Grand Duke of the Heibern House

＜Episode 19＞

Knight Breeze’s red eyes trembled incessantly.

He had been fiddling with the dagger in his sleeve since the moment the archduke’s voice came out.

Kill him the moment he mentions Soene’s secret. That was her order.

However, completely different words flowed from the archduke’s mouth.

Suddenly, he pointed out the problem with the Heibern family’s diet.

The Archduke’s impassive voice echoed again.

“Not wanting to get up early, not wanting to train, wanting to take off cumbersome armor, wanting to rest without running… … A warrior with a sword is a life in which everything becomes impossible if self-control is broken from birth.”

The archduke’s eyes, looking at Dane, were infinitely sunken.

“Desire is such a scary thing. Being tamed by desire means eventually losing control. Such an unmanned person inevitably becomes indolent. Slowly, involuntarily. forget that indomitable lose faith I turn away from oaths and distance myself from commitments.”

The Archduke was scrutinizing them with piercing eyes.

“Look at those eyes, Dane. These are the eyes of those who surrendered themselves to desire. These are the eyes of those who have turned away from their beliefs. These are the eyes of those who have broken their oaths and those who have forgotten their morals.”

The handle of the dagger that Breeze was holding was crushed.

He bit his lip as he tried to resist the unbearable rage, the urge to attack him at any moment.

“Do you want to deny it? The red-eyed knight Breeze.”

okay! Wrong Archduke!

He woke up faster than anyone else and moved faster than anyone else!

did not rest I wasn’t lazy. He didn’t stop polishing his sword. I can tell anyone without hesitation that I forged my body without a break!

Looking at the red eyes burning so intensely, Ruin smiled.

“Your eyes look sad. Are you trying to protest that you haven’t stopped swinging your sword?”

“thoughtlessly… … !”

Ruin cut off Breeze’s words without hesitation.

“Then why? Why hasn’t your sword advanced an inch from that time?”

“What!”

“I trained my sword with more burning passion than anyone else, but my realm did not advance. I don’t know why. I don’t understand. No matter how much I think about it, I can’t find the problem. No, perhaps you have forgotten even this trouble.”

“… … .”

Brise’s eyes, which were full of heat, were cold.

The archduke’s words were fatal, but they were true.

In particular, the archduke’s last words, saying that he forgot to even worry about the sword.

The words were so cold and harsh that it was as if Breezé’s whole heart had been dissected.

“Since when did a knight’s lofty sword become possible only through physical training? Did you even forget that? A knight’s sword that does not grow together with the mind cannot advance even one step after all?”

Ruin took a fork with the fruit of Yericheni, which had been dressed with all sorts of incense.

“Your mind goes to these things instead. Something beautiful, something fragrant, something delicious, something soft, something comfortable.”

Took.

Ruin shakes off the fruit of Yericheni from the fork.

“A beautiful woman, expensive jewelry, a master swordsman, and a powerful horse.”

Ruin’s cold eyes slowly scan the knights again.

“Wealth, slavery, fertile land, troops, position, power.”

sh*t.

“Did you dare to wish for the level of a sword when your heart was full of such things, Knight Brise?”

As Breeze chewed his lips, he heard Nizen’s boisterous laugh.

“hahahaha! Ha ha ha ha!”

After bursting into laughter for a long time, he suddenly looked straight at Ruin with intense eyes shining.

“It’s hard to believe that a guy who has been bedridden for 10 years like a sick chicken has come back intact. It’s quite good.”

Ruin looked at his uncle and soon turned his head away.

In the history he knew, that man made only the worst possible choices.

“Wrong, Archduke. they are rewards It was a right that the knights who guarded the Hibern family’s fief should enjoy. It is the privilege of the ducal family to govern the territories, and it is the law of the nobility that has existed since ancient times.”

Ruin laughed and looked at Deash.

“Deash. That fillet is made from the lishery that fishermen hope to catch at least once in their lifetime. This stew is made with the meat of a rare northern breed of guckus. That reddish omelet is the egg of a volcanic bird.”

“… … huh.”

He only heard briefly, but Deache could immediately recognize that it was an expensive cooking ingredient.

“Would you like to eat it, Deash?”

Deache bit his lips finely and shook his head resolutely.

“No, brother. won’t eat I will go back and eat rye bread.”

Ruin looks at Deash with a most warm smile.

“Why are you not going to eat it?”

“If I don’t eat these dishes, they won’t be on my table after all.”

She looked at Marina, the maid of honor, who was bowing her head far away from the wall of the hall.

“I will ask the butler for the food I saved. Please raise Marina’s salary.”

Ruin made a surprised expression while trembling.

“I wonder why.”

“I just have to put up with delicious things, but with that I can win Marina’s heart. I want to make Marina my own person.”

“Yes. Marina will be moved enough to become your hands, feet, eyes and ears.”

“huh! That’s how nobles’ wealth is spent!”

Louin chuckled.

“Looking at the same dish, some say moderation, and some say it’s a privilege. It’s interesting, Hibern. The one who teaches wraps up his desire, and the one who learns rather vows to abstain.”

“dare! Do you have no top or bottom?”

Ruin laughed lowly as he looked at his uncle, whose terrifying eyes were shining as if he were going to draw his sword at any moment.

“hahahaha. I’m going crazy. Since when did the family go back like this?”

Moment.

Ruin’s eyes changed.

The look in his eyes was so overwhelming that Nizen, who was about to swear without dignity, swallowed his voice at once.

“Lord of Nizen Castle. The person in front of you is the grand duke who represents the authority in the absence of the family head. Do you dare to assert a hierarchy in front of this body?”

It was not wrong.

A situation in which the householder has not yet arrived.

According to Ga-yul, the person with the highest rank in this position was the Grand Duke.

However, as history proves, hierarchy without power is the fleeting courage of the weak.

It is history that even kings have been killed when their power is over.

“It’s funny. Talking about the grand duke’s hierarchy with just that kind of look and skill.”

A weak body that is not strange even if it collapses at any time.

A pitiful skill that cannot be felt.

I don’t know why that guy’s eyes are so annoying, but no matter how lofty chivalry he recites, it just sounds like sophistry.

Ruin’s intense eyes turned to the knights again.

“Look, Dane. Are they really unreachable?”

Dane followed his older brother’s gaze and carefully scanned the articles.

Brise, Aeger, Zodiac.

And my uncle Nizen in front of me.

Prominent knights who have been their idols since the old days.

But strangely, something seemed different.

Their realm was not as far-fetched as in the past.

It wasn’t information that was felt by speculation or keen momentum.

I couldn’t feel the strength that people themselves radiate from them.

Finally, Dane bent his head and looked at his brother.

And I quickly realized

It’s not that they’ve changed, it’s that their perspective has changed.

There was nothing overpowering about them like when they looked at their older brother.

“No bro. Time is only a matter of time, but they are all reachable someday.”

A calm voice followed.

“Those like that dare to speak of my skills.”

Dane laughed as if it were funny.

Even though he was infinitely skinny and didn’t feel a hint of envy, he was truly far away.

Like air that cannot be grasped with hands, like a god that exists in an invisible place, unlike them, everything about the older brother is vague and lofty.

Even if you polish your sword for the rest of your life, you can’t possibly follow it, and you can’t feel such a distant despair from them.

“That is strange. I can’t see what even I, who just reached 4 stars, can’t see.”

Louin shook his head thinly.

“The state of strength is not that simple. You can’t feel anything in the delusion of those who haven’t woken up.”

The clear criterion that distinguishes magic from sorcery is the spirit, not the level of hierarchy.

The level of the sword was not much different, so the Sword Saint always emphasized the purity of the spirit.

“… … Ho Ho.”

Soene, who had just watched everything without saying a word, was smiling dejectedly.

eventually realized.

that his plans had been off limits from the start.

It was ten years.

Until it grabs the hearts of children.

In order to monopolize the love of those children, he even killed his brother’s wife Lechea.

I played a motherhood that I didn’t even have in my heart.

I embraced and embraced her until the end even when she was hurt by immature childishness.

I lived my life calculating every expression and gesture, fearing that my harsh feelings would be discovered.

but… … .

As soon as I saw Deache, who appeared in a neat dress instead of a flashy dress, I had an ominous feeling that something was wrong.

And the moment I saw Dane’s changed eyes.

Instinctively, he realized that his plan to devour the family by putting him in front of him had failed.

‘The Archduke!’

I knew right away.

That the children of this family had been completely changed by the grand duke.

Soene was staring blankly at her sister, Nizen.

Then she shook her head quietly. Because I couldn’t do anything on my own.

finished.

Even if he succeeds in the plot, he cannot fully gather the hearts of the knights.

at that time.

Kazen, the flag bearer of the kingdom and the head of the Hibern family, was entering the hall.

He was not wearing a robe.

He did not wear a lion crown on his head, nor was he holding a golden lion lion in his hand.

What he was wearing and holding in his hand was a heavy armor and the patriarch’s sword, ‘Sahol’s Bravery’.

Shattered beams of light from the chandelier illuminated him.

Kazen, standing proudly with his red cloak flapping, was truly dazzling.

His wide eyes, like those of a lion, are slowly scanning the knights gathered in Bernheneum.

It was the knight that descended from heaven itself.

“… … .”

“… … .”

The knights stared blankly at the overwhelming figure, forgetting to even show their respect.

I forgot.

The Lion King, ruler of the Montdelilla Mountains.

A person who is honorable even if he does not cry out for glory.

A man who is brave even without raising his sword.

A knight higher than anyone else, Kazen, the standard bearer of the kingdom, was a hero cherished by all the knights of the Hibern family.

Goo Goo Goo Goo Goo-

The great hall shakes.

A wave of unimaginable gigantic speculation.

The overwhelming power that emanated from him was the lion’s roar that made the knight’s blood boil.

someone shed a tear

From some time ago, the Lion King did not come out of the splendid family room.

At first, I didn’t believe the rumors that he had become a disabled person or that he was in a state of mind.

But it was ten years.

The time when the knight’s faith and the values he pursued were fading away.

I was shaken by the absence of a hero.

With no back to look at on the battlefield, he despaired.

However, the moment I see him wearing armor and exuding speculation.

The heart that had been greedy for desire, the chivalry that had wavered weakly, all gradually gathered up and flew away to the far side.

chuck.

“Knight Breeze. I know the Lion King with a heart of infinite respect.”

Breeze gets down on one knee and lowers her head.

When tears flowed nonstop from his red eyes.

“Knight Mikado. I meet the Lion King with infinite respect.”

“Knight Aeger… … .”

“Knight Zodiac… … .”

fluff fluff.

The knights of Soene kneel one by one.

Ruin also stood up slowly, showing his respect with the courtesy of a grand duke.

Grand Duke Ruin standing on the right side of the head of the household and looking down on the knights together.

Soene, trembling without rest, like a person struck by evil.

Her sharp, cold eyes began to be colored with dark hatred.