Episode 226
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“mother.”
Dale opened his mouth slowly, and his mother Elena smiled quietly.
“Speak, Dale.”
“… … .”
Dale remained silent, glancing at his father next to Elena. How much of the truth did this man know about her? Was he an accomplice from the beginning? He couldn’t tell.
However, in order to use the ‘Eye of Truth’, he had no choice but to deploy the Shadow Lord’s avatar. At least, it was not something that could be proudly displayed in front of the current Black Lord.
“Can I talk to you for a moment?”
“Let’s talk in my office.”
So Dale opened his mouth, and as usual his father, the Duke of Saxony, answered.
“Yes, father.”
Dale nodded without trying to correct himself.
The Third War of the Roses was over, and the heir to the Red Tower had fallen to the Black Prince. That meant only one thing.
It was war.
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In the Duke of Saxony’s office, Dale talked about what he had gained in the Third War of the Roses. His wife, Charlotte, became the Archduchess of Lancaster and, through the Shadow Heart, acquired the Book of Cold Ashes.
“A war unlike any before will begin.”
“I guess so.”
To Dale’s words, the Duke of Saxony responded surprisingly calmly. As if he had expected this to happen.
“Aren’t you surprised?”
“Since you have called yourself the Shadow Lord, it is only too late and too early.”
“… … .”
“When you were young, you said that the justice of the Empire was wrong. But none of us have been righteous from the beginning. It’s just a struggle for survival, like a hamster wheel, to gain power.”
The black ball said. The one before him was not a child, and so there was no truth to be taken into consideration as a father.
“The winner will survive, and the loser will die. As a result, what you said when you were young was right. The struggle is inevitable, and since it is inevitable, we had to prepare for the fight from the beginning.”
“father…….”
“I just want you to remember this one fact.”
“What is it?”
“What do you have to fight for?”
The Duke of Saxony said.
“As a Shadow Lord, I have no need to fight for my conviction to drive the Empire of Fire and Light from this land.”
“I am fighting for what I must protect.”
Dale answered. As heir to the Duke of Saxony.
“At the same time, these are things that a father must protect.”
“Please don’t forget that fact until the end.”
“I will keep that in mind.”
Dale bowed his head silently and turned away. The Duke of Saxony remained silent as he watched his son’s back moving away.
It was an extremely complicated and utterly lonely silence.
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“Brother!”
As he left the office, young Lize was there, smiling brightly, waiting for Dale. Dale smiled and patted Lize on the head.
“Are you on your way back from talking to your father?”
At the same time, the woman next to Lize spoke, and Dale swallowed quietly.
Lize smiled as if she didn’t know what was going on and began to chatter about the blue magic she had learned. The magic that her master Sepia had taught her. Dale listened to each of his younger sister’s stories and praised her wholeheartedly.
Nothing has changed. The goal of overthrowing the empire has not changed.
“Lize, Sepia must be waiting for you soon.”
“Yes, Mother!”
At that moment, Dale’s mother Elena spoke. Only then did Lize realize it and hurriedly moved away towards the courtyard where Sepia was waiting.
Only then did all emotion disappear from Dale’s face.
“Can I talk to you for a moment?”
Elena nodded. After nodding, she started walking without saying a word. Dale followed her, also silently.
“Everywhere, nowhere.”
As I was leaving my father and sister behind, Elena, who was walking ahead, opened her mouth.
“That is the existence of our blue tower.”
“Father, how much of the truth do you know?”
“Well.”
Elena smiled meaningfully.
“He is a wise and perceptive man. He may or may not know. I just hope I fooled him skillfully.”
“For what purpose did you approach your father?”
“There really were many purposes.”
Elena answered.
“But while you are acting toward that end, many things that you once believed to be clear become blurred.”
“Have you come to hear about family affection now?”
“You’re talking as if it were someone else’s business.”
Elena, the blue-haired lady smiled brightly.
After hearing that, Dale’s expression froze.
I was overcome by an emptiness that felt like the ground beneath my feet was crumbling away.
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The Blue Tower Master has the power to freely manipulate the mind. She can gather the minds of the sorceresses into one place, manipulate people’s memories and truths, and turn them into Blue’s puppets without even knowing it.
─ The puzzle pieces finally fit together.
Stone of the previous life, warrior of the other world, reincarnation, and the Duke of Saxony.
“Isn’t that right, Dale?”
“Was it your doing?”
“At the same time, it was your decision.”
The blue curtain spoke. The otherworldly warrior held his breath quietly.
The things that the Duke of Saxony had just told me to keep in mind had now fallen into an incomprehensible haze.
“It was a funny family game from the start.”
“okay.”
Elena smiled bitterly.
“It should have been done that way.”
“… … .”
“Everyone has a skeleton in their closet, and you found mine way too soon.”
Dale was silent.
“But just as your goal of overthrowing the Empire has not changed, my goal of serving the Shadow Lord will not change either.”
“Was that your purpose?”
“What other purpose could there be as a rider of the shadows, other than to dedicate my all to the victory of the shadows?”
“My father told me, as a shadow lord, not to fight for what I believe in.”
“That’s so typical of him.”
Elena burst into laughter, seemingly delighted.
“I have seen all sorts of wizards over the ages. A disgusting race of people who willingly turn into monsters to achieve their desired ends.”
“Like you.”
Elena smiled bitterly at Dale’s ridicule.
“But he was the first wizard who was so un-magical.”
“Father… … .”
After a moment of silence, Dale continued, his voice faintly trembling.
“You are too worthy and pitiful to be taken advantage of by swindlers like us without knowing anything.”
“That’s right. That’s why I can’t stand seeing him so pitiful and sad.”
Elena laughed as if she really agreed.
I thought I would use everything that was available to me. That’s why I volunteered to be the eldest son of the Duke of Saxony and used that man, and Elena did the same.
“Nothing will change.”
Dale said.
“Because we are already accomplices on the same boat.”
“… … .”
“I will bring down the Empire for my father and Lize, and you too must bring down the Golden Empire for the victory of Shadow.”
From the beginning, the two men had the same goal. The fall of the Empire would mean the victory of the Shadow, and the victory of the Shadow would mean the victory of the Duke of Saxony.
“… … Dale.”
Nevertheless, Elena hesitated and trailed off. But Dale didn’t wait for her to speak.
“War is coming. And in this war, the Blue Tower will have to give everything it has.”
“For you, I am willing to give my all.”
“As a loyal rider to the Shadow Lord, it is my duty to carry out this duty.”
With those words, Dale turned away. No, he tried to turn away.
“… …when I gave birth to you.”
Elena opened her mouth softly.
“And every time I watch you grow day by day, I become so afraid of this day that will come. I will never be able to fool the Lord of Truth.”
“Is that so?”
“Even if it was a ridiculous family game, I was really happy to be able to be your mother.”
“As a plan to produce the ideal Shadow Lord, it was truly plausible. I had no reason to refuse.”
Dale said coldly.
“But too many are dancing puppets for our purpose. It was so in the past, and it is so now. Neither I nor you have the right to have family happiness. But… … .”
Dale continued.
“For the sake of my father and Lize, I don’t want to break this ridiculous form.”
“Okay, that’s your decision.”
Elena laughed.
“For my part, I can only be grateful.”
The egg is the world of birds. Those who are about to be born must destroy a world.
“We the Blue swear to serve the Shadow Lord with all we have.”
Furthermore, even if it was her world that Dale was trying to destroy, her mother would naturally accept it. After all, she was her son’s mother.
Even if it was just a funny family game, it wouldn’t have made a difference.
Anyway, Elena was Dale’s mother.
It was a truth that was closer to a lie than a lie.
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Lady Scarlett smiled through her pain. Marquis Yuris took her hand and smiled quietly.
“You’ve been patient, my lovely little sister.”
Her belly was no longer swollen, and the devil’s seed that had been conceived in her belly had finally made its appearance there.
A disgusting baby was crying on the cold marble floor of the red tower.
On that day, through the ritual of determination, Lady Scarlett conceived the evolutionary demon in her womb.
Living is a struggle. Those who win survive, and those who lose do not.
And for those who are defeated and cannot survive in the struggle of life, the victor who takes everything from them and preys on them will be nothing but evil.
In that respect, what Lady Scarlett gave birth to was the pinnacle of evil, the struggle for life and, by extension, the top of the food chain.
Angra Mainyu.
The baby burst into tears, and Lady Scarlett smiled quietly at the child.
“Ah, how can you be so lovely?”
The Red Tower worships the idea of power. In that respect, this being was the most suitable successor to their tower’s idea.
“I feel so sorry for Ray who died without seeing his younger brother.”
Scarlett muttered bitterly. Even though it had been conceived through her, this being was no different from Ray.
The child of lies.
But the bond between those who were not related by blood was a lie closer to the truth than any family.
