Chapter 194 – Past: Daisy (1)
Time again flows like flowing water.
I sat on Chepesche’s throne.
It’s been a while since I became a ‘master’. They kept it a secret from their parents and gathered their strength.
It wasn’t difficult. Because they already saw me as a loyal tool. While maintaining their trust as a faithful tool, they obtained an oath of allegiance from the ‘crows’ without their knowledge.
Even so, until then, I had no intention of usurping the position of the head of the household.
Earning the loyalty of the crows was just preparing for the worst. At that time, the only way left would be to usurp the family head.
My goal is to protect Leticia. Becoming the head of the family would be a good way, but even if you didn’t have to become the head of the household, there was no problem in protecting Leticia.
But.
“Scarlett… Me so sick Is my sister still lacking for her father?”
“No, no. Something like that… What is your sister lacking?”
Leticia’s weeping look. It was because of my greed, but nonetheless—I hoped that my sister, who was saddened by being treated coldly by my father instead of accepting it, would no longer be sick.
“Sister. Do you believe me?”
“… Huh.”
Hmm.
If it’s to protect Leticia, if you also want Leticia not to get sick.
Have to do something
Even if it’s an immoral wheel.
Once committed Originally, forgiveness is easier than permission. So the moment I made up my mind, I moved right away.
Day of usurpation.
—Scarlett, how could you… !
─Kyaaaaagh! Son! Mother, yes mother! Please forgive me just once… !
A desperate cry still ringing in my ears.
It was the day when I realized anew that even a person who looks beautiful can be ruined that much at the last moment.
Although Leticia belatedly found out that I had killed her parents and usurped her position as head of household, she was angry.
What can I do?
I am her only blood relative, and at the same time, I am the only one who has been by her side for the past few decades.
…
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry Scarlett… My sister is so bad…”
Done.
It’s all a thing of the past. You won’t even have to think about it now.
Present again.
“The Three Generations Conference… ?”
Checking the invitation sent to her mansion, Leticia tilted her head.
Three generations.
The rulers of the night, composed of Cepes, Nosferatu, and Draculea.
The first thing I did after taking away the position of the family head, putting my parents in the shadows, and taking away all the power I had built up over hundreds of years, was to rebuild the tilted family.
I circumnavigated the continent with the crows who swore absolute loyalty to me.
The continent with the same name as the Empire was so vast that it took several years to go around it.
-How can I trust you? Do you know how much the great forest has been devastated in the past hundred years?
First of all, trade with Daesurim was stabilized.
Convincing the elves of the forest who would start with the flagship when they heard the name ‘Cepesh’, the successive generations of their predecessors were vain and rude.
It wasn’t easy, but somehow I managed to do it.
—Heh heh, what a pleasant friend! Did you know everything that happened in your ancestors?
Next were the Dwarves of the Mountains.
It was good to resume trade with Great Forest, but Chepes, which had rotted for a long time, lacked goods to trade.
Nevertheless, Tzepes still had a lot of money. In addition, from the beginning, Chepeshu also played a role in mediating their trade between the Great Forest and the Mountains.
It was not the role of Chepesch, but rather the work of the head of the ‘Three Great Families’, so in the days of their ancestors, when the initiative was taken away, Nosferatu and Draculea gradually crossed the line and created their own line at will.
In any case, they were forest keepers of the Great Forest who never dealt directly with blacksmiths in the mountains. Using that point, they were able to meet the demand of the great forest at the same time as trade with the mountain range.
Besides that, he also brought the tribes of the wolves of the snowfields together.
Using the solid foundation as a stepping stone, he also strengthened his position in the Empire. Another time was devoted to proving that the status of the family that divided the empire was not a lie.
After decades of success, Chepesch’s prestige had risen again, forgetting the past.
Even the dwarves of the great forest and the dwarves of the mountains, who had secretly looked down on me and ignored me when I first started circumnavigating the continent, dared not ignore me and trembled in fear.
Okay.
The other rulers of the night, who had thoroughly ignored me as the young head of the household until now, could not stand it and invited me to their territory.
“… I’m going?”
“I have to go.”
I am not a newbie who took the position of the head of the family decades ago.
No, nothing much has changed since then and now. The only thing that has changed is the way people look at me.
So I decided to go
One hundred words are not enough. Nosferatu and Draculea have never met me since I became the head of the household, so they probably want to face the reality of who I am now, not rumors.
Same.
I also wanted to see them with my own two eyes.
“Your sister is here.”
“Also? Scarlett always goes out alone…”
Leticia has a lumpy face. Her puffy cheeks seemed to insist, “I’m pouting!”
“Sorry. I will hug you.”
“Again, I’m going to move on to something like that.”
Still, it comes along nicely. Leticia, clinging to her arms, wrapped her arms around my waist. On the subject of being held in my arms, she tries to lock me in her arms.
She knows she too The fact that I’m going outside is not going out to play.
It is impossible not to know what I am doing outside and come back. Because it’s already been known all over the continent about me.
The territory of Chepeshu is not located in the countryside, but rather it is located in the center of the continent, and it is strange not to know.
So this is just a complaint.
Mixed with guilt. For who am i… It’s embarrassing to say it’s her dedication, but since I’m definitely dedicated to her, Leticia must feel it too.
“… Can’t you take me too?”
“Then who guards this place?”
“…”
Back! It’s crushing, hugging the waist, but there’s no such thing as a broken or broken waist.
As she said, in fact, she didn’t have to defend her territory. Excluding the crows dispatched all over the continent, there are enough crows to protect the territory.
Just.
“My sister’s pretty face, it’s because I don’t want to show it to them.”
“… Eww. So, what about other times? Will you take me?”
“It depends on where you are, but yes.”
Knowing that Gram once intended to marry Leticia into her Nosferatu, he really didn’t want to take her, at least this time.
Still, that’s why I said I shouldn’t see the sorrowful expression looking up at me.
… You can take it with you later when you go to the imperial palace or to the north.
“I decided to go with the family head of Blackwood. Logan has never been to a meeting between the three families.”
“Okay? … Scarlett is the first to do that.”
“This is the first time since I became the head of household.”
My ancestors, I attended a few times when I was like him. Every time I attend, all I see is my father being humiliated by other family heads, so I don’t have good memories.
And after I became the head of household, there was no convocation at all.
“Are you okay. Don’t worry.”
“… Aren’t you going to kill them all?”
“What do you see me as?”
It wasn’t that I was worried that I would get angry, it was that I was worried that I would cause an accident.
No. Judging by the look on his face, it seems like he was deliberately joking in case I would worry about him in reverse if he showed signs of worrying too much.
“I will be back.”
I don’t know.
If you get annoyed, you might get really upset.
*
I built it to my surprise.
It was my first impression of Nosferatu’s fortress.
“… This is the nature of Nosferatu.”
Logan, the head of Blackwood who decided to accompany me, calmly opened his mouth.
Even he, the head of one of the most prestigious families in the empire, was a mere human here. A tense expression was evident.
“Don’t be too nervous. There is no real speed.”
“… Is that so?”
The answer was as if ‘this place?’, But the stiff momentum seemed to be relieved as if I was relieved by my words.
Logan Blackwood.
Even though he is a bit sloppy, I brought him because his skills and loyalty to me are reliable.
In fact, I relaxed just by believing in my words that I was okay.
His instincts as a swordsman would tell him never to relax, but Logan prioritized his loyalty to me.
Certainly Blackwood is reliable.
“Oh, Scarlett! Long time no see!”
When I was raising my evaluation of Logan and Blackwood inside, I heard a voice pretending to know, unpleasantly about the subject of an unfamiliar voice.
“Do you remember me? It’s Maurice! Maurice Draculea!”
Seeing that he even introduces himself, it seems that he didn’t think I would remember him anyway.
Even so, the attitude is very friendly.
“Come on, call me Uncle Maurice!”
The trick is obvious.
“Hmm.”
I touched my chin for a moment, then smiled and said.
“So, who are you?”
The atmosphere became cheap.
“… Big! It’s been a while since I’ve seen you, so it looks awkward. Just a hundred years ago, it seems like yesterday that you came with your father, Gram, and looked at me with bright eyes. …”
“You are very beautiful. And since when did you say that you were so close to me? Raise your voice Or may I let go, Maurice?”
“… Uh huh, who is this guy?”
“Done. There’s no need to wrestle here. Logan, come in.”
The atmosphere became cold and froze. Logan, who had relaxed and stiffened, moved his body at my command.
Indeed, in the midst of that, was he taking a natural posture so that he could pull out his sword at any time?
As expected, Blackwood is trustworthy…
“Hmm?”
An unfamiliar yet familiar presence was captured by the shadow’s spirit.
The location… In my shadow
In the shadows?
What’s in it, here.
I read the signs I felt in more detail.
This is Blackwood’s wavelength. I turned and looked at Logan. The man in his mid to late thirties was still positioned so that he could pull out his sword at any time and had something to swing at the enemy approaching him while deftly brushing me in the area of departure.
Then.
“Logan.”
“… Yes.”
“Did you have a daughter?”
“… Yes? Yes, who are you talking about?”
“I don’t even know who it is.”
It seems that one person, cunningly, followed us.
When I asked where he was hiding, he was hiding in a box he brought as a gift for the conference.
A box was pulled out from the shadows.
Jump! The box opened, and a girl with her pink hair looked up at me with her round eyes wide open.
“… Prince!”
This.
If you said it within the empire, you would be arrested for blasphemy.
Indeed, Logan’s face was rapidly turning pale.
