To The Eternal Knight (2 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 223

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After that, Claude stared blankly at Nerea.

Over those clear blue eyes—once praised as being as bright and pure as a clear sky—countless emotions flickered past.

Anger at having been deceived by Nerea, the hollow dismay of never expecting his true birth to be revealed like this—and then, all at once, those emotions overflowed, wetting Claude’s cheeks.

For a moment, Nerea wondered: what exactly did those tears mean? But she soon realized the answer.

“…So it’s something as trivial as my birth that made me this way? And Count Esteban… refused to follow me because of my birth as well?”

His muttering voice sounded as if pleading his own innocence—it was self-pity born from regret and despair. Unaware that his arrows were aimed in the wrong direction, Claude glowered at Nerea.

In an instant, Nerea’s eyes turned icy cold. She had briefly hoped he might say something useful—something she could even report to the Emperor—but it was clear there was nothing more worth hearing.

“Take him away.”

Claude Castarti had always been that kind of man—the kind who lived his whole life blaming others, even now showing not a shred of self-reflection until the very end.

At Nerea’s words, David Illauser led Claude out.

Once the door shut behind them, she was left alone. Nerea let out a shallow breath and sank onto the sofa. Though the room was quiet, cheers and shouts still rang out from outside.

Savoring that dissonance, Nerea repeatedly clenched and unclenched her fist. Only now did the tension—built up from cutting down countless foes and charging deep into enemy lines—finally spread through her entire body.

Simultaneously, a sharp pain shot through her. All the sensations she had tried so hard to ignore now crashed over her at once.

But then—

When her eyes fell upon the sack she’d set aside on the floor, a faint smile began to curl at the corners of Nerea’s lips.

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