Resurrected Immortal 17

Chapter 17 – 017. The Secret of the Divine Tree (2)

“Your father created the situation so that the author could kill Renion Hersha?”

“Yes.”

Alvin answered Alex’s question.
In fact, the prison where Renion was imprisoned was placed under the management of the kingdom’s army.
Considering that Alex and Eleanor’s father, the Duke of Armitas, currently holds the title of Minister of Defense of the Kingdom of Fernias, all the military and military facilities in the kingdom are under his command.
It was also easy to create a situation where Elvin and Renion were left alone by imprisoning Renion in a prison with no prisoners and ordering the guards to stop patrolling and guarding.

“At first, I tried to keep my promise. But there were people who killed him and were after me as soon as I got out of prison.”

Alvin realized.
Duke Armitas said that when the job is done, he has no intention of leaving him alive.

“What I didn’t understand was that it wouldn’t have mattered if I got the gold coins back and killed him. ‘Why was it at that timing?’ Anyway, my magic got out of control, so I had to hide in the shadows and rest. When I woke up from a longer-than-expected sleep, my brother was missing and couldn’t be found, and I searched for clues about his brother hiding in the shadows of the most suspicious dukes.”

“Then, Princess Eleanor, enticed by a clue intentionally leaked by us, ‘I have found the whereabouts of Erin Herscha,’ appeared at the place we suggested, and coincidentally, the black magician who had been hiding in her shadow also appeared. .”

“I am… I did not know. That there was such a deal between your father and you, and the story of betrayal.”

“One thing I don’t understand is why did the black magician try to kill the princess? It is a story called. Why? Why on the spot?”

“There were two reasons. The first is to show my will to the ducal family who did not keep their promise. The second was to use that woman as a hostage and ask Duke Armitas to find clues about my brother.”

“Huh? At that time, the princess must have been strangled to death by the black mage, right?”

“I was only thinking of fainting.”

“No, no matter who sees it, it was just before going up to the sky…”

“If I was going to kill him, I would have killed him more easily. Like beheading him.”

“Oh, I see.”

Eunhyeon simply understood when he remembered the time when Elvin killed Renion.
Others thought the conversation between the two was too casual for the mood.
In particular, Eleanor, who was about to be killed, looked even worse.
Eleanor said to Alvin, clenching her fists.

“I didn’t even know there was such a deal going on between you and my father.”

“Then why did you go all the way there yourself when the assassin said he found my brother?”

“That… It was my father’s order. Erin Hershara, who has gone missing, to find the whereabouts of her child.”

“Ha, why is the duke looking for my brother himself? Whoever sees it, don’t you think it’s an act of holding me hostage in order to take the gold coins from me?”

“…”

Eleanor also understood why she had to go through such death threats.
I also learned about Alvin’s grudge.
What she did not know was her own father’s intentions.
Did she really have that intention and ordered herself, her daughter?
She didn’t answer anything with a confused look on her face.
Maybe that’s what it really is? I even thought about it.

“Now, the explanation of the incident is over. Shall we move on to the next step now?”

Eunhyun once again intervened between Elvin and Eleanor to mediate the conversation.

“First, Treasury Secretary Bernard?”

“Hmm…”

Bernard Boris, who had been quietly listening to the play and stories until now, looked at Eunhyun and nodded his head.

“I will return the gold coins Renion Hersha stole from Illyana. Instead, we want to be paid on our side as well.”

“… What do you want Is it money?”

“Please. What we want is ‘non-interference and protection of the Hersha siblings’.”

“… ? Are you serious?”

The astonished voice was Oliver’s utterance.

“Protection! The author is a black magician! It wouldn’t be enough if I tore it to death right here and now…”

“Oh, you don’t have to worry about that. No Interference and Protection is exactly the story of Erin, her sister. She said the kid really didn’t know anything and she’s just caught up in this. Warlock, we will take care of the new recruits.”

“That… That man is the kingdom’s criminal! But how come you decide it and not us!”

“Hmm. Principal, are you really okay?”

“What?”

“If you concede the guidance of the black magician’s new recruit, can we also condone one of the big mistakes the school principal made?”

“What… Sound… ?”

Eun-hyeon left Oliver, who had a puzzled look on her face, and moved her gaze towards the siblings of the Duke of Armitas.

“It seems that the siblings of the duchy didn’t know about this at all, so you don’t have a choice? What will Captain Riod, whose mission was to arrest the black magician, do? Would you like to take it yourself?”

Seeing Eunhyeon’s smiling expression, Leod narrowed his brows and played along to his rhythm.

“Do whatever you want. If the gold coins, which were the biggest problem, are returned to the kingdom, there will be no big problem. It is dishonorable for a Knight Commander to not be able to guide the recruits of criminals, but I think it is right for wizards to manage criminals who are wizards.”

When Leo, who was in charge of the investigation, gave permission, it became very difficult for Bernard to refute Eun-hyeon’s words.
However, he couldn’t help but nod his head as he thought of the return of the most important embezzled gold coin.
When Eunhyeon accepted Bernard’s promise, he winked at Alvin, and Erwin, who understood the meaning, took out a gold coin from her bosom and handed it to Eunhyeon.
Eunhyeon immediately handed it over to Bernard, and the problem was solved.
It wasn’t completely resolved, though.

“This is impossible… I have the damn thing right in front of me… I have to tear it all apart and burn it to get rid of it… All black magicians…”

“You seem to still have a lot of complaints.”

Seeing Oliver muttering with a very angry expression, Illyana laughed.

“Well, I guess I personally have bad memories.”

Eunhyeon replied and looked at Alvin.
As he was staring at Eun-hyeon, demanding something with his eyes, Eun-hyeon responded to his gaze and nodded his head.

“I kept my promise.”

“Okay. I will keep my promise.”

Match!

“Well then? Shall we move on to the second play?”

“Second?”

“Wasn’t everything over?”

“Has everyone forgotten? Isn’t the case with Baron Hersha not only about Renion and Elvin?”

“Ah…”

People remembered it then.
All members of the Hersha family disappeared from the world in strange forms.
Renion, the father, is in the form of ‘execution’.
My older brother, Alvin, in the form of ‘runaway’.
Her sister, Erin, in the form of ‘missing’.
So far, only the truth about Renion and Alvin has been revealed.
Erin’s whereabouts are still unknown.
Her promise that Erwin made to her Eun-hyeon was that she herself would come forward, reveal everything, and hand over the gold coins to Treasury Secretary Bernard, not to the duchy. In return, Eun-hyeon promised Erin’s safety and security.

“Now, here I would like to ask you one thing. Do you know why we invited you here?”

“Are you sure you want to say it’s because of that girl?”

“You’re right. Because this is the place where a girl named Erin Hersha went missing. And also to prove to the warlock that the girl is here.”

“Nonsense! Could it be because of the eyewitness account of the girl who jumped from the roof of the school? We also received the girl’s report, and all the magic professors, including me, have already searched this school! There is no sign of the missing child at all!”

Nevertheless, Eun-hyeon’s actions in making that claim seemed to tarnish the honor of Oliver and other magic professors in Aether.
Eunhyun smiled at her despite her fiery roar.

“School principal. There is no such thing as ‘nonsense’ in this world. It makes sense because there is a cause and a process. Please do not make the mistake of denying the phenomenon itself just because it is a phenomenon that cannot be explained by your own experience and knowledge.”

“Under! Are you teaching me now? You’re above me just because you showed me one of these mystical magics? That’s ridiculous! I don’t know what you believe and say that. Only commoners don’t even know the subject!”

“No, is that X meal for real?”

Illyana, who had been listening silently, twitched her eyebrows and tried to step forward, but Riod, who was next to her, stopped her and stopped her.
Seeing Leode shaking her head and stopping herself, Illyana gnashed her teeth and glared at Oliver, who was insulting her Eun Hyun.
It seemed as if high-ranking flame-type magic would come out just by looking at him, but Oliver had no time to pay attention to Illyana, whether he was busy using all sorts of means to cut down Eunhyun.
The fact that Eun-hyun is the witch’s lover is a fact that no one in this country knows except for Riod.
Eun-hyeon, who is the most distant person in this place and has a status of owning nothing, obviously expected his resentment, and showed no concern at all.

“Then would you like to watch the second play and judge?”

Right!

Before Oliver had time to say anything, Eun-hyeon snapped her fingers and the world changed completely again.
Even though it was her second ability, Eleanor shook her shoulders as if she couldn’t adapt to this phenomenon.
The prison, which was the original background, was blurred and began to be built as the roof of the school building as a new background.
At a dark time filled with cold air, a female student sat down on the railing on the roof, sobbing over her body as if in sorrow.

– Brother… Brother Alvin. Where the hell are you? It’s too hard…

For days she searched for her brother, Alvin, who wouldn’t show her face and didn’t know where he was or what he was doing.

“…”

Hearing her brother’s monologue, Alvin clenched her fists and forced her feelings of regret and sadness to come out of her mouth.
She gritted her teeth and endured it.

– I asked you to wait a little bit… Soon she could get out of the house, she said, but she…

Erin felt left alone in the world and abandoned in a situation where her mother died and Elvin, the only person Erin could rely on, even her whereabouts became unclear.
At school, she was subjected to invisible abuse mixed with contempt and contempt from students and teachers, and was physically and mentally driven to her limit, and was in a different state.
She endured and endured, remembering the words of Alvin, who promised her a stable life and set her free from her father’s abuse someday.
Erinn’s reason was already broken to some extent.
Having become a member of her family of criminals, she was no longer treated as a human being, and everyone at her school turned away from her.
Her appearance was also a cute expression.
The violence inflicted on her body behind her back was by no means an act of noble aristocrats.
People who were directly or indirectly feeling the sadness, loneliness, and hopelessness she felt were watching her hauntingly, holding her breath as she let out her somber voice.
In particular, Alvin couldn’t see her younger brother struggling as she closed her eyes tightly.
She said that she did this because of her longing for her mourning over her dead mother and her longing to free her Erin from her father’s abuse.
The fact that all this time she had done for her brother ended up strangling her brother more and more.
Rather than killing Renion, she might have chosen to escape the kingdom with the gold coins he had hidden, she thought, Alvin.
Was it greed in itself to hope for the happiness of her sister and to give her a peaceful daily life while maintaining this and that?

– Rather… If Erwin oppa is no more…

While Alvin closed her eyes tightly and felt such guilt and regret.
A dejected expression and pupils with closed pupils.
Erin, whose expression was ruined by her despair, finally trudged up from the floor and, moving her feet, landed on the ledge of her rooftop.

“No.”

She showed an agitated expression for the first time in Alvin, who had not shown a big emotional change.
Breaking into a cold sweat, she shook her head, denying the situation in her vision in her eyes.
A welcome is just a welcome.
Even though there was no way his words could reach her younger brother in her welcome, Alvin continued talking.

“Then no.”

Erin blankly stood on the ledge of the roof, looking up at the sky.
Alvin hurriedly spoke while watching the thrilling moment when she seemed to fall off if she stretched forward.

“I was wrong. I made the wrong choice. Please, please don’t Erin!”

-I’ll go with her mother and her brother…

– No one… I want to go to a place where no one bothers me… Someone please hide me I don’t want to live this hard anymore. Please…

Leaning her body forward, Erin’s head fell straight down.
Alvin fell to her knees in frustration.
Erin was eventually mentally broken, and she thought that even her brother, Elvin, would die, pursued by her knights, so that she would never come to her.
Her truth about her missing Erin was that Erin, who had lost hope in her life, chose her suicide as it was.
When the play through hallucinations ended, Eun-hyeon snapped her fingers.

Right!

The surrounding environment surrounding people first returned to the school garden where the ‘Tree of Hope’ was located.

“This is the truth. What do you think about this Headmaster?”

Eunhyeon asked Oliver, who was making a dumb expression with a smile on his face, saying, ‘Now, talk about it.’