CH 201

Duke, Please Repent! chapter 201

40. The Duke and the Disappearance Case (6)

Now tell me.

Euges said, tensely.

Instead of opening his mouth right away, Serpens clapped his hands together and clasped one hand around the other.

"Before Zion came, what kind of life did I lead. How much do you know?"

You love all things equally...

I thought it wasn't me either. It was just that he didn't have any particular likes or interests.

In response to Eugene's answer, Serpens nodded.

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Getting ready to start the story in earnest.

I'm all nervous for nothing... .'

Come to think of it, I've never heard the details of what happened to him at that time.

I read about what happened in [Master of the Holy Sword], and he knew it too, so there was no reason to talk about it.

It's also the first time I've heard of Serpence's past directly.

Don't make anything precious. You should not give special attention to anyone. Your precious things become your weakness and prey for the devil and their worshipers. You will be swayed by them, and your precious things will become your weakness. As a result, it will be ruined.

Yes?

"My that, umm. That's what the former Duke of Prasidus always said to me."

It's something I didn't know from the start.

He would have said it was education in another way, but it was close to a curse.

No, it was just a curse.

"If there is anything that I am attached to, I destroy it right in front of my eyes. If there is something that catches my eye, I throw it away."

How could you do that...!

Eugene couldn't help but say as he covered his mouth with a trembling hand. The sea I also sympathize with.

He said the devil worshipers would do it, and he even put it into practice himself.

From the circumstances alone, I think the former Duke of Prasidus worships the devil.

Practicing garbage is so harmful.

It was always difficult to understand what he was saying, but this alone... it felt so painfully...

Destroying things in front of your eyes and making a fuss

I hit it, so that's it.

Even though it is impossible to give an attachment doll to a young child, the possibility of attachment formation itself has been uprooted.

I knew it right away, but I realized once again that I was a person who had no parental qualifications.

As I was biting my tongue inside, Serpens's gaze reached me.

I didn't become the master of the holy sword, so I thought I'd be fine now... But in his words, that was the only thing that was right...

What nonsense are you talking about?! Forget everything he said!

Yeah! That nonsense isn't even worth listening to!

Before Serpens could even finish speaking, I and Euges interrupted him.

Damn bastard's repellent fence.

Because I'm thinking like that, I'm trying to find a way to get me back to the subject that I must be without right now, even more earnestly than I.

Everyone has something precious in their heart. To protect it, you can live hard, move forward, struggle with hardships and have the will to overcome it. The present life

Because I am happy and I want to keep going, people can live."

"It's just like Eugenes says. To be honest, there's nothing you want to protect, so why are you fighting? What the hell are you doing?"

At the very least, what street drunks do to protect their self-esteem.

How much less, is there nothing you want to protect even if you have an enemy that threatens the continent?

'If there is no pre-destined happiness that you can get when the fight is over

It will not be an adversity to be overcome, it will be a pain to be accepted.

It's not moving towards a better future, it's just a process of devouring yourself.

"Responsibility , to?"

"So where the hell does that responsibility come from?"

...Ummm.

"Look, can't you answer me?"

If this had been before the day of choice, Serpence would certainly have uttered a stellar slur that he was born to do so.

But now he said nothing.

Putting away his beggar-like holy sword, this is convenient and good.

The reason Luxmea gave the Holy Sword to Humanus and not to anyone else, wasn't it really a big picture to get rid of the annoying Holy Sword and Eyesea at the same time from Serpens's eyes?

I think of responsibility as an extension of the heart to protect something precious. Sometimes it can be family, it can be a social position or honor, and sometimes it is one's own conscience. Depending on the person, depending on the situation. The target Even if things change, in the end, what comes from the heart to keep

I don't think there is any difference.

"Is that is it?"

You 1, that's it. In the end, how can a serpent pick up any stone that has fallen on the street and take a look at it with a sense of responsibility so as not to leave it from his body for the rest of his life, so as not to get scratched, broken or lost anywhere?"

Serpens hesitated and shook his head.

That's exactly what the former Duke of Prasidus did. To a subject that the world had made meaningless by using a serpent, the unspoken voice to protect it.

did it.

That's what I really want to protect.

Rather, it is much better to lose it early and start looking for what you want to do away from responsibility.

"Because Serpense also felt that what he said was wrong, even vaguely. He told me that he wanted to find a reason to protect this world so that he could truly love it. If I have to protect it, where is the master of the holy sword? It's just the slave of the holy sword.

He is Serpens who protects the continent

It was not that he wanted to become a hero, but he must have thought that it was a tool that he could sacrifice for the sake of the continent.

"Slave is it?"

He put on a bitter expression as he recollected the last words I had said.

Like such a pitiful child.

Come on, come on! Calm down! Are you going to say that nonsense again?

Why is that...''

"You were talking nonsense dog shit.

Here it is.

Such absurd logic...

Oh, hurry up. Serpens was talking bullshit, so you wasted a lot of time trying to fix it!

Some of Serpense's documents and my missing documents were newly found.

It was too late to finish it during work hours today. Oh, I'm busy, I'm busy!

"Isn't Serpense's words absurd in Eugez's eyes, isn't it?"

Yes Yes?! That, that, the bullshit... Was it?

"Then, should I make a cat sound as a reflection or not?"

"Do I have to ?"

Look. Serpens? Come on.

In front of me, voluntarily, even meowing, it's like saying that there are other people on the same topic.

In the end, Serpence mourned and wept in a reluctantly crawling voice.

Okay then, let's keep talking.

Let me do this, and I'll be fine."

You can't get them to talk on their knees with their hands raised.

It is a punishment imposed by judging the current situation in its own way.

Serpens looked at me and took a deep breath, then spit out whatever happened in the past as he recalled it.

Being thrown away by the former Duchess, and seeing her cold eyes.

He continued to train until he couldn't stand upright, and in the end, no one helped him get up after he fell, and he was left in the middle of the duke's house until he got up on his own.

Saying that, Serpens said,

He doesn't expect me from others.

I was taught not to, and not to lean on."

was added briefly.

it's really bullshit

I squeezed my divine power to the limit for daily training of divine power, and after gaining physical strength and entering full-fledged swordsmanship training, there were rare days where I didn't get hurt. This is the story of having to rake in the divine power once again.

Other than that, I had to end the life of a defenseless monster that was suppressed, and so on.

Serpens told the story of the days when the former duke and his wife were alive, one by one.

It's like reading someone else's book. It seemed that he was trying to exclude emotions as much as possible, but as the act of recalling it, trimming it into sentences and spitting it out of the mouth continued, it became noticeably more difficult.

Among them, there were stories that I knew and some that I could not read in [Master of the Holy Sword].

On the other hand, there were things I knew, but he didn't say.

The Facts About the Death of the Ex-Duke and Duchess

or tortured. Those things didn't end up being said.

uh, how... , like that, do wrath !

When Serpence finished speaking.

In order not to interrupt his speech, Euges squealed and cried, pouring out the tears he had been holding back.

They even cursed saying that it wasn't something they would do in human clothing, and that they would worship the devil.

Hey, how the hell have you endured something like that?!

Serpens nodded at her question.

shook wildly.

It seemed that he did not want to say that he suppressed his emotions by using divine power and that he did not know what he was doing.

Eugenes didn't ask him for an exact answer.

Perhaps she didn't even ask for an answer.

Since last year's arena incident, Serpens knew how to use divine power for that purpose, and when Humanus and his party came to visit, thanks to Liena's words, he must have noticed to some extent.

So her words are laments, not questions.

Come on, wait a minute! That's what the kidnapped people are...?!

After crying for a while, Eugene realized something, and suddenly got up from his seat and shouted like a scream.

you]. They were working at the time."

Eugene's face hardened at Serpence's answer. Her face was full of tears, but her expression looked dry as if it had been through a drought.

"Uh, how , that, that "

Is it complicated in your head, or is it that you don't know what to say? If it wasn't for that, maybe he was speechless when he noticed what the kidnappers were up to.

She stuttered, huh... , and let out a shaky breath.

"These are the people who put great importance on protecting their bodies, so they must have been frightened of them until now and cracked down on them "

This time, it means that he will be concerned about his own safety and talk about everything he knows.

"I have to find them I mean , haha I guess?"

Eugenes took a long time to pick and choose a horse, and instead of the word 'reserve', he found the expression 'seeking'.

Yes. And in the course of the investigation, the serpens will be removed.

I understand.

"As soon as I receive the relevant materials from the butler, I will hand them over to Eugenes."

"Yeah, okay wait a minute! But isn't that person who worked at the time?"

Eugene, who had been nodding his head at my words, stopped and sat down, making eye contact with me and asking as if arguing.

Right.

"Can you trust the data that such a person gave you?"

He values the honor of the Duke of Prasidus above all else, so in that sense it is.

You're the kind of person I don't understand.''

Even if you don't like it, you have to be patient right now. It's the yangban who took the lead in kicking them out, so I know a lot about them. Without him, the investigation will take a long time.

When I said Euges ' He must be too

Yes, he muttered to himself.

At the end of her self-talk, the drawing room sank into complete silence.