Eunyodang, a famous thief family founded by a noble being whose name cannot be revealed by marrying the greatest hero.
Len Sonnet was the enemy of the family.
The proof was the silver hair. The blood of noble beings was passed down to only one person in a generation, and they all had beautiful silver hair. Therefore, the head of this generation will be Len Sonnet, and no one around has any doubts.
It was when she was 5 years old that she first noticed the oddity. Ren’s mother, the current head of Eunyodang, saw Ren sitting quietly at the social church and smiling. That guy is obviously weird. It’s different from the previous bosses.
The cause was discovered when Ren was 7 years old.
“What do you mean arthrosis?”
Ren, who was going out to a picnic and drawing a landscape while holding a colored pencil, suddenly felt a cold as if his blood vessels were frozen and fell into a coma. When I woke up, I was on the hospital bed. I looked in the mirror with my cloudy eyes and my lips were blue. Without realizing that Ren was eavesdropping, the doctor told his mother the diagnosis.
“It is a rare disease that is reported only in very few cases. It might be more appropriate to call it constitution. A person who suffers from this disease has such a beautiful appearance and natural talent, but because of its pure energy, the body cannot withstand it and passes away. Don’t.”
“If it’s a minor, the timing is…”
“No cases have been reported beyond the age of 25.”
My mother was a hero who overcame many battlefields. She was also the heroine of this venerable family. But, for the first time, I heard my mother weep. Ren was worried and closed his eyes. And, I decided to pretend I didn’t hear it.
The next day, my mother called Ren. She said, covering her mouth with a fan adorned with black feathers.
“Make sure you find a man who will make you pregnant quickly.”
Her mother’s expression was not clearly visible because of the fan. The instructions were understandable. If he dies without leaving any heirs, Eun-yo’s bloodline, which has been running for hundreds of years, is cut off here. As the head of the family, he had no choice but to hope that he would leave an heir before he died. So Ren followed the rather cruel instructions with a smile. Yes, because I can understand. He just whispered to himself as if he were telling himself.
As I got older, I realized. The family he was born in is desperately acting ordinary, but in many ways it is out of the norm.
Since then, my parents have always treated me warmly. It was barely noticeable that they were disguising themselves as a good couple. I thought maybe that’s how he decided to get along until his daughter died.
But Ren knew it was a lie. It was because he had seen his mother secretly poison his father’s car, many times. Even though there was no way for his father, who even had the nickname “the master of poison”, to work, his mother released poison as if to mourn. It was difficult to understand.
He was usually educated as the next leader of Eunyodang. I learned the skills, mindset, and techniques that I needed to learn as a thief every single day. Motivation wasn’t that great. I’d be leaving soon anyway, so I wouldn’t be able to use this, and my mother would know. I couldn’t understand why he invited so many first-class instructors and wasted money and effort and invested in himself.
“You’re going to be a great head of the family.” People around me who say things like, “I wish I could meet a good husband and lead the family” and smile broadly about the future that will never happen. It was difficult to understand them. Is it the heart of a child who painstakingly builds a sand castle that will collapse at once with the rippling waves? Are you investing so much money and effort only to deceive that you are a dead woman, then you should be deceived.
“Girl, I’ll protect you from the shadows for the rest of my life!”
Sometimes I felt mean. My parents, who had picked up orphans who were the same age as me, introduced me to them, saying they would be your friends and servants. The guy said his name, Soria, with his eyes twinkling as black as a beetle.
“Because you are such a kind and beautiful girl, you will surely become a great head of the family! No matter where you go, even if it’s a few decades or even a hundred years, I’ll always be by your side!”
stop it.
Seeing Soria chattering without knowing anything, something raged and swelled up. It was unbearably difficult for even the orphans who had just picked up the future not to be in their hands. From the day Soria arrived, Ren skipped training for several days. I also skipped meals. I was lying in bed, watching the snowflakes fall and disappear. I wasn’t motivated. Everything was thought of as a child’s play, stacking toy blocks to ruin everything. I just wanted to lay down without doing anything like this and melt away like that snow in the wind.
“Lady, did I do something wrong, did I do something wrong? That’s why you’re mad? Please, release your anger…”
After lying down for a few days, Soria came to the bed and apologized in tears. you’re nothing bad It’s just that I’m jealous. embarrassed Why is this guy apologizing for a mistake he didn’t even do? If I die like this, this guy will cry. will cry a lot I don’t like that. Ren sighed and got up from the bed. From that day on, Ren started training without skipping a beat.
It has always been difficult for people to understand. So was life. Rather than a life that pulsates with incomprehensible patterns, the quiet but clear waiting of death was always more certain to Ren.
On days when all the contradictions were unbearably frustrating, Ren put on a straw hat and went outside.
While fluttering the white hem of the dress, he walked along the shoulder of the vineyard where dark purple grapes glistened like beads. And I saw a lot.
I saw a woman beating her husband who had been drinking and beating her on the back. I saw a mother who was nervous about her child going to school and followed her to school. After the hard work was over, I saw the proud father taking out a picture of his child and showing it to him. I saw a child jumping with joy after receiving a cat as a gift on his birthday.
Maybe things I’m not allowed to do.
However, it was fun just looking at it.
Ren stood like the wrong person in the background, smiling awkwardly and waving his hand.
After circumnavigating the vineyards, Ren would sit on the hill overlooking the entire estate, hugging his knees and watching the sunset.
As the sun set and the windmills and the old fortress sank into the twilight, the sky shone on every grape that filled the horizon, and thousands of sunsets set with it. Every day he opened his eyes, one step closer to death, and every time he thought of it, Ren always remembered this scene. I thought that it would be good for my own death to resemble this sunset.
I didn’t want it to be an object of mourning. As the sun sets and flowers fall, I thought it would be nice to receive them so calmly.
Just as no one grieves for the fleeting life, only drawing the end of summer while listening to the cicada’s cry, I wished his own death would be like that.
Her life has been that way.
My whole life was like a gigantic rehearsal for a farewell to come someday.
However, there was one thing that Ren was greedy for.
Like a grass beetle in summer, if you were born to die, leaving one child behind,
As much as that one love, at least as much as love, I wanted to make it sad and beautiful.
Then an opportunity came to her.
“The Empire has requested that a thief be dispatched. The hero has a bad reputation, so it seems that it is very difficult to find an ally.”
At the supper, my mother saw the letter and said it was annoying. My father, who was slicing meat with a knife, answered bluntly.
“What grade are you asking for?”
“They say there aren’t many heroes, so they don’t ask for a strong person to become an immediate force. They say that it is enough to have a promising person who can share a relationship with the hero and grow… Well, maybe they’re just trying to match the assortment for political purposes.”
“How bad is it?”
“After unlocking Eunyodae and collecting information, it’s worse than the local guards.”
“Does that make sense? Your name is a warrior?”
“So the Empire must have made such a request as a prime minister’s seal. It seems like a political purpose.”
“For political purposes… Well, if rumors spread that he neglected the owner of the Holy Sword Gramhilt, he might be bitten by his enemies later.
The father shook his head, cut the meat and swallowed it.
“If it’s a prospect, is Soria enough?”
“That would be enough.”
Suddenly, the flow of the story was decided by dispatching Soria. Ren raised his hand, feeling some impatience.
“Hey there!”
warrior party. Apparently, the founder of this family, Eunyodang, was also a warrior’s companion. If you go on an adventure out of this land, and meet a lot of colleagues, it seemed like you could try burning love. Such a feeling swept over Ren’s body.
“Okay, if that’s okay with you, I’ll go! I want to go!”
On that day, Ren tried to assert himself for the first time in his life.