Picked Up a Beast, Turns Out He's an Emperor (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 41

At the same time. Count Corald’s mansion.

“Father!”

Count Corald looked up from behind his monocle as his son burst into the study without even knocking.

Timothy, having sprinted up all three flights of stairs, stood before his father, catching his breath. His flushed cheeks revealed just how excited he was.

“I’ve finally found her. I met her today!”

His honest green eyes, brimming with unrestrained joy, sparkled like gemstones in the lamplight.

“Found who?”

Count Corald, who had been comparing ancient words from a notebook discovered in a cave with the empire’s oldest linguistic texts, rose from his desk and asked.

“I went to the square today…and met Lady Arabella!”

At Timothy’s words, Count Corald’s face brightened with unexpected delight.

Two years ago, they had been tracking a horned demon that had crossed the Ether River’s boundary into the human realm, deep in the forests of southern Hamfrut.

Mythical creatures no longer appeared in the empire, where ancient idol worship had long vanished. Yet occasionally, lesser demons and monsters breached the barriers and caused disturbances in the human world.

Count Corald was not only the empire’s but the entire continent’s foremost demon hunter, and his only son, Timothy, trained as his successor, assisting him in these endeavors.

Timothy, a model student since childhood, had mastered every method of demon extermination through diligent study of books and records—but real combat, where life and death hung in the balance, was entirely different.

Having lost his wife and raised his infant son alone, Count Corald sometimes secretly reproached himself for raising Timothy like an orchid sheltered in a greenhouse.

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