The Archmage’s Restaurant

# 48

Chapter.12 Hidden Face and Dessert

But tragedy struck her again.

Happy times are truly fleeting.

It all started with a visit from Count Dedran.

“It’s already been four years since we got married, and we still have no heirs!”

Count Dedran was furious when he met his daughter alone. Verna returned to her childhood self and secretly despised herself for trembling, but contrary to her feelings, she still could not even raise her face to her father.

The fear of my father that was imprinted in me from a young age.

The fear of not being able to escape this person was already engraved deep into my body, preventing me from making any sound. All he can do is lower his head and tremble.

Count Dedran issued a threat to her.

“My patience will soon run out. I’ll give you just one more year. In the meantime, somehow, see to the heir!”

After that order, Verna became unable to do either of these things.

If she confessed to Count Gray out of fear of her father, she felt that her love for him would be diluted.

Another three years passed like that. The Gray boy turned 11 years old. He turned 27.

Count Dedran promised to give him one more year, but two more years have passed since the deadline expired.

But it was so quiet.

Verna was so anxious about that.

At this rate, she can no longer tell Count Gray that she wants to have a baby. Therefore, there was no way an heir could have been created between the Count and Verna, who had no relationship with each other.

Meanwhile, a serious accident occurred to the Count.

Count Gray, who was healthy, suddenly lost consciousness without any reason.

Count Gray was lying down, not recognizing anyone, and just being in a dazed state.

When you feed them, they eat, and when you clean them, they just sit there blankly.

Verna thought it was all her fault.

But that was just the beginning of another despair. From then on, Count Dedran began to get involved in the city of Grace behind the scenes.

At this time, the boy was only 11 years old, so he was at an age where he could not have known or prevented this incident.

From this point on, tax exploitation began.

Count Dedran, who began to steal the taxes of Gray City by recruiting Count Gray’s vassals one by one using huge profits as bait, said this to his daughter who was shaking in front of him a few years later:

“Soon, the age will come when the earl’s son can become a lord. So, make the family members coerce, pressure, and ignore him. “It means turning them into weak-minded scarecrows who can’t decide anything on their own.”

Although he was commanded to do so, Verna could not do such a thing. Of course, it was Count Dedran who controlled Gray Boy’s Scarecrow operation behind the scenes.

From then on, Verna was unable to meet the Gray boy whom she regarded as her own child. Because one by one, he began to realize what his father was doing.

Guilt took full control of Verna.

That happened when the boy turned 13.

From then on, they only saw each other occasionally at meals or at home, and she could not visit the Great Boy on her own, and even when he came to see her, she refused.

Because there was no way I could meet him.

The Count Gray family is distorted because of him.

It wasn’t once or twice that I decided to die. However, she had to give up her feelings because of Count Gray, whom she had fallen in love with for the first time in her life.

At the very least, I felt like I had to take care of him. Because I thought it was my repayment to Count Gray, who had given me the only happiness.

The boy thought that the servants were the ones taking care of Count Greyke, who was lying down, but in fact, it was Verna who did all the dirty work.

Of course, no one, including Verna herself, could tell the boy that fact.

Anyway, she was a weak person who couldn’t do anything on her own.

I turned away from the boy who was like my son whom I loved so much. Shedding tears in front of the Count lying down.

A woman whose joy in life is simply continuing the tea time she enjoyed with the Count without him.

So, for her, tea and dessert were like memories of Count Gray.

But a twist came. It was Verna who had lost her smile again, but the Gray boy overturned Count Dedran’s plan and began to act proudly, taking the lead as the lord’s representative.

Verna, who was watching it from behind, was very happy. As my expectations grew that my father would not be able to do anything if the boy grew up like this, my heart began to recover little by little.

That’s why, when I discovered good tea and desserts, I loved them like a child. Although I was just in a daze, eating the best dessert like that in front of the Count made me feel like I was reliving the past.

Because it was visible that the boy whom the boy regarded as a son was slowly reclaiming the Gray family.

It was Berna like that.

Disaster has struck again.

The disaster is just beginning. Count Dedran has just arrived.

It has come to this point. Verna held the medicine bottle in her palm and tightly gripped the carpet.

But of course I had no intention of giving this medicine to the Gray boy.

Even if I had to die.

7 years that made me feel happy in life. Count Gray and the Gray boy who gave us that time.

So Verna thought.

If it weren’t for his existence, his father wouldn’t have been so obsessed with Great City. Because the connection disappears.

A medium that connects Great City and Deadran City.

I should have made the choice a long time ago.

If the feeling of not being able to leave Count Graye behind is actually ruining the Earldom of Grayke, it can no longer be done. She thought so.

Only when he dies will his father’s ambition end.

“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu… sorry… honey… And Dieran.”

Verna began to sob and cry out the names of Count Gray and Gray Boy.

***

The boy is rolling his eyes. It is a dragon that has no idea.

Lulin came towards me and stuck out his head with a look on his face asking why he was like that. It means petting it because it worked hard.

“I will meet Count Dedran immediately!”

I had to stop the boy from bursting into anger. This is not something you should do without thinking.

“Hold on for now. Nothing will be solved by running now. In times like this, we need to resolve the matter calmly. “First of all, I have to meet the little lady one more time.”

“My uncle refused Count Dedran’s offer. therefore… . As expected, my uncle… .”

“First of all, I made an appointment to meet my little wife today with dessert, so would you be patient? “There are some things I want to find out more about.”

A drug that makes you lose your mind.

Isn’t that the same as Count Gray’s condition?

From the conversation, it seems like the little lady doesn’t know anything either. It seemed like all of this must have started at the hands of Count Dedran.

Human trash.

Of course, there is no need to find peace in trash.

It is Count Dedran who must experience real despair. This is because all sins have been revealed one by one.

What do you think a person’s life is?

This task was too much for the young Gray boy to handle.

“you? “What’s so serious!”

At that moment, the dragon, who was always the first to notice my strange behavior, must have read my uncomfortable expression and grabbed my arm and came closer to me.

***

Today, there is a very gloomy, dark cloud over Yeongju Castle. Even though the sky is clear and the autumn weather is still without a single cloud, Yeongju Castle is covered in darkness and looks like it is in the middle of a long tunnel that one cannot escape from.

The Gray boy was filled with anger. Because I found out about the evil that killed my father.

Such a Gray boy had to hold Count Dedran back from leaving his territory.

And he immediately took action to meet his little wife.

A dragon follows from behind.

“Why are you angry? you?”

There is absolutely no need for dragons to notice in the human world. Rulin is far from oblivious when dealing with me.

However, she notices my abnormality faster than anyone else and is now watching me.

Usually the atmosphere of this world has nothing to do with her.

No matter what happens, the human world is just an insignificant human world to her.

But on the contrary, I was very sensitive to my changes.

I stopped first.

The dragon keeps holding on to my arm and doesn’t want to let go. Lulin’s eyes were filled with the feeling that something was strange about me.

“I didn’t do anything. Even after waking up, I worked hard. Why did you do that earlier? ?”

“Does it look that strange?”

I guess I got a little emotional after meeting so much trash for the first time in a long time. I can’t believe Lurin would react like this.

To be honest, Duke Taemuran, who only cares about power, is cute. At least Duke Taimuran wouldn’t treat his own child like a tool.

Even monsters value their children.

It’s okay to do anything, but it’s hard to feel good when you see someone who isn’t like this. There is no medicine for trash that goes one step further than child abuse.

“Yes… . I don’t like you the way you are now. I don’t like you when you’re angry either. Because you’re scared when you’re angry… ! Then you ignored me. As if I didn’t exist! “I was definitely by your side!”

“are you okay. “I wasn’t angry with you then or now.”

“you?”

I hugged Lulin from the front. Rurin’s body fits comfortably into my arms. The hallways of the Lord’s Castle were very quiet, with only the autumn breeze blowing outside the window. As I felt Lulin’s body temperature, I felt a lot more tender.

“But he said he wasn’t angry and ignored me!”

“At that time, I had only just met you, and there were other circumstances. But it’s different now. don’t worry.”

“If you ignore me, I won’t know what to do. “I really don’t like that!”

During the Dragon War, I was overcome with anger. It was anger against the dragons, but of course Lulin was excluded. However, because he was not good at controlling his emotions, he even caused harm to Rurin.

The memories of that time seem to make Lurin anxious, but now and then are completely different.

Although she doesn’t care about anything.

Because they are so scared of being ignored by me.

Because Lulin is like that—

I guess I also don’t want to give her back to the elder.

“I won’t ignore it. At that time, I was still immature. Look at this. Are you fine? “It’s your favorite cocoon.”

When I gently brushed the back of her head, Lurin became quiet and made no sound.

“is it? It’s definitely different from back then. “Because I didn’t give a shit back then.”

“Okay, I’m okay now.”

“But then who on earth made you like this? “Is that the guy from earlier?”

Lulin looks up at me. The expression turned scary. So much so that the dragon’s anger blooms. I ask as if my breath is really coming out.

“no. don’t worry. Unlike before, I will handle it calmly. “Coldly.”

I smiled at Rurin.

“You just need to stay by my side. Don’t disturb me, I’ll tell you if I need help, so just stay by my side until then. okay?”

“i get it. “I listen to you.”

“That’s funny.”

“It’s not funny.”

“Ugh.”