Chapter 48 – Back Alley Talks -2-
Eclair’s auror bloomed at the absurdly early age of 12.
Auror wasn’t the only one whose talent stood out.
Shortly after learning the sword, he realized the logic of wielding blades and was the birth of an unprecedented genius in the Nidritna family, to the point where he was equal with the knights of his family.
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Even if her talents shook her empire, her family meant everything to her as a young woman who had only one domain in the world.
To protect ‘everything’ given to her.
She knew that her body had powers different from those of others, and she made up her mind while watching her angelic brother and her parents struggling to keep her family alive.
I will become a big cogwheel that takes responsibility for everyone in the center and moves them.
If someone had heard of it, I would believe that I am talented and would say that I am arrogant.
She is a privilege and a childish determination that can only be had at a young age who does not know the cruel reality… But her courage and ability were extraordinary.
Cut.
Poking
Hang up
Pierce through
Long before Éclair entered her academy, she entered combat with the knights of her family.
Then she piles up the slashed bandits and bandits, and a small hill will be created from the corpses.
Even her parents, who were worried at first, put on happy faces, saying that they now have high expectations for her.
‘Yes, just like this… I just have to go like this.’
Effort is everything.
She prides herself on working hard and not resting for a moment.
Even though the sword was the most important thing, learning shouldn’t be let go.
She cut down on her sleep and set her whole life on fire for the future.
Then she could achieve what she wanted, she believed without a doubt.
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…
One day I met a really strong opponent, but in the end I overcame it.
Excited to report her accomplishments and accomplishments to her parents, she headed to the garden without taking off her armor.
-You need to keep paying attention to how to grip the handle.
Outdoor training ground attached to the garden.
Her parents weren’t there, but she saw Chloe learning the sword in front of the knights.
‘You’re working hard…’
You can tell that he is working seriously from his closed mouth and his expression of dread.
She is a kind and gentle child by nature, and her fatigue melts away just by looking at her.
I realized that it’s been a while since I’ve been hanging out with Chloe lately.
‘Let’s just report briefly and come back!’
When she returned from her brief talk with her parents, Chloe was still in training, so she hid out of the way among the lush landscape trees and watched her train.
“…?”
Watching her training, Éclair began to have doubts.
‘Was that knight that angry?’
‘I’m so good at it, why don’t I praise it?’
Chloe’s skills and talents are outstanding even in the Dritna family.
It was a movement that was overflowing and not lacking.
But since she couldn’t get involved in the teaching, she watched with anger rising.
The knight in charge of her education sighed and told Chloe.
-Eclair-sama is already… At that age.
-Like Chloe-sama, Eclair-sama…
-The expectations of the head of household…
The moment she heard the knight’s words, she doubted her ears.
Even after hearing all of her words, Chloe was smiling unnaturally, the corners of her mouth quivering.
‘···’
I just waited helplessly for it to end.
-Black…My older sister…
Eclair stood still for a while like a stone statue when he saw his little brother who was left alone after class and went back to his room, wiping his swollen eyes.
How many days, how many days did that kind of day go on for my younger brother without me knowing.
Up until this point, I had never been seriously injured on the battlefield, but the day I knew for sure that my body was being hacked to pieces.
From that day on, I was afraid to talk to Chloe.
He blamed himself and blamed himself, but he had nothing to say.
What happened to Chloe and what did she think when I rushed to her parents to show off her achievements and report them proudly.
As he continued to avoid his seat, Chloe, who had read the atmosphere, gradually stopped coming closer to herself.
The only one who was looking at the future was himself.
There were people around who wanted to live happily in the present by walking slowly rather than running.
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Even when he graduated early from the academy, and even when he became a squire of Ashen Free Miller, the highest knight of the empire, he was more worried than happy.
Thinking of Chloe, I’d rather hide that fact.
Even so.
‘If I put my sword here…?’
Eclair had to decide.
I thought that in order to protect my precious family, I needed strength that no one could surpass, not that I would stop.
While it meant the power of oneself, it also referred to power and, on the other hand, financial power.
Direction has been set.
Close your ears and look only ahead until you arrive.
Don’t look back… Never look back
Eclair chose not to stop, but to run so fast that no one could follow him.
So that the vassals cannot carelessly even mention it as a comparison target.
There was no person to call my lifelong friend, and I never went far away from work.
Just look at the road ahead and walk.
If you really atone for my ignorance, build a mountain of sinful corpses.
The times of endlessly cutting blood and flesh with a sword to make the world a good place for families to live.
I threw myself into a pit of fire where the power lines and monsters were boiling with the will to kill.
I don’t know what day it is, I don’t even know what time it is.
He couldn’t even remember when he ate a meal, and he moved his body without thinking based on the experience engraved on his body.
‘····’
The silver hair that Chloe said she was envious of turned black with blood.
The day when the screams of monsters and the screams of allies were indistinguishable, and they were blurred like smoke that would disappear when the senses were blown.
Éclair was appointed as the 5th Knight of the Empire, realizing his true Aura.
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From the day he saw Chloe go back to her room crying, he looked back at her, who had been ignoring her.
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“At one time, I also thought that the knights who educated Chloe were wrong… But when I saw my parents saying that even that was something my parents tolerated, that it was for Chloe’s sake, I…!!”
Fast-!
The scabbard in Eclair’s hand screamed.
As the story continued, Eclair vomited out old emotions as if she had been liberated.
“Ha… It’s a big cogwheel… You said well. You know what happened when I got into the center and moved a lot of things?”
“····”
“Even though the teeth didn’t mesh, I forcibly turned it and everything around it was broken.”
Éclair covered her face with both of her hands, revealing only her moist red eyes.
I raised my gaze to the sky and conveyed my thoughts.
“If you did something good in your childhood, you might want to get some praise.
“…If Chloe, not me, had this power, the family would have prospered without changing like this.”
I don’t know where the infinite trust in that undisturbed younger brother comes from.
“The bottom line is… Did you feel that you couldn’t achieve what you really wanted with your original beliefs?”
“…They say they felt that they couldn’t achieve it.”
She must have put in her own effort.
Having her Chloe live in her own mansion is probably one thing she could do herself.
It’s just ridiculous when I see it, but Eclair must have been the result of thinking about his head being split.
If her sisters had even pushed one side with sociability, wouldn’t it have already been solved.
“So…What do you want to achieve in the end?”
This is the most important text.
Would she ever bring up a story with me, a business partner she occasionally meets?
In fact, it was hard to believe that she, whom she had met out of the blue, told her what was inside her.
It may be possible because it is not a close person, but a stranger who only knows each other.
“····”
“It doesn’t matter if you don’t talk-“
“I want to go back.”
Biting my back, she lifted her head, which was buried in her hands.
“To the past? Or a past relationship?”
“I think it would be both…I knew how foolish I was to think that we would create a family where wealth and honor were harmonious. Precious.”
“····”
“I…!! Poured the poison of power and wealth into the family, and everyone got sick… I thought my parents would be more caring than anyone else without changing, but they were just ordinary nobles, and even now I’m devising a way to continue the family’s prosperity. I am… I… Can’t say anything bad…”
On the one hand, it was understandable, but she had too much to worry about.
With only two arms, it tries to hold everything.
“It’s not like you’re seeing them all at once, you’re trying them one by one. First of all, take care of your little brother properly.”
She shook her head at my words that I threw out even though she knew it.
“Now… If I start showing favoritism with interest, nobles who want to take advantage of me may turn to Chloe…”
I understand your concern.
There must be no such person, so Chloe must be anxious because she can’t express her own opinion properly.
She always assumes the worst and doesn’t step forward because she fears that her relationship with Chloe will go downhill.
…But if you keep listening to this.
“… That’s annoying.”
“Twa, annoying?!”
I sighed deeply after listening carefully, and Éclair raised her voice for the first time as if embarrassed.
“He’s also a cadet at the Academy’s Knight Faculty, but do you think he’ll be fooled like an ignorant child if nobles approach him? I mean.”
“····”
You shouldn’t make a hasty decision because the outside will be soft inside.
“Effort you are talking about… Gathering irredeemable trash, splitting it in half, and only building a reputation is not effort. If it doesn’t work out, you have to change the direction first. Wielding only a sword while having a harder time talking to your younger brother than killing monsters can be said to be true effort. Can you?”
Even sisters who seem to die of frustration when others see them have two sides of the same coin.
She really must have thought that what she had been doing was purely atonement.
Once you decide and start walking, you don’t even have time to look around to see if anything else exists.
In that way, Eclair, who is unable to properly orient her direction, changes clearly by changing her direction.
“…I’m so frustrated I’m dying. Just tell me. Help me?”
Even in the game, the story became longer as I remembered the story of Drit or the story that ended with an open ending.
Éclair, she must have been very surprised, her eyes widened and she was staring at me without opening her mouth.
Even if she wondered about the end of her sister, who couldn’t be seen in the game, it wasn’t something she would do for free.
The woman I’ve seen while working for the imperial family never forgets her debt.
“Find a day off on the day I’m talking about.”
If I ask to protect Rike, she is a knight who will protect her even if she dies.
