Chapter 228 (1/2)

Chapter 228: Chapter 228

“Well, as the 54th head of the Monique family in the future, I, Aristia Pioneer la Monique…”

“Are you really…”

“I would like to fulfill my long-standing covenant with the imperial family.”

“… Don’t do that. I won’t listen. ”

I saw his face harden, his navy blue eyes tremble and his hands holding the ceremonial sword turning white. His voice, which was always calm, was trembling.

I knelt slowly, turning away from him who called me in a hurry. Lifting the hem of his blue cloak and kissing it lightly, I moved my frozen tongue and finished the oath of blood, a firm covenant between the imperial family and the Monique family for generations.

“The blood flowing in my body…”

“You…”

When I uttered the first word of the covenant, I heard people groaning here and there.

I hid my expression by bowing deeply to him. I suddenly recalled his face that I looked up at for the last time before my return. I remembered how sad I felt at his cold eyes. I also remembered my final desperate vow that I would never love him if I was born again.

“With my heart beating in my body…”

“… Stop it. I won’t listen. ”

I also recalled my firm determination after my return.

I found the solution after a few days of agonizing about the middle name that I received through God’s prophecy. It was the oath of blood of the Monique family.

Instead of making a wish for the breakup of my engagement with him, I promised to devote my whole life. I thought that the succession of the throne would not be a problem because I would not be able to reject my bondage with the royal family in that case.

So, I practiced fencing very hard, gnashing my teeth to be qualified to swear. And now I finally earned the qualifications that I wanted so much.

“Swearing on my life and heart…”

“Aristia.”

I couldn’t condemn him, who knew nothing. I just thought of avoiding him because I couldn’t risk the lives of those precious to me.

However, he was knocking on the door of my heart that had been closed to him a long time ago. But the latch that I thought I’d never open was getting loose at some point.

“I give you my whole life…”

“Stop it, please!”

Suddenly, my frozen heart was melting little by little. His lonely figure that I saw occasionally, his navy blue eyes that longed for me desperately, the opening of his closed mindedness little by little and his repeated reaching out as well as his kind considerations began to sway my mind.

Suddenly I often found myself assuming my future with him unconsciously, then stopped thinking, stunned.

“Please grant my wish.”

“Oh my…”

I didn’t want to know how he felt. I never wanted to know how much discomfort I felt when I saw him with Jiun, and why my heart was beating hard when I rode the horse with him after receiving the Orgel. For I could not love him, and I vowed that I would not love anybody else.

“My lord…”

“… ”

Now I had to pull myself together again. Haven’t I got what I have been looking for for six long years? So, for him and for me, this was the best way. Now there was no reason for me to play into the hands of the noble faction or agonize while imagining my dark future.

I didn’t have to feel offended for the emotional rewards that I wouldn’t get back, or feel pressured by both factions.

I slowly raised my head and looked at him.

While dissuading me from making the oath of blood, forgetting about the gaze of the stunned people around him, he looked down at me with a cold look. I could see a burning anger in his cold eyes.

“… So, what is your wish? ”

After keeping silent for a while, he finally spat it out. His voice was not as cold as usual, and it didn’t sink as low as when he felt out of sort.

With his arms folded as if he wanted to hear me, he pressed, looking down at me with chilly eyes.

“Tell me what your cherished wish is.”

“My wish…”

“… ”

“My wish is to be recorded as a woman who lived and died as the fifty-fourth head of the Monique family in history.

“Oh my…”

As if he was dumbfounded, he sighed deeply, shaking his head roughly.