Chapter 499 – Chapter 499 Between Family and Family
“Please! My daughter… Make sure my daughter never sets her foot here again!”
“Get up and talk. You’re not feeling well….”
I immediately tried to get him to his feet as I overheard the duke’s words.
I thought I’d hit you, but then I thought you’d suddenly get on your knees and ask me an unknown request….
Duke Peron stood up trembling with my support.
However, his posture was not different from when he was on his knees earlier.
He lowered his back and began to speak the lines from before once more.
“Please… Please don’t let her daughter come here….”
“Why are you asking me so suddenly….”
“I… A man who has failed at everything.”
The Duke kept his head down and continued speaking in a somber voice.
“As a leader, I couldn’t set the order of the world, and as a duke, I couldn’t protect the country.”
“….”
“Even the future of my people was bound because of my remaining life.”
Although Duke Peron’s physical talent lags behind others, his talent for managing the country was outstanding.
I could tell that without looking at the temperament window.
It was proof that Lena looked at him every time and still used the expression “The duke,” Not her father.
Lena was a woman who was smart enough to thoroughly distinguish between her public and private affairs.
Even in private, she did not use the title of father to the duke.
Her remarks were not just to show off.
It must be because Lena sincerely acknowledges Duke Feron as a duke.
And if it was the Duke of Peron, he would of course be aware of the current situation.
But what does this story have to do with the previous request?
“I… I have also failed as a parent. At least… I want to save at least my daughter!”
Lena certainly wouldn’t have revealed a single secret about our identity and ship to Duke Feron.
As a result, from the perspective of the Duke of Peron, Lena would have had no choice but to judge that she was sold to me, a human who had a close relationship with the demon king.
And who am I… You must have heard it through Lena.
“I misunderstood you at first. However… She listened to Lena and changed her mind. He thinks that a boy who has never laid eyes on a man must be of great character if he is so in love.”
Lena… For some reason, I have a sense of what conversation they had when I wasn’t there.
Uh… Well… I’m great.
I brainwashed myself like that and kept listening to the story.
“I’ll do anything for you if you want! If you bark like a dog, I will bark! No! You can take off your clothes in the street and crawl around like a pig! I can do it even if I ask people to cut their throats with my own hands!”
“….”
“Please… Please make my daughter happy, at least as a human being.”
I was able to learn quite a bit about Duke Peron through Lena’s dream.
What an outstanding personality and character he had….
But he was only human after all.
He was prepared to throw away everything he had accumulated so far if he could only protect his daughter.
And I have reached the end of the request I made earlier.
“Please… Don’t let my daughter come here again….”
“….”
Now I can understand exactly what you mean.
For the duke, Peron Castle was a prison camp for nobles.
The state became a prison camp for the people, and the castle became a prison camp for the nobles.
What if Lena comes back here?
From Duke Peron’s point of view, Lena’s being abandoned by a man is not enough, so it will look like she is falling into captivity.
In other words, Peron expressed his request not to abandon Lena in other words.
It’s a matter of course, but I will never abandon Lena in my life.
As I was thinking about how to answer because it was so obvious, Duke Peron misunderstood my silence and started talking to himself.
“If you want, I will listen to your servant for the rest of my life!”
“No. That….”
Wouldn’t it be better if it was a pretty female attendant? The older male attendant is a bit….
First of all, I knew what Duke Peron’s desperate heart was.
I have such an earnest request from Duke Peron….
“I’m sorry, but I’ll have to decline that request.”
“Ah… Big….”
Duke Peron held his heart for a moment, then exhaled and opened his mouth with difficulty.
“Hey, is it because I’m being too annoying? Mi, I’m sorry! Or was it the language that was the problem! If so, I….”
I stopped the duke and explained the reason.
“If I told Lena that request, I would lose face.”
“… What?”
“How can I tell Lena not to see the Duke for the rest of her life?”
Obviously that wasn’t what he meant, but in the end, nothing else.
From the point of view of Duke Peron, who did not know how to live safely on the ship, he thought that not seeing his daughter for the rest of his life would lead to a happy life.
‘What… There’s no way to explain that.’
While thinking so, I explained to Duke Peron.
“I don’t want to see Lena go all her life away from seeing her father. You will be sad.”
“It’s great… Big….”
The Duke of Peron cried at my words, then he grabbed my arm and started crying endlessly.
“Thank you… Thank you….”
“Then, rest for now. I’ll call Lena back. After all, you’d rather be with Lena than me.”
I calmed down the Duke of Peron and put him back on the bed, then left the Duke’s bedroom and started heading to Lena’s room.
As I headed to Lena’s room, I realized that the world was scary.
‘Lena or she is the Duke of Peron, but if only her existence was taken into account, she would have been a great person. Then, when people are swept away by the world, they end up ruined.’
No matter how great talent and great character, they were nothing more than ordinary human beings when they were swept up in the fight of the protagonists who twisted the world.
Nobles, royalty, and imperial families were all praised as great, but in the end, they were nothing more than servants of the chosen ones.
The world revolves around a chosen protagonist.
‘Well, it’s fortunate that I’m an exception….’
I began to feel grateful to Armonia for summoning me.
If it wasn’t for Armonia, I would have been nothing more than a maid like fine dust in the world I used to live in.
Thinking so, I had arrived at Lena’s room before I knew it.
I knocked on the door, and Lena quickly opened the door, looked at me, and let out a small sigh of relief.
She figured out what was worrying about her and immediately reassured her.
“Don’t worry too much. We didn’t fight or exchange strange words.”
“I apologize for arranging an uncomfortable meeting.”
“Ah, what….”
I gently hugged Lena, who was wearing her anxious face, and whispered in her ear.
“He is your father. Of course we should meet.”
“Master….”
After hugging like that, I looked at Lena and talked.
“Once the conversation is over. Take care of your father while you are here. But don’t think of it as if it’s the last. I can come back later.”
“Really… Thank you.”
Lena thanked me with a smile and tears at the same time.
It was sad to see it like this.
Lena’s appearance in a gorgeous coral-colored dress could be seen later.
And he was able to visit Peron Castle later.
But even so, she couldn’t help feeling that Lena had been taken away by the Duke of Peron for several days.
I made up my mind as I watched Lena staring at me with her smile gone.
“Lena.”
“Yes, Master.”
I looked at Lena and smiled at her.
“Free up time tonight.”
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Wow!
A bright light came out and the dark room began to shine brightly.
Lena and Beatrice began to admire the sight unfolding before their eyes.
“Hey, what is this!”
“… It’s really great.”
After the bright light swept the room once and subsided, the woman in the center of the light landed lightly on the floor and began to smile.
“How about it? Isn’t it pretty?”
White clothes and white hair.
Neither Lena nor Beatrice would have known who she was if they had not seen the scene unfolding before her eyes.
“Miss Viola… Could it be the power of the ether?”
“Yes! Right.”
The transformed Viola jumped up and started showing off her white outfit to the two of them.
The three of them talked about the transformation with the power of ether and blossomed into women’s conversations.
In particular, the one who was most interested in was Beatrice.
“I’m envious… I want to transform too!”
Beatrice had the same taste as Viola, and she was always watching the same cartoons.
As a result, he naturally envied Viola’s appearance.
“I’m sorry, Bea Beace…. I also asked Ether. They say no one but me can do it.”
“Hey….”
There will be no lies in those words.
Viola has no reason to lie like that….
Above all, Aether was wary of me, but she wasn’t wary of Lena and Beatrice.
If it was really possible to transform other people, Beatrice would have been able to transform too.
‘An inorganic guy with no gender covers people.’
Well, I had a lot of fun experiences because of that, so I didn’t get angry at all.
It was when the three women were talking about ether.
Viola, dressed in a white outfit, came up to me and started asking questions.
“Suho, but why are you here today?”
“Ah….”
At the same time as Viola’s question, Lena’s and Beatrice’s gazes began to turn to me.
Midnight.
The sun had set and disappeared for a long time, and outside the window there was a thick, cool darkness.
On one such night, I brought three people together.
Her duchess, whom Lena was looking after, would also sleep by her during this time, so she didn’t have to be by her side.
And Beatrice’s parents have also passed into the afterlife.
Viola had nothing to do in the first place, so she was on standby so that I could always meet her when I called.
It was none other than me who gathered the three people who had time left.
After avoiding Lena and Beatrice’s questioning eyes, I answered Viola first.
“I want to go for a walk together.”
“Aha!”
Viola began to smile brightly with sparkling eyes.
Viola will know what I mean by the walk.
But the two women who don’t know that….
“Are you talking about a walk? I will go out ahead and prepare refreshments.”
“Let’s go out quickly. I want to see the castle too.”
I started to stand up without any doubt about the word ‘walking’.
I looked at the two of them and smiled viciously before speaking to Viola.
“Come on, viola. Let’s go for a walk.”
And as soon as she heard me, Viola immediately fell to the ground in her arms, looked up at me and smiled brightly.
“Puppy~”
