Do Heroes Need Welfare Too? - Chapter 127

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Chapter 127

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[Your Deity worries about you.]

“Eve?”

Adam shot up from his seat, looking around frantically without even noticing his chair had fallen over.

Judith and the Duke of Evant, who had been sitting at the same table as Adam, looked at him with strange eyes.

However, Adam was so delighted that even such gazes were welcome, as laughter burst from his lips.

“Haha…”

Adam kept rubbing his face to check if he had gone mad.

She’s alive.

He had definitely heard it clearly.

Iberis was still alive.

“Ahaha!”

As expected, Iberis hadn’t died.

He vividly remembered how Judith had looked at him like he was crazy when he muttered as if making a vow that she hadn’t died.

But look, Judith, I was right again this time.

My god would never abandon me and leave.

“…”

Judith, who had been earnestly making plans beside him, showed his bewilderment plainly on his face.

He knew that people were saying the Hero had gone mad, but seeing him stare into empty space, call out the name of a dead maid, then suddenly burst into laughter was indeed frightening.

‘Has he still not forgotten even after three whole years?’

He was even still looking into empty space and continuing to call out.

His cheeks, which had always been lifeless as if talking to a corpse, were even flushed with a fresh rosy color.

Those who actually knew Adam well would be horrified seeing this gap.

And Judith, who fell into that category, felt goosebumps rising on his arms.

‘I really shouldn’t be watching this…’

He had no intention of watching the Hero go mad in real time.

Judith suddenly wanted to storm out of this place immediately.

Should he take comfort in the fact that there were few people left after the secret meeting for rebellion had ended?

If he strutted around doing such behavior on the streets where people walked, it was clear his reputation would hit rock bottom.

Judith quietly stood up to slip away so he wouldn’t become one of those witnesses.

“Duke of Evant, let’s go out for now.”

“Mm, let’s do that.”

Fortunately or unfortunately, Adam wasn’t paying them the slightest attention.

There was no point in forcing Adam, who had already stopped caring about them, to sit at the table.

Though seeing him full of life calling out the dead maid’s name seemed better than him being dazed like a corpse without sleeping…

‘No, no. I don’t need to choose between abnormal and more abnormal…’

Judith shook his head, saying both were strange without needing to choose.

In the end, he decided to make the remaining plans with just the Duke of Evant and left the room.

“Ha…”

Adam, left alone in the room, nearly lost strength in his legs.

Originally, he had planned to commit rebellion at the end of this year, on the Emperor’s birthday.

The timing had been delayed because the Elderly High Priest insisted they should repay him exactly like the Former Emperor.

Though he had been filled with thoughts of finishing his revenge as quickly as possible and returning, the ‘perfect revenge’ the Elderly High Priest spoke of was appealing.

It was revenge for Iberis, not for some Former Emperor whose face he didn’t even know, as he wanted.

Since the Elderly High Priest’s lifelong wish would also be fulfilled, it wouldn’t be bad for him either.

Adam, who had been rubbing his face with his hands, turned his head to check the table.

It was the plan he had been making with Judith just moments ago.

It was revenge solely for her. He could have immediately run to the Imperial Palace where the Emperor was and killed him, but he didn’t.

Because he couldn’t atone with mere death.

So all of this was a grand revenge play for her.

He had sworn it on the day he thought Iberis had died.

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After Iberis died, the mercenary named Nain fled.

No, to be precise, he probably went to explain the situation to Judith, his lord.

Because of this, he couldn’t ask what this was all about, why Iberis, who should have been in the Demon King’s Castle, was here.

Adam, who couldn’t maintain his sanity, failed to catch him.

The only reason he didn’t recklessly storm into the Imperial Palace was because Adam’s sole remaining rationality stopped him.

If Kyrillos hadn’t been by his side, there would have been no one to handle the rational part.

It would have been much easier if no one had been by his side at all.

Thanks to Kyrillos holding him back and making him come to his senses, unfortunately Adam couldn’t go completely mad.

-You will kill the one you love with your own hands.

How could I fall under a curse when I have no one I love?

The remnants of the nightmare tormenting him were too insignificant to make him go berserk.

However, his mind was strangely clear.

There was one goal that was too distinct.

‘Revenge.’

The nobles tightly gathered around the current Emperor were like a tree.

On the surface, the enormously large tree seemed impossible to cut down.

Then there was no choice but to remove it from inside the giant tree.

However, after that day, all contact with Judith was cut off.

No replies came to the letters Adam sent.

Not a single messenger bird that flew away with notes tied to their ankles returned.

Given the actions he had shown so far, he didn’t think Judith was deliberately ignoring his words.

It must be the work of someone else who used the same Imperial Palace.

The Baiten Estate was a territory used as the Prince’s secret slush fund.

However, since it was officially the House of the Empress’s mansion, the Emperor would also know that he owned it.

So the Emperor must have learned from this incident that Judith was secretly helping him.

How would it feel to be betrayed by one’s own blood? It would be nice if he felt even a little disgusted.

Still, since Judith was his only child, he probably couldn’t kill him.

At most, he would just lock him up in solitary confinement.

He wasn’t worried about Judith’s safety.

It was just frustrating that he had no way to contact him.

An emotion similar to resentment welled up inside him.

‘Should I just kill everyone and go in…’

Then he wouldn’t have to do troublesome things.

If he started over, he would kill everything that blocked his path.

Those who dared to steal Iberis away, laugh, and feel jealous weren’t worth living.

If only he laid a path of flowers before innocent her who knew nothing, Iberis wouldn’t have left.

However, Adam quickly became depressed when he remembered that Iberis might remember this time too.

‘It feels like she might come out even now.’

Adam, who couldn’t accept that Iberis wasn’t in this vast Demon King’s Castle, headed to her room.

The room, decorated to her taste with warm sunlight streaming in, was all exactly as it had been.

Adam slowly moved his steps and discovered a flute placed on a cushion.

He recalled her words, grumbling that the Prince had given her a useless flute as a gift.

‘Was it the Prince, not the Emperor, who lured Iberis away?’

However, Judith, who enjoyed hypocritical behavior, couldn’t have joined hands with the Demon King’s minions.

Their conversation must have leaked to the Demon King’s minions.

It was truly exquisite timing.

Unless the Emperor knew that Judith’s subordinates had been going in and out of the Baiten Estate and cooperated.

The flute could be easily found in her room, which was neatly organized as if she had never existed from the beginning.

The small flute rattled in his grasp.

Though he wanted to crush it immediately by applying force to his hand, Adam relaxed his grip.

It had its uses for now.

Screech—

The hawk with a note tied to its ankle soared up into the sky.

Adam raised the corners of his mouth in a bloody smile.

To catch a wolf, one had no choice but to become a hyena.

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