I Am the Madman of This Family

Episode 3. I guess it just happened

Preparations for the fight with the queen went more smoothly than expected. It was thanks to his subordinate Maknun.

“My older brother said that fighting the queen was not for Sephira’s sake, but the external cause is revenge for the Sephira family. That’s a good picture. There will definitely be helpers.”

Keter also began honing his new skills to kill the Queen.

The skills learned and learned in liqueur were all in raw form. Although excellent at killing humans, it was unsuitable for fighting a divine being, the Queen.

As a skill to confront the queen, Keter chose archery. An inheritance left by Basil, the head of Sephira and his father. It was because of Sephira’s secret archery, the zodiacal zodiac.

Archery is the first Keter to learn, but it didn’t take long to learn. In the first place, it was because he was also a master of throwing, and above all, Keter’s talent for combat was unmatched.

Keter did not train. Skills learned through practice.

There were plenty of opponents to fight. Because the whole country was the enemy. All the soldiers were sweating their feet to find and kill Keter.

Keter fought the oncoming pursuers. Sometimes, even before he came, he visited and fought. There wasn’t a day without fighting, and there wasn’t a day without bloodshed.

As if to prove that he wasn’t called ‘clear-eyed madman’ in liqueur for nothing, Keter enjoyed fighting for his life.

Keter acts alone, but Lillian was unable to catch Keter at all. It was strange. That the kingdom couldn’t do anything with just one person, Keter.

It was because of the just cause that Keter was avenging Sephira. Sephira was destroyed overnight. As ‘treason of the state’ for which the basis is not clear.

Of course, there were disgruntled nobles, as well as secret help from forces hostile to the queen.

Thanks to this, Keter grew up walking a tightrope for life, finally being able to kill a sword master in one blow and defeating dozens of sword masters.

Is that why you are getting closer to your goal of killing the queen?

It wasn’t.

It started out exciting, but Keter felt it. He said he was a frog in a well.

The stronger I got, the more I realized it. ‘Prime’, the highest level that humans can reach, was only the beginning, not the end.

The first time Keter felt the wall was when he encountered one of the ‘Four Lords’.

The Queen’s confidant and the main pillar of this country, the 4th monarch.

To kill the queen, you must first kill these four monarchs. Keter went to one of them and challenged him to a fight.

Lord of the East, Deial that cuts the sky.

True to his nickname, he was someone with swordsmanship that could cut through the sky.

After fighting him, Keter laughed.

“Who gave you that nickname? You wrote it wrong. It doesn’t cut the sky, it splits it.”

In the aftermath of Keter and Dayal’s fight, the terrain itself has changed. The endless holes and long canyons were the result of two people in human form.

The result was Keter’s defeat.

Deal was seriously injured, but Keter was mortally wounded by Deal’s sword strike.

Dayal gasped and said.

“You are the first time a human has pushed me this far. Too bad. If you weren’t Sephira’s blood relative, you would have been able to become the new monarch.”

“hey. Let me ask you this one thing. How much stronger is the queen than you?”

Keter was dying, but asked the question calmly. It was an action that could have been taken because he had no regrets. I did my best in the fight. That’s why it’s not unfair to lose. Rather, it was cool inside.

He had a feeling that he was facing the Queen, but he felt that this fight was never going to end.

There were limits to being alone. Awareness There are forces that help, but they are not decisive.

Now middle-aged, Keter fought the lord of the East to produce meaningful results before his body deteriorated further.

As a result, he was defeated, but it was a fight with no regrets anyway. It was a possible attitude because he was not sure that he would be able to kill the queen if more time passed.

The question I ask now before I die is a fundamental desire to solve my curiosity.

Deal pondered for a while before saying.

“Keter. You should consider dying at my hand now a blessing. The Queen is so strong that I can’t even compare. Even if all the monarchs work together, the queen cannot control a single finger.”

“Is that because of Ain’s power?”

Dayal’s eyes widened at Keter’s words.

“Did you figure it out on your own? Really surprising and sad. If I had found out that a little earlier, the outcome of this fight would have been different.”

“What a great thing. After all, Ain just fused Aura and Mana.”

“You must have realized that that is impossible with the human body and mind. You also used the power of a human being, but you were incomplete because you had a human body and mind.”

“Even though it wasn’t easy. I wish I had a little more room.”

“If you wanted to relax, you shouldn’t have fought against the queen in the first place. You had plenty of chances to escape.”

“Because that’s not my taste.”

“… If there is a next life, live it while compromising with reality.”

Originally, the queen instructed her monarchs to capture Kether alive.

Dayal, however, pointed his sword at Keter’s throat.

It was Dayal’s favor to prevent him from becoming a puppet of the queen like himself, because he had a past where he was confident that he would kill Queen Lillian too, and he respected Keter, who seriously injured him with his archery skills he looked down on.

‘It’s over.’

Even though he faced death, his convictions did not change.

‘There is no compromise in my life. Even if I am reborn, I will kill Dayar, the queen.’

squeak.

Deial’s blade neatly cut Keter’s throat.

* * *

Is there a world after death?

Keter had never really thought deeply about it.

But now I have no choice but to worry.

‘what?’

I went out for a while and came back in. My eyes were blurry, but I could feel that I was alive.

I stroked my neck with my hand. It must have been neatly cut by Dayal’s sword, but it stuck very well.

The blurry vision also returned. An unfamiliar sight caught my eye.

This place… … .

“Bocchan, where are you uncomfortable?”

Without speaking, I shook my head and looked around.

It was in the carriage.

Outside the window, the landscape passes by quickly. It was quiet inside the carriage. There was no splendor, but it was a space with tranquility and elegance.

The ceiling and walls made of thick and solid oak add a soft, curvaceous beauty. Monochromatic fabrics in rich colors give a subtle point.

hardness and softness. A familiar picture was painted on the ceiling of this wagon with two incompatible qualities.

A large tree that connects the earth to the sky.

Arrows are borne on each branch like fruit.

It is the pattern of the famous archery family, Sephira.

And in front of me, a familiar middle-aged man is worrying about me.

I realized what the situation was.

This wagon is headed for Sephira, the famous archer. This middle-aged man is my assigned butler, Zach.

So to sum it up… … .

I have now gone back decades into the past. One year was the most fun and unimpressed of my life. To the starting point of that one year in my life that was irrelevant even if I just forgot about it.

know. how absurd this is I thought I was dead, but I’m returning.

Even just before entering Sephira, it doesn’t feel like a coincidence.

who, why, how?

‘I guess it just happened that way.’

I regressed, but I decided not to think deeply.

There was a time when I thought that everything happens for a reason. However, as I live, there are things that ‘just’ happen.

It may not be, but now I decided to think ‘it just happened that way’.

There is nothing to guess, but it is a waste of time to ponder deeply. Even if I don’t like this, the whole story will eventually be revealed. There’s no reason to rush to find out.

So, I’m fine with sticking to this reality right now.

When I came to a quick conclusion, butler Zach spoke at the right time.

“Boss, would you like to look out the window? This is the territory of the Sephira family.”

Butler Zach gave a signal, and the carriage slowed down. Then, the scenery passing by quickly becomes clear.

The wide plains and the streams flowing through them glisten in a pale silver light. Lush trees lined up on both sides of the well-trimmed road cast shadows and sway as if to welcome the passage of a wagon.

The mountain roads, hills, and mansions exposed through the trees were there as if they were part of nature.

Seeing the mansion and the manor in good condition, I felt strange. Butler Zach, who misunderstood my complex expression as admiration, said with a satisfied smile.

“young master. Do you see a small garden in the distance?”

It wasn’t the first question I’d heard. I nodded silently, prophesying his second words.

‘He’ll ask if you can see the mountains over there.’

Zach said to me with a face full of pride.

“Do you see the wide mountain range behind it?”

As expected, Zach is repeating the same words he heard in his previous life.

I nodded in the same way, so Zach finished his words with a proud face.

“From here to the mountain there, everything is the territory of this Sephira family. Two hundred knights alone. 2 thousand soldiers. Together with their families and the employees who work for them, 8,000 people live here.”

In the previous life, he was slightly admired, as Zach had hoped, but after experiencing the previous life, he only laughed.

“Compared to other famous houses, it is shabby.”

“Yes, yes… yes?”

The ‘famous houses’ are the core of the country’s military power.

There are a total of seven families in this kingdom ruled by Lillian, and among them, Sephira’s family has the fewest troops.

Even if you look at the ‘Mejai’ family, which has the smallest number of troops after Sephira, only 300 knights and 6,000 soldiers. In addition, more than 30,000 territories live together in their territories.

It was not for nothing that they said that Sephira was the weakest among the prestigious families, as the number alone was three times higher.

How do you know so well?

I know it well because it is the family I destroyed. The Mejai family members were the most aggressive in hunting down the Sephira clan.

Anyway, no matter how weak it is, the scale can be said to be a small country.

At my unexpected reaction, Zach couldn’t hide his embarrassment and made an excuse that wasn’t an excuse.

“Yeah, that’s right. It is because the roles are different. As you know, the Sephira family learns archery, but unlike swordsmanship, you won’t know how difficult it is until you learn it. And again… … .”

While listening to Zach’s words, I looked around Sephira’s mansions that were slowly approaching.

It is wide and open, and there are many colorful buildings, but there is no splendor even after washing your eyes. The garden, which is a symbol of wealth, and the mansion, which is a symbol of power, are plain and flat.

This was not because Sephira lacked financial power, but because she practiced frugality that was not aristocratic.

Moon to Moon.

A carriage entered the garden.

The garden is surrounded by four large mansions.

Of course I know what this mansion is for. In the southern main building, the family dwells, in the east building, the retainers, and in the west building, Sephira’s blood relatives.

To the north of the garden, you could glimpse the camp building where employees, soldiers, and knights stay, and the training ground.

The carriage seemed to be going to the west wing where the blood relatives were staying, but suddenly turned and stopped in front of an abandoned warehouse-like place.

It was the place where I would live in the future.

‘At first I was full of spirits.’

It’s a place made by remodeling a warehouse. I’m not a burden

Anyway, when I got off the carriage, I felt the focus of attention. The curious eyes of soldiers patrolling and employees doing chores.

But none of them came out to meet me.

It was a part where I felt the fact that I had returned. Because no one came to meet me in my previous life. At that time, I was very upset, so I repaid it with the same ignorance.

‘The story is different now.’

If this family is left alone, the same thing as in the previous life will happen.

With the fall of the Sephira family and the guilt-by-association system, I will have to fight against Lillian without a promise.

I have no intention of repeating the past. Change the future through active intervention. Not for the family that was predicted to perish, but for my comfortable life.

Just because you intervene doesn’t mean you want to become the head of the household. Why do you put yourself in such a troublesome position?

All I want is a position like the godfather of liqueurs. Even if I show only moderate dignity, it is a position where I can lead loyalists who work for me and risk their lives.

Of course, it will take a lot of effort to get to that position, but once you get a position, life after that will be all about playing, eating, and enjoying yourself.

Therefore, saving the Sephira family should not be the end. It is to further develop the Sephira family and make it the best family on this continent. I will become the real power that moves the best family.

It is to use the power of the Sephira family to their heart’s content without being bound by the Sephira family.

And so, ultimately, I kill Lillian.

The crime of trying to kill me with a f*cking guilt-by-association.

And, one more crime has just been added.

The sin that really killed me.

eye for an eye. In this.

In my previous life, because of her, my life was ruined and I was even killed in the end, so I have to pay her back.

For that time, increase the power of the family and build the power.

There were no grandiose plans. No need to fuss.

just show

How I survived and lived in liqueur, here in the Sephira family.

“young master? I’ll guide you through the family lot later, so let’s go to the residence for now. It would be nice to get dressed up after getting rid of Yeo-dok.”

I stop and look at the main building, butler Zach pulls his sleeve and says.

“Wait a minute.”

“Ah, that’s the main building where the head of the family lives, so don’t go there. Besides, it’s the first day, so you need to act more carefully… … .”

“I know.”

“yes?”

“My son wants to see his father. How is it?”

Before Zach could even stop him, he headed towards the main entrance of the main building.

It should have been like this even before the return. A proper greeting that I deliberately didn’t do because I was offended by being ignored.

“Father! The abandoned bastard has returned!”

Keter’s bold action widened the eyes of everyone passing by, including Zach.