209 – Confessions pouring in
Well, I thought to myself that this was a ridiculous story.
So I fully understood the silence.
Not surprisingly, his only daughter suddenly came to visit him after several years and announced that he was the progenitor of the family. Regardless of whether she is his biological daughter or not, it is not strange to treat her like a crazy person.
However, for some reason, Yuma, who knew the situation in advance, as well as Glenn, did not show any reaction.
He didn’t say anything, didn’t carefully choose his words, and the sound of his heart that could be felt through his skin was extremely quiet.
The only thing that’s making a fuss as if it’s going to explode at any moment is Lucia’s heart.
‘Why isn’t there any reaction?’
Lucia washed her face repeatedly to hide her flushed face. My face was so hot that I wanted to hide somewhere right away, but I couldn’t because I had already committed it.
‘Still, you’re my father, but shouldn’t you have spoken informally to me? No… I didn’t even draw my sword in the first place, so I shouldn’t have given you a straight face telling me not to…’
Belated regrets come rushing in. Lucia took a deep breath at the scenery seen between her fingers.
Glenn was glaring at Lucia with an extremely serious expression. He frowned and at the same time stroked his shaved beard. The golden eyes, despite their appearance, are filled with complex thoughts, and you can feel that they are having a lot of worries.
“…ha.”
“…”
“How is it that no one is surprised? There’s no reason to embarrass people.”
“…”
“Hey, at least say something, I said I’m Kylie… yo?”
“…”
“I am Kylie, the progenitor of Prien… yo.”
“Yuma.”
Glenn, who was silent for a while, looked for Yuma as was his habit. Usually, if there’s something you can’t do on your own, you can find Yuma. I heard that it was the same for his father and grandfather, so he didn’t find it strange at all that Glenn relied on Yuma even at such important moments.
“Did you know about this matter in advance?”
“No, I just received a one-sided notice a few days ago.”
“Then, can you truly believe Lucia’s claims?”
“No? You’re not an idiot. How can you believe it?”
“Yuma!”
Lucia got angry and glared at Yuma.
“Didn’t you believe it?”
“…Why do you think that?”
“You said, ‘No matter what the letter says, she’s a lady!’ That, huh?! Didn’t you completely believe me?”
“How does that happen?”
Yuma narrowed his eyes and stared at Lucia.
“It’s difficult to think about it arbitrarily. There was a detailed explanation in the letter about why my horn was cut in half, but that alone could be evidence that she is the warrior Kylie.”
“Bloody Yuma.”
“…In the past, there was definitely a time when people were called by such shameful names. As such, it is not difficult to find the relevant records if you search the literature.”
“The bounty on you is 190,000 gold…”
“…What kind of scum placed a bounty on me? This is the first time I’ve heard of such a thing…”
“Chairman of the Union. Kabram… What was it? It’s been so long I don’t remember.”
A flurry of bickering, non-stop conversation.
Glenn’s eyes widened as he watched their conversation without saying a word.
‘…Is this really true?’
Lucia is your ancestor. To be honest, it was such a far-fetched story that it was almost impossible to believe, but like the conversation taking place right in front of him, Glenn wasn’t completely without points.
‘perhaps.’
The power of prophecy passed down from generation to generation.
Glenn recalled his first meeting with Lucia.
One day, when I was returning from the Demonic Realm, a scene suddenly filled my vision.
The figure of a girl who looked exactly like him, who was sighing in an empty cabin. The kid looked just like Glenn. Perhaps, to the extent that it can be said to be a more natural child than Shiron, who watched the moment of birth…
As if possessed by something, he set out to find the child in the prophecy. It was reckless to search the continent with only fragmentary prophecies, but the girl’s future poured into Glenn’s head moment by moment.
And, the prophecy stopped the moment they arrived at a remote cabin in the countryside.
Lucia, holding the light, stands tall towards something that can only be called evil. The confident, youthful figure looked at Glenn with bright eyes.
-Who are you?
The child, who must have been ten years old, maintained a detached attitude toward the man he met for the first time. I couldn’t tell at the time if it was simply because he was an extraordinary child, or if it was because it had just been a while since the award was given…
‘perhaps…’
The more I thought about it, the more questions I had not paid attention to began to come together. Today, I felt as if a corner of my head that had been cloudy had cleared up.
Excellent military power despite not having Prien’s bloodline.
An unusually calm personality since childhood.
The boldness of not being scared even when he felt the demonic energy emanating from him.
And now, Lucia was talking about Yuma and the past as vividly as if she had experienced those times.
‘but…’
In the meantime, there was a question that could not be resolved.
‘Is it possible to be reborn with memories…?’
However, only a few seconds had passed since the question came to mind, Glenn immediately erased it. To be honest, the family’s power to see the future is not something that can be properly explained.
‘There are still so many things in the world that cannot be explained…’
This too is fate.
Glenn decided not to resist the great current. He didn’t know how to resist fate because he had always been like that. This was not a matter of Glenn being an idiot, but a matter of the way he lived.
After coming to a conclusion, Glenn jumped up from his seat. Lucia and Yuma’s eyes focus on Glenn. Glenn, who received the attention of both of them, slowly opened his mouth.
“Really. Are you… an ancestor?”
“Yes! I’m Kylie!”
Lucia answered vigorously. To be honest, I wasn’t sure if she would believe me, but it seemed like Glenn somehow believed what she said.
I didn’t think he was lying for his daughter, who had lost her temper. Because of the use of honorifics and his strangely cautious attitude, Glenn seemed like he really believed Lucia was Kylie.
“Yuma, I’m sorry for tricking you. I was Kylie.”
Lucia exhaled excitedly and glanced at Yuma. Yuma took a step back with his burning spirit.
“Are you really… Kylie?”
“What more do I have to prove here? We talked a lot. Or should I at least recreate the situation like when I cut off the horn?”
“…That’s it.”
Yuma took a step back from Lucia as if hiding the remaining horns. The situation was confusing and the same was true in her head, so she couldn’t readily accept the situation, but Yuma saw that Glenn Prien, who had a more calm personality than her, was convinced, and decided that it would not do any good to continue to have doubts.
Yuma grabbed his messy head and continued.
“It is said that there are unusual parts, but the true identity of the young lady is that warrior, Kylie. This really surprised me.”
“Yes! I should have believed it earlier!”
“But why are you revealing that now?”
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“…huh?”
“What happened? The lady’s true identity is Kylie… Revealing that she is Kylie’s reincarnation is quite a risky statement, but didn’t you come close to causing a fuss with the matriarch just now?”
“…it’s not my fault.”
“It’s not your fault. Aren’t you the one who heightened the tension by saying unnecessary things like telling me not to pull out my sword? Even though you say you’re a reincarnated person, you rudely spoke to the head of the family, who is your father in this life. Are you really going to say that you didn’t do anything wrong? “
“…”
Lucia kept her mouth shut as the beatings rained down on her.
“I’m sorry. I got caught up in the atmosphere for no reason…”
Lucia bowed her head towards Glenn. There was no trace of the hero who had dazzled himself 500 years ago.
‘Really… you’re the swordsman Kylie, a warrior and the greatest swordsman?’
Glenn distorted his face and looked down at the top of Lucia’s head. At best, he admitted that Lucia was the reincarnation of his great ancestor, but the feeling of wanting to cancel his decision began to creep in.
You may think it’s too much, but Glenn also grew up reading children’s books of our great ancestors as a child, so he had a faint yearning for it.
But you can’t pick up the words you spit out. I wondered what would have happened if he had denied it until the end, but Glenn decided to take responsibility for his remarks.
“You don’t have to be like that…”
And, Glenn had a new resolution. It was because I had an intuition that if it wasn’t for this place, I would have to bury it in my heart for the rest of my life. From the very beginning, when Glenn predicted his own death, he promised to release everything he had hidden from Lucia.
“Because you are not my daughter.”
“also…!”
Lucia clenched her fists and shouted.
“I knew it! You f*cking cheater!”
“Matriarch, what do you mean by that?”
“I’m sorry for tricking you, Yuma. But there was nothing I could do at the time.”
“…No, then… what the hell…”
Yuma couldn’t shake off his confusion as he held his head against the pouring betrayal.
However, that has nothing to do with Lucia.
Lucia, whose face was red due to her high blood pressure, even pointed her finger at her as if she had no intention of calming the confusion.
“You f*cking child kidnapper! You’re such a bastard! f*ck! Do you know how much I suffered because of that?”
“I’m sorry. But isn’t this also fate? I believe I led you to the place where your ancestors will be.”
“…what?”
How can you be so shameless? Lucia was very displeased with Glenn for justifying his actions without apologizing.
“Seo, Seonjo? You! Well said!”
Feelings of betrayal, anger, and soaring blood pressure. The resentment that had been building up in my heart eventually exploded.
“What about ancestors? I-I’ve never had any children!”
Slurp-
Yuma sat down on the floor.
