TAPGB - Chapter 146

TAPGB - Chapter 146 

 The Abandoned Prince's Ghost Bride

 

“It looks like we finished well here too.”

Age, who looked a bit disheveled, looked around and said.

He teleported into the forest with Peter and engaged in a decisive battle.

It took a while, but there was no way a dragon over 700 years old could not defeat a mere human.

"Forgive me for being late! I’m a little late because I brought Sebastian!”

Javier, along with Sebastian, hurriedly approached Lucian and his group.

Sebastian realized that Leopold was seriously injured and imbued him with divine power.

“The overall condition is not good. I think it would be good to receive divine power every day.”

Leopold had already received healing magic from Caesar and Leah once, so he had no injuries, but his soul had been oppressed by Leon for a long time, so he was greatly weakened.

“It’s a mess as soon as I wake up.”

Leopold, who had regained some energy after being granted his divine power, smiled with a pale complexion.

"Brother... You might be a little confused now, but I’ll explain it to you slowly.”

“...Okay, I understand.”

Leopold said he believed his brother's sincere words and placed his hand on the back of the hand holding him.

After a while, Leopold's eyes began to blur.

Everyone here knew that he was feeling drowsy because he had used up so much energy.

“I will serve Your Majesty.”

Sebastian ordered the priests who came with him to take Leopold to a safe place.

“Wait a minute, there’s probably still a lot of warlocks out there?”

“You don’t have to worry about that. We are currently clearing out the remnants.”

Age responded to Caesar's concerns.

“Thanks to Age and Sebastian’s efforts, we were able to break the warlock’s momentum.”

While Sebastian used his divine power to cancel out the black magic, Age lowered their morale by throwing Peter's head among the black magicians.

The warlock who lost his leader was nothing more than a ragtag bunch.

Javier has also brought some wizards with him, so he will soon be able to unlock the barrier in the imperial palace.

“Heng, is that what happens when you only deal with one warlock? The white dragon is also dead.”

Caesar chuckled and sarcastically looked at Age's behavior. He responded with an expression that made Age laugh.

“Then you are such a mess. Do you think it would be too much for you to deal with the first Emperor on your own?”

"Wouldn’t you know it if you saw that bastard dead? This body has done a great job! Look at this!”

As Caesar showed off his white flames with great vigor, Age's eyes widened slightly.

Now that he thinks about it, Caesar's spirit has changed a lot from before they parted ways. Should he say that the energy inside him seems to be more massive than before?

Age, who was examining Caesar closely, realized that he could feel Carcerine's dragon heart inside him.

He slowly opened his eyes, but slowly closed them as he realized what was happening.

And he placed his hand roughly on Caesar's head.

When Age roughly stroked his head, Caesar started struggling, asking what he was doing.

"Good work."

Hearing his calm, yet compassionate words, Caesar stopped hissing and smiled brightly.

"Huh!"

While the two dragons were unraveling, Lucian stood up and used his priests to sort out the current situation with Javier.

“First, move my brother to my room and kill the warlock on the spot without looking into his hands. Make sure no one escapes.”

“Can we take the leaders with us? There is still more to be pried from them.”

“Yes, you guys take care of it.”

Besides that, many other things were discussed. Leah, who was watching them talking, felt several people approaching.

Of course, that popular figure was not the enemy.

“...Lucian!”

Lucian turned his head at the familiar voice. Dio, Harry, and James were running in with complex expressions of worry, emotion, and relief.

While running, they found Leopold being carried by a priest.

For a moment they stopped. Harry, in particular, was stiff and looked at Leopold with trembling eyes.

“By any chance, Leopold...”

“He's safe. You don’t have to worry anymore.”

Harry, who was having negative luck, kept his mouth shut at Lucian's next words.

Soon, he was shaking and couldn't hold back his tears and sobbed.

“Why are you crying on this good day...!”

Dio comforted Harry as if he were joking, but tears were already welling up in his eyes.

He understood their feelings because they were friends who wanted Leopold to be safe just as much as Lucian.

As he was comforting his friends who were laughing and crying, he noticed other people approaching from afar.

“...Lucian.”

It was Ruber and Serena.

From the moment the two people appeared, Caesar's eyes became sharp.

Lucian and Leah were in the midst of a fight to the death, so they didn't know what was going on between them.

“Really, Leopold...”

Serena stumbled when she saw the hall where it looked like a battle had taken place.

Lucian frowned slightly at the way the two spoke as if they knew everything.

"Sorry. It wasn’t a situation worth hiding.”

From what James said, they understood what was going on.

‘I guess they finally figured it all out.’

Leah quietly looked at the two people. Their faces were quite pale.

Are you shocked that the first emperor is still alive? Or was he shocked that a warlock had taken over the imperial palace? Or is it because they found out that Lucian had a relationship with Leopold long ago?

Whatever the reason, it worked out better. It was just a moment when she was getting annoyed at those people, who didn't even know what Lucian was trying to do and was only asserting himself.

‘If they had a conscience, they wouldn’t be able to treat Lucian carelessly anymore.’

If they treat her carelessly, she has no intention of putting up with it any longer. Leah crossed her arms and she watched to see how they would turn out.

“Lucian...”

Ruber spoke first. But he couldn't say anything more.

Trembling lips, aimlessly shaking eyes, and a hesitant appearance. Lucian was most aware that their attitude had changed significantly from yesterday.

Lucian closed his eyes and opened them.

“There is nothing to worry about anymore.”

Ruber and Serena flinched at Lucian's words.

“I also expelled the soul of the first Emperor from my brother’s body, and now I am capturing the warlocks together with Cardinal Sebastian. However, the citizens of the empire may have viewed it as ominous due to the barrier being spread across the imperial palace.”

“...Lucian.”

“It’s going to get busy starting tomorrow. You have to repair the imperial palace, oust the remnants of the warlocks hiding in the palace, and deal with nobles who say things are sinister. This time, my father will have to help me. Since my brother is still not feeling well, I will only work until he recovers...”

“Lucian!

Ruber screamed. Only then did Lucian stop talking.

“Now is not the time to say such things...”

“...Then what should I say?”

“How did you get to know Leopold? Why did you listen to our request even though you knew everything? And why did you try to handle such a dangerous task alone....”

It seemed like there was a lot more he wanted to say, but Ruber's throat was clogged and he could no longer speak.

Something transparent seemed to sparkle between his fingers covering his face.

“Shouldn’t you have told me earlier? Still, we are your parents...”

Serena said, crying. Lucian looked at the two with a somewhat calm expression.

Looking as if he was deciding what to say, Leah quietly took Lucian's hand. Lucian looked back at Leah.

“Say what you want to say.”

Lucian's eyes widened and then he smiled. Lucian put strength on his joined hands and made a stern expression.

“I didn’t think it would be of any help to me if I told you.”

Ruber and Serena froze with shocked expressions.

“It was entirely my will to follow obediently until now. My brother is the only family member who shares my pain and apologizes. So when I first heard that his brother had collapsed, I didn’t think twice and came right away.”

Ruber remembered the first time he met Lucian.

When Lucian was 4 years old, he suddenly visited the cold palace where he was staying to see how he was doing.

Then, Ruber became angry when he saw his son in a worse situation than an orphan, and his heart ached when he met him for the first time and instinctively called him father.

However, thinking that this should not happen, he quietly shook off the child who was grabbing the hem of his pants and never went to see him again.

The Lucian of today seemed to overlap with the Lucian who was four years younger and weaker, but the two were completely different people.

"What... Although my stay was unintentionally prolonged, it wasn't such a waste considering it was time for my older brother. And I will leave here as soon as my brother recovers.”

Lucian's expression when he said he was leaving seemed extremely relaxed. It was a look with no trace of regret.

‘We made it that way.’

Ruber failed to be a strong fence for the child, he failed to become an adult who would lead him to the right future, and he did not fulfill his parental responsibilities and demanded that the child do his duty as a child.

“...Do you have a grudge against us?”

"Well, I do not know."

Lucian shrugged his shoulders indifferently, but it made his heart ache even more.

He would have accepted it if he had at least uttered words of resentment, but it seemed as if he was saying that such emotional expenditure was a luxury for him.

At that time, Leah and Caesar next to Lucian caught Ruber's eyes.

The two people were hostile towards Ruber and Serena with wary eyes.

"I see. You already have a family.”

Ruber and Serena were not included in Lucian’s ‘family’. His family consists of those two people.

Until now, they had ignored him with the excuse that they were related by blood and that he was their child, but now a reality that they could not ignore was unfolding before their eyes.

Even more than the devastation, their mouths couldn't stop thinking that they were the ones who had driven Lucian to that point.

“What do you mean? It's family. We are Lucian's family. We are Lucian’s parents!”

At that time, Serena, whose shoulders were shaking, let out her angry words.

Ruber realized that she had not yet faced reality.

“Lucian, we have been wrong all along. I gave you an indelible wound. Let’s correct everything that has gone wrong so far. From now on, I will announce your existence! So, even if the throne is handed over to Leopold, you will remain in the imperial palace...”

"Stop."

“Your Majesty, we can’t let Lucian go like this! Don't you know what a terrible mistake we have made? Being a mother and not knowing what your child is thinking...!”

“Serena!”

Ruber loudly interrupted Serena's words. Serena's trembling eyes found Ruber with a miserable expression.

“...Stop it. Don’t you know that your actions are actually bothering Lucian?”

Serena lowered her head, biting her quivering lip. Ruber realized that even though he knew everything about it, he was forced to deny it.

But here, like Serena, she knows that forcibly holding Lucian is not an act for his benefit.

“...Leave this matter to me. Thank you for your hard work.”

With those words, Ruber hurriedly turned around. Serena looked back and forth between Lucian and Ruber, but eventually, she followed him.

Lucian was speechless as he saw the two people walking away.

“Ah, you’re showing off so well.”

But the two people next to him were not. Caesar clicked his tongue and sarcastically.

“You hypocrites. If you said one more word, you would be dead to me.”

Leah let out a fierce curse and cursed.

Lucian opened his eyes round and burst into laughter at the sight of the two people.

“Ahahahaha! I don’t mind, so why are you two making such a fuss?”

“It’s because you don’t mind! Are you stupid?! You should have spit out all the curse words to that face!”

“No, it’s better. Let’s not deal with or get involved with those people from now on. When it's not enough to see only good things, what can you do to a child...”

Leah covered Lucian's ears and consoled him, while Caesar was expressing his anger by stomping on the floor.

Instead, it felt quite nice to have someone angry with him.

Lucian hugged Leah and Caesar tightly with a smile on his face. The two people blinked and looked back at Lucian.

“...Thank you for being by my side.”

It was a tone full of love that was clearly different from the way he treated Ruber and Serena.

Leah and Caesar exchanged glances and hugged Lucian tightly.

“Let’s be happy from now on.”

The future ahead will surely be full of sunny days without a single shadow.

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