78 – only teacher

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Whoop whoop whoop whoop.

I can hear the sound of a shovel digging deep into the ground, and the sound of my sweat beads gathering on the tip of my chin and turning into drops soaking the soil.

That said, I didn’t hear my gasping or gasping for breath.

I just didn’t have the stamina to exhale this heatedly,

I didn’t want to show that it was difficult to build a grave for him, the second most precious relationship after Lily.

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Just be silent.

hooked

He dug up the ground and dug again and again.

Sometimes the soil was evenly compacted, beating the scattered soil with a shovel,

I stooped down to pick up the large stones that got in my way with my soiled hands.

Tok.

Even such an insignificant stone was not considered trivial and was not thrown away.

It wasn’t like handling fine jewels, but I didn’t lightly build a stone tower.

The sun rising high in the sky casts shadows on the stone pagodas I have piled up one by one.

“…Berry.”

from some distance away.

Under the shade of a large tree, next to the shadow that blocks the sunlight shooting like an arrow, Lily looks at me with worried eyes.

She, too, initially offered to help me too.

But I shook my head and didn’t let him, so he’s watching me from the shade with me and her ladies-in-waiting.

Even though I had heard the story of the owner of the grave that she was digging so hard, it was because she was a person she would never know.

The most loyal knight in the world.

Even though he swore loyalty more than anyone else, that loyalty never reached his master.

The fact was so sad and so heartbreaking that I shed a single tear along with the sweat that flowed down like rain in the scorching sun.

Was that the kind of person who would want me to rant about myself and tell her about myself?

Or is he the kind of person who wants his master to burn his fair skin in the sun while sweating for a knight’s tomb?

no. not. Absolutely not.

In this world, he is the one I can confidently say I know better than the people I’ve read the story of life. it’s a pin

That’s why Lily just stays away.

In a place where you can’t shed a single drop of sweat even in the sunlight that beats down like an arrow.

It was enough to wear a dress adorned with fine silk and jewels shining like stars in the night sky and watch over everything.

You may not know, but the story of someone who swore loyalty to you more precious than life.

The fact that my feelings of knowing him sincerely, remembering him in truth.

Knowing his memories, emotions, and pain, I was struggling so hard to decorate his end.

not me but you

Because I wanted you to watch all the sights.

Finn, not me.

I wanted you to be happy that you were rewarded with even a fragment of loyalty that you would have considered insignificant to yourself.

I dug up and trimmed the ground as best I could.

‘Look, it’s the future you protected.’

This is the image of Lily that you and I have longed for.

This was the reason I asked Lily to come to me in the most beautiful clothes despite having to walk on the lawn like this.

Even in the afterlife, it was good, I wanted to see that the future that I saved by giving my soul was like this.

“Berry, are you okay…?”

I heard Lily’s voice, which seemed to have caught my emotions shaking like a rock.

I was sad, but I couldn’t express my feelings and force Lily to feel the same way, so I replied with a light smile.

“Princess! How can you look okay at this level?”

As much as the sadness of not being sincere, there was no other emotion to cloud his loyalty.

“Uh, uh? Uh… I think I’ve dug a grave deeper than I prepared for you before?”

“Is that so.”

Glad then

Now that the preparations are complete, it’s time to fill the tomb with something worthy of his honor.

His body was occupied by me, and there were no items left from his life, so there weren’t many things to fill in.

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Just filled the knight’s conquest and armor in the grandiosely dug tomb. Inscribed with the imperial emblem.

And on top of that, I cut my palm and let my blood, which was his blood, flow.

The hot fresh blood formed drop by drop and flowed down the hard curves of the armor with a tap, soaking the ground.

A drop for a faithful knight who has served only one sun all his life under the sky.

A drop for the foolish man who willingly gave up his everything, shouting that it would be okay if his life was taken away from him, but if it became for his master.

and.

“My only teacher under heaven. I will never forget the grace I received from you.”

For this foolish criminal, he taught me what a sword was until the very end, and to the last drop for the departed teacher.

Indeed, with all my blood, sweat and tears, I covered the grave of Kirin with soil, planted sunflowers on it, and erected a tombstone.

“Wall.”

Standing with his toes firmly pointed toward the tombstone, he exposed the blade of the moonlight.

Not my usual posture and gripping method,

With the attitude of using those of the articles I mainly wrote when his soul and experience were dwelling.

As reverently and steadfastly as possible, I slowly carved the letters in Hangeul and Hangeul, using the moonlight.

[The most loyal knight who willingly burned his own light for the sun to shine most brilliantly. I will remember you with respect.]

“Whoa…”

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Just when I let out a sigh, feeling that I had really let him go, the wind blew.

Wheein.

Rather than being strong, it’s subtle yet enveloping the surroundings… The wind, like a curtain protecting someone, comes out and wraps around Lily, then disappears without a trace.

“Huh, true.”

Me and Lily’s eyes met with the thought that a truly strange phenomenon had occurred.

Then, I smiled and turned my gaze not to the sun high in the sky, but to Lily, who was looking at ‘us’ in a beautiful outfit from the shade, and to the sunflowers in full bloom.

… You are really sweeping away all the feelings of respect I have until the very end.

They say that the first teacher in life is the most important, but I thought that I had a good enough mastery of one teacher.

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“Huh? Berry! Did you wash your body?”

“Ah, yes. Thanks to that, it became smooth. It was a bit… awkward.”

“Anything embarrassing?”

Lily tilted her head and asked me with her eyes wide open.

The reason for this was that after I returned to the imperial palace after making a tomb for Finn, when I said I wanted to wash my body, the maids hurriedly started preparing bath water.

It may have been natural for Lily, but it wasn’t for me.

I couldn’t understand why the maids were assigned to me as a commoner in the name of bath attendant, so I asked the exclusive lady-in-waiting assigned to me.

‘No, because I don’t need that! It’s a bath attendant, and it’s Nabal. Let’s just wash up by ourselves!’

-That’s not to be said, Mr. Finn! You said you would change your clothes by yourself, but now you refuse to attend the bath, what are we going to do!

‘… More than that, don’t you know that I’m a commoner? If you’re a lady-in-waiting under the direct control of the imperial family, you’re definitely a noble with a higher rank than me, you!’

-Your Majesty told me to serve you as if you were serving a state guest who is more valuable than anyone else, but how could I commit such rudeness! Rather, I don’t know why Finn is talking highly of us!

‘… Fuck.’

No, how would I know in the first place?

The fact that members of the royal family, whether male or female, are basically people with common sense that even if they don’t know about clothes, they have to take care of even taking a bath.

To be honest, I don’t hate it.

Isn’t it the same situation as a man’s romance to the extent that he dreams of it at least once? The situation where countless beauties wash their bodies.

But more than that, it is true that the guilt of betraying Lily took precedence.

Actually, Lily herself might not care because she is the princess, but this is not only Lily’s mind, but my mind is also important.

Even if Lily said nothing was wrong, it wouldn’t have been possible if I was agitated and instinctively harbored lust in such a situation without even realizing it.

After arguing for a while, in the end it was my conscience that was barely revived because my solemn words made sense.

‘I don’t want to show my body to a woman other than the one I have in mind.’

I never imagined that I would discuss chastity with a man’s body, but if Lily and I were to be connected anyway, I was destined to become a pillar.

Who could have answered the remark that the future empress’s wife wanted to keep her fidelity toward the empress?

-If that’s what you mean, I understand.

My maid in charge also gave up her stubbornness and disappeared after leaving only the words to ring the bell if anything was needed.

“Ah, that’s what I mean. Bath attendants and whatnot…”

“…Bath. Attendance?”

Oops.

Was this something I shouldn’t have said?

After looking around for a while, Lily’s eyes cooled down and asked me.

“No way, you empty. You didn’t show the maids a body that I hadn’t seen before, right?”

“That, can’t be! It was a story that she was sweating hard to refuse!”

“Really?”

“yes!!”

I waved my hand as if I was innocent, and Lily’s eyes, which had been quietly watching my chest, gradually began to return to their original color.

And then Lily smiled.

“It’s fortunate. I had no idea what to do if Bin really did that…”

“Ahaha, that’s really fortunate.”

“I mean, I’m going to give you all my firsts, but it doesn’t make sense that I can’t get all your firsts, right?”

“…”

Our Lily, you were a unicorn.

Through the window behind Lily’s back, who discussed giving away her first and innocence as a matter of course, a very familiar silhouette she had seen somewhere was reflected in the sunset light.

“Oh, that man…”

“yes?”

Lily turned her head after me.

However, she tilted her head as she was too far away for the wizard to see.

“Why are you empty?”

A training ground located at a distance that she cannot see.

Against the background of the sky, where the sunset slowly faded, I saw a man swinging his sword vigorously.

The article that caught my last eyes.

Probably because he was nowhere to be seen among the knights next to Lily now, the ‘former’ escort knight commander under the direct control of the princess was sweating alone in the training ground.