Episode 553
My eyes met Daniel’s. A slight smile gradually appeared on Daniel’s previously expressionless face.
A wave occurs in Cell’s chest.
It was the same smile Jack had shown me the moment I first met him.
“great job.”
Eventually, a smile appeared on Cell’s lips. It was a truly beautiful smile.
Daniel remained silent. Cell rested her head on Daniel’s shoulder and closed her eyes.
Daniel remained still. He felt Cell’s body temperature and watched Cell close her eyes as if she was about to fall asleep.
For a while, Daniel stayed like that.
* * *
After spending a full two hours on the bench, Cell left the Sky Castle.
Daniel walks away from the bench, holding an empty glass. There are two men and women in front of the gate of the sky castle.
Jack and Valentine.
Daniel has a father and mother.
Among them, Jack, the father, asked Daniel with a meaningful smile.
“You’ve grown up quite a bit, haven’t you?”
“Is that so?”
“Is that so?”
Jack came over and lightly ruffled Daniel’s hair.
You punk.
“Do you like older women too?”
Daniel didn’t answer. He just smiled quietly and walked away.
Jack muttered, looking at her back.
It seems like older people are your taste.
He turned his head and spoke to Valentine.
“I wonder who that son is. That rascal.”
Jack reached out and hugged Valentine.
“What should we do?”
“what?”
“My son seems to resemble me, but shouldn’t we have another daughter who resembles you? … … Don’t you think so?”
It wasn’t Daniel who was angry, it was Jack.
Valentine chuckled and pushed away Jack who was clinging to him.
“Let me think about that. And.”
“and?”
“Don’t be so subtle about it.”
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That was when.
Daniel, who was walking ahead, turned his head and said.
“Father, mother.”
“Yeah, why? Should I give you some pocket money?”
Daniel shakes his head.
“I will enter the academy.”
Jack and Valentine’s bodies froze for a moment.
“I can’t be under the care of my father and mother forever, so I’m going to start becoming independent now.”
I would like this if it were original, but the situation has become a bit ambiguous.
“For the time being, maybe for quite some time, I would like to keep the name Milos hidden.”
I’ll go. Jack and Valentine swallowed their saliva at the same time and looked at each other. Someday. I really thought that a day like this would come someday.
But I never thought that day would come so soon.
Blood can’t lie.
At 14 years old, Daniel is overly mature and has been a mature person for a long time.
Jack asked.
“Since when?”
“Starting tomorrow.”
As I said before, I’m sure I’m mature, but I think this is a bit too much. Tomorrow.
“Isn’t it too fast?”
“Because there is no reason to delay.”
“Do you really think so?”
“Yes, at least I think so.”
Jack took a deep breath and approached Daniel.
“son.”
“Yes, father.”
Jack slowly squats down and looks up at Daniel. Those black eyes would have been creepy to anyone, but Daniel didn’t think so.
Jack’s eyes were full of love and affection, and Daniel could completely sense the worry between them.
At those eyes, Daniel felt his resolve grow stronger.
I turned my head and looked at my mother.
Valentine’s Day has always been noble.
But she’s my mother.
Daniel knew what his mother was thinking and what worries she always had.
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Daniel also knows that the basis of all these worries is love.
I received so much love. I received so much worry.
Now.
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It’s time to relieve yourself.
As a son.
As a child.
and.
As the crown prince.
“Are you sure you’re okay?”
Daniel was silent for a moment at Jack’s question.
Then he said in a calm tone.
“father.”
“Yeah. Tell me.”
“Father, have you ever had any regrets in your life?”
Jack burst out laughing.
“My dear son, will you spank me after a long time?”
Daniel didn’t laugh. The story of Jack and Valentine has already spread widely across the continent. There is no one who doesn’t know it.
Since it was a story that had been mentioned many times as an example in papers on regret and consequences and their causal relationship, Jack’s answer to Daniel’s question was simple.
Did.
I had so many regrets. And I had everything based on that.
Daniel said.
“So that I don’t have any regrets.”
“… … .”
“And for me too.”
Jack and Valentine looked at each other.
I don’t know what to say.
As I said before, 14 is an age where you can be quite frank and throw tantrums, but Daniel is already thinking about the future and ready to push himself.
I was so proud, but at the same time, I was worried.
This must be the heart of parents with children.
Valentine asked.
“So, have you decided on a name?”
Daniel looked at the glass in his hand for a moment.
This empty glass was filled with melon blended just a moment ago.
Coming up with a new name wasn’t difficult.
Because I’ve been thinking about it for a long time.
“Melon, I’ll have melon.”
Valentine’s expression changed strangely, and Jack burst out laughing.
“It’s not even melon, it’s melon? Was it too much to call it melon? Why? Why not make it a blended version of Seongdo?”
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Daniel turned around without saying a word. Jack approached Daniel. He was so cute that he couldn’t help but kiss him.
So I kissed Daniel on the cheek.
“Oh my. Who does our son take after to be so cheeky?”
Anyway, that day.
Daniel Milos entered the Academy under the name Melon.
Four years passed like that.
Chapter 3
Students at Milos Academy engage in a variety of activities.
It could be seen as a kind of club.
There are clubs and societies that study martial arts and new techniques from the Eastern Continent, such as swordsmanship clubs, magic clubs, and even societies and research groups that study martial arts and new techniques from the Eastern Continent.
The student newspaper was one of those clubs.
Graduation season is just around the corner.
Masnow, a journalist for the Continental Newspaper who recently became an advisor for the student newspaper, sat down in a chair and reminisced.
Nowadays, there is almost no one at Milos Academy who doesn’t know a student named ‘Meron’.
The subject that Massnow wanted to address was a student named Melon.
It’s a fundamental question.
What kind of student is Melon?
First of all, he finished all his courses at the top of his class since he was a freshman.
If it’s swordsmanship, … if it’s magic, it’s magic, if it’s military science, it’s military science, if it’s physics, it’s physics.
From smelting techniques to history and culture.
I have never missed the top spot in a single subject.
If all that was light, then of course there must also be darkness.
Masnow knew that what you see on the outside isn’t everything in this world.
So then what is the darkness of the student named Melon?
I asked the students.
What do you think about a guy named Melon?
A female student answered this question.
“Melon? What a man.”
“man?”
“Honestly, although we’re the same age, I guess I should say he’s mature. Compared to other kids his age, he’s just… … different.”
The female student who said that was blushing.
I asked the same question to the boy next to me. As if he had been waiting, the boy brought up a very interesting topic.
“At first, I thought Melon was a pseudonym.”
“alias?”
“Yes. Honestly, if you just look at her face, she’s really pretty. No matter how much the world has changed, if she has a face without a single blemish, anyone can tell that she’s from a wealthy family. Don’t you think so?”
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I agreed for now. I thought the story would progress that way.
The boy opened his mouth in a very combative manner, spitting out spit.
“The illegitimate child of a duke, or a marquis, or… …the illegitimate child of one of the many powerful families of the Eastern Continent… … That’s what I thought, but it turns out he wasn’t.”
“no?”
“Honestly, if a child from a house like that were to cause an accident under the Academy’s rules, it would either be hushed up or they would receive a very light punishment, but that wasn’t the case with Melon.”
This was it.
The man waited for this.
Light and darkness.
This is darkness. What exactly is the punishment we are talking about here? What is the causal relationship between this punishment and this punishment?
What kind of background does Melon have?
The boy said.
“I think it was when I was in my third year. I went to the northern region for an internship. On the way there, I met a beggar. None of the students in the academy paid any attention to the beggar, but Melon was the only one who approached him.”
“So what happened?”
“Well, we talked about it for a while.”
“What are you talking about?”
“What’s the big deal? There was a village of slash-and-burn farmers, and bandits came and raided it, and the bandits razed the village to the ground, and they fled… … That’s the story.”
“Is that all?”
“Could it be all of them? Those bandits were quite formidable bandits. Have you heard of them? The Chaeju of Paldangsan?”
The man’s eyes opened wide.
Paldangsan refers to the largest mountain in the northern region.
There was a time when a huge number of bandits swarmed that mountain.
Ma-ryong-chae, Suryong-chae, Bang-ryong-chae. And Myeol-seong-chae.
These four groups joined forces and grew in power centered around Paldangsan, but at one point, they all disappeared.
This was pretty top secret information. The reason wasn’t anything special.
First of all, the name of the Imperial Guardian Knights of the Milos Continent is Do-Gwan.
The first leader of the conduit, Ron Igrahel, retired five years ago and disappeared, and the second leader was the famous Thanos.
The Emperor’s Sword.
An iron-blooded swordsman who only listens to the Emperor’s orders and does not bow to anyone.
He is the strongest swordsman in the current Milos Empire, next to the Emperor.
It is known that the ones who conquered Paldangsan were Thanos and an unidentified man whose name was kept hidden.
But I never thought this story would come out of this student’s mouth.
“The instructors and the dean told me not to reveal anything about this to anyone until graduation. But since graduation is tomorrow, it’s okay to talk about it… right?”
The last words were said to a female student who was listening from the side.
The schoolgirl shrugs. It’s already an open secret within the academy.
And everyone who knows knows.
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If you exclude this man in front of you.
The man asked.
“So what happened?”
“That night, Melon left the accommodation.”
“Did you leave?”
“Yes. And a strong wind blew across Paldangsan Mountain that day.”
Masnow cut the student off.
“Did you know that Thanos, the leader of the Taoist temple, wiped out Paldangsan?”
“That’s true. But isn’t it known to the world that Thanos and ‘an unidentified man’ wiped it out together?”
Masnow nodded.
“That unidentified man is Melon.”
