Duke’s Quadruplets Are All Overpowered Chapter 2

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My morning routine starts with drinking an aronia shake. Every morning, the maid picks fresh aronia from the field, which tastes like honey and yogurt, and I drink a shake and leisurely look out the window. When you look at the wide ocean while basking in the warm sunlight, the nightmares you had all night quickly calm down. This is a nursing villa on the southern island of Quarts territory. It’s my own paradise without the damn twins.

After I finish my shake, I head to the bathroom. Flower petals float in the water in an old-fashioned marble bathtub. These are herbs that are good for the skin. I took off my robe and soaked her feet in the bath water that the maid had warmed up beforehand, and she frowned. I put on my gown again and call the maid.

“Gulshi! “The bath water is hot!”

A maid quickly runs to my shout. Her name is Gulsey, and she is my sister-in-law and dedicated maid who has been with me since I was young. She dips her fingers in her bath water and she shakes her red fingers off in surprise.

“uh? “It’s true.”

Girlfriend is nice.

“Finally, you are trying to kill me. Do you want me to be like a boiled chicken?”

“Oh my, no. “I still like you, Master.”

“If you don’t like it, should I really kill you?”

But he’s stupid and has no sense. She should have been kicked out a long time ago, but I took her as my personal maid. She said, I needed a stupid and tactless maid rather than a smart and talkative one.

“ah! “Are you hurt?”

Gulshi sucked her finger as if it was still hot, then suddenly spoke with a surprised expression.

“You asked too early. “The legs are so cooked that the broth comes out.”

When Gulshi, who couldn’t understand the joke, tried to look around my body, I had to explain that it was okay because I didn’t go into the water. Then Gulshi spoke with admiration. If I were an ordinary noble, I would have been hit with hundreds of sticks.

“Amazing! “Master, how do you adjust between cold and warm without getting your fingers wet every time?”

What would I do if I scolded a child who doesn’t even know the word temperature and says it’s too cold and says it’s warm?

“I can see everything.”

“yes?”

“what are you doing. “I didn’t bring cold water.”

When you return to your room after taking a bath, the table is set. Eggs cooked sunny side up, toasted bread with the corners cut off, not-too-sweet apple jam, and richly flavored coffee beans from Arachia. A perfect breakfast that takes into account my tastes. It is a luxury I have never enjoyed in my previous life. I was really satisfied with this life.

smart!

While I was eating leisurely, someone knocked on the door.

“Master, did you cough?”

It’s Deacon Don’s voice. He is the manager of the nursing home, and unless it is for special business, he does not come to see me. As soon as I heard the voice, my appetite disappeared. It’s not that I don’t like him, it’s that I don’t like the news he delivers. I put down my fork and stayed still. I hoped it was a simple morning greeting.

“Master, this is a letter from my family.”

When there was no answer, Deacon Don knocked on the door again and said, Shit, I sighed and opened the door. There was a red piece of paper in the old butler’s hand. This paper was made from the quartz tree and was also the symbol of the Reinberg family. Deacon Don is an old man with a gloomy face. He always has a gloomy expression on his face, but today the face of the old man who turned away after giving me the letter was especially bright. I think I can tell what the letter is about just by looking at the butler’s facial expression.

I threw away the letter I had received and lay down on the bed.

Then Gulsi, who came to clean up the dishes, kindly picked up the letter and handed it to me.

“what.”

“You didn’t read it!”

“know.”

“Would you like me to read it to you?”

“You don’t even know letters.”

“pole… S… Ta Quartz Lane… friend… He immediately becomes the family leader… radish?”

“okay. I can read letters. “But don’t read it arbitrarily.”

It was obvious even without looking at the contents of the letter. It has already been four years since I stayed at the nursing home. For several years he did not return home, making various excuses. Perhaps it’s the limit, but the scabs have gotten worse recently.

“There are a lot of letters in the library asking you to come back! When will you return?”

“I don’t want to go.”

Gulshi opened her eyes wide and said, as if she didn’t understand me.

“Two days ago, the old man sent a carriage to pick you up. “The old man will be angry!”

“I’m still sick.”

“yes? “You’re fine, right?”

“It hurts my heart, not my body.”

Gulshi, who was clueless, paid me no heed and handed the letter to me.

“This time it’s a letter from Madam. Would you like to read it?”

“Mom?”

This time I hesitated too. Blood is thicker than water. Memories of my past life have returned, but my mother is still my mother. This is a family that makes me feel sad when I think about it. I miss my mom too. But at home where those damn twins are.

“But I’m not going.”

I will never go.

* * *

It was a bittersweet day. A few days after receiving the letter, his father came to his villa in person. No attendant came with me for the sole purpose of taking me back to my home.

Duke of Libera Quartz Reinberg, the Empire’s strongest spiritualist and one of the Four Pillars, and one of the strongest men on the continent that even the non-human demons tremble at. He came with something wrapped in his hand.

Although he was past middle age and entering old age, he looked like he was in his thirties with his dark brown hair and lack of wrinkles. The moment he opened the door and met his father’s eyes as he walked in, he knew that lying wouldn’t work.

“Are you feeling okay?”

Pretending to be sick is useless to a father who wields the power of spirit beasts. He must have already known that I was faking it from the moment I went to the nursing home. Still, seeing all the precious medicinal herbs he brought with me made me feel a little sad. Before he is a father and son, he is a duke of an empire. The fact that he came directly to my room instead of the living room was out of consideration for me. I was trying to stubbornly refuse when I heard that my father was coming, but my heart weakened slightly. But I couldn’t help it.

“I don’t want to go back to my hometown.”

My father’s expression crumpled.

“Tell me why.”

I hesitated to answer. Then his father looked at me with a rigid gaze and spoke.

“Is it because of your brothers and sisters?”

It hit the nail on the head. When he didn’t answer, his father looked out his window and let out a deep sigh. It is a sigh full of regret. My father probably thought the reason was ‘inferiority complex’. But if it was for such a trivial reason, I wouldn’t have run away all the way here. I couldn’t tell you the real reason. Your children are all evildoers who brought the Earth to the brink of destruction! And I am of the Earth. How do you say it?

As the awkward silence continued, my father came closer and held my hand. My father had a kind habit. When he was young, he would often hold my hand and imbue me with the power of spiritual water. He was still like that now. A warm energy surrounds my body, as if encouraging me.

“It’s already been four years. “There were even rumors going around that I kicked you out.”

When I met my father’s eyes, I unconsciously lowered my head.

“Son, you have spent a long time alone. Please know that my failure to call you until now was not due to indifference. “I just wanted you to realize the duty and honor of being a noble.”

Even if I realized my past life at the age of ten, the life before that did not escape me. I don’t feel very good.

My father held my hand tightly and continued talking.

“This father was a commoner. However, he survived the battlefield where thousands of people died in vain in one night, won an unlikely love, and overcame his natural instincts to rise to the rank of duke. So he is more keenly aware of his duty. We are not the ones standing above. Think of the weight you carry. If Reinberg falls, who will stop the invasion of the demihumans? Once again, thousands of lives will be lost. A nobleman who only knows honor does not know the value of life. I am already fourteen years old. You will soon have to have a coming-of-age ceremony, but now you… … .”

Noblesse oblige. Is this a prepared line? My father was determined to convince me. Benefits come with obligations, which is a good thing to say. As a modern person, there is no way I wouldn’t know. However, there are devils in the world who have great power but destroy a nation for their own greed rather than their duty. As far as I know there are three of them, and those demons were also my twins.

“Father, I… … .”

I recalled the events from four years ago that led me to run away here.

* * *

After Thanksgiving, we again received a lot of attention from plotters, just like when we were born as twins. He is a ten year old child. He is not a genius in swordsmanship and magic. Children who were just starting to learn how to hunt caught mammoths and Neron River crocodiles, which were difficult to hunt even with several experienced hunters. I remember this incident, which cannot be explained by common sense, caused quite a stir.

The Reinberg family tried to hide the rumor, but as a word without feet travels a thousand miles, it quickly spread and there was no one in the empire who did not know about it. People who like to talk talked for a while about the thanksgiving festival that took place in the Reinberg family, and even gave them the name Children of the Moon.

As time went by and the rumors quieted down, they never hid their extraordinary nature.

The first person to stand out was Confucius. The incident occurred during a swordsmanship class held twice a week. The Reinberg family was not a family famous for its swords, and swordsmanship was merely something learned as a liberal arts subject for nobles. At the age of ten, I was just learning how to swing a wooden sword, and my oldest child was just a child who found swinging a sword just like me.

However, during his first swordsmanship class after Thanksgiving Day, he suddenly beat up the instructor who was teaching him.

The reason was that the sword instructor was sloppy. At the time, the Blue Wolf Knights, the top knights of the Reinberg family, who were training at the parade ground, witnessed their instructor scream at a sword swung by a child. At this time, he started acting like a fool.

“Uh, over there… … .”

I stood there dumbfounded and watched the absurd situation of changing common sense. A small child, who could be as big as a threshing horse, beat the massive knights. The knights could not subdue the child. Instead, he couldn’t avoid the sword and was hit on the head and even fainted.

The knights later make the excuse, “I couldn’t fight back because I was the first Confucius,” but I know this because I experienced that day firsthand. Later, the blue wolf knights began to attack him in earnest.

Even if Reinberg is not from a sword family, that does not mean that knights are easy swordsmen. The middle-aged knights were war heroes who made meritorious contributions in the worst war that occurred decades ago, and their practical sword skills were refined and passed down to become strong knights who were not inferior to those of other knights of famous swordsmanship. However, the first Confucius, who until now had only wielded a wooden sword, overwhelmed them.

Could a wooden sword wielded by an ordinary ten-year-old child be able to split an apple?

The wooden sword he wielded at the age of ten split the head of a trained knight.

I couldn’t see his movements. The speed with which he ravaged the knights was faster than that of a lion.

The child who had knocked out all the knights on the parade ground did not even gasp.

“The swordsmen of this world are very weak.”

At that moment, the suspicion that had been creeping in since the Thanksgiving incident was now confirmed.

f*ck, you’re not hiding your identity? To openly express one’s existence like that?

He, like me, remembers his past life.

“you.”

The child who instantly destroyed the Blue Wolf Knights, the pride of the Reinberg family, suddenly looked at me, his eyes flashed, and he started running towards me holding his sword.

This was where it started.

The history of my survival.

* * *

On this day, I broke my ribs, cracked both my legs, and lost a molar. Although her young body was marked with ugly scars, there were two great gains.

I realized that my eldest brother remembered his past life just like me, and that his past life was as a damn ‘Murimin’. And the second benefit was that my powers from my previous life were awakened, which convinced me that he was a martial artist.

“Cheonan Tong has opened.”

The abilities from my previous life were copied into my current life. One of the abilities that was considered the only ability to fight against the aliens who invaded the Earth, Cheonan-Tong (天眼通), called the Eye of God.

fantasy,