Chapter 260. I will not lose, Sir Aserad
2022.07.30.
Enrique, who came to his senses, groped for the left breast that had been pierced.
It didn’t hurt at all. When I lifted the clothes and checked, there were no scars as if it was a dream.
‘At that time, Abelardo’s priests must have exhausted all of their holy power.’
So I had no choice but to run in that situation.
There was no one to heal His Majesty the Emperor if he was injured. However, he was willing to sacrifice his own life to save Mabel.
It was the moment when the body moved before reason.
Then who healed -.
‘ah.’
Naturally, there was a face that came to mind.
It was Mabel.
His lord, the emperor of the empire, and the savior chosen by the gods.
Enrique bit his lip.
‘I have once again received an unrequited favor from Your Majesty.’
I threw my body to save Mabel, but wouldn’t that myself have become a stumbling block?
As I struggled with the negative thoughts that were constantly flooding in, I felt the presence of several people outside the door.
Enrique raised his head and met Mabel’s eyes, who were standing with a ‘yes’ face.
“You’re digging, too, Enrique. Are you threatening my place with my mole friends?”
“…your majesty.”
“Your mole, Sir Javier.”
Mabel smiled and answered playfully, but Enrique couldn’t help but laugh.
I tried to raise the corner of my mouth, but in the end I failed.
Oscar went up to Enrique and put his hand on his forehead.
“No fever… Enrique. Do you remember waking up for a second?”
“Did I wake up?”
“I don’t remember.”
Mabel kindly added, as Oscar brusquely stepped aside.
“Oscar was very worried.”
“When did I?”
“Of course I did a lot too.”
Hearing that he was worried about himself, Enrique couldn’t bear to raise his head.
‘What am I, Your Majesty, worried…’
I closed my eyes tightly at the self-abasement that was flooding in again, and opened my mouth with difficulty.
“I apologize for causing concern to His Majesty.”
“I am? Aren’t you apologizing to me?”
Oscar, who had stayed by his side and nursed him with utmost sincerity, smiled as if he was dumbfounded.
Suddenly, I felt someone approaching me. Enrique opened his eyes with his head bowed.
“Sir Mole?”
Despite the absurd title of Mole Lord, he had to answer because he could not ignore the emperor’s call.
“…yes.”
After a moment of silence, Mabel’s words continued.
“I know what you’re thinking, but don’t.”
“….”
“Don’t blame yourself, Enrique. You saved me and I am alive.”
If Enrique had thrown himself and not been hurt instead, no one could have healed Mabel then.
‘Because I can’t heal myself.’
It’s okay to be a baby in front of everyone, so the choice to save Enrique was entirely because Enrique sacrificed himself.
“If it weren’t for you, I’d probably be dead.”
“Mabel. What are you talking about?”
When Mabel spoke of death, Oscar became furious. A quarrel between siblings began.
Enrique gripped the hem of the blanket tightly.
‘I wanted to hear this.’
The fact that it helped Mabel and the words that prove its usefulness.
What a comfort it is to know that the person concerned said that.
The suffocating self-loathing was gone in an instant. Enrique slowly raised his head.
Tears welled up in her big eyes.
Mabel was surprised inside, but soon gave a playful smile and reprimanded her.
“Oops. Are you crying after you grow up?”
“Yes…”
Enrique smiled lightly, not hiding the fact. The eyes were burning red.
“So you don’t really have any pain?”
“yes.”
“okay. How hard was it for me to heal Enrique? I threatened to silence the soldiers, but I don’t know if it will work out. Whew.”
Mabel smiled and started chattering. Enrique smiled and listened to her words, then suddenly looked away.
I met eyes with Aidan, who was standing in the doorway.
Memories of the battlefield came to me in a blur. It was Aidan’s face as he pulled out the sword stuck in his chest.
Feeling a slight sense of defeat, Enrique did not avoid his gaze.
Even though the emperor’s lover was taken by Aidan, the emperor’s most loyal knight could not be taken away.
‘I will not lose, Lord Aserad.’
Inwardly, Enrique floated his own winning numbers.
“…?”
Aidan, not knowing why, just narrowed his eyes.
***
The commander-in-chief, who led the army of Ermano, finally got all the lords of Devlin to surrender.
As a result, the Devlin Empire was officially subordinated to the Ermano Empire.
If it was short and long, it was the end of a long war.
***
The commander-in-chief has returned to the Devlin Imperial Castle. At Dad’s order, a grand banquet was held for all soldiers and volunteers.
The amount of food prepared for the banquet was enough to rob all the food in Devlin Imperial Castle.
‘I want to eat black.’
I gave up my craving for food and went out to praise the contributions of the volunteers in this war.
The first to greet was Dylan, who had led the Langard Empire.
“Dylan.”
Dylan Levy Langard.
It was the first reunion in 8 years as the prince of Langard, my cousin and Renesmee’s younger brother.
Eight years is enough time for a child to become an adult.
Dylan, who had become an adult before he knew it, had changed from being a child to a man with a large physique and height.
Dylan looked back at me, scared to think that I was suddenly unfamiliar.
“Phiha.”
Well well.
“delicious?”
“Nong.”
Dylan was always eating something.
‘It’s strange that I don’t gain any weight even though I eat like that.’
Maybe it’s all going to muscle.
“Just hang on.”
“Eat slowly.”
Dylan held a chicken leg in his hands and chewed the food in his mouth militantly and swallowed. Dylan, who had finished eating, said in admiration.
“Did you bring the chef from Ermano? It is very delicious.”
“They said it came up a few days ago.”
“nice. I envy you. Why does langard taste like crap in food?”
“You wonder what Dylan is like when he keeps saying that.”
“It tastes like sewer. That is the collapse of food culture!”
After talking with Dylan for a while about how trashy Langarde’s food was, I hurriedly came to my senses. It dried without my knowledge.
‘It hasn’t changed at all.’
In the meantime, we exchanged regards through letters, but I didn’t expect it to be like this. He was an adult on the outside, but on the inside he was still the same Dylan back then.
“By the way, what happened to the commander-in-chief of the reinforcements being Dylan?”
“Actually, my older brother came out saying he would go, but I just came.”
“If it’s your older brother, then the crown prince?”
“yes. You have to be able to believe it.”
“Haha…”
Even though he was the older brother, Dylan’s trust in the crown prince was at the bottom. I smiled helplessly as I remembered Langard’s crown prince.
‘No wonder.’
Because the prince I met earlier was never a good enough person to lead a country.
But since he couldn’t comment on someone else’s empire, he just laughed.
After thinking for a moment, Dylan opened his mouth.
“Sometimes it’s because my older brother isn’t trustworthy, but in fact… it’s because of my older sister.”
“Renesmee?”
“yes. Since my sister has committed an irreparable sin against His Majesty, I, as a family member, have no choice but to pay her back like this, right?”
“Did you know?”
“My sister told me everything in a letter.”
Renesmee, who tried to take my place because she wanted to be loved, has now become a body that can only live with Abelardo.
“I dare not ask for forgiveness. It’s just my atonement.”
I canceled the idea that Dylan hadn’t changed at all. Dylan has changed into a deeper person than he used to be.
‘It would be nice for Renesmee to know that she has such a deep-seated younger sister by her side.’
Dylan, who was grimacing at the chicken leg in his hand, quickly began to say goodbye. It looked like he just wanted to have a conversation or something.
“Anyway, congratulations on the victory of the Ermano Empire, Your Majesty. You don’t have to give any rewards to the Langard Empire. No, if you bring me something delicious on the way…”
“Okay, okay. I’ll take care of it. Go and eat something delicious.”
“exciting!”
Dylan smiled and left to explore the food again.
The next place they headed was the place where the priests of Abelardo were gathered. Befitting their exclusive personalities, they were chatting with each other.
As soon as our eyes met, the priests lowered their heads.
“Oh God bless you. Yellium.”
“Yelium.”
At their greeting, I turned to Aidan in a cold sweat.
‘God’s grace? …Aidan’s Grace?’
I feel weird.
Very few people knew that Aidan was Ades, and of course the priests did not know at all.
“With Abelardo’s holy power, we were able to minimize the damage. It is a bar to praise your work.”
At my words, my grandfather, who seemed to be a high priest, stroked his beard and smiled benevolently.
“All of this must be because the god’s blessing follows the god’s seed.”
“Isn’t that so?”
“Also, God-.”
I hurriedly intercepted his words and shouted because the god-taryeong was about to begin.
“God King! Where is the God King?!”
“haha. You must have been together until now, but where did you go?”
It seemed that he was running away from Aidan.
“I want you to tell the God King that you have been a great force in this war.”
“Yes, I will definitely tell you. Yellium.”
After exchanging greetings with the priest who invariably smiled, the last person he encountered was Duke Donovan. I was startled by the fact that it appeared before I could find it.
“Are you looking for me?”
“yes. That’s right ball.”
I calmed my startled heart and smiled.
“I never expected to send reinforcements. It wouldn’t have been easy to rally the imperial nobility.”
“The Marquis of Gardenia worked hard.”
grandpa?
Duke Donovan’s words continued.
“It was also Duke Javier’s opinion to include rare monsters in his powers.”
Even though they were far away in the capital, the emperor’s grandfather, Emily, and Duke Donovan were devoted to the empire.
“It has been a great force. Thanks to that, Ermano was able to win the war.”
On the contrary, Prince Donovan’s expression darkened under my admiration.
“It will be a problem from now on.”
“…yes.”
“A sign of disaster on the continent and poverty in Devlin. All of those problems will come at once.”
It was something everyone was already planning on doing.
As the emperor of the empire, I had to take responsibility and take care of them.
Duke Donovan smiled softly as if he had read my promise.
“But God believes that His Majesty will lead this country better than anyone else.”
“I will definitely repay that trust, Lord Donovan.”
There are servants who support me no matter what, so what should I be afraid of?
A banquet night where the protagonists of the victory eat, drink, and talk happily.
After this night, I had to go back.
‘To our capital!’
***
The capital of Ermano was even more excited with an unusually festive atmosphere.
The stalls in the shopping district were lined with dazzling items, and there was a continuous buzz of voices day and night.
All the people walking the streets had flushed faces, sang songs in each square, and eventually danced.
It was a festival that was more lively and larger than the annual Genesis Day.
The reason people truly enjoyed the festival was that the ‘Ermano’s Victory’, which everyone longed for, had come true.
However, the festival, which lasted for days and days, is now over.
It was because today was the day when His Majesty the Great Emperor of Ermano entered the capital.
On the other hand, there were people who were conspiring in the corner.
“Upper share. If you do this and His Majesty gets angry—”
“Will you kill me?”
‘It looks like it’ll kill me…’
Franz swallowed back his words and subtly checked to see if the video storage magic tool was working safely.
It was a piece of evidence that was tantamount to a reliable companion in life that would guarantee his life in case of future problems.
“I don’t know, Sang Sangju.”
“Oh, why are you doing this so sadly? You’ve been through all kinds of hardships and adversities, haven’t you?”
“Oh no! I feel bad!”
While Casey and Franz were caught in the middle of the procession waiting for the emperor’s improvement, the main character of the festival finally appeared.
“Waaaaaa-!”
Loud cheers echoed throughout the capital.
Their proud emperor and hero who captured the magical powerhouse Devlin Empire!
As soon as Mabel passed through the gates, tremendous cheers and shouts poured out.
That was the moment.
pop!
The disparate sounds echoed out of nowhere, causing the knights who were escorting the emperor to stand guard in perfect order.
However, falling from the sky was unexpected.
A dazzling rainbow and thick fog. Pollen is natural, and all kinds of light particles floated around in a dazzling way. Even the sound of a horn blowing from afar and the flash of light.
Is that all? The pigeons even took off all at once while flapping their wings.
As the cheers of the people of the empire rose, Mabel was astonished. Isn’t this a familiar technique!
‘Adaaaan!’
“…”
Mabel hurriedly turned around, and Aidan pretended not to notice and avoided his gaze.
got hit
‘To take revenge like this…!’
