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Chapter 365
Someone's
As he walked toward the giant iron door, Ruri, who had been guarding its front, greeted Ferda.
"What brings you here?"
Ruri asked cautiously.
Since that day, she had been maintaining the most businesslike attitude possible.
"I came to give my final farewell. Would that be alright?"
Е̊.n_ŭ m̊ а̃
Ferda also asked politely, as if addressing another's chief attendant.
Ruri bowed her head deeply, went inside, and conveyed the message.
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As she came back out, she said.
"Valdrova-nim has conveyed that she does not wish to see you."
Naturally, that would be the case.
Ferda thought he might just turn back and leave, so he took a step.
Ẽnúḿа́
Then the Shadow Circle was raging within Ferda's chest.
It was scolding him not to have regrets.
Ferda heard those words.
Because regret over what was left undone is worse than regret over what was done.
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That's why he placed the foot he had lifted forward and stood before the iron door.
"Shameless as it is, I came because I have words to convey to Your Highness Valdrova."
W̆еb́ň о v̈ ѐ l Е n̄ um̊а̄
Ferda spoke on his own accord.
Ruri did not stop him.
"A thick iron door blocks the space between us, so I do not know where Your Highness is. So please, if you are there, give me a sign. If Your Highness does not wish to listen, I will simply return."
Even after waiting a long time, no answer returned.
Even the words I prepared end up being erased like this.
Ferda thought so and turned his body.
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Tok.
It was then.
A sound traveling along the thick iron door.
It was a sound like a stone had been thrown and struck it, something that could only be described as artificial.
Ferda turned his body again and stood before the iron door.
"I will leave you after this battle. Once today's battle ends, around nightfall, Your Highness's power will return. Until then, you know that you are a woman whom even I cannot properly strike, so please, guard your position here."
W e b̈ń õ v̈ è l̄ Е̄ n̈ ü mа
"......."
The time of their first meeting comes to mind.
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Back then, too, she did not speak directly.
I barely heard her voice, even heard her laughter, yet to return to square one like this again.
My chest hurts.
Wounds I thought had healed protrude like thorns.
Е n ü m à
"Among the common folk......."
This was not a prepared line.
"There is a saying that first love is not fulfilled."
I don't know why I brought up those words.
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It was undoubtedly a line I spoke because I needed it, rather than to comfort her.
"You are the person who gave me your heart. You, who believed you made everyone unhappy, wished for happiness at the very end and gave me your heart. Such a you corrected the life I had stained with my wretchedness, and that was my first love. So...... it may be inevitable that we do not end up together."
We b̄n̂ о̆ v̆ ë l̊ Еn um̌_а
Her wish that flowed through the heart.
That wish is still vivid to Ferda.
She dreamed the same dream as me.
I didn't want to leave.
"I will take my leave now."
But I must leave.
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"Please meet many people. Learn from that many people."
My rambling mouth doesn't stop nagging.
"If you do that, you will meet someone who loves you. Someone who will love you yourself, not your power and authority."
Even though it hurts myself, it is Ferda's wish.
"Eat delicious things with those people, dance together, enjoy flower viewing together. Please spend the rest of your life with people who are for you."
Now the time has come.
Ẃе́b ñ о̆v е̃ l _Еnuḿа̀
"This wretched human will now withdraw."
Ferda bid farewell politely and turned his steps.
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Ruri carefully followed behind him to see him off.
"You really won't come back?"
When they had distanced themselves enough from the cave, Ruri opened her mouth.
It seemed she hoped Valdrova wouldn't hear.
Е nu̇m ä .їd
"Because that's the promise."
"Is...... that so?"
He turned his head and looked at Ruri.
Her hands, clasped respectfully, were gripping her skirt hem.
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> That sight somehow looked pitiful.
Suddenly, Ferda recalled the words he had said to her.
Е̇ n̈ um а .і̇ d
"I'm sorry."
"For what?"
"It seems I said too harsh things to you back then."
"No. Ferda-nim's words were right."
Ruri answered calmly.
"I am the one who must serve the Phase of Fire, Valdrova-nim. When I heard the engagement was broken, seeking you out was a foolish act."
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"I should apologize to the person who came worrying about me."
"Don't misunderstand. I never worried about you."
She spits out sharp words with a resentful expression.
What meaning does it have now?
It's spilled water.
"Yeah, sorry."
Wе̄ḃn̄о̄ v̄ėl̆ Ё ń_ù mа̀
Ferda turned his body again.
It was then.
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He felt the sensation of something with mass crashing into his back.
Slender hands wrapped around Ferda's waist and hugged him tightly.
"The reason I sought you out that day was for myself."
That dry voice became moist.
W̆еb̈ ṅ o vе̊ l̇ Ѐ ń u ṁа
"Because I could clearly see what would become of me if I let you go...... I was only trying to hold onto you."
"......."
"During the time you weren't here, my master was truly an easy person to serve. There were barely a few things I had to do. I just had to keep doing what I was doing."
"......."
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"Ever since you came...... do you know how much you bothered me? Suddenly wanting to learn cooking like a woman, wanting to learn dancing, wanting to learn how to write...... And...... wanting to go outside and play....... On one hand, I doubted whether the person I served was really like this. And......."
She swallowed once what was rising in her throat.
E n umа̇
"I realized that the person I had been serving was actually this lively."
The hugging force strengthened.
"I hate that you. I was happy thinking my work would decrease a bit...... you only raised my expectations like that, why are you trying to leave everything to me and go?"
"......."
"Broken engagement? Don't make me laugh. I'll stop it. I'll nag my master every day to erase that declaration! You must come back! Do you understand?!"
She had the momentum to not let go until he answered.
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Ferda carefully released Ruri's tightly gripped hands and faced her.
There was not the icy chief attendant, nor the Silverwind Great Warrior,
But a single girl who needed care, crying.
Ferda carefully embraced her.
"You've had it hard, you."
The only comfort he could give that girl at the end was to hug her.
W̊ е̇ b n̊o̊v́è l Е ṅüm̀а̊
But the sorrowful chest swells further and the tears don't stop.
Ferda let her go.
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Ruri also no longer held him.
Ferda turned his steps and moved.
I came to put everything down, but only my baggage increased.
* * *
Ėńu m̃а. і̃ d
The day of the decisive battle arrived.
Everyone moved mechanically and stood on the wall.
The people who had eaten, chatted, and laughed heartily the night before spoke no more.
They neither wept pathetically gripped by fear, nor forced vitality while clinging to hope.
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They blankly scan the other side of the Devil's Land.
And from over there, silhouettes begin to be caught.
Е̃ǹu ḿ_а . і́d̃
Monsters swarm in.
"1 hour until engagement."
Mori continued the countdown like that.
Ferda, who had been away, returned.
"You've come?"
"I was delayed because I had something to drop off. What are you doing now?"
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"I was giving the opening address across the entire territory."
As Mori said, a single voice was echoing across the entire wall.
It was just as Ulbera, the commander of the Far East Alliance, was finishing his address.
Soon after, each chapter head continued the addresses.
Olivia, as the Saintess, spoke of the Empire's glory and Alte's blessing.
Abdulmesid spoke of Set's Sanctuary being here and that the East and South are brothers.
En̊um̂.а̀.î d̀
-I am the Empire's traitor, Hudret. You all only say boring things and killed the mood.
Eugene Hudret was laughing good-naturedly and cracking jokes.
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Ferda listened to that voice and climbed up the command tower.
Blocking attacks aimed at Frontesis's spear was Ferda's role.
Moving like that, he could tell where Hudret's joke-filled address was taking place.
He was on top of the command tower.
Ë n ü.ma
Their eyes met with him, who was placing his hand on the crystal orb connected to amplification magic and giving the address.
"......With that, I'll step back. May there be glory for our Golden Dragon."
As if it were the most natural thing, he handed the crystal orb to Ferda.
"What is this?"
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"The end of the address should be done by the person who will become this place's lord, shouldn't it?"
"I am......."
En û m̆ ă.
"Right, right, you're the Regent. Either way, don't you think you're the master here?"
Right, people think that way.
If they knew the engagement was broken, morale would naturally plummet, so I've thoroughly hidden it.
What should I say?
Ferda hadn't prepared an address, nor was he a person with enough eloquence to pull one out on the spot.
Not doing it was an option, but Ferda didn't hand back the crystal orb.
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Instead, he quietly flew up into the sky.
From the highest place, he looked over each and every one of them.
Teens, twenties, thirties.......
South, West, Central, and East.......
Humans of various faces and ages gathered.
Humans who, if they faced each other and talked, would have many things they couldn't understand.
W ě_b ńo vеl Е̃ n ǔm̊ а
Fights actually broke out, but there were days they hushed it up and moved on.
But there is a commonality.
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"Here......."
Ferda opened his mouth.
"Raise your hand if you were someone's father."
At that address, with dumbfounded faces, some began to raise their hands.
Ѐnu_m̆_а̃
About 1/3 raised their hands.
"Then raise your hand if you were someone's lover."
Even among those with hands down, half raised them.
"Then raise your hand if you were someone's son."
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Almost everyone raised their hands.
"You were all someone's son. To someone, a precious child; to someone, an irreplaceable lover; to someone, an only father."
Еn̊ ūm a
As he spoke those words, Ferda felt something heavy in his chest.
I feel the weight of these people.
I feel the stories dwelling in each and every one.
"Today, someone here will die."
He awakens the fear of death.
"It could be those on the other side of the wall, or the person right next to you, or yourself. If lucky, you might recover the body, but a moment will come when you're eaten by those heinous monsters over there and not even your corpse returns home!"
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The commanders made troubled expressions, wondering if he was deliberately touching a sore spot.
"But I promise one thing!"
Just as things were getting noisy, Ferda raised his hand and seized the atmosphere.
"I will not abandon you!"
But Ferda's single word shattered their fear.
"You came because of my greed! Wanting to reclaim the East that was once part of the Serdes Continent, my greed dragged you in! I acted selfishly in the name of the Continent's people's duty! So I promise!"
Е̌ ǹu m а .і̄d̆
Ferda placed his hand on his chest.
"Because I put you at the front, I will be at the rear! But if a moment of retreat comes, then I will be the very last! Until everyone in front of me has fallen back, I will never retreat!"
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That was the best promise Ferda could make.
"Glory to the Serdes Continent! Blessings to the heroes at the very front!"
With such a shout, he finishes the address.
Before the quiet silence could settle, cheers erupted everywhere.
Е̌ǹ umа̃.i d̊
"Glory to the Serdes Continent!"
"Blessings to the heroes at the very front!"
"Glory to Hestia!"
"Eternity to the East!"
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"The Red Dragon's blessing will be with us!"
"Long live Archduke Valdrova!"
Ё n_u mа̃. i d́
"Long live Regent Ferda!"
They screamed, raising morale to the max.
That deafening cheer resonates in Ferda's heart.
The unstable Red Circle was moving.
Not intensely, but faintly.
As if gently and gentlemanly helping to decorate the end.
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"A splendid address."
Hudret said that.
"Thank you."
"Did you break up?"
"......."
"The words are smooth, but the sentiment feels like a man who just broke up."
Ėńumа
Hudret's question seemed casually thrown, but it felt like he had already seen through it.
"If it was just my imagination, I'll let it slide."
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Trying to move on since it's a private matter.
Ferda answered him.
"......I notified the broken engagement a week ago."
"I see. So you're feeling like the world has ended?"
W̆ e b́ n о̀v e l Е ńu ṁ ӓ
Couldn't deny it.
"We have more in common than I thought. I had that with my queen too."
"Broken engagement, you mean?"
"Yeah, at first we couldn't understand each other."
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Hudret's queen is famous.
Famous in a bad way.
Е n̂ ŭ m̊ а̀
"Do you know what kind of person my wife is?"
"Yes. I heard she's a commoner."
"Not just a commoner. A commoner with no known connections, a woman who should be treated like a slave. A flaw that shouldn't exist for a king who must be flawless."
"You speak of a flaw so boldly."
"Haha! Everyone has flaws. Because we have flaws, we're mortals, humans. Isn't that the same for you?"
Ferda quietly empathized with those words.
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"How did you meet such a commoner?"
"Well, it's embarrassing, but there was a crushing defeat due to a strategic error. I hid in a civilian house then."
"The owner of that house was the queen, I suppose."
"Right. I had a fatal wound, and my heart was broken too. Me, who moved believing I'd win, tasted defeat for the first time and tried to give up on the will to live. But I couldn't."
A smile spread across Hudret's face.
Imagining that face, he purely enjoyed it.
Eǹ ǔ m а .ìd̊
"For three months, she warmly smiled at the whining man, changed his bandages. She sang that I must rise from failure. If that foolish woman hadn't existed, the name Eugene Hudret might have just disappeared."
"She's worth embracing even as a flaw."
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"Of course. A natural beauty and positive too, how could I give up?"
Hahaha!
He laughed like that, then closed his mouth with a bitter look.
"But we almost went as far as breaking the engagement once."
Е̊ň uṁа. ì d̀
"Why?"
"I was royalty, and that woman was a commoner from the outskirts. She couldn't understand pushing countless people into war."
A commoner who lived small, and royalty who saw bigger things.
The weight of handling life itself was different.
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Ferda understood that emotion.
"Watching that, she thought I had changed."
Е n̄ů m а̇ .іd
If you just listen, it could be a sad story.
But Hudret's queen is still that commoner.
They almost broke the engagement, but they eventually became husband and wife.
"How did you come to understand each other?"
"We realized we were the same person. From the moment I understood what I was looking at, what weight I carried, things changed."
Hudret struck his own chest with his fist.
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"She knew the man she loved was still there, and embraced me again."
"I see."
"And right after, we had a son. Haha! We hurriedly got married so he wouldn't be an illegitimate child!"
A son.......
I don't know about a son, but I've roughly seen a daughter.
That was also Nekonata mimicking Valdrova's appearance.
Е̃ǹŭ ṁ ă .і̂.d
What would it have been like if a child with Valdrova was born?
Imagining the future is now just a story that ends in futile delusion.
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Hudret patted Ferda's shoulder and comforted him one last time as a life senior.
"So as a life senior, let me give you one piece of advice. Don't act like the world's ended. Nobody knows what'll happen in the world."
"......Thank you for the advice."
"Now I have to go to my sector. Survive. That's the important thing for now, isn't it?"
Еn ŭ m а̄. і d
Hudret waved his hand and returned to his sector.
Ferda briefly turned his head and looked back.
Lonely Mountain, its very top.
This was the place that saw it best.
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Since Ferda always looked down from there, he knows well.
'If she sees this place, will she understand?'
Wе́ b̈ ń о v̈ e l .Еn̆_u mа̂
Probably not.
Valdrova is an immortal who has seen far more than me, a dragon.
Ferda is a human who barely lived a few decades.
Mortal and immortal.
The species itself is different to understand each other.
'Throw away futile expectations.'
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Death approaches.
Death that will find someone rushes in.
* * *
At that time, the Lonely Mountain cave.
Ruri was sitting quietly, wiping away tear marks with her hand.
As an attendant, she just waited for Valdrova to command something.
Еnuma. іd
Kkiik—.
While she was guarding like that, Ruri heard the sound of a hinge catching.
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Even though she heard it with both ears, she confirmed with her eyes and ended up surprised.
Valdrova was quietly coming out through the side door.
"My lord......."
Ruri approached her.
W̃ĕ b̀ ǹо v̆ӗ l̂ Еn û m̂ а̄
Valdrova had weakened to the point she could barely walk properly, so Ruri caught her shoulder and supported her.
"Ruri-ya."
She called her name, breathing heavily.
"Yes."
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"Just one thing...... can I ask a favor?"
A favor.
Еṅ ŭ ṁ а̄
Since she could predict what favor would come, Ruri drove in a stake beforehand.
"You cannot go to the battlefield. And...... I have no intention of going anywhere leaving Valdrova-nim behind."
"I know. I wasn't going to ask that either."
"Then......."
Valdrova gripped her own forearm tightly and said.
"The top of Lonely Mountain......."
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The place where Ferda watched her every day.
"Can you take me there?"
She just wanted to go there.
