Translator: Wan ED/PR: Fan
[Lucion. It would be better to stop thinking about what clearly shows in your eyes.]
Russell became stern as if he was never a timid lamb.
“You noticed really quickly.”
[I’m not a fool and can see how you’re rolling your eyes around, so why wouldn’t I?]
Lucion stood up as if saying, ‘That’s a pity’.
‘Dosage is not the problem. There is something more important…’
When the time quietly came, Lucion stopped thinking.
It was time to finish Bella.
“Latta. I’m going out for a moment, so stay here.”
Latta, who was fighting with a blanket, smiled faintly and replied:
— Kay!
For the last week, Lucion kept pressuring Bella to lead her to make mistakes.
No matter how much he was the son of this place, Novio was a rational person.
He couldn’t suspect her without reason, and after the mansion’s investigation, she was also playing it safe.
— Holding a note right now.
With Ghost No. 2’s report, Lucion now, at last, put a hand on the note she dropped when flustered.
‘The note containing my information, which was to be delivered to someone.’’
Lucion headed to Novio’s room with a joyful heart.
Inside was the already kneeling Bella.
“Good morning, Father, Hyung-nim.”
Lucion greeted Novio and Carson with a stiff expression and then turned to Bella.
“Bella.”
Before she could make any kinds of excuses, Lucion made the first move.
“… I trusted you.”
Lucion’s voice became choked.
“The more I looked at you, the more I thought that you’re a fun person. So I drew closer to you. But you betrayed me…?”
[Wow… Lucion. You…]
Russell felt goosebumps over his whole body.
The reason why he didn’t want to bring Latta was because of this.
Novio held up his hand.
It meant to stop.
‘Perfect.’
Lucion swallowed a laugh and didn’t speak anymore.
“Who is behind you?”
Novio didn’t ask Bella why she did it or why she couldn’t help but do it.
Bella trembled and opened her mouth:
“Ugh, I have nothing! I only did it to earn money. Please, believe me, my Lord! I…”
“Who were you planning to give that note to?”
Novio cut off Bella’s words.
“I don’t know. I-I just received instructions!”
“Where were you going to put it?”
The voice without highs or lows was certainly scary.
Bella clenched her fists, feeling herself gradually becoming smaller.
“Corridor on the 3rd flo-oor, first window at the end.”
Bella’s voice trembled just like her hands.
“The note… there…”
“Got it.”
Novio stopped Bella from speaking.
“Do as usual. You should do it for the sake of your family, at least.”
Novio judged that Bella was nothing but the end of a tail.
But even a tail had its uses.
“M-my lord. I-I was wrong! I was blinded by money.”
“I didn’t ask you anything.”
Novio just looked at Bella.
Under the violent aura, she stiffened, her breathing halted, and her mouth hung open.
“Father.”
Lucion opened his mouth.
“A person who can move around the mansion without any suspicion and naturally move inside and out, who is it?”
The moment he picked up the note Bella dropped, he saw a blue thread connecting him with someone.
He confirmed who this thread was linked to.
“It’s a knight.”
Lucion’s voice was full of power.
“Confirm who will take the note, and if it’s a knight as I suspect, please attach them as the escort to the banquet.”
“… What are you planning?”
Novio stopped Carson and asked.
“Could a knight do such a thing alone? As Father and Hyung-nim said, the enemies are moving.”
Lucion smiled.
“Aren’t I also Cronia? I wish to take care of it myself.”
The Divine Beast Birthday Celebration Banquet.
A great banquet held every few years.
There is no way that a person who was stealing information would miss such a banquet, right?
***
“There are a lot of people, so look ahead.”
At Carson’s brusque words, Lucion suddenly became tense for no reason.
— Latta loves going outside. Loves it the most!
If not for Latta enthusiastically chattering while sticking to his feet, Lucion thought he would likely continue to be frozen.
‘Excluding the time when I came out with Hyung-nim when I was very young, it’s been a really long time.’
Lucion had no idea what Carson was thinking at all.
After eating lunch, when he was going to run like usual, Carson suddenly came to him and said to prepare to go out.
He could refuse, but because a blue thread connected to him, Carson and someone else, suddenly appeared, Lucion said, ‘alright’.
‘I already have two blue threads enveloping me.’
One with the knight.
And one blue thread that appeared a moment ago.
Lucion was quite bothered, looking at the threads he couldn’t cut.
“We came out to buy things, so don’t worry.”
Finally, Carson informed him of their goal.
He expected it when they headed to the city, but such a thing didn’t match with Carson’s personality.
‘Did he come out intentionally because of Bella?’
Lucion’s expression soon twisted.
Could it be?
“What are we buying?”
“The only thing that you can’t match in the mansion.”
“The thing I can’t match?”
“Sword heaviness. Same with a wooden sword. If you’re going to swing a sword in the future, you will have to familiarize yourself with that heaviness.”
“… You mean we came out to buy things for me?”
Though flustered, Lucion was truly touched inside.
His relationship with Carson was neither good nor bad, only knowing whether or not they’re alive.
But his father and hyung-nim were changing alongside him.
“Yeah. You asked me to teach you a sword, and I gave permission. I don’t plan to do it sloppily because you’re my dongsaeng.”
[I like this friend’s sense of duty. If you’re a master, you have to do what’s necessary.]
Russell nodded, empathizing with something.
“… As you suspected, it was a knight. His name is Sean.”
Carson continued quietly.
“Is that so?”
“Father is probably thinking of allocating him as your escort, as you have asked.”
After the short and simple conversation ended, silence fell between the two.
But for Lucion, Carson didn’t feel burdensome and awkward like in the past.
《I’m sorry… I’m sorry, Lucion. I’m late. I came much too late.》
Because the part in the novel when Carson, called Hamel, cradled the body of mid-boss Lucion, as he revealed that he is Carson, was as vivid as if it happened today.
‘… Wait.’
Lucion suddenly stopped in his tracks because he recalled something.
‘When did Hyung-nim become intertwined with the main character?’
Carson, who disguised himself with the name Hamel, was the protagonist’s early companion.
‘No way… Did they know each other from the beginning?’
“What’s the matter?”
At Carson’s question, Lucion let go of his thoughts and shook his head.
“Nothing. I was just thinking about something for a moment.”
“Don’t get distracted and follow.”
Carson guided him to a road with few people like a devil.
While following him, Lucion noticed something strange.
He had visited the city in the past week, but now it was the busiest it’s been.
‘Did something happen?’
Lucion glanced at the blue thread that wrapped around his body.
[Priests.]
Russell’s eyes became sharp.
At that moment, Carson also halted in his tracks.
“What’s the matter?”
As Carson’s expression suddenly stiffened, Lucion reflexively asked.
“… Why are priests here?”
Lucion heard Carson’s mumbling.
Just like Russell, it seemed that he had noticed the priests.
“Lucion.”
Carson called out to Lucion with a hardened expression.
“Yes.”
“We’re going back.”
“… Yes?”
“It seems that priests came here.”
“Is today ‘that day’?”
In this world, the only god people believed in was the God of Light.
The Kingdom of Nevast, which had the most people who received a blessing of Light, was treated as a Holy Nation and raised priests.
Naturally, the people who wished to become priests flocked to Nevast.
Because with the power of light, the natural regenerative power rises and the wounds heal quicker, and the countries that couldn’t say no to priests recognized Nevast as a neutral country.
As such, the priests dispatched from Nevast had to maintain neutrality, and in particular, here at the border, the priests’ movements were restricted.
“No.”
At Carson’s reply, Lucion felt his expression instinctively twist.
‘The priests broke the promise made with Father and moved?’
Novio was a colder person than expected.
Even now, besides a certain date and time, the moving priests would be chased out of here and sent back to Nevast.
Because on the border, Novio held absolute power, so the priests couldn’t help but watch out for him.
It seemed that something big had happened, enough to risk a banishment.
‘The only thing that would move priests to this degree is a warlock…’
Ting!
The thread connecting him, Carson, and someone else became taut.
The thread led to the gap in the alleyway.
‘Someone’s there?’
Something was happening in that alleyway.
‘And thinking about it…’
Lucion unknowingly swallowed dry saliva.
He recalled a scene from the novel.
《Lucion-nim. It has been an honor to serve you.》
A minor character with barely a few lines, but in the novel, it was a person who was loyal to Lucion and followed him.
[…?]
Russell, who was extremely on edge, had a strange feeling and turned his head.
He felt something familiar yet unfamiliar.
— Uh?
Latta, who was circling around Lucion, perked up her ears.
“We’re going back.”
Carson opened his mouth again, turning towards the road they came from.
“Follow me, Lucion.”
Carson, who urged Lucion, who was standing blankly, quickened his steps a little more.
Tap!
At that moment, the loud footsteps rang out, and Carson quickly looked back.
Lucion was running into the alley.
“Lucion!”
Carson called out to Lucion and ran after him.
[Lucion! The priests are coming this way!]
Russell grabbed the hem of Lucion’s clothes.
Even though they still couldn’t see the priests, the fishy smell unique to priests was already sweeping over him and making Lucion’s stomach twist.
Lucion endured the nausea and shouted:
“Wait. Give me just a moment!”
Russell and Latta were startled, and even the eyes of Carson, who caught Lucion in the blink of an eye, grew larger.
Lucion’s eyes followed after the thread that seemed like it would be cut at any moment.
When Carson let go of his hand, Lucion started running again.
In the corner of several intersecting alleys, Lucion didn’t hesitate even a bit and followed the thread into an alley again.
《If I knew that the day the priests captured me… Lucion-nim was also there, I wouldn’t have hidden like a fool and shout for help…》
In his head, Lucion recalled the novel’s content once again.
At the side of the trash pile, Lucion saw a crouching and trembling boy.
The blue thread was connecting him and the boy.
‘… Found.’
He felt his Darkness suddenly wriggle as if also rejoicing.
With the strange feeling of both wariness and happiness, he caught his quickened breath.
[This feeling…]
Russell opened his eyes wide.
[It’s flowing out of this punk? But this. This… I’m feeling it for the first time?]
It was natural that Russell was flustered.
As even Lucion, who knew this boy’s identity, was flustered by the feeling surging from the boy.
— Aah! Latta will help.
At Latta’s energetic voice, Lucion’s tension was instantly relieved.
Latta, who approached the boy at some point, climbed onto his shoulder and stuck her paw towards his face.
— Yap.
“Latta. What are you doing?”
Lucion’s eyes shook.
He felt Latta pour Darkness into the boy.
— The Darkness is running wild because it’s unstable. So Latta is helping.
‘Darkness?’
Lucion, aware of Carson, swallowed the words he wanted to spit out.
‘He isn’t a warlock?’
From the beginning, that boy wasn’t human.
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