episode_0053

Count Louis Bellaon.

He was rooted in the Duchy of Demisia and was the head and father of an ordinary count family with one son and one daughter.

The Bellaon family is not a prestigious family, but it has survived without any major upheaval and is a family that neither hears nor speaks of regrets to others.

Rather, Count Louis had an excellent external reputation and was occasionally praised by nearby commoners.

His one son also had a good reputation.

It was a virtue that well-executed the teaching that the basic virtue of nobility is knowing how to hide the truth and use lies.

I thought it was my virtue that I was not raised to be evil.

And thanks to that, he believed that he had achieved the honor of becoming the final candidate for the Third Northern Grand Duchess’ Marriage Battle.

He was hoping that perhaps the Count of Bellaon could have a bright future with the Grand Duke of Winterfell on its back.

That is, if the departure did not return at the wrong time.

“… Father!”

Kyle Bellaon.

My son, who set off with the hope of becoming the hope of his family, has returned.

It has become shabby, it has become shabby.

He returned even though the battle of marriage was not over.

And that son complained to me.

“There was a nominee… ! So, I just abstained. I’m sorry for not living up to your expectations… !”

“… … .”

Count Louis looked at his son’s pale face.

Those eyes were so fiery that Kyle didn’t even dare to face them.

And when his father wordlessly took out a letter and threw it in front of him, Kyle realized that things were going against his wishes.

“Ah, father… ? What is this… ?”

“Read. And answer. Is everything written on it true?”

“Yes… ?”

Kyle quickly picked up the letter and started reading it.

After a while.

“That’s false!! It’s a blatant lie meant to slander me-!”

Kyle had to pull away.

Because that was what was written in the letter.

The letter containing the ugly truth was a denial of the hardships one had escaped from.

And my father did that.

It is said that those who hide the truth and use lies well become prosperous.

“False? Conspiracy? Did I teach you like that?”

“Yes, yes?”

“Why are you trying to hide the truth with such flimsy lies? And how dare you try to humiliate this father?”

“Ah, father-! How could I do that-!”

“Shut that snout! I thought I raised you well, but do you know how frustrating it is that I only now realize how foolish and conceited I was-!”

Kyle’s whole body is shaking like a scared puppy.

I was afraid of my father’s angry face.

At some point, the mansion that he thought would take care of him began to feel like a pit of hell.

“I’ll ask you the last question. Contents of the letter. Was it the truth or a lie? It would be better to answer carefully.”

As his father seemed to already be confident about the contents of the letter, Kyle ended up just repeating the adage, ‘There is no rest in the place of flight.’

“G… It’s the truth… .”

After a while.

“Hello. Break that bastard’s legs and throw him in horse riding prison. I will drive it myself and go to the Great Siege of Winterfell.”

A blood-curdling scream rang out along with the sound of the fugitive’s knee being smashed.

Kwasik!

“Quaaa-!!”

In the mansion where shouts of joy should have rang out, and in the nest from which they had had difficulty escaping, only incoherent malevolence rang out.

And the evil spirit, trapped in the iron bars, began to return to the place where it should resonate.

The fugitive, who realized that he could not escape safely from the past, began to be escorted to his place.

I ran away and realized that there would be no peace in the place I arrived.

**

The time when the fugitive’s malignity resounded.

Lemien and Gelwood were confronting each other.

There was a stark confrontation between those who wanted to bring out the ugly past and those who wanted to cover up the foolish present.

“If you stop now, we will take measures so that His Majesty the Archduke does not find out. Please consider this old man’s request. Grand Duchess.”

What should I do to stop?

How can I stop something that hasn’t even started?

All you can do is tell him to stop?

A person who is supposed to serve the Grand Duke of Winterfell, a person who is supposed to think of me first, can only say things like that?

If you knew the truth, if you knew what happened at the Academy, you should not stop me, but support the downfall of the violent people!

“So, do you plan to listen to my command not to stop you?! Can you resolve the unresolved resentment-!!”

Lemien’s malicious nature explodes again.

The venomous eyes are filled with resentment that cannot be resolved, and perhaps will never be resolved.

The beating heart sends intense anger through the blood vessels.

The anger boils over and evaporates the blood, and in the place where the blood evaporates and becomes empty, another resentment that cannot be taken away arises.

It was ridicule and violence that lasted for three years.

It was a pain I endured for a whopping three years.

It was so unfair that I was going crazy.

Lemien was so heartbroken and miserable that he had to go back to that day and ‘bear it’ again.

“I will find a legal way to resolve the Grand Duchess’s resentment.”

Legal way?

“Don’t be funny! If the grudge was to be resolved that way, I wouldn’t have even started -!!”

What happened to me was not legal, so how can I resolve my resentment through legal means?

It was irrational verbal abuse and assault, so how can you condemn it in a rational way?

Dad was like that when he was subduing monsters!

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth!

I said that the monster race that slaughtered the people indiscriminately should be stopped indiscriminately!

“We will also prepare private measures to resolve the resentment. So, please stop insulting our family’s traditions. If His Highness finds out, he will definitely be severely reprimanded.”

In response to Gelwood’s earnest wish, Lemien made a lamentable expression.

Or, he made a dejected expression.

[I swear]

The anger that had built up at those nonsense words disappeared.

The two clenched hands loosened.

Does this mean that the insults he had to see in the past were not insults?

Is it true that family tradition is more important than the hell I had to endure?

These were truly vicious and bitter words, and those words made Lemien’s venomous gaze disappear.

“I apologize if you are offended, but please understand how I feel as I cannot just watch the Grand Duchess walk any longer. Those steps are leading the Grand Duchess to hell again, so how can I watch?”

under.

haha.

ha ha ha.

It’s funny, really.

Even Gelwood, who is always solemn, has a fun side, right?

It’s a step to escape from hell, but those steps are heading towards hell?

I didn’t know you had the talent to say things that didn’t sound like words.

Smirk.

Lemian smiled bitterly and opened his mouth.

“So, what are you going to do with me now? Are you saying I should also forgive Elden, who you forgave on your own?”

“… Could that be possible? I just hope that this battle of engagement ends safely, befitting its reputation and tradition.”

“Safely… … ?”

Lemien stretches out his sentences.

Then he grinned and laughed again.

Musa (無私) means being fair and without personal interests.

Musha (無事) means there is nothing to worry about.

Musa (無邪) means not evil.

Of those three meanings, none of them matched or matched the ending of the Battle of Marriage, which made me laugh.

If you wanted to participate in the ending, even if only for one purpose, there was only one way.

“Elden Rapellion, bring me.”

“Yes… ?”

“If you want that ‘safe’ ending you mentioned, there is only one way. Bring back Elden. Then I will stop.”

“Yes… ?”

Gelwood made a perplexed face.

He was the one who released Elden in exchange for testifying to the past, in exchange for keeping the blemishes on the reputation of the fair marriage battle a secret, and in exchange for handing over all the evidence of those blemishes.

It had to be that way.

The evidence brought by Elden and the scar on his cheek were enough to cause a huge crack, not a blemish, on the reputation of the Battle of Marriage.

Moreover, he said he offered a sincere apology to the Grand Duchess and promised to live with that in mind in the future.

It was Gelwood who could no longer detain his abstention and offered it in exchange for his release.

He lowered his head with a sad face.

“… Sorry, but we cannot break the treaty. Please consider this an order from His Highness the Archduke.”

And then I raised my head.

Smirk.

I saw Lemian smiling.

I saw that smile gradually widening and turning into laughter.

Soon, Lemian started laughing and holding his belly button, and Gelwood had to show embarrassment and sorrow followed by embarrassment on his face.

“Hahaha-!”

“Why, why are you like that… .”

afraid.

Lemien’s laughter contained something indescribable, to the point where even he, who had become numb to fear after going through all kinds of hardships, was afraid.

After a while, Lemien wiped away the water droplets from the corners of his eyes and stopped laughing.

“Gelwood.”

“Yes.”

Lemien Winterfell.

Gelwood was witnessing her past and present by her side, but today it was as if he was seeing a different person in front of him.

I thought that Lemien’s appearance in the Perennial Snow Garden, violently tearing up Elden’s note and screaming, was a momentary riot.

I thought it was just a momentary impulse.

However, it seems that it was not a good idea.

That was why he was afraid, and from her words that followed, Gelwood had to realize how foolish he had been in hoping that the Battle of Marriage would end safely.

“Are you arbitrarily sending Elden Lapelion, who should have been the winner, and hoping that this Battle of Marriage will end safely? I thought you could tell a joke too?”

That night, it was time for Elden to leave for the party with Rachel.

Two letters are sent to Duke Kelid and Marquess Rosfell.

To Duke Kelid of Daeron.

As the Marquess of Rospell of Blund.

It started with the same despair as the letter that arrived at the Count of Bellaon.

And Lemian, who sent that letter, could not help but feel deep regret again.

This is because there was no one in the Count Lapelion family who would receive the letter and thereby invalidate Elden’s abstention.

His parents were dead, and his mother was an orphaned commoner and had no family.

Lemian even had the absurd illusion that the world was helping him escape.

also.

For Lemian, who could not face the vacancy of Elden Lapelion, the Battle of Marriage no longer had any meaning.

Revenge and liberation.

entire.

And that night, another letter came to the Great Siege.

It was an urgent letter from Gelwood requesting the return of Logan, the head of the Grand Duke of Winterfell.