255. Attic (4)
“Your Majesty, you can’t do this! No matter how loyal Sigismund is to Delcross, you still lead a group of knights into the territory without any prior notice! This is a clear disregard for castle and imperial law! ”
The person who stopped the Holy Emperor and the Holy Knights who suddenly attacked without warning was Archduke Hendrik Sigismund, who was not yet the head of the family at the time.
However, there was no hesitation in the young Seonghwang’s steps.
“Are you saying such things even after deliberately hiding the existence of your daughter, a member of the royal family? If you had notified me in advance, what would you have done to my child?”
“that!”
“If you are curious, I can personally show you what it is like to threaten a territory with force. So, get out of the way quickly. Before I hold you responsible for all of this.”
As soon as those words were out, Knight Commander Katrina, moving like the limbs of a holy emperor, raised her long shield and pushed the Archduke aside.
“Father! Say something to Your Majesty!”
Hendrick, embarrassed, looked back, but Margrave Vincent just looked at the sheep without saying a word.
“…father?”
Hendrick, who had called again as if puzzled, took a deep breath in surprise.
The Margrave was not just turning a blind eye to the Emperor’s actions. He was just frozen in extreme fear and unable to move.
Is it because I recently reached the level of Dekaron Knight? He sensed an unprecedented danger emanating from the young emperor.
“What is your Majesty….”
Yes, I felt like a mere ant facing a huge storm. The moment you rashly step in, you feel helplessly caught up in it, unable to preserve its shape and feeling like it will be torn apart.
Meanwhile, the Holy Emperor, who had climbed to the top of the mansion, pushed the knights back a little and opened the door to the attic himself.
Sigh.
In the dim light coming from the entrance, a skinny girl appeared. He was a pitiful figure, wearing shabby clothes and one leg twisted at a strange angle.
Seonghwang seemed to be greatly shocked, forgetting what to say for a moment and staring at the scene in bewilderment.
“dad……!”
At that time, Amel’s eyes widened when he saw the success, and he smiled with joy.
It was obviously the first time we saw each other face to face, and it was as if we knew right away who our parents were.
However, the girl who was staggering towards him soon spotted the armed knights and flinched in surprise.
“…Amelia, how can you do that?”
A slightly low voice calls out the name of a daughter I have never heard.
Then the girl answered in a hushed voice.
“Well, my dad is a person who travels here and there by himself. He’s never traveled with so many drivers….”
But I think it’s my dad’s face, which is really strange.
When the girl tilted her head, Seonghwang slowly approached the girl, fearing that she might be scared, and spoke.
“Yes. It is a good habit not to judge anything hastily. You are intelligent, Amelia.”
“It’s just like my dad to give such strange compliments. But my dad didn’t even wear clothes this white and shiny like yours.”
“…….”
When Seonghwang silently approached and stopped, the girl, who had been thinking for a moment, looked up at him as if she had made up her mind.
“Then let me ask you one thing. Can you name my friend? My friend is the happiest girl with the biggest family in the world.”
Then Seonghwang, who was thinking about something, answered.
“Then your friend is definitely the Belluna of the night sky. She is a happy goddess with beautiful daughters called Caliche of the sun and Olivier of the moon, and countless sons of stars.”
Little Amel’s face brightened noticeably at the answer.
“Well, then… what word starts with A and contains Arrhc? It’s the first word my dad taught me, Breton.”
“That word is probably ‘angel’, Amelia. Anyone who sees you will inevitably think of that word first.”
Only then did Amel approach the crowd with a relieved smile on his face.
“Of course it’s my dad!”
“…….”
Orden couldn’t understand. How can a father and daughter who have never seen each other have a conversation like that?
“What does all that mean now?”
Her father, Archduke Hendrick, also mumbles without knowing what he is saying.
Meanwhile, Seonghwang, who had been staring at Amel, who was barefoot for a moment despite the cold weather, took off the robes he was wearing and knelt down on one knee to make eye contact with the girl.
He then wrapped the robes around her shoulders and gently hugged her.
“My pretty clothes get dirty, Dad. The Countess always calls me a dirty child.”
“Is that possible? You are the most precious and beautiful child in the world.”
“But my clothes get dirty….”
“These robes exist because of you. So, if you don’t accept them, these robes will have no meaning.”
Seonghwang’s expression looked surprisingly calm as he said that.
But everyone there saw blood clearly gushing out of his neck. For a moment, it seemed as if his eyes were emitting a strange silver glow.
“I’m so sorry I found you so late, Amelia.”
Amel let out a small laugh at the silent apology.
“The sister with the black veil has already apologized. She did. I am so sorry for taking my only father away from me.”
“…….”
“But I said I would be happier in the end because I would be able to meet more family.”
“…Yes, that’s right.”
Seonghwang slowly stroked the girl’s head and said something whose meaning was unknown.
“It was at that crossroads in Regina. It changed everything for you and me.”
And soon, miraculous divine power poured down on Amel.
The girl’s pale cheeks turned a pale rosy color, and her matted hair instantly became shiny. Her twisted leg also made a popping sound and then straightened.
‘angel… … .’
Orden, who was staring at the scene blankly, suddenly thought. The little girl wrapped in her white robes looked as if she would become an angel and fly to the sky at any moment.
And Orden realized that the time to say goodbye to her had come. Amel is no longer her own little Amel.
I was so happy that my heart was pounding, but at the same time, I felt empty.
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Murmur.
While everyone in the count’s mansion was winking and whispering.
Seonghwang, who held Amel dearly, slowly got up and looked back at them. With a cruel smile plastered on the corner of his mouth.
Creepy.
The moment he faced his face with its brilliant eyes radiating, for some reason, Orden felt a chill creeping into his soul.
Because I was worried about Amel and came closest, I was the first to meet his scary gaze.
“…….”
However, Seonghwang, who looked down at him coldly for a moment, passed by and lightly tapped the boy on the shoulder.
Tuk.
“……!”
At first Orden thought he had been cold-heartedly pushed away.
But I soon realized that this was a very mild treatment for the Sigismund people.
Because the next person who faced the Holy Emperor’s gaze was never safe.
“Kwaaaaaaaa!”
Tdu-duk, tdu-duk!
Even though no one touches it, the leg of a maid who was standing fine breaks and twists on its own. She was a young maid who took care of the countess’s errands.
“……!”
“Aaaahhh!”
While everyone was embarrassed by the sudden situation, the young maid rolled around on the floor with foam at her mouth.
The bones that tore the skin and protrude are splashed with blood, and the muscles are crushed and explode all at once. It was as if an invisible demon was twisting her legs in various directions in the air.
In that grotesque scene, only the Holy Emperor and the Holy Knights who accompanied him were standing with calm faces.
Of course, the gentle-looking knight commander gave her a pitiful look for a moment.
“Off…….”
In the end, in extreme pain, the maid closed her eyes and fainted.
Seonghwang looked down at her with eyes as cold as frost. Meanwhile, she did not forget to cover Amel’s head with her robes and completely block her sound with her aura.
“…Are you done?”
In the moment of silence, someone’s frightened voice rang out unusually loudly. But unfortunately, it was only a prelude to the bloodshed that was to come.
“Kaaaaak!”
“Aaaah!”
Soon, people’s screams were heard from all over the place.
Someone’s arm is twisted at a scary angle, and someone else is screaming at the top of their lungs while holding on to their cracked skin.
Knock knock knock-
Toad duduk-
The excruciating pain was painful, but the extreme fear of an unknown phenomenon occurring in the air was strangling their breathing.
Only the terrible crashing sound and breathtaking screams completely engulfed the Count’s mansion.
Orden, who had been watching the whole scene frozen, was horrified to discover some familiar faces among those writhing in pain. And he soon realized one thing.
These phenomena all have distinct causes! The person who hit Amel’s face had the entire skin of his face ripped off, and the person who twisted Amel’s arm had his arm brutally chopped off and broken.
It was unclear how the detailed assaults that Amel suffered were being repeated with greater intensity.
However, it was clear that all of this was revenge for his daughter, carried out by Seonghwang, Amel’s father.
“Ugh….”
After the cruel screams and wind of blood passed by. Only half of them were still standing.
‘Did so many people participate in harassing Amel?’
While Orden was astonished at the new truth, Seonghwang, who was slowly looking around at the bloody scene, declared in a calm voice.
“But rest assured. You have committed a crime worthy of death, but I will not take your lives for the sake of my daughter. You have also been punished for carrying out what Sigismund commanded, and so will the rest of your ruined lives. Sigismund will take care of you.”
And the next place that Seonghwang turned his eyes to was the place where the direct descendants of the Sigismund family were gathered.
“Your Majesty…!”
Archduke Hendrick, looking pale, stands in the way of his wife and young children. Behind them was Orden’s grandmother, who was trembling with fear.
Then, Seonghwang made a cold accusation towards the Grand Duke.
“Are you going to ask for sympathy by even pretending to protect Shiksol? If it’s for the sake of your territory, you’re the kind of person who can throw away even bloodied people like leftover firewood.”
“Please stop! You can’t treat a noble like this without a trial!”
“You probably don’t know that the crime of insulting and injuring a member of the royal family can be punished immediately.”
“If so, at least let her be formally tried! Although our treatment of the princess was negligent, it happened because no one knew she was the princess!”
Seonghwang shook his chin slightly without answering. He seemed to be asking me to talk more.
The Archduke bit his lip at that cold attitude, but there was no room for him to retreat any further.
“Of course, my mother couldn’t even guess. She was just trying to control the family’s illegitimate children in accordance with the family law, in accordance with the Lord’s will not to be greedy for lust…!”
Cooung.
Archduke Hendrick could no longer speak. At that moment, the temperature around where he was standing dropped significantly, causing an eerie chill.
As the frozen Hendrick’s chin trembled, Seonghwang, who was looking at him quietly, smiled a gentle smile. Apart from the frost-like eyes becoming even colder.
“Did you really think that I wouldn’t know that you, who were the first to notice the fact, confuse the guild’s investigation in order to cover up everything? What you did in secret to silence outsiders who knew about my daughter’s whereabouts, can’t be hidden forever. “Did you think there would be?”
“……!”
“You even pretend to defend your mother and don’t hesitate to shift all responsibility onto her. Why on earth do you so easily abandon human duties?”
Only for the territory. To minimize expected damage as much as possible.
This was the answer that reflexively flashed through Hendrick’s mind as he was speechless.
But Seonghwang, who knew what I was thinking, nodded and said with interest.
“Yes. It’s for the territory. You can’t even guess what consequences your choices will have in the future.”
“…….”
“There is nothing to worry about right now. I have no intention of harming you, even going so far as to violate the imperial laws that I have established. All you have to do is exist as you are and continue to make future decisions without hesitation. “Only for your territory.”
I wasn’t saying I would forgive.
The cold silver-grey eyes staring at Hendrick mean only one thing.
-I don’t stop it. I’m really looking forward to the results.
‘What on earth…? … ?’
While the Archduke was so confused, the Holy Emperor turned and walked towards Margrave Vincent, who was still shaking.
“Ugh!”
The Margrave fell to the floor, making a sound of out of breath. Not long ago, he looked incredibly unsightly for someone who had risen to the rank of Dekaron Knight.
“Your Majesty! I’m sorry! Princess! I’m sorry! Please take it away! I-I…!”
The Margrave bowed his head to the floor and began to think frantically. The actions of someone who seemed to be half out of his mind due to fear were truly shocking to Orden.
A silver light occasionally flickers in the eyes of Seonghwang, who quietly looks down at him.
Looking at him calmly, as if he had anticipated his grandfather’s reaction, it was clear that he was using some invisible trick as before.
“Off, off!”
How long has it been like that?
Only when his grandfather fell to the floor and was in a semi-faint state did the Holy Emperor turn around again. Toward the Countess, who had turned blue from earlier and looked like she was about to collapse at any moment.
‘… ‘Grandma!’
Orden became anxious. Perhaps the person most responsible for Amel’s abuse here is by far his grandmother.
As someone who inherited the same blood as her, Orden couldn’t help but be very concerned about his grandmother’s treatment.
But then, something unbelievable happened before his eyes.
“countess.”
The Holy Emperor, who was silently staring at Jomo, who was trembling in fear, bestowed upon her the most powerful blessing.
The Countess is bewildered by the divine power that suddenly surrounds her.
Surrounded by holy white light, the Holy Emperor smiled brightly like never before.
And Orden still clearly remembered the words he muttered softly at that time.
“You will be remembered as the happiest person in front of Amelia. Don’t let my children feel any guilt about what happens to you in the future.”
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“…blessing?”
Seongjin, who heard the whole story from Orden, couldn’t help but wonder. Why would you do something like that to a person who wouldn’t mind being beaten to death right away?
However, when Seongjin came face to face with the countess in front of him, he was able to realize everything clearly.
The amount of punishment that one person’s soul can fully endure. The cause and effect, which was probably a little lacking, is delicately balanced due to someone’s blessing.
‘This is an opportunity given to me!’
A chance to exact cruel revenge that only I can carry out. My father, who knew that I would not endure it, was willing to leave my share for me.
Seongjin opened his mouth and smiled fiercely.
Ah, how could I not be happy!
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