Episode 279 Things Money Can’t Buy (1)
A contender who once aimed for the bourgeois throne.
Silver medalist ‘Damian the Bourgeois’.
Director of the Empire’s Money Manufacturing Bureau and outside director of the bourgeois landlord’s guild. Wealth, honor, power, a huge luxurious mansion, a gorgeous carriage,
and a beautiful spouse. What is the reason why he, who seems to have everything, lost all will to live?
“……It’s a common thing.”
Damian opened his mouth in a low voice.
As Bikir guessed, the cause was her daughter.
“No matter how much money you have, you can’t have a child as you please. I realized that too late.”
Damian said softly.
As Bikir knew in his life before returning, Damian had an only daughter.
‘Bourgeois Juliet’.
Long, messy white hair and clear eyes. A girl who always had a smile on her face and was as cute as a clueless puppy.
“Like all bourgeois, my daughter had to be put to the test as soon as she was born.”
Damian explained the bourgeois family customs.
A collateral child or an illegitimate child normally grows and grows within the family, but the ‘real’ ones are different.
Just as the young Baskervilles of the Baskervilles are abandoned in the wilds of the Red Mountains and the Black Mountains, the bourgeois heirs who will lead the future families are thrown into society as commoners with their castles sealed.
Isn’t survival in society as difficult as surviving in the wild?
The young bourgeois, who will one day inherit the line of descent, must achieve success in the imperial capital, the center of the empire, on his own, without any help from his parents or family.
This is to ensure that they do not become fools with a golden spoon full of a sense of privilege and a sense of being chosen through the intense process of experiencing all from the bottom of society to the top.
Damian’s daughter Juliet also went out into society disguised as a commoner to gain practical experience suitable for her age.
During the difficult verification period that took more than ten years, she never used her father’s or family’s background.
Esse Non Videri. It was because of the belief of the successor to the bourgeois that ‘exist but does not reveal’.
“The bourgeoisie always fosters two or more leaders for checks and competition. In my generation, it was my older brother and me.”
Bartolomeo and Damian clashed over the headship.
The result was the victory of Bartholomew, the eldest son.
……But Damian did not give up.
Bartolomeo’s only daughter and Damian’s only daughter.
Coincidentally, both brothers had only one daughter.
Damian had no doubt that his daughter had more talent and skills than his brother’s daughter.
And he thought that one day, when his daughter returned, he would regain everything he had lost and be able to stand at the top of the family.
“But that expectation was shattered mercilessly. Because the daughter gave up the exam midway and returned to the family.”
Juliet. While living as a commoner, she revealed her family name and family name, and as a result, she was disqualified from being the successor.
Juliet, who revealed her identity and identity, even returned to her family and asked her father for help.
‘father. I have someone I love.’
Damian closed his eyes tightly.
“…I heard that while out on volunteer work, he met and fell in love with an invalid from a lowly background, whom he had never even heard of before.
The man’s name is Romeo.
They were no different from the servants who did chores far below, let alone the important responsibilities leading the family.
He was an unremarkable man with an unremarkable appearance, an unremarkable talent and an unremarkable future.
However, what made him a little special compared to others was his life as a terminally ill man with a sickly body and his somewhat philosophical attitude?
Money, fame, power, success, success, recognition, ostentation, without paying attention to any of the values that people in the world put their necks on… Just being kind, kind, and serving your neighbors.
Also, Juliet fell for this man who claimed to be a bard and had a stigma for living with nature and art as friends.
Damian ran his hand through his hair.
“I got angry. To me, that man was just a lazy, unmotivated idiot. An incompetent person who disguises his inability to rise to the top as easygoing. A scumbag who is lucky enough to seduce a rich lady and try to fix her business. That’s what I thought. did.”
Damian was furious that his only daughter, whom he had worked hard to raise and had high expectations on, had made such an immature mistake.
But Juliet did not give in.
‘He’s a good man, father. He has something we don’t have. Maybe you can bring happiness back to your father, who has always been in despair since he failed to become head of the household! That person must be…!’
Damian, of course, did not listen to his daughter.
A daughter who dropped out of a critical exam to save one of the surplus humans in her terminally ill life, revealed her identity, and even requested huge hospital bills from herself.
Damian did not accept Juliet’s earnest request to save Romeo.
Rather, he had sent a contractor to drag Romeo out to the side of a rainy road, beat him up badly, and sent a message telling him to break up with Juliet.
and that night.
Through a storm of lightning and torrential rain, Juliet came to Damian.
‘……Father, right?’
Damian didn’t answer.
Then Juliet continued in a low voice.
‘He never gave his father’s name after all. When I questioned him to the end, all the fathers laughed, saying that they couldn’t help but think of their son-in-law as a thief.’
Juliet bowed her head deeply.
and went back
Damian, who hesitated for a while in anger and regret, followed Juliet belatedly, feeling that he would never see his daughter again if they broke up like this.
Juliet got into the carriage and left in front of Damian.
Damian hurriedly organized a chase party and set out to find his daughter.
And after a long time, they found a carriage driven by Juliet.
Juliet drives the carriage with Romeo in her arms, who is unable to move.
The two men and women seemed to be leaving for a very far place. To a very distant place where the world’s attention is not reached forever.
Damian, of course, didn’t just let it go. So he released a well-trained cavalry and chased after him.
at that time. An accident happened.
…Kwareung!
rain. slippery road. A horse startled by thunder.
A common cliché, a predictable tragic ending.
The carriage that Juliet was driving overturned and the two died on the spot.
“Sorry.”
Bikir said calmly.
It was a fact that I had already heard through rumors, but hearing it directly from the mouth of the person concerned has a different weight.
at that time.
Damian opened his mouth again.
“It’s a little different from the rumors known to the public.”
“……?”
“My daughter is not dead.”
“……!”
This was the first time Bikir had heard of it.
Damian continued talking.
“My daughter was in his arms the first time I ran to the scene of the accident.”
“…”
“He was in a mess, but my daughter didn’t have a single wound. I don’t know how that could have happened.”
The back story I heard from Damian afterwards was a bit longer.
After waking up, Juliet immediately asked after Romeo.
Damian deliberately told the harsh truth.
It hurts my heart, but my daughter wanted this opportunity to give up and forget the man.
And it was because he hoped to welcome a handsome and kind-hearted spouse from the royal family or other seven generations of the family.
And that’s when the real tragedy began.
Juliet passed out immediately upon hearing the story.
And after lying down for a while, I came back to my senses and passed out again.
And wakes up and passes out again and wakes up again and passes out.
After passing out dozens of times like that, she ended up not being able to wake up forever.
Damian said as he ran his hand through his hair.
“My daughter isn’t dead. But she’s dead, her eyes closed, and she can’t wake up.”
He is clearly breathing, but unconscious. An unknown state in which neither medicine, poison, nor divine power is heard.
There was nothing Damian did not do to make his daughter wake up again.
He spent a lot of money and called in countless elixir and knowledge experts.
He even bowed his head and asked for cooperation from the other 7 families.
But all results are unsuccessful. failure. failure.
Priests, shamans, pharmacists, and doctors all shook their heads.
The wound in the heart that is so deep that the soul refuses to communicate is that there is no way to do anything about it.
Damian was still looking up at the night sky with blank eyes.
“The human heart, above all, love is such a great thing. To think that I tried to forcefully separate it. And even for trivial things like money or prestige. Oh, now that I think about it, I can’t believe it. Why did I do that? ..”
Even the dazzling starlight does not shine in his eyes.
His voice was empty and empty as he recited something earnest and out of reach now.
Thus, he gave up the will to live.
I couldn’t even sympathize with the words of the drunkards laughing and chatting in the party hall.
Because in front of human love, money is really nothing, it’s like dust.
“……Why did I really do that?”
Damian shed bloody tears.
If I could see my daughter’s smiling face just one more time, what would money, status, and all that matter be?
could have taken it all away.
If seeing a smiling face is a luxury, I just wanted to express my sincere apology to my daughter who was just awake.
But all of that was impossible.
Because countless attempts have already failed.
……but.
Bikir knew.
only one way. It is a very powerful affair magic that can cross the boundary between this world and the next world.
Ghost Tree.
It is a being that directly contacts the soul of the dead, the living, or those who cannot die.
Bikir said in a dry voice.
“What if I gave you a chance to talk to your daughter?”
“……!”
Upon hearing Vikir’s words, Damian’s eyes widened.
Starlight shines on the flowing tears of blood.
Bikir asked once more firmly.
“Then what can you give me?”
