Episode 424
Episode 136. Door (2)
Before leaving for Jeton, Yuma stopped by the top of Puang for a while and was able to see his face.
Returning after a long absence, all the employees had a haggard face and showed signs of exhaustion.
Not too long ago, the entire guild was plastered with dragon pictures and embroideries saying that they had signed a partnership with the dragons, and everyone was talking wildly.
But now I couldn’t find any vitality anywhere at the top.
Only the fear of ordinary people who shrank from the sudden start of the great war is full.
“Yuma! You bastard, are you going again as soon as you get back?”
Natalie said, wrapping one arm around Yuma’s neck in a bold way.
He had a cheerful voice and a smiling face, but Yuma didn’t know that it was a difficult face.
It will be difficult for her too. Even she, who was full of venom during her days as a villainess, couldn’t laugh easily in this situation.
“That’s it. Thanks to Damian Zach, no, Damian turned the chaotic country upside down once more.”
“What the hell did that crazy boy betray because he didn’t like it? Because of that bastard, Lady Catherine’s face is really dumb. There is no one with a good face right now.”
Two people sharing a pipe after a long time. Smoke mixed with sighs swelled and tangled.
“Miss Catherine…
“You were my brother just a while ago.
It’s also a situation where other brothers like Sir Randell and Sir Sinclair can’t be by their side. I feel so sorry to see her taking care of her family alone in that situation.”
“Still, the young lady is strong, so she will overcome. I hope so.”
It wasn’t really an answer Catherine came up with because she thought it was tough.
However, even as Yuma, he did not know what to do.
What to do with Miss Catherine.
There was no answer at all.
Following the Pobianga, traitors appeared to the Jacques. The great pillars of the empire are collapsing.
And Ballinan and Catherine suddenly became the representatives of the family and were leading the messy situation.
Ballinan was also in the middle of picking up Povianga without being able to see his face in the face of ‘Yuma hyung’, whom he liked so much.
“and! Was this a human who wouldn’t bleed even if my nang-gun stabbed me like this? If you smoke this, I’ll be fine, so stop by the Jacques’ house for a while. when you say good.
huh?”
It was not easy caring. If I leave for my country this time, I don’t know how long I’ll be back, but it’s like giving Catherine a short time to spend with my lover.
“There are a lot of people here. Puang y Gorzeka Liz Cindy Cog Shu Finn E Rakir and so on. It’s a pity Cheryl is in the Imperial Castle. But now, Lady Catherine is the only one in Jacques. It’s all smoked, let’s go.”
“Say hello to people.”
“That’s right, the eighth grandmaster. I am cheering you on with all my love. Go beat that son of a bitch and get Jetten.”
Yuma barely nodded and headed towards the Zach family.
There was no Tulka, so the moment I was about to choose a horse, Krisha, who had been wandering around the capital, carefully landed next to the stable.
[I will take you there.]
“You said I was going to ride Kriesha-sama’s back?”
A great blue dragon that was renowned as the protector of the North Sea during the Dragon Horse War.
For a moment, I wondered if sitting on her back was the right thing to do, but Yuma steadfastly rode on her tail.
It was because you could see what Kriesha’s intentions were.
She wants to show hope to the people of the capital. Even if he, the closest aide to the Dragon Road, flew over the capital with Yuma on board, he would inspire them with more courage.
Even before returning, it was the kind of heart she gave her life for humans.
[Look down. wave your hand at them That is the role you will have to play from now on.]
“Yes, Krisha.”
Kriesha’s wings created a vast wind.
Looking down, I could see the faces of ordinary people swaying in the wind.
Although they were far away from the ground, for some reason, their faces felt close, as if they were facing each other.
When Yuma waved his hand, the people of the village responded with cheers. It was a cheer wet with tears.
[In these difficult times, even among dragons, you are special Aida Yuma Drake. I remember the day you first came to Inz Bikan…. At that time, you saved Jeka.]
“I am not a god or a savior. I believe that it is possible to save the whole.]
It felt similar to the story I heard the first time I met Mahatrisa in the East.
It was Yuma who recalled himself telling Mahatrisa at the time that he would rather die together than seek peace by dedicating Maria to Heider.
[You’re almost at the red-haired lady’s house. There is something I want to ask you before dropping Yuma off.]
“Tell me, Kriesha.”
[If the war gets longer, there will be a day when you and I will stand on the frontline together. Right?]
“Yes.”
[At that time, if you can save someone by sacrificing me, be sure to do so.]
“Chrisa-sama, what is that all of a sudden?”
[Sometimes I say this because I can see my future. My body is blue, but since I am a spirit of the Lord, I have some foresight.]
During the Dragon Horse War, Kriesha was terribly torn apart by demons and died. As I recalled the memory, I felt sick to my stomach.
Yuma stubbornly shook her head and replied:
“I just need to become a stronger person so that doesn’t happen. So please don’t upset me.”
[I’m sorry.]
“As I’ve experienced, Balaur are sometimes selfish.”
[Sometimes?]
“Well, maybe every time.”
[Haha, come and see me. I’ll send you a real, so come out of the mansion when the time is right. Until then, the child will take you.]
The Jacques’ grand mansion seen from the garden was also not much different from the Puang Merchant Chamber. No, rather, a much more stagnant air current flowed than at the top.
It had to be.
More than 30% of the knights of the Zach family followed Damian and joined the betrayal. In addition, more than 60% of the rest were dispatched to the imperial castle and all over the province, and only a few knights and family members remained in the mansion.
The vast mansion, comparable to the imperial castle, looked infinitely desolate.
Only the old servants who had lived long were tending the garden as usual, but the grass grew thick all around.
Catherine, who should have come running from afar if Yuma had come, was nowhere to be seen.
She had been taking care of her family by getting two hours of sleep a day for several days, and was now taking a short break in her room.
So there was no way he had the strength to come out to meet him.
‘In my previous life, Damian Zach owned Ascalon. He was also the one who beheaded Zecca during the Hale massacre. Such Damien now…
I felt guilty when I saw this lonely scene.
It is because he knows that Damian’s ‘betrayal’ is not completely unrelated to his and Duran’s favoritism.
After Yuma became Duran’s apprentice.
The landscape of the Jacques family has changed over the years. The privilege given to Randell and Sinclair Damian, the best riders of the family, was also granted to Yuma, who was a commoner, by Duran.
In the process, Yuma behaved incomparably better than Marlon Zach, the new sword before returning, but it was not that there were very few dissatisfied forces within the family.
Like now, 30 percent of the knights who betrayed him and people like Damian Zach were representative.
They couldn’t suppress their jealousy and envy as they saw Yuma taking over the family’s decisive battle and treasures that they hadn’t even passed down.
In particular, in the case of Damian Jacques, he was a man crazy about swords. As Katherine has described as ‘a good brother except for being crazy about swords and having a twisted personality’.
To Damian, Yuma’s growth and success, and Duran’s affection, were so coveted that he felt he should have been his own.
Meanwhile, Risol appeared and promised Damian that he would present the tip of the sword. A new world opened and he tempted to make the best swordsman to conquer the times.
One might ask if he could turn his back on his family just for that reason.
The sword was everything to Damian, and from his point of view, it wasn’t like he abandoned his family. It is because he left with the banner of opening a new Zach, surpassing his father and Yuma.
Not a single candle was lit in the hallway leading to Catherine’s room.
Yuma stood for a while in front of the tightly closed door, then carefully knocked on the door.
No, as soon as he was about to knock, Catherine spoke first.
“come in. don’t look at my face instead Right now… I’m in really bad shape. no. Just stand there leaning against the door. Don’t come in.”
with a miserable heart.
Following Catherine’s will, Yuma leaned against the door of the room. There was no way to know if it was the door on the back or the indescribably bitter heart of Catherine.
After a moment of silence, a tired voice came from the other side of the door.
“Are you on your way to take Damian’s life?”
His voice was dark but calm.
Yuma couldn’t suppress something in her chest and had no choice but to cover her face with both hands.
“I’m sorry, ma’am.”
“Why are you sorry?”
“I’m just sorry. I’m sorry.”
“You are not the one who should apologize to me. Not your father who cared for you, not your oldest brother who couldn’t take care of the family because he was busy with state affairs, not Damian who betrayed you, and not the family knights who followed him.”
Now that I have risen to the ranks of the strongest human beings in the world, I have risen to a position where I can say that, but I can only cry in front of the pain of my closest relatives.
My face was so hot that it was difficult to breathe. Yuma closed his eyes tightly, holding back his heavy breathing.
“I must… apologize to myself. I should apologize to myself for not doing anything to get to this point. forever.”
“miss.”
“Don’t say no.”
“Miss Catherine.”
“do not do that. That’s because I think I can endure it if I think about it that way.”
I wanted to open the door and go in and give Catherine a hug.
But he couldn’t, knowing that it was an insult to her. Yuma now sat down and bowed his head.
How many minutes had passed?
He felt Katherine’s back touch the other side of the door. She sat down just like Yuma and calmly closed her eyes.
It was the two of them back to back with a thin door between them.
The two didn’t say anything until it was time to play.
“Yuma felt better after crying. Don’t answer what I’m saying right now, listen.”
Yuma nodded. Catherine couldn’t see it, but she could hear Yuma’s hair brushing against the door.
“Don’t get hurt and go.
Sometimes it feels like no one is more important than you, so I feel anxious every day. Now come on. To Jeton.”
As they left the hallway, Yuma looked back at the door several times.
Beyond the door where Catherine would be crouching alone.
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