I Regret The Kindness I Gave You (20 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 84

Lud is harsh to the entire world, but he is the harshest of all to himself.

Perhaps it is because we share similar traits that I feel an even stronger sense of kinship. Merche also becomes the coldest when looking at herself.

The only difference is that Lud treats himself not with coldness, but with loathing.

He very easily belittled himself and treated himself as something lowly and hideous. I could roughly guess where the root of that came from.

There was no way they had cared for him tenderly when he was a slave in the arena, so he must have lived a life where mistreatment was natural from the moment he was a lump of blood until he became a person.

Merche silently stared into Lud’s hardened eyes.

Inside him, anxious and uneasy emotions were still boiling over.

Just as he himself was, he feared that Merche might see him as hideous and abandon him once more. Even without hearing his inner thoughts, just looking at him made it seem as though she could read his mind.

Lud. Merche called him clearly, putting strength into her voice.

“You are not hideous. The ones who are hideous are the people who wounded you like this.”

“…I know that old bastard deserves to be torn apart and killed.”

That’s not the important part.

It is certainly a problem that his hand, reduced to a tattered rag, was completely exposed, but the most grating issue right now is that Genovefa has been brought up in this conversation.

“I… inherited that bastard’s blood.”

Of all things. Half the blood flowing through his body belonged to Genovefa.

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