110 – Grand Duke Ilencia (4)
The main gate of Reheim was opened.
He thought nothing had changed on the outside, but when he actually walked inside, there were quite a few things that had changed.
Despite the passage of several years, the memory came back to me as vividly as if I had seen it yesterday.
In a minor way, have the statues placed around the road changed?
It was a statue that had cracks here and there since I was a child.
The housekeeper said he would clean it up, but he seemed to be affectionate with it and left it there for quite some time.
It seemed to have been damaged so much that we couldn’t leave it alone while we were away.
Looking back, it wasn’t a particularly great statue.
When I saw him disappear, I felt a sense of regret.
It wasn’t just the statues that disappeared when we were away.
Winter Garden in Reheim. The place that the Grand Duke’s wife had tended and Sirien had walked around in like a playground was being neglected.
The bare, stretched out branches looked bare and empty.
Sirien closed her eyes tightly after seeing the garden.
As if something was to come, there was a sad and bitter feeling.
We had to ruminate the loss in our minds.
I heard myself mumbling like a complaint.
“It’s complicated, the mind.”
In the garden we greeted, corpses bloomed instead of flowers.
Most of them were corpses of soldiers or knights. Red blood was scattered instead of white petals, and fragments and metals that originally belonged to life fell down in disarray.
My hands and feet were wet and clammy.
The fishy scent of blood wafts through the garden, which was filled with the scent of fragrant flowers and trees.
The iron smell emitted by human blood. The disgusting smell of oil emanating from spilled intestines and chunks of meat.
Every time I swung the sword, the happy memories were stained with blood.
The garden I walked through when I was young made a pleasant sound as the dirt and sand were stepped on.
Now, I had to come into this garden wearing armor and leave a cruel mark.
The dark red blade cut down three humans at once.
The face of a young knight in despair was painted over the face of Sirien, who was leading me and laughing.
Therion’s energetic shout. Henna’s worried nagging. Sirien’s pretty and gentle voice was buried beneath the human screams and could not be heard.
“Stop it!”
Two spear-pointed knights stab me with their swords.
It’s a good attempt. I was wary of my sword skills and exquisitely selected the angle and position of entry.
I could tell that their intention was to inflict fatal wounds on me even if one of them died.
This will definitely work for the Sword Master as well.
The Spear Point Knights are an order of knights with a battle against a high-ranking devil in mind.
Of course, you are trained in tactics against master-level strongmen.
The problem is that I am not an ordinary sword master.
Several ink-colored blades rose from the ground. The divinity of Hybras fertilized the body of a knight.
My great sword cruelly destroyed the knight from top to bottom.
Someone shouted.
“Don’t let Reheim be trampled by ruthless feet of clay!”
“Dare now!”
Suddenly, I felt like I lost my senses.
I threw the dead knight’s sword at him.
The blade that flew with sword energy hit him precisely in the mouth, killing him.
“Are the Spear Point Knights stopping Ilencia’s blood relatives?”
I couldn’t imagine how she felt as she walked here.
The place I loved most in the world. The time we spent together was so beautiful that now I can only dream about it.
We returned to our hometown, but the feeling that what we had longed for all this time was already ruined could not be erased.
“Since when did your master become Roxen instead of Ilencia?”
“It was the leader’s order. How dare you refer to a high-ranking blood relative…… “
“There is no need. “Kill them all, Razen.”
It was what I hoped for.
The sword struck loudly and cut down several knights.
The garden was cleaned without the slightest mercy or hesitation.
“I thought I would feel relieved if I achieved revenge. But when I actually tried it, it wasn’t really like that.”
Sirien said bitterly.
It will be difficult to recall memories from this garden from now on.
One thing was gained, but one was lost.
Still, not all Spear Point Knights pointed their swords at us.
The Spear Point Knights are a large-scale organization. A knight had to follow ‘orders’, but not all individuals had the same thoughts.
There were bound to be some within the Knights who had doubts about Roxen’s rule, and naturally, Carlton did not trust them.
Sometimes knights make irrational judgments for the sake of their beliefs.
Because it was impossible to know what a knight who recognized Sirien as the ‘rightful successor to Ilencia’ would do.
That fact saved the lives of the remaining knights.
All of Roxen’s influence on the Knights came from Carlton.
Now that Carlton Malceus has become the commander of the ‘Squadron’ knights, the knights left behind have an opportunity to make their own judgments.
Sirien, who crossed the garden, threw Carlton’s head.
Among Reheim’s private soldiers, there was no one who did not know Carlton, so naturally, a commotion was heard.
If the opponent is the true owner of Ilencia – a knight who dies on this battlefield will not be recognized with honor or faith.
There was no article that rebelled against ‘Sirien Ilencia’ for certain death.
After passing the garden, the true nature of Reheim appeared.
For convenience, he just called it a mansion or a castle.
It was a building that could be called our ‘home’ in the true sense.
A scenery that is not only familiar, but even endearing.
Sirien muttered softly as he walked towards the main gate of the mansion.
“I thought about killing everyone I saw here. Really. “I also had an idea to destroy them all, regardless of whether they were guilty or not.”
“You can do that. “Your sword is still in good condition.”
“I know, I really can do it now.”
It was truly so.
Now no one will be able to stop us.
Of course you will hear that it is cruel.
I didn’t know that there would have been innocent people and that they might have been slandered.
In fact, most of the notoriety we accumulated in the original work was accumulated that way.
However, the majority were just empty cries.
If we don’t do this, the pain will be unbearable, so what should we do?
Will you take responsibility for our pain?
Out of her curiosity, the maid looked out her window, was shocked, and put her head back in.
Sirien looked at the front door and sneered.
“I achieved revenge much easier than I thought, so why am I suffering more?”
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I still lived in Reheim longer than I did not. Of course, it was the same for Sirien.
Still, there were almost no faces I recognized left in this castle.
In other words, it wasn’t there at all.
The collateral cousins that Sirien took care of when she was young were like that.
I thought about those things while shivering from the cold in the carriage heading to that cabin.
– You know, Razen. Are your other younger siblings okay? I’m a little worried.
– Just worry about yourself. The Archduke and my father are there too. All the seniors went there too.
– …… Thank you. Then let me ask you a favor.
It was such a pointless worry.
It seems that these guys couldn’t even make the choice to run away on their own.
Is this the kind of thing you do as best as you can and beg for your life in droves?
My younger siblings, who were once so cute, grew up to be really ugly.
While we were trying to see who would win between Carlton and us, it was very obvious that Roxen was bowing down to us because he wasn’t there.
What would you have done differently? Is it possible for us to choose to forgive you?
Even if I thought hard about it, I couldn’t figure it out.
Sirien’s eyes moved for the first time.
“Noona. I am…… I am not. “I didn’t do anything wrong.”
“Brother! Rajen! You know, I just can’t disobey my father…… “
“Do you remember me? When you were young, you often handed out cookies…… “
Naturally, they appealed to old memories.
It was a memory of the beautiful times when we had fun running around this castle. However, it was hard to hear what each other was saying because of the lame excuses they were making.
It seemed like the pigs in the barn were crying over their food.
I clicked my tongue inwardly.
Stupid things. I shouldn’t have touched the memories.
In that way, Sirien had to lose another of her happy memories.
“I really didn’t know. “There is no way I would betray my sister.”
“Please save me. It wasn’t my fault. “There was nothing I could do at that time!”
“… ….”
The red eyes were drenched in grief and hatred and shook like a mess.
I chewed my lip a few times as if my voice was choking up.
Red blood was visible from the beautiful, small mouth.
Sirien strained her voice.
Like screaming.
“It’s noisy. “I don’t want to hear it.”
Sirien’s divinity stirred, but my sword was faster than him.
I did not want this dirty blood on Sirien’s hands. She had already suffered so much that she was already crying without saying a word.
I had to protect Sirien’s heart because it was even a little good.
I earnestly ask you to leave no will.
Before my sword reaches you, don’t destroy Sirien’s memories with that terrible voice.
The story at this castle has already ended in tragedy, but it cannot ruin all of her happy memories.
Fortunately, I stopped them all before they could say anything more.
Sirien looked at them with mixed feelings, but she soon lost her interest.
It would be nice if I could just endure it. Her mouth felt bitter as if she had cut out something that was inside her without any regret.