[Episode 104]
When I said something absurd, the dog’s eyes widened. He was looking at me with trembling eyes, as if he couldn’t believe the situation.
“Am I your father? He is the real father who gave birth to you!”
“Even if you were my father, it would be my mother who gave birth to me, not you.”
The bitch glared at my answer, which I spat out quite coldly.
“I planted your seed!”
“They say you are not the high priest.”
As I spoke while looking at Lucillion, the asshole pursed his lips and looked at me, my father, and Lucillion alternately with a white face.
“It is a lie! It’s a lie! It can’t be! I mean, I took you to the duke’s house!”
“…”
cried the asshole, his face reddening. Looking back at the vague memories, it seemed that this was probably the right word.
“The woman said she was my child and gave you! You are my daughter!”
“What have you been doing since you abandoned that daughter?”
I know that there are many stepmothers and stepfathers in the world who care more like their own children, even if they are not real daughters.
Because I used to look for such news often in the past.
But it wasn’t this kind of person. It must have come after hearing rumors that I am a dragon.
‘That’s why I can say that I’m a daughter and give such an order.’
Asking me to kill everyone in this room…
“If you were my real dad, you wouldn’t have given me such an order.”
There was no way I would have told my daughter to kill everyone here for her sake.
“Which woman…?”
“Yeah! One of the girls I slept with told me to raise her because she was mine!”
“…This stupid thing was even scammed.”
Charniel Etham, who had appeared before he knew it and was completely white, said with a mischievous laugh.
He had no intention of conducting a blood test in public like this, but his expression was not very good, as if the matter had become complicated.
“Are you the one who dares cheat in front of Jim?”
The emperor, who had been silently observing the situation, opened his mouth slowly.
“Oh no! This is obviously something wrong with that fuse! What kind of power does that blue young priest have!”
You’re wrong now.
Lucillion even carries the nickname of the strongest high priest of all time. Do you know how awesome the reverse harem male lead candidates’ buffs are?
“What you mean is that you doubt Jim’s eyes for permitting the inauguration of the high priest?”
“That’s not that… that that’s like a swindler…”
“As far as I can see, there’s only one swindler in this place.”
The emperor bowed his head.
“I don’t want to see blood in a fun banquet where the main character should be blessed, so let’s discuss the punishment later.”
“Oh, no! no! No! not me!! I just…! I just heard that she is my daughter!”
Contempt was set in the eyes of the nobles gathered at the banquet hall at the mess created by the dog.
“Please! I still brought you, who was dying, to the Duke’s house! Even if I wasn’t your dad… I raised you!”
what is he saying now?
It was 80% of the maid who raised me, and 20% of the money came from the duke’s pocket.
“Please help me!”
“No. don’t help I have no desire to help. disappear quickly.”
He wept with a pitiful expression on his face, but I answered firmly.
“Leave this, let this go! Do you know who I am! I’m that dragon’s father!! Even if I had only imprinted on time…! Thieves! mine! mine!”
The voice that shouted until the end and was dragged out of the banquet hall calmed me down.
As if it were a thing, Gu was sarcastically hurt by his attitude.
“Tszuk, that famous Etham bitch ended up having an accident.”
“Oh my god… they said he was missing, but he must have been alive?”
“What do you mean by imprint? Is there even a way to possess a dragon…?”
“I don’t think Duke Etham…”
They must have said they whispered very quietly, but I could hear them very clearly, as I have good hearing.
“Stop making unpleasant noises in my ears.”
Then the emperor added a word.
The emperor seemed to have heard the voice because he was quite close to the nobles compared to other people.
“Then, we’ll proceed with this one slowly.”
Lucillion continued as if changing the mood.
My father’s blood, which was still floating in the air, and my blood mixed with Lucillion’s divine power gradually drew closer and soon merged.
The two bloods mixed together and soon began to radiate a soft golden light.
‘…golden?’
It was strange.
According to Lucillion’s words, it was only when blood was mixed with divine power that it turned golden.
In other words, it is a phenomenon that can only be seen between biological parents and biological children.
But I can’t be my father’s real blood relative.
‘Dad…’
Except for Silian and Callan, he has no children…?
But how does such a reaction occur?
It was just when I couldn’t overcome my doubts and was about to turn my head to look at my dad.
Pajijik-!
There was the sound of sparks popping. Looking at the golden blood shining in the air again, it was already being swallowed up by pure white light.
When I lowered my gaze, I could see a look of bewilderment on Lucillion’s face.
It was not difficult to see that this was not the situation he foresaw.
‘Something’s wrong.’
When I turned my head and looked at my father, my father also seemed a little hardened, uncharacteristically.
“Looks like the results are out. Then, with this, we will end the examination.”
Lucillion sorted out the situation.
“…It seems that it will be difficult to continue today’s banquet.”
The atmosphere in the banquet hall was already messed up.
In this atmosphere, if the banquet continues, the increase will be gossip and rumors.
“It’s a bit early, but let’s end today’s banquet here. Don’t be sorry, the banquet still has three days left.”
The emperor stepped forward and scattered the crowd.
“The high priest and the Duke of Etam look at me.”
The banquet on the second day ended in a mess with the last emperor leaving the banquet hall.
* * *
Me and my father, Lucillion, and Charniel Etam, who had promised to follow, followed the emperor’s call and were guided by the chief chamberlain to the drawing room.
“Your Majesty is waiting inside.”
The chief of staff bent down and opened the door. When the door opened, the calming scent of lavender wafted in.
“Come, sit down.”
We took our seats on either side of the emperor who was sitting in the high table.
The chief chamberlain filled the teacup himself and then quietly left the drawing room.
Click.
It was only after a moment of desolation that only the sound of the emperor slowly tilting his teacup could be heard, that the emperor opened his mouth.
“Yeah, everyone here knows that the blood test earlier wasn’t normal.”
“…”
No one answered the emperor’s words.
‘As expected, Lucillion removed it with divine power.’
The blood, which had been shining in golden light, clearly sparked.
If it had been left as it was, the result would probably have been no different from the test of the dog who claimed to be my biological father.
“Until the beginning, it must have been a proper inspection. Did you do something, High Priestess?”
The emperor’s gaze sank heavily and reached Lucillion.
“I swear to God that will never happen.”
Lucillion smiled and replied.
Why do I think Lucillion’s trust is falling when he swears to God?
I rolled my eyes at the stupid thought.
“Actually, even if I pray to God, I can hardly find out information about the owner… no, the princess.”
“I can not know?”
“Yes, in short… If someone prays to know when they will die, God will answer me.”
Lucillion calmly began to explain.
“Usually God gives the answer. But knowing that, there’s not much I can do about it.”
From the added words, I was able to guess Lucillion’s strange ability that I had only guessed so far.
“Listening to the voice of God is only allowed to me, so I have to pay the price if I say the future or information I learned through it.”
If you just listened to it, it couldn’t be the strongest ability.
The ability to know anything if you pray.
“However, no matter how much I pray for the princess and how much I offer, no answer is given.”
said Lucillion.
“Yeah, as if… even God couldn’t intervene with him.”
The voice he added was a mixture of weirdness and wonder, which even made me feel a little creepy.
“So Eirin Etam is the son of the Duke of Etam? Are you saying it’s not?”
Lucillion’s lips parted slowly at the emperor’s question as if he was frustrated.
