Chapter 130: Before Leaving (1/2)

Chapter 130. Before Leaving

Translator: Atlas / Editor: Regan

Preparations to travel to the frontier were completed quickly. There wasn’t much to be done since Leah wouldn’t be bringing much and she wouldn’t be taking her ladies-in-waiting with her. The atmosphere in the palace had not been good since Blain had been wounded, and Leah’s departure would be as quiet as that of the Kurkans.

On her last day in the palace, Leah went to see the King. Their relationship had deteriorated so much, she couldn’t even remember calling him father. But she thought she should see him again before she died. It wasn’t anything to do with the surge of emotions she was feeling because he too was close to his death.

“……”

Leah looked at the man sitting across from her. His unfocused eyes were not unlike those of her ladies-in-waiting. Before she had still felt he was alive, but lacked the ability to discern things. Now there was not even that. Cerdina no longer needed to hide anything from Leah. She didn’t go to the trouble of restoring even a little of the King’s consciousness.

Looking at his silver hair and wrinkled face, Leah spoke slowly.

“…Why?” Her cold voice was filled with resentment. “Why did you abandon my mother and let that woman in? I don’t understand what good is in her…”

Leah clenched her fists.

“Do you know what you’ve done?” She asked the King. She had tried so hard, but it had all been in vain. Leah’s voice faded to a helpless mutter. “Estia is ruined…”

There was no answer. No matter what she said, she was only talking to herself. Leah looked into the King’s empty eyes and stood, feeling only unhappiness. The people who saw the Princess walking alone without any attendants were bewildered, but Leah didn’t care.

As she walked aimlessly, she unknowingly moved toward the hall of the main palace. It was the place where she and Ishakan had first met as the Princess of Estia and the King of the Kurkans. There was no activity. The hall was empty and silent. She gazed at the gleaming throne at the end of the hall and the rows of pillars, and then moved on.