Chapter 687 Chapter
176. A fateful (1) night for two
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Kingelo’s executives, including Zephyrin, left, and only Hedo and Sandra remained as the guests who came to Tikan again.
But now they should be colleagues, not guests.
That was the safest way for Hedo to protect Sandra.
Whoa-.
Dense smoke poured over the moonlit night sky.
The finest pine smoke and hedo from Mila, which he received as a gift from Balkas, did not have a strong scent, but only a bitter and astringent taste.
Hedo’s back, leaning on the balcony, looked like a troubled father.
“Tower Keeper.”
Jin leaned beside Hedo and called out to him.
Hedo didn’t answer for a while, only emitting cigarette smoke.
From behind them came the orange lights and the chatter of people.
It was the sound of Sandra talking with her colleagues in the restaurant.
Sandra was naturally playing with all her colleagues except for Valeria, as she always did whenever she visited Tikan.
I hadn’t seen too many of her on the zipline, where she was excited and chattering like a jolly fool.
“What’s so exciting about it…”
Hedo said to himself, still keeping his eyes on the sky.
“Do you spend a lot of time laughing and chatting with excitement like that?”
“My personality itself is not as lively as Sandra. But when I’m resting, I tend to have fun with my friends.”
“is it.”
“Don’t Sandra look like that at Zipline?”
“Since I was young, I have never been in a happy mood for more than a few hours. At least, when Prince Beradin was fine, he sometimes hung out. Even when you laugh, you get angry, and when you get angry, you laugh. As you well know, the young lady was mostly crazy. Ever since I met you…”
Hedo felt a momentary headache when he thought of Sandra giggling while covering the room with newsletters and advertisement flyers related to Jin.
“…It’s gotten a little better… No, I’m worried about whether it’s right to express it that way. Strangely, it was the same. It could have gotten worse. Anyway, since I met you, there have been times when I have been happy without ups and downs like now.”
“Then it would be better for Sandra to join Tikan.”
“If you had seen that room, those words wouldn’t come out easily.”
“room?”
“Pretend you didn’t hear.”
“By the way, Tower Keeper. How are you?”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean, have you ever laughed and talked like that?”
“does not exist.”
As if there was nothing to worry about, Jin shrugged at the quick answer.
“Can a person do that?”
“There is just not much emotional ups and downs in everything except for the lady. I’ve never had anyone besides the lady, and since I met the lady, I’ve never been lonely, so it’s rather natural for me.”
Hedo’s transcendent power, yet not high fame, past history with Shiron, relationship with Sandra, etc.
Ever since they first met in Sota Desert, Jin has been curious about the character Hedo.
Somehow, I had a feeling that after this conversation, my heart would be relieved.
“Come to think of it, you’re the first person to ask me such a thing since the young lady.”
“Because we’re going to be a family, we should know each other’s personalities.”
“Since you’re a member of the family, I remember that I haven’t given you a definite answer yet.”
The night wind passed between the two and disappeared somewhere.
Jin gestured to the wine and glasses placed next to the ashtray.
“I thought you had already decided that, since you had two glasses. Please give me a drink.”
There was no toast.
The two of them were silent until they drank five glasses.
It was time for Jin to wait and for Hedo to look back on the past.
When Hedo started talking again, Jin heard a name that he hadn’t even thought of.
“Have you ever met Vanessa Olsen, the former Black Knight?”
“I have met you.”
“I was of the same kind as her.”
“Same type…?”
“I was a monster from birth. That’s why even if you live and breathe, you will surely get into an accident.”
Hedo had once competed with Vanessa at the Black Sea in his youth.
I didn’t hear the details at that time, but I recognized that most of the former black knights, including her, were born with the fate of monsters.
Jin immediately understood Hedo’s words.
“I realized that when I was about eight years old. At the orphanage, the daily violence of the director started to bother me, so I threw out my fist without thinking. pop! and his wrist burst. He was also a 3-star warrior.”
“hmm.”
“Then, while the director fell over, the sword he swung reflexively only barely scratched my body. I didn’t plan to kill him, but the sword I cut off with my hand broke and bounced around his neck.”
“You must have been surprised at such a young age.”
“I didn’t think much of it.”
“Because the director was a cheap person even if he died?”
“Looking back now, that kind of person is true, but at the time I literally just didn’t think much of it. oh that would be annoying I just had that impression. I didn’t even feel that killing was wrong. It was like that for a long time after that.”
accident and escape.
That was all of Hedo’s life until he was fourteen.
In the beginning, I accidentally had an accident, and later, I just took care of the annoying guys and moved the area.
“I wondered how many people who seemed like they would die if they touched them. It was probably because of my unusually large frame and my stiff attitude at the time.”
Jin sipped his drink while listening to his story with interest.
“If you stopped, you might have been wanted several times.”
“Because I was only at the bottom, I didn’t have much to do with people of power or famous warriors. Since I was so young, I naturally avoided suspicion. Rather, I completely annihilated several bandits and stayed hidden, and the lord came to find me with a reward.”
“Did you find him?”
“He found me. I thought it would be annoying, so I was going to leave for another place, but he managed to come to the abandoned house where I was staying. When I refused to come in, a fight broke out.”
“How old were you then?”
“It was twelve or three. I’m confused. The lord brought about 50 troops…”
“You mean all of those 50 attacked the 12-three-year-old?”
“Since the skeleton is large, it must have seemed more than that.”
“Even so, there must have been Atti. No matter how much it was an order, he really had no qualms about attacking you when he was young.”
“I found it more surprising that they fought against me like demons, even though the first subordinate immediately twisted his neck and died.”
“It’s not that it’s miraculous, it’s that I said it because it’s so heartless that I can’t understand it.”
“There are more heartless things in the world than that. Anyway, among them, there was one person who could be called a trained knight. Even when the lord’s men saw my strength, they believed him and attacked him.”
The young Hedo told him that he was attracted to the object called ‘sword’ for the first time while dealing with him.
“You have probably felt that way too. I felt as if the men who had gathered so vigorously to kill me looked insignificant like stray dogs… I killed the lord and all of his men in an instant, and the two faced off with him.”
He was the best knight in the territory at the time, but he was mediocre by objective standards.
A person who is not able to break through 5 stars at the age of close to 40.
In his eyes, young Hedo was not a human being, but a monster or demon.
“There was blood and corpses all around, and I was on the verge of dying a few times. But what filled my head at that time was not fear or dread, but the thought of wanting to learn the sword from him. So when I asked him to tell me, he made a really strange face.”
“It has to be.”
“Then he suddenly made up his mind and told himself that he had to kill me here. If you don’t do that, the village and the territory will end.”
Naturally, Hedo didn’t understand his actions, and now that he’s older, he does.
“He was determined for the cause. I would have saved it now, but I couldn’t afford it back then. He was stronger than me, but he was a man.”
If the knight had defeated Hedo at that time, he wouldn’t be standing here.
Jin was a human, but Hedo’s profile looked bitter for some reason.
“When I killed him, I felt guilty for the first time. Somehow, I thought that he was a person who shouldn’t have died like this.”
For a moment, Hedo looked down at the songyeon held in her left hand and remembered him.
Among the belongings the knight had were cigarettes.
I couldn’t remember the knight’s face very well.
Afterwards, Hedo took his sword and belongings and fled to another territory.
However, similar things were repeated everywhere, and Hedo became stronger like crazy after getting the sword.
He began to create his own swordsmanship while training alone by copying the movements of the knight he had killed.
As the pursuers began to attach again, Hedo realized.
He says that he is a person who cannot fit into ordinary society.
“So the refuge I chose was the Black Sea.”
Hedo drinks from a full glass.
“I was fifteen when I entered the Black Sea alone.”
“Did you ever think of asking someone for help? Go find a warrior.”
“Do you think I would have been able to think common sense?”
Hedo has never received a proper education, and even though his body and mind are different from those of the criminal, he is very different.
He had never learned from anyone to solve problems by any means other than violence.
If someone had told him, he would have tried to find a person to lead him as well.
However, after realizing it alone, he just wanted to leave for a place where there were no people.
“The Black Sea is said to be full of monsters and no people, so it seemed like there would be no better place to practice a sword. Actually, the Black Sea was the perfect refuge for me. It didn’t matter how many monsters I killed, and I even got stronger every time I killed them.”
“Then… you’ve only been on the Black Sea ever since then, so your fame isn’t known?”
“Just as Vanessa Olsen became a knight of Sir Chiron too early to be known, so am I. I haven’t counted it accurately, but… I’ve been in the Black Sea for well over twenty years since then.”
Jin was speechless for a moment. He was not one to lie.
A man who went into the Black Sea alone at the age of 15 and lived for over twenty years. Whether such a thing is possible, aside from that…
His past life was just too harsh.
“It was at the Black Sea that I met your father, Lord Shiron.”
