The Gap Between You and Me - Chapter 158

His heart ached, it was throbbing. It was followed by pain, as if it had been struck with a kindling stick, or as if it had been crushed by a shoe.

Bernard let out a deep sigh. He wanted to forget. Yet, he couldn’t forget. Like those were imprinted deep in his heart, Herietta’s image and the scene of that day came to his mind as clear as day.

“I asked myself once. If I had been in the same situation as Herietta. Would I have been able to say so confidently that, I would give up all of myself and choose the one I love. Just like her.”

“So what answer did you come up with?”

Jonathan asked cautiously. Bernard just shook his head slowly.

“I couldn’t tell. So in the end, I had to understand her.”

He had no choice but to let her go. He didn’t dare stand in her way. He wanted to say that it was a wrong decision, a wrong choice no matter how. In the end, he couldn’t. He knows very well that she didn’t make that choice because she didn’t know about it.

Love is such a strange thing. It was something that could make even the smartest and most logical sage in the world a fool in an instant.

“Anyway, it’s a little surprising.”

Bernard murmured as he had suddenly remembered.

“I don’t know if it’s anyone else, but Sir Jonathan, I thought you would object to my decision.”

“…….”

“I didn’t expect Sir to agree with me so easily.”

When Bernard told his knight about the decision he had made after much deliberation, he had expected strong opposition. For letting the enemy commander go. On top of that, the enemy commander who killed Bernard’s own brother. Anyone would say that his decision was insane.

But contrary to Bernard’s expectations, Jonathan silently followed his decision. He only asked ‘Are you sure?’. He did not try to dissuade Bernard or accuse him.

“No matter what anyone says, Your Highness is my master. Furthermore…….”

Jonathan didn’t continue. And he thought about something for a while, and then spoke quietly.

“…… Like Your Highness, I owe her a debt.”

He vaguely knew that Herietta had a lover she could not forget. However, he never dreamed that that person would be the commander of the Kustan Army. When Jonathan first found out about it, he too was enraged. But later, when he heard about what had happened between the two of them, he sighed deeply.

It was a pity that the two people’s relationship was messed up in front of fate. A man who became a terrible monster only to avenge the one he loved, and a woman who did not recognize him who had changed so much and eventually tried to kill him with her own hands.

Everything started because of love, everything got tangled up because of love, and everything ended because of love.

In the end, they were just ordinary men and women who dreamed of love. They were just ordinary men and women who wanted to love more than anyone else, giving everything they had to protect the one they loved.

“I can’t agree with all of their choices, but I don’t want to blindly criticize them either. No matter what anyone says, it is true that they too are victims of politics.”

Hearing Jonathan’s murmur, Bernard’s face turned strange. Bernard, who was looking at him blankly, said.

“Today, you’re being unusually emotional.”

“Since I had been serving by Your Highness’ side, I think I am starting to resemble Your Highness unknowingly.”

Bernard laughed as Jonathan answered his silly joke with another joke. And as the smile that spread on his lips faded, he slowly turned his head forward. His gaze turned once more to the yellow wilderness.

In the distance, the rider, who had looked like a small dot, was no longer visible. Even if he looked far and wide, he couldn’t find even a trace of it.

Bernard, who was looking at the empty wilderness, spoke again.

“Sir Jonathan. I will become the supreme power of this country.”

“The supreme power?”

Jonathan asked in surprise. The supreme power must mean the king. This was the first time Bernard had ever declared that he would seize the throne himself, even though others had talked about it.

“Yes. I intend to achieve all that I can achieve, and have all that I can have. Whether it be power or wealth. Anything and everything.”

Bernard replied, nodding slowly.

“I will make Herietta realize what a great man she had abandoned. I’ll make her regret the decision she had made in the past. Even though I have no intention of accepting her back easily.”

“…….”

“If you set goals and run to achieve them, time will pass. As time passes like that, no matter how strong the emotion was, it will become dull, and no matter how precious the memory is, it will fade.”

“You will be very busy from now on.”

Jonathan nodded quietly. Bernard smiled lightly.

“Yes. I plan to be terribly busy. I can’t afford to think of anything else.”

Bernard removed his hand from the castle wall and brushed back the hair that flowed down his forehead. Then he turned and looked at Jonathan who was standing behind him.

“Will Sir continue to join me?”

Bernard asked. Jonathan looked at him and narrowed his eyes.

To join him. Before long, a soft smile spread across Jonathan’s lips as he understood the meaning of his master’s words. He vigorously nodded.

“Of course, my King.”

* * *

Edwin was surrounded by deep darkness. The surroundings were so dark that he could not see an inch forward. It was so quiet that it felt that the sound of a needle dropping could be clearly heard.

“…….”

Edwin looked around him slowly. There was nothing he could see. He waved his hand out, but nothing touched his hand. A strange space that extends infinitely without bottom or end. He stood alone in that strange space.

‘Where is this place?’

Edwin narrowed his brows.

‘Why am I in a place like this?’

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