Chapter 135 (1/2)

<noscript> <iframe src=”syndicationexdynsrvcom/ads-iframe-displayphp?idzone=3634611&output=noscript&type=300x250” width=”300” height=”250” scrolling=”no” ht=”0” frameborder=”0”></iframe></noscript>The Eccentric Prince's Meeting

The reek of hout the room when I stepped in

I almost choked but quickly recovered when a call ca tie bed in a corner of the room My eyes werehis back upright

His hair and beard were pure white froe as his eyes were sunken, cloudy, and yellow His hands that showed through the shabby white clothes were thin and dry like dead branches of a tree The nue I couldn't believe it… No, I just didn't want to

“…Yes, it has, Sir Geisster”

The head of the Geisster faoverned the western lands as well as Grenze, replied I was taken aback by the Margrave's—by Heinz von Geisster's—coe in appearance

Sir Geisster srandfatherly gaze, as if he were trying to soothe a crying child, certainly felt nostalgic

“Please forgive htly appearance”

“Don't worry about it… I, too, a from earlier He asked me to pull up a chair next to the bed, and I coer theto bury me in it, another whiff relentlessly attacked nised around ht behind the jolly oldits scythe

I had heard he had a heart condition, but perhaps the situation was more serious than the rumours made it out to be

“I don't intend to lose to you younglings, but every day, it's getting harder and harder to wake myself up I wish I wasn't so old”

Sir Geisster's face was cale of envy for the youth

When I o, he had an unrivalled and powerful build, so strong that no one would dare think it would wither, and an aret holding a sword, right now he couldn't even stand by himself, and what's more, he's appeared to have accepted his destiny

However, the shadows in Lord Geisster's eyes suddenly disappeared

His right hand, which had been lying on the bed, slowly raised up Since he couldn't ertips trely stretched out, and he quietly stared at his es I never realized that I now understand for the first ti at all aboutvoice was full of regret

I didn't knohat their relationshi+p was like between the tough lord and his ailing son However… If they were to be willing tofor the thus far, I shook hts that arose inabout it now since the matter had already come to a close

“Sir, let's talk about your son…”

“I have already heard of how the people under my rule suffered by my son's hand I cannot offer you any excuses Philipp von Geisster's sins are my own As both his father and the head of the Geisster fa to accept any punishment”

“…The sentence is still under debate I'm sure ill hear of it sooner or later”

While our first and foremost priority was to tend to the people, it was still necessary to reach a verdict as soon as possible

If Philipp said he acted as the Lord's proxy when atte of the disease, at the very least, he wouldn't face the death penalty Once he was stripped of his status, he would likely be put under house arrest The Geisster family would not fall to ruin, but so the western front

To replace Lord Heinz von Geisster, as undoubted in his abilities and adored by his subordinates and the people alike, would most definitely pose a headache in the future

“By your will”

Lord Geisster's gaze dropped along with his head

Silence fell upon the roonified ed to so of which, Your Highness If you can forgivethe epide quarantined in a secluded village in the southwestern forest as we speak I returned to the royal capital byJohan behind to take care of the rest for the tihness Johan?”

Sir Geisster frowned and muttered those words with a pained voice

Johan was a lot closer to Sir Geisster than I ever was I knew that Johan was like a nephew—no, a son, to hierous place only served to drive the rave's anxiety even further

“This is a new disease, so the current medicine we have won't work I was in such a situation when a princess froht”

“…When you said princess, did you mean Master Johan's elder sister?”

Perhaps it was an unexpected story that the Lord had a slight glint in his waning eyes