#2 Responsibilities and Obligations (3)
The battlefields of the West were grueling.
It was a continental melting pot where one empire and seven kingdoms competed for supremacy, and it was a demonic realm that used humans as firewood.
It burns with the blood spewed out by so many people, and swallows the blood of many more people. Also, there must have been a lot of stories of those who became firewood.
There were also people who lived a very strange life and flowed from the battlefield.
Such was the case with a nobleman Youngsik whom Elric met.
-Elbus Greyman. Are you kasha?
It was when I just turned 17.
At that time, Elric was a promising mercenary who was now adapting to the battlefield, and he was the third of a family leading the territory war.
The two had a relationship between an employee and an employee, and the battlefield that day was a castle wall guarded by a hundred matchlock troops.
Elric and Youngsik were the siege side who broke through the walls.
-You have to break through that gate. Our Greyman knights will charge on horseback. After that, the soldiers will proceed with the siege. Mercury’s forces will flock to us. Please infiltrate the gap.
At that time, Youngsik was only 20 years old.
It’s an old memory now, so I don’t remember what he looked like at the time, but his gun-like eyes are still as clear as that.
He wondered why a 20-year-old boy from an aristocratic family was commanding the battlefield, but Elric didn’t ask.
Soyang as an employee was to do as much work as he was paid.
– Turn around!
There are always things floating around on the battlefield.
A cool fishy smell entwined with the incense of iron and blood, dust scattering to form an ocher-colored mist, and shouts and roars that dispersed them.
Elbus Greyman was in the middle of it.
He participated in the battlefield as a knight, not as a commander, and tried to break through the walls of the enemy camp.
His struggles were so desperate that you could tell even through the dust.
Elric watched it from a spot one step away from the battlefield.
-Kasha, we’ll start slowly.
– I see.
In short, the war was a victory.
It was because Elric had decapitated the enemy commander and tied the bloodline of the castle lord.
However, it could not even be called a complete victory.
Young-style Elberse Greyman was crippled, unable to stand on the battlefield again.
That kind of thing happens.
Where was one or two people crippled on the battlefield? It would be fortunate if he did not lose his life. Also, since he is an aristocrat, his life will not be very uncomfortable.
It was the day I went to the Greyman family’s mansion to receive the promised reward.
There, Elric was able to overhear the bizarre life of Elvis Greyman.
It was from the servants of the mansion.
The tribe of servants enjoyed stimulating stories to shake off boredom.
– What should the third boy do now? pitifully.
-Eh, what kind of crime was it to be born as a child of a concubine and pushed to the battlefield… .
– Did you see it? Even though I couldn’t walk again, I came in smiling. He went straight to the duke and reported it.
-Still, the duke wouldn’t blink an eye… .
If you stab anyone, there is a law that hurts.
That clever spirit must have had such a struggle.
Elric had drawn a rough picture.
Perhaps Young-sik was born as a spy and dared to dig into the middle of the battlefield in order to escape from being persecuted.
If he would never inherit his family, he might have dreamed of becoming famous as a longevity.
Or maybe it was because he wanted to catch the eye of his father’s duke.
The reason why he couldn’t get away from the thoughts about his inner thoughts must have been the reason why he thought of Dong Byeong-sang-ryeon.
17-year-old Elric hated his father so much that he could talk all day about how unhappy his children were without parental attention.
Elric, who has been wrong to tolerate since birth, asked that as soon as he faced Elbus Graham.
– I don’t think it makes sense. He suffered a lot because of his poor father.
– Oh, are you here?
-Isn’t your father resentful?
-hmm?
I wanted to swear together as much as I could.
However, the answer that came back was unexpected.
-Well, I didn’t go to war to get in the eyes of the family head.
Sometimes human beings have faced people who are on a very different line from themselves.
As a person who lives in a world so different, should I even feel a sense of alienation in the existence of that human being? That was the case that day.
Elbus Graham was a man half-sitting on the bed, showing off his shiny gun despite his haggard appearance.
He resolutely denied Elric’s words without the slightest doubt.
– I will do my duty. There is no other reason.
he said.
Those who were born into aristocrats have their due responsibilities and duties.
As long as you are in a position where others look up to you, you have to set an example worthy of it.
This war was just a place to fulfill its responsibilities and obligations.
There was a question that Elric inadvertently threw at the words that I couldn’t understand.
Looking back on it, it was a question so blunt that I had nothing to say even if I ran away.
-… Aren’t you a spy? half of them are commoners.
Even at that, Elvis Graham replied with a smile.
-In other words, half nobles. And I lost half of my body by doing half of my responsibilities and duties. um, good It would be nice to live the rest of my life like a lazy person.
In fact, he lived that way after that.
Taking a step back from the battlefield that seethed like a melting pot, she enjoyed what she could enjoy as a noble family, and even got married a few years later.
The reason Elric knows this is because they have met several times since then.
Elbus Graham, a bizarre and peculiar spy, was one of the few friends Elric made while living as Kasha, and a man who inspired him in his youth.
… In any case, Elric had a reason to recall the past.
-I am Tyria Portman.
This was the answer Tyria left when asked why she did not return to her family and kept her legacy.
Her complexion was calm. There was not even an inch of distraction as if he was saying a very obvious fact.
extremely aristocratic
That’s why I think of it inadvertently.
responsibility and duty.
About any weight they take for granted.
deuk, deuk-
Elric was sitting at the desk in the room.
In his hand, the dagger he always carried in his bosom was pulled out and scraping the top of the desk.
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It was a dagger that died all day. It was not meant to be sharpened.
The dagger was just an amulet that Elric carried to suppress his anxiety.
deuk, deuk-
Even though it was cut with such a dagger, dozens of long breasts were dug up on the desk.
The scar deepened as much as the time he spent worrying about it.
Elric looked at it and repeated the same words.
‘Responsibility and duty.’
Maybe that’s what she meant by the answer, ‘I’m Tyria Portman.’
Elric, who did not know her well, could only relate the answer to her aristocratic demeanor.
If so, what are her responsibilities and obligations?
Ask questions one after another and seek answers.
‘As the wife of a nobleman.’
What are they doing… .
As far as Elric knew, while the owner of an aristocratic house took care of the outside, he was a person who worked on the inside.
They were the ones who supported the center of the family and kept order.
If so, wouldn’t Tyria’s answer be the same?
‘Portman.’
As Tyria Portman, she has kept what remained of Portman.
Not for personal satisfaction, but to fulfill responsibility and duty.
The answer given as if it were a matter of course must refer to the morality she has kept.
Shame started to torment me again.
Responsibilities and duties were all things that Elric turned away and ran away from.
Of the two, she was the only one who kept the morals and trust as a human and aristocrat.
Kkwaak, I grabbed the dagger.
Elric thought about the day he died.
I can’t compensate for the 10 years she sacrificed.
Elric had no ability to turn back time.
However, that doesn’t mean there isn’t much you can do.
‘The letter will come again.’
A letter to bring inheritance.
There was no way I wouldn’t come again after coming steadily for a year.
A related point to think about is that Yubinga didn’t visit this place even though he asked for a reply.
You would be right in thinking that it couldn’t come.
It could have been her father’s will, or Tyria’s will.
‘Even if you ask, he won’t answer… .’
If she was that kind of person, she would have already told me about the letter.
From what I’ve observed, since she’s the type of person who doesn’t express anything in the first place, she probably won’t complain.
But fortunately, it wasn’t completely impossible to find out.
Elric stood up.
I left the room with a cane.
“Aldio.”
“yes.”
“Will you prepare a wagon?”
“hmm? Where do you plan to go?”
Elric grinned.
“I want to go to Yubin Street.”
It’s a small help, but if the letter really bothered Tyria, it could be solved. All you have to do is tell the Yubin family to stop sending letters.
In the opposite case, Elric could have solved it. If it is because of the father’s will that he cannot communicate with his family, it is enough to connect him again.
front break.
It was Elric’s favorite word.