Dear Eddert - Chapter 64
Chapter 64
Translator: effe
The large hands that tore off her clothes and covered her wounds were shivering in confusion. The bleeding didn’t seem to stop. Even the knot, which he had barely managed to fix, was dyed red. Walter trembled, and his upper and lower teeth collided messily.
“Aahh…. Eden… haa….”
What scared him more than the blood constantly flowing out was Eden who said nothing with her eyes closed.
“… Please open your eyes.”
Walter struggled to whisper to her. Eden still didn’t open her eyes. Walter held her tightly in his arms. He inhaled and exhaled harshly, warming her blood-soaked cheeks. As Walter gritted his teeth, red veins burst out in his eyes.
“Were… were… you angry because I came late… ?”
He whispered into Eden’s ear, barely holding back his tears. Normally, she would have laughed, her shoulders bobbing up and down, saying that it was ticklish. But there was no word from her.
“Eden… Say something….”
There was no way she was dead. With her body this warm, there was no way Eden’s heart would have stopped. The words that she said, as she buried her cheek in his back and whispered to him to come quickly, couldn’t have been her last words.
“You’re angry…that’s why… you’re not opening your eyes… . Eden. Right?”
Walter’s voice trembled low as he spoke like a madman. Eden’s head fell helplessly down his shoulder.
“Ah, huu… .”
Walter’s lips were chewed into a mess. A faint groan escaped from his clenched teeth. His fingers covering her back twisted in pain. His entire body was stained with Eden’s blood. Her scent was this vivid, so the reality of her not opening her eyes felt like a nightmare.
“Ed… Eden…. Uuuhh….”
If it’s a dream, please wake me up.
Tears fell from Walter’s tightly closed eyes and mixed with her blood.
Eden. Please.
Please don’t do this.
“AAAAHHH!!!”
Walter roared as he held Eden, who was bloodied and died, in his arms. The sound like the painful howl of an animal with its limbs cut off echoed long through the black forest. It was a night filled with a blizzard.
Walter paused and quietly handed Hyemi his handkerchief. Hyemi wiped away the warm tears flowing down her cheeks.
“Ah…. Because I’m naturally very sensitive. But you don’t have… tissue? Right. Of course you don’t have it.”
Answering her own question, she lifted the handkerchief up to her nose and cleared her nose. She’s usually good at immersing herself, but this time she got a little carried away. Maybe it was because the main character of the story was right in front of her. When she thinks of such a large man trembling and sobbing, her heart starts to pound again.
“Don’t cry, Eden.”
Walter’s voice, despite saying so, was also slightly trembling. There was no change in his blunt expression, but the dark corners of his eyes were red.
“Because I don’t know what to do if you cry.”
She just thought he was scary. Hyemi laughed at the sight of the man who looked slightly like a big boy.
“Well… Even if you say that, you are on the verge of bursting into tears right now?”
“Nonsense.”
The way he turned his head in embarrassment was somehow cute, so she wanted to tease him even more.
“I’ll hug you, so feel free to cry loudly.”
“It’s not a bad idea for you to hug me, but….”
Walter glanced at her from the side.
“… Are you sure that you can handle what happens next?”
Seeing him lift his long lips and smile meaningfully, Hyemi’s heart suddenly jumped, making a loud noise.
What is this? She didn’t realize it when he was frowning. But now that she was looking at him, this man is extremely handsome. Does he know that if he wants to and pretends to be cool, he has the looks to attract many people?
“It’s a joke. Don’t be so nervous.”
Seeing her stiffen for a moment, Walter seemed to have misunderstood it and said quietly.
“Kuhm….”
Hyemi cleared her voice, trying not to lose her gaze to Walter’s long lips. She was sure that Eden would have liked his lips too before she lost her memory.
“I enjoyed hearing the long story.”
Before her thoughts went off into strange directions, she had to bring the topic back to square one.
“Any questions?”
“Just about a hundred things that come to mind right now?”
“Ask one question at a time.”
Hyemi blinked her eyes as she saw Walter smiling faintly again. First of all, what she wanted to know most was who caused this situation.
She asked, clutching the handkerchief.
“Who are the people who raided the castle and killed me that day?”
The smile on Walter’s face immediately disappeared and his expression became serious. Black light shimmered in his dark eyes.
“… It’s Kaplan.”
“Kaplan?”
It was the last clue Valtri left for Cedric right before he died.
“It’s another assassination group called ‘Red Fox’… According to Valtri, it is currently the family closest to the imperial family.”
100 years ago, King Klawe IV secretly made several assassination groups. The reason there were many instead of one was because of concerns about possible betrayal by the assassination group. Sernotti and Kaplan were also among the early assassination groups, and Kaplan was known as the family that had protected the current Emperor Christian since he was the crown prince.
“Then… perhaps… that… Emperor Christian gave the orders to kill me? He’s worried about me fighting for the throne or something like that?”
Hyemi gulped and opened her mouth. Something about fighting between siblings for power, was a story a million light years away from her, even though she saw it many times in the books. The younger brother ordered the murder of his half-sister. Just imagining it sent chills down her spine and goosebumps appeared on her arms.
“That is not yet certain.”
Walter went on with caution.
“Cedric judged that if Christian had discovered your existence, he would have sent troops rather than assassins to annihilate the entire Sernotti family.”
Walter also had the same thoughts as Cedric in that regard. Klawe’s blood-stained history continued for 178 years. Despite the efforts of previous Emperors who tried to break the curse of killing each other within the same imperial family, Christian was born with the cruel blood of his ancestors.
“Because causes are not important to him.”
“Christian… is he such a tyrant?”
Hyemi’s voice became a little quieter.
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