456 – One for All
The Elder’s Rebellion was short, but its impact was powerful. Dozens of people were killed and injured in just a brief sweep by Erzébut. The good news is that Liir turned a person who was supposed to die into a simple injured person. Thanks to a miraculous performance that seemed as if God had written down the list incorrectly, the survivors were given the opportunity to live and tell their story.
People who had been bleeding all over their bodies were suffering from anemia with their wounds stitched shut. Hilde looked around quickly and muttered.
“As long as you don’t die, you save your life…” . It’s quite an enviable ability, isn’t it? I would like to have at least one in the military. “Like an over-the-counter medicine.”
“What do you think of Elder?”
“I don’t know if she’s another Elder, but she might be able to do it! They say she saves people. “Then a military state where more people are dying is more suitable than a principality!”
“I am proud of dying more.”
“I’m proud! Dying more means living more! “We don’t make a living with just a few dozen people!”
Hilde glanced at her wounded. They were terrified as they almost died after offering their blood to Elder Erzhebut. Those who barely survived talked about what had happened a little while ago.
“Madame Erzébut! “The Elder tried to kill us all!”
“What? Why Elder?”
“Oh, they will harvest our blood and use it for power…” !”
“No way, there’s no need to kill him….”
The order of the principality belongs to the livestock. The reason the humans here are unusually peaceful and gentle is because of the vampires. The vampires, who are humans’ predators, monarchs, and even protectors, manage everyone, so humans live in peace with the lives of livestock.
But unfortunately, humans are not livestock. Because he won’t accept the fact that he is livestock.
‘We were prey from the beginning.’
‘I barely saved my life, but if there’s a fight later, I’ll be consumed as food.’
‘You shouldn’t rely too much on vampires. ‘Humans must come together.’
It’s a little more lively. It’s nice to see. Okay, maybe you want to be a livestock. He can’t accept that he is a livestock even when he wakes up, so he blindsides himself and lives the life of a livestock.
Hilde’s eyes sparkled like a child seeing a toy.
“Father, ‘I’ want the Lyr Nightingale! “Why don’t you try to negotiate with Tirkanjaka?”
“Get rid of the habit of relying on me for everything. “It’s time to stand on your own, right?”
“Huh? “A person who would have passed away a long time ago if it weren’t for me, would wash his mouth like this?”
“Who asked you to help me? It was of your own volition to help me, right? I thought I had issued a bill or something. From next time, try to learn how to take it in advance.”
“Wow! Trash!”
That’s life. Why would someone who has lived enough to live do that?
As you said to me, Ui-seon’s future is not something that can be changed by talking about it here. Hilde also yawned, as if she had relaxed a bit.
“Ah~. I’m tired. “I want to get some rest first~.”
“I am physically weak. “I’m not that tired.”
“Not long ago, your father was comfortably playing and eating in Sijo’s room! ‘I’ couldn’t even sleep properly because of the investigation!”
“Why did you do that? “It’s going to work out like this anyway, so please take your time.”
“How do I know that! I need to be able to rest! “I was worried that if I made a mistake, my father would die!”
That’s a bit touching.
Honestly, I didn’t expect Hilde to help me this much. I thought she was just trying to sell me off for a high price and take advantage of me. In fact, I am full of such feelings.
However, in Hilde’s heart, there is a heart that expects something from me, to be more precise, from the king of humans. One of the reasons for my expectations is that I guessed her identity, but whether I can live up to it is another problem…. Well, for me, there is nothing bad about it.
“Go go~. Still, since you contributed in some way, your status must have risen a lot, right? Because of this incident, Tirkanjaka, the god of the principality, is in a more disappointing position, so future negotiations will be much easier!”
“I wish I could do that too.”
“What else is there? If you know something, tell me quickly. ‘I’ don’t want to go through any more trouble than this, right?”
“It’s not that I don’t know, but I’m bothered by what Red Blood Ball said.”
You haven’t betrayed yourself until you betray yourself. That’s not because I thought I would betray Tyr and warned him. Valdamir doesn’t say anything like that.
That is a declaration that I will not take any action even if I betray Tyr’s trust.
Indeed. Why are you talking like I’m going to betray you? As Hilde said, I helped Tyr, and thanks to that, not only my status but also my value increased. She went beyond just being a mistress and earned the right to be incorporated into this power structure. Why give up on this?
Stay still. Let’s take deep root in this power vacuum and enjoy it to our heart’s content. I hate order and all, but if it’s an order that I lead, why would I reject it?
It wasn’t long before the other side became cluttered. A group of people are coming straight towards me. As soon as I reached a barely recognizable distance, I heard a familiar voice.
[Phew!]
Look. Tyr will find it on his own. Now I too can live a life of power….
….
Wow.
Tyr is approaching. Naturally, it doesn’t look like there’s a single wound. Even if it had been there, it would have regenerated, but if you read my thoughts, it doesn’t seem like it was that bad. As Tyr went through her own struggles, she learned to use her powers entirely for herself.
Yes. I finally learned how to live as a human being, not a god. That’s what I intended, but I don’t think it would be such a good thing.
[Phew… ! Are you injured anywhere? Are you okay?]
Tyr ran straight towards me and jumped straight into my arms. Her body, which seemed to be a little warmer than before, came into me. Baldamir was slowly following behind her, but she didn’t care, and didn’t care about the gazes of the countless humans here. She touched my face with only me in her eyes.
“Ah, yes. “I’m fine.”
[Thank goodness. If you had died…. I am….]
Tyr muttered with eyes full of tears as if she would shed tears at any moment, then suddenly got on her tiptoes and kissed me. I was also dumbfounded by her sudden attack, but it wasn’t even a day or two since we kissed, so she got used to it. Lips that seemed a little softer and somehow warmer than before covered mine.
“You’re the leader~.”
Hilde, who was watching by her side, said something carefree without realizing it. Really, I don’t know the speed.
The long kiss has ended. Tyr hugged me behind my neck, she smiled warmly and she let out a breath.
[Phew….]
Tyr is looking at me. A long shadow flickers beyond her. It’s really amazing. In a principality where the sunlight is dim due to fog, such clear shadows do not appear. What is that….
While she was asking her questions, Tyr held her face in both hands and asked her to focus on himself.
[Are you satisfied now?]
“Yes? “Satisfied?”
[This is the Elder Rebellion that you planned. Was this enough entertainment to satisfy the human king?]
Tir asked, stroking my face as if I had planned all of this.
Who is it? What made Tyr like this?
“It’s entertainment. When a tragedy like this happens, I….”
[Shh.]
As my words started to get a little longer, Tyr approached me again and bit my lip slightly. I felt a tingling sensation, so I guess it was slightly torn. While the fishy scent was blooming, Tyr smiled pitifully, licking my blood with her tongue.
[Phew, I’m only looking at you. I’m thinking only of you. I also know that you look on with satisfaction at the sparks that form when humans collide.]
“Oh, that’s exactly it.”
[Giving an opportunity to those who hesitate is also…. I know. It also doesn’t discriminate between humans.]
Tyr is a vampire who has lived for a thousand years. What she has learned over her eons is how to see and let go of her world. If she had felt pain and loneliness during that time, she wouldn’t have been able to survive. As it happens, her vampire callousness came in handy. Although she didn’t particularly want Tyr.
So now Tyr has regained all of her emotions and senses.
[So, didn’t you give everyone your back? To Ain of Ruskinia and to Erzhebut. And… To Finlay.]
I don’t let even the smallest detail slip by. Even the smallest suspicion is carefully considered. Even more deeply if it involves me.
[The trial was also just an opportunity. You knew the answer but didn’t tell it. I believe that something will happen through that trial.]
“No, that. “The procedure.”
The moment I was about to say something, lips covered my mouth again. As if it was punishment for lying, a little blood was drawn from the slight wound.
Tyr whispered close to me, tasting the blood little by little, even though it was tasteless.
[Isn’t it just like back then, phew. When you struck me in the bottomless pit. What was the reason for whispering hope to me who had given up and giving me a taste of its sweetness?]
“I think you want it.”
[Thanks to this, I remembered the old wind and gave myself up to a gamble-like move. For me at that time, that was the only way to do it.]
He commands his subordinates to rule. It was a fairly effective means. Even if Finlay, who was only a Yeiling, had not been so weak, he might have been as successful as Ruskinia. I think the attempt itself was good.
[…] Even though you already had the means to save me.]
That’s right. There is no law that says you must save them, but it is clear that there was a way to do so.
Tyr spoke as if he had read my thoughts.
[Salvation is not an obligation, so I did not argue with you. Even if it’s shameless, you can’t ask why they didn’t save you earlier, right? Just one thing… I want to hear your answer on this one thing.]
“What is it?”
[For whom was it for?]
Beyond the top of Tyr’s head, a shadow is visible from the sunless ground. I don’t know why Tyr’s shadow is stuck to the ground while he is in my arms. As if alive…. Well, it wasn’t strange because the shadow also resembled Tyr….
At that time, the shadow and eyes met. Red eyes looked at me in the pitch black darkness, curved like a crescent moon, and smiled.
I instantly got goosebumps. Cold sweat runs down my back. As for the movement of that shadow, I couldn’t read his thoughts either. It is clearly created by Tyr’s power and moves according to Tyr’s will.
Tyr.
What on earth did you ‘make’?
[Finlay? Ersebut? Another Elder?]
Is this something like Ralion? But Ralion was created using the pack mule buried next to her as the original. But that… It’s the same as a human being.
Human components were added. Blood flows inside of it, just like Tyr’s. Not only that, it seems to embody a vampire with all the powers of a vampire in one body.
But that thing was created by Tyr… A moment ago, Tyr did not give any orders. That shadow moved as it pleased!
[Or is it okay to be any human?]
Tyr did nothing and just asked. But his energy is so strong that I can’t even breathe. This is not momentum or magic power. Only will. This is the power I indirectly feel after reading Tyr’s mind.
But… This mind can become reality at any time.
[Am I special to you?]
This is the hardship of a lifetime. You have to answer well.
Tyr also knows. You can’t know everything about me. I am not asking this question because I believe that what comes out of my mouth is the truth.
It means that you will regard it as the truth, or you will make it the truth.
Who did you learn it from? Sure, it’s a bit tricky for people who try to deceive others. It’s a way of speaking that has nothing to do with whether the other person is a mind reader or something.
Well, I don’t really have any intention of deceiving you.
“It’s special.”
I can’t tell if he lie or not