Favored by the Family That Will Become the Strongest! - Chapter 44

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Sevar’s eyes trembled as he regarded Diena.
“Having spent time here, I’ve come to understand one thing. The Kardian Family suffers from a grave absence of communication among its members.”
“……Communication?”
Bianca believed her entire family despised her—a conviction that could have been resolved with mere conversation. The fact that it had festered this far was entirely because they had never managed to meet.
And Sevar too had only accumulated misunderstandings by avoiding them.
“Why did you always leave the family? What possible reason could justify abandoning your children for years on end?”
“…….”
“Barcan suspects you favor Duke Rothwell. There must be a reason you followed his wishes so readily, yes?”
Sevar’s jaw tightened. But Diena answered for him.
“Darkness Amplification.”
He started.
“That’s the ability that afflicted Miss Bianca.”
“How could you possibly——”
“Darkness was embedded in the young lady’s heart.”
Diena’s eyes gleamed as she watched his reaction.
“Just as I thought. Your response confirms you knew that much.”
“…….”
“Then your uncle must have used that fact to blackmail you. Isn’t that right?”
Sevar looked down at her, and Barcan’s words surfaced in his mind.
“He’s nothing like Duke Rothwell. Rather, he’s the one in danger there.”
Diena spoke with her small fists clenched tight.
“Since you won’t answer, my suspicion seems correct. I can help Miss Bianca.”
Sevar rose slowly from his seat and stepped closer to Diena. He looked down at her and growled low.
“Many people have come before me saying such things. That they could lift the curse from the Kardian Family.”
“…….”
“But not a single one succeeded. And each was cast out from the family.”
Sevar regarded Diena with a cold expression. Yet she merely shrugged, unperturbed.
“Those people couldn’t do their work properly, yet they still demanded an enormous price from you, didn’t they?”
“You claim to be different?”
Diena nodded with quiet confidence.
“Yes. I am different.”
“In what way?”
“I have the ability.”
“Ability?”
“The ability to heal Miss Bianca.”
The certainty in her words made Sevar’s fingers curl involuntarily.
“No such ability could exist.”
Diena steadied her breath and cut straight to the point.
“If you don’t believe me, at least let me greet Miss Bianca before I leave.”
He stared at the girl’s face intently. Those gentle, rabbit-like eyes threatened to unravel his resolve.
‘This won’t do.’
Sevar realized he could not continue this conversation. He feared that if he spoke with Diena any longer, truths close to his own reality might spill from his lips unbidden.
If that happened, he would be unable to form a Covenant with Baltazar. He would lose the only certain way to save Bianca.
“Butler, take this child——”
He was about to issue the order when——
“I’ll show you.”
Diena suddenly reached out and grasped Sevar’s hand. The unexpected contact caught him off guard.
“What are you doing?”
Sevar froze just as he was about to wrench his hand away. Diena’s face, which had glowed with vital ruddy warmth, began to drain pale in an instant.
Her shoulders trembled, and the color fled from her lips.
And at that same moment.
Sevar drew a ragged breath.
The sensation that had pressed down upon him his entire life—heavy and damp as a weight of lead—was lifting like a lie.
“Ah.”
When had air seeping into the depths of his lungs felt so light?
The fine tremor that had obscured his vision ceased. The weight of darkness that had always crushed him drained away like a retreating tide. He blinked at this strange, newfound liberation.
“You, exactly…….”
Sevar’s gaze turned downward.
“Now you believe me, don’t you?”
Her complexion was pallid, yet Diena stepped forward with an assured expression. Sevar remained frozen, unable to speak.
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Bianca Kardian.
In her childhood, she had always been a confident child. With parents who gave love and a brother who cherished her.
It would have been strange not to be confident in such an environment.
People were always kind to her.
They approached with smiles and offered their hands first.
She could almost hear the murmurs of those watching her from the sidelines.
“Miss Bianca resembles Sevar so much that she’s bound to become a top-tier Ability User.”
“Why even speak of it? It’s only natural.”
But as time passed.
When she failed to awaken an ability.
Those same people turned their backs on her entirely.
“How is it possible that she alone is a non-ability user when her father and brother are both top-tier Ability Users?”
“Perhaps the duchess committed infidelity.”
A mutation in the Kardian Family.
The useless non-ability user Bianca.
“Your Highness Bianca, you wish to be close with us?”
“A non-ability user princess with such lofty dreams—how amusing.”
“Is that a non-ability user stench? How foul——!”
A princess, yet always scorned by other nobles.
Though people mocked and insulted her, Bianca could never speak against them. Because she was a non-ability user.
It was unfair. There were many times she felt sorrow.
‘But it doesn’t matter anymore.’
Bianca understood instinctively.
Her life had come to an end.
‘This time, I really will die.’
The darkness seemed to whisper toward her.
‘Just give up. No one will be happy if you survive.’
She had not been unprepared for this moment.
She had improved somewhat recently, but her body had always been frail. So she had foreseen that such an end might come.
She had decided then that when that time came, she would simply accept it.
But in truth——
‘I don’t want to die. I’m afraid.’
How could death not frighten her?
She was still young, and the time given to her had been far too short to accept life’s end.
‘So…… lonely.’
Cold and afraid. She despised the feeling of being left alone in this world. The darkness was dragging her down into the mire.
Then someone’s warm voice reached her.
“It’s all right, young lady.”
A warm presence was felt at her fingertips. Someone was pulling her up from the mire by grasping her hand.
“I told you I would be with you.”
That gentle voice seemed unusually loud.
The negative murmurs of those who had whispered to her grew distant.
“You’re not alone, young lady. Let me help you.”
And then the darkness within her began to fade. Bianca realized in that moment that she had crossed the bridge of death and returned.

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