Chapter 349 – Father and Daughter, Not Father and Daughter -1-

The first destination for the two people who left the mansion was not the gate.

Roman smiled when he saw Ricke lightly following him while holding his hand.

“You have to feel strong to use your strength, right?”

“Your brother is right!”

The bright smile doesn’t seem like he’s trying to hide his troubled emotions, but rather feels grand.

Today will be recorded as a special day for us.

This is not the end but the beginning.

There is no need to disrupt my daily life, so I walk through the uniquely humid air in the early hours.

Even if there is no need to mention the destination, Roman and Ricke’s steps are heading towards the same place.

“It’s been a while since I’ve been here.”

“Huh.”

Let’s enter the alley with light steps.

The warm scent that comforted the empty stomach tempted the two people.

To get breakfast, the two stopped by a bakery that they had rarely visited recently.

A place that was the first step in my daily life before I moved into the mansion.

It was perfect for controlling one’s mind and looking back on time.

Tiriring-!

Let’s go in and push open the door with the small bell on it.

The owner and his wife were very embarrassed when they first saw Roman, but now they welcome him with a happy smile.

“Oh my! Welcome.”

“Hello!”

“I’ve been busy with work lately so I haven’t been able to stop by.”

Rike bowed her head first, and Roman gave the news with a nod.

“It’s good to be busy. Still, wouldn’t her wife be worried if she overexerts herself and gets sick?”

“Thank you for your kind words. I will be careful.”

“Hi-Hi.”

Ricke, whose cheeks turned red at the mention of her as his wife, loved this place very much.

I liked the cozy atmosphere provided by the couple who runs the bakery.

So I was cautious.

From the moment Roman and Rikke find out where they are, this comfortable atmosphere may disappear.

So we always had minimal conversation.

“We’ll just go.”

After paying for the fresh bread and various other foods, she bowed her head.

“They say no news is good news, but please tell me sometimes. My daughter is also waiting to meet you two.”

“Ah! How is Kitty?”

When Rike asked about her well-being with a smile on her face, her owner nodded her head with a happy face.

Roman just grits his teeth and suppresses laughter at the name ‘Kitty’ behind him.

“Whenever I get the chance, I ask if my pretty sister is here.”

“I hope I can see your face next time.”

The greetings end as one more customer comes in.

I left her store with fresh bottled milk and warm bread in my arms.

Leave the alley and continue along the main street.

After walking leisurely towards the target building and filling my stomach with bread.

When you get to the place where you can board the gate, is it starting to feel real?

Rike held Roman’s hand tightly.

“Brother, please take care of me.”

*****

“···.”

A grim expression starting from the chin pulled down.

The bloody atmosphere that blooms there.

If anyone had seen Marquis Enoch Skadi occupying space with his body wrapped in low pressure.

If it is a hundred, it will be easy to read that the spirit of the hundred has been distorted.

‘I was wondering if everything would work out… But I’m getting annoyed.’

He doesn’t even dare to get up from his office chair.

If he moved according to his usual routine, the Marquis should be swinging his sword at this time.

However, I arbitrarily broke that regularity and am in this room.

It’s not because I felt tired or tired of training my swordsmanship. I don’t have any problems with my legs or back.

On the contrary, the problem is that the body is too healthy.

As the fusion of the power bestowed from Nema Natas is almost completed, I am becoming more powerful than when I was younger.

The body is as hard as stone even without using mana.

The heart began to accept an enormous amount of mana, incomparable to before.

It feels like a transcendent being has changed the very vessel I was born with.

Satisfactory results. It’s perfect like this.

Other than the occasional destructive impulse, there is no element that can be called a problem.

In the end, it is concluded that the reason Enoch Skadi does not move here is due to mental factors.

There are many reasons, but the first is a rumor about the aristocratic society that has been around for a long time.

It was such a hot topic that even the Marquis, who had lost interest in social circles, heard it.

‘Baron Electra… No matter how much I search through my memories, I can’t find anything…’

Until Enoch Skadi called the Baron to do something.

It was clear that the Electra family was a border baron whose name I had never heard of.

But what is this?

The connections of her eldest daughter, who suddenly took over due to the tragedy caused by Geritz Electra, were beyond imagination.

Eclairdritna, the 5th Knight of the Empire, attended her funeral and stayed there the entire time, referring to her as her closest friend.

She has become a platinum adventurer in the same industry, and Electra’s status is rapidly rising.

Did they calculate the number of insects that would come in and smell the honey there?

It is said that he handed over his territory to an imperial official to manage it on his behalf and disappeared somewhere.

‘···Have you calculated everything?’

If the intention was to excite the nobles, it was actually perfect timing.

Even though she was only a shell, she was a seasoned person who could not even be compared to her eldest daughter, Geritz Electra.

If I had investigated a little more and persuaded the eldest daughter, would the result have been different?

“Under!”

The picture itself that made this assumption was absurd.

I felt like I was going crazy because I was so angry that the article I posted there was missing again.

‘···He must be dead.’

There are so many elements that are impossible to understand from the premise. I don’t make hopeful observations.

When I lost my first knight, I had a lot of enemies to begin with, so it was a pain to predict various possibilities and choose an enemy worth stabbing in the back.

Experiencing the same thing twice makes me confident that there is a force in check, and also makes me think about the existence of a traitor nearby.

‘Those who made a contract based on black magic cannot betray. So, are you saying that there are eyes among the handymen and the local residents?’

Widely!

The scabbard filled with anger hit the floor.

My mind is like a tangled mess, and I feel irritated and my hands become tense.

I wanted to take my anger out by running out to the territory and cutting down every limb I could see.

But now I didn’t even have time to vent my anger.

Two days from now is the day I have to report to Juergena. She needs to come up with plausible excuses and countermeasures to get more time.

There was also a way to mention Ricke’s potential.

What if you take your time and make a fuss, but nothing comes out? That was also a terrible result in its own way.

“Ugly bastards…”

Crash!

If I had succeeded on my first attempt, I wouldn’t have had to worry about this. She gritted her teeth at the incompetence of her subordinates.

Feeling hot inside and dry mouth.

The cold water was so cold that it would crack her head.

The Marquis rang the bell on his desk to call the servant waiting outside the door.

Tiring-

Even though the sound rang, there was no immediate response.

“Tsk…”

Give one last chance to those who are deaf and slow to move.

The Marquis, who had once shown mercy by swallowing his anger, rang the bell nervously.

Tiring! Tiring! Tiring!

“Hans. Farner. Romenel. Gessler. Is there anyone there?”

Since there is no voice to be heard, they cannot overcome their frustration and end up giving up their authority and raising their voices.

Nevertheless.

The silence is undisturbed.

‘?’

Deafening silence.

The silence was so perfect that it was strange.

A cool atmosphere, as if cold water had been poured on it.

The Marquis’ temper suddenly subsided.

‘That’s strange.’

My senses are tingling, warning me that the current situation is not simple.

When I tried to expand my energy by drawing in the mana overflowing from my heart, it was cut off as if there was a blockage at the door.

I can’t read the outside situation at all.

‘Who came from Nema Natas? If not…’

There are several warlocks of Nema Natas and knights who are veterans residing in this mansion.

What if those talented people had been defeated without a word?

‘This is dangerous.’

There is a possibility that the church smelled it, or it may be a completely separate enemy like the Mendes Pentagram.

Crash.

The Marquis followed his instinct and lowered his posture and grabbed his sword.

I put my hand on the handle so I could pull it out at any time and rolled my eyes.

It was clearly broad daylight with the sun shining.

It is the time when sunlight comes through the window that connects the room and the world.

However.

The Marquis, who had accumulated experience in black magic, began to doubt everything.

‘Since when? Could it be that the bright time is also a hallucination? ‘Can you escape through the window?’

An unpleasant surprise that cannot be explained accurately.

It was the moment when I suppressed my displeasure and approached the door with my footsteps muted to check the hallway.

“···?!”

Enoch Skadi can feel it now.

There is someone beyond the opening and closing obstacles.

Someone whose presence is so strong that the space seems to tremble.

Before the Marquis could do anything, a huge force stirred beyond the door.

The moment Enoch Skadi takes a step back.

Piping-!

Dozens of slashes resembling spider webs were engraved on the office’s unique thick door.

Blue light flashed through the gap.

Kwaang!!

When the entrance opened with pieces of wood shattered by the aura flying, the two people entered the office as if it was natural.

There is one man who looks like a wild animal whose clothes are stained with the blood of others.

There is a familiar woman who enters after the man.

Enoch Skadi’s gaze was not on the man who took the lead, but on the person who followed him in as a latecomer.

A place where we meet for the first time in about a year.

The sight of a girl carrying a strange scythe on her shoulder and smiling brightly was foreign.

From the Marquis’ point of view, there is no way to know who it is.

“···Rike!”

When her daughter, who had been trying to catch her somehow, returned to the estate on her own feet, the marquise’s eyes widened.

“It’s been a while since I saw you, Marquis.”

Rike’s eyes met hers and she raised the corners of her mouth.

The blood was collected on her head and made into a red crown.