“Swelden Young Lady.”

Then a familiar voice started calling her. Ines instinctively looked around for her safety.

“Swelden Young Lady! Put down that sword.”

But the two men still wouldn’t leave her, circling around her. In front of her was a scoffing Joseph, and behind her, Gemerun chasing her with a raised sword. Ines once again gripped the sword.

“Ines!”

Her name was called, and between the rain and the dark, Carson, armed in white light, appeared. The image of the man leading her from hell to heaven caught her eye.

‘Ah, you’ve come to save me again.’

He always came to save Ines. When she was floundering in the cold river, when she was standing in the square bleeding profusely, when she met hell in the forest and was scared out of her wits, Prince Carson von Raymond always came to save Ines Swelden.

Soon his long hand will grab Ines’s arm. Soon his broad chest will embrace Ines’s shoulders. Soon his beautiful lips will tell her that everything is okay.

Clang. Her body collapsed as one with the white light as the sword fell to the floor.

“You did well. You did well.”

“I did wrong. I did wrong. Please forgive me.”

“No, no. You didn’t do anything wrong.”

“I did wrong, please forgive me.”

“Yes, I’ll forgive everything. Is that okay? Okay?”

Ines tilted her head to the sky and let the pouring rain hit her entire face. Was it because she saw Gemerun again today? Her nightmare did not end on that day in court.

“What on earth has happened in your life?”

‘I don’t know either. But….’

While being hit by the stinging rain, Ines was certain of one thing. She couldn’t live like this. She couldn’t breathe like this.

‘I must kill you with my own hands to live. Only then will true peace come to my life.’

Otherwise, she was not living even though she was alive. Her hell continued even after leaving Romfield.

(This is a time separator.)

The next day, Ines was lingering in front of a knight’s room.

According to what she heard from Noah, last night she took the sword of the knight in this room and cut his arm mercilessly. It wasn’t a big wound, but he wouldn’t be able to participate in training for a while.

“Are you there?”

She called courageously, but no answer came. Ines sighed heavily and summoned her courage once more.

“Are you there?”
But Ines’s voice was almost crawling. She knew that no one inside would hear it this way, but she couldn’t make a loud sound.

“Ugh.”

Then, unbelievably, a man’s laughter came from right in front of the door. Ines was startled and took two steps back.

Then the door creaked open, making a sound. When she looked inside, tilting her head slightly, a very tall man who looked like a knight was standing there.

‘Is he as tall as the lord?’

Ines found herself comparing the man before her eyes to Carson without even realizing it.

“Good day, you are Ines Swelden, right?”

“Ah, yes.”

Ines stopped gauging his height and smiled faintly at him.

“I am Marcus Knights.”

“Hello, Sir Marcus. The reason I am here is…….”

“I have already heard from the adjutant. You want to apologize to me.”

He was clearly a very bright person. His red hair and light blue eyes made him look more vibrant.

“Yes, that’s right. I thought it would be good to meet in person and apologize, so I came to find you.”

While speaking, Ines looked at his healed arm.

“I’m not sure how badly you were hurt.”

“I heard that you also injured your arm. Are you okay?”

Ines bit her lower lip in embarrassment.

The arm that had not been properly treated was more open due to the uproar she caused yesterday. The doctor who saw her wound this morning sighed deeply. He even complained at length that even the wounds that did not need stitching had to be stitched up.

“Yes, I’m fine.”

“I heard you were quite hurt, so I thought you would rest for a few days, but you came so hastily.”

True to his word, Ines had started to get a fever since noon. But she couldn’t postpone the apology for such a matter.

“I’m on my way out now, would you like to walk with me?”

Ines obediently followed his words. The place he was heading to was a small walkway on the road to the training ground.

“Sir Marcus, I sincerely apologize. I was really sorry yesterday.”

“You didn’t do it on purpose. You didn’t even need to come and apologize.”

“But you were hurt because of me.”

“As you can tell by the name, our family is a lineage of knights passed down through generations.”

Marcus Knights, Ines also thought it was indeed a knightly name.

“I was just injured while doing my job. So you don’t have to feel sorry.”

“Even so, you were hurt because of me.”