Episode 57

There are three moments in life.

Only three chances to change your life.

Linbell, who was in danger of losing her home to the Chimera, was deceived by the soldiers who were in charge of the castle gate.

half of the stolen property. Forced separation from mother. Hunger and thirst overwhelm.

For her, who was born in the village all her life, the world she first met was cold.

I didn’t know what to do.

The only thing she can do is to question the soldiers, believing that there is good justice. But she couldn’t afford it either.

lack of power

‘What? Keep your promise?’

The soldier who should be just was rotted to the root, and no one passing by helped her.

She did not add even the slightest strength to the real threat, and she could not stand the soldiers, who had no power.

That’s when he was trying to show his black feelings to the soldiers.

he appeared

The noble dignity that is revealed on the outside and the strong momentum that overwhelms all directions.

‘It’s Allen Reinhardt.’

He plucked out the tongues of the soldiers who insulted the family, and at the same time rescued her from the abyss.

“What is your name?”

The life of fifteen came to me as if it was flowing.

For her, his appearance was a turning point that changed her life.

He was different from the other nobles who were rumored to be there.

Listen to the words of the commoners.

He understands the circumstances of the unavoidable sin.

It was not, however, a purposeful favor.

He granted her request.

The next day, Enelia, who had been wandering outside, entered the city gate at once at his command.

The gate, which felt like a very large wall, was opened with a single word, and even the fearful soldiers did not dare to defy his might.

So I immediately agreed to his request to become a maid.

‘I will become Confucius’ handmaiden.’

Because I know what power is.

Because I felt what it meant to be powerless.

It was only one day, but what Linbell went through was enough to change her mind.

But one more day passed, and Enelia was kidnapped. No, she was kidnapped.

‘because of me.’

The demonic monster blatantly aimed at Linbell, and Enelia followed the demon for her sake.

It was only then that she realized that power does not work in the face of true power.

In the face of true power, the intangible authority had no power and collapsed like a sand castle.

And it was applied to the enemies as well.

‘I’ll save you.’

Confucius was strong.

He defeated dozens of monsters by himself, and no trap could hold his feet.

That’s how I admired him.

‘Strength, I need strength.’

as strong as Confucius.

Without being swept away by the waves, the power to resist unreasonable things.

To her, there seemed to be nothing that Allen could not do with her power.

After that, things went as she thought.

Allen managed to rescue Enelia safely before anything happened.

Linbell saw him face the Chimera Shaman, and without hesitation left the workshop with her.

Not long after, Allen walked out of the cave.

With the death of the Chimera Magician.

‘Yeah, you have to build up your strength. For me, for my mother, and again.’

to repay Confucius for his favor.

Fortunately, she said she had talent.

“You are a genius. He is a real genius who cannot be compared to others.”

He said she was special.

Pranara said that she could wield a noble power.

You can clearly do it because you are different from others.

she was happy

To be able to become strong just as he said, to receive the expectations of his longing.

So he swung his sword.

both at night and during the day.

To live up to his expectations, to be strong.

Even if you want to give up on the training you received for the first time, even if the work of a strict maid is difficult.

didn’t give up

“Why, why not?”

Nothing changed.

‘It was a lack of effort, because it was not desperate.’

reduced sleep at night.

I doubled my training time.

I blended training into my daily life.

The waitress who was in charge of the training praised it as a great talent.

So, a month passed.

“Is the seat uncomfortable?”

She still couldn’t deal with prana.

It was desperate.

“… Hehe. The carriage is a bit inconvenient.”

I couldn’t help but laugh like a fool.

Unlike Inelia, the clumsy maid’s work and the force that did not live up to her expectations gave her a sense of crisis.

I’m afraid I’ll get in the way of the person I admire.

Because I don’t want to betray the infinite trust.

He hid the desperation behind the cute acting.

It was the same when the thieves attacked the carriage.

“I will go!”

I killed the thief with the skills I had learned so far.

There was no impact of the murder. there shouldn’t have been

Because it was an ordeal to awaken his noble power, he struggled to masturbate, and his trembling hands were passed on because of harsh training.

I thought it was of minimal value.

“Don’t go out with Enelia for a while.”

Linbell was left in the mansion.

alone again.

Again, I am acutely aware of

“… You have to prove your worth.”

He swung his sword again.

The feeling of alienation left alone has turned into jealousy,

The desperation of what we didn’t have became an obsession.

What is noble power?

“I swear lofty chivalry, make noble oaths, and keep unfulfilled promises.”

It was a word referring to the basics of prana and a phrase penetrating the core of the noble power.

“What are you going to put in it?”

Prana contains emotions.

A promise, an oath, a declaration, a vow, a revenge.

“Why can’t I? why? why? why… .”

can’t reach

My mother takes orders from Confucius and carries them out.

In the passing world, only himself was stagnant.

So I hung on to something else.

To prove that he has changed, to show him.

“Please, take me too. Confucius.”

Allen didn’t take her.

There was no place for her on the journey to the witch hunt.

They couldn’t prove their worth as they did when they killed a thief, and they weren’t even given a chance to watch closely.

He smiled as always.

“I have work to do, so stay with Enelia.”

Linbell was desperate.

I felt like I was being eaten by a feeling of helplessness against myself.

He seemed to be suffocated by his infinitely pouring out of favor.

‘… … .’

The mother moves again, secretly.

according to the orders of Confucius.

Except yourself.

“… I.”

Linbell’s eyes twinkled darkly.

The unsatisfied longing went beyond obsession into madness.

And, at the end.

Eyes opened.

What caught my eye as soon as I woke up was the familiar, but ceiling of another room.

“… Why are you here?”

Looking around, this was one of the many private rooms in the mansion.

“Follow Confucius to the forest of divine trees… , and… ?”

I can’t remember what I did a while ago.

She immediately left the room.

The place he headed was the familiar personal study of Confucius.

If you go there, you’ll know what happened.

However, the attitude of the servants around was strange.

“You, you… .”

“… How are you!”

“Hey… !”

It was as if he had seen a ghost, as if he had witnessed a dead person.

She stopped asking questions as she looked away from behind without even asking for anything. Because she was the first to go to Confucius.

The hallway of the mansion was a little unfamiliar.

‘Did something like that happen?’

Objects that did not exist until just a few days ago were adorning both sides of the hallway, and the place she was familiar with felt something foreign.

There were fewer people there than usual.

It’s like avoiding the road to this place.

‘I can’t.’

Who is Confucius

What is the reason for the Reinhardt family to avoid Confucius?

Lin Bell cleared his thoughts and quickly arrived at Confucius’ personal study.

There was no answer from the room.

But there was a faint sound of paper flapping through the cracks in the door.

‘I guess you didn’t hear it because you were studying.’

Is the mother still carrying out Allen’s orders?

Linbell opened her mouth again, suppressing the wriggling emotions inside her.

“Confucius, this is Linbel.”

When she opened her mouth once more, the muffled sound ceased.

And there came a weak, sharp answer that could hardly be thought of as Allen.

“It’s not dinner time yet, but what’s going on? If nothing else, turn it off.”

It was strange.

Confucius wouldn’t be able to give an answer like that.

Linbell suddenly remembered the appearance of the servants running away and the mansion that felt alien to him.

She moved as she felt an eerie sensation rising under her feet.

She will be punished for not being allowed, but she wanted to relieve her strangely trembling anxiety.

Bump-

“Didn’t I tell you to turn it off! what are you… .”

When I opened the door, what was there.

“… how are you you, you! How are you alive! Did you come to pick me up? Maybe, maybe… .”

An unshaven beard and red, bloodshot eyes.

A head full of idiots and a face full of blemishes.

The man who was looking at her with eyes full of fear.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry. But not yet! I mean it didn’t happen! I mean, I had to save my brother! please please… .”

Allen Reinhardt.

It looked a little different, but it was definitely him.

“Ball, sir… ?”

“Go away. I will ask you this. please please… , my brother is waiting for me. If you bow your head, don’t bow down, if it’s a villa, I’ll beg you. so… .”

He sprinted backwards to the wall as Linbell approached him, and immediately fell to the floor.

“Confucius, what is this… .”

Linbell was perplexed.

What is this? Why is Confucius all of a sudden? She opened her mouth, trying to say something.

“… Confucius, why are you like this? what suddenly… , where is your mother?”

“I’m sorry for killing your mother. So please… .”

“Inelia, you are Confucius’s handmaiden. To die what is that… .”

“Please, I have never had a maid. Someday I will pay for my sins So stop disappearing.”

However, I only found out that there was an incomprehensible gap between the two of them.

“What about the others? Soned top lord or Karik top lord… .”

“Soned, did you go to that merchant? No, who is Karik? .”

Perhaps it was only then that he noticed something strange, raising his sullen face, he raised his hand to grab the medicine bottle on the desk, and then took a handful and put it in his mouth.

ugh-

In an instant, the pupils open, and the hazy gaze turns blankly toward the air.

how much has it been

He murmured at the sight of her that did not disappear even after several minutes had passed.

“… Isn’t that a hallucination?”

I thought it was strange because the hallucinations were more vivid than usual.

It would have been a few more days before the seizure occurred.

But even more strange than that.

“No, more than that… .”

You returned to the mansion as a corpse.

“… How are you alive?”

“uh… , I do not know?”

Rumors spread widely that Linbell, who had died in the mansion, had come back to life.

Most of the users did not believe it, but seeing her wandering around the mansion had no choice but to believe it.

But no one wanted to hang out.

It was partly because she didn’t have any close friends because she usually wandered around to kill the monster, but those who saw her crushed body rushed to flee from the ominous feeling.

On the second day, Linbell met Allen again.

“… Is that the end?”

She told him everything she knew.

from how you got here.

He knew his appearance and his actions.

Even his relationship with Julius.

Allen snorted with a dismayed face as he inhaled the toxic smoke from the cigarette.

“Fha, did you fail in the end? Then all my actions… .”

He seemed to have noticed something in her story.

Unlike himself, he was smart, so it wouldn’t be strange if he found out something from Linbell’s words.

“It will be useless.”

He drank the strong wine whole.

The amber liquid burned his throat in an instant.

“Khat, are you making peace with Julius? Defeat the Chimera Shaman? Stop the raids of bandits? ha ha ha! It’s really, really, really like me.”

bang-!

The remaining liquid sloshed and swirled inside the bottle, and Allen took another deep breath.

She looked a little awkward.

He was a Confucius who never touched alcohol, let alone cigarettes.

“Really, really, that’s my opinion… . I won’t make the same mistake again.”

It was obvious what he was thinking.

Isn’t that what you’re trying to eat from the inside out?

The reason why the future ‘me’ behaved like that was also inferred.

“I have already failed.”

The ‘me’ of the future exists and is acting.

And Linbell was with the future ‘me’.

That meant one thing.

“This place is fake.”

She blinked her eyes in surprise.

“This is fake… ? It looks so real.”

“Still, that doesn’t change the fact that it’s fake.”

He smiled cynically with a desperate, despondent face.

Time can never go back to the past.

However, no matter how deceitful or expedient they used, in the end, ‘I’ returned to the past, and thus his future was confirmed.

That means that no matter what Allen struggles with, he can never change the ‘present’.

“So this is an elaborately crafted fake or… Yeah, it’s just an illusion. According to your story, maybe… .”

that means soon.

“Shinsu… Did you say that the last thing you saw was a divine beast? It must have something to do with that divine beast.”

whatever he does here,

I can’t save my brother.

“I will find out about it. She said that she was ‘I”s handmaiden. I should help.”

It was a death sentence.

he smiled mischievously.

Linbell looked at him without a word.

Pursuing perfection in everything, there was no Confucius who had strong force.

‘I haven’t figured it all out yet… .’

Even if it was different from the Allen she admired.

“Now then, tell me the story of Confucius.”

For the first time, he put on a puzzled expression.

The figure of him wrinkling his nose and raising his eyebrows was something that Allen, who had always only shown a calm and calm side, would not show.

“Aren’t you embarrassed because you only talk about me?”

“… What do I mean, did ‘I’ allow you to act like that?”

“Yes, of course!”

He grinned at the blunt answer.

“then… , there’s nothing I can’t talk about.”

Probably about 15 years ago.

When the younger brother became an asshole while trying to relieve his stupid brother’s anger.

There was one older brother who swore he would give everything for him.

One idiot who wants to save his younger brother.

That’s how the story started.

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