The Crown I Will Take From You - Chapter 194

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Part 2, Chapter 41

“You made my son like that!”

“Uncle. You should be careful with words you can’t take responsibility for. Especially if you don’t have the confidence to face us alone.”

“….”

Hoakin hesitated.

This girl was no longer alone. Behind those insignificant shoulders stood Peleus, and now a massive newborn empire.

Even Samon, who had been leading the family like their only lighthouse, had collapsed like this, and Hoakin suddenly felt afraid.

The pain from that day when metal shards had pierced his eye patch seemed to surge again.

“Uncle, but you can’t just tuck your tail between your legs like a beaten dog.”

A fresh laugh like shattering water droplets burst forth. Completely at odds with the insulting words it contained.

“Well, I suppose it’s time you faced reality. I know. Uncle, you may look this pathetic as if you’ve lost everything. But you still haven’t given up.”

“….”

“But your only son who could fulfill that dream has ended up like this….”

Medeia lowered her eyes as if in pity.

“Forget being a succession candidate for Valdina, it’ll be difficult to even continue Uncle’s bloodline.”

Her provocative voice was slow yet sweet.

Each syllable sharp enough to pierce Hoakin’s heart like a blade and draw blood.

“How fortunate for us siblings. Seeing Uncle and now Brother Samon both end up like this, it seems the Goddess is trying to enlighten Uncle.”

“….”

“To quickly abandon such vain dreams that don’t suit your station.”

“Medeia, you look very pleased. Absolutely delighted.”

Though Hoakin spoke through gritted teeth, Medeia calmly bent her knee slightly.

“Then Uncle, please stay well. This will be the last time we meet in this lifetime.”

Those were words spoken assuming Hoakin would never return to his homeland Valdina.

Clatter. Medeia’s carriage departed, raising dust.

Hoakin stood as if nailed to the spot, his eyes bloodshot.

Until the antique Valdina imperial crest could no longer be seen.

“…Damn it.”

He couldn’t counter a single one of his damned niece’s taunts.

Because it was all true.

Hoakin had never once abandoned his ambition for the throne.

Not even now with one eye gone.

There was a strange hope. Even he thought it absurd, but it was there.

That someday he would return to Valdina and reclaim his rightful place.

“But your only son who could fulfill that dream has ended up like this….”

Medeia’s voice from moments before replayed in his head.

“My blood. My bloodline. My….”

With Samon crippled, his long-held wish had become impossible.

Hoakin’s heart grew anxious. Was this really the end?

‘Do I have no opportunities left…?’

He began to ponder deeply.

Without realizing he had fallen into Medeia’s trap.

At the very moment his son was hovering between life and death, and his wife was wailing.

Joaquin Claudio was selfish and self-centered to his very bones from birth.

‘I can’t fall like this.’

Hoakin bit his lip.

A poison fragrant as roses began to sprout in his mind.

“Samon! Are you conscious!”

At that time, Samon finally awakened.

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Claudio Estate.

“Aaaahhh!”

The sharp scream piercing the clear sky had a similar resonance to Virna’s, who had once been family.

“Crippled! You’re saying I’ve become a leg cripple?! Don’t lie to me!”

The fluttering trouser leg felt foreign.

Both the wooden splint where his right leg had been and the words that one leg was gone seemed like lies.

If not for the constant throbbing pain wracking his body, it surely would have seemed so.

He couldn’t believe it.

‘Why me? Why?’

Why had he ended up like this instead of that bastard Peleus?

“Aaaahhh! This is impossible!”

“Samon, huuuk!”

Catherine wept, pitying her son who couldn’t accept reality.

“Samon, my son, huk, you mustn’t get excited, the physician said you absolutely must rest….”

Crash-!

Before she could finish speaking, a sharp shattering sound rang out. Samon had grabbed and thrown a nearby cup.

“Samon!”

When Raju protectively stepped in front of Catherine, Samon was already grabbing the physician by the collar and threatening him.

“Tell me! Tell me the truth!”

“M-Madam is right. The l-leg cannot be restored-“

Though the physician answered trembling, it wasn’t the answer Samon wanted. As his eyes blazed like a beast’s, the physician’s neck shrank further.

“It’s true. We tried every possible method but there was absolutely no hope-“

“Shut up! Before I tear your mouth apart!”

Samon shouted savagely.

He intended to draw the sword placed by his bedside and cut out that physician’s insolent tongue.

But the moment he tried to stand, his body swayed uncontrollably. He couldn’t maintain his center of gravity with just one leg.

Thud-!

A shock greater than the sound of his body roughly hitting the furniture struck Samon’s head.

‘This won’t work?’

His eyes trembled with shock.

It was merely standing up from his seat, such a simple movement it couldn’t even be called an action.

Yet even that simple thing was impossible.

The fluttering trouser leg where his right leg had been hammered the cruel reality into Samon’s head.

Unbearable shock and humiliation blazed like lava.

“Samon!”

“Young master!”

Brushing away the hands of those trying to support him with alarmed faces, Samon sat collapsed and still managed to extend his arm holding the sword.

“Say it’s not true! Say you can fix it! Stake your worthless life on definitely curing it!”

As the sharp blade pressed against the physician’s belly, the physician trembled, feeling his life threatened.

“Please, please spare my life.”

“Say it’s a lie!”

That day, sounds like a beast wailing didn’t stop for a long time at the Claudio Estate.

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However, as if he had exhausted all his luck surviving the explosion, Samon’s misfortune was not yet over.

Before he could even accept the shock of his missing right leg, a golden letter arrived.

“Master….”

“What now!”

“It’s a letter sent by the 4th Princess.”

Samon’s face became as vicious as a demon’s after checking the letter.

It was divorce papers.

It was incredibly fast timing. As if he had placed surveillance by his side specifically for this moment.

The 4th Princess, upon hearing news of Samon’s accident, could no longer endure it.

She had somehow managed to tolerate that fool using her. However, the moment Samon’s leg became disabled, she saw hope.

A golden opportunity to sever this detestable relationship.

“Father, Father. Please. Do you want me to be bound for life to a cripple?”

Emperor Perdickas II of Kazen also threw his teacup upon hearing news of Samon’s accident.

He had been expecting a tragic accident to befall that arrogant bone ghost of Valdina.

Not news that Peleus’s only competitor had lost his physical ability, making that bastard’s succession completely flawless!

“I didn’t hand over the strait just to throw away such a worthless card! It’s as if I personally laid the groundwork for Valdina!”

However, neither the Emperor’s rage nor Catherine’s desperation could reattach Samon’s broken leg.

Samon, receiving the divorce papers, tore the document to shreds.

“Damn it! Damn it!”

Supporting his disabled leg, he slipped while trampling on the torn paper fragments.

“I’ve become a cripple who can’t even stand properly!”

Unable to contain his heart-bursting rage, Samon screamed.

The servants didn’t dare try to stop Samon, who was raging like a madman.

After losing his leg, Samon had become a completely different person.

He became irritable and flew into rages at the slightest provocation.

Whenever there was something he couldn’t do himself, he would throw whatever was within reach.

Even family members were no exception.

Even Catherine, who had terribly cherished her son regardless of his condition, nearly got hit by an ashtray Samon threw.

He was now the tyrant of this small estate.

Day after day, caregivers, fed up with his hysteria, came running out in tears.

Today was no different.

“Aaaahhhhh-!”

Unable to contain his fury, Samon rolled on the floor. He kept slipping because of his unresponsive leg.

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