Chapter 21 – 021. Armitas Ducal Family (3)
“Oh… !”
Ashton shuddered at his father’s roaring voice, which was directed at him, and was speechless.
The blush on his face and the look in his pathetic eyes showed that Avros was really disappointed in Ashton.
“Good night. Let’s not ask for the child’s punishment in this case. They said that Bernard was also there, so you must have worked on him as well, right?”
Eunhyun nodded his head.
“Sure.”
“Joy. Done. The business is over now, right? Then go ahead and disappear. Just having a conversation with you seems to give me goosebumps all over.”
“There is still no evaluation of me. All right. Then I’m done.”
Eun-hyeon laughed bitterly and threw herself out of the window she came in and left.
Eleanor sighed as she looked around Avros’ bedroom, which was a mess as if a storm had passed.
“Whoa…”
“Who the hell is that man?”
Alex was curious about Eun-hyeon and asked his father.
“The guy you never want to make an enemy of.”
Avros frowned, and seemed fed up as if he didn’t even want to think about Eunhyun.
“Does your father know the man? The mana from earlier was absolutely not at a level that an ordinary man could radiate. He was never, as he said, a mere commoner. Why is there such a person in the kingdom that no one has ever known about him?”
Alex remembered the first time he had introduced himself as Illyana’s assistant in front of the tree of wishes in Elter’s garden.
“Is the black witch with him that great?”
One of the high-ranking magicians that there are only 10 even if you search the entire continent of Arcena.
He is one of the giants of the giants who is famous on the continent for being one of the great heroes who put an end to the Great War along with the knight of the Kingdom of Pernias, Riod Olivion.
“Ha, that’s a smoke screen.”
“Yes?”
“He is the one who puts the black witch in front of her and hides behind her. He is a snake child.”
“Doesn’t your father like him too?”
“What?”
Ashton spoke again to Avros’ question, as if his anger was still not resolved.
“Aren’t you in such a bad mood that he mocked and made fun of our family like this! Hurry up and find his weakness and counterattack…”
“…”
Avros frowned and glared at Ashton, her firstborn, and gave her a sigh with a more tired expression.
“Ugly bastard, why can’t you figure out the problem?”
Is it really that his education has gone wrong so far?
“Eleanor.”
“Yes.”
“What do you think is the problem?”
Eleanor thought about it for a long time, then answered Abros’s question and answered the question she had.
“… I don’t know why they take it this way.”
“What do you know… !”
“Hmm. Go on.”
Ashton is indignant, though she tried to yell at Eleanor to shut her up.
Abros stroked her chin, thought of Eleanor’s remark, then gave her permission.
Eleanor, frowning at Ashton’s deafening roar, resumed her explanation when Avros was denied permission to speak.
“The individual’s strength is also excellent enough to not lag behind the Knights of the Kingdom, and the brain is also good. And yet, he always puts himself forward and doesn’t act. He always creates situations behind the scenes, sets traps, tricks opponents, and presents only options for the opponent to give in.”
Eleanor recalled that her eunuch had blackmailed herself into being extradited to Elvin’s new recruits with her secret about the incompetence of the school principal and magic professors and the sacred tree of Pernias.
“Regardless of the cause and process, from the perspective of the Hersha siblings or the man, our family is a corrupt aristocrat trying to cover up the corruption committed. In fact, it would have been quicker and easier to report all of this to the royal family so that our entire family would be punished. But he didn’t.”
What is the reason?
Why did you save our family?
Rather, he even gave them a huge amount of gold coins in the name of trading.
How did he know about the Armitas family’s longing for the ‘Holy Sword’?
How did he know about the background of the birth of the sacred tree of Pernias and the school called Aether, which only a small part of the royal family knew about?
How far do you know, what are you thinking, why do you do these things.
Eleanor couldn’t think of any possibilities.
That’s why i’m afraid
“I can prepare against enemies who can see the opponent’s intentions and capabilities, but against those who do not show intentions and cannot measure their capabilities… I don’t know how to fight.”
“Right. He’s such a bad guy Everyone judges him as an ordinary person, a lowly commoner, and just an incompetent person who sticks next to a witch and eats the dripping honey. But he is actually quite the opposite. It’s just that he deliberately made himself appear that way. Ashton, just like you.”
“Big…”
“That bastard likes it the more the opponent looks down on him, belittles him, and despises him. It means that the impression he made remains, and it is proof that his thoughts are not being read by others. And like that, you play around on the board he made, and in the end you end up getting stabbed in the back of his head.”
This way of thinking of Eunhyeon was because the role he received when he was appointed as an apostle by the goddesses was ‘extra’ was deeply rooted in his consciousness.
As a ‘supporting actor’, he was not always the central figure in the story, and his role was to make the ‘protagonists’ stand out.
That’s why, even though she was acknowledged as a real leader by her colleagues, Eun-hyeon didn’t like the way she always stood in front of others and led everyone.
However, Avros, who did not understand Eunhyun’s way of thinking, just frowned as if he was in a bad mood.
“The more you are looked down on, the more you like it… That sounds a bit pervert…”
Eleanor thought the same way.
If Eun-hyeon, who wasn’t doing it because he liked it, would hear about this, he would be deeply hurt.
“If possible, try not to get involved with that man. It’s not that we’re hostile, but it’s the same for us that it’s a headache to deal with when placed in a confrontational relationship.”
He met a lot of people and had various experiences with them.
Eun-hyeon was the only person who made it more reluctant to accept the price than to put conditions on a transaction or ask for a favor.
For Avros, it was more reluctant to deal with an opponent he could not understand, such as Eun-hyeon, whose intentions were unknown, whether he was an enemy or an ally, rather than an enemy who showed his dark innermost feelings.
Ashton was still huffing at the insult he had received from Eunhyun, but Alex and Eleanor nodded their heads as if agreeing with Abros’ order.
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“Umm…”
Burying her body in the soft cushions, in her hazy mind, Erin gradually began to come to her senses.
The touch of her luxurious touch and comfort of the pillow and blanket, together with her strange sensations, made her awake, and Erin’s body bounced like a spring and jumped to her feet.
“Here… Where… ?”
Just looking at her, she could see the luxuriously designed bed, wallpaper, and furniture, and could intuit that it was not her room, but her question as to why she was here was not resolved, and she entered Erin’s head. Added to her confusion.
Why is she here herself?
To figure it out, Erin recalled her last memories.
“Ah…”
Her mother passed away after getting sick from her father’s frequent beatings.
A father who always beat himself up when he came in after drinking and looked at him with an eerie stare.
An older brother who protects himself from a scary person and meets his father’s violence instead.
“Ah…”
Each time she recalled her memories, her moans grew more frequent.
The girl, clutching her head at her pounding headache, burst into tears.
“Uh, uh…”
With someone other than her brother who appeared in front of her, and an attempt to kill herself, she tried to run away in a hurry, but she herself tripped on her feet and did not know what kind of end she had met.
Erin, who had been holding her own head and complaining of her pain little by little, couldn’t help but burst out crying when she remembered everything about her.
“Ugh…”
‘I’m always hoping for your happiness.’
When she heard her brother’s voice, which she couldn’t hear because she was alone in her room, Erin intuitively realized that her brother was no longer in the world.
She was able to realize that now she was really alone in this world she was alone.
She endured until the end, and the moment she saw her brother, her resolve to shed tears of joy was shattered.
The fact that there was no one anymore who would comfort her with her own hardships and praise her for putting up with her hardships and enduring so hard, further heightened her feelings for Erin.
“Heh, hehe, why… Why only me!”
Sadness turns into resentment.
With a feeling of wanting to curse someone who only made him go through such a difficult ordeal.
In her filled girl’s heart, her hatred was about to boil.
Squeak
The door opened without knocking, and a man entered the room indifferently without greeting.
The man glanced at Erin, who was waking up and shedding tears of sorrow.
She slowly walked over to the bed, sat down, and stroked Erin’s hair.
“Uh… ?”
The girl stopped crying at her completely unexpected action and looked at the man with her red eyes wide open.
Her bright red eyes contrasted with her silver hair, which stood out brightly in the morning sunlight.
The girl belatedly realized that this man was a character in her memory.
A mysterious man who was the only one who noticed his existence and found himself using strange means when he was in a dream-like soul state.
The memory of the man was clearly imprinted in the girl’s mind because he had an impressive appearance as much as the mysterious trick.
What does it mean when the man strokes his hair with a loving hand?
As I was putting on a bewildered and dazed expression, the man opened his mouth.
“You’ve held up well.”
“Huh… ?”
“You’ve been holding up really well.”
Erin was strange.
Something in her heart throbbed, and her emotions, which had calmed down for a moment at the appearance of a mysterious man, surged again.
To Erin, who has been living her life up to now, a word of praise that she gave as if it were the first rain of her drought began to resonate strongly in her heart.
“You’ve been through a lot in the meantime.”
As the man put her Erin’s head to his chest, he told her what he had most wanted to hear.
In the arms of her man, Erin let out all her resentment that had accumulated in her heart once more.
“Flaw… Whoops! Heuuuuu!”
The man stroked the head of Erin, who was crying sadly in his arms, with one hand and looked up at the ceiling of her.
An ominous aggregate of mana floating on the ceiling made up of black spheres, the black sphere, which seemed to be staring at it, could feel the gaze of a man looking at him on the ceiling, and the black sphere also reacted to the man’s gaze. It seemed
“Bye.”
He muttered in a very low voice that even Erin, who was crying sadly, could not hear, but the black sphere seemed to have heard the man’s words.
The black sphere got smaller little by little and soon disappeared completely.
