Chapter 295
Translator: yun
“…..”
“So what if I’m a shadow? So what if the work I do is dirty? Is everyone walking around with their hands clean happy?”
With a rather nonchalant and business-like expression, Dane stared at the 2nd Prince. But the 2nd Prince’s smile remained bright. He might make a good monarch. However, Dane was not at all interested in whether people treated him kindly or not. No, in his world, there were so little things that took up such a big part of his life that he didn’t care about much else.
“If you really wish to bring to your side, please answer this. Can soone who never had the chance to keep their hands clean from the start find happiness?”
Dane asked with an imnsely serious expression.
“Everything will be alright.”
He might be staring at Julian at the mont but he was thinking of soone else.
“… You’re asking sothing I cannot answer.”
Dane had asked Julian a question he could not answer. Julian, he was getting to know Dane better.
“This isn’t for to answer. Will you be happy?”
He was soone who had only been given clean splendid paths to walk from the start.
“Why don’t you think I’m happy?”
Julian hesitated before asking.
“Sotis, I see things that others cannot see. Dane, I might just be an outsider to your life but that’s why I can see.”
The wise prince replied.
“The path you have chosen might bring you more unhappiness.”
Dane flashed a blinding smile.
“Even if no one chooses to follow and I end up falling into a pit of fire, it was still the choice I made.”
Lowering his head, he smiled widely.
“Which is why I’d like to decline your offer, my prince. My reason remains the sa. I’ve decided to be the night for just one person.”
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Dane’s love was like a shadow.
He cannot exist without her.
He would not appear unless she looked back.
Nevertheless, Dane was satisfied with his life.
“You blockhead. How can you be so foolish? I heard that she doesn’t rember seeing you before, right?”
He knew that Ashley was not of the current emperor’s blood. Which was why he did not hesitate to make the emperor beco addicted to his drugs.
He made the emperor desperate for the high. Made him crave only what he could make.
“I don’t know. Brother. I’ve been pondering over it too.”
I wonder if I had been resenting Ashley.
“But?”
“It’s alright because I rember.”
He would not force her to love her. He didn’t even beg for her love.
Even though she had forgotten him, he wanted her to be happy.
“What should we do from now, my prince?”
“We should head to the western borders. There’s a capable general stationed there.”
“A general?”
“Yes. He has been guarding our borders for a long ti.”
“… You’re not going to treat your eyes?”
“Well. We’ll be taking care of that too.”
His love was that of the past, sothing could never be reciprocated.
But he was satisfied.
‘It’s fine. Because I rember.’
As Dane gazed upon the vast lands of the Empire, a smile slowly appeared on Dane’s face.
He couldn’t see but he could feel the Empire getting further.
We might be apart only for a while now but Ahn, our separation would be further.
“If I manage to rember you again, I’ll call your na then. You can call my na then too.”
Even if you never end up calling my na.
Rosé.
Not a day goes by when I don’t wish for your happiness.
The Two Princes and the Worst Emperor.
“My body is creaking.”
Rebecca turned her head at the sound of my sigh. She stared at for a mont before handing the docunts.
“Get used to it.”
“I see that being an adult is not all sunshine and roses.”
“Just be glad that you’ve only recently started growing.”
Rebecca’s words left gasping for air. Because of my sudden growth spurt, new dresses need to be tailored for . For now, I had been borrowing from Rebecca’s closet.
‘I know dresses are weapons.’
But Rebecca’s dresses were really heavy. I was once again seeing Rebecca in a new light.
“How did you even manage with dresses like those?”
“There’s nothing you can’t do once you’ve gotten used to them.”
Rebecca smiled softly. She then blankly stared out of the window for a mont. I rember seeing her like that before. Just recently. I ignored her before lowering my gaze to read the docunts.
‘This is all I can do for you.’
It had been a week since Dane left.
If anything had changed, I could say things did and if nothing had changed, I could say nothing had too.
One of those changes was . I had awakened as a templar and undergone major changes in my body.
If I were to talk about the changes in detail, not only did my hair get longer but I also grew taller.
Seeing Auresia, I thought I wouldn’t grow that much taller but I grew to be taller than average.
‘That’s why my whole body aches.’
Strangely, after awakening, I seem to have grown more similar to Auresia.
Rather, I look like the younger version of Auresia I often see in her portraits.
“Princess, I-I an, you. Princess, you look…”
“What’s the matter?”
I was used to the patrols complinting nonstop but it was strange to see them blush at the sight of . Usually, people would be occupied by my cheek and mock .
What had not changed was the situation. The situation was as bad as ever.
The Empire was currently divided into two factions–the Crown Prince and the 2nd Prince’s. However, the 2nd Prince’s following, which had been much larger in number, had collapsed onto itself. The consul that ford the centre of the faction had died and the 2nd Prince was imprisoned.
Dissatisfied with the emperor, the righteous had tried to rise to the occasion but failed due to the opponent’s overwhelming force. The situation was grim.
‘Seeing it again, it wouldn’t be right to call them righteous…”
Their coup had succeeded. To the extent that the nas of those in power had changed. The 2nd Prince was as gentle as ever but it had been the late consul and empress who had gotten too greedy.
‘Still, the 2nd Prince would be better than the emperor or Castor.’
He wasn’t the worst but he wasn’t good either. Nonetheless, he would be a saint compared to Castor.
‘But that’s all useless now.’
Officially, the emperor only had one possible successor to his throne.
Castor Dje Kaltanias.
The one whose hidden na was ‘The Last Emperor’.
“Princess, focus on your surroundings. What do you feel?”
“I don’t feel anything.”
ta, who was beside , was holding in his laughter. I could hear sporadic puffs of his breath.
“Now, open your eyes.”
When I opened my eyes, I found Soricks together with ta who really was trying to hold his laughter back.
“It’s all about driving the energy in your body and concentrating it into your eyes.”
“Like how you’re hitting ta, who’s annoying you?”
“…. Not bad.”
I gave a slight smile before looking at ta.
“ta, do you feel anything?”
“Do you see our beautiful princess?”
He retorted slyly.
“May I strike his mouth, princess?”
“Calm down, Soricks.”
I wasn’t even sure if I was concentrating all the strength I had.
“It’s alright. Princess, you might find it difficult starting out or even make a few mistakes both because your awakening was so late and because you have that much divinity.”
“Will it take long?”
“I think it’ll only be hard at first.”
Soricks taught how to control my divinity. Soricks, who had the ability to recognise divinity, could delicately temper with my divinity. Hence, it made the most sense for him to be my teacher out of the rest of the patrols.
However, it had already been a week and no progress had been made. He comforted and told not to worry.
“The key is in the eyes. It’s all about focusing it in your eyes.”
“Eyes… Just as I thought, I still can’t do it.”
I didn’t understand what he taught today and there was no progress made.
‘It felt like I was focusing.’
Divinity was manifested through the eyes. That was why when templars used their divinity, their eyes would glow. I was told that younger children learn faster but since I just awakened, it would be hard for .
‘So, I’d need to find my own way around this after all…’
I felt sorry for the kind Soricks but if nothing had happened for a week, it’d only get harder in the future. Focus, I had to focus.
I had used divinity before. During the Founding Festival, I shot a beam of light at so gelatin monsters. That beam of purple light had burst from the diary.
How did it feel back then?
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