Chapter 262
Translator: yun
This place was so large I couldn’t reach it as fast as I wanted to. But after walking for a long ti, I finally arrived in front of the scholar’s study. My eyes glanced towards the na inscribed on the door plate before I returned to the hallway. I had actually found the room but I didn’t dare enter. I squeezed my hands for a mont before deciding to open the door. Before I realised it, the light pouring through the window coloured my vision pink.
I knocked on the door.
“Co in.”
The door widened before a gust of wind blew through. When I opened my eyes, I spotted Abel sitting by his desk. Behind his large figure, I spotted the sun setting behind the horizon.
“Who would’ve thought you’d knock before entering?”
He didn’t seem to notice . With his back hunched over and his nose deep into so docunts, his face was crumpled as if he was reading sothing discomforting.
“What. Kizash. Why aren’t you replying? I’ll hand you the docunts by evening…”
His eyes t with mine. His dark green eyes widened in surprise.
“Oh.”
He dropped the papers he was holding.
“Hm, as I was saying, Ashley?”
His long and thick finger pointed towards before I nodded slowly.
“Yes. Do you know ?”
Abel rested his chin on his hand before falling silent. Perhaps he was hesitating to speak. Because he was sitting down, though he still looked tall, he looked scrawnier than before. His hands were so huge it seed like half of his one palm was enough to cover my face.
“I won’t say I know you… but I’ve seen you before.”
Standing up, he strode towards . I flinched. It was out of reflex in response to such a large shadow approaching .
“How should I put this? I’ve t you before back when you were only a small baby. I was young and you were even younger.”
“When I was young?”
“Yes.”
His voice sounded as refreshing as the wind blowing from a forest in the early sumr.
“I never expected to see you this big.”
Stopping in front of , he muttered, sounding troubled.
“I guess I’m getting old too. I never thought I would beco such an old man. Damn. Not the best feeling…”
It seed like he wanted to scratch his eyebrows once more before he smiled at . He then reached his hands towards which caused to stare in shock.
“Ex… Excuse ? H-Hold on…”
Before I could dodge, he lifted into the air.
“Sorry, sorry.”
He mumbled his apologies to as he asked to hold still.
“It’s easier to get a better look at you like this.”
Since his voice was so thick, it sounded like it was resonating from his throat as well. His gaze was directed straight at leaving no place to escape. He held in the air before staring at for a long ti. After a while, his expression turned strange as if he had beco overwheld by his emotions. Rather than looking right at , he seed to be searching for sothing within .
“So, what brings you to co see at this hour?”
He fixed his posture before asking as I remained in his arms.
“That’s…”
Abel gave a slight smile revealing a small glimpse of his snaggletooth. He looked a lot like a villain who just thought of sothing funny.
“It has nothing to do with class, Does it?”
He must already know very well that I haven’t been attending class for the past three days. I hesitated before parting my lips stiffly. I had been worrying about his back but I decided to let it pass for now because it was unexpectedly comfortable hovering in the air in his grip like that. There was sothing more pressing to discuss anyway.
“Since you asked, I’ll get straight to the point.”
I gave his clothes a slight squeeze. I captured his smiling yet serious gaze in mine.
“Did you know that there was an Heir to the Lord here?”
Then, Abel’s eyes widened more than before.
“No?”
His response was so stale it was discouraging.
“You really haven’t seen one?”
“I’ve been here for 10 years now but I’ve never seen one before.”
His gentle gaze rested on .
“Other than you.”
He flashed a cheeky smile.
“… ?”
“Yes, you. I’m sensing a whole lot of energy from you. You seem to be giving off the Power of the Lord. You’re an Heir to the Lord, right?”
His words made flinch. He curled his eyes when I stared back at him. The hands that were holding tightly now felt uncomfortable. Funnily enough, within his dark eyes, a figure I was both unfamiliar with and used to seeing coexisted.
“You’re right. I am an Heir to the Lord. But I have yet to awaken.”
“You’ll awaken soon.”
“Yes, I will… Huh?”
“Nothing, just keep talking.”
I glanced at him warily before saying.
Dane and Lord Ray were not templars. So, there were so things I could not ask them.
“After arriving here, I t a woman. Her na is ‘Rusbella’. She had golden hair and golden eyes. She is a Herbalism student and she’s very good with herbal dicine. She also hails from Kaltanias. She said she had escaped Kaltanias back when she was very young. You must have realised sothing, haven’t you? You know what this ans.”
“Well. That she is another Her to the Lord?”
“Yes.”
Exactly. I nodded my head.
A templar could instinctively feel the Power of the Lord. Soricks ntioned how it made it difficult for them to breathe. But Abel was the Templar of the Winds. So, he must have felt sothing strange. I didn’t know what each person felt, but could he feel that woman’s powers?
“No, that…”
“No what.”
He smirked.
“It’s an open secret but descendants of separate lineages of the Imperial Family exist.”
“Are you saying that, Rusbella, I an, that person is one such descendant?”
“The current emperor has no illegitimate children. I am certain. So that can be the only possibility.”
Abel spoke firmly. He glanced at before flashing another smile.
“The emperor would never let his blood escape his grasp. And the only one not connected to him through his blood is you.”
“… How did you know that?”
“My sister, the 2nd Princess, was a close friend of your mother, Auresia’s. And your father was a good man. To , I an.”
“My father?”
“Acheron. He was another such descendant.”
As I stuttered to say his na, he repeated Acheron once more for . Perhaps the na of my biological father was sticking to my tongue.
“The powers running through these branch lineages are typically weak. And there are more of these lineages than you can even begin to fathom. I have never felt the powers you said to exist here. Her powers must be either insanely strong or abysmally weak to escape my eyes. But if she were that strong, she couldn’t have possibly survived till now. She would have died. If she hadn’t been as weak as the 1st Prince, she would have died with no chance of survival.”
“Because of the emperor?”
“Yes. Just like your father did.”
Instead of continuing, he flashed a smile. But his silence was an affirmation.
“The emperor is a madman who was willing to do anything for the Empire. His obsession with power grew day by day and now it has beco closer to insanity. Your father was one of his victims. In the past, it would be only natural for him to die.”
“But that person is alive. And she has golden eyes.”
“You said that she had fled. She was probably forced by her parents to flee because they couldn’t go to the borders themselves. Perhaps one of her parents was an imprisoned Imperial mber.”
“But.”
I mumbled. I didn’t manage to remove the thorn stuck in my chest that was bothering but he had helped pull it out, rendering speechless.
“If you were from the Imperial Palace, you would know. The 4th prince, my younger brother who is to be imprisoned in his palace for the rest of his life.”
I raised my head upon hearing talk about Amor.
“Why are we talking about Amor now?”
“Because he’s the sa.”
“How?”
“Don’t you find it weird? Why do the Heirs of the Lord appear one at a ti?”
This was a question I once had. As if he noticed the change in my expression, Abel continued.
“To lock them up. It might be surprising but sowhere in the Empire, there is a land that holds all those who carry the Power of the Lord. There are people living on that land who are supposed to be dead. For those bound to nothing, they either end up dying of old age or as a sacrifice to the crystal.”
He then resounded that it might even be better to grow old and die there instead. I was confused by his bitter smile.
“Perhaps she’s the descendant of soone from there.”
The truth had revealed itself readily. I had discovered a clue to a story I had no idea of but why? I didn’t feel a shred of happiness.
“So she’s powerless?”
“Well?”
“You look like you know sothing else.”
He grinned before shrewdly muttering.
“One characteristic ability of Heirs of the Lord is their ability to indiscriminately seduce people regardless of reason or identity. Is the woman perhaps very attractive?”
She was very beautiful… She was ant to be the most beautiful woman in the world. Sothing occurred to as I listened to him. ‘Devilish’. Anyone who ca to know Rusbella would fall in love with her. No way.
“That ability exists regardless of how strong their powers are. That charm is actually their most frightening ability.”
Was there a reason why the had turned out to be a harem novel? No, it was clear that it had just been planned to be that way. The ‘devilishness’ of the Successors of the Lord. I was suddenly reminded of the Head Templars who were deathly afraid of Castor and yet admired him. Even his voice, which I hated so much, was sweet enough to lt my ears.
“Even the weakest heirs have that ability.”
As soon as I ca to my senses, Abel’s deep gaze appeared before . It felt like he was talking about as I lowered my head blankly.
“… I don’t have it.”
“Really?”
Abel held up and tilted his head. I struck his forehead with mine which forced him to let go.
“What do you think brought you to after we had t for the first ti 10 years ago?”
I raised my head.
“I don’t usually say these kinds of things because I’m not used to it.”
“What?”
The gaze he held towards was both warm and friendly yet unfamiliar at the sa ti.
“You’ve grown up to be very cute. It’s a weird feeling.”
I frowned slightly at his comnt. For so reason, I suddenly recalled Fleon. It was strange to see how Fleon was overlapping with a stranger’s figure.
T/N: help i forgot to upload on friday lol
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