372. The return of the prodigal son (7)
Yes, Mores was always like this.
He doesn’t even pay attention to what others say, and he’s good at blaming people the moment he opens his mouth.
While Owen was trying to control his anger, which had been rising for the first time in a while, the boy waved one hand helplessly.
“Edith.”
Then, Mores’ personal maid, who was standing nearby, handed Owen a small package as if she had been waiting for him.
Puzzled, I opened it and found a small brooch and a wooden statue of a saint.
“… “What is this?”
There is something special about receiving something from that Mores guy.
As I took out the bald old man, who was smiling, and looked at the cooking, the boy gave me a short answer.
“souvenir.”
“souvenir? “What kind of souvenir?”
“It’s not an item with any special meaning. “I wondered if it was really necessary, but I just felt uncomfortable thinking about doing it without you.”
After roughly explaining that, Mores immediately sank into the bed and closed his eyes as if he was tired.
“Now that I’ve given you everything, go ahead. “Don’t be annoying for no reason.”
“what? men and horses! You’re so annoying to the people who came to see you… … !”
“There won’t be time for this, right? You also need to prepare properly. “You’re not planning on going out to the imperial palace dinner like that, are you?”
“huh? “What do you think you look like now?”
As Owen rubbed his greaves with a puzzled look, Mores frowned and scolded him.
“Are you asking because you don’t know that? “A subject with a head like a chicken with all its feathers plucked out.”
“Ssamdak… what?”
I opened my mouth dumbly at the harshest evaluation I had ever received, and Mores continued to criticize me with a sullen expression on his face.
“Besides, what’s with the clothes? “If you can’t afford to dress formally, you should at least give the impression that you are neat in the eyes of others!”
“no… … .”
“You mean they did that and then held a triumphal ceremony? “The more I think about it, the more absurd it is.”
Take an example from Logan. No matter how rough he gets on the battlefield, he maintains his uniform that looks as if it has just been ironed.
Do you understand? From now on, you should stop just wandering around the house and start to realize that you are the first prince of the Holy Empire!
Nagging comments that I never expected to hear from Mores poured out one after another.
After making bitter remarks like an elder knight disciplining a young squire, Mores let out a small sigh with a slightly tired expression.
“Anyway, let’s do something about that ugly chicken fur. “I also neatly trimmed my stray hairs while I was away.”
“Chicken hair… … .”
Wow, isn’t that such a harsh assessment?
This is the feather of a freshwater cormorant. It’s a decoration that’s like a symbol of a strong warrior! Even if you just look at it, don’t you feel a sheen that is completely different from chicken fur?
However, Owen had no time to properly correct the unfair evaluation. Because an eerie light flashed in the boy’s eyes as he stared at him fiercely.
“what a waste. “If I had a little more energy than I do now, I would have plucked out all that ugly chicken hair.”
“… … !”
It was clearly a dying thing, but somehow I could feel a strange force in its bloody mutterings.
When the startled Owen flinched back, Mores’ personal maid beside him came towards him with a grin.
“Don’t worry, my dear. “I will select them all on your behalf.”
“Yes, Edith. Pass this message to the people who use the main palace. “Try to give that guy a proper shine before dinner.”
“All right.”
Thump!
“Then, Owen. “Please excuse me for a moment.”
The arm strength of the maid pulling Owen was unusual. He looked a little embarrassed and asked Mores.
“Mores. What is this? “Your maid, you seem to be a fairly high-level Auror user, don’t you think?”
“hmm. yes.”
Then the boy blinked as if he was a little sleepy and answered in a hushed voice. For some reason, he held out his small palm in front of him.
“So, look at this and listen to me as carefully as you did before. in vain… “Don’t bother resisting.”
Look at your hands? why?
I couldn’t understand the English text at all.
“But why is this woman not in the knights’ order, and why is she acting as an unsuitable maid?”
“Yeah… To the knights, a plate for Edith… Since there is no one to throw it… … .”
… plate?
“What does that mean… … ?”
But there is no longer any response from Mores. The boy slowly lowered his arms and then slowly closed his eyes as if he was falling into sleep.
Even at first glance, it didn’t seem like an ordinary sleep. Because his breathing was extremely unstable, and his rapidly flushed complexion was unusual.
Owen didn’t know what to do due to the sudden situation, but Masaine approached the boy, carefully touched his forehead, and said,
“… “Your fever is rising again.”
Although he had a calm demeanor as if he had experienced this situation often, the driver was still unable to hide his worried expression.
Owen was also clearly feeling the severity of the situation. Even though I was just near the bed, I could already sense the intense heat radiating from Mores.
It was such a strong heat that it seemed as if it could burn a small boy in an instant.
‘this… what?’
What on earth is happening to Mores now? Can the human body naturally generate such high fever?
“Don’t worry, sir. “Your Majesty will probably come soon.”
“Your father?”
But as soon as those words were finished, the door to the treatment room burst open and Seonghwang rushed in!
I had no idea how someone who had been in the conference hall just moments before knew and rushed to me so immediately.
“Mores!”
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Wow-
As powerful divine power poured down on his head like a miracle, the boy’s breathing gradually began to become more even.
The aura that was running wild in my body quiets down, and the heat that seemed like it could burst into flames quickly subsides.
‘Your father is truly amazing!’
Owen, who had now reached a certain level, could roughly feel what Seonghwang was doing.
He was now using both divine power and auror, skillfully controlling Mores’ auror as if it were his own.
A mysterious state that the current Owen cannot reach even in his dreams.
“… … ?”
But why?
At some point, the Holy Emperor completely stopped using Aurors, and began pouring out only divine power towards Mores. Even though he could still feel a slight heat somewhere in his body.
Mores seemed more comfortable than before, but traces of the fierce fever still remained in his exhaled breath.
“… why?”
Why on earth doesn’t my father completely get rid of that heat?
Owen could not finish his question, but Seonghwang understood what he was saying and gave the answer obediently.
“Because this heat is Mores’ natural auror.”
“Mores’s… “Are you coming?”
“okay. The flames that have engulfed my entire body have already become one with Mores, and I can no longer distinguish between Pia.”
Therefore, the heat cannot be completely driven away from my son’s body.
If you do something like that, not only will the child lose his auror completely and become a bad person, but if you make a mistake, you may even lose your life!
Owen’s face suddenly contorted as he realized the seriousness of the situation.
“… Well then, father. What should Mores do now? … ?”
Grumbling.
Owen, who had even forgotten the existence of the golden elixir in his hand, clenched his fist violently as if he were going to crush it.
Then Seonghwang, who stared at Owen’s face for a moment, slowly raised his hand and covered his head.
And he begins to lightly stroke the head of his godson, who has already grown to the same height as if he were a child. One day, when Owen couldn’t sleep because of a nightmare, she always comforted him in that way.
“Don’t make that face, Owen. “Isn’t today a happy day when you return to the imperial palace after many years?”
But why?
Although the touch had not changed at all from before, what Owen actually felt was not comfort but a trace of bitterness.
No matter how much I swallow it, it cannot be resolved, and in the end, it remains piled up in layers.
Perhaps the one who really needed comfort at this moment was Seonghwang himself.
“And in the end, all of this is something Mores chose himself.”
* * *
I don’t know what spirit I had in attending the imperial palace banquet.
Owen, who had lost all of his feather decorations to Mores’ personal maid and was neatly dressed up by the imperial palace servants, was looking like a neat nobleman for the first time in recent times.
However, Owen was so preoccupied with the problem of Mores that he did not even notice how his appearance had changed.
Then, when he suddenly came to his senses, he was already inertically moving the dishes with the food in front of him.
‘Meanwhile, the rice is really delicious.’
A rich table that shows special care was taken just for you. As I was hesitantly putting a piece of meat into my mouth, I heard bright laughter coming from beside me.
Crackling!
Even though it had been many years since they had seen each other, the twins still seemed like children, and they kept bursting into laughter as if they were having fun looking at him like that.
“Brother Owen. Are you listening to what we are saying? “Where on earth have you been preoccupied?”
In response to Herna’s cheerful question, Kadesh, instead of Owen, responded politely.
“Brother Owen is probably worried about Mores. “You two have been very close recently, right?”
“… “What does that mean?”
Who are you close to? Surely you’re not talking about him and Mores?
I’ve thought about it before, but sometimes the twins’ conversations are often incomprehensible.
“But Brother Masain ended up not attending.”
“I can’t help it. “Because you worry too much.”
“Well, you never know when Mores will develop a high fever.”
“okay. “I can’t take my eyes off Mores.”
It was the same for Owen.
If he hadn’t been the star of today’s dinner, he too would have been unable to leave the temporary treatment room for even a moment due to anxiety.
“Prince Owen. At the triumphal ceremony, it was said that he displayed the outstanding spirit of a general, but now I see that there is no other nobleman so handsome. While you’re in the ecliptic, why not attend some social gatherings? “The girls of Delcross will probably be lining up to take you as their husband.”
It is not that he will be the princess, but that the ladies of Delcross will take him as their husband. It was Empress Tatiana who never forgot to say a meaningful word that seemed like a compliment.
“I am truly proud of you, Prince Owen. By performing your noble duties so well, you have become a good example for other princes and princesses. “You’ve had a lot of trouble in a foreign land, so let’s stay in the imperial capital for a while and get some rest.”
As always, the pure melody of the Empress’s voice is heard.
However, neither the checks from Empress Tatiana, who tried to somehow remove him from the throne, nor the selfless praise from the kind Empress Melody, did not reach Owen’s ears at all.
Because only the listless faces of Mores and the bitter Seonghwang kept lingering in my mind.
The sight was so unsettling that I even forgot for a while that I had to find a newbie right away.
‘How did it happen like this? There were so many things I wanted to do when I came to the imperial capital, but why was this guy who I thought was doing well so upset like that?’
It is no longer a matter of using the ultimate elixir or not.
‘Can this elixir really solve the problems inherent to humans as aurors?’
Yes, now the question was whether treatment was possible with this alone.
There are potential dangers that might attack Sisley and the Seonghwang family, as well as newbies waiting(?) for him somewhere in the imperial capital. It was nothing compared to the pain of my brother that I was seeing right now.
‘Hey, Sang Tae-chang. I guess I’ll have to hand this elixir over to Mores!’
Owen repeated this in his head several times, but fortunately there was no response from the status window.
It was an unexpected reaction, considering that they constantly interrupted me by citing penalties every time I did something that deviated from the quest.
But even if there is interference from Sang Tae-chang, what is the use of it all? Owen had already made up his mind.
‘Starting today, this is a new quest I must complete!’
Just wait and see!
I will definitely feed this to that goby!
fantasy,
