146 – Arcius – 11
“What does that mean?”
I opened my eyes and looked at Katrell.
To inherit the duchy of Philasia. I don’t understand what that means.
Regardless of my state, Deron’s physical age is not yet 20 years old.
It’s still time to go to the academy and learn something.
You suddenly ask someone like that to inherit the duchy?
It is too early. It would be understandable when Katrell gets older and needs to be passed on, but right now he is in better shape than anyone else.
For a moment, I thought it was time-limited. At least it didn’t appear that way to my eyes.
“It’s exactly as I said. Graduate from the academy and take over the dukedom as soon as possible. “That is the condition on which I permit your marriage.”
“… “I want to tell you right now that I don’t understand that at all.”
“What is there that I don’t understand?”
In general, this would have been dismissed as a joke, but Katrell is different.
There is no way he would mess around with a story like this.
So, he truly thinks it is not strange for me to inherit the duchy.
“There are too many. “Do you know that I am not yet twenty?”
“Isn’t that why you should take over after graduating from the academy? “There will be no problem if I inherit the duchy when I turn 20.”
“You mean without any preparation? “I don’t even know much about my family yet.”
“It doesn’t matter if you don’t know. “It’s something you just have to figure out gradually.”
How can we be so sure? I will be able to learn the family’s business, and as soon as I become an adult, I will naturally grow to the point where I can ascend to the position of duke.
“I can do it all. “Why do you think that?”
At my question, Katrell laughed.
“What a stupid door.”
“How stupid is this?”
“You are foolish to ask such a question. “I wonder if my son can’t even do that.”
It felt like I was hit on the head with a hammer. I couldn’t say any more and just stared at Katrell. That’s how shocking his answer was.
“He’s young. “A guy so young has already started giving lectures.”
“That’s….”
“Of course, I know that lectures are meaningless to you. How boring would it be to discuss radish to someone who has reached the highest level? And especially for those who discuss their relationship with dragons.”
“… ….”
“If you were going to question age, you should have at least acted in a manner appropriate for your age.”
Certainly, considering what I have done, wishing for me to be a minor is greedy.
I kept my mouth shut in response to Katrell’s valid point.
I wanted to argue, but it was all damn true.
“Now, there will be no complaints about inheriting the family name.”
To pick. Very picky.
Although I don’t know much about it, the Duke of Philasia’s work is probably not an easy task.
You may have so much work that you think being buried in documents is not an ordinary task, or you may be caught up in the social world and not be able to have a personal life.
If that happens, there will be fewer encounters with Agnes, Aksy, and Rebecca.
Such a complicated thing is the specification.
…
No, wait a minute.
Before I met Arwen, Katrel had never said anything like this to me.
Although he is the only child of the Duke of Philasia, he did not tell me anything about his family, to the point where I had no idea that he would inherit the family.
But suddenly, as soon as I met Arwen, he told me that he would pass on the family name to me?
Suspicious. I narrowed my eyes and looked at Katrell.
His expression is still firm. Without the slightest change, he is staring at Gogohina.
Towards that Katrell.
“Do you want to spend longer with your mother?”
I flinch.
I threw the bait.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
He took the bait.
Definitely.
**
While Katrell and Deron were fighting to postpone each other’s work, Arwen took Aksi into her lair.
Aksy looked around the inside of the lair and sat down on a chair at Arwen’s words.
It’s not that there wasn’t a relationship with other dragons, but that doesn’t mean it’s the first time I’ve come across a rare.
It doesn’t matter that the rare appearance is an ordinary cabin.
Because a dragon’s rare basically contains the dragon’s mana. The scent of mana naturally melted in was just amazing to Aksi.
‘The mother of Deron…. ‘That’s right.’
Deron himself may not know, but he is a stranger and at the same time, Aksi, a fellow dragon, can know.
Arwen’s mana, which made up this rare, clearly resembled Deron’s.
Even if the demonic energy in his body erases the scent, Aksi still remembers the scent emitted by Deron’s mana.
“This is the first time you two come here together.”
“Ah…. Yes.”
When I first came to Lair, I could only look at Deron’s body. This is my first time bringing something tangible like this.
Arwen smiled and asked Aksi.
“Would you like a cup of tea?”
“Yes? Yes.”
Aksi answered Arwen’s question without realizing it.
Still, Aksi sighed in relief as she saw Arwen going to boil water.
I thought that if I drank some warm tea, I would feel better than I am now.
Chi Ik.
Arwen quietly watched the water boiling in the kettle and asked a vague question.
“Well, since when did you meet my son?”
It was a courtesy question. But that doesn’t mean that even the response is ceremonial.
Akshi opened his mouth, desperately biting his tongue to keep from reacting loudly.
“1 Year…. “That’s it.”
“It’s been a year…. “It hasn’t been that long.”
“… Yes.”
Silence fills the cabin. Only the occasional sound of boiling water broke the silence. Akshi sat quietly and clenched his fists.
It is a different atmosphere from Deron’s silence. I don’t know what Arwen’s intentions were, but she knew that if she continued like this, Aksi would suffocate to death.
“Well, the reason you called me.”
“Ah. “Catrell said there was something he wanted to talk about with Deron.”
“Aha….”
“By the way, I also have something to tell you.”
If he had been drinking tea, he would have definitely squirted it out of his mouth.
Aksi listened to Arwen’s story, thankful that the water had not yet boiled.
“They are afraid of oblivion.”
At Arwen’s words, Aksi’s shoulders trembled briefly.
Did Deron even say that?
If you think about it, the reason he came to the Winter Castle and met Arwen was to solve that problem.
Instead of answering, Aksi nodded his head lightly.
“It’s a natural phenomenon. “As a long-lived species, we are afraid of oblivion.”
“Of course…. “Is this a phenomenon?”
“Of course. I don’t remember all of my memories with Katrell either. Some I remember, some I forgot. Because that’s how it’s been.”
Of course, Catrel will be disappointed when he hears this.
Arwen giggled as she said that.
But Aksi couldn’t laugh. Even if you forget what you want to forget and remember what you want to remember. If the frequency increases, one day you will no longer be able to remember what you need to remember.
That fact captivates Aksi’s mind. Even though she didn’t want to think about it, the fact that she had to think about it made her feel disgusted.
“It seems useless to tell you this.”
“… “Because I’m afraid.”
“I see. “I’m definitely scared.”
“Aren’t you afraid? “One day, I will forget all my memories.”
Arwen thought for a moment and then shook her head.
“No, probably not.”
“What….”
“If you don’t find it fun to spend time with Deron, I will remember you in some way.”
Yuhee. Akshi put down her trembling hands. Don’t feel like hanging out with Deron is fun.
This is definitely true. But if it were easy, wouldn’t you have done it a long time ago? Akshi gritted his teeth. She had even forgotten that she was Der On’s mother.
“That’s… !”
“The tea is all boiled.”
Arwen’s voice lightly stops Aksi from screaming.
She put boiled water in a teacup filled with leaves and placed it in front of Aksi.
“… ….”
Aksi gently bit her mouth.
The brief moment Arwen made was enough to calm her head.
Sip or even.
Arwen took a sip of her tea and then looked at Aksy.
“Dragons tend to think of everything as entertainment. Is it because I am afraid of losing my memories? Or maybe it’s because it’s annoying due to the nature of the damn race.
However, I have not liked the characteristics of that race for a long time. You treat everything as a game. So why does the dragon live?
Just to have fun? Those who pride themselves on being the masters of all creation and the most outstanding race are the only reason they were born into this world.
Isn’t it absurd?”
Acsi sat quietly as Arwen spoke.
Her words were a complete denial of the dragons that had lived so far.
Because of that, I did not carelessly deny or affirm it.
Just hearing that story made Aksi fall into thought.
“Oh my. I understand your fear of oblivion. “I used to be like that too.”
“… ….”
“But if you hesitate to move forward just because of that, you won’t be able to accomplish anything. “My relationship with Deron and my future.”
Aksy listened to what Arwen said for a moment, then she slowly opened her mouth.
“In that case.”
“Hmm.”
“If you say so, what should I do?”
“Try living.”
“…… ?”
Arwen said with a smile on Aksy’s expression of incomprehension.
“Live life, not play or entertainment. Reacting to the wind passing over your skin, walking barefoot in the meadow, or eating delicious food.
Even if you forget all those things, enjoy every moment of it.
And think about it later. Do I really regret the things I enjoyed?
That’s all the advice I can give.”
Arwen said and raised her teacup.
Akshi looked back and forth between her teacup and his own.
The steam rising slowly covered her face.
It was quite warm.