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ㅡScreeeeeeeeeech!!!!

A blue sword blade drew a sharp angle as it was swung.

The one wielding the sword was Victoria. Having received a final request from Raonjena, she executed judgment with emotionless eyes to behead the woman before her, whose eyes were stained with sin.

‘I’m sorry, Master… and I’m sorry, Eugene Schneider…’

Raonjena shed tears of blood, closed her eyes, and accepted the death that came to her.

However,

ㅡSwishhhhhhh!!

The sound that adorned the space after Victoria swung her sword was not the sound of Raonjena’s head rolling on the floor.

‘What! My hair??’

That’s right. What was cut off by Victoria’s swordsmanship was not Raonjena’s head, but her hair, which had grown long like a lion’s mane.

ㅡSluuuuuuuurp…!!!

Raonjena’s purplish-red hair fell to the floor,

“What!!!! What are you doing, Victoria!! Why aren’t you keeping your promise!!!!!!”

Raonjena glared with eyes as if the blood vessels in her eyeballs would burst, and rebuked Victoria in anger.

“…..”

Then Victoria silently stared at Raonjena for a moment.

“Keep your promise!!! Cut off my head with that sword of Master’s!!! Make my blood be stained on Master’s sword!!! I told you all the truth and even told you the way to escape!!!”

Raonjena’s face turned red with anger, and saliva mixed with blood splattered from her mouth as she wailed with emotions as fierce as a beast.

Although she didn’t say it directly, Raonjena knew that Victoria’s sword was Master’s old sword.

That’s how much she had loved and yearned for Master Ulysses.

Thus, she had wanted to get rid of everything and go to Master’s side, but now, due to Victoria’s actions that differed from the promise, she had become almost mad.

“Yes. I felt that you were truly sorry and apologetic. That’s why I made this decision, contrary to your request.”

Victoria, who had been watching Raonjena’s wailing for a while, finally opened her mouth.

“Don’t talk nonsense!! Are you deceiving me!! You know my sincerity, yet you make this kind of decision???”

Raonjena’s expression twisted violently.

Victoria’s words sounded like deception and mockery to her.

“At the last moment, your appearance was full of regret for Ulysses. And I felt that you really loved him.”

But Victoria’s thoughts were not a deception.

In fact, Victoria was going to kill Raonjena.

Because she knew that humans don’t change easily.

She thought it was just an attempt to escape reality.

She thought it would be better to just delete such an ugly human from the world.

But at the moment of accepting death, Raonjena’s appearance was shown to Victoria. There, her heart, which loved the master, and her heart, which was truly sorry for her mistakes, were contained.

“Because you are so sincere, you must meet Ulysses Schneider’s son, Eugene Schneider, in person and apologize to him.”

That was the thought Victoria created,

It was a resolution in the true sense of the word.

“Whether he forgives you or takes your life, Raonjena, you must entrust everything to Ulysses Schneider’s son, Eugene Schneider.”

Victoria will take Raonjena to Eugene Schneider, tell him the truth, and leave the outcome in his hands.

‘What should I do? What should I do if I meet Eugene Schneider?’

Raonjena eventually agreed with Victoria’s words. So, she obediently followed and lived in seclusion for fifteen days, avoiding the chaotic situation under the protection of Victoria’s group.

What began to take root in Raonjena’s mind during her seclusion was another kind of fear.

‘Eugene also followed me well when he was young… He must feel a great sense of betrayal… I stabbed that pure and kind guy in the heart… He’ll be greatly shocked, right? He’ll look at me with eyes of hatred…’

That’s because the memories of Eugene Schneider, which had been forgotten for a long time, began to revive.

Raonjena was Ulysses’ favorite disciple, so she had many opportunities to meet his own son, Eugene.

That’s why Eugene Schneider followed Raonjena like an older sister or aunt when he was young.

She remembers Eugene’s eyes and affectionate tone.

As such, the betrayal that Eugene Schneider will feel when he hears the truth will be great.

Raonjena, a woman whose heart is endlessly soft even though her body is strong, is afraid and nervous.

“I will come with Eugene Schneider tomorrow, Raonjena. Be prepared.”

Victoria returned to the new Imperial Knights affiliated with the Imperial Family and busily went back and forth between the Imperial Family and the abandoned house where Raonjena was hidden.

Then one day, she told Raonjena as if notifying her that she would meet Eugene Schneider.

[Ah, I understand… I’ll prepare…]

Nod… Nod… Nod…

The thing she had been imagining in her head had officially reached the point where it would happen.

Even though Raonjena’s appearance was a mess due to the side effects of drug addiction, she became extremely nervous and nodded slowly, stuttering.

‘He’s coming! The person who came near the abandoned house with Victoria is neither Vincent nor Farnese!’

Raonjena had been waiting in the dark all day today.

For the moment when she felt the presence of Victoria and Eugene Schneider.

Then, past midnight, she felt that a being with energy and presence quite different from Victoria’s usual energy was approaching the abandoned house.

‘Is that Eugene Schneider? A being with such a huge and powerful energy? Of course, I’ve heard that he’s become much stronger in a series of events, but…’

Raonjena’s magic-stained red eyes widened as if she couldn’t believe it.

Because it was not only an energy of an image 180 degrees different from the image of the little Eugene Schneider of the past that she had, but also a presence.

Of course, Raonjena had heard the report that the person involved with the Ricardo brothers seemed to be Eugene Schneider. But it was an incident that she couldn’t pay much attention to because it was a time of seclusion for her,

Raonjena was unable to hide her surprise at the rapidly conveyed presence of Eugene Schneider, which was different.

“It’s too dark, isn’t it? Shall I turn on a magic stone lamp or something?”

At that moment, Victoria opened the door of the abandoned house, and beyond the sound of the door opening, the voice of the grown-up Eugene Schneider was heard.

‘Eugene, Ulysses Schneider, Master’s son, is right in front of the door. I’m so nervous. What kind of appearance should I stand in front of that child?’

Thump, thump, thump, thump,

Raonjena’s heart was pounding rapidly, and her pupils trembled like a candle in the wind.

“I’ve come. As I said yesterday, with a guest.”

Victoria’s voice was heard to such Raonjena,

[In the end… this day has come…]

[Nice to meet you, Duke Eugene Dessel O’Breaun…]

Thud… Crackle… Thud… Thud…

He walked out of the darkness and stood in front of Victoria and Eugene Schneider.

Then,

“!!!!!!!!!”

Raonjena’s eyes, who had calmed her nervous heart and tried to maintain some weight, widened rapidly.

‘M, Master??????’

The man standing in front of her was clearly Ulysses Schneider, who had lost his honor and was killed as a demon sword ten years ago,

It was because of Raonjena’s own foolishness that she had let him go.

‘His hair color has changed, but it’s clear! It’s Master! That face! Those eyes! That atmosphere! Master, who embraced me with love and accepted me as a disciple! Master before he became addicted to magic poison and became a fiend because of me! Master has returned to me!!’

Ulysses’ hair is brown. But the hair of the master who reappeared was pitch black. Nevertheless, that appearance did not give Raonjena any sense of incongruity at all.

Because the eyes of the master who is now making eye contact with Raonjena are the same as when she first met him.

And the face in front of her, which had all the beauty of a pretty boy and a sculpture, was exactly that of Ulysses Schneider, whom Raonjena had seen the light of day.

‘What is this person! Is he a demon? His skin and eyes feel like a demon????’

The existence that Raonjena’s eyes were staring at was trying to manage his expression and staring straight at her.

Eugene Schneider, that’s right. The existence that Raonjena mistook for Ulysses Schneider was his son, Eugene Schneider.

“So this one is,”

A moment of silence flowed.

The feeling that Eugene Schneider and Raonjena were facing each other with their eyes fixed,

Victoria, who thought they were identifying each other, pointed her hand toward Raonjena and looked at Eugene to introduce her.

It was because she judged that Eugene Schneider would have difficulty recalling her through Raonjena’s changed appearance, even if Raonjena didn’t know it.

Then at that moment

[Master!!!!!]

Thud!!

Raonjena knelt down as if collapsing, shouting Master.

[I’m sorry, Master! I was foolish! Because I wanted to be loved by Master! Because I couldn’t overcome my desire to always be by Master’s side, I committed such an act. Sniffle, sniffle, Master, I’m sorry…!!!]

Drip, drip…! Drip! Drip, drip…!

Then, she shed tears mixed with blood and poured out a repentant wail.

‘Master??? What suddenly. Why am I this woman’s master???’

Stumble, stumble, stumble,

Of course, Eugene Schneider was greatly embarrassed.

As a result, he failed to manage his expression, which he had been maintaining, and stumbled.

‘Is Mr. Eugene so similar to his father, Ulysses?’

Victoria, who noticed the situation, looked back and forth between Eugene and Raonjena.

She admired Ulysses, but there was no way to see his face.

Because after he was branded as a demon sword and purged, even the few portraits that existed were all burned.

“Raonjena, I roughly know why you’re doing this, but you’re wrong. This person is not your master, Ulysses Schneider. He is his son, Eugene Schneider. He just looks a lot like his father as he became an adult.”

Victoria immediately cleared up the situation.

[Ah…!]

Raonjena, whose face seemed to be confused but starting to grasp the situation after hearing those words,

“What…?”

It was the same for Eugene Schneider.

“You are Raonjena, so you are Raonjena, my father’s top disciple?”

When he heard the name from Victoria, Eugene Schneider also remembered Raonjena’s name and her previous appearance, which had been forgotten for a long time.

And at that point

‘I think I kept too much distance and ensured safety… I think I missed the children…’

Marianne, a loving mama, a woman who desperately cherishes and cares for her adopted son Eugene Schneider, was wandering under the moonlight.