I Am the Madman of This Family

Episode 92. Everyone makes mistakes (4)

Leganon raised his head.

eyes covered with hands.

“Sir Gant, go out with the crew. I can’t show my ugly side anymore.”

“But, Elder… … .”

“If you believe me, let me go.”

“… I take orders.”

Gant, who put his hand on his chest and saluted, led the crew out.

Leganon lowered his hand. His eyes were dry.

“Whoa, thank you for giving me a chance.”

Leganon’s tone, which had been passionately spoken until just a moment ago, was calm again as usual.

Keter clicked her tongue at the change of stance as fast as flipping a palm.

“There was a snake pretending to be a human in Sephirah.”

“There is no lie in what I said earlier. Especially with my will to save Sephira. Of course, if you said you would kill me in the end, I didn’t intend to die as well.”

Leganon suddenly unbuttoned his jacket, exposing his chest. His skinny body was exposed.

Keter’s eyes furrowed. It wasn’t displeasure, it was an expression of having eaten one shot.

There was a tattoo on Leganon’s stomach.

A tattoo made up of runes.

“You are also capable. It’s the gaze that guesses what kind of rune this is.”

“It’s a rune word that explodes when your heart stops. Did you hear that once engraved, it cannot be erased?”

“I heard you. But I felt I needed this tidying up to deal with you. I’m glad it wasn’t used as a result.”

A chill ran down Keter’s spine. His tired expression brightened again. The opponent who thought he was just getting hit, in fact, had dug an elaborate trap.

“You deliberately sat in front of me. Also biting the knights to the right place. There must be a reason.”

There is no reason to treat them with respect if they are a tribe that only cheats and tries to pass over the immediate situation by arousing sympathy.

But Leganon risked his life. A life-and-death bluff. Keter was also fooled. I have a reason to honor you again.

“You probably wouldn’t have appreciated me for taking the Birang people with my eyes open and exposing the link with Vident through my complacency. Totally, 3 out of 3. To you, I would have looked nothing more than a greedy loser who made the wrong choices.”

“It’s not that you haven’t done anything up until now, it’s that you pretended you didn’t do anything.”

It was all by design.

A perfect trap that Terre couldn’t even notice.

A blade is more threatening when it is not shown than when it is held in front of your eyes.

Keter, who thought Leganon was just a competent managerial position, crossed the line and completely revised his previous evaluation.

From a savage and capable official, to a capable official with a sharp blade in his bosom.

“It’s okay that you didn’t do anything. Lord Gant is the last word. I’ve been busy. Because I had to study you. Where is this? Archives. Everything that happened to Sephira is recorded and stored here. Perhaps the person in this world who knows you well is me.”

“Heh. So, what kind of person do you see me?”

Instead of answering right away, Leganon took a deep breath.

The more I dug into Kether, the more I felt like I was looking into an abyss.

Actions that seemed to harm Sephira on the surface, all had positive results upon reflection. So, it becomes logically absurd.

‘Keter knows that our Sephira are in trouble. Being conscious of the gaze from the outside, they are helping us even while disguising themselves as if they were causing a disturbance.’

As soon as Leganon realized that, he got goosebumps.

How could that be?

Keter spent her entire life in the Lawless City. But how could he know about Sephira’s crisis and help while deceiving the world?

It wasn’t a problem that could be simply dismissed as ‘because I’m smart’.

he is eighteen years old

It’s an age that is treated as an adult, but it’s excessive.

It didn’t feel strong or smart. To put it into perspective, there were plenty of geniuses superior to Keter in the Lillian Kingdom.

But there are things even geniuses can’t do. Something only time can solve.

‘Expert.’

Keter had a skill that other young geniuses couldn’t have.

‘That is as impossible as seeing the sun and the moon at the same time. Expertise is learning from the experience of failure and success. No matter how hard Keter has been through since he was a child, it’s just hardships in the lawless city. In this place, it is normal for the skill of the lawless city to act as poison.’

Leganon touched his forehead. It was like that then, and even now, no matter how much I think about it, I can’t figure it out.

“… I don’t know. Who are you? No, I don’t even know if he’s human.”

“Are you treating me like a monster?”

“Suddenly, I felt regret. I think I know too much about you.”

“You speak calmly in front of the person concerned.”

“What can I hide from you, who casually finds out the secret treaty between the Birangs and the Bydent family?”

“Oh, I think you’re being a little sarcastic.”

“I don’t care if you are a monster. If I can save Sephira, I will accept any shame, let alone pride. If my death allowed Sephira to live, she would have already thrown herself off the cliff.”

“For what?”

“that… … .”

It’s for Sephira.

Leganon had been repeating that to himself, and had said it in front of Gant.

But, no.

The words Keter wants to hear, the words she holds in her heart.

Not for Sephira.

The reason I’m doing this for Sephira… … .

“It’s for Olive, my daughter who loved Sephira.”

A drop of tear flowed down my cheek, filling the gap between the deep wrinkles. Reganon, who confessed her true feelings for the first time, let out a long breath.

Keter laughed as she put on her pods.

“It’s not such a bad feeling to live honestly, right?”

“I’ll ask you one more time since you’ve become honest. Are you really forgiving me?”

It was a sound that others would fall behind if they heard it. Why would Kether forgive a noble elder?

But Leganon felt no shame in asking this question. Keter was a man who deserved it.

slurp.

Keter gulped down the tea Gant had brought and stood up.

“Forgiveness should be asked of you, not me. What I’m giving you is an opportunity. A chance to make up for mistakes.”

Keter turned her back and was about to leave, but Leganon stood up and said,

“All records about you have been expunged after I read them. I intend to continue doing so in the future. I won’t tell anyone either. The same goes for Basil.”

pair, pair, pair.

It was Keter who responded with applause.

* * *

“My lord, this is an urgent matter.”

“Sir Navakin. Let me guess. Keter is back, and as soon as he returns, he has an accident. Am I right?”

“Hey, how did you know?”

I had heard from Deacon Zach that Keter had returned, and for the past half year, everything that could be said to be urgent had to do with Keter.

So even if he said, ‘If there is an emergency, it’s because of Keter,’ there was little chance of being wrong.

“Tell me. What accident did you have?”

Basil, who had faith in Kether, did not stop working. No matter what happened, I was full of understanding.

“Mister Keter said Elder Leganon was a traitor who stuck with the Vident family. However, as soon as Lord Gant heard that, he attacked Master Keter, and at the moment when a fight seemed likely, Elder Leganon suddenly appeared. Then I went to the archives with Master Keter.”

Pudeuk!

As he mechanically signed the document, Basil broke the fountain pen he was holding.

“I must have been sitting in the chair too long. sounds like nonsense Sir Navakin, I’m sorry, but can you say it again?”

“Mister Keter is the traitor that Elder Leganon ate with Vident… … .”

Navakin gulped and spoke again, and Basil froze. I didn’t blink, I didn’t even breathe.

“Go, my lord? Are you okay?”

“… heh heh, that’s fine So, now Keter hasn’t come out of the archives yet?”

“yes. We are mobilizing soldiers to monitor the entrance to the archives, so we will report to you as soon as we come out.”

“Good job. Let me go.”

As soon as Navakin left, Basil jumped up and rubbed his eyes.

“Keter wasn’t on good terms with Elder Leganon. But I have no idea why.”

The first meeting between Keter and Leganon is a three-way confrontation by Ultima. I heard that there was a bit of a fight there.

After that, we met again before leaving for a mission to Hakoz Village. According to the record of Gant, the knight who contacted Keter at that time, Leganon gave Keter words of encouragement not to make mistakes because it was his first mission.

However, Basil knew the whole story was that Keter answered harshly, telling him not to care.

“Come to think of it, it’s strange. When Keter returned from duty, Lord Gant’s demeanor changed drastically.”

Gasilius, the leader of the Galactic Division, also wrote a detailed account of what happened that day, and Basil read it as well.

Gant tried to take Keter by force. Hostility, not favor, was felt, writes Gasilius.

“Why did Sir Gant show hostility to Keter when he captured the Vident knights who illegally invaded the territory?”

At the time of the report, I thought it was because Gant privately disliked Keter, and passed it off lightly.

But when I put all the stories together, I couldn’t understand Gant’s attitude.

Of course, you can hate Keter, a bastard from a lawless city. But there is no need to show hostility.

“The same goes for Elder Leganon. He is not one to be swayed by personal feelings.”

no way.

Those were the words that passed through Basil’s mind.

‘Did Elder Leganon really betray you?’

Basil was ridiculous.

If that is true, Sephira is nothing short of a ragtag. The elders who are supposed to lead the family by assisting the family head all have different thoughts.

Elder Ricotta disappears without a word and has no contact.

Elder Panir negotiated with other nobles without the knowledge of the family head.

An elder Leganon who contacts Vident, the family’s nemesis.

‘I finally understand why the general butler tried to overthrow the elders instead of me.’

It was Basil who was ashamed of his past self, who thought that he was doing enough to keep the peace only on the outside.

“Elder Leganon’s betrayal has not yet been confirmed.”

He said that with his mouth, but his heart was different. Because that’s what Keter said.

“Keter wouldn’t have called Elder Leganon a traitor without any proof… ah!”

Basil remembered the conversation he had with Keter.

“Tell me now. Why were the Knights of Vident in Hakoz Village, and why did I fight with them?”

“It won’t be much different from what Luke said. But it is also true that there are things that cannot be said.”

“Is it true of me, the head of the family and your father?”

“Because I was pre-determined. With Elder Leganon.”

Basil sat down on the sofa.

“Keter has already been suspicious of Elder Leganon since then. No, it might have been from the first meeting.”

I can’t even guess why it happened. It was an unknown area forever if you did not hear from the person concerned.

“Keter. What on earth are you looking at, and how far are you looking?”

I am worried. I have my doubts. I want to call Keter and tell him to confess everything.

But that would be foolish. It should be praised, not bullied. I’m proud of you, thank you, believe me.

Even if Keter’s actions were purposeful hypocrisy, it was an unchanging fact that it was for the sake of Sephirah.

“I asked you to believe in me under any circumstances. I said believe me So trust me until the end, son.”

However, it was Basil who promised to talk quietly when he met Keter, wondering if he could at least say something to me as a father.

It was then that I was sitting back in my desk chair and trying to do my homework. I heard the sound of running from far away in the hallway, and the door burst open. It was Navakin.

“Patriarch, this is an urgent matter!”

“You seem to always say that.”

“Mister Keter came out of the archives.”

“Isn’t that an emergency?”

“Elder Leganon also followed, and he is coming here to see the head of the family.”

Basil, who had just sat down, got up again and straightened his clothes.

“That’s an emergency. Are Keter and Elder Leganon coming with you?”

“no. It’s just Elder Leganon and Sir Gant.”

An encounter with Elder Leganon, who has been avoiding him for decades. I didn’t know it would happen like this, but I had no intention of avoiding it.

“Where did Kether go without coming with her?”

“Well, Master Keter doesn’t say where he’s going… Oh, but you asked me this question.”

“What question was it?”

“You asked if I knew who participated in the Southern Sword Tournament, and I said it because I knew.”

There are a total of four people participating in the Southern Sword Tournament.

Triple Anise.

Sailor Tarragon.

Brooks, vice-captain of the Sacred Knights.

Darkin, commander of the 2nd division of the Galactic Division.

An attendant came to them, who were each having their own day.

“This is a message from Master Keter.”

When the attendant said that they had come on an errand for Keter, their reactions were different.

Anise thought it was finally the start of the duel-

Tarragon was nervous because he couldn’t figure out why.

Brooks and Darkin, who had no point of contact, felt suspicious.

The servant delivered the words of Kether to those who were ready to listen.

“… ‘Gather at the 2nd Parade. First two people,’ he said.