Chapter 587 – 587. Father’s Preparation
Eunhyeon and Erin, who finished their preparations for the trip in the elven forest, went straight to the north of the continent.
The opening of the gate had already been completed, and preparations had been made for the return of Cha Han-seong, who was a member of Riodna, who was busy with work as the knight leader of the kingdom.
When asked about his future plans, Eunhyeon smiled wryly and said, ‘I need to make a sword for my master, so I’m going to get the materials.’ Then, she and Erin set off on the trip again.
Riod, who returned to his mansion through the gate Eunhyeon had opened, looked at his overdue work in his office and suddenly fell into thought.
“It’s that guy’s teacher…”
A woman named Siete who taught Eun-hyeon swordsmanship.
She was even more interested, perhaps because she had recently heard the news that she had been resurrected.
For whatever reason, she wasn’t very interested in what process led to her being resurrected.
The only thing that came to Leod’s mind was curiosity about the level of skill of the female swordsman who raised Eun-hyeon, who was stronger than himself.
“Yes?”
Eira, who was organizing the affairs of the Artia Knights together, put on a puzzled expression when she heard Riod’s muttering.
Riod belatedly recalled that her daughter, Eira, was one of the Knights of Artia who witnessed the appearance of Erin and Siete in Mo Graf Territory.
“Ah.”
“Yes. Father.”
“You said you had seen Eunhyeon’s teacher in person in the Mograf region, right?”
“Ah… Yes.”
Eira recalled the image of her female swordsman in her own memory and nodded her head.
“Who were you?”
“… I do not know.”
“You don’t know?”
I expected the answer that she was strong, of course, but Eira’s answer was very unexpected, so Jira and Rio de had no choice but to ask back with a puzzled expression.
“It seemed impossible to judge the depth of his swordsmanship with my own eyes.”
“… Hmm.”
Hearing Aira’s slightly regretful answer, Riod was lost in her thoughts.
Aside from her personal feelings of being her own daughter, Eira’s level of swordsmanship is by no means weak.
When she was a student in her Aether, she was briefly trained by her eunuch and overcame it, and when she grew up, she gained her own recognition and joined her own knights.
In addition, she shows off her swordsmanship skills that are not befitting her newcomer, and she is now recognized as an important force in her knights and is recognized by everyone.
Of course, she didn’t think that she would be able to figure out the sword of Siete, which was supposed to be higher than that, because she still couldn’t reach Eunhyeon or Riod’s sword. Hearing it from her daughter’s mouth made her feel even more strange.
“They said it only took a moment to cut the ogre’s body into pieces,” She said.
That’s how it was written in Cain’s report, who sent dispatch support as a commander along with the knights to Mograf.
Even though there was Agies, it was a desperate moment when the limit was to spread a wide-area barrier to protect many people and block the attack of the giant ogre zombie.
It was said that a single female swordsman suddenly appeared and prevented a huge threat in just one moment.
“… Yes. That’s right. It really was a blink of an eye.”
Eira also nodded her head, hardening her impression as she recalled that time.
The soldiers of Mograf, the knights of Artia, the priests and paladins of the Temple of Vesta, and everyone on the battlefield were shocked and unable to speak.
In a moment so short that it can be described as a single moment, the sight of simply cutting the body of a huge ogre into pieces is not something that can be easily forgotten.
“If you notice… The ogre’s corpse was already dismembered and crumbling.”
The really cleanly cut section meant a sword strike with terrifying cutting power, but what really scared me was the speed of the sword that Siete wielded.
Neither the swinging of the sword nor the close approach was visible to everyone else, including Eira.
Just imagining herself being cut by the inner sword, to the extent that she is not even aware of the cut, gives goosebumps all over her body and makes her shudder.
If you think about who learned the origin of Eunhyeon’s speedy sword, the answer is very simple.
Perhaps the speed of the sword Siete showed off was on par with Eun-hyeon’s, or even better.
She already thinks that he is below Eun-hyeon, so she will definitely not be the opponent.
But even if you know the difference in power and level.
“… I am curious.”
Even if he carries a lot on his shoulders in addition to the honor of being the best knight in the kingdom, he is curious to put aside that responsibility and honor and mix swords with Siete once.
It must be because Riod is also a swordsman who never stops honing his skills to the limit.
“Didn’t you say you were still in the Mograf region?”
“Yes. As far as I remember, I heard that you are going to live for a while with the reward from defeating the witches there.”
Siete was a mysterious female swordsman with an unknown identity who suddenly appeared, but through Eleanor’s guarantee of her identity, she had officially obtained permission to stay in Mo Graf territory.
She recklessly stormed into the forge used by the dwarves and took several useful swords at the end of a lot of pecking, but I remembered Erin’s words that she had a very displeased look on her face.
“Until Eunhyeon-nim brought the sword, she must have said that she would stay in Mo Graf territory.”
It seems clear that she intends to peck at the dwarves while continuing to replenish the sword she will use until then.
“… You’re a very picky person.”
When I heard only her story, Siete’s impression of her was that she had a tendency to be a tyrant who let her temper go unbridled by doing whatever she pleased.
Even 20 years ago, she was able to take control of Illyana, who had a self-indulgent personality at her own pace, as expected, because of that experience.
“Hmm. Blacksmith’s race…”
The news of the earth fairies making weapons by burning the souls of artisans was only recently heard.
Even so, due to the appearance of the undead beast this time, at the court meeting in the royal palace, she had to enter Mo Graf territory at least once, as she had to organize a continuous dispatch of knights to Mo Graf territory.
“It’s better.”
At the same time as her duties as the leader of her knights, it was a good opportunity to meet Xie Te and satisfy her curiosity as her swordsman and see the fairies called dwarves in person.
“Are you going?”
“Anyway, it was a place I had to go to once with the dispatch support of the knights. I will have to set up a visit date soon.”
“All right. I’ll pass it on to the vice-captain when I go to headquarters tomorrow.”
“Hmm.”
But the conversation did not end here.
“Stir, and…”
With her small nod of her head, Eira hesitated strangely and blurted out her words.
“Do you have anything else to say?”
“Yes. That… Hanseong these days… How about this?”
“…”
Eira, with a worried expression on her face, was not a subordinate of her knights, but her daughter Ai.
It was very uncomfortable to see her daughter like that, but as long as she had agreed to accept her impotence through Theresia’s mediation, Leo could no longer oppose it.
“There is talent. She has a lot of will and spirit to become strong.”
Otherwise, she would have given up right away, unable to withstand the hard training of Eun-hyeon or her own sparring.
I was annoyed because I knew that Ayla was the driving force behind Cha Han-sung’s desire to learn swordsmanship from Riod and become stronger, but aside from that personal feeling, the swordsman named Cha Han-seong itself was an unpolished stone.
As much as he has better eyesight than others, the speed at which he accepts and understands Leo’s swordsmanship is phenomenally fast.
Reproducing a part of Riod’s power is not far off if only the body and magic specs are properly prepared.
There is no doubt that it is a wood that can grow into a great swordsman if he spends a little more time and puts in the effort.
“That… Didn’t you have a lot of trouble? What can I do to help in training…”
Cha Han-seong, who had been on long-term leave from the Arthia Knights under Riod’s authority, had not been to work at the Knights headquarters for several weeks.
Hearing the news that he was going to train, he was worried about not being able to see his face.
Even the training he is currently receiving must have been devised by Eun-hyeon.
He had no choice but to be even more concerned because he personally felt that the intensity of the training was very high, as he had previously received records.
“Wait now.”
“But…”
“It doesn’t matter if you can’t do even this much. Although I accepted him through Theresia’s mediation, I have no intention of having a weak fellow next to you.”
“Ah, father… !”
Surprised, Eira raised her voice and called Rio de.
Even though they hadn’t exchanged a proper confession or had a proper relationship yet, Riode blushed that he was already thinking of marriage between himself and Cha Han-sung.
It was no different from Riode’s recognition that Cha Han-seong was a high-level swordsman with the talent to reach a high level as a human being, but even so, he didn’t even date and was thinking about marriage.
The order of things is messed up.
Riod closed his eyes and recalled his past.
“… Me and your mother were a mess from the start.”
“Yes… ?”
She suddenly couldn’t understand what she was talking about, so Eira opened her eyes wide and put on a puzzled expression.
“I had the title of a hero, but I was the son of a small baron family that only had that title.”
She had no political base, and even her career had no ambitions or goals to pursue her dreams.
I still don’t know why Theresia passionately loved herself from such an insignificant, low-level aristocratic family.
“I understand why your father-in-law objected.”
Nothing on the part of Riod could have done anything to help the Countess of Theresia.
All she had was the ‘honour’ that was only a façade for helping to end the war and a huge reward given to her in the name of that.
Even if she accepted herself from the baron family, which did not have the foundation, wealth, or voice to raise her family’s hierarchy, her wife would have done more harm than good.
“When the opposition of the father-in-law was so strong, Theresia suddenly took you into her stomach.”
“…”
Premarital pregnancy would have been the subject of much criticism and ridicule among nobles who value chastity.
But Teresia didn’t care, she had Lyod’s baby, and she was able to marry Lyod after her stubborn and reckless actions.
“And you were born.”
“Father…”
“I am… My father-in-law could understand, but she had made up his mind that she would not object to her, scrutinizing her conditions like her father-in-law.”
When Eira grew up and became an adult and found a man she really wanted to marry, she made up her mind that she would just make it happen, and not make her suffer like herself or Theresia.
Lately, however, Riod has begun to think that he has been misunderstanding his father-in-law.
“Perhaps the father-in-law wasn’t ready to let go of Theresia, who was her daughter whom she raised with great care, to me.”
It’s not that I didn’t like the strength, base, or background that Leo has.
It might just be that Theresia’s father himself wasn’t ready to let Theresia go.
The reason why I had such a thought was because the present Riod was thinking like this.
Because she was not ready to let her son-in-law leave Eira, whom she had raised so preciously that she even objected to becoming a knight for fear of scarring her body.
Because I became a father with a daughter, it is only now, 20 years later, that I can understand the heart of my father-in-law.
“The preparation came so suddenly, without any warning.”
“Father…”
Eira, who heard Rio de’s heart filled with her sincerity, felt her heart.
Leode, who was sitting at her desk, looked up at her Aira with her straight eyes and continued.
“Ara. She only wants me to promise you one thing.”
“Yes… Please speak.”
Ayra wiped away her small well-watered tears, and after she was ready to accept her father’s request for any favor, she listened to Leode.
“No matter what happens, premarital pregnancy is not allowed.”
“… Yes?”
Ayra asked back with an expression that made her want to know what she heard.
“I won’t stop you from having a relationship. If you can relate anyway, I won’t be able to prevent you from taking such a step, guided by the atmosphere.”
Liode knew very well that it wasn’t because he was trying to block it, as he and Theresia had been.
But he looked straight at her aira, at least hoping that wouldn’t be the case.
“Contraception must be used. Got it?”
“I-what do you see me as!”
She hadn’t even entered the stage of a proper relationship yet, but at the words of Leo De, who had a further stage in mind, Eira screamed while dyeing her face hot.
But despite her daughter’s voice, Leode calmly answered her daughter’s questions.
“… I am your mother’s daughter.”
