My Lord Who Is Being Prudent! [EN]: Chapter 295

295. Kyle’s Journal (5)

The battle between Kyle and the Six Dukes was a display of Kyle’s overwhelming dominance.

The strength of the Six Dukes, which even the Arnice [a group of skilled warriors] struggled against, was rendered meaningless.

In the end, the Dukes and their demons were defeated and forced to flee.

Even escaping proved difficult.

Nevertheless, the Dukes eventually escaped, and Kyle finally sheathed his sword.

Kyle then left the battlefield without a word.

It was as if he had no particular reason to stay.

As if he didn’t desire any special recognition.

And as if he was drawn to solitude once more.

As if this was his inescapable destiny.

Kyle’s steps were firm and unwavering.

The Arnice could only stare blankly at Kyle’s retreating figure.

Was it because of Kyle’s immense power?

Or was it because of the aura of loneliness that surrounded him?

It was hard to say, but Muriel, Elodie, Noemi, and Morkru,
the four Arnice members, simply watched Kyle leave.

Only Charlotte stepped forward to block Kyle’s path.

Kyle stopped when he saw Charlotte obstructing his way.

When he looked up at her, Charlotte seemed slightly flustered.

Charlotte herself was also unsure.

As if she didn’t quite know why she was blocking him.

As if she was searching for the right words to say.

Charlotte stood there, preventing Kyle from moving forward.

‘Did she just say she had to do it?’

This was from Charlotte’s record that Cyan had reviewed.

Charlotte’s feelings on that day were documented there.

Charlotte only confessed to a sense of fateful attraction.

Kyle quietly observed Charlotte.

And Charlotte finally spoke.

“Are you also trying to fight the demons?”

Kyle didn’t respond.

Therefore, Charlotte’s record at the time offered no insight into Kyle’s thoughts.

But Cyan could understand them now.

At this moment, while reading Kyle’s journal.

Because Cyan could perceive what Kyle was truly thinking.

Returning to his original world.

Kyle had refused the demons’ help, which was the only way to achieve it.

That’s why he was conflicted.

The only word that could accurately describe Kyle’s state right now was confusion.

That’s why Kyle’s answer was what it was.

“Yes.”

This could be interpreted as a form of evasion.

But Charlotte at the time was completely unaware of this.

“Then let’s go together.”

“······”

Charlotte abruptly suggested accompanying Kyle.

This time, Kyle’s expression revealed his surprise.

This was also something Cyan confirmed in the memoir.

“I’m Charlotte.”

Charlotte extended her hand to Kyle.

Kyle stared blankly at Charlotte’s outstretched hand.

“Nice to meet you.”

Charlotte offered a warm smile.

“Your name is… Kangil, right?”

“How did you know that?”

Kyle seemed genuinely surprised.

That’s because there was no way Charlotte could have known Kyle’s real name.

To be precise, no one on this continent should have known Kyle’s name.

Kyle looked at Charlotte with considerable surprise.

And Cyan smiled slightly at Kyle’s reaction.

‘I guess he doesn’t remember.’

The day Kyle saved Charlotte.

It seemed that Kyle didn’t recall the events of that day.

Well, considering how many people Kyle had saved since then, how could he possibly remember each and every one of them?

But somehow, Charlotte seemed a little disappointed.

Charlotte smiled awkwardly and began to speak.

“It’s a bit hard to pronounce, so I’ll just call you Kyle. Is that okay?”

Charlotte swept back her blood-soaked blonde hair and made the suggestion.

Kyle simply stared at Charlotte with surprised eyes.

To be exact, Kyle was now recalling a scene from his memory.

The decisive reason why Kyle joined the Arnice, which couldn’t be found in Charlotte’s record.

Some scenery that was dimly visible in Cyan’s vision.

A memory that Kyle was now reliving.

‘In the new world you go to… make friends who will share the ups and downs…’

Words echoing the will of King Daeju, who was dying and trying to save Kyle.

In the past, in his previous world, Kyle had no one he could truly call a colleague.

There were only those who would care for him and protect him, and wield a sword on his behalf.

Also, no one dared to approach Kyle.

The absolute being, the strongest in ancient and modern times, was always alone.

But Charlotte was now reaching out her hand.

Charlotte wasn’t asking him to wield a sword on his behalf, but to wield a sword together.

Could he become colleagues with these people?

Kyle silently asked himself the question.

“······”

Again, he didn’t answer.

#

After Kyle joined the Arnice.

The demons began to be pushed back relentlessly.

Kyle’s strength was beyond their ability to control.

The Arnice were also not to be underestimated.

To be exact, after Kyle joined, the skills of the Arnice noticeably improved.

Not just Charlotte, who used the same sword.

Even the magician Elodie, the priest Muriel, the blacksmith Morkru, and the shaman Noemi.

Kyle assisted them in all areas.

“H-How can you think of this…!”

“Kyle… weren’t you just a knight like Charlotte?”

Naturally, the Arnice couldn’t help but be shocked.

The depth of knowledge that Kyle displayed couldn’t be attributed to simply being a knight who wielded a sword.

The Arnice often exclaimed in shock.

And whenever that happened, Kyle often answered like this.

“When you reach the extreme, everyone sees the same view.”

Cyan had also heard those words before.

To be exact, it was what Kyle had said to Kendrick, and Kendrick had repeated it to Cyan.

At the time, Cyan wondered what it meant.

But now Cyan could understand those words a little better.

Anyway, the Arnice gradually came to deeply trust Kyle.

However, Kyle maintained a certain distance from the Arnice.

And Charlotte, as the leader of the Arnice,

Charlotte couldn’t quite grasp Kyle’s feelings.

One night, under an unusually bright moon.

“Why are you so pensive? Are you thinking about a lover you left behind?”

Charlotte asked Kyle, approaching him with a playful expression and tone.

Kyle looked at Charlotte.

Charlotte’s playfulness vanished when she saw Kyle’s serious expression.

“Really… were you thinking about your lover?”

Kyle slowly raised his head and gazed at the moon in the sky.

“Charlotte.”

And Kyle spoke.

“When all this is over, will I be able to return?”

Charlotte tilted her head.

She wore an ambiguous expression, as if she didn’t understand Kyle’s words.

When Cyan saw Charlotte’s record, Cyan also didn’t understand the meaning of those words.

But not anymore.

Cyan could now understand what those words meant.

Kyle wasn’t from this continent.

Kyle had to leave this continent someday.

A person who had to return to his original world.

However, Kyle had rejected the demon’s offer to send him back to his original world.

That’s why Kyle was wavering now.

The days he had spent with his Arnice colleagues so far.

The days when he became a sword that didn’t slash the world.

In a strange experience he was experiencing for the first time.

In memories that couldn’t exist in his original world.

“······”

Kyle’s heart was slowly being moved.

#

Kyle, Charlotte, and the Arnice continued to fight the demons.

However, they were gradually reaching their limits.

It wasn’t a limit of power.

It was the limit of available personnel.

Kyle’s strength was extraordinary, but he was only one person.

The Arnice were strong, but there were only five of them.

The continent was vast, and six heroes couldn’t save all the people.

So, Charlotte began to gather forces, one by one.

She recruited talented individuals hiding across the continent.

She brought together countless people fighting against the demons.

And so, it came to this.

Kaang─!

“You dirty demon bastard!”

Kyle was facing a woman wielding a sword.

A woman who swung her sword at Kyle, her blonde hair flying.

The woman was shouting at Kyle, calling him a demon.

It seemed she sensed Kyle’s magic as demonic energy.

“Where do you think you are!”

The woman rushed at Kyle as if to kill him.

But of course, the woman couldn’t subdue Kyle.

“Hukhuk…!”

Instead, she was being subdued, and could only glare resentfully at Kyle.

And when she saw Kyle turn away without doing anything.

“Eh…?”

The woman’s expression went blank.

Soon, a familiar voice was heard.

“Leia…?”

“Brother…?”

This was Charlotte and Leia’s reunion.

It was Kyle and Leia’s first meeting.

‘Geez… her personality hasn’t changed from before or now.’

Cyan chuckled.

Really, Leia was no different from how she was now.

The only changes were that she used a sword instead of death magic, and her appearance was different.

To be exact, her hair color and overall aura were quite different.

Instead of her current silver hair, her hair was blonde like sunlight.

Instead of a seductive aura, she had a bright yet somewhat cold demeanor.

Maybe that’s why.

‘She looks quite similar to the Princess?’

The current Leia looked remarkably like Elena.

It wasn’t just similar; it was no exaggeration to say they were copies of each other.

Just as Cyan had initially mistaken Charlotte for Conrad.

Leia was also so similar that she could have been mistaken for Elena.

‘Is she a descendant?’

Cyan chuckled.

Anyway, Charlotte and Leia shared a sibling reunion.

And Kyle, as always, was honing his sword alone.

How much time had passed like that?

“Um…”

Leia carefully approached Kyle and spoke.

Kyle stopped honing his sword.

When he slowly raised his head, Leia was standing in front of Kyle with an awkward expression.

“Um… I’m sorry about earlier.”

To be exact, she had a very apologetic face.

But with a slightly proud expression.

“I’m talking about attacking you out of the blue. And cursing you, calling you a demon bastard…”

“There’s no need to worry about it.”

Kyle resumed honing his sword with an indifferent gaze.

“Are you hurt anywhere…?”

“No.”

Kyle only answered bluntly.

His gaze didn’t leave the sword he was honing.

“Haha… I guess so…? Because I was unilaterally attacked.”

Kyle had no special reaction to Leia’s words.

How much time had passed like that?

Kyle briefly stopped his hand when he noticed Leia lingering nearby.

“Do you have anything else to say to me?”

“Yes? Ah, no. Just… just sorry…”

Cyan couldn’t help but laugh at Leia’s flustered appearance.

Kyle stared blankly at Leia’s face.

He looked at Leia with eyes devoid of emotion.

As he silently studied Leia’s face, the emotion he sensed from her was truly unfamiliar.

In the past, Kyle, as the leader of the Cheonma [a powerful martial arts sect], was an absolute being.

That’s why the emotions of people who interacted with Kyle were fixed.

Reverence or fear.

Other emotions like admiration and dread existed, but they fell into similar categories.

But the emotion he felt from Leia now.

It was an unfamiliar emotion to Kyle.

That’s why Leia was also an unfamiliar woman.

So Kyle didn’t know what this was.

Only a vague memory flashed by.

‘Make a lover that you wouldn’t trade even if you gave me the whole world…’

Kyle stared blankly at Leia’s face.

And perhaps because of Kyle’s gaze.

“Why, why, why…?”

Leia’s face turned red and flushed like a carrot.

She was so flustered that she didn’t know what to do.

Whether he understood Leia’s feelings or not.

“There’s no need to be sorry. There’s no need to worry about it either.”

Kyle indifferently turned his head.

“Who, who said I was worried?! Don’t get me wrong! I’m just… just sorry, so…”

Leia then jumped up from her seat.

“Anyway! Um, if you have any injuries, tell me. Not to that saintess named Muriel, but to me! Got it? Definitely!”

She turned around and left.

And Kyle only stared at Leia leaving and indifferently honed his sword again.

#

The Arnice, having gathered forces, relentlessly drove out the demons.

And around this time, the Arnice each reached the realm of Exceed [a state of transcended power].

So, perhaps the demons felt they had nowhere left to retreat.

[I’ll end it all here!]

The Dukes gathered all the demons’ forces and launched a final attack.

Accordingly, the Arnice also gathered all their forces and confronted them.

Thus, an unprecedented war unfolded.

‘The final battle.’

The final battle with the fate of the continent at stake.

The current Forest of Darkness became the backdrop.

The war in mythology was truly miserable.

The Arnice’s wonderful performance.

The noble spirit and determination of the heroes.

“Kkeuaaak!”

“Save me…! Save me…!”

Such things didn’t exist.

Such things were just fairy tales for children.

The reality was just a terrible war.

Killing and being killed; otherwise, you couldn’t survive.

[Hahheuk…!]

[Rushuria!!]

“Go! Leave it to me here and hurry!”

“Muriel… I’m counting on you!”

For the Arnice and the demon lords.

The final battle was a series of miseries.

In that miserable battle.

Kyle was facing a certain being.

None other than the last demon that Cyan had never faced.

The first sin among the seven deadly sins.

[Are you that human?]

The demon of pride.

The demon of pride didn’t have any special characteristics.

His appearance was indistinguishable from humans to anyone who saw him.

The essence sensed by the senses was also no different from humans.

If Cyan had to define that being… Cyan would have said it was human.

The demon of pride wasn’t a demon; Cyan would have said it was human.

‘Different.’

But it was different.

Other demon lords?

He was on a different level entirely.

He was on a different dimension entirely.

In the past, in Charlotte’s record, Charlotte described the demon of pride like this.

A level that existence cannot reach.

An existence that transcends that level.

An existence that Charlotte and her Arnice colleagues couldn’t face even if they all worked together.

An existence that all the people of the continent could never reach even if they joined forces.

At the time, Cyan thought it couldn’t be true.

Cyan thought Charlotte had exaggerated.

Didn’t that make sense?

But now that Cyan was facing him directly, that was definitely not the case.

Charlotte’s description was by no means an exaggeration.

Rather, it was an understatement.

And that wasn’t just the feeling that Cyan was experiencing.

In Kyle’s memory that Cyan was feeling and experiencing now.

“······”

The concept of ‘tension’ entered Kyle’s mind.

It was an emotion that Kyle had never felt, even at the moment when he was about to die in another world.

Kyle didn’t feel nervous even at the moment of Cheollajimang [an inescapable trap] or whatever.

But now…

‘Augh…!’

In an instant, Cyan’s vision shook, and his head ached as if it were burning.

The fight between Kyle and the demon of pride unfolding before his eyes.

Watching the fight made his head ache as if it would explode.

It felt like his optic nerves were burning when he tried to follow the movements.

It felt like the brain cells needed to understand the actions being performed were being severed.

Even watching, even simply watching, was not easily allowed.

A fight of transcendence and transcendence.

Cyan couldn’t truly see Kyle and the demon of pride.

It was after a very long time that Cyan regained his senses.

“Hahak…! Hahak…!”

Kyle, whose whole body was covered in blood and fatally wounded.

[Don’t think… this is the end…]

The demon of pride, who was cut down by Kyle’s sword and disappeared.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa─!!!

Cyan could only recognize the moment when the long war with the demons came to an end.

#

As his vision changed, a white group of lights enveloped him once again.

‘Augh…!’

And Cyan still couldn’t fully regain his senses.

It was because of the aftermath and the price of witnessing the fight between Kyle and the demon of pride.

To be honest, Cyan hadn’t even watched it properly.

Even though it was just putting it in his eyes, it was this bad.

The one and only being who confronted Kyle.

Although he was defeated by Kyle, he was a being who could have killed Kyle.

What more explanation is needed?

‘Aueuk…!’

Cyan gasped for breath in his still dizzy mind.

At that moment, the group of lights calmed down, and his vision cleared.

Just as Cyan was catching his breath and trying to regain his senses.

“You have to… leave?”

Charlotte’s voice was heard quietly from the previous scene.

“That’s right.”

Following that, Kyle’s voice was also heard.

Thus, Kyle’s memory unfolded.

The truth that was the beginning of all these events and led Cyan to this place.

The truth that Kyle had to suddenly leave, the truth that Kyle faced.

“Why? Why on earth?”

The hidden truth at that time was now unfolding before Cyan’s eyes.