Chapter 22 – 022. The Girl Who Woke Up
Erin, who had been crying in Eunhyun’s arms for several minutes, soon regained her cool as she poured out all the sorrowful feelings in her heart.
“What’s the matter?”
Erin blushed and avoided meeting Eunhyun’s gaze.
When she thought about it, she realized that her actions were very absurd and embarrassing.
‘Crying so sadly in the arms of another man… Ugh!’
Eun-hyeon tilted her head at Erin’s sudden shy attitude, but continued talking again.
“I have something to tell you.”
“Are you going to tell me?”
Erin raised her head at her Eunhyun’s words.
She said he took out a letter from her in her arms and she looked at the handwriting and contents of the letter to find out who wrote it.
“This…”
“If you are reading this letter, it must mean that you have woken up safely.
Thinking of you and writing this letter, I came up with various thoughts.
What were you thinking of this brother?
When you’re having a hard time, you can’t be my strength, I can’t protect you, and as a family
Maybe he resents me for not being able to protect you.
I have acted with the thought that everything I have done is for you.
I came to think that maybe it was an excuse that nicely wrapped up my own rationalization and greed to escape from the pressure of guilt and responsibility for my father’s sins.
Even if you’ve lost your mind because you’ve been consumed by my magic, after you come to your senses
Even in the regret that filled my heart when I faced the consequences of what I had done
The first thought that came to my mind was your future, not the next one.
In the future, when you have to stand alone in this world without mother and me, won’t you become more difficult because of the sins I committed? Will you be able to endure and walk that path?
But by writing this letter, I was able to ease my worries a little.
Just in case, when it’s really hard and the road ahead is dark and you want to give up without seeing anything,
Rely on the man who gave you this letter.
That man was like a single thread of hope to find you.
He’s the only man you can rely on, at least at the beginning of your rough and lonely fight.
I wanted to be the man you could rely on, but somehow I only bothered you
I think I was destined to become nothing but a pathetic guy who couldn’t help.
But I firmly believe that you will be different.
Please, no matter how hard and painful it is, don’t give up and I hope you live a happy life.
Even though I can’t be with you, I will always support you in your life. Your brother, Alvin.”
Erin’s hand, which was holding her letter, naturally gained strength, and the letter in her hand was crumpled and trembled.
Tears dripped onto the paper, smearing the paper.
Although he succeeded in suppressing his emotions that seemed to explode.
Tears flowed from his tightly closed eyes as he gripped the crumpled letter tightly.
“Brother is… Are you really dead?”
“Dead. I killed him.”
“…”
Erin glared at Eunhyun, who calmly confessed the truth.
“It’s a cruel fact, but it’s a fact you should know.”
“You said you would keep your promise…”
The promise that Eunhyeon made with Erin under her sacred tree when she was a ghost was to find and save Elvin safely.
“Know. I will keep my promise.”
“What is that… You mean? My brother is dead.”
“Erwin in that state became nothing more than a monster, less than a human, as time went by. She was already beyond her control. She knows you best, no one else, right?”
Erin reluctantly nodded her head.
Erin was the one who informed Eun-hyeon that it seemed that Elvin was using unreasonable magic that manipulates shadows, not regular magic.
“If I had left it as it was, I might have really lost my temper and been engulfed by the shadows, becoming a monster even more terrible than the Witchbeast. So she killed Alvin wanted that too.”
“So you’d rather say that killing her would rather have saved her brother?”
“No way. It was impossible to control the shadow, the aftereffect of the black magic, with a human body, so that restriction was removed. It is dead, but it has not yet left this world and remains properly.”
“What is that… Ah!”
Erin tilted her head as she listened to Eunhyun’s explanation, but soon came up with a possibility.
Wasn’t there a time when she, none other than Erin, let go of the restraints of her body for a while and remained in a state where only her soul existed.
“We can meet again. Don’t worry.”
“I see. Thank you… Really… Thank you so much…”
Erin let out a sigh of relief and thanked Eunhyun for how many times she was there.
“For now, I will be your protector. First of all, I will go back to school tomorrow. Perhaps many of the circumstances surrounding you work against you… At least I won’t leave you alone until you’re an adult. In the meantime, slowly think about what you want to do and what you need to do.”
“What I have to do, what I want to do…”
Erin chewed on Eunhyeon’s words and muttered, and she suddenly had a question, so she asked Eunhyeon.
Why did this man go to such lengths to help himself and his brother?
“Hey, why did you do this to me and my brother…”
Smart
Just as Erin was about to ask Eunhyeon a question, she heard a knock and after a while a girl entered her room.
“Eunhyeon! It’s a big deal!”
“I think we should go out.”
Eunhyeon listened to Eira’s noisy voice and raised her body from the bed.
Then he looked at Erin and asked.
“Are you okay?”
“Uh? Oh, yes.”
“Then let’s go. Because it seems like something bothering me has happened. I want to eat.”
“Ah, I will guide you.”
At Eun-hyeon’s words, Erin began to figure out where this place was, and she nodded her head and followed Eun-hyeon and Eira.
Even as she left the door and walked down the hallway, looking at the inside of the mansion, Erin had a look of admiration and tension on her face.
‘I can’t be here…’
Walking down the halls of her luxurious mansion, Erin secretly glanced at her Eira, who was walking in front of her.
She realized that she was her famous own senior within her Aether Royal School.
Within the school, Eira Olivion, the eldest daughter of the Marquis Olivion, who holds the title of the kingdom’s strongest knight, is already a celebrity known to all students in the school.
Rumors of her that she would join her knights right after her father’s graduation reached even Erin, who was dark about rumors from her aristocratic family.
‘So this is the mansion of the Marquis of Olivion?!’
Erin, who was astonished inside her, couldn’t hide her embarrassed expression, and she followed Eunhyeon and Eira with a nervous expression.
“Wow…”
When she first entered the luxurious mansion, Erin was walking around her in admiration.
“Are you saying that now?”
“Then what are you talking about?”
‘Huh… ?’
Erin made a puzzled expression when she heard the sound coming from the room where Eunhyeon and Eira stopped.
“Ha…”
Having already guessed what had happened, Eunhyeon sighed, opened the door, and went inside.
“I think you are misunderstanding something. Just because you’re married and have two kids with a pretty wife like that doesn’t mean you’re better than me. That woman who was naive and liked your face, like a mixture of a bear and a lion, and helped you wholeheartedly, was amazing. Where is she, she campaigning like she’s proud and giving me advice?”
“I don’t mind. I don’t think that’s something you’d hear from a woman over that age who hasn’t been married yet. It is also her own ability to welcome her good spouse. In that respect, you’re saying that you’re a long way off.”
“What? An ignorant bastard whose head is also made of iron!”
“I don’t mind. It’s annoying, so the street in front of her nose is a quirky old maid who summons a carriage to move.”
“Are you really going to try it?”
“There’s nothing I can’t do.”
Soon after each other’s snowball fight, the carefully prepared meals on the table were trembling due to the collision of magical powers radiating from each other’s bodies.
Eun-hyeon opened her mouth and she stopped the quarrel between the two.
“What are you doing. Both… Why are you fighting over a meal?”
“This bastard calls me an old virgin!”
“This guy called me a lump of iron brain.”
When Eun-hyeon criticized the two as if they were pathetic, they both criticized each other and argued with Eun-hyeon.
Looking at Illyana, whose face was already slightly red and excited, Eun-hyeon noticed that she was already somewhat drunk.
‘But what did I say, did he get this excited?’
When he glared at Liod with a suspicious gaze, Liode subtly avoided Eunhyun’s gaze.
“Hyun, do you think so too?”
“Uh?”
“Do you think that I still have some flaws that prevent me from getting married? As I said beforehand, it’s not that I can’t get married, it’s that I’m not! Some son of a bitch left me to die!”
“No, what… ?”
Eunhyeon was taken aback when Illyana’s arrow flew towards her out of the blue.
She didn’t know what to say, so her words slurred and she couldn’t answer properly.
Seeing her reaction, which soon became indignant, Eunhyeon realized what Riod had said to Illyana.
“Hey, Leo, you can’t…”
“Joy. That guy got into a fight with me first.”
“You son of a bitch, for real!”
“Come on, it’s a place where we gather to have fun. Let’s eat our rice.”
Familiar with this situation, Liod snorted and fell back and spoke to her wife, Theresia, who was making a mysterious expression on her face.
“You looked ugly.”
“No. Isn’t it… The impression of the archmage as just a black witch is so unexpected that it’s embarrassing.”
Theresia had an inexplicable strange feeling about seeing a truly unexpected situation.
A high-ranking sorceress with only 10 on the continent, a friend of her husband, and one of the great heroes who ended the great war together with her husband, Riod, her saga is handed down to people through many bards and history books. There was.
Because of this, Theresia had a preconceived notion that Illyana would be a very intelligent and great wizard.
She had questioned Leo de beforehand, but he replied with a frown that she wasn’t that kind of girl at all.
After seeing it in person, Theresia was able to realize once again that she couldn’t believe the stories recorded in history books or people’s opinions, and she couldn’t believe the stories that were handed down by word of mouth.
“If you think about it… It was very out of the blue for you to consult with me about your worries.”
“… Will Illyana give you advice on your worries?”
“Huh, it’s a secret story only for women. You seem to be in a better mood than that?”
Theresia smiled and held Liod’s hand.
“See?”
“You look a little more excited than usual. That’s why you seem so happy that this Eunhyun came to visit you.”
Since she had been Theresia with Leo de for a long time, she was blunt, but she could notice the change in his expression.
“How could I not be happy? I, Iliana, and all the other guys were the ones who owed a lot to that guy and left like that.”
Looking at her expression, recalling her past, Theresia shifted her gaze again to look at the silver-white haired man who was desperately trying to soothe her Illyana.
After the Great War, she was too pathetic to be the hero who always led them in her husband’s story, but I thought that this might be the daily life made in peace now.
“It’s a different look from then.”
Eunhyun from 20 years ago always seemed to have no composure in her heart, even though she always led the team members including Riod in a relaxed manner.
Like a racehorse running non-stop towards a certain destination, Eun-hyeon was showing a maniacal obsession for a certain goal.
But now it’s different.
As he revives, the obsession disappears, and at the same time he loses the meaning of his life and seems to wander, apparently enjoying his present life.
Riod thought that Eunhyun’s change was not a bad sign.
