The Unbound World’s “Normal” is Difficult

"What...?

Lucas opened his eyes to an unexpected confession.

Something magical.

It is a word that includes beasts, devils and other carefree creatures, and people fascinated by the devil, headed by the demon clan, the chief of the devil.

But the Demons must have been destroyed, and Kevin is not like a demon beast or a monster.

Lucas frowned on confusion, not wandering into the devil and showing oddness - it was more like Jonas before him.

Kevin looks up at his father rather than being shocked.

"... is that what makes me a demon?

"Were you attacked by a beast and sucked blood?

Lucas tried to come up with the possibility, but Yonas simply shook his head with a low voice.

And then...

"--he... Kevin was stillborn. It was breathed back by the demons."

Quiet, I dropped the bomb.

――……

"... what...?

They both breathe.

Especially Kevin blushed while unconsciously gripping the ring.

"... well, what do you mean, Father?

"It means as it is. You died with Eliza once right after you were born. Breathing, pulse stopped, I lost my temperature... I'm sure he's dead. But the demons helped him. To a demon tribe in the form of a youth with a young sister."

"Let's change the place," Jonas urged.

This is what Jonas explained after moving to a less popular place with complex expressions and making sure that there were no surrounding ears.

Originally, Eliza was said to have a poor stomach after giving birth to Deborah, making it difficult to get a second.

But there was a new life.

Thought it might be a boy who would succeed her beloved husband's house, she laughed away at her surroundings and said she would give birth anyway.

As if to obey Eliza's wishes, the pregnancy was going very well, and she was spending time adjusting the ring and sewing the clothes for the child who was about to be born.

But on the night of the following month, Eliza's condition suddenly changed.

"At that time, I was completely relieved by my foolishness and immersed in politics. I didn't even go to my wife's bedroom to see how she was doing, and I worked late, but only that day did a servant come to see me. I found a suspicious girl in the corner of the mansion, so I asked her to come."

"A suspicious girl?

"Ah, even though it's suspicious, it looks normal... no, it was such a lovely child. Dark-haired and surprisingly well-dressed... yes, it might have resembled the face of Elma."

I just told Jonas.

"---Just sleeping round in the corner of the stables, the girl had red eyes..."

"Red eyes....."

"Ah, woke up from a nap and raised her eyelids - her eyes were a tragically beautiful, dripping crimson that could take away her soul just by looking."

It is said that the color that humans do not possess is a color that often appears in the late demons now.

Fearing too much beauty and inhaled eyes, some of the servants decided that the girl was a demon survivor and tried to kill her on the spot.

But Jonas, who ran after the report, stopped it.

"It seemed that the girl didn't understand that she was about to be killed. His helplessness looked exactly the same as his daughter, Deborah. Almost the same age. So, first of all, I thought about the situation, and I bent over to her."

But then something strange happened.

A girl who was lying awake or had a rough glance raised her face and murmured.

--One of them is crying.

She stared at the corner of the mansion - around Eliza's bedroom.

--I 'm telling you to scratch it. Lose my child.....

Her back froze freezing as if she were tracing Eliza's words.

However, it was more like being grabbed by a heart with cold hands than fear when the monster was in front of it, like when the witch told the truth.

Jonas hurried to his wife's room, ordering his servants to keep the girl out of the way.

And there she found a wife who dyed her lower body with blood and squatted.

"My wife was already barely screaming. The blood was lost while I was watching... the doctor who rushed over me was exhausted, but we just couldn't stop watching Eliza and her belly die."

Losing yourself for a while.

Young Jonas, who returned to me, screamed out of his daily serenity.

He shook his tight wife's shoulders and shaken off the doctor's restraint, hugging her cold body.

Beast-like roars, face-down doctors, crying servants.

In such a frenzy, the wife, who seemed to have stopped breathing, moved her lips without a doubt.

--Tighten it.... my child...

It was as if I had scratched the pieces of soul left in my body and squeezed them out.

In fact, Eliza finally turned her back and now she's not going back completely.

Jonas, who was the only one to hear the voice of the end, raised his face wet with tears and ordered the doctor to open his wife's belly.

The doctor pushed and killed hesitation and tore Eliza's stomach apart at the maximum speed he could hold.

"But... you came out before the moon was too small to make a sound. Wrapped in cloth, rubbing... but still, your little pulse is getting farther and farther..."

Everyone was desperate.

Even Jonas felt his strength relaxing from his own arm holding his son.

That's when the door of the room opened with a soft noise.

--Sorry to interrupt. Thank you for looking after my sister.

Together, they shook their shoulders slightly and turned around to a louder voice.

"There stood a young man holding the girl in his arms."

About twenty years old.

On a slightly habitual hairstyle, an intellectually blurry eye, and a smooth body.

Although there are some items, their appearance is different from that of a girl, and it is not that they are beautiful through the eyes.

But the words spinning out of his lips, as he lifted them slowly, had an abundance like yonas and spooked them without thinking.

--Shall I thank you?

The young man gently hung the girl who seemed to have fallen asleep again on the wall and said nothing.

--I 'll help the baby over there.

It's as if I'm going to take off the hat that's caught on the branch, but it's a light tone.

Throughout his confused surroundings, he received a little baby from Jonas.

"And there he... exerted his magic."

It was a sight that could only be described as magic.

I can't imagine what it means to be an instrument I've never seen before.

His arm moved too fast to be seen.

Was it a few minutes or a few hours?

------fu

And then, I felt the air move out loosely.

---... uhh, fu, fu... fuggyaahh...

It was a small, fine, but undoubtedly baby-born voice.

- Yes, please.

The young man pushes the baby back to Yonas in a more clumsy manner, just as he did when he took it.

Then, I quickly turned my heel when I flew the instructions about temperature control, hydration, and breast milk feeding.

"When the young man took care of the girl, he tried to leave. I asked for his name in a hurry, but he won't tell me. As a person, I don't call anybody anymore and just say I don't like them. So I thought that he had fallen into magic because of his death, or that he was a survivor born between demons and people."

In fact, the girl he called his "sister" was obviously a demonic race, and the procedure he showed was an unusual sight that was too remote from humans.

Extremely, he said to Jonas, "Why did you help me?" And I guess I took the Queen of Hell, too, I couldn't overlook it. whimsical, "shrugged his shoulders.

So Jonas was convinced that the youth must belong to the demonic world.

Leaving Jonas stunned by an incredible miracle, the young man and the girl disappeared into the darkness of the night.

"Afterwards, I was able to take care of the baby named Kevin... and I consolidated my decision by laying a mouthpiece on the servants and doctors involved."

And that which hath given life unto the devil, that is, he that is bound by the devil.

No matter how much the Son of the Lord, his blood, and his destiny, may be filled with misfortune.

This is a particularly hostile and annihilatory presence in Frenzel.

- Do not let the people know that your son was saved by the Devil.

"... I had no choice but to... kill you, my son."

Jonas looked at Kevin and told him to squeeze it out.

"As the keeper of the sacred vineyard, Lord of Frenzel, I should have killed you. No, I shouldn't have borrowed the help of a demonic youth in the first place. You should have killed the girl. But I didn't want you to die trying to rot in hell after I died."

His right hand, which lay down and covered his mouth, trembled slightly.

"You are the life my beloved wife most desires... my beloved son."

――…………

Kevin takes a breath at the words he was told for the first time.

When Jonas coughed, he regained a calm tone and continued to confess.

"On the other hand, of course, I wanted to fulfill my lord's responsibilities. Especially, I couldn't let the moths, whose ringing chains stopped working year after year, ruin the vineyards. But... the moth is the leader of the demon clan. If you hurt it - if you imitate giving back your gratitude to the devil. And I thought if I bought that young man's wrath, I wouldn't let him take your life again..."

"So...."

So Jonas was passionate about getting rid of and detoxifying the moth, rather than disposing of it.

"Of course I understood what I had to explain to the people. My research may look strange to strangers or make them anxious. But... if you explain why I'm obsessed with detoxification, this time you won't be spared hostility from the people. Fortunately, I pushed you into the back of the Mansion because of your weakness rather than being thrown at and attacked by stones.... I meant to protect you."

"----Father..."

"I didn't believe you, I didn't mean to hurt you. I just... wanted to protect you."

Believe me, he groaned little by little, and Jonas shut his mouth.

A breathless silence falls between the three men.

Eventually, it was Kevin who shook his voice.

"... so... is that why you rusted the ring from your mother...?

"... ahh. I may be superstitious, but I hear silver burns the devil. I couldn't dispose of Eliza's appearance, but I was worried about giving it to you as it was, so I thought at least I applied chemicals to the surface and rusted it."

"... why didn't you tell me about the Lord's work...?

"When you work, you will inevitably have more contact with the people. I wanted to avoid any possibility of exposure."

At least until we can get rid of the moth.

Until the anxiety of the people is relieved and the climate that hates magic is relieved.

In this way, Jonas replied that it would have extended the period if it had been slippage, and if it had been careful, it would have been now.

"----------------"

Kevin chewed his lips tight.

He ripped the ring down his chest from the chain and showed it to his father.

"My father said he didn't mean to hurt you... but you did! That thought of yours hurt me!

The ring on his palm was proud of Eliza's engraving.

Kevin grabbed it and hit his father hard in the chest.

"... I wanted you to say it. No matter what happens, I wanted you to explain it to me."

"Kevin..."

"I wanted you to tell me that you love me. I wanted you to tell me that this ring is not a symbol of my sins, that I have been asked to give birth and that I will be forgiven even if I live...!

Kevin sneezed his face and screamed, forgetting the poisonous look he had previously stretched out and pretended to be, as well as the distinction he had recently worn suddenly.

"Even if you tell me that you love me, whether I burn my skin with silver or throw stones at you from the people...! I endured as much as I could...!"

At last, Jonas' eyes are moisturized.

He murmured, "I'm sorry."

Then she lifted her arm and hugged her tight son.

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry... I thought it was love!"

A young swallow and a powerful hug.

It was like a reproduction of the night ten years ago, and at the same time it was the moment when they first met as parents and children.

The parents and children who hug each other strongly eventually calm their excitement gradually, releasing each other's bodies at the exact same time as a mirror.

Looking closely, the two people with similar faces were illuminated with the awkwardness of showing tears in public, and had a clear expression unique to those who collided with each other's thoughts.

"--Sorry for the disturbance."

Eventually, Yonas coughs up and cuts out the old man's penis.

"... the reason I couldn't kill the moth is exactly what I told you."

From him, who stood to cover his son naturally, the temptation of the lord of the border land, who had fought the devil tirelessly, and the love of his hidden parents seeped out.

"Your Highness will be honoured by your visit to this land and our home. I have rewarded you for saving my life, and I will not hide this Jonas.... Your Majesty is one of those who will treat our home as possessed by the Devil."

At last, Jonas decided to step into the situation on Lucas's side, which he had never seen before.

However, while saying one thing, the narrow eyes have a sword-swallowing color like a beast that protects my child.

Kevin no longer had to be hurt, and there was no need to remain silent.

If they were now, the people would never turn away from the lord's family.

And Kevin can manipulate the moth with a whistle.

If the King's City attacks Kevin - Frenzel, it will fight with all its might.

That's what Yonas's sharp eyes said.

There's a problem.

"Oh, I'm scared."

Lucas didn't show any upset color and just shrugged his shoulders.

"What do I have to threaten to do with the easy prince collapse of just taking my beautiful daughter to visit a wine region?"

The light tone, which included laughter, built his position as the "politically neglected second prince" - behind which there was room and wonder unique to him, who had swallowed together with the turbidity.

"... I'll see you later."

"You're worried about what kind of souvenir I'll tell my half-brother when I get back to King's Landing? I'm sure it won't be a big deal. Weird and reputational lords were brilliant family figures, children seemed to grow on their own every day, and Frenzel's wines were as good as ever. If you just ask him that, he'll be happy."

Strange behavior was not a sign of devotion to the King's Landing, and children also seem to be good enough to give allegiance to the King's Landing, and Frenzel will continue to be the Land of Luden.

It also meant that the king's capital would not attack Frenzel, but would take refuge.

"This is my solitude, but the distinction between magic and heaven is ambiguous. You saw my uncle. An ugly moth eating branches is a demon bug, but a beautiful winged bug spitting silk thread looks like a butterfly sent from heaven. Who can judge whether what once happened in this land was magic by the devil or a miracle by the Apostle?"

"... Your Highness Lucas..."

As Yonas murmured, Lucas lifted up his shaped lips as he thought.

"That's right. However, I'm thirsty to talk about souvenirs. If you give me some of the best wines in the land, I'm sure my tongue will spin a beautiful story."

It is a silencing fee.

It was too cheap as a consideration - but Jonas shook his head so unbearably that he realized Lucas' intention to formalize the contract properly.

"- Of course."

She nodded deeply as she stroked her next son with one hand.

"I will bring you the best wine in my territory. If you prefer something strong, would you like a brandy?

During this stay, Lucas was considerate of knowing that he was quite resistant to alcohol.

However,

No...

Lucas made an unexpected request with a light bitter smile.

"The generosity hurts, but... can I get fruit water (zaft) without alcohol?

"Do you want Zaft...?

Jonas has a suspicious face.

In Frenzel, even children who have just begun walking prefer wine.

He leaned his neck to the point where he only used zaft to make confectionery, but Lucas only shaken his neck loosely.

"... there's someone I can't let get drunk and talk to."

He then turns around and looks at the city, which is still thriving.

"--This is totally crazy."

Far beyond the gaze, in the hallway between the stalls, Elma was surrounded by a fierce crowd and decorated with flower crowns.