Lady Devil - Chapter 143

143.

10. Human Vision

Johannes… No.

‘That thing’.

It had been staring at the target with an arrow nocked for several minutes already. Just as the boys of House Valdemar standing around were about to start murmuring impatiently.

“Elder brother.”

The one who spoke with a somewhat puzzled look was Winfrid. However, ‘that thing’ did not respond. Just trapped in the shell of being the eldest son of Valdemar. Seemingly open to the outside but in reality with eyes closed inward, it was absorbed only in examining the scene forming in its mind. Memories were like a tsunami. Giovinetta, and. It held that name it could not yet utter in its mouth. Giovinetta.

On some day.

A blonde woman resembling ‘you’ seems to have asked me. Why do I hate her so much? What was her sin…? Why did her life have to be this miserable? That woman who cried out bitterly with anger overflowing, she was the Duke’s consort. Who gave birth to you from her womb, and considered you her daughter. In other words, she was your descendant.

Though the memory is not clear, if I were to answer that woman’s question now, Giovinetta. Her sin is her bloodline. Not that woman, but you Ducomeng siblings.

Because you were the cursed bastards to me.

Needless to say that worthless son of a bitch Xavier, you were an ungrateful woman who didn’t know your place, so my indescribable antipathy is especially stronger. No, it seems stronger. Ah, damn woman. A woman who didn’t know how high the sky was, couldn’t appreciate what she had, and only slowly simmered the abyss deeply hidden under that fair face…. To me. To me…. Only harsh to me…. Woman. You.

…Or not?

“Bro… Brother.”

I don’t know. I don’t understand the origin of this boiling emotion. Memory. Memo…ry is, patchy… Ah, damn it. I. You. You… I need to find… Giovinetta. You know. The Duke’s consort, that woman, the wishes she begged of me are constricting my entire body, my path forward, like an unbreakable chain.

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