Grand Duke of the Heibern House

＜Episode 40＞

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Ruin stares at the bar with dim eyes.

Ruin, who had lightly straightened himself, sat down on the bed with a feeling of great relief.

How long has it been since you had such a good night’s sleep?

Ruin caresses his chest, where the aftertaste still lingers.

pounding.

Yesterday was the first time since I led the superhuman union that my heart was pounding intoxicated with the heat of the army.

‘It was rather a better result.’

He tied the hearts of the knights more tightly than he expected.

A sense of atonement shown by the head of the Heibern family and direct descendants.

It showed the determination of a lion to the pure-blooded, and the tolerance of a lion to the immoral.

The beat of the weapons that filled the castle.

A huge roar followed.

They did not dare to express it exaggeratedly with the etiquette of a knight.

They just stood up and repented with their own weapons, and they only accepted it.

The knights cried with all their hearts and swore allegiance with their swords.

Ruin finally realized that the Heibern family had changed at their response, which resonated more in his heart than any other oath.

‘father… … Come to my Hibern… … .’

Long ago, after the rebellion of Dane, the king of swordsmanship.

When they arrived at the ruined house, nothing was left.

A huge castle site where no trace can be found.

As if it had never existed, the Heibern family had been completely erased from the world without leaving a trace of memories.

how much regret

how much I cried and cried

There was nothing that could be done even with the mighty power of a great mage who transcended superhuman powers.

Fragments from the past who thought they hated the family.

However, the moment he saw the ruined family, he realized how much he missed his father and this Hibern family.

I only had memories of moaning in pain as my vitality dried up.

Although he could only think of the stinging gazes of his blood relatives watching Bern’s disgrace.

Still, the family was where the father, who sacrificed everything for himself, lived.

‘I will definitely protect you.’

The family you wanted to protect.

Knowing that his father would have mourned the family’s demise more than anyone else had he been alive, he wanted to make this Hibern family stronger than any other family.

The horror of this darkness.

The changed Swordsman.

It must have been made that way.

smart.

In the early morning you always hear the knocking sound.

It might be a way to adapt, but the visit of the guy who didn’t give an inch of gap was a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of

“woke up.”

The door opened, and a servant approached and hurriedly bowed.

“Grand Duke. Master Dane visits… … .”

“Ask me to come in.”

“older brother!”

Dane is coming running as soon as the horse is afraid to fall.

He stood in front of Ruin with a lot of excitement on his face and bowed his head.

“I respect you, brother!”

“huh?”

Something changed in Dane’s attitude.

Ruin, who was frowning, looked at his eyes and was frightened.

“What, what?”

Dane’s eyes were burning brightly.

Passion, enthusiasm, respect, envy and things like that.

Soon he patted his chest and smiled broadly.

“I still have the thrill of yesterday! I’m sure I’ve never felt so majestic in my life!”

Ruin smiled and understood his brother.

Even this fear of darkness, which has been through prenatal battles, does not go away like this.

What’s more, it must be the first thrill he experiences in his life.

The heat of the army is sometimes more intoxicating than any other drink.

However, Dane’s dressing style was a bit strange.

“Can you? Aren’t you sleeping?”

It was the same outfit he wore yesterday.

“How am I going to sleep? This is the way to see off the expedition.”

Could it be that, drunk with the heat of the army, he went out on the march and returned only in the morning?

Indeed, his clothes and shoes were dirty here and there.

“How far?”

“I just returned from Hereta Hill.”

Ruin shakes his head.

“How did you get that long way? It would have taken a toll on the body. Go ahead and rest.”

“it’s okay. Compared to what my older brother did, this much… … .”

Dane could hear all of his older brother’s voices even now.

Scenes that were too shocking for him, who could only think of his anger toward his vassals.

His older brother’s transcendent wisdom and powerlessness that he had experienced so far were nothing.

Yesterday’s older brother was the most ideal monarch he had vaguely imagined.

It was authoritative, but it was inclusive.

Loyalty was forced, but the process was a sacrifice.

The grand duke of the Hibern family who grabbed and shook the hearts of all the knights with the ritual of atonement.

An older brother who threw away his noble honor like stubble for the sake of a mere sinner.

His actions were enough to unite all the hearts of purists and immoral people.

Dane realized why his father trusted him so much.

“older brother.”

Distinction flows from Ruin’s eyes.

Because Dane was suddenly looking at him with a serious expression.

“Tell me.”

“Now I will refuse. The Archduke of Hibern must be your brother. Even if my father orders my brother to take over the headship right away, I will agree.”

Dane’s bold behavior.

“The highest honor a knight can attain, the standard bearer of the kingdom. Aren’t you greedy?”

At that time, the youngest Wipon entered Ruin’s room and quickly came running.

“I’m in favor too bro!”

Looking at Wepon, who was making a determined expression with his cute cheeks that were about to explode, Ruin burst into laughter.

“ha ha ha! Why are you even doing this?”

“It was like a father. Oh no, more than my father… … .”

Wiphone shuts its mouth as if it couldn’t bear to let out all of yesterday’s impressions.

“Competition can also have to be matched to some degree. Brother just… … Oh I hate to say more. It just makes me miserable.”

Dane was trembling as if he was humiliated.

overwhelming force.

unknown magic.

A transcendent wisdom that doesn’t even look like a person.

Qualities of a negotiator who roasted and boiled even the first prince of the kingdom and the sage of the Mage Tower.

Even the monarch’s ability to capture the hearts of thousands of knights.

This was his older brother, Ruin, a person who could not possibly catch up with anyone.

“Even if it wasn’t so, I was about to meet my father about it.”

Father’s actions yesterday.

Clearly, it was an expression of his determination not to let go of himself.

But his body can’t do that.

A clearer positioning was needed.

When Ruin, who had washed himself clean, left the place of confinement wearing a robe, his younger siblings followed him.

* * *

Head of the Hibern family.

“aunt?”

Wiphone running fast.

He heard that his aunt became a criminal in the family, but Wipon is still at an age where it is difficult to understand the family’s political situation.

Soene ran up and awkwardly held Wiphone in her arms.

“Wephone… … .”

“huh! How are you, aunt?”

“… … .”

To Wipon, Soene is like a mother.

While Dane was looking at Wipon with a mixed feeling, Ruin bent down and took a step back.

“Guests came first. Then we’ll come back later.”

“no. Everyone sit here.”

Dane bit his lip as he looked at his father, whose complexion was not good.

“Did you really have to use Roar Seeds?”

“Nothing to worry about. What is the Archduke doing? Come and sit down.”

Soon after, Ruin sighed and pulled out a chair and sat down.

I wanted to talk with my family, but since Yucain and Soene were together, I couldn’t talk privately.

“Seeing that you brought your younger siblings, did you come to discuss family matters?”

“That’s right. Lord.”

Kazen thought for a moment, then nodded.

“I will solve the rhythm and etiquette of this place. Tell me what you were trying to discuss.”

Ruin frowned.

Do you dare to talk about your family in Soene’s presence?

I didn’t like my father’s order, but I couldn’t help it. This could no longer be put off.

“… … All right. Then Uncle Yukain should also sit down.”

When everyone’s eyes focused on Ruin, his determined voice came out.

“father. I have already declared that I will renounce the position of Archduke in front of countless knights in Bernheneum Hall.”

“so?”

“Furthermore, my father surely allowed me to raise Dane as a grand duke.”

“however?”

When Kazen replied with a humorous expression, Ruin clenched his fists.

“father. I am serious now.”

“Know. Go on.”

“Hasn’t he already given permission to go to the academy?”

Kazen smiled shyly.

“What kind of academy are you planning on playing for decades? Wouldn’t it come back after a few years? That kind of world experience is what anyone in the family does.”

“no. father.”

“And what? Declaration? What a funny guy. Dane. You tell me.”

Dane looked at his older brother Louin as if he was dumbfounded.

“This is my older brother who even overturned Gayul with one ritual of redemption. Who would be shaken by the mere refusal of a declaration? It’s just that he’s the kind of person he is, so he must be like that.”

“Dane!”

Ruin was glaring at him, but Dane did not move an eyebrow.

Then, Luin saw.

The way my father winked at Dane as if he had done well.

Only then did Ruin, who learned the before and after of everything, bit his teeth.

“Oh my. Did your father tell you that you came to me in the morning and lay down saying that you would not be able to become a grand duke?”

“That’s me. Archduke.”

Ruin turned around sharply at Yucain.

“No, why Uncle Yucain? Do you really not know how much this hurts him?”

Soon, Yukain opens his eyes.

“What are you saying! Have you ever seen me as someone who stirs up strife between your brothers?”

“no… … !”

“Don’t talk. Do you know how much Master Dane praised the Archduke while walking all night with me yesterday?”

“… … Did you go out with him?”

Yucain smiles softly as if the memory of yesterday came to mind.

“To Master Dane, the Archduke is an object of envy, no, a hero. All night long he was arguing that he should become the head of the Heibern family.”

“What?”

Kazen glared at Dane and laughed incredulously.

“hahahaha, who is this guy? Still, this father is still alive like this!”

“Sin, sorry! father!”

“ha ha ha! guy!”

Soene was staring blankly at such a scene.

Involuntarily, tears flowed down her eyes.

She couldn’t possibly express her feelings right now.

That absurd family was conceding the position of the archduke’s hierarchy and the flag bearer of the kingdom like a joke.

Dane insists that his older brother should become the grand duke, or rather, the head of the household.

The Archduke who refused to hate it until the end.

The hierarchy that those absurd brothers are weighing like a joke.

He has lived his entire life to win that one thing.

‘how… … I am… … .’

The life so far, all the greed that I had been longing for like a hungry ghost, became meaningless in an instant.

A complex mind that cannot be described in words.

at that time.

“Aunt, what do you think? Do you want your aunt to continue to be the grand duke like us?”

Soene looked at Wipon’s clean eyes for a long time.

Her heart broke in front of Wipon’s pure soul.

The years of immorality he had committed, the days of his tenacious desires, were fleeting and ashamed, and he could not bear it.

She soon laughs hard.

“no.”

“huh?”

“My aunt wants Dane to become a grand duke.”

Ruin soon became a bright face and looked at Soene.

It was the expression of an archduke that Soene had never seen before.