Chapter 49. Red Stigma On The Chest?
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The day Roselyn decided to engrave with Tamon, she immediately wrote a letter to Anna.?
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Anna’s character would make an extreme choice with the idea of remaining alone, even if she had all kinds of gold and silver treasures.?
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“Oh, I should have hurried a little more.”?
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“I should have tried to help as many people as I could, instead of letting death eat away at me, unready for this life.”?
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“I feel like an idiot.”?
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“I can’t believe I can’t think of the people I left behind because I feel lost…”?
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Roselyn gazed across the sea, blaming herself.?
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She asked for the fastest and most secretive mailman through Tamon.?
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But even with the fastest delivery, the letter would barely make it from Amor to Tanatos, let alone Noem on the southeastern edge of Tanatos.?
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“Anna, let’s find out.”‘?
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No matter how urgent it was, she couldn’t send it with her name on it.?
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In case the letter was lost or clandestine, Roselyn used the pseudonyms and ciphers that they both liked to use when they were children.?
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For example, Anna was the young lady of the Pink Rose Forest, and Roselyn was the farmer of the carrot farm.?
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And sometimes Cain would interrupt, but Cain was a hedge of thorns.?
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She couldn’t quite remember how they came up with those names.?
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But they were children, and they laughed at each other, saying that the names suit each other beautifully.?
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The memory of that time always shone brilliantly in Roselyn’s eyes, like a jewel that never lost its light.?
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It was a beautiful memory that she would take with her even in death.?
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She averted her gaze from staring at the sea and looked at the white paper that had filled the black letters.?
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The letter was sent to Mahan.?
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“Please, I need her to still be there.”?
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Roselyn quickly wrote the letter.?
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“And next is….”?
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Roselyn took out another piece of paper. This time it wasn’t a letter that was written, but a detailed description of Tanatos’ power structure.?
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The most important people were those who would be helpful to her.?
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The Sunset family had disappeared, and now there were two pillars left in the empire.?
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One was the Duke of Gertium, the imperial Beacon, and the other was the Marquis of Helio, the governor of the northwestern region.?
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As befits his nickname as the Beacon, Duke Gertium was blindly loyal to the imperial family of Tanatos. Even after succeeding generations, the family style did not change.?
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The former Duke Gertium cut off one of his ears as a sign that he exclusively listened to the words of the Emperor.?
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Many noblemen approached Gertium, but his eyes and ears were directed only to the imperial family.?
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This loyalty without conditions was closer to faith than to a special cordial relationship.?
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They gave up thinking and making decisions for themselves and just followed the orders of the masters they served.?
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The previous master was notable for this, and the current master was not so different from his father when it came to loyalty.?
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Except for one, three years ago.?
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“Henrik Alpatio.”?
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He disobeyed the Emperor’s order to seek interest.?
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Roselyn wrote up Henrik with great effort.?
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He wasn’t that great a person. He was a mediocre provincial self-made man with no great achievements.?
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He was just a childhood teacher of Perso Gertium.?
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Even though he was Duke Gertium’s teacher, he did not have tremendous skills.?
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However, through interest, Duke Gertium laid the foundation for his swordsmanship skills.?
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He was Gertium’s teacher for exactly five years, from the age of eight to thirteen.?
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There were many other masters besides Henrik at the time, but Gertium especially followed him.?
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A father even cut off one of his own ears on the emperor’s orders.?
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The successive deaths of his brothers, who had been taking care of the emperor on his father’s orders.?
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A mother in depression after losing her children one after another.?
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For Perso, who was the youngest, that period must have been very difficult, lonely and vague.?
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It must have been more cruel, as the martial arts were not easy.?
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Henrik was the only person who opened his heart to him during that time.?
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The master who went out to the fields with him, read books with him, and took care of him when he was sick.?
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Henrik was Perso Gertium’s mentor, father, brother, and hiding place.?
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So…Perso Gertium’s weakness was Henrik Alpatio. Interest was needed to pocket the imperial guard dog. However, Perso also knew that Henrik was his weakness, so he thoroughly protected him.?
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Roselyn didn’t even know where he was anymore, but she already knew someone who might be able to contact him.?
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Gary Rotrega, known as one of Henrik’s best friends.?
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He was Anna’s father and Roselyn’s father’s best friend.?
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Gary had always been well-connected and approachable. It was said that there was not a nobleman in the 38 provinces of the wide continent of Tanatos who did not know him.?
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Among the ten people who were considered to be particularly close to him, Henrik was among them.?
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“Anna…”?
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Roselyn left this task to Anna.?
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She (Roselyn) was a heartless best friend who had suddenly left Anna a job before the shock wore off.?
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However, she knew Anna would accept her request at all costs.?
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It was often said that Tanatos was rotten, but it was still a country that had held out for a thousand years.?
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A power that has held on for a thousand years was never going to fall easily.?
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“…… However, the higher something is piled, the more easily it will collapse if the foundation is shaken.”?
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It was a country where gold comes out like water. It was a world like a fairy tale where the world was covered in white.?
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All the people in the world did not know how ugly and dirty things were piled up under that white snow.?
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And at the top of all that filth was their emperor.?
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There was Gillotti Tanatos.?
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He and his lover Natasha Roanti would deceive the world with their well-dressed faces.?
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“…… you thought I didn’t know.”?
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Roselyn pretended not to know.?
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Roselyn looked at the sharp tip of the pen. ?
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Ink oozed out of the nib touching the paper like blood.?
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The pitch-black ink turned to bright red blood, and in the ink were her father and mother and brother, who were dying luridly.?
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There were the soldiers who protected her, the nobles who supported her, and the friends who were devoted to her.?
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“Yes, I’ll not die in vain.”?
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“I will live to see their decline, their suffering, and their fall.”?
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“And when their bodies piled up, I will die on top of the pile of bodies with a face brighter and more joyful than anyone else.”?
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“Phew.”?
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At that moment, a corner of her chest burned, and Roselyn looked down in surprise. She looked down and saw the area just above where her heart was was red, and there was a strange pattern on it.?
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“What is this?”?
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It was a strange pattern, like a name, like a star.?
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She took the mirror and looked at it carefully.?
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The letters were clearly written ‘Tamon’. (*oh my god)?
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“……. Is this a stigma of the engrave?”?
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Roselyn looked at the stigma on her chest with a stiff face and sighed lowly.?
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She couldn’t believe she was stigmatized.?
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It was the power of the God who desired it.?
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The ability was….?
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This ability can be offset with holy things.?
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But not all holy things could do that. This was because each person had a different ability.?
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The holy relic of the Sunset family, with its power of protection, was the most powerful shield against the imperial’s power of death.?
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Of course, that powerful shield was also lost due to the tyranny of Gillotti…?
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‘Did I mention that Gillotti jumped out directly with his sword and cut off my head?’?
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It was also Gillotti who cut out the warm heart of Roselyn’s mother, who was like home to Roselyn.?
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The brutal man had babbled such things without a care in the world before her who was struggling with torture.?
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Words like how he had killed her parents, and in what manner.?
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Roselyn clenched her teeth. Her jaw went numb from all the strength she’d put into clenching. ?
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“I have to take away his ability.”?
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The power of the gods, the most powerful basis on which Tanatos could claim the throne, had to be destroyed.?
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“No, I want to make sure that there would be no other power in Tanatos.”?
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She knew that the strength was weakening a lot over hundreds of years. Being weak means that she could make it disappear someday.?
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If possible, Roselyn wanted to speed up the period further.?
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“But how……..?”?
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As for the powers and holy relics, it was strictly a secret.?
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It was even more of a secret because of the many wars that had been fought over the holy relics.?
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The chain that had been passed down as a family heirloom from the Sunset family, the golden cup that was said to be kept in the Lumosha royal family, and the flute from the Temple of Amor.?
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They were places where no one could take them without permission.?
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“Divine power can only be destroyed by divine power.”?
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It was like the certificate of the Great Temple that was used to make the contract between Roselyn and Tamon.?
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Fragments of God with the power to stand up to monsters in the gap comparable to the talented.?
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Roselyn raised her head. She was getting more and more impatient.?
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“We need to collect the treasures.” (Holy relics)?
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Of course, tracking down all six treasures and collecting them were all difficult. ?
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However, Roselyn knew someone who could help her find the treasures. ?
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Ketone Hertz, who possessed the gift of prophecy.?
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“We must find him.”