Chapter 165 – 165. Letting Go of Anger (2)
“How is your condition?”
Looking at Eunhyun’s face, who went straight into serious work mode, Agnes sighed and opened her mouth.
“Even though the shoulder wound was severe, your first aid was respected, and I tried to live with my holy magic. It only repaired the damage to the body. I woke up two hours before you came because my symptoms of dehydration and my physical condition were so bad. I didn’t bother interrogating you because you came and interrogated me yourself.”
“Okay.”
“Then come see me later when you’re done.”
“Weren’t you going to come in with me?”
“Do you really need me to come in? I’ve been giving you sermon-like words until now, but looking at you these days and your face now, I have a rough idea of what to do with that bastard in the interrogation room.”
“…”
Agies smiled and turned around.
“Don’t kill me. Well, I think you can control that much on your own, but I’m just saying it just in case.”
“Okay. Thank you.”
“Yeah~. When you’re done, can you come and share some information?”
“Uh.”
As he turned around and climbed the basement stairs, Agies gestured and greeted Eun-hyeon behind his back.
Soon after, Eunhyeon turned her head again and stared at a man who was restrained in a chair beyond the underground interrogation room.
Click
As Eun-hyeon entered the underground interrogation room, the heavy iron door closed and a heavy metal sound filled the interrogation room.
Ashton’s body moved a little in response to the rustle, and he raised his head.
“Yes… He…”
His eyes are out of focus, he glances at the haggard impression, the scar on Ashton’s shoulder, confirms it, and murmurs.
“Looks worth living.”
“Doc… Hit!”
Eun-hyeon summoned a dagger in her hand, and he approached Ashton, who was glaring at him as if to kill him.
Fu-wook
“Aagh!”
As I thrust the dagger into Ashton’s thigh without hesitation, screams of pain spread throughout the interrogation room.
There was no one who could hear his screams and help him in a desolate space where only Eunhyun and Ashton existed.
“Big!”
Ashton’s eyes, gritting his teeth and staring at Eun-hyeon with bloodshot eyes, contain feelings of anger such as hatred, revenge, and shame.
Accepting his gaze as it is, Eunhyun laughed as if it was absurd.
“Why are you looking at me like that?”
“You… I think I can do it safely… !”
“What are you going to do?”
Fu-wook
“Quaaaaa!”
Summoning another dagger and driving it into his opposite thigh, Ashton’s scream rang out again.
A dagger stabbed deep into both thighs, and both legs restrained in a chair trembled and kicked the floor violently, complaining of pain.
His head tilted upward and his vocal chords cracking to the point of going out was a lonely struggle that no one could reach.
“Your life as a noble is over. Shall I tell you why?”
“Kuuuuu… !”
“Your mother’s family, Countess Rubran, denied any relationship with you in this case. Not only that, but your mother, Melissa Rubran, has disowned you.”
“… There’s no way my mother, my mother, would have abandoned me!”
Agitation begins to dwell in Ashton’s eyes, which were filled with various emotions of anger.
“Whether you believe in it or not, you are free, but there is no one, cause, or anything with the power to get you out of this place.”
“I will… Medical charge…”
“It’s funny. To face such a miserable situation. I brought this result on my own, so there is no self-inflicted gain.”
“Shut up…”
“What do you think? Until now, comforting yourself by saying that you are superior to anyone else, ignoring the personality of a powerless subordinate and unilaterally suppressing it, how does it feel like as soon as your parents give up on you, you instantly feel like you have no position, no power, no power?”
“Shut up.”
“What is different about you and Erwin and Erin that you ignored so much? What is the difference between you now and the common people you ignored and looked down on so much?”
“Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up!”
“Can’t you just say that?”
Eun-hyeon tilted his head and looked at Ashton, continuing to touch his mentality.
“Actually, externally, they said they came to see you for interrogation, but I have no intention of interrogating you.”
“… ?”
“This… It’s just a matter of resentment.”
“What… Called?”
Ashton, who lost his temper at the sudden self-confession and yelled at Eun-hyeon as if he was going to run into it, asked again with an expression that he couldn’t understand.
“I don’t need to interrogate you.”
Eun-hyeon had already developed one of the powers of the goddess and developed the ability to read other people’s memories.
There was no need for Eun-hyeon to interrogate Ashton while torturing him while taking his strength away.
Touching Ashton’s mentality right now and not conducting a proper interrogation is itself a waste of time and effort.
Nonetheless, the reason why Eunhyeon was wasting her time and effort in this spot was for the process of resolving the feelings of regret, anger, and annoyance that had accumulated over the years.
Eun-hyeon, who had been in a state of mind to some extent, was able to firmly capture his heart by driving a wedge into Eun-hyeon’s sermon.
This is the first step
“And the duke abandoned you too.”
“… !”
“The proof is that I came, not the Duke or Alex. Because I gave up on you In other words, the right to deal with you belongs to me and the temple. Of course, if all the information is extracted from you, then the temple has no reason to restrain you, so what you do with it is up to me.”
“Father…”
“Isn’t that obvious? There’s no way I’ll continue to defend you, who has betrayed the duke’s family. In fact, this is the result of being tethered to bloodlines and treating them softly until now.”
“I didn’t do anything wrong! Everything was done for the family! However… But how did my father… !”
“…”
At Ashton’s words that he shouted so naturally, Eun-hyeon lost her words and put on a dumbfounded expression.
‘This X meal… Are you serious… ?’
The fact that he sincerely thinks like that makes Eun-hyeon even more bewildered.
“I don’t know that the starting point of this problem was that you unnecessarily suggested to Renion Hersha a way to siphon off the country’s budget, enlisted many nobles to commit serious crimes to siphon off the kingdom’s money, and undermined the authority of the royal family. Are you?”
“Even if you didn’t intervene, the royal family wouldn’t have found out about this at all!”
“It’s stupid, but the fact that this incident started spreading to the surface began when Alvin personally gathered evidence of his father Renion’s corruption and came to the duke’s family. And there, the root cause of the problem that could have been covered up between Elvin and Duke Abros was that you betrayed Alvin while trembling with anxiety and fluttering. In the end, your foolish judgment…”
While talking like that, Eunhyeon felt a sense of incongruity and was unable to speak.
‘Is this guy really leading the way?’
Strangely, the actions Ashton has shown so far and the actions he has carefully framed for embezzlement do not match.
She was afraid that Alvin would betray the premise, and she hastily betrayed Alvin first.
As her Erin grows and builds her reputation in her kingdom, she even shows her actions in kidnapping her, fearing that she will expose her own wrongdoing and shame her.
At the end, even the foolish act of trying to bring the entire ducal family out of the kingdom by way of friendship.
‘How could a fool full of vanity, suffering from such an anxiety disorder, display the diligence of attracting many aristocrats and making them accomplices to make the board of embezzlement bigger and more elaborate?’
Squinting her eyes, she thinks as she stares at Ashton, who is writhing in pain with a knife lodged in both thighs.
Soon, Eun-hyeon placed her index finger on Ashton’s forehead and activated her goddess power.
[Eunhyeon’s Unique Ability]
[Memory Opinion]
Through her ability to peek into the memories of others, she reads Ashton’s memories from the most recent to the moment of his first embezzlement, as if climbing over a falling waterfall.
[Need a lot of money? Hmm, I have a good method, would you like to hear it?]
[It’s okay. If you attract other nobles as accomplices, they will desperately try to hide this fact to hide their embezzlement.]
[Oh, how could the duke kill Ashton, the little duke…]
[Would you like to take revenge on the ducal family for abandoning Ashton like this?]
[Introduction. He is Lord Bark, who will provide us with shelter.]
After reading Ashton’s many memories of a conversation with a man, Eunhyeon naturally frowned.
The conclusion that could be drawn by reading Ashton’s memories.
‘It wasn’t just this one time.’
The real mastermind behind the embezzlement of embezzlement that ate away this country.
And I begin to be convinced that the owner who released the ‘hunting dogs’ for Eleanor’s kidnapping and the person who tried to bring down the entire duke family by framing them as the mastermind behind allegations of misappropriation and embezzlement are the same person.
In addition, considering that he was also connected to Bark, it is possible to think of the possibility that he may be connected to Harukan as well.
If so, the first thing you need to know is that it has been decided.
‘Lindewald territory.’
An incident led by Harkan to drive Viscount Lindebald’s family and the people of the territory into a group of heretics, turning the entire territory into a mess.
It is also a case that Agnes is re-investigating now that questions have been revealed while investigating all the past activities of the exiled Harkan.
There is also a very high possibility that Lee Ji-ja is behind the purge of pagans in Lindebald.
Knowing that this was a fact she had to inform Agnes, Eunhyeon pulled out the two daggers stuck in Ashton’s thighs.
“Ah!”
“Don’t worry. You don’t kill me.”
“Big… !”
“It is not my role to decide whether to kill you or save you. You said It’s just a matter of venting your anger…”
“What… What bullshit!”
“For kidnapping her Erin and trying to get her classmates to rape her.”
“… !”
“Even the way she tried to make Eleanor suffer the same thing, the way she thinks and does the same pattern is so monotonous.”
Eunhyeon slammed the dagger on the back of Ashton’s hand with a grave expression.
Kwajik
“Kuaaa!”
“I wanted to kill you not once or twice. I suppressed and repressed the urge to vent my personal resentment at having touched Erin and Eleanor. I thought it would be more annoying if I killed you due to various circumstances. It’s still the same now. So don’t kill me but…”
Kwajik
“Turn it off!”
The dagger slashed down to the back of the opposite hand in the same way.
Ashton glared at Eunhyun with bloodshot eyes again.
“That doesn’t mean I have to endure and forgive all of your actions.”
So, this is just a simple joke.
Since he was detained in the temple just in time, he had the means to restore Ashton’s body, and he had permission from Agnes, the current manager of this temple, and pushed him to do whatever he wanted.
The goddess’s sanction to stop the impulse of emotion doesn’t come in either.
That’s why Eunhyeon couldn’t stand it any longer.
“I will kill you… I will kill you… Even if I die, I will curse you and drag you to hell!”
Feeling indescribable pain, Ashton’s reason collapsed, and his body was completely bruised.
The blood that flowed from the wounds on both his thighs and the backs of both hands soaked the entire iron chair restraining him.
The sight was so grotesque that if someone else had seen it, they might have frowned and averted their gaze.
“You can’t take me to hell. My soul has already been entrusted to someone else.”
Even if Eun-hyeon insisted on explaining, Ashton would not understand.
“Determining your treatment will be for Erin and Eleanor to decide in the distant future. At least Erin’s goal is to get an apology from you directly. At the very least, we have to let the child, who is running hard for it, remain true to her goal.”
“I… Do you think you will apologize to that bitch!?”
It seems like she hasn’t come to her senses even after reaching this point, and now Eun-hyeon is so dumbfounded that it’s too much of a hassle to explain to her.
“I don’t think so. Either Erin or Eleanor. You’re an idiot who still doesn’t think you’re at fault.”
“Okay! What a fuss! Who the hell are you to judge me!”
“To be honest, I don’t really care if you apologize or not. At that time, Erin will decide for herself. I’m just guiding him until then.”
Eleanor doesn’t seem to want to deal with Ashton anymore, but Erin’s goals haven’t changed since the moment she made up her mind.
“That year… You cannot be recognized in this country.”
“In the current situation, it is.”
It is true that the environment surrounding Erin was not so good.
The Marquess of Olivion in Rio de Ghana, and the Duchy of Armitas in Abros show a favorable attitude to Erin due to her grace, but her status and birth are unchanged.
Eun-hyeon was well aware that restoring the honor of her brother, who was known as a black magician and a wicked man, was not something a weak and weak girl could handle alone.
However, it is also true that it is not impossible at all.
“I will make it that way, though. I’m going to get rid of anything that stands in Erin’s way, nobility or whatever, and make this country acknowledge her Erin.”
That was the first goal of Eun-hyeon, who decided to value her feelings and prioritize her people.
Erin was the seed of the hero Eun-hyeon found and raised under the guidance of her goddess, and was a friend to Eun-hyeon, and was like her sister and daughter.
As a human being, Eun-hyeon had the heart to support the future of the girl who chose to walk the path of hardship on her own.
“I don’t worry anymore.”
This time, she stabbed a dagger through Ashton’s forearm.
“Quaaaaagh!”
“No one, waiting quietly in this place where there is nothing, not even dying. Because one day another hero I raised will come to punish you directly.”
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“Are you here?”
After opening the door and seeing Eun-hyeon in the main classroom of the temple, Agies frowned at her.
Blood splattered all over her body, dirty clothes, and the smell of blood and iron mingled with Eunhyeon’s body.
“Looks like you did it splendidly. Didn’t you kill him?”
“Uh.”
“So, what about the harvest?”
“Lindevald. It seems that the guy behind it is the same guy.”
Agnes, who understood the meaning of the words, frowned and sighed heavily.
“… Shit, how come your sad premonitions are never wrong? Really.”
