In This Life, I Will Be The Lord - Chapter 155

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This Life, I Will Become the Clan Head Episode 155

Listening to Violet’s words while looking at Peres, Gallahan rose from his seat.

He staggered briefly, but his steps were straight and quick.

However, there was someone waiting for Gallahan on that path.

Gone was his former stature, and there stood the head of House Aivan, completely aged in just a few days.

With a hardened expression, the head of House Aivan hesitantly approached Gallahan and spoke.

“Lo, Lord Lombardi….”

People’s gazes focused on his servile and pitiful appearance.

“Please, please listen to what I have to say….”

But the head of House Aivan could not continue speaking.

Eyes filled with immeasurable anger and tremendous pressure approached, crushing down on the head of House Aivan.

“….”

Gallahan said nothing.

He simply looked at the head of House Aivan, who was slowly backing away, then walked toward Peres again.

Clatter, clatter.

As he got closer to Peres, Gallahan heard a mechanically repeating sound.

And finally, when he stood behind Peres, Gallahan gritted his teeth.

Clatter, thud.

Clatter, thud.

Peres was lifting stones with his bare hands.

Kneeling and sitting down because he had no strength to stand.

The fingertips gripping the stones were already covered in blood.

But Peres’s gaze was fixed only on the ground.

As if he thought he could see Tia if he reached that place.

“Please stop, Your Highness the Crown Prince.”

Gallahan took another step closer and spoke.

Peres’s movement stopped, and he slowly turned around.

“…Gallahan Lombardi?”

Peres’s face was in even worse condition.

He had cuts and scratches of various sizes, and his lips were cracked with dried blood.

But what made Gallahan’s heart pound even more were Peres’s eyes.

Empty, unfocused, cloudy red pupils.

His daughter had once told him about it.

The story of when she first met Peres by chance at the Imperial Palace.

“He was like a red leaf that would crumble and disappear if you touched it, that’s what Peres was like then.”

Peres, sitting on the ground and looking up at Gallahan, seemed to have returned to that time.

Like the tiny little boy who lived alone in the forest before meeting his daughter.

Gallahan bent his knees to meet Peres at eye level.

“Yes, it’s me.”

Hearing Gallahan’s gentle voice, Peres’s face contorted.

“…I’m sorry. Tia… I couldn’t, protect her.”

Peres spoke with a trembling voice.

“I… should have been with her.”

Muttering like that, Peres began moving mechanically again.

He dug through stones and dirt with clattering sounds.

“I will definitely, find Tia. Definitely….”

Thud.

Gallahan grabbed Peres’s hand.

And asked.

“If Tia saw Your Highness’s current state, what do you think she would say?”

“….”

Instead of answering, Peres looked down at himself once.

And pressed his lips tightly together.

“It seems Your Highness already knows the answer. You would probably get scolded loudly. And I would get scolded too, for not stopping Your Highness from reaching this state.”

Gallahan said this while taking the stone from Peres’s hand.

“Right now, Your Highness needs to rest.”

“I have no intention of resting….”

“I’m not telling Your Highness to rest for your own sake. It’s for Tia’s sake.”

Gallahan said firmly.

“They say Your Highness’s aura sword is needed to break the massive rock below. That’s the only way to get my daughter out safely and quickly.”

“I can still use aura now.”

Peres picked up a sword that was lying nearby and infused it with mana.

But the aura only flickered weakly like a mirage for a moment, unable to form a shape like before.

“Ah….”

Peres looked down at his sword for a moment, unable to say anything.

“You see? Right now, Your Highness cannot be of any help to Tia.”

Gallahan spoke even more strongly while grabbing Peres’s shoulder to lift him up.

Normally it would be impossible, but Peres came up far too easily.

It meant he was that exhausted.

Gallahan sighed softly and frowned.

“I will support you.”

Before they knew it, Lombardi’s guards had approached and spoke.

The twins, Cleribane, and Violet were with them too.

Gallahan handed Peres over to the guard and spoke in a stern voice.

“From now on, rest and gather your strength. They say by tomorrow, all the rocks above the boulder can be cleared away. That’s when Your Highness will be needed.”

“But even before that, my aura will be needed to split the large rocks.”

Peres looked at the rocks that still formed a small mountain and shook his head.

Then Giliou and Meylon took off their robes and spoke.

“Leave that to us.”

The two who stepped forward simultaneously drew their swords from their waists.

“Whoo….”

And with a long exhale, aura rose from the twins’ swords.

It wasn’t as intense a light as Peres’s, but it was an aura sword that properly enveloped the blade.

“We can do that much too.”

“Your Highness the Crown Prince should go and rest quickly.”

Saying this, Giliou and Meylon each swung their swords down at the rocks in front of them.

Screech!

With the sound of slight friction, deep scars were left on the rocks.

“This should be enough to split them, right?”

Giliou asked the workers who were standing by.

“Yes! No problem!”

The people who answered vigorously placed chisels along the marks left by the aura and hammered them.

And before long, the rock made a cracking sound and split apart.

“See?”

“We’ll be clearing the rocks, so just focus on recovering properly.”

“Besides, there are two of us, so we can take turns resting while using aura.”

Peres looked at the twins for a moment, then slowly nodded his head.

And he turned to look at Gallahan and said.

“I won’t work anymore and will sit here to rest. Here, my heart feels at peace.”

“…Do as you wish.”

When Gallahan answered, Peres walked over and sat down on a rock placed at a distance.

“Food is also important, Your Highness the Crown Prince.”

Violet quickly handed soft bread and water to Peres as she spoke.

“You need to eat to gain strength. To split that thick rock, you must prepare properly. You need to rescue Tia quickly, don’t you?”

Gallahan said this to Peres, who was hesitating slightly.

Then Peres obediently accepted the bread and water.

“Now, prepare once more!”

Meylon shouted loudly and raised his aura.

Bang!

Crack!

The stagnant site began to regain its vitality.

Peres sat quietly on the rock and chewed his bread.

He moved his jaw steadily, then gulped down water.

It was purely a movement to store energy.

Even during this, Peres’s gaze never left one place – the massive rock that had half-revealed itself.

As if it had become the most important goal of his life, he continuously stared at it while chewing and swallowing his bread.

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Rumble. Thud.

I woke up from sleep at the low, heavy sound.

Patter patter.

Dirt fell from the carriage ceiling along with weak vibrations.

“What… is this sound?”

Fortunately, it wasn’t just a hallucination I was hearing, as Migente Aivan also woke up from sleep.

“Could it be that another landslide is happening?”

“It could be that, but…”

Rumble.

Once again, a sound came with low vibrations.

“Sigh…”

Migente Aivan now looked like he had completely lost hope.

He looked up at the ceiling where dust was falling with despairing eyes, then fell asleep again.

No, now it was closer to fainting from lack of strength.

My condition wasn’t much better either.

I was worried about the dirt that fell with each vibration, but my eyes kept closing.

If the ceiling collapses like this, I’ll die.

If that’s the case, going while sleeping without knowing anything wouldn’t be too bad.

I was having such thoughts when my eyes were slowly closing.

Crash!

With an incomparably louder sound than before, one side of the ceiling caved in.

“Huh…”

But that wasn’t what surprised me.

“…Quickly …take it out!”

“This side is all… Hurry…!”

Sounds began to be heard inside the carriage that had only been silent until now.

At the same time, my heart began to pound.

I barely managed to raise my body and started shouting toward the ceiling.

“Here! I’m here! There’s a person alive here!”

But the sound didn’t come out as loud as I intended.

To make matters worse, just from that, all the strength left my body and I was out of breath.

“Hah, hah…”

But I can’t give up here.

I squeezed my eyes shut again and screamed.

“Here! Can you hear me!”

It seems useless.

Well, they’re up there, so there’s no way such a voice would be heard…

“Tia!”

“Pe, Peres?”

That’s right. Peres’s five senses are far superior to ordinary people.

Even more so since he started handling aura.

And louder sounds began to be heard.

At the same time, the amount of dirt falling intermittently also increased.

People’s voices gradually became clearer.

I barely reached out my hand to try to wake Migente Aivan.

“Mmm…”

But Migente Aivan could barely open his eyes and couldn’t raise his body.

I picked up the box that had contained chocolate cookies and hit the carriage wall while shouting.

“I’m here! Peres, I’m here!”

But that was only for a moment, my vision spun and I was out of breath.

Eventually, I leaned my head against the wall and fought against my constantly closing eyelids.

“Peres, Peres…”

All I could do was call Peres’s name with a voice as small as an ant’s.

“Peres, I’m here…”

It was the moment I thought I could no longer overcome my increasingly heavy eyelids.

Crack.

With a heavy noise, light poured into the carriage.

“Ugh.”

Having been accustomed to darkness for so long, I couldn’t see anything.

But just one thing.

“Tia.”

There was Peres’s voice.

I reached out my hand blindly toward where the voice was coming from, with my eyes closed to avoid the light.

Tap.

And there was a hand that caught my hand as it swept through the air.

That hand pulled my body up.

And I felt Peres’s body embracing me.

I groped around and grabbed Peres’s collar with all my strength.

“It’s okay now. It’s okay, Tia.”

That was all.

At that moment, all the tension that had been sustaining me released, and I lost consciousness.

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