episode_0209

Well, I thought to myself that this was a ridiculous story.

So I fully understood the silence.

Not surprisingly, his only daughter suddenly came to visit him after several years and announced that he was the progenitor of the family. Regardless of whether she is his biological daughter or not, it is not strange to treat her like a crazy person.

However, for some reason, neither Yuma nor Glenn, who knew the situation in advance, showed any reaction.

He didn’t say anything, didn’t carefully choose his words, and the sound of his heart that could be felt through his skin was extremely quiet.

The only thing that’s making a fuss as if it’s going to explode at any moment is Lucia’s heart.

‘Why isn’t there any reaction?’

Lucia washed her face repeatedly to hide her flushed face. My face was so hot that I wanted to hide somewhere right away, but I couldn’t because I had already committed it.

‘Still, you’re my father, but shouldn’t you have spoken informally to me? No… I didn’t even draw my sword in the first place, so I shouldn’t have given you a straight face telling me not to…’

Belated regrets come rushing in. Lucia took a deep breath at the scenery seen between her fingers.

Glenn was glaring at Lucia with an extremely serious expression. He frowned and at the same time stroked his shaved beard. Even from the outside, the golden eyes are filled with complex thoughts, and you can feel that they are having a lot of worries.

“…Ha.”

“…”

“How is it that no one is surprised? I feel embarrassed for no reason.”

“…”

“Hey, say something, I’m Kylie… yo?”

“…”

“I am Kylie, the progenitor of Prien… ”

“Yuma.”

Glenn, who was silent for a while, looked for Yuma as was his habit. Usually, if there’s something you can’t do on your own, you can find Yuma. I heard that it was the same for his father and grandfather, so Glenn didn’t think it strange at all that he relied on Yuma even in such important moments.

“Did you know about this matter in advance?”

“No. All I received was a one-sided notice a few days ago.”

“Then, can you believe Lucia’s claims literally?”

“No? How can you believe that you are not an idiot?”

“Yuma!”

Lucia got angry and glared at Yuma.

“Didn’t you believe it?”

“…Why do you think that?”

“You said, ‘No matter what the letter says, a lady is a lady.’ That, huh?! Didn’t you completely believe what I said?”

“How does that happen?”

Yuma narrowed his eyes and stared at Lucia.

“If you think as you please, you will be in trouble. There was a detailed explanation in the letter about why my horn was cut in half, but how could that alone be proof that she was the warrior Kylie?”

“Bloody Yuma.”

“…In the past, I was definitely called by such an embarrassing title. As such, it is not difficult to find the relevant records if you search the literature.”

“The bounty on you is 190,000 gold…”

“……What kind of bastard put a bounty on me? This is my first time hearing such news…”

“Chairman of the Union. Kabram… what was it? It’s been so long I don’t remember.”

A flurry of bickering, non-stop conversation.

Glenn’s eyes widened as he watched their conversation without saying a word.

‘…Is this really true?’

Lucia is your ancestor. To be honest, it was such a far-fetched story that it was almost impossible to believe, but like the conversation taking place right in front of him, Glenn wasn’t completely without points.

‘perhaps.’

The power of prophecy passed down from generation to generation.

Glenn recalled his first meeting with Lucia.

One day, when I was returning from the devil’s land, a scene suddenly appeared that filled my vision.

The image of a girl who looked exactly like her, sighing repeatedly in an empty cabin. The child looked exactly like Glenn. Perhaps, it can be said that he is more of a biological child than Shiron, who witnessed the moment of birth…

As if possessed by something, I set out to find the child in the prophecy. It was reckless to search the continent with only fragmentary prophecies, but the girl’s future poured into Glenn’s mind moment by moment as he knew what fate was.

And, the prophecy stopped the moment we arrived at a remote cabin in the countryside.

Lucia, holding the light, stands tall towards something that can only be called evil. The confident, youthful figure looked at Glenn with bright eyes.

-Who are you?

The child, who must have been ten years old, maintained a detached attitude toward the man he met for the first time. I couldn’t tell at the time if it was simply because he was an extraordinary child, or if it was because it had just been a while since the award was given…

‘perhaps…’

The more I thought about it, the more questions I had not paid attention to began to come together. Today, I felt as if a corner of my head that had been cloudy had cleared up.

Excellent military power despite not having Prien’s bloodline.

An unusually calm personality since childhood.

The boldness of not being scared even when he felt the demonic energy emanating from him.

And now, Lucia was talking about Yuma and the past as vividly as if she had experienced those times.

‘but…’

In the meantime, there was a question that could not be resolved.

‘Is it possible to be reborn with memories…?’

However, only a few seconds had passed since the question came to mind, Glenn immediately erased it. To be honest, the family’s power to see the future is not something that can be properly explained.

‘There are still so many things in the world that cannot be explained…’

This too is fate.

Glenn decided not to resist the great current. He didn’t know how to resist fate because he had always been like that. This was not a matter of Glenn being an idiot, but a matter of the way he lived.

After coming to a conclusion, Glenn jumped up from his seat. Lucia and Yuma’s eyes focus on Glenn. Glenn, who received the attention of both of them, slowly opened his mouth.

“Really. Are you… an ancestor?”

“Yes! I’m Kylie!”

Lucia answered vigorously. To be honest, I wasn’t sure if she would believe me, but it seemed like Glenn somehow believed what she said.

I didn’t think he was lying for his daughter, who had lost her temper. Because of the use of honorifics and his strangely cautious attitude, Glenn seemed like he really believed Lucia was Kylie.

“Yuma, I’m sorry for tricking you. I was Kylie.”

Lucia exhaled excitedly and glanced at Yuma. Yuma took a step back with his burning spirit.

“Are you really… Kylie?”

“What more do I have to prove here? We talked a lot. Or should we at least recreate the situation like when the horn was cut off?”

“…It’s done.”

Yuma took a step back from Lucia, as if hiding his remaining horn. The situation was confusing and the same in her head, so she couldn’t accept it, but after seeing that Glenn Frien, who had a more calm personality than her, was convinced, Yuma decided that there was no benefit in continuing the doubt any longer.

Yuma continued speaking while holding his dizzy head.

“It may be said that there are some unusual aspects, but the true identity of the young lady is that of the warrior Kylie. This really surprised me.”

“Yes! I shouldn’t have believed it a long time ago!”

“But why are you revealing that now?”

“…Huh?”

“What happened? The lady’s true identity is Kylie… Revealing that she is Kylie’s reincarnation is quite a risky statement, but didn’t you come close to causing an uproar with the matriarch just now?”

“…It’s not my fault.”

“It’s not my fault. Aren’t you the one who heightened the tension by saying unnecessary things like telling me not to pull out my sword? Even though he is said to be a reincarnated person, he speaks rudely to the head of the family, who is his current father. Are you really going to say that you did nothing wrong?”

“…”

Lucia kept her mouth shut as the beatings rained down on her.

“Sorry. Stop getting drunk on the atmosphere…”

Lucia bowed her head towards Glenn. There was no trace of the hero who had dazzled himself 500 years ago.

‘Really… you’re the swordsman Kylie, a warrior and the greatest swordsman?’

Glenn distorted his face and looked down at the top of Lucia’s head. At best, he admitted that Lucia was the reincarnation of his great ancestor, but the feeling of wanting to cancel his decision began to creep in.

You may think it’s too much, but Glenn also grew up reading children’s books of our great ancestors as a child, so he had a faint yearning for it.

But you can’t pick up the words you spit out. I wondered what would have happened if he had denied it until the end, but Glenn decided to take responsibility for his remarks.

“No need to worry too much…”

And, Glenn had a new resolution. It was because I had an intuition that if it wasn’t for this place, I would have to bury it in my heart for the rest of my life. From the very beginning, when Glenn predicted his own death, he promised to release everything he had hidden from Lucia.

“Because you are not my daughter.”

“As expected…!”

Lucia clenched her fists and shouted.

“I knew it! You fucking cheater!”

“Matriarch, what do you mean by that?”

“I’m sorry for tricking you, Yuma. But at that time, I couldn’t help it.”

“…No, then… what the hell…”

Yuma couldn’t shake off his confusion as he held his head against the pouring betrayal.

However, that has nothing to do with Lucia.

Lucia, whose face was red due to her high blood pressure, even pointed her finger at her as if she had no intention of calming the confusion.

“You damn child kidnapper! You are a real dog! Fuck! Do you know how much I suffered because of that?”

“Sorry. But isn’t this also destiny? I think I guided my ancestors to the place where they would be.”

“…What?”

How can you be so shameless? Lucia was very displeased with Glenn for justifying his actions without apologizing.

“Seo, ancestor? You! Well said!”

Feelings of betrayal, anger, and soaring blood pressure. The resentment that had been building up in my heart eventually exploded.

“What are the ancestors? I-I’ve never had any children!”

Slurp-

Yuma sat down on the floor.