Lynn had always been suspicious.
No, he didn’t accept it.
He only pretended to obey, but he did not believe all of the imperial proclamation that Nihil Gracia was chosen by God.
Because she was neither divine nor right.
He had already told Rena that the power given by the emperor is too bizarre to be called a blessing from God.
As Rena said, there is a curse behind the ability, so how is that a blessing?
Not only that, but if Nihil was really chosen by God, why would she trample other nations with that power?
Was only Grandis Gracia chosen by God and all the rest were just prey?
Can such a narrow-minded being really be called a God?
All were question marks that Lynn had kept secret since she was a boy.
But what he experienced at the Tomb yesterday ignited his old doubts.
‘The King with Many Hearts must have ruled over me yesterday.’
The king of the dead ruled and encouraged Lynn. And the sense of being by him was quite familiar to Lynn.
‘Why?’
Is it the king’s ability to dominate? Is that why he broke Lynn’s weaknesses?
Or, is there any other reason?
Lynn pondered and looked down at his desk. Above it were full of words and sentences scrawled with a quill pen earlier.
—Eastern Duke. Domination. The King with Many Hearts. Lustful tendencies.
—Southern Duke. Firefight. The King of Burning and Scorching.
—Northern Duke. Slash. It is not yet known who it corresponds to.
—Western Duke. Frailty. The King Who Swallowed the First Cry? The knight weakened by Clavis resembled Those Who Swallowed The First cry.
―What remains is The King Who Imprisoned the Lion and The Unforgiven King. What about them?
Lynn thought that the powers of the dukes of the Empire and the power of the dead were strangely similar. Although they don’t exactly match, they are quite similar in many respects.
Lynn bit his lip as he lit the desk with a flickering lamp.
‘If this is true…’
How many people are playing around?
And if the power of an empire really comes from the Tomb, then what does it mean to conquer the Tomb?
Lynn closed his eyes tightly, feeling a sense of incongruity.
Naja Aetherner’s appearance from the Tomb was still visible in his eyes.
He knew it in his head. The thing crawling up from the Tomb was once a human being. That they were still wandering around even after their life was over.
However, it was a completely different matter for an acquaintance to appear as the dead.
A biological mother who could not be loved. He thought she had disappeared after dying, but she still existed. There, in the Tomb ordered by the emperor to conquer.
Lynn couldn’t figure out what to do with what he saw. Should he tell them? Should he hide it?
He couldn’t make a hasty decision. It was dangerous. There was still so much he didn’t know.
‘Did Rena know?’
Lynn’s eyes, which were dyed scarlet, suddenly narrowed.
Rena Ruber. A lady who knows a lot about the Tomb.
Did the formidable lady really notice the doubts he felt in just a few days?
That can never happen. Rena must already know.
The truth that Lynn has not yet reached, alone, quietly.
Then what about Rena Ruber?
Lynn suddenly turned his upper body over and hit his head on the desk while thinking about Rena.
There was a thud as his forehead collided against the sleek wooden desk, but Lynn didn’t feel any pain. The sensation of shame heating up the nape of his neck was greater, and he couldn’t even feel the pain on his forehead.
One of the reasons Lynn suddenly harmed himself was agony.
He couldn’t stand the sense of shame as he recalled what he had committed against Rena in the Tomb.
So Lynn suffered for another long time with his forehead stuck on the desk.
Losing his mind and attacking Rena had already become a matter in the past. But nevertheless, it brought him down several times a day.
It wasn’t just that.
Lynn felt like his feet were being cut off when he met Naja Aetherner who appeared unannounced.
But in that distant moment, Rena held him. He felt like he was falling somewhere, but Rena stopped him.
He leaned helplessly, she hugged him silently, and she stroked his back.
The touch of that time came back again, and Lynn became even more troubled.
He continued to show his unsightly appearance. Because of this, Lynn didn’t know whether to apologize, thank, or feel embarrassed.
His embarrassment barely faded, but Lynn let out a long sigh. Then he got up and looked out the dark window.
Before he knew it, it was nighttime.
To him, night was time to meet Rena.
But today, he wasn’t sure about the meeting.
It was raining outside.
***
“You can’t go out for a walk tonight.”
Uni, who was already in bed, said to Rena, who was standing in front of the terrace.
Then, Rena, who was constantly looking at the sky, pretended.
“I was going to rest today anyway.”
“Really?”
“Of course.”
“Maybe you mean resting in Mr. Lynn’s arms…”
“Uni…”
“Yes, I know what you’re going to say next. Uni will be quiet.”
Uni covered her mouth with her hand in a cute way, and Rena looked at it and smiled weakly.
It was night. But Rena couldn’t go out to see Lynn. It was cloudy all day and it started raining in the evening.
The sound of rain was pouring all over the place. It was a calming sound that put people to sleep.
However, Rena did not give in to the lullaby-like sound of rain, and had been hanging around in front of the terrace.
Uni, who was watching her, asked softly.
“Are you sad?”
“Nope.”
“Really?”
“I’m worried that Mr. Lynn will show up.”
“So you think Mr. Lynn will appear in the rain?”
“Uni…”
As Rena called powerlessly, Uni grinned and rolled around the bed. It was a pleasure to be able to tease the young lady with Lynn as the subject matter.
“That’s right, you have to show that much sincerity. It’s not anyone else, but your fiance.”
“I’m not engaged yet.”
“I see. When are you going to do it?”
“We will start when the next expedition date is announced.”
The atmosphere is already ripe enough.
Although the Southern Duke’s response is a bit worrisome, other nobles will accept the development of the relationship between the Eastern Duke and the Southern Duke as if they had been waiting for it.
It will be very easy to move from then on. They don’t have to move as tactfully as they do now because they have the title of protecting their lover.
The North would criticize them as a mean match, but Rena and Lynn were in a situation where they were playing against the North, so it would have been rather pleasant.
Uni, who was nodding at Rena’s answer, suddenly asked a serious question.
“Then should I call Mr. Lynn ‘Master’?”
“Do you want to?”
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“No, not really.”
“Then you can just call him Mr. Lynn.”
Rena answered lightly and turned away from the terrace.
She didn’t want to give Uni an excuse to tease her anymore by hanging around.
Besides, it rained quite a bit. Rena didn’t think Lynn would come out, so she let go of her lingering feelings and lay on the bed.
When Rena came to the bed opposite, Uni hid in the blanket and chimed again.
“Still, I don’t think it should be ‘Mr. Lynn’. She’s my lady’s husband.”
“… Why is he already my husband?”
“According to tradition, I should go with ‘Master’.”
“No, go back to why he’s suddenly my husband…”
It was time for Uni to ignore her lady’s questions one after another in setting up a grand ambition.
With a strong wind, the door to the terrace rattled loudly.
Rainstorms poured into the room, and Uni jumped out of bed at the sudden disturbance.
“I will close it.”
Uni ran to the terrace without letting Rena get up. Then she pushed and closed the wide-open terrace glass door, and suddenly looked outside and muttered.
“Huh?”
“What is it?”
“It’s Mr. Lynn.”
“Don’t joke around.”
“It’s for real!”
Uni said that and beckoned Rena. Rena approached the terrace with half doubt. Then she opened her eyes wide in the direction Uni was pointing.
A man was standing in the wind and rain. It was a strange sight at first glance, but his unusually tall height and white face stood out even in the dark, so there was no such eerie atmosphere.
That was just how Lynn was, and to Rena, Lynn was either pretty, cute, or pitiful. And she felt overwhelmingly sorry that he was standing in the rain alone like that.
Rena was surprised and went out of the terrace ignoring the pouring rain.
“Mr. Lynn!”
She couldn’t make a loud noise, so she lowered her voice and called him. But, whether he heard the sound or whether he had been looking in that direction, Lynn immediately noticed Rena coming out.
The young man wet from the rain waved his hand. Rena was just amazed at the pitiful appearance.
She looked up at the sky for a moment and then jumped over the railing of the terrace.
However, when Rena jumped off the terrace, Lynn, who had been standing at a distance, suddenly ran like an arrow. Then, he stretched out his arms and received Rena, who came down from above.
As a result, Rena, who was held in Lynn’s arms, panicked once more.
“What are you doing?”
“I caught you because you fell…”
“I jumped off..”
“Ah.”
Lynn quickly accepted his own misunderstanding and lowered Rena to the ground.
Rena was dumbfounded, but she grabbed Lynn by his wrist and dragged him under the tree. Then, she asked while avoiding the rain with lush branches.
“What’s up?”
Lynn looked at Rena without saying a word. When he hesitated to answer, Rena asked again.
“It’s raining like this.”
“That’s why.”
“Pardon?”
“It’s raining, but I’m worried that you might come out.”
Lynn, who was desperate for an answer, was secretly relieved after coming up with a plausible excuse.
Actually, he came out vaguely wondering if he could meet Rena, but he couldn’t answer honestly because he thought it would look foolish or disgusting.
However, even this excuse seemed to be pathetic.
Rena looked at Lynn, who was wet from head to toe, in disbelief and sighed long.
“If you do this, I look so cowardly that I didn’t come out.”
“If you came out, you’d be all wet.””
“I’m already wet, because Mr. Lynn caught me.”
He caught her with both arms earlier, making Lynn’s drenched shirt wet even Rena’s pajamas.
Rena added as she tidied up her wet, clinging to body pajamas.
“But it’s a good thing you came.
“Because I kept waiting for you.”
After those few words, there was silence. Both were at a loss for words. The leaves couldn’t stop the rain, and they didn’t have anything to talk about in the midst of the rain falling like this.
“It’s raining so much.”
At Rena’s mumble, Lynn nodded his head. It was raining, but he came here so suddenly.
So he thought he should get going, but Rena said softly.
“If you’re okay with it, will you come in for a second?”
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Uni, who was more sincere than anyone else at making fun of Rena with Lynn, was rather deeply troubled by the sudden situation.
Lynn really appeared through the rain. What she said earlier was just a joke, but when Lynn showed up like that, she wondered what kind of trick he was making to her lady.
“Uni, could you bring me a towel?”
Rena, who came up to the terrace with Lynn, said. It wasn’t as much as Lynn, but Rena was quite drenched in the rain for a while.
Uni glanced at the moist man and woman, and soon brought a towel with a solemn face.
Lynn greeted with hesitation when the child who already knew his face brought him a towel.
“Hello.”
At that awkward greeting, Uni’s eyes became strangely fierce.
The child glared at Lynn with a complex and complicated expression, and then responded as if she had made up her mind.
“You really are here.”
Then she added with a little sense of defeat.
“Master…”
Lynn had always been suspicious.
No, he didn’t accept it.
He only pretended to obey, but he did not believe all of the imperial proclamation that Nihil Gracia was chosen by God.
Because she was neither divine nor right.
He had already told Rena that the power given by the emperor is too bizarre to be called a blessing from God.
As Rena said, there is a curse behind the ability, so how is that a blessing?
Not only that, but if Nihil was really chosen by God, why would she trample other nations with that power?
Was only Grandis Gracia chosen by God and all the rest were just prey?
Can such a narrow-minded being really be called a God?
All were question marks that Lynn had kept secret since she was a boy.
But what he experienced at the Tomb yesterday ignited his old doubts.
‘The King with Many Hearts must have ruled over me yesterday.’
The king of the dead ruled and encouraged Lynn. And the sense of being by him was quite familiar to Lynn.
‘Why?’
Is it the king’s ability to dominate? Is that why he broke Lynn’s weaknesses?
Or, is there any other reason?
Lynn pondered and looked down at his desk. Above it were full of words and sentences scrawled with a quill pen earlier.
—Eastern Duke. Domination. The King with Many Hearts. Lustful tendencies.
—Southern Duke. Firefight. The King of Burning and Scorching.
—Northern Duke. Slash. It is not yet known who it corresponds to.
—Western Duke. Frailty. The King Who Swallowed the First Cry? The knight weakened by Clavis resembled Those Who Swallowed The First cry.
―What remains is The King Who Imprisoned the Lion and The Unforgiven King. What about them?
Lynn thought that the powers of the dukes of the Empire and the power of the dead were strangely similar. Although they don’t exactly match, they are quite similar in many respects.
Lynn bit his lip as he lit the desk with a flickering lamp.
‘If this is true…’
How many people are playing around?
And if the power of an empire really comes from the Tomb, then what does it mean to conquer the Tomb?
Lynn closed his eyes tightly, feeling a sense of incongruity.
Naja Aetherner’s appearance from the Tomb was still visible in his eyes.
He knew it in his head. The thing crawling up from the Tomb was once a human being. That they were still wandering around even after their life was over.
However, it was a completely different matter for an acquaintance to appear as the dead.
A biological mother who could not be loved. He thought she had disappeared after dying, but she still existed. There, in the Tomb ordered by the emperor to conquer.
Lynn couldn’t figure out what to do with what he saw. Should he tell them? Should he hide it?
He couldn’t make a hasty decision. It was dangerous. There was still so much he didn’t know.
‘Did Rena know?’
Lynn’s eyes, which were dyed scarlet, suddenly narrowed.
Rena Ruber. A lady who knows a lot about the Tomb.
Did the formidable lady really notice the doubts he felt in just a few days?
That can never happen. Rena must already know.
The truth that Lynn has not yet reached, alone, quietly.
Then what about Rena Ruber?
Lynn suddenly turned his upper body over and hit his head on the desk while thinking about Rena.
There was a thud as his forehead collided against the sleek wooden desk, but Lynn didn’t feel any pain. The sensation of shame heating up the nape of his neck was greater, and he couldn’t even feel the pain on his forehead.
One of the reasons Lynn suddenly harmed himself was agony.
He couldn’t stand the sense of shame as he recalled what he had committed against Rena in the Tomb.
So Lynn suffered for another long time with his forehead stuck on the desk.
Losing his mind and attacking Rena had already become a matter in the past. But nevertheless, it brought him down several times a day.
It wasn’t just that.
Lynn felt like his feet were being cut off when he met Naja Aetherner who appeared unannounced.
But in that distant moment, Rena held him. He felt like he was falling somewhere, but Rena stopped him.
He leaned helplessly, she hugged him silently, and she stroked his back.
The touch of that time came back again, and Lynn became even more troubled.
He continued to show his unsightly appearance. Because of this, Lynn didn’t know whether to apologize, thank, or feel embarrassed.
His embarrassment barely faded, but Lynn let out a long sigh. Then he got up and looked out the dark window.
Before he knew it, it was nighttime.
To him, night was time to meet Rena.
But today, he wasn’t sure about the meeting.
It was raining outside.
***
“You can’t go out for a walk tonight.”
Uni, who was already in bed, said to Rena, who was standing in front of the terrace.
Then, Rena, who was constantly looking at the sky, pretended.
“I was going to rest today anyway.”
“Really?”
“Of course.”
“Maybe you mean resting in Mr. Lynn’s arms…”
“Uni…”
“Yes, I know what you’re going to say next. Uni will be quiet.”
Uni covered her mouth with her hand in a cute way, and Rena looked at it and smiled weakly.
It was night. But Rena couldn’t go out to see Lynn. It was cloudy all day and it started raining in the evening.
The sound of rain was pouring all over the place. It was a calming sound that put people to sleep.
However, Rena did not give in to the lullaby-like sound of rain, and had been hanging around in front of the terrace.
Uni, who was watching her, asked softly.
“Are you sad?”
“Nope.”
“Really?”
“I’m worried that Mr. Lynn will show up.”
“So you think Mr. Lynn will appear in the rain?”
“Uni…”
As Rena called powerlessly, Uni grinned and rolled around the bed. It was a pleasure to be able to tease the young lady with Lynn as the subject matter.
“That’s right, you have to show that much sincerity. It’s not anyone else, but your fiance.”
“I’m not engaged yet.”
“I see. When are you going to do it?”
“We will start when the next expedition date is announced.”
The atmosphere is already ripe enough.
Although the Southern Duke’s response is a bit worrisome, other nobles will accept the development of the relationship between the Eastern Duke and the Southern Duke as if they had been waiting for it.
It will be very easy to move from then on. They don’t have to move as tactfully as they do now because they have the title of protecting their lover.
The North would criticize them as a mean match, but Rena and Lynn were in a situation where they were playing against the North, so it would have been rather pleasant.
Uni, who was nodding at Rena’s answer, suddenly asked a serious question.
“Then should I call Mr. Lynn ‘Master’?”
“Do you want to?”
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“No, not really.”
“Then you can just call him Mr. Lynn.”
Rena answered lightly and turned away from the terrace.
She didn’t want to give Uni an excuse to tease her anymore by hanging around.
Besides, it rained quite a bit. Rena didn’t think Lynn would come out, so she let go of her lingering feelings and lay on the bed.
When Rena came to the bed opposite, Uni hid in the blanket and chimed again.
“Still, I don’t think it should be ‘Mr. Lynn’. She’s my lady’s husband.”
“… Why is he already my husband?”
“According to tradition, I should go with ‘Master’.”
“No, go back to why he’s suddenly my husband…”
It was time for Uni to ignore her lady’s questions one after another in setting up a grand ambition.
With a strong wind, the door to the terrace rattled loudly.
Rainstorms poured into the room, and Uni jumped out of bed at the sudden disturbance.
“I will close it.”
Uni ran to the terrace without letting Rena get up. Then she pushed and closed the wide-open terrace glass door, and suddenly looked outside and muttered.
“Huh?”
“What is it?”
“It’s Mr. Lynn.”
“Don’t joke around.”
“It’s for real!”
Uni said that and beckoned Rena. Rena approached the terrace with half doubt. Then she opened her eyes wide in the direction Uni was pointing.
A man was standing in the wind and rain. It was a strange sight at first glance, but his unusually tall height and white face stood out even in the dark, so there was no such eerie atmosphere.
That was just how Lynn was, and to Rena, Lynn was either pretty, cute, or pitiful. And she felt overwhelmingly sorry that he was standing in the rain alone like that.
Rena was surprised and went out of the terrace ignoring the pouring rain.
“Mr. Lynn!”
She couldn’t make a loud noise, so she lowered her voice and called him. But, whether he heard the sound or whether he had been looking in that direction, Lynn immediately noticed Rena coming out.
The young man wet from the rain waved his hand. Rena was just amazed at the pitiful appearance.
She looked up at the sky for a moment and then jumped over the railing of the terrace.
However, when Rena jumped off the terrace, Lynn, who had been standing at a distance, suddenly ran like an arrow. Then, he stretched out his arms and received Rena, who came down from above.
As a result, Rena, who was held in Lynn’s arms, panicked once more.
“What are you doing?”
“I caught you because you fell…”
“I jumped off..”
“Ah.”
Lynn quickly accepted his own misunderstanding and lowered Rena to the ground.
Rena was dumbfounded, but she grabbed Lynn by his wrist and dragged him under the tree. Then, she asked while avoiding the rain with lush branches.
“What’s up?”
Lynn looked at Rena without saying a word. When he hesitated to answer, Rena asked again.
“It’s raining like this.”
“That’s why.”
“Pardon?”
“It’s raining, but I’m worried that you might come out.”
Lynn, who was desperate for an answer, was secretly relieved after coming up with a plausible excuse.
Actually, he came out vaguely wondering if he could meet Rena, but he couldn’t answer honestly because he thought it would look foolish or disgusting.
However, even this excuse seemed to be pathetic.
Rena looked at Lynn, who was wet from head to toe, in disbelief and sighed long.
“If you do this, I look so cowardly that I didn’t come out.”
“If you came out, you’d be all wet.””
“I’m already wet, because Mr. Lynn caught me.”
He caught her with both arms earlier, making Lynn’s drenched shirt wet even Rena’s pajamas.
Rena added as she tidied up her wet, clinging to body pajamas.
“But it’s a good thing you came.
“Because I kept waiting for you.”
After those few words, there was silence. Both were at a loss for words. The leaves couldn’t stop the rain, and they didn’t have anything to talk about in the midst of the rain falling like this.
“It’s raining so much.”
At Rena’s mumble, Lynn nodded his head. It was raining, but he came here so suddenly.
So he thought he should get going, but Rena said softly.
“If you’re okay with it, will you come in for a second?”
.
.
.
Uni, who was more sincere than anyone else at making fun of Rena with Lynn, was rather deeply troubled by the sudden situation.
Lynn really appeared through the rain. What she said earlier was just a joke, but when Lynn showed up like that, she wondered what kind of trick he was making to her lady.
“Uni, could you bring me a towel?”
Rena, who came up to the terrace with Lynn, said. It wasn’t as much as Lynn, but Rena was quite drenched in the rain for a while.
Uni glanced at the moist man and woman, and soon brought a towel with a solemn face.
Lynn greeted with hesitation when the child who already knew his face brought him a towel.
“Hello.”
At that awkward greeting, Uni’s eyes became strangely fierce.
The child glared at Lynn with a complex and complicated expression, and then responded as if she had made up her mind.
“You really are here.”
Then she added with a little sense of defeat.
“Master…”
