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A day has passed since March 5, 1800 when those who participated in the "Sota Desert" special mission returned to the Sword Garden.

The mission was successful, but the losses were enormous.

"I saved him, but his arm......the necrosis and tissue loss are so severe that there's nothing we can do about it.”

said the medical director in a heavy voice. It was a story about Mon.

Though they took care of their severed arms after the battle with Bianca, those who took part in the Sota desert mission fought several fierce battles with the federal navy even after crossing the central border with Rutero.

Even after the battle with Bianca ended, Pal had no choice but to receive King Seong's treatment.

"Will you be able to carry out your duties in the future?"

Jean said, stifling her mounting anger.

Is it possible to carry out the mission, it was not a waste of Mon's ability, the family's top staff.

Mon said this in the hope that his self-imposed significance and self-esteem would be maintained.

"With the exception of the left arm, the rest of us will soon be fully recovered. It may be difficult for a black knight, but I think he can carry out all the missions below."

"......Good work, Medical Director."

"Go in. in one's waking hours”

As I entered the operating room, I saw a Mon twisting his whole body with bandages and medical equipment.

"Sir Mon."

After returning, Jin was told by Jed that Mon and Jane were lovers.

"12 jockey."

Mon remained silent for a while, staring out the window. The unusually sunny sunlight was tingling the hospital room, contrasting with the sky in the Sota desert, which had been foggy or full of battle fires throughout the mission.

"I can't help being demoted to a guardian or an executioner. This arm is just a burden to the other black pitches.”

"If it weren't for you, the mission wouldn't be successful."

"It's a fine day.”

Mon neither affirm nor deny what Jean said. I was just thinking about what I heard from Jean on the way back.

"Don't eat your heart too heavy. Black pitching is just......is just a symbol of loyalty to the family. Without it, my nature will not change. But."

Mon turned his head toward the camp and continued his back talk.

"If what you say is true......if it really is. I think it's changed.”

The expression "changed" was not directed at himself, but at the Sword Garden here.

The Seventh Crusade Volcano, the Second Cavalry must have died...….

No, he'll be alive. It must have been his clone, not Joshua, who opened the volcano.

Cloning?

Youngest, what are you talking about?

As she fled the magic federation with Rutero, Jean informed the group that Joshua would be a clone. The word has not yet been proved, but Dipus and Mon were unable to shake off the dirty intuition.

"12 jockey."

"Speak."

" Jane actually wanted to have you. And the moment your words prove...….”

At that moment, one person found the treatment room. It was Zyn's butler Petro.

"Dear old man!

Jean intuitively recognized why Petro came so urgently. The same was true of course.

"The second rider is back...…!”

As soon as Petro finished speaking, a great deal of energy was released from Mon.

Until yesterday, the whole building was shaking in an incredibly huge force that had been laid on the brink of death.

Red blood tears flowed from Mon's eyes. Soon he rose from his bed with strength and looked at Jean.

"Go, twelve horsemen."

He went out on good terms.

Joshua was seen standing outside the steel gate. He had been leading all his direct articles, except for the black knight, looking perfectly fine.

Black sword, flag bearing the symbol of Looncandel.

The knights outside the door that came with Joshua, and the knights that gathered inside the garden, carried the same flag.

The scenery was horribly repugnant.

"Your words were true.”

said Dipus, standing beside Jean. I could feel the tremor of Dipus, barely suppressing his anger.

"Jin."

"Yes, sir."

"I bring him down and kill him. And this time again, if my mother wraps that disgusting fellow around, I'll never, ever, just let it go."

The rebels insulted the flag by throwing mud on it

Or reform.

Dipus finished his resolution.

So did Jean. Unlike Dipus, however, Jean was almost certain that her confident older brother would not be able to avoid responsibility this time.

The conviction deepened when I saw the articles behind Joshua.

"He must have brought all his knights in fear. But you still don't know, the hounds don't know, but it's not you who's devoted to your family's knights.….’

It is a perfect mistake to come to the Sword Garden with knights.

Rather Joshua should have come alone. Jean thought so, and so did their mother, Rosa, who had escaped from the inner quarters.

Chuck!

The knights formed a path with this heat. Rosa, walking out of the way, had an unfeeling look in her eyes.

"The second-term member of the family, Joshua Looncandel. You're back from your mission!"

There is no dignity in that voice that has managed to create confidence. Nor is there the pride of having succeeded in a tough mission.

There was a fear of a son who was just not sure if he would be punished or rewarded by his mother.

I believed that I would be rewarded as always until I came to the Sword Garden.

No, I wanted to believe. But as soon as she faced Rosa's cold face, Joshua felt his hopes waned. Children can't stand the unusual looks of their parents.

Joshua was rationalizing even his presence of knights.

Rosa's decision was not brought in out of fear, but merely a device to shine the dignity of the next housekeeper who came back after completing his mission fiercely.

"I've been reported dead on duty. What happened?"

No matter how rationally you may be, Joshua could tell from the very beginning. The fact that my mother doesn't welcome her back very much.

It was time to realize the painful reality.

"Mother, that's."

"Hold your title straight. Now I'm not standing as your mother."

Joshua's eyes grew bigger.

Others watching were also shocked. It was the first time that Rosa, not Siron, trampled Joshua's authority in front of everyone in this way.

"I'm sorry... ... Acting housekeeper. I made a mistake."

"Tell me how Joshua Looncandel, the second-term member of the household, is not dead, but stands in his place."

Why did you live without dying, you should have died there.

That's what Rosa sounded like for Joshua. With her mother's voice, which was more than just reprimanding, Joshua had no choice but to shiver.

"Reply, neither the 4th nor the 12th jockey dared tell me a lie!"

A heavy wind pressure rose everywhere as Rosa shouted again.

"Well, I'm alive."

I stammered on my words. His eyes shook, and Joshua felt that he was becoming infinitely smaller. There was deep contempt in the eyes of the family looking at him.

"Replicate on mission......sent..."

In the passage, Chin thought:

'Not only did I make the meaningless mistake of bringing the knights in, I end up missing the last chance to turn my mother's mind around, Joshua.'

Joshua did not know why his mother was so angry.

It was because I forgot the essence.

Whoo-hoo!

Joshua looked up at Rosa with breath. However, he could not hide his two shaky legs.

"I'm alive because I sent a copy of my debt through the Prophet, not through my mission. As a result, the mission was successful.”

"One black knight died, one maimed. Can you call it success?"

That was the ostensible reason Joshua was being reprimanded now. Mon survived, but in fact Looncandel lost two black knights on the mission.

Joshua should be responsible as the supreme commander of the mission.

But there was a real reason why Rosa did this.

The essence of Looncandel, the struggle. Joshua forgot it. Maybe it wasn't forgotten, maybe it wasn't there from the beginning.

The way didn't matter.

Even if he used a fake body for the mission, if it killed one of the black knights, mutilated one, and caused more than that.

Joshua should have fought. As the next housekeeper, he should have raised the value of his family.

Instead of shivering and stammering like a frightened dog, like a child in terror, he had to prove that he was never wrong.

had to face Rosa, face the family.

I'm the prophet and the power of the great can just happened, had a better way than using what's stopping me, really to die of The Dark Knight.Made people ask me who is should have naejilleo a roar.

As Chin did at the time of the Gaza Declaration.

'If you had finally shown yourself not forgetting the essence of Looncandel, then your mother would have defended you again this time.’

Jean felt sick to the point of nausea.

I was appalled at the fact that he was the one who had the deepest understanding of the character of Rosa Looncandel than any other child in this position.

"Wrong...... I did."

Rosa's eyes grew colder.

Why is that?

Why don't you admit it?

I have certainly succeeded in my mission for the family, and my mother has so far condoned my use of the power and cloning of prophets...….

I am your most beloved child.

Joshua's head was filled with only such thoughts. The essence of Joshua Looncandel was only a child struggling to be recognized by his parents.

It is not a struggle.

"Fourth rider."

"Yes, acting as a housekeeper."

"Tell me. Did you know that the second-term sent a clone?"

"I didn't know."

"12 jockey, what about you?"

"I was making a guess."

"But why did this mission require the sacrifice of a black knight as well as his cloning?"

"As I reported yesterday, our family invested the least in this one of the three major forces. One....."

Jean looked down at Joshua and said back to him.

"If he had shared all the information with me and the fourth rider from the start, if he had claimed the sacrifice of the clone in advance. Sir Jane, the knight of the Black Knight, never lost his arm."

"Mother, no! That's just an assumption! I'll explain it all, my plan was definitely perfect, just because this mission was too variable...…!”

There was a smile on Rosa's lips more than contempt.

"The Black Sword, overpower Joshua Looncandel."

"Your name!"

Answering Rosa's orders was not inside the garden, but outside, the knights Joshua had brought in.

Except for the Black Knight, all of Joshua's top-rated knights were composed of a squad of senior members of the Looncandel Senior Council. Joshua himself has just learned the truth.

"Line, Bex, Rihanna......to Sinatra. Your guys, they're all...It was a black sword?…!”

Black Swordsmen, who revealed their identity, took off the mask they were wearing on their faces. Everyone in the hall held their breath when the old faces, which had been mangled and could not be recognized, were revealed.

"As of this time, Joshua Looncandel will be suspended from second place in the family. They also place secret orders on both his body and his reproduction, which may be operating outside."

"Put him in a dungeon."

"Mother, mother...…!”

fall

Those who saw Joshua Looncandel crying out for his mother were all thinking of the word.