Chapter 154 – The Truth of the Day Revealed
After a brief moment of chaos, Adalbert finally faces his parents after the atmosphere in the hospital room has calmed down. Could
The time it took for the three of them to reunite was three years.
Leaving the estate of Count Meidern and heading to the Royal Academy, Alberto was only able to meet again after three years had passed.
Not as Alberto Salihar Maydern, the always cute son, but as Adalbert Reinmed, a mercenary with the alias of the White Reaper.
However, despite the change in appearance over time, the two were convinced the moment they saw Adalbertre.
The white long-haired man in front said that his child was right.
Although, as time passed and his appearance changed a little and his atmosphere changed, his sense as a parent still told him that he was his own child.
“It must have happened a lot.”
The Count of Meidern looked at his son, Adalbert, and said.
His eyes were on the bandages covering Adalbert’s shoulders and abdomen.
The emotion in his eyes as he looked at his wounded son was not what one would see when looking at a pitiful person.
It was just a pitiful look that contained the feelings of a parent looking at a sick child.
“There is no law that says only good things always happen, right?”
Adalbert shrugged his shoulders as he looked at Count Meidern, who was looking at him with pity.
Although, of course, he frowned for a moment at the pain I felt when I shrugged his shoulders.
However, Count Meidern’s expression began to harden as he saw Adalbert frown slightly.
“It’s really okay, so relax your expression. If you’re a swordsman, you need to have a wound like this, so you won’t be proud of it because it’s a wound caused by meeting a strong enemy, right?”
It was only then that Count Meidern relaxed his hardened expression a little at Adalbert’s words.
“So, what have you been doing? Did he even have the slightest idea of stopping by the house?”
As Countess Maydern was afraid to let go of her expression, this time Countess Maydern looked slightly annoyed and began to interrogate Adalbert.
“That, that’s it, Mother… ….”
“If you couldn’t show up in front of us and tell us the story, then why haven’t you contacted us at all when letters are a good means of communication? This mother is really just sad.”
“… ….”
Adalbert couldn’t find a way to answer Countess Maydern’s question, and had no choice but to shut her mouth tightly at her mother’s nagging.
Because the nagging she spewed at Adalbert was not entirely unfounded.
“All right. Everyone knows what happened to you anyway.”
The good news was that Countess Meidern had been informed of what had happened to Adalbert.
“Still, could you write me a letter?”
However, her aftermath seemed to last a little longer than expected.
“Stop it. Ma’am. If you said that much, you would have understood.”
“Okay.”
In the end, Countess Meidern had to step in, and only then did Countess Meidern stop craving Adalbert.
“Oh, sorry. I also have a situation…….”
“I know. I heard everything from Antonio.”
Count Meidern mentioned the name of Antonio, the emperor of the Bregern Empire.
“Have you met His Majesty the Emperor?”
Only when Adalbert heard Antonio’s name come out of Count Maydern’s mouth did he realize how everything was going.
Through some path, Count Meidern found out that Alberto was alive and active under the name of Adalbert, and it was clear that he found out that the person related to this was Antonio, the emperor of the Bregern Empire, and went to him and asked him what he was doing.
However, Adalbert had a question.
“By the way, how did you know I was in the Elpario Empire?”
That was about who he found out about the fact that he was active in the El Pario Empire.
Obviously, since the name has changed and the atmosphere has changed, no one would have identified Alberto with Adalbert.
When he was Alberto, he was a suspicious-looking narrow-eyed scion, while when he was Adalbert, he was a divine-looking narrow-eyed scion.
However, since he was so active that he was called the White Reaper, it was possible to speculate that his performance must have gone into someone, and that it also flowed into Count Maydern.
“Come to think of it, there are things I didn’t tell you.”
“You didn’t tell me?”
Adalbert was curious about Count Meidern’s words.
You didn’t tell me?
What does that mean?
“It is about the person who is the teacher of this father.”
“You mean your father’s teacher?”
When Adalbert heard Count Meidern mentioning his teacher, he immediately took an interest in it.
Count Meidern finally decided to tell him everything when Adalbert showed interest in his teacher.
“Yes. That’s my master The swordsmanship you know and the swordsmanship you learned from me were all swordsmanship my master taught me.”
“Yes?”
As soon as Adalbert heard Count Meidern’s words, he reacted violently.
“The swordsmanship I learned was taught to me by my father’s master?”
“Yes. And my master is still alive.”
“Then… Who is that father’s teacher?”
The moment Adalbert listened to Count Maydern’s explanation, he felt as if the pieces of an empty puzzle were being put together.
While active in the El Pario Empire, the swordsmanship Adalbert used was based on the swordsmanship he had learned from Count Meidern.
In other words, after seeing Adalbert’s swordsmanship, Count Meidern’s teacher was convinced that Adalbert was Alberto.
And Count Meidern’s teacher told Count Meidern what he had seen and heard.
“Master came to me and showed me a picture and asked if this is you.”
“Um… ….”
“I knew it as soon as I saw that picture. That the person in this picture is you.”
Adalbert couldn’t say anything at Count Meidern’s words.
“So I went to see Antonio.”
It wouldn’t be strange to be decapitated for blasphemy for calling the emperor’s name carelessly, but Count Meidern was calling the emperor’s name without hesitation.
“When I went to see Antonio, he told me everything.”
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Adalbert gulped and swallowed.
It was because he seemed to know what the next words would be.
“You came first, and he told me not to reveal his identity to his family until he gave his signal, moreover.”
As the truth came out of Count Meidern’s mouth, Countess Maydern and Nina looked at Adalbert at the same time.
Then the two of them looked at him with interrogative eyes.
“I thought of splitting the imperial palace in half as soon as I heard that, but I put up with it because I thought you would come back later.”
“Uh, um. You wouldn’t have to do that.”
“I know. From what Antonio said, there is a reason you acted the way you did.”
Count Meidern brought a chair from his hospital room and sat down in front of Adalbert.
“Because of the administrative procedures of the Bregern Empire, even if you return now, it is impossible to regain your original status.”
“Yes. So I…….”
“I moved after receiving Antonio’s secret orders, and everything was in line with the words. Only then could you later recover your status with the emperor’s special authority.”
“…… !”
“…… !”
After listening to Count Meidern’s explanation, Countess Meidern and Nina finally made expressions of understanding.
“After hearing that, I knew. That you didn’t completely abandon us to live a new life, but to come back anytime.”
It was only then that Count Meidern looked at his son with a smile.
“You grew up wonderfully.”
“Uhm, it’s embarrassing to hear that from your father.”
Adalbert scratched the back of his head in embarrassment after hearing Count Maydern’s praise.
“By the way, Father. Who is your father’s teacher?”
“You mean my master? You will be surprised to hear it, is it okay?”
When Adalbert asked about his teacher, Count Meidern responded by asking if he was okay.
“If you hear that he is still alive, he must be an old man. Well, you’re not the kind of person you see in a history book, are you?”
“That’s right.”
“… ….”
“He is a person from the history books.”
Adalbert knew only that he had heard wrong.
“You know me well. A long time ago, he was someone who reached the level of a sword master. Although now he has reached a higher level than that.”
“…… ?”
“My master’s name is Tarun.”
Every time he heard the word Tarun, Adalbert thought of a person.
A hero who appeared on this land 300 years ago and defeated the monster that came up from the abyss.
“He was a legendary sword master who appeared 300 years ago. He is also the one who defeated the monster that came up from the bottomless pit.”
And, when he found out that the person he thought of and the person from Count Maydern’s mouth were the same person, Adalbert couldn’t react at all.
It was just that I was so shocked that I froze.