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A Fleeting Moonlit Dream (6)
Lorist used to think that relationship of his would last forever and re time to come At that time, he happily moved out of the student dorms in the academy to live with his sweetheart, Wenna
As he was not favored byappointed a swordsmanship instructor when here wasin the student dorms rather than the instructor dorms to avoid any unnecessary conflict
When did their relationship start to change? Was it because of his stunted Battle Force training? Or was it from that one tin two exclusive night gowns for her to wear to a party? Since then, she had moved to a luxuriously furnished residence located behind the boutique which she used as the headquarters of Windsor Trading Company From that day onward, she would continue to live and host athering place for the rich and powerful of Morante City
On the day before she moved, she lied lazily in his embrace and expressed the expectations that she had for hih to the Silver rank and becoht of the Windsor house so that he could be sent to support the resistance back in the old dominion
Nowadays the resistance had already taken fir the new lords tons of trouble with the costs of fixing the da the a no choice but to further squeeze the coroups formed by the oppressed mushroomed and further exacerbated the already dire situation
A report froht Somm had stated that the resistance had decided to take direct action against the do to attack the households of these lords in an attee on the rulers’ hold on the doh to the Silver rank soon and aid in the reclaht so that he could more firmly establish his position as the benefactor of the fathat, she can let Lorist e the affairs of the dominion in place of her brother who had yet to inherit the fae of the boutique and the trading company to further increase the income of the Windsor house She believed that the Windsor house would be more prosperous than ever
Lorist really wanted to promise the beauty in his arms that he would do what she requested But deep inside his heart, his pride and stubbornnessnoblereatsword seemed to have materialized in his iance towards anyone other than the Krissen Emperor and the Norton house
The stubborn insistence and noble pride carved deep into his soul was a vestige of the body’s original owner Lorist understood that to beco the Windsor house for the rest of his life and to sub her lover’s hesitant expression, she gently stroked his face and softly said, “Locke, won’t you do this for the sake of both of us? When your Battle Force finally breaks through to the Silver rank, nobody can stop us froht, there’s still the issue with ht Lorist to himself cynically He couldn’t bear to tell his lover that he had been training in the Aquametal Technique which he inherited froe This was soirl that he treasured so raer able to hold a shred of Battle Force in it and he would possibly never be able to break through the Iron rank in the future
He could tell Wenna that he was a dual Gold ranked instructor in the academy, or that he could easily defeat all the Silver ranked instructors and easily complete missions even peak Silver ranked instructors couldn’t accomplish, but would it be of any use? She did not understand the implications of any of those feats and only knew of the traditions and customs of the nobles Only when one was a Silver Swordsman could one be entrusted with the hopes and responsibility of fighting for the falory
With the exception of certain special cases, most noble families would not let descendants eren’t able to awaken their Battle Force or reach ainherit the title of the fauished hi but rather his wits and intellect That’s why she would rather Lorist not have awakened his Battle Force at all so that he doesn’t have to wear that ugly, black Iron ranked badge all over the place Whenever Lorist was not at the acadeuild, she would insist that he not wear his Battle Force badge so that she would be spared the e that she would understand his about face and public appearance and told her that it would be alright as long as they had each other to no avail From her viewpoint, the reputation of the fa should be allowed to under her family’s reputation tarnished even one bit Wenna wanted to be able to show herself in front of her peers with Lorist without hi ridiculed for his rank of an Iron Swords also happened two years prior, after Madaave birth to the child whose father was unknown Iive to child away to a local far not even looked at her newborn child even once, Madam Windsor eventually became depressed and was driven to the brink of her sanity It was not until when Lorist arranged for abetween the mother and child out of pity that Madahtly shaking his head, Lorist told Wenna that he would be willing to do anything for her He even considered going to the doht Hurd in the resistance against the do trained in his family’s hereditary Battle Force technique, he was unable to use any other technique to break through to the Silver rank
Also, he also ht under the Windsor house as he still had to heed the suh he was an exile Though, that wasthe dimensional traveler he was, he naturally treasured unrestricted freedo oaths of service like that of a knight’s Just like Charade once said, it was Lorist’s dream to simply spend the rest of his life blissfully in Morante City after settling down there with Wenna
Having heard Lorist’s reply, the girl stood up without a word, dressed herself and headed for the door Before leaving, she said, “Lorist, you know very well that you don’t actually love me You’re just like other men who talk about how much they cherishon the bed, stunned, Lorist questioned himself whether he really felt true love for Wenna Of course I do, you’re the only one I have ever loved in e by his father in his previous life, he didn’t truly feel any shred of true longing for his wife While he did treasure the son he had with her, they merely spent their days in tepidity It was not until he had crossed over that he discovered that the love and romance he had so often read about in novels were real after all, having experienced the burning passion and willingness to devote hi the intense connection of the heart, the heart-shaking whisper of his lover as well as her aze, he came to understand that to love someone was to hold the other in the most important place in one’s heart and only have eyes for one’s other half
Since when has his relationship beco it his all for both of their futures? Has his initial goals and detered as a result of that? Wasn’t love about mutual tolerance and acceptance? Was Lorist the selfish one for having his own reservations about devoting hied over the course of tiet an answer no matter how much I think about this It’s best to wait for us both to calm down before we talk it out with each other
What Lorist didn’t expect was ever since that night, Lorist wasn’t able to ns for the dresses was handled by Suzy most of the ti coiven the cold shoulder by Wenna who often cited her occupation with her work as an excuse Initially, Lorist thought that Wenna was only throwing a childish tantrued noble and flirting away
It was also on that night when she forony he had felt following the breakup had tore through his heart, greatly i that could not be put into words into the depths of his soul