Youngest Scion of the Mages - Chapter 67
The Magician’s Youngest Son Episode 67
“This is the way for your mother to become truly safe.”
Larsen pushed aside and continued talking.
“Your father also wants your mother to be safe.”
“….”
Decatra said nothing. I had no idea that something so bright could see through my heart so accurately. However, he did not show any outward signs.
“Why do you think that?”
“Aren’t the couple in love?”
Decatra felt that the youngest was looking at him with bright eyes. Decatra laughed cheerfully.
“The couple is in love. “That’s a good thing.”
“Does your father love your mother?”
There is a soso in this place. Soso slightly lowered his head and waited for Decatra to speak. Honestly, I was looking forward to it. May Decatra tell you that he loves you.
But Decatra did not say that.
“Tell me why it will make Soso safer for him to come here with you.”
“Because it is time for your mother to wake up from her long sleep and move on.”
This is the path decided by Soso.
“My father did everything he could to hide and conceal my mother for her safety. “You are preparing for the distant future.”
“It did.”
“I learned at Mayton. Peace obtained through servitude is not peace. “I learned that true peace can be achieved when you have the power to protect yourself and when you have the power to subdue others.”
That is the peace that Mayton speaks of.
“The humility that humbles me becomes more valuable when I am strong.”
“That is correct. “The humility of the powerless is not humility, but submission.”
Decatra, speaking for himself, was quite shocked by the youngest child’s words.
‘The way I tried to protect Soso…’
I didn’t know because I was the person involved. Decatra himself has been through a rougher path than anyone else, but he wasn’t as good as he was with Soso. I finally realized that.
‘It was a cowardly and inadequate method.’
Through the words of the youngest, I looked at myself as a third person. How Decatra protects Soso. It was also the method that Decatra hated the most.
Larsen continued.
“Because I was such an ugly bastard, my father had no choice but to make this choice. “If only I had acted as a human being, my mother wouldn’t have had to live life holding her breath like this.”
“That’s not wrong either.”
Soso, who had been listening quietly, opened his mouth.
“I want to have power.”
“….”
“I don’t have the strength to protect Larsen or the background to protect myself. “It’s the only power I have.”
I looked at Decatra.
“There is only you.”
Larsen said there.
“Isn’t that enough, father?”
I finished it like a 14-year-old.
“Because my father is the strongest person in the world.”
* * *
Decatra spoke into the air.
“Senkan. “What do you think?”
“I didn’t know that the head of the family would worry like this.”
“How would you, my friend, advise me?”
A man with a long sword wound on his face. Senkan, one of Decatra’s confidants and an old friend of Decatra, thought for a moment.
“The head of the family spoke to me when I was young.”
There is something Decatra said.
“Don’t look to the future, live in the present.”
“Did I say that?”
“So I worked hard to live in the present. The present must have come together to make me and the head of the family where we are today. “You also said something else.”
“which?”
“do not worry. 70% of what you worry about has never happened or will never happen. And I will take care of the remaining 30%.”
Senkan made eye contact with Decatra.
“Decatra, who was a friend of mine in my youth, had no fear in his decisions. “I went straight ahead without hesitation and eventually reached this position.”
Even while purging his brothers.
“I trust and respect all the decisions the head of the family has made so far.”
“Thank you for thinking that way.”
“It will be the same this time too. Do whatever you want. “Your heart is the way.”
After Senkan said that, he took a deep breath. This is what Senkan, my confidant, said up to this point. From now on, my friend Senkan decided to speak.
“Before I met Lyle, my world was full of ambition and goals.”
Lyle is Senkan’s wife. She passed away from an unknown disease a year ago.
“After I met Lyle, my world was full of Lyle.”
“What was that world like?”
“It was a world I had never experienced. It was a world richly filled with countless things.”
That world disappeared a year ago. First it disappeared into the sky. Now Senkan is alone.
“Now that Lyle is gone, I regret it a lot.”
“….”
“I regret a lot of the time I wasn’t able to fully focus on my wife. “If I had focused fully on the present time, I might have had a little less regret now.”
There are things that become bigger only after you have lost them. Lyle was like that to Senkan.
“I wish the matriarch’s world was a little warmer.”
* * *
Current time: 1:12 AM.
Early morning with no sound. Heira, who was sleeping in bed, opened her eyes. I stood up in my pajamas. Strangely, there was no sound even when the blanket fell at her feet.
Slurr-
Heira’s body moved. Like a ghost.
passed between walls. Physical walls did not stop her movement. She took out the dagger she was wearing on her thigh.
A long hallway with magic lanterns scattering minimal light. Heira threw the dagger toward the end of that dark hallway.
Swish-!
With the light sound of cutting through the wind.
widely!
The dagger was stuck somewhere.
“Hey. Your skills are still the same. “I made up my mind to sneak in.”
At the end of the hallway. I saw a man wearing a sword. The man was tilting his head to the side. After that, I saw a dagger stuck in the wall. Senkan carefully pulled out the dagger.
Jump and jump.
I walked towards Heira. Heira asked.
“Senkan. “What’s going on here?”
Surprisingly, Heira used informal language toward Senkan.
“I came to take away Prince Larsen.”
“By whose orders?”
“By the order of the matriarch.”
Heira paused for a moment.
“The head of the family? this time?”
“Do you think I’m just going to make a joke?”
Senkan lightly chuckled and laughed.
“Anyway, I can’t get used to that young look. I would believe it if you said she was my granddaughter. “Well, he was younger than me to begin with.”
“….”
“Anyway, I will take the former bastard with me at the orders of the head of the family.”
“I am accompanying you.”
“Do whatever you feel like. “Don’t leave a knife behind you.”
Senkan joked.
“This swordsman. “You know I wore it to protect you, right?”
“I never asked you to protect me.”
“That’s right.”
Senkan smiled cheerfully. This hurt. It was a decoration for him. It’s a wound I got from saving my only comrade. I was even more grateful that Heira had such an attitude. If Heira’s heart was burdened by this wound, it was also painful for Senkan.
Senkan quietly picked up Rasen, who was sleeping. Larsen is still asleep. Senkan and Heira moved very cautiously.
1:28 AM.
Senkan and Heira visited Decatra’s bedroom.
“I brought you.”
There was a large round table and two chairs near the bed. Decatra nodded while sitting in one of the chairs.
“Good work.”
“no.”
“Hey. “Why you?”
“It is to ensure the safety of Confucius.”
“Isn’t Senkan your most trusted colleague?”
“I trust you. Next to the head of the family, I am the most trusted colleague. However, I think that trust should not blur the line between public and private life.”
“That is correct.”
No matter how much you trust someone, you should be suspicious. Heira is responsible for Larsen’s safety. That is the right attitude. Senkan didn’t feel bad about it either.
“Then hey. “I will perform the ceremony here so you can put your mind at ease.”
That suspicion should also include Decatra. Decatra said it and Heyra agreed with it.
“Thank you for your consideration.”
Meanwhile, Larsen couldn’t figure out the timing. So I just opened my mouth.
“Can I get up now?”
“okay.”
In fact, Larsen was awake from the beginning. What’s interesting is that not only Decatra, but also Senkan and Heyra knew that Larsen was awake. I just didn’t pretend to know because there was no need to pretend to know.
Larsen asked.
“What is the magic technique?”
“There are numerous techniques in the Mayton family. Body strengthening techniques are also part of that. “From now on, I will have [Decatra’s technique] engraved on your arm.”
Decatra technique.
It seems to be a drink created by the head of the family, Decatra, after himself. He put his own name on the line. It’s definitely an excellent technique.
“I need to know what it is.”
“Usually other guys would just accept it if I said I would do it, right?”
“The time and place are unusual. “I don’t know why the head of the family wants to proceed secretly at this late hour.”
Decatra laughed.
“Yes, I like that.”
Decatra: That attitude of being afraid of yourself and still saying everything you want to say. This is what Decatra wants for his children. The problem is that there are very few children who look like that.
“But my favoritism may be poison to you. “A treasure is a treasure only to those who can protect it.”
“So does this mean that you will secretly give me treasure?”
“Yes.”
“Why do you do that to me?”
“Because I saw the present in you.”
Larsen couldn’t understand what was being said. However, I was able to figure out that Decatra was giving a gift.
Decatra opened a barrier. There were no chants or epithets. Just by summoning the will, this place became a space cut off from the outside world. I tried looking into Cheonan, but it was still meaningless.
[This is a space that cannot be interpreted as a heavenly eye.] A
very small black sphere appeared at the tip of Decatra’s finger. It was like black ink hanging from the end of a ballpoint pen.
“Give me your arm.”
I gave up my right arm. Under the forearm. Decatra began carving letters with his fingers.
Cheeeeeek-!
Larsen almost screamed. It was hot. It felt like hot letters were being engraved on me.
‘Ugh!’
I gritted my teeth. It was obvious that Decatra would be disappointed if I screamed here. To survive in this world, you must not disappoint Decatra. That was the rule Larsen set.
A long time has passed.
“I endured it well.”
A dense text was engraved on Larsen’s right arm. At first glance, it looked like he had a tattoo.
“It will come in handy someday.”
“How is it useful?”
“Find out for yourself.”
Decatra chuckled.
“You will pass out soon.”
The barrier has been lifted. Heira and Senkan came closer.
“Move him to bed. “I’ll be doing that for half a day.”
Before we knew it, Larsen had lost his mind. Heira carried Larsen on her back. Looking at the back, Decatra smiled in satisfaction.
‘I can’t believe you didn’t scream even once.’
The intensity of the pain must have been beyond imagination.
‘I am weak now. But I can look forward to the future.’
Two days passed. Someone came to Larsen’s room. Didn’t even knock. The door bursts open! It opened.
“Uhhhhhh!”
It was a girl with lots of tears and snot hanging down. A girl with red hair.
“LASSEEEENN!”
Like an idiot, he ran at random and fell into Larsen’s arms! I was hugged. It was Lydia. And someone was walking behind her.
“The devil is chasing me!”
Lydia hid behind Larsen.