In that moment, Yurisien couldn’t fathom how shocked he was.
“……Huh?”
Did I hear that correctly? Did I misunderstand? Could my father be joking? Questions flooded Yurisien’s mind in an instant. Erugen, looking at Yurisien with a deeply emotional expression, embraced his daughter.
“Ah….”
A simple hug. But a hug that had been given hundreds, thousands of times before. Not just a hug given dozens of times recently!
Within that familiarity, Yurisien knew immediately, as if it were a lie.
Erugen had returned.
Erugen’s memory had returned!
“Ah, ah, Father….!”
Yurisien collapsed. For the first time, Yurisien realized that a human body could collapse not only from sorrow or despair.
Erugen didn’t force the collapsing Yurisien into an embrace, but instead lowered himself with her. Then he tightly held his daughter, who was sobbing like a child with her face buried in his chest.
His arm muscles, still robust enough to be considered in his thirties, bulged through his clothes.
‘Has his memory returned?’
Kalri, who could identify someone’s profession just by the usage of their muscles, recognized it immediately.
‘No way!’
Andersen, who had served and devoted himself to the Windsor family long before Erugen was born, also quickly noticed. Andersen’s eyes moistened quickly. He sniffed and hurriedly dabbed his eyes with a handkerchief.
So, those who didn’t know about Erugen’s amnesia, including Daisy and other ordinary servants, could only think this:
‘Was it…… an hour?’
It was merely an hour apart, yet they were so happy to see each other. The love between the Windsor family was indeed extraordinary.
Andersen poured tea. There were three cups.
“Do I really have the honor to sit with you?”
“Of course. This is a story you need to know as well, let’s have a cup of tea after such a long time.”
“Making your master grant permission twice, Andersen. You’ve gotten careless.”
Erugen pulled out a chair himself and spoke. Yurisien giggled and joked. Andersen was filled with emotion, enough to choke him up. The true Windsors. The true Windsors that Andersen had served for nearly half his life!
“Well…… thank you. I’ll take a seat.”
Andersen carefully sat opposite Erugen and Yurisien. Once again, he dabbed away his tears.
The reason these three sat together was because Erugen said he would explain how he regained his memory. Yurisien was already so curious that she was practically fidgety.
Erugen spoke.
“The place I went to on the griffin was Mid-Dandel.”
Dandel was a term for the north. It was divided into North-Dandel, West-Dandel, South-Dandel, and East-Dandel, with Mid-Dandel, where the Grwision temple was located, as the center. It was the busiest and, consequently, the most scrutinized area.
“I didn’t know where I was going at that time because I had no memory. The griffin flew by magic, so I didn’t have a chance to find out.”
Mid-Dandel was an extremely far place even if you rode the fastest carriage from the Windsor estate; it would easily take two weeks.
‘The time it takes for letters to be exchanged between B and me was long because of this distance. The griffin really is something else. To think it made a round trip in an hour.’
Yurisien marveled inwardly.
“There are also hidden corners in the bustling areas of Mid-Dandel. Guided by a griffin that had suddenly transformed into a bird smaller than my palm, I went to a very shabby back alley. There, I met Mitchel.”
“Mitchel?”
Yurisien questioned the unfamiliar name. Erugen, taking a sip of tea, provided an additional explanation, as Yurisien might not know the story.
“It’s Mitchel Sieron, the commander of the 2nd division of Elonia.”
“That woman…!”
Yurisien unconsciously looked toward the door. Kali was guarding outside. Kali Cherne, the commander of the Eloniac 1st Division.
“And Michel Sieron, who diligently follows Kali, overcoming prejudice and disregard with a woman’s body to secure her position as a commander.”
Despite the negative views on women becoming knights, the commanders of the elite 1st and 2nd Divisions of Eloniac, the Imperial Knights judged solely by skill, were women.
“Michel is now an advisor in the Coprador Guild.”
“Huh? That… Ah, Father. No way.”
“Yes. Michel, who I met there, told me that the Coprador Guild is owned by the Crown Prince.”
Yurisien unconsciously swallowed his dry saliva. He didn’t particularly hide it, but he felt as if his lie was exposed. Wergen faintly smiled, sensing Yurisien’s restless demeanor.
“Don’t worry. It’s all my fault. How could you burden me when my memory isn’t complete?”
“Father…”
“Even with my empty memories, it would already be difficult for me. You must’ve thought the same.”
Yurisien could neither deny nor confirm. He only found out that Benjamin was the guild leader of the Coprador Guild during the return celebration. But, as his father said, he wouldn’t have said anything until Wergen regained all his memories.
“Michel took me somewhere and told me that even though it’s incomplete, he could help me regain some of my memories.”
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”