Episode 396
Dan Brown.
Meredith Gold’s son, born exactly 160 years ago, disappeared when he was 20 years old.
To be exact, we left the forest of demons.
He said with a smile.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve seen you. Your Highness Deva Lionel, should I just call you Count from now on?”
Deva looked at Dan Brown in front of her with strange eyes.
“140 years ago, the boy who learned swordsmanship from Lady Maine has truly grown up.”
Dan Brown also looked at Deva with a strange look.
It was a memory from hundreds of years ago, when we were both young.
A fleeting glimpse of a relationship, a short memory.
Readymade Royale is a symbolic figure not only for vampires, but ironically also for Dan Brown, the dragon.
Because of his advice, Dan Brown was able to perceive the world with his own identity.
The advice was nothing special.
To live freely.
Don’t live stupidly, do what you want and live meaningfully.
“I haven’t seen my father for 140 years, so I don’t know, but do they look alike?”
There was a deep question in that question.
And Deva, who was looking at it, was also suspicious.
“They look alike. I knew I recognized them because they look alike. Even their speech is still the same, like that of an old man.”
The two definitely knew each other.
140 years.
A connection from when Devar Lionel was a very little kid.
“But don’t you know that Meredith Gold is dead?”
“I know.”
“But I think you don’t think it’s a big deal.”
Dan Brown bursts out laughing.
Is there anything special?
“If you did something that deserves death, you deserve to die.”
“… … .”
“Do you know why I left the Demon Forest?”
I don’t know.
Because I literally just heard that he went missing.
“I realized now that my mind is a little stiff. That being called Oh Hwang is doing something stupid.”
“… … .”
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“Do you rule over the forest of demons? You subjugate the alien races to find the legitimacy of that rule? 400 years ago, the only ones who were cursed by Valentine Milos were the kings and dragons of the alien races that lived at that time. And all of them died except for Redmane and the dragons. Do you know what that means?”
“I heard it meant liberated.”
“That’s right. Liberation, that was the will of heaven.”
“Heaven’s, will?”
“The maintenance of the absolute being that ruled the entire world in the past, that absolute being wanted that. In return for devastating the continent through the race war, they were to not come out into the world until the previous generation died and live only in the forest of demons. That period was at most 100 years, and even if something truly unexpected happened, it was at most 200 years. However, the maintenance of the absolute being was not achieved for over 400 years. Why was that?”
It was a well-known fact.
Because the dragon wanted to rule the forest of demons, there was really no other reason than that.
“The dragons were the balancers, and they had to balance the world. The Five Emperors, who were all showy, I didn’t like their actions. I don’t know what kind of world the absolute beings of the past wanted, but if that was the will of the absolute beings who reigned in heaven, then I should have made it happen. That was the true meaning of respect, and it was awe shown to those who stood at the top of the world. The Five Emperors did not keep that and instead pursued their own selfish desires, so I prepared.”
“What are you talking about?”
“assassination.”
Deva was speechless for a moment, and Dan Brown smiled and asked Deva,
“So what happened?”
The answer was already out there.
“Missing?”
“If you put it nicely, it’s disappearance, and if you put it badly, it’s dismissal.”
Dan Brown burst out laughing.
“More than that, didn’t you see it too?”
“Who?”
“Jack and the living Valentine Milos.”
Dan Brown laughed and waved his hands.
Then, the murderous intent that had been pressuring Deva disappears like melting snow.
“We are comrades on the same boat. To be exact, we share the deck of that boat.”
He extended his hand and asked for a handshake.
“I hope you get along well from now on.”
* * *
Charlotte, who had been lying in bed, sat up with difficulty.
It seems that Jack’s blood was indeed a tonic.
“Are you here?”
Sel, who had been looking at Charlotte with pity, quietly shook his head.
Charlotte lay back down on the bed without saying a word, as if she was just being told to lie down.
Charlotte, who had been watching Sel, who had been walking slowly, sit down on the chair next to the bed, asked.
“What’s wrong? You look so unhappy.”
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Cell drew his palm silently.
He brought his bleeding palm to Charlotte’s mouth, just as Jack had done.
Charlotte narrows her eyes.
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“Why is it like this?”
-……just.
Charlotte still felt weak.
So I had no choice but to eat it.
-As you know, I will live a long time. I will probably live longer than you.
“… … .”
-And I don’t fit in with this forest of demons either.
Charlotte looked at the cell without saying anything.
“What do you mean by that?”
-The Demon Forest has been ruled by force for 400 years. On the surface, it was ruled by the five dragons called the Five Emperors and the two Lord Dragons, but that wasn’t exactly true.
Charlotte listened to Cell’s story in silence.
-There were at least ten dragons spread throughout the human world. So, those who were hostile to dragons had to be hostile to at least twenty dragons. So the Forest of Demons had no choice but to be dominated.
That’s right.
That was absolutely true.
-It doesn’t matter whether the dragons are fighting or not. It’s just their numbers that matter.
“okay?”
-And now that number has been reduced to less than half. And half of these dragons have followed me. A new class has been created.
Charlotte shook her head, wondering if it was complicated.
He just meant to get to the point, and Cell nodded.
-Why did the boss accept us?
“… … .”
-If it weren’t for the boss, I probably would’ve gone crazy in that lab and wouldn’t have been able to maintain my sanity. In fact, I’ve been having dreams about it sometimes lately.
Cell’s eyes become hazy.
-I couldn’t get out of that lab back then, and everything that happens now and in the future is all in my imagination. Could it be that all of this is actually a dream?
The cell was anxious and afraid.
What if this is really a dream?
Jack is actually something that only existed in my imagination, and so is Charlotte. Isn’t it possible that all of these things are just fantasies that only appear in my dreams?
That was, truly, fear itself.
Charlotte, who was looking at that cell, said nothing. Because she knew.
When Jack stayed at the cottage, Charlotte shared a bed with him.
We slept together, hugging each other, and did most things together.
Charlotte had seen many nights when she went to sleep, Cell had nightmares and woke up in a cold sweat.
There were even many times when I pretended not to be awake.
Cell said.
-We’re still young. Not too young. And we’ll outlive our boss.
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“… … .”
-And I will succeed the boss.
Cell pauses for a moment and looks at Charlotte.
-I don’t want a seat. I don’t want the forest of demons, I don’t want the top seat in the country that the boss will create, I don’t want anything.
“… … .”
Before he knew it, Cell’s palm had healed.
Cell sneakily reaches out and cuts his palm again, then pours blood into Charlotte’s mouth again.
-But I will learn. I will learn, explore, and pursue. Because I have to help the Boss’s children not go down the wrong path and work to make the world a better place.
“… … .”
-Boss, becoming the next world’s top. That’s what I want to do. It’s my dream.
Cell paused for a moment and added with a sly smile.
-The name of the royal family will probably be the ‘Milos Family’.
It wasn’t about saying the name of the kingdom.
Jack and Valentine.
Those two go well together.
Jack looked cool to any woman, and Valentine looked beautiful to any man.
It was only a matter of time before the two would come together, and those who watched them closely knew it all too well.
-I will take the Boss’s family, you will take the Demon’s Forest.
This was the key.
I have no complaints, and I’ll admit it, so let’s not blush over something like this.
It was a conversation that we were supposed to have had at some point, and it just happened now.
Charlotte asked in a worried tone.
“Can I do it?”
A natural smile appeared on Cell’s lips.
-I haven’t seen it myself, but you already did it.
“… … .”
-You took revenge before me.
Balactus Machiavelli was a dragon who toyed with Charlotte and Charlotte’s mother.
He was killed by Jack, but he was the one who gave orders to Balactus.
Luca Machiavelli.
His full name is Luca Zaniolo Andrea Machiavelli.
Charlotte killed him.
Whatever the method, Charlotte was the one who killed him.
A descendant of the once transcendent Readymain de Royale, a descendant of the Royal family that was thought to be extinct, returns to life and beheads one of the Five Emperors, signaling the return of the vampire royal family.
It was a symbol in itself, an anecdote, a chronicle.
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-What were you thinking at that time?
“what?”
-You risked your life. You knew there was a high chance you would die. But why did you do it?
Charlotte seemed to be troubled for a moment as she looked at Cell’s blank gaze.
Why did you do that?
It was simple.
“Because that’s what I wanted to do. Because I wanted to be meaningful to the vampires who were living miserably like my mother and I. Because I wanted to show them.”
There was silence for a moment.
Then Cell nods silently.
-The boss made us pieces of the future. I know what I have to do. I will learn to do it and I will work hard, but I can’t do it alone.
It seemed like a mere reiteration of what had been said earlier, but it sounded a little different to Charlotte, at least.
Jack clearly said it with his own mouth.
That Cell will succeed him.
But they say that cells can’t do it alone.
Well then, there is only one.
“Are you trying to compete?”
An inexplicable smile appeared on Cell’s lips.
-If we just call it competition, it can be misleading. We’re not going to fight bloody battles, so we should call it friendly competition.
Cell was saying that we should become a stimulus to each other.
It is an undeniable truth that Charlotte slew the Millennium Dragon.
However, even so, we cannot conclude that Charlotte is stronger than Cell.
I’m not talking about individual power, I’m talking about overall power.
Charlotte exploded Jinjo’s blood and single-handedly slew the Millennium Dragon.
Cell has completely subdued over seven dragons with the binding of mana.
If two people fight for their lives, there is a 100% chance that they will both perish.
What the two had to do was simple.
Cell increases his personal power to become the top of the world, and Charlotte takes control of the Forest of Demons and becomes the new ruler.
-We’re still young, so let’s learn more.
As Cell spoke like that, Charlotte lifted her arms with difficulty and searched her bosom.
Then he took out a ring and handed it to Cell.
Charlotte said at Cell’s look of “What is this?”
“He said that if I breathe mana into it, I’ll be instantly transported to where the boss is. The boss told me to give it to you.”
Sel nodded slightly and put the ring on his left index finger without hesitation.
Then he stands up from his seat.
-I hope we can always have a good relationship.
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Charlotte smiles slightly.
“Then I should call you unnie.”
Not a year has passed since then, and Charlotte is still 11 and Sel is 10.
Cell laughed.
-Look at what you do in the future.
Cell, who was walking like that, stops in front of the door for a moment and looks back.
-Get well soon and see you at the Academy.
The door closes.
Charlotte, who was lying in bed, also ended up laughing.
He never called me unnie again.
