Swordmaster's Youngest Son Chapter 516

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While Joshua fell, the ceremony honoring Jane the Black Knight was held solemnly.

The servants held a long silent prayer outside the mausoleum Shrine with harmony in their hearts, and the guardian knights made their way to the mausoleum holding their swords upside down and holding them against their chests.

Rosa held up Jane's black helmet like a portrait, and Murakan stood next to her.

It was followed by the Black Knight, the flagbearers, the elders, the family scribes and guardian knights, and the nannies. All were dressed in black uniforms and mourning clothes.

Passing through the swords tightly packed in the pavilion, to the deepest part of the courtyard.  Even before the procession entered the mausoleum, there was a thick metal smell like the smell of blood.

The flag of the Black Sword fluttered slowly in the mausoleum's cold wind. The sound spread through the stones inside and sounded like crying, but no one was really crying.

Those who deserved to cry swallowed their tears, and those who did not suppress their emotions. Only the black helmet occasionally flashed in the dark.

This is a special space prepared for those who have protected the clan to the end.

For the Black Knights, the mausoleum could be said to be the focal point of their pilgrimage. As long as they don't commit treason, they're bound to be buried here.

The deeper the mausoleum went, the darker it became.

And the procession got smaller and smaller. At the entrance, the scribes and butlers and other members same authority stopped walking, and the elders stood tall in the middle.

The ones remaining in the procession until the end were Rosa, the Black Knight, the flagbearers, and Murakan. At the end, they could only see each other's outlines.

Shaking......

Rosa placed Jane's helmet on the tombstone in the middle.

"Even if one day the Garden of Swords is crumbled down to every single stone, scattered by the wind, and the world forgets even the name Runcandel. This loyalty and glory will never leave this place."

Murakan created a shadow force flower and placed it in front of Jane's black helmet.

"Thank you, Jane."

The tombstone was closed, and the procession left the mausoleum after a long time. They leaved in the reverse order of entering, those waiting in the front joined the procession again.

Eventually, as the procession came out of the mausoleum, the waiting knights raised their flags throughout the Garden of Swords.

The ceremony of enshrining Jane's soul in the mausoleum, which lasted from early dawn until noon, came to an end.

Originally, it took more than a week to enshrine in the mausoleum, but Rosa and the flagbearers carried out the ceremony in an informal manner, considering the various circumstances of the clan.

The fact that there was no body of the deceased, the fact that there was a major battle a while ago, and the fact that Joshua, the next patriarch, was imprisoned, etc.

There is more disturbing and subdued atmosphere in the Garden of Swords than ever before.

“It’s complicated…”

"That’s right."

Daytona and Haytona. The two of them smoked cigarettes while standing on the porch outside to avoid the rain that suddenly began to fall.

Naturally, some flagbearers were gathering there. It wasn't to avoid the rain or because of Tona brothers.

It was because they could see a woman kneeling in front of Joshua's private house beyond the porch.

She is Ilina Runcandel, whom siblings knew as Joshua's wife.

Although she is Joshua's wife, but she has no real power, and her place in the family has become obscure, so she has not been able to participate in the honoring ceremony for Jane.

People thought that the reason she was kneeling outside her private house was not to honor Jane, but to make a silent appeal to be considerate of her husband.

“I know how she feel, but she would have been better off staying inside.”

Ran shrugged his shoulders. Vigo nodded his head.

“There must be a reason why our mother left it alone after seeing it. Leave her alone, she'll quit when she knows there’s no use and she might die if she does that."

Diphus thought that the reason Rosa didn't stop her was because in the end she is making a little bit of a cause for Joshua's reinstatement.

And the two people who knew her identity, Myu and Anne, had insensitive faces.

Jin was focusing more on Myu and Anne than on Ilina.

'Their atmosphere has strangely changed...'

If you knows Myu and Anne.

Naturally, they had to show signs of anxiety nervously. Because they wouldn't have the certainty that Joshua would be reinstated like Jin and Diphus.

'Did my mother tell them that Joshua is going to be reinstated someday? No, there's no way my mother needs help from my sisters.'

It doesn't seem like Myu and Anne have any hidden potential or resolution, but it didn't feel right for some reason.

'Did they just make up their mind, or is there something else.'

Jin felt like he was looking someone else, not Myu and Anne.

"Elder brother Ran and elder brother Vigo. Let's talk."

"Us?"

"Yes."

"What are you talking about?"

"Are you going to end it like this? The lower flagbearers must also unite and take charge of one faction within the family. Otherwise, when someone takes the throne later, there will be no choice but to be purged?"

Myu seemed to speak without hesitation even though Jin and Diphus were listening.

"Myu, Anne. Who's going to kill you? No matter which of the remaining top flagbearer takes the throne, I don't think that's going to happen."

“If the youngest ascends the throne, I think we will all fall down that day, Elder Brother Diphus.”

"Uh, if you keep acting crookedly, you could get beaten to death by Mary. Are you still worried about your own survival when the clan is at this point? Stay in your place and do your job. When are you guys going to become human?"

At those words, Myu and Anne let out bitter laughs.

“…… It seems wrong to be human now.”

"Elder brother Ran and Vigo, if you're willing to talk, come to my room anytime."

After Myu and Anne left, Petro found Jin.

“Young master, the acting patriarch is looking for it.”

Then Diphus nodded his head as if it was going to happen.

"Have a good trip, Jin."

"Yes, brother."

The reason Jin and Diphus reacted this way was no different.

The blueprint of flying ship and machine obtained from the 2nd Magic Tower Vault.

Jin hadn't handed them over to Rosa yet.

He followed Petro in his stride. Rosa was waiting for Jin at the central arena. The arena grounds had not yet been fully restored after Jin's patriarch declaration.

On the way, the rain stopped.

“Did you come?”

“Yes, acting patriarch.”

For a moment, the they looked at each other wordlessly.

“Last night the Prophet sent me a message.”

Rosa brought it up first, not the blueprints and the machine.

'Message? Wasn't Mother communicating directly with the Prophet?'

-Mother will never give up the power of the prophet. This time maybe it's a warning to the Prophet that she brought Joshua down. It is quite possible if the relationship between mother and the Prophet is not as close as that of Joshua.

-So you mean, mother is going to bind the prophet and later put everything on her and reinstate Joshua, right?

A conversation Jin had with Diphus a while ago.

As Jin guessed then, Rosa could not communicate directly with the Prophet. It's not that they never met in person, but she didn't even know Ilina's identity. It wasn't because of Rosa's lack of ability. It's just that the power of the Prophet is that great.

“What was the message?”

"It was about that she had a way to create a fleet by perfectly interpreting and supplementing the unfinished blueprints."

The item had not yet been handed over, but when Jin reported, he informed that the blueprint was currently treated with ciphered magic that could not be deciphered with Runcandel’s technology.

Unlike general blueprints, it is natural that no one can decipher and copy the blueprints of mass-produced ship easily.

They didn’t even know what kind of thing is the 'machine' that they captured together with blueprints.

"She also said she knew the use of the machine. She said it could change the game in the future war..."

"Acting patriarch."

"Speak freely."

"Do you know what is the catalyst for the power of the Prophet?"

“A living human being.”

There was not the slightest hint of remorse or shame in Rosa's voice.

“In this mission, the infiltration routes, tunnels, and the key to the 2nd Magic Tower and related information were all obtained by the Prophet using prisoners from Rikalton as human materials.”

The human tower that Dox witnessed in Rikalton. Prophet used them as material for Joshua's Sota Desert mission.

“I sent a family black knight to Rikalton. However, he did not return even after the deadline, and when I visited the place myself, only the bones of estimated 10000 humans remained. Perhaps the bones of the innocent people were mixed in it."

Jin also sent Dox there, and he hadn't heard back from him yet.

And when Dox was on the verge of death, it was Rosa's black knight who helped him.

“Hasn't the black knight come back yet?”

"Yes."

“Why did you send the Black Knight to Rikalton if you already knew that the Prophet was using humans? What were you trying to confirm? Did you rule out the possibility that the Prophet could harm the Black Knight?”

“There is no reason for me to answer all of your questions. I did not call you here for that purpose. If you don't like my judgment and actions, you have to defeat me and prove it. You don't sound like you. If it's because you feel ugly, that's only proof that you're afraid of me."

Jin calmed his excitement.

True to Rosa's words, she was not in a position where she had to answer Jin's question.

"Originally I planned to use them through the Prophet."

If Joshua had shown his awakening, Rosa would have handed over the blueprints and machine to the Prophet without hesitation.

She did not completely trust the Prophet, but she was sure that all her actions were for 'Joshua Runcandel'.

Anyone who faced the absolute prophecy even once had no choice but to be so sure.

“However, I changed my mind this time by suspending Joshua as a flagbearer. It will suspend negotiations with the prophet. During that time, prove that you have a method superior to the Prophet."

Hister.

And Hister's record magic.

As Joshua foresaw when the flagbearers were given the permanent mission to find 'Arya Aulhart' in the past. Rosa already thought that Jin might be in contact with Hister's survivors.

Judgment that if it’s record magic, there would be a way to use things in a better way than the power of the prophet.

That was the reason Rosa called Jin.

“If I fail, the Acting patriarch….. will hand them over to the Prophet. That’s what you’re saying.”

"Yes."

“Even if I fail, they will not go to the Prophet. Acting patriarch.”

“If you fail and do not hand over the goods to the clan, then I will take them by force.”

"What the clan pursues is domination by power, not violation against morality and humanity. Affirming and using the power of a prophet is an act that goes far beyond the line. Mother speak like someone possessed by something. Like some kind of curse."

"You must have felt a lot about the enemies in Sota Desert, but you are saying that you are full. Listen carefully, Jin Runcandel. My youngest son."

To me, the survival and prosperity of Runcandel is the most important value.

Nothing can precede its value.

“Even if the billion human beings die in the process of attaining it, even if the world perishes in that devastating struggle and fight, and only a few members of Runcandel remain in it. It doesn't matter."

“Then as always all I have to do is defeat my mother.”

"I look forward to it."

Jin turned around and left the arena.

Even after Jin left, Rosa stood alone in the arena for a long time.

Chapter end