CH 124

There was a commotion in the mansion.

Every time Arsene had a seizure, the servant of the mansion became busy.

“B, bring a wet towel!”

“It’s lukewarm. I think we need to change it?”

Arsene’s seizures were something they had experienced many times before meeting Linsy,

But something was different this time.

A child who has lost consciousness opens his unfocused eyes and mumbles incomprehensible words.

Hern managed to calm down the trembling of his hands and feet.

As Kendrick watched Arsene’s condition continue to get worse, he urged Linsy not to see him.

He also ordered them to say that it would be better not to leave the room as much as possible.

It was clear that Linsy would be sad if she saw Arsene’s condition.

After dinner, Kendrick stayed by Arsene’s side the whole time before heading to the office.

“Degon is here?”

“Yes, he says he has something to report.”

As he left Arsene and went to work, his steps were heavy.

But.

Arsene’s condition continued to get worse, and there was nothing Kendrick could do.

However, it was the father’s heart that he wanted to be by his son’s side as much as possible,

‘I have to do what I have to do.’

Because Kendrick was the head of the whole wolf clan before Arsene’s father.

“The traces of the distribution of Giles pollen have been found…. There are also people who are believed to be victims.”

Degon, who stood tall in the office and waited for Kendrick, hurriedly reported as soon as Kendrick stepped inside.

He quickly looked at the documents that Degon had obtained.

The document contained records of the purchase and sale of suspicious items.

It was not written as Giles pollen, but it was clear that something was secretly distributed.

“There’s a victim? Did you figure it out?”

Degon continued with a short nod.

“Two men in their 40s living alone in the east. We are still trying to figure out how they were poisoned.”

“Eastern country… Isn’t it time for the harvest season to run out of workers?”

“Yes, that’s why the damage is so great. One just lost consciousness, but the other lost his senses and attacked the villagers. At first, the villagers captured them, locked them up, and reported them… but the injured people stopped working. But the harvest is a problem because the injured cannot work.”

It happened where there was a shortage of workers, so it was natural for the damage to be great.

“Let’s find out how to recruit soldiers to help make up for the lack of workers and compensate the remaining damage as much as possible. Have the knights been dispatched?”

“Yes, we have dispatched knights to the black market where the pollen is believed to have been distributed and to the village where the victim occurred in order to more accurately understand the circumstances of the incident.”

“Yeah… I’ll go to the black market myself.”

Then, a knight burst open the office door.

It was truly rude. Degon and Kendrick frowned at the same time.

“…What’s the matter?”

The knight who hurriedly opened the door and entered was a knight guarding the relic room.

Therefore, rather than blaming him for his rudeness, Kendrick asked why he suddenly came.

“I can’t say it easily!”

When the knight spoke with a pale face, Degon nodded and stepped back.

The inability to speak easily was a signal to Kendrick when he had to make a speech and tell a story about something that couldn’t be spoken out.

Kendrick first asked Dagon to leave, and then brought the knight into the office, holding his throbbing temple.

Then.

Paak—!

Using his powers, he quickly covered the entire office with a thin layer.

His powers acted as a sound barrier, so the conversations inside wouldn’t leak out.

Kendrick, with a simple command, lifted the word upon the knight.

“Now tell me.”

When the order was given, the knight nodded with a pale face and said,

“There’s a problem with the relic. Like seven years ago…”

The blue sapphire was blackened.

At the words that came out of the knight’s mouth, Kendrick washed his face dry.

Of all things, why now?

No, maybe now, there might be a problem with the holy relic.

The last time there was a problem with the holy relic.

‘The night Arsene was born.’

It was the night Arsene was born and Kendrick’s wife, Irene Yeckhart, died.

He doesn’t know if there is any connection between Arsene and the holy relic—.

‘Does the holy relic react to Arsene’s physical condition?’

It was a suitable suspicion.

Excluding 10 years ago, when he was a newborn, this was the first time that Arsene was so seriously ill.

[You are not allowed to say this anymore]

Kendrick gave the knight a word again, and then headed with him to the place where he had kept the holy relic.

Sure enough.

“…Just like then. “

Half the blue sapphire was blackened.

10 years ago,

Just like the day Arsene was born.

He can’t hide the ominousness. Something unusual was happening.

Kendrick was engulfed in anxiety. 

The blackened relic and his son Arsene standing between the borders of life and death—.

Resurrected Giles flowers and eventually the victims.

All this means.

Kendrick looked coldly at the blue sapphire, which was the holy relic of the wolf clan.

Kendrick’s face was slightly reflected on the sapphire and soon disappeared.

****

Late at night.

After Arsene’s seizure had calmed down a little, Betty went up to the room to check Linsy.

It was because it bothered her that all the servants were paying attention to Arsene all day long, so they couldn’t look at the Lady properly.

‘The Lady must be upset right now, too…’

Is she sleeping with the windows closed?

Betty always closed the windows carefully and drew the curtains before Linsy went to bed, and pulled the blanket up to her neck to cover her.

Sometimes she woke up and looked at the night sky blankly with the window open.

“Lady, are you hot?”

“….”

Whenever Betty asked, Linsy would stare blankly at Betty, then quickly back into bed and go to sleep.

Betty’s steps became faster, wondering if she was still like that today.

Knock, knock.

She knocked out of courtesy, and then carefully opened the door of the room where Linsy was sleeping.

But.

“…Lady? Are you hot again?”

Linsy was sitting on the window frame looking out, leaving the window wide open.

“It’s dangerous to sit there. Come down, Lady.”

At first glance, it was a risky and dangerous posture.

A posture that could easily fall out of the window.

And this room is on the second floor, and it’s a flower bed right underneath, although it’s covered with soft soil—.

‘If you fall, you’ll get hurt.’

Maybe it’s possible to do a shapeshift before falling so she doesn’t get hurt.

Linsy was almost asleep now. At least that’s what Betty has been watching.

Because she often acted like she was awake even when she was asleep.

Betty tried to approach Linsy carefully so that she wouldn’t fall and get hurt.

But.

“Lady!”

Linsy jumped up from her seat. It became the appearance of standing precariously on the window frame.

It was a long window, so her head could stand tall without touching the ceiling. In the night breeze, Linsy’s pajama dress fluttered.

“Lady, it’s dangerous!”

Betty tried to get to Linsy quickly,

“….”

The moment her eyes met Linsy’s, she had no choice but to stop on her spot as if hardened.

When Linsy’s gaze met her, her whole body didn’t move as if it had frozen.

Betty panicked and tried to shapeshift, but even that didn’t work out the way she wanted.

The moonlight poured into the room, and the white pajamas shook like curtains in the night breeze.

Linsy, who stood tall by the window and glanced at Betty, with her back in the room, slowly turned her gaze outside.

Pong—!

A familiar explosion was heard, followed by red wings appearing behind Linsy’s back.

It was an incomplete shapeshift form.

Linsy flapped her wings a few times, and red feathers rolled around the room.

Betty couldn’t stop Linsy, and just stood there like a statue and looked at the child.

“…I have to go.”

Linsy, who had been looking out for a long time, turned her head and murmured as she looked at Betty.

She wanted to ask where the hell she was going, but her whole body hardened and she couldn’t ask.

Then.

When Linsy’s gaze moved away for a moment, she was finally able to speak.

Betty stammered with a pale face.

“What do you mean you have to go? Where on earth are you going, Lady— Come down first, Lady. It’s really, really dangerous.”

Linsy’s hazy gaze looked around the room for a moment, then to Betty.

And then.

The child smiled with the happiest expression in the world.

After Betty met Linsy, it was her first innocent smile.

And after that.

Pong—!

Linsy turned into a red bird and soared into the night sky before Betty could stop her.

She could see the long scattering of red tail feathers.

Betty hurriedly ran to the window where Linsy was standing and watched her fly away.

“…Lady.”

All that was left was a few red feathers.