Book 1 Chapter 746

746.

Second Prince. Bedecos' camp.

The morale of the Bedecos faction's nobles seemed to pierce the sky.

"As long as the glorious heroes of Seirun are with us! We shall be victorious!"

Someone who looked like a commander raised his sword and shouted.

"Waaahhh!"

"Long live the heroes of Seirun!"

The knights simultaneously raised their swords and cheered.

The morale of the knights on the battlefield seemed to pierce the sky.

However, the morale of the soldiers did not nearly match theirs.

This was because ordinary soldiers had been dragged out without knowing why, to fight against people from the same country.

Even if they had seized victory, their morale could not easily rise.

Many soldiers in the actual battlefield had received kindness from enemy soldiers.

"Why do we have to fight?"

"Ugh… I'm sick of it now. I want to go home."

"I have family in the west…!"

Resentment spread among the soldiers.

Someone who had been mingling among the soldiers, hooded, subtly disappeared.

A moment later.

Someone who arrived at a tent not far from the soldiers' quarters subtly took off their hood.

It was Luca, Seirun's third-year, third-place student, a half-elf.

"As expected, the soldiers' morale is at rock bottom."

"Indeed."

Runia sighed deeply.

The elf students' expressions were not good.

"The humans are so pitiful!"

"Ah. We must end this war quickly!"

"The enemy soldiers are also humans… What a tragedy this is."

Exclamations of lament poured out among the elves.

Watching them, Runia wore a strange expression.

'No. Just a few months ago, these guys were cursing humans as a barbaric race that fought among themselves…'

They were now genuinely regretting and viewing the Devian Kingdom's civil war as a great tragedy.

It wasn't a bad sight at all, but Runia found it hard to adjust to the difference in their attitude.

Just then.

Someone entered the tent.

It was Leah, the second-year head student.

"Everyone! I've brought some combat rations that the ordinary soldiers eat!"

"Ooh! A new human culture!"

"I'm curious!"

"I want to try it!"

"Hey! You guys! Do you think we came here to play! Being so happy just watching them eat like idiots… *Cough*!"

Runia grabbed the back of her neck as she watched the Seirun students instantly liven up the atmosphere.

The Seirun students flinched at Runia's chilling presence.

"Hold it in. Hold it in. Isn't this better than hating humans?"

Luca smiled awkwardly and calmed Runia.

Luca was certainly right.

For Runia, who had wished for improved relations between the entire elf race and humans since her first year, this direction for the school didn't feel entirely bad.

'The problem is that these damn pointy-eared freaks have no sense of moderation!'

Runia gritted her teeth inwardly and scratched her head roughly.

In the meantime, the Seirun students took a reverent posture.

"This is a very important supply eaten by ordinary soldiers. We should not eat it out of mere curiosity. We must eat it while feeling their joys and sorrows."

"I agree!"

Watching them change the atmosphere, Runia covered her face with her hands.

The Seirun students were trying their best to feel and understand human culture.

'I have to spend the rest of my school life with these idiots. Should I just transfer to Lumern?'

Runia smiled sadly to herself and stepped out of the tent.

Runia, who was now taking a deep breath while looking at the sunset sky, suddenly spotted Eiran sitting despondently by a bonfire, her legs drawn up.

"Eiran, what are you doing there?"

"Ms. Runia."

Eiran looked at Runia with a tearful face.

Watching her, Runia said.

"Why? Because humans call you the Witch of Corpses…"

"Don't call me by such a horrible nickname!"

Startled, Eiran rushed at Runia, grabbed her by the collar, and shook her violently.

"A-Alright! I won't call you that!"

Runia felt her head spinning and sat right in front of Eiran.

Then she sighed.

"Anyway, I'm glad you're here. My magic can hurt people, so it's not easy for me to participate in the war."

Runia had joined the civil war according to the Council's decision, but she absolutely did not want to kill anyone.

Therefore, in a sense, Runia could not rashly participate in the battlefield.

Flames burn not only enemies but also allies.

If such an ability were recklessly used on the battlefield, countless people would turn to ashes.

At Runia's words, Eiran sighed deeply.

"It's not easy for me to control my power either."

It is difficult to subdue people without killing them.

Especially on the battlefield.

"Since we've intervened, Lumern will soon intervene as well. Then we can bring the two forces to negotiations."

Seirun had not intervened in Devian's civil war without thinking.

Of course, the reason for intervening was 'we cannot stand by and watch humans suffer the tragedy of fratricide,' a reason unimaginable for the Seirun of old.

Anyway, they had intervened in the civil war, expecting that if they intervened, Lumern would intervene, and the civil war could be ended under the mediation of the two giant powers.

"Yes. If so, we'll be able to see Lysinas-nim, won't we?"

News of Lysinas's descent had already spread across the world.

As such, Eiran was looking forward to meeting Lysinas.

A meeting with the King of Wisdom, of all people.

It was then that Eiran's eyes sparkled brightly.

"…That's right. She'll surely be moving with Leo."

Runia's eyes trembled slightly.

Eiran looked at Runia with a puzzled expression.

"What's wrong?"

"Lysinas-nim will always be with Leo, right?"

"Of course."

"Ugh…"

Runia, having thought that far, bit her lip tightly and fidgeted.

Watching her, Eiran tilted her head.

"Why?"

"Well… Leo and Lysinas-nim have a deep relationship… so… you know… perhaps at night…"

"Ms. Runia."

Eiran's eyes narrowed.

"What? What?!"

Eiran said, looking at Runia who flared up with a reddened face.

"It's not good to imagine such vulgar things."

"What's vulgar about it! Compared to those obscene novels you enjoy reading, mine are wholesome!"

"W-What's wrong with the novels I read! And I don't enjoy them! It was just simple curiosity…!"

"You read too many for mere curiosity! And get rid of them already! Now I have to hide your books even in my room!"

"B-But! I only kept the carefully chosen masterpieces!"

"Masterpieces? What was the title of that book series in my room? Three people's…"

"Agh! Agh! Agh! Don't say it! Don't say it! You said you wouldn't look!"

Eiran shrieked with a bright red face, then rushed at Runia and covered her mouth.

The two, tangled on the floor, struggled for a moment, then gasped and pulled away from each other.

A moment later, Eiran took a deep breath and said.

"I-I'm sorry. I got carried away."

"It's okay."

Runia shook her head, her face clouding over.

"Anyway… Leo and Lysinas-nim… are… in a marital relationship, aren't they?"

"…That's true."

The relationship between the Hero of the Beginning and the King of Wisdom was a closely guarded secret known only to a few.

But Runia had shared this particular matter with Eiran.

"But that's perfectly natural, isn't it?"

Eiran tilted her head.

"…Because of Luna-nim."

"Ah…"

Eiran's face clouded slightly.

Luna, the progenitor of the nebula, whom she deeply respected.

The beautiful progenitor who cared for them so much.

And Eiran knew the words Luna left to the world at her final moment.

Runia had not only been present at the scene of that confession but had also witnessed the two of them beforehand.

Runia and Eiran felt their hearts become complicated.

"I wish future generations would remember the Hero of the Beginning and the Progenitor of the Nebula as being in love."

Runia said with a slightly guilty expression.

Eiran nodded at that.

"Me too."

Luna's confession to the world.

She couldn't imagine what Luna felt when she made such a confession at her final moment.

Perhaps she just wanted to openly express her feelings that she had kept hidden.

Leo and Luna.

The two already lived in different worlds.

If so, their wish, no, the wish of the entire elf race, was for future generations to at least remember them as being in love.

'I feel so sorry for Lysinas-nim.'

"And… well… it's sacrilegious to say, but… didn't Leo-nim say that? That his marriage to Lysinas-nim was a scam."

"That's true."

"Then, wouldn't it be right to see it as not a marital relationship anyway?"

"Is that so?"

"Yes! It definitely will be!"

"That makes sense. Given Leo's personality, he probably wouldn't tolerate being scammed."

Runia nodded.

Watching her, Eiran smiled brightly.

"I! Actually, I'm writing a novel about Leo-nim and Luna-nim recently!"

"…You… will be struck by divine retribution."

"I-It's not a strange novel!"

Eiran shrieked and pulled a book from her personal tent.

"Look!"

"…I feel like I'm going to be struck by divine retribution too…"

Runia, with an unsure expression, cautiously opened the book.

A moment later.

She let out a sigh of relief.

"Thankfully, it's not a vulgar novel."

"Ms. Runia!"

"Sorry. Sorry."

Runia laughed "Ahaha-" and closed the book.

"But you really wrote it well."

The book was about the love between the Progenitor of the Nebula and the Hero of the Beginning.

The characters' personalities and speech patterns were 180 degrees different from themselves, but wasn't it fiction anyway?

"This will be a bestseller! So I plan to spread the idea that the two of them were in love into people's minds! A cultural victory, so to speak!"

It was quite an ambitious and dangerous plan.

But Eiran really wanted to make it happen.

'…Belkia-nim had considered Leo-nim her father.'

That meant her ancestor considered Kyle and Luna her parents.

'Lord Bihar and young Sia… And I apologize to Lysinas-nim, but…'

Eiran couldn't help but lean more towards her distant ancestor, Belkia, and her teacher, Luna.

Runia nodded at Eiran's words.

"This might have a chance."

It was only the beginning, but it was very interesting.

If this novel really became famous.

People in the world might lean more towards Kyle and Luna's love.

Just then, Luca entered the tent.

"Runia, Eiran. The prince's commander has come. It seems to be a strategy meeting."

At his words, the two nodded and stood up.

"Oh, wait, wait. I should leave this behind."

Eiran left the book she was writing in her tent.

So, in the dark tent.

*Whoosh*-

Someone appeared.

Lysinas stared at the book intently, then reached out and checked its contents.

Lysinas narrowed her eyes after checking the contents.

'These youngsters. They're dangerous.'

She had felt this kind of threat before.

Specifically, from Belkia.

The problem was that Belkia and these two were clearly different.

Runia and Eiran were obviously very intelligent, and their social status was incomparably higher than Belkia's at the time.

They were very threatening opponents, possessing both the will and the ability to execute their ideas.

She had ignored Melina and En's efforts to somehow connect her and Leo, but it seemed this was not the time for that.

Both in the past and now, elves had a surprisingly strong tendency to push things through.

Feeling a sense of crisis, Lysinas felt impatient.

'These kids won't do. If I don't do something quickly.'