I guess today is the last day of my life.
The feelings of dying were detached.
Looking back, I was just a sword for my family, so what regrets do I have?
However, it is a waste to think that all the hard training so far has been to kill me in front of him.
I failed, and my father would be disappointed.
In the dark dungeon, the man who had been my lifelong target looked down at me with cold, gray eyes.
The man's hair glistened with gold on the yellowish ofl.
'It can't be.'
I shook my head.
The man is silver-haired Halias.
The real power of the continent of Biante, which is said to be a puppet of the royal family, is Grand Duke Alseid Halias.
The Grand Duke's low voice crawled chillily across the damp stone floor.
"One last question. Do you know about your parents?"
I cleared my mind and opened my parched lips.
"I don't have any information to give you, so if you're going to kill me, kill me quickly."
I squeezed my voice out with all my might, but there was not a small crack in his face.
Instead, there was a sound of a door, and a man with chains was thrown into the room.
I opened my eyes wide.
"Father!"
I forgot that I was going to die quietly a while ago, and I twisted my body with all my might.
However, the limbs tied to the chair did not move.
"Father! Father!"
Apparently, my father was strange.
He was bound but didn't seem to be injured, but he curled up and shook up.
"What have you done to my father?"
I glared at the Grand Duke and asked, and then called out to my father again.
"Father, Father! Are you okay?"
However, I heard a strange sound from my father's side. I felt like I was laughing or crying.
"...Father?"
My father rolled over and turned to me.
Then I saw my father's face right away. He laughs as if he is mesmerized.
"Have you been tortured?"'
It was a harsh life, but it was the family that raised me until this day.
A flame flared up in my heart.
However, the force that restrained my limbs was so strong that I couldn't lift a finger.
At that moment, the Grand Duke, who had not breathed until now, suddenly gave an order.
"Unwrap your mask."
Then his eldest son, who was standing beside him, threw a small glass jar toward my father.
Crisp!
The bottle shattered, and acrid smoke of a strange color billowed out.
"What are you doing?"
I moved my body as if I were having a seizure, fearing that the smoke would poison my father, but it was no use.
The next moment, something unbelievable happened.
My father's red hair was slowly turning black.
"Wha, what are you doing?"
His red hair was a symbol of the Meridi family.
A father who lost his powers while fighting against Halias, and even lost his precious hair...
But my father was still giggling
He looks like a madman, and he is more afraid than death.
"Oh, Father...."
At that moment, something in my father's hand rolled toward me.
It was too far from me to reach me, but I recognized it at a glance.
The rocket pendant with my childhood portrait on it was cherished by my father like a treasure.
My father's precious pendant rolled several laps on the dirty stone floor.
Then, it finally opened and stopped.
Then, faint images filled the room.
***
First of all, I saw a beautiful and gorgeous castle.
Through the window of the castle, I saw a red-haired woman reading a fairy tale to me as a child.
'...Mother?'
My mother didn't have red hair...
Or did she have it?
Why did I think she was my mother?
My head hurt.
Next was an even redder night.
On the night when the big castle was burning, someone rescued me and I escaped from the castle.
No, it's wrong.
That 'someone' set fire to the castle and took me away without my parents' permission.
I ran and ran on the man's back.
He didn't care if I cried or vomited, as long as I was alive.
I stayed up all night and ran until daylight, and then I boarded the boat again at sunset.
When I arrived at an island like a corpse, a nanny who knew my face accepted me with a click of her tongue.
"Poor Princess of Meridy, give all your difficult memories to this Bachel. Your baby will grow up healthy. The selfish old man promises you one thing."
Bachel nanny...
It was then that I realized that the videos shown by the pendant were not illusions.
This is a memory.
I remember meeting Bachel for the first time.
Bachel took the necklace I was wearing and opened the pendant.
'That's the way it is... Was it mine?'
A strange-smelling scent burned behind her. I was not suddenly afraid.
Because Bachel used the incense of oblivion.
"Now, here on the island of Lausanne is Meridy. Meridy's Princess is definitely Merdy."
What?
What kind of pun is that?
So wasn't that small island castle that I had considered Meridy all my life Meridy a Meridy?
And what about Meridy?
Could it be the burning castle I saw earlier?
Memories skipped time.
About two years later, a wandering witch doctor came to visit.
"It's a young Meridy."
"It's my blood."
The dark-hatred man insisted on it.
I stared blankly at him in the smoke.
This was the first time I met my father, who was smiling over there.
My father has black hair. I had forgotten about it without knowing it.
The shaman laughed.
"Your Excellency, Marquis de Haan. At this rate, it won't be long before you know the truth. It is not something that Bachel can do alone."
The Marquis de Haan?
de Haan, the one who rules the southeast of the continent?
The witch doctor taunted my father and grabbed my hand, and placed it on my chest.
"Descendants of Meridy. Open your eyes and light up the world."
Maybe it was from that time.
Every time I closed and opened my eyes, I could see the flames.
From the next memory, the Marquis de Haan's hair turned red.
What I heard from someone I knew as my father was always the same.
"Liana, do you know how our Meridy family, the most noble family on the continent, was driven to such a rural island? It was all because of the cunning machinations of Halias. A large, prosperous city near the capital was burned to the ground."
I could see the meditation room in the smoke.
If you ask me about his words in detail, he is locked up in an underground cell for betraying his faith and for doubting.
Each time, Bachel borrowed my father's rocket pendant and showed me a portrait of me as a child, comforting me.
"My father was originally a warm person. A deep grudge only changed my father, and I need to build up my strength and avenge him. Then my father will laugh again. Just like the happy days in this portrait."
As Bachel said, my young eyes in the portrait were filled with the joy of the beloved.
As I said that, the nanny showed tears as if she felt sorry for me, and when I looked into her eyes because my heart was weak, my worry and anger melted away at some point.
So that in the end, there will be nothing left.
I saw a lot of training and practice in my scattered memories.
I practiced over and over again, and on the days I made a mistake, I was locked in the meditation room.
I saw it one night when I was fifteen years old...
On the day of my first assignment, I finally boarded a boat and went ashore.
The emotion of stepping onto the continent for the first time comes back to me.
Compared to my training and ability, the task was easy.
In the middle of winter, all I had to do was burn down a small castle.
It didn't take much effort to burn the small country castle, but after I returned, I was haunted by nightmares.
I felt like I had done something wrong.
Bachel comforted me as if she had read my intentions even then.
"Good girl, there was no one in the castle. It was a castle where the plague came, and everyone disappeared. You did a good job. If there is still sickness, the animals in the land will also get sick."
I believed all of them.
After talking to Bavhel, I was always relaxed.
When I smelled the scent of her, all my fears disappeared, and I was left with the will to avenge my parents.
All the rest of my emotions were taken away and sealed in that little rocket pendant.
The only person who was kind to me in the past I remembered, my nanny Bachel, was forgetful.
***
All the videos of adults disappeared.
Still, I couldn't take my eyes off the void...
Hot tears flowed down my cheeks.
The man, whom I thought was my father, giggled.
I couldn't help but turn my attention to him and ask.
"Really...?"
He laughed and then stared at me with the eyes of a madman.
"Why do you look so resentful? It's actually me who is wronged! I have been going in and out of that remote Island for decades because of you. You're a failure! It's Meridy's veins, which pretended to be noble, but it's as useful as poker in winter."
"Poker... as much."
I rattled my arms from the chair, but the magic armor wrapped around my hands prevented me from exerting any strength.
'That's true.'
At this moment, it was not as useful as poker.
Thousands of questions came to mind, but only one of them came to mind.
"My real family... Is it somewhere?"
He laughed even louder.
"Haha, hahaha... His Excellency the Venerable Grand Duke of Halias will answer you once. Poor Meridy asks, Where are all the remaining Meridy?"
The only thing that echoed through the gloomy and musty basement was the man's laughter, and the Grand Duke did not reply a word.
My heart was hot, and my throat was dry.
I looked up at Alseid Halias.
"Please answer."
But there was no answer from him.
Another tear fell from the tear duct that I thought had dried up for a long time.
I can't be a delicate girl, or crying makes me look more pitiful.
The Grand Duke's gaze seemed to shake for a moment in the blurred vision.
No, it can't be...
But it was easier to pray to the Grand Duke than to the fake father who had deceived me all my life.
"Generosity... Please give me."
My life doesn't matter.
I just want to know the truth.
I bowed my head and said eagerly.
Halias looked down at me and was silent for a moment.
Then he replied with a spit.
"All the other Meridy... dead."
At that moment, something shattered in my burning heart.
The man who had been my father shouted as if he had been waiting for him.
"He killed them! He killed them! Your enemy of Meridy is Halias! I've been telling you all my life!
So, there was no such thing as my family in this world.
Maybe I lost them in that burning night.
I thought I was for those who didn't exist in the first place, and I felt that it was a waste and a waste of my life that I devoted my whole life to.
The hot anger quickly became a flame.
Finally, the embers began to spread in my heart.
I took a deep breath.
"Pravasi, come upon me and burn them."
Your only remaining descendant, Meridy, will become a dry sword here, and may it burn freely and devour them all.
"Ahahaha! Ahahaha!"
The shouts of fire and the laughter of a maniac were mixed.
All of them were burned and burned.
As the last Meridy had hoped, until they were all reduced to a handful of ashes.
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