137 – Epitaph
“No, no matter how short the family’s history is and how dark the laws of the nobility are, that’s true! How… ! “How could you do such a shameless thing!!”
“Oh, mother, calm down first….”
After moving the collapsed Count Pontgrind to his room, the Countess, who heard the news late, continued to reprimand Jessica and me without stopping from then on.
Seeing the countess shedding tears in anger, asking what to do now, Jessica cried out of her guilty heart, but to me, who had made her mother cry many times, the tears of her other mother were nothing more than plain water.
I quietly watched the situation as I leisurely looked at the Countess and Jessica’s brother, thinking it was just a fun sight to see.
Unlike the foolish Count and the crying Countess, Jessica’s older brother, So Ga-ju, seemed friendly to me.
I may not say it with my own mouth, but looking at it objectively, I wasn’t a bad groom.
Although I rose to prominence by leaps and bounds, I am a count like Count Pontgrind, and through this fight, my name will once again spread throughout the kingdom.
The only flaw is that my wealth is somewhat inferior to that of other count families, but other than that, I wonder if there is a groom as good as me.
Jessica also seemed to like me, so it wasn’t a bad choice for the owner of the cow to marry her younger sister.
“Hmm….”
Jessica’s brother, who calmed down the frantic Countess and stood up, slowly approached me and Jessica.
Jessica seemed anxious about being scolded again, but she showed no signs of anger from him.
“Ian Gong…. Anyway, since things have come to this, is it okay to proceed with the matter, assuming that the Duke and his sister are going to get married?”
“I haven’t told your mother yet, but you can proceed that way.”
“Lynel!!”
Jessica’s older brother Lynel, whose name was called for the first time, looked back at his enraged mother and calmly shook his head.
“It’s not that I don’t know how my mother feels, but it has already happened. And Jessica doesn’t seem to like it that much, so please allow it.”
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“No, but….”
“Actually, in some ways, it feels a little late. “Isn’t it normal for a countess’s daughter to become fiancé at a much younger age than Jessica?”
That’s right, a high-ranking noble like an earl usually had a marriage partner chosen by the elders of the family at a young age.
It was fortunate for me, but it was rather strange that Jessica had never had a fiancé.
And the reason why that happened was well known to everyone here without having to be told.
“Her daughter is so cute that you blocked her from getting married? “Jessica, she was able to go to the academy, right?”
“There was also a xie jiao incident…” . And I promised not to make her a lover…. Now that promise has been broken….”
With that said, Jessica tried to gently grab her hand, but when the Countess glared at her, she quickly gave up and took her hand back.
“But what if her father-in-law wakes up and hears that she arranged her engagement while she was unconscious? “I don’t think she’ll let it go, considering what’s happened so far.”
They, who had lived with the Count their whole lives, frowned and shook their heads, as if they could easily imagine that scene.
It would be an option to leave the castle while the count faints, but if you do that, there’s no telling what will happen in the future.
“I guess I have no choice but to end this here. “I’ll try to convince you, so everyone, please leave for a moment.”
“…… “You can persuade with words?”
Jessica glanced at Nanga who was tied to my belt as she said that, but she had no intention of using her footnotes because she was really trying to persuade with words.
Not yet….
Everyone looked somewhat suspicious, but since there was no other alternative, they listened to me obediently.
After everyone left and only I and the Count remained in this large room, the room was filled with silence.
“Then…” .”
After hearing the sound of footsteps and seeing that everyone had left the room, I jumped up and aimed the sword in my heart at the count’s neck.
Perhaps because he was a trained warrior, the Count reacted sensitively to the murderous intent, and his eyes widened and he quickly stood up.
“Yes, you!!”
“Are you awake, father-in-law?”
“Shut up!! Who is your father-in-law!! When did I admit it… !!”
“Then what are you going to do if you don’t admit it? “Are you planning to ruin your daughter’s life because of your selfishness?”
“What?! “Are you threatening me now?!”
The Count seemed to accept the threat, but I simply told him what would happen in reality.
Let’s assume that the Count forcibly separated Jessica and me.
Then what comes next? Are you going to get Jessica married to another man instead of me?
No, it’s not that I don’t like it in the first place, it’s that I don’t like the idea of Jessica being taken away by another man, so I won’t let her get married to another man.
I will cherish it for the rest of my life, as if I were cherishing a precious treasure.
Right now, it’s okay because Jessica is still young, but what if time passes and the Count dies and Jessica becomes her grandmother?
“Only then will Jessica be able to do what she wants to do? “Why did Jessica have to suffer like that because of her father-in-law’s desires?”
“… ….”
The count’s mouth fell silent at the conclusion that there was no room for refutation.
The fist that would have hit my face just a moment ago slowly fell on the bed, and only a guilty expression appeared on my face.
The basis of the Count’s restraint on Jessica is love, and it was also effective to mention Jessica’s happiness.
“It’s not that I don’t know how parents love their children, but when it comes time to let them go, you have to let them go.”
“…… “Are you saying that the place I’m sending you to is your arms?”
“What’s wrong with me? “He’s a count like my father-in-law, and he’s a master of martial arts.”
“What is your personality?”
“At least I don’t force my daughter, who is already married, to call me Papa.”
“… ….”
I don’t have a daughter, so she can’t make me do that, but if I don’t do it anyway, I don’t do it.
After hearing what I said, the Count got out of bed, stood by the window, and looked out the window as if he was thinking deeply about something.
And after a while….
“Yes, as you said, maybe being by your side is happiness for Jessica. But….”
The count nodded as if he had decided something, picked up a long hammer that was hanging on the wall, and motioned to me.
“I’m still not sure if you can protect Jessica. So try your own strength.”
“Are you crazy? Or have you just forgotten what I defeated a week ago?”
“I heard. And after hearing the details of the fight, I felt like I wanted to check it out even more.”
“Ha…. They said it was a trick to visit the hospital…. Everyone is so obsessed with how they won….”
I had no intention of pulling it out, but when this situation came up, a smile appeared on my face at the joy of being able to pull it off.
The purpose of my first approach to Jessica was to engage in combat with the Count.
It was a half-abandoned goal after meeting several enemies who could make a name for themselves, but in this way, I was able to achieve it.
“… “Then let’s go.”
As I spoke with my hand on the hilt of his sword, the count lowered his posture and nodded.
It wasn’t a fight that would last long anyway, so I rushed towards the count with all my might, determined to end it with the first blow.
Soon after the Count entered the gap between Nanga, I pulled out Nanga without a moment of hesitation, and the Count also swung his hammer at me in response.
Suddenly, the count’s hammer head fell to the floor with the sound of cutting iron.
The match ended with me cutting off the long handle of the hammer, as even a child had expected.
“… ….”
Seeing the neatly cut hilt of the hammer, the Count looked up at the sky outside the window with a cool expression on his face, as if he had lost some lingering affection.
“Now I have s*x with Jessica…” “Can I have intercourse?”
“Crazy guy…. “I have something I want to say to Jessica, so I’ll call her for a moment and you can quickly leave.”
“Yes, but there is one thing I am curious about. Is there perhaps a password left behind by the count’s founder?”
“Password? Are you talking about the inscription that the founder left behind? If you’re curious about that, go to the mausoleum. Lynel will guide you.”
“Inscription?”
It was a question I asked lightly without any expectations, but I was able to get unexpected results.
Looking at the fact that he left an inscription, did Kim Tor, like his brother Pong Pong, have something he wanted to leave behind for the next possessed person?
No, since he is believed to be the first possessor, he may not have known that more possessors were coming and just left an epitaph for his descendants.
After conveying the Count’s words to Jessica, we headed to the mausoleum with Lynel’s guidance, and a colorful tombstone decorated with flowers about 3 meters tall appeared.
“Other places have deep battle wounds, but here we are safe.”
“That’s fortunate. Even barbarians seem to know the level of courtesy that should be shown to the dead.”
According to Lynel, the inscription on this tombstone is a phrase that Kim Thor, who was on his deathbed a few days before his death, ordered his descendants to engrave on the tombstone.
The inscription was written in the local language, not Korean, but for some reason I couldn’t shake the feeling that those words were spoken to us possessors.
[Do not strive for vain things and find your own happiness.]