Rather Than The Son, I’ll Take The Father

However, as my expression did not soften, the wolf who was watching raised its tail.

“Ah really. Can’t you do it with your eyes closed?”

The man wrapped his face as before. However, his credibility did not increase.

I had already noticed that he could see very well even when he closed his eyes, and that covering his nose and mouth didn’t interfere with breathing or talking.

“Even if you put it on, it looks like you can see it all anyway.”

“It’s less visible.”

“…….”

“My, my eyesight is so good, what should I do?”

The man threw a fit and coughed in vain.

“I understand that you can’t trust me at first sight, but if I just let it go, Master will really die.”

I was also aware of the seriousness.

Even if I miraculously survive after an hour, it may be difficult to execute the movement magic.

The magic belonged to Aedis, but as I weakened, there was little chance that my body could withstand the recoil.

I untied the knot to show only the wounded area.

The man stretched out his hand.

“Yes, you’re doing well. Don’t just ask me to get you out of here.”

He moved his fingers delicately and began to weave a thread. Herbs were picked up one by one on a transparent thread like a spider’s silk.

The man asked abruptly as I watched the mysterious process of mixing medicinal herbs.

“Then why did they put this poison in your shoulder and not your heart?”

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“They were told to attack my heart, but my friend likes me a little bit.”

“…….”

My voice trembled. The man did not respond.

“You are.”

“Eleonora. It is my name.”

He looked like a human, communicated like one, and had a name, so I guess I did a good job ignoring the beast’s claim that he was a male and wanted me to open my top.

I couldn’t predict when my husband would come. Once Aedis returned to the castle, he would know I wasn’t there.

I kept talking to him just to keep myself conscious.

“Mister Eleonora, have you been waiting here all the time? For your Master?”

“Former master.”

“Current Master has nothing to teach Mister Eleonora.”

“That is for me to decide.”

What kind of disciple is so arrogant?!

Eleonora shrugged his shoulders.

“Anyway, to answer your question, I was waiting, but I hope Master doesn’t return.”

“Why?”

“Master protected us for a really long time. Now is the time to rest.”

I forced my eyelids open.

“Who is ‘us,’ Mister Eleonora?”

“Everything that exists on this earth.”

Was that beast that great……. As I looked bewildered, the man also stopped.

“Didn’t Former Master tell you? Who he is, and what it means to receive that blood?”

“Um, not at all?”

I searched deeply for a memory. However, the old beast was trying to get a strange promise.

― Girl, if I give you my blood, will you be able to live a good life in the future?

— Uh. No?

Looking back, it was a random question. I rolled my tongue in my mouth.

“But I remember when he asked if I could live a good life, and I said no.”

At that time, if I had to accept the condition of living a good life, I was thinking of returning the blood.

I had the confidence to kill Gilbert, but I didn’t have the confidence to rehabilitate him.

How am I going to handle the failure of the male lead in Esmeralda’s Crescent Moon? I had no desire to do so.

Eleonora said strangely, wiping the wounds.

“Then why did Former Master give Current Master blood? You’re not even the nicest person.”

My shoulder hurt, and Eleonora’s words didn’t make sense, so I frowned.

“Do I have to be the best human being to receive that beast’s blood?”

Eleonora fell into his own thoughts as if he couldn’t hear me.

“Maybe he picked a relatively less nice human to deal with him…….”

I glanced over my shoulders covered in herbs and cobwebs. The tightly woven thread seemed to take the place of a bandage.

“Him?”

“There was a spunky bastard who was looking for Master to fulfill his wretched wish. Of course, Master did not meet him. It would be better for Current Master to do the same.”

Soon Eleonora lifted his hand from my shoulder.

“The first aid is over.”

“Thank y…….”

“Current Master, you must receive my treatment for at least ten days, so you don’t die.”

Ten days. It hit like a bolt from the blue.

“Can’t it be faster?”

“Don’t talk like a real patient, Master.”

I choked, but I explained the situation.

“I have disappeared without a word and the castle will be in a fuss. Right now, I am the only person in charge, so I have to go quickly.”

Eleonora accepted it calmly.

“As soon as Master steps on the threshold there in this state, it will be more fussy when you die.”

“…….”

It was true, so there was nothing to refute.

Eleonora’s new thread stretched out from his hand and tied to the furniture. An achromatic duvet was attached to the transparent thread.

“And you bled too much. Stop making noises and get some sleep.”

I wanted to relax too, but I couldn’t forget Monica’s face as I fell.

– I have no idea what it is. But I can swear.

I just hoped Monica hadn’t jumped already.

“Mister Eleonora, is there any way to tell the castle that I am okay at the very least? At least there might be a suggestion to wait since they haven’t found my body, but that won’t last.”

“I’ll try, but don’t expect too much. By the way, what kind of castle do you mean?”

“It’s called Cyclamen Castle…….”

I wondered if I could explain it properly, but Eleonora understood it well enough that he pinched his finger and the furniture connected to the thread was knocked down.

“Is it the castle of the Lord?!”

“Do you know Aedis?”

“I do not know!”

It was too sharp an answer to not know.

“…… Are you going to tell me the news?”

“I said I’ll protect you..”

“Are you protecting me?”

Eleonora suddenly looked into my eyes.

“Master, that… … .”

“Um?”

“The Lord’s…….”

“What.”

“N, no.”

Eleonora turned his head and covered his face tightly, and he began to weave the thread out of his hand again.

I was sad because I couldn’t afford to dig deeper…….

I got off the couch and cried out to the wolf.

“He looks a bit suspicious, so please keep an eye on him.”

“I can hear you, Master.”

“I think I should sleep.”

“…….”

The wolf huffed and curled up. Thanks to that, I was wrapped in warm fur.

I really needed to sleep a little. Just a little…….

* * *

Eleonora saw the finally unconscious Maevia and sighed.

Even though Eleonora had treated countless demonic beasts with tattered skin and attended to her condition, her condition was not very good.

The poison had already spread to her toes, and her heart was moving with inertia.

‘It’s probably because she drank the blood of the Former Master that she could endure.’

It was pitiful to see her holding back a scream with her pale blue face.

‘Why are you insisting you’ll get better when you are sick?’

Eleonora covered her with a blanket and stared intently at Maevia.

“…… a noble who lives in the castle.”

Eleonora remembered the voices of the spirits of Eire Forest carried by the wind.

They said that in Cyclamen Castle, there lived a demon who treated King Paimon as a slave. There was also the ghastly hypothesis that he was forced to sign a life contract.

Even the Lord was as obedient as a gentle sheep in front of that demon.

But the spirits said that the color of the demon’s hair was…….

“…….”

Eleonora considered the probability that the woman with beauty recognized even in the eyes of a beast, was the rumored demon, that is, the Grand Duchess.

“Puppy, isn’t that kind of hair color common among humans? Current Master can’t be the Grand Duchess, right?”

The wolf didn’t even cry lest Maevia would wake up, only the tail fluttered.

“Oh, crazy. I really can’t.”

“…….”

“If I ever break the taboo placed on me by my Former Master…….”

Eleonora wiped his face covered with the cloth and suddenly sighed briefly.

“Well, come to think of it, Current Master just spoke the name of the Lord.”

A woman who looked like a flower that bloomed in spring, upon whom the taboo imposed by the Former Master didn’t work. For that alone, she must have been the one who had been marked as successor by the Former Master.

Her very existence had already proven that.

But at the same time, she was the wife of the Lord.

When she finds out that she can lift the ban on both of them, she will, of course, act on it.

Because they said that the relationship between the Lord and the Grand Duchess was so close that even non-humans were terrified.

And the same thing as last time will be repeated.

Massacre. It was 500 years ago, but Eleonora knew the rough story.

By only two people, the corpses of beasts piled up like a mountain, and a river of blood was created.

One of them was the Lord of the castle, and the other was a being revered as a god by humans at the time.

The Former Master imposed a taboo that forcibly separated them, but he did not know if that same day would be repeated again if she, the Current Master, released it.

No, it would be better if it stopped at that level.

The power of the Lord was getting stronger day by day. The patience of the human called God was showing its limits.

The former was a problem, but the latter was a bigger threat.

When the one who was called god could not find the Former Master even at the beginning and the end of the world.

So, once the ban is lifted.

They must have already been angry because they didn’t get the immortality they wanted, but in that state, if they ran into the Lord like when the massacre happened…….

Eleonora grabbed his head, knowing that the two were ‘together’ in the massacre.

“Haa…… I’m going crazy.”

Just imagining it made him choke. Eleonora felt his jeweled eyes stiffen as he sat down.