Chapter 154: The March of Silence
At first, he thought she was referring to Count Consilus.
But he quickly realized that was not the case.
“If you wish to express your condolences regarding this incident, you only need to place someone at the forefront whom not even the Arken Emergency Response Headquarters would dare oppose.”
Perda paid close attention to Garnet’s words.
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“You mean we should put the Grand Duchess at the forefront?”
Perda frowned instinctively.
“I know it’s a shameless request, but that would be the fastest and simplest way.”
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In the eyes of the world, he was not the Grand Duchess, but little more than a toy used for her amusement.
If the Grand Duchess herself appeared and spoke authoritatively on the matter, no one would dare object.
That was the general perception.
Although Perda was the future consort of the Grand Duchess and would one day become her Consort, for the moment he was still nothing more than a representative.
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She feared remembering the mistakes she had made in the past.
But that was impossible.
She was incapable of attending places crowded with people.
Perda knew very well how she had been during the ball.
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She feared causing trouble for Perda.
Until then, Perda had believed she suffered simply for psychological reasons.
And above all.
She feared losing control.
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‘It’s something that truly happens.’
If Malcom had not been there, he never would have discovered that there were genuinely individuals with sinister intentions seeking to destroy her.
If that had happened even during the Beginning of Spring Festival.
But it was not merely a mental problem.
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If those who treated her like nothing more than a watchdog lost their fear and attempted to tame her.
What would happen at a public hearing?
Perda did not know what he would be capable of doing at that moment.
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The moment her eyes met his, Garnet shuddered.
Perda turned his gaze toward her.
“Garnet.”
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That proposal had touched what was practically a forbidden subject for Perda.
“…I’m sorry.”
“Never suggest something like that again.”
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Deliberately abandoning the simplest path, Perda continued refining his strategy.
“I understand.”
“We will resolve this matter with our own hands. voyage That will not change.”
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With those two things, he would seek to gain the advantage.
The inside information obtained thanks to Helus, who continued pretending to be the Sage.
The false information leaked through Baron Guyot.
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Then Perda would have to bear the darkness.
Even if it meant bearing the worst infamy.
If he wanted to offer her a bright future.
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While he was working, Ruri called out to him.
“Lord Perda.”
“My Lady has given me the item she promised you last time.”
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Finally!
It was the item they had promised to give him once he returned safely.
Ruri placed a huge portrait before him, almost as tall as she was.
Perda immediately abandoned everything he was doing and stood up.
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Nothing less than Valdrova’s portrait.
“Did you really want this painting?” shadow Ruri asked in disbelief.
“I wanted this portrait.”
Perda nodded.
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Perda answered evasively, without going into detail.
“I simply had that feeling.”
“There were many other things. agent Why this one in particular?”
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“Do you know what this portrait represents?”
Ruri watched him with an expression of obvious dissatisfaction before speaking.
“I know it was the portrait she intended to show her first fiancé.”
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“Then it is a completely faithful portrait.”
“Yes.”
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“That’s right. avalanche It was the first time she decided to show her true face to another person and asked to be painted exactly with the expression she had at the time.”
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If they were losing their hair, they would be painted with a full head of hair.
If someone was too overweight, their waist would be slimmed down.
Normally, portraits meant to be displayed within a noble family were embellished in many ways.
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“It’s just a feeling.”
“I see… so that’s why I wanted it so badly…”
“What do you mean?”
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“In any case, I’ll find a restorer.”
Ruri did not press the matter.
It was probably an insignificant reason.
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But Perda had no intention of hiring a restorer.
“The painting is torn. aluminum It needs to be restored, doesn’t it?”
“A restorer?”
She answered as though it were the most obvious thing in the world.
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“If you intend to hang a torn painting, I’ll oppose it even if it costs me my life.”
Ruri looked at him with an expression filled with disgust.
“No. acquire It’s fine as it is.”
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“…”
“I’ll take it with me.”
Ruri watched as Perda walked away carrying the portrait.
“You don’t have to worry. album I’m not going to display it in a public place.”
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In that deep and dark place that still pained her every time she passed by it.
She knew perfectly well where it would end up.
If he wasn’t going to place it somewhere visible.
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His training consisted solely of practicing the mana circulation method by controlling shadows inside a room where no light entered.
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Perda headed toward the room he used for training.
It was a dark, narrow chamber, so small that it resembled a prison cell.
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The third object to enter that room was Valdrova’s portrait.
Perda hung the enormous painting in the place he had already prepared for it.
That was why, unlike other mages who filled their chambers with every kind of instrument, the only things there were a chair and a box of candles.
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The angle.
“…Perfect.”
He stepped back a few paces to look at it.
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The height.
After carefully examining every detail, as though he were tending to a sacred treasure, Perda began studying the portrait intently.
The portrait occupied nearly half the wall, completely filling one side of the room.
Everything was perfect.
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But all he had to do was step back a little, and Valdrova appeared with absolute clarity.
She looked so lifelike that it felt as though she might step out of the painting at any moment and say,
‘How strange…’
If he stood too close, he could only make out the brushstrokes.
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“Lord Perda!”
Yes.
Then happily walk toward him.
Without question, they had hired the greatest painter of that era.
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That was why he had wanted that painting so badly.
Only someone capable of capturing absolutely everything could make a portrait seem so real.
And Valdrova had finally agreed to give it to him.
Now that he could admire it from so close.
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That portrait contained fragments of Valdrova’s desires.
He believed he understood why.
‘Desire.’
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Perda could clearly feel the emotions she had experienced.
Precisely because it was such a completely sincere depiction…
It preserved a part of her life that she would never reveal, no matter how many conversations they shared.
Everything was reflected in those small, smiling lips.
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Hope.
The fear of her first experience.
The excitement of finding a companion.
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Her first fiancé, the Third Imperial Prince, saw her only as a tool to be used.
The future she had hoped for never came.
However.
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Only despair remained.
Her expectations were betrayed.
Her sincere love was trampled.
And so.
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Mocking a dragon was undoubtedly a crime worthy of death.
But if Valdrova had been in her right mind.
She never would have committed that murder.
Valdrova ended up killing the Third Imperial Prince.
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Just as it had after the Dragon-Demon War.
The dragons’ burning blood destabilized her mind.
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And that was how she ended up killing him.
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“Someone like me doesn’t deserve to be happy.”
She had once said,
“In the end…”
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After surviving.
She had been naïve to think she could marry a human and leave all of that behind.
After killing so many people.
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She was filled with anger.
She hated herself.
Perda raised his index finger.
Valdrova blamed herself for that naivety.
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He slowly traced it diagonally.
Just as she had done.
He erased those innocent eyes that had underestimated the weight of her own sins.
“Ugh…”
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He struggled to breathe.
He felt as though someone were strangling him.
Perda’s body staggered.
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Tears started falling.
At the same time, his eyes began to grow moist.
His expression remained completely motionless.
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The Shadow Circle dwelling within his chest began to churn violently.
Yet those tears ran burning down his cheeks.
‘I’ve…’
There was only one emotion capable of moving the Shadow Circle.
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He hated himself for having killed, blinded by misguided hatred, a woman so pure and so innocent.
Regret.
‘…killed a woman like her.’
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They became incapable of continuing forward.
Because once someone regretted something.
Perda feared that regret.
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Precisely because he had felt regret.
That was why the First Witch, Lucy Phyliaz, had called it a blessing.
‘But if I don’t regret it, I’ll end up losing my way.’
That portrait would become the light that guided the man she loved.
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It would be a single band of darkness capable of showing him what lay beyond that light.
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When he became trapped in an endless white night.
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“I know. wizard I’m watching it with my own eyes.”
Alexander’s aide reported.
The day of the post-war hearing at the golden council.
“The nobles will soon begin the entrance ceremony.”
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Among the five Supreme Councilors of the Arken Emergency Response Headquarters…
From there, he watched the procession of nobles.
The road leading to the Golden Council was packed with people.
Alexander had arrived early at the Golden Council and was observing everything from one of the balconies.
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Four wielded enormous influence both inside and outside the Empire.
Valdemar Golt.
But only one was capable of drawing such a massive crowd.
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He could even turn his former rivals into allies.
The Hero of the People.
With his overwhelming charisma, he had won over both nobles and commoners.
The unshakable pillar of the Arken Empire.
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He might have ruled with authority throughout his entire life.
Alexander was convinced that all of Valdemar’s influence came from that place.
‘If only I could get my hands on that damned greenhouse…’
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Alexander himself had spent countless sleepless nights fearing the coming day.
Everyone was the same.
But in the face of death.
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Valdemar had managed to tip even the scales of death itself, something not even the High Priests could accomplish.
And yet.
“…Is everything prepared?”
That was why, despite his advanced age, his eyes still overflowed with vitality.
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Alexander tightened his grip on the goblet in his hand.
“Yes. timber We’ve placed agitators among the crowd following the procession.”
“Excellent.”
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Then nurtured it until it grew.
He had prepared public opinion specifically for this day.
He had sown one-sided hatred.
“The moment Regent Perda appears, we’ll begin stirring the crowd.”
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Madness could no longer be stopped.
Once unleashed.
The criticism.
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The reproaches.
They would come like an avalanche.
It didn’t matter whether Perda reacted with guilt.
The accusations.
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Or with anger.
There would be no way for him to avoid it.
What mattered was that he would arrive emotionally shaken before he even entered the Golden Council.
“Regent Perda will arrive at any moment.”
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But the moment they appeared.
Alexander opened his eyes wider than ever.
He wanted nothing more than to watch them become trapped by that wave of condemnation.
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Alexander’s smile froze.
The Royal Capital.
It was completely different from what they had expected.
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There had been a time when Perda had believed such nonsense without question.
The nobles often said with great enthusiasm that the road leading there was filled with the fragrance of flowers.
He had wondered what that so-called floral fragrance was like.
He had wanted to visit the Capital with his father.
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What reached his nose was nothing like the scent of flowers.
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But for a man who had killed an angel and whose heart had been left in ruins.
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If it could be called a flower.
Back then, he had not known what that smell was.
Then it had to be the kind of flower that attracted flies hovering over a dung heap.
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Garnet had said that the Empire was like a stagnant pond whose water had begun to rot.
Nor had he cared very much.
Yes.
But now he understood.
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He was completely certain.
Now that he could sense it once again.
It was exactly that smell.
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After all, the people gathered there wielded influence over the entire Empire.
Naturally, each of them tried to display their wealth and prestige.
The endless procession of nobles continued advancing toward the Golden Council.
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Perda could not understand.
‘For what purpose?’
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Nor did he understand why the citizens cheered as they watched the nobles pass by.
None of it made any sense.
He did not understand why it was necessary to dress that way just to enter.
“Count.”
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“They know only one thing.”
“Do those people know what will truly happen in there?”
“Yes, Regent.”
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“That today someone will die, and justice will be done. matrix To lives as difficult as theirs, that is like long-awaited rain after a prolonged drought.”
“And they want the one who dies to be me.”
“That is everyone’s wish.”
“What is it?”
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In the end.
Everyone’s wish.
Those words gave him a powerful sense of déjà vu.
Nothing had changed.
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Perda had prepared precisely for a situation like this.
“Prepare yourselves. alien It’s our turn.”
“Yes.”
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And he advanced.
It was Perda’s turn.
Consilus had also sent his own knights to reinforce Perda’s escort.
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The nobles’ processions were as ostentatious as one would expect.
But Perda did not smile.
They wore their finest attire to display themselves before everyone.
It was customary to ride through in carriages while smiling calmly.
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Nor did the knights marching behind them.
Neither did Consilus, who accompanied him.
Perda’s procession was shrouded in muted gray.
A somber color that had never before been seen in the Empire.
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Upon the multicolored stone pavement, it looked as though a long gray stain was advancing.
But they were not defeated.
They resembled a defeated army returning from the front lines.
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They displayed, with brutal honesty, the true appearance of soldiers who had survived horror.
Men who had crossed the battlefield and returned victorious.
They were men who had charged against colossal monsters.
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Some had lost a friend.
Every one of them had watched someone important fall.
Others had lost a subordinate.
Every one of them had stood at death’s doorstep.
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But they all shared the same experience.
Others had lost a family member.
Even so.
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They kept moving forward.
They had entrusted themselves to the fear of death and the madness that emanated from the battlefield.
To protect what remained behind them.
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The only thing that remained untouched was the banner carried by the standard-bearer.
Another had a breastplate caved in directly over the heart.
That was why one wore half of a shattered helmet.
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The crowd watching no longer cheered.
The only thing that shone with true splendor was the Empire’s flag.
And yet.
Nor did they hurl insults.
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Everyone understood that trying to provoke that procession at that moment would be madness.
The agitators also stood motionless.
Because every one of them had returned from a battlefield where death lurked around every corner.
Even those who had previously shouted at the top of their lungs that the Far East should be destroyed fell silent.
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And because of that.
They were true patriots.
The only thing the entire crowd could do was observe a solemn minute of silence in honor of the fallen and the wounded.
Because every one of them had fought for the Empire.
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