Chapter 99 - EPISODE 99 – CROSS (2) (1/2)

Gaël Bayer and Adelia Chase.

The two did not have any large roles in the second episode of Legend of Heroes.

‘Because both Gaël and Adelia were killed in battle.’

The fate of the two did not change much whether it was on the Jude route or the Cordelia route.

Gaël was killed during the Northern Barbarians’ Great Invasion event while Adelia was caught and lost her life in the ‘Sälen Kingdom’s Capital Destruction event’ that would happen a little more later.

Such were the fate of those two.

‘So I actually don’t know much about them.’

Because he didn’t have many chances to meet them in the game.

All he knew about Gaël was that he was good-natured, talented, and an older brother who had a huge age gap with Jude – that was all that he knew. As for Adelia, all he knew was that she was a mother-like older sister who cared for her younger sister Cordelia.

‘Of course, I was able to build a rough profile of the two by compiling various pieces of information that came out in the game.’

Even so, he had very little absolute information about the two.

‘But it’s different now.’

They suddenly became Jude and Cordelia one day – no, Outboxer009 and Yellow Storm did not take over the bodies of the two.

They were reincarnated as Jude and Cordelia and spent seventeen years before they awakened the memories of their previous lives.

Therefore, Jude knew well about Gaël, and Cordelia knew well about Adelia.

‘My older brother.’

He was his genuine sibling and no longer a simple NPC.

‘He’s kind, sincere, and reliable, but in fact, he has a delicate side too.’

Despite being the eldest son of a famous family from the very beginning, there was one reason why he was still not married.

That one reason.

An incident that Gaël went through when he was 20 years old.

Jude stopped thinking about it and shifted his gaze a little to the side.

He could see a brave woman proudly walking in precise steps from afar towards them.

‘Adelia Chase.’

A genius wizard who held the title of the youngest head in the history of the Royal Guard Magic Corps.

He had spent 17 years as Jude, but he knew little about her.

In the first place, Jude wasn’t even close with Cordelia in the past before they awakened their previous lives.

He had never met Cordelia’s older sister who was in the royal capital.

‘But something…there has to be a reason, right?’

For Cordelia to be so cautious and nervous.

“Huu…huu… I can do it. I can do it. Protect. Protect.”

Cordelia repeated the same words in a small voice, as if she was reciting a spell.

She seemed to be strengthening her resolve in her own way.

‘Cute.’

How could she be not cute when he could see that she was trying to protect him and not anyone else?

“Okay, okay, okay.”

Cordelia took several deep breaths again before she stepped forward and stood as if to hide Jude. It was a position that Jude often did to protect Cordelia, but it was the exact opposite this time.

There was naturally a difference.

Cordelia was taller than Jude before they had awakened their memories, but not now. That had been completely reversed in just a few months, and there was now quite a large difference between Jude and Cordelia.

It was impossible to completely hide Jude with Cordelia’s small and slender body, but she still puffed out her chest, stretched out her arms, and hid Jude as she took a deep breath for the last time.

She kept her composure and looked straight ahead.

And upon looking at the back of Cordelia’s head, Jude happily smiled and then raised his head as he suddenly recoiled.

‘Adelia.’

Their distance had been narrowed quite a bit, so they could now see the other side’s faces.

Unlike Cordelia who had red hair like Count Chase, Adelia inherited their mother’s blond hair.

She had a white complexion and bright golden hair that seemed to be made by melting the sun. She was beautiful like Cordelia, but her eyes…her fierce eyes were no joke.

Ba-thump, ba-thump, ba-thump, ba-thump-

It felt like he was under heavy pressure.

As he continued hearing the sound of his heartbeat as if it was an auditory hallucination, Jude gulped his saliva. Drops of sweat trickled down his tightly clenched fists.

He was tense.

She was someone who could make the person facing her feel fear.

Was this how he felt when he fought against the named demon Bandaizel at Endymion?

He could now understand why Cordelia was very nervous.

“Finally.”

Adelia spoke.

A beautiful yet terrifying smile spread out on her white face.

Jude Bayer.

The crystallization of evil who sweet talked, deceived, committed acts of brutality, and even lured the kind, cute, adorable, lovely, and innocent Cordelia into making wrong choices!

‘Finally!’

They faced each other.

The moment where she could let out her anger finally came.

“You!”

Adelia raised her voice first. She raised up her hand to point at Jude before she tried to spill out her words.

“You kidnapped by deceiving my kind, cute, adorable, lovely, and innocent Cordelia…”

That was it.

Adelia’s words trailed off in the end. Because she had felt Gaël’s gaze behind her back.

It was just a gaze.

He didn’t exactly glare. He just gazed at her.

But Adelia unknowingly faltered. She couldn’t say what she was originally going to say.

“No, your elopement…”

Elopement.

That was not it. That was not what she originally wanted to say.

Adelia frowned as she was distressed for a while before she changed her words again.

“Honeymoon trip! Anyway, about your honeymoon trip!”

Her words were already a huge mess.

‘Eueueu, why am I doing this?’

Why can’t I say what I wanted to say?

After all, Jude and Cordelia were already engaged and the Bayer family was a famous family that stood in equal rank with the Chase family, so she couldn’t just thoughtlessly say rude words to him.

But Gaël’s presence was greater than that.

Gaël might be bothered so she couldn’t say anything that was too harsh.

‘No, it’s not. That’s not it.’

When Adelia groaned in her confusion and distress, Jude and Cordelia stared at Adelia in suspicion.

‘What’s wrong with her?’

‘Something, there’s something different from my usual sister.’

Why?

Why is she doing that?

“Ack! Anyway! Jude Bayer! You know what you’ve done, right?!”

After her compromise, the words she spoke out were not as harsh as she thought.

Moreover, her terrifying aura and energy that resembled a demon from hell also disappeared, and her angry voice felt a little more like she was begging.

But it looked a little different to Cordelia.

She knew best about Adelia one way or another, so she flinched at her sister’s words and then shouted with her arms stretched out widely to the side.

“I-It’s not Jude’s fault!”

“Cordelia?!”

“It’s true! I definitely wasn’t deceived… We-we discussed it together!”

What?

You discussed the honeymoon trip together!

Adelia flinched at Cordelia’s argument, but she soon took another step and shouted.

“Then the letter! You wrote that you love Jude sooo much that you’re head over heels with him! Are you saying that you purposely wrote down all that? It wasn’t Jude’s order?”

“Uwuwuwu…”

If Cordelia had a little more reason left, she could have refuted that she had never written anything like that, but she had already been cornered from the start.

She groaned in distress and then shouted with a face that seemed to say ‘whatever.’

“That’s right! I wrote that! I wrote all that! That’s what I wrote!”

It was correct that Jude had originally ordered her to do so.

Jude was the one who gave her all those lines!

Cordelia’s face turned red, and her neck and ears were burning red too.

It was a result of her embarrassment and shame, but Adelia’s filter interpreted her reaction as shyness and her blushing as embarrassment.

“Co-Cordelia!”

But it wasn’t over yet.

It had already happened.

So to perfectly defend him, Cordelia dealt the final blow.

“I-I…c-can’t live without J-Jude! I belong to Jude and Jude is mine!”

It was the lines that were written in the script which she had thrown last time.

Cordelia was so embarrassed that her eyes were slightly reddened with tears, but in the eyes of Adelia, she looked like she was pleading while crying.

“Co-Cordelia…”

She seriously turned pale in surprise.

Adelia staggered for a moment, but she was still one of the seven heads of the Royal Guard Magic Corps.

She somehow corrected her posture, and then said after taking a deep breath.

“No, no, he’s weak and only has a handsome face…”

That was it.

Adelia was trying to speak about what she usually thought about Jude, but her words trailed off in the end.

It wasn’t because of Gaël this time.

It was just because of the visible reality.

‘W-what?’

Jude Bayer.

A child born with Gueumjulmaek.

A sick but handsome boy who was stuck in his room and couldn’t learn swordsmanship because he had a weak constitution.

But it was not what she saw.

The Jude in front of her was definitely a handsome boy, but he did not look weak and frail.

‘When and how did he get so well?’

Adelia had also heard of him obtaining Solari’s Necklace and using it to heal his Gueumjulmaek.

But how can that make his body so well all of a sudden?

First and foremost, he was tall.

According to the information Adelia herself gathered, Jude was about the same or a little shorter than Cordelia. But Jude was now much taller. There seemed to be a difference of at least ten centimeters.

And he was bulky.

He didn’t exactly have bulging muscles, but he had broad shoulders and firm muscles too.

Although Jude was dressed up quite a bit because of the snowy weather, Adelia had met numerous knights in the royal capital for business purposes.

Just by looking at his fit, she could roughly tell the shape and thickness of the muscles.

‘It’s firm.’