Chapter5. Intentionally arouse anger. (2)
The knights gathered around him as a focal point and risked their lives to protect the border. Without him, the empire would have been forced to give up its vast territory in the west to monsters.
‘Yes, it is a barren land.’
As the son of the lord who rules the territory, it would be a lie if I said I didn’t feel regretful.
There are no fertile plains like in the east, nor is it possible to harvest special products from the sea or engage in maritime trade like in the south.
Although the North is a cold, snowy mountain, this means that it is also difficult for monsters to live in it. So the North earned handsome profits by mining iron ore and gems.
‘Compared to that, this mountain range is just full of vicious monsters.’
There are no resources to develop, no technology to develop, and no special talent. There is probably no place in the entire empire as poor as the western territories.
Moreover, since Requiem appeared in the original work, the west has turned into a land of the dead.
In particular, while Abel, who destroyed the Obest territory, was roaming the western mountains, the empire did not even dare to touch the west.
‘Then Cain appeared and the war to annihilate the west began.’
Originally famous as a crimson nobleman, he became the strongest by defeating Abel. The previous strongest person died at the hands of Abel.
“……Hmm.”
I stopped a few steps before reaching the restaurant door.
‘Now that I think about it, I guess this meeting today also didn’t happen in the original.’
That fact aroused a special emotion. It was very satisfying to see that she was gradually breaking away from her original destiny.
‘It’s very smooth.’
I arrived at the restaurant, choking back my laughter. The waiting servants opened the door.
Jeez.
The moment I took a step into the restaurant, I made eye contact with Diego, who was looking toward the door.
“Abel?”
For a moment, Diego’s blue eyes widened wildly. His eyes trembled slightly and looked at me.
‘… … what?’
I’ve never seen Diego make an expression like that before.
The servants who were serving him around him froze in embarrassment at the sudden change in the lord’s expression. Their eyes flew at me like arrows.
I was so embarrassed that I stopped in place.
‘Is there some problem?’
I took a quick look at the lower part of the body, but there was nothing noticeable. So, the color of the hair or eyes changed, and the sword did not protrude from the body.
‘Your clothes are fine.’
I turned to the servant standing in the doorway.
“hey.”
“Yes, master.”
The servant hastily bowed down.
“How do I look now?”
The servant barely raised his head in response to my question. He glanced at me without even looking at me, then lowered his head again.
“You look so confident and handsome.”
“I know.”
I answered as if it was obvious and then looked at Diego again.
He was still staring at me. The eyes, which were now filled with surprise and astonishment, were shaking with disbelief and anger.
“you…….”
An angry voice came out. After opening his mouth for a moment, Diego paused, as if he was aware of the gaze of those around him.
He bit his lip and looked away from me. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes tightly.
“…….”
A quiet moment followed, as if suppressing emotional turmoil.
‘No, what is it?’
What on earth is that look on your face that says you’ve seen something you can’t see?
Eventually, Diego raised his head and stared at me. The bright blue eyes were bubbling like lava just before boiling.
“…….”
After a moment of waiting for our gazes to meet, it was Diego who looked away first. He gestured to Max, who was standing nearby.
“Please bring the food.”
“Yes, yes.”
Max, who was watching him, approached him pushing a cart.
“…….”
Diego wiped his hands with a towel before the meal and just looked at the table.
His eyes were now like a cold, submerged lake. He didn’t even tell me to take a seat.
‘You’re treating me like a complete non-existent person.’
I snorted and walked over and sat down in my seat. Max started setting down the salad plate.
“Today I prepared a farm-style salad with fresh tomatoes and avocado.”
Diego, who had been silently listening to Max’s explanation, turned his attention to him.
“Max.”
“Yes, my lord.”
“Have you lost some weight?”
“ah…….”
Max was startled and tried to look in my direction,
‘Tsk.’
When I frowned, his eyeballs rolled back at the speed of light.
“Yeah, well, that’s it.”
Max instinctively realized that he should not dare to tell the lord what had happened so far.
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“Yes, it’s been a while. I’ve started taking care of it. I’m getting older, so my health isn’t what it used to be.”
“Is that so?”
Diego grinned.
“Well thought out. It’s too late to regret your health after you lose it.”
It was a willing smile that I had never shown to my son, Abel.
I snorted and looked at the salad plate in front of me.
“Good job.”
The meal started with one word from him.
“…….”
The relationship between the two fathers was still cold, and there was no conversation between them. There is only the faint noise of servants coming and going.
‘It’s still the same.’
I picked up a tomato with a fork. And then I glanced at Diego across from me.
Diego completely ignored me and focused on the food.
His eyes were as harsh as midwinter frost, and his closed mouth looked as strong as a solid rock.
I looked away from him and popped the tomato into my mouth. And he had a deep look of ridicule on his face.
‘If it had been the same, I wouldn’t have been here right now.’
In the original, Diego at this point did not have that peaceful face.
‘Abel. ‘How can you!’
When he returned to the territory, Abel had already become the embodiment of death. After all the life in the Obest territory had turned into a handful of ashes.
‘Father, are you here?’
Holding the black void sword, Abel laughed cruelly.
The original story then depicted Diego’s heart as being torn to pieces, and the pieces could never be put back together.
After all, Diego soon died at the hands of Abel.
‘ah… … bell.’
He was never able to cut down his son. The great lord who commanded the western territory of the empire died a miserable death.
‘I don’t even know that I’m sitting here safely thanks to someone.’
Well, I didn’t do it to let him know. He didn’t particularly want Diego’s affection.
However, it was also true that it was heartbreaking to see such cold treatment on a subject about which one knew nothing.
‘joy.’
I had no appetite anyway. I roughly finished my food and put down my fork.
“dessert.”
As soon as I let out a sigh, the servant who was staying next to me came over.
“Do you mind if I don’t eat any more? There’s still a lot left.”
As he was the main servant at the restaurant, he knew how much I ate on a ‘normal’ day.
but.
“Who do you think of as a pig that eats three bowls at a time? If only he ate this much, that was enough.”
For a moment, the servants in the restaurant looked dumbfounded.
‘Has the meaning of dessert as I knew it changed?’
‘Wasn’t he the one who used to eat five bowls at a time?’
‘Maybe the food didn’t taste good?’
Their eyes changed colorfully.
“???”
Max was also wearing a perplexed expression. This is because he was also someone who was overworked by my enormous appetite.
Anyway, I can’t eat like that in front of Diego. I wasn’t that hungry to begin with.
He snapped his fingers on the plate and said bluntly.
“Bring me dessert.”
“……Yes, master.”
The servant blinked with a dumb expression for a moment, then lowered his head. The other servants also quickly turned their gaze away from me.
Soon, my favorite sorbet was placed in front of me.
I waited for Diego’s reaction just in case, but he continued eating without even looking at me.
‘Are you going to let it go like this?’
I also ignored him and lazily put some sherbet in my mouth. As I was almost finishing my sorbet, Diego stepped back and wiped his mouth.
“Please bring wine after dinner.”
“Yes, my lord.”
By the time the empty wine glass was placed in front of Diego, I had finished my dessert.
The moment I pushed the chair with the intention of getting up,
“Abel.”
Diego’s heavy voice stopped me.
“-!”
The servant who was just picking up the plate stumbled. Not only him, but Max, who was just about to pour the wine, stumbled and almost spilled the wine.
To that extent, this was an unprecedentedly shocking event. Diego talks to Abel during the meal.
‘… … ‘What’s going on?’
I stopped straining my legs and answered.
“yes.”
“What have you been doing so far?”
Max’s hands trembled. The wind blew the wine that was being poured out of the glass and spilled on the table.
“Oh my! I’m sorry.”
Max wiped the table in a cold sweat. After pouring out the wine, he hurriedly stepped back.
He seemed urgent, as if he wanted to avoid an imminent disaster.
“…….”
I stared at Diego with an expressionless face.
‘Why are you doing something you’ve never done before?’
Diego glanced at Philip standing against the wall behind him. He met my gaze and shook his head slightly.
‘I see you reported as usual.’
Why are you doing this? Same thing when I first entered the restaurant.
I opened my mouth with a blank expression on my face.
“Why are you curious about that?”
Diego didn’t show any change in his expression despite my irreverent tone. Because it was something he was already familiar with.
“I asked what you were doing all this time.”
A similar, but slightly different response came back.
I read the calm anger underneath. To put it mildly, it implies that they will still look at it.
‘What do you know?’
I opened my mouth, thinking about the report Philip would have submitted to him.
“What is there for me to do?”
He started talking slowly while pointing his fingers.
“Eat,”
It was such a huge amount that the chef lost weight.
“Go to sleep.”
Even though that place was not a house, it was Magna Morten.
“I played well.”
While chopping off the heads of more than ten people.
After finishing speaking, I leaned back loosely in my chair. And he folded his arms proudly.
“That’s it.”
“…….”
Diego’s eyes became even colder. What had originally been like frost was now like a swirling blizzard.
“Is that really all? Is there nothing more to say?”
Diego asked back as if he was giving him one last chance. But I nodded with a calm face.
“You heard it from Philip anyway, so why are you asking?”
So stop spinning around and say whatever you want to say.
Although I didn’t say anything, I clearly conveyed this information with a frown on my face.
“…….”
The wrinkles between Diego’s eyebrows deepened. He took a short breath and put the wine in his hand to his mouth.
“…….”
Now the restaurant was completely quiet. So much so that you could hear the sound of wine going down Diego’s throat.
All the servants were holding their breath, watching the nervous battle between me and Diego.
In their minds, ominous imaginations were continuing that the shouts would echo throughout this restaurant and the tables would be overturned.
How long was the silence?
“Everyone, get out.”
Diego’s cold voice broke the silence.
fantasy,
