Leonard Gallagher hugs his daughter's remains and asks himself why this has happened.
"If it was for the cause of righteousness, I would have been prepared to lose my daughter."
I grew up young and trained with my brother to be arguably harsh from my father. Everything my father paints, for the magician's ideal nation.
said my father. They want to change the current situation where magicians are exploited by non-magicians. We have been told every day that magicians live like magicians and that they do not rule over the weak, but over themselves.
But Leonard doesn't know why his father came to such a conclusion. Still, I believed in my father and tried to fulfill my ideals.
In retrospect, it was my father's said life.
It's not just me, it's the same with my brother without a family registry. I was better yet, but I lived, fought and died as a brother and other shadow fighter of my brother. No, it was by Leonard's hand that he was seriously wounded.
"What was I supposed to do?
Marriage also remained what my father wanted, but the days spent with my wife were like treasures. I remember that when my daughter was born, the world became bright with its talent and adorability.
But when I lost my wife and my father forced me to train my daughter, the world was a little cloudy. Aware of that, Leonard was a good one for my father.
"What if, against my father, there would have been more different results?
He became the leader of the Royal Sorcery Division to gather each other. Sometimes he also committed unwanted killings. Gradually, guilt, discomfort, etc. stopped bothering me at all.
He killed men as his father commanded him, he killed magicians, he killed demons, and he also killed comrades.
I didn't feel anything when I realized it. As if it were a doll, it kept moving as ordered. I'm sure that would have been easier. It might have been better to just follow without thinking.
"Somebody tell me what I should have done. Avril, Giril"
He died now, and there couldn't have been a response to calling his daughter and brother by their names. Maybe I wish I had died myself.
Strangely enough, now that we have lost our loved ones and lost them, the emotions that we thought we had lost reside in our hearts.
It is regret and guilt that make up the majority of the mind.
Regret for putting my brother in my hand. Regret that resulted in the loss of her daughter, a forgotten vision of her late wife. Guilt for involving and using unrelated human beings.
In particular, the guilt of involving students from the Royal School is enormous. Most of the students have already fought and broken. They had no clear intention, they were just being manipulated by Avril's spell. It will automatically free Avril from the spell more than he died.
But it is true that we were involved in our own treason. No matter how many young people were dissatisfied with the country, even if the dissatisfaction was disproportionate, all the Leonards used were bad.
Wish only that the country would take care of the young boys and girls.
"I must ask your father"
I reached the mansion where my father was, dragging his heavy feet like lead.
It's supposed to be a familiar mansion, but it looks inorganic somewhere.
"... Father"
"Leonard, why are you here? You were supposed to pawn Jared Murphy and take over the royal palace?
A gray-haired man in his sixties standing quietly in a well-maintained garden asks Leonard.
He is Lucas Gallagher, father of Leonard Gallagher.
I don't think it's old age. Sharp eyesight. The magician wears a robe now. Makes me feel active.
"Father, Avril is dead."
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"He sheltered me and died."
Lucas asks his son, who kneels on the ground and weeps zero, with the remains of his daughter in his arms, coldly.
"Right. So, why did you hold the body of your useless daughter and come before me?
"Why, do you ask?
"I thought I'd ask. Our operation is not over yet. He hasn't always been satisfied. Even so, you just came back to congratulate your daughter on her death!
Leonard's emotions were coming back to life when he was dying of words too ruthless to think of as his father. Living in anger and continuing to weep, he roughed his voice to the ruthless attitude of sniffing at the wreckage of his daughter.
"Aren't you your grandson, Father? It's Avril. It's my daughter Avril, isn't it?
"So say what. You can make kids again. Let's get you something better than your previous mother. If you do, you'll have a better child."
"... what do you think my daughter is!
"A pawn."
"Oh, my God, what did you just say?
To Leonard, who doubted my ear, his father said clearly once more.
"I said it was a pawn, Leonard. It's not just Avril, you and your brother Jillil are just pawns to me to fulfill my grief."
"It's not a word for family"
"Ha, make me laugh. Have you ever felt love from me? If so, let's apologize. I'm sorry I made a mistake."
Now I don't know if the tears that are flowing are for sadness or for remorse.
Father.
"Interpretation, you are nothing but pawns to me. I wouldn't have needed it if I was all alone. I needed more trouble than I should have."
"... Father, go up"
"Even though I just need trouble, I can't trust or trust anyone. I wish I could have made a pawn out of my blood... but I didn't expect too much."
"Father, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah."
I couldn't forgive it. I've powdered myself to the point. Because everything is family. Because I had love. Because of the thoughts of my son, who wanted to fulfill what his father wanted.
Leonard like that. Avril also made an effort to fulfill my father's wishes as a daughter. Even my brother, who was supposed to be an unusual treatment, laughed at me that he didn't mind for the future of his family and magicians.
Even so, the key Lucas didn't even think of the Leonards as family or anything.
"Stupid. Are you lost?"
Sighing, the old man rattled his fingers like a dead tree. At the next moment, a flame blows out of Leonard's body and wraps his whole body around him.
"Hey, what did you do to me? Ahhh!
The body is burned from the inside and the outside, and unimaginable pain strikes. but I didn't care about that or anything. Now I just want to reward the man who betrayed us. Just that.
But Leonard's body was burned, and he wouldn't listen to me. My legs did not move and my body leaned and fell to the ground.
Leonard laughs when he looks down at my child like that and spits all the time.
"You are really stupid. You really think I put my full trust in a pawn named you? I would have assumed, for example, that you would face the blade. When you were a child, you kept a curse on Jillil and alignment. Not even Avril."
"Father, uh, uh, how far do you want us to go? Whoa, whoa, whoa."
"I'm glad the doll just followed my husband like a doll. It would be a foolish end because it would foolishly try to have its own will."
Is it something like this or something like this? Have I ever done all I could for such a man and lost my daughter and brother? I think so, but it seems to boil over and over again. Through remorse, his feelings for his father no longer reached hatred.
"... Jared Murphy, kill this man"
Leonard sent a glimmer of desire to the boy who was hostile while he was burned to the eyes that dwelled on his hatred and even deprived of his sight, desperate.
"Farewell, my son, Leonard Gallagher. You were very good as a pawn. But that was all I read. I'll take care of the rest. Sleep with your daughter. I will destroy this country and restore my homeland."