Lucia - Volume SS - Chapter 6.02

Chapter Side Story 6.2: Side Story 6.2

Story 6 . 2: In Another Future – Damian

IN ANOTHER FUTURE – DAMIAN (2)

The swinging blade made a dull sound as it reaped a life . As Damian stared at the neck flying the air, he thought to himself that the drops of blood on his face were exceptionally hot . He had learned to have this kind of mental state when destroying barbarians .

“We are done after we finish up here, young master . ”

“Good job . ”

Damian showed his appreciation for the knight in charge of the miscellaneous clean-up, then he turned to take a wide look around . Dead bodies with parts missing were scattered all over the place . The knights were moving around to gather the bodies in one place and were piling up firewood in preparation to burn them .

When Damian turned twenty, he began to go to subjugate barbarians . And ever since then, he stayed in Roam . The Duke’s days were extremely busy as the king’s closest aide and he could not leave the capital, so naturally, father and son lived apart from each other .

“Wait . ”

Damian approached the knights that were moving two bodies . Even from a distance, it was obvious the two corpses had very different physique and it bothered him for some reason .

When he drew closer, he realized that it wasn’t only their physiques that were different; there was a considerable age difference between the two bodies . It was a middle-aged man and a young man who had just come of age . And their very similar facial features told anyone that they were related somehow . They had protected each other, the father for the child, and the child for the father and they were dried tears and blood around the rims of their eyes .

“Young master, do you have a different order or…?”

The knight carefully asked after seeing Damian stand there silently, looking at the corpses for a while .

“…No . I’ll leave the rest to you . I shall return first . ”

When Damian turned around and quickly walked to his leased horse, the knight hurriedly ran after him .

“Young master, it is dangerous to move separately . We are in the middle of the barbarian land and…”

“Didn’t you say there are no movements in the vicinity?”

“That is correct, but one can never know . ”

Damian hopped on the horse despite the knight’s protests .

“I want to hurl . The smell of blood is especially nauseating today . ”

Damian held the horse and kicked the horse’s side in one swift motion . Seeing Damian’s back becoming distant in the blink of an eye, the knight quickly called for a nearby knight to join and followed after the young master .

After running with the two knights for a while, Damian felt something strange, so he slowed down and came to a stop . The knights followed suit and came up to Damian .

“Young master, is something the matter?”

“…We’re surrounded . ”

“What?”

The knights were startled and looked around in a hurry . There were no signs of people around but Damian was born with sharp senses so he could sense the movements of a group slowly narrowing around them . Their suppressed bloodthirst could be felt in the air as they carefully approached like a pack of wolves round up prey .

‘Dozens…no, more than that?’

The power on Damian’s side was only that of three people . No matter how skilled a knight was, there was a limit to overcoming an absolute inferiority in numbers .

‘I guess this is it . ’

Damian’s expression was calm as he predicted the end of his short life . He looked up at the sky; it was particularly clear today, without a cloud in sight . He had heard that when the end approached, you would see the person you missed the most drawn in the sky . Damian stared at the sky for a good while, then he smiled bitterly and lowered his head .

Nothing was drawn .

* * *

The Duke of Taran rushed to Roam upon receiving the terrible news of Damian Taran’s death . He met his son for the first time in a very long while, but his son’s body was already cold .

After the funeral of the young lord, the Duke of Taran gathered the entire power of his family and declared war against the barbarians . No one was able to stop the Duke of Taran’s quest for the price of his son’s life .

The conquest of the northern barbarians ended in a year, being more of a unilateral massacre than an actual war . Countless barbarians were killed, regardless of age or gender . The bodies formed mountains and rivers of blood . The repulsive smell of burning bodies rode on the wind and covered the entire barbarian land . And so, the vast barbarian land became a territory with no owner .

It was like a vast, empty piece of land had suddenly dropped from the sky causing many countries to drool over it . A vast territory was a necessary condition to be reborn as a prosperous country . Heated competition for the land began to break out all over the place .

It was a prelude to an enormous war which was later called the Second Continental War .