Translated by Wook
Edited by Wook
Arrows fell like rain from the red sky.
Rena’s first feelings when she saw it were bewilderment.
‘All at once like this?’
‘Truly, the most determined father in the world.’ Rena looked at the arrows as they flew, admiring her father’s consistent attitude.
‘This will be difficult.’
It wasn’t suitable for Rena to break the arrows, however, there was no cover around to escape immediately.
Rena would rather shout out loud.
“Come here!”
As Rena shouted, and the dead nearby flocked together. Rena, who had deliberately drawn in the dead, flew beneath them, making the arrows savagely pierced the dead instead of Rena.
Rena thought of the dead as a shield.
‘Do you want to see my end here?’
Rena confirmed her father’s intentions and bit her lip. She then forcibly lifted her lips up and laughed.
‘If that’s the case, I’ll have to play along with you.’
***
The Marquis frowned as he watched Rena hide among the dead.
‘To use the dead as a shield.’
It’s a surprisingly daring act. It’s also only possible if one knew well about The Ones Who Swallowed the First Cry.
‘Her connection with the Southern Duke is a connection of comrades.’
A close relationship with the Southern Duke, and the talent for skillfully using The Ones Who Swallowed the First Cry.
Through these two things, the Marquis came to one conclusion: Rena was a veteran of the Silent War.
‘I wondered where she was and what she was doing…’
The Marquis was sad and bitter about his daughter’s history, which he finally learned. The daughter rolled a little on the battlefield and tried to eat her father.
‘I’m definitely going to see your end here.’
After that, he searched for Rena without letting go of his tension.
But it was not easy to find his daughter amidst the pouring rain of arrows and the cries of the dead.
Moreover, the moment he thought he had cleared the dead, the castle just vomited out more.
“Your Grace, more of them are coming!”
The lieutenant shouted to the Marquis, who was busy looking for Rena. As it turns out, more and more dead were climbing up the valley.
Their momentum could not be stopped with arrows alone. So the Marquis ordered the knights to advance.
While Rubid’s slash scratched the ground, the knights smashed through them and got entangled with the dead.
A fierce battle began, but the Marquis was still searching for Rena.
‘Where are you?’
The moment when the Southern Representative is alone in the Tomb will never come again. So now was the only chance for the Marquis.
‘Where are you…?’
A blue light shone in the Marquis’ sight as he looked around. Blue was the symbol of the South. Rena was in the uniform of the South.
At the moment, Rena was taking refuge in the valley teeming with the dead. It looked like she was injured from the fact that she was rushing while holding on to one arm.
The Marquis looked at the pitiful back for a moment, then muttered involuntarily.
“You will take the lead for a moment.”
“What do you mean?”
After discovering Rena, the Marquis handed over command to his lieutenant. The lieutenant asked with displeasure, but the Marquis did not withdraw his remarks.
“Some of you, follow me.”
Instead, he turned his head with a few knights.
It is impossible for a commander to leave their seat.
The Marquis should’ve known this, so he never handed over his work to his subordinates unless necessary. But he changed his mind when he saw Rena’s staggering back.
Instead of sending someone else, he thought he should see the end by himself.
He’d already entrusted it to someone else twice. First Clavis, then the butler.
Because of their poor performance, Rena is still alive, while he suffers from pain and humiliation.
.
.
.
As the battle in the valley intensified, Rena moved to the castle to avoid the fight.
At the time, Rena’s uniform was in tatters without a single spot intact. Just looking at the clothes, one could see that her body should not be in a good condition.
Meanwhile, Rena, who encountered the Marquis, looked at her father with a very perplexed expression.
“You look injured.”
“… It’s not a serious injury.”
To the Marquis’s question, Rena quietly answered. It was a voice full of vigilance.
They were on top of the ruined wall of the castle of the King Who Swallowed the First Cry.
Rena came up here to escape from the battlefield, and the Marquis ran after Rena along the ridge with Northern Knights.
As a result, the father and daughter turned away from the chaos under their feet and looked at their opponents silently.
“You look shabby compared to when you boast loudly that time.”
The first to speak was the Marquis.
To put it bluntly, Rena’s condition right now was so shabby.
After threatening to give him a chance to be forgiven, she insisted on being on the vanguard alone, and in the end, it turned out like this. He even wondered if this might be a trap.
When the Marquis looked at his lacking daughter with a stiff face, Rena covered her right shoulder and whispered.
“Are you going to kill me?”
“No.”
“Then…”
“It was the dead who killed you. “
The Marquis declared that, and glanced at the knights.
The knights who were more loyal to Ruber than the Northern Duke, or even than the Emperor, quietly dismounted. Then they drew their sword and slowly surrounded Rena.
As the knights narrowed the distance, Rena also raised her sword. However, she only rested her sword with her left hand, and for some reason did not lift her right hand.
Judging from the fact that she was grabbing her shoulder earlier, it must have been that she had injured her arm while entangled with the dead.
The Marquis looked at it for a while, then muttered quietly.
“Go at ease.”
Immediately, the knights rushed in.
One against many. Daggers against longswords. Moreover, Rena Ruber was injured. Just looking at this, the results were self-evident. However, Rena did quite a good job considering she was a wreck at the moment.
Rena managed to parry a knight’s sword as she rushed before she laid her back against the wall and called the Marquis.
“Father.”
The knights’ swords stopped for a moment at the call of father. But that was not what the Marquis wanted.
The Marquis was about to order the knights to continue, but Rena asked first.
“Won’t you regret this?”
“Regret what?”
“Will you really be okay if I die right in front of you?”
At the fleeting question, the Marquis narrowed his brows.
In the midst of this, she had a very detached attitude. The Marquis was confused, thinking was she just bluffing, or was she hiding something?
But in any case, he found Rena’s attitude unpleasant, so he dared to answer.
“It’s all your fault.”
“What did I do that was so wrong?”
“If you wanted to live, you shouldn’t have caught my eye.”
“You’re wrong, Father. I don’t want to just live.”
Rena shook her head. She then whispered to her father, who had a cold face.
“I want to exist. In the name you gave me, Rena Ruber.”
Rena’s calm voice made him a little convinced.
Rena is dangerous. Even excluding evidence of treason, that strange obsession alone is dangerous enough.
The Marquis knew very well what it would be like to have such an obsession.
“Finish it.”
The Marquis urged the knights to cut the buds.
At the decisive command of the Marquis, Rena smiled sadly. Then she suddenly shouted.
“Come here!”
At Rena’s cry, the nearby dead screamed and rushed in.
But the knights did not panic. This is the same technique that Rena used to dodge arrows earlier. There was no reason to be surprised.
The knights rushed right in with the intention of hitting Rena.
Then a sad smile spread across Rena’s lips.
Unfortunately for the Marquis, it wasn’t just the dead that Rena called.
Does Prince Rubid know that the Marquis has left the camp?
Even if he knew, he wouldn’t expect him to go into such a remote place.
And on the other side, the number of clashes significantly decreased because the knights and the dead were entangled in a fight.
So what will Prince Rubid, who has become idle, do?
He will hit the dead farther away.
Rena predicted it without difficulty, and it worked out very well.
Following the crowd of the dead, she saw Rubid’s slash flew in.
With a ping and a sharp pounding sound, the dead who rushed towards Rena were cut in half. And the wall on which Rena and the Marquis stood was also momentarily torn apart and tilted.
“Keugh!”
At the same time as their feet went off, the earth and sand came in. The knights were swept away in an instant, and the Marquis who was riding, managed to pull the reins.
But to no avail.
The horse turned over and threw the Marquis off. After falling from the saddle, a wide void opened in front of him. Next would be the fall, and the Marquis sensed death.
‘Why…’
A force of despair poured down. Then he felt his intestines being pulled upwards.
Now all that was left was the fall.
But the moment the full-fledged fall was about to begin, his body shook and stopped. Then he felt extreme pain in his shoulder and back.
“I’m sorry, you failed again.”
The Marquis didn’t even have time to check the situation as a calm voice could be heard above his head.
“To kill me, or to be forgiven.”
The Marquis raised his head. The first thing he saw was a hand holding his wrist. Behind him was Rena’s smiling face, and behind him was Rena’s opposite hand hanging from the wall.
Rena was holding on to the Marquis in a situation where it was difficult to even lift her own body.
The Marquis looked at Rena’s face and muttered without being too surprised.
“You didn’t hurt your arm.”
“I was joking around.”
” … Since when?”
“Maybe from the beginning?”
Rena’s voice was relaxed.
As soon as her father saw her, he threw arrows at her, so she pretended to be hurt for a moment. Otherwise, she thought it would be difficult to meet like this.
Rena’s prediction came true. She was both happy and sad.
“You’re not angry, aren you? You shouldn’t be.”
Rena asked with a smile as she looked at the silent Marquis. Then she added, as if to reassure him.
“I’m not angry either. It’s me who offered to give you a chance in the first place.”
Rena said so and pulled the Marquis.
She recoiled to lift her father up as if tossing him, and then she herself climbed the wall with a gentle movement.
Rena stood still and said to the Marquis, who had yet to get up.
“And I’ve said I won’t hurt you until the conquest of the Tomb is over.”
Won’t hurt you. I’m surrounded by bows and knives, but I’m going to leave it alone. She was cruel rather than generous.
There was no compassion in Rena’s mercy on him. She was just as cold as a Supreme Court judge who counts his sins while waiting for his time.
The Marquis looked at Rena, who smiled without any concern.
The situation was reversed, and his face turned pale a little, but he was still calm.
‘It’s true. You…’
In fact, from this event, the suspicion that remained on the other side of his mind was resolved, and he was rather relieved.
The young daughter who has returned from a timeless hell.
The child who endured the battlefield without any connection and was chosen by the Southern Duke.
Rena Ruber, who came back alive every time she deserved to die, tested her father by telling him to kill herself.
While the Marquis wanted to kill Rena, he was curious. How the hell did this child get here? What in the world did you believe in?
The Marquis finally realized the reality of what he had been curious about. It was as Clavis said.
‘You really are a monster.’
Rena Ruber returned as a monster. A monster so vicious enough to play with her father, who had become the Marquis, in her palm.
“What are you going to do now?”
Said the monster.
“Are you going to kill me?”
And she laughed.
Translated by Wook
Edited by Wook
Arrows fell like rain from the red sky.
Rena’s first feelings when she saw it were bewilderment.
‘All at once like this?’
‘Truly, the most determined father in the world.’ Rena looked at the arrows as they flew, admiring her father’s consistent attitude.
‘This will be difficult.’
It wasn’t suitable for Rena to break the arrows, however, there was no cover around to escape immediately.
Rena would rather shout out loud.
“Come here!”
As Rena shouted, and the dead nearby flocked together. Rena, who had deliberately drawn in the dead, flew beneath them, making the arrows savagely pierced the dead instead of Rena.
Rena thought of the dead as a shield.
‘Do you want to see my end here?’
Rena confirmed her father’s intentions and bit her lip. She then forcibly lifted her lips up and laughed.
‘If that’s the case, I’ll have to play along with you.’
***
The Marquis frowned as he watched Rena hide among the dead.
‘To use the dead as a shield.’
It’s a surprisingly daring act. It’s also only possible if one knew well about The Ones Who Swallowed the First Cry.
‘Her connection with the Southern Duke is a connection of comrades.’
A close relationship with the Southern Duke, and the talent for skillfully using The Ones Who Swallowed the First Cry.
Through these two things, the Marquis came to one conclusion: Rena was a veteran of the Silent War.
‘I wondered where she was and what she was doing…’
The Marquis was sad and bitter about his daughter’s history, which he finally learned. The daughter rolled a little on the battlefield and tried to eat her father.
‘I’m definitely going to see your end here.’
After that, he searched for Rena without letting go of his tension.
But it was not easy to find his daughter amidst the pouring rain of arrows and the cries of the dead.
Moreover, the moment he thought he had cleared the dead, the castle just vomited out more.
“Your Grace, more of them are coming!”
The lieutenant shouted to the Marquis, who was busy looking for Rena. As it turns out, more and more dead were climbing up the valley.
Their momentum could not be stopped with arrows alone. So the Marquis ordered the knights to advance.
While Rubid’s slash scratched the ground, the knights smashed through them and got entangled with the dead.
A fierce battle began, but the Marquis was still searching for Rena.
‘Where are you?’
The moment when the Southern Representative is alone in the Tomb will never come again. So now was the only chance for the Marquis.
‘Where are you…?’
A blue light shone in the Marquis’ sight as he looked around. Blue was the symbol of the South. Rena was in the uniform of the South.
At the moment, Rena was taking refuge in the valley teeming with the dead. It looked like she was injured from the fact that she was rushing while holding on to one arm.
The Marquis looked at the pitiful back for a moment, then muttered involuntarily.
“You will take the lead for a moment.”
“What do you mean?”
After discovering Rena, the Marquis handed over command to his lieutenant. The lieutenant asked with displeasure, but the Marquis did not withdraw his remarks.
“Some of you, follow me.”
Instead, he turned his head with a few knights.
It is impossible for a commander to leave their seat.
The Marquis should’ve known this, so he never handed over his work to his subordinates unless necessary. But he changed his mind when he saw Rena’s staggering back.
Instead of sending someone else, he thought he should see the end by himself.
He’d already entrusted it to someone else twice. First Clavis, then the butler.
Because of their poor performance, Rena is still alive, while he suffers from pain and humiliation.
.
.
.
As the battle in the valley intensified, Rena moved to the castle to avoid the fight.
At the time, Rena’s uniform was in tatters without a single spot intact. Just looking at the clothes, one could see that her body should not be in a good condition.
Meanwhile, Rena, who encountered the Marquis, looked at her father with a very perplexed expression.
“You look injured.”
“… It’s not a serious injury.”
To the Marquis’s question, Rena quietly answered. It was a voice full of vigilance.
They were on top of the ruined wall of the castle of the King Who Swallowed the First Cry.
Rena came up here to escape from the battlefield, and the Marquis ran after Rena along the ridge with Northern Knights.
As a result, the father and daughter turned away from the chaos under their feet and looked at their opponents silently.
“You look shabby compared to when you boast loudly that time.”
The first to speak was the Marquis.
To put it bluntly, Rena’s condition right now was so shabby.
After threatening to give him a chance to be forgiven, she insisted on being on the vanguard alone, and in the end, it turned out like this. He even wondered if this might be a trap.
When the Marquis looked at his lacking daughter with a stiff face, Rena covered her right shoulder and whispered.
“Are you going to kill me?”
“No.”
“Then…”
“It was the dead who killed you. “
The Marquis declared that, and glanced at the knights.
The knights who were more loyal to Ruber than the Northern Duke, or even than the Emperor, quietly dismounted. Then they drew their sword and slowly surrounded Rena.
As the knights narrowed the distance, Rena also raised her sword. However, she only rested her sword with her left hand, and for some reason did not lift her right hand.
Judging from the fact that she was grabbing her shoulder earlier, it must have been that she had injured her arm while entangled with the dead.
The Marquis looked at it for a while, then muttered quietly.
“Go at ease.”
Immediately, the knights rushed in.
One against many. Daggers against longswords. Moreover, Rena Ruber was injured. Just looking at this, the results were self-evident. However, Rena did quite a good job considering she was a wreck at the moment.
Rena managed to parry a knight’s sword as she rushed before she laid her back against the wall and called the Marquis.
“Father.”
The knights’ swords stopped for a moment at the call of father. But that was not what the Marquis wanted.
The Marquis was about to order the knights to continue, but Rena asked first.
“Won’t you regret this?”
“Regret what?”
“Will you really be okay if I die right in front of you?”
At the fleeting question, the Marquis narrowed his brows.
In the midst of this, she had a very detached attitude. The Marquis was confused, thinking was she just bluffing, or was she hiding something?
But in any case, he found Rena’s attitude unpleasant, so he dared to answer.
“It’s all your fault.”
“What did I do that was so wrong?”
“If you wanted to live, you shouldn’t have caught my eye.”
“You’re wrong, Father. I don’t want to just live.”
Rena shook her head. She then whispered to her father, who had a cold face.
“I want to exist. In the name you gave me, Rena Ruber.”
Rena’s calm voice made him a little convinced.
Rena is dangerous. Even excluding evidence of treason, that strange obsession alone is dangerous enough.
The Marquis knew very well what it would be like to have such an obsession.
“Finish it.”
The Marquis urged the knights to cut the buds.
At the decisive command of the Marquis, Rena smiled sadly. Then she suddenly shouted.
“Come here!”
At Rena’s cry, the nearby dead screamed and rushed in.
But the knights did not panic. This is the same technique that Rena used to dodge arrows earlier. There was no reason to be surprised.
The knights rushed right in with the intention of hitting Rena.
Then a sad smile spread across Rena’s lips.
Unfortunately for the Marquis, it wasn’t just the dead that Rena called.
Does Prince Rubid know that the Marquis has left the camp?
Even if he knew, he wouldn’t expect him to go into such a remote place.
And on the other side, the number of clashes significantly decreased because the knights and the dead were entangled in a fight.
So what will Prince Rubid, who has become idle, do?
He will hit the dead farther away.
Rena predicted it without difficulty, and it worked out very well.
Following the crowd of the dead, she saw Rubid’s slash flew in.
With a ping and a sharp pounding sound, the dead who rushed towards Rena were cut in half. And the wall on which Rena and the Marquis stood was also momentarily torn apart and tilted.
“Keugh!”
At the same time as their feet went off, the earth and sand came in. The knights were swept away in an instant, and the Marquis who was riding, managed to pull the reins.
But to no avail.
The horse turned over and threw the Marquis off. After falling from the saddle, a wide void opened in front of him. Next would be the fall, and the Marquis sensed death.
‘Why…’
A force of despair poured down. Then he felt his intestines being pulled upwards.
Now all that was left was the fall.
But the moment the full-fledged fall was about to begin, his body shook and stopped. Then he felt extreme pain in his shoulder and back.
“I’m sorry, you failed again.”
The Marquis didn’t even have time to check the situation as a calm voice could be heard above his head.
“To kill me, or to be forgiven.”
The Marquis raised his head. The first thing he saw was a hand holding his wrist. Behind him was Rena’s smiling face, and behind him was Rena’s opposite hand hanging from the wall.
Rena was holding on to the Marquis in a situation where it was difficult to even lift her own body.
The Marquis looked at Rena’s face and muttered without being too surprised.
“You didn’t hurt your arm.”
“I was joking around.”
” … Since when?”
“Maybe from the beginning?”
Rena’s voice was relaxed.
As soon as her father saw her, he threw arrows at her, so she pretended to be hurt for a moment. Otherwise, she thought it would be difficult to meet like this.
Rena’s prediction came true. She was both happy and sad.
“You’re not angry, aren you? You shouldn’t be.”
Rena asked with a smile as she looked at the silent Marquis. Then she added, as if to reassure him.
“I’m not angry either. It’s me who offered to give you a chance in the first place.”
Rena said so and pulled the Marquis.
She recoiled to lift her father up as if tossing him, and then she herself climbed the wall with a gentle movement.
Rena stood still and said to the Marquis, who had yet to get up.
“And I’ve said I won’t hurt you until the conquest of the Tomb is over.”
Won’t hurt you. I’m surrounded by bows and knives, but I’m going to leave it alone. She was cruel rather than generous.
There was no compassion in Rena’s mercy on him. She was just as cold as a Supreme Court judge who counts his sins while waiting for his time.
The Marquis looked at Rena, who smiled without any concern.
The situation was reversed, and his face turned pale a little, but he was still calm.
‘It’s true. You…’
In fact, from this event, the suspicion that remained on the other side of his mind was resolved, and he was rather relieved.
The young daughter who has returned from a timeless hell.
The child who endured the battlefield without any connection and was chosen by the Southern Duke.
Rena Ruber, who came back alive every time she deserved to die, tested her father by telling him to kill herself.
While the Marquis wanted to kill Rena, he was curious. How the hell did this child get here? What in the world did you believe in?
The Marquis finally realized the reality of what he had been curious about. It was as Clavis said.
‘You really are a monster.’
Rena Ruber returned as a monster. A monster so vicious enough to play with her father, who had become the Marquis, in her palm.
“What are you going to do now?”
Said the monster.
“Are you going to kill me?”
And she laughed.
