Regret With All Your Might (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 114

The sun was sinking beyond the half-open carriage window.

As the carriage set off, Olivia leaned against its side, clutching Edwin’s letter tightly.

The letter from the ‘nameless knight’ had been at the very bottom of her luggage. It wouldn’t be too late to confirm whether the handwriting matched Edwin’s once they arrived in Bicander.

Her heartbeat quickened with strange tension. Yet Olivia soothed herself and turned to Bethany.

“Where should I begin…? Ah, right—I said I’d start by speaking of your lovely green eyes, miss.”

Now was the time to hear the story of Lowell.

Seeing Olivia’s calm, prepared green eyes, Bethany’s throat tightened. She cleared her throat with a soft “Hm!” and forced a cheerful laugh.

“Have you heard that green eyes were a trait of Lowell’s royal family and high nobility?”

“Yes. From Edwin… Could it really be that I’m descended from royalty or high nobility?”

“To be precise, miss, you likely carry the blood of a high noble—specifically, a priest.”

“A priest?”

Olivia silently repeated the unfamiliar word in her mouth as if tasting it for the first time. Watching her, Bethany recalled the distant past—the time when Lowell had begun to crumble.

“Yes. Roughly a hundred years ago, until Lowell vanished entirely into the shadows of history fifty years back, ‘priest’ referred to the nobles who served the royal family and jointly governed Lowell.”

“……”

“Half of these priest nobles dressed lavishly, while the other half always wore white robes and veiled their faces.”

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