Crimson Karma - Chapter 131
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Chapter 131 Yeon(緣)(2)
After a long time, the Imperial Palace was constantly busy. Casilla trembled, recalling the hard work up to the last year, as vivid as what he experienced yesterday. I didn’t know that Tassel was such a workman, but before he died, he struggled to work day by day as if he would transform this empire into a completely different country. Even if it was awful, I couldn’t be so damn. Besides, it’s vice-versa, how diligent Alicia is again… . Particularly interested in improving women’s human rights, she was showing great enthusiasm for hiring women management. However, since it was still in an atmosphere where the negative and beautiful Young Ae was considered the best, Alicia was planning to create a women’s college targeting the rituals of the lower nobility. The beginning may be used as a refuge for young children from poor families not to enter the concubines of the older aristocrats, but some of them will be ambitious for study and success, and when such successful ones begin to appear, it will motivate many other women as well. Alicia thought it would be.
Anyway, it was up to the officials who were changing their lives until late every night to realize the plans these work-addicted couples poured out. Kashiya felt sympathy and compassion as she watched the care of her pale face passing by me busily.
“I guess your majesty is still there.”
“Where’s that personality going? That’s sick, sick.”
Casilla and Ernon shook their heads and headed to the garden of the Empress’s residence. For the couple, who appeared in the capital of the empire after a year, the Emperor Buddha himself divided their busy time and arranged a tea time in the garden. With the warming spring breeze, flowers in the garden were in full bloom, so it was a great time to have outdoor tea time.
“I meet the god Casilla del Roman, His Majesty the Gracious Emperor.”
“I meet the god Ernon Keishas Roman, the gracious Empress.”
Even before the polite greetings of Casilla and Ernon were over, Alicia jumped up and approached, almost running toward Casilla.
“Kashiya! I missed you! It’s been a long time!”
Alicia, twenty-one, was still exuding unhuman beauty. If she was eighteen like a fairy in the woods, she was really like a goddess now. The fresh image gradually disappeared after the official marriage, and now it looked familiar but dignified, and there was no way to describe it as a goddess.
“Your Majesty! You are not a single body, please support Okche.”
Casilla rebuked her with a surprised face at Alicia, whose ship was quite noticeable, but Alicia just wandered and hugged her. The busy emperor and the empress were conceived two years after marriage, but sooner or later, the empress’s maids were in a state of super tension. It goes without saying that the complexions of the maids in the city became pale in an instant when Alicia suddenly jumped.
“It’s because I like it so much after seeing Kashiya in a long time. If you didn’t like this, you should come more often.”
Alicia, whose dignity she couldn’t treat in front of other nobles, was actually just a girl who wanted to be fooled by my people. She was a person in the imperial palace who often visited Kashiya after Tassel because she liked Casilla, who was awake to her thoughts and communicated well even though she looked blunt.
“It’s been a while. Did you enjoy your trip?”
Tasher smiled and asked at Casilla and Ernon, seated at a tea table on Alicia’s sidewalk. Whenever Casilla saw him, he felt awe of’Is that human?’ From morning to night, he was no more human than he was in his previous life, doing a ton of things, fighting the nobles, training his body, and even giving his people his heart. Sometimes I was worried that he would suddenly fall down by grabbing his back one day.
“It was really good. I beg your Majesty to go on a trip anytime soon. It’s a way to improve work efficiency when you take a moderate break.”
“That means that you’ve been resting and you’re ready to work more efficiently, right?”
“…If you keep doing this, you can return everything to the imperial family.”
“Poop, fuhahaha! You’re the only nobleman threatening the emperor to return the estate and title. Ahhahaha!”
The conversation in the flower-scented garden was filled with laughter.
As usual with friends I’ve met after a long time, the old story came to the fore on their tea table.
“The first time I saw you in the nursing barracks with bandages, I really didn’t know it would happen.”
“Who would have known? I was wondering if I could survive that time.”
“I hear you’re sitting on a thorn cushion…”
When we talked about the days when Ernon opened his eyes after the magical explosion, Ernon looked embarrassed. He would always feel sorry for her even though Casilla said he was really okay. Tassel made fun of him more, and a wave of pleasant laughter came and disappeared once more.
“Come now, I’m still really curious. What happened to you at that time? I’ve checked with Kuron a few times, but you’re different before you open your eyes and you after you open your eyes. In particular, in the part that the former Lord Kashiya was literally a true lady, I felt that I was a different person without hearing anything more.”
Tassel was a half-motivated word, but Kashiya didn’t say,’I really don’t know,’ as usual, but looked at Tassel with his mouth shut as if thinking about something. Tassel also stopped trying to hold the teacup at her attitude.
“Lord Roman?”
Casilla was worried. During his travels, Ernon had fully confessed himself and his memories of his previous life to his life after opening his eyes. Ernon woke up in the middle of the night and shed tears as she stroked her hair at the story of her previous life. It was painfully sad that she had the same pain as me. Since then, they have been able to share a deeper spiritual connection, but I wasn’t sure how Tassel and Alicia would accept it. However, Casilla, who had always thought that Tassel, one of the people who had done everything Heba had arranged, should know, felt the time had come to tell him her secret.
“Would you please step back a little bit around for a while? It’s enough if you can’t hear your voice.”
At Casilla’s calm and low voice, Tassel stared at her eyes, and then beckoned around her to move the distance between the attendants. After a sip of tea and a deep breath, Casilla opened her mouth, looking at Tassel and Alicia.
“From now on, you may think that the story I’m talking about is vain or delusional. It doesn’t matter. It’s not a big deal anyway. Just consider it a fun story and listen.”
And Casilla calmly began the story of the moment when she opened her eyes in the foggy forest.
“I, no, strictly speaking, the woman Casilla, who was the original owner of this body, died that day in the forest of fog. And I, Casilla del Roman, who now resides in this body, also died in a different dimension of the world. I still have all my memories, I remember how gentle death was, but how painful it was when I was punished for the sins of my previous life. It seems like I had to go to rest after receiving all the punishments. What you were thinking, you brought me back here, and it was in this body that I opened my eyes, and it was the forest of fog.”
Casilla drank a sip of tea again. However, the surrounding area was quiet, so it was quiet. Tasell and Alicia looked at her with surprised eyes. In particular, Tassel was clearly a shocked face. He knew very well that Casilla wasn’t the kind of person who would make up a story with something like this.
“I have the memories of my previous life as well. I have to say that the world I lived in is a future that is much more advanced than this place…. This is because the situation here is very similar to the flow of the times I was taught in my previous life. The future isn’t all good, there’s still war in the future, and far more brutal weapons of killing kill people, and I was one of the most valuable of them, think for yourself and move around to kill enemy heads or strongholds. Because it was a human weapon that destroys humanity. To become that weapon, I was annihilated and raised as a weapon from a very young age. The caution your Majesty first showed me may be because he instinctively knew I was in danger. Even at the time, I could kill anyone, whether it was your Majesty or Sir Mikhail. I was a weapon that I had the confidence to kill anyone except for magic or mana that did not exist in the world I lived in.”
Tassel could not help but recall Kirel’s pond, which he encountered again. The appearance that was completely erased, the anticipation rising from below, the eerie blade… .
“…If that’s true, it means that you lived in a completely different world and then opened your eyes in a strange world, but you showed a strangely calm attitude. How on earth could that be?”
“Anywhere, in any age, because it wasn’t that big for me. I wasn’t very obsessed with my life. It was a life that would make me comfortable…. Even if I opened my eyes in another world, I just survived, and I never thought of what to do. Your Majesty’s I thought I was lucky to open my eyes as a servant.”
“Why is that?”
“It was me who battled countless battlefields in my previous life. Even though the times are different, the things humans are doing are similar. So, after grasping the situation of the war, I thought that your Majesty had a high probability of winning. And your Majesty must win. I also thought about it. If you have to survive anyway, it’s better to belong to the side to win and the side to win.”
Tassel was now laughing out of the way. Her attitude, who was more confident in her victory than me, came to mind.
“The future…. That’s why Sir Kashiya was able to propose such an advanced system!”
Alicia, who was listening in silence from the side, admired low, as if the question had been resolved.
“I’m sorry for that. If a person born in an advanced country and had a higher education fell into this world, I would have been able to give you a better suggestion, but I only know the basics…”
“No! It’s not at all. The things that the wonder suggests have always been the’future’ of the direction we need to move forward. They were just what we needed.”
“I’m glad if you think so.”
Unlike Alicia, who has a bright face, Tassel barely made a voice while touching her lips with a somewhat dark look.
“Because of what kind of education I had in my previous life… an assassin with a female body….”
“Ah… not very pleasant memories. There were only seventeen children who survived the education unit with 150 people.”
“…Children? You said you took children… and raised them as assassins?”
Casilla only smiled bitterly at Tassel who asked with a harsh expression. It was rather okay because Han didn’t know anything about the’happy childhood’ comparable to him in his childhood. Besides, since everyone in the seat went through a difficult childhood, there was nothing I would consider it alone.
“I hope such a future doesn’t come.”
“The ugly greed and selfishness of humans will hardly disappear.”
Tasher looked back at Casilla. She wasn’t like a person in this world, but she wasn’t really half-worldly. It was fascinating, but it felt somewhat sullen. I couldn’t even imagine how lonely this man would have been. Suddenly, Ernon, sitting next to her, came into her gaze.
‘I think I know why Casilla cared about Ernon so much… .’
Ernon was also a man who was terribly rejected and lived a lonely life. It felt like everything I had doubts about her had now been resolved.
After tea time on the day when Casilla’s secret was unlocked, Tassel couldn’t say anything for a while as she walked to Alicia and the palace. Alicia, watching him, broke his silence.
“I am so grateful that Lord Kashiya decided to survive in the empire and to follow His Majesty.”
“Well. I’m so excited about whether I can have such a person as a servant.”
“Hoohoo. It may be the grace that God sent to His Majesty and our generation of mankind.”
Behind them, servants and maids followed long and formed a beautiful sight.
Casilla came out of the Imperial Palace and took a walk along Arcana Street with Ernon.
How many flowers bloomed in the enormous gardens of the Imperial Palace, and a breeze with the fragrance of the flowers permeated every corner of the street over the walls of the Imperial Palace. Migratory birds, who had finally left, appeared in Arcana and sings of spring, and sprouts sprouting in front of the bare branches, coloring the streets with light green. The faces of the children running through the streets were full of playfulness, and the mouth-watering smell of freshly baked bread caught people’s feet. In the streets of Arcana and Pien, even if it were a noble carriage, there were stone floors on the back alley roads. Compared to three years ago, people were’living’ in the streets that were so calm and lively. The ordinary life of ordinary people that Casilla protected was flowing like that. Casilla thought that the god who was resentful when he first opened his eyes in this world, is now manageable to forgive. Thanks to this, he can enjoy this ordinary happiness.
When Casilla laughed as he watched the boy run away while he was drugging a girl and the girl chasing him, Ernon wrapped her shoulders. Their peaceful day was just as perfect as the sunlight on the Arcana.
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