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She activated a healing light, treating Subaru Natsuki’s mortal wounds.
“………”
Crossing his arms and watching them, the man who’d called himself Vincent Abelks exhaled as Subaru managed to hold on to his fading life.
He was a man who was lucky to have escaped the predicament he had gotten himself into. He had managed to grip the hearts of the Shudrak while on the verge of death, recovered that which he’d wished to recover, and had even kept his life in the process.
It was possible to think that he had calculated he would be saved if he recovered the blue-haired girl, Rem, but…
“Were he that adept, he would have had his broken fingers treated first.”
Covered in blood and mud, he had wished for her recovery while the fingers that she had broken were still untreated.
He was a man without a glimpse or trace of what a so-called hero was rumored to possess.
“I had intended that reveal as a tribute to a dying man… But if you live, then that will suffice as well.”
Having lost the feeling of being masked, Abel’s eyes narrowed as he felt the breeze on his bare face for the first time in a while.
Subaru Natsuki had narrowly escaped death, and he had sealed a bond of blood with the Shudrak. It appeared the imperial soldiers in the camp were unaware of all the details surrounding these events, but that was also within calculations.
The people of this land—
No, most of the people in the empire still had not noticed.
A momentous and unprecedented political crisis had struck the powerful Holy Volakian Empire.
But…
“Prime Minister Belstetz, the traitorous Divine Generals, and the foolish soldiers who know nothing of the summit.”
A hot breeze blew across the hill as the man, Abel, looked to the west, where the capital lay.
Lupghana, the capital of the Holy Volakian Empire, home to the throne he would reclaim…
“Tremble and await my return.”
And…
“You went and survived, so I will have you accompany me, Subaru Natsuki. To return this empire to my hands.”
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