My Lord Who Is Being Prudent! [EN]: Chapter 42

§ 42 – Leah

The smartphone’s notification window kept popping up.

Numerous notification windows blurred his vision.

Cyan checked the achievements among them.

[Legendary Achievement] – The one who carries on the legacy of Arnaise.

Cyan had achieved several achievements in the meantime.

But this achievement was a little different.

None other than a legendary achievement.

At the same time, he seemed to see a notification window that something hidden had been unlocked.

And sure enough.

【Legendary Achievement Perks】

It was there.

Cyan immediately checked the perks.

Click.

《Amazing! Really amazing!》

《You’ve achieved a legendary achievement!!》

《How can you achieve a legendary achievement?》

《Moreover, an achievement that can only be obtained by receiving recognition from the Arnaises!》

《A result that is so amazing that I could faint!》

《You are truly the best!!》

Then the Mobile Lord’s fuss came to mind.

It seemed like quite a difficult achievement…

Just as he was wondering how great this was.

《Now, let’s put the fuss aside.》

《Shouldn’t we check the most anticipated reward?》

《Legendary achievements have tremendous perks waiting for you!》

Ding!

《From now on, you can use some of the Arnaise’s blessings!》

Then a list of available blessings popped up.

【Arnaise’s Blessing】

①【: Knights! Raise the swords of honor!】

[Effect 1] – The growth efficiency of the territory’s soldiers increases by +1,000%!

[Effect 2] – The knight training efficiency of the territory increases by +1,000%!

[Effect 3] – Endless fighting spirit surges! The territory’s soldiers and knights become immune to all mental attacks!

[Unlock Condition – Legendary Achievement, ‘The one who carries on the legacy of Arnaise’ (Achieved)]

《Additional legendary achievements are required to unlock other Arnaise blessings!》
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“Wow!”

Cyan shouted without realizing it.

The perk that can be obtained with a legendary achievement.

The effect was truly enormous.

It even seemed that once applied, the effect would continue to persist.

In a word, a ridiculously overpowered passive!

“Crazy…!”

It was a reward that was so enormous it was crazy!

‘L, let’s calm down for now.’

Cyan tried to soothe his agitated heart.

Because the reward wasn’t over yet!

Cyan then checked the reward for the story quest.

So far, there were three types of quests that Cyan had cleared.

Tutorial, Territory, and Story.

All of them gave amazing rewards,

But the reward Cyan got this time couldn’t be compared to any of them.

It seemed that the story quest was the most difficult and important quest.

In addition, this time Cyan cleared a ‘Hidden Story Quest’.

‘I didn’t know there would be a hidden quest.’

Cyan didn’t expect this at all.

He didn’t even know there was such a system.

Well, that’s why it was a ‘Hidden Quest’.

Anyway, it was a good thing for Cyan.

No, it wasn’t just a good thing.

Because of the reward for the hidden quest.

[Additional Reward: Charlotte’s Legacy]

The reward was none other than Charlotte’s Legacy.

Charlotte, the leader of Arnaise.

He didn’t know what it was, but surely, unconditionally!

It couldn’t be ordinary.

Following Kyle’s legacy, now Charlotte’s legacy.

With this, Cyan was able to obtain the legacies left by two Arnaises.

‘But…’

Cyan narrowed his eyes.

Then he checked the hidden quest clear reward again.

There were two rewards for the hidden quest.

Charlotte’s Legacy.

And.

[Additional Reward: Leah]

‘……Leah?’

First of all, I swear.

It was a word I had never heard before.

And guessing from the first feeling.

‘It sounds like a person’s name…’

It sounded like a person’s name.

That means the reward is a person…

‘What nonsense is that?’

That didn’t make sense.

People aren’t things that can be bought and sold.

In the first place, Cyan didn’t know or hear of a person named Leah.

Cyan continued to ponder for a while before quickly shaking his head.

It’s not like he could know by worrying about it anyway.

Above all, he would naturally find out as he obtained the reward.

Cyan put his smartphone in his pocket.

Then the quest clear reward.

He was looking around to find Kyle and Charlotte’s legacy, when.

“…… Huh?”

Cyan was momentarily dazed.

Because the sight in front of him now.

In that place, a vengeful spirit… was looking at Cyan.

Fortunately, the madness was no longer felt.

Thanks to that, the deep gray-white eyes that didn’t feel any vitality.

Some vitality was felt even in those eyes.

So now I couldn’t call it a vengeful spirit.

Just a thousand-year-old ghost?

Perhaps because of that, her long silver hair and alluring appearance.

Her beauty came into view properly.

But…

‘Wasn’t she supposed to be at peace?’

Cyan looked at the ghost with a bewildered face.

Then suddenly.

‘Uh… Ra?’

A thought flashed through his head.

Cyan was really hoping.

With a really, really slight hope, he opened his mouth.

“Um… Excuse me. Is your name Leah… by any chance?”

-…… Huh!

Then the ghost seemed startled.

It was as if she was saying, ‘Oh, how did you know?’

“……”

Cyan was momentarily speechless.

Soon, the ghost’s two eyes began to tremble severely.

And those trembling eyes were entirely directed at Cyan.

Then, as if she had suddenly remembered.

No, to be exact, as if there was only one possibility.

Leah’s gaze towards Cyan became unusual.

Somehow… it seemed like she was misunderstanding something.

And what that meant was one thing.

The reward obtained through the hidden quest, Leah.

That means.

-D, do I remember…?!

That ghost is the reward…?!

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There’s no way.

Cyan confidently shook his head.

How could a ghost be a reward?

It seemed like the Mobile Lord had caused an error.

Didn’t that happen sometimes when you spent too much money?

Of course, he didn’t spend any money.

It must be something similar to that.

Cyan quickly dismissed the thought that Leah was a reward.

And Leah, as expected.

She thought Cyan was Kyle.

Well, considering the previous circumstances, it was understandable.

But unfortunately.

Cyan was not Kyle.

-You’re not Kyle?

“Yes. I am not Kyle.”

Leah’s eyes trembled at Cyan’s firm answer.

The problem was that those eyes were out-of-focus gray-white…

Madness was not felt,

But there was a bit of an eerie feeling.

-But how do you know my name…? No, the Demon Asura Sword! You definitely used the Demon Asura Sword!

“That’s true, but…”

-Even so, you’re saying you’re not Kyle?

Leah shouted with an unbelievable expression.

“Yes. I am not Kyle.”

-Then who are you?

Cyan paused for a moment.

Cyan and Kyle.

The two had no connection.

In the first place, Kyle was an Arnaise from a thousand years ago.

There was no way he could be related to Cyan.

To be exact, only Cyan was related.

It was almost a one-sided relationship.

So there was no word to define this relationship…

“A successor… I guess.”

I could say it to this extent.

-Successor?

Leah tilted her head.

-Kyle left a successor…

To be exact, Kyle didn’t directly choose a successor.

But whatever.

That or this.

‘No, more than that.’

Are you accepting it this quickly?

Somehow, Leah didn’t seem to know much about Kyle.

‘Well, that’s why she misunderstood that Kyle had a woman he loved.’

They were said to be engaged.

Kyle must have been quite taciturn.

-So you found out about Kyle’s true self…

Leah muttered with a hollow expression.

She seemed a little disappointed.

It seemed like she had high expectations.

Cyan looked at Leah and opened his mouth.

“By the way, the images of Kyle drawn in the hall are all different. Why is that?”

Then Leah flinched and trembled.

-T, that’s…

Soon, she seemed to be slowly looking at Cyan.

Then she lowered her head and muttered.

-…… I changed them all.

“What? Leah-nim changed them all?”

Leah nodded slightly and confessed the situation.

It was said to be because of the woman Kyle loved.

Leah believed that Kyle had left her because of that woman.

And someday.

She thought that woman might come to this hall.

So, if that woman came.

If the image of Kyle drawn in the hall was different.

She would think that this was not the place where Kyle was.

So Leah, who was asleep in the hall, changed Kyle’s appearance one by one.

However, she couldn’t change all of Kyle’s appearances.

So she left only one scene.

And that’s what Cyan found.

Leah lost her mind for a moment.

-Everyone who comes here thought the statue was the real thing. No one thought that Kyle drawn in the mural was the real thing.

Well, when I thought about it, it was strange.

Even if Kyle was not known as much as other Arnaises.

It was quite strange that even his face was not known.

That’s because this place, the Arnaise Hall.

This place was a thousand years ago.

It was a ruin made directly by Charlotte.

Of course, Charlotte knew Kyle’s face.

Then it was enough to draw it with reference to the statue of Kyle here.

Of course, not everyone could enter the hall,

But it wasn’t that no one could enter.

Nevertheless, the reason why Kyle’s appearance was different in the current continent.

The reason was right here.

“So you tried to kill me out of the blue?”

-I thought you were related to that b*tch… no, that person in some way. Sorry…! I wasn’t in my right mind then…

Leah spat out the last words almost inaudibly.

Cyan shook his head.

And.

-Excuse me…

Leah’s voice was heard.

She looked somewhat cautious.

Waiting to see what she was going to say.

Leah slowly opened her mouth.

-You said earlier. That Kyle didn’t have a woman he loved.

“Yes.”

Cyan nodded with a confident expression.

-Then what was Kyle longing for? And also…

Leah said, slightly avoiding eye contact.

-What did Kyle… think of me?

“……”

Cyan couldn’t answer right away this time.

Because he couldn’t know the answer.

Kyle didn’t have a woman he loved.

And he didn’t leave Leah because of that woman.

I could definitely answer this much.

But how Kyle thought of Leah.

Cyan couldn’t know about that.

Cyan was not Kyle.

What kind of truth Kyle faced at the time.

And what thoughts he left Leah with.

And what Kyle longed for.

Cyan didn’t know.

So I didn’t know what to say.

Right then.

“Hey! Are you okay?”

Aria’s voice was heard from one side.

When I turned my head slightly.

Aria was approaching Cyan with a worried expression.

Soon, Aria, who stood in front of Cyan, glanced at Leah.

It looked like she was looking at Leah.

It seemed like she remembered what happened earlier.

But thinking it was okay, Aria looked at Cyan again.

“You’re hurt…?”

Then she widened her eyes when she found Cyan’s wound.

Only then was Cyan able to recognize the blood flowing down his back.

It seemed like a wound from fighting Leah.

“Wait. I’ll heal you.”

Then Aria drew out divine power.

Cyan hurriedly stopped Aria.

“Hey, wait a minute…!”

But.

Whoaaaa!

It was a beat late.

Aria’s divine power seeped into Cyan’s body.

Then the magic went crazy with joy!

The magic shaking the inside!

“Uweaak!”

Cyan couldn’t suppress the rising nausea.

But.

-Ugh…!

A similar sound was heard from somewhere.

Huh?

Cyan turned his head with difficulty.

The place I looked at.

-Uek…!

In that place, Leah was also covering her mouth!

‘Ah…’

If you think about it, Leah was a vengeful spirit until just now.

Although the madness has disappeared,

That magic had not disappeared either.

In the end, an existence that uses magic.

That means.

-Uek…! Hey! Get away from me! Where are you using that disgusting divine power…!

Leah, like Cyan, was also reacting to divine power.

-Hey! Who are you using divine power on now! Ugh…! No, what kind of b*tch are you that has so much divine power overflowing?

Leah approached Aria, huffing and puffing.

Then suddenly.

-Huh? Wait. No.

Leah stopped moving.

-There’s no way I’d be sick to my stomach with just that kind of divine power? Then…

Leah, a thousand-year-old vengeful spirit.

A thousand years was a distant and vast time.

And that vast time means.

The mind of a perfectly normal person.

-Could this be, morning sickness?

It was enough time to become insane.

Leah looked at Cyan with trembling eyes.

Confusion, trembling, and…

It was a look that told me to take responsibility.

“…… What is it?”

Cyan said with an absurd expression.

“Do you think that makes sense right now? And we just met.”

-Well… even mountains and rivers can change in 10 years. Wouldn’t there be various ways to have a baby in a thousand years…?

What kind of method is that?

“……”

Cyan was really dumbfounded.

No, let’s say it’s morning sickness.

But why am I the target?

Cyan really just met Leah.

There wasn’t even time to do anything like that.

All Cyan did to Leah was show her the Demon Asura Sword.

There’s no way the Demon Asura Sword would have such a function.

No, more than that, she’s Charlotte’s younger sister, right?

Then she’s royalty.

Shouldn’t she have dignity and grace?

Besides, she should have some shame in saying such things…

No, that’s not it.

What shame would a thousand-year-old ghost have?

Even if she had it.

She must have thrown it away about 910 years ago.

Cyan sighed deeply.

“Not at all. The way life is born hasn’t changed in a thousand years or now.”

-Haha… T, that’s right?

Leah smiled awkwardly.

“What are you two talking about from earlier?”

Aria asked with a trembling voice from behind Cyan.

And the voice also felt a strong divine power, and it seemed that she had raised her divine power because she was afraid of Leah.

The problem was that it backfired.

-Ugh…! You’re really hopeless.

Leah quickly approached Aria’s side.

A flashing momentum.

Aria hurriedly raised her divine power and resisted.

“D, do you think I’m going to be scared? You’re just a ghost who lost her poison! It’s a big mistake if you think I’m going to be still!”

-Oh? A kid whose blood hasn’t even dried yet is fighting back?

Kiyaaaaaaaa!!

A burst of ghostly cries.

Darkness rushed in and Aria’s divine power couldn’t handle it and subsided.

Aria panicking.

“A, ah… th, that…”

Aria trembled.

Cyan chuckled at the sight of the two.

Whether Kyle liked Leah or not.

I still couldn’t know.

A thousand years ago.

Cyan didn’t know what Kyle was thinking.

And now it has become a question that can never be known.

But one thing is certain.

-Why is this seductive b*tch’s face so pretty? Huh? Wait, Muriel? You look like Muriel? No wonder I didn’t like you!

Kyle wouldn’t have hated Leah.

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Aria was completely defeated by Leah.

Leah, who had lived as a vengeful spirit for a thousand years.

Even if it was the strongest divine power in the history of the Holy Empire.

She couldn’t use her strength in front of Leah’s power.

Aria, who had been defeated like that, was huddled in a corner by herself.

-Come back after living 500 years more to beat me!

Leah’s triumphant voice.

Aria muttered quietly.

“What’s so great about being old…”

-What, you b*tch?

Aria flinched and huddled again.

‘No, but does she still have the heart to resist?’

Cyan was dumbfounded.

Leah, a thousand-year-old vengeful spirit.

She must know that she will be defeated if she resists.

But what is the reason for resisting like that?

Does she have an instinctive aversion to magic as a saintess [a holy woman with divine powers] ?

Even so.

Shouldn’t she know where to resist and resist?

Anyway, she was really an incurable saintess.

Well, anyway.

“More than that, Leah-nim [term of respect]. Do you know where Kyle’s legacy is?”

Cyan asked Leah.

That’s because no matter how long I waited, the Mobile Lord was nowhere to be found.

Originally, it should have burst into bright light and given the reward.

Seeing that there was no news.

It seemed like Leah had it.

-I know. I put it away with what my brother gave me.

As expected.

Leah had it.

And here, the brother Leah is talking about is none other than Charlotte.

She was Charlotte the Great, the leader of Arnaise.

But her brother is the leader of Arnaise…

It felt very strange.

No, anyway.

The important thing was not that.

“Can I take that?”

-Of course. You are none other than Kyle’s successor.

Leah answered as if she was saying something obvious.

Even going one step further here.

-Now that it’s like this. I’ll take everything my brother gave me and everything in this hall. My brother left this and that for his descendants while building the hall.

“Uh… Is that okay?”

Cyan was a little cautious this time.

That’s because the legacy left in the hall besides Charlotte’s legacy.

That was, in a way, the legacy of the imperial family.

Taking such a legacy was practically the same as tomb raiding(?).

But Leah didn’t seem to think so.

-What’s wrong with that? I’ll give it to you. Are you worried that the current emperor will say something? If he says anything, bring him in front of me. A distant descendant is daring to say something when I’m going to use it a little?

“Wow.”

She calls the emperor a bastard.

The number one person in the empire, and in fact, an existence that can be called the number one person on the continent.

She calls such an emperor a bastard.

Cyan couldn’t help but admire.

But it wasn’t like she couldn’t say that.

Leah is Charlotte’s younger sister.

Even if you look at the family tree, she was not at the level of the emperor’s ancestor, but the founder.

‘So this is what it meant that Leah was the reward.’

With this, Kyle’s legacy and Charlotte’s legacy.

And even the legacy of the hall.

Cyan could literally take everything.

‘What kind of legacy will it be?’

Considering the value of their names, it must not be ordinary.

Maybe… it could be an astronomical amount of money!

‘Then I’ll use that money to spend…!’

Ah…!

It felt like my heart would burst from the start.

As I was thinking about returning to Ruben as soon as possible.

-But there’s a condition!

Leah continued, as if shouting.

-I want to go with you too! Take me from here!

“…… Yes?”

Cyan tilted his head.

That’s because of Leah’s sudden condition.

Right then.

『[Story Linked Quest] – ‘The Truth Kyle Faced’』

A new story quest appeared on the smartphone screen.