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Chapter 422
"To your village. I mean that genuinely." A short pause. "But the Empress gave us a direct order. The High Elite Commanders signed off on it. Rear Flame Gems, vessels, all of it back to the Academy. That is the mission I was given and it is not something I can simply set aside because…""When exactly did this start?"Asta's voice came from the side. Quiet and straight, stepping right past Roderick's sentence without any ceremony.Roderick looked at him.Asta wasn't looking back. He was looking at Wabash.Wabash met his eyes."A few weeks ago." He said. He pulled in a slow breath and let it out. "It started the day I left for a Royal Household Meeting at the Realm of the Royals. A gathering of the ruling houses, attendance wasn't optional." He looked down briefly. "I was gone for four days. When I rode back through the village gate, the first thing I noticed was how quiet it was. The middle of the afternoon and the streets were empty. No children running around. No noise from th
Chapter 421:Two Hundred Children
Wabash walked in first.He pushed the door open with one hand and stepped through without slowing down, his cloak shifting behind him as he moved. Egries fell in at his side almost immediately, the way she always did, like she had a map of wherever he was going and had already decided where she needed to be in it.Roderick came through second.He stepped inside and his eyes did what they always did in a new space, moved once across the room, left to right, taking in the layout, the exits, the positions of everyone already standing in it. Then he settled.The rest of them filed in behind him. Asta, Jabber, Elara, Flora, Yuki, Mira, all of them coming through the doorway one after another, the room filling up with the quiet shuffle of feet and the low sound of people finding their footing somewhere new.Wabash had already turned to face them by the time they were all inside.Roderick looked at him."Prince Wabash." His voice was level and careful,the voice of someone who was about to
Chapter 420
He went quiet after that. Just stood there, looking at the markers.Asta looked at him.Then he walked forward. Not fast, and not with any announcement. He stopped beside Wabash and reached out and put his hand on his shoulder, just set it there, steady and easy, the way you do with someone when words feel like too much and too little at the same time.Wabash turned his head and looked at him."I know how it feels." Asta said. He wasn't looking at Wabash when he said it. He was looking at the graves. "My father died in the ancient war. Fighting against the dark forces." He paused. "And my mother..." He stopped for a moment, something passing across his face quickly before it settled again. "She was killed when she gave birth to me. Stabbed." He said it flat, not coldly, just like a person who has sat with a fact long enough that they can say it without it breaking them. "Whoever did it was never found."He felt Wabash watching him."I made myself a promise." Asta said quietly
Chapter 419
Jabber was leaning so far forward in his chair it was a small miracle he hadn't fallen out of it. Flora's mouth was open. Mira had her head tilted to the side with the expression of someone recalculating something.Prince Wabash looked at him.And smiled."You are correct." He said simply.Flora turned fully toward Asta. "How did you know all of that?"Asta opened his mouth. Stopped. Closed it. He rubbed the back of his neck slowly."I'm honestly a bit surprised myself." He said. "But I think, I think it's the Emperor Dragon's memories. They're not always clear. It's not like remembering something that happened to me. It's more like..." He searched for the right way to say it. "Like finding a book on a shelf you didn't know was yours. You open it and the words are already familiar somehow." He shrugged one shoulder. "He knew the Phantom Sovereign. So somewhere in all of that, I do too."Wabash nodded slowly, like that was exactly the right answer."Yes."He said. "That is exa
Chapter 418
"What do you think, Mira?" She said quietly. "We are complete strangers. They have never seen any of our faces in their entire lives. We just walked out of the trees with their prince, onto their street, in their village." A short pause. "If you were standing where they're standing, looking at us, you would do the exact same thing."Mira considered that for a step or two."I would do worse actually." She said."Yes." Flora said. "I know. That's the point."Another few steps."But still though."Mira said, quietly enough that only Flora could hear. "I feel like even for strangers, there's a specific type of look they're giving us. I don't love it.""Then stop making eye contact with them.""I'm not making eye contact…""You are. You're staring directly back at them every time.""I'm just looking around…""You are holding eye contact with that woman by the fence and have been for the last thirty seconds."Mira looked forward. "I was just seeing if I recognised her.""You have n
Chapter 417
Both knees, right there in the dirt, without hesitation and the guards dropped with her, all of them, like something tipped the whole row at once. They hit the ground in a ragged but genuine wave, heads down, every one of them, the only sound the soft thud of knees against scorched earth.Egries kept her head bowed and her hands pressed flat against her thighs and when she spoke, her voice had lost all its sharpness. What was left was small and completely honest."We didn't know." The words came out steady, but just barely. "We didn't know who you were. I didn't know. I fought you. I…I kicked you…" She stopped herself. Breathed. "We ask for your forgiveness, my Emperor. All of us."Asta looked at the top of her bowed head.Then at the row of kneeling guards.Then he reached up and rubbed the back of his head, the way he always did when something made him deeply, genuinely uncomfortable."Okay, hey… everybody up, please." He said. "Seriously. Up." He looked around at all of the
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