34 – Triang Village (5)

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Sins and mistakes are to be repented of. If you only reflect, you can repent enough.

If so, all that remains is to ask for forgiveness.

It may be an expression commonly used in everyday life, but it was not an eternal truth.

At least that was the case with Lilithiana.

It was a problem that could be solved by simply reflecting on sins and mistakes, and was the subsequent repentance also a natural right.

Reflection does not pick up instead of spilled water.

Repentance is not the perpetrator’s right, but it is like grace that can begin with the victim’s forgiveness.

Unlike Grace, who was fundamentally good, Liliciana thought so because she was able to experience the bitter reality stemming from her own foolishness.

Even so, Lilithiana had no choice but to keep the apology in her mouth.

If she had told her everything here, Grace would have bowed first, but Lilithiana couldn’t speak of Finn’s death, and more than that, she hated talking about his death.

So, instead of revealing the details and justifying herself, Lilithiana apologized in a slightly gruff voice.

If you can’t explain the reason for your anger, your previous action was just hysteria.

“Sorry, just forget about that.”

“Ah, no…I apologize for my presumptuous remarks.”

The two girls apologized to each other, but their actions were quite different.

Lilithiana ducked her head, and Grace lowered her head towards the girl with her eyes lightly closed.

Silent stillness soon spread between the two, but in Grace’s head, unlike the quiet silence, there was nothing complicated about it.

I couldn’t even think of continuing the conversation.

It was because I was pouring all my mind into the spring thinking about the girl’s previous remark.

Who can’t ask for forgiveness? or… Who doesn’t even accept an apology?

It couldn’t be.

Who would dare to do such a thing against an imperial princess?

‘The Emperor of the Empire must have had a level of power different from before… … peel?’

flinch. Grace shook her shoulders.

Because at that moment, a possibility flashed through Grace’s mind like lightning.

‘If that opponent is the reason why the emperor’s power became stronger?’

There were plenty of possibilities.

What is the reason why the emperor, who had been rumored to be a living corpse even in the neighboring country, suddenly showed off his power?

It was because of this, called the shadow of an unknown emperor.

The emperor’s shadow, which spreads countless ugly evidence of crimes and corruption that you don’t know where you found them, brings down the families that go against the emperor one after another, and leads to death at the end.

It was unclear whether the princess’s lover was the emperor’s shadow or someone the emperor’s shadow followed.

If it was related to him, even the princess of the empire wouldn’t have dared to treat it carelessly.

Grace began to think a little more about her conversation with the girl.

If only Grace had the ability to detect lies… The girl clearly showed such regret.

As a result, she came up with a case that satisfies all the conditions Grace herself came up with.

‘The opponent… It seems that she approached Her Highness without revealing her true identity.’

Grace thought that the first meeting with the person the girl was imagining would not have been so good.

When the empress lost her life, the princess lost her energy and collapsed, and I heard rumors that the emperor was in danger of losing his wife and daughter, befitting his reputation as a lover.

The imperial family of the empire will now announce its end.

Words like that were circulating, but as soon as the princess suddenly stood up from her seat,

One by one, the group of aristocrats who had pressured the emperor, who had become like a puppet, announced their downfall and death.

Considering the timing, the reason the princess regained her energy and the emperor’s power must have been the same.

Grace’s thoughts were rather predictable because she did not know all the details of the incident.

One reason for this was that the emperor had just gathered people in the palace and made an announcement so that the boy would not be harmed as much as possible.

Another reason was that the nobles who heard him had no one to speak out about what to do with the boy because the emperor’s power, which was already weak, was further weakened due to the death of the empress, and each one was busy holding a festival.

As a result, those who know the inside story believe that the cause of the princess rising in anger… that attendant.

It was because he had never thought that it would be related to the emperor’s shadow.

However, despite not knowing the details of the incident, Grace, who was able to read the girl’s emotions and observe the situation from a distance, made such a guess.

In such a situation, the opponent hid his identity and approached the princess, and the princess must have rejected him.

‘maybe… Maybe I didn’t want to make the person I had a crush on think that I was indebted to them.’

It was a thought that could be had because goodness formed the basis.

The idea that the reason why he helps the imperial family and does not openly ask for anything in return must be because he genuinely cares for the girl.

However, the princess, who was unaware of this, was young and was probably venting her anger on her opponent through hysteria stemming from the sadness of losing her mother.

Later, for some reason, I found out the identity of the other person, but after knowing this, I was already in a state where I couldn’t ask for forgiveness from him… Or it may have been a state of not accepting forgiveness.

In other words, he, tired of the princess’s hysteria, lost affection and hid himself.

However, the princess herself declared her engagement because she couldn’t forget him who had already left her side, and she remembers and misses him… was Grace’s guess.

Grace’s eyes, which had been lost in thought, shone with vitality.

It was because, from Grace’s point of view, this process was the most probable story.

It was the fact that the identity of the princess’ fiancée was not widely publicized.

Some say that the emperor, who is famous for his daughter fool, did not want to marry his beautiful daughter to another place, so it was announced.

Rarely, it was said that the princess herself, who was accustomed to the evil deeds of the aristocrats, made up an excuse to ascend to the position of empress without being engaged to anyone.

The emperor’s power was incomparably stronger than before, so no one could argue.

The speculation that the unidentified opponent was related to the shadow of the emperor was also inconsistent, so no one even considered it.

First of all, it was a reasonable guess of the people that a person with that level of intelligence and armed force would not be an individual.

If so, it would be a group, but no such group existed within the Empire.

If there was, they would have written their hands beforehand, and the information power was too much for a group improvised to protect the crumbling imperial family.

I couldn’t see it as a movement of a foreign country to give grace.

If you are a person with that level of power, it would be better for your future relationship if you openly help,

It seems that an organization from a foreign country that hides its identity has it… As I said, it was too much information.

Leaving aside the details of this identity, I dare not even guess its intentions.

It was because the shadow of the emperor suddenly disappeared from the moment the emperor had great power.

As an individual, I did not understand the identity,

It was too dedicated to be a group.

In response, the people spoke in unison.

Words that Finn wrote every time he punished wicked nobles. Humans tended to dismiss things outside of their own thinking.

scourge.

The people unanimously evaluated it as such, saying that the heavens were simply punishing the nobles of the empire who behaved unbecoming of a human being.

It was reasonable to think that way and think that way.

If you poke the beehive to find out what kind of people the shadow of the emperor is, you might be punished like those who have lost their heads.

So, the questions most of them had at the beginning gradually disappeared over time,

There must have been a reason why he couldn’t say something because there was no madman who dared to question the current emperor… The majority thought that.

And this.

Those who do not know the princess’ true feelings… It was an idea that only those who knew Grace and the people who knew what was going on at the time could have it.

Grace immediately took a step in a direction that was slightly out of line with the truth.

One step ahead of everyone else.

Because she faithfully believed that human beings are based on goodness, she thought that love alone, not calculation, could be an opportunity to help a girl.

The person who was bullied so terribly by the princess,

Unlike those who could not imagine that the shadow of the emperor was related to the person who had not received any swordsmanship training.

Grace doesn’t know about it.

After the shadow of the emperor disappeared, the princess herself, who learned all the facts, remembered him and announced the engagement. This led to a slightly inconsistent fact.

Due to the facts that only Grace can know, and the facts that only Grace does not know.

‘Then, Her Highness, the current princess… Are you saying you’re having a love that can’t be fulfilled?’

Grace lifted her head and looked into the girl’s eyes, the sadness she couldn’t contain.

“…”

At this, Grace was simply speechless and put on a dazed expression.

Because he witnessed the pitiful reality of being a boy who fell in love with an unfulfillable princess towards a princess.

So starting from this day.

Grace’s move, which was twisted little by little, went in a direction 180 degrees different from the original work that Kim Bin knew.

Not a girl who struggles desperately to protect her nest tired of malice,

As a girl who watches a play that begins with a tragedy and hopes that happiness will arrive at the end.

Like that, Grace met a fate that was nothing short of heavenly luck.