Chapter 48: Reunion 2
“We have a patient! Please call the doctor!”
When Luke arrived at the clinic, he sought out a doctor and laid Reina on a bed in an empty room.
After a mont, the doctor appeared and took a close look at the patient.
“This is exhaustion. Also, there’s the heat stroke too, if she is provided water and nourishnt and kept in shade, she’ll be fine.”
Luke and the servants sighed out of relief.
When she took a sip of the water, Reina recovered.
“Where, where is this?”
“It is a clinic near the square. Young Lord Luke has... ah! No, princess. You need to rest now!”
When Reina tried to get out of bed, Pavel was asking her to stay seated.
“I can’t. If I don’t et Marquis Mayers and ask for help...”
“For eting the Marquis or for praying. None of it will be possible with your body.”
Luke cut off her words sharply and firmly.
At those stinging words, Reina let go of her stubbornness and rested back.
“Sir Philip, hurry and get the princess sothing to eat. So she wouldn’t be a burden to herself anymore.”
“Yes, young Lord.”
At the order from Luke, Philip went out right away.
After a while, Philip bought soup with mushrooms and at from a close-by restaurant.
While Pavel was scooping soup to Reina, Luke along with Victor went out of the clinic to inquire about what had happened.
“What had happened? Why was the princess kneeling in front of the mansion of Marquis Mayers? That too, like a person receiving leftover food!”
As Luke had asked with a little anger, Victor sighed.
“Phew! Honestly...”
Victor talked a bit about what had happened after their confrontation at the Gigant Arena.
The Count Monarch doubling the taxes to the Volga refugees only for the purpose of getting the princess, the deaths caused by the suspected arson fire in the slums, and their decision to co to Brandon for the purpose of asking help from the nobility in there.
“But the cowardly Marquis Mayers didn’t even et the princess. The princess pleaded, again and again, however, they didn’t even open the gate.”
Victor had told Luke everything that had happened.
‘Maybe seeing her right now wouldn’t be the best choice for him.’
Luke was able to understand what the Marquis was currently going through.
Reina had a huge fa and reputation in Lar, but as she was the princess of another nation, not many would be ready to help her.
If he chose to et her, it would only worsen the relationship with the Count Monarch.
Moreover, if they collided with the Monarch, the royal family mber of the Empire, there was a high probability that Emperor Rudolph would do sothing unbelievable.
Luke’s deduction wasn’t accurate, however, it was very close to reality.
That was the sa for Marquis Mayers, who’d bothered with the Volga refugees who were wandering around the empire.
Moreover, he had to make a cold judgnt as one of the three nobles of high status.
The power of being a nobility wasn’t enough to go against an Emperor, and the internal situations were confusing enough that the neighboring nations would lend help to the Emperor in chaotic situations.
In such situations, if unpredicted decisions were made, irreversible things could happen.
Which was why he hadn’t let Reina enter the mansion premises.
“The princess insisted on praying in front of the gate until Marquis would co to et here. Without a sip of water for three days she was there.”
“Is that so.”
“It really is true... this old body wasn’t able to do nothing!”
Victor thumped his chest out of frustration.
Luke understood the feelings of an old knight who burst into tears.
He also knew the pain of not being able to do sothing for soone special in his past.
“By the way, Young Lord, how co you had arrived over here?”
Victor asked with a lot of curiosity.
Luke spoke the truth as it wasn’t a huge secret to keep,
“I was going back from buying a Gigant.”
“Ah! Then the trailer outside...?”
“Yeah. The Gigant from Hallis Magic Tower.”
At those words, Victor’s eyes went wide as if he was surprised.
‘I heard that the Rakan Viscount was very poor, is it not?’
It was a well-known fact that the brave man Rakan lived in a noble manner but ended up in vain.
And such literary expressions were spoken by those who considered that the Rakan family act was close to reality.
From what Victor knew, he was told that renting a Gigant was hard enough, not even buy it.
But here he said that he had already bought one?
‘Is the estate better these days? Or is there sothing that we don’t know about?’
Either way, Luke had already saved Reina twice.
When everybody just thinks of helping, he extends his hand and helps her out rather than turning his back on her.
‘Maybe this young man is our only savior.’
After a very careful consideration, Victor knelt before Luke.
“Young Lord, this old man has one favor to ask of you.”
“Please, why are you doing this all of a sudden?”
Surprised at what had happened, Luke tried to get Victor up, but Victor shook his head and stayed on the floor.
“Please accept our pitiful princess and our refugees! As you know, the princes will have to beco the concubine of the old, greedy Count Monarch! So please...!”
Luke wasn’t able to hide his fluster.
He knew the loyalty this man was showing, and the size of the estate was large.
Will the Monarch still let the princess and the refugees escape?
They may have to go for a war.
‘One day, I’ll have to touch that Count Monarch, but this isn’t the ti. The power that Rakan has is too little for a war.’
That was the clear situation they were in.
However, Luke, it was Saymon who was letting his emotions get swayed.
“Do you want to let it happened again?”
The tragedy of losing a beloved woman in the hands of the powerful n?
Would he be willing to repeat the sa thing again which he wasn’t able to forget even after 500 years?
But...
‘She isn’t Katarina.’
Like a different person.
And for that reason, revenge wasn’t possible.
‘I feel sorry, but I have to turn away.’
Luke was suppressing his emotions and trying to refuse. Then ca the voice of Reina from behind.
“Please don’t mind .”
“Pri, princess!”
Reina walked with the support from Pavel and knelt before Luke.
“I am fine, it doesn’t matter to anymore, just take in our pitiful refugees! A thousand, no, hundred, please... please save them!”
Reina was on her knees, with tears dripping down.
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