous because I still didn’t know where the butler was, but my father called me to the office.

Not only my father, but also strangers were in the office, which I headed straight to in case of expectation.

It was the butler of the Luden family whom I had asked to find, and the article who testified of the Luden family’s treason at the time.

Their faces were so miserable that I couldn’t open my eyes to see them.

It was so dirty that I couldn’t tell when I had washed it from head to toe, and it even smelled.

Their facial expressions looked exhausted and tired enough to tell at a glance what kind of lives the two had been living.

The father, who was suspicious of the Luden family, tracked down the butler and also found the knight.

They were enslaved to a certain nobleman who owned a fief quite far from the capital.

I did a quick scan around their necks.

‘There is.’

Around their necks were necklaces made of iron.

My father also nodded at me to see if he had seen the necklace they were wearing.

I went up to the two of them and explained to them what I was going to do.

At first they didn’t believe me, but when I disabled their collars, they didn’t hide their surprise.

t wasn’t me who convinced them after that.

I explained to my father the affairs of the Duchess of Louden and went to Hemoa early the next morning to secretly bring her back to the mansion.

Then he had the Duchess of Luden, the butler, and the knight meet.

Now that the necklace is gone, nothing can stop their loyalty.

Moreover, the butler and the knight, who heard that the Duchess and Clayton were still alive, confessed all those who had been there.

And I asked them to testify the same on the day of the interrogation, and now two people, no three people, were waiting in the carriage we came in.

“Your Majesty, besides these two, I would like to raise another person as a witness. That is Duchess Ariel Louden.”

“The Duchess of Ariel Luden?”

“My God, did you mean the Duchess was alive?”

“Well, Clayton Louden came back alive and well, so it’s not impossible.”

I watched the emperor’s expression and listened carefully to the words of the nobles.

Everyone was surprised, but the reaction was not bad.

Few people thought I was talking nonsense, probably because Clayton had already appeared and was in prison.

‘Well, even if I think it’s nonsense, it will be revealed soon anyway.’ I looked closely at the emperor’s face again.

The emperor was also looking down at me with his eyes wide open, probably surprised by my words.

 

“Did you say Duchess Ariel Luden?”

However, I felt a little strange.

I don’t know, but for calling the duchess of a rebellious family, it was affectionate and full of emotion.

“Yes, it is. The Duchess and the two of them are waiting outside to clear the name of the Luden family, who were exterminated for treason.”

“Your Majesty, this is nonsense. Even if the Duchess came back alive, it has been more than 20 years. Right now, the Ludens and Heitzes are concocting and trying to entice our family into a conspiracy.”

The Duke of Bayern spoke to the emperor in a rather urgent voice.

I could see the emperor’s gaze shifting to him for a moment.

“Your Majesty the Emperor.”

It was then.

Suddenly, my father approached me and called the emperor.

“Duke of Heights.”

The emperor’s gaze returned to us.

“I vividly remember the day the Duke of Luden was taken and beheaded for treason. Because all the evidence and witnesses were perfect, the Duke of Louden disappeared into the dew of the execution ground without any refutation.”

The emperor was silent for a moment and listened to his father.

“But it was always questionable. As you know, the former Duchess of Luden was killed by a monster. That’s why Duke Luden was the one hostile to monsters more than anyone else, and he took the lead in killing monsters in the subjugation of monsters. The fact that such a Duke of Luden tried to commit treason by using a demon is still incomprehensible to this day.”

It was the first time I had heard the story of my father.

“You may remember sending a subjugation party to the western border to subdue monsters a few years ago. At that time, I confronted the leader of the Papus there. But before he died, he said something significant. ‘This is against the promise. I have to meet the Duke of Bayern’.”

“It’s a mothership! How dare you speak nonsense without proof or witnesses!”

The Duke of Bayern shouted at his father in a voice filled with anger.

However, a person who would not have been enough to point a finger at the Duke of Bayern in the past, was now showing a very calm attitude, different from his usual appearance.

“You’re right. As the Duke of Bayon said, I may have heard it wrong. Even if I heard it correctly, I do not have any evidence or witnesses to prove that the Bayern family was behind the Luden family. This is because Papus was also slaughtered without leaving a single one that day. However, Your Majesty the Emperor, I believe that at least the Luden family should not be falsely accused of any more. So I also earnestly ask Your Majesty. Please allow me to call the Duchess of Luden and the two of you to reveal the whole truth here.”

My father bowed his head and begged the emperor.

I bowed my head following such a father.

After the father’s words, the conference hall fell silent for a moment.

Even without raising their heads, it was obvious that everyone here was staring at the emperor’s mouth.

While waiting with bated breath to hear what the emperor would say, the emperor finally opened his mouth.

“…good Call in the Duchess of Ariel Luden and those who used to be butlers and knights of the Luden family.”

As soon as the word of permission came out, the Duke of Bayern raised his voice.

“Your Majesty the Emperor!”

But, ignoring the Duke of Bayern, I quickly raised my head and glanced at William.

William recognized the meaning of my eyes and left the conference hall. After a while, the door opened and three people entered the conference hall.

Looking at the Duchess of Luden, some rubbed their eyes and looked again, while others stood still with their mouths open in astonishment.

The Duchess of Luden and the two stood in front of the Emperor.

“Meet His Majesty, Emperor Christian Winston Baltheus, the brightest sun of Baltheus.”

When the Duchess of Luden knelt and bowed to the emperor, the butler and knight also knelt.

“…Ariel.”

Ariel?

I couldn’t hear it well if I didn’t listen carefully, but I could hear it in front of the emperor.

The emperor was calling the Duchess of Luden Ariel.

Looking at the emperor with a curious mind, I witnessed his expression contorted with complex subtle emotions.

‘What?’

The emperor’s expression could not be defined by one.

It contained sadness, pain, and pain, but it was also a moment of relief.

What a relief.

Why did the emperor look at the duchess like that?

No matter how I looked at it, I didn’t seem to see anything wrong, so I tilted my head inwardly.

“The Duchess of Louden…wake up.”

The Emperor corrected the title without calling the Duchess Ariel again.

“No. I will stay like this.”

“…Got it. Then raise your head.”

At the emperor’s words, the Duchess of Luden raised her head.

As soon as their eyes met, a strange atmosphere was clearly flowing between the two.

The Emperor and Duchess looked at each other and were silent for a while.

The two of them just stared at each other as if they were following each other’s traces of time.

At that time, the Duchess opened her mouth first, breaking the silence between the two.

“Your Majesty, the reason I risked my life to come here is to clear the name of the Luden family, which was destroyed unjustly.”

When the Duchess of Louden looked at me out of the corner of her eye, I nodded at her.

“Your Majesty, look at the necklaces hanging around the necks of these two, similar to the necklaces that hung around Owen Est’s necks.”

I gestured to the butler and the knight who worked for the Luden family to remove the necklace.

Then the butler and the knight took off the necklace at the same time and put it on their hands and showed it to everyone.

“This necklace was also controlling the minds and bodies of these two people.”

But even though I was talking, the emperor was still only looking at the Duchess of Luden.

“Your majesty?”

When I called him cautiously, the emperor turned his head to me in surprise.

“Ah, so you mean these two also piloted in Bayern Street?”

I thought he wasn’t listening to me, but it seems he wasn’t.

“Yes, that’s right.”

“I will ask both of you. Who put that necklace on you?”

“I am the Duke of Bayern.”

The butler answered in a firm voice.

“I am also the Duke of Bayern. The reason I gave false testimony against the Luden family was because my mind was controlled by this necklace. In fact, I do not know of any secret documents that promise to open the door to Papus.”

The knight also agreed with the butler’s words and replied.

“I’m sorry, ma’am. I have committed a mortal sin.”

Then he banged his head on the floor at the Duchess.

“Sorry. Sorry.”

“Stop it.”

The Duchess grabbed the knight’s body and stopped him from doing so.

“Isn’t that the Lord’s will? Rather, I’m sorry. I am really sorry that I got involved in this in return for being loyal to the Luden family.”

“No, madam. Sobbing.”

The cries of the knights echoed throughout the conference hall.

“So do i. After the mistress and the boy escaped safely, I and the servants who worked for the Luden family were all captured, imprisoned, and turned into slaves.”

Following the article, the butler’s testimony began.

He seemed to be in tears for a moment, just like the article, as if he still recalled the events of the day vividly.

But I couldn’t finish my words yet, so I held back my tears.

“But one day, 20 years later, the Duke of Bayern came to visit me. He told me that the madam and the young master were alive and that I needed to catch them. When I said no, the necklace was filled, and I was manipulated by the necklace, not my will, so I had no choice but to trick the mistress and the boy and bring him back. But the wise mistress noticed it and ran away, and the two of them fell off the cliff.”

The two of them told me the same thing in front of the emperor.

“I am very sorry too, madam. I swore allegiance to the Luden family, but I have committed a great sin.”

The butler also apologized to the Duchess, and the Duchess shook her head in response.

“No. It’s not your fault. All the faults of the past were committed by the Duke of Bayern.”

A fierce and determined voice flowed from the Duchess’s mouth.

“Your Majesty, there are as many as three witnesses and evidence here. Still, is it not enough to prove the Duke of Bayern’s guilt? Do you think the Ludens really committed treason? Do you think Princess Heitz was trying to harm Princess Bayon?”

“This is all framed, Your Majesty! The Heitz family and the Luden family are conspiring to lay the blame on me!”

Feeling threatened by the Duchess’ words, the Duke of Bayern loudly asserted his innocence once again.

However, the atmosphere was cold and chilly.

Now, no one here believed the words of the Duke of Bayern.

“Duke of Bayern, I believed in the ball until now, but how did it go this far….”

“Your Majesty, don’t listen to them. You must trust my loyalty! You must not forget what I have done for you, for Baltheus. I am the only one who can protect the imperial family from them. Without me, the imperial family would quickly collapse. So is the Duke of Louden. The Duke of Louden was a constant rebel against His Majesty’s opinions. It was I who got rid of such a person right in front of my eyes.”

In an instant, the conference hall fell silent.

Just when the Duke of Bayern realized his mistake and was sorry, the emperor opened his mouth.

“Arrest the Duke of Bayern and all members of the Bayern family.”

At the emperor’s command, dozens of knights guarding the conference hall came inside.

They approached the Duke of Bayern, Adela, and Aiden.

“Adela, Aiden!”

The Duke of Bayern shouted at the two of them, and at the same time iron flowed from his hands.

“Anyone who touches me will be put to death!”

When the Duke of Bayern roared at the knights, the knights flinched.

While Adela hurried to the side of the Duke of Bayern, Aiden walked slowly and unhurriedly.

“Duke of Bayern, what are you doing!”

The emperor’s angry voice came.

“I will not be caught by anyone. Please clear the way. If I don’t, I won’t let anyone get in my way alive.”

The Duke of Bayern showed his determination and said.

I didn’t know what he was going to do, so I looked at him with great vigilance, and the sword in his left hand caught my eye.

The shape was quite unusual and incredibly huge.

‘That looks like an iron sword.’

It was the first time I had seen it, but it stood out so much that I could tell at a glance.

A sword that has been handed down from generation to generation in the Bayern family, an iron family since the creation of the empire.

The sword was in the hands of the Duke of Bayon, so sharp and strong that it could cut through anything, and everything it touched turned into iron powder and flew away in the air and disappeared without a trace.

From the fact that the sword was drawn, it was clear at once that he was indeed prepared to kill anyone who stood in front of him.

It was then.

A dagger was pointed at the body of the Duke of Bayern.

“Be still.”

“Gear, you bastard!”

It was Aiden.

Aiden, who had approached him earlier, approached the Duke of Bayon from behind and aimed a knife at his throat.

Not only the emperor, but the people in the conference hall looked puzzled.

No one knew why Aiden was doing this to the Duke of Bayern, watching the two of them with bated breath.

“If you move even a little, this sword will be lodged in the Duke’s neck.”

“How could you do this to me!”

“Your Majesty, I will reveal everything here and now. Who I am and all the secrets about the necklace.”

“Aiden!”

The Duke of Bayern called Aiden loudly to stop him.

“There is no Aiden Bayern here. So don’t call me that.”

“What?”

“No Aiden Bayern?”

“What the hell are you talking about?”

The aristocrats who had been watching at the completely incomprehensible words began to spit out word by word, as if they could not stand it any longer.

I looked at Aiden with worried eyes.

Our eyes met.

He nodded his head as if to reassure me, then opened his mouth.

“Your Majesty, I am not Aiden Bayen. Aiden Byron is long dead. And I was the double that took the spot.”

“Treason?”

“Yes that’s right. I am also the one who was controlled by the necklace by the Duke of Bayon.”

Then Aiden showed everyone the necklace hanging around his neck.

“What are you doing now! How are you to me!”

“…Why did you kill my brother?”

Aiden asked the Duke of Bayern in a subdued voice.

“What?”

“Why did you kill me when you said you would bring my brother?”

“I didn’t kill him. You are looking hard to bring your brother before you.”

The Duke of Bayern shamelessly lied even though everything was revealed.

“Don’t lie. After bringing me back from the circus troupe, it was confirmed by the survivors that they killed everyone in the circus troupe.”

“That-!”

“I will never forgive you.”

I could see Aiden’s eyes filled with anger and resentment.

I couldn’t see it, but I could clearly feel that he was shedding tears of blood in his heart.

My heart ached so much.

I wanted to hug him.

I wanted to hold him in my arms and comfort him.

I wanted to comfort him so that he would not cry, no, he would cry to his heart’s content in my arms.

“Either….”

But our work is not done yet.

I just called his name briefly and conveyed my heart to him.

And he looked at me and smiled briefly, perhaps feeling my heart.

“So you’re not Aiden Byron?”

“Yes, yes, Your Majesty.”

“So you were also manipulated by the Duke of Bayon because of the necklace imbued with iron power?”

“Yes that’s right.”

“Duke of Bayern, what the hell is the ball….”

“Give me time. I will report everything to Your Majesty.”

“What time do you need?”

“That’s it….”

It was suspicious that the Duke of Bayern was drooling.

He looked like someone who really needed time, no, like someone who was wasting time, so I quickly examined him from head to toe.

Then he saw a black light twinkle from the ring on his finger.

“Eden!”

I called out to Aiden and quickly ran towards him.

“No! Avoid!”

However, my cry was quickly swallowed up by the roar of the Iron Family Guardian Water rising from the ring.

A unicorn with a huge horn made of iron blocked my way, and the venue quickly turned into a mayhem.

“What, what!”

“Your majesty! Avoid!”

“Your Majesty! Your Highness the Crown Prince!”

“Aww!”

“Everyone, get out!”

Even in the midst of confusion due to the people who were surprised to see the guardian, I ran towards him without taking my eyes off Aiden.

“Eden!”

Fortunately, he also noticed the duke’s suspicious behavior and quickly avoided the big crisis.

“Are you okay? Are you not hurt?”

He went up to Aiden’s nose, grabbed him, and looked around to see if there were any wounds.

“It’s okay.”

“Really?”

“Yes.”

“What a relief….”

I let out a sigh of relief at the fact that he was fine.

“More than that….”

Aiden looked at me with a serious expression, and I turned my head in the direction he was looking at.

“Your majesty!”

“Duke of Bayern! What are you doing!”

The eyes of those in the middle of the mayhem all gathered in one place.

It was the seat of honor where the emperor sat.

Everyone was looking at the place with a shocked face, because the Duke of Bayon was threatening the Emperor’s neck with an iron sword.

“Me, me!”

“Your Majesty the Emperor!”

“Duke of Bayern, don’t do anything you’ll regret!”

My father shouted at the Duke of Bayern.

“You will regret it…. Everything went wrong, what more could I regret?”

“Peacock!”

The emperor shouted at the Duke of Bayern.

But his voice was already trembling, and his face showed fear, horror and powerlessness.

“Everyone, stop moving!”

The expression on the Duke of Bayern’s face telling people to step down seemed resolute, as if he had made up his mind.

“Your Majesty, I can’t help it any longer. Adela, come here quickly!”

At the call of the Duke of Bayern, Adela, who was biting her lips in nervousness and anxiety in the corner, approached her father.

“Do not move anyone until my daughter is out of here.”

“Father!”

As if she understood what her father had said, Adela’s eyes quickly turned red and she called out to the Duke of Bayern in a watery voice.

The Duke of Bayern seemed to have done this to get Adela out of here.

“Go.”

“Yes?”

“Only you have to get out of here without getting caught.”

“Father!”

“Hurry!”

“Father, how can I go alone? I will never go without my father. Come along. Yes?”

“I can’t get out of here.”

He was right.

There were quite a few people here who could fight to capture him, except for Kane, who was away by order of the emperor.

In addition, since it was revealed that the Luden family did not commit treason, the Duke of Bayon could never escape if Clayton, who was in prison, joined.

‘Are you saying you’d rather sacrifice yourself than get both caught?’

Having already completed the calculation, he seemed to be trying to get at least Adela out of here.

“Father…black…“

“Adela, don’t cry.”

Everyone in the conference hall was paying attention to the conversation between the two.

Aiden and I looked carefully at how to save the Emperor from the hands of the Duke of Bayon.

However, Suhosu was standing in front of me, so I couldn’t think of a way to do it.

‘What should I do?’ I asked Aiden with my eyes.

Then Aiden shook his head softly.

I meant to keep an eye on the situation.

So we kept watching the Duke of Bayern and Adela.

“Adela, come on.”

“Father!”

“Get on top of Yurtios.”

Urtios was the name of the unicorn, the guardian of the iron family.

At the firm words of the Duke of Bayon, Adela forced her motionless body onto the back of Urtios.

“Nobody move. If anyone moves, the emperor will disappear without a trace.”

It was not a lie, as the emperor’s neck was aimed at an iron sword that turned anything the blade touches into iron powder.

The sound of breathing could be heard here and there, and the emperor’s face turned white.

I also swallowed dry saliva in tension.

“Take it.”

The Duke of Bayon quickly handed the ring to Adela with the other hand, not the one aimed at the emperor.

When Adela received the ring, she clenched it in her fist and wept.

Moments later, Urtios ran across the venue with Adela on his back and quickly ran outside.

The last plan of the Duke of Bayern was successful.

No one could pursue Adela for fear that the Duke of Bayern would harm the emperor.

I also looked at that figure and turned my head to the Duke of Bayern.

Then I met the eyes of the Duke of Bayern, and he was staring at me with cold, cold eyes.

In those eyes, resentment, hatred, pain, and sadness were gathered together.

I didn’t avert his eyes.

He also didn’t take his eyes off me.

Like that, the Duke of Bayern and I glared at each other fiercely.

And after quite a while, the Duke of Bayon opened his mouth as if he thought that Adela had run away enough.

“Duke of Heights.”

The Duke of Bayern fixed his gaze on me and called for my father.

“Don’t think you’ve defeated me. Someday, the ball will come out, no, an end more miserable than mine will await.”

The corners of the Duke of Bayern’s mouth twisted crookedly.

“I, the author!”

The father’s voice filled with excitement and anger echoed through the conference hall.

“You and my father are different.”

I spoke to the Duke of Bayern in a calm voice.

“You have committed many sins for your own benefit, but my father is not like that.”

“You’re pretty sure.”

“Of course. And my father has me. If my father ever decides to make the wrong choice, I will gladly lead him to the right path.”

“Do you think the choice of the princess is right? Isn’t that arrogance?”

“Of course, someday I may make the wrong choice due to wrong thoughts. If that happens, my parents will be by my side and….”

I looked at Aiden, who was next to me, for a moment, then looked at the Duke of Bayern again.

“Now that I have this person next to me, I won’t live an ugly and disgusting life like yours. Right, Eden?” I smiled at Aiden.

He also gave me a warm smile back.

“Eden…. Yes, your name was Eden….”

It was annoying to hear the name Eden coming out of the mouth of the Duke of Bayern.

It was time to put an end to it.

I exchanged glances with my father to catch the Duke of Bayern.

And without missing the moment when the Duke of Bayern’s knife tip slightly landed, he rushed towards the Duke of Bayern at the same time as his father.

When my father and I attacked the Duke of Bayern together, he backed away.

“Your Majesty the Emperor!”

Then the Emperor was freed from the Duke of Bayon.

The prince, who was watching the situation from a little distance, quickly approached the emperor who was about to sit down because his legs were weak and supported him.

“Your majesty! Are you okay?”

“Your majesty!”

The nobles, worried about the safety of the emperor, scrambled to speak.

But now their words no longer reached my ears.

I was fighting desperately to capture the Duke of Bayon with my father.

The Duke of Bayon created sharp blades in his hands and unleashed them, and we set fire to our defense.

While the Duke of Bayern attacked, he was gradually pushed back.

Iron had no choice but to be melted by fire, and the Duke of Bayon had already sent the guardian along with Adela, so he didn’t have it.

The end of this fight was decided from the beginning.

It just took a little longer to subdue because it was a formidable opponent.

At that time, the Duke of Bayon lost the sword from his hand while trying to avoid his father’s attack.

The iron sword fell to the floor.

In order to prevent him from grabbing the sword again, he continued to attack.

So in the end, the iron sword never returned to its owner.

Continuing to confront like that, they were in the process of driving the Duke of Bayon.

Suddenly, Aiden next to the Duke of Bayern came into view.

“Either?”

At that moment, a huge sword passed by the Duke of Bayon’s waist.

“Yes, you dare!”

The Duke of Bayern tried to say something to Aiden, but he couldn’t say anything more.

It was because his body was gradually disappearing.

And in the hand of Aiden, who had beaten the Duke of Bayon, was the iron sword that the Duke had missed earlier.

It was an instant.

The Duke of Bayon quickly disappeared in front of his eyes, leaving only iron dust scattered in the air.

“Eden!”

When he was gone, I hurriedly ran to Aiden.

Thinking that everything was over, Aiden let go of the sword he was holding and the sword fell to the floor.

“Bell….”

Aiden looked at me with a clear expression of exhaustion.

“It is finally over.”

Saying that, he raised his lips slightly.

The world changed overnight.

The Bayern family, which was at the peak of imperial power, collapsed.

The Duke of Bayon disappeared without a trace without leaving a body, and his daughter, the Princess of Bayon, also disappeared.

And the Luden family, who had been hiding their existence for the past 20 years, regained their honor.

The person waiting for Clayton to come out of prison was his mother, the Duchess of Louden.

“….”

“….”

The two faced each other without saying a word for a while.

“Clayton….”

Then, the first to speak was the Duchess.

“Mother….”

“Clayton!”

“Mother!”

The two of them ran to each other and hugged each other.

After parting on the cliff that day, so many things have changed.

Their situation was the same, but if mothers used to hold their sons in their arms, now mothers are held in their sons’ arms.

The Duchess reached out to caress the face of her son, who had grown beyond recognition.

However, as soon as he could barely touch his son’s face, which was too big for him, Clayton bent down.

“Clayton….”

The Duchess called her son by name again.

“Mother….”

Since earlier, the two had been calling each other and hadn’t spoken to each other.

However, they were happy just to meet again alive like this.

“Let’s go, home.”

House.

Those who had no choice but to wander around avoiding tracking now have a home to return to.

It was time to return to their home, a mansion that had been abandoned without an owner for 20 years.

Holding her mother’s hand, she walked to the carriage when Clayton caught sight of two men.

One was an acquaintance and the other was an unknown.

“Young master.”

The butler and the knight bowed their heads toward Clayton.

“Let’s go back to the long story.”

“Yes, mother.”

“Let’s go.”

“Yes, ma’am, Bocchan.”

That’s how they headed straight to Luden’s mansion.

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