Chapter 138 – Chapter 02: The Gold Half Is a Warrior, the Other Half Is XXX
Therefore, Eugene told the female knight that he had no intention of meeting the Archduke and his wife, and at the same time, he had no intention of becoming involved with the Archduke’s family.
“Even if this body is the bloodline of the Archduke family, the soul contained therein is that of a completely different being.”
“B, but if it’s true that you were brainwashed, doesn’t that mean that your current personality was actually destined to become the eldest son of the Archduke?”
“They say blood is thicker than water. But I think that what is thicker than blood is the time we spent together. And even if I am a ‘created child,’ I am nothing more than an enemy who pushed away the ‘child’ of His Excellency the Grand Duke and his wife.”
Therefore, he says that for the sake of each other, it would be better for Eugene, as an exile from the Grand Duchy of Zenon, to not get involved with the Grand Duchy and not to meet each other.
“Right now, I don’t want anything from the Grand Duchy. So, from now on, let’s make sure we don’t get involved, even if it’s just for the sake of the other. “I would appreciate it if you could pass this on to His Excellency the Grand Duke and her husband.”
Hearing Eugene’s story like that, the female knight looked like she had no idea how on earth she was going to convey this to the Grand Duke.
In the end, it is no different from Eugene telling the Archduke that he should not look for the spirit of ‘Stral Zenon’ because he has already died a long time ago.
In fact, Stral Zenon was as good as dead the moment Eugene possessed him.
Moreover, Eugene’s honest feelings are that no matter how great the power of Grand Duchy Zenon’s family is, he does not want to take advantage of that power by pushing out his child and taking his place.
In that sense, I don’t know about Eugene’s other areas, but he really didn’t want to be involved in the affairs of the Grand Duke Zenon.
Having experienced the loss of his family, he did not want to take advantage of the couple who lost their son, no matter how bad of a villain Yeong-sik was.
“This is all I have to say to His Excellency the Archduke. So, please go back soon, right?”
As Eugene finished his errands at the Adventurer’s Guild, he still had a lot of work to do here and there before entering the Academy branch.
That’s why she’s slowly moving on to her next business and trying to make the female knight, who told her everything she needs to say, retreat.
“… All right.”
And the female knight could no longer remain stubborn in response to Eugene’s remark.
As she said, Grand Duke Zeno did not order Eugene to be brought in even with her own strength.
All I could say was that if I were to meet Eugene after searching for his location, he would tell me to make him come to the Grand Duke.
In other words, since it was close to an offer to Eugene, there was no justification for dragging him away by force since he rejected it.
No, even if there was a cause, the elf Cheonma was by Eugene’s side.
The fact that she speaks of Eugene as her husband without any hesitation makes it seem like they have a special relationship, although the meaning is unclear.
What this meant was that if Ozone was to be dragged away by force, Ozone would have to step in, and even if Ozone did, it would not be certain.
Therefore, in the end, the female knight had no choice but to retreat, accepting only what Eugene wanted to convey to the Grand Duke.
“Hmm, girl. Before I back out, let me give you a warning. It would be better to keep a secret the fact that I am with the Minister. As much as your position is your position, you are a woman called the Grand Duke… “Well, I won’t stop you from reporting to the Archduke, but let him know that it would be better for him to keep his mouth shut.”
Just like that, her ex-wife caught her in a situation where she was about to step down from this position as she was lost in her confusion, and her Yeon-hwa gave her a warning.
On the way, as is her usual habit, she tried to call all women except herself her bitch, but she remembered that no matter what, she was the mother of Stral, the body of Eugene, and treated her as a grand duke in her own way. The remark made while doing this.
… This was related to what Eugene and Yeonhwa were planning at the academy entrance ceremony to be held tomorrow.
For this to happen, the fact that Yeonhwa entered the academy as a student along with Eugene must not be known.
Even if we get information that Eugene and Yeonhwa have a special relationship, I wonder who would expect Yeonhwa to enter the academy as a student with Eugene…
‘But it would be better to be sure.’
That is why Yeonhwa is trying to control her here and the Grand Duke through her.
Since it is a warning from the Heavenly Demon and not from anyone else, anyone who knows even a little bit about the history of the empire would not be quick to speak up.
“… All right.”
In fact, the woman who lives here, who found out her identity through Yeonhwa’s warning, immediately reached the highest level of Expert, a level higher than Eugene, but she did not hastily ignore her warning with a tense expression on her face.
No, because she knew Yeonhwa’s identity and had reached the highest level of Expert, she was even more able to realize the difference between herself and Yeonhwa.
She also understood that the reason she was able to discover Yeonhwa, who was killing her presence, was because she was controlling herself in her own way, so she never looked down on her.
Because of this, the knight is very nervous and takes Yeonhwa’s warning into her mind and retreats.
It is said that the sudden departure of the female knight brought the situation back to the present, with only Eugene and his group remaining.
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“Master, is he really a different personality from that Stral Zenon?”
“No, the soul is different before the personality.”
“Soul… ?”
“In short, I was not originally Stral Zenon, but a completely different person. But when I suddenly came to my senses, I realized that I had become Stral Zenon.”
It is said that after the female knight left, Eugene and his party left the adventurer’s guild and began moving to take care of errands.
And in the process of moving like that, when Genos carefully asks Eugene about something he was curious about, Eugene honestly explains it to her.
“Right now, the name Jeol Yujin is the real name of my soul. In other words, I was originally a person named Jeol Yu-jin, but I pushed away the soul that Stral Zenon had and went to find his body.”
“But to the female knight who came to visit just now…”
“Well, if you tell me this truth honestly, no matter what you think, I killed Stral Zenon and took over his body, so from the Archduke’s point of view, I’m no different from an enemy, right?”
Even if it was an act of force majeure that was not Eugene’s intention, it is true that Stral Zenon’s original soul escaped from the body due to Eugene’s possession.
In other words, from the grand duke’s point of view, no matter how much of the son he banished, he has nothing to say even if he recognizes that the person who took his son’s life was Eugene.
“I don’t want to get into trouble with the Archduke. There’s a lot of work to be done right now…”
“That being said, if you just look at what he said to the female knight, it sounds like Stral is an enemy who pushed away his original personality, right?”
When Yeonhwa expressed her doubts in a puzzled voice at Eugene’s statement, which explained the truth without any need to hide it because she was a slave subordinate to him, Eugene shrugged his shoulders and answered.
“Actually, depending on your perspective, I am the enemy. Just because their personalities are slightly different, there is still a nuance that Stral and his soul are the same, right?”
“Indeed, I can’t pretend at all, but you’re saying that pretending to be Strahl was a way to maintain a reasonable distance from the sky because it felt guilty?”
Should we say that the truth is mixed with lies? Or should we say that truth is mixed with lies?
Either way, Eugene has no intention of revealing this to the Grand Duke, but it felt like a breakwater in case it was revealed that Eugene’s soul had completely pushed out Strahl’s soul and taken over his body.
Just from what Eugene said right now, it would be difficult for the Grand Duke to think of the current Eugene as his son.
In reality, even if one believed Eugene’s words, the personality of the son whom the Grand Duke had raised with love had to be considered as extinguished by Eugene’s personality.
Therefore, it would have been difficult for him to ignore the personality of the son he had raised and to accept the son who could not even properly remember himself as his child.
If a family member suffers from amnesia, no one remembers them, and their behavior is completely different from before they lost their memory, the family will have a hard time accepting that person as the same person they were before losing their memory.
So in the end, a sense of distance will be maintained, and this maintained distance will make it less shocking even if Eugene and Stral find out that their souls are different in the first place.
If Eugene pretends to be Strahl and takes advantage of the Archduke’s family and finds out about it, the sense of betrayal will reach its peak, but that’s not the case, so wouldn’t it be possible to prevent the relationship from becoming sour and losing the family?
“Well, in any case, this is the end of this body’s relationship with the Archduchy.”
“It’s a shame. “If the sky was a little colder, we could have used the Grand Duke’s house to feed our children.”
“I’m sorry, but no matter how much the couple resembles each other, they still don’t resemble Yeonmae’s ruthlessness. “I’m sorry for taking over my child’s body, but it’s unreasonable for me to use it to exploit my family.”
Even if Yeonhwa was the strongest single force, there were clearly issues that could not be resolved with that single force alone.
Yeonhwa, a Cheonma priest who led the Cheonma Shinyo religion, where millions of people lived in a place called Hundred Thousand Mountains in the past, also acknowledges this.
There were times when Yeonhwa could do things on her own that could not be done even if the entire Church of the Heavenly Demon came rushing in, but conversely, there were also cases where the teachers of the Church of the Heavenly Demon worked together to do what Yeonhwa could not do.
As such, Yeonhwa, who knows the power of power, cannot help but regret cutting off the relationship with the grand duke family, which Eugene can fully exploit.
However, it is said that Yeonhwa quickly got over it because even though she knew that Eugene felt uncomfortable, it was not so disappointing that she had to say that she had to eat at Daegongga.
“… By the way, bitch. “Do you really believe that the sky has possessed the body of that Stral guy?”
“Isn’t that what the master said? “Master’s words are the truth.”
“… “It’s not the first time I’ve seen a personality altered by slave imprinting, but every time I see it, I get the feeling that it’s something made by religious people.”
Yeon-hwa looked slightly fed up at the fact that the changed personality was no different from a fanatic, as if it was something created from a miracle given by God for no reason.
Well, unlike Yeonhwa’s reaction, it was convenient for Eugene in that he didn’t have to persuade Genos.
“Even if it’s not what the master said, I don’t think it’s impossible. “It’s a world where ghosts exist and all kinds of bizarre things happen in dungeons.”
“Well, it’s not that kind of world. “I experienced reincarnation right now.”
When Genos speaks to Yeonhwa carefully, Yeonhwa nods her head, remembering her own case and the thoughts of the snow woman she met not long ago.
“It’s arriving soon.”
Eugene and his group, who were heading to their next destination while talking like that, soon arrived at the place Eugene had targeted.
“This place…”
After checking the place where they arrived, Yeonhwa looked at Eugene and asked him what he was doing here, and Eugene explained what it was like to be a fairly shabby bar built on the side of a road in an island.
“First of all, it looks like a shabby bar on the outside, but it’s kind of a cliché, but in reality, it’s a place that sells information.”
In particular, the information store in the shape of this bar could be said to be the place where Eugene, who knew the original work, could be assured of its reliability.
‘In the original work, we had to go through quite a bit of trouble to find out about this place.’
To be precise, it is easy to determine the location itself, but you had to go through the trouble to find out the password needed to buy the information.
… And of course, Eugene, who knew the code text through knowledge of the original work, had been using this information store frugally from the beginning of his possession in Stral’s body.
