Chapter 1027 – What Is the Right Heart?
Gold, who gave the order, spoke again soon.
“…No. The carriage is gone. Rest.”
[Okay, Mr. Gold.]
Gold covered his face with his hands.
The conversation he had just had with his father came to life in his mind.
“Succession…?”
“Okay.”
Gald tells Gold about the history that has happened so far. Hero’s will. And the risk factors were explained.
Gold’s eyes shook at the truth that was hard to accept.
“…In other words. Even if we just stand still like this. In this generation… We will lose our power, and the power of Heart and Thunder will be transferred to Madora. Is that a story?”
“It is.”
Gald affirmed.
“However. If we gain strength by being recognized as a hero first, she will naturally be pushed to second place.”
“…”
Gold stared at the floor involuntarily.
Lose power?
Will I be unable to use the power of lightning, which is so natural now?
At the same time. Gold also learned why his father entrusted the artifact to him.
Until now, I thought it was proof of recognition.
The evidence of recognition was correct, but the meaning was different from what Gold thought of recognition.
Gald wanted Gold to succeed the hero.
“We, the Heart family, are just thieves. That’s why we didn’t have it. We desperately wanted the status and recognition of a hero.”
I couldn’t be satisfied with just the top of the upper limit.
They desperately needed a ‘foundation’ to carry on the name of Hart forever.
Also. As a staggering thief, it was also necessary to have a proud heart.
That’s why the heart family’s secret wish.
Succession.
Everyone in the immediate family who learned this truth wanted to inherit the power, and failed.
Trials are worthy of being a hero. The Hart family, which was mere bloodlines of thieves and merchants at best, had no choice.
A treasure that I longed for but couldn’t get my hands on.
A longing passed on by all family heads.
And now, a change is about to happen in Gald’s stand.
“First of all, Madora Aritats is very dangerous.”
“…Before you hear that, Father. She really… Sun…”
Thunder tried to ask if he was right, but his jaw trembled and his words didn’t follow.
Not a heart
Your original name was Sander?
Gald nodded his head as if he understood.
“Ah, I was vague about it, but I’ll say it again. The legacy left by Pryu Nar is very profound and powerful, and I just heard her name, and the unique Ryu Nar within me stirred her up. Thunder, the foundation of my unique Ryu Nar, that he recognized her.”
The ability that Brave said earlier is a lie.
However, the library really exists.
“Brave is extinct, so it doesn’t matter anyway. What matters now is that we are in jeopardy with the terrifying accuracy of the original Ryunar.”
Even after 10,000 years, the original Ryunar who created his own Ryunar, whose real successor could be recognized, was truly a god.
Gold hung his head in silence, and Gald took his son’s hand.
“Son. It’s okay!!”
“Are you talking about succession…?”
Gald shook his head.
“I told you to take the succession earlier, son. I know a much easier way than that.”
Gold raised his head and saw his father for the first time. I thought Gald’s face looked unfamiliar.
And the man with a strange face said.
“No matter what you do to Madora Araitats, no. Madora Thunder, Dre-sama will not destroy the Hart family.”
“…That, what… What did you say?!”
Are you telling Madora… To do Hakoji?
“Until now, I couldn’t lay my hands on Madora Thunder…”
Gald spoke as he repeatedly tore the scroll containing the soundproofing and detection magics in his arms.
“Apart from the unique Ryu Gnar causing her rejection, Master Dre cares for her.”
“…”
The moment Gold hears Dre’s name, his heart thumps. She felt the sensation of being stoned.
“I’ll say it again. He says he doesn’t like marriage and kids, but I don’t see a particularly grand reason.”
It’s like an ordinary father who hates raising dogs, but when he does, he loves them more than anyone else.
Even if it’s not that trivial feeling, it’s a similar level of disgust.
“Well. That’s not the point. What I wanted to say, like what I said earlier, is that Lady Dre cares for Madora Thunder like her own daughter.”
Unlike when he treated her other women, he seemed to take care of Madora like her daughter rather than being attracted to her as a woman, and was happy that she followed suit.
“It’s a case similar to her Askatlov… Her crush on Madora Thunder is deeper than I thought. If I eliminated her, her head would run away and her family line would be shattered. I guess.”
That’s why she couldn’t kill Madora.
Instead.
“Cut off.”
To not be a hero. He made her fall into her room.
Delivering research support items late on purpose, or providing support funds, food, and entertainment indefinitely.
And Madora became a human the size of a room, far from being a hero, just as Gald wanted.
…I just knew that.
“Haha. After all, he’s a descendant of a real hero.”
When Dre went to visit her. She listened to the report of the knight who accompanied her.
The roomy appearance she has shown so far is only a break for her future efforts. As if to prove her words, she is devoted to research all day these days.
It would be difficult to say that Madora was not influenced by her Dre who came to visit her, but she knows how to control herself and has the drive to win her desires.
To make matters worse, now that Dre knows where she resides, she’s going to stop her room from getting any more.
No.
In the first place. She wouldn’t fall into her room herself.
Madora Airaitetsu is an erratic but unmistakable genius.
At this rate, her unique Ryu Nar will be transferred to her.
Gald was in a hurry.
“You know, son? Even if Madora Thunder isn’t as good as you. She truly has the talent to be called a hero’s lineage.”
She someday no. She probably meets the ‘standard’ soon.
At that time, all unique Ryunar and artifacts will be handed over to Madora.
The Hart family will lose their foundation and stumble greatly like the Brave of the past.
“…Father. I…”
If. If only they knew they weren’t stealing names. Gold would have proudly said that he would accept the succession right now.
However, I couldn’t.
Because the basis of human pride and ego called gold, the right mind was shaking.
His own blood. Seonjo is not a hero, but actually a completely different person. Because the fact that he was a rogue was humiliating.
“That’s why, son. I wanted you to succeed as soon as possible.”
“…”
“I didn’t even get a chance to face a trashy hero like me. I have a hunch. If it’s you, you can succeed…!! If only you succeed…! According to Brave’s information! Dre-sama, who hosts the show, won’t touch us…!”
To throw yourself away
There was arrogance and sincerity in those words.
The dignified patriarch, who was strict with his subordinates and tried to maintain the status quo, actually had human-like concerns.
Gold sees truth and love in Gald’s eyes. His heart ached at the sight of his full anticipation.
Bang!
Gald grabbed Gold by the shoulder and shook him with an enthusiastic gesture.
“Our hero miraculously born from the lineage of worm-like thieves!! You…! You can do it…!!”
“…Father… I…”
“…Yes. But. It’s still premature.”
Gald shook his head.
I didn’t know when Madora would wake up, so I tried to have Gold take over as soon as possible.
However. My thoughts have changed now.
You can’t put your son, who has reached the truth on his own and shows much more than expected, in danger of becoming an idiot.
Galdina, who tried to send her to a faraway place to recuperate and avoid friction with Dre-sama, as soon as Julis, who was trying to block the succession, was troublesome and returned. He was more concerned about his son than Ulis.
“I want you to fulfill our heart’s longing, but at the same time, I want you to be unscathed and happy.”
“…!!”
Intense sincerity.
Gold forgot his words.
He is a father who is usually full of affection for himself, but he had expectations and affection for himself more than he thought.
“…So Gold. We have another way.”
Gald spoke secretly and meanly.
“You will kill Madora Thunder.”
“…?!?! Ah, father…! What are you saying…!”
Not just harm, but kill? Gold rarely stuttered.
“I want to do the dirty work, but I can’t. If I risk everything and try to kill Madora, it won’t end with me. Dre-sama will destroy me as well as the Hart family.”
“Brother…!”
“Hmm. I know. I know. He cares about the Hart family, so he won’t kill them all. It’s not his style to kill innocent people who don’t know anything.”
However, if he helped Gald with his own will, he would kill them all.
In addition, it will completely block the path of recognition as a hero and the continuation of the Heart family, which was Gald’s long-cherished wish.
He was a brutal man who knew what his opponent feared the most, or if he didn’t have it, he created it and completely crushed it.
“I can’t. If I kill Madora Thunder, whom I cherish like my daughter. No. I can’t kill her with my strength in the first place. Even if I try, I’ll lose all the points I’ve earned to Dre-sama and die right away at his hands.”
Dre usually doesn’t want to do that even if he knows that Gald is plotting a sinister plot or using his reputation to do business.
Gold’s father, who owes a lot to Gald, he doesn’t say anything.
From a general point of view, he is an outrageous good man.
However, he is also an outrageous villain.
If you exceed the standard, you will be punished without mercy, even if you were close until then.
“Until now, I tried not to exceed his standards, and we got along well with each other.”
But now this case is different.
“He’s the heir. Even if he doesn’t like him, he’ll have to punish the hearts he stole because of the quest.”
Gold swallowed a gulp at Gald’s serious voice.
Big brother… Punish hearts?
Become an enemy of the heart?
“Just in time, the situation is going very well for him. The Aesangyo Church, the Judgment Church, and the Gwangsin Church. At this time, all the holy nations are restless because they can’t put him under their own affiliation. You will be able to demonstrate your great virtue, fairness, to the world.”
Even if you don’t, you will be able to solidify your identity and fundamentals even though you have a reputation for fairness.
“Haha. The rumors about our confrontation with Dre-sama, which have been leaked so far, may later be wrapped up as saying that Dre-sama had to punish us, who he knew well, or went through human agony.”
The reason for the conflict between the two well-to-do forces is likely to circulate since Dre found out about Hart’s fault.
The public will think that Dre took action after learning about the theft of the hearts that helped him so far, thinking for a long time whether to punish them or not.
…Of course. Gald didn’t really think so.
There’s no way Dre would move for such a mundane reason.
It was just a piece of flesh put on to convince his son.
He is a merchant It is accurate to the human eye.
Dre is not interested in cause or honor.
Gold should have known that too, but now, in his bewilderment, he didn’t seem to be able to reach that far.
At this point, you have to push.
“To my eyes, he is merciful, but when he is cruel, when he has to, he is infinitely cruel. Recall, Sir Lehfeldt. Sir Kaisir. Zellz. Charles. Topaz.”
“…”
“And Julis. The sight of losing our lives at his hands… The miserable sight of us doing nothing but helplessly waiting for the judgment…!!”
Gold inadvertently clenched his fists.
“But. Why does that mean I have to kill Madora…?”
“That’s right. It’s because he values you more than Madora.”
Gold was dazed as if he had been hit with a hammer in the head.
“Of course, if you kill Madora, you’ll be very disappointed and you’ll punch her. Even so… For the sake of the dead Madora, I won’t do anything to you, a precious person who is alive.”
He is a merciless punisher, even if he knew it until now.
There is a soft side when it comes to things that are really precious.
“To the extent of killing Madora Thunder, you are not exceeding his standards.”
If it’s gold, he won’t kill until he does more.
Gold was silent for a long time before finally opening his mouth.
“…Father. No matter how you think about it, we…”
“Let’s admit our mistakes and restart now? I’ve said it over and over again. What about the future of those countless people who follow us?!?!”
Gold made no reply to his father’s voice, which seemed to grow in frustration.
The ideal was high.
Can’t come up with any solution.
‘I’d rather take over?’
But… That’s it. Even if the succession succeeds, it will be a great theft of Thunder’s name.
The right gold agonizes and agonizes again.
Gald pounded his chest with a frustrated face.
“There’s no time. Son…! Master Dre has already started moving. Ulysse must have been kidnapped by him…!”
“…!!”
Gold also guessed.
The presence of a familiar person from the letter I received before. Because he sensed Dre’s presence.
However, when I actually heard from my father, the shock was strong.
“Are you curious about the reason for her abduction? Because she knows about her succession too! Until now, you have prevented me from performing a dangerous succession ceremony!”
“!!”
Gold remembers that his father strangely listened to Ulysse’s opinion, and at the same time he recalls the ‘sister’ he gave to him in an unknown place.
“I don’t know what she’s going through. She probably won’t kill me…”
Gald inflicted a whip on Gold’s heart.
His son’s anxious face was painful, but he was the head of the household before his father.
‘I will do anything to protect the family.’
If you stay still without doing anything like this, Madora will soon awaken and regain her strength.
However, Gold is too dangerous to hold the succession ceremony, and if he kills Madora, Dre will lose the Hart family.
It all depends on Gold.
Everything…
“Son. Please.”
“…”
“Protect the will of our ancestors, protect the Heart family…!!”
Gold that night. He fell asleep in his chair, unable to do anything.
Waking up, he felt an intense disgust at himself for not being able to do it.
For a while too.
A knight who entered at the sound of an urgent knock. Gold asked after seeing Repelt.
“…Has brother gone to work?”
“You didn’t come in yesterday… And Mr. Gold…! Strange rumors…!”
“…?”
Gold’s bewildered face soon turned to amazement.
In just one day. Rumors like this were circulating all over the world beyond Sers.
‘Eodere, who learned of Hart’s evil mistakes, is trying to destroy the Hart family.’
