Dear Eddert - Chapter 66
Chapter 66
Translator: effe
Hyemi looked at Walter with questioning eyes. A low voice flowed from Walter’s lips.
“After realizing that Ayla, who had followed him so much, was a spy, Cedric probably wanted to die due to his personality.”
“… what?”
Hyemi frowned at him and raised her voice.
“Ayla, you say?”
She couldn’t believe that no one else but Ayla was a spy. Hyemi blinked her eyes.
“Why… Why would she… ?”
“There is no why for an assassin. They only follow orders.”
Walter spat out dryly. Hyemi shook her head at him.
“No. It won’t be Ayla.”
Walter chewed his lower lip as he watched her recklessly defend the person who killed her. It was difficult to swallow the anger welling up in his chest.
“Eden. Ayla disappeared from the castle the night Valtri returned, and she never returned.”
“But… It’s hard to suspect Ayla based on that alone… ?”
“If you think about it, Ayla was too strong from the beginning. We didn’t suspect her.”
It was difficult to attribute her actions of catching Cedric’s arrow with her bare hand with just luck. Ayla, who they thought was just a hidden gem, was not a genius, contrary to Cedric’s hopes. She was a member of Kaplan who was sent for training.
“It was Cedric who raised Ayla to be the best knight.”
“Ayla is removed from the list of ‘Guardian of the Falcon’ Sernotti.”
Walter still remembered Cedric’s expression as he muttered in a frozen voice. Those words were tantamount to confirming the rumors that had been secretly floating around among the trainees.
“Ayla betrayed us.”
“Ayla… She must have spilled the secret about Eden and called the assassins.”
That day, Kaplan’s assassins who invaded Sernotti moved faster than anyone else. This would have been impossible unless someone had a perfect understanding of the geography of the large castle.
“Fabian, who died while standing guard, showed no signs of resistance at all. Unlike people who are attacked in their sleep, he faced his opponent while awake. But he died before he could even draw his sword.”
It was impossible unless the assailant was acquainted with Fabian.
“The only people who know the location of the cave where you were waiting for me are Sernotti’s trainees.”
Walter’s eyes glowed darkly as the image of Eden, covered in blood and dying in his arms, flashed through his mind again. He continued speaking lowly, trying to catch his rough breathing.
“Because that’s the place we found the winter before you died, when we were hunting in the mountains for a month.”
“But Ayla….”
Hyemi’s voice trembled slightly as she continued her words.
“She loved Cedric.”
There is no way Ayla didn’t know how strong Cedric’s sense of belonging to Sernotti was.
“It was the perfect disguise. No one…. Besides, It’s enough to keep even the demanding Cedric from suspecting her.”
Walter’s tone was cold and dry.
The five years Ayla spent at Sernotti’s castle collapsed in just one night. The night Ayla learned that Eden was the princess, she left Sernotti and returned with Kaplan, where she ambushed them two days later.
“Walter, but….”
Hyemi’s words trailed off into the air. She knew that this was an unfounded belief. But Hyemi couldn’t believe that Ayla had betrayed Sernotti and killed her. She felt sick to her stomach.
“Eden.”
Walter beamed his darkened eyes at her.
“If Ayla appeared in front of me right now, I would pierce her heart with my sword without a moment of hesitation.”
The anger in his eyes was so great that Hyemi couldn’t bear to say anything more to him.
“It’s probably the same for Cedric.”
There was no lie in Walter’s cold tone of voice. She gasped briefly through his narrowed eyes.
“After that hellish night, when I looked at you sleeping, I thought about that time thousands, no, tens of thousands of times in my head. I don’t know how many assassins broke into the cave, but…. you….”
Walter whispered lowly as if to quell his boiling anger.
“Eden, I know you are not the kind of person who should suffer such a gruesome death. Your skills were the best even in Sernotti. It was only later that I realized that you wouldn’t have been able to stab the other person.”
Hyemi chewed her lip with a gloomy face. Her heart throbbed. Was she really murdered by Ayla, her colleague who trained with her?
She didn’t want to think any further.
“Then now what should I… do next?”
If it became known that the princess was alive, it was easy to predict that the same thing would happen again. The reason Cedric told her to quickly regain her memories was to prepare for the danger as quickly as possible.
It was clear that Kaplan would try to kill her again. Her chest suddenly felt tight.
“What do you want to do?”
Walter asked her back in a quiet tone. His shadow, reflected by the shortened candle, fluttered across the table. Hyemi took a long sigh and finally opened her mouth with a determined expression.
“I need to meet Benedict.”
“Yes. You should.”
Walter stood up without a sound. When the heavy bed was lifted and the ring hidden on the floor was pulled, a long sword wrapped in a scabbard was revealed inside.
Clack.
The red gem shined, reflecting light from the handle of the sword placed on the table.
“Because he will be waiting for you too.”
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