#256
Helmut
Episode 256: Epilogue
A few days passed as usual. Several guests who visited Linosa had already left.
On a peaceful afternoon with warm sunlight, the Grand Duchess of Linosa, Marguerite, gently closed her eyes and opened them.
A cool breeze flowed outside the window. There was a teacup in front of her. It’s the same day as always.
It was as if nothing, whether hardship or sadness, had swept over her.
I haven’t forgotten it yet. But I didn’t regret it either.
Yeah, I don’t regret it. Just like it was 15 years ago.
A child who was abandoned once could be abandoned twice. How could it be impossible? Even then, I had no regrets.
Helmut was already a dead child. Family becomes a true family not by blood, but by sharing life.
So Helmut was a child, but he was not family.
Before that happened, Magritte was forced to make a choice. All her circumstances forced her to make that choice.
Even so, the choice is up to her.
Magritte abandoned Helmut again, and he will not forget that fact.
I will live with a grave inside me again. As Grand Duchess of Rinosa.
She was ready to bear that weight.
Magritte, who appears weak, is actually a cool-headed and strong woman. Her aristocratic life that she lived made her that way.
Rattling! I heard the door opening. Someone roughly pushed open the door and entered.
“Your Majesty the Grand Duchess!”
The head maid could be heard shouting in panic.
Marguerite raised his head. Charlotte was standing there with an expression I had never seen before.
Their eyes were hot and overflowing with passion. Those two eyes were intensely criticizing Magritte.
“Do you know what your mother did?”
It was a voice overflowing with emotion. It was the first time Charlotte had said something like that.
Marguerite lightly raised his hand and defeated the head maid. Rattling. The door closed again.
Only then did Magritte open his mouth.
“I couldn’t help it.”
Her expression was frighteningly gentle and calm. Like a lake with no current.
“How can a person… … !”
The choking of criticism was something Charlotte could not tolerate, no matter what the reason.
“My mother is a grand duchess, but before that, she is a mother and a human being!”
When I heard the truth from Michael a little while ago, it felt like lightning struck.
Only then did I understand. An attraction whose reason is unknown. Not as a man. It was as a blood relation.
Charlotte liked, respected, and followed Helmut.
Helmut was betrayed in return for saving her life.
It was a betrayal. A betrayal that Charlotte cannot tolerate!
Magritte responded quietly.
“It was a choice for Linosa.”
Charlotte let out a suppressed sound.
“How is that? mother. Senior Helmut rescues His Highness the Archduke… … “You saved me.”
“It did.”
So Helmut was able to avoid being executed by the high priests.
The ministers calmly accepted when Magritte told the truth. As if he had already guessed it.
High Priest Levina’s insight was not something to be ignored. As soon as she heard Helmut’s name, she remembered the ‘Helmut’ from 15 years ago.
Levina did not rule out the unlikely possibility that the child had survived and escaped the Forest of Pahe.
Levina was definitely planning to check, even if Magritte did not allow it. So it was going to happen anyway.
Magritte explained that 15 years ago, Helmut fell on the outskirts of the Forest of Pahe and was rescued by accidentally coming out of the barrier when he was a newborn.
Now that the sprouts of darkness have grown, it will be impossible to escape the barrier.
Also, since he made a great contribution to saving the Archduke and the Archduchess, it is currently unacceptable to kill him, who is innocent.
So let’s send it back to the Forest of Pahe. There’s no way out this time.
Magritte presented a minimum agreement that would persuade them without confronting the temple.
The ministers agreed. It is unprecedented for someone to leave the forest of digging. Regardless of how it happened, I figured it wouldn’t happen twice.
Also, it was a burden for them to stand up to the Grand Duchess and eliminate Linosa’s bloodline.
I’ve already lost the fight with Basor. It was unreasonable to make even Rinosa turn around.
Magritte spoke in a clear voice. The same words as before flowed out a little longer.
“But for Rinosa’s sake, and for you guys, I had to do it.”
There were plenty of reasons to abandon Helmut. Because he is dangerous because he has a seed of darkness, or because he is afraid of losing the temple and pretending. Those two reasons were enough, but one more.
The awakened Dark Sprout holder murdered seven members of the Black Wing Knights. It was too strong, and without Helmut he might not have been able to stop it.
In other words, it was Helmut who stopped him. Because Helmut was that strong.
A certain sense of anxiety dawned on Magritte.
Helmut was too strong. So much so that not even the Black Wing Knight Commander could do anything about it.
What if he covets the position of successor to the Archduke, which he should have rightfully occupied?
So what if he wants to get rid of his two younger brothers, especially Michael?
No one will be able to stop him.
Even if a mother is human, it is impossible to love all her children equally.
They say that biting all ten fingers hurts, but some fingers hurt more.
Magritte spent his entire life taking care of Michael. Michael was weak, and he was a child who never knew when he would die. It’s a miracle he even survived.
Since he was such a child, it was impossible not to love him.
Love for a living child is bound to be greater than that for a dead child.
Michael will not want to hand over the position of heir to the Archduke to anyone, and in the process, he will no doubt come to terms with Helmut, just as he did with Charlotte.
What if Helmut tries to get rid of Michael at that time?
It is said that the sprouts of darkness awaken a person’s malice and malevolence.
Helmut didn’t look dangerous. But Magritte, what if your eyes are wrong?
She couldn’t take risks. She had two children, the Archduke, and Rinosa to protect.
She had so much, she couldn’t exist only as Helmut’s mother.
Helmut was a very dangerous and uncontrollable element. He couldn’t leave him alone. Even if you tell him to leave or run away, what will you do if he changes his mind and comes back?
All she could do as a mother was die in his hands.
Just as Marguerite was the Grand Duchess of Linosa, Charlotte was the Grand Duchess of Linosa.
And so she recognized things in Marguerite’s cold eyes that she had not said.
But the words that came out of her mouth were still the same.
“… … Your mother was wrong. “She shouldn’t have done that.”
“It had to be that way.”
“I just can’t understand it.”
“You are that kind of kid. know.”
Marguerite nodded slowly. Her steadfastness was evident in her.
Tears flowed from Charlotte’s eyes. Her guilt was hers, not her heartless family.
However, it was not Charlotte who was crying out of guilt. Her life, her sword, her beliefs.
Charlotte did not grow up to be a weak girl.
Betrayal, guilt and pity. A storm with all those mixed emotions passed by.
And in the quiet Charlotte, a decision was made. That decision will now become everything to her.
A determined light appeared in Charlotte’s eyes.
she declared.
“I will make it right.”
Marguerite looked at her with unknown eyes.
“What has been done may not be undone, but it can be corrected.”
“Even if that means harm to Linosa?”
“Yes, unlike my mother, I want to be a human before being the Grand Duchess of Rinosa.”
My life was saved. They are blood relatives. It wasn’t enough for him to live with guilt and gratitude.
Charlotte did not want to live with the grave.
She had to repay the debt to the person concerned. certainly.
“Charlotte.”
Magritte’s face was distorted for the first time. A soft voice, as if pleading or soothing.
In the past, I would have been shaken by my mother’s voice and eyes. But not anymore.
“There is no use in blocking it.”
Charlotte turned her back and left.
Helmut will be alive in the Forest of Pahe. she believed
That faith will lead Charlotte to him.
*
It all happened in just a few days. In just a few days, I lost contact with Helmut.
Just because it was Area, it wasn’t because I wanted to do it. The problem started when I heard those words from Heike.
“The dynamics of the temple? Well, it seems like the priests are busy because the priests were killed.”
Heike shrugged.
“The priests were murdered? “Who did that?”
“I don’t know that either. Oh, by the way, have you taken over all of Rampione’s dungeons?”
“Not yet.”
“It’s probably still there in Lampione’s dungeon. “That will be a big help when fighting the temple, right?”
Following Heike’s words, Area immediately explored the dungeon and found ‘it’.
It seemed like it would take quite a difficult process to take control of ‘it’. It will take at least a few days.
However, if it collides with the temple, ‘it’ will be a huge force.
Area calculated and came to a conclusion. I don’t think anything bad will happen to Helmut if we lose contact for a few days.
Area, who had succeeded in taking control of ‘it’ after being so immersed and unable to sleep, felt joyful.
Only then did she realize that a long time had passed and her thoughts turned to her forgotten boyfriend.
She wanted to be the first to tell Helmut this news, so she contacted him right away.
But her artifact didn’t work. She doesn’t give any signal.
As if it doesn’t exist in this world.
The blood ran cold.
Area immediately realized that there was a problem and headed to Rinosa.
Helmut’s presence in Latona was nowhere to be found, as if he had already disappeared. It was clean and peaceful, as if everything had been erased.
Over the course of several days, with the help of Heike, Area explored the entire area of Latona and read the memories of the land.
In the process, Area learned that the high priests had visited Latona.
This is definitely not a coincidence.
If Helmut disappeared, it would definitely have nothing to do with Grand Duchess Linosa.
Area traced the archduchess and finally found her. Where Helmut last disappeared.
The grand duke’s villa. Area, who infiltrated it, realized the identity of the sacred magic performed there.
“Movement magic.”
Absolute punishment. Banishment to the Forest of Pahe.
Helmut was sent to the place from which he escaped for the rest of his life. As someone with a sprout of darkness, he cannot cross the sacred barrier.
It felt like a death sentence had been handed down. I thought it would be a brief separation, but that brief moment separated them forever.
Why did I get distracted by something like a dungeon? I don’t even know what situation he is in.
Regret and despair swept over Area. I felt like I knew how Helmut was feeling even if I couldn’t see it.
At the most important moment, I couldn’t be there for you.
But she soon raised her head straight.
‘No, you can turn it back. ‘I will make it like that.’
Area did not blame herself. She was a wizard. A wizard is a being who makes the impossible possible.
Helmut is strong and familiar with the Forest of Pahe. There is also a leopard taking care of him.
Helmut must be alive. As long as he’s alive, Allea just has to go find him.
And we will cross the sacred barrier and liberate Helmut from there.
Area spoke clearly to Heike.
“I will go to the Forest of Pahe.”
Go and meet Helmut.
A bright radiance bloomed in Area’s amethyst-like eyes.
I will bring Helmut back, and someday I will make those who drove him back to the Forest of Pahe pay the price.
