Volume 10 - CH 12

At the heavy sound, Cedric looked back half.

“This is a magic tool called a kin reader. It tells us about each other’s blood ties.”

“Now…… did you bring pagan things into this castle?’’

“Yes.”

“Selina! You’re so……?!”

“But this thing is fascinating.”

“How can you disappoint me like this?”

“Listen, Uncle.”

I explained every single thing that happened in Aina Village.

Even the fact that Zachary is the new head of the barbarians.

“…… But the result of the kin reading of me and Zachary showed four lines which mean we are cousins. I couldn’t understand, how?”

For a moment, his chest, which was shaking violently, suddenly stopped.

As if time had stopped for only Cedric alone, everything about him was frozen.

“Why did I get this result?”

“……”

Cedric’s body swung round.

His face, which had been flushed with anger, was now white.

“What…… what did you just say, Selina?”

His long fingers were trembling.

I looked at him without emotion and said it calmly.

“My relationship with my father’s extramarital child is cousins.”

Cedric couldn’t even blink an eye. It was to the point where I doubted whether he was breathing.

Knock, Knock.

Just in time, someone knocked on the door outside.

I raised myself slowly.

“Well, we can’t fully trust a magic tool that the pagans use.”

“……”

“The Zachary and his brother may not be my father’s extramarital child.”

Passing by Cedric’s side, I whispered.

“Maybe Lord Patreon is colluding with my mother and trying to deceive me.”

“……”

“I’ll look into it again.”

I looked back just before I left the door of the study, but Cedric was still in that state.

Like a broken robot, like an old tree firmly rooted in its place, it just stood tall.

I couldn’t even guess what was on his mind.

‘Oh, you stuffy.’

I left him without regret and left the study.

I wanted to check first whether the Zachary brothers were really my cousins and whether the magical tool had malfunctioned.

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Cedric didn’t fall until a long time later and sat down on the sofa.

‘They are cousins……’

She wasn’t stupid enough to not understand Selina’s words.

The inside of his mouth was dry.

His emerald green eyes, which were moving frantically, suddenly stopped in one place.

It was the seat where Selina was sitting.

The magic tool, which Selina hadn’t taken back, was reflected in the sunset and flashed.

A pagan thing.

Unlike the deteriorated western temple, Cedric, a true believer, did not dare to reach for that devilish thing.

‘No, It won’t be. It’s just Satan’s trick.’

There was no way the devil’s stuff would dare to have the power to screen out bloodlines.

Even if it were so, to believe it was to betray God.

‘I can’t believe such a devilish thing put here. I can’t keep this here, I can’t let anyone see this……’

It’s a big deal if anyone sees it.

Cedric’s large hand gently grabbed the magic tool.

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“…… How is Selina?”

“She is out of her bedroom.”

William’s face was bruised and red, but Cedric was not in the right mind to inquire about the reason.

“Open the door.”

It was Selina’s bedroom.

He had already confirmed that Selina was off on a diplomatic mission.

William, who had hesitated, gently opened Selina’s bedroom door.

Cedric, who was passing by him, stopped for a moment and asked.

“…… Don’t open the bedroom door to anyone without Selina’s permission.”

In fact, he himself was entering the bedroom without Selina knowing.

Cedric, embarrassed by his contradictory words and actions, stepped inside as if he were running away without looking back at William.

Fortunately, the maid was not in the bedroom either.

‘Let’s return the tool back. I’ll just leave this in her bedroom.’

But his eyes were already scanning the floor. His hand holding the kinship reader was firm as if he had no intention of putting it down.

‘I need five strands, aren’t I?’

Selina’s long hair sparkled like a gold thread.

Cedric grabbed the five strands and hurriedly ran out of the bedroom like a thief.

It wasn’t wrong either. Thievery.

‘How could I do this?’

For the first time in his life, his face was hot with the guilt of doing such a dirty thing.

“Are you all right, Commander?”

“……”

Cedric strode to his study, leaving William’s questioning gaze behind.

His heart thumped and he didn’t know what he himself was thinking.

Ten minutes’ distance felt like a few hours.

Cedric slammed the door and breathed heavily.

“Whoo…… Whoo.”

Sweeping his face with one hand, he hurriedly put his head on the magic tool.

Then the mirror roared and swallowed the hair.

It looked like a deceitful trick of the devil, but Cedric couldn’t afford to judge it.

He has already committed a dishonest act.

Only the result was important to him.

When she put down Selina’s hair with trembling hands, the mirror swallowed even that hair.

And the results came out in the mirror.

“……!”

Cedric covered the corner of his mouth, which he almost screamed for a moment.

The reflection on the mirror has two clear red lines.

‘Selina said two lines showing the relationship between parents and children.’

(T/N: I knew it!!! I knew it since you said you spent the night with Selina’s mother that night!!! You immoral bastard!!!!)

Thump- Thump-

His heart was pounding hard……

He felt like his heart was going to pop out.

Cedric grabbed the area around his chest without realizing it.

‘Selina is my daughter?’

It was something he never suspected before.

He has made such a wish countless times, but he never dares……

Of course there was a thing.

He couldn’t forget that night he spent with Joanna.

However, Cedric was so ignorant that he did not think that a noble new life would have been conceived just in that one night.

He first saw Selina after the war when he was about 11 years old.

The result of that short night will be standing in front of him as a proud 11-year-old child…….

It was just unimaginable.

Swallowing his dry saliva, he leaned against the door as if collapsing.

Then he turned around in a hurry and grabbed the doorknob.

‘First, let’s quench our thirst and drink water. Let’s think again with a clear mind.’

Quench my throat…… breath…… Selina is my daughter…… my daughter Selina…… Selina, my daughter……

His mind went white, so Cedric didn’t even know what he was thinking.

Clack!

Suddenly, the door opened.

Cedric’s breath stopped and he almost fainted.

Standing in front of the door was Selina with a cold, calm face.

To Cedric, she looked even scarier than the grim reaper.

In front of him who was stiffened, Selina asked, with a polite smile as usual.

“Have you checked everything, Uncle?”