[Episode 31]
“Grunt…”
It’s impossible on my own.
At that moment, he felt as if he was stepping into the air once, and then he strode into the carriage.
“Why is he leaving?!”
“Uh….”
“Because it’s the owner’s dog, you can ride it.”
Lucillion said in a somewhat excited voice. no that’s not it
“My BamBam doesn’t have a puppy?”
“You’re raising me, what?”
The two of them sat across from each other and started growling. Two people grabbed my hands and pulled me.
“BamBam, sit here!”
“Master, you should sit on this side.”
The blue eyes closed softly. Every time that happened, her amethyst eyes were blazing with fire.
After thinking for a while, I just sat down on the floor.
“I want to sit here.”
At that moment, Lucillion took me in his arms and sat me down on the chair he was sitting on.
Then he slowly sat down at my feet and looked up at me with a grin like a really obedient puppy.
“I will sit here.”
‘I don’t know what he’s up to.’
Originally, it wasn’t so naive.
The temple was as messy as the imperial palace. The illusion that they will be clean as much as they worship the white color is widespread, but in reality it was not.
They were a group united by discrimination that praised only human beings.
He used them as slaves under the pretext of taking care of the beasts, and trained children gifted with divine power to make them puppets of the temple.
Even within the temple, there was no end to conflicts and struggles for survival.
And Lucillion was a person who proudly took the position of high priest in the messy temple.
So, it must have a darker inside than most tortoiseshell snakes.
‘Of course, I’m still a child now.’
Lucillion, who entered the temple as a young priest candidate in [Ip.
At the end of 10 years of education, the temple’s superiors were relieved and handed over the high priest’s seat to Lucillion, and the temple was blown with blood.
All the rotten upper lines were cut out and the purges began.
At that time, half of the people who were engaged in the temple died or were driven out.
So in the novel, he used to be named like this.
‘A demon of pure white light.’
The name was given because not even a corpse was left where his light passed.
Indeed, he was the tyrant of the temple and the devil.
Of course, this was the position inside the temple, and it was a desirable change from the outside.
Right after Lucillion took the seat of the high priest, embezzlement, abuse, and discrimination completely disappeared.
‘Oh, I don’t know.’
I’ll be back when the time is right.
I stared blankly out the window of the rattling wagon and sighed deeply.
Richard’s tense expression was somehow different today.
‘Because I wrote a letter to Albion…’
If you stop by for a while, you’ll definitely check it out.
[If we don’t come back, please come to Duke Colin’s house. Richard… Let’s go find Richt’s parents.]
I took a deep breath, remembering the letter I left for him.
Eventually, the carriage arrived at Duke Colin’s residence.
* * *
“This way.”
As if rumors had already spread, the servants of Duke Colin’s residence glanced intently at the three of us.
We didn’t know, so we put on our robes, but I thought it was rather fortunate.
‘Because I’m in trouble if I stand out like this…’
It’s because I’m in hiding.
‘…hands sweaty.’
I looked at the hands that were being held with trembling eyes. Lucillion held the right hand, and Richard proudly occupied the left.
Richard’s face was evidently nervous. Even if you said you don’t need a family, that’s probably not what you meant.
“You can go in.”
The driver who guided us politely opened the door to the drawing room.
When we went inside, the man who was sitting on the sofa got up.
“Hello Mr. Ajo.”
I bowed my head and slipped off my robe.
“…okay.”
For some reason, he looked at me with a slightly troubled face, then moved his gaze again and looked alternately at the two children holding my hands.
Maybe because he was wearing a robe, he could see that he couldn’t come close.
However, I felt awkward in the act of not even asking which one was the real son.
Richard might be thinking that fathers don’t even recognize their children.
‘Shall I help you?’
I clenched my left hand tightly and turned my head toward Richard, who was bowing his head.
“Take off your Richard robe and say hello.”
“…”
Richard, who had not raised his head, slowly pulled back the robe he was wearing on his head after a long time.
Richard, who had his head down, slowly raised his head.
“…!”
Duke Colin’s eyes widened at the sight of the child.
“…ah.”
Emotions lingered in his expression, which was just as cold as ice.
He seemed to recognize his son just by looking at the head of the child with his head down.
“…Richard.”
Richard’s shoulders twitched at the cool warmth of his voice.
“Richard my son… will you look at me just once…?”
He walked slowly, knelt down on the carpet, and stretched out his pale white hands toward Richard’s cheeks.
“….”
“….”
Two different pairs of eyes met in the air.
“Why…”
Richard’s voice, which had sunk to the fullest as if he was heavily loaded, came out as if scratching his neck.
As if his neck was stiff, Richard was fiddling with his neck like a habit.
“Why… why did you leave me like that when I was a baby… come and find me now?”
“…”
It was a sharp word.
Because the anger and resentment he had accumulated over the years were greater than the longing, Richard opened his eyes fiercely.
Tears welled up in her eyes, and her lips were pressed together as if she would somehow not let them drop.
“It certainly sounds like an excuse to you, but by no means… Me and her have abandoned you.”
Duke Colin, who had the modifier that if he stabs a cold-blooded human who has no tears, will bleed not red blood, but blue blood, carefully covered the child’s cheeks with both hands, his expression distorted.
As if he was cautious about even daring to touch it.
“There hasn’t been a day that I haven’t missed you. Me and her… I searched for you every day.”
It was a cool voice, but the affection and warmth contained in it was so huge that I couldn’t even dare to measure it.
I stared at the scene like someone who had lost consciousness.
‘This is family.’
There must be many parents and children in the world who have been forced to separate.
There are far more parents who love their children than parents who do not love them.
Families who have a dream-like reunion like this will surely exist in the world. It’s
just that I…
as always was a little unlucky.
Yes, it must have been just a very small misfortune that befell me.
‘Yeah what. Maybe I’m just out of luck.’
Still, it’s nice to see the family reunited like this.
“I love you more than anyone in the world. I’m sure you’ve had a bad time… It sounds like an excuse, but will you listen to me anyway?”
“…”
Richard slowly turned his head to look at me. Her face was almost on the verge of crying.
He was asking if he was really okay. Duke Colin was also looking at me.
I smiled and nodded.
“Do whatever you want, just like Richard’s father. Shall we go?”
“no! Stay by my side… Stay by my side, BamBam… You were supposed to be by my side!”
Richard desperately grabbed my hand, tears falling from his eyes.
‘If I cry here, it feels like I cried.’
When he turned his head slightly, Colin’s eyes widened even more. It’s almost like it’s about to eat me.
I quickly shook my head, took Richard’s hand, and sat down with Lucillion on the sofa.
Duke Colin told a long story very calmly.
Richard’s face, which had been full of disbelief, eventually cooled down and burned with vengeance.
“I will definitely catch them and tear them apart.”
‘…uh? Is this right?’
Usually crying, “Dad! After all, you didn’t abandon me!” Isn’t it the first thing to run while doing it?
“I already took care of it. If I had known it would be like this, I would have left it.”
“Did you kill him brutally?”
“It will be more than you can imagine.”
In an instant, the two looked like a father-son relationship.
…to unite in a strange way.
‘But what… did it work out?’
Duke Colin’s eyes, looking at Richard with friendly eyes, looked like he was dreaming.
He didn’t let go of Richard, as if he didn’t know what to do with the child he was holding in his arms.
“Your mother misses you a lot too. I couldn’t come here because I was sick…”
He said, putting his forehead lightly on Richard’s.
“Rest early today. It would be great to have dinner together.”
“…yes.”
Richard laughed, parting his lips.
At that moment, Duke Colin turned his gaze to me.
I was very nervous at the cool gaze from birth, but I met his gaze without avoiding my eyes.
Then Duke Colin’s expression turned slightly strange.
