Solo Swordmaster

#555. don’t you know?

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“Fortunately, the wound is not deep.”

“…”

“The knife in the back was bit deep, but like the other wounds, he avoided vital points exquisitely.”

“….”

“But the reason why you haven’t woken up yet… I’m sorry. It is beyond my ability to know.”

“…”

“Once the results of the detailed examination come out in a few days, we may know something, but I can’t say anything yet.”

“….”

“If it’s not for a particular reason, you can wake up right away, but if you’ve suffered brain damage…”

….

….

Hasneti was silent.

Even after going to the elder of the green dragon clan who runs the branch of Quetzalcoatl in Cairo, as the medical doctor wasn’t enough.

Until the sun rises and sets and the moon rises and reaches the top of the sky.

In a bed in the depths of the palace.

with bandages wrapped around the body.

without opening your eyes.

In front of a blonde tanned boy who fell asleep as if he were dead.

She just silently looked down at Limon.

Even more than the unconscious Limon, that motionless figure looked as if it had become a statue while still alive.

But that’s just the appearance.

In fact, her inner mind was congested.

sick

I’m afraid.

angry

sad

It’s hot.

It’s frustrating.

impatient

anxious

bitter

clogged

grieved.

disastrous.

The violent confusion roared like a raging wave, keeping her silent.

The first Sword Master and the last disciple of Sword Emperor.

He is the hero who slashed the worst sword master swordsman.

A guardian deity who has protected humanity as the last sword master.

Swordsmith Limon Aspelder.

Hasneti had known about him for a long time.

At first, as a red dragon princess who pursues struggle, she only learned about it while gathering information to mate with a man stronger than herself.

But the more you know about him.

Her interest was not limited to Limon’s power, but to other things as well.

A life of only watching over the world as a guardian, even though you have the power to rule the whole world.

She couldn’t relate.

The feeling that most of them were cut off even though they raised their disciples with great care.

She couldn’t guess.

The reason why the Seven Dragons were thoroughly disrupted but not destroyed.

she couldn’t understand

So I wanted to understand.

I did.

From records left by people who have met Limon, to simple gossip, and even items that have traces of him.

I scraped together everything that had anything to do with him, and tried to understand him by following his life from the past.

When I finally understood him.

she realized

Suddenly. That

he…

fell in love.

A man I’ve never met in person.

Even against the enemies of the clan.

Like a stalker, after investigating with all sorts of things, you fall in love.

It was so embarrassing that even as the bravest of the seven princesses of the Seven Dragons, she couldn’t bear to tell anyone about it.

It was also a relationship that could not have been established in the first place.

That’s why she had no choice but to keep her heart to herself and watch him in silence.

Even when he was wedded.

regret it

Even when the Seven Dragons Branch was held.

Looking forward to it.

Even when I took Limon as my sidekick.

rejoice

Even when he was taken away by Rose.

with anger

I resent myself for not being able to stand on my own more actively despite the many opportunities I had.

As he and the other princesses get closer, he builds up soggy feelings in the charred blackness of being hot.

Still, she thought.

The person who knows Limon best is himself.

The thing I like the most is myself.

Because it was you who first fell in love with him and had been watching and trying to understand him for over 10 years.

but this moment.

Hasneti didn’t know.

“…why?”

Why is he lying in a state of unconsciousness as an absolute strongman who never knew defeat?

“Why did you do this?”

Even though he knew it might be a trap, he decided to assault the allied base.

There was no need for Limon to risk himself instead.

no that didn’t work

Whether it’s because of the power value.

Whether it’s because of the dragon psionic.

He is indispensable to the Seven Dragons.

It was a fact everyone except the Red Dragon Clan agreed that even if Hasneti died, Limon shouldn’t be in danger.

And why did Limon, who should know that fact better than anyone else, take such a reckless gamble?

she couldn’t understand

That’s why I was angry.

“Couldn’t you believe me? Or did you even want to leave me like this?”

Did he think he would fail if left to himself?

Or is it that the nervous feeling that he can quit his concubine only if he finishes this situation as soon as possible drives him this way?

Enough to take a gamble he himself declared suicidal to fight three sword masters?

“Did you hate me so much that you would rather cheat on me and risk your life than remain as my concubine?”

Feeling helpless to do anything.

It is heartbreaking to see him wounded.

The inability to understand him.

The moment when she asked a series of questions, knowing that she couldn’t get an answer because she couldn’t stand the increasingly congested whirlpool of emotions.

[Ha, you really don’t know that, so you’re asking?]

A light sigh.

rang the air

Hasneti didn’t look back.

I just asked quietly, fixing my eyes on Limon lying in front of me.

“What do you mean?”

[Why did the team leader do such a reckless thing?]

“Do you know?”

[You can’t know.]

When Hasneti stays by Limon.

The bluebird, who was watching Limon… no, Hasneti to be exact, sighed over and over again in the cage.

[The team leader did this on purpose because he wanted to prevent the soldier’s sister from dying.]

“Nonsense.”

[Why do you think this is nonsense?]

“….”

[Ah, is that it? There’s no way the team leader would do something like that to save an older sister who has been harassing her to the fullest?]

“….”

[Ha, I’m not even an elementary school student.]

The third sigh.

Just keep silent as usual.

Yuna-kyung asked her again, who did not answer anything instead of affirmation.

[Are you really an idiot?]

As if an incurable fool or a child who ran away from home for fear of being scolded for breaking a vase.

Looking at Hasneti with pitiful eyes.

The blue bird said bluntly.

[Why do you think the team leader has been quietly acting as the sister’s side room?]

[Because of a promise?]

[Of course, that’s a big deal.]

[But a soldier sister. If you really thought that way, you’re mistaken because you don’t know anything about our team leader.]

To Hasneti, who thought he knew Limon better than anyone else, it was like an insult.

But she wasn’t angry.

Only then did he slowly turn his head and look at Yuna-kyung.

[Our team leader is crazy.]

[A boss, a minister, or the chairman of a conglomerate. If you don’t like it, you’re the one who ran into it.

] [It’s basic to ask for service rules if necessary, and he’s shameless enough to break promises and lie.] It’s

not that he doesn’t know honor.

However, in order to protect the world, he does not choose any means to the extent of making an ambush against his disciples.

[What do you think is the reason why such a team leader behaved like a concubine when he was old because of a promise without any compulsion?]

“….”

[You still don’t know?]

It’s like seeing at first glance.

I may not have watched him as long as Hasneti, but I’ve been working, fighting, and bickering with Limon for years.

As for Limon now, let alone the seven princesses.

As a pet companion that I know better than my disciples.

Yuna Kyung said.

[The team leader believed the soldier sister.]

“…You said you believed it?”

[I know that no matter how wrong my sister is, she will make the right choice in the end.]

The distant past.

Even when the sword painting revolutionized.

Even when swordsman waged war.

Even when Geomrang slashed the Geomryeong.

Even though he knew that the path was wrong, instead of blocking and killing him as a guardian, he trusted and watched over him as a teacher.

Even if I’m mad with lust.

won’t cross the line

that someday you’ll come to your senses

Because I believed, expected and hoped.

He said that he did his best to keep his promise to Hasneti and fought for his life instead.

Yuna-kyung faced Hasneti.

[So, soldier sister.]

“….”

[Please don’t disappoint the team leader like me.] Even

though you know him well.

Because my younger siblings were more important.

by dying himself to his sword.

As the last subordinate who gave Limon disappointment in humans again and finally abandoned the country.

Even so, please don’t make it harder for this stubborn, tired man who still hasn’t given up on trusting anyone.

After asking quietly.

Yuna-kyung disappeared.

Phaging.

It seemed that the cage in which he was confined had no meaning from the beginning.

Hasneti, who silently looked at the spot where the blue bird had disappeared beyond space, turned her head again after a long time had passed.

And muttered in a subdued voice.

“…is it.”

It was because he knew that Yun Na-gyeong’s plain and honest words would be the answer he was looking for.

Hasneti clenched her fists.

“Did you trust me?”

I could understand now.

tied with a leash

Whether you put it in the fence.

You can run away anytime.

Even so, I believe that what is contained in it is affection.

Like a wild beast that gently licks the palm of a child who reached out to him instead of forcefully breaking the leash and running away.

Limon looked at him with warmth in his golden eyes and stayed by his side.

“This me?”

what did he do to him

bound by a mere promise.

He was harassed and harassed unilaterally.

I tried to make it my own even by force.

To a topic that I thought I knew and loved about Limon better than anyone else.

I didn’t try to understand him.

I didn’t see his heart.

…didn’t believe him.

throbbing.

The moment you realize everything.

Pain that tightens the heart.

How foolish and shameless she had been for deciding to do anything if she could have him, and tarnishing his favor with lust.

Shame on you.

Guilt.

Regrets.

It made my heart throb and my heart ached.

I wanted to apologize right away.

But what if you don’t even know if you’ll ever get a chance to apologize?

What if Limon doesn’t wake up like this?

…what if I lose him?

“I was wrong.”

Horror that makes your blood freeze just by imagining it.

In the midst of a flood of heartbreaking pain, Hasneti squeezed Limon’s hand and said.

“I will grant you anything you want.”

“If you don’t want to see me or look at me, I won’t show up again until I die, and if you want an apology, I’ll be your slave.”

“You can hate me for the rest of your life.”

“So please…”

“Get up.”

everything is your fault

People like her shouldn’t have coveted Limon in the first place.

After all, she, who only knew how to live as a tyrant, had no qualifications to become his bride.

It’s okay if you don’t have him.

It doesn’t matter if you can just watch it from afar for the rest of your life.

No, it was good even if I couldn’t even watch it.

If only I could see his warm golden eyes and hear that sullen voice at least once more…

“Don’t you have something to say before an apology to the concubine who risked his life and returned from fighting instead, Pharaoh?”

“…!”

flashing

looking at her with her head up.

The blonde-tanned boy slowly opened his eyes and said with a slightly mischievous smile.

“For example, a reward of thanks?”