Grand Duke of the Heibern House

＜Episode 10＞

Deash is sobbing incessantly with his face buried under the blanket.

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Fragments of colorful clothes were scattered around her bed.

A middle-aged lady stood frowning as she noticed that the torn pieces were Deache’s favorite gold dress.

“Deash. Why are you doing this again?”

Hearing a friendly voice, Deash jumped up and hugged her, as if more sadness was pushed in.

“Black! aunt!”

“Yes, Deash. My aunt is here.”

Contrary to her affectionate voice, a woman caressing Deash’s back with an expressionless face devoid of any emotion.

Soene Franciana Bern.

The hidden power of the great Hibern family.

Another disparate voice flowed from her cold, emotionless lips.

“What happened? Like your brother, you guys are a little strange today.”

Deache stopped crying and looked at Soene.

“What happened to Dane?”

“It sounds like you shook off Lord Teneb’s warning and went into the Valley of the Black Eagle.”

“Black Eagle Valley… … ?”

Deache’s wide-open eyes were filled with fear.

It is the final test place for the knights of the Hibern family.

It was a legendary place where you could definitely get something if you could come out alive.

The problem is that it is a very dangerous place even for seasoned knights.

“it’s crazy! It’s all because of my older brother! It’s because of that madman!”

“Louin? Archduke… … ?”

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For the first time, something similar to emotion appeared on Soene’s face.

Are you a grand duke again?

Lately, she has been hearing rumors of the Archduke in many places.

But they all thought it was an absurd speculation.

It was hard to believe that the cursed man had regained his health.

Not to mention, he showed off his excellent eyesight at the monthly meeting.

manners and manners unsuitable for his age.

An old-fashioned way of speaking that only the elders of the family would say.

Unusual momentum, even natural authority that seems to be worn in the body.

All the news I heard was a series of questions.

However, there was no place in this Hibern family that his feet had not reached, so it was time to start wondering about his true identity.

“Tell this aunt in detail.”

“yes! that’s aunt… … .”

Deash quickly explains what happened.

The face of Soene, who was listening, gradually distorted.

“… … You subdued Dane?”

“huh! That’s two sums!”

“The sum of the two?”

I couldn’t believe it.

this year.

A Dane before coming of age was knighted.

Dane is a swordsman genius professed by the entire kingdom to the extent that the tight-knit king broke the convention.

If he was over twenty years old, not many of the knights of the Hibern family would be able to take his sword.

However, it is suppressed in two sums… … .

It is impossible unless you are a high ranking knight of at least 5 stars.

“If it’s a training ground… … Has anyone seen it?”

“yes! All trainee knights were participating in training!”

It was fortunate.

Information shines when it is monopolized.

“My aunt hopes that our d’Ache will not tell anyone about this for the time being.”

“… … Even your father?”

Soene, smiling brightly.

Soon, she withdrew her gaze from Deache.

Soene’s face turned cold like a ghost as she slowly got up and turned around.

There is nothing more worrisome than having a variable turn into a constant.

Now I had to check the Archduke myself.

“aunt! Where are you going?”

smile.

“This aunt will be back soon, so please wait for a while, Deache.”

Archduke Luin.

He will never be indifferent to the recent oddities that are gripping his limbs.

Soene’s instinct said so.

* * *

Ruin was staring at Soene’s white and slender neck indifferently.

Shall I squeeze and twist?

However, when I met her in person, I was not impressed.

It’s normal to be seething with murderous intent, but strangely enough, I didn’t develop any emotions.

Was the age so frightening?

That bitter hatred only dulled in the face of time.

slap.

Ruin, who turned around without regret, moved toward his villa.

“Out of habit!”

After spitting it out, Soene quickly regretted it.

‘It was all true!’

I could tell just by looking in his eyes.

That all the rumors of the past were true.

Even though the archduke was just staring at him indifferently, emotions of unknown origin swirled without a break.

It was only after Soene was wildly angry at the Archduke that she realized that the reality of that emotion was fear.

Ruin turned around again and was staring at Soene indifferently.

“How did you get here? Oh, is that a meaningless question?”

A woman who took advantage of her father’s absence and took over the iron-blooded family in the dark.

On the surface, it may seem like a complicated power structure has been created, but it is all a board created by Soene.

To her, it was nothing to ignore Ga-yul and go to the detention center.

Ruin’s bitter voice rang out again.

“There is always a right to human behavior. So I’m really curious. Why the hell are you living like that?”

Even now, Ruin couldn’t understand her.

A cold-blooded incarnation who refused to marry in order to keep the castle of Bern.

The twisted maternal love that seduced the Bernese children who were thirsty for motherhood.

A dangerous platform where you can take off your clothes without hesitation in front of a man with power.

To the extent that it was hard to believe that she had lived as the daughter of a ducal family, her life was the embodiment of desire itself.

But did he do it all because of a simple desire?

How desperate could that desire be to endure all such humiliation and perseverance?

“The Archduke. Your words and actions are excessive.”

Looking at Soene, who frowned and covered her mouth, Ruin smiled.

Also, she is not an ordinary woman.

After being so agitated, he quickly puts on a mask.

If he had felt insulted because of his inferiority, he would have made a habit of repeating it like he just did.

But that Soene was exploring herself right now.

Ruin didn’t want to hang out with her before the search.

“Just looking at it makes me sick, so let’s finish it quickly. Listen carefully. Because I have no intention of talking back.”

“… … .”

No matter how Louin is the grand duke representing the authority of the head of the family, Soene is still an adult of a blood relative.

She could not understand why the archduke was so hostile to her.

“Listen.”

In an instant, Ruin’s mood changed completely.

“From today we will have to turn our attention away to our brothers. It means to stop all your efforts to buy their favor.”

If this woman is left as it is, she will become the actual power controlling the swordsman king Dane from behind the silver screen.

Soene’s eyes quivered.

Louin smiled even colder.

“Also, sever ties with Sir Pavan. It is allowed even to the point of secretly supporting the dirty illegitimate child between the two. If you misappropriate any more of the family wealth, you will be killed, as well as Sir Pavan and all the knights who follow him.”

In an instant, Soene’s eyes were lifted to the point where they could no longer open wide.

A secret that no one should know about has been leaked out.

Nonetheless, she quickly regained her composure.

“Was that the only reason they didn’t treat me as an adult in the family?”

Ruin wasn’t too surprised to see Soene taking off her mask and revealing her deep desire.

Her reality has already suffered enough.

The most complete hypocrite in this family.

Even at this moment, House Hibern was being defiled by that woman’s desire.

“no.”

Ruin’s grotesquely twisted smile was cold enough to give goosebumps.

“No child has any respect for the person who killed their mother. Even if you don’t change that dirty face right away, it’s enough for me to be brave and polite.”

In fact, I wanted to come to a more distant past.

Back when my mother was alive, before that.

But the place I arrived at with all those sacrifices is here, right now, at this very moment.

The anger that he thought had been diluted and forgotten for a long time did not subside either.

The anger that started to burn again like the vitality of life made me clearly recognize why I was standing at this moment.

“If you want to maintain even that castle, you will have to live quietly and breathe. I will never step in to try to do anything again.”

After that, Ruin waited in silence.

Now there is no turning back for that incarnation of desire.

As long as the truth is revealed, he will definitely try to get rid of himself.

sssss-

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Following Soene’s signal, dozens of knights emerged from the darkness.

All of them were hiding their faces while wearing dark brown hoodies, but Ruin knew all about them.

Ruin’s gloomy eyes stare into the air.

‘Did you have to hand over the family name to those guys? father.’

The immoral people who stand on distrust of each other, who can only maintain their solidarity if they kill the Archduke together.

Thinking that his mother died because of the desires of those despicable people, Ruin’s blood rushed all over his body.

The stage was set, it was time to detonate the bomb.

“Doesn’t your father know?”

The immoral people who were approaching slowly stopped walking all at once.

sigh.

“Was my curse really true?”

In an instant, something exploded in Soene’s head like a firecracker.

Archduke!

Could it be that Ruin has been acting for so many years to investigate his corruption?

that is nonsense!

It was ten years ago that the Archduke fell under the curse.

At that time, the Archduke was only seven years old.

That you’ve been making such elaborate plans since you were young?

Moreover, what is the miserable appearance of the past?

“everyone! It’s a masterpiece! Kill me now!”

“That yelcock soup you fed your mother.”

“What!”

Ruin’s infinitely transparent face.

“that day. I ate too.”

This was the truth.

In front of her mother, who had collapsed with her heart squeezed, Ruin had died along with her.

The problem was that Gyrobel’s descent began when Ruin was so weak.

“But I survived like this.”

“No, nonsense!”

The poison contained in the yelcock soup was the salivary glands of the Hellact.

There was no way humans could withstand such extreme deadly poison that even a single drop could defeat an ogre.

However, considering the miserable body of the Archduke, it was a claim that could not be ignored.

“I definitely told my father what happened that day. And my father disguised himself as a confined resident and investigated the family. All the secrets I told you I heard from my father.”

The immoral people begin to tremble.

Soene also sat down as if paralyzed by the accident.

“why… … .”

“Why have you been watching all this time? You know that just pulling out a few rotten potatoes won’t cure the blight spreading in your territory. Only after figuring out how far it has spread can we burn the fields all at once.”

Louin’s sneering laugh.

“You immoral people. Go back and await the disposition.”

The most important thing is finally over.

Now, just looking at their father’s eyes will make their limbs tingle.

Every single word from himself will make their dream come true.

Even if you breathe, you will not live. Every moment will be hell with a feeling like a corpse.

Now I didn’t want to show my father these filthy things.

The reality of the immoral was too ugly for my father to bear.

after returning to the past.

It was the first gloomy day.