Oscar didn’t even look at my Dad. Instead, he just looked at me and said.
“You’re fine.”
Then he turned around.
“I will go.”
“W, wait! Wait a minute, Master!”
I jumped up and grabbed Oscar by the hem of his trousers.
“By any chance….”
“What?”
“No, by any chance, no, that’s right! You came because you were worried that I might die, right?”
“….”
Oscar didn’t answer, but I was sure!
What the hell is the reason to come into my house out of nowhere at this hour and see my face?
“W, what is it?”
Dad came over.
“Did you come to see if my princess is okay? Because my princess go to Jurgen today? Do you think she might have been hurt?”
“….”
“That too.”
Dad laughed dumbfoundedly and pointed to the watch right next to him.
“At eleven? At bedtime? Huh? Really? Is this real?”
“Excuse me.”
Oscar said, glaring at Dad, who was trying to make fun of him.
But Dad added without giving Oscar a chance to speak.
“No, if you are so worried about the child, come out of the Wizard Tower. Will you die if you roll instead of the children? Huh?”
“….”
Oscar twitched his eyebrows.
“Why should I go so far? What does that kid say!”
“What is it! She’s a precious princess who makes it possible for the Lord of the Wizard Tower, rumored to be a reclusive loner, to come out of the mage tower!”
“Argh, tsk.”
Oscar said nervously, scratching his head.
“Stop being silly and let’s take a good look at the kid. Unlike the Duke, who couldn’t solve the first equation even at the age of seven, the Duke’s daughter is a genius.”
“Of course, of course. My daughter is a genius, right?”
“If a genius dies quickly, isn’t it a national loss? And do you know how much effort I put into teaching you? What if he regretfully leave the world at this age?”
“Hey.”
Dad clapped his hands.
Then he said.
“You should have come running at 11 o’clock at night with wagging eyebrows, and just say that you came because you were worried. You say the same thing in such a nasty way.”
“What?”
“Ahahahaha!”
Dad smiled broadly and arranged Oscar’s disheveled hem in a friendly manner.
“What is it, get rid of your hand!”
Oscar coldly shook off Dad’s hand, but Dad grinned as if he liked the fact that he cared about me.
I liked it too, so I grabbed Oscar’s leg and rubbed it with my cheek.
“Wahaha! Master, thank you for your concern!”
“….”
Unlike when he treated my Dad, Oscar’s expression of looking at me was soft.
He smiled and pressed my head, and turned away.
“I got it. I will go back.”
“Ey, are you going right now?”
“O, oh, yeah. Since you came, there are many rooms in the house, so go sleep here. And eat together until tomorrow morning.”
Dad suggested it, but Oscar waved his hand and left.
My Dad, who stretched out his mouth, said to Rem, who was puzzled next to him, ‘Send him off.’
“Goodbye, Master!”
“Yeah.”
After all the fuss has passed.
Dad smiled and hugged me back to bed.
“It’s absurd to think about it again, really. At this hour.”
“Daddy, daddy!”
“Eung, princess.”
“You know~ Master is a really~good person.”
“Haha, is that so?”
“Mmhm! Didn’t Master tell me the other day that he would do whatever I ask for?”
“Really?”
“Yep! Anything! I have one wish ticket!”
I decided to use this opportunity to tell my Dad.
Ask Oscar to join the revolution!
“That’s why I told Master to hand over the wish ticket to Dad!”
“Eung?”
“So Dad, if you ever need Master’s help, go talk to him! Then he will listen to everything?”
“….”
Dad blinked his eyes a few times, then smiled.
“I see.”
“Wahaha! If you have a request, go to Master at any time and tell it! Understand?”
“Yes, I will.”
Dad smiled and kissed my cheek.
“Thank you, my princess.”
“Eung!”
Whoa. It was a day when a lot of things happened…
Fortunately, I seemed to be able to put down a handful of worries and fall asleep.
* * *
“Ugh…”
Early morning when the sun hasn’t even greeted yet.
Somehow, I felt empty next to me, and when I woke up, my Dad was gone.
‘Where is he? Ah.’
In a room with calm morning light.
Dad was standing in front of the mirror in a black uniform.
I got up quietly, rubbed my eyes, and looked at my Dad’s back. I saw my Dad’s face in the mirror.
‘Ah.’
Crying, distorted expression.
With his facial features distorted to hold back tears, the emotions my Dad felt now came to me like a wave.
Right before the memorial service.
Dad will be thinking of his dead comrades.
‘What should I do…’
Before returning to the Capital, I thought of my Dad, who suffered while thinking of life on the battlefield.
“The battlefield… It is a very, very terrible place.”
“The friend I greeted yesterday… Come back to me dead. I think as I bury him in the ground.”
“Who else will die tomorrow? How long can I survive…”
Even in my previous life, I had never actually experienced the horrors of a battlefield.
Maybe that’s why I thought it was too easy.
To save many people who must die. Also, in order to finally bring peace to this country.
I made the main character, my Dad, hold the sword again.
He tried to console me by saying that it was a choice for a greater cause.
‘I’m such a bad girl.’
It made me sad to see my Dad suffer so much.
“Daddy is scared.”
“I don’t want to make you live like me.”
And now, I could understand all of my Dad’s heart.
War is very, very terrible.
Even war with a legitimate justification for killing monsters involves so much sacrifice and suffering…
‘How I hate a war of aggression where innocent people have to be killed.’
I suddenly burst into tears and sobbed while looking at my Dad’s back.
“Princess?”
Hearing my cries, my Dad came running with startled eyes.
“What is it! My princess, what’s wrong? Did you have a ghost dream?”
“N, no… I think I feel sad because of Dad’s friends…”
“….”
“Dad, I’m sorry…”
Dad sat blankly, put me on his lap, and looked at me.
“Because I just wanted to come back to the Capital, so… So, Dad….”
“Princess.”
Dad smiled weakly and hugged me.
“No. Dad has no regrets. Our princess, princess’ friends… With Cheshire and the twins… Also, Aunt, Grandfather, and Uncles are all happy together.”
“….”
“And in order for our princess to remain happy and strong in the future, Dad has to do business here. It’s good that Dad is back. Really good. No.”
Dad smiled and wiped the tears from my eyes.
“Wherever I went with the princess would have been nice. So don’t be sorry.”
“….”
“Ey, stop crying. You should answer, right?”
“…E, eung. Okay.”
Even with my Dad’s consolation, I couldn’t hold back my tears.
I cried for a long time, and my Dad comforted me for a long time.
Tuk, tuk, tuk.
Outside, I could hear a few drops of rain starting to fall.
Even the sky seemed sad.
* * *
The imperial family, the memorial hall.
There were numerous coffins.
The survivors all wore black clothes that had lost their color, and swallowed their sorrow while paying silent tribute to the dead.
“Hiik…”
Enoch stared at the back of Nicholas, the sobbing Emperor.
He was sadder than anyone else.
He shed tears as he laid flowers on hundreds of coffins one by one.
Disgusting, fake tears…
“Hey, hey.”
Axion, who was standing next to him, was horrified and quietly whispered.
He turned around and looked puzzled.
“What’s this?”
“….”
Enoch then realized that he was not controlling his anger.
When he opened his hand, there were scratches on his palm. It’s because he can’t control his anger, and his nails are dug into his clenched fists.
“…Axion.”
“What?”
Enoch called him and looked at the emperor’s back again without saying a word.
An evil, infinitely strong man.
He used the Holy Beasts to meticulously organize this situation.
Even in the middle of the Capital, he summoned holy beasts to prevent danger directly, and calmed public sentiment that was almost agitated by emptying the troops—.
He praised Enoch, the commander who left the battlefield, for saving the child soldiers and Octavas.
The Emperor lost nothing in this incident.
As intended, only to Enoch.
He just clearly imprinted on him that he could hold and shake him at any time.
“I think of kill him.”
Enoch muttered.
At those words, Axion was taken aback.
Then he gently wrapped his head around it and said.
“…Let’s die knowing why.”
“….”
Enoch frowned.
“Not you.”
His chin pointed up somewhere.
The back of the emperor leaves the memorial hall.
“Oh.”
Axion, who had been looking at the place for a while, swallowed his saliva and said,
“… My superior must be really crazy this time.”
“If I succeed, I live; if I fail, I die.”
“….”
The voice was sincere.
Only then did Axion, realizing the seriousness, whisper while licking his dry lips.
“I, I know. Keep talking without subject and object.”
“If you don’t join, you live. Success or failure.”
“….”
“I’m not going to force you. Because you only have one life.”
“Yeah. I understand what you are talking about. But it’s too impulsive. Let’s think more…”
“No.”
Enoch’s eyes shone fiercely.
“Unconditionally, I must kill him.”
He had no time to think, no choice.
The emperor is Primera.
His daughter, Lilith, is also Primera.
There is a providence of power between Primera. It was for sure.
That’s why.
“If I don’t kill, I die.”
His one and only daughter.
Lilith.
To Enoch, she was the same as his life.
“Ha, you madman.”
Looking at Enoch’s determined eyes, Axion clicked his tongue and passed him as if he hadn’t heard.
Then he laid flowers in front of the coffin.
Enoch looked still at the back of Axion.
It’s greed.
He shouldn’t be forced to fight for his life.
So assuming the worst—.
In the end, imagining the end of having to hold the sword alone—.
He has to fight like that.
“Whoo.”
Axion, who had finished laying flowers, stood beside Enoch and placed his hand on his shoulder.
Then he said
“…Pavilion Empire Knights Ironclad Rule, Article 1 Paragraph 1.”
“….”
“I will not disobey the orders of my superiors.”
Enoch’s eyes narrowed.
“If I disobey, I will only die.”
Axion slightly tilted his head, met Enoch’s eyes, and smiled.
“What can I do? That’s what my superior says.”
“….”
“If you say so, I have to.”
Leaving those words behind, Axion left the memorial hall first.
“Haa.”
Enoch burst into laughter.
Oscar didn’t even look at my Dad. Instead, he just looked at me and said.
“You’re fine.”
Then he turned around.
“I will go.”
“W, wait! Wait a minute, Master!”
I jumped up and grabbed Oscar by the hem of his trousers.
“By any chance….”
“What?”
“No, by any chance, no, that’s right! You came because you were worried that I might die, right?”
“….”
Oscar didn’t answer, but I was sure!
What the hell is the reason to come into my house out of nowhere at this hour and see my face?
“W, what is it?”
Dad came over.
“Did you come to see if my princess is okay? Because my princess go to Jurgen today? Do you think she might have been hurt?”
“….”
“That too.”
Dad laughed dumbfoundedly and pointed to the watch right next to him.
“At eleven? At bedtime? Huh? Really? Is this real?”
“Excuse me.”
Oscar said, glaring at Dad, who was trying to make fun of him.
But Dad added without giving Oscar a chance to speak.
“No, if you are so worried about the child, come out of the Wizard Tower. Will you die if you roll instead of the children? Huh?”
“….”
Oscar twitched his eyebrows.
“Why should I go so far? What does that kid say!”
“What is it! She’s a precious princess who makes it possible for the Lord of the Wizard Tower, rumored to be a reclusive loner, to come out of the mage tower!”
“Argh, tsk.”
Oscar said nervously, scratching his head.
“Stop being silly and let’s take a good look at the kid. Unlike the Duke, who couldn’t solve the first equation even at the age of seven, the Duke’s daughter is a genius.”
“Of course, of course. My daughter is a genius, right?”
“If a genius dies quickly, isn’t it a national loss? And do you know how much effort I put into teaching you? What if he regretfully leave the world at this age?”
“Hey.”
Dad clapped his hands.
Then he said.
“You should have come running at 11 o’clock at night with wagging eyebrows, and just say that you came because you were worried. You say the same thing in such a nasty way.”
“What?”
“Ahahahaha!”
Dad smiled broadly and arranged Oscar’s disheveled hem in a friendly manner.
“What is it, get rid of your hand!”
Oscar coldly shook off Dad’s hand, but Dad grinned as if he liked the fact that he cared about me.
I liked it too, so I grabbed Oscar’s leg and rubbed it with my cheek.
“Wahaha! Master, thank you for your concern!”
“….”
Unlike when he treated my Dad, Oscar’s expression of looking at me was soft.
He smiled and pressed my head, and turned away.
“I got it. I will go back.”
“Ey, are you going right now?”
“O, oh, yeah. Since you came, there are many rooms in the house, so go sleep here. And eat together until tomorrow morning.”
Dad suggested it, but Oscar waved his hand and left.
My Dad, who stretched out his mouth, said to Rem, who was puzzled next to him, ‘Send him off.’
“Goodbye, Master!”
“Yeah.”
After all the fuss has passed.
Dad smiled and hugged me back to bed.
“It’s absurd to think about it again, really. At this hour.”
“Daddy, daddy!”
“Eung, princess.”
“You know~ Master is a really~good person.”
“Haha, is that so?”
“Mmhm! Didn’t Master tell me the other day that he would do whatever I ask for?”
“Really?”
“Yep! Anything! I have one wish ticket!”
I decided to use this opportunity to tell my Dad.
Ask Oscar to join the revolution!
“That’s why I told Master to hand over the wish ticket to Dad!”
“Eung?”
“So Dad, if you ever need Master’s help, go talk to him! Then he will listen to everything?”
“….”
Dad blinked his eyes a few times, then smiled.
“I see.”
“Wahaha! If you have a request, go to Master at any time and tell it! Understand?”
“Yes, I will.”
Dad smiled and kissed my cheek.
“Thank you, my princess.”
“Eung!”
Whoa. It was a day when a lot of things happened…
Fortunately, I seemed to be able to put down a handful of worries and fall asleep.
* * *
“Ugh…”
Early morning when the sun hasn’t even greeted yet.
Somehow, I felt empty next to me, and when I woke up, my Dad was gone.
‘Where is he? Ah.’
In a room with calm morning light.
Dad was standing in front of the mirror in a black uniform.
I got up quietly, rubbed my eyes, and looked at my Dad’s back. I saw my Dad’s face in the mirror.
‘Ah.’
Crying, distorted expression.
With his facial features distorted to hold back tears, the emotions my Dad felt now came to me like a wave.
Right before the memorial service.
Dad will be thinking of his dead comrades.
‘What should I do…’
Before returning to the Capital, I thought of my Dad, who suffered while thinking of life on the battlefield.
“The battlefield… It is a very, very terrible place.”
“The friend I greeted yesterday… Come back to me dead. I think as I bury him in the ground.”
“Who else will die tomorrow? How long can I survive…”
Even in my previous life, I had never actually experienced the horrors of a battlefield.
Maybe that’s why I thought it was too easy.
To save many people who must die. Also, in order to finally bring peace to this country.
I made the main character, my Dad, hold the sword again.
He tried to console me by saying that it was a choice for a greater cause.
‘I’m such a bad girl.’
It made me sad to see my Dad suffer so much.
“Daddy is scared.”
“I don’t want to make you live like me.”
And now, I could understand all of my Dad’s heart.
War is very, very terrible.
Even war with a legitimate justification for killing monsters involves so much sacrifice and suffering…
‘How I hate a war of aggression where innocent people have to be killed.’
I suddenly burst into tears and sobbed while looking at my Dad’s back.
“Princess?”
Hearing my cries, my Dad came running with startled eyes.
“What is it! My princess, what’s wrong? Did you have a ghost dream?”
“N, no… I think I feel sad because of Dad’s friends…”
“….”
“Dad, I’m sorry…”
Dad sat blankly, put me on his lap, and looked at me.
“Because I just wanted to come back to the Capital, so… So, Dad….”
“Princess.”
Dad smiled weakly and hugged me.
“No. Dad has no regrets. Our princess, princess’ friends… With Cheshire and the twins… Also, Aunt, Grandfather, and Uncles are all happy together.”
“….”
“And in order for our princess to remain happy and strong in the future, Dad has to do business here. It’s good that Dad is back. Really good. No.”
Dad smiled and wiped the tears from my eyes.
“Wherever I went with the princess would have been nice. So don’t be sorry.”
“….”
“Ey, stop crying. You should answer, right?”
“…E, eung. Okay.”
Even with my Dad’s consolation, I couldn’t hold back my tears.
I cried for a long time, and my Dad comforted me for a long time.
Tuk, tuk, tuk.
Outside, I could hear a few drops of rain starting to fall.
Even the sky seemed sad.
* * *
The imperial family, the memorial hall.
There were numerous coffins.
The survivors all wore black clothes that had lost their color, and swallowed their sorrow while paying silent tribute to the dead.
“Hiik…”
Enoch stared at the back of Nicholas, the sobbing Emperor.
He was sadder than anyone else.
He shed tears as he laid flowers on hundreds of coffins one by one.
Disgusting, fake tears…
“Hey, hey.”
Axion, who was standing next to him, was horrified and quietly whispered.
He turned around and looked puzzled.
“What’s this?”
“….”
Enoch then realized that he was not controlling his anger.
When he opened his hand, there were scratches on his palm. It’s because he can’t control his anger, and his nails are dug into his clenched fists.
“…Axion.”
“What?”
Enoch called him and looked at the emperor’s back again without saying a word.
An evil, infinitely strong man.
He used the Holy Beasts to meticulously organize this situation.
Even in the middle of the Capital, he summoned holy beasts to prevent danger directly, and calmed public sentiment that was almost agitated by emptying the troops—.
He praised Enoch, the commander who left the battlefield, for saving the child soldiers and Octavas.
The Emperor lost nothing in this incident.
As intended, only to Enoch.
He just clearly imprinted on him that he could hold and shake him at any time.
“I think of kill him.”
Enoch muttered.
At those words, Axion was taken aback.
Then he gently wrapped his head around it and said.
“…Let’s die knowing why.”
“….”
Enoch frowned.
“Not you.”
His chin pointed up somewhere.
The back of the emperor leaves the memorial hall.
“Oh.”
Axion, who had been looking at the place for a while, swallowed his saliva and said,
“… My superior must be really crazy this time.”
“If I succeed, I live; if I fail, I die.”
“….”
The voice was sincere.
Only then did Axion, realizing the seriousness, whisper while licking his dry lips.
“I, I know. Keep talking without subject and object.”
“If you don’t join, you live. Success or failure.”
“….”
“I’m not going to force you. Because you only have one life.”
“Yeah. I understand what you are talking about. But it’s too impulsive. Let’s think more…”
“No.”
Enoch’s eyes shone fiercely.
“Unconditionally, I must kill him.”
He had no time to think, no choice.
The emperor is Primera.
His daughter, Lilith, is also Primera.
There is a providence of power between Primera. It was for sure.
That’s why.
“If I don’t kill, I die.”
His one and only daughter.
Lilith.
To Enoch, she was the same as his life.
“Ha, you madman.”
Looking at Enoch’s determined eyes, Axion clicked his tongue and passed him as if he hadn’t heard.
Then he laid flowers in front of the coffin.
Enoch looked still at the back of Axion.
It’s greed.
He shouldn’t be forced to fight for his life.
So assuming the worst—.
In the end, imagining the end of having to hold the sword alone—.
He has to fight like that.
“Whoo.”
Axion, who had finished laying flowers, stood beside Enoch and placed his hand on his shoulder.
Then he said
“…Pavilion Empire Knights Ironclad Rule, Article 1 Paragraph 1.”
“….”
“I will not disobey the orders of my superiors.”
Enoch’s eyes narrowed.
“If I disobey, I will only die.”
Axion slightly tilted his head, met Enoch’s eyes, and smiled.
“What can I do? That’s what my superior says.”
“….”
“If you say so, I have to.”
Leaving those words behind, Axion left the memorial hall first.
“Haa.”
Enoch burst into laughter.
