Future Knight [EN]: Chapter 149

Watching her, Kang Chan drove the point home.

“I’m leaving this place now. So the choice is yours.”

“But… why so suddenly…?”

“There’s a woman waiting for me there.”

“……”

Edeline was momentarily speechless.

She had actually been hoping a little.

As she watched him say they should run away together.

But her heart was trampled on once again.

With Kang Chan’s words that there was a woman waiting.

“And, there’s nothing to gain from staying here for long.”

Kang Chan wasn’t a fool.

He knew very well that if he continued to stay here, he would be caught up in their power struggles, even if he didn’t want to.

He had no desire or attachment to power, so it was something he absolutely didn’t want.

Besides, he missed Platina so much that he had forgotten about her for a while because of Zekeon’s death.

Seeing Edeline, who had become a mother, reminded him of the word family.

Right now, the only beings he could call family were his master, Eladion, and Platina.

‘I’ve been too careless with her. I hope everything’s been alright?’

Kang Chan, worried, wanted to see her as soon as possible, and he asked Edeline one last time.

“Are you going or not?”

“I’ll go.”

Kang Chan felt a strong will in Edeline’s eyes and headed to the Red Mars to leave for the Laksha Continent with her.

Edeline, who went to her room to pack her things for the last time, swept up a few large clothes and trinkets.

Jewels were of no use in the place she was going, but she still didn’t know that, so she thought that only jewels would protect her and her child in the future.

So she worked hard to pack without missing anything expensive.

Behind Edeline, who was diligently packing her jewelry, a sturdy young man appeared.

“Princess!”

“Gasp!”

As the saying goes, a thief is pricked by his own conscience, she was startled like a thief even though she was packing her own things.

“Th, this voice, Zizen?”

When Edeline quickly turned her head, Zizen, who had turned black [meaning he had been through a lot], was standing in front of her.

“I’m back, Princess.”

“Zizen!”

It was Zizen whom she was seeing for the first time in four years.

He had really changed beyond recognition.

His appearance, having lived on the battlefield for four years, was not the weak young master of the past.

He had returned as a man’s man, full of rough masculinity.

Edeline’s heart fluttered without her knowing at his appearance, but she tried to hide her feelings and treated him as before.

“What are you doing now?”

“Ah, it’s nothing. I was organizing…”

“Organizing? As expected, the princess has a unique way of organizing things.”

“By the way, why did you only show up a month after the war ended? Do you know how worried I was?”

As soon as Zizen finished speaking, Edeline ran into his arms and burst into tears.

“Waaaaaaah! Waaah!”

“P, Princess?”

Zizen, who was in a state of bewilderment, turned into a bright red carrot and made a very embarrassed expression.

Because of her, who was crying in his arms, who was so lovely.

He really wanted to hug her so tightly that she would be crushed. But as a knight, he couldn’t do that to her, who was a royal.

Because the love between the royal guard knight, who had to protect the royal family the closest, and the royal family could never be achieved by the imperial order.

“Why are you crying? Did something happen in the meantime?”

“……”

Zizen seemed to have a dry mouth as Edeline couldn’t open her mouth and only sobbed.

Because he had ears, so he knew how she had been living for the past three years.

When he heard the news that she had become Benziller’s plaything, Zizen was shocked as if the sky was falling.

He couldn’t even remember how many nights he couldn’t sleep because of his anger.

Zizen still felt a fire inside him whenever he thought about that time.

“Princess……”

“Waaaaah, sob, sob.”

Edeline, who cried her heart out in front of him, wiped away her tears and said.

“I’m leaving the Imperial Palace today.”

“Yes? No, why are you suddenly leaving the Imperial Palace?”

“There’s something going on.”

“What’s going on?”

“I have a child……”

“Gasp!?”

Zizen was shocked as if he had been hit in the head with a hammer.

Could there be anything that makes a man as miserable and sad as hearing from the woman he likes that she has another person’s child?

“Are you leaving the Imperial Family because of the child? Then, by any chance, is that child?”

Edeline nodded her head obediently.

Zizen couldn’t believe that she was pregnant with an alien’s child.

But looking at Edeline’s actions now, it was definitely not a lie.

“Do you have to give birth?”

“I will definitely give birth.”

“Then where are you going?”

“I decided to go to the Laksha Continent with Kang Chan.”

“Are you going with Kang Chan?”

“That’s right.”

Zizen reacted sensitively to the name Kang Chan. Because he was Edeline’s first love.

“Did he say he would take responsibility for the princess?”

“No. I heard that he has a woman waiting for him. How can I want him with a body that is not even my own? I’m just going there for the safety of the child.”

Zizen didn’t hesitate any longer at Edeline’s words.

If he could be with her, he could throw away the wealth and glory he could enjoy here without any regrets.

“Then I’ll go with you!”

“Wh, what?”

“You’re not even alone, so I can’t send only the princess to a remote area like the Laksha Continent. Please allow me to assist the princess to the end as a royal guard knight who escorts the princess!”

“Zi, Zizen, don’t do this!”

Edeline tried to stop Zizen. Because he was a promising knight.

He was a genius swordsman who became the youngest member of the Royal Guard, and during the war, he made numerous contributions alongside Duke Sachsen, who rose to become the most powerful figure in the Empire.

It was absurd for him to abandon all of that and run away to the Laksha Continent with her.

But Zizen was not the same child as before.

He was ready to dedicate his life to the woman he loved.

“I’ll carry the luggage.”

“You can’t do this! Please, Zizen!”

“I’ll go with you.”

“I’m not a princess anymore! There’s no need to overdo it!”

“If I can’t go, you can’t go either!”

“What?”

“Didn’t you hear me? I said I won’t let you go if you don’t take me with you!”

“How dare you order me! Who are you to tell me what to do!”

“Because I like you!”

“……!”

Edeline’s angry expression instantly changed to a surprised expression at Zizen’s sudden confession.

“What did you just say?”

“I said I want to go with you because I like you.”

“Yo, you like me?”

Zizen’s face turned as red as a ripe persimmon.

Because he never dreamed that he would confess in this way. But it was rather fortunate. Because it was a love that he would have buried in his heart for the rest of his life if this hadn’t happened.

“Since when have you liked me?”

“Since the first time we met…”

It had been seven years since Edeline and Zizen met.

During that time, Edeline had never thought of Zizen as a man.

But Zizen was different. He had been keeping Edeline in his heart for as long as seven years.

He had only forgotten himself because there was no way to express his feelings, but he still liked Edeline.

He fell in love with Edeline at first sight at the first meeting with her.

He couldn’t take his eyes off Edeline that day. Because Edeline’s appearance was exactly like the princess in the fairy tale that he had cherished so much.

However, unlike her cute appearance, she was a vicious person, and she made Zizen suffer all kinds of hardships.

She hid the sword, which was the symbol of a knight, in front of the emperor and made him eat water, and she deliberately made bad food and made him eat it all in front of her.

And she often blamed him for her mistakes and made unreasonable demands, and it would not be enough to talk about her misdeeds all night long.

But he had never really resented her.

Because he loved her.

Edeline couldn’t look him in the eye.

Because the numerous misdeeds she had committed against him in the past began to come to mind one by one.

“You always made things difficult for me, but I can love even you like that. So if it’s hard, lean on me, Princess.”

Edeline fell into a strange mood as she looked at Zizen’s broad shoulders, who was carrying her bag and walking ahead.

As she looked at him, who felt like a man from a friend.

Duke Sachsen was waiting for Kang Chan at the entrance of the Red Mars.

He had rushed over after receiving a report that he had moved to the Red Mars.

“Are you leaving?”

“Yes, I’ve been in your care all this time.”

“We’re the ones who have been in your care. Where are you going?”

“I’m going to the Laksha Continent.”

“What are you going to do in that place where no one is there now?”

After the war, the dragons expelled all the Allied forces that had stayed on the Laksha Continent. Because that place was originally the land of the dragons. But only one person was an exception.

Kang Chan was specially allowed to enter.

It was a courtesy to the friend of the Lord of all dragons.

He had decided to spend the rest of his life with Platina in the peaceful Laksha Continent.

“I’m going because no one is there. I’m going to cut off ties with the complicated world and spend the rest of my life quietly with the person I love.”

“Do you really have to go?”

“Yes.”

“Then there’s nothing I can do……”

Duke Sachsen was very sorry that Kang Chan was leaving, but on the other hand, he felt relieved. Because he said that he would cut off ties with the world, who could be a powerful rival.

“If you ever want to come back, think of it as your country and come back. All the people will welcome you.”

“Thank you for your words.”

While Kang Chan and Duke Sachsen were having such clichéd and trite conversations, Edeline and Zizen appeared, and Duke Sachsen asked Edeline with a questioning tone.

“What’s going on here, Princess Edeline?”

“Gasp!”

Edeline suddenly became speechless as if she were a child caught doing something bad, and Duke Sachsen, who had been watching her since she was young, glared at her with suspicious eyes.

Edeline couldn’t move at his sharp gaze.

Because even Edeline, the tomboy of the world, couldn’t make a sound to Duke Sachsen.

“No, th, that’s, I……”

Kang Chan cut off Edeline’s words, who was clearly looking for an excuse.

“I decided to show them the Laksha Continent on the Red Mars.”

“Is that so? You’re personally giving our princess such a trip, so the two of you must be more than ordinary?”

“We’re old friends.”

“Ah! Is that so? Then please take good care of our princess.”

Duke Sachsen was clearly uneasy at the sight of them going on a honeymoon with the princess.

Because if Kang Chan were to marry Edeline, he would have both legitimacy and justification.

Edeline was the legitimate successor to the Bismann Empire’s imperial family, and Kang Chan, although he was from an alien world, was truly the practical hero and absolute being who saved the continent.

But his worries were just futile delusions.

Because Kang Chan had no intention of marrying Edeline, nor did he even have any intention of returning to the Bismann Empire.

“Commander-in-chief, I will accompany the princess.”

“Oh! Zizen! If it’s you, there’s nothing lacking in escorting the princess. Please take care of her safely.”

“Yes, Commander-in-chief.”

“Then I’ll be on my way.”

“I’ve been holding you back too much. I hope to see you again.”

“Yes, I’ll definitely stop by.”

As Kang Chan boarded the Red Mars with Edeline and Zizen and took off, the citizens of Bellalen, who were busy working, stopped working for a while and waved their hands hard for the Red Mars.

Because the Red Mars was like a guardian deity that brought peace back to them.

The place where the Red Mars, which had soared like that, flew to was the Elf Forest.

Because he had to meet Arteon and the master before leaving for Laksha.