I Had the Enemy's Baby (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 78

“Hanna. Have you ever killed someone?”

At the sudden question, Hanna’s brown eyes widened.

When her village burned down and she lost her family, she had vaguely resented the world, even God—but she had never once thought of harming another person.

Well, except for Duke Vermonde.

When she learned that Clodel, ill with Herzol, had been sent to marry into the rival house, she had been so furious she’d declared, “I’ll kill him.” But she knew she’d never actually drive a blade into Duke Vermonde—unless perhaps she resorted to strangling him with her bare hands moments before his death.

“You haven’t, I suppose. Then, have you ever thought about whom you’d like to kill?”

“W-why ask me such a thing? Killing someone…”

Seeing her flustered and stammering, Madame Cronac let out a sigh.

“Duke Temnes is different from ordinary people.”

From the very beginning, he had been raised as someone destined to rule above others.

“If you were handed the lives of thousands or even tens of thousands of people and told to decide who lives and who dies, would you do it?”

“…….”

“He’s the kind of person who can make that decision.”

He alone decides whether to wage war—killing tens of thousands from Vermonde to protect tens of thousands from Temnes.

He is a noble arbiter who, as lord and head of the ducal house, can send someone’s soul into the abyss of death for the sake of honor and justice.

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