Episode 3

 

The next morning.

 

Kenyan visited Lindsey’s room.

 

He looked at Lindsey as if something was bothering him.

 

“What’s the matter?!”

 

“What?!”

 

Kenyan looked at Lindsey with a strange expression.

 

Lindsey’s tone felt different than usual.

 

“You came here for a reason, didn’t you?!”

 

“I was going to tell you not to leave the room today.”

 

“Don’t leave the room?”

 

“Yeah. Transcendents from other clans will visit.”

 

“….”

 

“Others will feel discomfort just by seeing you, so stay in your room.”

 

“….”

 

“You might bother the servants again, right?”

 

Kenyan kept an indifferent expression while saying so.

 

His gaze wandered around Lindsey’s room. In the luxurious room, Kenyan smirked.

 

“You’re enjoying your privileges.”

 

With that, Kenyan turned his gaze away from Lindsey.

 

As if he disliked even talking to Lindsey. Kenyan despised Lindsey more than anyone else.

 

‘Thinking I indulge in luxury with half-hearted privileges.’

 

Lindsey Kesion wasn’t a perfect noble. Her mother was a commoner. The reason Lindsey could be recognized as a noble’s person was her talent to become a priestess.

 

But now that she’s revealed to not be a priestess anymore, it wasn’t certain if she could maintain that position.

 

That’s not all.

 

Due to Sylvia’s schemes, Kenyan thought Lindsey was bothering the servants while indulging in luxury.

 

“After people from other clans leave, return to being a noble. Even giving you attention has its limits.”

 

“I was already thinking about that.”

 

“What?”

 

Kenyan let out an incredulous laugh.

 

“You’re leaving?

 

Do you really have a place to go?”

 

His thoughts were obvious.

 

There were actions he took to avoid leaving the Radian Dukedom. But Lindsey had already planned to leave, even without Kenyan saying it.

 

“I have to return to the Kesion Dukedom.”

 

She didn’t want to go back to that hellish place, but she had no choice. Lindsey recalled the special restriction in the Kesion Dukedom.

 

The Kesion family register.

 

Where the names of those born in the Kesion Dukedom were written.

 

‘I have to erase my name from the register. If I don’t, my father won’t let me go for the rest of my life.’

 

It felt daunting, but there had to be a way.

 

‘I have to find a way to escape and return to Korea, no matter what.’

 

That’s when Kenyan shouted at Lindsey with an irritated voice.

 

“Lindsey Kesion! Can’t you hear me?”

 

Her deeply buried thoughts were interrupted.

 

Feeling a strong pressure on her wrist, Lindsey snapped out of it.

 

Kenyan was holding her wrist.

 

His face, which had been displaying anger, turned strange.

 

He started staring intently at Lindsey’s thin wrist that he was holding. Such a look from Kenyan seemed absent-minded.

 

Lindsey’s face contorted.

 

‘Come to think of it, he was also a transcendent.’

 

She hadn’t been able to control her sacred power since she just woke up.

 

Lindsey brushed off Kenyan’s hand, and it fell weakly.

 

There was no way a transcendent like Kenyan would be overwhelmed by her strength, so it was purely his choice to let go.

 

Even in that moment, Kenyan’s gaze didn’t leave Lindsey.

 

Kenyan looked down at his own hand that had been holding Lindsey’s wrist.

 

Then he looked back at Lindsey’s face. He felt a strange sensation.

 

‘What’s going on?’

 

Why am I feeling like this?

 

The moment he grabbed Lindsey’s wrist,

 

Kenyan felt a peculiar sensation.

 

It was a sensation he had never experienced before.

 

As a transcendent, he had lived a life of suffering. People called the power of the goddess a blessing, but transcendent individuals with that power didn’t think so.

 

An inexplicable thirst caused by the power of the goddess.

 

Although weaker transcendent individuals felt differently, at least he, a high-ranking noble, had been born with strong power from the goddess.

 

He possessed such strong abilities, yet he had never harbored resentment.

 

That thirst…

 

A sense of emptiness that seemed never to be filled. Those who hadn’t experienced it couldn’t understand.

 

‘But… what’s this?’

 

When Kenyan made contact with Lindsey, for just a moment, his head cleared.

 

No, it wasn’t just his head clearing. A tingling sensation rose from his toes.

 

However, that strange feeling disappeared the moment Lindsey slapped his hand away. He wanted to feel more.

 

Unintentionally, Kenyan was taken aback by his own thoughts.

 

“Move your hand.”

 

Lindsey’s eyes turned fierce.

 

Normally, Kenyan would have retorted, telling her not to talk nonsense. ‘I don’t want to touch someone like you.’ But no words came out of his mouth.

 

Kenyan Radian, wake up.

 

That woman is Lindsey Kesion.

 

She was the woman who dared to deceive Azeth and betray the Radian family. Kenyan managed to speak up.

 

“It seems you’ve become short of words?”

 

“Why should I use honorifics when you don’t respect me?”

 

As Lindsey replied, Kenyan approached her threateningly.

 

‘I should have sent her away earlier. I shouldn’t have cared whether she lived or died outside.’

 

It was too late to regret now.

 

Even under his threat, Lindsey didn’t back down. Kenyan’s eyes grew ominous.

 

There was a dangerous atmosphere as if he would strike her at any moment. Lindsey maintained her composure.

 

Kenyan’s energy seemed ready to explode, fierce and wild.

 

“Do you really think you can act like this, believing in Azeth?”

 

“…”

 

“I’ve said it before, but Azeth doesn’t care about you. If you want to leave our family’s estate with dignity, you should behave properly.”

 

His words were true.

 

Azeth had even ignored when Lindsey was harassed by the servants of the Radian Dukedom.

 

She remembered what he said when she went to Azeth about Sylvia’s harassment.

 

“I hope you don’t cause any trouble.”

 

So, it was clear that Azeth wouldn’t care if his own brother harassed her.

 

It was familiar.

 

She didn’t feel hurt by this fact as if she hadn’t realized it before.

 

“You don’t need to worry about whether I can leave the mansion safely.”

 

“What?”

 

“Don’t pay attention to me. You don’t care whether I live or die, right?”

 

Lindsey said with a smile.

 

As she had come this far, she was not afraid of anything.

 

‘If you want to hit, then hit.’

 

Being in a battlefield where monsters lurked was less frightening than facing Kenyan’s threats.

 

Just as Kenyan, unable to contain his anger, was about to push her,

 

“Stop it, Kenyan.”

 

A calm voice was heard.

 

Lindsey froze in place.

 

Lindsey knew the owner of that voice.

 

Azeth Radian.

 

The man who used to be her fiancé.

 

“The other transcendent beings have arrived now. I don’t have time to deal with that woman.”

 

Well, that’s that.

 

Since she hadn’t had any expectations, there was no disappointment either.

 

Azeth and Lindsey’s eyes met. His gaze passed over Lindsey. It was truly a gaze that saw her as something worthless.

 

Every time she received his gaze, Lindsey felt like a pebble lying on the roadside.

 

Indeed, to Azeth, her existence might as well be no different from a pebble.

 

“Lindsey, my dear.”

 

“…”

 

“Don’t be rude to Kenyan.”

 

“Huh!”

 

Lindsey burst out laughing sarcastically.

 

“Shouldn’t you be saying that to Master Kenyan?”

 

Azeth brushed his head as if he found her annoying. It was what he did every time he looked at Lindsey.

 

“That’s all I can do for you.”

 

Azeth Radian was a cold person. His words always made Lindsey freeze.

 

‘Yes, that’s what these people are like.’

 

Even after becoming Han Ji-yoo, Lindsey had imagined.

 

If I died there… Would Azeth have felt even a little sad? But now she could be sure.

 

He wouldn’t have felt sad at all.

 

He probably would have just gone about his ordinary life the next day.

 

In fact, he might have been relieved to have gotten rid of his useless fiancée.

 

When she became Han Ji-yoo, Lindsey had tried to understand him.

 

There were times when she even thought of forgiving him when she saw how hard the espers were struggling.

 

Maybe he had been struggling too. She had thought there must be a reason.

 

Before leaving the Radian Dukedom, Lindsey had something she had to say.

 

She looked straight at Azeth and spoke.

 

“Do you know, Azeth? I’ve never indulged once, never harassed any servants.”

 

Azeth didn’t respond to her words. He just looked at her as if he couldn’t hear anything.

 

Kenyan was the same.

 

A scolding look as if asking if she was going to start talking nonsense again. Lindsey continued.

 

“You’ll regret it.”

 

“Regret?”

 

“Yes, you will regret it someday.”

 

For treating me like this.

 

With a confident tone, Lindsey’s words were full of conviction. Azeth responded with a sarcastic smile.

 

His appearance was so handsome that it was almost blinding.

 

Regret?

 

Azeth found Lindsey’s words amusing. He had never experienced regret. And especially now, if Lindsey Kesion was the one saying he would regret it, it was even more amusing.

 

‘Annoying and bothersome.’

 

He was absolutely sure he would never regret it.

 

No, would there even be anything to regret in the first place?

 

Lindsey’s words didn’t evoke any emotions in him. So he could confidently say,

 

“Unfortunately, it seems unlikely.”