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Translator: Vine
Chapter: 31
Chapter Title: A Burden of Guilt
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Carius Superion, the one who had lost his temper, was just as unsettled.
“……”
Scowling fiercely, he looked around the neatly organized interior of the cabin.
With Perseus safely on the throne and his nephews secure, it was about time for him to return to his domain.
He had come here today to bid farewell to his sister.
Emperor Perseus had told him about this place, knowing he had a long journey ahead of him again.
After all, Elizabeth had been close with him, her younger brother, before she died.
“Sister….”
Carius’s face crumpled. Soon, tears streamed from his anguished eyes.
The fact that they hadn't been able to protect Elizabeth from Raidios was a painful wound and a source of shame for everyone in the Superion family.
Carius, too, carried a deep sense of guilt.
He soon swallowed his pain and wiped away his tears. Then he thought of the young girl he had seen earlier.
While the child was an unwelcome presence to him, a Superion, from the start, he felt a particularly strange sense of displeasure.
‘It’s because of those light green eyes.’
The source of his displeasure was likely that the child had the same eyes as his sister. As fate would have it, the man Princess Iris had fallen in love with also had a similar eye color to his sister.
He had yelled at her in the heat of the moment, but now he felt a subtle pang of guilt, wondering if he had been too harsh.
‘Such needless worry….’
Just like his displeasure, this feeling was also undoubtedly because of those light green eyes.
However, the well-worn robe the child was wearing, her stick-thin frame, and her gaunt face all grated on his nerves.
‘Is no one taking care of her? Then again….’
She was a thorn in Emperor Perseus’s side.
No one in their right mind would dare care for the child, not if they wanted to stay in the good graces of the new emperor.
‘That child’s fate is quite tragic.’
Were it not for the fact that she was the daughter of that woman, Princess Iris, her life was a pitiful one.
He recalled the meeting he had attended that morning.
The reason he had recognized the child's identity so quickly was because of the court meeting he had attended today.
As it happened, that very child had been a topic of discussion at the meeting.
The ministers had discussed how to dispose of the child, and the details were so wretched and sordid that it was irritating just to listen.
‘She’s still royalty, and yet they’re trying to marry that little girl off as a second wife to nobles who’ve rendered great service.’
Emperor Perseus had commanded that her name not be mentioned for the time being, saying he didn't even want to hear it, but….
‘In the end, she’ll be disposed of in one of the ways discussed today.’
The life of a royal who had fallen from grace was always a miserable one.
And Carius had a duty to ensure his two remaining nephews did not suffer the same fate as that child.
‘Who am I to worry about someone else… Dammit.’
Carius muttered a low curse and left the cabin.
The revenge for his dead sister was now over.
The only traces of Elizabeth left in the Superion family were Cedric and Damian.
For the sake of the late Elizabeth, he had to keep his two nephews safe.
He completely erased any trace of his tears and, as a loving uncle, began walking to bid his nephews farewell.
And from a distance, someone stood watching Carius as he headed for the main castle.
The man had been standing in this spot for quite some time.
“……”
So, naturally, he had also witnessed Lellia fleeing the cabin as if escaping.
With his brow deeply furrowed, he started walking in a certain direction.
It was the direction of the small tower where Lellia lived.
