She Is a Daughter Raised As the Son of a Duke - Chapter 119

Episode 119

“Floa, is the original family power strong?”

“If you wait a few minutes, it’ll cool down, so don’t worry.”

My body, which had absorbed a large amount of energy, heated up as if it were emitting heat and gradually cooled down.

Releasing Floa’s hand, I tried using magic as an experiment, and silver and red energy mixed together.

“Wow!”

I couldn’t help but exclaim in awe at the fact that I could use the power of the family.

“Thank you, grandfather!”

“We should have drawn up the contract from the beginning… I feel sorry thinking about the hard time you went through because the family’s power didn’t manifest.”

“It’s okay. In the end, I can use the family’s power like this, right?”

Mixing the power of the family with the magic granted by Iris, I experimented with magic and drew a magic circle again.

“Since I have the power of the family, can I create a gate this time?”

With anticipation, I stood on the newly drawn magic circle.

Please, let it work this time…

I put my hands together and closed my eyes tightly, but just like before, only light came out, and the gate didn’t appear.

“What the…?”

Seeing my disappointment, Persis came up to me and patted my shoulder.

“It’s okay not to succeed. Your grandfather was special.”

“Thanks for saying it’s okay, Dad.”

It seemed like Passebea had anticipated that he was the only one who could implement the magic circle.

“Dr. Red said that his magic circle was designed for specific individuals to use. I can’t implement the other magic circles from that book.”

“I see…”

Floa showed a pitiful gaze from his side.

“Even knowing this… Will you travel again? Even though you couldn’t return to Flotina?”

“…I’ll need some time to think.”

* * *

After a long time, Passebea wandered around the duke’s estate and had a conversation with Floa.

“Flotina has changed a lot in my absence. Well, when I left, Persis had just started walking, so it would be weirder if things hadn’t changed.”

“There are also many unchanged aspects. Am I not still the same?”

Certainly, outwardly, there was hardly anything unchanged about Floa. He was an immortal being, so he didn’t age.

“You’ve changed too. Since I was absent during the time it takes for a mountain to change a few times, it’s only natural.”

“What part of me do you think has changed?”

Passebea recalled Floa looking fondly at May.

“You’ve learned to love someone. It’s probably because of that child.”

The Floa he knew was someone who didn’t know how to love. He followed him well, but that was closer to admiration than love.

“Miss May is an existence that can only be loved.”

“She was the same in her past life too. She was a lively, confident, and bright child.”

“It’s amazing. How can there be coincidences where you meet in past lives and in this life too…”

“That child was destined to be my grandchild from the beginning.”

Passebea had traveled to numerous places, experienced countless things, and met many people. Therefore, it would have been understandable for him to forget about one little child, yet he remembered that child.

“When May said she would return to where she originally lived, I had thought of opening the gate one last time and going with her. After all, if she goes to that place, she’ll be alone. Since it would be lonely for her alone, I wanted to travel together.”

And what he had hoped for was that one day, according to the will of the heavens, when he took his last breath, visitors would come to his resting place.

And if possible, he wished for that person to be May. Around that time, May would have created new connections and hopefully wouldn’t be lonely anymore.

However, if May didn’t share the same sentiment… it troubled him.

“…I hope neither Miss May nor Lord Pasebea would leave. If you wish to travel, wouldn’t it be possible to do so in this world without necessarily going to a different dimension?”

Floa and Pasebea stopped walking in the corridor. Passebea couldn’t easily bring himself to speak.

“Or is there somewhere specific beyond the gate that you’d like to go?”

“It’s not that, but I want to experience adventure. Adventures in different dimensions are even more thrilling.”

“Is that thrill more important to you than me?”

At those words, Passebea smirked.

Floa had thought that Passebea had changed a lot, but seeing this, he seemed not to have changed much.

“It’s not for me.”

Floa had always wanted Passebea. He was family. Despite living for hundreds of years, he didn’t want to be separated from the family he gained when he was first created.

“I want to live with Lord Passebea.”

If Lord Passebea also considers me family, please don’t leave.

After sending Floa away, Passebea wandered endlessly, saying he needed time alone to think.

Was Flotina really this vast? Upon realizing that Flotina, which used to be nothing, now owned such a grand mansion, he deeply felt the extent of his achievements.

He thought he might as well have rebelled and become an emperor. If he had, he wouldn’t have even thought about adventures, busy as he would be building the empire into a powerful nation.

Emptiness was an insatiable thirst for Passebea. Nothing could alleviate it. The cure for such emptiness was travel and adventure.

Leaving was the right thing. He had to leave. However…

‘If Lord Passebea also considers me family, please don’t leave’

With him pleading so earnestly, where could he go?

Passebea entered the library after a long time, to the extent that he couldn’t remember the last time he visited.

He was far from someone who enjoyed reading, but when someone disturbed him, he had taken naps in the library.

‘Memories from the past come to mind. When I was the commander of the royal knights, that vice-commander behaved so recklessly and caused so many problems that I would often come here to take naps due to the stress.’

Floa had said that back then. Why forgive so easily?

Due to his pride, he thought he had goals and that he wouldn’t see him anyway, which was a ridiculous notion.

‘But looking back now, I’m glad I didn’t scold him. He became the crown prince and now the emperor, and he’s doing such a good job maintaining the empire I expanded.’

As Passebea wandered down memory lane and walked into the center of the library, he spotted his only grandchild.

She was sitting on the couch, reading a novel.

“May.”

At his call, May looked up and gazed at him.

“Grandfather! Are you here to read books?”

Passebea tilted his head and approached her, taking a seat by her side.

“What are you reading?”

“A romance fantasy novel. I like romance fantasy.”

“Even though we talked about the Creator and novels yesterday, you’re still reading novels?”

He was implying that reading novels might lead to another possession of her body.

“Since I pitifully died and possessed, she probably won’t assign me a different role until I die.”

“You’re clever.”

“But why did grandfather come to the library?”

“It’s quiet here, and the sunlight comes in nicely, so I thought about taking a nap. But with you here, maybe I’ll listen to some advice.”

“Advice?”

“I used to always give advice, so this time, how about I listen to advice from you?”

May recalled the advice she had received from Passebea in her previous life.

He had told her, when she confided that she was troubled by someone making her life difficult, that even if she had to kill, she should take revenge…

Looking back, it wasn’t something you would tell a child, but still, because of that, her mood had improved a bit during that time of depression.

May closed the book she had been reading and placed it beside her.

“Sure. Please tell me your concerns.”

Passebea mentioned his desire to travel and his worries about leaving Floa, then went on to share his dilemma about what to do next.

“So, being only at the estate feels too empty, but on the other hand, worrying about Floa who won’t be seen again if she goes to another dimension?”

“That’s right.”

“Then the solution is simple, isn’t it? Just travel within this world.”

May spoke as if there was hardly a need for further contemplation.

“If you’re worried about Floa feeling sad, then you should eliminate the option of going to another dimension for now. The choice of not traveling also brings a significant emptiness, so if we exclude that… the conclusion is to travel within this dimension, where we haven’t gone to other dimensions.”

Seeing Passebea’s somewhat dissatisfied expression, May actively persuaded him.

“You’re making that expression because you think there’s nowhere to travel or adventure in this world?”

“Indeed, it’s not as refreshing as other dimensions.”

“No. Grandfather, you haven’t traveled all around the world. You haven’t even explored every corner of the country. Naturally, you wouldn’t have visited the newly developed tourist sites.”

“That’s… true.”

“In my previous life’s world, there was a saying like that. Even mountains change in 10 years. By now… the mountains must have changed numerous times, right? I don’t think there’s a need to go to different dimensions for travel and adventure. There are so many places to visit in this world too.”

Even where we are is quite vast, grandfather.

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