Chapter 12: Chapter 13

Erhard frowned, realizing that he was a child, and bent his knees.

“I’m sorry,”

he reached out, and the child opened her eyes.

The child had a clear rust eye that was visible.  In an instant, Ellie’s eyes widened.

“Thank you.”

The child woke up from her seat, supported.

“But who are you uncle’s?”

“Oh, uncle…..”

Ante muttered, as if he was ecstatic,

‘It looks like the peacock doesn’t know.’

Even the Duke, who is a tragic person, could not harm the child, but it was something you would not know.  It was when the antegan stood up and tried to dry her.

“Are you here to adopt a child?”

Both of them stopped at the child’s words.

“……..Yes, but.”

“The children are now in the director’s room!”

“Director?”

“Yes! You want kids with black hair and walls, right? All five are there,”

Said the child, laughing wide. She had a pure face.

“…….Maybe the director is there.”

Erhard muttered a little.

“What a masterpiece is it?”

“Well, but I know you’re feeling very dirty.”

Erhard mumbled like that and glanced again.

“Thank you for letting me know.”

“Ah!”

The girl with a bright smile nodded and walked out of her seat.

‘She’s a strange kid,’

Ante looked at the back of the girl moving away for a moment.

It was the first time that a child who did not cry even though she met the Duke in front.

No, there was only one more.

The person who didn’t blink even looking at the Duke.

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‘It’s all old, too,’

Ante turned his head back, erasing the useless thoughts.

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“Welcome, Duke. Thank you for visiting our orphanage.”

After finishing the renovation, the director raised an elegant greeting to the Duke.

Erhard asked, pointing at the children with glances.

“Are these children?”

“Yes.  That’s right.”

The director still smiled as if he did not care that his words were ignored.

“These are the children with black hair and walls that the Duke is looking for. He must be among them.”

Erhard glanced over the children with a slow glance.

The children, who were brought in without knowing the English language, burst into tears when eye contact with the Duke.

“Oh, why are these guys talking like this. They aren’t crying kids…….”

The director laughed hard and comforted the children.

Either that or not, Erhard looked at the children with a quiet eye and rolled the mana stone in his hand.

Inside it was the mana of the climber’s son and the child I was looking for.

He had put his son’s mana in case his own close friend might not know.

So, if there are any children of the climber among them, they will react.

However, no reaction occurred.

‘Isn’t it also here?’

Erhard blackened his head toward the director who looked at me with joyful eyes.

“It sounds like a lie, so kill it.”

“What? Lord, Duke, what are you saying…… .”

“Okay.”

“Duke!”

Ante bowed his head and approached the director’s side.

The children trembled, making a breath-taking sound.  Erhard stopped looking at the scene with an indifferent glance.

There were four children, but the blonde girl who bumped into me must have said:

“Yes! You want a child with black hair and a wall, right? All five are in the director’s office.”

There are five children.

Erhard’s eyes sharpened.

“Ante.”

Ante immediately stopped acting at the call of the master.

Then Ante withdrew her straight back with her children.  he was trying to prevent a terrible situation.

Erhard muttered as he took a step toward the director.

“Isn’t there one.”

“Yes?  What do you say……. ”

“Is you trying to get rid of him pretense until the end?”

Erhard without hesitation pulled up his sword and snapped it next to him.

The director couldn’t even make a filming sound and hesitated.

“The child you hid, where are he now?”

The inside of Erhard’s enemy shone ugly.

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It was noisy outside.  Damian slowly opened his eyes.

My body was heavy.  I never did this.…… .

As I looked around with a colorful breath, a sunny blonde came into my eyes.

She was Ellie.

It seems that she was protecting my side without going.  A faint smile appeared on Damian’s mouth.

“Ellie…… .”

As he exhaled his flamboyant breath and struggled to call her name, Ellie patted Damian’s cheek with a worried face.

The touch was so good, Damian closed his eyes and rubbed his cheek.

“Hand, I like it because it’s cool.”

“Is my hand cool?”

“Oh yeah….”

Damian nodded as if bewildered.

Ellie smiled openly. It was a very painful and bitter smile, but Damian, excited by the heat, did not notice it.

“Damian, you don’t have to get sick anymore.”

Ellie muttered little like a self-talk.

“Your family came.”

Damian blinked slowly at the words of unknown English.

At that moment, a noisy door opened and someone struck inside.

He was a man as big as a monster.

The man had dark eyes, his reddish black hair, and a feeling of suffocation that seemed to be choking.

Behind him stood nursery teachers with confused faces.

It was a familiar expression to Damian.

When all the monsters were killed, the crowd at the stadium would show that expression toward Damian.

‘…….Is it a dream?’

Damian only blinked with a hazy spirit.  Hid blue eyes were revealed to be sore through hid dark hair.

‘I heard it’s a boy, but some girl……. .’

Seeing those eyes, Ante glanced at Duke Shuetz and swallowed his saliva.

I tried to keep calm, but I have never seen the Lord’s expression on the battlefield.

No, I’ve only seen it once.

It was when the lady died.

‘Since then, I thought I’d never be able to see that again,’

Ante looked at his peacock with his tense face, and looked down.

Besides, the little girl was with him next to him.

She was a blonde girl who had bumped into the peacock.

On the girl’s face, I couldn’t see the innocence of the time when she was called’Uncle’.

It was a face that accepted the long wait.

As if she knew that the child they were looking for was this boy.

Erhard’s eyes sharpened.

If he were a different child, he would have burst into tears or fainted.

However, the girl woke up quietly without blinking an eye.  It means to leave her seat.

It was then.

He to get up from the seat, staggering, stood in front of Ellie.

The child, who did not budge when people’s gaze reached him, stood in front of me as soon as the my gaze reached the girl.

Although it may be staggering, he does not withdraw.

It was a beast’s attitude to protect its owner.

Ellie also opened her eyes round as if she had not predicted this situation.

‘Oh my god,’

I put my first button in the wrong place.  It was when Ante stepped forward and tried to mediate we.

“It’s in a serious condition,”

the duke’s indifferent words settled in the atmosphere of thin ice.

“Who are you going to protect like that?”

“……… .”

Damian bite his lips at the peacock’s words.  I want to refute it, but only the sound of my breathing stopped.

It was then.

A subtle blue light began to leak out of the Duke’s arms.

For the first time, the Duke cracked with an emotional expression, took out what was in his arms and threw it at Damian.

It was a small stone.  The moment Damian embraced it, the stone began to emit a brighter light.

The room was clearly filled with blue light, and then slowly subsided.  Ante tried to stop the bursting sensation.

‘found.’

The son of Duke Kleider, who had been searching so much, was in front of him.

Damian slowly blinked in an incomprehensible situation.

At that moment, Damian’s body staggered.

“Damian!”

Ellie urgently hugged Damian.  Damian, whose body was drooping, couldn’t open his eyes even after calling his name several times.

“You won’t have to worry,”

said Erhard, in a heartless voice that quickly captured his emotions.

“It’s just that the mana that was stolen was absorbed again. It will help him to increase his stamina.”

Ellie blinked her eyes, raised her hand and touched Damian’s forehead.

Certainly, I felt the hot heat gradually faded.

‘Then, was that really the son of the Duke of Kleider?’

The teachers who watched the whole situation began to tremble.

“I think I found the child.”

Erhard muttered with a low-pitched throat at Damian, fixing his gaze.

“Then, let’s listen to an explanation of why the child’s look is like that.”

“………. .”

“If the answer is not good, it would be better to bite your tongue and die.”

A feeling of overbearing that can overpower people with a single word.

He said that he couldn’t even dare to take his mouth off when he stood in front of him.

‘It’s just as it is described in the book,’

Eli blankly looked at the Duke.

At that time, the eyes of the Duke reached Ellie.  Ellie shook her body without knowing it.

The Duke, looking at Ellie with his unshakable eyes, finally opened his mouth.