Chapter 151

# 151

Chapter.36 Hibiren Flowers and Concert

Great City’s Lord’s Castle.

Verna was playing the Legana in the concert hall at the top. Legana is a keyboard instrument that can be considered the organ of this world.

On the Earth where El lived, a keyboard instrument called the organ was played long before the piano appeared.

There is a similar instrument in this world, and its name is Legana.

Legana means a lot to Berna. It was her only dream while she was trapped.

After being forced to marry, the only thing she requested from Count Gray was this instrument.

His own mother, who died screaming, was a legana that his mother often played. The image was so strongly imprinted in young Verna’s brain that she longed for this instrument.

Afterwards, Legana became, in a sense, the medium through which Verna fell in love with Count Gray.

This legana is installed in the hall at the top of the castle. The ceiling of the hall, which draws a round arch, has a spire when viewed from the outside.

Inside the tall spire. The structure was built to make the instrument sound better.

It was also a design that contained the affection of the Gray boy’s father, the Earl of Gray. This concert hall was a gift from Count Gray for Berna.

Therefore, Verna also had a very strong attachment to this concert hall.

Verna’s hand moves.

The movements of the fingers were very passionate and very fast. Even at a glance, it is clear that he uses a considerable level of playing technique.

So the melody that flows is also beautiful.

The Gray boy was listening blankly to the performance in the background, and then clapped as soon as Verna’s fingers stopped.

The Gray boy also likes to listen to Verna’s performance.

When she was young, Verna often played the legana with the Gray boy sitting next to her.

Beads of sweat were hanging on Verna’s forehead, and the boy took out a handkerchief and held it out. And then he let out an exclamation.

“Mom, it seems like your skills are getting better. “I have never heard a performance like this even in the capital.”

“Why are you so embarrassed? “It’s not that great.”

“Oh no. “Is it true?”

The more the Gray boy praised, the more Berna’s face darkened. And then, with a gloomy look on his face, he quietly shook his head at the boy.

“it is not so. “I think my playing skills are really poor.”

Now Verna is by no means shaking from humility. What can I do by showing off my son’s humility?

The nuances in her voice were completely sincere. In other words, Verna actually thinks that way.

Thanks to this, the Gray boy frowned slightly without Verna knowing.

I tried to change that thought somehow, but it was no use. The Gray boy felt very sorry for that.

Of course, I know the reason.

A concert is held once a year in the capital. It is on a completely different scale from the concerts held in the estate.

Also, although the name is a concert, in reality it is like a competition to compete against one another. No, it’s clearly a competition.

A competition is held where numerous nobles, including the emperor, participate and play the legana, and it is called the Imperial Concert.

The legana was an instrument of great significance and popularity in the world.

It is an instrument so deeply rooted in aristocratic society that all nobles learn this legana from birth.

Therefore, this concert was the biggest event taking place in the empire.

It is a large competition with such a long tradition.

However, Verna could not learn Legana, which all nobles must learn.

Right now.

Every time I hear her play, I think of my husband’s always smiling face.

Even now, while I was just lying down, I was obsessed with the delusion that my husband would laugh if I told him how to play, so I don’t know how much I tried to play Legana next to my husband.

But the results were all failures. She was the kind of woman who took care of her like that and taught her what joy in life is, but she could only end up last.

My hands were shaking and I couldn’t move.

“I’m fine when I’m practicing... why... why... .”

“So let’s go out again. Even if you come in last place, it’s still the same, and if you get a different result, you can come back with confidence!”

“but... .”

“In the meantime, I misunderstood my mother and couldn’t do anything about it because of my family’s circumstances, but it’s different now, right? Now I think it’s okay to go out again. Count Dedran is no more!”

“... ... .”

Verna’s eyes wavered at the Gray boy’s words.

That made sense.

If I get different results and can show that I have grown, I will be able to confidently play legana in front of my husband.

Verna clenched her fists.

And then he held the boy’s hand. It didn’t take long for me to nod quietly.

But if there is a problem.

The Gray boy is also just a political prospect who is starting to grow little by little.

He is still too young to understand the huge whirlwind of imperial politics.

Therefore, the Gray boy had no idea that the political threads of the concert were intertwined.

***

Imperial Capital.

Delian, one of the four dukes, was looking at the concert participation list.

Delian is a member of the royal family. Among the royal family, he was the owner of the Delian family, which produced the most emperors in the empire.

He was also an unlucky man whose line of succession to the throne was very far apart because the last emperor was born from a collateral line rather than a direct lineage.

A man who could have ascended to the throne if he had been born 100 years earlier.

But he still has enough power as is. He is the owner of the Delian duchy, which produced as many as 13 emperors.

Therefore, he had the greatest power among the four dukes.

And in his heart, he had an ambition to produce another emperor from the Delian duchy.

Of course, that ambition does not mean rebellion. Rather, there was a regular method.

Because the next emperor who ascends the throne does not necessarily have to be the current crown prince.

The duke’s mansion. In the study, Delian opened his mouth, handing the list he was reading to his hand, Count Michel.

“Look about halfway down that page there.

“Are you talking about the middle?”

Hearing the Duke’s words, Count Michel began to quickly look through the list.

I chant middle, middle, middle in my heart.

And then I read the middle name. The name written there was Verna Gray.

“Do you mean Verna Great?”

When Count Michel carefully checked, Duke Delian waved his hand to indicate that he had guessed it right.

“okay. She was the daughter of that bastard, Count Dedran. “It’s dirty.”