Chapter 525 – You Who Remember the Sea.

‘I don’t know what to say.’

As Usher realized that his parents had abandoned him, or rather, that they had made a commitment to his life that he thought had been abandoned, he struggled to control his tangled emotions.

Nevertheless, the reason why I could hardly control this feeling was because there were still questions that could not be resolved through Ereine’s story alone.

‘If the story is true, why wasn’t my father with me?’

Erein could understand that her mother had stayed here, but her father, who had left with her, could not even be heard from, let alone seen, in the village where he had lived as a child.

“…He wasn’t there? That can’t be…”

Even when she finally asked the real Erene, she looked confused, as if she didn’t understand that fact either. It wasn’t anything particularly strange. Eraein said she had never left Pasiphenia.

‘The humans in that village…’

What suddenly occurred to her was the rural village she had lived in as a child, but she quickly shook her head. By the time he left, monsters were attacking him, and even if the village was fine, he had no intention of going back.

Then, it seemed as if a tail of beautiful crimson hair passed before her eyes.

“…If it’s Belka.”
“Do you have any guesses?”

Seeing Erain looking up with a desperate expression in response to her inadvertently mumbling words, Usher silenced her for a moment before nodding her head. Although it is a bit ambiguous to say that she was who she was at the time.

“We need to find Pirika.”

She is a woman as transparent as a pure white snowflake, who cannot deny that she is still the same.

“Why are you doing that?”
“Are you talking about the witch in Mynades?”

However, when he saw Elaine looking at her with an ambiguous expression and asked, Usher swallowed his bitterness at the answer he received.

“Is the problem that she’s a witch?”
“No, if you know the history of Parsiphenia properly, no one can hate witches.”

Fortunately, when she shook her head, her pounding heart returned, but her subtle expression did not change.

“I heard from Carol that you seemed friendly with the other girls as well as Mainades and Dimacaeri. Did you, by any chance, seduce all the witches?”

Usher was left speechless by the unexpected question. There were some questions that she couldn’t respond to because they were unexpected. At that moment, if you don’t look closely, it’s hard to see the difference between them, because he remembered the sight of them panting beneath him.

Although it was a bit difficult to say that she had a proper relationship with Lidika, the fact that she still mixed her body was the same, and not long after, she also had a relationship with Pirika. .

“… I think it would be too much to say that she is all witches.”
“…”

He couldn’t deny it, so he answered vaguely, and somehow, through the affection he felt from Ereine’s gaze, a sharp needle seeped in and stabbed him.

“Have you really never seen your father?”
“Yes.”

Usher answered truthfully and without hesitation. No, she felt as if she would have to say that even if she had grown up with her father, she had never seen him.

“Ha, yeah. I guess this is all the fault of my terrible parents.”

Now that I know their situation, I wonder if there is any need to blame myself that much.

“I should have been properly educated when I was young. If only I could have raised him until he was 5 or 10 years old…”

Seeing Erain muttering as if she was lamenting, it was difficult for her to make an excuse.

“Anyway, Pirika might know something.”
“If it were Mynades, she would have continued to live in Parsiphenia… Did she teach her her own magic?!”

Ereine looked at him in surprise, as if something had occurred to her as she spoke in confusion. In fact, she assumed that she would know because she was in fact a being like Velkan and Erika, but it wasn’t like she didn’t teach them.

“Pirika will tell you.”
“It looks like they didn’t just seduce you, they seduced you tightly.”

He didn’t know why Elain’s gaze on him became even more pointed.

“But before I could fight the Central Knight Commander, her aide took me away.”

She didn’t want to let her go, but she couldn’t help it because at the time, she was getting entangled with herself for no reason, and it wasn’t a good situation for her, and she also had to protect her Elkana.

“If that’s the case, then I have some idea.”

Soon Erein brought her newspaper from somewhere and held it out to him.

“Pirika is missing?”

There, there was a notice on the front page of the newspaper saying that her pirika was being searched. What’s more annoying is that it was Bayets who made the announcement.

“If it’s Bayets…”
“It was his original home.”

Except for Lancelot, who ran away with Usher, all the main family members have been eliminated, and the one who now takes over Bayets’ name is actually a collateral branch that is difficult to even say is related.

‘It was Paris.’

I thought she didn’t like her since she started chasing him around saying she was Pirika’s aide, but she couldn’t have done it like this. It was surprising that her bad relationship was twisted again. But there was something else that caught his attention now.

“Can we believe this story that Bayets is buying drugs?”

I saw a picture of a person wearing a bird’s beak-like gas mask standing in front of the gate, along with a message saying that the family was currently purchasing drugs as they could.

“They say the quack is coming and going every day, so it seems certain.”
“Since when?”

Erein replied as she stared at him blankly.

“…It was around the time you were captured.”
“Plap!”

It was only after Usher saw the newspaper crumpled as if it was going to tear that she realized she was applying too much force to her hands.

The fact that Pirika went missing meant that it was safe to say that Paris had done something to her that made her run away. Even at the point where he was buying drugs, he couldn’t bear it because he could guess what it was.

“I have to go right now.”
“Wait a moment!”

When Usher left his seat and tried to find Pirika, Elain urgently caught him.

“It’s urgent! If we don’t find Pirika before he does!”
“If you just keep looking, will you be able to find it?!”

When she looked at him as if he would run away at any moment, put his hands on her waist and shouted at her as if scolding her, Usher felt the heat rising to his head barely subside and he admitted that his actions were foolish.

‘He was already looking for Pirika, but he couldn’t find him.’

Even though she is a noble family, they must have spent a lot of manpower to search for her. The newspaper also covered the story of Bayec people recently wandering through Pasiphenia looking for Pirica.

“Is someone else with Pirika?”
“Okay.”
“…It looks like he’s related to you.”
“Phew, you’re smart too.”

It wasn’t something to be praised for being smart. I just guessed it because I found some kind of composure in Elain’s attitude.

“I’m glad you don’t seem to be taking that kid lightly. It’s impossible for me to leave this mansion, so follow whoever is coming to visit you tonight.”
“Are you unable to leave the mansion?”

She calmly nods her head in response to Usher’s question.

“I was imprisoned anyway. Was it a charge of being associated with reactionaries?”

He could tell that there was a reason for something different about her, but Usher decided not to ask further. Because sometimes there are things you can know without saying anything.

He clenched his fists, remembering the name of the current President that he had once heard from Xue Xian. He didn’t know much about the status of the meritorious family, but there was only one person who had the power to imprison Sesipia’s mistress.

‘Did you say Minos?’

He is the culprit who forced Lancelot to take him away, and as if that wasn’t enough, he coveted Elaine and was the influential culprit who turned Pasiphenia into a place like this.

If so, it is impossible not to know the reason for the confinement. Usher realized that he could no longer ignore the things he had been ignoring, thinking that they were someone else’s business and that he was someone else’s country.

‘It’s true that it’s still suspicious.’

If you find Pirika, you will find out what happened.

“I see. You are Cessipia’s…”

That night, a man who appeared to be a knight came to see me. Usher saw him for the first time. He reacted as if he knew him, but he didn’t care.

“It’s urgent, so I’d like you to go quickly.”

For now, the priority was to meet Pirika and check on her condition. So, after leaving Elain and Sesipia’s mansion behind for a while, I left the mansion to meet Pirika.

“He’s kind of cruel. In the end, he’s more of a lover than a parent, right?”

Ereine watched Usher leaving the mansion through her window and spoke as if she was sighing, but her expression was gentle, as if she was having fun or dreaming a sweet dream.

“…Even though I couldn’t protect you, you grew up well.”

Relationships with women may seem complicated in one way or another, but it is much better than having no relationship at all.

“Miss.”
“Karl, isn’t it time to stop saying things like that?”
“As far as I’m concerned, a young lady is always a young lady.”

Elaine looked through her window at the old butler who was still by her side even though everyone else had left. She smiled bitterly at his worried expression.

“You don’t have to worry too much. The wish I’ve been longing for has come true. Now there’s no time left.”

It could be said that the pain of the past was compensated simply by the fact that the family’s authority was somehow able to shine.