Connecting with the child through blood, the eyes that showed the ‘family’ that was seen towards him before the garbage that was connected with the child became clear. Ambheu seemed to be unaware, but Isaac recognized it at once. It wasn’t just because he had been observing people all day, following Arkandel’s name. After all, isn’t it normal for a person to know well what they have and what they don’t?

Isaac had to continue Arkandel’s name, but he was in a position close to being rejected by the family. The night he cried, thinking about family and tears, was all he could remember from his very young age. Because of that, he was feeling awkward for the first time in a long time at Sugar, who couldn’t hide the things she learned from him.

So, um… Well, it’s that, too? The look Sugar gave Ambheu and himself was exactly that. Ambheu seemed to be unaware, but Isaac recognized it at once. It wasn’t just because he had been observing people all day, following Arkandel’s name. After all, isn’t it normal for a person to know well what they have and what they don’t?

Isaac had to continue Arkandel’s name, but he was in a position close to being rejected by the family. The night he cried, thinking about family and tears, was all he could remember from his very young age. Because of that, he was feeling awkward for the first time in a long time at Sugar, who couldn’t hide the things she learned from him.

So, um… Well, it’s that, too? The look Sugar gave Ambheu and himself was exactly that. Ambheu seemed to be unaware, but Isaac recognized it at once. It wasn’t just because he had been observing people all day, following Arkandel’s name. After all, isn’t it normal for a person to know well what they have and what they don’t?

Isaac had to continue Arkandel’s name, but he was in a position close to being rejected by the family. The night he cried, thinking about family and tears, was all he could remember from his very young age. Because of that, he was feeling awkward for the first time in a long time at Sugar, who couldn’t hide the things she learned from him.
And at the moment when the child’s gaze turned toward oneself, it felt extremely unfamiliar, awkward to the point of wanting to pretend not to notice.

Yeah. It was awkward. Unconsciously, Isaac realized that he had no spare hands to scratch the itching chest. He opened his mouth.

“If it hurts, just say it. I’ll hold your hand anytime.”

Reading the concern in the blunt words, Sugar smiled with a relieved expression.

“It hurts, but holding hands is better.”

And in that moment, the once vivid edge of the child’s stamp became so blurred that almost no one could notice.

“Alright. Then two days later.”

Having made up her mind, Olivia casually played with the pen, and her official letter reached the hands of the messenger, heading towards the palace where Greta resided.

“As you wish, Your Highness.”

Greta replied with an expressionless face, and Kaslan, behind her, struggled to hide an indescribable expression.

On the night when Olivia sent a messenger to Greta, asking her to come to the princess’s palace in two days, Greta was struggling with the side effects of exerting too much power, creating Kaslan as a doll and erasing the memories.

Stiffening even when lying on the bed, curling up her hands and feet until they no longer function, suddenly spreading them wide, and more. She writhed in agony, unable to control her own body, sweating profusely, causing the bedding to become damp.

“Make only one doll. It’s hard to control more than that.”

A voice that scratched the purified father’s ear in my hands resonated from somewhere distant.

In such a state, enduring the pain that felt like tearing her head apart while soaked in sweat, Greta unconsciously let out a scream.

“Ah, ahhhh!”

“What’s going on!”

Without a knock, Kaslan appeared behind the wide-open door in response to her scream.

He quickly scanned Greta, who was almost in a state of delirium on the bed, then looked around.

Having grasped whether there was an attacker or anything threatening in the blink of an eye, Kaslan immediately shouted outside.

“Call the palace physician!”

His voice swept through the corridor terrifyingly, and the servants who were taking care of the night palace hurriedly moved, and soon the palace physician began to examine Greta.

“I’ve already given her fever and pain relievers.”

As Greta’s sharp scream, which continued without stopping, echoed in the room, the sharp scream disappeared only after the palace physician examined her.

Stunned, leaving Greta, who had fallen asleep as if fainting or rather, having been put to sleep with medicine, behind, the palace physician, wiping the sweat, spoke.

“Fortunately, she just fell asleep, but if she is still severe tomorrow, we need to thoroughly investigate.”

“Yes. I will inform you of that part immediately.”

“Yes, yes. Then I’ll inform my colleagues in advance. Since the diplomats will be coming to the Empire, we may have such cases for a while.”

“Is that so?”
“Yes. Leaving the place where you’ve been living for so long…”

Although the palace physician was explaining, it didn’t register in Kaslan’s ears.

His mind was filled with different thoughts.

“…So, in case it’s an epidemic…”

“I have a question.”

Kaslan, mechanically nodding, cut off the faltering words of the weakened palace physician.

“Oh, of course.”

“Can you lose your memory for a while?”

“What?”

It was such a sudden and unexpected question, so solemn and subtle that Gūng-ui wondered if he heard it wrong.

Seeing Gūng-ui’s bewildered reaction, Kaslan’s timid nature came forward, but he suppressed his nature and asked again.

“I asked if you could lose a part of your memory.”

“Memory… uh, yes, you can lose your memory. Just as you said, even a part of it.”

And such a thing is sometimes referred to by doctors as ‘amnesia.’

“After a strong external shock or an experience accompanied by tremendous psychological shock, there are cases where some memories disappear…”

“No, no, it’s not like that.”

“What?”

Even before Kaslan finished speaking, Gūng-ui raised his hand to deny, and he had no choice but to answer.

“If not that, then what are you talking about?”

Watching Gūng-ui, who couldn’t hide his puzzlement, Kaslan finally sighed and raised his hand.

“No, it’s nothing. You’ve been through a lot even though it’s night. You can go now.”

There was no need for the person who had called and asked something strange to stay any longer. However, there would be no one willing to leave willingly.

But Gūng-ui just bowed his head obediently and turned away.

The other party was an imperial knight, and not just any imperial knight, but the soon-to-be well-known next commander of the knights, even Gūng-ui knew him well.

If you’re told to go, you go, and if you’re told to come, you come.

If he looked like he was in pain, he would have stuck around, but oddly enough, the situation was that the knights’ physical examinations had been completed a few days ago.

“Yes. Then I’ll be going now.”

Watching Gūng-ui’s retreating back, Kaslan, who was staring at it, took a deep breath and straightened his back.

No matter how complicated the head is, the duty and posture of the knight pinned to the body do not collapse.

But because of the dizzying mind, he couldn’t just pass it by, so he murmured to himself in a voice so small that he couldn’t hear it.

“A few hours have passed in the blink of an eye, and it’s unbelievable that there’s no memory during that time.”