“Hugo, our Eve… our child!!”

Upon hearing the news, Elysia, who had been standing at the entrance of the duke’s mansion, rushed to Hugo.

When she confirmed the absence of her daughter in her husband’s arms, the duchess, who had been more dignified than anyone else, collapsed like a paper doll.

“No… it can’t be.”

Tears rolled incessantly from her beautiful eyes.

The heart of a mother who lost her daughter was something no one could dare guess.

“I… will go to the underworld.”

Hugo’s voice, who lifted up Elysia, fell heavily not on Elysia, but on the knight’s squad.

The Artina Knights, who would usually respond loudly, only exhaled growling breaths today and did not answer at all.

Rather, it was hard for them to wait for Hugo’s command.

With a desire to dash out immediately. With a desire to tear the limbs of the demon that took the young lady.

Dealing with the demons that came to the human world and going to the underworld were completely different things.

However, for Hugo, and for the Artina Knights who lost the chick, this was not a problem.

“I have summoned the returnees.”

The butler, Hadel, approached Hugo and said.

‘Returnees.’

Those who were demons or semidemons but stood on the side of humans.

Most of them, under the protection of the royal family or the shrine, were those who could create a passage between the human world and the underworld.

The first thing Hadel did as soon as he heard the news about the young lady was to contact the royal family and request them to send two returnees.

It was a competent butler’s response, thinking of the possibility that the young lady might not be in the alley in front of the Duke of Cassis’s mansion.

“I’ll be back…”

Everyone knew what the following words would be.

When the head of the family was absent, the heir would act on his behalf.

It was a sign for Arcan and Cedric to stay.

The two brothers swallowed their words to argue and take them with them when they saw their father’s eyes that felt more than chilly, as if they were hot.

“Please return safely.”

“I will assist my brother well.”

The father was sure to bring back the younger sibling.

“……”

Elysia, who was screaming with her chest torn, stared blankly at Hugo’s back as he went into the mansion to get his armor, and then opened her mouth.

“…Hadel.”

“Yes, Madam.”

“Bring me my sword and armor.”

“Yes, Madam.”

Hadel answered without hesitation and ran into the duke’s mansion.

“Madam, the master will not allow it.”

Vivian, who was supporting Elysia, spoke with concern.

It was absolutely impossible for the Duchess, who was as soft as a pussy willow, to go to the underworld.

However, the heavy response made it impossible for anyone to stop her.

“From the Berta Shan Territory War, the Aten Battle, to the last Renox War.”

“……”

“I stood on those numerous battlefields.”

Even while trembling in the severe fear of losing her daughter forever, swallowing intermittent crying, the solidness similar to the military man Hugo was seen in Elysia’s blue eyes.

“……”

Vivian bowed her head deeply.

They had forgotten as the peace was long.

Their lady was the strategist of the current Emperor and Hugo and the Spirit who led the way in those dark times.

“Madam. This.”

Hadel handed Elysia the armor and sword she used often in the past.

The generation that went directly to war could not completely forget those times even in peace.

As proof, Elysia’s weapons were spotless without a single spot of rust. Always kept close and polished.

As Elysia lifted her hand to the dress she was wearing, all the servants and maids lowered their eyes and turned back.

The cumbersome dress was torn in one go.

Elysia, after putting on the lightweight armor over the ripped dress, tied her blue hair high and held the sword.

“It’ll be fine. Our child is strong.”

The mother’s words murmuring in the air were a comfort offered to none other than herself.

Hugo, who came out wearing armor, briefly licked his lips at the sight of Elysia, but in the end, he didn’t utter a word not to follow.

“……Ha.”

At the end of his passionate courtship before their marriage, they were comrades who had been through the battlefield together.

He never won against Elysia with those eyes, not even once.

Twenty years ago and, of course, now.

“Bring the returnees.”

At the moment when the challengers called by Hugo were about to draw a circle in the air to open the door to the demon world.

A horse much larger than its rider burst into the battlefield.

“Duke!”

Ludwig, who noticed that the duke, duchess, and the Artina knights were heading towards the demon world, urgently called them.

“Duke! She’s in the Ives Renox range.”

Hugo, who did not react to the call of the crown prince, showed a reaction to those words.

“……How did you know, Your Highness.”

“The ruler of East Demon World.”

There was no need for more words.

For there was no one in the human world who did not know that alias.

Hugo and Elysia immediately got on their warhorses.

The Artina knights followed them.