Dear Eddert - Chapter 61
Chapter 61
Translator: effe
Valtri breathed heavily as he looked at the jewel that gleamed more and more. So did all of the people watching. Eden spat out one word after another with watery eyes.
“I am, and always will be, in the same position as everyone here. Nothing… changes. I am Eden.”
The gaze of the knights looking at her wavered with confusion. A feeling of heat surged up in her heart as she looked at them like they were looking at a stranger. Why were they looking at her like that? Why is everyone looking at her like a stranger?
She screamed loudly as her face twisted.
“Cedric! Tobias! Christopher! Ayla!”
They trained together, ate together, and fell asleep together. They fought, reconciled, cried and laughed. Eden held back her tears as she shouted the names of those she had shared joys and sorrows with for years.
“Vincent! Fabian! Alicia! Lina! Peter! Maxim!”
Everyone whose names were called looked at her and gulped.
“Nicholas! Jan! Felix! Julian! Leon!”
Calling out the names of the twenty knights, Eden bit her lower lip painfully and held her breath.
“And… Walter Sernotti.”
Her eyes looked at Walter, who had bloodshot eyes, fists clenched, his whole body trembling. It meant that he, too, was agitated.
“I’m not the kind of master you guys have to protect…. I am … I am Sernotti too.”
Thick tears formed in her eyes as she looked at Walter. She couldn’t hold back the tears when she kept looking at his face. Eden turned his head to Cedric.
“We are colleagues who ate, slept, and trained together. This… this makes no sense. It’s impossible for everything to change in an instant. Right, Cedric?”
Even the cold-hearted Cedric, who had been responding to her every time, was speechless.
“Am I right, Cedric? Say yes. Huh?”
Eden, who was on her knees, turned her head and tried to smile with a face full of tears, but Cedric only bit his lip with a pained look.
“Please. Please… Please… Someone tell me….”
With her head bowed till her face rested on the floor, Walter exhaled heavily as he watched her whispering. Veins swelled in her clenched fists.
With one hand, he violently cleared the table that blocked his path and the table leg got broken. He strode towards her and grabbed her shivering shoulders. When Eden looked up at him, her eyes were filled with fear.
“Yes. You’re right. Eden.”
A sad sob finally burst from Eden’s lips. Walter held the sobbing Eden tightly into his arms.
“Uhhuu….”
Tears ran down her cheeks.
“You are our colleague, you are our family.”
And my lover. Walter whispered in her ear with his rough breath. Eden nodded her head, bursting into tears from her closed eyes.
“I never wanted….huuh… the Emperor’s name. I never thought of… your allegiance.”
“I know….”
The hot tears soaked Walter’s shoulders.
“My name is Eden…. huhh….”
“Yes. You are just Eden.”
When Walter took a hot breath and muttered to her several times.
“He is right. She is just Eden.”
It was not known who spoke first. Starting with Walter, the knights gathered around her one by one. The circle around her center grew in size.
“It’s okay, Eden.”
“That’s right! It’s okay! It’s not like someone died!”
“Why are you crying? Don’t cry over nothing!”
“As long as you don’t change, so do we… !”
Eden felt something hot welling up in her chest. Standing in the center of the knights surrounding her, she wiped her tears with the back of her hand. and whispered in a wet voice.
“Nothing changes.”
Nothing would change.
“Everything I heard now is going to be erased from my memory. Do you understand me?”
Eden made eye contact with each one.
“Will everyone do that? For me… do it for me. Even if I die, I don’t want to leave Sernotti.”
The knights looked at her and nodded. There was earnest sincerity in Eden’s eyes. There was no one who could turn away from her appeal as she begged. Above all, they are still young. The feelings of not wanting to lose their precious colleague were greater than the unrealistic story about the imperial family.
“… Hmm….”
A heavy sigh escaped Valtri’s lips.
It was clearly visible in his eyes in the midst of everyone’s confusion. The Archmage’s jewel, proving that she was a descendant blessed by God, was shining brightly.
“Lord! Wouldn’t Eden’s opinion be the most important thing in this case?”
“That’s right. We’ll do whatever Eden wants… !”
“What does it all mean if Eden isn’t happy?”
“I will take this to the grave! I won’t even tell my parents!”
In the center of the Sernotti knights who surrounded her as if to protect her, Eden was smiling brightly among the tears. She had the ability to gather darkness and assimilate it into herself. It meant that the late Emperor’s choice was not wrong.
Eden was the right person to be the master of the Empire.
***
Candles flickered in the cave. It was the second day since the event at the tower. As soon as Walter left Valtri’s tower, he took her hand and headed for the forest. Cedric nodded his head when he said that he would cool off his head for a while with Eden.
“Take care of Eden. I will try to talk with the lord.”
The trainees had already noticed Eden’s relationship with Walter for a long time. It was even more strange if they hadn’t noticed the unusual air currents between the two.
“Do you regret it… ?”
Walter sighed softly as he wrapped his hand around Eden’s bare shoulder. It was cold, but Eden drew closer to him and whispered.
“What?”
“Just. Everything.”
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