Dear My Knight

1. Ed Glead – (5)

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Siraksarak.

Buck and go.

The sound of each footstep echoed in the hall, albeit a little.

The people of the Gleard family, including the retainers, stand up one by one and begin to leave the Gleard Hall.

“My offer is still valid.”

As if passing by Ed, Azelan opened his mouth so that only Ed could hear it, but Ed, as always, spoke formally and did not show any particular emotion.

Azelan, who had been looking at Ed like that for a moment, slightly frowned at her, but for a moment, Azelan moved her steps out of her hall and disappeared from her hall.

Ed stood up from his seat and greeted the departure of the main vassal of the Glead family, expressing formal courtesy, then turned to the two remaining people in the Gleaard Hall after everyone had left.

Ashera was looking at Aizen with a calm gaze, and Aizen was just sitting in her seat with an expression that made it hard to read her emotions.

“Stop, take a seat.”

“Yes.”

At the same time Ed took a seat near them, Aizen’s mana began to fill the Glade Hall as if it were taking over. It was completely cut off from the outside world with the Glade Hall as the boundary.

‘This is the realm of a master….’

Edgar, feeling Aizen’s mana encompassing the entire space, exclaimed inwardly.

Aizen uses mana as naturally as he breathes. It felt even more unusual from the moment he realized a small clue about the use of mana not too long ago.

Aizen, who kept his eyes on Ed for a moment, turned her head to Ashera.

“Yes, Asherah, do you have anything to say to me?”

Before answering Aizen’s words, Ashera glanced at Ed. Then she turned her gaze again.

Ed’s eyes met Ashera’s for a fleeting moment, but Ed read the meaning of that gaze.

‘Don’t say anything.’

Since Ashera continued to speak in defense of her during the discussion, she was able to withstand Aizen’s momentum throughout her discussion.

If she thinks about it now, she wondered if she gave the right answer during the discussion. Even that was questionable, but Ashera continued her words every time, so she seemed to pass without any major problems.

“… I’m sure she must have been upset with her grandfather for doing it without consulting her. But he thought yesterday was the right time, so Ed took action.”

And I could understand it by listening to Asherah’s words that followed.

Ashera’s words to me yesterday were different from his teacher, Aizen.

“I don’t blame him for killing Gora. In the first place, Goa was a guy who didn’t matter much to me no matter when he died.”

Aizen’s cold voice, which felt cold because he was unkind, continued.

“That’s why I don’t understand. The Ashera I know, you are not the kind of person who commits and sees things like that. I don’t understand why you acted so hastily.”

I was stabbed in the chest when I heard it.

Because of her own actions, the one who is now being questioned by Aizen is Ashera, not herself.

Aizen seemed to already know that I was moved by Ashera’s words, even if he didn’t listen.

But he didn’t think much deeper and took action right away.

In accordance with Ashera’s words just mentioning Glead, ‘Can it be done or not?’ Her own impatience as she moved while thinking only of that seemed to stab her heart again and again.

Ed, who had been looking at Ashera for a while, looked at her as if she was okay. It was only then that she realized how rash she had been in what she had done yesterday.

“Ed.”

When Asherah’s beautiful voice calls her own name, she naturally becomes nervous.

“Yes. Lady Asherah.”

In order not to fall for Ashera herself, not to be enamored with her beauty, she answers with a different tension than when she confronted Aizen’s terrifying force.

“Did you feel anything by killing Gorea?”

Ashera’s questioning was as if she was asking if she had seen the cruel look of the woman she found near the moment she killed Goa.

And doesn’t she feel anything else? It was as if she was asking me that.

‘What I felt.’

It was said that in the Gleadra family, someone like Goa should not be her successor.

She still had no idea that she was fit to be the heir to the Glead family, but at least she couldn’t pass on this huge family line to someone less than a human like Gore.

“She felt she was not the right person for the Glead family.”

“Now… Ed, I’m satisfied that you said that much.”

In response to Ed’s answer, Ashera smiled brightly, and Ed faced him with trembling eyes.

“Gorea, Beuldian, and Azelan formed their own factions regarding the succession of the Glead family.”

Asera slowly recited her lineage. She looked back at Aizen with a straight gaze.

“And in my opinion, none of them are fit to be the heirs of House Glead.”

Ed stared blankly at her, surprised by Ashera’s words that continued with her confident tone.

Now, this seat was in front of Aizen, not anyone else.

In front of Aizen, Asherah had delivered words that denied them all without wavering.

“Hmm.”

Aizen’s expression is still hard to read. She was just looking at Ashera with a subtle expression on her face.

And Ashera’s expression, facing Aizen calmly, had something resolute, and she had something like momentum that was hard to match.

She couldn’t say anything herself.

And she even heard such a question, is it because she is confident that she is now in this position.

She had just heard yesterday for the first time from her master asking if she would be interested in becoming her successor.

And Ashera’s words of denying all of them, who formed a faction over her successor today, came as another shock to herself.

‘Alternatively….’

Although I knew that I had bad feelings for them. Even so, Glead proudly uttered the words denying them all in front of Aizen, the highest authority.

“Personally, I inherited the blood of Glaad. It’s just that I can’t understand that there are vassals following them.”

“Is that so?”

Ashera’s words that speak shocking things. Aizen, who accepted the words with no sign of anything else, just looked at Ashera and waited for her next words.

“… ….”

“… ….”

Inside the Glade Hall, where tension lingers.

Ashera, who stopped her words abruptly, turned her head towards her Ed.

She catches her breath as if choosing her words for a moment. She continues her words slowly, looking directly at her Ed.

It’s as if someone here is telling you not to listen to this at all. I said it with confidence in my tone.

“So, to make you, Ed, and no one else, the heir to the Gleades family. I have been thinking about it for a long time.”

“Miss Ashera!?”

“I think it has to be you, Ed.”

“If not them then someone else….”

“Ed. Excluding them, the only ones given the surname Glead are you and me?”

Asera looked at the surprised Ed and smiled calmly, giving off a strange atmosphere.

The Glead family, who made many servants and other families in the north their vassals.

However, the number of people who were given the name of Gleard there did not even reach double digits.

And it was not easy to inherit a family name by marrying them and forming a family relationship.

Imperial blue shield, Aisen Glade.

He had only one child and only passed on the surname of Glead to him.

And Aizen’s son and former head of the family, Arzen Glaad.

He had four children before he died of illness.

The eldest son Gorah, the second son Beuldian, the third daughter Ashera, and the third son Agelan.

Currently, among those who inherited Glaad’s blood, there were only 4 people who were newly given the surname of Glaad.

Direct descendant.

Glead’s last name, which is said to be given only to those who inherit Glaad’s blood.

And the power it possesses.

That’s why it’s hard to tell anyone who knows the inner circumstances of Glaad how much resistance there was when Aisen Glad gave Ed the last name of Glead.

Eisen Glade Something that would never have happened without him.

“But… Then, even more so, Lady Ashera, not me. Don’t you have a lady?”

“For me, Gleard gave up his position as his successor long ago. Ed, don’t you already know?”

“But, if I reversed it even now….”

Acera looked at Ed with strange enthusiasm as he continued to speak urgently.

As if somehow it was difficult to accept the reality, Ed continued to speak urgently.

Looking at that figure, Ashera looked rather happy.

As if he had been wishing for this to happen over and over again.

Ashera, who was watching Ed talking nonsense, smiled and licked her lips.

“Ed. Wasn’t someone given the surname of Gleard shortly after I gave up the succession of the heir?”

Is ‘someone’ in Ashera referring to someone?

Ed He couldn’t help but realize the moment he heard it.

The endowment of the surname Glaad was carried out in the face of numerous objections.

The excessive favor that was suddenly given to Aizen, who was just looking at him as if he had been abandoned even though he brought him.

Received the surname Glaad.

It was after that that the assassination attempts against himself that disappeared after that and the openly discriminatory attitude towards himself decreased.

How can you forget yourself?

An orphan with no parents.

A child whose talent is insignificant.

Aizen’s choice for such an insignificant commoner.

In the past, even the existence of an assassin who continued to threaten him every few days, even when he was asleep.

His own life, where he had no choice but to endure all sorts of insults and continue to persevere.

But everything changed when she was given the last name of Gleard.

With the exception of those from the Gleard family, who were in the direct line, no one could ignore them, and openly discriminatory attitudes had virtually disappeared compared to what they had experienced before.

Then suddenly. The figure of Ashera, who was looking at herself with her smile, caught her eyes.

The truth is that the favor she suddenly gave herself.

That wasn’t Aizen’s will.

All of that.

‘… No way.’

“The fact that I was given the castle of Glead. Perhaps even that was what Lady Ashera intended…….”

“My grandfather always respected my wishes. No matter what kind of request it is.”